After Lu Lu put down the bowl, he looked at the two of them and urged: "Drink!"
Chen Xiuqing always believed Lu Lu's words. Seeing that Lu Lu had already drank, he didn't think too much. He raised the bowl, held his breath, and drank the bear oil in the bowl in front of him in one go.
"How's it going, Qingzi?" Zhang Shaofeng asked curiously.
"It seems, it's not as boring as I thought!" Chen Xiuqing's reaction was normal: "Drink, Brother Feng, Brother Lu must have his intention if he lets you drink."
Zhang Shaofeng hesitated for a moment, then imitated Chen Xiuqing's example, picked up the bowl and drank the oil in the bowl at once.
As Chen Xiuqing said, it doesn't seem that greasy, but I can't tell what it tastes like. It always feels weird. After all, it's half a big bowl of bear fat.
"This is the method that Father Zhao told me. They always drink a bowl of bear oil before going hunting in the severe winter. In this way, they don't have to worry about being frozen while crawling around in the ice and snow."
Lu Lu said with a smile.
He had drank it before and knew that after drinking bear oil, his body would stay warm for a long time and it was indeed very effective in resisting the cold.
Moreover, bear oil is different from other oils. You can see its power from the fact that the cakes baked with bear oil do not freeze hard in the snow. Besides, bear oil is a medicine that can treat rheumatism.
Hearing what Lu Lu said, Zhang Shaofeng smacked his lips: "The Oroqen people are really fierce."
"This is a very common thing for the Oroqen people. It is also very common for them to eat oil every day. For example, they eat 'Tubulie', which is oil noodles. This thing also has the effect of resisting cold.
An essential food before they go hunting.
Mix the dough with warm water and a small amount of salt, let it rest well, use a rolling pin to roll it into a pancake, cut it into narrow strips, and use your hands to cut it into evenly sized dough pieces. Cook it in a pot under boiling water, then use a spatula to scoop it into a bowl and mix it.
Prepare shredded cooked pork, chopped wild onions, salted noodles and other things, and then pour hot wild boar oil or bear oil on it. It's a bit like our oil-splashed noodles, but with a lot of oil, it can form a big layer."
Lu Lu glanced at Chen Xiuqing and Zhang Shaofeng in front of him: "Why do you think they live in a small tuoluozi in the mountains and crawl around in the snow in the mountains all day long? What do you think they rely on? It's this wild boar.
Oil and bear oil are based on many years of experience. If you try it as an ordinary person, you won't be able to handle it in that kind of ice and snow.
Compared to wild boar oil, bear oil is much better, at least the smell is less fishy than wild boar oil.
Practice skiing in the mountains today, and then you will be able to feel the effect.
Come on, let’s go into the mountains!”
After Lu Lu finished speaking, he went to take out his one-meter-long wooden horse and ski pole, and put on the roe deer leather gloves also made by Unakan - gloves with the index finger and other three fingers separated, which is convenient for hunting and shooting.
Move the trigger.
Chen Xiuqing and Zhang Shaofeng also followed immediately.
After exiting the fence gate, the three of them tied up their wooden horses. Then they walked step by step along the hillside outside the fence to the ridge behind.
The bottom of the wooden horse is sewn with wild boar skin. When going uphill, these pig hairs become stubble and are firmly fastened to the snow surface, allowing it to walk steadily without slipping at all.
Lu Lu used a short wooden horse, while Zhang Shaofeng and Chen Xiuqing used a long wooden horse, both of which were two meters long.
When it comes to the use of double-legged wooden horses, the longer the wooden horse used, the better the skill of the skier, because the longer the wooden horse, the more difficult it is to turn, especially in the mountains and forests.
Lu Lu can also ski easily, but with his current skills, he is limited to using short wooden horses. Long ones cannot be used at all, so he can only start with short wooden horses.
Of course, no matter how long the wooden horse is, it will never exceed two meters.
This winter, he only wanted to be able to use a short wooden horse to travel freely through the mountains and forests. He would take time to practice on a long wooden horse to see if he had the talent to catch deer on skis.
If it can be done, large-scale breeding of deer farms will be an easy thing to do.
Also, it will be much more convenient when chasing prey.
But preliminary estimates suggest that this is something very difficult to accomplish.
Unlike Chen Xiuqing and Zhang Shaofeng, both of them started learning skiing when they were children.
Lu Lu didn't know what skiing was until he became an educated youth in Beidahuang. Moreover, there was no professional teacher to teach him, so he just had to figure it out on his own to keep his balance.
"When walking uphill, walk with splayed feet. The wild boar hair under the wooden horse is brittle and will not slip backwards!"
Chen Xiuqing and Zhang Shaofeng walked in front of Lu Lu, walking very easily, turning back from time to time to point out Lu Lu's tricks.
“When going downhill, you should skate on a zigzag line so that you can turn and stop at any time!”
Lu Lu watched the two of them twist their waists, swing their feet left and right, avoid obstacles with ease, and slide to the bottom of the mountain. However, he himself skated carefully, often being blocked by small trees or branches and leaves.
Suddenly, he had to put one side of his body across the skis to stop, then get out of the way and slide again, and almost fell down several times.
He is still adapting, finding the feeling of skiing in his previous life, and his body is far less flexible than Chen Xiuqing and Zhang Shaofeng.
In this way, they walked all the way up the mountain. When encountering some situations, the two of them explained on the spot how to control the wooden horse under their feet to avoid it and in what posture to glide.
After passing a slightly steep hillside, Lu Lu was also specially explained to Lu Lu about the body movements during skiing.
Seeing Lu Lu's clumsy look, the two of them did not laugh, but taught him more patiently.
“When I was five years old, my grandfather forced me to learn to ski. He threw me a pair of three-foot-long skis, cut two wooden sticks for me, told me they were ski poles, and asked me to find a hillside to ski on my own.
My dad also said that I was too young. As a result, my grandfather's eyes narrowed and he didn't dare to talk much.
Seeing my reluctance, my grandfather whipped me with a stick. I had no choice but to carry the wooden horse up the hillside and start practicing skiing by myself.
I stepped on the wooden horse, but before I could pick up the ski poles, the skis on my feet slid down by themselves, plopping me down in the snow. My sleeves, neck, and collar were covered with snow, but the wooden horse ran down the mountain on its own. Somersaults
I fell a lot, but it only took two or three days before I could slide down the slope."
Zhang Shaofeng said with encouragement: "It was quite difficult at the beginning. You have to start learning this stuff when you are young. It is easy to get results. Children who fall often are not so easy to injure their muscles and bones. On the contrary, the older they get, the more likely they will be."
The harder it is.”
Chen Xiuqing giggled on the side: "I also found a hillside course by myself, but it only took me one afternoon to step on the wooden horse and slide down steadily."
When Lu Lu came all the way just now, he had noticed that Chen Xiuqing was indeed very flexible in this regard and could often do some very difficult movements.
When faced with some obstacles, Zhang Shaofeng often chooses to avoid them, while Chen Xiuqing can easily float over them with a vertical jump, which indeed shows her extraordinary spirituality.
Simply, the three of them spent the whole afternoon on this hillside, guiding Lu Lu to climb up and down again and again to avoid those sparse obstacles.
The snow on the hillside is packed more and more tightly, and it becomes more slippery.
Gradually it becomes hard, like ice.
After Lu Lu also skated on that hillside no less than 20 times, he gradually found some of the feelings he had in his previous life. He was now able to make some simple movements. His body, which was not very controllable before, gradually became more coordinated.
Zhang Shaofeng and Chen Xiuqing are also slipping. They are constantly adapting and picking up their previous body memories. After all, they haven't touched a Trojan horse for a long time.
The actions he performed also began to become more and more difficult.
Several times, Lu Lu also saw Chen Xiuqing sliding down the hillside. He used to jump over the small bushes, but gradually turned into a direct somersault. This skill made Zhang Shaofeng nod in praise.
He said frankly that he couldn't do it.
"My dad told me that when sika deer run away, they don't run on the flat ground, but in the mountains and forests. Even if the snow is two feet thick, the sika deer can run faster in the snow than the car can run at the fastest speed on the flat ground.
Fast. If you want to catch a deer, you have to be faster than the deer to catch it. If you catch a deer that is desperately running away, you have to catch it. How to catch the deer? Will the deer let you catch it honestly?
I was not convinced, so I sneaked into the forest on the mountain the next day and slid down the mountain directly. When walking through the mountains and forests, I often let the branches scratch my clothes and cut my hands and face. Because of this, I was often beaten by my mother. They didn't
You know, I often slip into trees or do somersaults when I can't avoid it.
The most dangerous thing was once, seeing that there was a small tree blocking the way in front of me, I couldn't avoid it, so I had to fall down on the snow, crawling and grabbing at the snow, trying to stabilize myself. As a result, the more I hurried, the more my feet fell.
I couldn't help but branch out and hit a small tree. That time, my balls hurt for several days."
While sitting on the top of the mountain for a short rest, Chen Xiuqing talked about her experience of skiing as a child, which made Zhang Shaofeng and Lu Lu extremely happy.
"Seeing as you can still dream about swallows now, it means you were lucky enough not to lose it!" Lu Lu joked.
Even so, he began to admire Chen Xiuqing in his heart. When he was a child, he had an unyielding spirit, and he could still maintain it when he grew up, just like he had always insisted on hunting, taking a lot of risks.
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The resilience of such a person is quite rare.
Lu Lu also had to look at him high again.
But Chen Xiuqing continued to say: "Deer chasers are the most dangerous hunters. They are the most exciting and skill-requiring jobs among hunters. As the old saying goes, you can't become a deer hunter without going through dozens of life and death exercises."
'Anyone who can truly fly on the snow has flown over countless cliffs and stone ponds, fallen unconscious so many times, and broken many wooden horses. It is not that simple. Some people will never reach the level of flying on the snow in their entire lives.
"
Lu Lu listened silently and couldn't help but ask: "Qingzi, have you ever been knocked unconscious?"
"That's for sure. The first time I plucked up the courage to fly over a cliff, I fell unconscious. Flying down in the air, I bumped into the stone slab under the cliff. With a click, the wooden horse was broken, and I was knocked unconscious. Good luck.
Okay, it didn’t take long to wake up and I wasn’t frozen on the mountain.”
Chen Xiuqing smiled and said self-deprecatingly: "I suspect that my brain is not very bright now because I was hit that time!"
"Aren't you afraid?" Lu Lu couldn't help but ask.
"I'm afraid, but I'm even more afraid of the kind of life my family will have after my father is gone! Unfortunately, I haven't reached the level of flying on the snow until now... I really want to see what it's really like to fly on the snow.
of."
Chen Xiuqing's words immediately silenced Lu Lu again.
Yes, nothing in this world is so easy to achieve. Often there are things that you simply cannot achieve if you don’t risk your life to do it.
"If you have the chance, I will take you to the Daxingan Mountains or Changbai Mountain to see more. I think you will be no worse than them!"
Lu Lu stood up with a smile and began to joke to himself, preparing to complete this first attempt of skating from the top of the mountain to the forest below.