Arriving outside the fence, Chen Xiuyu hurriedly came out of the meadow to open the fence gate when she heard Lu Lu driving a sledge in the back mountain.
You can't stay bored on the big kang in the house every day. You have to go outside for a walk. It's necessary to take a walk, exercise, and even look at the vegetation and mountains and rivers outside.
This is what Lu Lu asked of her.
When Lu Lu was at home, he would often accompany her around.
Since I was pregnant with my child, I have been asked to do this by Lu Lu all the time. Even if it snowed, I never interrupted. It has become a habit.
After all these days, Chen Xiuyu didn't feel anything bad. She was wearing a suen and a bearskin coat, a nice bearskin hat, and even her feet were made of deerskin.
The boots are stuffed with urala grass inside, and the whole person is wrapped up warmly even outside.
Moreover, I often go shopping every day and my mood seems to be good all the time.
Chen Xiuyu has never seen other women in the village treated like this. This is a sign of deep love.
The fence gate opened, and Lu Lu drove the sledge directly into the yard.
Chen Xiuyu had already seen many prey on the sledge when Lu Lu entered the door. As soon as the door closed, she immediately followed in happily: "Why did you kill so many at once?"
She had only been out all morning, and she had just had lunch at home.
"I was lucky when I went into the mountains. After searching for more than two hours, I couldn't find the roe deer, but I found them instead. They are unlucky!"
Lu Lu unloaded the sledge and took the green onions to the stable to feed them.
Chen Xiuyu looked at the prey on the sledge that looked like a sheep but not a sheep, and looked like a roe deer but not a roe deer, and asked curiously: "Brother Lu, what is this?"
"Yellow sheep!" Lu Lu said with a smile: "The meat is very good, and the skin can be tanned to make very good leather. And these horns can be used as medicine. I didn't expect to encounter them in the mountains, so I shot them.
I found a wolf. There are more yellow sheep in the grasslands and Qinghai, but there are very few here, so it is rare to encounter them. Let’s eat this meat at night... and have hot pot!"
There is charcoal and an iron pot, so it’s not too much to cook a hot pot!
This thing used to be distributed over a wide range. After being hunted in large quantities, in later generations it can only be seen around Qinghai Lake and the East Grassland. In later generations, it is impossible to eat it even if you want to.
Lu Lu now felt that there was nothing wrong with being reborn in this mountain. At least he could taste a lot of delicious food that he wanted to eat but couldn't.
Although it was not sheep, Lu Lu naturally thought of mutton-boiled meat.
He took the yellow sheep off the sledge one by one and threw them on the snow in the yard: "Get me a brazier to roast them. I have to skin them."
That is to say, the weather is cold. If it had been delayed for so long when it was hot, I would have already stunk.
Chen Xiuyu went into the house to burn charcoal in the brazier, while Lu Lu took a hunting knife and began to skin and disembowel the goat.
Chen Xiuyu quickly brought the brazier and the invasion knife from home, ready to help Lu Lu.
When Lu Lu saw her like that, he said, "Stop working and take a rest. By the way, bring me two or three of the sticky bean buns in the hunting bag and bake them in the brazier."
"I haven't eaten yet... What are you going to eat when you get home? I'll cook some sticky bean buns for you." Chen Xiuyu stood up and prepared to go back to the house.
"No, just eat two or three sticky bean buns to deal with it. I have to save my stomach for eating yellow mutton at night." Lu Lu stopped him with a smile.
Chen Xiuyu hesitated for a moment, but followed Lu Lu's hunting bag and took out three sticky bean buns that were frozen hard. She took the fire tongs placed next to the kang stove and placed them on the brazier.
Just put it on the tongs and bake it.
Seeing Lu Lu busy alone, she thought for a while and said: "My brother and Brother Feng came here in the morning to ask when they would go into the mountain. When they saw that you were not there, they went to Father Zhao's house and didn't come back.
I don’t know if they are still at their home, otherwise, you can call them over to help. With eight yellow sheep and this wolf, you will be busy for a long time just skinning them."
Lu Lu was slightly stunned when he heard this. It would take several hours to finish this work.
It’s not a bad idea to ask them for help!
He immediately laughed: "Good advice!"
It took almost half an hour to disembowel the first yellow sheep and peel off the fur. After Lu Lu went back to the house and washed his hands, he squatted by the brazier to make a fire and ate three sticky bean buns.
Later, Lu Lu put the skinned yellow sheep in a snakeskin bag, threw it over his shoulder, took a roe deer skin from home and walked towards Zhao Tuanqing's house.
More than ten minutes later, Lu Lu arrived at Zhao Tuanqing's house. Two Oroqen hunting dogs lying in the dog shed next to the door heard the noise, and immediately got out, barking at Lu Lu fiercely, and barked wildly from time to time.
Like some of Lu Lu's dogs, Zhao Yongke also went to Jin Jiabao to get collars and sewed protective vests for them.
Zhao Yongke quickly emerged from the wood carvings. When he saw it was Lu Lu, he hurriedly welcomed him into the courtyard.
"When did you go to the mountains and come back?" Lu Lu asked casually as he walked home.
"I came back on the day it snowed heavily and stayed in the mountains for eight days." Zhao Yongke said with a smile.
"How was the harvest?"
"I shot a few red foxes and got six sables, which are pretty good. There aren't many people living in the mountains anymore, so there seems to be more prey. In previous years, I wouldn't have been able to get so many after seven or eight days in the mountains.
If there weren't many hunters entering the mountains from Jiayin, we could have caught more prey... What are you carrying?"
Looking at the bag that Lu Lu carried, Zhao Yongke asked.
"I went to the mountains to hunt the yellow sheep today. I will send you one to try."
Lu Lu carried the yellow sheep directly into the kitchen of Zhao Yongke's house and placed the bag on the wooden table in the kitchen.
"Yellow Sheep, what a good thing!"
Even Zhao Tuanqing got off the kang happily when he heard it, followed him to the kitchen and looked at the yellow mutton in the bag: "I've had it in Chifeng before, but it's rare in our mountains. This is good meat."
, I haven’t had it in some years, where did you see it? Is there any more?”
Zhang Shaofeng and Chen Xiuqing were also still at Zhao Tuanqing's house, chatting with Zhao Tuanqing and his father on the kang. Listening to their hunting anecdotes and experiences, they had never seen a yellow sheep before, so they had already followed them.
"I can't pronounce the place name. I walked for a while towards Sanjian Mountain and encountered a group of about forty or fifty. I didn't bring Yuanbao with them today, and my skiing skills are not good. I only hunted eight of them.
A wolf that just wants to steal food from me."
Hearing this, Zhao Tuanqing couldn't help but glared at Lu Lu: "Isn't it too few for you to kill eight at once?"
Zhao Tuanqing was quite happy with Lu Lu's outstanding performance.
"Tomorrow Yongke and I will go into the mountains to have a look. If we can find them, I will hunt down two." Zhao Tuanqing is also very interested in yellow sheep.
"good!"
Zhao Yongke nodded and turned around to greet several people to get on the kang.
After the furniture was placed in the previously empty wooden ridge, Unakan took care of it and tidied it up very well, giving it a much warmer feeling that a home should have.
Lu Lu was not busy getting on the Kang, but went to Unakan and said, "Sister-in-law, I'm here to ask you to make something for me."
He brought the roe deer skin to Unakan, who was sewing suans for the two children on the kang.
"What are you going to do?" Unakan stopped what he was doing, picked up the roe deer skin that Lu Lu handed over and looked through it.
"I want to make a holster for my gun that can be carried across my back. When I use it, I can easily take it off. It will be convenient to use when skiing!"
By the way, Lu Lu talked about his encounter with the big lone wolf on the mountain, and also talked about the inconveniences of using a gun when skiing. This is not a big problem for an expert skier, but for a dabbler like him,
It's a little bit fatal.
Listening to his gestures, the eyes of Zhao Tuanqing, Zhao Yongke, Chen Xiuqing and Zhang Shaofeng present could not help but shine.
Lu Lu had measured it. The Type 56 semi-automatic rifle was 1025 mm long, just over one meter. It was easy to pull it out when it was slung across the back.
Just pull it out, turn on the safety, load the bullet and shoot, it only takes a second or two.
In the process of hunting, it is necessary to race against time at critical moments. This holster can be used not only during skiing, but also in other situations.
This little thing is a very simple thing for Unakan, who can sew exquisite souns and make protective vests for dogs.
With a few grown men who were also interested in helping, Zhao Yongke got the semi-automatic and quickly cut out two pieces of roe deer skin with a knife and sewed them with ribs. It only took about half an hour.
, a holster that can be straddled diagonally on the back and connected to the chest with an iron buckle strap for carrying on the back.
Lu Lu couldn't wait to insert the semi-automatic into the holster, tried to pull it out, and found that it was indeed much more convenient.
Chen Xiuqing, Zhang Shaofeng and Zhao Yongke tried it and found it much easier to use. Even Zhao Tuanqing couldn't help but give it a try and praised it repeatedly: "What a good thing!"
He immediately went back to his room and brought out two more roe deer skins: "Make four more according to the same pattern!"
Upon hearing this, the happiest people were Chen Xiuqing and Zhang Shaofeng, who seemed to be able to take advantage of it.
"You guys are busy, Qingzi, Brother Feng, come with me to my house. There are seven yellow sheep and a wolf waiting to be skinned. This holster won't be made for a while, so help skin the yellow sheep at my place.
Come over after dinner, it should be ready by then!"
Lu Lu took the holster and would not let these two good helpers go.
"I'll go too!" Zhao Yongke also said.
Lu Lu could not ask for more than one extra manpower.
He immediately led the three of them out of Zhao Yongke's house and rushed to his own meadow.
With the addition of three people, the skinning process became much faster. It only took more than two hours. The yellow sheep skin was peeled off, the wolf skin was removed, and the wolf oil was all delivered to the house.
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While they were helping shoveling the oily skin, Lu Lu took some of the yellow mutton that had been buried in the snowdrifts in the yard and was frozen hard and took it home. After cleaning it, he cut it into thin slices, and then started to cook it over the stove fire.
Fry those ingredients and prepare the hot pot base.
As for the wolf meat and yellow goat meat, they were enough to feed the three lynx cubs and Yuan Bao for several days.
Although wolf meat can be made into very tasty jerky, Lu Lu is not very interested in something as unpalatable as wolf meat jerky.
With the tools in hand, the three of them worked together to shovel the oily skin quickly. Lu Lu just took out the potatoes, cabbage and green onions from the cellar. While they were still peeling and cleaning, the three of them had already finished shoveling the oily skin and used the previous stretchers.
After the frame was stretched, Chen Xiuqing moved it to the warehouse to dry.
Then, the three of them climbed onto the big kang to drink tea consciously. When Lu Lu put the soup pot with the base ingredients on the brazier, the looks in their eyes made Lu Lu very suspicious that they were just doing this for him.
Comes with hotpot.
In fact, this hot pot meal with yellow mutton did not disappoint the three of them.
Lu Lu always uses a lot of ingredients when cooking here, unlike many people who just make it a little bit oil, add some dried chili peppers or miso, and make it very simple. There are seven or eight kinds of ingredients used in the soup pot Lu Lu makes.
It’s weird if it’s not delicious.
Put the thin yellow mutton into the boiling soup pot and cook it for a while before taking it out. The meat is tender and refreshing, making you feel more and more addicted to it. The more you eat, the more you want to eat, and you can't stop.
After finishing the meal, everyone in the room rubbed their stomachs again and again.