The person who asked the question was a man in his forties, carrying a 79 rifle. His eyelids were swollen and his eyes were blood red, as if he had been up for many days.
The ginseng gang who goes into the mountains will not tell people that they are going to the mountains to carry sticks.
This is a taboo, and once you say it, you will easily be remembered.
Therefore, when this person asked, Lu Lu just looked up at him and said casually: "We are just greedy, so we went into the mountains to catch some game while we have nothing to do."
The five horses on the grass beside them waved their tails or shook their heads from time to time to drive away approaching mosquitoes. After two days of jolting in the car, they were too lazy to move and just stood there stupidly.
The six dogs were the same, lying down and resting by the tent. When this man came over, Yuan Bao stood up and barked, and then lay down again after Lu Lu signaled.
There are horses, hunting dogs, and guns on their backs. It is more appropriate to say that they are hunting.
Moreover, no one dares to provoke a hunter.
"Your accent doesn't sound like a local one?" The man asked again, "Where are you from?"
Lu Lu frowned slightly: "Why are you not from here?"
This kind of inquiring about the details is no different from interrogating the details. Lu Lu is very resistant to it. The more he doesn't want to reveal the details, the more he keeps asking endless questions, so he directly asks a rhetorical question.
"It's nothing..." The man noticed Lu Lu's displeasure, laughed dryly, turned around and left quickly.
Lu Lu glanced at him and didn't want to say anything more. Seeing that there were more than a dozen fish of various sizes thrown on the grass, which were enough to eat, he called Zhang Shaofeng and Zhao Yongke out of the water.
"How do you eat these fish?" Zhang Shaofeng picked up a fish and asked with a smile.
"Those Yaluo fish will be cooked in soup, and the rest will be grilled and eaten by us! Fourth brother, you are responsible for lighting the fire, and then go to the nearby forest to get some wild green onions. Third brother and I will take care of these fish!"
Lu Lu himself didn't expect that he could pick up such bargains for nothing in this shallow pool. He had an idea as soon as he saw the fish.
Especially the Yaluo fish inside, although it is not big, but it ranks among the three flowers and five kinds of fish in Northeast China, which is enough to know its deliciousness.
This is a small and narrow carp-shaped freshwater fish that is lively and active. It likes to live in estuaries, small river branches or mountain streams, and will eat aquatic plants and insects.
They most like to swim and forage in groups, often floating on the water. Sometimes you can see a large group of them directly on the river, making the river look like rain, and the scene is very lively.
Next, the three people divide the work and collaborate.
Lu Lu and Zhao Yongke took the fish to the river to cut their scales and wash them, while Zhang Shaofeng lit a fire and went to look for wild green onions in the woods nearby while the fire was burning.
When Chen Xiuqing and Liang Kangbo came back, they saw that the three of them had already eaten the fish, leaving a pile of fish bones on the ground.
Seeing that there were four or five pieces roasting on the fire rack, Chen Xiuqing immediately ran over and looked through them a few times, then immediately selected one and picked it up to eat.
"What are you in a hurry for? Eat slowly, and more!" Lu Lu looked at him gobbling up the food and was really afraid that he would be pricked by a fishbone.
Liang Kangbo also sat down on the grass beside the fire, put the cloth bag aside, took a grilled fish from Lu Lu, and said while eating: "There is nothing to buy, I just bought some pancakes."
I rolled green onions and steamed buns, and I saw a house selling cooked beef that had a cow fight and gored it to death, so I bought some!"
beef?
What a good thing!
Lu Lu took the bag and looked at it. There was a lot of beef in it, and it was indeed good meat. He smiled and said: "We will eat fish today, but we can eat this meat tomorrow!"
As he spoke, he took out the pancake rolls with green onions, divided one into each person and ate slowly.
At the same time, put a pot on the fire, put some oil, throw in some of the ingredients you brought, fry it for a while, then add water, then put the cleaned and deboned yarrow into the pot
Inside.
As the saying goes, boil fish in cold water and boil fish in boiling water.
Generally speaking, fish can be cooked in boiling water or cold water, but the taste may vary.
Boiling fish in a pot under water can cause the surface of the fish body to be suddenly exposed to high temperatures, causing the fish meat to shrink and solidify, making it easier to keep the fish body intact and prevent nutrients from leaking out, thus maximizing the nutritional value of the fish.
The fish cooked in cold water will have a stronger fishy smell and the meat will be looser, but the texture of the cooked fish will be the most tender.
This Yaluo fish is just tender and has that umami flavor. Without the slight fishy smell, it feels like something is missing.
While several people were tearing into pancakes and rolling green onions while drinking fish soup, the man from before turned back and looked at Lu Lu and others from a distance.
"What's going on with this guy?" Lu Lu frowned slightly, then turned to look at the people: "Ask me, as soon as my accent comes out, people are wary of me."
"Man, what are you doing? I wonder if you have anything to say?" Zhang Shaofeng stood up and asked the man loudly.
The man hesitated for a long time, then walked over with a gun in his hand, looked at a few people, and then looked at Lu Lu: "Are you all hunters?"
"It's all!" Zhang Shaofeng nodded.
"I... I actually want to ask you for a favor!" the man hesitated.
"What are you helping me with?" Zhang Shaofeng chased and asked, "Tell me about it!"
"The thing is like this..."
The man looked at Lu Lu again, hesitated for a while, and then told what happened.
His name is Tang Liyun, and he is from the farm on this side of the Wei River. This year, family farms are encouraged. He estimates that in addition to the annual wheat production that is given to the state and collectives, there is still a lot of surplus. He feels that this is a worthwhile thing to do.
In addition, he was a machine operator on the farm and was good at plowing and harvesting, so he held a meeting at home, contracted 500 acres of land, and planted wheat.
His daily expenses are all supported by selling the chickens his wife raises.
The family got up early and worked hard day and night, and finally got there. The wheat ears began to fill with grain, and they thought it would be a good harvest. A few days ago, they suddenly discovered that a lot of the wheat fields had been destroyed by wild boars.
Several slices of wheat were poured out.
This is a year of hard work.
As soon as he saw the wheat fields destroyed by wild boars, his heart felt half cold.
The wheat seedlings formed a large area in one fell swoop. It could be seen that after the wild boar was full, it would just roll around in the field.
If one acre of land can yield 400 kilograms of wheat, then the destruction alone would probably result in a loss of around 3,000 kilograms.
He knew that wild boars were dangerous, but he didn't know how to hunt. He could only carry the 79 rifle he bought from someone and go to the fields to guard it. At night, from time to time, he would fire a blank gun into the mountains or light up a string of firecrackers.
Blow it up, and then knock it around with an iron basin to scare the wild boars away.
At the beginning, the effect was quite good, but as the frequency increased, the wild boars gradually lost their fear and started causing trouble in different places.
In order to hunt down the wild boars, he also paid three people who knew how to hunt to keep watch for a few days. Unexpectedly, he didn't catch any wild boars, but one of them was picked out by a wild boar, and he was given a lot of money.
medical expenses.
The man said that these wild boars were too ferocious, and the other two did not dare to defend them.
He had no choice but to do it himself, firing blank guns, setting off firecrackers, and knocking on the iron basin to scare them. As a result, these wild boars were not afraid, but actually dared to come around and bite people.
Fortunately, he had no ability to hunt and was afraid of wild boars hurting people, so he chose to stay on a stone slab on the side of the mountain that wild boars could not climb up, so he was not injured.
"In the past few days, we have lost a lot of food... I beg you, please help me kill those wild boars? I will give you money, one hundred yuan, okay?"
Tang Liyun said on the verge of tears: "It seems that my hard work this year has been in vain. I'm afraid I have to put in everything."
The words made several people look at each other.
Lu Lu didn't expect to meet someone who started a family farm here, but this encounter left him speechless.
"Brothers, he is indeed in trouble. Can we help him?" Lu Lu asked with a smile.
For a few people, hunting wild boars is commonplace, but for many hunters, especially ordinary people, wild boars are the beasts they least want to encounter.
The reputation of One Pig, Two Bears and Three Tigers cannot be overshadowed.
Every year, more people are injured by wild boars than those injured by blind bears and big claws. It can be said that they have a vicious reputation.
"You are the leader, you have the final say!"
Several people happened to look at Lu Lu together.
Lu Lu looked up at the sky: "At this point, the wild boar is coming soon!"
"Yes, yes, it's about this time every day..." Tang Liyun said anxiously.
"Okay, take us to have a look!" Lu Lu said, standing up.
Tang Liyun didn't expect that several people would agree so easily. His expression suddenly became surprised, and he hurried forward to lead the way.
A few people didn't write ink, and they all followed up with their own affairs.
Yuan Bao and a few dogs also got up and followed. Seeing their listless appearance, Lu Lu squatted down and rubbed Yuan Bao's head: "Go back, rest here, and help us look after the horses and tents!"
Yuan Bao turned his head to look at the people, hesitated for a moment, turned back to the tent three times, and lay down again.
Tang Liyun looked at the dogs and praised: "What an obedient dog!"
"That's not true. In my whole life, I have never heard of a better dog than this one!" Chen Xiuqing said with a stern look on her face.
"Can we hunt wild boar without a dog?" Tang Liyun asked worriedly.
"Why can't we fight...do you know how many wild boars there are?" Lu Lu asked after smiling slightly.
"I took a look at Shilizi that day, and there were eight of them, and a few piglets!" Tang Liyun said quickly.
Lu Lu nodded slightly and said nothing more.
Walking along the side of the mountain, I didn't go far before I saw a large green wheat field, with waves of wheat rolling in the mountain wind.
Along the way, we saw several wheat fields destroyed by wild boars.
It can be seen from these places that wild boars have a habit of eating the sweet top part of wheat instead of eating the ears. When eating, they run around and trample large areas of wheat, and many places are dug out.
Mud pits, wallowing in them, the mud has been rolled back and forth by wild boars, making it smooth.
Every area that was damaged was not small, and any area could be hundreds of square meters in size.
That’s all food!
But Lu Lu also heard it. From the beginning, these wild boars could be scared away by the sound of gunfire, firecrackers, or the sound of banging iron basins. However, these wild boars have not been harmed more and more, and they are not afraid.
He even became more and more irritable. When he heard the noise, instead of running away, he actually wanted to hurt others.
This is obviously because he has been trained not to be afraid of people, and he is used to it.
A few minutes later, a group of people arrived at the edge of the field near the edge of the mountain. There was a protruding stone handle, and a young man, probably in his twenties, was sitting on it, carrying a rifle.
Seeing a group of people coming, he said with some surprise: "Dad... are you here?"