My Wife Is the Capitalist Heiress of the 1970s - Chapter 26
In less than half a day on the mountain, they caught a roe deer. This haul would make anyone envious!
The monkey head mushrooms were wrapped in a cloth bag and hung outside the basket, not placed with the blood-stained roe deer, otherwise they would be crushed.
“Dad, shall we go and hunt for something else?” Zhou Wenshan was still eager for more; it would be great if we could run into one or two wild boars!
Are there no wild boars here?
Zhou Yuanchao glanced at Zhou Wenshan, “There are wild boars, but hunting depends on luck. If you’re lucky, you might catch two wild boars a day. If you’re unlucky, it’s normal to not see a single wild boar hair for half a month!”
Just like those who come up the mountain to harvest ginseng, sometimes they can’t find any aged ginseng for three to five months, but some people are lucky and find old ginseng as soon as they go up the mountain!
Zhou Wenshan muttered to himself, “Dad, maybe we can find some old ginseng too!”
Zhou Yuanchao smiled and said, “Then you can look for it. I’ve been up the mountain so many times, and I haven’t seen a single old ginseng!”
After Dahei and Dahuang had eaten most of the entrails on the ground, Zhou Yuanchao said, “Let’s go, let’s go somewhere else. The smell of blood here is too strong, it might attract leopards or something!”
Zhou Wenshan agreed, picked up the basket on his back, and called Dahei and Dahuang to follow Zhou Yuanchao!
As Zhou Yuanchao walked ahead, he said, “If you can’t carry it anymore, just say so, and I’ll carry it for a while!”
Zhou Wenshan bounced the basket on his back; the roe deer weighed dozens of kilograms inside, but he felt it was as light as a feather!
“Dad, don’t worry, even if you hunt down another wild boar weighing two or three hundred pounds, I can carry it down the mountain for you!”
Zhou Yuanchao laughed, “When did you learn to brag like that!”
Zhou Wenshan didn’t argue. He himself was almost incredulous about his strength, let alone others!
“Dad, you’ll see when the time comes!”
As Zhou Wenshan spoke, he looked up and glanced ahead. What he saw made his pupils shrink, and he swung the large cleaver in his hand forward, shouting, “Dad, squat down!”
Hearing his son’s shout behind him, Zhou Yuanchao suddenly squatted down without thinking. A flash of light and the sound of a knife passed by him, and he felt a chill in his heart!
Snap! Snap!
Two pieces of something fell at his feet!
Zhou Yuanchao looked down and saw that it was the body of a venomous snake that had been cut in two!
The snake was cut in two but not quite dead yet. Its body kept writhing on the ground. Its brown body and triangular head looked rather creepy!
Zhou Yuanchao slowly stood up, looked at Zhou Wenshan, and smiled, “Good lad, not bad skills!”
Zhou Wenshan smiled smugly. Just now, he saw a poisonous snake above Zhou Yuanchao’s head, ready to attack him. He was so frightened that he drew his knife and slashed at the snake without thinking!
Just kidding, most of the snakes in these mountains are venomous. Getting bitten by one would be terrible!
Even if they carry snakebite medicine, it’s not guaranteed to be 100% safe!
Looking at the venomous snake writhing on the ground, Zhou Yuanchao glanced at it and realized it was a common viper found in the mountains, highly venomous!
Zhou Yuanchao took out a small knife, held the snake’s head down, cut it off, and threw it aside!
Then they gutted the snake, removed its gallbladder, took out a bottle, and put the gallbladder inside.
Take this snake gall bladder home and soak it in alcohol to drink!
It’s good for things like rheumatoid arthritis.
Then they put the snake away. The snake meat tasted quite good; it was a rare delicacy. If they were to sell it, this snake could probably fetch several dollars!
But that snake had to be alive. This snake was dead, and he planned to take it home and cook it himself!
After dealing with the snake, Zhou Yuanchao checked the time. “Wenshan, let’s go find a place to have lunch first!”
It’s almost noon, time to eat something, otherwise it’ll be hard to work on an empty stomach this afternoon!
Zhou Yuanchao led Zhou Wenshan in a different direction and walked for about ten minutes!
Upon reaching the foot of a mountain wall, we found a babbling brook flowing down from above, its water appearing clean and clear!
There’s a flat, large rock nearby, just the right size to put things on or sit on!
Zhou Wenshan’s eyes lit up. “There’s such a good place?”
Listening to the babbling brook is a real treat!
The two washed their hands in the spring water, and Dahei and Dahuang also went into the stream to drink water in big gulps!
It’s called a stream, but it’s really just a small ditch a little over a foot wide, with a sandy bottom that’s crystal clear!
They ate steamed buns made from a mixture of two kinds of flour, without even a single pickled vegetable, but the two of them were still quite satisfied!
Even though we’ve come down the mountain today, it’s still been a pretty good experience!
Of course, it would be even better if we could hunt more prey.
After all, he has to hand over 300 jin of game to the village every year in order to get full work points!
The two ate quickly, finishing two large steamed buns each in less than ten minutes, and drank some water from the kettle.
After packing my things, I’m going to go explore the mountains again and see if I can find anything else!
At this moment, Big Black and Big Yellow suddenly barked loudly!
Woof woof woof…
They charged into the woods!
A plump pheasant flapped its wings and flew up from the grass not far away!
Hehehehe~~
Seeing that Zhou Yuanchao didn’t even have time to grab his hunting rifle, and that the pheasant had flown into a tree, Dahei and Dahuang were helpless against it.
In a moment of desperation, Zhou Wenshan picked up a small stone from the ground, aimed it briefly at the pheasant, and hurled it with all his might!
Thump!
The colorful pheasant actually fell from mid-air!
It hit!
Zhou Wenshan clapped his hands and said excitedly, “Big Black and Big Yellow, bring the stuff over here!”
Zhou Yuanchao looked at Zhou Wenshan with an incredulous expression. The pheasant was almost 20 meters away, and his son had knocked it down with a small stone. Whether it was a coincidence or not, it showed that he was very talented!
When a person throws a stone 20 meters away, the stone is no longer dangerous!
Zhou Yuanchao thought to himself, “It seems Wenshan has quite a bit of arm strength!”
Big Black brought the pheasant over and handed it to him.
Even if this well-trained hunting dog is very hungry, it will not steal food unless it is offered to it.
Besides, Big Black and Big Yellow had just eaten not long ago, and their stomachs were still full!
Zhou Wenshan picked up the pheasant and looked at it. Wow, it weighed about four or five pounds!
It’s even bigger than the old hen we slaughtered a few days ago.
Holding the pheasant, he showed it off to Zhou Yuanchao, “Dad, I caught this myself!”
Zhou Yuanchao laughed too, “You brat, you just happened to hit me!”
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