In the Xiaoxing'an Mountains in summer, the plants are green and the birds are chirping.

Looking at the big black bear in the distance across a ravine, Wang Yuan's breathing suddenly became rapid. The way he thought of to make money was - bear hunting!

Bear meat is not very valuable, but bear bile is very valuable!

Even a piece of bear bile is worth a year's wages of a worker!

The distance was a bit far, and after the big black bear turned around and dived into the dense forest, Wang Yuan and his grandfather continued on their way carrying the big wild boar.

Grandpa and Wang Yuan carried a wooden stick. He saw the eager look on Wang Yuan's face, so he smiled and said: "Xiao Yuan, do you want to hit that black bear?"

"Um!"

Wang Yuan nodded without hiding anything and said while carefully carrying the big wild boar down the mountain: "The bile of black bears is so valuable. If you can get just one bile, you can live very comfortably throughout the year!"

In the rural areas of Northeast China, we are basically self-sufficient in food and vegetables, and even many hard-working families still have a lot of surplus, but not meat.

You can eat it once when you kill a pig for the New Year. Usually you can't eat much pork throughout the year. Pork is too expensive, but one bear bile can be exchanged for a lot of pork.

"Black bears are not easy to kill. They are very tenacious and their retaliation before death is very terrifying. There have been cases in our village where we failed to kill bears and ended up being killed by bears instead," Grandpa said with a smile.

"Yes, I understand."

At this time.

From the woods ahead on the left, a bird's cry of "Cuckoo, Cuckoo, Cuckoo, Cuckoo," came from the woods. The sound was very clear and sweet, but the trees were dense and the birds could not be seen.

"Hey! It's the call of the stick bird. Now you can run to the mountains to find ginseng!" cousin Wang Meng immediately laughed.

"yes!"

"If you can find a ginseng plant with six leaves, you will also make a fortune."

"Six leaves? That's too hard to find. If you can find a ginseng with five leaves, it's a sign of mercy from the mountain god."

Everyone laughed instantly.

Ginseng is a treasure in the mountains. Generally, the older it is, the more leaves it has. From small to large, it is roughly divided into "three flowers", "slap", "erjiazi", "dengtaizi", "four leaves" and "five leaves".

"One leaf", "Six leaves" and so on.

Artificially planted ginseng grows very quickly. Sometimes a 6-year-old ginseng can grow six leaves - that is, six palmate compound leaves.

However, pure wild ginseng is completely different from artificial ginseng. Wild ginseng grows very slowly, and it may take more than ten to several decades to grow a palmate compound leaf.

The six-leaf wild ginseng has probably been growing for more than a hundred years and is priceless!

It was very difficult to walk in the mountains and forests, not to mention that the four of us were carrying a large wild boar weighing about 300 kilograms, so we walked very slowly and chatted while walking.

Wang Yuan smiled and said: "Grandpa, have you seen the true form of the stick bird? What does it look like? Some people say this bird is an owl."

"Cuckoo-gu-gu~gu-gu-gu~"

There are also cries of stick birds in the mountain forest, which are ethereal and distant, seeming to tell people that the ginseng seeds in the mountains are ripe and the red color is very beautiful. Come and pick ginseng in the mountains.

Local custom calls ginseng "stick", and the stick bird is the ginseng bird, which likes to peck at ginseng seeds.

Grandpa smiled and said: "I have actually seen a stick bird. It's not an owl. It looks like a small pigeon with gray feathers."

"When did you meet me?"

"Oh, it must have been more than 30 years ago. At that time, not long after the founding of New China, we encountered bandits while fighting in the mountains. Bullets were flying everywhere. We took one look at the bird and continued fighting."

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By the time the four people carried the big wild boar out of the mountain, it was already 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the heat had already receded, and the breeze was very cool.

Walking along a dirt road more than 2 meters wide towards the village, there are acres of rice fields on both sides, and the air is filled with the fragrance of rice flowers.

The wind blew and the ears of rice rustled against each other.

Boom~

Occasionally, a toad jumped directly into the rice field after being disturbed. In an instant, circles of water rippled, and the insects in the grass on the roadside were chirping, which mixed with the sound of cicadas to compose a song.

A unique melody.

Some villagers were working in the farmland. When they saw four people, Wang Yuan’s grandfather and grandson, bringing back a big wild boar, they all said hello in a novel way.

"Wow! We shot a big wild boar??"

"Mr. Jiang is so awesome!"

"Such a big wild boar is such a blessing. I'm envious."

There are many earthen houses in the villages, most of which are surrounded by low fences or earthen walls. They are full of vicissitudes of time and look very down-to-earth.

A group of children were jumping rubber bands, spinning tops, and laughing happily in the paddock outside the village. Among them were Wang Yuan's sister "Wang Xiaodie" and the youngest daughter of his third uncle's family "Wang Xiaohua."

The two little girls were wearing gray clothes and braids. Their fleshy little faces were very cute, but they looked thin and small due to malnutrition.

After discovering Wang Yuan and his group, they quickly ran over and circled around the big wild boar.

"Second brother, you caught a big wild boar? It's amazing!" My younger sister, Wang Xiaodie, had bright eyes and saliva was about to flow from the corners of her mouth.

She wants to eat meat very much.

She was too involved in playing, and her fair and delicate little face was covered with a little dust. Wang Yuan lifted the big wild boar with his right hand and stretched out his left hand to wipe her face.

Okay~I turned into a little cat in an instant.

"Well, go back and tell our parents that we are back from hunting wild boars!"

"Okay, okay."

Wang Xiaodie and Wang Xiaohua hurriedly got out of the crowd and ran home on their short legs, as excited as if they were celebrating the New Year.

The closer you get to the village, the more people watch. Some are happy, some are envious, and some are jealous.

For example, "Wang Shuai", who is tall and tall and wears a black cloth vest, has nothing to do with Wang Yuan and has fought several times since he was a child.

Wang Shuai shouted "Master Jiang" to his grandfather, then looked at Wang Yuan and hummed: "Where did you catch the wild boar? My family set up a wild boar trap on the mountain. Did you pick up the wild boar in the trap?"

"

Wang Yuan glanced at him and snorted: "Get lost!"

"you!"

Wang Shuai's eyes widened and he was furious, but there was nothing he could do. There were no scars left by the condom on the wild boar, so it was absolutely impossible for it to have been caught in the condom.

There was a lot of noise around, and many people were chatting with grandpa.

Walking along the dirt road in the village, I saw my grandma, parents, second and third aunts waiting in front of the house from a distance. My second and third uncles must have gone to the fields and were not at home.

4 sets of mud houses are connected together.

The farthest west is Wang Yuan's house, and to the east are the second uncle's house, the third uncle's house, and the grandparents' house.

The houses of the four families are connected together, located to the south of Wangjiatun. They have independent low-walled yards, so they can take care of each other when something happens.

Grandma, parents, two aunts, and some younger brothers and sisters came to greet them, and they were all very happy to see the big wild boar.

After carrying the big wild boar to his grandmother's house in the east, Wang Yuan stopped caring about the noisy crowd and went into the house.

Tons tons tons~

The light in the low farm house was dim, the walls and roof were all smoked black, and the ground was dirt. Standing next to the big water urn, I used half a ladle to scoop some cold water from the black water urn.

Tons of it went into the stomach.

I drank too quickly, and the cold water dripped from the corner of my mouth, moistening a small piece of clothing on my chest.

"Brother, are you full?"

Cousins ​​Wang Meng and Wang Hu walked in and stood behind looking at the ladle eagerly. They were also very thirsty.

"Here you go, drink."

Wang Yuan drank happily, and then gave the ladle to Wang Meng. He took off his short sleeves to reveal his strong upper body, came to the basin in the corner, washed his face, and then washed away the sweat stains on his body.

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It was very noisy in the yard. Many villagers came to watch the fun, and the discussion was carried into the house.

At this time.

My sister Wang Xiaodie ran into the house, squatted on Wang Yuan's right and said, "Second brother, how did you catch the big wild boar? Tell me about it."

The little girl loves to listen to stories, her eyes are sparkling.

Seeing the stains on her little face, Wang Yuan wet the towel and wiped her face.

The little girl squatted there with her eyes closed and let Wang Yuan wipe her face roughly.

"I'll tell you later, grandpa, what are they doing?"

"Slaughter the pig."

"Well, if nothing else, we can eat pork tonight. Do you like pork?"

"like!"

"Where's your eldest sister?"

"I'm watching the pig slaughter outside."

Wang Yuan went inside and pulled the light cord. Click~ As expected, there was no electricity. Because of the low power generation, although the lights were installed, there were frequent power outages.

After he came out of the back room, he heard a cat meowing. It turned out to be his big white cat coming over smelling the scent.


Chapter completed!