Chapter 98: Attempts before Thawing This place is four or five kilometers away from the winter den. It is not impossible to pull the two wild boars back by hand, but it is a bit difficult. Li Long simply gutted the wild boar right here. Halimu did not come forward to help. He said to Li Long: "You work here first. I'll go back and get the horses, and then help you drag the two wild boars back." "Row." Li Long had already cut open the carotid arteries of the two wild boars with a knife, not very skilled at it, and kept stepping on them to drain the blood. If the blood was not drained, the meat would not taste good. After draining the blood, Li Long began to open the pig's stomach and clear out the intestines. These things are actually pretty good, but I don’t have the time to play with them right now, and I may not even be able to take all of the pure meat back. However, he had to keep the wild boar's stomach, after all, it was worth three dollars each. Besides, this thing is a medicine, it is effective for stomach problems, so there is nothing wrong with keeping it or selling it. All that was left was to peel the skin. Li Long was a little hesitant when he started using the knife, and it was hard to start. But when he really started cutting, he didn't care about that anymore.
Apart from here, where else could he practice skinning so easily? He didn't want to take Halimu's sheep. After helping Halimu and Yushanjiang get rid of dozens of sheep last time, the two families now had enough fodder, and the mood of the two families was much better. With money and supplies, these sheep are not just food, but also wealth, career, and the sustenance of life. The weather was still very cold, and when I was halfway through skinning a pig, it was completely frozen and difficult to cut. Li Long didn't worry about it anymore. Although the wild boar skin looked messy after peeling it, at least he had developed some basic skills. Then he tied the two pigs together, dragged them both onto the plastic sheet, and rolled up the sheet. When Halimu came over on horseback, he tied one end of the tied "pig ball" to the saddle. "Do you want to come up?" Halimu asked. "No, just drag them down the mountain, away from your winter home," Li Long said, "so as not to disturb your family. I'll go over there, find two pieces of wood to put on the back of the bicycle, tie these two guys up, and take them away." "Okay." Halimu nodded, rode on his horse and dragged the two wild boars away. Li Long was wearing a felt coat and carrying a gun, walking back with one foot deep and one foot shallow. But he hadn't walked far when Li Long felt his hair stand on end again. With a quick shake of his shoulder, he held the semi-automatic rifle in his hand, turned on the safety, turned around and aimed the gun in the direction it came from. What the hell! Just on the ridge where he came down the mountain, a wild wolf was staring at him! There was blood at the corner of the wolf's mouth. Li Long guessed that it must have just eaten the wild boar skin or internal organs he had left behind. "Bang!" Li Long shot at the wolf without any hesitation! The bullet hit not far from the wolf, splashing a cloud of snow! The wolf was startled and turned around and disappeared to the other side of the ridge. Li Long did not rush over, he knew that even if he rushed over, he would probably hardly see the wolf. After watching for a while and seeing that the wild wolf did not appear again, Li Long turned around and continued walking back with his gun. It would be great if I had skis - but unfortunately, even if I had, I don’t know how to ski.
Li Long looked back from time to time, but didn't see any wolves, and the premonition of danger never appeared again. More than an hour later, he arrived at the foot of the mountain where the winter camp was located. To Li Long's surprise, the two wild boars had been tied up on his 28-meter-long pole, and Halimu was chopping wood outside the winter camp. "I heard you shooting just now, what happened?" Halimu asked. "A wolf appeared where we were shooting. I got scared." "There are wolves?" Halimu was stunned for a moment, "I thought you found some prey again - if that's the case, I have to be careful too." After staying warm in the winter nest for a while and drinking two bowls of milk tea, Li Long said goodbye and left. He packed up five or six semi-automatic rifles and tied them to his bicycle. He rode slowly back to the county. It was already dark. Not in the mood to cook anymore, Li Long went to the big meat restaurant to buy some buns, and then went back to his old house. Enter the yard, park the bicycle, set up the stove, wait for the fire to burn, eat the buns, and then unload the bicycle. I barely put the two pigs in the kitchen, lit the fire again, boiled water, and continued to work in the kitchen. Fortunately, there is electric light here, so he doesn't have to do it in the dark. While continuing to practice peeling, Li Long thought that after finishing his work tomorrow, he should ask the street office where to pay the electricity bill. Li Long was busy until twelve o'clock in the evening before he finally peeled the skins of the two pigs. It was not smooth, the skins were peeled in pieces, and the peeled pork was also bumpy, but overall at least he finished the job. He found an axe and chopped the two wild boars into pieces, separating the legs from the legs, the ribs from the ribs, and the pork belly from the pork belly. Then he planned to try his luck on the black market tomorrow to see if he could sell them. Sleeping on the solid wooden bed at night, Li Long soon cried out - he was so tired. Relying on his powerful biological clock, Li Long opened his eyes before dawn the next day. He got up and rubbed his face. Seeing that the stove was out, he stopped working, got dressed and went to the kitchen. He still picked up a few pieces of meat with plastic cloth and walked out with the scale. It seems I have to get a sled - I originally planned to use a bicycle, but I was worried about being arrested. A bicycle costs more than 100 yuan, and the problem is that it is difficult to get a ticket. If it is confiscated, I will lose a lot. When we dragged the wild boar meat to the black market, we found that there were already twenty or thirty stalls set up there, and there were quite a few people coming and going, about forty or fifty, and some were even shouting in a low voice. Li Long saw an egg vendor closing his stall, and immediately pulled over the plastic sheet and took up a spot. The other two people roaming around the black market also took a fancy to this location, but they were not as quick as Li Long, so they had to continue "moving around" while looking for a location. "Brother, what are you selling?" asked the fish stall owner next to him. Li Long smiled and said: "Wild boar meat. Brother, how do you sell this fish?" "One yuan per kilogram, but not many people buy it. An old customer said that some time ago someone sold fish for only two yuan, two, three, or four kilograms. The fish sellers sell it so cheaply that it's hard for us to sell it." "Where did you catch this fish?" Li Long thought that the person you were talking about was me, but I would never tell him. "It looks pretty." "Aren't they beautiful? I caught them by breaking through an ice hole in a reservoir." The stall owner said proudly, "Look at how big they are. The largest one weighs 12 kilograms!" Li Longxin said, even if you have twelve kilograms, someone has to buy it. The stall owner was quite talkative and asked Li Long: "Where did you get this wild boar meat? It's not from domestic pig, is it?" "Wild boar, caught in the mountains." Li Long pointed at the skin and said, "It's not as fat as a domestic pig. The skin has to be peeled off, which is very troublesome." Thanks to book friend Yundantiangao for the reward!
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