Mountain driving career since 1982

Chapter 365

Chapter 365

Invite Wu Biao to Tian Youcheng's restaurant for a meal. Lu Lu didn't drink a drop of wine, and didn't delay too much. After eating and drinking enough, he paid the bill. After parting from Wu Biao, Lu Lu went to have another haircut. Shop, cut a spiritual cut, and then rode chasing the wind back.

Passing Huilongtun, he saw Liang Kangbo and Du Fengjuan besieging the rooster in the yard.

"Brother Liang, what are you doing!"

Lu Lu pulled the reins, stopped Zhuifeng, and asked with a smile, "It's making you jump."

"I was drying rice in the yard, but the closed rooster jumped out and scratched everywhere, making the rice everywhere. Brother, you came at the right time, come in quickly, kill the chicken for lunch, and eat this chicken."

Liang Kangbo stopped chasing and said to Lu Lu with a smile.

"I won't come in, I can't let this big cock suffer because of me. I just came back from selling things in the district, and I had dinner with people in the district. Brother Liang, I sold that bear bile for a thousand and one dollars today. One hundred and eight dollars..."

As Lu Lu said, he took out the divided money and passed it in through the fence of Liang Kangbo's house: "This is your half, keep it!"

Liang Kangbo was slightly stunned, and did not immediately go to accept the money: "Brother, I still don't think I should take this money, you can keep it yourself..."

"Hurry up!" Lu Lu interrupted him: "Do you want me to repeat what Xiuyu said to you? Don't babble, hurry up and continue."

Liang Kangbo shook his head with a wry smile, took a deep breath, and took the money: "Brother, go inside and drink water!"

"Let's talk about it another day. I also have millet drying in the yard. I have to go back and take care of it. I have to come and sit at home when I have time!"

Lu Lu smiled slightly, put his legs between the horse's belly, and continued to walk towards his meadow.

Du Fengjuan stretched her head and looked towards the road outside until she couldn't see Lu Lv before turning her head to look at the money in Liang Kangbo's hand: "At the beginning, because of the matter of our little bastard beating chickens, he came to our door. I still hold grudges in my heart, but fortunately I was scolded by you a few times at that time, thinking about it now, even I feel that my hair is long and my knowledge is short, I really took this big brother's kindness as a donkey's liver and lungs."

Liang Kangbo smiled at his daughter-in-law: "I told you earlier, but that person would not come to our door to tell us such things. He never cares about money, and he dares to do it when something really happens, and he is a hero. People are rare. Anyway, I have convinced him. And Xiuyu, that girl is also quite sensible, a person who dares to think and act, in the future, you should move around more."

"Yeah!" Du Fengjuan also nodded seriously.

Lu Lu went all the way back to Caodianzi, unloaded the saddle, let it graze in the meadow, rubbed the heads of the six dogs that kept flopping around, and then entered his own yard.

I used a wooden rake to stir the rice that was drying on the nylon cloth in the yard.

Chen Xiuyu, who went to the mountain after breakfast, didn't come back to eat at noon. Lu Lu had eaten too, so there was no need to arrange food.

He cut his hair by an inch, and the broken hair all over his head could not be cleaned cleanly. It would stick to his body and clothes, and it would make him very itchy. He went back to the house, got soap, and washed his hair by the river. Drifting in the cool river water, he wiped his upper body as well.

Turning over the clothes, shaking them vigorously, and putting them on again, Lu Lu brought the soap and towels back to the house, made himself a bowl of honey water and drank it, and suddenly felt that he had become a little idle all of a sudden.

After thinking about it, he first went to the bee farm to check the situation of the black bees, and then walked to the depths of the meadow to see the deer and roe that were raised there. Everything in the meadow was fine, so he took it. Two pieces of cowhide were sent to Zhao Yongke.

As soon as the corn is harvested, it will be winter in no time. It is a good season for hunting. The protective vests for the dogs have to be fiddled with early. When winter comes, they need to work hard.

Leading Yuanbao and them all the way, inspecting the fence, when Lu Lv arrived at Zhao Yongke's meadow, he saw Chen Xiuqing was there, standing aside watching Zhao Yongke driving the horse to plow the field, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Qingzi, why don't you coming?"

"The rice is put away, and there is nothing to do for the time being. I originally wanted to come and ask Brother Lu if he could enter the mountain, but when I arrived, I found that there was no one at home, so I came to Brother Zhao. Who knows, Seeing me coming, Big Brother Zhao immediately caught me and taught him how to plow the field... He obviously knew how to do it, but he didn't believe it."

Chen Xiuqing said with a silly smile.

Lu Lu glanced at Zhao Yongke's meadow, half of which had already been developed into land, which is not a small area.

The couple made up their minds to take root here, and they seemed very enthusiastic and serious about the land.

"Brother Zhao, are you planning to develop all of this meadow into land?" Lu Lu asked.

This piece of meadow is about one and a half football fields, about [-] to [-] mu. If it is like Lu Lu, enclosing the hills on the side from the ridge, it will still be quite large.

"I would like to, but my Ama said, I need to save half of it to raise something, and I will drive it for two more days."

Zhao Yongke said with a smile: "Too much land is not good, as long as the food grown is enough to eat, otherwise, Wu Na can't handle it alone."

"Then do you want to raise anything?"

Lu Lu has always been curious about this question.

"My grandma wants to raise everything. Two days ago, I caught a jumping cat from the mountain. After feeding it for a day, I found it troublesome. The next day, he roasted it for Zhao Yi and Zhao Ru to eat!"

Zhao Yongke himself laughed.

Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing were also amused.It's not the same thing to hunt directly on the mountain and bring it back to raise it. Zhao Tuanqing is very patient in hunting, but in breeding, I'm afraid it's not the same thing.

He glanced in the pocket, and then looked around, but he couldn't see Zhao Tuanqing, so he couldn't help asking: "Dad Zhao went into the mountain?"

"He's gone to Jiayin!"

"Go to Jiayin again?"

"Don't you and Qingzi want two Oroqen horses? I originally wanted to ask Shangqingzi to go to Jiayin and talk about the matter when I came back. My Ama was worried about the horse I picked, so I went by myself. It is estimated that he mainly wants to go to Jiayin to find his old friends, he has been away for five days, if he bought a horse, he should have come back long ago."

Lu Lu smiled, as his master, he is not a master who can stay in this meadow.

However, with Zhao Tuanqing as the horse, Lu Lu believed that he would definitely choose a good Oroqen horse for himself.

He put the two bags of cowhide next to Zhao Yongke's bag, looked at Unakan who was shaking the grass roots on the newly dug up land, and said, "Sister-in-law, I'm here to ask you to help put these two pieces of yellow cowhide together." Tanning it into leather is going to give you trouble again."

Wu Nakan looked up at Lu Lu, and nodded with a smile: "Just put it there. By the way, the roe deer skin you sent has been tanned. After a few days, I will come over and measure it for you and sister Xiuyu." Size, I will make Suen for you. The two bear skins will have to wait."

"Don't worry, just take your time!"

Most of the Oroqen people’s fur tanning is done by women. They do not have the techniques of adding various chemical raw materials in later generations, and they are tanned purely by hand. This is a very complicated and meticulous job.

For this aspect, Lu Lu somewhat understands, but if he is really asked to do it, he thinks he can't do it.

The first step is to tan the raw hides to mature hides.

There are two kinds of tools for tanning.One is a tanning tool with teeth called Maodan, and the other is a tool without teeth but with a blade called Hedler.

When tanning, the raw hide is coated with boiled and smashed roe deer liver, mixed with sawdust and fermented, and the leather is placed on the knee, the dirt on the leather board is scraped off with Maodan, and the leather is tanned repeatedly with Hodler. until soft.

Not to mention bear skins and the like, just a roe deer skin takes a lot of time, and it is very hard work, which is not something ordinary people can bear.

But the matter is not only that, the follow-up process is more complicated.

The craftsmanship of Oroqen people in processing fur and making Su'en is an intangible cultural heritage.

After chatting with Zhao Yongke and Chen Xiuqing for a while, Lu Lu led them back to their meadow without delaying their work.

I was thinking of taking a gun and wandering around, but when I got home, I saw, good guy, there was a large piece of nylon cloth in front of the cellar, and the full hazelnuts were being dried by seven or eight chipmunks. And greyhound scourge.

When Lu Lu led Yuan Bao and the others down the hillside, they quickly rushed into the woods behind the house one by one.

"It's really good at picking up bargains!"

It's autumn, and when these little things are full, their favorite thing to do is to try their best to store winter food such as pine nuts and hazelnuts in their nests.

If they are allowed to eat and take, they can take away a lot in a day.

When Lu Lu first came to this mountain, he dug out the greyhound's nest. After a winter, there were still two or three catties of pine nuts and hazelnuts left in the nest, which shows how powerful these nature's porters are.

Especially the chipmunk, don't look at it is much smaller than the greyhound, its mouth can hold five or six hazelnuts at a time, or even more, and it is more ferocious than the greyhound.

Lu Lu knew that he had something to do this afternoon.

Since it was delivered to their door, how could Lu Lu be polite to them.

He sent the ingots back to the yard, took out the slingshot, and moved a wooden pier seven or eight meters away from the place where the hazelnuts were dried, quietly waiting for them to appear.

With so many ready-made hazelnuts, it is very tempting for them.

Even if Lu Lu was sitting on the sidelines and watching, these little creatures who usually looked very timid, after a little probing, boldly jumped off the branches and ran onto the nylon cloth.

Lu Lu took the projectile gently, put it in the sling bag of the slingshot, and slowly pulled the bow skin away.

With a snap, the first greyhound that stepped into the forbidden area of ​​nylon cloth obediently surrendered its fur and tender meat.

For the whole afternoon, Lu Lu stayed here without moving a single position, and killed five greyhounds and three chipmunks.

Seeing that it was almost time, Lu Lu went back to the house and started cooking.

When Chen Xiuyu and the others were driving the carriage to pull the picked nuts, Lu Lu had already taken off the furs of a few small animals, and even the meat had been fried.

The meal is very simple, stir-fried squirrel meat, stir-fried pork leg with green onions, fried some small fish in a mustard cage in the river, fried corn, soup made of green leafy vegetables in the field and cold fungus.

Zhou Cuifen and the others were all left by Lu Lu to eat, and all of them ate with bright lights in their eyes.

After several people ate and left, Lu Lu and Chen Xiuyu were busy collecting the rice and hazelnuts and putting them in the barn, another day had passed.

In the evening, Lu Lv handed over the money from today's sales to Chen Xiuyu, and kept more than a hundred yuan with him.

"Daughter-in-law, take good care of the rice and the mountain products picked at home these few days. Don't rush into the mountains. I think the rice has been drying for a few days. Ask Qingzi to help and send it to the mill in Tunli to grind it out. , I will go out for a trip, it may take two or three days, and when I come back, I will go to the farm to see Raymond."

While the couple were chatting on the bed, Lu Lu talked about his plan.

"What are you going to do for these two or three days?" Chen Xiuyu stood up and asked a little strangely.

"Just go around the mountains, mainly to practice guns."

Lu Lu didn't intend to tell her that he was going to Jinlin District.

Chen Xiuyu didn't suspect him, she nodded with a smile.

This night, she was sitting in Lu Lu's arms, stroking Lu Lu's full hair with both hands, very excited.

The next morning, before dawn, Lu Lu, who got up early, broke down semi-automatically, rode Chase Feng, led Yuanbao, and headed straight for Jinlin District from the mountain road.

(End of this chapter)