dognovel Chapter 838 Fire and Salt
Chapter 838 Fire and Salt
Chapter 838 Fire and Salt
The hunting ground has four areas, a closed hunting area, an animal feeding area and two open hunting areas.
The so-called closed hunting area actually contains naturally bred wild animals. This area is very large.The area of the open hunting area is much smaller. What it provides is mainly to raise animals and put them in a certain number to ensure that they are supplied to tourists for hunting. It is like a fishing pond, where a certain number of fish are put in for fishing. Same.
This is the difference between wild and non-wild.
In terms of difficulty, it is naturally more difficult to close a hunting area.
The group of people stopped at the entrance of the hunting area. Lu Lu and Torres looked at each other. Torres smiled disdainfully at Lu Lu, made a gesture with his fist and thumb downward, and then led his foxhound in. He opened the gate and walked into the forest through the crunching snow.
Lu Lu didn't bother to argue with him. After all, he had to decide the outcome based on the value of the prey.
When the results come out, those who deserve to be slapped in the face will naturally be slapped in the face.
He turned back and waved at Zhang Shaofeng and Zhao Yongke, holding the shotgun, and walked into the woods in the other direction unhurriedly.
In the hunting grounds, all kinds of prey have clearly marked prices, and if you catch them, you have to spend money to buy them.
The reason why this is a game for the rich is that after entering the hunting ground, in addition to the entrance fee, the use of guns, hunting guides, hunting guides, hunting dogs, etc., all expenses include the wild animals hunted. In fact, in the end It all costs money.
If you want to have fun, you can spend a lot of money on just one activity.
Since the winner can take away all the prey, Lu Lu is no longer polite to the hunting grounds. Naturally, he can hunt as many as he can. As for whether the wild animals are rare, it doesn't matter.
Not long after leaving, he heard the sound of gunshots in the distance. Lu Lu couldn't help but smile: "The movement was quite fast..."
However, he didn't take it seriously. He walked along the way, looking for prey according to Yuanbao's cry, and also looked at the traces left by animals on the ground. He stopped and set some simple traps to catch sables. , yellow skin and water dog and other small animals.
Setting traps was a very simple matter for Lu Lu. Without hunting gear, he could do it casually with the various mountain materials he saw.
After releasing the Yuanbao to catch a jumping cat, the bait will naturally be available.
After finding a large pile of kiwi fruit, I peeled off the skin of the rattan and kneaded out a strong rope. The arrangement of the rope noose was no problem.
Slates, sticks, trees, ice buckets dug out of the snow, etc. can all be used at your fingertips.
In terms of traps, Lu Lu mainly inherited the methods of the Oroqen people from Zhao Tuanqing, and was also influenced by Liang Kangbo's various whimsical ideas for setting traps.
During several years of hunting, traps have been their main method, and they killed far more people than guns.
Of course, the most important issue Lu Lu was thinking about now was accommodation and warmth at night.
In this cold weather, there is not even a mattress after a night. The temperature is [-] to [-] degrees below zero. Without these things, it will be fatal.
Yes, this is not just a hunt, but also a wilderness survival.
He didn't even have any matches with him, so he had to find a way to light a fire by himself.
For most of the day, Lu Lu didn't fire a single shot and set many traps. He cut bark along the way, marked the route with a crutch, and walked through the vast mountains and forests, looking for useful things.
Probably because it is a closed hunting area, and it has only been opened for a year or two. There are many wild animals in the closed hunting area in the name of protection. In the morning, Yuanbao found a tree barn, Lu Lu said. He found the mark but did not touch it. In the afternoon, Yuanbao found another underground warehouse.
On the gentle slope between the trees, a soil trough was pulled out. Following the soil trough, a space with a small outer opening and a large interior appeared in front of Lu Lu. He carefully lay down beside the hole and looked inside. The three-hundred-pound blind bear huddled up in a ball.
The underground warehouse was prepared before it snowed. It was now covered with snow, and the cave entrance was already covered with a layer of frost. Blind Xiong, who was half asleep and half awake, opened his eyes when Lu Lu tried to look inside. The blurred little eyes glanced at Lu Lu, but that was all.
Lu Lu looked around and found that he was nearly ten miles deep. There were vast mountains and wilderness all around. It seemed that he couldn't search much of the area in five days. These places were enough.
This Dicangzi is a good campsite.
"Old Hei, I'm sorry, I've taken a liking to your nest."
Lu Lu muttered with a smile, stood up, walked to the top of the Cangzi cave, and gave the instruction to Yuan Bao: "吜吜..."
All of a sudden, Yuan Bao started barking at the entrance of the cave.
The manic voice quickly brought Blind Bear back to reality. He suddenly reached out his paw from the hole and slapped Yuanbao, shocking Yuanbao back.
It seemed unwilling to leave this comfort zone, and it quickly shrank back.
Yuanbao's harassment could not be ended by him, but he barked even more ferociously.
This time, it rushed out all at once.
Lu Lu, who had been waiting at the entrance of the cave, decisively pulled the trigger, and a single bullet instantly penetrated into its head.
Blind Bear immediately fell to the ground, twitched a few times, and then stopped moving.
After confirming his death, Lu Lu struggled to turn the blind man over, opened his intestines with a knife, pulled out the intestines and hung them on a branch nearby, took out his heart and liver and fed them to Yuan Bao, and picked out the bear's bile.
Then, he dragged the blind bear to the left, along the snow for a while, and put it aside. He then got into the hole and took a look. There was nothing else in the hole. It had been smoothed and smoothed, and there was some padding at the bottom. The space of the blades of grass is large enough to sleep one person, but the fishy smell is a bit off-putting.
But it doesn't matter, just burn it with fire.
The next problem was making a fire.
There were no matches, no flint and flint, so the fire could only be made manually.
Of course, Lu Lu also had the simplest way, which was to take out a single bullet, pull out the bullet, fill the bullet case with velvet kneaded from dry birch bark, then reload the bullet, and the primer was fired by the firing pin. It ignites, and then triggers the gunpowder in the cartridge case. While the gunpowder ignites the birch bark velvet, it can also eject the velvet ball and ignite it directly.
It might take several times to succeed. Lu Lu didn't want to waste bullets. After all, he was in the mountains. In case of an emergency, it would be troublesome if he didn't have enough bullets.
Therefore, Lu Lu chose the stupidest method, drilling wood to make fire.Of course, there are many ways to drill wood to make fire, such as rubbing a drill rod against a wooden board with both hands, but this method is slow and difficult to ignite the fire.
You can also use the wooden bow method to drill wood, but you still need to make a wooden bow, which is quite troublesome.
In Lu Lu's view, the plowing method is probably the simplest method of drilling wood to make fire. Just prepare a piece of dry firewood and add a relatively hard stick.
In the woods, such things can be found easily.
The snow in the wilderness is dry, and so is the wood hidden in it.
Lu Lu easily found a section of dry birch in the snow, split it in half with a hunting knife, dug out a groove on one piece with a few strokes of the hunting knife, and found a dried walnut tree stick. , simply sharpened the tip with a hunting knife, found some dry firewood, prepared a lot of birch bark and velvet, and started his fire-making business.
He pressed the tip of the stick against the groove and pushed it back and forth quickly.
With rapid pushing and friction, a handful of thin wood chips gradually piled up on the wood, and as the temperature continued to increase, they gradually turned yellow, black, and then smoked, followed by sparks.
Use the tinder you had prepared earlier to catch these sparks, protect them carefully, and blow them gently a few times. The smoke of the fire gets bigger and bigger, and finally the flames suddenly appear.
It didn't take much time to get the job done.
Lu Lu built a big fire, and threw some burning materials into the underground warehouse and burned it inside.
The thick smoke billowing in the cave can cover up the fishy smell inside, heat the cave, evaporate moisture, and heat the soil, making it comfortable to lie down in it at night.
After warming his hands and feet, Lu Lu added a few thick logs to the fire to burn. He had been busy for most of the day and was still hungry.
These days, the only food available is game.
But game food should have some flavor. You can eat roe deer liver, but it’s so bloody that you can’t eat it for more than a few bites. Most of the time, you only eat it when you refuse in front of the Oroqen people. It really makes you want to eat it. Lu Lu, like Torres, eats things that are probably not medium rare, which is really hard to eat.
If you want to have flavor, you must have salt!
But where to get salt?
Lu Lu thought about it carefully and realized that there were probably only two methods suitable for him.
Salt is an indispensable thing for the body. If you don't eat salt for a long time, your body will not be able to bear it and you will feel tired. This is only the first day, and the next four days will last.
Usually, when there is no salt in the wild, there are several ways to replenish salt to the body.
The first is to obtain it from plants.
As Lu Lu knew, the plant with the easiest way to obtain salt was the salt bark tree, also known as gallnut. The leaves of this thing secrete a layer of white frost-like substance, which is salt.
However, it is winter now, and the branches of the salt-skinned wood have become bare, so it is obviously impossible.
In addition, Lu Lu knew a kind of moss from Zhao Tuanqing. This moss is very popular with elk. It tastes salty and bitter and looks like antlers. He has seen this kind of moss, which does not grow much in the mountains. But you can still find it, but you can get more and boil it in water to precipitate the salt.This is one of the methods available to Lu Lu.
If the body is really short of salt, drinking animal blood directly can satisfy it.
Lu Lu looked at Blind Xiong beside him, obviously unable to speak.
And when there is really nothing else to do, the only option is to reuse your own sweat. However, in this cold weather, there is so much sweat on the body, and there is no way to collect the sweat.
Licking...let's forget it!
The last option is to find salty land.
In the mountains, whether it is red deer, sika deer or roe deer, including many herbivores, they all rely on the salt precipitated from the salty land to replenish their body needs. The salty land is too easy for Lu Lu.
In his previous life, he had been in the hunting ground closest to his home several times. He didn't have to follow the deer and roe deer to find it, and he knew there were two saline-alkali lands.
One of them, not far from where he is now, is a small rock cliff. The water coming out of it contains salt, and many wild animals often go there to lick it.
Take it back, boil the water and filter it to get the salt.
Lu Lu immediately stood up, took the shotgun and walked away. He climbed to the top of the mountain to look for the direction below. He found the location and went directly to it.
Jinfan's shoes creaked on the snow, and Yuanbao followed him, not in a hurry. Half an hour later, Lu Lu saw the small stone cliff.
There are also footprints of red deer, sika deer and roe deer on the snow, as well as footprints of greyhounds, jumping cats and other animals. This is a good hunting spot.
Even in winter, when salt consumption is not as severe as in summer and autumn, deer still come to this place.
Especially the sika deer group, the footprints are very fresh.
In the hunting grounds, the value of sika deer is not low.
Lu Lu remembered that when he came to play in his last life, it cost tens of thousands to kill a sika deer, which was artificially bred.
On the cliff, there are ice edges hanging one by one. The entire cliff is covered with a layer of paste, and there are water drops dripping from some places.
Lu Lu broke off the ice cubes and licked them with his tongue. The salt taste was quite strong, so there was no need to boil the saline-alkali soil underneath. He could just use these ice cubes. They looked very pure. No need to filter them, just dry them. Just make out the salt grains, or soak the meat directly after melting into water to get a salty taste.
As for the cooking tools, there are birch barks. Things are not simple. Just make a birch bark pot and put it on the fire to cook things as long as there is water.
I have seen Zhao Yongke make a simple birch bark bowl, so making a larger container is not a big problem for Lu Lu.
In the mountains, a good hunter can still have a good life even if he has nothing.
(End of this chapter)