PFC Chapter 349: Hunting lynxes and picking up badgers (page 12)
Chapter 349: Hunting lynxes and picking up badgers (page 12)
Sheng Xiping untied his skis, took off his gun, hid quietly behind a bush, pulled the bolt of the gun and waited quietly.
After a while, I saw that gray-brown little thing with long hair and a round body running out of a hidden hole on the loess ridge.
Sheng Xiping understood clearly this time, it was a raccoon dog.
When the big guy chasing the raccoon didn't come out, Sheng Xiping didn't fire and still waited quietly.
After a while, I saw something coming out of the hole under the loess ridge backwards.
At this time, Sheng Xiping was getting closer, and he could see the guy's short tail. Needless to say, it was a lynx.
Unexpectedly, the lynx was quite thick this year. Sheng Xiping was overjoyed, took aim with his gun, and pulled the trigger just as the lynx's head exited the hole.
There was a gunshot, and the unsuspecting lynx was shot to death by Sheng Xiping.
Sheng Xiping held the gun and came to the entrance of the badger's cave under the loess ridge. Only then did he realize that the lynx had a badger that had been bitten to death by the lynx in its mouth.
Sheng Xiping remembered the stories Liu Changde and Qin Qiuyan told before.
When it comes to raccoon dogs, even though they look small and cute, they are actually insidious and cunning.
In the environment where raccoons live, there will also be badgers, wolves, lynx and other animals, and the competition is very fierce. At the same time, raccoons are also prey for wolves and lynxes.
But such a little thing can survive being hunted by two ferocious beasts, wolves and lynxes, and can even find opportunities to instigate trouble and make lynxes and wolves fight each other.
The raccoon king will steal the lynx cubs and throw them outside the wolf den. The mother lynx will follow the scent of the cubs to find them and give the wolf a good meal.
Wolves are vicious and vengeful. If the lynx takes away their troops and loses generals, they will gather the wolves to cause trouble for the lynx again.
Lynxes generally live alone. Female lynxes are no match for wolves. They either retreat and run away, or are torn apart by the wolves.
This is the raccoon dog, cute and cute on the outside, but actually very cunning.
It is by taking advantage of the contradiction between wolves and lynx that they can survive in the cracks and survive safely.
Therefore, Sheng Xiping was a little suspicious. Did the raccoon purposely lure the lynx to the Badger Cave today?
By using the lynx's mouth to kill the badger in the hole, the raccoon dog can pick up some leftovers and occupy the badger's nest without wasting any effort.
Forget it, no matter what, I accidentally got a lynx and a badger, so today is considered a good harvest.
Sheng Xiping found a rope and tied the lynx and badger together, then tied them to the skis, and then tried to drag the skis all the way down the mountain and back to the forest farm.
Sheng Xiping originally went up the mountain to catch sables with a trap. He had no plans to hunt, so he didn't bring any dry food.
Unexpectedly, he was delayed for a while because of the lynx and raccoon on the way, and it was already past one o'clock when he entered the house.
The family had finished lunch long ago. Sheng Xikang and the others went to school. Zhou Qinglan also put his son to sleep and went to work.
When Sheng Xiping came in, Zhang Shuzhen was left sitting on the kang in the east room, doing needlework and looking at her sleeping grandson.
"Why are you coming back at this time? Didn't you say it's just all morning? We are still waiting for you to come back for dinner, and we wait and see no one."
Seeing her eldest son come in, Zhang Shuzhen hurriedly went to the kitchen to pack the food.
"Well, I met a raccoon dog and a lynx on the way, and then I killed the lynx and picked up a badger, so I was delayed."
Sheng Xiping took off his coat and hat, turned around, dragged the lynx and the badger into the kitchen, and explained to Zhang Shuzhen.
"Mom, you don't have to worry about packing the food. I'll take care of these two guys first."
Walking back from the mountain, time is not short. No matter how late it is, the internal organs will cover the chest and the meat will be inedible.
Sheng Xiping was not too hungry at the moment, so he should finish his work first and then eat.
Only then did Zhang Shuzhen see the lynx and badger on the ground, "Hey, the lynx are quite thick this year, and I caught another one."
There are hunters in the family, and Zhang Shuzhen knows a little bit about it. In just a short time, her son has shot two lynxes. It seems that there are a lot of lynxes this year.
"Well, maybe.
Mom, bring me two basins. These badger seeds are quite fat. I will peel off all the oil and use them to make some badger seed oil. "
Sheng Xiping took out his knife and went to deal with the badger first.
That badger is not small, it looks like it weighs twenty pounds.
After peeling off the skin, you can see that there is a thick layer of white fat inside and outside the skin, which is badger seed oil.
Peel off this layer and you will find the purple-red meat inside.
This thing has been sitting in the earth hole all day long, and it smells earthy, so it has to be stewed with radish and the seasoning needs to be heavier.
After picking off the badger, start picking off the lynx.
This lynx is quite big, weighing thirty or forty pounds, but after skinning it and removing its internal organs, it doesn't weigh much.
After everything was packed up, the lynx and badger skins were rolled into tubes and taken to the warehouse for storage.
Sheng Xiping then returned to the house and washed his hands carefully with soap to remove most of the smell of blood and earth.
Then he took the food out of the pot and started eating on the pot stand.
Zhang Shuzhen thought that she could refine badger seed oil while her grandson was sleeping. Just when she was about to take a knife to cut the badger seed oil, Sheng Xiping spoke on the other end.
"Mom, you should find a place to freeze the badger seed oil first. I'll catch them later and refine the oil together. This stuff isn't worth your trouble."
A big badger can probably refine two or three kilograms of oil. It's not worth using a big pot, and a horse spoon may not be enough.
Badger seed oil is a good thing for treating water and fire burns and frostbite. The forest farm has abundant resources. What do you think? Try it in Songjiang River or in the county? How many people are rushing to get it.
Sheng Xipingping originally planned to dig out the Badger Cave in a few days, but he happened to encounter it today, so he decided to try again tomorrow morning.
If the badgers hibernating in the cave are not frightened away by the lynx, maybe two more can be caught.
Zhang Shuzhen heard that it was OK, so she put the badger seed oil into a small basin and took it outside to freeze.
"How about we stew badger meat and big radishes tonight? You just happened to be back. Go to the garden and open the vegetable cellar and bring me some radishes."
The winter in the Northeast is long, the temperature is low, the ground is frozen hard, and all the vegetables are frozen.
Therefore, eating and storing vegetables in winter has always been a top priority. If the vegetables are not stored properly, no one will be able to endure the dry pancakes this winter.
Therefore, in addition to pickling two large tanks of sauerkraut, every household also needs to store radish and cabbage.
Some people will make a simple cellar in the vegetable garden, which is to dig a long pit, put the radish and cabbage inside, cover it with corn straw or something, and then cover it with soil.
When you want to eat vegetables, you open one end of the vegetable cellar, take it out, take it out and cover it with soil.
When the temperature is extremely low around the Gregorian calendar, the temporary vegetable cellar becomes less effective.
Take the vegetables out of the vegetable cellar, put them in a spare room, and cover them with straw bags or curtains.
Eat as you go, eat it as it rots. By the time the Chinese New Year comes, the cabbage will be almost rotten and only a heart will be left.