Chapter 235: 234. Back to the Village
Chapter 235 234. Back to the Village
Suldak was riding a horse with a very exaggerated salamander head hanging on the saddle, and followed the lizard hunting group into the village.
Every member of the lizard hunters had a joyful smile on their faces. Even the injured Val followed the team all the way and stood up his chest. He would rather his wounds burst than walk like an old man. hunched over.
Everyone huddled beside the dead tree at the entrance of the village, and their eyes were all attracted by the iron cage walking in the front. People looked curiously at the cage almost full of gray rock iguanas, and the villagers cheered enthusiastically at once, because everyone knew that this year The winter must not be too difficult, the joy in the eyes spread to the face all of a sudden, making the dark old faces full of wrinkles.
In the past, when the lizard hunting group in the village entered the Pagros Mountains, the hunting cycle would never exceed a week, because the dry food and drinking water carried by the villagers were only enough for a week, which also meant that the lizard hunting group could not leave Wall The village is too far away, but this year's situation is different. The lizard hunter group actually entered Pagros Mountain for nearly two weeks. If it weren't for four villagers returning to the village in advance with two iron cages of gray rock iguanas, they brought back the lizard hunters. The news that everything is safe in the regiment, I am afraid that the village will be fried.
The reason why the Lizard Hunters can stay in the deep mountains for an extra week is that apart from the scroll of the 'Water Gathering Technique' in Suldak's hands, it also has a lot to do with the fact that the old village chief cooks a big pot of rice. Before every dinner, the Lizard Hunters The members of the regiment threw their portion of food into the pot. Everyone felt that they did not eat much, and the amount of food thrown into the pot was also the smallest amount. These chestnut rice cakes would expand rapidly when boiled with water, turning into a pot of porridge. Have a strong feeling of satiety.
The members of the lizard hunting group brought dry food for a week, but actually ate it for two weeks.
At the end when he was about to be hungry, Suerdak brought back hundreds of pounds of fresh salamander meat, allowing the villagers to have a very delicious barbecue on the way back to Wall Village. Regarding the eating of salamander meat, although the old village chief complained a bit, he thought that Suldak should not give such high-end ingredients to the villagers. This kind of salamander meat is more valuable than gray rock iguana meat. If you can sell it, you will make a fortune.
However, after some of the salamander meat was handed over, the remaining part belonged to Suerdak and five other young people. The old village head had no say in how they distributed the salamander meat. However, Suldak only took out the part of the barbecue he got to share with everyone, and the salamander meat that the rest of the members got was still carried back to the village.
The villagers who had eaten salamander meat got together to discuss it afterwards, and some villagers rubbed their stomachs and said, "Actually, salamander meat is not much better than yellow mutton, but the meat is tender, very tender..."
But now everyone has come out of the Pagros Mountains. The lizard hunter group entered the Pagros Mountains this time relatively deep, so they only went out to hunt once, and the gray rock iguanas they harvested were enough.
The women in the village greeted the men with smiles, and almost everyone in the village ran to the entrance of the village to greet them.
For Wall Village, hunting gray rock iguanas is a big event every year. This is related to whether the whole village has enough winter supplies in winter. Everyone sells gray rock iguanas and uses the money they get in exchange for Some foods for winter, such as sour pears, pickles, ham, lard and other foods in Hailansa City.
The villagers in Wall Village know how to hunt gray rock iguanas very restrainedly. They think that these iguanas are a gift from the mountain, just for the people in the mountain to survive the harsh winter. Therefore, the villagers follow the laws of nature. If the village head leads people to hunt enough gray rock iguanas, the hunting will stop, and there will be no indiscriminate hunting.
The mountain people here all understand this truth. This year they catch more, and next year they may go to farther places to hunt.
The villagers are hostile to hunting groups from outside, but the gray rock iguana only crawls out of the deep rock crevices every September, and it will disappear immediately after autumn, so the outside adventure group will not In order to hunt gray rock iguanas specifically, they ran to this barren land.
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Old Sheila and Natasha stood among the crowd.
Rita pulled little Peter out of the crowd. She didn't want him to run wildly at the entrance of the village with other children in the village. Little Peter was only four years old, and he only had to eat ashes when he followed the older children. Seeing Surdak riding Holding his horse and following in the team of the Lizard Hunters, little Peter refused to accept his aunt's control any longer, and forcibly broke free from the shackles of Rita's hands, and ran towards Suldak staggeringly.
Suldak also jumped off his horse at the first time, took two steps forward, lifted little Peter high above his head, turned on the horse amidst little Peter's cheers, and took little Peter for a big circle outside the village. circle before returning to the entrance of the village.
At the entrance of the village, only old Sheila, Rita and Natasha remained.
The other members of the Lizard Hunting Group have happily reunited with their families and returned to the village.
Rita crossed her feet and took little Peter off the horse. Suldak followed behind old Sheila. The family entered the village. Old Sheila saw the head of a salamander hanging on Suldak's saddle. Just now, I heard about Suldak hunting and killing a salamander from the villagers. She just glanced at it lightly and asked, "Are you injured?"
"No!" Suldak was slightly distracted, and then said: "Varna got a little injured, but he should get better soon."
Old Sheila just nodded and stopped talking.
Among the group of people, only little Peter was so excited that he huddled in Natasha's arms and kept talking about the wonderful feeling of riding a horse. Natasha didn't even dare to look at her nominal husband, but hugged little Peter tightly. Peter, walk with your head down.
Rita walked at the back, and a pair of bright lake blue eyes fell on Suldak. The arrival of Suldak not only changed the embarrassing life at home, but also changed the atmosphere in Wall Village. , everyone laughed much more than before.
After the caravan came this year, everyone took out some agricultural products in exchange for daily necessities, which was much more than in previous years.
This time, the lizard hunting group only took half a month to complete the hunting goal ahead of schedule. In previous years, the lizard hunting group went out for nearly a week at a time, and then rested for two days, usually in Wall Village and Pug. There are at least four round trips between Los Mountains. They are busy until the Harvest Festival in early October. They will stop hunting and prepare to go home to harvest wheat and tree rice. When they are really free, almost all members of the lizard hunting group will lose weight. Take a big circle.
Last year was miserable. The lizard hunting group failed to complete the planned hunting target. The old village head took the strong labor force of the village to log in the mountains on the outskirts of Hailansa City before the heavy snow closed the mountain. When he came back, many villagers His hands and feet were frostbitten.
Rita had a faint smile in her eyes, as if she had a very beautiful vision for tomorrow.
Treading on the muddy dirt road in the village, my body seems to be a lot easier. When I walk, I can't help but tap my toes, and I can't help but want to jump up...
Like a forest leprechaun who wants to dance on flower petals...
(end of this chapter)