Chapter 304 Wang Xiaona is here

Yue Feng gave his mother a big hug and comforted her: “Don’t worry, Mom, it’s just a minor injury! We are all fine!!”

“How come the dogs are all injured? Didn’t you go into the mountains to hunt red dogs? You can kill them with a gun, how could you hurt the dogs? I saw that Xiaohua and Dahei were seriously injured!”

Meng Yulan was still a little worried and looked down at the sled that Yue Feng and the others were pulling.

In the past, when Yue Feng and his crew came back from the mountain, the sleds were filled with either wild boars, blind bears, or deer. It was rare for them to return empty-handed.

But today, there were not many things on the sled. In addition to a skinned red puppy, there were two skinned bare-butt dogs. They looked about the same size as domestic dogs. If you didn’t look carefully, you would think they were skinned red dogs.

Yue Feng noticed that Li Yinhua and Chen Guafu were also watching at the door, so he didn’t say much, and said vaguely: “We encountered a group of red dogs. The dog gang suffered a little in the fight with the red dogs, but it’s okay, the mission to enter the mountain has been completed!
We have been walking for the whole morning and we are starving. Let’s go home and get some hot food! Aunt Li, Sister-in-law Chen, I don’t want to chat with you anymore. Let’s go home and pack up! ”

At least Yue Feng did the courtesy to save face, and Li Yinhua and Widow Chen nodded as a response.

Hearing that her son was hungry, Meng Yulan immediately perked up: “Come on, Mom will go home and cook for you! We have been in the mountains for four or five days, and my son must have been in trouble. Mom will make you something delicious!”

The four dogs had been running wild since they entered the village, and were already lying in the doghouses in the yard. Yue Lei saw that several of the dogs were injured, so he hurriedly got a thermos from the house and poured warm water for the dogs. After hearing the noise, he came to the gate of the yard on crutches.

The hunting team dragged the sled into the village and soon dragged the sled to the entrance of Yue Feng’s alley.

“Dad!” Yue Feng shouted immediately when he saw his father waiting for him at the door.

“uncle!”

“uncle!”

“What happened? Why is the dog injured? Are you guys okay?” Yue Lei looked the children up and down, and felt relieved when he saw that they were safe and sound.

Yue Feng grinned and said lightly: “Hehe, there was a little incident. The jackal played a trick on us and lured the tiger away from the mountain. The dog guarding the camp was ambushed and injured.

It’s not a big deal. Uncle Zhao has sewed the stitches for it. When I finish the work at hand, I will call Wang Da Nao to give the dog some anti-inflammatory water and let him rest for a few days. He will be fine!
Dad, what do you see? “

As he spoke, Yue Feng lifted the roe deer skin covering the sled, revealing the wolf skin underneath.

Yue Lei glanced down and his expression changed immediately: “Did you encounter a wolf? This is a wolf skin! A few years ago, we had a wolf skin mattress at home, but your grandfather gave it away!”

Yue Feng nodded and unfolded all nine wolf skins. Using the sled as a support, he spread out a whole layer of them.

“So many! Did you raid the wolf’s den?”

Seeing so many wolf skins, Meng Yulan’s face changed again and again. She suddenly felt that her son’s previous explanation about the dog’s injury was a lie, and the real situation was much worse.

Meng Yulan and Yue Lei were not too worried about fighting jackals. Although these red dogs were cunning, they were small in size and would not normally attack adults. At most, there were rumors of them snatching children during the chaos a few years ago.

But this wolf is different. It can threaten the hunter’s life and is more dangerous than a red dog.

“This is what I encountered when Uncle Zhao and I were chasing the escaped Red Dog leader while staying overnight in a snow cave outside!

Uncle Zhao hung the meat of two Shiba Inus on a tree, and the wolves went to eat it. We hid in a snow cave with two guns and practiced shooting. We shot down nine out of eleven wolves. Even the wolf king was killed by Uncle Zhao!
Look at this leather, how thick it is! Mom will have to be busy these days. When I finish tanning the leather, we will use it to make a few wolfskin mattresses for us to use when we go into the mountains! “

“Let me tell you, don’t help me with this kind of thing in the future! I took my brothers into the mountains and camped outdoors for four or five days. I brought the jackals back, but we encountered a pack of wolves. If anything goes wrong, how will your father and I survive?”

Meng Yulan thought of the possible danger and did not do the wolfskin mattress thing. Instead, she mentioned that Yue Feng beat the red dog and gave it to someone as a favor.

Yue Feng gave his mother another strong hug: “I know you are worried about our safety, don’t worry, we are back safe and sound!

Bringing back some wild animal meat may seem like a good deal, but the issues of human relationships should not be underestimated!
Build roads on sunny days and walk on them on rainy days. How can you pay as you go?
We are just an ordinary family. We have no education and no background.

We only know a little bit about hunting techniques, so why do those officials look up to us? It’s because they have this kind of demands!

You understand the logic behind this even without me explaining it. My son can’t stay in this mountain valley forever, right?
I tell you, we made a lot of money this time, nine wolf skins! Even if we sell them, it would be a considerable income!
With my uncle Zhao leading me, we lay in ambush in the snow with guns in hand. It was just like shooting targets. We could knock down the enemies from dozens of meters away. With two 56 rifles and more than a hundred rounds of bullets, how dangerous could there be? We couldn’t even hurt the skinny guys!

We haven’t seen wolves for many years. It would be so impressive to see wolf skins hanging from the beams of the barn. Wouldn’t people who know the business look up to us?
After it’s dried, you can make it into a wolfskin mattress, which is decent as a gift to others and comfortable for your own use!
I will carry it with me when I go up the mountain. It is light and warm, more comfortable than the roe deer skin blanket and lighter than the bear skin mat!!”

After hearing Yue Feng’s detailed explanation, Meng Yulan’s expression finally relaxed a little. She turned and went into the kitchen to prepare dinner for her son.

After coaxing his mother, Yue Feng got busy.

The skins of these wolfskins are very rough, and the fascia, fat, and meat on the inside have not been trimmed. Now that they have been brought back, they must not be damaged.

Yue Feng found a thick tree stump, turned the wolf skin over and put it on it, then used a blunt knife to roughly process the fascia and grease, and cleaned the leather neatly.

After this step, if you want to sell it at a purchasing station, you can fill it with hammered straw and exchange it for money after it dries. After the leather is purchased, there will be a special place for subsequent processing and tanning.

But if you want to keep the leather for your own use, completing this step is not the end. You need to soak and tan it with vegetable tanning agents or chrome tanning agents to deform the collagen fibers in the bottom plate of the leather so that the leather becomes soft and durable.

Traditional leather tanning is not a rare art among hunters. Previously, it was done by degreasing with soda ash and pickling with oxalic acid. After pre-treatment, the leather surface was tanned with alum and salt.

Ever since I learned that Li Li’s father worked in a leather shoe factory, I asked him to get a few bottles of special chrome tanning agent and degreasing agent, pickling agent, neutralizing agent and other chemicals used in factory leather making from the leather factory.

With these things, the efficiency of tanning leather at home can be greatly improved. Weigh and mix according to the quantity, then boil warm water to prepare the solution. Several large basins are processed in sequence according to the process requirements. After a set of processes is completed, the leather is wrapped and can be used after it is dry.

Yue Feng was thinking about sending Hong Gouzi away as soon as possible, so he got busy when he got home.

He repaired the leather one by one, and after lunch, he borrowed a few large basins from his neighbors.

After going through the whole process, soak it in chrome tanning solution overnight. Take it out the next day, wash it repeatedly, dry it, and simply organize it before use.

These menial tasks were not considered high-tech. Knowing the principles and having ready-made reagents, they were just like washing clothes. Yue Feng processed the wolf skins skillfully and only had to wait until tomorrow morning to rinse them and dry them so that they could be used as materials.

Yue Feng was busy with these skins throughout the afternoon. After completing all the pre-processing, it was time for dinner. While they were having dinner, the dogs in the yard started barking.

“Are uncle and aunt home?” Hearing the noise at the door, Yue Feng and his little sister Jingjing both raised their heads almost at the same time.

Jingjing’s eyes lit up: “My sister-in-law is here, brother, why don’t you go open the door!”

Yue Feng didn’t waste any time and immediately stood up to greet him.

When I opened the gate, Wang Xiaona was standing at the door, looking pretty.

Late in the evening, Wang Xiaona wore a woolen hat, which made her look a little more naughty. When she saw Shi Yuefeng opening the door, she smiled.

“You big bad guy, you didn’t even come to look for me after you got home!” Wang Xiaona said in a low voice.

Yue Feng scratched his head: “I started working right after I got back. I didn’t have enough time! I was going to go to your house after dinner, but I didn’t expect you to come first. It’s cold outside, let’s go in first!”

“These are the roasted chestnuts my dad bought in town. They’re for you and Jingjing!” Wang Xiaona pulled out a bag of roasted chestnuts wrapped in oil paper from behind her like a magician.

“Come into the house first!” Yue Feng didn’t say anything and took his wife’s hand and went into the house.

Speaking of which, this was the first time Wang Xiaona came to Yue Feng’s house after she became an adult, and she felt a little embarrassed when she entered the door.

When I pushed the door open and entered the house, the family of three who were having dinner stood up and came out to greet me.

“Xiao Na is here. Have you had dinner? If not, why not have something to eat?” Meng Yulan asked politely immediately.

“Uncle, Madam! I’ve eaten! I heard Xiaofeng was back, so I came to see him! Jingjing, I bought you some sugar-roasted chestnuts!”

“Thank you, sister-in-law!! My sister-in-law is the best!! I wanted to go to your house to play with you after school this afternoon, but I heard Aunt Li at the village head say that my brother was back, so I came back to help with the chores but failed! I’ll get you that chair with a backrest, it’s very comfortable to sit on!”

Jingjing saw that her sister-in-law had come and brought her some delicious food, and she was so kind.

She didn’t even have time to eat. She was moving chairs and holding Wang Xiaona’s hand to talk. If you didn’t know, you would think they were sisters and Yue Feng was an outsider.

The younger sister’s quiet behavior greatly relieved Wang Xiaona’s pressure. After all, these days, unengaged wives are more or less reserved and rarely come to the man’s house on their own initiative.

Yue Feng knew that his wife was looking for him, so he finished his dinner in a flash, then took Wang Xiaona back to his room.

As soon as the door of the west room was opened, four dogs came over, scaring Wang Xiaona.

“Oh my! Why is there a dog in the house?”

“Hey, this is a mixture of mountain dogs and wolf blood! I spent a lot of money to get it! These four dogs have to eat two or three pounds of meat a day! Canglong, lie down and be obedient!”

Yue Feng shouted a command, and the four dogs immediately lay down under the window in unison.

Wang Xiaona also has a guard dog at home. In comparison, her dog is far inferior. Apart from not biting Yue Feng, the future son-in-law, its normal performance is far from being so smart.

“I heard from Aunt Li that you didn’t catch anything on this trip up the mountain and you even injured your dog? Are Xiaotao and the others okay?” Sitting on the edge of the kang, Wang Xiaona also brought up the topic.

“Who said we didn’t catch anything? We just didn’t show it to outsiders! They’re all soaking in the basin in the outer room! Let me tell you, we killed nine wolves and eight jackals on this trip into the mountains!” Yue Feng said confidently, counting on his fingers.

“Ah? You guys are going to fight wolves? Don’t wolves eat people? How dangerous!”

When Wang Xiaona heard the battle results reported by Yue Feng, she was also worried.

Children living in mountain villages have all heard stories about their families scaring people about wolves eating them since childhood, and Wang Xiaona is no exception.

“I don’t know the ins and outs of this, so there are definitely risks, but Uncle Zhao led me to hunt in the mountains, so it wasn’t hard! I left most of the wolf meat to Uncle Zhao, but I brought back nine wolf skins, which I haven’t tanned yet.

When my mom has finished making the wolfskin mattress, I’ll get one for your dad, too. It will help with his back and leg pain when the weather is bad!”

Wang Xiaona did not refuse and nodded generously: “Okay! My dad should be very happy!!

By the way, tell me how you beat the jackals and wolves?”

“That day, the four of us brothers went up the mountain to the underground cellar of my uncle Zhao on Woniu Mountain, and then…”

Yue Feng told Wang Xiaona the whole story of how he climbed the mountain, how he followed Uncle Zhao to the meadow downstream of Luming Valley, how he was lured away from the mountain by the bitter jackal, how several dogs were injured, and so on.

In that era, there were no entertainment methods such as television, movies, and mobile phones. The main channels for children to learn about the outside world were reading books and listening to stories told by the elderly.

Yue Feng’s experience of hunting in the mountains was a very novel story for Wang Xiaona. The little girl was very excited after hearing it and her emotions were completely aroused by Yue Feng.

When Yue Feng talked about hunting down the jackal queen and hearing the wolf howling, he deliberately cut off the topic. Wang Xiaona, who was in high spirits, looked up.

“And then? Tell me, what should we do after we hear the wolf howling?”

Yue Feng grinned, spread his hands and said in a very wicked way: “To know what happens next, please listen to the next chapter!”

“Oh, you’re so annoying. You’re keeping me in suspense! I’m not going to pay attention to you!” Wang Xiaona pretended to be angry, her lips pouted so much that you could hang an oil bottle on them.

But I couldn’t hold off on pretending to be angry for more than two seconds.

I don’t know when Yue Feng’s dirty hands came up to me.

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