It was nine o'clock in the evening. Huang Dashan was walking in front holding a big lantern. Wu Ke followed Huang Dashan closely and kept talking,
"Oh, I'm going, Master Shan, please slow down, slow down!"
The dark broken road is thinner than a sheep's intestines under the feet, and further down is a mountain stream more than 200 meters deep.
Wu Kexu's head was covered with sweat. This kind of extreme sport was really embarrassing for him.
There were still a hundred or two hundred meters before climbing to the top of the mountain stream, when the slope of the stone wall eased slightly. Wu Ke was almost forcibly lifted up by the collar of the mountain master.
Master Shan was very impatient.
"Niang Xipi, you are a bitch. When there is excitement, you have to join in and join in. It's so annoying."
Lin Chou casually touched two ground ears from the stone, wiped off the dust and put them in his mouth to bite.
"Yeah~"
Very hard.
Lin Chou spat out what was in his mouth and said,
"Rock ears are starting to grow on the rock walls of this mountain, but they are too bitter to be eaten at all."
Master Shan threw Wu Ke onto the top and stood still.
"Make it into wine. I've heard that Yan'er's stuff can be mixed into wine to aphrodisiac."
Lin Chou was speechless - it seems that for Mr. Shan, anything can have an aphrodisiac effect these days.
Climbing up the mountain wall, Linchou took a look around.
"Well, over there, that's the direction where the smoke was coming from just now."
The big-breasted girl with braids, Su Yourong, and Gungun didn't know what kind of plane they were flying in the back mountain. Lin Chou and the others were chatting for a while in the tavern when thick smoke began to billow out of the back mountain. The smoke column was almost full. It's two hundred meters high - aren't these guys planning to burn the ancestral mountain to worship the heavens?
After walking for about two kilometers in a small space full of aerial roots/beards of trees and vines and thorns, the three of them came to an open space that looked like it had just been bombed.
Su Yourong, the braided girl, and the big-breasted girl squatted half-crouched on the ground, staring blankly at the dark mass in front of them.
Lin Chou moved forward and patted her thigh happily,
"Hey guys, that's awesome. There's nothing left to eat. Did you roast all the Explosive Fruits??"
Explosive fruit is a rather strange fruit. It usually grows on big trees. It has a honey-like sweet fragrance and can attract the attention of many conscientious people - of course it is also quite delicious.
However, the reason why this thing is called Explosive Fruit is not for nothing. It relies on the explosion of over-ripened fruits to spread the seeds. The power of the explosion is quite powerful. At least if it comes into close contact, it will definitely knock out a mouse. No problem.
Well, after heating, the explosion power starts at *5, and will be accompanied by thick smoke and diffusive low-temperature flames.
Lin Chou took a look at the size of the nut shell.
"Hey, are there dozens of people roasting them together? No one was hurt, right?"
The braid wiped his face, pointed at the very tiny half-burnt 'house', 'garden' and the 'pots, pans, tables and chairs' inside and cried,
"It's gone...it's all gone...my 'home'...my big house...my garden...my...wuwuwu..."
Su Yourong looked up pitifully,
"Shihu, I'm so hungry..."
What happened was that Yourong and Braid had a lot of fun pretending to be drinking wine, and then they got hungry and there happened to be a pile of explosive fruits next to them. Then, a little "kitchen accident" ruined everything.
"Where's Gungun?"
"Let's go find something to eat..."
The braid suddenly let out a cry and cried even louder.
Huang Dashan had a terrible headache.
"Isn't it just a house? Come on, let's see your prince father build a small villa for you in minutes!"
"real?"
"real!"
"The kind with a garden?"
"There must be!"
Finally, in order to make peace with Su Yourong, who had been ravaged by the explosion, Prince Huang was responsible for building the house, Lin Chou was responsible for the food, and a group of unscrupulous guys prepared to hold a decent picnic in the back mountain... .Ah no...the girls seriously called it "Jiajiajiu".
While Prince Huang was building a den in the wild, Lin Chou, led by Wu Ke, went around to another direction of the mountain stream to look for the newly brought wild food.
Wu Ke stammered and said,
"Brother Chou, look, just the black one, did you see it? The gray ones next to it are all females. They were bitten and bruised all over their bodies. They are so different. And over there, under the big flat stone over there. Did you see them? They are some young giant salamanders, well, they look like they are in their teens or 20s, they are in their prime."
Lin Chou turned around and said,
"No wonder you asked me to come - you didn't say this thing was a strange beast!"
The dark old giant salamander was more than half a meter longer than Wu Ke. It seemed to weigh at least two hundred kilograms. Its body was filled with original fluctuations like steam. It was truly a first-level advanced one.
Wu Ke smiled innocently,
"This kind of low-level strange beast is not worth mentioning to you, Brother Chou. It's not worth mentioning."
In the end, the black giant salamander was ripped away by Lin Chou's jaw like pieces of a broken sack. The sharp teeth shattered all over the ground the moment they bit Lin's sinful claws.
On the way back, Gungun floated over, and Lin Chou sent him back to the tavern to look for a stove and seasonings.
Wu Ke gestured with a ruler.
"Brother Chou, Brother Chou, wait a moment, I'll record the data, just a moment, just a moment!"
"Don't make any noise!"
"?"
Lin Chou's eyes sparkled,
"Look, what is that!"
Wu Ke rolled his eyes and said,
"Bamboo, withered bamboo."
Lin Chou chuckled.
"Look at the top of the bamboo?"
"Eh? I'll wipe it after the result..."
The roots of the two bamboos next to each other were about as thick as thighs. They were all withered, their branches were scorched yellow, and at most one-third of the leaves on them were left, and they were still falling bare.
What is more noticeable is that there are a lot of yellow bamboo rice on the bamboo tips, which bends the bamboo strips. After the bamboo grows bamboo rice, the whole tree will die. This is an inevitable phenomenon.
Farther away in the forest, you can see large areas of withered yellow bamboo strips, which appear in patches as if they were contagious.
Wu Ke walked around the bamboo,
"Why is this good thing dead? Brother Chou, look here. There are still bamboo shoots that are about to show their heads. Is it dead?"
Lin Chou dug out the bamboo shoots.
"The bamboo shoots are okay, but the bamboos are already dead, or they just died not long ago - it shouldn't be. This kind of weather is not a flood or drought, so why are there rice?"
Wu Ke also dug up two bamboo shoots, and suddenly stepped on them.
"What the hell am I knocking!"
There was a piece of sparse floating soil that collapsed under his feet, and the bottom had been hollowed out.
Lin Chou suddenly realized,
"No wonder, this is the hole of a bamboo rat. It turns out to be a bamboo rat..."
This large hole left by the bamboo rat is half a square meter in size. There are many smaller holes crisscrossing it, extending in all directions. It is obvious that more than one bamboo rat has dug here.
——This density of bamboo rats could turn the roots of the entire bamboo forest into feces.
This is not the era before the cataclysm when bamboo rats were eaten and relied on breeding for a living. Although bamboo rats are stupid, they can't stand it in Zushan. They have few natural enemies.
Lin Chou kicked away the soil,
"Well, here's one. Wu Ke takes it and I'll pick some more bamboo rice..."
Wu Ke said disgustedly,
"I'm so ugly. The teeth are actually red... This thing is too fat..."
Lin Chou said,
"When they have finished eating the roots of this bamboo, they will move and cause harm to other places. We arrived just in time, and some of them didn't have time to run away. It is estimated that if we arrive two days later, we will not be able to see anything except bamboo rice." ”
Wu Ke easily caught six plump bamboo rats in this area. These rats were very stupid and had no other skills except digging holes. If they were caught by the skin on the back or the tail, they would only open their teeth and claws. Wu Ke Ke can easily deal with it.
Lin Chou said,
"Added vegetables, this thing is very fragrant when grilled or roasted with bamboo shoots."
The Bamboo Rat Base is available in the city, and it's easy to buy in the alleys. It's fat enough and the meat is fragrant. The only downside is that maybe it's too expensive for ordinary people.
Well, at least compared to dried meat and Black Mountain wild boar, it’s sky-high price.
On the way, they picked some trivial things like wild fruits and vegetables. When Wu Ke and Lin Chou returned to the scorched yellow mountains that had been blown into pitch black, they had already built a decent outdoor den.
The shack is supported by four pillars. The roof of the shed is more than three and a half meters high from the ground. The ground is very flatly paved with grass and banana leaves, smelling of banana flowers. There is a flat bed and two small beds made of banana leaves. hammock.
A fire was also lit, which was very prosperous, and there were several sturdy tripods standing beside the fire.
"Oh, not bad!"
Huang Dashan used banana leaves to take four piles of charcoal from the fire and placed them in the four corners of the shed. Then he piled mugwort and wild dogwood on top. The white smoke with fragrant mosquito repellent immediately dispersed.
The braided braid clapped his hands,
"Wow, so awesome, so awesome!"
Rolling down carrying a lot of things,
"Boom~"
Among the pots and pans with seasonings and vegetables, Lin Chou also saw jars of fried chicken and green plum sauce, and even a large ball of beautiful maitake mushrooms.
——Good guy, did Uncle Gungun move his family here?
The rolling eyes were very poisonous, and he immediately saw the pitiful black giant salamander that had lost its big teeth and suffered from "heatstroke".
"Ouch! Ouch!"
Lin Chou said speechlessly,
"Just eat, eat, eat. Last month you were only ten tons, but now you weigh more than twelve tons, right?"
Gungun: "???"
Huang Dashan rubbed his hands,
"This stuff is delicious. I've baked it before! It's so fragrant! The oil is so big!"
Wu Ke's eyes widened.
"Have you...been roasted? I'm going to kill such a rare species, and you, you, you, you, you, are simply crazy!!"
Shan Ye is disdainful,
"Rare? You know what the hell, proportionally speaking, humans are rare now!"
Wu Ke opened his mouth, but was silenced.
Huang Dashan took the bamboo rat from Wu Ke's hand and cracked it with each hand, breaking its neck.
"Is this thing Linzi baked?"
Lin Chou thought for a while,
"Bring it on, I'm going to braise that giant salamander."
Master Shan rubbed his hands,
"Okay, don't worry if you leave it to me!"
Speaking of which, Mr. Shan prides himself on being a good barbecue expert - after all, the most common thing to eat in the wilderness is barbecue and other things, which can make you vomit.
Lin Chou was cooking the giant salamander on one side, and Shan Ye was also busy with it. The braid volunteered to come over to help.
Master Shan brought a lot of dry thatch over, lit it, and threw the bamboo rats in one after another.
explain,
"Bamboo rats, when it comes to burning the skin, it's best to use straw. The fire of thatch is a bit harder."
"Hey, I used to eat this thing a lot, Master Shan, and I became cum after eating it."
Bamboo rats have thick skin and tendons, and there is a lot of oil under the skin. After the thatch fire burns away the floating hairs on the skin, the skin is scorched black and makes a beeping sound.
After the fire burned out, Master Shan took out the bamboo rat while it was still hot and immersed it directly in cold water.
Then take out a knife and carefully scrape off the black ash on the surface, revealing the smoky yellow flesh skin, and wash it clean.
Wu Ke pouted,
"Master Shan, did you forget to disembowel me?"
Master Shan yelled and cursed,
"You fucking prodigal thing, do you have a life? How can you burn it if you cut it open? If you don't burn it, you will be full of ashes? What a stupid bird!"
The braid giggled on the side.
Wu Ke: "..."
The cooked bamboo rats were placed side by side - not to mention, there was actually a nice aroma of fat.
This fragrance soon attracted the four dogs who were running wild deep in the Zushan Mountain.
"Ouch~"
Si Gouzi stuck his huge head into the shed, and the roof of the shed was almost torn off.
Lin Chou shouted loudly: "Get out!"
The four dogs put their tails between their legs and barked, turned around and ran away.
With a smile, Master Shan used a knife to disembowel the bamboo rats one by one and cut off their mouths. Then he found wooden sticks and tied them one by one in the shape of the word "Feng".
Lin Chou warned worriedly,
"Remember to bake the oil first and then season it!"
Master Shan waved his hand,
"I know, I know."
Bamboo rats eat bamboo roots and bamboo shoots all year round. Although they are rich in fat under the skin, the meat actually has the fragrance of bamboo and is not greasy at all. Once grilled, the thick skin will immediately turn into a translucent color like amber. When the fat drips, the aroma of the meat is particularly strong.
Braids and Su Yourong gathered around, sniffing and expecting,
"Wow, it smells so good!"
Master Shan said proudly,
"Bamboo rats are pretty average. Master Shan will catch some civet cats for you one day. They will make a delicious one when they are roasted."
The bamboo rat was roasted until the skin was golden brown, and the grease crackled in the charcoal ash. The mountain master secretly took out a bowl of black paste that was mixed at some time.
“Dang dang dang~Huang’s secret barbecue sauce~”
With a few brushes, the freshness fills the air.
Mr. Shan’s beard stood up, “What’s going on~ Just say what’s going on, hahaha~”
Wu Ke's nose moved and his eyes shone brightly.
"Wow! Okay, Master Shan, you actually stole Brother Chou's precious oyster juice! That's made from black gold abalone! It's so precious!!"
Everyone: "..."
"Oops"
"Go away, go away!"
Wu Ke sniffed and his glasses began to reflect.
"It seems to still smell like chicken fir oil! Hmm...and..."
Then he was knocked away by Master Shan with a slap.
Shanye coughed and said,
"Don't listen to what this guy is talking about. This barbecue sauce is from Mr. Shan. I worked hard to make 180 pure Chinese herbal medicines and brewed them for 7,749 days and then sealed them for a year. For ordinary people, I I didn’t even tell him.”
