Rebirth 78, marry Qingmei as my wife

This small pool fully proves the principle that a drop of water can penetrate a stone.

This should be a pool of water that seeped out of the cracks in the rocks and dripped down the cliff for who knows how many years. It was slowly knocked out.

Liu Hongjun disemboweled the pheasant at the edge of the pool, plucked the feathers, and washed it several times before returning to the old shack.

The mountains and rocks are under the pine trees, bending down not knowing what they are looking for.

"What are you two looking for?"

"Brother Red Army, you're back. Look, we found a lot of pine cones, boss!" Shitou hurriedly held a pine cone and came over to offer it as a treasure.

"Good guy, he's not small!" Liu Hongjun couldn't help but look up at the old pine tree and sighed with emotion.

This pine cone is more than 30 centimeters long, nearly forty centimeters long. It weighs three to four kilograms according to visual inspection. It is really the ancestor of the pine cone world.

The pine cones in the northeast are relatively large. The pine cones picked up by people from the countryside are generally more than 20 centimeters, and rarely exceed [-] centimeters.

The two of them picked up a lot of rocks and mountains, all of which were large pine cones of over 30 centimeters.

It was still completely dry. If it had just fallen, the pine cone would have been over forty centimeters.

"You just picked up the pine cone, are there any pine nuts in it?" Qian Shengli also came back and asked when he saw the pine cone in Shitou's hand.

"Yes! There must be! Look, the leaves on the outside of this pine cone can still fall off!" When Qian Shengli questioned that there were no pine nuts in it, Shitou was immediately unhappy. This was the result of more than half an hour's work by him and Dashan. He immediately took the pine cone and showed it to Qian Shengli.

"Okay, you two keep working hard and pick up more pine cones. If we can't afford Xiong Xiangzi later, these pine cones will not be in vain." Liu Hongjun said with a smile.

A pound of dried pine nuts can be sold for a dime.

If you pick up several thousand kilograms of pine nuts, your trip is not in vain.

"Brother Red Army, under this old pine tree, the pine cones are much older. We only picked up a small area, and there are so many." Shitou said excitedly.

Liu Hongjun took a look and saw that there were indeed a lot of mountains and rocks. After clearing three or four square meters, he saw a bunch of pine cones, which weighed two to three hundred kilograms by visual inspection.

The best pine cones are Korean pine cones. It takes a pine tree more than 50 years to form a pine cone, and it takes two years for the pine cone to mature and fall to the ground.

The older the pine tree is, the larger the pine cones will be.

Just like the old pine tree in front of me that is thousands of years old, looking up, the tree is covered with pine cones, and a thick layer of pine cones has fallen on the ground.

It's a pity that those who harvest the mountains can't come to this place at all, and because there is a barn here, there were bear bears in the past, so there are so many pine cones under the old pine trees.

“I think it would be good for us to come here a few times a year to pick up pine cones.

When you come, take a look along the way to see if there are any wild animals. If there are any, they are bigger. Liu Hongjun said to Qian Shengli while he was busy cutting the pheasant into pieces.

"That's okay, there are so many pine cones here! If you just pick some, the whole family won't be able to eat them." Qian Shengli replied nonchalantly.

In this era, pine nuts were not very valuable. Ordinary people naturally picked up pine nuts to sell them for money, but hunters like Qian Shengli naturally looked down upon the small amount of money they could get from picking up pine nuts.

Ordinary people can pick up hundreds of kilograms of pine cones in one day, dry them and peel them out, and then sell them for money. After working for several days, they can sell them for more than ten yuan.

Therefore, Qian Shengli picked up pine nuts just to eat them.

Liu Hongjun smiled. Now pine nuts are not valuable, but it will be different in the future. A pound of pine nuts costs 30 yuan (the selling price is not the price at which readers buy them).

In later generations, a group of people from Shandong and Henan came to the northeast and went into the deep mountains and forests to make a living by knocking down pine cones.

Of course, there are also many Northeasterners who make a living by mining mountains.

The Northeast is rich in resources. As long as you work hard, you can always find ways to make money.

Liu Hongjun chopped two pheasants into chicken pieces, put them into the pot, and stewed the chicken soup.

In addition, the other two were skewered with branches and grilled over the fire.

After finishing cooking, Liu Hongjun was shocked when he turned around.

Good guy, he is good at cooking, mountains and stones, and money to win. The three of them cleared away the snow within ten meters around the old pine tree, and the pine cone picked up several piles.

Each pile is like a hill.

Just within a ten-meter radius around the old pine tree, there are several thousand kilograms of pine cones, which is really a lot.

Liu Hongjun looked up at the old pine tree. He heard rustling and squeaking sounds on the pine tree.

So, look up at the old pine tree. Oh my god, the old pine tree is really lively.

At a glance, there were dozens of squirrels, jumping back and forth on the old pine branches, squeaking anxiously as they looked at the piles of pine cones under the tree.

This was because I was attracted by the pine cone under the tree. I wanted it, but I was afraid of Liu Hongjun and the others.

Squirrels are very greedy little animals, and they can also be said to be very hard-working little animals.

They have been collecting food since summer and are collecting food all the time.

Even if the food they collect cannot be eaten in two or three years, the squirrels seem to have a phobia of food shortage and will not stop until it snows in winter.

However, this kind of stop was forced because it was too cold and they had to stop most of the time.

When the temperature is relatively high at noon, they will still come out to look for food.

At this time, it was after two o'clock in the afternoon, when the temperature was the highest of the day, and the squirrels were out and about.

I was immediately attracted by the piles of pine cones under the tree, and my mouth watered.

This old pine tree has become the home of squirrels since the people in the mountains moved it away.

Liu Hongjun looked carefully for a while. There were not just dozens of squirrels on the old pine tree, but almost hundreds of them.

Squirrel skin is still very valuable and has always been one of the three major fur exports in my country.

Looking at the pine trees jumping back and forth on the tree, Liu Hongjun took out his slingshot.

He wouldn't hunt squirrels specifically. Squirrel skins are valuable to ordinary hunters.

For Liu Hongjun, he really can't see clearly and won't go out to hunt squirrels.

However, now that we have encountered them, and these squirrels are still thinking about their pine cones, don't blame him.

Whoosh!

A squirrel fell from the old pine tree.

Liu Hongjun quickly took out a glass ball again and opened the slingshot.

Whoosh!

Another squirrel fell from the old pine tree.

Only then did the squirrel on the tree react, squeaking and disappearing in an instant.

"Good guy, Red Army, your slingshot is so accurate!" Qian Shengli stood up, looked at the squirrel on the ground, and said with a smile.

"It's okay. These old pine trees are all squirrels' nests. I just took a look and there are hundreds of squirrels." Liu Hongjun stepped forward and picked up the squirrels on the ground and said with a smile.