Xia Chujian pulled out her Red Cloud Tactical Dagger from her thigh, gestured with it at the Wild Rhinoceros Pig's head, and quickly carved out four large, pristine white teeth, carefully placing them back into her game bag.
Li Fu looked at Xia Chujian's belt, with an arrow quiver hanging on the left, a game bag on the right, and a bullet belt in the middle, making her look quite round, and couldn't help but twitch his lips.
He didn't try to snatch the pig teeth from Xia Chujian, but instead secretly said, "Chujian, actually, besides the teeth being valuable, the Wild Rhinoceros Pig's kidneys are also very valuable... even more expensive than the teeth!"
"Ah?! Really!" Xia Chujian's eyes lit up. "Fu Ye, quickly tell me, where are its kidneys?!"
Li Fu pointed to the Wild Rhinoceros Pig's lower back near its rear end, and also pulled out his tactical dagger, directly cutting out a bloody Wild Rhinoceros Pig kidney.
He wiped the blood off the pig kidney with the snow on the ground, pulled out a transparent storage bag from his waist pouch, put the Wild Rhinoceros Pig kidney in it, and handed it to Xia Chujian, whispering, "Keep it, don't let those people see... later, quietly put it in the small refrigerator in the Flying Vehicle to freeze it. When we get back to the city, find a restaurant, and one will be worth at least ten thousand."
Xia Chujian gasped, "So expensive?! No way?! Why is it so expensive?!"
"Because it's different from the teeth. The tusks can be pulled out and they won't spoil. But if these kidneys aren't frozen immediately, they'll spoil in half an hour."
"How many people do you think would drive a Flying Vehicle powered by Controllable Nuclear Fusion to come here in the dead of winter to catch Wild Rhinoceros Pigs... Besides, Wild Rhinoceros Pigs are particularly difficult to catch. The fact that we encountered two in one go today probably means we've stumbled into a Wild Rhinoceros Pig's nest."
"What do you mean?"
"This one and the one we caught earlier are definitely from the same family." Li Fu said, lifting the hind leg of the Wild Rhinoceros Pig to take a look, and nodded in satisfaction, "This one is male."
Xia Chujian: "..."
She didn't say much, and unceremoniously took it, "Thanks, Fu Ye, I'll repay you in the future."
"Who are we to each other? If we're talking about repaying, you've saved me twice already. Fu Ye is just using pig kidneys to offer to the great Buddha, hoping Little Chujian will accept it with a smile!" Li Fu said with a laugh, already going around to the other side of the Wild Rhinoceros Pig to carve out the other kidney.
After cleaning it slightly, he handed it to Xia Chujian.
Xia Chujian said, "Fu Ye, wait here for a while, I'll put them back in the Flying Vehicle first."
"What's the rush? Anyway, it's freezing cold here, are you afraid it won't freeze?" Li Fu joked.
Xia Chujian sniffed and said, "I don't feel safe keeping them in my waist pouch, I'd better put them back in the Flying Vehicle first."
She said, running back to put the two freshly made, steaming Wild Rhinoceros Pig kidneys away safely.
Two Wild Rhinoceros Pig kidneys were worth twenty thousand yuan, how could someone as short on money as she was let such a good thing pass?
After freezing the two pig kidneys in the small refrigerator in the Flying Vehicle, Xia Chujian contentedly used the Flying Vehicle's rinse-free, high-efficiency hand sanitizer to clean her hands.
When she looked up and got up, her gaze unconsciously swept across the virtual display screen in the Flying Vehicle.
On the display screen, there were two pairs of eyes flashing, like two pairs of bright lights in the slightly dark night.
Xia Chujian's eyes narrowed slightly, and she quickly looked more closely.
The image from just now disappeared again.
She didn't know if she was seeing things, or if the owners of those two pairs of eyes had exceeded the detection range of the Solid-State Optical Radar, but in any case, there were no eyes on the display screen, just a dark expanse.
After a while, there was movement on another display screen.
Xia Chujian turned her head to look and found a small dog waddling in the snow, arching its way forward! She was already used to seeing all sorts of strange animals in the Exotic Beast Forest, and suddenly seeing a completely normal dog actually made her subconsciously raise her guard! In a place like the Exotic Beast Forest, when you're used to abnormality being the norm, then normality becomes abnormal!
Xia Chujian carefully observed the little dog in the Flying Vehicle and even turned on the display screen's recording function.
She could only see the little dog's back, its tail was very short, and its fur seemed to be quite long, looking fluffy.
The fur on its back was a warm golden-brown color, and the fur on its belly, which was occasionally exposed, seemed to be ivory-white, different from the white of the snow, but it looked gentler. She couldn't tell what breed of dog it was.
Soon, the little dog seemed to have found a warm place, and it plunged in with a little lunge, and she couldn't see anything anymore.
There was only white snow, stretching across the empty land, with large snowflakes occasionally being whipped up by the gale, blurring the vision.
It could be seen that the trees in the place where the little dog had burrowed were very sparse, not at all like the place they had chosen.
Xia Chujian waited for another five minutes until she heard the team leader calling her in her headset before leaving thoughtfully.
...
Xia Chujian jumped out of the Flying Vehicle and saw that Ping Qiong had already returned.
"Cai Jie, did you find anything good?" Xia Chujian walked over with a smile.
When Ping Qiong saw her, her eyes lit up, and she dragged a large storage bag, trotting over to open it for Xia Chujian to see, "Chujian, come and see! I really found Red Lion Morel! And a whole bunch of Black Truffle! Come and make us something delicious!"
She looked at Xia Chujian with bright eyes, and tears of anticipation were almost flowing from the corners of her mouth.
Xia Chujian saw that in the storage bag Ping Qiong had opened, besides the round, dark Black Truffles, there was also a strange kind of mushroom.
The cap of the mushroom looked like a morel, layered upon layered, but covered with wisps of red mycelium, looking indeed like small red lion heads.
It was the legendary ingredient, "Red Lion Morel".
Xia Chujian chuckled: "Okay, I'll cook. But is Fu Ye back? I hunted another Wild Rhinoceros Pig with him."
Ping Qiong nodded: "He's back. I saw him over there with Song Mingqian, cleaning up!"
Xia Chujian went directly into the small wooden house with Ping Qiong.
A wave of warm air rushed towards her, and Xia Chujian instantly broke into a sweat.
She was wearing too many clothes, but the temperature difference between the inside and outside of this small wooden house was indeed a bit large.
The outside temperature should be minus eighty to one hundred degrees, but inside the small wooden house, it was at least twenty degrees above zero.
Xia Chujian quickly took off her two heavy coats, wearing only her close-fitting full-body bulletproof vest, with loose overalls and a jacket on top.
Ye Shijie and Song Mingqian had already processed the first Wild Rhinoceros Pig.
Even the black-brown bristles on its body had been scrubbed clean.
On the long chopping board against the wall, the disassembled... Wild Rhinoceros Pig was neatly arranged.
First, the Wild Rhinoceros Pig's head, the part of the forehead where Xia Chujian had shot through its brain had been removed, leaving only the cut-off pig face meat, pig ears, and pig nose.
Then, the cut-up pig body, arranged according to the front, back, left, and right parts.
Then, the four large pig legs, including the thoroughly cleaned pig trotters.
The outer hard shell of the pig trotters had also been knocked off, revealing the tender tendons inside.
Xia Chujian couldn't help but laugh again: "Ye Dui, Song Mingqian, this skill... what did you guys do before?"
"Hey, it's just butchering a pig! How hard can it be?!" Song Mingqian flicked his fringe back with a flourish, struck a dashing pose in front of the long chopping board, and then urged, "Hurry, hurry, hurry! I'm starving!"
At the end of the long chopping board was a large stove with a fire already lit, and on the other side of the stove was a square chopping board.
Ping Qiong was pouring the Black Truffles and Red Lion Morels she had found onto the square chopping board.
Xia Chujian looked at the pork on the long chopping board and pondered, "What kind of cooking utensils are there?"
They had the ingredients and the seasonings, now they needed cooking utensils.
Xia Chujian glanced around the room and saw a fire pit in the center of the room, with a wire mesh rack above it, perfect for grilling meat.
Li Fu said from the side: "I brought a pressure cooker, it's in the Flying Vehicle, we can use the Flying Vehicle's power as a power source..."
Xia Chujian: "..."
She had the illusion that she was the only one who had really come to do a mission, and these four people were actually here for a picnic, doing the mission on the side!
She raised her eyes to look at Li Fu and said, "Okay, then we'll make grilled Wild Rhinoceros Pig, stir-fried Wild Rhinoceros Pig, and clear stewed Wild Rhinoceros Pig."
"Ahhhhh! What a treat today!"
"I'll help you chop the meat! The size of the meat needed for grilling, stir-frying, and clear stewing is different!"
Several people immediately busied themselves helping Xia Chujian.
An hour later, the unique aroma of burning animal fat filled the small wooden house, it was the freshly grilled Wild Rhinoceros Pig meat.
On the large stove, the pot lid was lifted, and an even stronger rich aroma burst out from the large pot.
It was the stir-fried Wild Rhinoceros Pig meat about to be served!
Just then, the wooden door of the small wooden house was slammed open, and Li Fu strode in carrying a pressure cooker, his expression as if he had drunk a glass of sixty-degree Beichen liquor, so drunk he could hardly speak.
He stumbled and put down the pressure cooker, then lifted the lid, and an irresistible delicate fragrance wafted out, then the fragrance surged forward one after another, like the tide in the sea, each wave stronger than the last.
Three seconds later, whether it was the unique aroma of the previous grilling or the rich aroma of the stir-frying, they were all crushed by this strange fragrance that smelled quite light, but the more you smelled it, the more intoxicating it became! Ping Qiong floated to Li Fu like in a dream, deeply inhaling the aroma from the pressure cooker, and murmured, "I never thought... Red Lion Morel clear stewed Wild Rhinoceros Pig meat could be so delicious!"
Song Mingqian didn't have so much nonsense, he took out a pair of chopsticks from his personal miscellaneous bag and walked over quickly, directly eating from the pressure cooker.
"Song Mingqian, slow down! Leave some for me!" Ping Qiong wailed, but also quickly took out chopsticks and started eating.
Even the well-informed and well-off team leader Ye Shijie showed a different expression, and without saying a word, walked over and started eating with Li Fu in silence.
Xia Chujian squeezed in behind them and only managed to get two pieces of stewed Wild Rhinoceros Pig meat, and one piece of stewed, tender Red Lion Morel.
So delicious...
Ever since her aunt got sick, Xia Chujian had never eaten anything so delicious.
But for her, it was just slightly better ingredients, and she didn't quite understand the ravenous eating of the other four.
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