Tao Daqiang walked ahead with the roe deer on his shoulder, while Li Long followed with its two antlers in his hands. All this had happened in barely half an hour. It felt a little unreal.
Looking at that hulking animal and the things in Li Long's hands, quite a few people's eyes grew eager.
Some of them had worked on the Sideline Team before and knew how much those things were worth.
If they could get one, even if it was just an antler rather than velvet antler, it would still fetch tens of yuan!
That was as much as a month's work!
"Daqiang, where did you get that?" someone immediately asked.
"Xiao Long must have shot it," another man said. "Right, Daqiang? Xiao Long, you're a good shot! Is that a small-bore rifle? Impressive, very impressive!"
"In the gully up ahead..." Tao Daqiang was honest as ever. He pointed behind him and said, "I saw it while I was cutting rods. I mentioned it to Brother Long just now, and I never thought he'd go over and shoot it just like that... Heh heh..."
Daqiang's simple grin made the others think how lucky he was. If it had been them, they could surely have done the same, perhaps even better!
"Xiao Long, is that velvet antler you're holding? It's still bleeding..."
"That's a roe deer, isn't it? Roe deer have velvet antlers too? First time I've seen that!"
Gu Boyuan was washing vegetables to prepare a meal. When he saw the pair of velvet antlers in Li Long's hands, he immediately asked:
"Xiao Long, did you just cut those off? Do you know how to preserve them?"
"Dry them in the shade?" Li Long sounded uncertain.
"At this temperature, they'll rot before they dry." With an expression that