"Are we throwing all these innards away?" Yang Chen looked at the two piles of entrails, feeling it was a bit of a waste.
"We could actually take them, especially the roe deer's innards. Once we get back and clean them up, they're bound to taste good stir-fried with chilies."
"The problem is carrying them. How do we carry these two piles without a bag?" Xie Ruifeng raised the question.
Li Long said nothing. He took the plastic sheeting out of his shoulder bag. The piece he had brought this time was small. He had figured they might not get anything in broad daylight, so he had only brought a spare piece, but it would just about do now.
He had no intention of keeping the wolf's innards, but the roe deer was only two years old, not old at all. And although the innards of herbivores carried some risk of hydatid disease, they really were delicious.
He would simply cook them longer.
Li Long put the roe deer's innards back into its body cavity. Xie Ruifeng could not help laughing.
"Master Li, isn't that just making extra work for yourself? You might as well not have gutted it."
"How is that the same?" Qi Jingyue had seen and understood it clearly. "Once it's slaughtered and the blood is drained, the blood carries away the heat, and the gas in the body cavity is gone too, so the roe deer won't go rank. Putting everything back in now just makes it easier to carry."
She glared at Xie Ruifeng, partly because he was throwing cold water on things, and partly because he had not used his head and had said something rather stupid.
Li Long studied the terrain downhill and chose a route without loose rocks. Then he spread the