Slaughtering red deer was nothing out of the ordinary for Harimu and the others, but the care Li Long took collecting the deer blood surprised them a little.
"Deer blood is good stuff," Li Long explained. "Very nourishing. I'm taking some back for the old folks to drink."
The blood in a deer's body certainly wasn't as good as velvet antler blood, but it still had nourishing properties. Li Long vaguely remembered that the first time he had seen someone drinking deer blood seemed to have been in the film The Garden of Perfect Brightness. They cut the velvet antlers off a living deer and took the blood to the emperor to drink.
That had left quite an impression.
There was much more deer blood than sheep blood. Li Long collected over half a basin. At first, the red deer struggled desperately, but as its blood drained away, it gradually lay still.
Harimu skinned the red deer there while Jade Mountain River and the others went to deal with the other one.
Processing two red deer was nothing much for Jade Mountain River and the others. They even had time afterward to slaughter the remaining two cattle.
Quite a few people from the team watched there. Some children had come after school and stayed too, warming themselves by the fire while watching the slaughtering area.
"Xiao Long, how much are you selling this venison for?" Once again, it was Xu Haijun asking.
"This is expensive." Li Long shook his head. "Eight hundred yuan for a whole red deer."
"That expensive?" Xu Haijun was a little shocked too. He had eaten red deer meat before, but he hadn't expected one deer to cost considerably more than a harvester!
"Can't be helped. Scarcity makes things valuable." Li Long smiled. "And that's already