Section 91 - Hunting

Spring is the season of all things, and the appearance of fierce single male wild boars near the village means that the female wild boar may also be active in this area.

The person leading the way in front of the head used a bamboo cane to pluck the weeds and shrubs in front of him, and at the same time chopped the branches and leaves that stood in the way with a machete to avoid being attacked by poisonous snakes and poisonous insects.

Experienced villagers stop from time to time to carefully distinguish the animal paths in the mountains and forests, and judge the clues of wild boar activity.

Colorful pheasants and turtledoves are occasionally startled in the depths of the dense vegetation, and the sound of fluttering and fluttering can be heard in the distance, and occasionally you can see the bright figure of brown and yellow, which is common in the mountains.

The muntjac is a very small deer, good at escaping, and can learn to bark at the dog, the taste of braised is superb, and it is also good to make spicy muntjac pieces, although it is similar to the chicken in pronunciation, and the meat quality is also very similar, but it is more delicate, enough to throw the rough wild boar meat out of the eight hundred miles, and it is not inferior to the bamboo rat.

Red muntjac is the largest in the muntjac, but also the most common, there are a lot of wild ones, more artificially cultivated, do not belong to the protected animals, is the best quality of game to add meals.

The red muntjac seen here is the old neighbors of the villagers, they are sitting on the ground, no matter how far they run, they will run back soon, and sneak into the village from time to time to steal vegetables, but they are naturally timid, they will be easily scared away, but there is no danger, and three-year-old children can KO them.

Before encountering wild boars, the pig hunting team also served as a part-time picker, and many people carried big bamboo baskets on their backs like Li Bai, and when they saw fresh wild vegetables and mushrooms, they directly picked them and threw them into the bamboo basket.

Not to mention, the industrial development direction found by the local leaders for the people is very in line with the time and place, there are many kinds of mushrooms in the depths of the forest, and even a few palm-sized Ganoderma lucidum with dark purple oil wax luster have been found.

The nine immortal grasses recorded in the "Daozang" can at least be gathered nearly half in this mountainous area, and the development of characteristic agriculture as the main economy is fully in line with local characteristics, which not only allows the people to have income, activates the local economy, but also protects the environment according to nature, and at the same time develops tourism and earns additional profits.

After crossing the two hills, the human track has completely disappeared, and the road has become more and more difficult to walk, or even completely without a road, leaving only dense vegetation.

Li Bai has not stopped since he hit the road, in addition to a hoe, there are firewood knives, scissors and hemp rope and other tools in the back basket.

When passing through the bamboo forest, I cut a bamboo, chopped it repeatedly with a firewood knife, made a bamboo bow with hemp rope as a string, two bamboo strips were stacked together, and wrapped tightly with hemp rope, which was a semi-compound bow with elastic addition, as long as there was a suitable arrow, there was no pressure to shoot thirty meters.

The rest of the material is made of more than a dozen bamboo arrows, the tip of which is hardened with a lighter, and the tail end is made of pheasant feathers that crashed into the team and dismantled fine twine, mixed with gums picked on the road, to make the tail feathers look like they.

After the bamboo bow and arrow was completed, the first thing to open was a gray-haired hare, which was shot by Li Bai, who had just come out of the grass, and stopped eating on the spot.

This unexpected gain won Li Bai a piece of palm, bullying small animals with a bayone bar, he was embarrassed to aim at all, and he was called a player who would make a homemade bamboo bow and play bow hunting on the spot.

Grabbed the long ears of the rabbit and checked it, there were four or five catties of appearance, almost worth a chicken, peel off the skin, wash and peel off the internal organs in the ditch, and sprinkle a little salt and wild onion to pickle, which is the best material for mountain barbecue.

After the rabbit was processed, wrapped in large leaves and thrown into the back basket, waiting for the barbecue at the noon picnic, Li Bai was still not idle, and picked up a few round pebbles of the same size when crossing the ravine.

"Dr. Li, what are you doing?"

Officer Xiao Wang looked curiously at Li Bai tying pebbles with hemp rope, this time he brought a lot of hemp rope, probably planning to carry all of them back to the village after hunting wild boars.

"Flying stone ropes, you can catch prey alive. ”

Li Bai tried the new gadget of stringing three pebbles, and the three stones spun up quickly, threw them casually, and soon entangled a tree with the thickness of a bowl, apparently succeeding again.

I finally had the opportunity to come out, since it was hunting, I didn't care if he was a wild boar or not, and everything he caught was prey.

Yesterday's wild boar meat was a pleasure, so it's time to try other flavors.

"Where did you learn it?"

Officer Xiao Wang was dumbfounded, he could hardly believe that the other party was a doctor sitting in a hospital, but more like an experienced old hunter, I was afraid that as long as he brought a knife, a bag of salt and a lighter, he could live freely in the mountains and forests.

"On TV, there are a lot of these kinds of programs, so let's try it. ”

Li Bai picked up the flying stone rope again, which can be reused.

"This one is interesting, I'll try it too. ”

Officer Xiao Wang's hands were also itchy.

At noon, everyone found a mountain stream bank, took out the rice dumplings they brought, and Officer Xiao Wang solved the two meat dumplings in two bites, and then learned from Li Bai to cut bamboo, only to find that it was not as simple as he imagined.

Li Bai's firewood knife was cut down, and the thick bamboo at the mouth of the bowl was broken by the knife, but Officer Xiao Wang tried his best, but he could only cut a hole, and it took more than a dozen times to barely cut off a bamboo, and the break was like a dog gnawing, uneven.

It took a lot of effort to cut the bamboo to the size he wanted, and then to break it open, and cut it piece by piece like the finished bamboo bow made by Li Bai, at least it took a whole day of work, and it was not at all like cutting dried tofu, which was an understatement to cut out the desired shape.

In the end, there were only a few thick bamboo boards left, and the discouraged and frustrated Officer Wang was ready to throw away these failed works, but they were favored by the villagers and used as flat poles.

The simple flying stone rope was made by him, two ropes tied to three pebbles, there was no technical content at all, but it was one thing to make it, and it was another thing to throw it.

The three stones spun quickly in his hand, quite like that, but he couldn't throw them out, but almost smashed himself all over the head, and the people who saw this scene did not hesitate to send their own laughter.

Not long after lunch, the old hunter who led the way in front found the traces of wild boars, and several earth dogs also seemed to smell something, wagging their tails, scurrying around on the left, and grabbing the ground hard, looking extremely excited, but they did not say a word from beginning to end.

Many dogs in the mountain village have wolf blood, as the saying goes, dogs that bite people don't bark, these dogs are good at biting, not just bluffing dogs, they are qualified hunting dogs.

As long as you have the heart to look for it, it is not difficult to find the habitat of wild boars.

Wild boar herds have the habit of building their own public toilets, and like to poop in the same place, and it is easy to pile up obvious dung heaps in the mountains and forests.

The peculiar fishy smell wafts out, and it is the territory that the pigs themselves have divided.

However, this habit does not include a lone male wild boar wherever he goes, where he eats, and where he pulls it.

After moving forward for a while, the villagers in front seemed to confirm something, and passed the word back.

"There's a herd of wild boars ahead, spread out and get ready. ”

"Come to the front, and the others should come close to those with guns, and don't run around. ”

Several eager dogs were let go of their ropes and rushed out like arrows from a string, and a moment later the barking of dogs and the roar of wild boars were heard.

The two animals began to fight, but the earth dogs were regular soldiers and knew how to drive the wild boars in the direction of their masters.

The grass and trees are all aware of the search, and the movement is getting louder and louder.

A one-meter-long brown-yellow boar sprang out.

Whoop.

Bayi Bar took the lead in firing, and the 7.62 mm caliber warhead directly fired the scoop on this guy, spraying blood mist, and the remaining head fell down, and soon a local dog rushed out, barked a few times fiercely, and turned to chase other wild boars.

Immediately after that, several small wild boars, not much bigger than rabbits, came out, and the target was too small to deal with.

The villagers who came with him, Guo Wenkai and others picked up sticks and farm tools, and smashed them down like whack-a-mole.

The little boars were so agile that they only knocked over one or two of them with a single slash.

As soon as it was hit, the little wild boar immediately collapsed to the ground with blood from its mouth and nose, kicking its calves, and its wailing voice became lower and lower.

Despite the low hit rate of the stick farming implements, these little wild boars still did not escape.

Li Bai opened his bamboo bow and released arrows again and again, and a bamboo arrow brought down a little wild boar, and in a blink of an eye, corpses were all over the ground.

Although Officer Xiao Wang's flying stone rope was not skilled, in a hurry, it was like walking shit luck, and he actually broke off and knocked over a small wild boar, and before the poor little guy shook his head and struggled to get up, a harpoon flew in, and he was chilled on the spot.

There was another peculiar gunshot, and another big boar was knocked to the ground by bullets.

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