Build a farm from the mountains

Chapter 20

His dogs don't need to be tied, and they don't need to lead the rope up the mountain. They are very obedient. They are so happy that they can come out today, and they run happily in front of them.

Wu Hao looked at the two green dogs running wildly, and felt a little sad. It is difficult for hunting dogs who often go up to the mountains to die for seven or eight years.

The two of them have wolf genes and could have lived longer, but they were injured too badly last time, and they are more than seven years old, and they can still run. In autumn, they can also watch the farmer bite wild boars.

Long-distance raids and desperate efforts are no longer enough, and it is estimated that they can live for more than a year. If they are not always howling towards the mountains in the north, I really want them to retire.

The general's horse leather shroud is an honor, and a good dog is also strong, and he must die on the mountain.

The snow became thicker as it went west, almost as thick as a dog's calf. These guys jumped and ran, and the two green dogs kept looking at the forest to the north.

Wu Hao knew that they were going to look for Xiong Ba, and held grudges like wolves, and he also held grudges, so he stepped forward to comfort them, and led them to find a place where Xue Shao was.

Leaving the village and walking a thousand meters, I looked towards the rugged snowfield to the west.

There are not many trees in the middle of the oval grassland of more than 3 mu, and the snow is blown uneven by the wind, just like sand dunes.

The thickest part is at the waist, and the thinnest part has no ankle.

In summer, the vegetation is lush like a green ocean, and in autumn, the grassland is deep, especially near the water source.

Some weeds are taller than corn stalks, and there are so many wild animals that no one dares to go in. The militiamen have to patrol frequently, and children dare not come here.

This winter, the wind is strong, and there are no trees to cover the weeds. After being covered by heavy snow, it is a vast expanse of whiteness.

Wu Hao took his dog for a walk to the southwest in a place with little snow. When he was a child, he and his grandfather came many times. There is a small hill at the far west of the pasture.

There are several acres of forests in the north and south of the mountain, and there are pastures across the way, which are larger than this side.

Three or four hundred miles southwest of the pasture, there is a 800-meter-high mountain peak, and the streams flowing down from it converge into rivers.

Two of them flow through the pastures and flow north into the hlongjiang river.

There is also a wetland in the southwest corner of the pasture, where many birds gather in summer.

Generally speaking of grasslands, snakes, insects, rats, ants or swarms of mosquitoes come to mind, but in the south of Waixing’an Mountains there are very few other things except rats and mosquitoes.

There are especially many wolves and birds.

They were still able to hunt decades later, and later issued a gun license hunter certificate to protect the wetlands from poachers.

By the way, help the company that contracted this grassland.

It mainly hunts wolves. A wolf eats an average of three kilograms of fresh meat every day, which is more than 1000 kilograms a year, and has an average lifespan of 15 years.

A wolf eats more than 15000 catties of various wild animals in its lifetime, how much will ten wolves eat?They hunt large animals such as elk, moose, and caribou.

However, large animals reproduce slowly, and once wolves overflow, it will not only be a devastating disaster for animals in the forest, but also a greater threat to human livestock and children.

During the breeding season, foxes, lynxes, wolves, leopards, badgers, yellow-throated martens, and Siberian tigers will attack each other's cubs to reduce the population of each other.

There are many rabbits in the pasture, but Wu Hao didn't even see a footprint when he walked more than 20 miles. He hunted like crazy for two consecutive years, and there were more traps outside the pasture than rabbits.

If you want to find prey, you have to go fifty miles away, and now animals have to walk more than 30 miles to meet them.

If you want to find Da Mao and Er Mao, you have to go so far. There is a high probability that they are in the pasture. After two hours, Wu Hao stopped and squatted down to observe the small river in front of him.

It is six to seven meters wide, and the water depth is less than 1.5 meters in winter. He has bathed here, and there are fish in it.

But ordinary fish is worthless, at least not now, what can people eat to fight hunger?Eat oil.

Nowadays, people are short of oil and water, and they are reluctant to use oil when making fish. It cannot be eaten as a staple food. The most valuable things are food, oil and cloth.

There are many rivers here in his house, less than a hundred miles to the north is the Longjiang River, unless you go there to catch big sturgeon.

The biggest one weighs more than 1000 catties, and faces the boundary river in the north, so Lao Maozi won't let it go.

The wild cold fish is very fragrant. If you want to eat fish, go to H Longjiang.Three flowers, five flowers and eighteen seeds, and the white fish Mahaja sturgeon.

At present, the most valuable fish is the big sturgeon. The bigger the fish, the more expensive it is. At most, it can be sold for two yuan a catty. A thousand catty fish costs at least 2000 yuan, and rice only costs [-] cents a catty.

Why is it so expensive?

Kangxi once wrote a book "Poems for Yuzhi" to praise the sturgeon fish: "There is even a huge tail pressing on the bow, and the oxen and wheels are ready to break. The water is cold and frozen, and the taste is good. I laugh at the south of the Yangtze River and praise the bream."

The Qing court not only had a special "Gluga tribute" system, but also had special yamen and officials in charge of it.

The folks are not allowed to capture it privately, let alone eat it without authorization. Anyone who violates it will be beheaded.

The whole body is full of treasures, the skin can be boiled into strong fish gelatin, the fish meat is plump, and the fish bones are tender and crisp, almost the whole body can be eaten.

The dark green fish roe in the belly of the fish, which is the size of a grain of rice, can be made into caviar, which is later regarded by international gourmets as one of the most expensive delicacies in the world.

In the past 20 years, the large sturgeon in the Longjiang River has become rare.A sturgeon weighing a thousand catties sells for at least hundreds of thousands.

Sturgeon steak No.2, the two are similar but small in size, the third is the big salmon, and the fourth is the thin scale fish.

Wu Hao's house is close to the upper reaches of HLJ, and all four kinds of fish need to be caught there, and only rich people in big cities can afford it.

Being able to catch these four kinds of fish is no less profitable than hunting.

It's the same sentence, the old man won't let it go.

However, he can give it a try, if others drive the sea, he drives the river.

I want to eat bastard the most, but it’s a pity that the Great Northern Wilderness doesn’t have it. I eat what I eat to make up for it. When I catch fish, I look for loach.

Wu Hao is not observing the fish, but the ice surface. He is not yet able to climb people, but he can see the water below the ice layer.

There is a distance of more than ten centimeters between the two, which is wrong. Why did the water level drop so much when there was no drought this year?
The small river flowed from the woods in the south, turned a corner and headed north, and he was still six or seven miles away from the woods. When he led the dog forward and approached the woods, the big brown and the big blue wolf looked up at the same time and sniffed the air.

Both of them are dogs, and the big brown is stronger than the big blue wolf. Wu Hao didn't let them search for the scent. He had already seen a dam made of branches in the river by the forest ahead.

When you meet an otter, you can't catch it directly. People go under the ice, and dogs can't go into the water in winter.

These dogs are good everywhere, their color is scum, and they can't hide in the snow. He led the dogs around in a small circle into the woods and groped quietly towards the embankment.

When the distance was less than 200 meters, Big Brown and Big Blue Wolf suddenly raised their ears, bent their legs slightly, lowered their heads, and looked forward with both eyes.

The other three big dogs followed suit, especially Bai Dian, whose chin almost touched the ground, and turned around to bark their teeth at the little black and little brown sitting there watching the excitement.

The two puppies were a little confused, and then learned to lie down,

When animals are hunting, whether they are cats or canines, as long as they are agile killers, they all have the ability to crawl forward, approach in disguise, and use ambush techniques to kill with one blow.

Wu Hao also knelt down and patted the heads of the two dogs. Hounds who know how to ambush are very rare. These guys have wolf genes.

He doesn't have to worry about the puppy with the old dog.

He took the invasion knife from his back and moved forward, there was a faint "click" sound in front of him, and there was a slight "creak" sound when he stepped on the snow.

Knowing that he couldn't go forward, he straightened up and stood behind a tree to watch.

Three otters were gnawing tree roots 100 meters away, more than ten meters away from each other, and about 30 meters away from the shore.

Otters may not be able to be caught if they are close to the river. When encountering prey, they cannot give up.

(End of this chapter)