Build a farm from the mountains

Chapter 289

The two of them covered themselves tightly, with white and gray dog ​​fur hats on their heads, and a sweater cut into pieces covering their faces, only two eyes were exposed.

He was wearing a padded jacket on his upper body, and a sheepskin jacket on the outside, and the moccasin boots under his feet were fat and big, and it seemed that a lot of things had been stuffed into them.

The big cotton trousers on the lower body are covered with denim trousers, and a piece of bear skin is sewn on the knee.

In the winter in Northeast China, which part is exposed to be frozen, and the hands are stuffy to freeze the neck, if it has been frozen for a long time.

It hurts when you touch it.

If you show your head, you run to the building in the cold, and when you open your mouth, your teeth freeze.

It's not an exaggeration.

If you cover your whole body tightly, your knees and toes are mainly frozen, and you will sweat after walking for a long time. As long as you stop, your whole body will be cold.

Lighting a fire in the mountains is also very particular. If it is a windy day, it will be very uncomfortable to roast your chest and freeze your back.

It is necessary to find a place that is leeward and ventilated. Cover the back first, and bake the front for a while before roasting the back, so as not to make the smoke too choking.

The two men had just built a fire, and they still built two small fires on the left and right. They took off their hats, and their heads were steaming.

Taking off the covered sweater and revealing their faces, it was Zhang Liang and Hou Badshui.

Daxing'anling is hundreds of miles wide, and there is a large forest to the south of Zhang Liang's house, and he can go hundreds of miles to the west to hunt.

Logically speaking, the two of them should not have come to the northwest, which is nearly three hundred miles away from home.

It's all Wu Hao's fault.

Two years ago, there was a disaster and the harvest was low, and the whole town organized hunting, and there were more people there than when they were hunting pig gods.

In the first winter, he hunted more than once, and hunted several times within a hundred miles to the south and west of the township.

Those villages and towns in the east of the township also hunted.

If we go to the mountain again in the late autumn of the next year, there will be not many animals. There are only some wild boars and reindeer within fifty or sixty miles.

After two months, some wild boars and bears came out from the deep mountains without knowing where to hunt.

Then Wu Hao went, he drove the carriage far away, remembering where there might be bears.

For a normal hunter, you shoot two bears, I catch two sables, and he takes out a lynx hide.

The prices of these things are similar, and ordinary people feel that they can earn quite a lot, but it is too much trouble to enter the mountains, and they can accept hunters to make money.

Hunters also feel normal with each other.

After these two years of large-scale hunting, if everyone doesn't go far, then Wu Hao will be taken advantage of.

He sold the hides scattered, and the hunters didn't care about the price, but the bear bile sold for nearly 1 yuan, which shocked the whole town.

There are a lot of hunters entering the mountain this year. Some go in small groups, and the furthest ones can go more than 300 miles.

There are many people going to the south of the township, and they will leave the prey within [-] miles for the villagers to play tricks on.

Can not eat food alone.

In the woods on the west side of the township, many people also went there.

These people started hunting in winter. After the Chinese New Year, Zhang Liang felt embarrassed when he was short of money. If he went south, he could hit the hair on the back of his ass?
There was a gunshot, and in a radius of ten miles, except for rabbits and other small animals with holes, everyone else ran away.

In desperation, Zhang Liang led his brother-in-law to the Daxing'an Mountains in the west. In order to make money, they came out on the fourth day of the new year. Today is 21.

The two carried bear skins on their backs, the small bag was full of steamed buns and bean bags, and the satchel was full of clips for catching sables and daily necessities.

The weight of these things is also not light, about thirty or forty catties.

Going out to hunt in winter, taking these is a small amount.

Carrying these things was getting slower and slower, and it took nine days to walk more than 200 miles to the west and north, and I was stunned when I reached the place where there were sables.

Someone came here years ago, and they could still find the snow bag that was taken out and the ashes left by the fire inside.

If there are still one or two sables here, if they are alarmed by previous hunters, they may leave their old dens and go deep into the forest.

Zhang Liang was not a fool, he didn't want to search for two days in vain, so he led the bad water and walked northwest for nearly a hundred miles.

Hunters seldom come here, because there are wetlands in the north, and the wetlands are not all water, but also land, which is very similar to grassland in winter.

In the north of the wetland, there are many grasslands separated by forests, ranging in size from small to large, and there are many wolves here.

Timber wolves weigh only forty to fifty catties, usually five or six move, and two guns and two people can go to Daxing'an Mountains. When encountering coyotes, they are not afraid of them unless they are attacked by surprise.

There are large prairie wolves here, but the number is hard to say. The Siberian wolves from Lao Maozi are even bigger.

It's too dangerous, and fewer people will come.

Zhang Liang's father was cruel this time and got two grenades and borrowed two semi-automatics. Zhang Liang liked guns and carried them on his back.

I went to the northwest to find traces of sables. I was lucky. Three days after I set the trap, I harvested two sables.

The remaining one saw them and scared away, and it was difficult to find other sables.

The key is that no footprints have been found yet, and it is hard to say whether there are sables nearby.

If one male and one female are caught, it is not enough to sell the skins for 2000 yuan, and it is still not enough if they are divided between two people.

Together, the two of you are not familiar with this place and you can't go north to get close to the wetland, so let's look southwest.

Now that there are so many people hunting, it is difficult to make money back home, even if you don’t look for it.

When they hunted pheasants and rabbits on the road, they carried bacon on their backs. They only brought a small pot to boil hot water.

After the water was boiled, put it into a kettle and put it in your arms to keep warm, the two of them carried their things and headed south directly.

Because there is a large forest in the west, I was afraid of falling into the cracks in the ground, so I had to go along the mountain road.

After walking for six or seven miles, there was a cross-shaped path in the middle of the forest, and they were going to turn west.

The footprints on the path caught the two's attention. Hou Badhui stretched out his foot and gestured, "It's almost as big as my foot. This guy weighs [-] to [-] catties."

Wild animals do not go all the way to the dark, and the moose turns here and turns to the south.

Zhang Liang always goes into the mountains, and his hunting level is still a little bit. The disadvantage is that he can follow the ditch, wild boars and blind bears.

But he didn't have any major incidents, he was basically not injured, and he thought the dog was in the way, so he dared to go anywhere.

As the saying goes: Those who drown are those who can swim, and before they drown, they are waves.

He knelt down to read the footprints carefully and said, "We just left, even if we got this thing, we can't take it back."

The venison was valuable but could not be transported away, so they gave up the moose and turned west.

Wild animals have a characteristic, they rub against trees when they scratch their thorns.

The two had just walked more than ten meters away. Hou Badshui looked at the small tree on the side of the road, walked over and took a few white hairs, and then looked down at the footprints.

Some surprised said: "White!"

It is no exaggeration to say that he has never seen a white moose when he grows up.

There is only one white moose in [-], and there are not [-] moose in the entire Greater Khingan Mountains.

It is rarer than the pig god, maybe only this one.

Zhang Liang always hunted and knew Erdao dealers. He heard people mention that most of the white and black animals were valuable.

He shook the cannon in his hand firmly and said, "Hit!"

Why is he carrying a semi-automatic but holding a cannon? Because if something sneaks up on him, one cannon can basically kill him.

Xiong Xiazi may not be able to withstand the bombardment, and his brains are not in vain, and he is getting better at protecting himself.

Houbaishui also wants to make money. If you can't find other prey, you can temporarily let the uncle marry a wife.

Now that he had to fight any valuable beasts, he nodded and followed his uncle back and then turned south.

At this time, Wu Hao came from the southwest with his horse, only two miles away from the wolves. They didn't boil hot water, so they hurried on their way when it was warmer.

Finding that the footprints of the lynx were heading east, Wu Meng frowned and said, "Is this going to be difficult?"

Chasing a lynx is bullshit.

You can squat down and release black guns, you can set a trap to try your luck, or you can go to the front to ambush.

As long as it is close enough to be out of reach with a gun, a dog can chase it to death. The lynx runs fast, but it cannot outrun a dog in a long-distance attack.

In a hurry, climbing a tree is a living target. Unless you go to the mountains, you will not be able to catch up.

Lynxes are indeed valuable, but they may not be able to stop them. Relatively speaking, wolves are easy to fight, and the two sides still have enmity.

Wu Hao signaled to chase the wolves, and led the horse to continue walking northeast.

The pack of wolves in front of them was also only two miles away from the reindeer, and they were resting on the low ground.

The wolf sentinel came back to report that the reindeer in front of them were looking for food in the small pasture, and the wolf king was not in a hurry to attack.

They are located in a hilly area, and between the uneven hills, many criss-crossing ditches are formed where the downhills connect.

To the west is a highland, several miles long from north to south, and the reindeer will not run there.

This terrain is suitable for ambushes.

The reindeer are tired from the journey and have to stop to eat when they encounter the pasture. They will not stay here for long.

After observing the footprints, Wu Hao knew that the pack of wolves was not far ahead, so he tied Heifeng in the woods and dumped some fodder on the ground for it to eat.

Leaving the two minks in the car, he led the dog down the ditch, walked forward to the edge of the forest, climbed up the slope and looked at the hilly area ahead.

We can vaguely see two wolves standing by the ditch looking to the northeast.

Wu Meng didn't understand reindeer and wolves, so he leaned aside and asked in a low voice, "The reindeer should have stopped, why didn't the wolves come and surround them?"

"I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up." Wu Hao explained in a low voice.

Reindeer are much stronger than moose, and they migrate [-] miles a year.

It has been practiced since childhood.

The fastest speed can reach 160 miles per hour, almost catching up with the car cow ratio.

It can't run so fast all the time, but it can run more than 70 miles per hour, and it can run continuously for two or three hours.

That is to say, being able to travel two hundred miles in one breath is a very impressive existence.

A wolf can run long distances, and if it speeds up for an hour, it can't even catch a moose, let alone a caribou.

One can go ahead and wait for it.

After an hour, the wolf has a [-]% chance of being exhausted.

The wolves must have enough energy to attack the reindeer.

Wolves are not hunted in circles, they are usually half-surrounded or intercepted.

After listening to the second brother's explanation, Wu Meng said, "Then let's surround them?"

Having four grenades in hand gives confidence.

Throwing one will scare them.

Wu Hao shook his head and said, "In the past, there were only a few that could be hunted down, and the rest ran away, and there might be revenge."

Few wolves would pass near his house.

There are traps near villages in mountainous areas, but not on the mountain roads, but in the woods. When the wolves heard gunshots from the mountain roads and approached the village, they would lose a lot if they fled into the woods.

Just like Niu Si, if he raises deer or other animals, he can guard against many wild animals by arranging "eight trigrams array" near the wood carving.

Even if you can't afford clips and wire ropes, you can buy nylon ropes to get the cover.

Catching rabbits and weasels made money back.

A pack of wolves attacking a village with hunters is an act of courting death. Even if there are only two guns in the village, there are at least a dozen dogs, and dozens of old men with handles and guns.

A few wolves would come to steal something, and now there are a lot of prey in the mountains, so they won't get close to humans easily.

Most of the wolves attack the herdsmen on the grassland. Because the herdsmen are small in number, they often dig out the wolf dens and throw the wolf cubs to death.

Killing a wolf cub is more vengeful than killing an adult wolf.

Wolves bully the weak and fear the strong, and they beat the disabled wolf pack at once. Although they hold grudges, the opponent's firepower is too fierce, and they dare not come to die easily.

You can't kill too hard. If there are only one or two wolves left, they may not want to live, and they will go to the village to die.

After Wu Meng understood why the wolves didn't move, he nodded and said, "Then wait for them for a while."

Nine dogs were standing in the ravine, and the two were lying on the hillside.

The lynx circled to the northeast and jumped onto a high slope to observe the wolves. It also kept a long distance, as long as it could see the wolves, and it was also observing the terrain.

(End of this chapter)