My village can't be like this

Chapter 285
As an experienced master, Huang Erye led Zhang An and the others out of the camp to prepare for hunting.

After all, the camp is full of the smell of man-made life, and most animals will walk around there unless there are special circumstances.

So if you want to catch the prey, you have to go farther.

After walking for a long time from the forest camp to the mountain, we found a jungle ahead of us.

Before walking over, Zhang An asked Xiaohu and the others to wait here.

It is winter now, and there are very few animals wandering in the woods.

In this grassy forest, it is really difficult to rely on dogs to catch prey.

So the best way is to set up traps and put some bait to lure them.

Those little things that don't hibernate will always come out to look for food.

And if they go in with the little tigers, the breath may be stronger.

When they smell danger, they won't come out.

"Xiao An, take a look at this place, where is it suitable for trapping."

Before entering the jungle, Huang Erye asked, quite like a master inspecting a disciple's homework.

Zhang An took two steps up and glanced back and forth.

Then he stretched out his hand and pointed to the front right: "There is no other suitable place except here."

Mr. Huang took a look and nodded with satisfaction.

As for Chen Ze and Ding Yi behind, they were at a loss, unable to understand what the old and the young were talking about.

"Second Master, why is that the best place to set up a trap?"

It was a rare opportunity to learn, so the two grabbed Erye Huang and asked him carefully.

Although this kind of little knowledge is inconspicuous, but when you get together with friends in the future, you can tell it out and pretend.

"Haha, look carefully, the place Xiao An pointed out is different from other places."

As soon as the two heard it, they began to observe seriously like students.

However, the two have no experience after all, so they still haven't got an answer.

Or maybe they saw it but didn't know that those were the answers.

"It's actually very simple. Look there, although the plants grow similar to other places."

"But if you look closely, you can still see that the leaves of some plants are incomplete, and some stalks are clumped, just like the scars on a person's body."

With Huang Erye's explanation, Chen Ze and Ding Yi noticed the difference.

"As the saying goes, people have their way, and beasts have their way. There is a section of the way in this forest."

"It is precisely because animals, big and small, often walk here that the branches and leaves of these plants will be damaged, and some of them are even eaten by some little guys by themselves."

"But animals are cautious by nature and don't destroy too much in the places they frequent, because they need to maintain the original shape to avoid being discovered by predators."

"So if you don't look carefully, you won't find any difference at all."

After a class, Huang Erye and Zhang An began to look for a suitable place to set up traps.

It took some time, and several sets were placed.

Afterwards, Second Master Huang reached into his snakeskin pocket, grabbed a handful of corn kernels boiled with rice wine, and put them into the traps one by one.

Don't underestimate these corn kernels, they are good bait.

The peculiar smell of rice wine not only covers the breath of the hunter's activities, but also has a great attraction to the prey.

And the corn kernels boiled with rice wine can spread this taste far away.

"Okay, let's go, and collect the net later."

After everything was ready, Second Master Huang made a mark here.

Then everyone went back the same way, ready to go to the next place to have a look.

"Aren't we here to guard? If we catch the prey, it would be a waste of effort to be cut off by other animals or escape."

"Then what if no animal has taken the bait, there will be nothing to eat today."

As a hunter, it is taboo to sit on the sidelines and wait for the rabbit.

You can't put all your hopes in one place. As the old saying goes, cast a wide net and catch more fish.

After retracing the original road, the group continued to walk forward and encountered a small stream.

This creek should have gathered mountain spring water from the mountain and flowed down, passing not far from the gate of the camp.

The flow of the stream is not small, the water quality is clear, and it looks very clean.

If it wasn't for the cold winter, Ding Yi would have taken a few sips of some.

Walking along the creek, you come to a slope with sparse trees, wolfberry and weeds.

There are not many tall and straight trees here, but mostly shrubs with fallen leaves, which are not too tall.

The wolfberry bushes and weeds that should have been tall and vigorous are now withered and shrunk due to the autumn and winter.

But often such a place is where the hares live in the mountains.

Huang Erye and Zhang An bent down and followed the slope to search.

Not long after, a hole was found under a clump of wilted and yellow wolfberry.

This is the hare's burrow, Zhang An made a quick trick.

Afterwards, they searched around again. After all, rabbits should be cautious, and the Three Caves of the Cunning Rabbit are not just for fun.

And most of the soil holes really have more than three holes.

Huang Erye has been wandering in the mountains for decades, and he doesn't know how many rabbits he has found.

So looking for the rabbit hole is like Zhang Fei eating bean sprouts, a piece of cake for him.

It didn't take much time to find four or five holes nearby, and then quickly put the trap on.

"Old man, why didn't you put the bait this time?"

Seeing that Zhang An and Huang Erye only set up the trap, but did not put the bait on it as before, Ding Yi asked curiously.

"Here, of course, there is no need to waste bait, after all, we have blocked their holes."

"Just spray smoke into any hole later, and they will come out obediently."

Although Huang Erye can use corn kernels as bait, this bait also has a cost.

Corn kernels are not much and the price is cheap, but this thing needs to be processed with rice wine.

And every time you go into the mountains, you can't bring much of this specially made bait, so you can save as much as you can.

While the old, the young, and the three were chatting, the cover not far in front of Zhang An was triggered.

Everyone walked over and saw a fat rabbit with variegated gray hair was caught in a cover and was struggling desperately at the moment.

Several big dogs next to them squeezed their heads together, trying to bite, but Zhang An stopped them.

"It's strange, this set has just been laid today, why is the rabbit in this hole busy getting out?"

According to past experience, even if the moist withered grass is burned at the entrance of the cave to make green smoke and pour it into the cave.

It will take at least half a day before any rabbit can't help but escape from the cave.

But today, what Huang Erye thought was wrong.

In fact, if Mr. Huang was more careful, he would find that there is a wet spot at the entrance of the cave.

That's right, in order to save time, Zhang An put some space spring water at the entrance of the cave.

For animals, this spring water is undoubtedly a great temptation.

No, not long after getting it down, the rabbit in the hole rushed out.

Bunny, me, it's hot when I wash it.

Huang Erye untied the cover, put away the jumping hare, and weighed it.

Although it wasn't as fat as the one Sanmao caught on the road just now, it was not bad.

"Xiao Chen, come here, you take it."

Huang Erye pulled some yellow thatch on the ground, tied up the rabbit, and handed it to the two young men next to him.

Zhang An had told them before that the two of them were here to play.

Although people don't know anything, it is necessary to let people have a sense of participation.

"Be careful, don't let it bite you."

All four feet are tied, so there is no need to worry about the rabbit kicking people.

But those two front teeth, still have to be careful.

Later, when Huang Erye was checking several holes, another one came out of the hole not far from the side.

Chen Ze saw the panicked rabbit writhing desperately in the withered grass.

He ran up quickly, regardless of 21, and rushed forward to catch the trapped rabbit.

Then he imitated the method that Mr. Huang had just used to untie the knot, and untied the thin wire.

Holding the hare's neck with both hands, he lifted it up high.

"Cough~cough cough..."

But if he didn't pay attention, the hare's hind legs dangling in the air suddenly jumped and kicked hard on his chest.

"Are you all right?"

Seeing Chen Ze being kicked by the rabbit, Zhang An walked over to have a look.

"This thing doesn't look big, why is it so powerful?"

After freeing his hands, Chen Ze rubbed the place where the rabbit had just stepped on with his hands.

He unbuttoned his clothes and found two red marks on his chest.

After checking Chen Ze's injury, there was nothing wrong with it, so Zhang An took care of the rabbit in his hand.

"The strength of the rabbit's hind legs is not small, so now you know why the rabbit has to face the ground with its back and use its hind legs to kick."

"Especially the hares hunted in the mountains are not only wild, but also much stronger than domestic ones."

Zhang An pulled two pieces of thatch from the ground, tied the rabbit, and handed it to Chen Ze.

"Here, take this kind of hare. After you catch it, you have to tie it up so that you can control it."

"Yeah, I got it, but Zhang An, does the rabbit really dare to kick the eagle?"

"Of course, we have seen this thing with our own eyes, and the flower head was kicked over."

Chen Ze had seen the term "rabbit treading on an eagle" in novels, and thought it was artificially invented.

"What, a veteran bird with such a flower head will be kicked by a rabbit?"

Chen Ze couldn't believe it, after all, most people would be a little afraid of being stared at by Huatou.

What kind of rabbit does it have to dare to fight Huatou.

"If you don't believe me, go back and ask Li Hongbin. The two of them were there at the time, and the second master was also there."

"Ghost, nature is indeed full of magical places." Chen Ze sighed.

It may be that the movement of the two rabbits struggling was a little louder just now, so after waiting for a long time, no hare came out of the hole again.

So Huang Erye picked up a handful of wet withered grass from the ground, and resumed the ancestral method of smoking.

Soon, the dry grass ignited, and then covered the wet thatch.

Huang Erye stuffed the smoky straw into the animal, and a lot of smoke poured into the hole.

After waiting for a few minutes, I saw the hare in the hole rushing out of the hole like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube.

However, only one cover was placed at each hole, so after the extra hares escaped, they ran around.

"Zhang An, hurry up, these rabbits are going to run away."

Seeing so many wild rabbits running around, Ding Yi wanted to chase them, but he had the rabbits in his hand, so he called out to Zhang An.

And the big dogs next to them saw the fleeing hares, and the next moment they also started to hunt around.

But Zhang An called him back before he caught up.

"Forget it if they run away. We've caught a lot today. We have to leave some seeds in this area."

Zhang An counted them and found that they had caught six of them, which was quite a lot.

And when I go back later, there may be something harvested in that jungle.

Besides, it's only noon now, and I don't want to move if I'm too full, so I'll prepare more in the evening.

After recovering the thin wires for the traps, Zhang An was ready to return to the camp.

On the way back, there was a sudden violent change in the space, which had never happened before.

Zhang An sank his mind, wanting to see what happened in the space.

Since the last big change in the space, unexpected situations will come out from time to time.

Zhang An checked the space while walking.

It turned out that there was no change in the space, but when he looked outside again, it seemed that the space was engraved to guide him to find something.

According to Zhang An's feeling, after looking around, he found two well-growing medicinal plants in the forest beside him.

Handing the rabbit in his hand to Chen Ze and the others, Zhang An walked over with the steel fork, squatted down and prepared to dig.

"Hey, these are three nine-leaf clover, but they are still so small, why dig them up."

Huang Erye is no stranger to these common medicinal materials, and he recognized them at a glance.

"It's better if it's small, and it's convenient to take it back. It will be planted in my medicine field when the time comes."

Zhang An built two acres of medicine fields, and Huang Erye knew about it.

He also thought that when he entered the mountain in the future, Zhang An would dig up any medicinal materials he encountered.

In fact, if there were two such small tender herbs on weekdays, Zhang An would definitely let them grow.

But today is different, just now the space guided him to find these two things.

So he dug it up first, so he could study why the space changed later.

Although all the changes in the space have been benign.

But he still wanted to figure it out. It was so unclear, and he felt a little nervous.

"Three nine-leaf clover? What kind of medicine is this? What does it cure?"

"This thing has a big name, it's called Epimedium, you may not know it, but Lao Ding must be familiar with it, hehe."

Zhang An knew that Ding Yi's previous prescriptions basically contained this stuff.

"Young man, pay attention to your body."

Second Master Huang glanced at Ding Yi, and rarely made a fuss.

When Ding Yi saw that his background had been exposed, his expression became unnatural.

When I came to the jungle, I heard a rush of chicken crowing before I entered the forest.

It seems that there are some gains in the cover that was placed before.

Everyone entered the jungle, and three pheasants were flopping on the ground.

Although only three of the five traps caught the prey, and the bait of the other two traps had been eaten, they did not catch the prey, but this was already a good harvest.

This is also the result of Zhang An adding some ingredients after Huang Erye used the rice wine.

Zhang An walked over and untied the cover.

Among the three pheasants, one was very small.

Zhang An saw that it had no injuries, so he let it go casually.

After all, this thing is too small, it hasn't grown up yet, and it doesn't have much meat after slaughtering, so it's not worth the knife.

This time Chen Ze and Ding Yi didn't ask why they wanted to let go.

Because they already knew that the old hunters in the mountains must be better at protecting the mountains and forests than the bricks outside who followed the scriptures.

Of course, this definitely does not include some people who are fishing for the best and not thinking about the future.

"Let's go, we have to go back for lunch, you are almost hungry."

When Huang Erye said it, the two of them really felt a little hungry.

After all, on weekdays, they eat on time and don't consume much.

Even when it's time to eat the next meal, it seems like a habit is the same as a task, and you won't wait until you're hungry before eating.

So like today, there are not many experiences of feeling hungry.

Although they ate a lot of noodles in the morning, they consumed a lot all the way up the mountain.

It's not too early now, and it's normal to be hungry.

On the way back, they had a chicken in their left hand and a rabbit in their right hand.

Looking very rewarding, he happily walked towards the camp.

Today they can be considered to have come into contact with life in the mountains. The only regret is that the carefully prepared composite crossbow was useless.

But thinking that I have just entered the mountain, there is still plenty of time, so I will definitely be able to enjoy it.

Back at the camp, Zhang Ping had already lit a fire in the firepit outside the cabin.

He also washed two pots, which should have been placed in the wooden house before, not the small pots he brought this time.

"Hey, I'm lucky today, I've done so much."

Looking at the rabbits and pheasants in everyone's hands, Zhang Ping rarely laughed.

Although Huang Erye is an experienced hunter, in fact, in the mountains, it still depends on luck to catch anything.

When you are unlucky, no matter how experienced you are, you have to go hungry.

"It's really lucky today."

Huang Erye was also happy. He caught so many things without going to a few places.

In the mountains, we pay attention to what we can find and eat. With so many things we got today, no matter what, we won’t go hungry.

Zhang An put down the snakeskin bag on his back, and together with Zhang Ping, they carried a few rabbits to the water's edge to deal with them.

Because I have to go to the woods in the afternoon, it is not advisable to eat more at noon.

As for the remaining pheasants and rabbits, Zhang Ping tied them up and threw them into the wooden house to lock them up.

It took some time to deal with a few rabbits.

Roasting rabbits takes more time, so they are all chopped and thrown into the pot for cooking.

In this way, several big dogs can also eat some, and the time can be faster.

The fire was very high, and soon the pot was boiling.

Huang Erye took out some seasonings from his ancestral snakeskin bag and sprinkled them into the pot.

After it was out of the pot, one person took a vegetable bowl and scooped up a bowl of hot stewed rabbit meat.

In the cold weather, the heat in this pot rises and the fragrance overflows, making people appetite after smelling it.

The bowl is made of stainless steel, and the broth that is just out of the pot is very hot.

Everyone picked up a large handful of leaves to put the bottom of the bowl on the side so as not to burn their hands.

The chopsticks are made by breaking off the twigs on the side of the road, peeling off the skin and washing them, and the natural chopsticks come out.

"Emma is so delicious. This pot of rabbit meat is more delicious than those carefully stewed by the chef."

Chen Ze ate a piece of rabbit meat and blew on the broth in his soup bowl, feeling very uncomfortable.

"We just chop it and cook it casually, and then add some seasonings. It can't be compared with the chef's cooking. You all taste delicious because you are hungry, so you feel this way."

After half the pay, the five people ate a large pot of broth, and there was still half of the pot left.

Zhang Ping found a square pot from the wooden house and found that it was no longer used.

After Zhang An took it to the side of the water and washed it, he put the remaining broth in a square pot and let the little tigers eat it around.

Although cubs also eat raw meat, Zhang An still let them eat cooked food when there is cooked food.

After all, although Xiaohu and the others are ferocious, they are not full-time hunting dogs.

For example, in the Northeast, many dogs are specially raised by hunters for hunting.

Therefore, fresh meat should be fed frequently, especially after hunting.

This can be regarded as a reward for them. After developing the habit, those dogs will know that as long as they hunt something, they will have meat to eat.

So when hunting, they will do their best.

And when they feed the dogs, they are usually half full. After all, if they are too full, the dogs don't want to move anymore, so what's the point of hunting?

But Xiaohu and them are different, so Zhang An doesn't want to feed them that way.

Wait until all the dogs have eaten, and then rest for a while.

Everyone packed up their things and put everything they didn't need into the wooden house.

Originally, he wanted to keep Erye Huang in the camp, but in the afternoon the old man said he would go with him.

So Zhang An put away the propped up tent in two strokes. No one was here, so these things still had to be put away.

Finally, everyone took their weapons and set off lightly.

Both Chen Ze and Ding Yi hung their quiver around their waists and held their carefully prepared weapons.

I won't say whether you need it or not, but you can enjoy it with it.

Both Zhang An and Huang Erye used the steel forks used at home, which were actually called animal forks.

And Zhang Ping, besides the steel fork, also has the big fire pipe.

(End of this chapter)