Catch the Mountain 1985

Chapter 32 Huang Maozi

Zhang Peng and Zhao Chunming packed up their equipment and put their guns on their backs. Today was their first day of hunting. They slept well last night and had enough energy. They fed rhubarb and sunspots and led the two dogs toward the place where they had spotted the wild boar. Walk somewhere.

I need to get some things to store today. There is still some food left, but not much.In the mountains, Zhang Peng, who had experience in his previous life, was at home like a duck in water, and now he also had Zhao Chunming as his helper.

The two of them followed the tracks left by the animals to the place where they saw the wild boar last time. There were wild boars everywhere looking for food, and there were traces left by turning over the ground. But strangely, there were no rhubarb or sunspots here. Zhang Peng and Zhang Peng were surprised. Logically speaking, rhubarb is a dog with a fragrant head, so it should be able to smell it, but there is no reaction at all until now. This means that these wild boars have left here for some time and the smell has dissipated. That's almost it.

"Second brother, it seems that the group of wild boars left before, and the rhubarb didn't even say a word," Zhao Chunming said with some regret.

"Well, if you think about it carefully, it's been several days since we left. We don't know what happened in the meantime," Zhang Peng also said
Zhao Chunming also felt that it made sense and nodded and said: "Second brother, let's take a walk again?"

"Well, let's continue to move forward along the footprints. If there are no accidents, they won't go very far." Zhang Peng thought for a while and said to Zhao Chunming.

After saying that, the two of them continued to explore along the footprints. After walking for about 10 minutes, Rhubarb suddenly stopped, raised his head and smelled it, then screamed, and then jumped out, followed by Heizi, Zhang Peng and Zhao Chunming looked at each other, saw the joy in each other's eyes, and finally spoke.

Listening to the cry of Rhubarb, the two people ran and followed closely. After a while, the screams of Rhubarb and Heizi in front became fierce. Zhang Peng knew that they had found it.

Rhubarb and Heizi did find them, but the number of prey was a bit too large. They rushed too hard and broke into the territory of the wild boar herd. They could not count more than 20 wild boars, including three cannon eggs and seven or eight old sows. The others are Huangmaozi. One of the largest cannon eggs is estimated to be four to five hundred pounds. This should be the leader of this group of wild boars.

Dahuang was also a little confused when he saw such a scene, but he had experienced many battles, so he couldn't be timid at this time. He leaned down and looked like he was going to attack. Heizi also followed suit and leaned down and barked wildly.

The wild boar group was a little panicked when Dahuang and Heizi first rushed in. Huangmaozi gathered around the sow, and Paozaozi also turned around and hummed at Dahuang.

Dahuang also measured his fighting power, but had no choice but to slowly retreat and distance himself, and then kept barking at the wild boar group, hoping to use the bark to locate the owner and come over earlier. The two sides faced off like this. No one attacked.

Just when the leading Cannon Egg was a little impatient, he suddenly raised his head and moved his nose, sniffing the smell in the air. At this time, Zhang Peng and Zhao Chunming finally arrived four and fifty meters away from them, and heard Zhang Peng knew that they had found prey waiting for them from the cries of Dahuang and Heizi, so he rushed over without a moment's rest, and saw the confrontation between the two sides from a distance.

Seeing Zhang Peng and the two arriving, Cannon Egg flinched a little. He called out "Fern, Fen'er" twice, turned around and ran behind him. When he saw the wild boar about to run, how could he let them go? This was It was so meaty that Zhang Peng didn't care to say too much, he just shouted: "Chunming, shoot!"

"Bang, bang, bang, bang." After the four gunshots, only one old sow responded, while the others fled in all directions. Perhaps they were frightened and the two yellow-haired pigs were half a beat too slow to react and were collided by the pigs. He fell to the ground, his legs seemed to be crushed, and he screamed harshly on the ground.

Dahuang and Heizi rushed out after the gunfire. The gunshot was the instruction to attack. The two dogs bit the injured old sow who was lying on the ground and thought about it. They bit two ears respectively and died on the ground.

Without Zhang Peng's instructions, Zhao Chunming rushed over, popped out the folded bayonet from the muzzle of the gun, and stabbed it into the back of the sow's head. The sow immediately became silent.

Zhang Peng ran over to check on the two yellow-haired cubs lying on the ground. He felt that there was nothing serious. When he saw Zhang Peng running over, he tried hard to run, but the front leg was broken and he couldn't run anymore. .

When he walked to the old sow, he saw Zhao Chunming wiping the bayonet on the gun. He gave Zhao Chunming a thumbs up and said, "Chunming, you are so neat. We have meat to eat these days."

Zhao Chunming laughed, and he was also very happy. This was the first time he officially hunted with Zhang Peng, and he would no longer be a dispensable person.

The old sow weighed about two hundred pounds and was not very big. Then Zhao Chunming pulled out the knife from behind, drove away the rhubarb and sunspots, and prepared to bleed and disembowel. Zhao Chunming inserted the tip of the knife into the wild boar's neck. , the blade is completely inserted.After inserting it, he rotated the blade to make the blood flow faster. After seeing that the blood flow was almost complete, he opened it along the belly of the wild boar. The fat on the wild boar in autumn is really thick, about two fingers wide, and the internal organs It also flowed out.

"Second brother, how do you feed me?" Zhao Chunming asked
"Open it. Hey, let's go back directly later. We have gained enough today," Zhang Peng said.
"Okay." After saying this, Zhao Chunming took out all the sewer, hung it on a tree to worship the mountain god, and cut off two strips of fat, one wide and one narrow, from the belly of the wild boar. The wide one was given to rhubarb because it was the leader. I gave the narrow one to Heizi, who finished the rhubarb and Heizi in a few seconds. He looked at Zhao Chunming sweetly, and then cut off two more and fed them to them. The belly was bulging and they lay on the other side.

Zhang Peng was thinking about what to do with these two yellow-haired pigs, whether to kill them directly or capture them first and raise them. Finally, he decided to capture them. It happened that the two families did not raise pigs, so one family was divided into two, and the wild walnuts and acorns in the mountains were distributed. There are plenty of hazelnuts, so collect some and feed them when the time comes. When the hazelnuts are about [-] years old during the New Year, and the meat quality is better, killing them during the New Year will also serve as a meat dish.

Thinking of this Peng, he tied up the two yellow-haired pigs with hemp ropes, and then carried them back to his residence with the old sow.This can be considered an unexpected surprise.

At this time, Zhao Chunming had packed up all the old sows, leaving the pig heart and liver stuffed into his belly. Then he cut down a birch tree of just the right thickness nearby, cut off the branches on it, and then put the old sows separately. He tied two yellow hair sticks to it, Zhang Peng stepped forward and raised one side of the stick, Zhao Chunming raised the other end, greeted Rhubarb and Heizi and walked towards the cellar.

It was just noon when he walked to the cellar. After taking a rest, Zhao Chunming chopped some logs thick as arms, cut them into [-] or [-] centimeters, sharpened one end, and smashed them into the soil for about [-] centimeters, and then formed a circle around them. A simple pigsty is built with a circle of one meter in diameter and no gaps in the middle.

Then Zhang Peng untied the hemp rope from Huang Maozi's body and put it into the pig pen. He also put some acorns and hazelnuts in it. Huang Maozi lay down in the pig pen and settled down first.

(End of this chapter)