Catch the Mountain 1985

Chapter 40 The Wolves
If Pan Li and Zhou Jie could look down from high in the sky, they would find that a group of wild wolves were slowly approaching them. If you ask the old gunner on the mountain what he is most afraid of seeing, he will answer without hesitation. It's a pack of wolves.A lone wolf is not scary. What is most scary is a pack of wolves. They have clear responsibilities and division of labor, and can hunt prey together.

But Pan Li and Zhou Jie still didn't know it, and were still thinking about the blind bear who was dying when they thought about it.

While Pan Li and Zhou Jie continued to search for the bear, Zhang Peng and Zhao Chunming were not idle either. As early as two days ago, Wang Xiufen and Li Cuihua had already found their respective places to set up pig pens. They chose the The pig pens of the two backyards are set up near each other, separated by a wall. They are so close that they can take care of each other from time to time. However, they have been delayed because of many things in the past few days. I just have some free time today, so... I can’t wrong these two yellow-haired children anymore. After all, they are still needed during the winter and New Year celebrations.

Zhang Peng and Zhao Chunming gathered together the remaining adobes from their previous home, but they felt that it was not enough. Then they went outside to find some clay, piled it in the yard, mixed some hay into it, and prepared to make more adobes.After they finished laying the adobe bricks in the yard, they placed them next to the fence to dry in the sun. The two of them gathered together the leftover adobe bricks from the previous two families and began to build a pig pen. Fortunately, they only needed to build three sides of the courtyard wall. , after the general frame is built, the remaining height is not enough. It can be completed after the soil is dried.

Zhang Peng straightened up and was about to ask Zhao Chunming to take a rest. When he raised his head, he saw a person walking by outside the courtyard. He looked like Ma Jianghe from the village. This old man was not unknown in the village. He was also a very tough gunner when he was young. , likes to take dogs up the mountain alone, and hunt down whatever he sees. Over the years, he has beaten down all but the Mountain King.

But what caught Zhang Peng's attention was actually the litter of puppies in his family. Ma Jianghe used to have five hounds in his family. The first dog was a thin dog. The thin dog is a Northeastern dialect, which is actually a Mongolian thin dog (Khitan hound). Breeding dogs are tall and strong, fast, have a keen sense of smell, and have strong fighting ability. Generally, one Mongolian thin dog can fight against wolves alone, and three of them can easily control large prey. They have a fierce and tenacious personality; they are loyal to their owners and easy to train and cultivate. It has a strong desire to search and track in the wild. After discovering prey, it can pursue it for a long time and long distances. It is an all-weather and all-terrain comprehensive hound. The other four are also thin dogs, and they are the children of the alpha dog. You can imagine And you know, their degree of cooperation and tacit understanding.

With this group of hounds, Ma Jianghe really can't defeat anything. However, now that he is older and can no longer keep up with the pace of the hounds, he rarely goes up the mountain. Moreover, this group of hounds is also older, and the two The hound has died of illness, and now only three are left to look after the home.

What Zhang Peng is interested in is the litter of the first dog. If he can buy these puppies and let Dahuang take them with him, because they are born in a litter, they will cooperate more tacitly. When Dahuang gets old in a few years, these dogs will also be able to go smoothly. The transition will not lead to the death of the leader dog and the dog gang will break up.

Zhang Peng remembered that there was a dog with a good head in this litter. He was bought by Liu Zhiyong, the gunner in the village, and named Baihu. After he was dragged out, he became one of the top dogs in the village. This dog was very strange. It doesn't bark much, but its jaws are very sharp, specifically biting the prey's throat.

As long as he bites the part, he will not let go until the prey suffocates to death. At that time, Zhang Peng once followed Liu Zhiyong out to hunt, and saw the scene with his own eyes. When hunting a wild boar, two dogs bit two pig ears, and then went to Pulling from the side, the wild boar's neck was exposed. The white tiger pounced on it and threw it to the ground with its strength. It watched the wild boar struggle on the ground, but it wasn't until the wild boar kicked its legs that the white tiger let go. Mouth, that scene is no different from a wild wolf hunting scene.

However, I heard that the white tiger also died on the mountain later because he was chasing the roe deer and did not pay attention to fall into the dug trap. He was killed by a wooden stick at that time. It was a pity for this good dog.

Zhang Peng remembered that the Ma Jianghe family's alpha dog should have given birth at this time, but he didn't know what was going on now. He planned to go and have a look with Zhao Chunming tomorrow and buy it first, so that no one else could get there first.

"Second brother, Pan Dashu and Zhou Jie have been up the mountain for so long. I don't know how they are doing." Zhao Chunming stopped what he was doing and asked.
"Well, I'm also thinking about whether these two people will meet that blind bear. If they do, there's a high probability that something will happen. It would be a pity if they don't," Zhang Peng said silently.
The two of them raised their heads and looked at the mountains in the distance, thinking about things silently, showing expectant looks, and did not talk anymore.

Pan Li and Zhou Jie had been wandering in the mountains all morning. They had shot a wild wolf since morning. Now they were tired and hungry. They immediately found a place under a pine tree, took out cornmeal pancakes from their satchels, and took another I took out the kettle and drank some water, ready to rest for a while, and then look for it again in the afternoon. If there is still no harvest, then go home first and continue coming here tomorrow. "Pan Zi, have you discovered something?"

"What's the matter?" Pan Li said angrily.

"We have been searching for so long, but why haven't we found a single prey, not even a pheasant or a rabbit?" Zhou Jie was a little surprised.

"Isn't this strange? It's not so easy to find things on the mountain. Zhang Peng and the others are lucky and stayed in the mountain for a few days before they gained something. How long have we been out here? We need to be patient." Pan Li explained
Zhou Jie thought about it and it made sense. If everyone could get their things back when they went up the mountain, then they wouldn't have to worry about lack of fuel and water.

Thinking of this, Zhou Jie ate a corn pancake, drank some water, wiped his mouth, and leaned against the tree to rest for a while.

Pan Li also imitated Zhou Jie and leaned on the tree. He was very tired in the past half day. His legs were not very good at first. He had to hold on by force, so he didn't want to get up as soon as he sat down. Damn it. Napping in the tree.

The leading female dog among the three hunting dogs that suddenly lay down next to him suddenly raised her head, then lowered her head and sniffed with her nose.
Then he jumped up and barked crazily forward. The other two hunting dogs also stood up and barked forward together, as if they had encountered something terrifying, and their barks had changed.

Hearing the barking of hunting dogs, Pan Li and Zhou Jie immediately woke up, then raised their guns and looked forward, both confused. Then Pan Li seemed to understand something.

"Blind Bear, it must be Blind Bear, finally appeared." Pan Li was ecstatic

"Ah? Really? It really takes no effort at all. Pan Zi will wait for the blind bear to come out in a while. I will start to grab it first, and then you will start again. This is safer," Zhou Jie said with a smile.
"Okay, no problem, but I guess it doesn't have much power anymore. We are finally done, haha..." Pan Li laughed excitedly.
But soon the laughter of the two people stopped abruptly as the wild wolf walked out from behind the tree in front of them.The two of them were immediately very disappointed when they saw that it was just a wild wolf. However, the wild wolf in front of them was not small in size. It must have weighed one or two hundred pounds. The two of them could only comfort themselves that it was better than nothing, and then prepared to use the hunting dogs to capture this wolf. Wild wolf.

But what happened next made them dumbfounded. They saw wild wolves walking out of the bushes in front of them one after another. After a while, five wild wolves stood in front of them, staring fiercely at Pan Li and Zhou Jie in front of them. When they saw the corpse of the wild wolf next to them, the constant suppressed roars could be heard, making Pan Li and Zhou Jie's spines run cold.

(End of this chapter)