Catch the Mountain 1985

Chapter 56: Big smoke bubble, winter siege begins

This morning, the wind started blowing with snowflakes. The sky was gray and it looked like it was going to snow. Zhang Peng was chopping firewood outside. Not even half an hour later, a strong wind suddenly came up, and gusts of cold wind blew. The snow particles roared up from the ground, hitting the body and face, causing pain like a knife. After a while, the wind became stronger, and people could not open their eyes. Zhang Peng knew that this was the first big smoke bubble coming.

The sky is getting darker and darker, the wind is getting stronger and stronger, the strong wind rolls up the flying snow in the sky, and then rolls up the snow on the ground, like a huge curtain, soon covering the already dark sky, everywhere It was filled with rolling snow and wind. After a while, even the road could no longer be seen clearly. The heavy snow leveled the ravines and buried the road. Weeds could still be seen struggling in the snow on the roadside, but now nothing could be seen. I couldn't see it anymore. The whole land was completely white and nothing could be seen.

The wind and snow were still roaring wildly. Zhang Peng stood in the house, listening to the strong wind raging outside. He had already put Dahuang and the puppies inside the house. It was better not to let them suffer outside in this weather. Zhang Peng lay on the kang and played with the puppy from time to time, quietly waiting for the strong wind to end.

The "smoke bubbles" blew all night, and during the next day, the strong wind stopped slightly, but it was already completely white outside. By noon, the sky was clear outside, and the sky seemed to have been washed away. Someone called Zhang Peng's name, and Zhang Peng knew that the first "winter siege" in winter had begun.

It was Liu Zhiyong who came to call Zhang Peng and Zhao Chunming today. Relatively speaking, they were still familiar with each other. From the previous contacts, he felt that they were nice people, so Liu Zhiyong also volunteered to call Zhang Peng and Zhao Chunming.

The family also knew that the winter hunt had begun, so they helped Zhang Peng and Zhao Chunming pack their equipment, put on their leather hats and leather gloves, and went out. They did not bring Rhubarb with them. The hunting team had a dog gang, so it was not easy to bring Rhubarb there. It is suitable but not gregarious. When hunting alone, it is time for rhubarb to show its talents.

When we arrived at the village headquarters, we found that everyone had already arrived. To our surprise, we also found that Zhao Laowen was also smiling and chatting with Cui Weixing. Seeing that everyone was here, Cui Weixing announced something to everyone. The leader who will lead everyone this year is Zhao Weixing. He was old and wilted. When he heard this appointment, the people below all whispered, what is going on?Shouldn't it be Cui Weixing who leads the team?

Cui Weixing coughed twice, and then explained the reason. Cui Weixing was indeed the leader at the beginning, but unfortunately, he happened to have something to go to the city and some important things to deal with, and he still had to deal with these gunners. Don't worry, even if you look obedient in front of Cui Weixing, once he is released, no one will obey anyone. Those who can be gunners can stand alone and can be suppressed by other colleagues. In terms of face, I can't get through it, so I can only ask Zhao Laowen to come out.

Even though Zhao Laowen seems to be older, he is not bad in skills and has enough qualifications. He can suppress the young people in the village without any problem. In addition, everyone in the village knows Zhao Laowen's character, so it would be a shame if he was worried about him. It's not easy to feel.

Zhao Laowen didn't say anything when he saw everyone. He just smiled and nodded, then waved his hand and set off towards the mountains. Their goal today was Laomaogou in the west.

A group of gunners marched towards Laomaogou with hunting dogs. These hunting dogs all belong to the family of hunting team member Wang Fugen. His dogs are also a famous dog gang in the village. They are all "Northeastern stupid dogs". Zhang Peng's family's rhubarb In fact, it is a combination of the Northeast Mutt Dog and the Oroqen Hound.

The Northeastern stupid dog, also known as the HLJ hound, is commonly known as the big stupid dog (the big stupid dog is relative to wild wolves, pheasants, and pheasants, not that it is really "stupid"). The big stupid dog is a type of Chinese pastoral dog. , slightly different in size due to different regions.), widely distributed in the HLJ watershed and the Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains forest area.The most obvious feature of the Northeastern Mutt Dog is that its teeth are similar to those of a wolf, its body is larger, its body hair is thicker, and its coat color is mainly yellow (pure yellow is a dog with the strongest "earth" nature among the five elements, and is often used to suppress Feng Shui), with black, and also available in other colors.The Northeast Mutt Dog has a strong physique, strong explosive power, good obedience, quick wit, good at running in the mountains and forests, and has super tracking and hunting abilities. It is a very excellent hunting dog.Because it has lived in the mountains for a long time, it still has primitive wildness and attack capabilities.Although Northeastern hounds are medium-sized dogs, they will not be afraid of large beasts in the mountains because Northeastern mutts are good at hunting down large prey as a team, especially some larger prey.

The hunting team has his dog gang, which also guarantees tracking and hunting. Of course, Wang Fugen also has to take the majority when allocating prey. After a long period of running-in, his dog gang has cooperated very well. This is why Zhang Peng The reason why I didn’t bring rhubarb here.

It was more than 20 miles of ice and snow mountain road to Laomaogou. They trudged hard for a long time through the "crotch-crotch snow" and finally arrived at the foot of the mountain when it was about to get dark.

The hunting team made a fire, roasted dry food, drank some water and took a short break before getting busy again.

In a ravine not far away, Zhao Laowen selected a large snow-covered ridge with wide and high mountain roots, and ordered: "Let's do it right here!".After saying that, he walked to the bottom of the snow ridge, threw off his fur coat and dug up the snow with a small shovel, and asked Zhang Peng and Zhao Chunming to clear the snow behind him.Several hunting team members also worked together in pairs, separated by four or five meters, and started working together under the snowy ridge.

Northeasterners are all masters of "digging out snow caves".First dig out a cave door that is more than half a meter high and half a meter wide. After digging in, expand it to the left, right, up and down.Surprisingly, the snow in this snow mountain is very solid. If you dig it out, you will find a large piece of it. A space of more than one meter high will soon be cleared, where people can sit and stand upright.The snow above your head is very hard, so don’t worry about it falling down.

While expanding the space of the snow cave, Zhao Laowen told Zhang Peng and Zhao Chunming that this snow nest was passed down from senior gunners who went into the mountains to hunt prey. It is also a basic skill for gunners to survive in the winter wilderness. I will leave it to them today. It will be useful for going up the mountain later.

When hunting in the mountains, one has to look for the footprints of wild animals all over the mountains. It often takes ten and a half days to get out of the mountains. In the ice and snow of the Northeast, how the gunners can rest at night becomes a big problem. Moreover, the wild animals they hunt must have land. Field storage.There are many trees in the mountain forest, and there is no shortage of materials to build a temporary shack. However, it takes a long time to erect it, and it takes a lot of time to put it up. It is not warm, and it cannot stop the attacks of big beasts such as black blind men, tigers, and wolves. It is necessary to find a shelter that can avoid the wind and cold. It is difficult to protect the ground from wild beasts.

However, using the method of making a snow nest can solve all these problems.

(End of this chapter)