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Chapter 169: Driving away the body of the roe deer in the ditch

Since the three of Xu Ning came to Baishi Grasson, they did not run out of the six miles of the cave. One was not familiar with life, and the other was to cover up the big leather nest.

But now they have to hunt for livestock, because after the badger is shaved, the meat left is only enough for three people to eat for two and a half days. According to the three meals a day for three people, they will bring corn flour cakes and oil cakes. , pickles, radish, cabbage and other vegetables are almost gone.

So the pressure of lack of food ensues, and they cannot sit back and eat.

In fact, Xu Ning and the other two have tried to reduce their food intake as much as possible these days, and go to bed hungry almost every night. However, they eat quite a lot of food, and they have to expend a lot of energy every day to find firewood, walk with condoms, and pinch traces.

Wang Hu put the roasted badger meat into the empty lunch box, and there were eight lunch boxes left on the cave wall, which contained badger oil. After Wang Hu put six corn flour cakes into a clean cloth pocket, the three of them Carrying a gun and carrying a pocket, he walked out of the cave.

Go straight to the southwest ditch due south of Baishilizi, which is about six or seven miles away from the cave entrance where Xu Ning is. You need to board Baishilizi and walk south along Gangliangzi for two miles.

It only takes more than two hundred meters to walk to Xiagang Liangzi, which is enough to see that the southwest ditch is not a deep ditch, but a waist ditch formed by the squeeze of mountains.

Even with Xu Ning's quick legs and feet, it took nearly forty minutes to reach Xinxi Gou.

"Second brother, new sight! I didn't notice it yesterday!"

Just after walking more than eighty meters to the southwestern ditch, Wang Hu pointed at the traces on the gentle slope and shouted.

Xu Ning and Li Fuqiang ran up from below. When they saw the roe deer's new appearance, they looked at each other and smiled.

"It's indeed a new sighting, it should be this morning..."

Li Fuqiang looked at the tracks and said: "From north to south, did they sleep in the col in the north last night? Damn it, if I had known they would come here with guns, I would have killed them!"

"Not good!" Wang Hu nodded.

Xu Ning smiled and said: "How could we know so much earlier? Let's chase him out quickly. Maybe we can catch him at noon. Huzi, why don't you give me a hug?"

Wang Hu turned to look at Xu Ning, grinned and said, "Second brother, I can do it!"

Li Fuqiang patted him on the back and said, "Don't be stressed. Brother, didn't you say that there are four of these roe deers? When the time comes, you give him a hug and brother gives him a hug, and you can kill one of them no matter what. That's enough." We made it."

"That's okay!" Wang Hu nodded heavily.

Xu Ning waved forward, "Go!"

The three of them walked through the snow, grabbing the roe deer and running towards the bottom of the southwest ditch. After traveling for more than a mile, the roe deer suddenly changed direction and headed toward the Houshi Pond in the southeast.

However, when they were about to reach Houshitang, the roe deer changed its direction again and took a circuitous route up the mountain towards Dabaldingzi.

Xu Ning frowned and cursed secretly, "Where are these roe deer walking around here?"

He turned back and said to the two of them: "These roe deer tracks are all new. I haven't looked at the livestock tracks next to them. If you go further, you will see the big bald man. Over there is Ji Province."

Li Fuqiang nodded: "Then let's drive the roe deer to the top of the mountain. If the roe deer goes to Ji Province, we can go back."

"That's okay. It's almost eleven o'clock now. If we can't catch him, we can go back." Xu Ning glanced at the Sanfeng watch.

"OK."

The three of them chased up the mountain again. Pinching and stalking was the most boring job. It was far less interesting than hunting dogs. Beating dogs was like opening a blind box. Although most of the time what came out were wild boars, there were also unexpected surprises, such as Black blind man, deer, roe deer, red deer and so on.

As for Zizong Daliuer, he already knows what the target is. Even if he catches it, there will be no sense of surprise. If he catches it but fails to hit it, he will only be disappointed.

But that’s the thing about hunting, there’s always luck, good or bad.

"Squat down!"

Xu Ning waved his hand to signal Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu behind him to squat down, while he leaned against a big green poplar tree and looked up at the four roe deer about sixty or seventy meters in front of him.

This group of roe deer is located on a gentle sunny slope with many shrubs growing on it, and the roe deer are eating the bark and buds of the shrubs.

Just now, Xu Ning and the others rushed for nearly four miles. At this time, they were already fourteen or five miles away from Bai Shilizi's cave.

"It's in front, but we have to go around them."

Li Fuqiang nodded: "I understand, brother, should I put the sword on first?"

"Well, brother, you and Huzi will go up top later, and I'll put you down."

Wang Hu's eyes lit up, "Are you chasing the stick? OK! Second brother, let me hug Huo first. It would be better if I can hug him. If I can't hug him, I won't have your support."

Xu Ning nodded, took off his handkerchief and drew two lines on the snow, and said: "I will walk down another twenty meters later, leaving a distance of eighty or ninety meters. After the two of us go up, we will try to get as close to the roe deer as possible." , as long as you find the roe deer moving, you two should stop hugging each other first and see if they come towards you, you know?"

"OK."

The roe deer is very curious. If Wang Hu and Li Fuqiang don't move, the roe deer may really get closer to them, and it will be much easier to fire the gun again.

Then Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu circled to the mountain, cut an ash willow tree halfway and put their knives on it. Xu Ning deliberately walked down for more than 20 meters, hid behind a pine tree, and headed towards the roe deer. direction.

He couldn't see the roe deer from his position because his view was blocked by pine trees, shrubs and other plants.

Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu took a detour up the mountain, moved to the foot of the mountain ridge and squatted in the bushes.

"Brother Qiang, what should we do? This guy can't run."

Li Fuqiang frowned, looked at the forest on the left where there were not many shrubs, and said: "Let's listen to our brothers and go forward, but don't fire the gun yet."

"kindness."

The two of them were about fifty meters away from the roe deer, and they could just see the roe deer's figure through the dense bushes.

After the two of them had moved forward twenty meters, a roe deer suddenly noticed the two of them. They didn't dare to move and just stared at the four roe deer.

Haw!

The roe deer called twice, but ignored the two of them. Instead, it munched on the bark of shrubs and twigs.

This made Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu feel very insignificant, thinking that this roe deer was really big-hearted.

Wang Hu slowly picked up the gun, but Li Fuqiang motioned for him to move forward. However, as soon as the two of them took two steps, a bush thorn cut Wang Hu's clothes, and then the four roe deer raised their heads at the same time when they heard the sound.

Hey!

The four -headed sister -in -law was slightly stunned, and then turned his head. At this time, Wang Hu handed the gun, and the muzzle pointed at the mule of about 30 meters away from him.

Bang!

The roe deer was directly knocked down by the single-headed bullet. It struggled on the ground twice, but stood up again and ran down the mountain following the other three roe deer.

"Oh shit! Why didn't you die?"

Wang Hu was startled. He was a little confused and didn't understand. Usually when he saw Xu Ning beating animals, he would hit the neck and fall to the ground. But why did the roe deer he hit get up again?

"Chase!"

Watching the four roe deer running down the mountain, Li Fuqiang dragged Wang Hu through the bushes. During this period, his cotton-padded jacket was scratched by bush thorns and he ignored them.

"Brother! The roe deer is coming down the mountain!!" Li Fuqiang roared.

After Xu Ning heard the gunshot, he leaned out of the pine tree and stared at the movement on the mountain.

Generally, when driving with sticks, animals are driven from the bottom of the mountain to the mountain, because the speed of the animals will slow down when they are on the mountain. If they are driven from the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, the animals can speed up according to the trend. This is a great test of the hunter's marksmanship and experience.

Four roe deer were running towards Xu Ning. Xu Ning saw three roe deer followed by one with a crooked neck. The crooked neck jumped forward half a meter high, about two meters across the forest, and then knelt on the ground with its forelimbs. In the snow, four hooves twitched and kicked wildly...

However, Xu Ning did not look at it carefully. He only spotted a slightly larger roe deer, held out his gun and it went off. Bang!

Since Xu Ning fired his gun at the roe deer, the bullet hit the roe deer right in the face, killing the larger roe deer directly.

The roe deer paused forward, his whole body hit the snow, and slid down the slope three or four meters before stopping.

The remaining two roe deer looked at the death of their companions, and made a sound of "cough, cough", and then ran towards Xu Ning's right.

Roe deer are known as flying on snow. In the forest without human calves, the roe deer can run much faster than humans. When Xu Ning raised his gun and reloaded the bullet, the two roe deer disappeared in Xu Ning. In Ning's sight.

Half a minute later, Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu ran down the mountain. Looking at the two roe deer on the ground, Wang Hu was stunned.

"Second brother, you are pissing! You are wearing a gourd again."

Xu Ning smiled and said: "Shit, didn't you hit that roe deer?"

Wang Hu was a little confused, "No way, I didn't kill him."

Li Fuqiang walked up to the roe deer, took a look, clapped his hands and said, "You beat him to death. Look, isn't this the hole you made?"

Wang Hu nodded: "Second brother, I did cut its neck just now, but after it fell down, it jumped up and ran away."

"Isn't this normal? The place you hit is not far from the trachea. It may be a small incision. Once the roe deer can't breathe, it will lose its strength. Okay, let's bleed these two guys quickly, so we can eat in time."

"Okay! You take care of Huzi, I'll chop some firewood." Li Fuqiang said.

"OK."

Xu Ning and Wang Hu were dragged to one place by the two roe deer. Wang Hu was now very skilled in bleeding and disemboweling, and a large amount of blood came out with just one stab in the neck.

Then cut a knife on the abdomen to open the belly bag, reach in with one hand to grasp the head of the intestines, and use the other hand to cut lightly with the knife, and then hang it out for the lantern.

Wang Hu cut three strips of roe deer meat, both fat and thin. When Li Fuqiang came back with bundles of firewood, the three of them sat on the ground and grilled the roe deer meat over the fire.

They had a good lunch this time, because the roe deer meat was very fresh. Although it had a faint earthy smell when grilled, it was very fragrant and tender when eaten.

Xu Ning raised his feet and rubbed snow to cover the fire, Wang Hu packed the lunch box and cloth bag, and Li Fuqiang took out a rope and tied the hind hooves of the two roe deer, and then dragged Wang Hu together along the gangliangzi to Baishilizi.

This section of the road was the direction in which the two roe deer were escaping. We followed the trail and saw the roe deer trailing down the mountain halfway. However, Xu Ning and the others did not follow them, but continued walking along Gangliangzi.

Wang Hu said jokingly: "If we meet those two roe deer again, we will kill them directly. We can leave this white stone lid alone for another half a month."

Li Fuqiang said with a smile: "What are you talking about? These two roe deer are enough for us to eat."

Xu Ning nodded and said: "Well, Hu Zi is doing very well today. He has finally perfected his shooting skills."

"Oh my god, second brother, do you know how close I was to beat it? It's less than thirty meters. If I can't kill it at this distance, then all my training this time will be in vain."

Li Fuqiang said: "This time Huzi was not blind. He didn't even take aim. I just looked at him and handed him the gun."

"Well...don't move!"

Xu Ning was about to nod, but he hurriedly grabbed the two of them and pulled them directly behind.

"What's wrong, brother?"

Xu Ning pointed to a sliver of snow that collapsed in front of him and said, "Undercover ditch."

"Damn it, why did I run into this kid again?"

Li Fuqiang let go of the rope and took two steps forward. He grabbed the ash wood knife and poked it forward. Then the snow collapsed and fell into the ditch.

The ditch was forty to fifty centimeters wide. Li Fuqiang stood on the edge and glanced down, "It's more than twenty meters deep. That's where the ditch is... Oh my god, what the hell is this?"

Although Li Fuqiang was brave, Nai He was frightened and took two steps back after seeing the situation below.

"What happened?" Xu Ning asked with a frown.

Li Fuqiang wiped the sweat from his forehead, pointed at the ditch and said, "There seems to be someone down there."

"What are you doing? Human?!" Wang Hu exclaimed.

Xu Ning was stunned, frowned and took two steps forward, stepped on the edge of the ditch and looked into the ditch.

Then I saw a person stuck in the ditch. He was wearing a cotton hat, and there was a lot of snow on his hat and shoulders. He had a 16-shot shotgun hanging on his arm, and he was wearing a dark blue cotton-padded jacket...

This underground ditch was estimated to be over a hundred meters long. Because it was narrow, it was covered with many branches and dead leaves. After the snow fell, the dead leaves and branches were pushed down.

Just now, Li Fuqiang used his knife to pull, but Xue couldn't bear it anymore and shifted his center of gravity, so he fell into the ditch with a clatter.

Wang Hu and Li Fuqiang glanced at each other, then looked up at Xu Ning.

Xu Ning took a closer look and figured that this person had been in this ditch for at least half a month, because the snow fell half a month ago, and he could tell by the snow falling here.

Xu Ning glanced at the two of them, and Li Fuqiang asked: "Brother, what's going on?"

This incident happened so suddenly that the three of them were unprepared. Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu had never encountered such a thing before, but what about Xu Ning? He hasn't met either.

Wang Hu looked at him eagerly, obviously having no idea.

Xu Ning lowered his head and glanced at his watch and said: "It's less than two o'clock now. We are still six or seven miles away from Baishilizi. I estimate that we can reach the cave in less than one point. This man...since we are watching , what else can be done, let’s straighten it up for him first, don’t let him sleep here.”

Li Fuqiang nodded and said: "Well, if we don't care about him, we will definitely see him dead in the spring next year."

Wang Hu took a breath and said, "There's no way to bury it all, second brother, how about we collect all the stones and build a package?"

Xu Ning made some thoughts, and Li Fuqiang said: "Let's talk about it first, so such a big mountain makes us happen to meet, and it will be a good idea. What do you want ... "

Xu Ning shook his head and said with a smile: "That's not necessarily the case. Maybe I'll have some good luck."

"OK!"

It all depends on what the individual thinks. If you look at it from another angle, it’s definitely not bad luck. Anyway, Xu Ning doesn’t think this is a bad thing, because if you think about what Li Fuqiang said in reverse, it’s like: You can meet him here in such a large mountain. It means it is destined. Maybe if he can sort it out, something good will happen to him.

"Brother, how do we fix it? You definitely can't go down. The ditch is too narrow. You can't even turn around when you go down. You can see that he is stuck."

Xu Ning nodded and said: "First untie the rope, and then tie it to a tree branch so that he can hook it out."

"This trick works!" Li Fuqiang nodded.

Then he and Wang Hu went to chop down tree branches. They cut four tree branches that looked like fishhooks one after another and tied them to both ends of the rope.

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