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Chapter 38 Where is my bear bile? Lower cover and clip

Mangtou Mountain, at the foot.

Since they were going down the mountain, Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu dragged the Heixiazi weighing more than 400 kilograms without much difficulty.

They came to the junction of Mangtou Mountain and Xiaofeng Mountain. The terrain here is relatively gentle and there are many fruit trees.

Looking down, you can see the footprints of many small animals on the snow, among which there are slightly more jumping cats and pheasants, followed by rats.

Li Fuqiang looked at the surroundings and suggested taking off the condoms and clips on the spot.

Otherwise, we have carried them up the mountain, how can we carry them back home?
  Xu Ning nodded in agreement after hearing this. Anyway, there was still some time before noon, so they were not in a hurry to go back for dinner.

The three of them put the blind man on the spot and wandered around in the forest.

Li Fuqiang took out the covers and clips from his cloth pocket. There were six clips in total, a bundle of rope covers and more than ten wire covers.

There are many types of clips, but they are generally divided into two types.

One is a flat-mouth clip designed to hold small animals without damaging the fur, and the other is a serrated clip specially designed to hold the feet of wild animals.

The sawtooth trap can catch deer, roe deer, mountain donkey (roe deer), wild boar, wolf, jackal and other slightly larger beasts.

Flat-mouth clips generally catch small animals, such as greyhounds (squirrels), yellow skins (weasels), jumping cats, pheasants and other smaller animals.

Since the fur is not damaged, hunters will peel off the entire animal skin and sell it on the street at a good price to support their families.

However, the six clips Li Fuqiang took out were of three types.

One is a pedal clamp made of wooden boards, one is a circle clamp made of iron wire, and the other is a sawtooth clamp made of cast iron.

These three types of traps can be used to capture jumping cats, pheasants and greyhounds because they are all small traps.

"Brother Qiang, what kind of bait did you use?"

"Bean dregs and chaff."

Pheasants are omnivores and eat different plants and invertebrates as the seasons change, such as twigs, rice, wheat, corn, and insects.

Li Fuqiang was unloading the clamp. He pulled the snow away and used the pickaxe to dig hard at the frozen and hard ground.

After the hole is dug out of the ground, place the clamp inside and put some sand underneath to secure it.

And the hole is also tricky. It must be slightly larger than the clamp, otherwise the pheasant or jumping cat will easily get stuck in the hard soil if it triggers the mechanism.

Just as he finished placing the trap, Xu Ning said from the side: "Brother, the chain connecting the trap has to be disguised. That pheasant is smart."

Li Fuqiang raised his head and said, "Do you still need to pretend?"

"We have to disguise ourselves. We have to make footprints when we leave later."

Li Fuqiang opened his mouth and said, "My brother is still careful. That's fine, I'll do whatever my brother says."

Usually when Li Fuqiang goes down the mountain to get a condom and clip, he just buries it in. He doesn't care about the disguise.

"Huzi, give me a hand."

When Wang Hu heard this, he squatted next to Li Fuqiang, opened the clip, and Li Fuqiang hung up the safety ring.

Then he mixed the bean dregs and bran into a pile, rolled them into five or six soybean-sized bait particles, and placed them on the board in the middle of the animal trap.

Then camouflage the surroundings a little, and finally remove the safety ring, and now the clip is ready.

There are young chickens, sand half chickens and flying dragons in Gongyao Lingzi, and the mountain people collectively call them pheasants.

But what is really called pheasant is young chicken, also called pheasant. Its scientific name is colorful pheasant. It is colorful and beautiful, with two long hairs on its tail.

The scientific name of the flying dragon is the flower-tailed hazel pheasant. As the saying goes, dragon meat is in the sky and donkey meat is underground. It is the flying dragon! There is also a saying that it is better to eat four taels of birds than half a catty of animals.

Although there are countless birds in the sky, almost none can compare with the quality and taste of flying dragons.

Moreover, the flying dragon is very small, the largest one can only weigh less than one kilogram. The final meat you can get from slaughtering a flying dragon is only a little over half a kilogram. This meat is usually used to make soup, with some mushrooms and ginseng, it is simply the best thing in the world. taste!

Let’s talk about the Shaban Chicken, which is also called Bearded Partridge and Spotted Wing.

The meat is tender and delicious. Although it is slightly inferior to Feilong, it is still a top-quality delicacy.

It has the effects of warming the stomach, strengthening the spleen, and replenishing the middle and replenishing qi. It is also effective in treating spleen deficiency, chills, and even prolapse of the anus.

In later generations, some people once regarded the Shabanji as a flying dragon. This is wrong. The two belong to different species, and the flying dragon is slightly larger than the Shabanji.

While Li Fuqiang removed the clamp, Xu Ning was observing the footprints of the jumping cat in the forest.

The footprints of the jumping cat are very distinctive. Its four feet are clearly visible when they land on the snow. The two front feet are staggered up and down, and the back feet are parallel.

Xu Ning took out the condom from Li Fuqiang's cloth pocket. This condom had a wire cover and a rope cover.

Rope covers are mainly used to cover the lower hanging legs, while wire covers are mainly used to cover the head, waist and hind legs.

When it comes to trapping, Xu Ning is very familiar with it, and he has six special methods in his head for trapping jumping cats.

However, he uses the simplest and most effective ring-knot movable set.

That is to form a circle with iron wire, and fix one end to the tree. The iron wire circle is about eight or nine centimeters from the ground, and placed on the animal path that jumping cats often walk.

By the time Li Fuqiang had finished placing six clamps, Xu Ning had already tied sixteen wire nooses in the forest.

As for the rope noose, he didn't use it at all. The best rope noose is the lower hanging leg rope and the single-door double-knot rope.

However, there is a disadvantage of the sling, that is, it must have a thin branch with good toughness. Otherwise, if the prey steps on the sling, the tree will not be able to bounce due to the poor toughness of the tree, and the prey will break away.

Li Fuqiang looked at the wire trap that Xu Ning had just finished pulling off, and exclaimed: "Oh, brother! You're so good at pulling off this trap. Didn't you even clean up the footprints on the path of the jumping cat?"

Xu Ning said with a smile: "It's not enough to clean up the footprints. These animals will run away if they smell any human smell. We have to spend the night to let the smell on our bodies evaporate. I guess we can be trapped the day after tomorrow."

"Okay, we'll come back the day after tomorrow."

Wang Hu nodded: "Second brother, tell me how this trick was done."

"Okay, let's talk as we walk."

Then Li Fuqiang picked up the cloth bag on the ground and walked with the two of them towards the place where the blind man lay.

On the way, Xu Ning told the two of them how to recognize the path of animals, identify feces, read footprints, and how to use different condoms based on the terrain.

Wang Hu exclaimed repeatedly, calling his second brother more capable and knowledgeable.

Li Fuqiang was no exception. After hearing this, he couldn't help but have doubts about his previous methods of placing condoms and traps.

Thinking about it carefully, he used to use a rough method without disguise or looking at footprints. No wonder he could only catch two jumping cats every time he used more than 20 sets and clips, and he didn't even see the feathers of the pheasant. .

At this moment, it is almost noon.

Xu Ning and the others had just arrived less than 40 meters away from where Heixiazi lay dead.

Then he saw two people and four dogs in front of him, surrounding the blind man on the sledge in the snow.

One of them squatted on Heixiazi's belly and rolled over, then got up angrily.

He raised his foot and stamped twice, shouting with ferocious anger: "Where's my courage! You guys beat me as a bear, where's my bear's courage? Where's my courage!"

(End of this chapter)