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Chapter 83 Are there wolves in this area? Tracking

Red pine forest.

The three young men dragged the sledge forward, and the dog gangs shuttled sparsely on both sides. Qinglang looked back at Xu Ning's position from time to time, for fear that he would be lost.

Xu Ning, who was walking forward leaning against the red pine tree, smiled when he heard Chai Bing's startled cry.

Wang Hu and Li Fuqiang also looked at Xu Ning eagerly.

"If we really encounter a herd of pigs, why don't we fight?"

Chai Bing babbled, but couldn't find anything to refute, so he advised: "It's too rough for people like us to fight the pigs. If we don't handle it well, we will easily end up lying on the mountain... Besides, how do you know that there are pigs here?" We’ll have a day off tomorrow and go to Longzhaogou later.”

"Third brother, look, if I don't have any eyesight, can I bring my two brothers to Wangxing to hunt animals?
  I've been taking a look since I entered the mountain. There are many small animal footprints here, which are very dense.

There are also a lot of pig trotter prints on the mountain, but Qing Lang’s incense stick is so good that it doesn’t even smell like it. What does that mean? Just run away! "

Chai Bing looked at him confidently and said, "Brother, I don't know how you figured it out, but I can't make the final decision on this matter. It was my dad who brought you here to watch and hunt animals. This has to be done." My dad agrees."

"Okay, I'll tell the uncle when we get back. If we can really find the pigs, it will save our brothers a lot of trouble."

Li Fuqiang smiled and nodded: "It saves trouble, just connect everything in one order."

"Yeah, it saves you a lot of trouble."

There were some things Xu Ning didn't say. If he had said it, let alone Chai Bing, Chai Liangyu wouldn't dare let him go up the mountain to look for the pigs.

If the wild boars in Mantou Mountain are really integrated, there are only two possibilities.

One is the sudden drop in temperature and lack of food; the other is encountering natural enemies and hugging together for warmth.

The main natural enemies of wild boars are wolves, black cats and big cats.

But it is impossible for wild boars to merge into a pack because of wolves, and the black and blind men are all squatting in the barn at this time, so how can they have free time to cause trouble for wild boars?

So there is only one possibility left, that is, the big cat from Crouching Tiger Mountain wandered over to this end.

Crouching Tiger Mountain is about 180 miles away from Mantou Mountain. The big cat is the king of the mountain.

If there is a big cat, then the danger of Xu Ning going up the mountain to find the pigs will be even greater.

Wangxing Village, Lao Chai's house.

main house.

Chai Liangyu sat cross-legged on the edge of the kang and smoked a cigarette, while Xu Ning, Wang Hu and Li Fuqiang sat on the edge of the kang and drank tea.

Chai Bing stood on the ground, excitedly talking to Chai Liangyu about the three of them going up the mountain to find the pigs.

Upon hearing this, Chai Liangyu turned to look at Xu Ning, "Are you sure?"

"Yes! I won't take the dog with me tomorrow, so I'll just run away."

"Bring more bullets and dry food, Third Brother. You can go to your elder brother later and get three pieces of sheepskin cotton monkeys from our ginseng factory."

Chai Bing was stunned, "Dad, do you agree with my brothers going up the mountain to look for pigs?"

"Look for it! Can you tell me how to find it? If you find it, I'll beat it with Sha Leng. After that, you'll have to beat me up. Do you think it's so easy to find the black guy? It's quite time-consuming and labor-intensive!"

Chai Liangyu waved his hand and dismissed Chai Bing, then looked at Xu Ning and said, "It's okay to sneak away, but you have to be careful. The mountain here is not as steep as the other side of Qing'an."

"It's okay, sir. I know what I'm doing. If everything goes well, we can return on the same day. If we go too far into the mountains, we can come back the next day."

"That's not possible! I have to come back tomorrow, otherwise I'll always be thinking about it."

"Okay! Then we'll leave early tomorrow."

Chai Liangyu nodded: "Don't worry about hunting animals. My hands are itchy just looking at you, and I can't help but look at these old living targets."

Hearing this, Xu Ning smiled and said, "Well, how do you know how to pinch?"

"Mom... how do you know this? I'm as old as you, and my heart is already on the mountain. If I don't run up the mountain for a day, my heart will ache, and I'm addicted to hunting. So I didn't want to stop you, you old man You should know how big or small it is."

"That's right! That's all right, uncle, you rest first and we'll go back to the house and change clothes."

Chai Liangyu smiled and said, "It's quite clean. When your third brother comes back later, you three can try cotton monkeys. This game should be warm, and you can wear them when you go up the mountain to bear the cold."

"Yeah." Xu Ning said nothing and nodded.

The three of them went back to the house, rubbed their faces, and put on clean clothes.

Li Fuqiang leaned against the wall of the kang and smoked a cigarette, and said: "Brother, I think we will be able to come back tomorrow if the weather is too bad. We have to stay in the mountains for a night."

Wang Hu said: "What, Brother Qiang, what do you have to say?"

"Nothing to say, it's just pure feeling."

Xu Ning turned around and said, "Don't talk nonsense. I saw that the pig's hoof prints in the snow were left four or five days ago. When we go into the mountains, we will follow the pig's hoof prints and we will definitely encounter them. But tomorrow they will all You have to be more careful, brother, take all the marlezi with you."

"Come on! I have to take it with me every time I go up the mountain, otherwise I'll always feel like I'm missing something."

Xu Ning stepped forward and said quietly: "There are big cats in Crouching Tiger Mountain. This time the wild boars are merging, it is very likely that the big cats came here to pull them, do you know?"

"What?!" Li Fuqiang yelled.

"Don't shout, don't shout. If you listen, I won't let you go."

Wang Hu said blankly: "Second brother, do you want to kill a tiger?"

"Why are we hunting tigers? We are just going to hunt pigs. Tigers are something we can do, right?"

Li Fuqiang clapped his legs and said, "I'm sure we can't do it."

"Well, if you want to hunt tigers, you have to get approval from the boss, or we will just hunt in vain, do you understand? Only the three of us know about this, please don't tell the Chai family."

"understand!"

Wang Hu asked: "Second brother, let's go hunt wild boars. What should we do if we encounter them?"

Li Fuqiang glared and said domineeringly: "What's going on? If it dares to spar with me, I'll hit it on the head with one shot!"   Through these several knife hunts, Li Fuqiang gradually found the feeling of a general charging, even if the opponent is Even though he is blind and has a black head, he will definitely not be frightened.

"Don't be fooled. I asked you to bring Marlezi to drive away tigers. This game should be played deep in the mountains where you rarely see people. Even if you do, you can't attack people easily."

"Ah, then my heart will be enlightened." Wang Hu patted his chest.

Xu Ning patted him on the head, "You're done with Ying, you're blind. My second uncle named you this name for nothing. You shrink your tail when you don't see a cat."

Li Fuqiang said: "Who is the guy in our hands? Isn't he just a cattle hunter? If it dares to attack me, I won't kill it!"

Wang Hu raised his hands and cupped his fists, "You two are real tigers!"

"Pull away."

"Ha ha……"

Outside the door, Chai Bing knocked twice and walked in.

He was holding a bag in his hand and three pieces of sheepskin cotton monkey under his arm.

"What are you talking about? What's wrong with you?"

Xu Ning laughed and said, "The tiger is a real tiger. Oh my god, is this sheepskin new?"

"Ah, go to the ginseng factory to pick them up now. You three can try them on for size. If they don't fit, I'll go back and change them."

Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu's eyes lit up when they saw the sheepskin monkey.

"This should be a good game, Third Brother, won't you get a lot of money?"

"No matter what the price, you can play with it yourself, just wear it and that's it."

The three of them took off their cotton-padded jackets in the room and put on sheepskin cotton monkeys, which were the same size.

Chai Bing saw that they were well-dressed, so he nodded and said, "Tomorrow I'll put on cotton monkeys inside and put on cotton-padded jackets on the outside. What time are we leaving?"

"It's half past five. Let's go to Mantou Mountain first, and then we have to follow up."

"Okay, I don't know much about siege. What do you think it is? How about I call them two again tomorrow?"

"Don't... Third brother, you rely on skills to escape. There is no use in large numbers. If something happens, I have to take care of them."

None of the people called by Chai Bing had any experience in sieges. If they encountered wild boars, they would definitely panic. Will Xu Ning hunt the animals or protect them?

In the past two days when I led the two young men up the mountain, I asked them to stay behind and follow them until the animals were beaten before letting them go forward. I was afraid that they would become panicked when they looked at the animals.

"Then the four of us will go. When we get up the mountain, we'll do whatever you say. I'll listen to your command."

"Eh."

……

The next day, it was less than five o'clock.

The three of Xu Ning got up and were just rubbing their faces in the outer room when Chai Bing and Sister-in-law came over carrying rice bowls, vegetable basins, bowls and chopsticks.

Chai Liangyu didn't get up, so he left the room to eat in the morning. After the third sister-in-law put the bowls and chopsticks on the table, she gave Xu Ning a few instructions and went back to the room to catch up on her sleep.

After breakfast, Chai Bing carried an aluminum lunch box and a cloth bag, carried a gun and followed Xu Ning out of the house.

As soon as they went out, Qinglang and his gang saw Xu Ning and others.

Seeing them barking, Xu Ning hurriedly scolded them, walked over to the green wolf and black wolf dogs, and said, "You guys stay at home and have a rest. I will take you up the mountain tomorrow. Be obedient."

Ow...

The dogs lowered their heads and whimpered before getting back into the shack.

Immediately, a Dongfeng truck drove out of Wangxing Village and ran towards Mantou Mountain.

They carried four 56 and a half, 200 rounds of ammunition, 25 Mare seeds, two knives, six aluminum lunch boxes, two packs of cigarettes, and two boxes of matches.

These things will definitely be enough to fight pigs!
  When we arrived at Mantou Mountain, it was less than six o'clock and the sky was still dark.

Chai Bing parked the car on the mountain road at the foot of Mantou Mountain, and the four of them grabbed the cloth bag and 56 and got out of the car, heading towards the red pine forest.

There was only the sound of snow crunching on the road. When the sky gradually lightened, they just reached the red pine forest.

Xu Ning lowered his head to observe the direction of the pig's hoof prints, then took the lead and walked eastward.

"Brother, how many wild boars can there be if you look at the pig's hoof prints?" Chai Bing asked.

"There are just over a dozen pig hooves on the ground. They should be a family group, but it will be hard to tell after they merge into a group."

Chai Bing looked at the chaotic and mixed pig hooves and said in surprise: "There are only more than ten pigs? It seems to me that there are hundreds of pigs."

"The pig must have trampled on this area to forage, so it looks a bit messy. You can see clearly if you find the pattern. Do you see this pig's hoof mark? This is the first three hundred kilograms of eggs, and the pig's hoofs are slipping. The round ones and the pointed ones are old sows.”

"Ah, that says a lot."

Li Fuqiang said with a smile: "This is all based on experience. My brother has a strong handle when he slips."

"Yeah." Wang Hu nodded.

By this time, the four of them had been in the mountain for three hours.

Just two miles out of the red pine forest, Wang Hu saw two black figures in front of him. When he got closer, he saw clearly that they were dead eggs at both ends.

At this moment, the two belly bags that were digging for eggs have been opened, and the abdominal flesh has disappeared, leaving only the ribs exposed.

"Fuck, this thing looks pretty bloody. What kind of thing should I pay for?"

"Wolves! The wolves should be eating to bury themselves. Look at the blood on the ground."

"Second brother, are there wolves in this area?"

(End of this chapter)