Back in the 1980s, hiking in the mountains was also a way of life

Chapter 407 Everyone’s Belief Is Wrong
In this way, everyone drove the sled until noon.

Even though everyone was not hungry or tired, they had to stop and rest.

Because Wang An discovered that at this moment, the big horse was emitting heat all over.

So Wang An said to the people on the sled:
"We need to eat and rest for a while. The horses have been pulling the sled all morning, and their bodies can't take it."

Wu Dong looked at Ma and said admiringly:

"Yeah, you're really a bad horse. You haven't stopped this whole morning."

Wang An replied casually: "Yeah, no matter how bad it is, you have to take a break."

As Wang An spoke, he stopped Daer Ma.

Seeing Wang An's actions, Mu Xueli and Wang Li, who were following behind, drove the sled to a position side by side with Wang An and stopped their horses.

Mu Xueli looked distressed, but said with a smile:

"Brother-in-law, you finally stopped. If you keep going for a while, you'll tire my horse out."

Wang Li also said in a low voice with a distressed look on his face:

"Well, Fourth Brother, why don't we stop running like this this afternoon? If we break the horse again, it would be a waste, right?"

Although both of them spoke with a smile and in a negotiating tone, the words "I'm complaining" were almost written on their faces.

After listening to this, Wang An felt really bad.

So he said, "Well, I won't run like this again in the future."

By now, even the big horse with great endurance was covered in sweat.

Mu Xueli's blue horse and Wang Li's white horse were not only covered in sweat, but their breathing also sounded quite rough.

In addition, the two horses kept snorting.

If it keeps running, it’s hard to say whether it can find the tiger, but the horse will definitely be exhausted.

After everyone stopped, Wu Dong, Zhang Shuya and six others started collecting firewood and making a fire to heat up dry food.

Wang An, Mu Xueli and Wang Li began to wipe the sweat off the horses.

Although this season is indeed much warmer, it is only relatively speaking.

During the day, the normal temperature is around minus ten degrees Celsius, and at night, it is almost minus 20 degrees Celsius.

Therefore, if the sweat on the horse cannot be wiped off in time, the horse's body will inevitably freeze.

If ice forms on a horse, it will most likely get sick.

In this day and age, if people get sick, they basically have to endure it. If livestock get sick, there is naturally no medicine to use.

In fact, in this respect, horses are not as strong as mules.

Maybe because mules are hybrid products, mules are more powerful than horses.

Compared to mules, horses do seem a bit delicate.

After wiping the sweat off the horses, the three men unloaded the horses from the sled and led them to the fire to warm them.

In rural areas, whether raising mules, horses, donkeys or cattle, they are all taken very carefully.

The main thing is that these kinds of livestock are basically the guarantee of livelihood for a family.

Turning the land, planting the land, weeding the land, digging the land, pulling crops, grinding, pulling the millstone, pulling the sledge or pulling the cart.
Weeding the land is to use a weeding hoe
To weed the farmland, plowing the land means to add soil to the crops.

Anyway, as long as you are working, these livestock are basically indispensable.

So, how can you not be nicer to it?

After letting the three horses warm themselves by the fire for more than ten minutes, their breathing became more even and their snorting stopped. Then Wang An and his two companions fed the horses some hay.

Unfortunately, animals like horses will not eat grass when they are too tired, so we can only wait until they have rested enough.

After the three men finished taking care of the three horses, Wu Dong, Zhang Shuya and the other six also heated up the dry food and canned food. After a simple lunch, everyone sat around the fire and started to chat and brag while drinking hot water.

Fortunately, all three horses had opened their mouths to eat grass, but even so, everyone would have to wait at least one and a half to two hours.

Because horses are animals that cannot eat enough in an hour or two.

The horse is actually a very magical animal.

That is to put the horse in a place with plenty of grass, and the horse will keep eating and poop while eating.

Someone once did an experiment.

In the summer, a cart full of grass would be cut for the horse during the day, and then at night the horse would be tied to the wheel of the cart and allowed to graze.

The next morning, the man found that all the grass in the cart had been eaten, but the horse's stomach was flat.

Of course, there were also several large baskets of horse manure from behind the horses’ butts.

In rural areas, the large lifting basket is the largest basket, with a diameter of at least 1 meter, which is much larger than the largest washbasin.

It is said that the reason for this is that horses are rectal animals, and only rectal animals can eat and defecate at the same time.

Two hours later, feeling that the horses had eaten enough, everyone put out the fire and continued to drive the sled to follow the trail.

To be honest, this endless pursuit is the most boring thing.

Because you never know when you can catch up.

Logically speaking, the tiger was injured and should not be able to run so far.

But the fact is, the tiger ran as if nothing had happened and there was no delay at all.

And the bloodstains were completely gone.

It wasn't until they chased to a big ditch that everyone was completely dumbfounded.

The ditch was not narrow, about 20 meters wide, but the tiger just jumped over it.

At this time, the tiger's footprints were very clear, very clear on this side, and also visible on the opposite side.

Wang Shuai looked at the footprints on both sides of the ditch with a look of shock on his face and sighed:
"Fuck, this big claw is really awesome. It can jump over from such a long distance!"

At this time, Wu Dong said:
"If I'm running and long jumping, I can jump seven or eight meters. It's normal for a big claw to jump more than 20 meters."

Wang Shuai scratched his head and said:
"Yeah, my highest record is about 7.7 meters."

Wang An smiled and said, "I can't jump as far as you can."

After hearing Wang An's words, Wu Dong asked in surprise:

"How far can you jump, being so tall?"

Wang An immediately said "very shyly" and "embarrassedly": "I only jumped 8 meters."

Wu Dong was stunned at first, but he reacted immediately, gave Wang An a fierce look, and then said unhappily:
"Fuck, I shouldn't have asked. You are such a jerk and a coward."

"Ha ha ha ha."

Everyone burst into laughter.

No matter what they said or how much they fussed, their boasting was so loud that no one could get over it.

In this situation, normal people may not be able to get through it.

When they couldn't get through, they had no choice but to take a detour.

There are many such large ditches in the mountains. Normally, the depth of the ditch becomes shallower as you go down the mountain, until the ditch disappears completely.

So, everyone drove the sled along the edge of the ditch.

Everyone thought that the big ditch would soon disappear.

However, everyone's opinion is wrong!
(End of this chapter)