Back to 1984: Hunting in the Mountains

Chapter 105 What a big golden courage!
Yu Qiutang's last bullet was not aimed at the black bear's head, but at its heart.

To completely kill a black bear, the only parts of its body that can be removed are the head and the heart.

Needless to say, the head.

The heart is behind the white hair on the black bear's abdomen. The 7.62mm bullet did not penetrate the bear, but instead caused more severe horizontal injuries.

The black bear's roar suddenly stopped.

Its body slowly fell backwards and fell into the dust, startling the little bear next to it and hurriedly dodged it, but soon discovered that something was wrong with its mother and rushed over to help her lick her wounds.

But at this time, the female black bear had reached her limit.

The last bit of its vitality had been consumed. Although its eyes were not completely closed and its body was still trembling slightly, it had no hope of survival.

Yu Qiutang put the gun on his back, pulled out the steel fork beside him and rushed down the ridge. Seeing Wang Haofeng was about to run over to see what was going on, he quickly signaled him to be careful.

Many bears will have a last-ditch effort. They may seem dead, but in fact they are still breathing their last breath. They will wait for the hunter to approach, and then suddenly attack and bite. Inexperienced hunters often fail here.

He held the steel fork and slowly approached the mother bear. The little bear was nervous and panicked at this time. Seeing the humans approaching, he smelled the danger, but he couldn't let go of his mother. He could only back away while roaring at the three men.

After the three men formed an encirclement and circled the mother bear in the center, the little bear quickened its speed and ran a few dozen meters away, stopped to look, ran some more, and ran all the way to the opposite ridge, then stopped and stared at this side.

Even though the mother bear was hunted, Yu Qiutang still had no intention of doing anything to the cubs.

Low cost performance is one thing.

Not wanting to hunt the cubs is also an important reason.

He originally wanted to use hunting to change his life, and he would definitely not show mercy when he saw an animal that deserved to be hunted.

But at the same time, I will feel sympathy for the cub.

This may seem like a dilemma, but it is actually a very normal idea.

Anyone who can slaughter all animals with a bit of spirituality without any scruples or mercy is a ruthless person.

Yu Qiutang is soft-hearted, but not cruel enough to that extent.

Yu Qiutang and the other two waited around the black bear for another ten minutes. When they saw that the black bear stopped trembling and its chest stopped beating, they were sure that it was dead.

"Tangtang, what should we do? Should we handle it here?"

Wang Haofeng knocked the bear's head with an axe. He didn't feel it when he was standing, but now that he was lying down, he realized that the bear was really big.

It weighs at least 400 kilograms.

This is a very large weight even among female bears.

Yu Qiutang looked at the little bear on the ridge and thought for a moment, "Don't worry, just carry it on your back and we'll clean it up when we get back."

"Ah? Why? Didn't they say that if we don't clean it up quickly, the bear meat won't taste good?"

"I know, just listen to me."

Yu Qiutang carefully checked the black bear's body again, and seeing that the bear's beard had stopped moving, he was sure that the bear was completely dead. He handed the gun and fork to the other two people, and bent down to carry the bear on his back.

But before he turned his back, he looked towards the ridge again, only to find that the little bear over there had disappeared in the blink of an eye, so he put the bear's front legs down again.

"Forget it, let's deal with it here."

Wang Haofeng was confused and didn't know what he meant. However, Yu Qiujiang noticed that Yu Qiutang's eyes changed twice, and he secretly sighed in his heart that his brother really had a similar personality to him.

Looks tough, but actually soft-hearted.

Unwilling to slaughter the mother in front of the cubs.

This kind of thing is no big deal in the eyes of a skilled hunter.

How about I kill your mother in front of you? If you dare to come over, I will deal with you, a naughty child, too.

Yu Qiutang took out a dagger from his leggings, gestured in front of the black bear, and with a sudden movement of the knife, he directly cut the black bear's throat. He continued to cut downwards along the throat, and the bear's abdomen was completely cut open.

Get a thorough look at your internal organs.

The first thing is to go towards the courage.

This is the basic principle of killing bears. Nothing else matters, you must get the bear bile.

He cut open the organs and took out a bear gall bladder as big as a small volleyball. He wiped off the blood stains on the surface. The eyes of the three men lit up.

"Haha, we're rich! We're rich!"

Yu Qiutang handed the bear gall to Wang Haofeng, who laughed and jumped excitedly while holding the bear gall.

"Golden Gallbladder, this is a golden gallbladder, so beautiful! Brother Jiang, you should hug it too, look how beautiful this golden gallbladder is."

Golden gall is another name for copper gall.

And judging from its color and weight, it is definitely a top-grade gold gallbladder. Not to mention Wang Haofeng, even Yu Qiutang himself doesn't know how much this thing can be sold for.

If the bear gall is a grass gall, it is relatively thin inside. When it comes to iron gall, it starts to become viscous. When it comes to gold gall, it is denser and even feels a little hard.

Later generations developed a method of extracting bile from living bears, which was to insert a tube directly into the bear's body and extract about 200 ml of bile every day, which was a torture for the bear.

inhuman.

Later, because this practice was really inhumane, it was gradually no longer widely used, and the medicinal function of bear bile was gradually replaced by other things with similar ingredients.

"Put it away quickly."

Yu Qiutang asked Wang Haofeng to put the bear gall into a prepared bag. It felt heavy, as if there was a small human head inside.

After removing the bear bile, the next thing to do is to deal with the other offal. These things are too smelly. Not only are humans basically inedible, even dogs don’t like to eat them.

Some people would take these things back, dry and crush them, and use them as fish feed, while others would bury them directly on the spot to avoid attracting other wild animals.

Some people who believe in gods will take the water out and hang it on a tree branch downwind, or place it on a big rock as an offering to the land or mountain gods.

Of course, the mountain god will not eat these things. The real beneficiaries are some small animals or birds.

Once all the offal is removed, the bear's blood will be basically drained out, and what remains is bear meat and bear oil.

Yu Qiutang directly grabbed Wang Haofeng's axe and cut the bear's head, limbs, and car body into pieces. He put the scattered things into a bag and gave it to Wang Haofeng and Yu Qiujiang to carry.

He himself strung the two pieces of flesh onto a rope and used a steel fork to make a simple shoulder pole to carry it.

A rough calculation shows that if all the internal organs, offal, blood and meat of this black bear, which weighs about 400 kilograms, are removed, there will still be a little over 300 kilograms left.

After sharing about 100 kilograms with Wang Haofeng and Yu Qiujiang, he still had at least 200 kilograms of weight on his shoulder.

For most people, it is possible to carry it up, but it is absolutely impossible to carry it up and down the mountain.

It's just him. If ordinary people want to hunt a black bear here, they have no way to transport it back home. They can only cut off some important parts and leave the rest on the spot.

That's quite a pity.

There are treasures everywhere on a bear. Even if bear meat doesn't taste very good, it is still meat. If it is cooked well, it is quite good.

"Let's go~"

Wang Haofeng is carrying a heavy burden now, he is carrying a bag of bear limbs, five or six halves of Yu Qiutang's body, and holding his axe in his hand. It is only because he is very strong that he could have done it, otherwise it would have been impossible.

Yu Qiujiang naturally didn't feel relaxed either.

Their biggest role in following Yu Qiutang, apart from increasing his momentum and helping him guard the vital points behind him, was to act as porters, carrying whatever guns and prey he could find.

Yu Qiutang can be said to have selected two good fighters, who are hardworking and full of energy.

The Sichuanese on the other side of the mountain say, "Basui is very comfortable." The three returned to the mulberry tree. Without the black bear guarding it, the mulberry fungus was easily collected.

Yu Qiutang weighed the small cloth bag and felt that it weighed at least four pounds.

One pound is two hundred and sixty yuan, and four pounds is one thousand and forty yuan, which is a considerable profit.

Including the bear gall, I estimate it can be sold for between eight hundred and one thousand yuan.

There is also bear meat, bear oil, bear paws...

They can also be sold for a lot of money.

The only pity is the bear skin, which has lost its integrity due to severe damage from the gun and two holes that shouldn't have appeared.

It’s okay if you make small items, but if you want to sell them as a whole, it depends on fate.

Sometimes the person who collects the leather will give a price based on the location and size of the hole and the overall impact, and it might be able to sell for one or two hundred.

After all, this is the skin of an adult black bear weighing 400 kilograms.

By this calculation, I estimate that these things can at least fetch five or six hundred yuan, at least five hundred.

That means they can earn two thousand five hundred dollars this time.

He took 60% of the profit, which was 1,500 yuan. In an instant, he earned back half of the money he originally needed to build the house.

It will be much more convenient later.

After packing up the Coriolus fungus, the three of them discussed the time, looked at the time, and since it was still early, they prepared to start their return journey.

The closer you get to the top of the mountain, the more dangerous it is and the more wild animals there are.

They killed the bear in this area, and it will probably attract many carnivores in no time.

I'm not afraid of anything else, except jackals and yellow-throated martens.

These bandits all appeared in groups, and there was no way they could resist the bloody smell of bear meat.

The journey back to the mountain was more difficult than the journey here.

Wang Haofeng, who lacked endurance, walked for more than an hour and began to groan again.

Frankly speaking, I'm exhausted.

But when Yu Qiutang asked him to take a break, he was unwilling to do so and said he could still hold on.

Yu Qiutang told him that endurance is about challenging your limits. Every time you break through, you can make progress. Every time you reach this position, you won't feel tired.

Otherwise, this node will be like a psychological burden, always telling you that you are too tired and need to rest when it is approaching.

The body is controlled by the brain. Once the brain issues an order, the body will immediately secrete the relevant creatine, but it will not be able to hold on.

In addition, a person's lung capacity can also be improved through exercise. The so-called tiredness is often due to insufficient lung capacity, which leads to insufficient aerobic breathing.

As your lung capacity increases, your endurance will naturally improve.

At first, the three of them were a little hurried and nervous, but they finally relaxed completely when they returned to the familiar birch forest.

In this location, except for jackals, other wild animals will basically not appear.

The sky was gradually getting dark. Yu Qiutang calculated that it would take more than two hours to go down the mountain by moonlight.

But if we stayed in the mountains, we would have to waste another night. After discussing with the other two, we decided to go home before dark.

It was just the right time to bring the bear meat back in the dark to avoid being seen on the road. Some unnecessary troubles should be avoided as much as possible.

Although it's a bit of a trick.

But he didn't receive much open contempt in the village, and no one stepped on his face.

Except for Chen Meidi who was a little bit naughty, the relationships with the others were basically just ordinary.

Naturally, there is no need to have the idea that things may change over time and you should not look down on the young and poor.

Making a fortune quietly is what an adult should have.

The three of them continued walking forward for a while, and Yu Qiutang suddenly felt as if something was following them from a distance.

At first they thought it was just the sound of the wind in the forest and that he was making a fuss, but the further they walked, the more real the feeling of being followed became. Finally, when they turned a corner, he motioned for them to wait a moment.

Following a burst of strange footsteps, the thing following them came running towards them in untidy steps.

When I turned the corner, I saw three people staring at it.

The invader was also greatly surprised and immediately prepared to turn around and run away.

"return!"

At the critical moment, Yu Qiutang shouted at it, and it stopped, turned around, squatted on the ground and looked at Yu Qiutang with an innocent and pitiful face.

"This is……"

Wang Haofeng shouted in surprise.

"Yes, that's right. This is one of the two dogs we saw this morning. Look at the white patch on his lower back. This is a very rare white patch on his lower back. He is a top-quality hunting dog in eastern Sichuan.

I noticed it this morning.

Unfortunately, this good dog didn’t keep up with its good master. The other dog was beaten by the eagle owl this morning, but this one, for some reason, actually followed us back.”

"Then why is he following us?"

Yu Qiutang shook his head. "It's hard to say. Maybe he was separated from his master..."

Yu Qiutang suddenly remembered the figure that the black bear was frantically chasing on the ridge. Maybe it was one of the hunter father and son.

The location was too far away and he couldn't see the face clearly.

Thinking about it this way, he did save that person's life, but he didn't know what happened next.

"come over."

Yu Qiutang felt pity for the dog when he saw the sad look in its eyes, so he waved to the dog. The dog tilted its head and observed him for a moment, then slowly and tentatively walked over.

Only then did Yu Qiutang discover that there seemed to be something wrong with the dog's left hind leg. It would not touch the ground when it walked, as if the other three legs were dragging it.

He clearly remembered that the dog was not like this when he saw it in the morning. He thought it must have suffered some kind of injury in the past half day.

The dog squatted down one meter away from him and continued to look at him.

As if it had a sense of something, it did not look at Wang Haofeng and Yu Qiujiang, but kept its eyes fixed on Yu Qiutang the entire time.

Seeing this, Yu Qiujiang cut off half a pound of bear meat and threw it to the dog. The dog smelled it and started drooling.

But it did not eat the food with relish. Instead, it continued to look at Yu Qiutang until Yu Qiutang let it eat. Then it buried its head in the food, saliva flying everywhere, and soon finished a piece of meat.

After eating, it licked its lips with its tongue, looking as if it was still unsatisfied.

"I can't eat any more. It's hard to digest if I eat too much."

Yu Qiutang liked the dog a little and started playing jokes with it.

Of course, the real reason is not the digestive problem, but the fact that this kind of hunting dog must be fed in moderation every time and must not be completely satisfied.

Otherwise these guys will feel that humans can meet their needs without too much effort.

(End of this chapter)