Back to 1984: Hunting in the Mountains

Chapter 72 Is this... possible?

After getting ready, he took a flashlight, put the slingshot on his waist, and took two snakeskin bags and a coil of rope.

I put the things at the door, went to the kitchen to explain to my third sister, and then went out with my two cousins.

"Let's go to Brother Jiang first..."

As soon as he said this, he saw that both of his cousins ​​looked embarrassed. Then he remembered that Yu Qiujiang had a very awkward relationship with these two people and they basically didn't talk. He immediately shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Forget it, you guys wait at the intersection, I'll go get something and meet up with you guys."

"This feeling is good."

Yu Qiushan and Yu Qiuyuan finally relaxed.

They were also in a difficult situation. As Yu Qiujiang was a cousin, the younger generations had no conflicts with each other. In fact, when they were very young, they had a good relationship. But because of the conflicts between the adults, they were now embarrassed with each other.

It's not like I haven't tried to ease the relationship.

But Yu Detu and his wife have passed away, and many things cannot be undone. Although many people in the village had excluded them, others are others, but the Yu family are his own people, and it is difficult for Yu Qiujiang to forgive them.

Because they were going to Yu Qiujiang's house, the three of them took a long detour. When they reached the fork in the road, two of them waited by the roadside and saw Yu Qiutang running to Yu Qiujiang's house.

"Hey, Brother Shan, is it true that your cousin caught a wild boar?" Yu Qiyuan couldn't help but feel relieved when he saw Yu Qiutang's receding back.

"Why, you are in the village, don't you know what's going on?"

"How can I know so much? You know what my cousin's temper was like before. He wouldn't want to deal with us easily."

Yu Qiyuan is innocent.

With so many cousins, they seem very powerful in the village. Whether it is when they are playing games when they were young or when they grow up, those who want to take advantage of them will be cautious and will not provoke them easily.

But everyone else was fine, except Yu Qiutang who didn't fit in.

It was like this when he was a child, and it is still like this when he grows up. Although they know that he has a kind heart and is just introverted, the brothers still find him boring after living with him for a long time.

Everyone likes lively and cheerful people when they are together. Who wants to stay with someone who is always timid?

Yu Qiushan nodded, as if thinking about something. He knew all these things. When he thought about Yu Qiutang's confident smile and eyes when he saw him in the afternoon, he suddenly felt unsure. Has his cousin really changed?
After a while, the two saw Yu Qiutang coming over with a long object. When they got closer, they found that it was an iron spear.

The two looked at each other.

Yu Qiyuan curiously touched the steel fork that looked like a spear in a picture book, "Cousin, what... is this?"

"A steel fork. We can use it to attack anything we encounter on the ground. Without a fork, what can we do with our bare hands?"

"I understand the logic, but this thing of yours doesn't look light. It will be difficult for you to carry it, so how can you catch up with the wild animals?"

As he spoke, Yu Qiyuan was eager to try it out and wanted to take the steel fork to give it a try.

Yu Qiutang smiled secretly and did not stop him, but he was secretly prepared. The moment Yu Qiyuan took the gun, he saw that the gun was about to overwhelm him, so he grabbed it back in his hand.

If he had been a little slower, Yu Qiyuan would have been knocked down.

It’s not that the gun barrel was so heavy that Yu Qiyuan couldn’t lift it, but he didn’t realize how heavy this steel fork made entirely of iron was.

I don't usually see people using this kind of thing.

This one was caught off guard and almost got into trouble.

Then he looked at Yu Qiutang, who was holding the gun in one hand. Thinking about how he came back with the gun in his hand and how fast he was walking, he was suddenly frightened. What happened to his cousin? Was he possessed by a tiger spirit?

This strength is a bit too great.

Just now, I roughly felt that the gun must be more than 50 or 60 kilograms. He was holding it with one hand, and he was not afraid of breaking his thin arms and legs.

Yu Qiushan, who was standing nearby, also noticed this and was secretly amazed.

He felt that he didn't understand this cousin who used to be very honest. His temperament, conversation, and reserved yet shocking strength had greatly refreshed his perception.

"Let's go. I just thought about it on the way and guessed that there are only three kinds of things in your land..."

"Which three?"

Yu Qiyuan hurriedly leaned forward, and unknowingly, Yu Qiutang's recognition and trust in him increased a lot.

He now believed that Yu Qiutang was the man who could kill the wild boar.

After all, the competition in the animal world ultimately comes down to who is stronger and who has the greater physique. The reason why wild boars are so swift is that they have a strong impact when they run, and ordinary things cannot break their bodies.

have to.

Look at my cousin's gun. It can poke a hole in not only a wild boar, but even a antelope.

"The most likely species is a badger, either the wild hog badger or the dog badger. Relatively speaking, the wild hog badger is more likely. Badgers are more alert and rarely run to human settlements. Even if they come, they will not wait until you chase them before they are willing to run. They must have already run away as soon as you arrived at the edge of the field."

"Badger, I seem to have seen it before. One year there was a fire in the mountains and many wild animals had nothing to eat, so they ran down to steal things. My father said there was a badger among them, but I forgot whether it was a wild boar or a dog badger." Yu Qiyuan said.

"There's a big difference, but most people can't tell the difference at night. We'll see when we see it."

Yu Qiutang nodded. The probability of this kind of forest fire is quite high, but it is usually a minor matter. Yu Qiyuan was talking about a big fire a few years ago. The fire spread for dozens of kilometers and burned a large number of precious trees before it stopped.

"What about the other two?"

"The second possibility is less likely. I guess it's some kind of bird that likes to eat gourds..."

"No way, birds can eat gourds?" Yu Qiyuan was very confused. It was beyond his understanding.

"Birds don't eat the pulp of gourds, but the seeds inside," Yu Qiutang patiently explained to his cousin as the three of them walked. "Think about it, why didn't there are any birds eating them some time ago? Maybe it's because the seeds were not mature at that time."

Yu Qiyuan's eyes lit up. "If you say so, it's really possible. I picked a few recently and found that the seeds inside are almost formed. They will become hard in ten days or half a month."

"That's it," Yu Qiutang nodded, "As for the third one, it's the wild boar, which is even less likely."

"Wild boars don't like gourds, do they?"

"That's not the case," Yu Qiutang smiled. "Wild boars do like to eat sweet things like gourds, but there's no need. In this season, there are many things in the mountains that wild boars can eat. There's no need for them to run into our human activity area...

Moreover, I heard you say that those things ran away very fast after seeing you, which is even more unlikely. The wild boar ran over to the gourd field and ate less than what was damaged.

Once that beast runs down, it will just eat a few bites and then move on to another one, destroying the food beyond recognition. It's really annoying."

"So that's it."

Yu Qiyuan felt that he had been taught a lesson.

"Cousin, you know so much. Where did you learn all this? How did you suddenly become so smart?"

Yu Qiutang smiled and said, "This is not a secret. Just ask around. We are at the foot of the mountain. There must be many people who have been there. There is nothing you can't ask."

"So, Tangtang, did you use this thing to kill the wild boar during the day?" Yu Qiushan asked.

"Oh, it was pure luck that we got the wild boar."

Yu Qiutang exaggerated and recounted what happened in the morning. The main point was that the wild boars were the work of the jackals and he was just sitting back and reaping the benefits. Yu Qiushan and Yu Qiuyuan were able to accept this and felt it made sense.

At least it is more convincing than Yu Qiutang stabbing a wild boar weighing several hundred kilograms to death with his own hands.

Talking and laughing, the three of them came to Yu Deshui's house.

"Our gourd field is still ahead. Why don't we go in and drink some water before going any further?" Yu Qiyuan said.

Yu Qiutang looked at the moon in the sky. The moonlight had already risen. If it was a badger, it would be the best time to commit a crime. So he declined the hospitality and just asked the two men to tie up their trouser legs with a rope, and one of them to hold a stick in his hand so that if there was any snake, it could be used to ward off the badger.

As for alerting the enemy, it is not suitable for the current environment.

These are the guys we're waiting for.

We should kill as many of them as possible so that the rest will become frightened birds and never dare to come here to steal again.

Animals may not be as smart as humans, but they are not weak in certain aspects. The reason why these things can come to steal food several times in a row is that they think that the owner of the gourd field can't do anything to them.

That's why they are so unscrupulous.

Just like the hyenas on the grassland, even though they know that lions are very ferocious, they can still use the advantage of their population numbers to constantly challenge the patience of lions, and even snatch food from the mouths of lions, or even besiege and kill lioness.

Everything was ready, and the three of them came to the gourd field.

In the gourd field under the moonlight, frogs croaked and the air was filled with a faint scent of gourds. As the southwest wind blew, the leaves of the gourd vines swayed in the wind, making rustling sounds.

"How can we ..."

"Shh!"

Yu Qiutang signaled Yu Qiyuan not to speak. He closed his eyes, quietly identifying the unusual sounds in the wind, and sniffing the unique stench or fishy smell of wild animals in the gourd fragrance.

Yu Qiushan and Yu Qiuyuan looked at their cousin beside them and found that he had an indescribable temperament at this moment, as if he was not the same kind of person as themselves, but an ordinary tree growing beside the gourd field.

The two of them subconsciously exchanged glances with each other.

Although he didn't say anything, a huge wave of emotion was surging in his heart.

The familiar yet unfamiliar feeling made them almost forget what they were originally supposed to do at the moment, and instead focused all their attention on Yu Qiutang.

And Yu Qiutang was still listening quietly.

In the moonlight, he leaned on the steel fork in his hand, like the guardian of the fields.

a long time.

He finally opened his eyes, a smile on his face, "It is indeed a badger. Judging from the stinky smell, it must be a wild boar."

Yu Qiyuan opened his eyes wide, but saw nothing.

There was only the moonlight casting a faint silver light on the gourd field, and occasionally the rustling sound of gourd leaves could be heard. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that it was not some wild animal, but the wind turning the pages of a book.

"Where, where, why can't I see anything?"

Yu Qiutang laughed and said, "If you saw it, it would be terrible. You must have night vision."

"Hey," Yu Qiutang scratched his head, "So you said there was, how did you know?"

Yu Qiutang pointed to his ears and nose, "Listen and smell."

"Don't keep me in suspense. I can't hear or smell anything. Just tell me, has the person who stole the gourd come?"

Yu Qiutang nodded, "Come, I'll take you to find it."

"Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and run!"

"Don't worry, we have to block their escape route first. These guys are alert and may give up stealing food at the slightest sign of trouble. Besides, they have very sensitive noses. We are now standing on the west side of the land, and the wind is from the southwest, so it will be easy for the smell to blow over."

Yu Qiutang said as he led the two people forward, explaining as he walked, "Although the badger looks ugly, it is very smart. Look, we just said that the wind is blowing from the southwest, right?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

"Then the most likely place for them to appear is in the southwest..."

"Why?"

Yu Qiyuan was like a supporting actor in a crosstalk. Every time Yu Qiutang said something, he would interrupt and ask a few questions at the appropriate time.

"Of course it's for safety. Think about it, if they are in the southwest, if danger comes from the southwest, they can use their keen sense of smell to smell it immediately and escape."

"What if we come from the northeast? The wind blows away our scent. How can they smell it?"

"If that's the case, we're coming from the northeast, so we're the farthest from the southwest. By the time we get there, they might have sensed us through smell or hearing, and quickly evacuated."

Yu Qiyuan opened his eyes wide in surprise, unable to believe it.

"Is it as mysterious as you say? Why do I feel that you make them sound so magical, cousin?"

"Don't underestimate these guys. They can survive in the wild because they have their own ways. If they were too weak, they would have been extinct long ago. How can they survive until now?"

"That's it."

Yu Qiyuan nodded, thoughtfully.

Yu Qiushan said at the side: "Tangtang, according to you, we should try to avoid the southwest direction now, right?"

"Correct."

"But the problem is, no matter how we go around, we'll eventually have to get close to them. Once we touch them, we definitely won't be able to outrun them in this gourd field, right?"

Yu Qiutang smiled and led the two men to walk a few dozen meters. As they walked, he looked at the mountain not far away and shone his flashlight nearby from time to time. When they came to a place where a small trench had been dug, they stopped.

"Look, we'll just wait here."

"here?"

Yu Qiushan felt that this place, which was neither a village in front nor a shop behind, did not seem to have anything special about it.

"Here, help me."

Yu Qiutang took out two small shovels from his snakeskin bag and gave one to each of them. "Let's dig a hole here."

"Why are you digging a hole here? It's such a big place, how do you know the hog badger will definitely run up from here?"

Yu Qiyuan asked curiously.

Yu Qiutang had already started digging the ground with a steel fork. He dug very quickly and soon made the ground soft. When he saw that it was almost done, he said to the side: "Come on, dig out the soil inside."

"This... can it work?"

(End of this chapter)