Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 444

After waiting at the door for 2 minutes, I saw Er Mazi leading seven or eight tourists walking towards this side.When Wukong saw someone coming, he squatted on his master's shoulder and greeted him excitedly.

The mountain was blocked by heavy snow, and the road leading to the town was difficult to walk, so many tourists were stranded in Liujiagou.They were idle and bored in Liujiagou, and they all wanted to find something to do.After thinking about it, Er Mazi simply led them around the fields.

Now the snow is not heavy, which is suitable for hunting rabbits in the fields.

After the snow, the fields are not too cold. Looking through the snow curtain, the nearby villages, the mountains and rivers in the distance are all hazy and faintly visible, and they are peaceful and quiet.

The heavy snow is like a trowel in the hands of a mason, smoothing out all the ditches and ridges in the field.Wheat fields and roads are all shrouded in a pure color.

"Auspicious snow heralds a good harvest" rural people like to associate snow with harvest, which actually makes sense.If there is no snow in winter, the wheat will not be able to survive the winter and will be easily frozen to death.The next heavy snow is equivalent to covering the wheat seedlings with a quilt, so that the wheat seedlings can survive the winter safely.

People have been lazy these years, and they don't want to wander around in heavy snow.A few years ago, when winter came, there was no work in the village. When it snowed heavily, many people would lead dogs and carry rabbit guns to the fields to catch pheasants and rabbits.

At this time, wild rabbits can't run in the snow, and often dig a snow hole in the wheat field, and then hide in it to eat wheat seedlings.The traces of hares left in the snow are very conspicuous and can be seen from a long distance.Experienced hunters can easily find targets along the trails, and some people can catch more than a dozen hares a day.

At that time, the hunting team formed by the village could kill [-] or [-] rabbits at a time, and every family could eat delicious rabbit meat. The small mountain village was as lively as the Chinese New Year.Looking at rabbit footprints is a science, and Liu Junhao doesn't understand it very well.But with Xiaopi here, these problems are not a problem.

Just after crossing the embankment, I saw two pheasants looking for food in the snow.A tourist hurriedly raised his crossbow, but before he could aim at the pheasant, he was startled and flew a hundred meters away with flapping wings.

"Xiaohao, you don't even have a slingshot, how can you catch a pheasant?" Dr. Wang knew that Liu Junhao's slingshot was very accurate, and he could smash the head of a chicken with a slingshot.

"Hehe, Doctor Wang, I said that my Xiaopi can catch a pheasant, do you believe it or not?" Liu Junhao asked back.

"You brat, just blow it up." Doctor Wang's expression was obviously disbelieving.He is a frequent visitor to Liujiagou, of course he knows that Xiaopi is very powerful, but no matter how powerful he is, he can't beat the pheasant, that thing can fly into the sky.In fact, he had seen Xiaopi chasing pheasants before, and they all ended in failure.

"What if Xiaopi can catch the pheasant, or let's make a bet, whoever loses will take off his clothes and stay in the snow for 10 minutes?" Liu Junhao suddenly became childlike, and talked about the bet he often made with Liu Qiyong when he was a child.

"Really?" Seeing his convincing expression, Dr. Wang didn't know whether to believe it for a while, and turned to look at Er Mazi.

"Hehe, don't bet on him, this brat is sure to win." Er Mazi hurriedly stopped him.Stay naked in the snow for 10 minutes, what if you catch a cold.

"Oh, why?" Several tourists came with interest.

"You don't know about pheasants. This thing has a fatal weakness called 'regardless of its head and its tail'. It will fly up immediately after being startled in the snow, but it can only fly a short distance before falling back to the ground. If there is Xiaopi chased after him, this thing must have been flustered, it would pounce straight down and dive into the thick snow nest after landing, it just hid its head and didn't care if its butt was exposed outside.

There are white flowers everywhere in this field. The feathers of pheasants are so bright that people can see them from a long distance. If you want to catch them, you will not play with them to death. Therefore, pheasants at this time are the easiest to catch.Besides...Xiao Pi's nose, even if he can't see the pheasant, he can smell it..." Er Mazi analyzed clearly.

"No wonder, luckily I didn't gamble." Dr. Wang felt very lucky that his brain didn't get hot just now.

"Hehe" Liu Junhao smiled and didn't take it seriously, "Actually, what Uncle Guangxi said is not entirely correct, now is not the best time to catch pheasants, the best time to catch them is at night.

It's cold in winter, and at night, pheasants are crowded together in nests. When you find a place, you only need to use a flashlight to shine.As long as you stretch out the net and buckle it, you will get the pheasant, and you can catch four or five pheasants in one net. "

He and Liu Qiyong had done this before. At that time, they were afraid that old man Liu would disagree, so they quietly entered the mountain after dinner.Old man Liu couldn't find anyone at Liu Qiyong's house while he was sleeping, thinking what was wrong, he mobilized the whole village to look for him.

After catching the pheasant and returning to the village happily, old man Liu put Liu Junhao in the snow nest and beat him up. Of course, he ate the pheasant in the end.

After hearing Er Mazi's convincing words, the tourists all waited for the little leather horse to succeed.Unexpectedly, after a few minutes, this guy returned empty-handed.

"No way, Xiaopi missed it!!" Er Mazi also found it incredible.

"I knew I should have bet just now..." Dr. Wang became depressed.

Xiaopi ran straight to his master, wagged his tail and whimpered a few times, then ran back to the river beach.

"What is it trying to do?" Seeing the strange behavior of the macula, several tourists asked in confusion.

"Xiaopi must have discovered something new." Liu Junhao knew his macular skin very well, so he hurriedly followed.

In this way, the large army was led forward by the small belt, and after walking less than 200 meters, the macula suddenly stopped and growled at the master.

"There seems to be a dry well near here!" Er Mazi looked at the surrounding environment and whispered.

"Everyone stop, Uncle Guangxi, look at the footprints by the well..." Liu Junhao called out, pointing to the messy footprints not far away.He had rescued the grass beaver in this dry well at the beginning, so he was familiar with it. He knew that there were several large holes on the wall of the well, which were very suitable for birds to hide.

Xiaopi should have followed the pheasant here and found something in the well, so he ran back to find the owner.

"There are so many pheasants!!" Er Mazi was about to call out loudly, but then his voice dropped again.

At this time, a tourist finally understood and asked in a low voice, "You mean the pheasants are hidden in the dry well..."

"Very likely." Liu Junhao nodded and asked, "Uncle Guangxi, do you have a net bag?"

"Bring it, it should be able to hold the mouth of the well." Er Mazi said as he put down the cloth bag on his shoulder, and took out a net bag woven with cotton thread from it.

Liu Junhao covered the mouth of the well with a net bag, and then let four tourists press down on the four corners.Er Mazi pulled two reeds from not far away and inserted them into the well to stir them vigorously.

"Cuckoo... Gege... Quack..." The bottom of the well suddenly screamed.Soon there were birds flying desperately towards the mouth of the well, and then plunged into the net bag.

Pheasants, bald eagles, sparrows, wild ducks... It seemed that a nest had exploded in the dry well, and all kinds of birds rushed towards the mouth of the well crazily.It's a pity that the well was covered with a net bag, and several people held down the edge tightly, not giving them a chance to escape.

There were fifty or sixty birds in this flock, but fortunately Er Mazi's net bag was big enough, otherwise it wouldn't be able to hold it.There are also clever birds who see that the road above is blocked, and fall directly into the bottom of the well, which is regarded as escaped.

"Xiaohao, how do you divide?" Er Mazi didn't expect to be lucky just after going out, and there were more than a dozen pheasants and ducks in total.There were quite a few other birds, but he couldn't see them, so he planned to let them go later.

"Let's have a share of pheasants, one for each person, let's put the rest away?" Liu Junhao thought about it and said.

This is the hunting rule of Liujiagou. As long as they come out together, the prey they catch must be divided equally, even if it is soy sauce.

Everyone divided the pheasant into other birds and let them go, so Er Mazi curiously leaned over to see the structure in the well.He wondered how the pheasant could hide in the well, because the thing doesn't fly straight up and down.It was no wonder that the pheasants hid in it when they found several large holes under the wellhead.

From the beginning of catching pheasants, Wukong was very active, stretching out his claws to pluck the feathers, and plucked a few pheasants bare in a few strokes.

Liu Junhao knocked on its head twice, and the guy stopped screaming.

After this battle, several tourists once again felt the intelligence of macula, which is indeed beyond the reach of ordinary dogs.Some people even thought about raising them, planning to wait for the black leopard to give birth and ask for another one.

After picking up the pheasants, they continued wandering in the wheat field.Not far away, a tourist found a line of shallow footprints, very clear like plum petals.

"It's the rabbit seal," Er Mazi glanced at it, and replied with certainty.

"What's the matter with these footprints, why are they so far apart?" Dr. Wang took out his camera and took two photos, then asked suspiciously.The distance between the footprints on the ground is often short, and the furthest distance is more than three meters away. If you don't pay attention, you will miss it.

"Hehe, wild things are very clever. It is mainly afraid that the raccoon will find the rabbit's nest, so when walking in the snow, it always jumps far and jumps forward."

"Then let's follow the footprints, or do we split up?" A tourist asked with a headache looking at the white footprints all over the ground.The footprints were in three directions, and there was no way to determine where the rabbit escaped from.

"No, let me take a look." Er Mazi had resisted a rabbit gun when he was young, so he was familiar with this kind of trace.He squatted on the ground and watched for a while and said, "It should be heading in this direction. After the hare is full in the wheat field, it often jumps to other places with all its strength. There are also people who walk while eating, but they will follow in the end." Go back to the rabbit nest to ambush.

They are very vigilant and never dare to go where they don't have their own footprints, which is also the trick of catching rabbits.So if you want to put down the rabbit set, you just need to put it down along the footprints.But don't step on the rabbit's footprints, this thing is very careful. "

The rabbit cover in Er Mazi's mouth is a ring made of iron wire, generally about ten centimeters in diameter.When lowering the set, the ring should be vertical on the ground, about 10 centimeters higher, and the other end should be tightly wedged into the ground with a wooden stick.

(End of this chapter)