My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 334 Night Hunt

"what happened?"

   "Why are there only a few chicken feet left on this set?"

   Liang Yuemin and his son were using flashlights. When they saw the situation on the rope, they were dumbfounded.

  Chen Ling squatted down and twisted the noose to look at the broken chicken feet above, "Something's wrong."

   "Although it was true that when the pheasant was tethered before, the pheasant struggled violently and ran away, leaving only chicken feet on the tether.

   But that was a long time, so I didn't check the condition of the case.

   It has to be a day apart, but it’s not long before this set is on.

   The pheasant's resistance ability in winter is also weak, and it is unlikely that the few in the set will break free. "

   This situation makes Chen Ling a little puzzled.

   "This... Listen to what Fugui said. Usually, the pheasant is caught in the rope, and there are cases where the rope is freed from the rope, leaving only the chicken feet?"

   Qin Rong asked first.

   "That's for sure. The pheasant is not a dead thing. It will definitely struggle when it is trapped. If it struggles too hard, it will tear the foot pole off."

Chen Ling's words made Liang Yuemin and his son a little puzzled. They picked up the chicken feet on the cover with a flashlight and looked at them for a while: "I really can't imagine that these chicken feet grow on chickens, so how can they be torn off? So not solid?"

   "Well, the pheasant's feet are relatively thin and brittle, and the rope hoops are tight. After struggling for a long time, they will often break the chicken feet and run away..."

  Chen Ling said to Qin Rongxian: "Uncle Qin, didn't I tell you when I taught you how to make a cover? After this thing is laid out in one place, it needs to be checked regularly.

  伱If you go to check from time to time, there may be accidents of one kind or another. "

   This kind of ground cover and hanging foot cover will not only cover the feet of the prey.

   Limbs, wings, all possible.

   Once trapped, they can be painful for hours.

   Regular inspection is a must.

  Otherwise, it will not only prolong the suffering of the prey, but also increase the possibility of being eaten by other carnivores.

   There are also many times when the small prey will bite off the wings or legs according to the instinct in the bones after a long period of painful struggle.

   Or a self-mutilation method like a pheasant, to tear off the trapped chicken feet and escape.

   "It turned out to be so, so now the situation is..."

   "It is estimated that something was torn off the chicken's feet and carried away."

  Chen Ling lit a flashlight around and saw no special traces in the snow.

   The snow is too small, and the snow in the wheat field is too thin.

   So he turned around and whistled at the farm, calling the two dogs over.

   Heiwa Xiaojin moved when she heard the sound.

   Unexpectedly, a group of puppies also wagged their tails, you squeezed me and I squeezed you, and followed them with two big dogs bouncing around.

   The day before yesterday, I took them out for a lap, but I became more courageous. I ran out when I got the chance, not afraid of the cold outside.

   "Come on, you two, look at what this thing is doing, how dare you **** something from our noses."

  Chen Ling pointed a flashlight at the noose to let them sniff.

   In fact, Xiaojin's nose didn't need to smell the smell left on the rope cover at all. He raised his nose high, sniffed the smell in the wind, and got a general idea.

   rushed to Chen Ling and wagged his tail, then turned around and ran to the southwest of the wheat field.

  Heiwa also led a group of small furballs to trot to follow.

  The terrain gradually rises in that direction, and it is the position of the grassy **** in the field.

  There are two large steep slopes outside Chenwangzhuang Village, this is one of them.

  In the low and gentle part of the soil slope, crops are also planted.

  The higher places are full of weeds, and the village often grazes sheep on the slopes.

   The place where the big earth **** and Chen Ling's wheat field meet is a crooked earth ditch, roughly one meter deep and half a meter wide. There is also running water in summer, but the water is very shallow.

  Chen Ling and the others followed the dog to the edge of the ditch. They saw the dog barking around a dark cave in the tall wormwood bushes. There were many messy feathers at the bottom of the ditch, and a bitten head of a pheasant.

  Chen Ling immediately understood everything.

   "Okay, it turns out that this big thief cat is doing the trick."

   "What's in this hole, rich and noble?"

   "A raccoon, who took these puppies out to play the day before yesterday, was scratched by it. I ignored it at the time, but I didn't expect it to steal the prey from our cover..."

  There have always been a lot of raccoons near the farm.

   Before Chen Ling's family built their farm here, the large area connected to the steep **** was a cemetery.

  The cemetery is blocked by steep slopes, next to Beishan, and it is inaccessible and is a paradise for raccoons.

  The cemetery is full of burrows made by raccoons.

   Every night, the raccoon in the cemetery came out to hunt for food, swept it with a flashlight, and there were green eyes everywhere in the lush grass, which was very scary.

   However, although there are many raccoons here, the farm has always been guarded by dogs, and they will not harm chickens or ducks, but just find some birds, frogs and fish in the fruit forest to eat.

   So don't care about them.

   Hearing what Chen Ling said, Liang Yuemin and his son went down into the ditch and flashed their flashlights inside.

  Following the light of the flashlight, I saw that in this cave, there were three pheasants with missing chicken feet, one male, two females, and one that was more than half eaten.

The    cave was blocked by these pheasants, and it was not clear whether the raccoon was in the cave.

  Liang Yuemin said angrily: "This raccoon is really greedy. We got four of them, and they were all stolen and dragged into the hole, and there is not one left."

   Qin Rong said first: "It must be snowing and it is hard to find food, and it is also starving."

  Chen Ling hummed: "I'm starving, but if you dare to grab our dinner, you must teach him a lesson."

   As he said that, he put his hand into the hole and pulled out the outermost pheasant first.

   was about to dig out the second one.

   Heiwa Xiaojin suddenly pricked up his ears, and rushed up the **** with a loud shout.

  The moment the two dogs rushed out, they heard a shrill cat meowing from the slope, startling the three of them, and hurriedly shook their flashlights to look over.

  In the dark of night, the dead grass on the **** was slightly snow-colored, and a big, straw-yellow cat swished, tilted its tail, jumped left and right, and disappeared after a few moments.

  The naked eye of ordinary people can't catch it at all.

However, Chen Ling could see clearly that this raccoon fled to the **** at lightning speed while Heiwa Xiaojin was still some distance away. Using the trees on the slope, he slyly threw the two dogs off. .

   "So the big thief cat is not in the nest..."

  Chen Ling said, his eyes narrowed slightly, he saw Heiwa and Xiaojin came back from the **** respectively.

   "Good guy, I said, there is a nest of raccoons living in this cave."

  The two dogs failed to catch the sly raccoon who had fled to the tree, but they caught the other two on the slope.

   This should be out foraging together.

Soon, the two dogs returned with a raccoon in their mouths, and a group of small fat dogs surrounded them, raised their heads, and made bursts of crisp barking, as if they could not wait to enjoy their prey, regardless of whether the prey could eat.

   Qin Rongxian said: "Isn't there some pheasants in the cave? It's been enough for them to eat for many days. Why is this raccoon still running out and not watching the food in the cave?"

  Chen Ling shook his head: "I don't know, maybe it's because I'm afraid that I can't find food after eating and I'm hungry, so I want to go out and find some more?"

Then he picked up the two raccoons put down by the two dogs, grabbed their legs and tails and looked over and over. They were two male cats, and they were much smaller than the big fat cat. They should be the little raccoons who just grew up this year. .

  After they were caught by the two dogs, blood oozing from their necks, gasping for breath, and they were no longer alive.

   But the pattern of the leopard on his body is very obvious, more like a leopard cat than the usual grass-yellow raccoon.

  Chen Ling's heart moved when he saw this, he opened his mouth and said nothing.

   Throw it to two dogs and let them take it back to the farm.

  The two dogs understand what he means and will save the lives of these two cat boys.

   Then he himself and Liang Yuemin and his son took out the pheasant from the mountain raccoon den.

   The leftover half was not spared.

   took it out and threw it to the puppies so that they could share it.

  It was dark, but it was not yet seven o'clock, so everyone had an early dinner.

  Chen Ling looked for an opportunity to take two special raccoons into the cave and saved them.

  Want to see if it can be used as a pet cat seed in the future.

   After all, these two guys are pretty good-looking.

After   , he called to Liang Yuemin's family, and Wang Susu followed with the child.

   A group of people dangled in the wheat field with large lanterns in the dark.

  This large portable lamp was bought by Chen Ling when she got married. The light beam is much larger than that of ordinary flashlights, and the light is bright and far away.

   "Uncle, can I go and see that Shanlizi Cave?"

   After walking with the adults for a while, the little fat man suddenly said.

   "What's there to see in Shanlizi Cave? Uncle taking you out to hunt is no more interesting than Shanlizi Cave. There's nothing in that cave."

  Chen Ling said that he took them out for hunting, and it was fun, but in fact he took the dog out to pick up the leaks.

  After the snow, usually on the second night, all kinds of small beasts will come out looking for food.

   Use a portable lantern to take a picture back and forth in the wheat field, and after finding the prey, let the dog chase it, and be sure of it.

  If it snows heavily, you don’t have to go out, and there are always harvests around the door.

   The closer you are to the village, the more so.

   At this time, Liang Hongyu saw through the eldest grandson's mind: "Hmph, where does he want to see Shanlizi Cave? It's obvious that he was itchy after hearing what you said about going down to the Wolf Cave, and he also wanted to see it."

   "Hey, grandma is right."

   The little fat man was wearing a thick coat, with a cotton hat and gloves, and jumped up and down: "Grandma is like a roundworm in my stomach, I can guess anything."

   "Bah, that sentence was picked up from under whose ass, is that what it said?"

   Liang Hongyu slapped him.

   Seeing this, the little thing in Wang Susu's arms also came to join in the fun, "Hmm, um~" shouted and stretched out a small slap, also wanting to pat the little fat man.

   made Wang Susu laugh angrily: "You, like your auntie, want to join in any fun."

   "Hahaha, look at what Susu said, this kid Rui Rui is smart..."

  Liang Hongyu smiled and said, "Xiao Ming, come here and take a picture of your brother."

   The little fat man hurriedly ran over, hehe, silly and waiting for Rui Rui to pat him.

   They laughed and laughed.

   At this moment, the light in Chen Ling's hand swept away, and he found a sneaky shadow wriggling in the wheat field in the distance.

After    noticed the light, the two long ears shrugged upward, and they met Chen Ling's eyes.

  What else is there to say, the two dogs jumped out when they saw this, followed by a bunch of fluffy little fat dogs.

   The rabbit was captured shortly after.

  Chen Ling didn't plan to take it back, so he distributed it to the puppies to eat on the spot.

  Everyone also loves to watch these little things eat meat. After the big dog bites off the skin, they scramble around the rabbit to tear it apart, whimpering while eating, one by one.

   The more they eat, the happier they are.

   After they finished dividing a rabbit, Chen Ling looked at their stomachs and saw that their stomachs were not bulging. It was because the rabbits were not fat, they only ate half full.

   So he waved his hand and moved on.

  In the crop field, under the sparse grass on the lower edge of the ground, there is a place where the water rushes out of the small ditch.

   is the rabbit’s favorite place to stay.

   has the same effect as the previous Shanlizi Cave.

   In such a place, slow down and observe carefully. The light of the lantern is mainly to find the two ears of the rabbit. When it is found, the rabbit jumps up. This is a process of seeing light.

   As long as it is illuminated, the rabbit cannot run away.

   just after a long circle in the wheat field.

   A group of them held the lights one after another and swayed in the wheat field looking for rabbits.

   Whenever he finds it, he yells happily and asks the dog to chase, and he runs after him.

   chase it back and feed it to the puppy.

   One by one was very interested and had a lot of fun.

  The puppies were full after dividing into two, and they also had seven or eight rabbits left.

   When Liang Yuemin's family drove away, Chen Ling gave them half.

  I peeled off two when I went back, and started to smoke them at night.

  You can eat hot smoked rabbit when you wake up tomorrow.

   (end of this chapter)