In the evening, the family set up a table next to the bamboo bed in the West House, and the family sat around the table, happily eating rare meat dishes. Gong Yue stewed a big pot of radish potatoes and rabbit meat.

When the family eats, they try to pick up the vegetables in the meat and eat them. As soon as Gong Jian saw this situation, he picked up useless chopsticks and directly divided a few pieces of rabbit meat in the basin into each person.

Then Gong Jian immediately said: "You eat now, in the future, I promise that you will eat more meat." Now you have to take care of your body, that's the important thing. ”

When a few people saw Gong Jian put the meat in their bowl just now, they were already in a hurry to give the meat to the others, and when they heard Gong Jian's words, they slowly stopped their movements, and carefully tasted the meat taste they hadn't tasted for a long time. My heart is full of happiness and hope.

While eating, Gong Yue asked Gong Jian: "Big brother, if you want to hunt, do you need to buy a bow and arrow for hunting?"

Gong Jian sighed in his heart, why did he never feel that his name was so easy to confuse?

He swallowed the food in his mouth and looked at the second brother, and then slowly answered the little sister's question: "No." The eldest brother saw in the book a way to hunt without having to buy a bow and arrow. ”

At this time, Gong Jian's younger brothers and sisters were all interested, and they all looked up at him with burning eyes, wondering what the method was. Gong Jian smiled: "After eating in a while, I'll talk to you carefully." It's not difficult, as soon as I say it, you'll know.

Hearing him say this, the speed at which the younger siblings ate was obviously much faster, and they were now very curious, what was the eldest brother's hunting method?

After a few people finished eating, Gong Jian and Gong Yu cleaned up the table and washed the dishes. In his house, there was never a rule that boys were not allowed in the kitchen. Although the brothers are not very good at cooking, they still have no problem cleaning up the dishes.

As soon as Gong Jian finished washing the dishes, he was blocked in the kitchen by Gong Yue and Gong Yu, "Big brother, can you tell us now?"

Gong Jian wiped the water from his hands and instructed his younger brothers and sisters: "Then you guys get ready, let's go to the foot of the mountain together in a while." I will teach you in the field how to set a trap and hunt. “

Gong Yue was very happy: "Okay, big brother, what do we need to prepare?" next to him, Gong Yu also looked at his eldest brother inquiringly.

Gong Jian thought for a while and looked at his younger siblings: "Second brother, you and I will cut some wooden vertebrae." Xiao Yue'er went to the firewood room and looked for some thin branches. Prepare two more torches, and you'll be ready to use them when it gets dark. ”

"Okay. Eldest brother. As soon as the two heard their eldest brother's command, they agreed in unison.

Gong Jian went to the house again and found some hemp rope. Before leaving the house, he picked up the hoe at home.

Ready, he held the torch and motioned for his siblings to follow him out. His family had been living on the edge of the village, and by this time the family had already finished dinner. Farmers usually go to bed when it gets dark, after all, lamp oil is also very expensive for them.

So the three brothers and sisters went all the way smoothly and came to the foot of the mountain in the north of the village, and they didn't meet anyone on the way at all.

Gong Yu and Gong Yue are also very obedient, and when they walk in the village, they have not spoken out loud. It wasn't until they left the village and came to the foot of the mountain that the two of them asked, "Big brother, aren't we going into the mountain at night?"

Seeing his younger siblings say this, Gong Jian hurriedly explained to them: "We don't go to the mountain, it's around here." Don't worry. "No matter how big his heart is, he doesn't dare to take his younger brothers and sisters into the mountains at night.

During the day, when Gong Jian came, he checked the terrain around here. There was a small stream nearby, he remembered. If you want to come there, you should place a trap appropriately. It's the perfect place to hunt small animals.

Soon, with the help of memory, he took his younger siblings to find the stream. He took a torch and looked around, mainly to check the nearby grass. After a while, Gong Jian found a few, the best places to set the trap.

What he intended to place was the simplest kind of rope trap. Since there is no elastic and strong material, Gong Jian plans to replace it with hemp rope. After all, at the foot of the mountain, so close to the village, it is estimated that there are only small animals such as rabbits, mountain chickens and rats.

He had just looked at the grass beside the creek. He remembered that he had read in some book before, that rabbits still liked to stand on the higher grass and look around. When you are at ease with your surroundings, you will run forward in a leaping way. So he had to put the noose in a position in front of the obstacle. In this way, it corresponds exactly to the distance it has jumped.

Gong Jian first used hemp rope and tied a rope sleeve that was getting tighter and tighter. Using some small branches, he set the rope noose in a few bushes of grass that he saw infested with wild animals. Then not far from the rope sleeve, it is fastened to a sturdy wooden stake. This way, when the rabbit just passes through the noose, it will be caught by the shrunken set.

Gong Jian explained as he set these traps. Soon, his younger siblings also understood the principle of this. After watching Gong Jian's demonstration a few times, Gong Yu immediately picked up the remaining wooden cones and hemp ropes, and began to set traps in several places pointed out by Gong Jian, like a decent big brother.

Gong Yue was busy lighting the two brothers, and the three brothers and sisters were full of energy, as if they could see that soon there would be prey hanging on these rope covers, and they would be able to return with a full load.

The three of them are all quick people to work. Soon, Gong Jian felt that where he felt that there would be prey, traps had already been set. Then he stood up, beckoned his brothers and sisters, and walked to the creek together.

The width of this stream is basically the width that a person can cross in one step. Gong Jian took the torch and beckoned his younger siblings to follow him, and walked along the stream towards the mountain.

Within a few meters, he noticed that the creek had a curved corner. Gong Jian's eyes lit up. He handed the torch to Gong Yue, and then came to the wider place, and began to swing his hoe, and dug it on the bank of the stream. Soon Gong Jian widened the water surface of the stream, and the water surface of this place widened a lot.

During this period, Gong Yu wanted to step forward and grab the hoe in Gong Jian's hand and help him dig the soil, but was stopped by Gong Jian. He asked his sister to leave a torch on the trunk of a tree next to him to illuminate him, and then he asked Gong Yue to bring another torch and go with Gong Yu to look for some larger stones.

(End of chapter)