Chapter 14: Non-stop
The burden of life was on Guo Qu, so that he had to go up the mountain and had to put his mind on the wild thing.
Those who have been to the three southwestern provinces, no, it should be said that those who have been in the south know that at a glance, everywhere you look, there are basically mountains.
There are many mountains, which means that there are many wild animals, and at the same time, the area is very wide, and the area for wild animals to move is too large.
So, basically, Guo Qu knows that there are many wild things in the mountains, but it is difficult to see them every time he enters the mountains.
Since then, he has rarely been able to catch wild things, and sometimes he has to wonder if it is luck that he has been able to catch so many wild things since he was reborn.
Luck indeed!
Because since he sold the wild boar, he hadn't caught a wild thing for a long time.
For more than a month, he went into the mountains every day, often walking from one mountain to another, and only saw one or two wild boar tracks.
But every time it was in vain, the place where he placed the clip was changed more than ten times, but it was still in vain.
On this day, after a month of observation, he found that there was definitely a water source that he didn't know about in this group of mountains and forests, because the places where he placed the clips were all on the edge of the water source, but even if he caught wild things a few times, they were just rabbits, hedgehogs and other small animals.
It's okay for this kind of small animal to fight tooth sacrifices, but if you want to make money, it's impossible.
In order to obtain accurate information, Guo chose to venture into the bushes and ravines where there was no way to find the traces of wild boars.
I didn't have this kind of plan before, it was because there were too many poisonous snakes in the bushes, and the camouflage was very good, so I couldn't say that I was bitten only to find out that it was a snake bite, and then I died.
And to tell the truth, there are really many poisonous snakes in the mountains, sometimes when you walk, you hear the "trembling" sound when the grass and trees shake, and you stand still in a hurry, and after you calm down, you pick up a stone from the ground, and immediately throw it to the place where the sound is made, and then you see the venomous snake with spots all over your body, the head of the triangular snake is high, and the snake hyacinth swallows and spits ......
In order to reduce the probability of being bitten by poisonous snakes, he went to the street to buy a pair of long-barreled rubber shoes, which are worn by ordinary people when they go to farming.
Ordinary poisonous snakes do not enter the rubber shoes, so the probability of being bitten by a snake is much smaller.
The reason why he took the risk of using wild animals as his source of income, that is, taking wild animals as a profession, was because there was really no way.
At the age of ten, he has no money at all, plus he is in the countryside, and the road is just like this, in order to eat white rice for the girl, so as to grow up healthily, he has to pin his life to the belt of his trousers.
Even if you want to change to a safe and profitable career, you need to have start-up capital.
Where does the money come from?
It was he who bought it for his own safety.
In his right hand, he holds a two-meter-long stick, and in his left hand he holds a firewood knife. The stick is used to explore the way, and as for the role of the firewood knife, one is to open the way, and the other is to defend oneself.
When walking in the bushes, you must be careful, because not only do you have to guard against poisonous snakes, but you also have to keep an eye out for honeycombs on the branches of the trees, and if there is, you must avoid them, otherwise you are in danger of death.
A ravine, a ravine to find a water source, by the way with a wood knife to cut a road, this is what he has been doing for the past few days.
In order to find the water source of the wild boars, he handed the girl to the old man to take with him, and worked alone in the ravine for several days, and then five days later, in a ravine, he finally found the water source hidden by the bushes.
At the same time, there were many traces of wild boar feet of different old and new at the water source, and after carefully checking it to make sure that the wild boars would come here every day to drink, he finally showed a smile.
He knew that there was going to be a harvest again.
On the way back, in order to make it easier to come back next time, he repaired the road in the bushes again and cut down many small trees.
After returning home for breakfast, this time he brought the old man with him, because he couldn't put the iron clip alone, and his strength was insufficient.
The girl naturally has to bring it, otherwise she will cry 100%, speaking of her sister, Guo Qu has a headache, because she is too dependent on him and grandpa, and she usually doesn't play with her peers in the village.
At home, as long as her grandfather and brother are at home, she is very relieved.
Then, either take a pencil of five or six centimeters, and someone else uses a pencil that is not used, and write and draw on the newspaper that sticks on the wall at home.
Or, just sit on his small wooden bench and quietly watch his brother and grandfather work.
Or just sit on the stone steps, staring at the ants on the ground and watching the ants move.
Anyway, the girl usually seems too well-behaved, so well-behaved that Guo is worried and afraid, afraid that she will not have a happy childhood.
The three of them climbed over the ridge, and then Guo went to wait at the bottom of the cliff with the girl, while the old man carried the clip on his back and went downhill along the path cut by Guo with a wood knife, and after reaching the ravine, he spent a lot of time setting up the iron clip, and then tied the chain to the surrounding trees.
The girl can't be taken to the ravine, because the wool road cut by Guo is too difficult to walk, and if she goes down with the girl on her back, she is easy to be scratched by branches or thorns.
After Grandpa came up, he handed the girl to Grandpa, and then he went down to look at it, and by the way, he threw twenty or thirty sweet potatoes in the surrounding fields, and then dug the soil by hand to bury the sweet potatoes, and then removed the footprints left by people, and then relieved himself.
This should be his last vote, because if he catches a wild boar this time, then the wild boar will definitely be frightened, and then it will run deep into the mountains, away from the place where there are human footprints.
If you want to pick up wild boars again in the future, you have to wait for about half a year, and when the snow covers the mountains and the wild animals have no food in the forest, then they will venture down the mountain to harm the crops.
The south is different from the north, and many crops in the south, such as potatoes, are generally planted before the Chinese New Year.
In the eyes of wild animals that lack food in winter, it is food for survival, coupled with the freezing rain and snow in winter, the traces of wild animals are easily exposed, so winter is the best season for hunting.
But now it is still far from winter, so Guo Qu can only rely on his daily trek through mountains and rivers to find traces of wild animals' activities.
And the kind of place that is really far away from human habitation, he doesn't dare to go in, this is the nineties, but there are pythons and the like in the south, if you encounter a python, then ......!
The old man put the clamp away, and after Guo went to pick up the girl, he went to the ridge with his back pocket.
He wanted to get a pocket of firewood to go back, Guo went to his hometown here, even in the twenty-first and twenty years, he was still burning firewood, so since he came up, it was necessary to carry a pocket of firewood back.
Guo Qu took the girl to take a nap under the cliff, which had long been covered with hay, and it was originally a place for the busy farmers in the mountains to take a nap.
Of course, the main purpose is to see the situation in the ravine every half an hour, and the wild boars will definitely come out to find water to drink in this hot summer.