After the heavy snowfall, the sky was once again clear for a few days.

It's still cold outside, but the sunlight shining through the windows is warm.

Because of this heavy snowfall, the temperature plummeted, and the temperature during the day was around minus 256 degrees, but at night it reached minus -32 degrees Celsius.

That's really, put a piece of meat outside, and don't worry about being taken away by a dog, because it can't bite!

In such a cold temperature, some young men in the village are planning to go up the mountain tomorrow to walk the traps and traps.

Go and see if there is any prey, so that you can take it home or take it to the county town to exchange some money for the market.

The mountains here get deeper and deeper the further north you go, and the shallower you go the further south you go.

Zhou Shujie's village is at the junction of deep mountains and shallow mountains. Fifty miles in the direction of due south is the county seat of Qianshan and the road to other places. Walk north over four hills for about twenty miles and you will enter the primeval forest.

Therefore, in previous years, their village had much more prey than other villages.

But in the same way, with profit comes danger.

Today, there are still wolves in the mountains. They just come out very rarely.

Zhou Shujie has never seen a wolf, but when he was a child, he heard the eldest aunt tell them stories.

It's about the neighbor's house when the aunt was a child, and her children were taken away by wolves when they went out to the toilet at night.

It is said that there were a lot of wolves at that time, and they were not afraid of people, and they often wandered around the village, and there was no shortage of poultry raised by the team.

Only that time was it a scourge, and the eldest aunt and their neighbor's nine-year-old child were taken away, but fortunately, the adults in the family were alert.

Dozens of people in the village were called, and it took five or six miles to rescue the child, but the child did not die, but his leg was useless, because the wolf ran away with one leg in his mouth.

When he was rescued, his leg was already seriously injured with frost, and he was limping when he was healed, with many scrapes on his body and face, and he was also left with a scar and disfigurement. Thankfully, though, there is still life.

Since then, the villagers have beaten wolves away or killed them in groups when they see them.

Slowly, there were fewer and fewer wolves near the village, and they all went deep into the mountains.

In the last 20 years, they have only been seen by those who have gone into the mountains for hunting or collecting goods, and few people have been able to see them.

So now the young people in the village will go up the mountain in groups, and if there are fewer people at home, they will not let them go up the mountain, for fear that there will be danger, especially in winter, and there will be a lot of differences in summer.

Zhou Shujie didn't have much entertainment when they were young, and their favorite thing was to listen to the adults in the family and tell them stories about their childhood.

It's another day, and the sun is setting.

The night in the north is cold, but quiet.

In the jungle of the south, it is sweltering! There is a lot of noise! There is a smell of gunsmoke!

The cold of the north seems to freeze the sun, and it rises later and later every day.

When the sky outside was bright, Zhou Shujie looked at the watch next to his pillow, and the time was already seven o'clock.

Zhou Shujie put down his watch, rubbed his eyes, stretched his waist, lifted the quilt and prepared to get dressed.

When making breakfast, Zhou Shujie still thought that those who were going up the mountain didn't know whether to go or not.

Today, the three elder brothers of Aunt Guo'er's family next door, as well as the two elder brothers of the uncle's family, are all going to go for a walk on the mountain.

I don't know if they will be able to get their prey back today.

Let's not show it at home.

Here's a look at the people walking in the mountains and forests with more than a meter of deep snow.

I saw that they were all tightly covered, wearing a dogskin hat on their heads, and sheepskin jackets or military coats on their bodies.

The legs of the cotton trousers are tied tightly with hemp rope, otherwise the snow will be poured in when walking in the snow.

He also wears a cotton hand cover around his neck.

Around their waists, with a rope tied to a hatchet, this is their weapon.

Behind each family was a climbing plow, which was used to transport large game, and a shovel was tied to the top of the climbing plow.

Pheasants, hares or something can be taken by hand, if there are roe deer, wild boar, you need to use a climbing plow, from the mountain to home is not easy to carry, can only be pulled with a climbing plow.

At first, I would talk and laugh a few words, but when I walked to the mountains where there were many snow and trees, I just cared about walking with my head bored and no one spoke.

The more you go inside, the denser the trees become, and occasionally you can see the emerald green "frozen green" that grows on the white blossom tree.

I didn't pick it when I saw it, I just went to the mountains, and I wanted to see if there was any prey as soon as possible, so I kept the "frozen green" back to pick it. ("Frozen green" is a parasitic herb that grows on trees, and it has many benefits, but it is generally used to treat rheumatism or frostbite of the hands and feet in Tohoku.) )

The breath that came out of his mouth fell on his face, and after a while, you watched them change one by one, as if they had suddenly changed from teenagers to old people.

I saw that their eyebrows and exposed hair were frosted and turned white, like an old man, and even the eyelashes had to be rubbed for a while, otherwise they would freeze together, so that you couldn't open your eyes and couldn't see the road!

After a two-hour trek, the 20 or so young men came to the edge of the buried mountain.

Looking ahead, this side by side nine mountain packs. The mountain is not high, the highest is only a dozen meters, but it covers a large area, and the mountain is a gentle slope slowly upward.

This mountain is called Jiulong Mountain, after these nine mountains, it is a real primeval forest that few people have set foot in.

The young people of the village put traps and roe deer traps on wild boars, and laid them down on these nine hills.

When they reached the border, the brothers or uncles of each family went to their own mountains in groups of threes and threes.

Let's not talk about others, let's just talk about the three brothers of the Guo family and the two brothers of Zhou Shujie.

When they went up the mountain in the autumn, they went down together and went down to the largest hill of Jiulong Mountain. With the middle as the line, one goes down to the west side of the mountain, and the other goes down to the east side of the mountain.

This time, they plan to walk together. When you're done with one family, I'll go and see the other.

The first to walk was the trap and trap set by the three brothers of the Guo family, and theirs was on the east side of the mountain.

This trick and digging traps are exquisite. Basically, it is put on the slope or at the root of the mountain, and the covers are tied to the trees one by one.

There are dead traps and loopers, and the traps need to be dug in the open space one or two meters away from the lower set. In this way, even if the prey is not caught in the trap, there is a high chance that the trap that goes to the outer ring will fall.

A few people walked up, and Guo Sange said, "Let's take a look at the trap first, if you don't have to find a trap in the trap to go to the mountain." ”

Brother Guo, Second Brother Guo nodded.

Zhou Quan and Zhou Zhi brothers also said: "Okay".

According to the marks left on the tree, it didn't take much effort to find the first one.

Seeing that the snow has sunk into it a lot, it means that there is prey that has trampled the trap before it snows.

Brother Guo and Brother Tuesday excitedly criticized and ran over.