The alpine forest farm is very rich in resources, not only the bamboo forest and fir forest of more than 100,000 acres, but also the rich wild animal and plant resources in the forest farm. These resources not only feed the more than 100 employees of the forest farm, but also support the hundreds of workers who have retired one after another over the years, and also hand over a lot of extra profits to the Forestry Bureau every year.

As the biggest benefit of forest farm workers, they can catch some game from time to time. Chinese have a tradition of eating and using wild animal products, and for a long time after the founding of the People's Republic of China, supply and marketing cooperatives, local product companies and other systems were the main force in purchasing crude wild animal products from farmers and mountain people.

For example, the wild South China tiger, which has disappeared in later generations, once stretched from the border of Zhejiang and Fujian in the east, to the border of Qingchuan in the west, to the Qinling Mountains and the Yellow River in the north, and to the vast territory of the south of Guangdong and Guangxi. The South China tiger is an endemic tiger subspecies in China, and it is also the most abundant habitat type among the eight tiger subspecies.

In 1972, in a commune forest farm under the Forestry Bureau of Shimen County, Hunan Province, the local people found that there were tigers in the stone cave of the forest farm nursery, so several people held torches to guard the entrance of the cave, and several people ventured into the hole and captured two tiger cubs alive. After the cub was taken away, the tigress who returned to the cave kept roaring near the nursery, and people were scared, and the nursery of more than a dozen acres closest to the tigress was abandoned.

The supply and marketing cooperatives in Shimen bought the two tiger cubs for 20 yuan, and in the era of the planned economy to supply food on the basis of tickets, they fed the tiger cubs eggs every day, or found a way to feed some meat. But the supply and marketing cooperatives soon couldn't afford to provide for it, so they sold the tiger cubs to the zoo.

In the history of Hekang County, there were also traces of tigers.

When Li Liang was a child, he once heard his grandmother say that when he was a child, in the village where his grandmother's house was located, there was a tiger in the village in the middle of the night.

The roar of the tiger frightened the people in the village to close their doors and not dare to come out in the middle of the night. When the next day, when people went out to check with trepidation, carrying shovels and hoes, they found that a half-sized calf tied to the cowshed of a family in the village had been bitten to death by a tiger.

Later, as people's range of activities grew, tigers gradually disappeared from people's sight. In Li Liang's impression, the closest tiger incident to him was a tiger painting taken by a farmer in Shaanxi in 07. At that time, the incident caused a lot of uproar, and it also set off people's attention to the South China tiger across the country.

However, despite the increasing technology and the increasing number of infrared cameras placed in the wild, there was no trace of the South China tiger in the wild nationwide for more than 20 years from the mid-90s.

When people found that all kinds of wild animals were gradually decreasing or even disappearing, the state enacted the Wildlife Protection Law, which came into force on March 1, 1989.

It's only the early 80s, Lei Lei and they don't have the awareness of wildlife protection, Li Liang is conscious, but not strong, he also happily follows Lei Lei and Zhang Meng behind, and goes to the forest to see the clips.

Lei Lei took everyone out of the house and walked out along the mountain road on the west side of the forest farm compound. This mountain road is one of the roads where they usually go to work, and it can pass through ordinary agricultural vehicles.

When we were down the mountain, there was a heat wave in the air, and everyone walked on this halfway up the mountain, and with the gusting mountain wind, they only felt extremely cool.

"Don't look at us working in the mountains remotely and hard, in fact, it's very interesting to work in the mountains.

Look, this is a golden cherry seed, it's almost ripe, don't look at it with a lot of thorns. When it's ripe, you can eat it, it's sweet. It can also be used to make wine, which is especially good for people's health.

There are also many other fruits on the mountain, and there are raspberries to eat in spring and summer, and there are bamboo shoots to dig up. You can also pick up a variety of bird eggs and wild eggs!

The most interesting thing is that sometimes in the mountain stream, we can catch a lot of small mountain shrimp. The shrimp are small and transparent. You don't need to pinch your head and tail, just put it in your mouth and chew it, it's sweet!"

When Lei Lei said this, he was interrupted by Zhang Junjie: "Brother Lei, didn't you say that there are wild boars and muntjacs? Can you catch them later? The wild boar you sent to my house last time was delicious!"

Lei Lei once sent a few pieces of wild boar meat and rabbit to Zhang Meng and Li Liang's family, and the taste made Zhang Junjie eat it and never forget it!

"It's a matter of luck, there are a lot of wild boars and muntjacs, but whether you can catch them depends on luck. And if you really run into it, it's also very dangerous?" Lei Lei led everyone from the mountain road more than four meters wide into the mountain path, "You guys follow my footsteps now, be careful not to go into the thorn shed next to you, there are many thorns in it, and there may be clips from others." ”

When I entered the forest path, the road became much more difficult, the sun suddenly dimmed a lot, and the air became more and more shaded. The path was full of small shrub branches that grew from the side of the road, and many of them had barbs on them! Lei Lei walked in the front, and several other people cautiously followed behind Lei Lei.

Walking deep in the woods, the environment becomes more and more secluded. In addition to the sound of the teenagers, only the birdsong in the mountains and forests accompanied them.

"Brother Lei, is it almost there?" Zhang Junjie couldn't help but feel a little scared!

"It's coming!"

Several people walked for about ten more minutes, and when they came to a gentle slope down, Lei Lei stopped.

"You stand still and don't move, there's a clip in front, I'll take a look!" Lei Lei said.

Then he stooped down and slipped through a hole in a thorn bush beside the path.

Li Haohao looked at Lei Lei's movements with surprise and did not make a sound. The shrubs are overgrown, and Lei Lei's figure is not clear in the woods!

After a while, Lei Lei came back with a bloody broken chicken paw in his hand, and said stupidly: "I caught a pheasant, but unfortunately it was eaten by something, and only one chicken paw was left!"

"Brother Lei, show me!" Wang Chao curiously asked for the bloody chicken paw from Lei Lei's hand.

This claw is slightly smaller than the claws of a domestic chicken, but the tip of the claw is sharper!

"Brother Lei, how come there are any animals that eat chickens?" asked Zhang Junjie curiously.

"There are so many animals that eat chickens. Weasels, civets, and badgers all like to eat chickens, and sometimes wild boars can't find something to eat, and they will eat it!" Lei Lei said, "Let's go to other places to have a look! I have more than ten clamps, and it is estimated that there will be dramas in other places!"

Originally, seeing that Lei Lei's first clip didn't catch anything, everyone was a little frustrated, and when they heard Lei Lei say that there were more than ten clips, everyone cheered up again!