Chapter 15 Competition

This thickness of snow is just right for hunting, and after a long night of snow, there are fewer places to eat on the ground. Pen Γ— fun Γ— Pavilion www. biquge。 infoAt this time, there will be a lot more pheasants and hares in the depths of the woods behind Zhang Tao's house. Because the trees in this forest are taller, there will be less snow under the forest, and the temperature here will be warmer, and the pheasants and hares will come out to forage if they don't have enough food, and sometimes they can run into muntjac and wild boars.

The hare is actually nocturnal and rarely appears during the day, but it will come out during the day if it does not eat enough food at night. And if it is active at night, it will also leave some traces in the snow, and then follow the traces to find the rabbit nest, and then use smoke or something to scare the rabbit out of the nest and catch it.

The hare has short front legs and long hind legs, and it is difficult to stabilize the center of gravity when running down the hill, especially when it is snowing. And Zhang Tao and their side is a lot of hills, everywhere, they used to follow the adults to catch rabbits, the adults chased with sticks, the children shouted on the side, and the hares were scared all over the hillside, and when they were tired of running, it was easy to be caught or knocked down, but the harvest was not much, sometimes those hares went directly to the bushes covered by the snow and it was difficult to catch up.

Pheasants come out during the day, and usually come out in flocks, running around in the snow to eat, and sometimes clucking. And because of the yellow feathers, it is easier to recognize in the snow. Muntjac and wild boars are relatively rare, and a few muntjac and wild boars can occasionally be seen at this time. In a few years, there will be no wild boars at all, until Zhang Tao is reborn, this animal will become a herd of trouble, there are not many people in the countryside at that time, many lands and mountains are barren there, no one to take care of them, so also let all kinds of animals quickly breed. However, the muntjac runs too fast, and it is very timid and vigilant, it is generally difficult to hit, and it is good to be able to see it from a distance.

In fact, at this time, you can occasionally see tigers, the tigers here in southern Hunan belong to the South China tiger species, Zhang Tao remembers that when he was in preschool, he saw someone beat a tiger, and then carried it to sell tiger meat and tiger bones in all the surrounding villages. At that time, my memory was relatively hazy, and I didn't know if the tiger was really caught by the people around their village or caught it from somewhere else and sold it.

This should be the first time Zhang Tao saw a tiger, and the next time he saw a tiger was at the zoo. However, when Zhang Tao was reborn, some people in their hometown said that they had seen wild tigers in the mountains around them, but as for whether it was true, Zhang Tao was not sure. However, judging from the herds of wild boars around it, it seems that it is not surprising that there are wild tigers again, after all, the surrounding mountains have not been taken care of for many years, and no one has picked the camellia on the mountain.

Zhang Tao rushed into the woods after going up the mountain with a bow on his back, and didn't go far before he saw Wang Zhongqiu holding an air gun in the forest and advancing softly, next to him in addition to Wang Xiaofan and his father. Obviously, Wang Zhongqiu's father was not very worried about his son going into the forest to hunt, because he had nothing to do during the winter vacation, so he followed his son up the mountain together.

Compared with the three people here, Zhang Tao's strength is thin, only Zhang Tao is alone, and he also has a soil dog. Seeing Zhang Tao's fully armed appearance, Wang Zhongqiu's father was a little surprised, feeling that this child's courage was so fat, that he dared to run to the back mountain without an adult by himself.

Especially seeing the bow on Zhang Tao's back made him even more surprised. Zhang Tao's father works outside, and his grandfather can't help children do this, so this bow and arrow is obviously not made by Zhang Tao's family. If this bow is made by Zhang Tao, then this kid is not simple, and adults with this craft are hot when they see it. Although he was still not sure how powerful the bow and arrow on Zhang Tao's back were, the workmanship did not look simple, not quite like something that an ordinary child could make.

And Wang Zhongqiu obviously couldn't see the power of this bow, he felt that although the bow in Zhang Tao's hand looked very beautiful, but how could that rustic thing be compared with the tall air gun in his hand, this is a gun, so he looked at Zhang Tao's eyes full of mockery, and he couldn't speak sincerely: "Zhang Tao, the bow in your hand looks so powerful, otherwise let's compare together, and wait until we go home to see who can hit more prey..." ”

Before Wang Zhongqiu finished speaking, Zhang Tao suddenly stopped, then took off the bow on his back and shot an arrow into the distance, interrupting Wang Zhongqiu's words vividly. Wang Zhongqiu turned his head suspiciously and looked at the direction of Zhang Tao's arrow, the arrow shot a little fast, and the distance was a little far, so Wang Zhongqiu saw that there seemed to be nothing there, only the black dog of Zhang Tao's house quickly ran forward.

It's kind of like it! Wang Zhongqiu glanced at the bow in Zhang Tao's hand with disdain, and thought secretly. Just as he was about to laugh at Zhang Tao again, the panther over there had already run back with a brown pheasant in his mouth, and the arrow that Zhang Tao had just shot was piercing the pheasant's head.

β€œγ€‚γ€‚γ€‚γ€‚γ€‚β€ Wang Zhongqiu didn't know how to express his feelings, he walked cautiously for a long time, and now he didn't even hit a sparrow, it seemed that the bullet was either not far enough or missed, he knew that he had just played with a gun, and it was normal for the accuracy to be a little worse.

But Zhang Tao took a homemade bow and arrow and actually grabbed a prey in front of him - it was still a pheasant of two or three catties, which made Wang Zhongqiu's heart become unconvinced. Obviously, he thinks that Zhang Tao can shoot a pheasant is completely unlucky, as for how far Zhang Tao's arrow shot at the pheasant just now, he has ignored it, "Let's go separately, let's go this way, you go that side, and when we come back, we will see who has more prey." ”

Zhang Tao smiled, didn't have the same knowledge as Wang Zhongqiu, hung the pheasant on his waist, and then walked over to the other side with the black panther. Wang Fengsheng was particularly surprised when he looked at Zhang Tao's reaction, he could estimate how far Zhang Tao's arrow shot just now, he didn't expect that a bow and arrow made by a child could shoot so far! wanted to say something to Zhang Tao, but found that Zhang Tao had already left.

There are not many people who go up to the mountains to hunt on Zhang Tao's side, only a few people will have such things as birds in their homes, but the lethality of that thing is not strong, and it is almost the same as beating rabbits or something, but often because there is too much iron sand, the rabbits are beaten into a sieve. And that thing is very loud, and it is very troublesome, the last time the gunpowder could only be fired once, and it was easy to go off, so not many people used it.

If you encounter a wild boar or something, it is very dangerous, so the average hunter will turn around and walk away when he encounters a wild boar alone, especially a large wild boar. If you want to go up the mountain to fight wild boars, you basically have to go up dozens of people together, and the bullets of the bird guns will be replaced with sharpened steel bars, which are much more lethal than iron sand, and the aiming rate is also high. Therefore, the hunters here rarely use bird guns to hunt, and generally have more covers.

Zhang Tao is also very careful when walking in the mountains and forests, especially when it snows, for fear that he will accidentally step on someone else's cover. If it's a rabbit or a bird, it's fine, but if you run into a wild boar or other big animal, it's normal to scrap your feet. The black panther walking in front was also called by Zhang Tao's side, and he didn't dare to let it run too far.

Maybe because this mountain forest is not far from the nearby village, so they did not encounter any traps in this vicinity, but also hunted three pheasants and two hares, this harvest is already very rich for Zhang Tao, he is not too greedy, he hunted the last pheasant he saw and then turned around and walked home, at this time he found that he unconsciously turned over a few hills, and walked a little far.

On the way back, Zhang Tao didn't have to continue hunting, so he chose a road that was often walked back. This road is much safer than the one he took before, and he doesn't have to worry about stepping on a clip or something. At this moment, the panther beside him suddenly stopped, and looked warily at the side of the roadβ€”there was some dry soil with potatoes and winter wheat or something.

As soon as Zhang Tao saw the panther like this, he immediately took off the bow on his back, took two arrows and put them in his hand, and then looked in the direction that the panther was staring at - there was nothing but dry land. But there was a humming sound from the bushes near the dry land, and the sound of the branches shaking, as if something big was there.

After calculating the distance between himself and the big guy, Zhang Tao stopped. The voice sounded a bit like the sound of a domestic pig, Zhang Tao immediately knew that he should have encountered a wild boar when he saw this situation, otherwise the domestic pig in the middle of the mountain? I just don't know how big this boar is, if it's big, he can only turn away, and he won't give his life for a wild boar.

But Wang Zhongqiu on the other side obviously didn't think much, he actually saw it when Zhang Tao appeared, but in order not to alarm his prey, he chose to be silent, and aimed at the place where the leaves were shaking with his air gun - this must be a big prey, as long as this one can definitely beat all the prey on Zhang Tao's body.

Wang Zhongqiu didn't have much harvest today, so he hit a few small birds, and a pheasant was hit but ran away because of insufficient lethality, and he couldn't chase it, making him vomit blood angrily, so Wang Zhongqiu was very dissatisfied with his harvest. Especially when he saw a few pheasants and hares on Zhang Tao's body, he was even more unconvinced.