Chapter 7 Busy in vain
Let's say that Du Yunyang went up the mountain easily, and when he saw the mountain snow forest covered by snow for the first time, he was already shocked. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
I saw a snow-covered mountain forest like a white garden, the lovely low bushes with snowballs, and the tall trees with snow-pressed branches, all of which showed the uniqueness of a snow-covered garden.
This kind of scenery will not be seen in later generations unless you run into the snow forest of the Great Khing'an Mountains in winter. It's just that the mountains here are also continuous, but they are endless. The only mountain range in Zhongzhou is this one that crosses Zhongzhou from west to east and connects to Yanhui Ridge in Bazhou, and here is a vein of Yanhui Mountain, called Xiaoyu Mountain. As its name suggests, in the southwest of Xiaoyu Mountain, there is also a big jade mountain, but it is already the territory of Siyu County.
Although this small jade mountain has a small character in its name, it is actually not small, and there are dense mountains and forests, mountain streams trickling, which is better than the big jade mountain with strange rocks and few plants.
Du Yunyang also mustered up a lot of courage before deciding to come up the mountain, although she obviously knew that she was just trying her luck.
However, the relatively large animals in the mountains and forests, such as roe deer, elk, wild boars and the like, Du Yunyang did not dare to think about it. She can only go to find some small animals, or unkindly pick up the slack in other people's traps.
The villagers of Xujia Village still make a living from farming, occasionally go up to the mountains to hunt, and also choose their leisure time after the autumn harvest, go up the mountain to set up a few traps, and occasionally come to see. Because they are not professional hunters, and there are not many wild animals in the mountains here, they are already very lucky to be able to hunt a roe deer boar once in a while.
Therefore, most of the villagers do not rely on hunting to earn extra money in the winter when they are free, but choose to go to the town to find some work and odd jobs, and the money will come faster.
And the deeper you go into the mountains, the more dangerous animals will be, and even tigers, leopards, and bears will occasionally be ferocious. Besides, now the heavy snow is closing the mountain, not to mention that it is too difficult to enter the mountain, even if you go in, you will be disoriented and unable to get out.
Therefore, Du Yunyang didn't plan to go in at all, but only planned to go around in the small forest before entering the mountain pass and try his luck.
It is said that in winter, when the snow does not fall much, small animals such as pheasants and hares in the mountains and forests generally do not come out of the nest, because there are still occasional green weeds, grass seeds that have fallen to the ground, and some leaves that have not fallen from low bushes...... These are perfectly enough to keep them fed.
And in that slightly warmer weather, you can also drag the cubs to the nearby fields on the slope of Chaoyang, and pick up some maize, beans and millet and other broken grains left in the ground in autumn, or crops sprouting in the ground, to improve the diet.
It's just that when the snow is heavy, it's miserable, after a heavy snowfall, the mountains and forests are covered with thick silver and white, and those cats can't find food for the small animals in the mountains and forests, so they can only starve. It's just that one day is hungry, two days are hungry, and three days are so hungry that I shake. So no more than four days after heavy snowfall, the small animals in the mountains will be so hungry that they will run out in search of food.
Du Yunyang has no practical experience, all she knows is what she has heard, as for the pheasant she heard about will become very stupid in the winter, and when he sees people, he just stupidly drills into the snowdrift, but his head is in and his body is still outside, so it is easy to catch.
In fact, Du Yunyang didn't believe these things, but he still opened his eyes and looked hard, and sure enough, in the white and flawless snow, he found a trace of clues. Sure enough, there is a row of thin paw prints on it, which looks like a pheasant, and it seems that there are more than one or two. Du Yunyang rarely wants to be naughty, but also to cheer herself up, after all, in this white and untraced mountains and forests, she is still a little scared as a little girl. So at this time, the old qualified soul in the body, which is already thirty years old, seems to have lived in vain.
Du Yunyang cheered himself up, followed this row of small footprints, began to go into the forest, according to the direction of the footprints, the pheasant family was preparing to come out to forage, it is estimated that the snow outside the forest is too thick, and the food child has no choice but to return to the forest. Du Yunyang also thought that if she followed the footprints, maybe she would be able to find their nest and then take the pheasant family to the nest.
Du Yunyang looked for the direction of the footprints and walked into the forest, although the light was a little dim inside, but she was not afraid that she would get lost, after all, now that the snow has stopped, and no one else is coming, then the footprints when she came are the best navigation.
It's just that the snow in the forest is even worse, and it was quite difficult for Du Yunyang to walk, but fortunately, God is kind, and her efforts are not in vain. Upon reaching a bush, the footprints stopped, apparently they had entered the bush. She could still seem to hear a faint cry, right in the bushes.
"Is this their nest?" Du Yunyang hurriedly suppressed his little excitement, put his steps more gently, quietly took two steps forward, and looked inside through the gap in the middle of the bushes.
I saw that this bush only looked densely branched on the outside, and there were many open spaces inside, and there was indeed a small flock of pheasants inside, some large and some small, and it seemed that there were seven or eight of them.
Du Yunyang was a little flustered now, she had nothing in her hand except a small pout, so many pheasants, did she want to catch them with her bare hands? She really didn't believe that those pheasants would stupidly burrow into the snowdrift and wait for her to catch them.
It's just that there is no other way now, Du Yunyang decided to sneak through the gap in the bushes, and then unexpectedly stepped forward to pounce, and grabbed a few of them, anyway, these pheasants seem to be a little cold, and they are close together, she should be able to catch one or two.
Thinking like this, she also took action, so despite the fact that there were still some thorns in the bushes, she quietly opened the space in the gap, and got into it, and her face and hands were accidentally scratched, but she didn't feel pain because she was numb from freezing for a long time.
Du Yunyang's movement in the past was very small, and sure enough, it did not attract the attention of the pheasants, and when she saw that she had not been found and did not alarm them, she was happy in her heart, and the cat bent over and walked over. When they were about to get to the front, the whole person pounced on the pheasants, and even pressed one under him, and before the pheasants were alarmed and ran away, he caught one in his hand.
"Haha......" Du Yunyang laughed twice, but found that his head was a little dazed, maybe it was all like a dream, maybe it was because he was too excited.
People are often greedy, Du Yunyang caught two pheasants, she was very excited, but when she saw that there was a smaller pheasant that seemed to be scared stupid, standing not far from her, motionless. So his heart moved, and he grabbed the pheasant that he had caught with his bare hands with one hand, and reached under him with the other hand and caught the pheasant that was being crushed. Then he quietly got up and took a step forward, wanting to pounce again according to the gourd and catch the little silly pheasant.
It backfired, and who would have thought that there was a small landslide in front of it, and because it was all snow-white, it was impossible to see that it was concave. So unfortunately, Du Yunyang slid down the slope with a pounce, and in order to stop herself quickly and not get hurt on the way down, she was a little lax and caused the two pheasants in her hand to escape.
Then, when she had managed to control her body and stopped, she was already at the bottom of the long slope, and when she looked up again, she saw that the little silly pheasant from before was looking down at her, and it was the two pheasants that had escaped beside her......
"......" Du Yunyang wanted to cry for a while, who said that the pheasant on a snowy day was stupid, it was obviously very smart, and he knew that he had designed her to save his companions, right?
Anyway, it doesn't matter whether it's such an explanation or not, the important thing is that she has obviously succeeded, but she has wasted her efforts and worked in vain for half a day...... Ahh......hh