Christmas is just around the corner, and the occasional snowflakes are already falling on this side of the Fox River, and the cowboys on the ranch are already getting ready for Christmas.

Christmas here is certainly not the same as at Stone Ranch, where most of the things you need for Christmas can be bought directly at the mall, even if it is a Christmas tree.

On the Fox River side, even a simple decoration needs to be done by yourself, and don't forget that the nearest town is a three-hour drive away, and the town is not big, so it is extremely inconvenient to buy some Christmas decorations. So experienced cowboys start preparing for Christmas early.

Shi Lei turned out a lot of Christmas decorations left before in the main room and garage, but he felt a little clueless about these small fragments Shi Lei, who already had difficulty in choosing, was very bad at dressing up, so he couldn't figure out these things at all.

In the end, Shi Lei simply gave up the plan to decorate it himself, and waited for Laura, the big expert in the family, to get it, anyway, Laura and the four elders would come over together a few days before Christmas.

Shi Lei plans to transplant a larger pine tree to the door of the main house as an outdoor decoration, just like the stone ranch, to engage in a green approach, and then cut a small pine tree and put it in the house to arrange it into a variety of shiny small objects, and you can also place Christmas gifts prepared by everyone.

Shi Lei, who was full of confidence, carried a shovel, rode on his horse and ran towards the pine tree in the pasture, surrounded by four Caucasian dogs who had already put on special Kevlar clothes.

Since the snow started, Hanks asked Shi Lei to strengthen the warning of the wolves. As the snow falls, it will be more and more difficult for wolves to hunt other wild animals, and there will be a greater chance of attacking the much better livestock. So it's almost the holidays lately, but cowboys have to be ready for wolves at any time.

The security forces around Shi Lei have also been strengthened. He has a high chance of encountering the wolves head-on, so even when he goes out to work, Shi Lei still has 4 guns on his body.

After coming to the pine forest, Shi Lei carefully observed the periphery, and chose a relatively small pine tree to mark, which was transplanted directly to the door of the main house as a landscape tree outside.

Shi Lei didn't choose it randomly, but chose a small tree that grew in the shadow of other big trees. The trees in this area are already relatively close, and this small tree does not get much sunlight and soil here, and there is a high chance that it will turn into fertilizer and rot at the feet of other large trees.

After leaning the shotgun in his hand against the big tree next to him, and tidying up the rifle on his back, Shi Lei stuck the shovel on the edge of the small pine tree he had just looked at.

didn't dig up the small tree that was going to be transplanted first, Shi Lei directly took out a straight knife and began to cut down another small sapling that was only more than one meter high, this one was going to come back and put it in the living room as a decoration, and the workload of getting it down was much smaller.

Shi Lei waved the weighty straight knife in his hand, and in a few strokes, he cut down the small pine sapling that was no more than the thickness of his forearm, and Shi Lei, who was just about to lean over to pick up the tree, felt a strong sense of crisis. The feeling of palpitations made Shi Lei's entire body tense.

Feeling that this threat came from behind, Shi Lei instinctively rolled forward, and although he threw himself out, Shi Lei still felt a strong blow on his back. If it hadn't been blocked by a rifle on his back, this attack would have fallen directly on Shi Lei's back. And at this time, the deep barking of the four Caucasian dogs also sounded.

Shi Lei quickly turned around and stood up, aiming the straight knife in his hand at the direction of the attack, and the frightened Shi Lei finally found that the attack was a cougar who was not small, and the body size was slightly smaller than the hairball, which was definitely a rare strong individual in the wild, and the black hair with a scar that ran through the top and bottom of the eye was particularly dazzling.

This cougar has been surrounded by four barking Caucasian dogs, and has temporarily separated from direct combat with Shi Lei, but Shi Lei does not dare to take it lightly. He'd seen the cougar's terrifying bouncing ability, and the distance between a man and a beast was nothing for a cougar at the moment. As long as you don't jump too hard, you can directly launch a pounce on Shi Lei.

Shi Lei carefully stared at the cougar's movements, and handed the straight knife to his left hand. With his right hand, he grabbed the rifle on his back next, and Shi Lei's eyes didn't dare to leave the figure of the cougar for a moment.

After finally holding the rifle, Shi Lei breathed a sigh of relief, and glanced down at the situation of the rifle that blocked a blow for him, Shi Lei's cold sweat flowed out instantly, and the claw marks of the cougar on the rifle were clearly visible......

At the moment when Shi Lei lowered his head and aimed at the rifle, the cougar, who saw Shi Lei's slackness, saw the opportunity to make a big jump and planned to pounce on Shi Lei, but the dog in front of the cougar jumped up with all his strength and hit the cougar's stomach.

Caucasus, who was behind the cougar, jumped up with the cougar, and bit down the cougar's hind legs, and violently swung his big head, tearing at the cougar's wounds, and Caucasus, who was also not a small weight, grabbed the cougar's hind legs like this, and pulled the cougar back to the ground quickly.

Feeling the oncoming wind, Shi Lei handed the straight knife in his left hand to the front, the crazy movement of his feet drove his body to retreat quickly, and threw out the rifle that he had just received in his hand with his right hand, and then took out the revolver, and the actions of pulling the hammer, aiming and pulling the trigger during the usual practice were done in one go, and he threw out a shot at the head of the puma who pounced.

If a qiē is normal, Shi Lei's shot should have hit the cougar's eyebrows, directly hitting the cougar's brain stem and killing it on the spot, but at this time, the attack of the two heroic Caucasian dogs also arrived, and with the joint efforts of the two dogs, the cougar's body has been dragged to the ground, so the bullet grazed the top of the cougar's head and flew over, just shaving off a piece of hair on the top of the cougar's head, and the dogs' heroic behavior also saved the cougar's life in disguise.

Shi Lei kept a knife in his left hand and a gun in his right hand, carefully guarding as he slowly retreated, watching the battle between the cougar and the Caucasian dogs in the field, and at the same time preventing other ambushes that might exist around him.

As for why Shi Lei didn't go up the tree to dodge, it was because Shi Lei felt that he was not as flexible as a cougar in the tree, and it also affected his use of weapons, and there was no room to dodge and move.

At this time, the fight between the cougar and the Caucasian dog also reached a fierce point. After the cougar was bitten and dragged down from the air, as soon as he landed, he waved his paw at the heroic Caucasian dog, the Caucasus bit too hard just now, and did not let go in time to jump away, this paw slapped firmly on the dog's body, fortunately it was protected by a Kevlar protective suit, and was not caught, but was swept aside.

Just now, the dog of the front cougar took advantage of the opportunity to run up and take a bite on the front paw of the cougar, learning the previous lesson, it did not bite very dead, and after causing injury, it ran away before the cougar's paw came.

The other two dogs in the back saw that the cougar's energy was attracted to the front, and launched a surprise attack from the back of the cougar, and immediately withdrew after the blow was successful, and the dog that was swept aside returned to its position again, continuing to encircle the cougar, not allowing it to have a chance to jump out of the circle.

In this way, after the two dogs stepped forward to attract the attention of the cougar, the other dogs waited for the opportunity to attack the cougar, and they all left with one blow, only seeking to cause damage, not to kill the enemy in one blow.

When the battle in the circle was in the white-hot stage, the barking of other dogs slowly came around, as well as the shouts of the cowboys, Shi Lei shouted in response, and soon a large group of dogs surrounded Shi Lei, and kept barking at the cougars in the battle circle.

Seeing the arrival of these dogs, Shi Lei finally breathed a sigh of relief, now he was completely safe, and the cougar didn't run away. All that remains is the question of whether to kill or capture the cougar.

Soon Hanks also came to Shi Lei with a few cowboys, the cowboys all raised their guns in their hands, and ran all the way to Shi Lei, seeing Shi Lei standing there intact, surrounded by three layers of dogs in front of him, no need to worry about any safety issues, the cowboys stopped to take a good breath, but the guns in their hands did not relax, they kept raising and pointing in the direction of the cougar.

"Stone, you're okay, it looks like you've been attacked by this mountain lion." After Hanks ran over, he couldn't help but care about Shi Lei's situation.

"I wasn't hurt at all, thanks to this rifle for me to block the first blow of the mountain lion" Shi Lei pointed to the rifle he threw out on the ground, the clear paw prints can already explain a lot.

"As soon as I heard the gunshots, I screamed that the cowboys around me were coming, and I thought you were attacked by wolves, and you were fine." Hanks patted Shi Lei on the shoulder.

"In fact, if it weren't for the dog dragging the cougar to the ground just now, I would have shot it off in the head." Shi Lei proudly pointed to the bullet-shaved groove on the top of the cougar's head.

"But now I've changed my mind, this is a sturdy female lion, I want to capture it and keep it as a wife for the hairballs, and their offspring will be very strong." (To be continued) R640