Chapter 70: Slingshot Hunting Pheasants
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Chen Hao asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?" โ
Ye Quan pointed to the bushes in front of him and said, "There are pheasants in front." (To read the latest chapters of this book, please visit the Wรจn Novel Network biquge.info)"
Chen Hao was overjoyed when he heard this, and said, "Where is it?" Let me open it up for a moment. โ
Chen Hao followed the direction pointed by Ye Quan, and finally saw the bright feathers exposed behind a bush more than ten meters away.
Different from the ring-necked pheasant encountered earlier, this is a red-bellied pheasant with a beautiful long tail, also known as the golden rooster, with a slender body and light steps, named because of the bright red feathers on the waist and abdomen, and the feathers shining golden in the sun.
The male bird has a gorgeous plumage, the body length is about one meter, the head has a golden yellow filamentous feather crown, the upper body is golden yellow except for the upper back is dark green, the rest is golden yellow, the back of the neck is orange-brown and decorated with black-edged fan-like feathers, forming a shawl-shaped, the lower body is dark red, the tail feathers are black-brown, full of cinnamon yellow spots, the length of the tail feathers is more than twice the body, the whole body feather color sets off each other, the seven colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple are complete, colorful. It is an endemic bird species in China and one of the most beautiful ornamental birds at home and abroad.
The shape of the female bird and the male bird is very different, the body weight is one-third smaller, the feather color is mainly tan, the top of the head and the back of the neck are black and brown, the rest of the body feathers are brownish yellow, the shawl is not developed, the tail feathers are shorter, although the feathers are colorful, but not as showy as the male.
Generally speaking, don't hunt pheasants that don't have white rings in the mountains.
The red-bellied pheasant is much less abundant than the pheasant in the mountains, and it is still a national second-class protected animal, but considering that this bird has been cultivated on a large scale, it is easy to rewild, and it does not hurt to hit one or two.
Chen Hao was excited when he saw it, and he raised his crossbow to shoot, but Ye Quan held him down and said, "Wait, there are two, they should be one male and one female." โ
Ye Quan took out a homemade slingshot from his bag, wrapped it in a steel ball, and whispered to Chen Hao: "Let's shoot together, you hit the one in front, and I hit the one in the back." โ
Chen Hao didn't have Ye Quan's ability to search the surrounding environment with his mental power, he only saw the pheasant in front, and the one hidden in the back didn't even see a feather, and saw Ye Quan holding a slingshot that only rural children played, and said with a smile: "Can this thing hit a pheasant?" โ
Ye Quan glanced at him and said, "You don't believe it if you say you are uneducated, this thing was used to hunt small animals in ancient times, and it was practiced within twenty or thirty meters, where to fight, let's shoot together, see if your modern hand crossbow is powerful or my ancient slingshot is powerful?" โ
The slingshot appeared as early as the era of human ignorance, and there is a "Song of Bullets" on the "Wu Yue Spring and Autumn Period", which records "broken bamboo, continued bamboo, flying soil, chasing the hoop." โ
The poem uses short two-word sentences and simple rhythms to describe the hunting process of cutting bamboo, making slingshots, shooting projectiles, and shooting birds and beasts.
Historically, there were people such as Han Yan of the Han Dynasty, Linggong of the Spring and Autumn Jin Dynasty, and Cao Fang, the last emperor of the Wei State, who gained notoriety for their slingshots; There are also people like Rongzu Huan of the Southern Qi Dynasty and Sun Sheng, the eldest of the Sui Dynasty, who left a good reputation for being good at shooting slingshots and hitting every shot.
The ancestors of the Ye family are from the door, foot warfare, horse warfare and archery are all fine, there are special archery skills to pass on to the descendants, after the clansmen settled in Taoyuan Village, and because they are located in the Nanyue Mountains, there are many fierce beasts in the mountains, in order to protect themselves and hunt, they naturally dare not let go of the unique art of archery, Ye Quan practiced archery for a period of time before he moved, and when he was a child, he carried a slingshot with him, and harmed birds and beasts everywhere.
Ye Quan's self-made slingshot is to use elm branches as slingshot forks in his spare time, and use eight blood tapes as bowstrings, with his current brute strength, it is very powerful to raise steel balls at twenty meters, and if you use mental power to aim and lock, you can also achieve a hundred shots within thirty meters.
There are many slingshots made with modern technology for sale on the Internet, both in terms of power and accuracy are much better than homemade, but Ye Quan plays with slingshots, just to remember the fun of childhood, and the process of making zuรฒ naturally cannot be faked by others.
With a loud sound, two steel balls shot out of the crossbow and slingshot pockets, respectively!
The steel ball shot by Ye Quan flew into the bushes, and the steel ball shot by Chen Hao was on the right head, hitting the feather exposed in the grass, but unfortunately, he didn't know that the bright feather was on the tail of the golden pheasant, and the aiming position should be a little more to the left.
The tail feathers were hit by the steel ball, and the golden pheasant was not injured, but the fright can be imagined, and suddenly there was an exclamation, and he jumped up violently with his wings, leaving a beautiful figure in the eyes of everyone, and then rushed forward and disappeared.
"Oops! Didn't hit! Chen Hao sighed.
Carl rushed out from Liao Zaihua's side, and after a while, he ran back with a golden chicken in his mouth, Chen Hao saw that the golden chicken's eye was hit with a bloody hole, obviously it was not Carl who was bitten to death, he couldn't help but widen his eyes, looked at Ye Quan, and said in disbelief: "What's the matter?" You can't be the one who hit it, right? โ
Ye Quan smiled and didn't answer, but Xie Yan teased: "I'm afraid that the golden chicken you shot has run ten miles, can it still be you who hit it?" โ
Chen Hao smiled bitterly and said to Ye Quan: "You are really perverted, I didn't even see a shadow, you can actually hit this pheasant in the eye?" โ
Liao Zaihua picked up the pheasant and looked at it, and he was also amazed in his heart, the golden pheasant was hit in the eye by a steel ball, and it can be said that he was killed by a blow, and he didn't even let out a scream. The most important thing is that he was standing behind Ye Quan, but he didn't find where the two golden chickens were hiding? It's a shame for the scouts.
Ye Quan said: "It's just luck, I didn't expect to hit the eye." โ
Unlike the pheasant that Liao Zaihua hit just now, Ye Quan hit an adult male brocade chicken, with colorful feathers, especially the tail feathers that are more than two feet long, which are gorgeous and colorful.
Yuan Hui and other women came up and couldn't put down the tail feathers of the golden chicken, and Han Yueying also liked it, but when she saw the bloody head of the golden chicken, she said with pity: "It's enough to eat after hitting two, so don't fight again." โ
Liao Xiaolei stretched out her hand and pinched her face, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect our Yingying to be an animal protectionist, don't rob me when you can eat." โ
Xie Yan also said: "These pheasants have been artificially bred in many places, and it's okay to shoot a few." โ
Ye Quan said: "If you don't hunt pheasants, you can shoot rabbits, but rabbits in the mountains are much more difficult to fight than rabbits in the plains." โ
The mountains are full of grass and shrubs, and if you are alerted by a hare while hunting, you can easily escape.
When hunting, hunters will quietly approach, and a large group of people like them will walk over, and the movement is not small, and no matter how many hares will notice in advance, so as to hide.
Liao Zaihua also knew this, so he simply broke away from the team again, and took Carl into the mountains and forests alone, and half an hour later, returned with a fat hare.
Ye Quan also searched with his mental power, locked on a hare that was hiding, commanded the leopard to drive it forward, and used the slingshot to make another contribution.
Seeing that the two of them hit the prey again, but he was still empty-handed, Chen Hao got anxious, no longer focused only on pheasants and hares, and opened his bow when he saw the animal, and after wasting seven or eight steel balls, he finally let him scourge a big.
While passing by an old tree, an owl suddenly startled, this thing has poor eyesight during the day, and its flying posture is swaying, as if it is drunk.
Chen Hao raised his crossbow and was about to shoot, but Ye Quan hurriedly stopped him and explained, "Don't fight, there are very few of these things now." โ
Owls used to be very common in the Nanyue Ridge area, Ye Quan used to be in the market when he was a child, and he saw someone put them in a cage and sell them, and he himself ate them, but in recent years it has been extremely rare.
Human beings are a member of nature and carnivores, Ye Quan never thinks that there is anything wrong with hitting a few wild animals, he just feels disgusted by the reckless indiscriminate hunting and killing.
Listening to the uncle and the uncle of Mingshan, the real hunters have a shot in their hearts, which wild things in the mountains are more to fight, and those wild things are less, they will never be killed, they may not know the terms "ecological balance" and "nature protection", but they control the excessive growth of the population, protect the balance of the food chain, and leave enough resources for future generations, these truths are clear.
On the contrary, some wild animals can also cause ecological disasters, such as wild boars, hares, crabs, toads, wild camels, cats, muskrats, goldfish, dogs, snails, snails and deer, etc., such animals are due to the blind introduction of humans and tenacious survival ability, causing danger in all parts of the world.
Especially in isolated islands and the Australian mainland, there are many similar examples.
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