Chapter 27: Traveling (2)
The next day, Liu Shihua and Su Zhen drove to the town to buy a tent and sleeping bag, and Su Zhen also bought a double-barreled shotgun and some ammunition accompanied by Rachel.
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it's time to make an appointment for camping.
This morning, Su Zhen and the others got up very early and began to pack up, and Grace also came over very early to help Su Zhen and them check their bags, and helped tie the tent and other luggage to their respective horses.
At about seven o'clock, three of Liu's classmates also drove to the ranch, "This is Jane and her boyfriend Kenny," Liu Shihua pointed to a pair of young white men and women standing together, and then pointed to another white girl, "This is Weiss", and then introduced the people on the ranch to her friends.
After the introduction, everyone exchanged a few words, Su Zhen and Liu Shihua took the three of them to the stable to lead the horses, because they were going to climb the mountain, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, so at the suggestion of Grace, the horses prepared were all wild horses with good endurance, and they were all docile mares, fortunately, Liu Shihua's three friends were typical western children, and they were all familiar with riding horses, so they quickly rode the horse smoothly.
After returning to the meeting place, Grace and the others are ready, and they can set off as soon as Su Zhen and the others come back.
With ten people on the trip, the size of the horse team seemed to be quite large, with four horses carrying a lot of parcels in addition to one horse per person. A total of fourteen horses and six mighty Caucasian dogs set off in this way.
The horse team swayed through the pasture, frightened many small animals such as hares and marmots along the way, and soon came to the foot of the mountain by the lake.
The woods on the mountain are typical coniferous forests, the mountains are full of tall pines and cypresses, but they are not dense, and the horses can easily shuttle through them.
Su Zhen and Grace walked at the front of the group, seeing many animals along the way, and after walking for a few hours, a small wooden house appeared on the edge of the woodland in front of them, and Grace asked everyone to stop and ride over to see the situation.
After a while, Grace returned, "Boss, it's a hunter's hut with an open field next to it, and we can camp there today. ”
This aroused everyone's interest, especially Liu Shihua's curiosity about the mysterious hunter's hut. In fact, there are such cabins in many mountains and forests in the United States, which were built by hunters during the previous bear hunting season or deer hunting season to facilitate the rest of future travelers who come back or pass by.
But after everyone entered the cabin and looked at it, they dismissed the intention of sleeping in the cabin at night, not to mention that the cabin could not accommodate so many people, and the cabin had obviously been abandoned for a long time, and many places had decayed and still emitted a bad smell.
So they decided to start preparing for camp in the open space in front of the hut, and they untied their horses' belongings and tied their horses to the edge of the woods.
"Boss, you guys set up a tent here" Grace pointed to a clearing "Since there is a hut here, there should be a water source nearby, I'll go look for it, John, you and Hank go to the woods to find some firewood and stones to prepare a campfire"
When Su Zhen and the others heard this, they began to set up tents, and several girls were obviously not good at setting up tents, so they were in a hurry, so the burden fell on the shoulders of Su Zhen and Kenny. Fortunately, Su Zhen learned from the shopkeeper for a long time when he bought the tent, and he was finally able to barely set up the tent, but Kenny was very fast, and soon set up the tent, and was helping Weiss and Liu Shihua set up the tent.
In the end, with the joint efforts of several people, all the tents were finally set up, a total of four, Su Zhen was ordered by Liu Ru to have a tent with himself, Grace and Rachel slept in a tent, Liu Shihua and Weis, and Kenny was naturally with Jane.
When everyone set up their tents, John and Hank had already prepared the stones and firewood for the campfire, and also set up the tent for the two to sleep in at night, during which Grace also discovered the water source, and there was a mountain stream a few hundred meters away.
When they were ready, everyone began to prepare lunch, which was very simple, just set up a shelf on the campfire, and a pot was hung on the shelf, stewed with beef and potatoes, with a little toast, and Kenny and they brought some drinks
After eating, everyone cleaned up the dishes, Grace and Weiss put all the garbage into a plastic and prepared to take it back to be disposed of, and the Americans have really done a good job of educating about environmental protection.
After cleaning up, everyone happily surrounded the city and chatted and sang, while Ah Da and a few went to the woods to play.
Just when everyone was chatting happily, they suddenly heard Ah Da's wild roar, Grace immediately picked up the shotgun and beckoned John to rush over, Hank guarded the others with a shotgun, and Su Zhen also followed.
After arriving at the place, Su Zhen saw Ah Da Liu roaring around an animal, "What's that?" Su Zhen asked Grace, who arrived first.
"A coyote, I guess it was surrounded by them while hunting," Grace replied.
Su Zhen took a look, and sure enough, an animal that looked a bit like a wolf was surrounded by several dogs, lying on the ground and not daring to move, and there was an animal that looked like a squirrel under its paws.
Although the coyote has a wolf character and looks like a wolf, it is not a wolf, it can only be said to be a little related to the wolf, much smaller than the wolf, not even as big as a husky, not to mention the Caucasus as a large dog, this is a very common canine in the United States, basically will not attack people, the coyote in front of him is smaller than the average coyote, and it is estimated that it is not yet an adult.
"What's that? Wolves? At this time, Liu Ru and the others also arrived, and Liu Shihua asked curiously.
"Hehe, the wolf won't be so useless, this is a coyote," Su Zhen said.
"Aren't coyotes still wolves?" Liu Shihua asked rhetorically.
In desperation, Su Zhen explained to her that coyotes and wolves are different animals.
At this time, the coyote had been bullied by Ah Da and they were lying on the ground with their hands protecting their heads and whining, and they didn't even want the prey in their hands, and they were taken away by Ah Si.
Ah Si ran to Liu Shi's picture with the little thing in his mouth to offer treasure, the thing was still alive, and Liu Shihua was curious.
"What is this? Squirrels? It's so cute. Liu Shi fell in love with the little thing in front of her as soon as she drew the words.
I saw that this suspected squirrel thing had a pair of watery, black and crystal eyes like chess pieces, which looked very playful and cute, with an innocent and innocent expression, which immediately struck down all the women present.
However, Su Zhen quickly noticed a membrane between the front and rear paws of this "squirrel" on the side, and said in a loud voice: "This is a flying squirrel, right?" ”
John listened and looked closer, "It's really a flying squirrel."
"What is a flying squirrel?" Liu Shihua, who was having fun with a flying squirrel, asked.
"It's a flying squirrel, and he has a membrane on both sides of his body. With your limbs open, you can glide," John explains.
"It also has a name, you must know it," Su Zhen said to Liu Shihua and Liu Ru in Chinese at this time.
"What's the name, what's the name?" Liu Shihua hurriedly asked. Liu Ru was also very curious.
"Coldhorn Bird, familiar, right?" Su Zhen said.
"Huh? Is this a cold trumpet bird? Isn't the cold trumpet bird a bird? Liu Shihua thought it was very strange.
"This thing is what we Chinese call the cold horn bird, because in ancient times there was not such a detailed distinction as now, thinking that it could fly and classifying it into the bird" Su Zhen explained to the two, "The five spirit fats in Chinese medicine are this guy's Xiang." (I don't know what Xiang is?) cough cough ~ Baidu will know the way——! )
However, Liu Shihua doesn't care if it's a bird or a mouse, as long as it's cute enough, just like that, the little flying squirrel just came out of the wolf's mouth and became the pet of Liu Shihua's "tiger".
And the coyote that was forgotten by everyone, Su Zhen saw that it was bullied miserably by several dogs, and his lunch became Liu Shihua's pet, and he was embarrassed to do anything to it, so he recalled Ah Da and let the coyote go.
But what Su Zhen didn't expect was that this coyote was consumed with them.