After hearing Zhou Nan's idea, Gao Yuan and Zuo Xiaosi both clapped their hands, and Zuo Xiaosi said: "But I don't know if Brother Zhou is still a hunting expert." Come up with such a wonderful method. ”

Gao Yuan was also elated, rubbing his hands and walking back and forth, and said, "Since there is such a good method, when will you wait?" Fourth Brother Zuo went to look for mountain fruits and truffles, and Brother Zhou and I went back to recruit people to cut down trees and work. ”

Zhou Nandao: "It's just that there is one more point, please ask Brother Gao to set up a stake, and make a cage according to the width of the terrain." Gao Yuan heard Zhou Nan ask where to set up an ambush, so he raised his hand and pointed not far away and said: "That's it, the mountain boar comes down at night, all from the mountain pass, less than 20 zhang from the pass, there is a mountain forest, only a narrow road down, but there is a flat land, not all mountain stones, but also cheap piling to fix the cage." It's also good to cut down trees nearby and do work. Gao Yuan led the two of them to the bottom of the pass to take a closer look, and Zhou Nan saw that there was a mixture of stone and soil under his feet, which was just enough to bury the pile and fix it, so he measured the size and set the position of the pile. When everything was settled, the three of them went back separately to prepare.

When Gao Yuan gathered a group of hunters at home, Gao Yuan told everyone about Zhou Nan's idea, and everyone agreed, and discussed how to make this cage. Finally, the cage is made of beech trees with good toughness, the four pillars of the cage are buried in the ground, and the four pillars of the cage are also spaced by beech trees, about half a foot apart, and the slightly thinner beech trunk is used to fix it, and the horizontal and vertical intersections are fixed with hemp rope and thin rattan. The small door of the cage is for Zuo Xiaosi to do last. After discussing the cutting of trees and the collection of fine vines, they each went home to prepare, and made an appointment to go up the mountain the next morning.

Zhou Nan was very excited, and at dawn the next day, he came to Gao Yuan's house with a machete, and after eating, he went up the mountain with Gao Yuan. Gao Yuan divided the people into two teams, one team went to cut down trees, and the other team dug four pits at the predetermined location to prepare to bury the piles.

This time, in addition to Jia Liu, Gao Shouzhong and other hunters who often get together, Gao Yuan called some other hunters in the village, there are many people, after more than half a day of busy, the people who dig the pit here have already dug four deep pits, and the team of people who cut down trees over there also came back with the trunks. After the two teams converged, they began to bury four stakes. The stakes are the pillars, and the four thickest and strongest beech trees are required, and then the other trunks are inserted between the four stakes to form a circle of columns; Then use a slightly thin trunk horizontally, and build a circle one foot, two feet, and three feet above the ground, and fix the columns together, so that a square wooden cage about six feet high, two feet long and wide, is built. The pillars are as thick as a human waist, and the rest of the pillars are as thick as the mouth of a bowl, except for the three circles of tree trunks built horizontally to fix the columns, and they are wound with thin vines, and they are tied with strong ties. Zhou Nan is still not at ease, when the boar is crazy, there is really no guarantee that there will be much impact and destruction. He also had two inclined supports on the outside of each of the four pillars to ensure that the pillars would not be knocked over from the inside of the cage. This is reassuring, with this cage, it is enough to trap the boar for half an hour.

The rest is Zuo Xiaosi to do the mechanism at the entrance. Zuo Xiaosi uses four wooden planks to make a pedal, when most of the pigs step on the plank, the weight is reached, and the plank sinks, which will activate the mechanism. A trap door was hung from a wooden cage on top of the entrance, and after the mechanism was touched, the hanging trap door immediately fell, trapping the boar in the wooden cage. At the same time as the trap door falls, a string of copper bells wrapped in a cloth bag will also be hoisted by ropes, and the cage will be hit by the boar, which will cause the copper bells to ring randomly, so as to notify nearby people that the boar is locked in the wooden cage.

Everything was placed, Zhou Nan checked it again, and finally asked everyone to pick grass and smear the cage with grass juice to cover the smell of people's activities as much as possible. Zhou Nan asked everyone to leave the wooden cage, and only let Zuo Xiaosi make the final arrangements. Zuo Xiaosi started to place the bait from the pass, and put the wild fruit and black truffle on the innermost side of the cage. After doing this, Zhou Nan and Gao Yuan led everyone out of the ambush.

Leaving Erdaoliangzi, Zhou Nan said to Gao Yuan: "Brother Gao, it's nightfall, you must choose a high place at the upwind of the trap, arrange two people to wait, once you hear the bell ringing, it must be a boar trapped, then raise a fire to signal, we will go straight to Erdaoliangzi and catch the boar." Gao Yuan said: "Very much." Let Gao Shouzhong and Gao Shouxiao wait at the upwind outlet. The rest of the people did not go home, first, it was a little far away, and secondly, everyone was looking forward to seeing if this cage could catch the boar alive according to Zhou Nan's idea. It was because everyone rested only in the leeward part of the cage, a mile away from the cage, to eat some dry food, to drink a few sips of stream water, and to speak quietly while waiting for news.

As the moon rose, it became more and more exposed, and everyone was gradually waiting in the leeward with some impatience, and some had fallen asleep. Seeing that there was no movement all night, the hunters couldn't help but be a little discouraged, Gao Yuan and Zhou Nan had to call Gao Shouzhong and Gao Shouxiao back and went back to the village together.

After eating the next day, Zhou Nan didn't alarm others, just called Zuo Xiaosi and Gao Yuan, and the three of them went to the trap to check, and when they arrived at the stake trap made yesterday, they saw that the trap door was still hanging well, but the black truffle and other things in the stake were gone, and there was a circle of boar's hoof prints outside the stake, and after going around the stake, they went down the mountain to the field.

Zhou Nan said to Gao Yuan: "It seems that the boar is cunning by nature, wary, the first time I encountered these wooden stakes, there are few boars who eat in the stakes, and the boars that go in have no engine off. Gao Yuan nodded, and collected some black truffles, mountain fruits, green vegetables and other things with Zhou Nan and Zuo Xiaosi, put them in the wooden stake, packed them up, and then left together.

When it was night, this time it was still not called to everyone, it was still Gao Yuan, Zhou Nan, Zuo Xiaosi and three people, the three of them came to the hiding place of Gao Shouzhong and Gao Shouxiao yesterday, it was a tall wild oak tree, the three of them climbed to the tree, each found a branch to sit on, whispered and chatted, waiting for the boar to come down the mountain.

In the middle of the day, the ground was full of clear light, and there was dew on the mountain at this time, and the three of them were unconsciously wrapped in their clothes. At the third watch, Zhou Nan suddenly heard the sound of the tree branches shaking, followed by a large group of wild boars rushing down the mountain. The three of them stared at this group of unscrupulous boars, only to see that the first of the boars was a white-haired boar that was obviously thicker and stronger than other boars, and the boars walked to the stake trap, first circled around the stake a few times, and the first to resist it was the little boar, which ran into the stake and chewed it heavily, and the rest of the boars saw that there was no danger as yesterday, and they no longer insisted, and they swarmed into the stake trap and ate it.

At this time, Zhou Nan was worried that the white-haired boar would fall without entering the trapdoor, and when Zhou Nan was worried, the white-haired boar finally confirmed that there was no danger, and swaggered into the stake to eat.

"Jingle bell", only to hear a crisp copper bell, it turned out that the trapdoor was finally activated, fell, and pulled the copper bell at the same time. The boars in the stake trap ran around in circles like crazy, and rushed into the stakes in circles. Gao Yuan asked Zuo Xiaosi to hurry up to the stockade to call someone, and at the same time came down from the tree with Zhou Nan and came to the stake trap to watch closely.

The closer you get to the cage, the more you can hear the boar's crazy running and howling. When I got to the cage, I saw that the large and small boars in the cage were crowded with the cage, running in circles like wild horses in the cage, which is the so-called wolf rushing to the pig. Seeing someone coming, the boars were even more crazy, but unfortunately the cage was already crowded with boars, and there was not enough distance for the boars to accelerate, so they just clumsily and ferociously rushed into the wooden cage. Zhou Nan saw that he was not afraid of the boar running out for a while.

"Hahaha" Gao Yuan laughed happily, "Second brother, you are really a trap, none of them ran away, they were all put into a cage." Gao Yuan couldn't close his mouth happily. Zhou Nan is also happy, he has seen similar methods to catch wild boars in videos on the Internet before, and now he has just changed to a trap cage.

The funniest thing is Zuo Xiaosi, who is too greedy, and the mechanism that activates the trap is like weighing this group of wild boars in advance, and he has to wait for all the boars to come in before activating the mechanism. Last night, it must have been that the wild boar was still vigilant and didn't all go in, so they didn't activate the mechanism, so they waited all night in vain.