Chapter 47: Skinning Techniques and Sharp Knife Traps

Xu Qiang took a bite of the roasted pheasant, and there was an earthy smell, which was the reason why the blood was not cleaned. Under the existing conditions, Xu Qiang and his wife must ensure that they have salt intake every day, and in the case of limited salt storage, animal blood is also a good source of salt, so that people will not have muscle cramps, dizziness, nausea and fatigue due to insufficient salt intake. Therefore, tonight, Xu Qiang specially told Luo Fatzi not to bleed the hare or pheasant when he was skinning.

"When peeling, first of all, the strength of the hand must be light, which is very important, I would rather be slow than fast, the purpose is to be able to get a complete skin. Second, the knife edge should be correct, not crooked, otherwise it is easy to cause the peeled skin to be uneven, and too much waste will be wasted when making clothes. The third is to peel the skin in the correct order, first up and then down, first left and then right, do not rush, so as not to become an obstacle in the end. Fourth, when it comes to the ears, tail, belly and other places, you should be careful to go under the knife, and whether the skin is neat or not, these places are very important. After dinner, the two of us will peel another wolf, you can take a good look at it then, and with your help, we should be able to peel it faster. ”

"Okay, Brother Qiang, listen to you, it's still that sentence, practice brings true knowledge, only by experiencing it yourself, can you understand the difficulty of life and work. Mastering the peeling skills as soon as possible will bring more convenience and fun to our ancient life. ”

The two quickly finished dinner, and after washing, the two came to the peeling shelf, and hung another black-backed brown wolf on the crosswood, still with Xu Qiang in charge, and Luo Fatzi watching from the side. The process is the same as before, first from the anus down to the brown wolf's chin, and one on each limb.

Next, Xu Qiang felt that it was not easy to deal with the four claws for the first time, so this time he made a circumferential cut at the joints of the four claws, preparing to remove the claws directly.

Then hold the left fur with one hand and take a knife in the other hand and cut the skin and flesh gently until the left side is finished, and then peel it from the right side. Peel from both sides to the back, and then drag the wolf skin from top to bottom until a complete peel is peeled off and sprinkled with plant ash for preliminary nitration. This time, it only took less than an hour to get this wolf skin, firstly, it shows that Xu Qiang's skills have improved, and secondly, he has taken a shift with Luo Fatzi to peel the skin, and Luo Fatzi has a handle next to him, and the efficiency has also been greatly improved.

At this time, the stench of the two skinned brown wolves had gradually increased, Luo Fatzi was about to throw them away, but was stopped by Xu Qiang, Xu Qiang was ready to take advantage of the fact that it was still early, ready to arrange a sharp knife trap in a sparsely wooded place, this sharp knife trap should be used to catch larger carnivores, such as wolves, lynxes, leopards, etc., of course, small saber-toothed tigers can also be captured.

Just do it, the two of them chose a big tree under it, there was a branch that grew diagonally upward, and lit a bonfire next to it, with two torches, each of them began to shovel with a shovel, and after spending more than an hour, a deep pit two meters deep, two meters long and two meters wide came out. After the two of them came out of the pit hand in hand, they ran to the edge of the bamboo forest and cut down two bamboos, and then split one piece of bamboo into a three-centimeter-wide board according to the height of the bamboo (about 40 centimeters), and then sharpened the top of the spire, and a sharp stake was formed. It took nearly two hours to make nearly a hundred in a row, and by this time it was already late at night, and a faint beast roar could be heard in the distance.

The two of them were too tired, but they still hurriedly carried the corpse of a wolf and ran to the deep pit with torches, and first inserted all the sharp piles into the bottom of the pit. This made Luo Fatzi, who pulled Xu Qiang up on the top of the pit, nervous for a while, and wiped his hand back and forth on his pants five times, for fear that his hand would slip and make Xu Qiang fall down for a while, and he was trembling when he thought about the picture, and he didn't dare to look at it.

After arranging the stakes below, the two put a few branches on the top of the trap, spread a layer of floating soil, sprinkled weeds and fallen leaves, and then cleaned and covered the excavated earth to camouflage, and a simple and complex trap became a simple and complex trap.

However, there was still no bait, and the two of them took great pains to hang the wolf corpse on the 30-meter-long parachute rope on the long branch that was obliquely upward, about half a meter high from the ground, so that the trap was really made, and the next thing was to see how the harvest was.

This trap is different from the knife trap mentioned earlier, which uses elastic force to pierce a stake into the body of an animal or enemy, like a dagger; And the bottom of this sharp knife trap is full of sharp bamboo, using the weight of the prey itself, carelessness and greed to have an intimate contact with the stake, and then there is a mountain of flowers and colors, only the corpses are ambushed everywhere.

Here I have to talk about the benefits of traps, it allows you to surprise you when you do other things, without delaying you from doing other things, which saves you time and effort, and there is not too much danger.

After reconfirming that nothing had been missed, the two men held torches and dragged their tired bodies back to the camp. I didn't even do a wash, I just wanted to lie down in a warm sleeping bag and have a good rest. But Xu Qiang still endured it and didn't sleep, and asked Luo Fatzi to add firewood to the campfire, while he went to the wolf corpse by the bamboo forest to set up a rope sleeve to see if there would be a harvest at night. And they put the three sets of warnings around the camp

By the time the two of them got into their sleeping bags, the hands on the watch were already one o'clock in the morning. All kinds of nocturnal animals have long come out to feed, and Luo Fatzi, who is lying there, can even hear the sound of animals passing by in the bamboo forest.

The two summarized today's gains and losses as usual, especially the key discussion on the work of cutting wood, for the scene that almost smashed himself, Xu Qiang thought that his own logging skills were insufficient, and he needed to focus on mastering the direction of letting the tree fall, and the skills of exerting force also needed more practice to master, so as not to cut down a tree and tire himself down.

After discussing for a while, the two couldn't hold on anymore and fell asleep. The campfire still glows brightly, illuminating the small camp.

In the distance, there was the sound of beasts fighting, and the roars of excitement, and even the dull sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, accompanied by a short sound like sawing wood, and the sound of struggle, and then abruptly stopped.

The two of them in their sleep were woken up from time to time by the sound of wild beasts, and the roars of different animals were also heard from the direction of the two traps, probably because they had gained something. But neither of them got up, and soon fell asleep again, and the things that were found in the trap were far less tempting than sleeping. As long as no wild beasts break into their camp and affect the rest of the two. The two of them slept soundly, because they had weapons at hand and brothers by their side.