Chapter 53: A Strange Trap
When he had done this, he took up a straight knife and skinned and feathered the two pheasants and one hare that had been caught yesterday, removed the entrails, split the sternum with an axe, washed the blood off them with water, and then propped their chests with three bamboo branches, and hung them on a shelf above the bonfire, ready to be smoked dry.
The rice porridge was about to come out of the pot, and the fat man added a handful of ququ vegetables to it, and after a while, he took down the hanging pot and put it on a wooden pier in front of the tent. The aroma of meat, porridge and wild vegetables exudes a mouth-watering taste.
Xu Qiang's work there was almost finished, and after putting the last layer of leaves on it, the humble bacon rack really took shape. After he put another handful of pine branches into the bonfire below the shelf, a thick smoke rose and instantly filled the small space, and leaked out of some small cracks, making the whole bacon rack look misty and fat, and a fresh smell of pine came out. When it was done, Xu Qiang was very satisfied, turned around and washed his hands, and enjoyed a delicious breakfast with the fat man, although there was a little less salt, it was also very delicious.
The taste of wild vegetable porridge seems to bring the two back to the breakfast table in modern society, drinking thick sweet porridge and sharing the taste of happiness with their families. And the wolf meat ribs that are seasoned with only a little salt also made the two addicted, the portion is full, the meat is thick but chewy, and there is a little fishy smell, which is as fragrant as dog meat, but the taste is more mellow, especially this way of eating without other condiments, with a strong original flavor.
"Fatty, the craftsmanship is good, roast wolf meat ribs, absolutely amazing! You can eat more, this wolf meat can replenish the five internal organs, has the effect of thick stomach, long-term consumption can strengthen the body, the most suitable for you now, but also increase the ability to resist cold, to the winter when the soup is drunk, then life will be beautiful unimaginable! ”
Luo Fatzi wiped the oil from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, and smirked:
"Brother Qiang, in fact, wolf meat is similar to dog meat, when there are chili peppers, we use a large pot to fry them with chili peppers, and the taste is definitely better!"
"Okay, see that the weather is getting hotter and hotter, after we have built the camp, we will quickly open a field and plant some peppers, it doesn't take too much, just use the seeds of half a pepper, let's test it first to see if the peppers are suitable for the weather here."
Hearing that Brother Qiang was going to experiment with planting chili peppers here, this made Luo Fatzi, who regarded chili peppers as his life, excited, and stood up from the stool made of thick wooden stakes for a while, dancing with his hands, and expressing a great yearning for being able to eat chili peppers.
After a simple but hearty breakfast, the two of them were fully armed, carrying bamboo baskets on their backs, scooping up two ancient pigeons and wrapping them in saxifrage leaves as an afternoon snack, and the two set out to inspect the place where the traps were set up, and removed the traps that had caught small animals together as planned last night, leaving only the first sharp knife trap and two heavy traps to catch the larger prey.
After patrolling, except for the two pheasants, the other harvest was a little little or strange.
A prey was caught in a heavy weight downward pressure trap, somewhat similar to a dog badger, with a long, narrow skull and white fur from the tip of the nose to the back of the body. It was suffocated by the neck, but the back half of its body was left with a pile of bones and some scraps of flesh left on it, and it was eaten by an unknown animal.
There was also a noose trap where only the front leg of a prey and a puddle of blood remained, but there was no carcass of the prey. On the surface, it looks like the prey bites off its front legs in order to break off the shackles of the rope, and this is a prey that is cruel enough to itself, as can be seen from the sharp claws of the feline at the front end of the front legs, the claws are not large. The only suspicious place around was that there was a drag mark more than a foot long on the side of the trap, but the mark suddenly disappeared, and there was no other suspicious place, not even a trace of blood.
But in the first sharp knife trap, there was a little discovery, the trap was triggered, there were hairs and blood stains on the sharp pile, there was no corpse, it should be the prey that escaped by itself, it seems that this trap still needs to be strengthened, and the prey cannot escape easily.
Looking at the scene in front of you, and then looking back at the surrounding forest, there are more and more conjectures about unknown beasts, which may be wolves or bears, or felines such as ligers or leopards. It may still be entrenched around, not going far, just staring at them in some corner, waiting for some chance to kill them in one blow and bring them both to an end in the middle of their ancient journey.
"Fatty, in the past two days, we have to pay attention to the situation around us, and don't run away alone. In addition, we have to speed up the progress of the camp, go, go back and cut down trees. Xu Qiang began to be vigilant about the surrounding environment, but it was not yet to that tense moment, so he just told him to pay attention to safety.
"Okay, Brother Qiang."
Luo Fatzi looked at the surrounding bushes and the jungle in the distance, his right ear kept shaking, catching the sounds around him, and he didn't let go of a little wind and grass. The fat man and Xu Qiang had already determined that the hearing limit of their right ear was fifty meters, and they could hear the sound of a mouse running in that position.
During the trip to the lumberyard, the two men still maintained sufficient vigilance and safety distance to ensure that they could react quickly and support each other in the event of an attack, but nothing happened.
Arriving at the lumber yard, the two put the items on their backs aside, the resharpened and charred bamboo spear within easy reach, and the other weapons with them.
Start logging.
After two days of cutting trees, the two have mastered the art of cutting trees and have accelerated the pace of cutting. Over the course of the morning, the two men cut down thirty-five trees and trimmed their branches.
Taking advantage of the break, Luo Fatzi took out a liquid lighter and lit a bonfire, inserted the cold ancient pigeon meat in the bamboo back basket on two pine branches and roasted it hot, and shared it with Xu Qiang, and drank a few sips of warm boiled water in the military kettle by the bonfire to replenish water.
After the break, the fat man extinguished the bonfire. The two men began sawing wood with handsaws, hoping to move all the wood back to camp before dark. The two of them sweated like rain, sneering, sneering, the sound of sawing wood continued to sound, and a gust of wind blew, suppressing the patches of bushes, revealing the speckled figures in the grass.
After a day and a night, it finally waited for a chance to approach the two hairless monkeys, and the few small animals caught in the forest only gave themselves a little stomach and did not eat enough. Since he was taken away from his territory by the two leopard brothers, he has been wandering until he stumbled upon these two hairless monkeys, and he wanted to take advantage of the night to take them quietly, but he didn't expect these two monkeys to be able to control the heavenly fire, which made him a little hesitant. But what I have is patience, and I finally waited for this opportunity, and I couldn't miss it.