Chapter 18 Hanging Trap

"Song, if you do this, your name will surely be remembered by the people of the clan forever."

"Always remember? Even if I'm dead? Song's eyes lit up.

"Yes. Just like the sun, we can't live without it. And much later, those who are sick will also think that they will not survive if they do not find grass to cure their diseases. ”

Jian Chen patted Song's shoulder, picked up a clay pot, and shouted at all the clansmen: "Everyone who makes the clansmen survive better, we will pinch out his pottery statue and paint everything he has done!" As long as our bloodline continues, every such person will always be remembered by our children and grandchildren. Wood can rot and stone can turn into powder, but the name will live on forever like the sun. ”

"Roaring ......"

The clansmen shouted loudly, fantasizing that their names would be remembered by their children and grandchildren.

Wolfskin sat by the fire, smiling and baring his teeth. According to Ken, in the future, everyone who sees the arrow will think of him, just as the cold person will think of the sun...... The arrow was the one he came up with.

"Perhaps, I can make the bow and arrow shoot farther and more accurately."

The wolfskin stroked his favorite bow, fantasizing that one day he would be able to stand in front of his people with a bow and arrow, and shoot to prey far away as long as he sat at home......

Chen Jian looked at the expectant expressions of the clansmen, and made up his mind in his heart, let the primitive god-making movement be carried out like this.

In the previous life, the saints worshiped in China were never sacrificed because of their devotion to religion.

Whether it is Xuanyuan who created the rules of clothing, Shennong who tasted a hundred herbs, Yu who cured the floods of the big river, the ancestor who raised silkworms and reeled silk, and even the various stories of Dujiangyan Chengerlang becoming holy, they are all the beliefs of people who will win the day.

If the sun is vicious, then bend the bow to shoot the sun; If the water is overflowing, build a dam; If the locusts are overflowing, they will pounce on them with their hands and feet; If the enemy is savage, then the flesh and blood will be the city...... Since ancient times, it has never been about kneeling and begging for forgiveness.

He wants future generations to remember that their ancestors used their hands and brains to become the spirit of all things in the wilderness, and that their ancestors would not bow to disasters and surrender to injuries and diseases.

If you have this life, why should you seek the next life? If you have hands and brains, why are you afraid of disasters?

He stared at the fire with burning eyes, fantasizing about the possibilities of the future.

"Ken, what are you thinking?"

Wolfskin leaned over and asked.

Jian Chen shook his head and said, "It's nothing, let's go home tomorrow." ”

"Aren't you going down?"

"No, we'll only need two days to get to where it's big enough. No matter how big the place is, it's not ours. ”

Jian Chen is very satisfied with what he has discovered so far, and he has traveled hundreds of miles, which is the limit that his clan can reach in three years.

Wolfskin was a little stupid and muttered, "We should go to the distance and see the tribe from the stars." ”

"Don't rush. I'll give an explanation to the new people. ”

When the rest of the clansmen heard the news that they were going home tomorrow, they were also full of anticipation, wanting to see the place in Jiankou where they could eat their stomachs every day, and see how those clansmen who did not have to worry about starvation lived.

Early the next morning, Jian Chen was woken up by the wolf's skin, and then he heard a humming sound.

The clansmen stood by and looked into the distance.

A large boar with two sows and a group of cubs is gnawing on the saline soil on the ground. Far away from the people, there was a sound of demonstration, as if an emperor was declaring his territory.

The fangs more than half a foot long are extremely sharp, and it weighs four or five hundred catties, and its thick skin covered with pine resin and mud is its presumptuous capital.

The tribesmen rarely provoke such large animals, except when they are hungry to the limit, because the slightest mistake can hurt someone.

Being pushed by a big boar is not a trivial matter.

The two sides are about two hundred meters apart, and it is clear that this pig family came here from the south side of the canyon.

As long as you don't provoke, both sides will be safe. The big boar snorted a few times, piled the manure on the ground, and kicked the manure on his thick hind legs, signaling not to go near it.

However, Jian Chen took a fancy to the dozen or so little piglets who followed behind, and wondered in his heart to find a way to get them away.

There are not many animals that humans can domesticate, and domestication must ensure their reproductive ability in addition to being obedient.

Some animals can be domesticated, such as elephants, but elephants do not mate in front of people and are very shy, so they cannot be domesticated. There are also some birds that are similar to chickens, but unfortunately the courtship ceremony is too complicated, and it is to show their feathers and make nests and sing, which is far less pleasant than the rooster lying on his stomach without saying a word, so it is not good.

Pigs have no such shortcomings at all, a litter of less than eight sows are embarrassed to say hello to their kind, and boars have always been direct and do not need to be dated.

Looking at the dozen or so little piglets, Jian Chen smiled. Wolfskin looked at the fangs of the big boar and said, "You can catch another beast, don't provoke it." ”

Jian Chen pointed to the piglet behind him and said, "See?" That's what we eat later. ”

"You want to keep them?"

"Yes. Don't alarm them, let's pack up and let's go. ”

Putting away the various clay pots, the aunts carefully held the jars filled with salt, which they had spent an afternoon boiling, and the family would love it.

They could even imagine the taste of salt in the delicious mutton soup and fish soup.

Carrying the wounded, Jian Chen led his clansmen to slowly withdraw from the sight of the wild boar. When the big boar saw that the people were far away, he proudly covered the ground with feces under his feet, showing his strength.

Out of the sky, Chen Jian took out the rope he was carrying and weaved some with the vines on the stone wall. I found six or seven people to pull together and tried the level of toughness.

Tie a few ropes into a slipknot, dig several small pits ten centimeters deep in the ground with bone rakes, cover them with a layer of grass blades and small branches, and place the slipknot in the pit.

This is the place where the canyon exits, and there are many trees next to it, so find a few arm-thick ones and cut off the branches on them.

More than a dozen men worked together to pull the tree into a bow shape and get stuck in the crack in the stone wall.

The trees made a frightening gurgling sound, but they didn't break, and people walked around carefully, and Jian Chen was also very careful.

Once the tree rebounds, not only a person, but also a stone, can shatter.

Tie one end of the slipknot rope to a bent tree, and a simple hanging sleeve is done.

Wild boars have a lot of strength, and before the appearance of wires, it was difficult for ordinary traps to support the pull of large boars.

The hanging sleeve is slightly different. Once the boar steps into the pit, its hooves are tied to the slipknot. Instinctively, it runs forward desperately, pulling the rope.

The rope pulls the branches stuck in the stone crevices out of the cracks, and the huge resilience force pulls the boar directly into the air.

Regardless of whether the front legs or hind legs are tethered, as long as they leave the ground, the wild boar can only rely on its own body weight and cannot exert its strength.

And once lifted, the huge inertia and elastic force may directly break the hoof of the wild boar.

The hoof is broken, even if the fangs are as fierce as a knife, then there is no need to worry.

In order to prevent escape, Chen Jian laid down four hanging sets in a row and told the clansmen to be careful.

If you step on it, you will dislocate it, tear your ligaments, or even pull off the skin on your calves.

Arrange all this, let the wolf take a few people to the opposite entrance of the canyon to ambush. Tell the wolf skin, whether to catch or shoot.

Wolfskin nodded hurriedly, with a look of no nonsense. However, Chen Jian understands that if he doesn't say it, the wolf skin will definitely shoot the piglet to death with arrows, and he has a lot of sequelae from playing with bows and arrows recently, and he likes to shoot live animals.

The women were all arranged at a distance and let them climb the trees in case the failed boar went crazy. For a woman who picks wild fruits, acorns, and pine nuts all year round, climbing a tree is a basic skill like having a baby.

The remaining men, such as himself and Matsu, held the stone spear and waited for the other to return.

There are big hoof prints on the road, and wild boars also have their own territory, and after replenishing the salt, they will definitely return.

The tribesmen squatted in the grass, never hunting like this. Although Jian Chen had shown Song and the others something unimaginable to them that day, they still didn't believe that a rope could catch a big pig?

This kind of big boar, even if it is a tiger, is not easy to provoke, unless the tiger is extremely hungry will fight to the death.

Can't you believe those ropes are even more powerful than tigers?

Jian Chen held the stone spear and waited anxiously. Even with wormwood and mint rubbed on his body, mosquitoes of all colors are constantly buzzing on the top of his head.

A grass crawler climbed onto the back of his hand, and he was startled and quickly pinched to death. The sesame-sized grass crawler will bury its head in the flesh, and after drinking enough blood, the body can swell from sesame seeds to the size of corn kernels! Moreover, it can contag forest encephalitis, which is an incurable disease even in later generations.

While everyone was restless, there was a humming cry from the canyon, and the men shook their spirits and clenched their stone spears. Loose stared at the lasso with wide eyes, trying to see how all this things he thought impossible had happened.

"It's coming!"

Jian Chen wiped the sweat from his palms on his furry thighs and stared at the big boar in the lead.

Click......

The boar's hooves stepped on the branches of the pit, and the lasso immediately tied its hind legs.

Instinctively, the boar snorted and ran forward a few steps in panic.

The bulky body and amazing force pulled the rope, and the rope pulled the bent trunk, and the lateral force caused the bent trunk to break away from the stone crack and bounce straight at once.

With a whoosh, the rope suddenly straightened, the trunk straightened, and the rope broke alive with a bang, and the clansmen invariably let out a cry of regret.

The boar was visibly frightened, and this time the rope was broken, but its hind legs were already bloody and fleshy. In a panic, he took a step forward and fell into the trap once more.

The boar, which is more than 400 pounds, was directly hung to the tree, with its hind legs hanging in the air, and its front legs crawling the ground, but unfortunately to no avail.

"Up!"

Jian Chen roared, and seven or eight people rushed out with stone spears, so frightened that the two sows turned around and ran into the canyon.

The boar howled wildly, but its hind legs were dangling, and its waist and abdomen were not strong enough to support it in fancy ring movements, so it could only keep roaring to scare the hairless monsters away.

Chen Jian didn't dare to be careless, so he let people get out of the way of the boar's front and stabbed the boar with a stone spear.

The boar, half-hung in the air, reveals its soft belly.

"Roar!"

The tribesmen roared loudly and stabbed the stone spear into the boar's body, and the blue-purple intestines flowed out, accompanied by a burst of screams.

The blood was winding on the ground like a small snake, and Jian Chen patted his thigh, but it's a pity, otherwise he could have made a jar of hairy blood.

The Songhe people were completely convinced this time.

Touching the taut lasso, he was surprised that such a simple vine could kill such a big boar, and he no longer had the slightest doubt about Jian Chen's words.

The women heard the boar's dying howl, and jumped down from the trees in the distance and surrounded them, one by one, in amazement...... So hunting can be so simple?

Chen Jian's aunts were inevitably a little complacent about this problem, boasting that they had caught food with Chen Jian for several days, and claimed that they were tired of eating fish.

The roar of wolf skins came from the opposite side of the canyon, and Jian Chen knew that the two sows had already reached the opposite side, so that the ropes had been cut and not hung up when they led people to catch the pigs.

"Catch the pig!"

He shouted, and his people, men and women, echoed aloud.

More than two dozen people rushed into the canyon in a hurry, chasing the little piglets scurrying all over the ground, echoing with squeaky sounds that were indescribably pleasant.