Chapter 14: Suitable Traps

It is said that God likes to favor those who work hard, although many times the effort is in vain. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn Wang Chuan's view, after teaching the people of the tribe to make traps for more than ten days, except for occasionally bringing back goats or rabbits that were half eaten by wild beasts, the harvest of those who went out has not changed significantly, and these days' efforts are equivalent to being in vain.

In view of the convenience of digging kilns and avoiding traps being taken advantage of by predators after no one arrives for a long time, Wang Chuan has already made a fixed arrangement for them to go out in groups and leave behind when they learn to use traps. But the effect is not obvious.

Sometimes Wang Chuan checked the use of their ropes and nets at night, and found out how they were brought out during the day and how they were brought back at night. When I asked them why they didn't use these, they said they were reluctant to use them, and they used rattan instead of rattan for the cover or something. This idea is right, compared to the relatively rare hemp rope, rattan is all over the mountains, easier to obtain, but there are more pimples on the rattan, the thickness is different, and it is difficult to master the raw hands, so it seems that the time to take effect has to be much more.

For the crocodiles in the Yeyuan River, Wang Chuan's plan is to catch one or two a day, and the water will flow for a long time. After all, these crocodiles may have to maintain the basic rations of the tribe for several years.

Seeing that winter is approaching, the weather is getting colder and colder, maybe when the Taijiang crocodile will dig a hole to hibernate, and the amount of food stored by the tribe for winter is far from enough to survive the spring. Wang Chuan was thinking about whether to let them all come back to hunt crocodiles and store meat for the winter, when the people who went out on this day accidentally brought back five sika deer, large and small.

This time the whole tribe was in a sensation, and the movement was even more exaggerated than the hunting of two crocodiles that day. The people in this group all giggled and accepted the compliments and admiration of the rest of the tribe, and their mouths were grinning to their ears.

It's a rare harvest, and they have the qualifications to be a daunt. However, good experience still has to be summarized and promoted. This time to ask how they did it, maybe they don't have time to answer. Wang Chuan walked up to a few deer and prepared to see for himself.

The more uniform condition of the deer is that the leg is broken, there are obvious abrasions and strangulation marks of the grid rope, and all of them have been stabbed in the head by stone spears. This is obviously the use of nets as tripping ropes, so that these deer fall and stab to death. It is not difficult to guess that it is beyond Wang Chuan's expectation that these people can think of using the net as a stumbling rope.

Finally, when the noise quieted down, these people talked about the hunting, and as a result, Wang Chuan's face showed a lot of praise and a lot of feelings in his heart. Chasing prey is the tribe's forte.

Things were similar to what Wang Chuan expected, except that the ingredients of God's favor were higher.

This time they got to the spot where they had chased the deer last time and found that the deer had returned. After more than ten days of Wang Chuan's teaching, this time he did not chase indiscriminately, but prepared to use traps in a narrow area, and then drove them into the trap through encirclement. So a few people set up a few traps and ropes, and a few people went around behind the deer herd. It's just that the tacit understanding between the two sides is not enough, the trap on this side has just been set in a hurry, and the catch up on that side has begun. The trap was set up in a hurry, and in the hurry, one of the nets landed on the edge of the trap.

As a result, only one trap was trapped, but several were tripped over the net. The man hiding in the shadows took the opportunity to rush out, held down the deer's head and speared a spear, and finally harvested a total of five sika deer.

It's hard to say, whether it's the result of hard work or God's favor. In short, the result was gratifying, and the harvest that had never been done before also greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the tribe to use traps to hunt.

After this incident, whether men or women, those who stayed behind or those who went out, the group of people who stayed in the tribe finished catching one crocodile a day, and then they all went out to set traps. Wang Chuan had arranged to dig a kiln before, so he dug a low hole of less than two meters there. There was a pile of meat piled up in the cave, which was not roasted and no one had taken care of it, and several pieces of deerskin and crocodile skins had been peeled off and just hung there and no one had disposed of them.

Ask the women who don't know what they're doing out, and they're back to being right: helping to crush branches and dig traps.

This enthusiasm cannot be discouraged. However, Wang Chuan felt that the direction he taught them to do traps and set up traps should be changed.

In his opinion, things like trap traps should be delicate techniques, so they should be used separately. However, he now realizes that simple and crude things are appropriate for the tribesmen. The best is not necessarily suitable, the right is the best.

Since the people of the tribe can't accept it, then all kinds of exquisiteness, all kinds of skills and so on taught before will be abandoned. From now on, there are only two kinds of rope sets: one is used to catch rabbits, foxes, pheasants, this kind of cover is only one size larger than the tribal children's nests and birds, and you can tie the branches and ropes yourself to the place where the prey haunts and plug them in. The other is to catch large animals, which requires the use of finger thick rope or rattan of the same size, pressing large branches as elastic force, dealing with goats, wild wolves and leopards rely on this. As for whether to bite the rope or not, whether to put a head or a foot, then don't worry about it for now.

There is only one requirement for the trap, dig deep, and the wall of the well should be straight. Dig a five-meter deep pit and insert a few barbs underneath, and the tiger will have to kneel if it falls in. Anyway, the tribesmen don't have any other people, and they still have some strength.

If you like to run after animals, then let's play sports and cast nets. The net is a tripping horse and has eaten the sweetness with this set, and it can't be lost, how to pull the net and talk to them. You still have to hide one or two people next to you, and when the prey trips and falls, you go forward and stab yourself to death.

These changes to the trap were greatly welcomed by the tribe, for whom they could not even remember things that were too delicate to remember. With this change, combined with their previous ten days of study, they became very clear.

The people of the tribe were able to survive in the primitive wilderness, but in fact, it was not useless. There are many clues that can be seen from the guaranteed harvest of one or two crocodiles every day. Even if the role of casting the net is aside, at least they are very good at finding traces of their prey and disguising themselves. Otherwise, the mountains and forests are reckless, where to find suitable prey to chase after their buttocks? How do you avoid those ferocious, large predators?

Stimulated by the joy of the harvest, the tribesmen also used another way to change the problem of the inefficiency of the trap, that is, to make up the number of people. Whenever they found any animal tracks, they diligently got ten or eight traps and rope lassoes and piled them there. For them, rattan or something is all over the mountains anyway, and now that they are proficient in action, the next set is just a matter of convenience. As long as one or two have a harvest, the stomach will not starve, so why not?

At the same time, if they encounter prey, they also use this method very easily.

In this way, the tribe's harvest finally became abundant. In the days that followed, foxes, rabbits, goats, pheasants, muntjacs, wild boars, and even monkeys, big cats, etc., were constantly carried back to the tribe. The atmosphere in the tribe is also hot, and the smell of barbecue meat lingers all day long.

Because of this, the mountains and forests near the tribe have become numerous traps and extremely dangerous. The wish of the tribal children to put the whole mountain forest in a sleeve was fulfilled in the hands of adults.

The children of the tribe are estimated to be roasting until they vomit for the first time. Despite Wang Chuan's command, these hairy children still can't do such things that require patience, and the meat is burned and burnt from time to time, and it is even more inevitable to eat and fight.

When the tribesmen brought another wild boar back to the tribe, Wang Chuan decisively told his mother the idea of letting the pregnant woman stay as a cook. This time, the mother did not hesitate and quickly agreed.