Chapter 443: Weasel Dancing

"Then what method do you say?" After pulling several times in a row and failing to catch a sparrow, the tourist was completely discouraged and asked about other ways to catch sparrows.

Liu Junhao just showed off his original bucket trap method, but the old bull head who passed by on the side said, "What do you do with so much trouble, just get a few cow tail hairs to make sparrow buckles, it's easier to catch." ”

What is the sparrow buckle, this old man casually inserted a sentence to attract everyone's attention.

"It's simple, you wait," said the old bull head, returning to his yard, grabbing the long cow hair and walking to the crowd. I saw him tie the cow's hair to a thin rope about two feet long, tie one every inch, and finally beat the cow's hair into live buckles of different sizes.

"I said, old man, this thing can really catch sparrows? It's a bit mysterious how I look at it. The tourist thought that the old bull head was going to make something profound, but it turned out that he couldn't see where the profoundness was.

Don't talk about him, even Liu Junhao is confused, I don't know which play this old man is singing.

"Don't worry, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, you have to be patient when you watch the excitement." The old man replied unhurriedly, slowly wrapped the string around the swept ground and nailed it firmly, and then filled all the live buckles, and sprinkled some wheat grains on it again to decorate.

Now even everyone can't see those live buckles, let alone sparrows.

"Alright, just pick the sparrows later." After the old man finished his preparations, he clapped his hands and beckoned everyone into the house to drink tea.

Confused, several people craned their necks to look out.

When the sparrow on the branch saw that there was no one in the snow, it immediately fluttered down again. Start grabbing food on the ground. I saw that these guys kept lowering their heads and jumping forward, and soon some of their heads were stuck in the live buckles, some of them were claws touching the live buckles, and some of their wings were buckled.

It really shocked everyone, the guy who was buckled was useless no matter how he struggled, the live buckle was tighter and tighter, and he couldn't break free at all.

Even Liu Junhao took it, Jiang is still old and spicy, and this method of catching sparrows is indeed simple and effective.

After catching more than a dozen sparrows, these tourists were still interested, and they also dragged Liu Junhao to the back of the village to catch turtledoves. There are several dojos at the back of the village, and there are seven or eight stacks of wheat straw scattered around, and there are some uncleaned wheat grains in them, so there are many birds here.

Liu Junhao couldn't refuse, so he could only hurriedly take a few photos of the snow sculpture to keep up.

A few people had just cleared a patch of snow and hadn't buttoned it yet. A tourist inadvertently turned his head to look at the wheat straw stack not far away, and exclaimed, "Look, what's wrong with the weasel?" ”

"Huh?" The rest of the group turned their heads in the direction he was pointing, and they were all stunned.

I saw a big earthy yellow guy with two front paws on his head, his tail arched, and his tail slightly touched the ground, forming a triangle. Then he suddenly stood upright, leaned forward slightly with his upper body, and walked around the snow in a circle with very rhythmic steps.

It looked like a chicken that was drenched in heavy rain and turned its head crazy, it was very weird, Liu Junhao also saw this kind of scene for the first time, and couldn't help but whistle softly.

The weasel immediately stopped his movements and turned his head to look at the crowd, his two small eyes full of curiosity.

It didn't seem to be startled by the people who were close at hand, looked at it for more than ten seconds, and after finding that everyone had no malicious intent, the two front paws were raised violently to the top of the head, making a Japanese devil "surrender" posture, its mouth squeaked a few times, and then turned its head and continued to jump.

The body sways from side to side for a while, and jumps forward for a while, like a drunken little black bear in a cartoon, and it looks cute and cute.

"Squeak...... Just as everyone was stunned, another weasel came out of the snowdrift. Pengbang ...... "The little thing followed the leader and began to bounce on ...... pace.

What is surprising is still behind, and nearly twenty weasels, large and small, have come out of the snowdrifts one after another, forming a circle. Their heads first came together, and their mouths squeaked. The thick tails all swung upwards, as if they were gathering together for a meeting.

A few people were there, and they had forgotten about catching birds. I really didn't expect this group of weasels to be so bold that they didn't care about the humans who were close at hand.

After another half minute, the guys suddenly began to circle in place. From time to time, the paws touch each other, just like the children in the kindergarten who play games in a circle holding hands.

Could it be the legendary weasel dancing en masse...... At this time, Liu Junhao reacted and hurriedly grabbed the camera and shot at this group of guys.

Awakened by his actions, everyone took out their cameras to take pictures.

The big weasel in the lead took a few steps back, and the yellow-brown fur on its body exploded in an instant, and then arched its spine tightly, and its tail was fluffy and erected. With a flick of the two hind legs, he suddenly rose into the air, and made a 360-degree somersault in mid-air, standing back in style.

The scene that followed was even more frustrating, as the guys lined up one after the other, each making the same move.

This strange scene lasted about three or four minutes before the weasel dispersed and disappeared into the snow.

If it weren't for the photos taken on the camera, Liu Junhao would have wondered if he was dreaming. He had only seen weasels dancing in front of rabbits before, and it was the first time he had seen so many weasels dancing together.

Good guys, a bunch of people are standing in the snow and watching...... It's like watching a 3D cartoon. Animals can make such a scene, and if they don't see it with their own eyes, I'm afraid no one will believe it.

In Daqingshan, if you want to talk about which animals are full of magical colors, it is the weasel and the fox, there are many magical stories about these two animals, and they are often called "fox fairy" and Wong Tai Sin by the older generation.

When people in the village talk about ancient times, they often mention weasels, saying that this thing is very ghostly. I remember that my grandfather also told me that in the 60s, when the Baitiao River was swollen, the villagers saw a group of weasels moving, and the one in the back bit the tail of the one in front and ran up the hill in a neat line. At that time, people didn't know, and they all stood not far away to see the strangeness. Later, an old man in the village said that the weasel had moved, and it was estimated that there would be a disaster here, so everyone should hide in the mountains. At the time, people were skeptical, but eventually moved to the mountains. The next night, the Baitiao River was so swollen that it almost flooded the entire village.

Regarding these things, Liu Junhao also believes in three points and doubts in seven, but he did see the charming things of weasels when he was a child. In the early years, there were large brick kilns on the Liujiagou River beach, and people from several nearby villages often came to burn the kilns. Once, when a young man from Three Trees was filling the kiln with firewood, he found a big weasel in the stack of firewood and straw, and this man happened to be holding a shovel in his hand, and a shovel was not hitting the weasel, and he was not sure how to be fascinated. The body swayed straight and couldn't stop panting. His hands fluttered, sometimes crying and sometimes laughing, and he ran around the brick kiln as if he were flying. And the man's voice changed, and it completely changed to the tone of an old lady.

The person next to him saw that something was wrong and hurried to the village to call someone. Liu Wumi, who was called at that time. It was burning incense and shouting souls, tossing and turning for hours, and finally woke the man up. After this man woke up, there was nothing wrong, and he kept asking everyone what they were doing around him.

This incident has existed in Liu Junhao's memory for a long time, but he has never been able to find a reason. As a child, he often saw people in the village catching weasels, but he never encountered anything like this again. When the computer at home was just connected to the Internet, he specially checked it. The above explanation is that the glands of grass civets and weasels have a certain interference effect on the nerves of the human brain, and some people have poor constitution and weak resistance, so when they are affected by the taste, they will produce some strange hallucinations, and the symptoms of the so-called "evil spirit" appear.

However, no matter how strange the weasel's performance is, it cannot escape the fate of being caught, and in the eighties, weasel skins became valuable, and the fur can be processed to make fur coats.

At that time, every family made a cage to catch weasels, which was a cage made of wooden blocks, one end was sealed with iron wire and put live mice, pork, chicken heads and other things as bait, and the other end was made into a sluice gate shape for draining the canal, and a brick was found to be thinned and used as a gate. Then nail two wooden sticks on both sides of the door, support the top with branches, put on a string and pull it into the small hole drilled at the back of the cage, and finally make a thin wooden board at the bottom of the cage as a mechanism, so that the cage is made.

Weasels come out of their burrows in the dead of night to feed, and if they smell something fishy, they will never miss the opportunity to hunt. Since the front of the cage is blocked by barbed wire, it then enters through the gate, and when it enters, it must touch a thin wooden plank, causing the trap to fall and close.

However, weasel skins are not worth much in summer, and they are not expensive until the heavy snow and light snow season after winter.

At that time, every winter, after dinner, the little guys in the village would go to the fields with weasels in groups of three or five, and place a cage to catch weasels next to the grave of firewood and straw. As long as you see the gate closed, there is a chance that there will be a weasel inside.

However, it is not all right to lock up the weasel, and you need to be careful when putting it in the snakeskin bag. This thing is fast, and if you are not careful, you will escape from the mouth of the bag.

Weasels also burrow, so people often find holes to dig for them. In the early years, there were many weasels in the ditch, and many people carried shovels to dig weasels when they were idle.

The cave of this thing usually has two or three holes, and before digging, it must distinguish which two caves it frequents through the marks on the ground, and then block the other holes with some wet soil.

To clarify, the weasel lined up to dance I didn't see it with my own eyes, I just heard about it. But a single weasel dancing and catching a rabbit has been seen from afar