Chapter 508 Preparations

"What about macular piping?" Hearing Old Man Xiao say that the earth leopard was so fierce, Liu Junhao asked unconvinced.

"The next thing is to talk about macular skin, this thing is stupid and daring. A single macular skin can't beat a leopard, but a few together can definitely make the leopard flee in embarrassment. In the early years, it was very popular in Daqingshan yellow spotted skin, and one could only sell for two oceans. Xiao Baocai explained.

"What's the matter with 'I'd rather mess with the leopard, don't mess with the macular skin'?" asked Liu Junhao again.

"If you encounter a leopard in the mountains, as long as you don't rush to run away and look at it for a few minutes, this thing will usually turn away. The macular skin is different, it will be entangled to the end when it meets its prey, and it is the same when it meets people, so there is this sentence. ”

It turns out that there is such a saying, I have a misunderstanding at all, I used to think that the macular skin can also win when it meets the leopard.

"Old man, tell us about your hunting in the early years." Last year, he was in a hurry to go up the mountain to hunt wild boars, and Liu Junhao didn't ask much about Xiao Baocai when he was young.

"If you want to say when I started hunting, that's a head," Xiao Baocai's face showed a hint of pride, "At that time, I was not yet fifteen years old, and at first I herded sheep for our landlord Guo Wansheng in Daqingshan, and one day the sheep were taken away by a hungry wolf, and I went back and was beaten with a leather whip." At that time, the army had not yet come, and we didn't understand any big truth, so we put our hatred for the landlord on the wolf, and beat the wolf when we saw it. At that time, traps were mainly set up, and a wolf could sell it for ten oceans, which was not a small amount. Later, I slowly gained experience, and I took up the hunter's business......"

"After the liberation, a hunting professional group was set up in the town, and I was the first to sign up. You young people don't know that hunting was a glorious thing at that time, and each hunter had a hundred pounds of wheat a month. Hunting pheasants and rabbits during the day is called slopes, and targeting wild boars, grass civets and hungry wolves at night is hunting.

I learned this skill from that time, rabbits have rabbit paths, wolves have wolf tracks. The badger burrows at the bottom of the ditch, and the fox slips on the mountainside. In addition, there are also hungry wolves and grass civets. Before shooting the wolf, you must make some movement, the wolf will stop and observe when he hears the sound, and aim for a shot at this time to solve.

The grass civet is a ghost and a ghost, and it must be fought quietly, and it will escape if it is touched by the slightest wind and grass, and it will not be able to catch up with it......"

Speaking of his proud things, Xiao Baocai couldn't finish talking about three days and three nights. From hunting pheasants and rabbits, to fighting wolves and leopards, and finally hunting tigers.

"Old man, do you estimate that there are still leopards in this mountain?" Seeing that he had no tendency to stop, Wang Junfeng hurriedly stopped the conversation.

"It should be gone, I haven't heard of anyone in any village seeing leopards and earth leopards in these years, and the grass leopards of Xiaohao's family haven't seen them for a few years. If you want to find it, you'd better go deep into the mountains, because you can't find it on the periphery. Old Man Xiao was also a little stunned in the end, "Speaking of which, I fought too hard a few years ago, and I didn't know how to protect at that time." ”

"Then old man, do you think there may be felines in that area, help us mark it?" Wang Junfeng said and took out Zhang Daqingshan's map from his backpack. Although it was confirmed from Old Man Xiao that the leopard and the leopard belonged to different cats, this confirmation was of little value until the physical entity was seen.

", I don't even know a few big characters, I can understand your entire map." Xiao Baocai waved his hand and said, "Let's tell me a few place names and let Xiao Hao help mark them on them." ”

"No problem," Liu Junhao nodded in response.

Xiao Baocai casually said more than a dozen locations, and he marked them one by one.

The old man enthusiastically left them at home for lunch, but everyone refused. When they were about to walk out of the door, Xiao Baocai slapped his thigh and shouted, "I almost forgot about this, seven or eight years ago, a friend of mine went up the mountain to collect medicine, saying that he saw traces of leopards hanging on their claws in Dama Mountain, and asked me to go over and have a look." Dama Mountain is too far away, and I didn't go past it because I didn't have good legs. You can also look there, maybe something new will be discovered. ”

"Hanging claws?" Liu Junhao didn't know what that word meant.

"Oh, and felines have a habit of sharpening their claws, just like dogs like to pee everywhere to keep their smell, and felines use claw marks to indicate that an area is their "territory". In unfamiliar places, they generally rarely have claws. Tigers and leopards often hang their claws on tree trunks in active areas, so this mark is an important reference for determining the presence of big cats in the vicinity. Wang Junfeng explained for Xiao Baocai.

"The feelings are like this, I said how often the clouded leopards at home grind their claws." Don't look at Liu Junhao's self-feeding clouded leopards for more than a year, but he really doesn't know much about felines.

Everyone is a long mountain road, nearly 20 miles back and forth is nothing, and when they rush back to Liujiagou, it is just after eleven o'clock.

Liu Junhao warmly invited everyone to his house for dinner, although he couldn't do some inspection work for them, but he could still afford a meal.

Wang Junfeng agreed after a little excuse, and they would live together in the next few days, and it would be good to contact them as soon as possible.

The vegetables are very easy to pick up, go to the backyard to catch some yellow eels, and then slaughter one of the hares that you have raised.

Good ingredients and good craftsmanship, everyone is full of praise for a meal, and even said that it was worth the trip.

After being full of wine and food, Liu Junhao led them to see the pig badger cave outside his yard. Pig badgers rarely appear during the day, but these few outside Liu Junhao's courtyard are very face-saving.

When they came to the entrance of the cave, Liu Junhao shouted a few times at the top of his voice, and screams immediately came from the cave in response, and soon several fat big guys showed their traces.

Liu Junhao is so familiar with them, mainly thanks to the yellow eel and large-flowered peel melon in the backyard.

Just this summer, Liu Junhao lost at least seven or eight large flower skins in his courtyard, all of which were ruined by this thing. Fortunately, the badger is an omnivorous animal, and earthworms, loaches, yellow eels, snakes, and voles are all their food. In the summer, the artemisia grass outside the courtyard has an abundant source of food, so the large flower skin of the house has not suffered further losses.

Otherwise, if it continues like this, Liu Junhao would have gotten rid of them long ago.

Because of his frequent dealings, the badger was very familiar with Liu Junhao's smell, and he screamed in a low voice to get out of the burrow, not staying next to him to sniff.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wang Junfeng and others hurriedly took out their cameras to take pictures.

Regardless of the fact that they have been studying felines for five or six years, there are very few opportunities to actually come into face-to-face contact with wild animals, and most of them are seen in videos taken by infrared-triggered cameras.

When they came to Daqingshan, they found that the trip was worthwhile. First of all, the heron in the woods outside Liu Junhao's courtyard made everyone exclaim for a long time, and many birds that are rarely seen in the wild can also find traces near Liujiagou.

There are also clouded leopards and leopards, two animals that can live together.

"Let's go, I'll take you to see the fox again" After filming the badger, Liu Junhao took everyone to the river beach again. In the afternoon, Zhang's mother took the car to Liujiagou, so Zhang Qian was guarding at home, and he was idle.

"We've read your daughter-in-law's article about foxes on the Internet, it's very vivid." I heard that I was going to see the fox, Du Bo interjected.

"It's not vivid." Liu Junhao responded modestly.

Descending into the river beach, two macular skins opened the way in front of them, and soon startled a flock of pheasants. Seven or eight colorful roosters, plus a few grey fluttering hens. These guys flapped their wings and slowly swept past everyone's eyes. Looking at it like that, it seems to be complaining that uninvited guests have disturbed their rest.

Xiaopi got up and wanted to catch up, but was stopped by Liu Junhao.

The reeds of Liujiagou are dense, and a large number of flocks of pheasants and ducks are stationed in the reeds all year round, and they are growing more and more, which provides sufficient food for the foxes.

A few grass civets have been moving in the reeds, and these guys are much more alarmed than the hog badgers.

Soon after Liu Junhao went down to the river beach, he saw the grass civet coming out of the reeds, and when he saw an acquaintance, this guy immediately rushed over excitedly, and he didn't even look at the two yellow-spotted skins.

"Liu Junhao, this fox is not afraid of people, don't let people catch it." Wang Junfeng asked worriedly over there.

"Hehe, if you think about it too much, we can see it. Normally, as long as this guy hears the slightest sound of the wind, he immediately rushes all the way to the reeds and disappears without a trace, more clever than a human. Some time ago, someone wanted to take a picture of a grass civet, and even stayed on the side of the reeds for a week, but I didn't see a single fox hair, and then I called out to take a few photos. Liu Junhao replied with a smile. If he wants to say that other animals are worried about being caught by humans, foxes are not necessary at all, they are more vigilant than expected, as long as there is a strange smell near the nest, they will immediately "move" that night, just in case.

"Another one comes out, and there are cubs," the sharp-eyed Du Bo exclaimed.

There were three grass civet cubs in total, and the little ones were more afraid of humans, and they hid in the grass and refused to come out.

"This is another litter, last year that litter of cubs ran into the mountains, and I came across them some time ago." Liu Junhao opened his mouth to explain.

originally wanted to take them on a tour, but Zhang Qian called and said that Zhang's mother had arrived in the town and would come over in a numb car immediately.

Liu Junhao had no choice but to end the introduction and hurried back with everyone.

There were guests at home who were coming, Wang Junfeng and the others didn't bother too much, but just told them to go up the mountain tomorrow and bring all the necessary equipment.

After parking at home for less than ten minutes, the numb car drove to the door of Liu Junhao's house. Zhang Qian explained on the phone not to bring anything, they don't lack anything here. I didn't know that Zhang's mother promised it in her mouth, and she still brought a few bags of children's clothes and toys when she came.

I haven't seen my grandson for two months, and Zhang's mother naturally can't be affectionate, and she talks vigorously with the eldest and the second.

The little ones also gave face, laughing at Zhang's mother, coaxing the old lady very happy.

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