Chapter 447: Returning in vain
To say that Liu Junhao is still relatively lucky, when he got married, Zhang Qian's family all came to Liujiagou for the National Day, so he did not return to the door, which can be regarded as escaping.
"There's nothing to pay attention to, when the time comes, after eating and drinking tea for half an hour, I will leave immediately. People must be guarding the door, so don't worry about being rude or not, just jump in the car and run away. Remember, you must not go to the toilet in the middle, it's okay if you don't go out, but when you go out, people will definitely be paste. Liu Junhao explained in detail.
Before the electric car arrived at the entrance of the village, he saw Liu Junqi standing on the mountain beam from a distance and waving at him vigorously.
Liu Junhao thought that something was wrong, so he hurriedly stopped the electric car and rushed over with Wukong.
"Xiao Hao, come over and take a look, is this the hoof print left by the sheep baby?" Liu Junqi pointed to the traces on the ground and shouted.
Liu Junhao glanced at the traces in the snow a few times, and saw that the front end of the hoof print was outward, which was indeed left by the sheep baby. The hoof prints of wild boars are different from this one, which are two deep and two shallow four petals.
"I guess, why are there sheep babies here," he asked, puzzled. Sheep baby is the common name of wild sheep, this thing is generally in the deep mountains, rarely to the edge of the village.
"It's not that this snow is causing trouble, there is no grass to eat in the mountains, and this thing has also come down. You don't look at my rape field, it's almost being eaten up by them. Liu Junqi pointed to the rape field not far away.
His more than two acres of rape are just on the mountain beam, and when the north wind blows, the snow in the field is blown clean, and the rape is fully exposed. The plot is green and eye-catching. Now a large area of rape is gnawed bare by the sheep baby, which looks very distressing.
"If you want to find a way, this thing will definitely come, and it is estimated that it will be eaten up in a few days." Liu Junhao opened his mouth to suggest.
"Didn't I call you here, tomorrow I will take your family and Professor Zhao's three yellow spots, and let's go up the mountain to catch wild sheep."
"No problem, I'll come over tomorrow morning" The snow has stopped in the past two days, and it is good to take the macular skin into the mountains for activities. If you stay like this any longer, I'm afraid the whole person will really rust.
As soon as Liujiagou was opened to traffic, Liu Junhao posted an announcement on the Internet, which caused a cheer.
The tourists stranded in Liujiagou in the past two days are in a hurry to leave, but people who want to enjoy the snow scenery of the mountain village continue to come, so there are not many tourists in the village now.
When they heard that they were going into the mountains to hunt wild sheep, some people immediately signed up, and a few even brought crossbows.
With this kind of equipment, it is a joke to go up the mountain to fight sheep and babies, and it is estimated that it is difficult to see them. This thing has a keen sense of smell, and when the wind is down, it can smell more than three miles, and it will flee immediately if something is wrong.
Even if you see it, it is difficult to catch up in the mountains, and the sheep baby is more suitable for mountain life than wild boars.
Liu Junhao and the others entered the mountain this time, and they all counted on a few macular skins. The sheep baby is different from the wild boar, the combat effectiveness is weak, and it is just right to chase with the macular skin.
The winter forest is not as quiet as everyone thinks, the magpie stops on the poplar branch and chirps, the neem starling flies over the treetops, and the woodpecker taps its beak on the trunk of the tree, looking for the insects that hide under the bark for the winter. From time to time, mountain winds blew, and large chunks of snow fell overhead, and if you were not careful, you poured a neck.
"With such thick snow, we won't be able to catch up with the prey when we see it later." A tourist spoke.
"Don't worry, the thicker the snow, the more likely we are to hunt down our prey. If you look at the hoof prints on the ground so dense, you can see that the wild creatures are so hungry that they can't stand to come out to find food, and the snow is deep and can't go fast. When we see a sheep baby, we just need to release the macular skin to chase and bite. The snow can definitely bury the thighs of the sheep babies, they can't run fast, and they are entangled in macular skin, so they are easy to surround. Liu Junqi explained with a smile.
The tourists were in high spirits and kept holding up their cameras to take pictures.
As soon as I entered the mountain forest, a few yellow-spotted skins sucked and sniffed in the snow, and the ground was full of traces left by wild things.
Watching Liu Junhao and the others aim at the traces all the way forward, another tourist asked curiously, "Xiao Hao, there are so many hoof prints in this snow, you can all tell them." ”
"Hehe, I don't dare to go up to the mountains to hunt if I don't have the ability." Liu Junhao replied with a smile. Distinguishing hoof prints is a basic skill for hunting in the mountains, and although they don't have the unique skill of Xiao Dog's legs that can distinguish the size of an animal by just looking at the traces, they can still identify the type of animal.
"Look at this, the hoof prints are like two crescent moons, left by wild goats, which we often call stupid roe deer. The two deep and shallow four petals that I walked over just now are boar hoof prints, and the footprints of the hare are in groups of four, wide in front and narrow in the back, and the hind feet fall in front when running. ”
"What kind of animal tracks are there here?" Suddenly, a tourist shouted nearby.
Liu Junqi glanced at it and shouted: "It was left by the grass civet, this thing has hair on the palms of its feet, and it is a plum blossom print, light and shallow." Xiao Hao, it can't be your fox looking for food here, right? ”
Although the two grass civets did not live in Liu Junhao's courtyard anymore, everyone took it for granted that they were fed by him.
"Probably not, they're usually in the river beach." Liu Junhao replied uncertainly. Now that everything is covered with heavy snow, the fox cannot find anything to eat, and it is possible that he will go into the mountains.
As he was talking, the macular skin that was exploring the path in front of him suddenly roared wildly and rushed out with a cloud of smoke.
The sharp-eyed tourist of the "fox" saw the dark red shadow flickering in the snowdrift and immediately shouted.
"Xiaopi, come back" Liu Junhao shouted, and the few yellow-spotted skins that were chasing after him stopped, and the grass civet saw the pursuers retreating, and immediately stopped.
This guy should be the descendant of the two grass civets, he was more courageous, and he did not rush to escape after realizing that there was no danger, and turned around and ran back to a place more than ten meters away from everyone. Twisting his head, he looked at them curiously, as if he was full of interest in the strange visitor.
Some tourists came forward to take pictures with their cameras, which shocked this guy, and he dodged and ran more than ten meters away.
However, when Liu Junhao approached, the grass civet did not run away, but on the contrary, his limbs kicked in the snow and surrounded him with a loud cry of joy.
After screaming for a while, the thing went back to the snow nest and pulled around, and then sent a frozen hare to Liu Junhao.
Kouhu, this thing also sent a rabbit to himself. Liu Junhao was thinking just now that the snow grass civet can't find food, so let's let Xiaopi catch a rabbit and give it to it, who knows that this guy is living a very moist life and can store food.
There were twenty or thirty hares hanging under the eaves of his house, and of course he would not ask for food from the grass civets. Liu Junhao followed and threw the hare over, and the guy swaggered away.
Naturally, this scene was filmed by tourists.
Even Liu Junhao thought that it was easy to catch a sheep baby with a yellow spotted skin, but after walking for half an hour, they found that things were far more complicated than they imagined.
Usually there are small roads and streams on the mountain as a reference, but this heavy snow has filled in all the ravines and ravines on the slopes, and everyone can only distinguish the general direction. Although he was aiming at the hoof prints of the sheep baby, he often heard a "poof" sound as he walked, and someone stepped on the hollow, and the whole person fell into the snow, and then the people around him hurriedly dragged him up with branches.
On the contrary, a few macular skins are light and rarely fall into snow nests.
After walking for an hour, a few tourists who usually lack exercise began to pant and the idea of returning home rose in their hearts.
"Forget it, Brother Junqi, you better go home and bother to get a pole, we can't catch it even if we catch it" Seeing that a few people behind him were getting farther and farther away, Liu Junhao also dispelled the idea of catching a sheep baby.
This thing is ghostly, and it goes to steep places, so that they can't settle down at all, and they accidentally fall into a snow pit.
In this way, even if the sheep baby is found, it is estimated that it will be difficult to catch.
"There are a few big poplars around my land, and there are no small saplings, so I have to make my own poles. Besides, we don't know how to look at the high and low, I'm afraid it's not good to catch the sheep baby. "The pole is a kind of trap for the Daqingshan people to catch wild things before, before going down, first look at the size of the beast's footprints and the distance between the front and rear feet, find a small tree near the foothold that can support the body of the beast, and pull it towards the ground into a "bow". Then place a mechanism made of thin wooden sticks on the ground, connect the small tree with a rope, and make a live buckle near the rope mouth at the end of the mechanism, so as to support a simple mechanism.
When the traps are set up, they also have to use thorn branches to make some shelter nearby, so that the beasts can only move along this path.
As soon as something hits the trap, it is immediately tied to the slipknot, and the pole jumps to lift one of the beast's feet to the ground.
Since the whole trap is supported by a small tree, it is best to choose the kind of tree with strong elasticity, which has a large return force, is not easy to break, and can easily bounce the beast up.
In the early years, Liu Jiagou used this method to catch many wild beasts, Liu Junhao still remembers that his grandfather used this method to capture four sheep babies before, and they ate beautifully for a winter.
However, pole support is also a highly technical job, and ordinary people can't do it at all.
"You can ask the old cow head to help you do it, and when you don't go back, you see the sheep baby and call me immediately, and I will take Xiaopi over to chase after me. Aiming at hoof prints is certainly not possible. ”
"Okay then," Liu Junqi nodded helplessly.
In this way, the hunt ended with a tiger and a snake's tail, and when they went up the mountain, everyone was high-spirited, but when they came down the mountain, they were dejected. Neither of them was a serious hunter, they lacked hunting experience, and with a few laymen, failure was almost predictable.
Although hares ran past him from time to time, Liu Junhao was not interested in letting the yellow-spotted skin chase after him. Fishing is not what he wants, this year's heavy snow has frozen to death a lot of rabbits, or let them recuperate for a few months, and wait for the spring rabbits to breed more before fighting.
In fact, it can't be said that there are no achievements at all, along the way, a few yellow-spotted skins found three frozen hares in the snow nest. At noon, I will go back and peel the skin to make a fried rabbit meat! ~!