Chapter 439: Circles and Steps

When the hare returned from its own tracks, it crashed headlong into the sleeve and was strangled by the neck. The other end of the sleeve is wedged into the ground and it is difficult to break free, and this end is a live buckle, so the hare struggles more tightly the sleeve tightens.

Of course, if the hare moves backwards, the sleeve will automatically release and the hare's head will come out of the sleeve. But this thing will only struggle forward until it is suffocated.

"I see," several tourists nodded as they listened.

Liu Junhao also suddenly realized that he would only use rabbit traps to catch rabbits before, but he never thought about the reason.

"Follow me, be careful not to step on the rabbit print." Ermazi commanded.

Several people wanted to see how to chase the hare, so they naturally nodded and agreed.

As soon as he walked more than 20 meters away, Er Mazi suddenly stopped again, pointed to a large footprint on the snow and said, "Look here, it's the footprints of rabbits walking back and forth, let's go around, so as not to get mixed up and break the traces." ”

"How do you get confused?" One of the tourists asked curiously, he really didn't see the meaning of walking back and forth.

"Rabbits like to draw circles when they hide after eating, and in order to hide their footprints, they generally jump high and sideways, and jump out of many circles or steps...... Step Did you know? It is to run back and forth on their own trail a few times, interfering with the sight of natural enemies. After a few tosses, they burrow into the hole without leaving a trace. Er Mazi pointed to the traces on the ground and talked eloquently.

"Is it so mysterious, how does it sound like, are rabbits more refined than people?" Dr. Wang didn't believe it, and he carried Liu Junhao's shoulder.

"Hehe, I don't know." Liu Junhao used to catch rabbits purely to let Xiaopi die, I really didn't know that there were so many ways in it.

"If you don't know how to call a rabbit a short-tailed ghost, you'll know after me......" Er Mazi explained, pointing to the messy footprints on the ground and said, "If you don't believe it, you can leave a sign here, and we will definitely have to turn back in a while." ”

"Really...... Dr. Wang immediately threw one of his black gloves on the ground.

really let Er Mazi say yes, they followed the footprints to find most of the wheat field, and finally returned to the original point two or three meters away.

Now the tourists are all convinced, it seems that people are not blowing, there is really research on catching rabbits.

"That was the first lap and now we're about to hit the second lap. Xiao Hao, get the macular skin ready, the rabbit will appear soon. Generally, rabbits only draw two circles, and rabbits with three circles are rare. Er Mazi turned his head and ordered seriously.

"No problem," Liu Junhao patted Xiaopi's head and nodded. Now that macular skin has finally come in handy, if you want to catch a hare in normal times, you don't have to bother at all, just let the little skin look around. As long as he found the rabbit, the guy definitely didn't run.

However, it is not possible after the snow, mainly because the rabbit leaves a lot of traces and smells on the snow, which can easily interfere with Xiaopi's judgment. Just those few circles just now, it is estimated that Xiaopi will be dizzy after looking for it.

They walked twenty or thirty meters further in the circle, and their footprints suddenly broke off. There was no trace of anything around, as if a hare had suddenly grown wings and flew away.

"What's going on?" Even Liu Junhao felt quite weird.

"Don't worry, it's called a broken circle, which means that the rabbit is hiding not far away, and we will find it soon. You should all pay attention to see if there is any place in the vicinity that is taller, it should be within thirty meters of the vicinity. If you see a black hole in any place, it must be a snow nest where the hare is hiding. After speaking, Er Mazi squinted his eyes and looked around.

When it snows, rabbits have nowhere to hide, and are generally lying under heavy snow, making it harder to spot than usual. But they are not without flaws, they need to breathe too. Due to the heat formed by breathing, a small hole is formed in the snow on the head of the hare. As long as you find the small hole, you can close the door and catch the rabbit.

"I also know this, rabbits are 'high lying low, lying high at the bottom, artemisia lying on grass, grass lying on artemisia'," Liu Junhao also recited a common saying in order not to show his ignorance.

The snow was so heavy that the wheat seedlings were completely covered underneath, and there was no trace of green in sight. However, under the swirling of the north wind, there are still many places where a little wheat green is exposed.

A tourist walked forward patiently, and suddenly found that there was a black hole the size of an egg in the snowdrift swirled by the wind three meters away in front of him, and there was a light yellow urine mark outside the black hole.

"I found it, I found it," exclaimed the tourist excitedly.

"Don't shout......" didn't wait for Er Mazi to finish speaking, only to see a fat body suddenly burst out of the black hole, then turned his hooves and palms, and ran towards the distance with his limbs, running more than ten meters away in a blink of an eye.

"Xiaopi" Liu Junhao happened to be in the opposite direction at the moment, more than 30 meters away from the rabbit hole. On the orders of his master, the macular skin rushed out after him to catch up. Goku also wanted to jump, but was held in his arms.

"What are you shouting, I'm still going to find a 'sleeper'" Er Mazi came over and shouted a little depressed. Lying down means not waiting for the rabbit to come out of the hole and pounce directly on it to catch it.

This method simply doesn't work with other animals, but rabbits are different, they are confident in their hiding place. As long as there is no big movement, they generally hide in their nests and refuse to move.

"Didn't I find the rabbit excited," the tourist explained, scratching his head, embarrassed.

"Don't worry, there is a small skin in it that can't run away" Liu Junhao is full of confidence in his macular skin.

This time there was no accident, the hare squatted in the snow nest for so long, coupled with the short legs and thick snow, did not jump far before the little skin was thrown into the snow. When a hare arrived, everyone's interest increased, and they searched for it in the wheat field.

"Here, here," just walked two wheat fields, and another tourist shouted.

However, when they saw the traces, several people were confused, as if there were more than one kind of footprints on the ground.

What exactly is this imprint? Ermazi also didn't recognize the new footprints. What baffled them even more was that the two footprints were completely mixed together, not distinguishing from each other.

Several people circled along the circle for two weeks, and Er Mazi suddenly grabbed Liu Junhao and pointed to a black hole more than ten meters away.

"This is not the same as just now?" A tourist muttered.

According to Ermazi, rabbits generally have to jump away when they are close to the cave, how can this lead directly to the mouth of the cave.

Liu Junhao didn't think about it so much, and patted Xiaopi's head directly. But before Xiaopi approached, an earthy yellow guy sprang out of it.

Weasel...... I didn't expect it to be a weasel in the snow den.

Seeing that it was this thing, Liu Junhao suddenly lost interest and called Xiaopi back directly.

The weasel that winters has thick fur, and it can be sold for forty or fifty yuan when he gets it on the street, but Liu Junhao can't see this money yet, so it's better to leave that guy alive.

"It turned out that the rabbit in the snow nest was eaten by a weasel" Er Mazi opened the snow nest, and then found the mystery in the snow nest, a hare that was eaten most of it.

"Weasels still eat rabbits, don't they?" Dr. Wang exclaimed in surprise. The hare was obviously much larger than the weasel, and he had always thought that this thing only ate mice.

"Hehe, normal. I've seen a weasel catch a rabbit once, and when he touches a rabbit, he will jump around a short distance away, rolling from side to side, jumping back and forth. In a few minutes, the rabbit was blindfolded, and stood there motionless, with straight eyes, completely unaware of its escape, and was finally bitten to death by a weasel. Liu Junhao said.

"Not really, right?" A few tourists felt that what he said was more mysterious, and that he had developed in the direction of superstition.

"Wait for the future to meet and take pictures, let you see," Liu Junhao did not argue. The weasel is really a bit of a godly chatter, and it is not unreasonable for rural people to call it Wong Tai Sin in the past.

After less than three hours in the field, the harvest was beyond imagination.

Rabbits have super reproductive ability, and a litter can give birth to three or four in one litter. I didn't think it before, but today I found signs that the rabbits in the field are flooding again, and the wheat fields are full of footprints. With little effort they caught nine hares, exactly one each.

Of course, this time Xiaopi made a great contribution, and most of it was caught, and Liu Junhao was ready to treat it well when he went back.

When he arrived at the door of his house, Liu Junhao found that he had been out for less than three hours, and a snowman more than one meter high had already stood at the gate of the courtyard.

It turned out that as soon as he left, Wang Fang and Du Fei came over to chat with the two of them. Hearing that Liu Junhao had gone to catch rabbits, Wang Fang suggested that they build snowmen for fun.

A few days ago, I was trying to find time to invite the two of them to have a meal again, and it happened that they came by coincidence, and they stewed pheasants and rabbits at noon.

Du Fei and Wang Fang have been in Liujiagou for almost half a year, and they are already very familiar with Liu Junhao, so they stayed without too much excuse.

He cut the pheasant and rabbit meat into half a pot, scalded it with boiling water, sprinkled it with peppercorns, and then put a few pieces of wood under the pot stove to boil it vigorously, and then went to the sand mound in the courtyard to pick up a few white radishes and cut them into large pieces and throw them into the pot.

After nearly an hour of busyness, the radish stew with the tempting aroma of the radish came out of the pot. The four of them couldn't finish this cauldron at all, Liu Junhao got two pots of meat and bones for the animals in the courtyard, threw a few steamed buns, and then beckoned everyone to eat.

The soup is fragrant and spicy in the mouth, and the meat is all stewed, and there is no stuffing at all. Even the radish tasted, and the mouth was full of umami, and the two who ate it straight praised each other.

Zhang Qian was disgusted with meat, and Liu Junhao specially made her a braised radish strip.

These radish strips are cut into strips and dried in the autumn, and salt, soy sauce, and ingredients are added to them when they are fried. Because the ingredients are good, although it is an ordinary white radish, it tastes crisp and refreshing, and it has an endless aftertaste after eating, and there is still a little taste of meat.

Taking advantage of his happiness, Liu Junhao took out another half jar of monkey wine and poured it for the two of them. Wang Fang first excused himself and didn't drink, and after taking a small sip, he couldn't say anything to excuse himself