Chapter 58: Booby Trapping the Tigress
Now let's go back to Hongxia'er.
In other words, Hongxia'er waited left and right, and did not wait for the tigress to arrive.
Seeing that almost a month has passed, the weather is getting cooler and colder, so that everyone thinks that this year may not come, at least until the beginning of spring next year.
Suddenly, a paparazzi who was in charge of keeping a guard in the distance came running to report: The tiger is coming, and it is almost in the woods of the front mountain.
Wow! It's finally here, and what should come will always come.
Hongxia'er immediately ordered everyone to prepare for battle.
It turned out that three months after the "pregnant cub" tigress returned, she gave birth to three little ones with tiger heads and tiger brains.
Looking at these three cute little babies, the tigress's maternal love began to overflow.
Therefore, the tigress decided to stay and nurse the little things, and when they were able to hunt on their own, it would not be too late to go out and take revenge.
After waiting for another four or five months, the tigers were able to catch their own small animals (rabbits, rats, cats, chickens, ducks, etc.) and eat them.
The tigress felt that the time had come, that she had no baggage, and that she could easily go into battle, so she made a comeback.
This time, the tigress decided not to go to the back mountain, but went directly to the front mountain, turned around, and came to the front of the cave.
When the tigress finally faintly saw the cave in front of her, a long-lost excitement could not help but arise: Yo Xi! My land is coming, and all of you will die and die to work, and my land will suck all your land.
I saw that there were no people or animals at the entrance of the cave in front of me. The tigress decided to observe the movement before making a plan.
Suddenly, the tigress spotted two dogs fighting in the woods in front of her, barking incessantly.
The tigress thought to herself: Although the traps here are very powerful, I don't want to do it, and I work heroically. Shall I go over and see if there is one? I can't run away anymore, it's a great humiliation to work.
Thinking of this, the tigress crept to the place where the dog barked, and as she got closer and closer, she began to walk into the woods.
Suddenly, I only heard a "poof" sound, followed by a "poof!" With a very painful scream, the tiger fell into a large trap, and was pierced by several huge bamboo sticks, and died after a while.
The tigress was thus exterminated, and took the "Hero's Medal" to the underground to find her "flowery" husband.
The scheming female fox Hongxia'er finally sent the fierce tiger couple to report to Lord Yama.
The Hongxia'er tribe was immersed in a joyful atmosphere, smiling happily, gobbling up delicious tiger meat, and forgetting their last name with so much happiness.
Although the tigress was eliminated, it did not give Hongxia'er peace of mind.
She knew there was still a month of snow to come, and it was going to be a very stressful and busy month.
Because every year after the snow, the biggest danger is the wolves.
Although Hongxia'er has laid many traps around this, there will be no more than two traps in a single direction, and each trap can only deal with seven or eight wild wolves, which is not enough to stand up to many wolves! Each pack ranges from one or two hundred, to thousands.
Therefore, in order to deal with this imminent great danger, she also led everyone to do these three things:
One is to find enough wood and firewood;
The second is to dig a large enough pit on the flat ground in front of the cave, and dig another trench in front of the cave that is 20 meters long, 3 meters wide, and 2 meters deep;
The third is to dig two or three more caves to carry timber and grain.
She asked the red-haired father to use the knife in his hand to make two bamboo baskets for transporting soil, and the two front paws of the wild dog dug in the trench and scooped the soil into the earthen basket, and then tied the hemp rope made by the red-haired father to the handle of the earthen basket, and the red-haired father and several foxes used a tug-of-war method to pull the earthen basket full of soil up to the outside of the trench to dump the soil.
This is the soil method that Hongxiaer borrowed from human beings to dig trenches with manpower.
These are heavy physical work, which can only be completed mainly by strong paparazzi, and the foxes who do not have a lot of physical strength can only do some light physical work for them, tug-of-war and transportation of soil, standing guard, delivering water and food, etc.
First, Hongxia'er orders the paparazzi to cut down trees.
This so-called "tree cutting" is to ask the paparazzi to bite off all the trees whose roots are slightly smaller than the small bowl.
Although this sounds like a lot of difficulty, it is not a difficult task that Hongxia'er has specially trained to bite the sharp dog teeth of pig iron.
Generally, paparazzi members can bite off at least one tree every day, and at most three trees can be bitten, and Hongxiaer adopts a reward system of more work and more rewards, and every time she bites off a tree, she will be rewarded with a purple potato.
The foxes came and broke the branches with their front paws, and put the thin branches and leaves in one pile, the larger branches in another pile, and the trunks in another pile, and so on in three piles.
Among them, thin branches and leaves are used to light fires to keep wolves out, larger, leafless branches are used for heating and cooking, and trunks are used to make wooden bridges and fences.
The operation lasted about 10 days, and a total of 300 trees, large and small, were bitten off.
Next, Hongxia'er asked the paparazzi to use their front paws to dig a trench to protect the hole, this operation took the longest time, and it took fifteen days to barely complete, and at this time, the red-haired father had already used the knife in his hand to make three half-meter-wide and four-five-meter-long wooden bridges and the fence in front of the cave.
The last few days left were all but digging holes.
By the time they had hurriedly dug two caves, the sky was already snowing, and winter was coming.
At this time, they were left with a large pit that needed to be dug in the flat ground in front of the cave.
However, at this time, the ground was frozen and hard, making it unsuitable for excavation.
Hongxia'er had no choice but to pile up the thin branches and leaves on the flat land, build a wooden bridge over the trench, and hide the other two in the cave. All the grain and the new branches were placed in the two newly dug caves.