Early Autumn Festival.

Deep in the Yuntai Mountains, primeval forests rise and fall along with the peaks to the sky.

A valley, silent and windless, with the occasional birdsong.

In the dense forest of the valley, several wild boars forage in the forest.

In autumn, all kinds of fruits ripen, and the ripe fruits fall on the ground full of fallen leaves.

The wild boar eats the fruit of the earth.

A red apple on a pile of dead leaves is particularly tempting, and the fruity aroma wafts into the nostrils of the boar.

A wild boar smells fruity and slowly approaches.

Just two steps away from the apple, suddenly, a large hole opened in the dead branches and leaves at the boar's feet.

With a "coax", the wild boar fell into the hole.

The hole is very deep, the walls are steep, and there is an open iron fence cage at the bottom, into which the wild boar is falling impartially.

This is a trap dug by hunters specifically to catch wild boars.

Some of their companions fell into the trap, and the remaining wild boars fled in all directions.

The next day, the sun rises and the sun slowly dispels the fog in the valley deep in the forest.

Four men weave through the woods, chatting as they walk, slowly approaching the trap.

Among the four people, three of them are from the pig farm outside the mountain, one boss and two workers, all of whom are big men.

The remaining lean old man in his sixties was a hunter invited by the owner of the pig farm - Lao Zhangtou.

Lao Zhangtou lives alone in the mountains, has a withdrawn personality, makes a living by hunting, usually hunts prey in the mountains and sends it to the market outside the mountains to sell, and then buys some daily necessities to bring back to the mountains after selling the money.

At the beginning of spring last year, Lao Zhangtou hunted a wild boar in the mountains and sold it at the market, which caused a sensation in the town at that time.

The owner of the farmer's pig farm, Qian, runs a small pig farm at the foot of Yuntai Mountain.

There are hundreds of pigs on the farm, and the breed of pigs is the common large white pig.

Although the production of pigs is high, and it can be sold for a lot of money every year, the boss is not satisfied, he thinks that his pig farm should be more profitable.

Boss Qian did a preliminary market survey and found that the price of wild boar meat was 2 to 3 times higher than the price of ordinary domestic pigs, and if he replaced all the domestic pigs on his own pig farm with wild boars, then the annual money he earned could also double or triple.

If you want to raise wild boars, you need to have baby wild boar cubs, and if you buy them from other pig farms, it is a big expense, and it is better to breed them on your own pig farm.

Boss Qian once heard that the sows in the village ran into the Yuntai Mountain, and came back a few days later to give birth to a litter of wild boar cubs, if you can catch a male wild boar from the mountains and come back and breed with the sows of your own pig farm, then the second generation of wild boars born will definitely be able to sell for a good price.

Boss Qian remembered the hunter Lao Zhangtou who caused a sensation in the town last year, so he found him, paid a deposit, and asked him to help catch a sturdy male wild boar from the mountain, and give him a generous reward after the deed.

Lao Zhangtou agreed, dug a trap in the deep mountains first, put bait, and then took people to see if any wild boars fell into the trap the next day.

"Old Zhangtou, do you think you can catch a wild boar today?" Qian Fulai, the owner of the pig farm, asked.

"It's hard to say, if you're lucky, you can catch it today, or you may have to wait for ten days and half a month."

Today is the first time Boss Qian has entered the forest, he was in a hurry, but when Lao Zhang said this, his heart was cold, if he really had to wait for ten days and half a month, then wouldn't his plan to make a fortune be delayed again?

Boss Qian patiently said to the hunter Lao Zhangtou, "Can you dig a few more traps?" It's faster like this, just today there are a lot of people, the trap you dug yourself last time, this time there are four people, just dig a few more. ”

"Nope." Lao Zhangtou refused, "It's useless to have too many traps, it's a bad thing, wild boars are very cunning, if you change the place where it often haunts too much, it will cause them to be alert, and it will not be easy to catch it again, let you come today, not to dig traps." ”

Boss Qian wanted to say something, but the old man Qian, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped and looked ahead vigilantly.

There was a dense jungle in front, and Boss Qian and the two workers behind him followed the gaze of Lao Zhangtou and did not find anything abnormal.

But the ears of the old man moved unusually, like animals.

After a while, Lao Zhangtou suddenly spoke, "There's something in the trap, go over and take a look." ”

Boss Qian and the two workers didn't see the shadow of the trap at all, nor did they hear any unusual movements, but they saw Lao Zhangtou walking forward quickly, so the three of them also trotted behind them.

Circumventing two large trees, a round-mouthed trap appears in front of you.

Many of the dead branches and fallen leaves used to hide the trap fell to the bottom of the trap, and a large brown wild boar curled up in the open iron cage at the bottom of the trap, shaking its head from time to time, and it looked like it was tired of tossing.

Boss Qian was pleasantly surprised, "Wild boar!" I really clung to it! Old Zhangtou, you are really good, get the pig up. ”

Lao Zhangtou picked up the weeds around the trap, and there were ropes hidden in advance, a total of four strands, connected to the iron cage under the trap.

"Come, come and take the handle, one person and one rope, and carry the cage up."

Lao Zhangtou commanded the people to quickly lift the iron cage at the bottom of the trap, close the cage mouth at the top, and tighten it with wire.

Boss Qian happily looked around the iron cage carefully.

The wild boar inside the cage has a bright coat, black stripes in its brown fur, and although it has been hungry for a day and a night, it still begins to struggle violently when it sees people.

Seeing that the iron cage was about to be knocked over, Boss Qian hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the cage.

The wild boar's mane cut through the back of Boss Qian's hand, and blood came out.

Boss Qian broke out in a cold sweat in pain, but he couldn't let go.

Lao Zhangtou hurriedly pulled the rope on the iron cage and fixed it steadily.

Fortunately, it was a cage made of thick iron bars, and the wild boar didn't break it after hitting it a few times, and slowly stopped again.

After the wild boar was quiet, Boss Qian let go of his hand.

Boss Qian bowed his head and looked at the belly of the wild boar, and before the person stood up, he forgot about the pain, laughed and said: "It's male, it's great, you can breed when you go back." ”

The four of them carried the iron cage and walked back, and on the way, Boss Qian happily talked to the wild boar, "Big brown pig, don't worry, go home and give you good food and drink, and find you a daughter-in-law......"

Midday.

At the foot of Yuntai Mountain, Boss Qian's farm pig farm.

The farm is built on a small hillside two miles outside Huaguo Village, which is located at the southern end of the Yuntai Mountains, and the terrain is gentle.

In addition to the pig farm, the hillside is surrounded by large rice fields, and there is a small river with no name running through it.

Boss Qian and Lao Zhangtou finally carried the wild boar back to the pig farm from the deep mountains and forests with great effort.

According to the previous agreement, Boss Qian paid the rest of the money to Lao Zhangtou, "Lao Zhangtou, thanks to you this time, I will see the effect of breeding in the past few days, and wait for the next time I go into the mountains to catch wild boars, and I will go to you." ”

Lao Zhangtou stuffed the money into his pocket and said, "If I go again next time, I can't go to the place just now, the wild boar is very fine, and a companion has been caught, so I will definitely change places to move, and I have to step on it again." ”

Boss Qian thanked him again, and after sending away Lao Zhangtou, he instructed the workers to send the male wild boar into the new pigsty cleaned in advance, add pig food, and deliberately put a few fresh red apples in it.

The male wild boar is not picky, and soon eats all the pig food.

Boss Qian was so happy that he asked the workers to drive a sow into the new pigsty for breeding that night.

Boss Qian was busy breeding with male wild boars, and when the initial results were showing, he himself was sick.

Boss Qian began to have a fever, cough, headache, and body aches......

He felt like he had a cold.