Chapter 275: A Small Mountain Village
"Damn, there's nothing fun in this place! Luo Fatzi held a grass heart in the corner of his mouth and said dissatisfiedly.
It has been many days since I came to this northeastern mountain, and the novelty of entering the mountain at the beginning has long since disappeared, and the cycle is very boring daily life.
A small ravine, such a large land, dozens of households, and hundreds of miles around are barren primeval forests.
The mountain people in the small mountain village have always relied on the mountains to eat the mountains, and their ancestors have been hunting for a living since ancient times, except for planting a little land on the flat land of the mountain pass, collecting some food, planting some vegetables, and the rest is mainly hunting in the mountains.
Pheasants, roe deer, wild boars, hares and other things in the mountains, plus mountain mushrooms, mushrooms, fungus, etc., are all ways to make money, so for mountain people, even in the worst famine years, eating is never a problem.
It's winter, and it's cold in the mountains so early, and it's only one afternoon, the north wind is howling, and suddenly the weather is cold, the temperature plummets, and the snow is about to fall.
What if the snow suddenly seals the mountain and the food for the winter is not ready? According to the experience of previous years, from the beginning of autumn, it is necessary to go into the mountains to hunt when the wild animals on the mountains are fat and strong, and dry the prey they have caught and store them for the whole cold winter.
The cold wave that was rare in previous years caught the mountain people off guard, the Mid-Autumn Festival just after the beginning of heavy snowfall, this abnormal weather made the mountain people hurry for a while, quickly bring their hunting dogs, pick up the shotguns at home, go up the mountain to prepare winter food, the weather is getting colder day by day, if there is not enough food, this winter will be sad. If the whole mountain is covered with snow, the whole village will have to shrink its clothes and go on a diet. Kneel and beg for a hundred eyes to sing
During this time, Luo Fatzi, who was idle and hairy all over his body, tried his best to make a moth all day long, wishing to make some big mess, watching the mountain people enter and exit the mountains in groups, good guy, it was like a monkey with a fire behind his buttocks, he couldn't sit still for a moment, and he took Wu Ze's hand directly, and he had to go into the mountains to hunt together.
Speaking of hunting, as long as it is a man, there are few people who don't like it, with a gun, a dog, and a gun all the way, which makes people feel enthusiastic when they think about it. But the people outside the mountain are in the primitive realm of holding guns everywhere for hunting, and Wu Ze estimated that the old hunters in the mountains didn't want to take them with these lame oil bottles.
Hunting is not as simple and interesting as most people outside the mountains think, it is purely a technical job, which requires years of rich experience as the foundation. How to find the prey, how to surround it, this is not a matter that can be explained clearly in three or two sentences. It takes ten days and half a month to enter the mountain once, plus the mountain road is difficult to walk, and there are many wild beasts, so there is always danger. If something happens, who can take the responsibility? No one wants to take that risk.
Seeing that teams of hunters had entered the mountain, Wu Ze and Luo Fatzi were really anxious to go to the house, pestering Lao Zhao Tou, who had not yet begun to enter the mountain, swearing and guaranteeing, they almost knelt down and begged, begging Lao Zhao Tou to take them to open their eyes. Promise not to shoot, not to let the dog go, just follow to see the excitement.
Lao Zhaotou has eaten more salt than those two guys have eaten, how can these two guys hold the words? Repeatedly: "No!" ”
Even if Wu Zeluo is fat, it is useless for them to say flowers.
Wu Ze thought to himself, if it really can't be done, there is no trick now, the old hunters who can enter the mountain have all entered the mountain, and this old Zhao Tou is left, but that heart is harder than the stone in the pit. It seems that I can only find a person who will not go into the mountains this time to accompany the three of them, walk around the surrounding mountains and forests, and see if there is a chance to have a pheasant, a stupid roe deer or something.
So the next day, I went to Lao Zhaotou's house again, and planned to let Zhao Xiaoshan, the youngest son of Lao Zhaotou's family, who did not enter the mountains, accompany them to go around the surrounding mountains and forests, and the next set or something. It's good to say, it's even if Zhao Xiaoshan is moved, and now I can finally get over the addiction of hunting, although it's not as good as going into the mountains to hunt or something, but it's better than being idle at home and sweating, right?
So, Luo Fatzi cheered for a while, and looked at Jiang Yan next to him with a chill.
Since he is about to set off, he has to prepare for preparation, Luo Fatzi armed his outfit prepared for hunting in the mountains, hunter suits, mountain knives, single-barreled shotguns, good guys, that coquettish energy, floating ten miles in the wind. Early the next morning, under the leadership of Zhao Xiaoshan, a group of four people marched towards the mountain forest opposite the village.
Zhao Xiaoshan, the son of Lao Zhao Tou, is not a simple character, since he was ten years old, he followed Lao Zhao Tou into the mountain, this time it was twenty-five years in a blink of an eye, fifteen years, although the daughter-in-law has not yet married, but the hunting skills are not covered, and there has been a record of killing two hundred catties of wild boar alone, and the next set of roe deer or something, it is not a problem at all. This year, it was because Lao Zhao Tou asked him to stay at home and take care of the house, so he cheapened Wu Ze and the three of them. Carrying the prepared food and all kinds of necessary items, he took his shotgun, which had been used for several years, and set off with the family hound.
The young man usually stayed in the mountains, and he didn't say a few words to the pretty girl for a year.
As soon as Jiang Yan accosted him, good guy, his face was as red as the butt of a hairy monkey in the mountains and forests, Jiang Yan was happy to see him, and he teased him if he had nothing to do.
As the saying goes, looking at the mountains and running dead horses, the mountains and forests opposite the village are simple to say, but walking is not as simple as it is said.
One by one, over a few mountain beams and then a few mountain passes, the distance is not too close. The mountain wind was blowing all the way, the mountain road was difficult to walk, and the snow fell from time to time in the sky, even Wu Ze and a few people who were used to walking everywhere were quite difficult.
Listening to Zhao Xiaoshan tell the story of hunting in the mountains all the way, it also has a unique flavor.
Zhao Xiaoshan said: "If you really wait for the cold winter to come, the weather is cold and freezing, let alone entering the mountains, even if you go out to pee, you have to bring a stick." Look at this day, this year is the time to go into the mountains, and from the next month, the whole village will have to stay at home for the cat winter."
After walking for most of the day, I haven't reached my destination yet, and in a blink of an eye it was noon, a few people took out the prepared food, roasted it over the fire, ate a hot lunch, and finally recovered some strength.
The mountain forest in front of it is connected with the mountain behind, at a glance, the big trees in the mountain are not visible, the vegetation in the mountain forest is dense, according to Zhao Xiaoshan, there were old bears in the mountain forest two years ago.
If it is just the beginning of spring, the old bear on the mountain has just woken up from hibernation, and is hungry to find food, the old bear at that time, even the most famous old hunter in the mountain, will not want to provoke it.
Zhao Xiaoshan also said that there is a very mysterious valley on the mountain behind this mountain forest, which is called Fox Tomb Valley by the locals, and as for the origin of this name, it is the oldest elder in the village, and he can't say a Tao, which is also a saying that has been passed down from generation to generation.
Older people always say that there is an eerie atmosphere there, that there are often foxes there, and that the foxes there are as mysterious as the name of the place.