Chapter 36 The Weasel Hunt
In the past three hours, after finishing the more than ten bow clips brought out, Liu Zixuan left the battlefield satisfied. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Before he could climb the rabbit hill, the big black dog came up to meet him. Following the big black dog back to the courtyard, Liu Zixuan saw a hare lying in the yard at a glance. When I asked Gu Nanyan, I found out that it was Heizi who came back from nowhere. It seems that this sunspot is really full of hunting, and in only a month, it has dared to hunt on its own. Although it was not a move that Liu Zixuan wanted to see, this hare could be regarded as making up for it, and he needed a hare at this time. Carrying a fat hare in his hand, Liu Zixuan thought for a moment, and then said to Gu Nanyan: "You haven't been back to Yanggongjing to see the two old people for some days, so send this rabbit to them tomorrow, so that they can taste the game in the mountains." ”
When Gu Nanyan heard this, she immediately smiled: "Coincidentally, I just wanted to talk to you about this, but I didn't expect to go with me!" ”
The sun in the west was shivering in the north wind, and he took refuge in the bushes early. Liu Zixuan lifted the rabbit under the post, removed the fur and internal organs, and hung it on the wedge on the outer wall of the east wing.
Early the next morning, before the sky was fully brightened and Gu Nanyan had not yet gotten up, Liu Zixuan left the rabbit post with a canvas bag and a short wooden stick. If you wait until dawn, some guys who are caught in the leg will eat their injured leg from the inside of the tiger's mouth in the bow in order to save their lives, so as to escape control. Liu Zixuan had encountered similar situations when he followed his father into the mountains to hunt ferrets, so he took advantage of the fact that the sky was not bright to go out, and wanted to take them one by one before Huang Pizi escaped.
When the weasels who were caught saw someone approaching, they all opened their round eyes of horror one by one, looked at them angrily, and hissed in their mouths to demonstrate. No matter what kind of animal it is, since it can evolve to the present day without becoming extinct, it must be a perfect population, looking at the round little head and half-moon ears, looking at their slender beard and the black nose and white hair on the lower part of the mouth...... When looking at them, Liu Zixuan felt that these lives were not as ugly and terrible as the legend, on the contrary, he admired their beauty and cuteness from the bottom of his heart, seeing them being bitten by the bow one by one, at a certain moment, he actually rose in his heart with compassion, and he couldn't bear to put them to death. However, when he thought that they had killed two bait chickens, and had made holes in their father's grave, and had hung the heads of weak animals on the fence of his own vegetable garden, and remembered what had happened before, his compassion melted as quickly as snow under the sun, and was replaced by hatred as hard as ice - he couldn't be merciful when dealing with wild animals, and Liu Zixuan had already learned an unforgettable lesson from his father's example of raising a lame wolf! Thinking about it, he took out the thick and handy stick, struck them on the heads, and after killing them one by one, he threw their bodies into a cloth bag.
The effect of the first clamp is as Liu Zixuan expected, no one has hunted and killed in three or four years, Huang Pizi really neglected to guard against the yellow wolf bow, more than ten bow clips buried yesterday, only five did not explode, almost all the bow clips under the plugged hole hit the target, only the bow clamps at the entrance of the two holes did not explode, and the hole that was disturbed by the sunspot was one of them. The bow clamps set up at the entrance of the cave, because the movement of the clamp will inevitably disturb the prey in the hole, and they often hide in the hole for several days after knowing that the hole is in danger, and the next thing for the hunter is to wait. The prey in the cave cannot never leave the hole, and once they are hungry or suffocated by feces and urine, they will still get out of the hole.
On this day, Liu Zixuan was very satisfied with his harvest, although there were a few bow clips that did not explode, but it did not mean failure, put them there and did not move, they are still valid, and when I come to check them tomorrow morning, there must be still a harvest.
Returning to the rabbit post, Liu Zixuan saw that the door of the house and the courtyard had long been closed, and the rabbit that was originally hanging on the outer wall of the east wing was no longer in place, so he knew that Gu Nanyan had returned to his parents' house with the big black dog. All this is in his arms, and Liu Zixuan can't help but feel proud in his heart.
Seeing that Gu Nanyan was not at home, Liu Zixuan didn't dare to rest, he wanted to dispose of all the captured weasels before Gu Nanyan went home, so as not to be afraid when she came back.
He took out the boning knife from the house, and went to the open space on the east side of the well to find a branch of a moderate height, broke it, and hung the yellow skin on it, and then shed the fur one by one from head to tail, and then found soft hay to fill the skin pockets...... Molting a small fur-bearing animal like Huangpizi, Liu Zixuan was already familiar with it, and several weasel corpses were quickly taken care of.
Looking at the fur tube in front of him, Liu Zixuan finally had the confidence in his heart, as long as he waited patiently until the spring of next year, and after the skins were dried, he could take them to the town and exchange them for money to support his family.
In the afternoon, Gu Nanyan returned to the rabbit hill from the Yanggong Well, she seemed to be in a good mood today, and she didn't make a sound when she saw a few round weasel skins hanging on the south wall of the stove, probably acquiescing to Liu Zixuan's plan to still make a living from hunting, maybe she also wanted to know if her husband could live by hunting.
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Early the next morning, Liu Zixuan got up early and went to the place where the bow clamp was placed, as he had done the day before. Sure enough, a few more bow clips caught their prey. Strangely, the bow clip placed at the entrance of the hole that had been destroyed by the sunspot was still lying there quietly and not exploding! It was not strange that the bow clamp blocking the entrance of the cave did not explode for several days, but the strange thing was that there were a few more two-inch-long feces on the snow on the south side not far from the entrance of the cave. Liu Zixuan looked at the feces, and suddenly had doubts in his heart, the gray-white strip of feces with the thickness of his thumb was mixed with the hair of wild mice, which was enough to prove that it was a huge male ferret that discharged these feces, which happened to match the results guessed yesterday based on the footprints, but how did the guy in this cave safely defecate through the bow clip out of the hole? And on the snow between the feces and the mouth of the cave, there were no toe prints left on it!
Liu Zixuan pressed the snow on the ground with his fingers, the snow surface was not frozen, if a slightly larger yellow skin passed through such a snow surface, it should leave obvious traces to be reasonable, and on the snow surface elsewhere, he had already seen the footprints left by the yellow skin last night, what is the reason?
Liu Zixuan was confused, and another strange phenomenon created by a weasel was placed in front of him.
Could it be that it jumped out of the hole and jumped directly over the bow clip from above? If so, then it is certain that the yellow man must have seen the danger of the bow clip, or seen his companion hurt by the bow clip, or it itself has escaped from the bow clip.
But even so, how can it not leave any traces? If it jumps out of the hole, it should leave its mark on the snow in front of the cave!
Witnessing this abnormal sign, Liu Zixuan couldn't help but think in his heart that among any kind of animal, there will always be one or two leaders whose courage and wisdom are higher than those of the same kind, and the weasel in the hole in front of him is probably a guy with superior skills. Stabilizing his mind, he took a dozen or so grass stalks from the vicinity, and after removing the hairy ears at the top, he took the hole as the center and inserted several grass stems into the snow in an orderly manner, so that a semicircular small fence was formed between the black and secluded hole and the mound.
If you want to fight with humans, no animal wants to have the upper hand! Liu Zixuan thought to himself secretly and returned to the rabbit hill, still leaving the bow clip at the entrance of the cave.
Although there were still a few clips that did not capture the prey, the hunt was still fruitful. Just think that the strange defeat of that bow clamp is an unexpected episode, isn't it precisely because there are similar variables that this pig hunt is interesting? It's like fishing in the river, if you can catch a big fish every time you bite the hook, you lose the real joy of fishing. Thinking about it like this, Liu Zixuan is no longer haunted by the momentary miss.
The first battle of the western slope has been won, it is inconvenient to get caught for many days in a row, there are already many yellow skins in that area in the trap, if the same place continues to circulate, the effect will only get worse and worse, so he decided to switch to the eastern slope. Just after noon the next day, Liu Zixuan took the idle bow clip and went to the flat terrain on the eastern slope with a large area of ghost needle grass.
After carefully placing all the bow clips, he remembered the hole that bothered him yesterday, so he made a special trip to the western slope to check.
In front of the hole under the mound, the small fence that Liu Zixuan had fenced the day before had been deformed, and the grass stalks that should have been vertical to the snow were either tilted or broken, showing signs that were enough to prove that animals had passed through it, but the bow clamp in front of the cave was as safe and sound as ever.
Mom, how could there be such a strange thing?
Even if the weasel jumped out of the hole in search of food and defecation, how could it jump over the clip and jump back? The distance between the bow clamp and the hole is not enough for it to land? In such a small space, as long as its hind foot or tail touches the bow clamp pedal, it will inevitably be clamped squarely! But how can we explain this strange phenomenon at the moment?
The small mounds in front of him turned into a hurdle and crossed Liu Zixuan's heart.
Squatted down near the entrance of the cave, and carefully inspected the bow clamp again, Liu Zixuan did not find any defects - the hemp rope was connected to the thimble, the thimble pressed through the open tiger's mouth, and lightly pressed under the edge of the pedal - all kinds of elements constitute this perfect trap that is linked together, why does it lose its due power when it arrives here?
raised his head and looked at the gloomy sky, Liu Zixuan's face was also gloomy. In this way, this big fish is much more cunning than expected! Liu Zixuan couldn't help but think of the red ferret again, could it be it? Liu Zixuan didn't know. After thinking for a long time, Liu Zixuan took out a small shovel, went to the bushes next to him to cut some dead branches, and set up a small shack half a person high with his back to the entrance of the cave about ten steps south of the ridge, leaving only a hole the size of a person's face in the direction of the hole.
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The next day, the sky cleared, and the sun hung behind the clouds and disappeared, and the sun occasionally shone on the white hillside, reflecting a dazzling white light. After the yellow skins harvested from Dongpo were processed as before, Liu Zixuan hung the furs on the south wall of the stove room.
At this time, on the entire wall, it was like a huge fur coat hanging, and in his eyes, Liu Zixuan had a full sense of accomplishment in his heart. Gu Nanyan looked at the different wall, but said: "I don't know what kind of people they are, they are willing to wear this kind of thing on themselves, and they are not too panicked!" ”
(To be continued)