Chapter Ninety-Nine: Fox Hunt
Well-equipped, well-designed, all that remains here is the emptiness that has turned to dust, and nothing of value has been found except for a few broken jars for daily use. But the monkey seemed to be very familiar with this place, jumping up and down as if he had arrived at his own lair.
If it is a city, there must be a palace, and there is no doubt that any society that lives in a social state will have a governance mechanism, so what they want to find now is the palace buried in the underground world. The process of waiting and searching is the most enjoyable, and the unknown and mystery can bring people an extraordinary experience.
The fat man is a man who suffocates without speaking, and the low space and narrow aisles make people feel very oppressive, and he complains: "I think they must be a bunch of ground rats, what is the difference between living in such a place and going to prison?" ”
"Cave dwelling is a very ancient way," Feng Qiyun said: "Human beings lived underground like those animals in the early days, and the northeast winter was cold, and there were not enough ways to protect themselves from the cold in ancient times, so living underground could allow them to resist the cold, and they could also hide their remnants of the tribe in this unknown place." The Qingqiu Kingdom should have perished in the late Shang Dynasty, and seeing that these clay pots are still made of black pottery, and they will disappear in less than a few hundred years at most, I think this huge underground project is one of the reasons for the demise of this northern country. ”
"It is highly likely that what you said is right," Father Miao added, "and a mountain of human bones was found in a low-lying part of the North Mountain, and the corpses were discarded and buried haphazardly, most likely prisoners of war or civilians who built the fortifications." ”
"The slave society is like this, human life is not valuable, witchcraft happened to be the most popular and prosperous in that era, these walls are more or less depicted with some priest patterns, Brother Cha, do you see a little doorway?"
"I'm also watching," Cha Wenbin said: "If you want to say that you don't dare to be the doorway, the reaction is mostly some activities to sacrifice heaven and earth and the harvest of grains, and I worship foxes very much, and every painting must be a fox as the final protagonist, old man, are there still foxes in this place?" ”
The fat man said: "Zha Ye, you don't have a good memory, didn't you just see a big one a few days ago?" ”
Feng Qiyun looked at him angrily and said, "He asked about the quantity." ”
"Yes, yes," Father Miao said, "In the early years, fox skins were worth a lot, and there was an incident before you came here to cut in line......
In the early sixties, the country was very short of foreign exchange at that time, because the construction of New China required the introduction of equipment and technology from abroad, and the foreign exchange that could be brought to the country was indeed extremely scarce. At that time, some qualified production teams received tasks, such as tea in Hangzhou, porcelain in Jingdezhen, and silk in the south of the Yangtze River.
Foreigners are not stupid, what they are rare is that everything is high-end goods, and fur was a means of obtaining high foreign exchange at that time, among which mink in the Northeast bore the brunt.
At that time, almost every qualified production team in the Northeast had the task of raising mink, and the Savage Tun was located in a remote area, and several surrounding villages were assigned to the unified commune management. Other villages have mink as a task, but the savage tun is no exception, I don't know what the reason is, the mink introduced into the tunzi is to raise a dead one, a few months of busy survival, not only did not earn foreign exchange but made the commune suffer losses, which was a considerable sin back then. Seeing that the time for the annual fur to be handed in was approaching, the director of the commune was also in a hurry, and it was not only a matter of work ability that he could not make a difference, but also a matter of his ability to work, and in that era when he was on the line at every turn, it was also very possible to get a prison meal to eat.
So some people proposed that other animal fur could be used instead, but the savage had nothing else, and there were more animals running in the mountains, and the locals would also use some deer skins to sew some warm clothes for themselves. After sending some samples of fur, the commune came back and said that they had taken a fancy to a fox fur with a fluffy and supple tail, which was very suitable for some European ladies to make a bib for their coats, so it was decided that one mink could be replaced by three fox skins.
At that time, the task given to the savage was thirty mink, so a total of ninety fox skins needed to be handed over, because of the great joy, and simply scraped together a hundred, and the time node was that it must be completed before the Chinese New Year.
Father Miao said that there were also some foxes in the woods around Tunzi at that time, but these foxes never came to Tunzi, and they didn't know how to steal chickens and the like. This is a political task that must be completed, and the production captain can only bite the bullet and go ahead.
Because a fox's skin has to be intact to be valuable, this means that you can't use a shotgun, you have to use a looper. A hole was dug in the ground, and there was a pedal in it, and on the pedal was a soft steel wire sleeve, and inside the sleeve was the fox's favorite bloody chicken. As long as the fox walks over or eats the chicken inside, it will touch the pedal, and then the bent tree trunk next to it will use elastic force to bounce into the air, and the fox will hang in the air intact waiting for people to clean up.
Before winter, all animals will eat a large amount of food to reserve energy to resist the cold of the north, even though the foxes are cunning, but the savage tun has never attacked them, which directly leads to the fact that they have never had experience in preventing traps at the beginning, and after only a week, more than 30 foxes have become trophies to be handed over in the cage.
Soon, the surrounding foxes were caught, and the villagers began to derive the covers along the hill to the depths of the mountain, probably knowing the power of this kind of thing, and the receipts began to become less and less, until the winter began to snow that the foxes barely managed to gather about sixty.
As soon as the snow hits, the pedal will be frozen and unable to fire, and when the first snow comes, the production team leader is very anxious, and the task is only two-thirds completed, and the remaining third is unable to do it. At this time, someone proposed to dig the nest, the fox and the wolf will burrow animals, they will burrow in the ground, and will leave urine around the hole, which happens to be fatal in winter, as long as people find a circle of yellow dots in the snow that most of the fox hole is below, everyone has the experience of digging voles, riding the snow has just begun, so they began to organize people and horses into the mountains to dig fox nests.
The fox's burrow is generally set up with two or three entrances, it is useless to find a single entrance, you have to organize four to five people to besiege one, after finding the fox hole, you must first seal the rest of the entrances and leave only one, and then light the hay and smoke it, the fox in the hole will not stand it and will drill out, and there is a big net along the hole.
Although this method is a little slower, it has finally caught some. Seeing that the number is about to be made, but this thing is a solitary animal, and the female fox usually lives with her cubs, so the cubs appear in the fox that is caught. The internal disagreement is from the cubs, the production captain thinks that the above is the quantity, and does not say the size, as long as the number is satisfied, there are some small foxes to make up the number can also be fooled, but at that time Miao Dad was against it. He didn't agree with the practice of hunting so many foxes in a short period of time to replace mink, and now he has to catch even the small ones together, which is not the same as killing chickens and taking eggs.
Looking at the eyes of those little foxes who were locked in cages to hide and be afraid, Father Miao really couldn't bear it, and he proposed that he negotiate with the commune to see if the number could be reduced, and the small ones would be let go. It's a pity that at that time, Luomen was still in a stormy stage, and New China, which had just undergone the baptism of revolution, had just completed the change of power, and had no time to take care of the children of those families who might be beaten into the black five categories at any time. Where is your ideological consciousness, they are some harmful species that steal poultry, and now all parts of the country are engaged in production and construction, Mongolia is catching the wolf campaign, and it is very good, I think we can do a fox campaign here! ”
When those foxes were transported away, Father Miao's eyes were very complicated, he knew that the legend of Qingqiu Country was the fox fairy, although he was also a man who had experienced war, but in his bones he always had an inexplicable respect for this mountain that the ancestors had already discovered.
When the tractor filled with foxes in cages drove to the entrance of the village, there was a wail on the north mountain, and Father Miao said that the cry made people's hearts hairy, like a child crying, crying. The foxes in the car body also craned their necks and howled at the mountains and rivers in the distance, and the two sides suddenly met one after another, and the hearts of the people who screamed kept trembling.
At that time, he had a premonition that those foxes might come to take revenge, and he thought of going to the mountain temple to burn incense to atone for his sins, but unfortunately, that winter, the mountain god in the temple was pulled out with a rope and smashed into pieces. Looking at those crazy actions, Father Miao was powerless to stop it, he felt that if it continued like this, not only would the Savage Tun be finished, but I am afraid that even this country would be finished, the gods were punished, and how much harm it did to nature, how much it would retaliate against you in the future......