After arranging this, my father smiled and said, "Don't worry tonight, I still have good things here." These are good things that can only be found on this snowy mountain. ”

After that, he motioned to Man Mei to pour out the insects from her pockets and sleeves, and filled a large pot.

The bugs are hibernating, motionless, at their mercy. The mother picked up a large cauldron, put a piece of animal oil around the pot and wiped it twice, only to see a puff of green smoke coming out.

After that, my mother rubbed some more oil, grabbed a handful of insects and put them in the pot to fry.

After a while, a strong aroma that I can't tell what it tastes wafted out of the pot, and everyone took a deep breath, enjoying the long-lost smell as if they were drunk.

The youngest son saw that the insects were just a little yellow and charred in the pot, so he reached out and grabbed a few and stuffed them into his mouth, and the children followed suit.

The eldest son, who was standing guard at the door, shouted, "Give me something to eat too." Father and mother laughed happily.

The preparation process of the hunter's meal is very complicated and not easy, it is very simple to eat, the taste is secondary, and the first thing is to be full.

Half an hour later, everyone took turns to finish eating.

After the meal, the mother and the sister cleaned up the mess, and the father and the three sons began to discuss the matter of sleeping and resting.

The father originally planned to stand guard in a ratio of three to one, but the children said that the snow mountain spent the night, and the cave's protective ability is so weak, it can only resist the attack of some small animals, and it will be unimaginable to meet big animals, except for father and mother, the children had better not sleep tonight, because the children are in good health, it doesn't matter if they don't sleep for a night or two, they can hold on.

The father originally insisted on standing guard with everyone, but seeing that the children have grown up sensible, and they are also strong, after this hunting has grown up with knowledge and ability, he should slowly let go and let the child be the master, so he didn't insist anymore, just said that he would call him if there was something.

After a day's trek, my father and mother were very tired, after all, they were both old people, and they fell asleep as soon as they turned their heads, and the sound of snoring was particularly loud in the night sky.

The children looked at their sleeping parents, thought of their sacred duty of standing guard, and saw that they could shelter their parents from the wind and rain, and they all felt that they had grown up, and they were extremely proud in their hearts, and at the same time, they also felt that their family would have more strength in the future.

Everyone was talking, telling my sister all kinds of strange things about the last hunting, fiddling with the crackling and peeling firewood, listening to the sound of the wind whirring outside the cave, and the time of the night passed gently and slowly, and everything seemed quiet and serene.

During the hunting period, the night is the saddest, most worrying, and most unsafe.

This night was no exception.

At the beginning, the sisters were still talking and laughing, full of energy, full of confidence, thinking that they would be able to spend this night easily, but after the second half of the night, everyone's words were incoherent, they were all talking nonsense without a match, and the spirit was a little disobedient, the upper eyelids always wanted to fight with the lower eyelids, and the full sister who was not used to the vigil was carried to the ground, almost touching the fire, which frightened everyone and made her own sleepiness disappear.

Man Mei said that it seemed that she had to find something to do, so she sat for a while and fell asleep.

So she got up, brought a pot, rubbed some skin oil, and fried the earth dog cubs in the pot.

I had been sitting for most of the night, and everyone was a little hungry.

As soon as the worm got out of the pot, the second son heard the faint sound of animals walking outside the cave, and he quickly shushed and signaled everyone to mute. Everyone also tilted their ears to listen to the movement outside, yes, it was the sound of an animal walking on the sand and stones, accompanied by the sound of the sand and stones being tripped and rolled by animals, judging from the sound amplitude, it should not be a small animal.

The three sons hurriedly took the things in their hands and prepared to fight, and the eldest son directly held the red-hot steel drill in his hand, and stared at the outside of the cave with his eyes.

Man Mei had never encountered such a dangerous situation, her face turned white with fright, and she hurriedly went over and called her father up.

My father was very asleep, but as soon as he heard the shouting, he got up with sleepy eyes and asked what was the matter.

Before everyone could answer, my father had already heard the movement outside the cave.

After thinking about it urgently, my father decided to prepare gently, to keep as quiet as possible, and not to provoke the animal outside the cave.

By this time, the father had already picked up a red-hot steel drill in his hand, and if the animal dared to push the stone in, he would insert the sharp steel drill into its body.

After this toss, the mother also woke up and hurriedly pulled the full sister inside. Everyone held their breath as they listened to the footsteps getting closer and closer, their eyes fixed on the door of the cave, ready to prevent the animal from breaking in.

Luckily, the terrifying footsteps outside the cave went straight from outside the cave, and from the echo of the falling stones, it slowly walked away.

Everyone's heart was put down, thinking that if the animal broke in just now, so many people and six dogs were sure to put it down, but after all, there was still a fight, as long as one person or one dog was injured in the process of fighting, where to find herbs on this high snow-capped mountain, any kind of negligence, the consequences would be unimaginable.

The sun comes early.

It didn't take long for a round of golden sunlight to leap in through the cracks in the stones.

My father called everyone up, pushed away the rocks, and went out, to get some fresh air, and to see what kind of big guy had passed by last night.

Judging from the footprints, the animal last night was really a big one, the footprints were bigger than the palm of my father's hand, and according to the weight of the body, it should be half a head taller than a human.

However, there are only two lines of footprints in front of and behind, which means that only one animal has passed.

There should be nothing else in this mountain for such a large animal except bears.

If the big guy had been offended last night, he could have smashed open the stone-filled door and rushed into the hole with a single blow.

Thinking of this, a fine cold sweat broke out on everyone's backs.

The father walked forward along the bear's footprints, and after a while he came to the place where he and his sister were digging for the bugs yesterday afternoon, and saw that the bear had picked up a large thick piece of sand and gravel with the fat soles of his feet, and he knew that he was looking for insects to eat, and there were three or five insects left on the ground.

Oh, it turned out that it was the strong smell of this bug that attracted it.

It seems that this bug is also one of the food for bears.

From the perspective of time, the bear should still be hibernate and sleeping this season, but a few encounters with the bear indicate that this spring came earlier, the temperature was higher than in previous years, and the bear woke up early.

After the bear wakes up normally, it is supposed to come in late spring to eat the bugs. It's just that after they peeled off the sand layer, the bear smelled the aroma of insects in advance, which triggered it to explore the treasure hunt.

Knowing that this place has something delicious to eat this season, the bear will definitely come back again.

Because food is hard to find in this season, and this bug is nutritious and delicious.