"Then what's not to do? The people of our commune, at this time of year, go up the mountain in groups.

A few of us have a temper with Brother Xu, so we want to find you together. ”

Putting the mountain, most of them are looking for a good relationship on weekdays, like Xu Shiyan last year, it was purely forced to be helpless.

Don't look at Xu Shiyan's short time in Donggang, he has really made a lot of friends.

Before, they were digging together and shaving gastrodia together, and they all felt that they were very compatible, so this time they came to Xu Shiyan again.

"You all said so, then go, you are looking for candidates, everyone understands the rules of putting the mountain, whether it is single or not.

It's best to ride a bicycle, and if we want to go, we can go farther, and the nearest place is probably not our share. ”

To say that Xu Shiyan is not moved, it is nonsense, since everyone wants to go, then go into the mountains together, and if you don't keep it, you will meet it.

When everyone heard that Xu Shiyan agreed, they were very happy, so they discussed it, and the day after tomorrow, that is, on the sixteenth day of the seventh lunar month, they went up the mountain.

After the discussion was settled, the few hurried home to prepare their things.

Xu Shiyan also hurried to cook and eat, and then rummaged through the cabinets to find all kinds of tools and clothes for the mountain.

The next day, July 15, the Midyear Festival, is not allowed to burn paper on the grave at this time, and the Xu family has no ancestors here, so there is no need to pay tribute.

So on this day, Xu Shiyan was resting at home to coax the children, and Su Anying just had the opportunity to cut a lot of beans, eggplants, and cucumbers to dry.

This is the case in Shohuyuan, where the dried vegetables in summer are kept for winter and spring.

After the beginning of autumn, the weather is dry, and the dried vegetables are not easy to mold and hair.

Usually Su Anying wants to coax the child, so she can only take the opportunity to cut less, but this time with Xu Shiyan's help, Su Anying cut a lot, and the west yard was placed.

The sun is good, and after a day of sunbathing, those dishes are half dry.

Xu Shiyan helped clean it up in the evening, and when he dried it again the next day, it was almost ready to be put away.

Early in the morning of July 16, Xu Shiyan, Huang Shengli, Sun Xiaofeng, Feng Chao, and Zhou Qingguo.

Each of the five people carried sixty or seventy pounds of luggage, rode from Donggang, walked eight kilometers, Baixi Forest Farm, and ran to the reserve.

The Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve was established in 60 years and is divided into general and absolute protection areas.

In those days, the management of protected areas was not so strict, and generally protected areas were allowed to enter by outsiders.

It was not until after '82 that the general and absolute protected areas were abolished and set up for unified management, and after the promulgation of the management regulations in '88, strict management was implemented.

From Donggang to the reserve, Xu Shiyan chose the nearest road, and it was still seventy or eighty kilometers.

In these years, all the firewood roads were transported, and the cement roads and asphalt roads of later generations could not be compared, until more than two o'clock in the afternoon, and finally arrived at the predetermined location.

Xu Shiyan had been in the Ma'anshan Forest Farm for several years in his previous life, and he had been in the mountains every year, so he was particularly familiar with the vicinity of the reserve.

The familiar road led everyone into a forest path and found a sunny hillside.

When I got to the place, I still set up the old man's mansion first, and then set up a shack and collect firewood.

Xu Shiyan was chopping wood with an axe, when he suddenly saw something and ran over from not far away.

The thing had a brown-red coat, like a wolf, smaller than a wolf, with a few handfuls of black hair on the tip of its tail, a thin waist and short legs, and a quick movement.

"What just ran over?"

Among a few people, it was counted that Zhou Qingguo had never entered the mountain, he was a soldier at eighteen and left, and when he came back last winter, how could he have a chance to enter the mountain?

So when he saw something running over, Zhou Qingguo wanted to chase it.

"Qingguo, you don't want to die, dare to chase it?" Xu Shiyan hurriedly stopped Zhou Qingguo.

"Do you know what that is? Dare to chase it rashly? ”

As soon as Zhou Qingguo heard Xu Shiyan's words, he knew that something was wrong.

"Was that a wolf or a fox?" Zhou Qingguo asked uncertainly.

Xu Shiyan shook his head, "It's not a wolf or a fox."

That thing, don't look at it small, even the ancestor of the beasts in the mountains, tigers, leopards, bears and pigs are afraid of it.

If a hunter takes a dog into the mountains and dares to provoke it, even the man and the dog will be doomed. ”

"Huh? What's so powerful? ”

Over there, Feng Chao and Sun Xiaofeng were also dumbfounded when they heard this, they had never heard of this animal.

It's Huang Shengli, the grandfather and father at home can hunt, and after listening to the old people in the family, they know what it is.

"Brother Xu, you're talking about jackals, right?"

"yes, that's it." Xu Shiyan nodded.

The jackal dog is the name of the locals, in fact, it is the jackal, and the mountain people also call it the red wolf.

Jackals are smaller than wolves, but their sense of smell, hearing and vision are sharper than that of wolves, they are agile and good at running, and they are the sworn enemies of many animals in the mountains.

This thing is very cunning, relying on its own agility and quick feet, it jumps on the opponent's back like a gust of wind, jams the opponent's neck like pincers, and bites the throat fiercely.

No beast can break free until it bites its throat.

Everyone in the mountains knows the temper of the jackal, so no one dares to take the initiative to provoke it, so it is rare to hear about the jackal dog hurting people.

After listening to Xu Shiyan's explanation, Zhou Qingguo let out a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, I didn't catch up just now, otherwise it would be really dangerous." ”

Zhou Qingguo went up the mountain with a gun, not for hunting, but for self-defense.

He was just curious just now, and when he thought about it at this time, fortunately he didn't have the impulse to follow after listening to Xu Shiyan's words, otherwise it would be really hanging.

"When you enter the mountain, you have to abide by the rules of the mountain, don't look at you with a gun, that's not good.

We're here to herd the mountains, not to hunt, not to encounter danger, and we can't take the initiative to provoke animals. ”

There are many rules for putting the mountains, and the emphasis is on the harmony between man and nature, and most people do not hunt when they enter the mountains.

Unless there is nothing to eat in the mountains for too long, there is no way, most of them are set traps and traps, catching roe deer or something.

"Hey, I know, third uncle, I listen to you." Zhou Qingguo nodded again and again.

Like him, a person who has never let go of the mountain, it would be good to be able to take him, he didn't dare to mess around, it was better to be obedient.

A few people quickened their movements, hurriedly set up the ground, and gathered a fire outside at night.

Several people sat around the fire, eating over the fire and chatting at the same time.

After chatting until eight o'clock in the evening, Xu Shiyan asked everyone to go back to rest.

"Have a good dream at night, and tell me the dream tomorrow morning."

According to the rules handed down by the older generation, the dreams of the mountain people are not made in vain, and they all say it.

Many people followed the guidance of dreams to find the mallet, so Xu Shiyan will tell everyone so.

The shack was covered with a mattress of grass and roe deer skin, and Xu Shiyan fell asleep not long after lying down.

In the deep mountains and old forests, from time to time there will be some wild beast calls, especially wolves, the sound of breath is small, the sound of return is loud, the movement is really quite terrifying.

slept until midnight, Xu Shiyan felt a smell of urine.

Strange to him, he got up to check it, and saw a shadow running at a rapid pace.

The shadow looked like the jackal he saw in the afternoon. The guy came to pee nearby.