It is rare to come to the mountain once, and Han Wenzhong has the heart to bring Xu Shiyan with him, so he naturally refuses to go down the mountain easily.

Xu Shiyan also felt that there was nothing to do at home, so it was better to wander around the mountains for a few more days, and if he couldn't meet other prey.

In this way, the three of them settled in the mountains, hunting two wild boars today, meeting a black blind barn tomorrow, and a herd of deer the day after tomorrow.

With Han Wenzhong, an experienced old hunter, he almost didn't go empty.

Sometimes when he walks far away and can't go back to see the ginseng house, Han Wenzhong can also find the house left by the hunter in the mountains and forests to shelter from the wind and snow for a night.

When he left the next day, he left Chai He and some rice grain for the convenience of later generations.

"Come and see, this is the mountain donkey road, there should be a mountain donkey near here."

On this day, the three of them didn't take the dog out to walk around, Han Wenzhong looked at the footprints on the snow, and beckoned Xu Shiyan and Han Limin over.

The mountain donkey mentioned by Han Wenzhong is actually a name for the musk deer by the locals, also called Xiangzhangzi.

The roe deer looks a bit like a deer, but it is smaller and has no horns for both male and female.

There is a sachet behind the navel of the abdomen of the male musk deer, which contains musk, which is a precious herb and spice, and the price of the purchase is very high.

The roe deer is small, light and sensitive, and good at jumping.

Not only can you move freely on the cliffs, but you can also climb the leaning trees with ease.

The fragrant roe deer has a very sensitive sense of sight and hearing, and the slightest wind and grass will immediately flee.

Moreover, the roe deer will often stand on the cliff to look, and once they find a trace of predators, or hunters and hunting dogs, they will immediately flee without a trace.

The roe deer likes to eat lichens and mosses, and in winter, they like to eat the young branches and leaves of pine trees and firs.

Therefore, most roe deer have a fixed place of life, and will not migrate elsewhere until they have eaten up the food around them.

The mountain donkey road, that is, the footprints left by the fragrant roe deer.

At a rough glance, it looks a bit like a few smaller cow hoof prints, but if you distinguish them carefully, they are different.

The hind legs of the deer are longer than the front legs, and when running and jumping, the hind hooves are in front and the front hooves are in the back.

Xu Shiyan lowered his head and searched nearby, and sure enough, he found some fragrant roe deer eggs.

If the surface of the donkey's dung eggs is smooth and shiny, it means that they have just been excreted, and it will take two or three days at most.

If the epidermis has become dark and rough, it was discharged half a month ago.

If some of them have been broken and weathered, they have passed at least a month or two ago.

Experienced hunters can judge the time passed by prey through footprints, feces, etc., so as to find out the pattern of hunting.

As soon as he looked at the dung eggs, Xu Shiyan knew that this group of mountain donkeys had just passed through this place for two days at most.

Han Wenzhong also found out, so he led Xu Shiyan and Han Limin along the mountain donkey road and walked forward for a while.

Yavin

In the distance, there seemed to be some noise, "Young...... The voice of the young ...... came along the wind, intermittently loud and sometimes small.

Han Wenzhong waved his hand and motioned for Xu Shiyan and Han Limin to hide in the small bushes, ready to hold their guns at all times.

On the other side, Han Wenzhong pinched his nose with his hand, his cheeks bulged, and he also learned to make a "young ...... Young ...... Young" such a voice.

Xu Shiyan knew that this was Han Wenzhong's specialty.

Learn the call of the female deer to attract the male deer to come, and also call the musk deer.

This is not easy to learn, Xu Shiyan followed Han Wenzhong for several months before he barely learned it.

Han Wenzhong not only called musk deer, but also made horns out of birch bark and blew sounds to call deer.

Xu Shiyan has learned these methods in his previous life, but he has learned them in general, occasionally good and sometimes bad, so he doesn't use them much most of the time.

Just when Xu Shiyan was thinking nonsense, the "young ...... in the distance The voice of the "young ......" is getting clearer and clearer.

Obviously, there are really fragrant roe deer coming this way.

Most of the roe deer are separated from each sex, and every winter, it is the season for them to find a mate.

When the male hears the female's call, he will scream and run in the direction of the call.

Han Wenzhong continued to call, and from time to time there were responses from male roe deer in the woods in the distance, which sounded like a lot of them.

Han Wenzhong also hid in the bushes at this time, preparing with a gun, and kept calling in his mouth.

Xu Shiyan and Han Limin hid behind the bushes and did not dare to move, their eyes looking out from the gaps in the bushes, keeping an eye on the situation outside.

Then, I saw a group of guys with short brown hair.

It looks like a fawn, has no horns on its head, rows of white hair on both sides of its neck, slender limbs, a short tail, two large, round ears, and a pair of large eyes.

The fragrant roe deer is shrewd by nature, pricking up its ears and crooking its neck, and cautiously looking around, obviously looking for a female fragrant roe deer.

At this time, Xu Shiyan, Han Wenzhong, and Han Limin shot at the same time.

A burst of gunfire rang out, and several of the roe deer fell to the ground, while others were frightened and ran away.

This thing runs very fast, and in an instant it disappears.

Han Wenzhong and the three of them got out of the bushes and looked at the four or five fragrant roe deer that had fallen on the ground.

"Today's harvest is not small, this thing, one can sell for hundreds, no less than the black blind man's guts."

Xiang roe deer is rarely encountered, and even if it does, if there is no Han Wenzhong, it will be in vain.

Without waiting for anyone to get closer, the roe deer ran away.

The three of them stepped forward and quickly removed the sachet, then disemboweled, and took out the internal organs.

"Uncle, do you think there is a way to capture them alive?" Xu Shiyan asked Han Wenzhong while working.

If it had been put aside, Xu Shiyan would never have thought so much.

Hunting is a way to make money, as long as you can earn money and improve your life, Xu Shiyan will not relent.

But since Xu Shiyan met the Laipi ghost again and caught a live sable, his thoughts have changed a little.

Extensive and savage hunting methods like the present one are very destructive to the sustainable development of living things.

Wild boars, badgers and other harmful farmland, black blind people can easily hurt people, but it is understandable.

But some wild animals that have great economic value and do not do much harm to people, such as sables, roe deer, and deer.

Can these animals be captured alive and then raised in captivity?

Han Wenzhong listened to Xu Shiyan's words, smiled and shook his head.

"It's difficult, an animal like a roe deer is cautious by nature, and it's not easy to set a trap to catch it.

Besides, even if you catch it, how to raise it? Don't you have to kill the sachet if you raise it? ”

People of this age do not know that in fact, musk can also be obtained in another way, and there is no need to harm the life of the roe deer.

Therefore, the hunters directly beat the male deer to death, and then cut the sachet.

Others don't know, but Xu Shiyan knows.

In later generations, there were animals such as forest musk deer, civet cats, and muskrats, which could be extracted without killing them.

Xu Shiyan felt that this might be a way, and if the research was understood, there would be no need to harm the lives of so many fragrant roe deer.

Nor will these animals become extinct in a few decades.

"The solution is something that people come up with, think about it."