269 leopards
The fire was still burning, and Wu Qian, who was originally in a daze for vigil, and Liu Hui and the two of them woke up instantly, and their hands holding the rifles were trembling slightly.
If a Siberian tiger really popped up in the middle of the night, then ...... Even if they win, I'm afraid they will suffer heavy casualties.
"Woo~"
More than two dozen dogs woke up, their fur blowing, some whimpering, some shaking their legs.
It's like a mouse seeing a cat, the dogs are very afraid of the tiger, of course, the rabbit is anxious and bites, if the tiger forces the dog to be anxious, the dogs will rush up to do it, but how much combat power can not be guaranteed.
Originally, Wang Hu and Wang Meng were still asleep, but suddenly another tiger roar came, and the sound seemed to be closer.
"Whew~"
Tigers roar in the forest, birds fly in fright, and snow falls from tree branches.
"What's going on!? There are tigers?"
"Oops~"
Wang Hu pouted, got up violently and smacked directly on the wood on the top of the nest, screaming in pain.
"Grab your rifle and get out quickly! Let the tiger plug the inside and it's over!"
Listening to the sound of the tiger's cry coming from the east, Wang Yuan and the six of them hurriedly lined up on the west side of the fire, with the dogs in front and the people bending over and holding rifles behind, and the atmosphere was very depressing for a while.
The fire was still burning but illuminated in limited scope, and beyond was the night, and the shadowy pine trees looked like big monsters with teeth and claws.
Beep~
The firewood burned and made a sound, Wang Hu swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "Far away...... Brother Yuan, is the tiger gone? Animals are afraid of fire, so they shouldn't dare to come, right?"
"Not sure, just wait."
After holding the rifle for a long time, Wang Yuan's arm was also a little sore, and the muzzle of the gun was slightly downward, and his rapid breathing also eased slightly.
I don't know when the tiger will pop out, but this kind of tense and exciting thing makes Wang Yuan very excited, and he feels like he is sick.
Huhuhu~
The cold wind was still blowing, a large number of snowflakes fell from the sky, and the snowflakes melted into water as soon as they touched the fire.
Time gradually passed, Wang Hu was shivering from the cold, he was too anxious just now, the cotton shoes were not put on, and the heel of his right foot was half pulled and exposed, and now he was frozen hard.
"Far ...... Brother Yuan, my leg is numb!"
"Ouch, you're active~ Don't worry, whether the tiger will come or not, it doesn't matter if you move a few times."
"Oh, that'll do."
The snow is getting bigger and bigger, the fire is getting smaller and smaller, and the cold wind is getting bigger and bigger in the early morning, and Wang Yuan and the third grandson are shivering.
At this moment, even Wang Meng couldn't bear it, and whispered, "Brother Yuan, I miss the hot kang and warm quilt at home."
"Ahem, this is also one of the benefits of hunting, if you stay at home every day, not only can you not enjoy it, but you will be annoyed, and if you stay in the forest for a few days, you will know that your home is good......
Seeing that an hour had passed, Wang Yuanjue's tiger should have left and let Liu Hui and Wu Qian continue to keep vigil, and the other four of them went back to sleep.
The night was calm.
In the morning, Wang Yuan opened the door and found Wu Qian and Liu Hui cooking rice, stewed with dried vegetables and rabbit meat in the pot, and the aroma wafted out with the heat.
"Where's the rabbit meat?"
"When the dogs came back just now, a stupid rabbit crawled out of its nest looking for food, and it jumped around on the south side not far from us. The dogs rushed over and took it back."
Wu Qian lifted the black iron pot that was burning outside, stirred it with a spoon, and the fragrance became stronger in an instant.
After drinking the delicious rabbit broth, everyone began to divide labor and cooperate - Wu Qian, Liu Hui was responsible for chopping firewood and cooking later; The dogs stayed at the camp to rest; Wang Yuan and the four of them were divided
In two groups, walk around and follow the footprints on the ground to see if you can catch any prey.
Dogs, unlike people, don't know how to retract, and when they have the strength, they run crazy and don't move on the ground when they don't have the strength, so let them rest in the camp - if they don't move halfway, it's a bad thing.
Wang Yuan and Wang Hu walked for almost an hour in the west, and found the footprints of the roe deer after turning over a beam.
The two of them were not in a hurry to chase slowly, their mentality was flat, and if they could catch up, it was best to change the target if they couldn't catch up, but after chasing out a dense pine forest, they really saw a group of stupid roe deer.
There are a dozen or so stupid roe deer, with yellow hair and white buttocks, looking around vigilantly while shaving snow and gnawing on dead grass, and they will flee immediately at the slightest disturbance.
"Brother Yuan! Silly roe deer!"
"Shhh~ Don't babble, get ready to shoot."
"Ah, shoot here? 100 meters away, I don't think I'm going to be able to hit it very accurately." Wang Hu scratched his ears and cheeks very uncomfortable, if he couldn't hit and let the roe deer all run away, then he couldn't forgive himself.
"The pine trees in front of us are so thin that even if you climb over them, you can easily expose them...... Shoot right here, you shoot the right and I'll shoot the left, aim and listen to me count."
"Okay! I'm going to hit the head today."
Wang Hu was also ruthless, lying on the snow and hurriedly aiming.
「3——2——1!」
When Wang Yuan softly shouted 1, the two of them fired at the same time in an instant, and the bullets shot out of the muzzle and flew directly towards the group of roe deer in the distance.
Bang bang~
Wang Yuan shot a roe deer in the head, and Wang Hu also aimed at the roe deer's head, but unfortunately the marksmanship almost hit the butt of the other roe deer - it also hit the roe deer.
"Hit hit!"
Wang Hu cheered instantly, and Wang Yuan couldn't wait to kick him to get a little result, so he snorted:
"You're a real tiger, hurry up and shoot the second shot, you can hit one more end is one head."
The frightened roe deer herd had already begun to flee westward, and Wang Yuan shouted and fired a second shot, bang~ This time he hit a roe deer in the hind leg.
"Yo~"
The roe deer fell directly to the ground in pain, and the snowflakes on the ground splashed and boiled.
Wang Hu hurriedly fired a second shot, but unfortunately didn't hit anything, and when Wang Yuan pulled his cousin Wang Hu down the hill to replenish the guns for the stupid roe deer who was not dead, both of them laughed.
Three roe deer!
Enough for everyone and the dog to eat for days.
"Let's go back for a walk, and when we get back to camp, it's almost time for lunch."
Wang Yuan put the rifle on his shoulder, picked up the two roe deer and took the lead in walking forward, he carried the two roe deer with great strength and still walked like flying.
Wang Hu picked up the last roe deer and left here after Wang Yuan's footsteps.
……
Wang Yuan and the others had just approached the camp when the dogs ran over, sniffing and sniffing, especially the big wolves, and their tails wagged quickly.
"Go, go, don't stop me in front of me, this year you have a good mouth, and you have roe deer meat to eat!"
"Yo~ Hit a roe deer? Or three?"
Before Zhu Zi and Wang Meng came back, Wang Yuan and the others disposed of a roe deer and roasted the meat.
After a while, when Zhu Zi and Wang Meng returned, they carried a half-sized wild boar, and the hundred-pound wild boar had a bloody hole in its head, and it was killed with one blow.
"Who fired the shot?"
Wang Yuan looked at his cousin Wang Meng, who stretched out his hand and pointed to the pillar, the pillar held his head high, and his expression was very sorrowful: "Oh, it's not far away, it's only 200 meters, you don't need to aim, raise your hand and shoot it in the head."
"Just blow it!"
Zizizi~
Pieces of roe deer meat are roasted on the outside and tender on the inside, a little oil is contracted, and some fall directly into the charcoal, stinging and stinging~ The fragrance that spreads is wafting The greedy dogs are direct.
Wang Yuan took out a half-burned piece of wood, lit a cigarette and smoked:
"In the morning, I saw a lot of footprints of hares, pheasants, wild boars, and roe deer, and it seems that there are indeed a lot of prey in this area...... By the way, how much wood did you make in the morning?"
"That's just the pile, and a few pieces of wood haven't been snatched yet."
Wang Yuan glanced back, the pile of wood was about the amount of ten dead trees, too little, mainly because dry wood was much more laborious to saw.
"Wet wood all the time, you can see three wet woods in the time it takes to see one dry wood, it's better to be a little wet, and the fire can burn a little bit at night."
In the afternoon, everyone went to the whole wood to prepare enough wood, and the most important thing in the old forest was the tree, and they did not see too thick trees, just thick thighs or thick bowls.
Every year, squirrels will bury a large number of pine nuts in the ground as food to prepare for winter, but squirrels have a bad memory and often forget the place where the pine nuts are hidden, so in the spring of the next year, many pine nuts will quietly sprout and slowly grow into pine trees.
Cutting down a part of the pine tree is just enough to make room for other small saplings.
In the evening, after eating and drinking, everyone is not sleepy and gathers together to chat.
It was pitch black all around, but the ground was bright near the nest, and the flames that burned were one and a half meters high, and sweat broke down on your forehead when you sat a little farther away.
The snow on the nearby ground had all melted, and the snow had either seeped into the ground or evaporated, and some of last year's dead grass and dried leaves were exposed.
It was okay to be idle, so Wang Yuan split the bones of the roe deer with a knife, sprinkled cumin and chili powder, and roasted them on the fire.
Zizizi~
The raw white bones were roasted and gradually turned brown, and a faint fragrance wafted out.
"Come, eat the bone marrow of the roe deer."
After distributing the bones to everyone, everyone was full of praise for eating, and praised Wang Yuan's good craftsmanship again and again.
"It's going to be the official hunt tomorrow, so let's rest early today."
"Okay, today I saw the footprints of the black blind man, let's follow the footprints directly tomorrow, shall we? Woo~ The bear's paw is fragrant when it's roasted."
There was no need for Wang Yuan to keep vigil today, he went into the ground early and fell asleep, but he was woken up by the pillar the next morning:
"Wang Yuan, Wang Yuan woke up, something happened!"
"Ah, what's going on?" Wang Yuan rubbed his eyes in a daze, looked at the pillar with a gloomy face, and instantly chuckled in his heart.
After emerging from the nest in the ground, the pillar led Wang Yuan to the south, and the thick snow he stepped on made a creaking sound.
Wang Meng, Wang Hu and they also followed with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and after bypassing a big pine tree that needed to be hugged by two people, a bone frame instantly appeared in front of everyone.
The minced meat is red, the blood is also red, scattered and scattered, and the internal organs are scattered everywhere quite scary.
"Oh, what the hell is this?"
"It looks like a deer! Why did you eat like this? Where's the deer's head?"
After searching for the mountains and fields, I soon found the deer's head a few dozen meters to the east.
Several people combined the footprints on the ground and the fact that the deer was eaten like this, and guessed that the leopard did it, which was not good news, it was too close to everyone's camp, and everyone's hearts sank.
"Groove! We have more than 20 large hounds, and we still have guns in our hands, and even leopards are not afraid to come!"
"Let's be honest, it's better to be careful if leopards often sneak attack."
In order to defend against the leopards, in addition to the three people who continued to collect firewood in the afternoon, the rest of the people placed clips around the camp and set up defensive traps - if the leopards really wanted to sneak attack, it would probably have some effect.
Time passed, and two days passed in the blink of an eye.
The leopard did not appear, but although Wang Yuan, who had been hunting for two days, had harvested three and a half large wild boars, they did not encounter a herd of roe deer or wild boars that could be hunted.
That night, probably because of the low temperature in the mountains and forests, a large number of snowflakes fell from the sky, and the snowflakes fluttered one after another
It quickly melted when it fell on the fire.
"Wang~"
The dogs are always so carefree, and some stupid dogs are jumping up and down with their mouths wide open to bite snowflakes, and the white air coming out of their mouths slowly drifts out.
"Is the pork roasted? Let's start eating it when it's baked?"
"Well, eat a few pieces on the right first, the meat on the left is almost meaningful, oh, the millet porridge is also cooked."
Eating fragrant barbecue, and finally drinking two bowls of millet porridge, the heat spread throughout the whole body, and the fatigue dissipated a lot.
"It's been two busy days, and tomorrow is a day off! The dogs are tired and need to rest."
"Okay, then let's rest, just have a little more firewood...... Wu Qian didn't finish speaking, and the whole person trembled in an instant, "I'm damn" He shouted and stood up with his rifle in his hand, his face full of horror, and his eyes stared straight to the east.
Boom~
Wang Yuan and the others also copied the guy's style, and looked at the east vigilantly but there was nothing.
The flames blown by the cold wind swayed, but the dogs didn't react, but looked at Wang Yuan and them with puzzled faces.
"Wu Qian, what did you see just now!?"
"Eyes, eyes like light bulbs...... I don't know what words to use to describe it, it's scary anyway, and I feel like I'm going to die!"
I don't know if it was too close to the fire or scared by those eyes, Wu Qian's head was full of bright sweat.
"Don't scare yourself! Hold on!"
Wang Yuan scolded loudly, Wu Qian came back to his senses a little, and when he encountered a large carnivore, he couldn't be too cowardly psychologically, and the more he coaxed, the faster he died.
It is even possible to be scared to death by yourself.
Of course, it is necessary to be cautious in action, recklessness and negligence are absolutely unacceptable.
Animals are sometimes stupid, but sometimes they are so clever that underestimating them is a big loss.
"Bang!"
Wang Yuan thought about it and fired a shot into the distance, the gunfire was extremely loud in the night, and a group of sleeping birds instantly scolded and flew away.