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After a while, I heard a rustling sound in the distance. The two of them held their breath, not even daring to breathe. The ears and brown heads of the roe deer were gradually revealed between the thatch, but it was two big roe deer with three small roe deer with white spots on their bodies that walked under the tree leisurely, among the two big roe deer, one grew a curved fang, showing out of the mouth, undoubtedly a fragrant roe deer (the one with fangs exposed outside the mouth is male, and the male roe deer has fragrance). One of the roe deer also sticks out its head to nibble on the young leaves at the root of the tree, and the three small roe deer play back and forth, following the two large roe deer.
The five roe deer slowly passed through the grass to the water's edge, and the little roe deer frolicked and frolicked for a while, and then lowered their heads to graze. The two big roe deer took turns to be on duty, and after eating the grass and leaves for a while, the roots of the tree would raise their heads. Rotate your two pointed ears flexibly to observe the movement around you. A few roe deer sat at the water's edge for two hours before slowly leaving, and the sun was getting hot as it was almost noon.
Dongfu and Baoding squatted on the tree until their feet were numb, and when they saw the roe deer leaving, they were relieved, and they hurriedly jumped off the tree, but they didn't care about the soreness of their feet, so they were busy finding a flat place on the road where the roe deer was passing and pressed a piece of clothing with stones to make a mark, and returned to the wooden house to take out the dry food and eat it to their heart's content, so they took a hoe and shovel and dug a pit in the place where they had just made a mark.
Fortunately, the soil layer in the mountains is not hard, the two were busy for nearly three and a half hours, and finally dug a deep pit of more than one meter, spread thatch in it, and on the hole shelf simply easy to break the branches, Bao Ding tied a thin hemp rope in the branches, led out dozens of zhang far away, tied a bell to hang on the branches, which was also discussed by the two before departure, but was inspired by the night to break into the wolf valley, if a roe deer fell into the hole, the two were not there, but they could hear the rope pull the bell ringing.
The two of them cut several large sheaves of thatch and covered them, spread them finely, and then got some thatch that the roe had stepped on from nearby and spread them on the top layer, and sprinkled some of the feces left by the roe deer on it. When everything was ready, it was almost dusk. The roe deer did not come that night, probably alarmed by the noise made by the two.
Tired and tired, the two of them went back to the hut, ate something casually, lit a fire, and slept with their clothes. Fortunately, there were no big beasts in the vicinity at night, and the trap was not destroyed.
Early the next morning, the two of them made a plan, Bao Ding went to the tree to guard first, but Dongfu went to the neighborhood and hunted some five or six pheasants and hares to get back. After that, he changed to Dongfu to squat, and Baoding went to the mountains to hunt, released the animal trap, and ran to the far water to spear fish. After waiting for a day, I didn't even see the shadow of those roe deer. When the two arrived in the evening, they went to the water's edge to cut the fish, and the hares and pheasants could be kept for a few more days, but the fish that were forked could not be kept for long, and after the cut, they burned a large fire outside the house, and made some big roots burn red, and the fish were forked from the two fins with short branches, and a rope was tied between the trees, and the fish was hung on it and roasted. Tossing and turning until midnight before resting.
The next morning, he still didn't see the roe deer coming, and Dongfu guarded it in the morning, and there was a false alarm. When he was squatting on the tree, he heard a humming sound, and was taken aback, and hurriedly jumped down the tree, but it was a big black wild boar coming out of the woods, and Dongfu did not dare to let it come and step on the trap, but he did not dare to go over and attack. Wild boars are also often seen near Ninghai, their meat is thick and thick, and they are extremely unpalatable, and few people hunt and kill them unless they go to the village to harm the crops. Moreover, wild boars are fierce by nature, and if they fight with people, they are crazy and ferocious, and it is extremely difficult to deal with. But this stupid guy adheres to one thing: "If people don't offend me, I won't offend people", as long as you don't provoke, it won't take the initiative to attack. Dongfu drew his sword and stood still, and the wild boar confronted Dongfu for a while, and finally turned around, humming and retreating into the forest. Dongfu breathed a sigh of relief. So the two stayed up for another day, but they still didn't see the roe deer.
On the third day, it rained again, and the two were a little disappointed, and they did not bother to go out hunting, so they lit a fire in the hut and rested, but took turns to go out to the vicinity of the trap to pay attention for a while, and did not dare to approach it, for fear of startling away the roe deer. When I was bored near noon, I burned a pheasant, grilled two fish, smeared them with salt, and ate Meimei. When it was dusk, although the rain stopped, but there was never a roe deer caught in the net, I was sad in my heart, thinking that this time I couldn't catch it, so I planned to go down the mountain and return to the village the next day, but fortunately, I also shot twenty or thirty pheasants and hares, and I could make up the number when I took them back.
But unexpectedly, when the sky was about to get dark, they faintly heard the bell ringing, and the two of them were immediately overjoyed, and ran to the trap to see, and actually dropped a large and a small two roe deer, thinking that the small roe deer was in front, and the weight was not enough, and the big roe deer was on the heel, so the branch was trampled off, and they fell down together. The other roe deer had already been bluffed into running away without a trace.
It turned out that although the two of them laid a trap, they were inexperienced in the end, leaving a smell. The roe deer refused to come. Fortunately, the rain washed away the smell, and a few roe deer finally couldn't help but come out and were lucky to catch them.
The two happily tied the legs of the two roe deer, and lifted them up to see, but unfortunately the big one was not a male, but they were also infinitely happy, and hung the two roe deer upside down with a thick wooden stick, and carried them to the side of the wooden house, where there was still leisure to continue to spend the night, and then the hares and pheasants and fish were packed separately, and the bags were packed, and the roe deer were hung on the wooden sticks, and the wooden house was cleaned, and then Huan Huan went down the mountain overnight.
The two of them carried the roe deer, and rushed over a few hills with the faint starlight, but fortunately, the two of them rested for a day because of the rain, and ate a big meal, plus the excitement in their hearts, without any sense of tiredness, walked for two or three hours, and they arrived near the mountain where the Wolf Valley was located. It's not far from the village.
The two of them were tired of walking in a forest, put down and rested for a while, and then lifted up, and only after walking a few steps, they heard footsteps, and when they wanted to dodge, it was too late, so they met the two people who were coming on. The two of them wore black clothes, and when they saw Dongfu and the others carrying two roe deer over, one of them sneered: "Second brother, this is really a no-brainer." ”
Ladies and gentlemen, who are these two?
There is a saying: It's not that enemies don't get together. These two people are the bandits in the Wild Wolf Valley, that is, two of the three men that Dongfu met when he was selling knives that day. One of them is the second tyrant.
The tyrant shouted loudly: "Two boys, leave the things behind, and let you two and a dog die!" "It turned out that these two bandits wanted to take advantage of the dark night and high wind to go to the neighborhood to do some stealing chickens and dogs. But in this area of the poor countryside, how can you get any good things, you return empty-handed. I don't want to meet two people in the forest, of course I want to rob them.