My 1995 Small Farm.

Chapter 314

Hearing that Chen Ling wanted to go find the pig alone.

Liu Guangli and Wang Lixian's concerns were not unfounded.

There's an old saying among hunters: "Newbies don't hunt wolves, and veterans don't hunt boars."

Wolves are clever and cunning, almost too shrewd.

For a novice hunter, encountering a wolf in the mountains might not be enough to defeat it.

Wild boars are different.

They are physically strong but simple-minded. Once angered, wild boars will not hesitate to fight back until their last breath.

Even experienced hunters can get into trouble when encountering wild boars.

"Have you all already considered me a veteran so quickly?"

Chen Ling thought about it with great interest and then laughed to himself.

He knew that this meant that wild boars were not to be trifled with, and that both novices and veterans had to be careful, avoid arrogance and impatience, and not let their experience, countless boar hunts, or great skills make them complacent.

Chen Ling watched his two big dogs leading a pack of hunting dogs running up the mountain and smiled to himself. In fact, with guns and dogs, and enough dogs to go around, he wasn't afraid to hunt a boar by himself. Besides, he had his own cave, so catching wild boars would be a piece of cake.

It would be inconvenient for others to follow him, as it would hinder his ability to dominate the battlefield.

Walking in the mountains in the afternoon, the place is very quiet, and the air is filled with the increasingly strong scent of autumn.

The mountains and forests are serene and the streams flow gently.

The sky was a clear, cloudless blue, and the forests were ablaze with color—a truly picturesque scene.

Xiao Jin led the pack of dogs to a chestnut grove on a mountain south of the wetland. He barked twice at the grove and then ran off into the woods.

As soon as Xiao Jin barked, all the dogs barked wildly, running and barking as they followed Xiao Jin into the forest.

Chen Ling followed and found dense and messy wild boar footprints at the outer edge of the forest.

Most of these hoof prints were old, left more than three days ago. We followed them into the forest for almost two miles before we saw fresh wild boar hoof prints.

Meanwhile, the pack of dogs, led by Xiao Jin, had already entered the pine forest high up on the mountain. The dogs barked incessantly, and the wild boars howled continuously.

This clearly indicates that they have already begun driving away the wild boars.

Upon seeing this, Chen Ling took out an iron bucket from the cave, banged on it, shouted, and stomped his feet repeatedly.

This is to get the dogs to lure the pigs towards him.

At the same time, boars will protect the herd during this season and will not be scared away.

Instead, when provoked, it will charge forward with its sow, charging at anyone it sees.

He made such a commotion that the wild boars would naturally be drawn to him and see it as a provocation.

Sure enough, he didn't have to wait three minutes.

A large boar, surrounded by a pack of dogs, burst out of the pine forest in a frenzy.

The target was Chen Ling.

Seeing this, Chen Ling showed no fear whatsoever. Instead, he banged the iron bucket on his hand even louder, stomping his feet as he did so to provoke it.

"Hey, come here, come over here quickly."

The boars in this season are so irritable; they couldn't stand such insults and provocations. They immediately let out a sharp squeal and charged at Chen Ling with red eyes.

This boar is not much smaller than the two we hunted before; it must weigh at least 350 pounds.

This pig is a bit old; it looks quite aged.

The tusks were not straight and sharp like those of a young boar; instead, they were curved.

It suddenly rammed into Chen Ling, but Chen Ling remained calm and stood still. However, the iron bucket in his hand suddenly disappeared.

The boar, disregarding everything else, roared angrily and rammed into Chen Ling.

But instead of sending Chen Ling flying, it felt like he had bumped into a ball of cotton.

At the same time, a flash of white light appeared before my eyes, and suddenly a new world appeared before me.

Clearly, the boar had been taken into Chen Ling's cave in that instant.

After doing this, Chen Ling acted as if nothing had happened and continued to provoke the remaining female wild boars.

This herd of pigs is not very large; not counting the dozen or so half-grown piglets, there are only six or seven adult pigs.

Chen Ling could easily handle them.

But the remaining wild boars panicked when they saw the big boar disappear in an instant.

With a big boar around, they aren't afraid of being surrounded and chased away by dogs.

But when the boar disappeared, they suddenly lost their composure and couldn't decide whether to run away or continue fighting.

Suddenly, the entire herd of pigs became chaotic, and some even showed signs of scattering away.

Upon seeing this, Chen Ling worried that the pigs would scatter and be difficult to catch, so he quickly rushed into the herd, catching them one by one. In a short while, nearly half of the twenty pigs, big and small, were gone.

The remaining two wild boars were of medium size, weighing less than 200 pounds each.

Surrounded by a pack of dogs, right in the middle, I could only run a few steps before being blocked back; I couldn't run away.

The pack of dogs surrounded the wild boar, barking loudly incessantly.

It's like a group of hot-tempered teenagers yelling and threatening a quiet, helpless middle school student.

This is a characteristic of hunting dogs.

When it encounters small prey, it will chirp to alert the owner, and upon receiving the owner's command, it will rush out and return once it catches it.

When they encounter large prey such as wild boars and deer, they will surround and drive them away, making constant noises throughout.

This cry is indeed a way to intimidate and coerce the prey, achieving the purpose of driving it away, harassing it, and disrupting its formation.

"Xiao Jin, let's go, let's not waste time with them."

Xiao Jin immediately sprang into action, leading his pack of dogs to torment the two wild boars to the point of near death, leaving them splattered with blood.

Chen Ling's actions were certainly not superfluous.

If a hunting dog successfully helps to catch its prey, one should be left for the others to finish off.

Solving the problem and then rewarding it—this process might not matter to Xiao Jin for two dogs, but it's a necessary step for the other hunting dogs.

The process of solving prey enhances their confidence in hunting, while rewards are a matter of maintaining motivation.

If you bring someone else's hunting dog out, you can't let it corrupt them.

It's unreasonable to make people work for free without rewarding them for using the service.

"You guys start eating. I'll put out some bees for a while, and we'll head back when it gets dark."

After offering sacrifices at the mountain, Chen Ling left the entrails and blood of the two pigs for the dogs to eat, washed his hands in a place with water, and then continued his daily beekeeping work.

It gets dark early in the mountains, so he didn't wait long. When the sun was starting to dim, he carried a pig on his back and headed back.

He also made sure to fill in the bullet holes on the pig.

Despite being well-prepared, carrying this whole pig back still shocked everyone.

This is the season when boars are most protective of their herd. How did this guy manage to hunt down a sow?

But from then on, every time Chen Ling went into the mountains, he would hunt one or two wild boars and bring them back.

They carried it home the day after the hunt.

At first, everyone was shocked by his prowess, but later they became completely numb to it.

Some even began to suspect and speculate that Chen Ling might have his own secret method for hunting wild boars if he didn't allow anyone to go with him.

They don't allow others to follow their example, fearing that others might imitate it.

Regardless of what others said, Chen Ling continued his pig-hunting operation.

After a week, the tractor parked behind Chen Ling's farm was loaded with six large wild boars. Of course, "six" refers to the six large wild boars, but their meat was already butchered and ready to be sold before being loaded onto the truck.

The actual number of wild boars in the cave has exceeded thirty.

There were even more piglets and half-grown pigs, forcing Chen Ling to clear out a space in the woods to use as a pig farm.

He didn't plan to raise wild boars in the cave.

Because the food raised in the cave is only delicious when it's young; it still doesn't taste good when it grows up.

Wild boars are dirty and smelly, so they're not suitable for staying in the cave.

Regardless, eliminating three wild boar herds in the mountains within a week taught these prolific breeders a lesson.

It still has many benefits.

In later generations, wild boars had almost no natural predators and became a real plague, with frequent incidents of wild boars injuring people in many places, and even one boar killing four people.

Ultimately, with no other option, the authorities had to shorten the hunting ban period.

Hunting is permitted for the rest of the year, except for two or three months in spring and summer.

Of course.

The target of this hunt was simply a wild boar.

Other wild animals are still not allowed to be touched.

……

In the blink of an eye, National Day is almost here.

That morning, Chen Ling drove a tractor, loaded with six large wild boars, to the slaughterhouse.

He carried those six wild boars out on his own, trip after trip. Wang Lixian and Chen Ze wanted to help, but he refused.

Anyway, since it's not in front of anyone, it can be stored away in its own little world when no one is watching, which is convenient since no one is following it.

After several such trips, everyone was amazed by his strength.

He didn't care about any of that. He drove his tractor across the dam outside the village and released four more pigs out of the cave.

These caves are basically filled with whole pigs.

The meat they carried back had already been butchered; the wild boar's head had been chopped off and fed to the dogs.

Wild boar heads and domestic boar heads were worthless at this time and very difficult to handle, especially wild boar heads, which were mostly chopped off and thrown away.

"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, where are you going?"

In the distance, on the mountain road, there was a group of people, adults and children. Wang Zhenzhen was standing at the front of the children. When she saw him, she shouted and waved to him.

"I'm going to the slaughterhouse to sell pork."

Chen Ling drove up and answered Wang Zhenzhen, then said to a short-haired, slender woman standing among the adults, "Teacher Zhang, welcome to our home."

Teacher Zhang smiled slightly and said shyly and politely, "The students were eager to see the red-crowned cranes, so we're sorry to have troubled you."

"It's alright, come whenever you want..."

Teacher Zhang Jing cared a lot about Wang Zhenzhen. The whole family knew how good she was, and Chen Ling was also very polite to her. So he said to Wang Zhenzhen, "Zhenzhen, take Teacher Zhang home. Your parents and your sister are all here at home."

"Okay. Brother-in-law, drive carefully."

Wang Zhenzhen started her holiday yesterday and stayed with Liang Hongyu. They were going back to Beijing for the National Day holiday, so Wang Zhenzhen stayed there after school yesterday to play with Xiao Lizi for half a day.

Unexpectedly, on the first day of the holiday, we brought our teachers and classmates along.

However, this girl was quite sensible in front of her teachers and classmates. She waved to Chen Ling and smiled, looking very well-behaved.

Teacher Zhang also had the students greet Chen Ling, saying hello to big brother and goodbye to big brother, making it quite lively.

Chen Ling waved to them before driving the tractor toward the slaughterhouse.

It left a group of children and their parents in awe.

On the way, a male classmate couldn't help but ask, "Wang Zhenzhen, what does your brother-in-law do? Where did he get so many big black pigs?"

"What big black pig? That's a wild boar, you idiot."

Wang Zhenzhen glanced at her male classmate and said, "My brother-in-law is amazing. He goes hunting in the mountains and can catch a whole tractor-load of wild boars in just a few days. Didn't you see it just now? The truck bed is full of them."

"I see it. I see it."

"A whole truckload of wild boars. The older brother said he's going to take it to the slaughterhouse. How much will it sell for?"

"It must be a lot of money, at least tens of thousands, maybe even a hundred million."

The group of children chattered away like a flock of ducks crossing the street, leaving their parents who had come along bewildered.

However, the children weren't wrong.

Chen Ling did make a lot of money this time, tens of thousands of yuan.

Because he figured that since he was already out, he might as well get rid of the wild boar.

Half-grown wild boar piglets can be kept for later use as pork for the family.

In this way, he sold the thirty or so wild boars in the cave to slaughterhouses in various towns and counties.

I made a trip to Changle Township, a trip to Huangni Town, a trip to the county seat, and also a trip to Kuliu County, which is located to the north between Lingyun and Wangbacheng.

After going around in circles, I sold them all.

Chen Ling roughly checked the amount and found that he had received more than 30,000 yuan.

"Tsk tsk, our Qinling breeding farm is starting to show results. Now we don't need to sell ginseng. Just by hunting wild boars, we can probably save up enough to buy a car next year, right? Besides, there are more than just wild boars in the mountains."

"Well, let's not think about anything else for now. We need to wait for Uncle Han and the others to come out of the mountains. We need to go to the city and buy the TV first."

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