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Chapter 167: The big leather condom was put on and the body was covered with traces

Dapi is cautious by nature and has a high sense of territory. Like a wolf, it will mark its territory with urine.

Moreover, the territories of male giant pelts usually do not overlap and are relatively wide. That is to say, there is only one male giant pelt in a territory, but it will partially overlap with the female giant pelt.

During their daily activities, they choose places with dense canopies, such as red pine forests and places with many rock crevices. This allows sables to use the terrain to quickly avoid natural enemies.

Their natural enemies are mainly yellow-throated marten, lynx, badger...

They like to place their nests in tree holes and stone crevices, and they like to dig out tree roots to live in caves. The caves are very dry and comfortable. If there is a feeling of moisture or there is not enough food, they will move frequently, which is similar to rabbits. Almost, there are usually multiple residences and nests within the territory.

Sables are omnivores and like to eat a combination of meat and vegetables. Their food is very nutritious. They usually like to eat pine nuts and berries, similar to squirrels.

However, because its front paws are very smart and sharp, it has a high ability to climb trees, so it always hunts squirrels, hares, pheasants, sand pheasants and other small animals at dusk or night.

Because Da Pi was cautious by nature, Xu Ning dragged Wang Hu to leave first. Once Da Pi discovered anything unusual, he would probably move.

When returning to the cave, Xu Ning carefully observed the terrain. The pine forest was dense and the slopes were gentle. It faced the sun and the sun shone on people's faces, giving them a comfortable feeling.

Although the ground is covered with snow, you can feel a lot of raised gravel under your feet. You have to be careful even when going down the mountain. If you fall and roll down the mountain, it is no joke.

This white stone mountain is at a high altitude, and there are various common tree species growing on the mountain. Xu Ning also saw dozens of yellow pineapples and groups of fire glazes.

The cave is located on the east side of Baishilizi and to the north, with its back to the sunny slope, so Xu Ning and Wang Hu had to go around the boss to get back to the cave, because there is an extremely steep pile of rocks above the cave.

Not far from the entrance of the cave, the two of them saw Li Fuqiang poking out his buttocks and building stones at the entrance of the cave. He also chopped down several trees as thick as calves, cut them into lengths of one to two meters, and formed a three-sided wall that was higher than the entrance of the cave. , making the stone blocks fixed.

Li Fuqiang worked quite well. In just one afternoon, he covered the sleeping area in the cave with urala grass and built a simple stove with stones to burn the fire. Although there was no chimney, it was much better than last night.

"Why are you back? The food is hot."

Wang Hu said with a smile: "Brother Qiang, my second brother is looking at Dapi Zong!"

Li Fuqiang was shocked, "Oh shit! This idea is so lucky. I've been thinking about it for two days."

Xu Ning smiled and nodded, then led the way around the wooden wall and entered the cave. There was a fire in the cave emitting heat, making the temperature inside the cave much higher than outside.

"I have been wandering around in thought for several days. This time looking at Dapi Zong, I guess we can go home in two or three days."

Li Fuqiang nodded: "Next time we come over, we need to bring some bedding. It's best to come over in the summer and dig a cellar..."

The three of them obviously want to live here permanently. It is not easy to find a big hide in the mountains. If they can kill a big hide every year, then the three of them will not have to do anything. Their annual income can be as much as that of Xu Laowen and Xu Laowen. Long added a lot of salary.

In fact, there is also a big skin nest near Qing'an, but it has been occupied by others long ago. If others want to fix the big skin, they must be prepared to use knives and guns.

Who would give up a regular job?

Xu Ning pulled out the lunch box and said to the two and said, "Let's look at the male and the mother, this place is too far from us to Qing'an. From the traces left by this cave, there should be many people who often put this foot, and the whole. It's not good to come to the big skin. "

Wang Hu opened the lunch box and said, "Second brother, then we should take advantage of it."

"Should this play? Who can we stay every day? You can try it first, let's talk about it in the coming year."

"That's okay too."

They only brought three days of solid food with them this time, so they would eat less in the morning and evening, but they had to eat enough at noon. After all, they had to do a lot in the afternoon, and they would not have the energy to do anything without a full meal.

The three of them stewed potatoes and pickles around two boxes of radishes. Each of them made a box of rice and ate two corn pancakes before stopping.

"Brother, you and Huzi will go hunting for livestock later. We can't rely on the little things we brought. We have to plan ahead. I estimate that even if the trap is laid, it may not be possible to trap it in a short time."

Li Fuqiang nodded: "Hey, that's okay."

"Second brother, we need to get a small pot next time. If we don't boil the bear bile without playing with it, the aluminum lunch box is too small and we may not be able to put it down."

Xu Ning looked at Wang Hu and said with a smile: "You're thinking quite far ahead. OK, I'll go out to the street and buy a pony spoon later."

Xu Ning originally planned to visit Baishilizi, but he didn't expect to encounter Dapi Zhong, so he was not fully prepared and was not ready for a long stay.

But now that they have seen the big skin trace, they must make preparations in advance. Even if they do not prepare enough food, they will have to stay here for at least a week before they can see the result.

And in this cold and freezing mountain, just living in a cave and suffering, some may ask, is it worth it?

It must be worth it. As long as you work hard these days, you can make money and improve your family life, so this hard work is nothing.

Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu had never suffered this crime before, but they didn't complain about it. Why? Why don't you just go back for the whole piece of skin?

Xu Ning is willing to bring them here. They have already thought about it before leaving. They will all follow Xu Ning's arrangements. They can do whatever they are told. They will eat and live together. Xu Ning can hold on. What's the difference?

So after finishing lunch, at around one o'clock, Wang Hu brushed the snow off the lunch box, and then he and Li Fuqiang carried guns on their backs and carried the condoms containing jumping cats and pheasants out of the cave.

There are many things they want to look for this time. First, they need to find the traces of small animals, and then they need to find the traces of larger animals. If they find traces, they may be able to chase them for two or three miles, but they cannot go too far, otherwise they will return. The cave must be dark.

Xu Ning gave a few instructions and watched the two of them go away. He went back to the cave to sort out the large leather sleeves and clips. After putting them all in his cloth pocket, he also walked out of the cave with the gun on his back and headed straight to the pine forest to the north. .

It was already past two o'clock when he reached the big fallen tree. Xu Ning looked around and saw that there were no fresh traces on the fallen tree except for the big leather tracks he had seen the first day. Then he put the cloth bag aside, took out the sleeve and hung it on his arm. Carrying two small clamps and a pedal clamp, he walked to a position two meters away from the big fallen tree.

When Xu Ningxuan saw a tree falling with the ice and snow from Lali La, he murmured: "This cannot be a large leather cottage ..."

It's best to put the big skin on the animal path that it often walks. However, the big skin is very clever and will only come out for a walk every two days. Sometimes it may not return to its original nest when it comes out, but it may find a new den to live in.

Xu Ning did not clean up the urine, ice and snow, but walked more than 20 meters into the pine forest. This is where the crown of the big fallen tree fell, and there were many rotten branches standing slanting here and there.

He found two positions, first put down three traps, and then placed a pedal clamp around the roots of the big fallen tree.

At this time, if you remove the clamp, you can only pull the snow apart and press it down, and then cover it with snow.

Because the frozen soil is too solid, if there is too much movement, it will scare Dapi away from leaving the nest.

Xu Ning put some pine nuts on the pedal clips, and then went elsewhere to continue placing clips and condoms. In this afternoon, he placed a total of three clips and eighteen condoms. He didn't have high hopes. In addition to some experience, it also required some luck.

Although Xu Ning saw the new trace of Dapi in the early afternoon, it is very likely that it moved to another nest. If this is the case, Xu Ning will have to spend some time to find Dapi.

This pine forest is dense. Sometimes the big leather does not want to walk, it will fly around the tree. At that time, it is difficult to find a big leather trace.

At more than three:30, Xu Ning stepped back to the cave. At this time, Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu hadn't returned. He first filled the firewood into the fire, and pulled out the aluminum boxes next to the fire. After the two come back, they can eat it as long as they are a little hot.

Xu Ning walked outside with the empty lunch box, found a relatively clean snowdrift, packed the snow into the lunch box, and then boiled it back in the cave to mix in some pickles and drink it as pickle soup.

At this time, Xu Ning was just about to walk into the cave when he saw Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu rushing back.

"Second brother!"

Seeing the smiles on their faces, Xu Ning knew they were looking at something.

"What are you looking at?"

Wang Hu bared his teeth and said happily: "I have been looking at the traces of pigs on the sunny slope of Baishilizi for several days. My brother Qiang saw a row of roe deer traces in Xiaobeigou under the sunny slope. After that, we went back. When I was leaving, I looked at a cave on the hillside of the mountain."

Li Fuqiang answered: "Brother, the hole in the ground is connected to the roots of the tree, and there is a hole in the snow at the entrance of the hole. There must be something inside! But we didn't dare to move. What if it turns out to be a big skin?"

Snow holes refer to the ventilation holes formed when the animal's nest is covered with snow and the hot breath penetrates the snow.

If the ventilation opening is not damaged, it means that the contents of the hole have not escaped.

Wang Hu took the lunch box from Xu Ning's hand, and the three of them turned and walked towards the entrance of the cave.

Xu Ning thought it might not be Dapi, because sables don't hibernate, and they can stay in the nest for at most two or three days. This little thing should be quite clever, but it is also restless. It has to come out to go to the latrine and clean up the house almost every day. Order food or tidy up the nest.

"It can't be Dapi, or he could be a badger coward."

The three of them walked into the cave and sat around the fire. Xu Ning put the lunch box on the red coals to heat it, and Li Fuqiang lit a cigarette.

"Brother, why don't we go take a look tomorrow? If it's a badger, can we take it out?"

Wang Hu nodded his eyes, but asked, "Second brother, do you hold the big skin?"

"Oh my god, that's not good!" Li Fuqiang patted his leg and looked at Xu Ning with an expectant expression.

"How can I see it? I just came back after putting on the condom and clamp. If I don't go out to walk the condom these two days, let's start by gathering some animals for food rations, otherwise we won't be able to survive for a week."

Li Fuqiang exhaled the smoke and nodded: "Yeah, we need to groom some animals. Huzi and I went down to the sunny slope to do some trapping. I don't know if we can groom the pheasants."

"Is there any trace?" Xu Ning asked.

"Yes! There are chicken tracks all over the sunny slope, and there are a lot of dogtail grass, wild perilla and so on."

Xu Ning smiled and nodded: "This one is thicker than our Qing'an animal."

Wang Hu pulled out the lunch box, Li Fuqiang moved out of the grilled rice noodle cake, threw away the cigarette butt and said Xu Ning and said, "Brother, we also set up a row of people's footprints."

Xu Ning frowned, raised his head and asked, "Which direction are you going?"

"southwest!"

"That's the Houshi Pond over there..." Xu Ning muttered: "Wanye is close to the white stone lazi. Maybe he is from Wanye. Are you looking at some of the footprints?"

Li Fuqiang shook his head: "I didn't see it. The footprints were made by closing together. Why do there need to be three or four people in the tiger?"

Wang Hu nodded: "Second brother, I've been looking at those footprints for a long time. I guess they were left three or four days after the snow fell last time."

"Well, that's not for Bai Shilizi. Let's eat first and clean up the cave later, otherwise it will be cold when we sleep at night."

Immediately, the three of them opened their lunch boxes, holding corn pancakes in their hands, and ate pickles, radish and potato soup.

After finishing the meal, Li Fuqiang built another fire in the cave, with tree roots and dead tree sections on top, and then the three of them lay down to sleep.

Since they didn't have a good rest last night, the three of them fell asleep as soon as they lay down. At night, Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu got up and threw a handful of firewood into the fire, while Xu Ning slept until dawn.

Although it was still a little cold in the cave, it was much warmer than the night before. Even though his face and forehead were frozen, his body was warm and he didn't feel a single chill.

Xu Ning opened his eyes and saw Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu, who were baking corn pancakes around the fire. Xu Ning saw Xu Ning sitting up and smiled, and asked him to drink some pickle soup to appetize.

Xu Ning sat for a while and then went to the fire, took the aluminum lunch box from Li Fuqiang's hand and took a sip of pickle soup.

Immediately, the three of them took the corn pancakes in their hands and started eating pickles, cabbage and radish with their chopsticks.

Before coming, Yang Shuhua baked a lot of pancakes, including corn pancakes and more than ten oil pancakes. Han Fengjiao and Liu Lizhen cooked several portable dishes. They prepared three meals a day to satisfy them. Food for the day.

However, they did not eat like crazy, but deliberately left some food in their stomachs. If they finished all the food, how would they spend their days in the future?

After the three of them finished their morning meal and packed their things, they walked out of the cave with guns on their backs, axes, knives, ropes and other items.

Squatting in front of a snowdrift outside, the three of them rubbed their faces in the snow, and instantly became more awake. Their foreheads were so cold that they felt like they had a muscle.

"Cool!"

Li Fuqiang rubbed two, and then wiped his hands.

Wang Hu wiped his face with his arm sleeve and asked: "Second brother, what should we say today? Should we pinch the trace first or dig out the hole?"

"Dig a hole!"

(End of this chapter)