Return to 1983 Hunting Xing'an Mountains

Chapter 358 Picking up a finger and drilling a hole in the big trumpet

After dusk, the forest was completely plunged into darkness. Apart from the sound of firewood cracking and the sounds of people wearing cotton gloves holding lunch boxes and using chopsticks to scoop food into their mouths, it was quite quiet.

The lunch boxes contained two kinds of rice, accompanied by sauerkraut vermicelli and homemade tofu. Everyone ate happily.

After quickly cleaning up the food, he covered the lunch box and put it into the cloth bag through the big loudspeaker.

Lao Han, Lan Guodong, Da Laba and Lao Deng lit four pine torches to illuminate the area. Xu Ning did not have a torch, but he held a 56 rifle in his hand. In terms of firepower alone, one of his rifles was equivalent to five old pine rifles!

The five people were one and a half meters apart, so that the torches could play the most effective role. Xu Ning looked down at the bear's tracks and said, "They've turned back again..."

Old Han pointed at a long black shadow in front of him and said, "Xiao Xu! Look ahead and see if there is a gun on the ground."

The loud speaker rushed forward and shouted, "Yes! Brother, it's a gun."

"Don't move! Don't step on the trail."

Xu Ning walked to the front, squatted down, took a look and said, "It exploded. The blood on the ground should be Hu Zhiyong's... Shit, there's even a finger here."

"What?" Old Deng hurried over, stood behind Xu Ning, bent over, frowned, and said, "It's a finger. Damn it, the gun exploded and broke the finger off?"

Old Han and Lan Guodong walked over, looked at each other and said nothing.

Old Deng put the severed finger into the medicine box. Xu Ning stood up and continued to search forward, saying, "The injury is quite serious. There is blood all over the place. The bear's tracks have also been connected..."

Hearing this, Old Deng's heart skipped a beat, thinking that Hu Zhiyong was in danger.

If the gun exploded and broke off a finger, then the injury on his hand would be hard to say, and it is even possible that the entire palm was shattered.

At the downhill of Heixiazi Valley, Xu Ning saw a pool of traces of a butt sliding down, and a wisp of cotton hanging on a broken branch.

At the bottom of the ditch, there were large bloodstains and brown bear footprints, and several football-sized rocks were covered in blood...

"What's going on?"

Xu Ning didn't want to say it at first, but Lao Deng asked, so he took a look and said, "He was chased by a brown bear. This piece of cloth should be from his cotton pants..."

"Fuck, why is this brown bear chasing him? How many miles has it been chasing him?" Old Han was a little angry and helpless.

Xu Ning held the rag in his hand and said, "He fired the gun continuously. Maybe he injured the brown bear. Otherwise, the brown bear would go crazy."

"Then why didn't you see any bear blood?"

The loud speaker said: "The injury is not serious."

Xu Ning pointed to the pile of rocks ahead and said, "Go a little further. The blood is spilling forward. Hu Zhiyong must have run forward."

Then, everyone ran forward again. After walking about forty meters, the bloodstains suddenly disappeared on several large rocks. On one of the large rocks, there was a bloody handprint and a brown bear's paw print...

Xu Ning bent down and looked at the bottom of the big rock. There was no space underneath, so it was impossible for a person to get in. He stood up and said, "Let's look around and look in the cracks of the rock."

"it is good!"

Lan Guodong, Lao Han and Lao Deng went to one side respectively. Xu Ning and Da Laba jumped over the big rock and walked forward more than 20 meters. Then they heard Lan Guodong shouting.

"There's a hole here! Oh my god, it looks like someone is here..."

Xu Ning was stunned when he heard this, then turned around and ran towards Lan Guodong's position, while Lao Deng and Lao Han also rushed over.

At this moment, Lan Guodong was squatting on the left side of a small cave, kneeling on the ground and shining a torch into the cave entrance. He stuck his butt out and lowered his head.

"Did you see it?" Old Deng asked hurriedly.

"I looked at the clothes, but there was such a small hole that I couldn't get through!"

The hole is not big, and looks about the size of a washbasin. Neither Lan Guodong nor Lao Han can get in. If Guan Lei were there, he would definitely be able to get in.

"I can get in there! You hold the torch, buddy."

Lan Guodong made way, and Da Laba took off his hunting rifle and cloth bag, then took off his cotton jacket. After half-kneeling on the ground, he first put one arm into the hole, then his head and the remaining arm.

After the loud speaker went in, he shouted, "He still has body temperature! It must be Hu Zhiyong! But I can't see his face..."

"Flashlight! Guoxing, I have a flashlight."

Lao Deng hurriedly took out a flashlight from the medicine box and passed it through the gap between Da La Ba's legs. Half of his upper body was inserted into the hole.

But since the space in the cave was a little small, Big Trumpet couldn't turn around at all, so he crawled back more than 20 centimeters, grabbed the flashlight, held it in his mouth, and saw Hu Zhiyong's face.

His face was wrapped in cloth, and a lot of blood was flowing down his cheeks and into his collar. The broken end of his right index finger was also wrapped in cloth, and his left ankle was also injured. Although the wound was not big, there was not much flesh on the ankle. However, the bleeding had stopped because he wrapped the wound that was bleeding towards his ankle with two layers of cotton and pressed it with his other foot.

"Guoxing, is he still alive?"

Loudspeaker raised his hand and pressed it on his neck. Feeling a pulse, he replied, "There is a pulse! But how can I pull him out? This place is too small. I can't even turn around by myself."

Xu Ning asked, "Brother, feel his forehead, is he having a fever? He didn't wake up even though we were making so much noise, maybe he's in a coma."

"It's too hot, bro, what should I do?"

In a relatively closed space, it is normal for Da La Ba to feel a little breathless and a little nervous.

"Don't worry, brother, first see if his feet can move."

"active!"

"Hold his shoulders with both of your hands, and we'll pull your legs out from the outside, little by little, don't be in a hurry..."

"it is good!"

Old Deng clenched his fist with red eyes: "Being alive is a good thing! Guoxing, don't be anxious, let's take it slow."

"I grabbed his shoulders and pulled me out."

Lan Guodong and Lao Han put down their torches, each grabbed one of the legs and pulled it out.

"Don't move! His body is twisted, and one of his legs is stuck in the crack of the rock, but I can't reach it."

Old Deng frowned when he heard this and said, "Pull him out anyway. Don't worry about his legs for now. Let him survive first."

Xu Ning stopped him and said, "Brother, you should come out first. Don't do anything rash. If your leg is broken, it will be very difficult even if you survive."

Xu Ning has experience in this matter. Although the saying goes that a good death is worse than a miserable life, physical disability will make this saying a joke. With a lame leg, one cannot do heavy work, let alone enjoy life. What's the point of living then?
Lan Guodong and Lao Han pulled the loudspeaker out, and he took a deep breath after his head came out of the hole.

"How is Hu Zhiyong?"

"Alive. When I touched his neck, it was a little cold, but he definitely had a pulse."

Da La Ba stood up and said, "Brother, the space inside is too small, it's just a long and narrow hole, Hu Zhiyong is huddled inside, there are a lot of leaves around him, they make a rustling sound when you push them, his feet are stuck in the cracks of the rocks, I can't even reach them with my hands..."

Xu Ning said, "Draw it on the ground, I'll take a look..." Da Laba squatted down and drew a few lines on the stone with an extinguished pine torch, saying, "This is probably it."

"So, brother, when you get in again, use this explosive shotgun to hook out his legs first, then pull his shoulders. There are leaves on the ground, put them under his head."

"Okay."

Lan Dadan took out his axe and said, "How about we use the axe to chisel the rocks on the ground?"

"I think it's okay..." Old Han nodded.

Xu Ning said, "Then you two can dig quickly. I'll go get some firewood."

Lan Dadan and Lao Han knelt on both sides of the cave entrance, took out axes and knives and scraped the hard ground, while Xu Ning, Da Laba and Lao Deng looked for firewood nearby.

After the fire was burning fiercely, Lan Dabing and Lao Han also enlarged the entrance of the cave a little. Although two people could not get in, Da Laba could turn around after getting in.

Da Laba lay at the entrance of the cave and slowly crawled in, holding the end of the flashlight in his mouth. He took the explosive-bolt shotgun handed to him by Xu Ning with one hand, and used the crosshairs on the muzzle to hook Hu Zhiyong's shoes. After five or six minutes, he finally hooked Hu Zhiyong's two feet out.

"Oh my god, his calf was also tickled! Luckily he was wearing thick clothes...Brother Han, if I scream, you pull me out."

"Row!"

Da Loudspeaker held a flashlight in his mouth, grabbed Hu Zhiyong's shoulders with both hands and screamed.

When Lao Han and Lan Guodong heard the signal, they pulled his legs out.

After Da La Ba's shoulders were exposed, Xu Ning glanced at Lao Deng and found that Lao Deng was squatting beside the fire, adding medicine into a glass bottle with a glass syringe, and he had also prepared gauze, needle and thread, and alcohol.

When he turned around, Hu Zhiyong's head was already exposed, and Da Laba had changed from kneeling to squatting. He sat down on the ground, gasping for breath.

"Guoxing, go take a rest."

Old Han patted him on the shoulder, and Loudspeaker stepped back to make room. Old Han and Lan Guodong grabbed Hu Zhiyong's shoulders and slowly dragged him out.

Old Deng ran over with a needle in hand and squatted beside Hu Zhiyong, observing his wound. He said, "Guodong, help me. Unbutton his pants. I'll give him an injection."

"it is good!"

Xu Ning said, "Uncle Deng, let's go cut some branches and make a sled later."

"Hey, Xiao Xu is thoughtful. OK!"

At this moment, Lao Deng breathed a sigh of relief. His nephew returned home alive. If Hu Zhiyong died in the mountains, Li Ye would have to live with guilt for the rest of his life. Moreover, Hu Zhiyong was Lao Hu's only nephew...

"It's good as long as he's alive. It's good as long as he's alive. Come, Guodong, help me press his legs so I can rebandage them."

Old Deng was busy giving Hu Zhiyong an injection and cleaning the wound. Xu Ning and Da Laba also cut a lot of branches and were making a sled next to the fire.

Xu Ning lowered his head and glanced at the time. It was six minutes to eight.

If we were to walk home now, it would probably be after 10 o'clock when we reached the fork in the road. Why were we walking so slowly? It was too dark, and there was a wounded man. We definitely couldn't walk too fast.

But no matter what, the person has been found and is not dead, so this is a good thing.

At half past eight, Lao Deng sewed up the deeper wound on Hu Zhiyong's body, re-bandaged the other wounds, gave him an injection in the buttocks, and put him on an IV drip.

Then Lao Deng wrapped the IV bottle with cotton cloth and put it in his stomach to prevent it from freezing.

Lao Han, Lan Guodong and Da Laba worked together to lift Hu Zhiyong onto the sled, and then secured it with ropes. Lao Han and Lan Guodong dragged the sled forward, while Xu Ning, Da Laba and Lao Deng held pine torches to illuminate the way.

"This situation is quite dangerous now. We have to find a way to send him to the street clinic when we get home."

Xu Ning asked, "Uncle Deng, what medicine did you give him?"

"I only have one bottle of glucose and penicillin left at home, and I need to continue the injection tomorrow. It would be more convenient to send it to the street clinic."

Xu Ning nodded: "Well, send him home first, and then let my eldest brother take him to the street."

"Okay, your brother is back from the city?" asked Old Deng.

"No, my eldest brother is Li Fuqiang."

"Ah! Are you two sworn brothers?"

"OK."

"No wonder. I heard that Li Fuqiang grew up in your family. Your parents are very proud of him, right?"

Xu Ning smiled and said, "I'm quite proud. My elder brother is quite capable and my elder sister-in-law's cooking is also delicious..."

Now that they had found Hu Zhiyong, the tension in their hearts was finally relieved. They were quite relaxed at the moment, chatting about family matters while walking towards Shuangfengling.

During this time, Lao Deng took Hu Zhiyong's pulse several times and found his pulse was weak, but he was not dead after all.

They dragged Hu Zhiyong to the top of Shuangfengling Mountain with great effort, and then Xu Ning pulled the bolt of the gun and fired two shots into the sky.

Then there was an echo from the bottom of the mountain, and a ball of fire was shaking.

When Lao Deng saw the fire, he smiled and said, "You two brothers are really capable."

"That is required."

Lao Han said, "They drove here, right? Oh, finally we can take a break."

"Well, let's go down the mountain slowly. This slope is a bit steep."

"know."

Just now when Xu Ning was making the fire, he was thinking that if he went into the mountains with Li Fuqiang at night, in addition to the firecrackers and double-shot firecrackers in his cloth bag, he would also bring two fireworks. These things could be lit at night and explode into the sky like flares, which would be very useful!

The next time he goes into the mountains in the dark, he will definitely put two in his cloth bag.

At the foot of the mountain, Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu had been waiting for a long time.

After Wang Hu and Li Mazi dragged the pig home, Li Mazi dropped the pig and left without even entering the house. After Wang Hu explained everything to Liu Lizhen, he picked up an axe and unloaded the pig.

Before five o'clock, he, Wang Biao, Liu Tianen and Ban Huangmaozi went to the fork in the road. When they saw Li Fuqiang, it was already dark. After hearing what happened, Li Fuqiang asked Wang Biao and Liu Tianen to go home first. He and Wang Hu had to send Lao Lin back, and then drive back to Lao Xu's house for dinner.

After dinner, the two did not dare to rest. They drove towards Nanshan carrying a thermos, teacup and other things.

On the way, Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu discussed it. Although Xu Ning asked him to wait at the Nanshan fork in the road, the fork in the road was still five or six miles away from Ximaduozi and Shuangfengling. How long would it take to get there?

After the two studied it, they always thought that Xu Ning and others would go down the mountain from Shuangfengling, because it was impossible for the brown bear to chase Hu Zhiyong for more than 20 miles. Even if the distance was reduced by half, it would only reach Heixiazi Valley.

Heixiazi Valley was just behind Shuangfengling, so the two of them came directly to the foot of Shuangfengling.

(End of this chapter)