Return to 1983: Starting from hunting in the mountains

Chapter 14 White Fox
  After a while, a huge hole was dug out by Lu Jiansheng. He looked inside and saw that there were actually a lot of hazelnuts, pine nuts and pecans in the hole.

He also didn't expect that February was almost coming to an end and there would still be so much stored food in the chipmunk's nest.

"What a diligent little chipmunk! It's a pity that even "people" take advantage of me."

Lu Jiansheng unceremoniously took out all the nuts from the tree hole. The two big pockets on his worn-out cotton-padded jacket were full. According to preliminary estimates, they were at least more than a kilogram.

Go back in the evening, wash it, fry it in the iron pot, it is a very good snack, and add it with wild raisins, the two little guys will definitely be happy. When Lu Jiansheng thinks of the happy smiles of his two daughters, he feels happy in his heart.

Judging from the sky, it was almost two o'clock in the afternoon. Lu Jiansheng spent the rest of the time wandering around the red pine forest.

Until four or five o'clock, during this period, he didn't know whether it was because the weather was getting colder, but he found that there were many fewer chipmunks than at noon.

This also caused Lu Jiansheng to only kill two chipmunks in total during this period, except that his hand holding the bow and arrow froze.

Fortunately, he dug out another chipmunk nest. This chipmunk nest was one he bumped into by accident. The chipmunk was not in the hole, but the hazelnuts, pine nuts, and pecans in it were no less than the previous one, which made up for it. Some losses were wrong.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Lu Jiansheng turned around and walked towards where he found the wild grapevine. After a while, he came under the wild grapevine.

He took off the wooden tube and started picking. This wild grape vine climbed on the red pine tree, and only the bottom was easy to pick. After a while, looking at the bare vine trunk, Lu Jiansheng blew a breath of hot air into his cold hands, and then hugged them with both hands. Stand on the trunk of the red pine tree and use your feet to climb up the tree.

Three times five times two times, Lu Jiansheng climbed to the red pine tree and looked at the bunches of raisins hovering on the vines of the red pine tree.
  He immediately started to take action, and he didn't stop until the wooden tube was full! However, after Lu Jiansheng's looting, there were not many raisins left on the vine tree. They were all at the end of the branches and difficult to reach.

There was another whoosh, and the bamboo arrow hit the pheasant's wing. The pheasant screamed and flapped its wings to fly up, but it quickly fell down again. Soon it got up and wanted to run away again, but Lu Jiansheng was already prepared. Before the pheasant fell from the tree, he immediately Pounced on him.

Lu Jiansheng came down from the red pine tree with satisfaction. Then Lu Jiansheng returned to the wooden house with a full harvest.

Little did he know that on the way, he was startled by a pheasant with long tail feathers. It didn't fly very far and landed on a branch not far ahead.

Lu Jiansheng immediately laughed. He was really lucky. He was rushing to deliver it to the door. He had encountered a chipmunk delivering it to the door before.
  He inserted the knife in his hand into his belt. Just in case, he blew two bursts of hot air into his frozen hands. Lu Jiansheng took off the bow and arrow behind him.

Moreover, Lu Jiansheng's performance not only requires precise control, but also requires him to move quickly and prevent the pheasant from reacting. This means that he was once a master hunter.

In fact, when it comes to hunting pheasants, the most foolproof way to hit them with an arrow is to hit the head, because beating the wings will only make it lose the ability to fly. But once this thing lands, it can also run very well. It is also difficult to catch when it flies through the grass and bushes.
  However, this makes the pheasants worthless. Lu Jiansheng's current situation is different from the first time he went hunting in the mountains. It was his first time hunting after his rebirth. He hadn't touched a bow and arrow for many years and had forgotten all his skills. Now he has found it. Feeling, so he specifically targeted the pheasant's wings,

Lu Jiansheng got another pheasant on the way home, and Lu Jiansheng was very excited. After all, if he wanted to sell the chipmunk skin for money, he not only had to deal with it, but he also had to go to a county fifty or sixty miles away to buy it.
  It's not worthwhile to travel so far if he doesn't have more money in hand. As for Pheasant, he can go to Wu Guofu in the countryside to exchange money at any time, especially since he has eaten half of the rice and noodles he bought last time, and the wooden house on the mountain still needs tools. Reinforcement costs money.
  Now that he had caught a pheasant, Lu Jiansheng had to consider a trip to the countryside. As for releasing Wu Guofu pigeons, Lu Jiansheng didn't take it to heart.

After Lu Jiansheng returned to the cabin, he planned to process the four chipmunks he had caught, leaving the skins to dry in the cabin and taking the meat back.

When Lu Jiansheng took the chipmunk to the spring, he suddenly saw a white fox! He was licking the chipmunk grease he had scraped off on the stone next to the spring. When he was alarmed, he ran away immediately.

"His grandma's!"

Lu Jiansheng couldn't help but swear. He didn't bring a bow and arrow when he came. You must know that fox fur is dozens of times more expensive than chipmunk fur, especially this kind of pure white, which is more expensive than other colors. Don't mention it for export. Earning foreign exchange abroad is also popular among some wealthy people in China.

"Wait, if you dare to come here again, I have to capture you." Lu Jiansheng first washed the raisins in the bamboo tube, and then carefully peeled off the chipmunk skins with a knife.

After the treatment was completed, Lu Jiansheng hung up the chipmunk skin in the wooden house and closed the wooden house tightly. If he hadn't encountered some wild animals, he probably wouldn't be able to get in. The charcoal ash in the wooden house had residual warmth, which would allow the chipmunk to escape later. The skin dries quickly.

What Lu Jiansheng didn't know was that after he left, the white fox sprang out of the woods again. When he saw no one was around, he picked up the chipmunk's entrails, chewed them, and then disappeared...

Looking at the bundled timber in front of the wooden house, Lu Jiansheng couldn't help but smile bitterly. He was afraid of forgetting what he told Bai Ruoxi yesterday, so he had prepared it in advance. In fact, he could have chopped it again at the foot of the mountain.

Lu Jiansheng hesitated for a moment before carrying a bundle of branches and wood on his back.

"Good weight!"

Lu Jiansheng did not hesitate and threw the wood on his back on the ground. It was still not far from the bottom of the mountain, especially as the road down the mountain was difficult. If he carried it down, wouldn't he be stupid?
  Let’s cut it again at the foot of the mountain! Anyway, he often goes hunting in the mountains, so he can burn these firewood at any time.

more than an hour later

Lu Jiansheng finally arrived at the door of his house. As soon as he got home, he took the sacks and wood on his body.

He put it in the yard first, then quickly walked into the kitchen to the water tank, poured water with a spoon, and drank it in big gulps.

Inside the adobe house
  Bai Ruoxi was sitting on the bedside, holding a needle and thread, sewing Lu Jiansheng's shabby clothes. The two little guys were lying on the bed, sticking out their butts and looking at it seriously.

Suddenly heard a sound in the yard
  "Is dad back?"

Tangtang Nai said, and after saying that, she quickly climbed out of the bed, and ran out without even putting on her shoes.

Xixi also tried desperately to climb out of the bed, but she was a little shorter than Tangtang and her feet could not touch the ground.

　Please advise, should I keep this fox as a dog (of course I will buy a gun and raise a dog in the future) or kill and sell the skin.

　　
  　
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