Return to 1983: Starting from hunting in the mountains

Chapter 17 Wild Boar
  "This pheasant is a little smaller than the last one. It weighs two pounds. I'll give you a dollar and a half."

Although Wu Guofu was a little hurt, he did not bargain with Lu Jiansheng again. He still kept the previous price. Who asked this kid to leave at the first disagreement?

Of course, the most important thing is that he makes money. Although the state-owned restaurants in the township are small in scale, their business is not bad. After all, there is only one state-owned hotel in the entire township. Usually the leaders of the township,
  Maybe the people who come from above are all eating here, and there is a lot of oil and gas in it. Otherwise, he would not pay attention to such a poor boy.

Lu Jiansheng collected the money and exchanged some tickets from Wu Guofu.

After leaving the gate of the state-owned hotel, Lu Jiansheng went to the supply and marketing cooperative. He bought some iron nails, nails and sandpaper for polishing wood. Originally, he wanted to buy some wire to make traps, but unfortunately the supply and marketing cooperative in the countryside did not have the goods.

After leaving the supply and marketing cooperative, Lu Jiansheng only had 70 cents left in his pocket. Although he spent all of it on rice and noodles, he could only barely eat for five or six days. Lu Jiansheng felt that the money was not enough.

So he returned home. After Lu Jiansheng had dinner with Bai Ruoxi and the children, he immediately went to Bai Changshan.

Lu Jiansheng came to his hunting cabin and suddenly found signs of movement on the branches of the asparagus above the cabin.

Lu Jiansheng was shocked. He immediately opened the door and found that the chipmunk skin was still there, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

However, the small gap in the asparagus grass on top was obviously that some animal had been there. However, the asparagus grass was pressed down by Lu Jiansheng with branches and canes, so he returned in vain.

In the next four days, Lu Jiansheng, who knew the habits of chipmunks, went to the red pine forest there with a knife, bow and arrow every noon to hunt chipmunks. When the weather was cold in the morning and afternoon, he cut down trees and moved them. wood.

Especially as March and April are approaching, the blind bear who has been hibernating all winter is out of the warehouse and active. The so-called warehouse is the cave where black bears or brown bears hibernate and sleep. The ones in tree holes are called Tiancang, and the ones on the ground are called Dicang.

As his range of activities expanded, the red pine forest had been conquered by him.

After surviving for a whole winter, the blind bears were all emaciated and hungry. Although their combat effectiveness was much weaker, they were also more dangerous. They wandered around looking for food. Even if the wooden house built by Lu Jiansheng did not go deep into Baichang Mountain, the blind bears still could. It's possible to wander here at any time.

Therefore, Lu Jiansheng not only plans to strengthen the wooden house, but also plans to encircle the surrounding area of ​​seven to eight meters with wood and rattan to create a courtyard, thus forming a double layer of protection!

However, this is not a small project. It requires cutting a lot of wood and a lot of effort.

It seems that the wooden house needs to be reinforced soon. This is what he planned to do when he went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy nail sandpaper.

You must know that there are many wild beasts in the mountains and forests. If you encounter a large beast, this small hunting cabin will be destroyed in just a few times, and there is no way to protect it.

I can always catch five or six at noon every day, and the most I catch is eight in the morning.
  During this time I accumulated nearly twenty-five chipmunk skins, and also acquired two hares and two pheasants.

Both pheasants were encountered when he was hunting chipmunks. A hare was grazing on the meadow. Lu Jiansheng shot it directly through the body with a bamboo arrow. Although he did not die, he could not survive for a few days. He was He took it to the village and sold it to Wu Guofu.

Although the fur of a hare is larger than that of a chipmunk, the price is far less than that of a chipmunk. It is better to sell the whole one, and the price is still higher. This is the case with animals in the mountains. Some of their furs are expensive, but not many people eat their meat. Foxes, for example, have expensive furs, but few people eat their meat.

The other one was brought to his door for free. One day at noon, he was washing the chipmunk in the spring water. When he heard the noise, he saw a hare scurrying directly into his wooden house.
  Lu Jiansheng has never seen such a silly wild rabbit.

Lu Jiansheng ran into the wooden house and found that the wild rabbit was motionless. He pulled it up by its ears to see what was going on. The little thing seemed to react and kicked its legs to prove that it was alive.

Preliminary estimate is that he was frightened by his own appearance and didn't know how to react.

After putting the rabbit into the sack, Lu Jiansheng remembered that the chipmunk's internal organs had not been thrown away. When Lu Jiansheng went back, he found that the chipmunk's internal organs had disappeared.

But this is normal in the forest. He often throws some chipmunk internal organs and it will definitely attract some animals. But Lu Jiansheng has to be careful not to attract some ferocious beasts.
  Fortunately, his hunting cabin has also been completely renewed in the past four days. In order to strengthen the hunting cabin, Lu Jiansheng selected all kinds of wood with a diameter of about 20 centimeters. Several new columns were added to the cabin and the beams were made of newer materials. thick.

The pillars are erected, the beams are set up, and the logs are laid densely one by one, with simple mortise and tenon joints and large nails. The door of the wooden house is also densely packed with logs, and the crossbars are fastened with nails.

Lu Jiansheng also specially found some stones, mixed with soil and piled them on the left and right tree stumps of the wooden house. It can be said that the entire wooden house is quite strong.

Even the roof of the wooden house was improved by Lu Jiansheng. He originally wanted to cover it with earth according to the old method on the basis of the original urethane of the wooden house.

However, considering that when it rained, the soil would easily scatter under the erosion of the rain, he finally chose to mix a lot of urala grass with the soil excavated from the ground, paste it all over the roof, and smooth it.
  Then they added wood on top, fixed it with nails, and found a hollow tree from the mountain to make the chimney.
  Now Lu Jiansheng finally had a safe and secure shelter. Even if a bear came over and just hid in the house, there would be nothing he could do.

Lu Jiansheng lit a fire directly in the house to drive away the cold inside. Staying in the wooden house, he felt much more at ease than before.

At about five o'clock in the afternoon that day, Lu Jiansheng had just completed the yard of the hunting cabin. He packed the skins he had collected in the past few days into bags, intending to take them back and sell them at the county purchasing station tomorrow.

He was walking down the mountain with a knife in his hand and a sack in his waist.

Thinking of his two lovely daughters at home, he couldn't help but walk a little faster.

Suddenly, a wheezing sound came from the side. Lu Jiansheng was startled. He looked back subconsciously and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. It turned out to be an adult wild boar.

This wild boar weighs about two hundred pounds. It is covered with mud, like a pair of thick armor. It has two very huge tusks that have grown out of its lips. If it is poked, it will kill you. Finished.

You must know that people in the mountains generally rank one pig, two bears, and three tigers in terms of hazards.

Of course, this does not mean that wild boars are more powerful than bears and tigers. The reason why people rank the harm of wild boars first is that wild boars themselves are also very destructive.
  It is more because there are many wild boars and they are easy to be encountered. Even some experienced hunters are usually in the hands of wild boars. The old hunter named Li from Shantun that Liu Dahai told him before is alive. example.

(End of this chapter)