Return to 1983: Starting from hunting in the mountains

Chapter 27 Setting up traps, herd of wild boars
  "I've boiled the water. You go and wash yourself quickly! I'll put the little guy to bed first."

Bai Ruoxi instructed.

"Well, Ruoxi, you should go to bed early."

After washing his feet, Lu Jiansheng played with the gun some more, then got into bed and fell asleep quickly after being so exhausted after a long day.

The next day.

It's just dawn.

As soon as the rooster crows at the end of the village, Lu Jiansheng gets up.

After putting on my clothes, the cold wind hit my face as soon as I opened the door. The sky and the earth were completely white, and even the clothesline in the yard was covered with thick snow! The ground was also covered with thick white snow.

Lu Jian woke up very early, and Bai Ruoxi and the two little guys slept late, so the mother and daughter were not awake yet.

Lu Jiansheng walked to the kitchen and wanted to make a pot of porridge, but when he saw that there was no water in the water tank in the kitchen, he immediately hurried towards the yard.

After eating, I went to the main room and took out the gun. First I loaded the magazine with bullets, and then I put twenty rounds in my pocket. Since he was almost attacked by a wild boar last time, Lu Jiansheng knew that he should be careful even outside Bai Chang Mountain.

Immediately a "boom" sound was heard.

Lu Jiansheng opened the manhole cover and saw that a thin layer of ice had formed in the well water. He found a wooden basin, grabbed the rope, turned the bucket upside down, and released it.

There is a well in the corner of his yard.

These days, water presses are still a rare thing.

After everything was ready, Lu Jiansheng grabbed a handful of rice from the rice vat in the kitchen, and then walked towards Bai Changshan.

It is the oldest well dug by my father and grandfather in the past.

Lu Jiansheng washed the rice, then cooked a pot of porridge, and heated some leftover vegetables from yesterday. After weighing the food, he put the vegetables together in the drawer. After doing all this, he covered the pot. Cover and keep warm, so that Bai Ruoxi and her daughter can eat when they wake up.

Fetching water from the well is also a technical job.

The rim of the bucket clattered against the ice.

It was covered with a wooden board, and on the wooden board was a barrel wrapped with hemp rope.

A bucket of well water is full.

It is built with blue stones.

Bai Ruoxi used to take care of everything at home, but now thinking of Bai Ruoxi's thin figure in his mind, Lu Jiansheng couldn't help but feel heartbroken.

He quickly brought three large buckets of water up and filled the water tank.

There is only one Liu Fugui family in Liuligouzi Village. The other families either walk all the way to fetch water from the river, or they find a few farmers at home and dig a well together.

expensive.

The water flows into the bucket, then grab the rope and swing it from side to side with skill.

In short, it mainly depends on strength.

Goose feathers and snowflakes were flying all over the sky, the cold wind was howling, and the pine forests on the distant mountains stood silently and solemnly.

"Creak, creak, creak~"

Lu Jiansheng was wearing a cotton-padded jacket, a shabby hat on his head, and specially tied leggings. He had a knife and a sack on his waist, and he was carrying the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle on his back. Snowflakes were flying, and soon a layer of snow fell on Lu Jiansheng.

Lu Jianshenghai walked through the thick snow and headed to his hunting cabin.

When he arrived at the hunting cabin, the first thing Lu Jiansheng did was to light a fire. Then he took out the wire from the sack and warmed his hands. Next to the fire, he pulled out the knife from his waist and played with the wire.

Lu Jiansheng plans to make a trap first. Although he has a gun now, this thing is used to deal with big prey. Small gadgets like chipmunks are too powerful if used with a gun. The whole chipmunk will be broken into pieces. It's not worth anything either.
  Moreover, after passing through the red pine forest over there, Lu Jiansheng became much more cunning after repeated cleaning operations. He used wires to make traps, which were not only easy to use on these chipmunks, but also on hares and pheasants.

Lu Jiansheng first used a knife to separate the iron wire into half-meter-long sections, and then used a knife to cut a bundle of more than one meter long strips of Chinese tree, then put them into a sack, and then went out carrying the sack and gun.

Not long after walking, he found that the surrounding grass was full of small animal footprints. Lu Jian inserted the sublimated tree strips into the ground, and then tied one end of the wire to the birch tree.

As long as you have experience, making a trap is actually simple. Then tie the other end of the birch wire into a live buckle, so that when rabbits and pheasants pass through this side, they will be caught in the trap.
  Especially in heavy snow days, it is the easiest to catch. You must know that the snow in the mountains has not completely melted before it snowed. It is already very difficult for many animals to find food. Now there is another heavy snow, which is even worse for the animals in the mountains. Watching You can tell by the footprints in the snow.

Lu Jiansheng bought about six or seven meters of iron sheet and made ten traps in total. He kept the remaining wire for later use.

When Lu Jiansheng laid out the last trap, buried it in the snow, and put a few grains of rice on it, he straightened up.

Lu Jiansheng walked towards the mountain with his gun on his back.

Now that he has a gun in his hand, he no longer has to dare to shoot small animals in the periphery like before.

The big stuff is only found in the mountains, and it's also a good opportunity like heavy snow. You must know that there are new footprints now, which means that the chance of being discovered by almost walking into someone's face like the wild boar before is less.

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Lu Jiansheng climbed over a mountain ridge and walked left at a fork in the road. He found that he also saw some messy footprints. Judging from the depth of the footprints, it seemed that they had not walked for a long time. They were probably from the Orion Hunters in Shantun. They also knew that it was snowing. It was a good day for hunting. Seeing this, Lu Jiansheng changed his direction.
  "Squeak~"

Some gray rats were very lively on the road, running around on the snow. The cold wind blew by, and occasionally there was a "thud" sound, which was the snow falling from the pine trees. Some hugged the trunks of the pine trees and looked at them curiously with their eyes wide open. .

"What are you looking at? Get out of here! Otherwise I'll shoot you!"

Gray squirrels are larger than chipmunks, and their fur is about the same price. These squirrels have not been attacked by him, and are much more low-key than those in the red pine forest. You must know that chipmunks in red pine forests now rarely dare to show their heads.

It's a pity that he didn't bring his bow and arrows. Lu Jiansheng carried the shotgun on his back and let out a stream of white air, and continued walking along the gentle slope of the mountain.

An hour passed quickly, and Lu Jiansheng walked cautiously in the forest.

Suddenly, about three kilograms of wild rabbits jumped out of the haystacks in front of them. Lu Jiansheng's hands were itchy already before he had a chance to shoot.
  And he hadn't touched a gun for a long time. When he thought that without many coaches, it would be over if he dropped the chain at the critical moment, he immediately aimed at the hare.

"boom!"

Lu Jiansheng pulled the trigger and shot the rabbit in the head. The hare's limbs and legs immediately stood up. However, this was not due to the accuracy of Lu Jiansheng's shot. After all, he had not shot a gun for a long time. Originally, he was aiming at Rabbit legs, but hit the head.

Lu Jiansheng then walked over, bled the rabbit, and put it into the sack hanging on his waist.

As soon as the gunfire rang out, Lu Jiansheng had nothing to gain.

After another hour
  Sudden.

Lu Jiansheng saw the footprints of a wild boar on a gentle slope facing the sun next to a stone slab!
  The footprints were very messy, with different depths and sizes. It was roughly estimated that they were left by five or six wild boars.

"Herd of wild boars!? What a good thing, even if you kill one!"

Lu Jiansheng's eyes lit up. In fact, small-scale wild boar groups are not scary. What is scary is the wild boar group with boars, because generally such small-scale wild boar groups are composed of old, weak, sick and disabled sows and piglets. Except for boars, Outside of the estrus period, they all act alone. A group of five or six small wild boars like this without a boar is less of a threat than a single boar.

(End of this chapter)