Return to 1983: Starting from hunting in the mountains

Chapter 91 Yellow skin, water rat
  Lao Hei rushed out and quickly closed the distance with Huang Pizi.

Huangpizi saw that he couldn't run away. When Lao Hei caught up with him, he suddenly stood on his front legs, aimed his small eyes, and sprayed a fine mist from his butt towards Lao Hei, then changed the direction and escaped.

Aroused by the fine mist, Lao Hei froze obviously. After sneezing twice, he continued to chase Huang Pizi who ran away again.

When I chased him for the second time, even though the yellow-skinned creature seemed unable to escape from a distance, he slithered up a red pine tree and ran and jumped quickly among the branches, trying to escape.

Lao Hei barked wildly and moved forward to intercept him. Although Lao Hei could not get up the tree, the yellow man also knew the threat from Lao Hei and did not dare to come down.

This yellow-skinned creature is very cunning. Whenever Lao Hei overtakes it and barks under the tree in front of it, it will immediately turn around or change direction and flee towards another tree.

Fortunately, the trees in this area were sparse, and the branches between the trees were far apart. After being blocked by Lao Hei several times, he was trapped in a few birch trees that were far away from the surrounding trees, and jumped repeatedly in a small area.

Dabao and the other puppies, who were a little slower, also caught up at this time and looked up at the yellow skin on the branches.
  After running back and forth, he let out childish barks. Gradually, Huangpizi stopped running at all and just crawled on the branch without moving.

Thinking that it took a lot of effort after all these tossings, he realized that as long as he stayed in the tree, there was nothing he could do about it, so he simply stopped to rest and wait for the opportunity to escape.

This is a process of competing for patience. Often, many hunting animals will choose to give up after they have squatted on the prey for a while and realized that they cannot catch it.

He knew that yellow leather would release odor, but he didn't expect that such a large yellow leather would emit such a stink, and the odor would be so exaggerated.

Suddenly, the forest was filled with an extremely fishy smell.

Lao Hei and the four of them rushed towards it to bite it, but as soon as they smelled the stench emanating from it, they turned around and stepped aside without even taking a bite.

Lu Jiansheng held his breath and rushed through the forest quickly, catching up with Lao Hei and the other four. He quickly found Huang Pizi's position, raised his bow and arrow and fired directly.

Huangpizi was clinging to the branch and not moving, making him a living target.

"Whoosh..."

"Brother Lu, I'll go get it."

When Lao Hei bit him for the first time, his movements froze and he sneezed, because he was disturbed by this strong and pungent smell.

However, for hunting dogs whose sense of smell is countless times more developed than humans, this taste is definitely unpleasant.

Huang Pizi was hit by the power bow and arrow, his head flicked, and his body was thrown away, falling from the branch.

"Well."

But it's different now. Lu Jiansheng and Lu Erniu are still behind.
  Since these dogs are traveling through the jungle,
  There are many thorny thorns in this forest,
  Lu Jiansheng and Lu Erniu had no choice but to let go, so they were far behind. They heard Lao Hei's voice rising to the sky from a distance, and they were in one place without moving much. He knew that Huangpizi had been thrown up a tree and temporarily trapped. , he immediately quickened his pace and chased after her.

This was the first time Lu Jiansheng tried to capture Huang Pizi.

When he was about to die, the yellow man sprayed that fine mist again.

The bow and arrow made a whizzing sound through the air, and went straight to Huang Pizi's head, hitting Huang Pizi's head accurately.

The last time a few puppies killed two little yellow ones, they didn't fart like this. The bigger they got, the better they became.

But as soon as Lu Jiansheng and the two arrived, they saw the fine mist spraying out from Pizi's butt, and Lu Jiansheng couldn't help but cursed: "Nah!"

Lu Jiansheng hurriedly held his breath and stepped forward quickly.

Lu Jiansheng only smelled a little, and he couldn't help but retched, and his head felt dizzy.
  It smells so bad!

To Lu Jiansheng's expectation, Lu Erniu was quite strong.

Lu Erniu said excitedly.

Of course Lu Jiansheng didn't have any objections. This thing really stinked. Since Lu Erniu wasn't afraid, there was nothing else to say.

Lu Erniu led the big yellow dog and hurried forward, picking up the yellow leather with its short legs that was still kicking.

Lu Jiansheng, on the other hand, called Lao Hei Dabao and the four of them and left quickly.

After running for dozens of meters, Lu Jiansheng stopped and took a deep breath.

From now on, we can no longer do this kind of thing of letting hunting dogs chase yellow skins.

Not only do people suffer, but dogs can’t stand it either.

He has learned a lesson.

After taking a short rest, Lu Jiansheng and Lu Erniu took their dogs over the top of the mountain. When they arrived on this side of the mountain, due to the terrain, it was almost entirely covered with bushes and there were no big trees. They could almost be seen from the mountain at a glance. Down the mountain in the distance.

"Brother Lu, there seems to be a river ahead."

Lu Erniu said at this time.

Following what Lu Erniu pointed out,
  Lu Jiansheng saw a small river passing through the mountains not far away.
  Lu Jiansheng was delighted. Where there was water, prey tended to move more frequently.

Especially the mountain rivers,
  It is the favorite place for water dogs to stay. The fur of water dogs is very precious these days.

Thinking of this, Lu Jiansheng immediately led Lu Erniu towards the river.

When he arrived at the river, he first looked around. However, he looked around in the river first and found no trace of water dogs in the river. Water dogs generally like to live alone. Females can have a fixed place to nurse while males often only have a fixed place to live. Staying in one place for a few days, then changing to another, whereabouts are unpredictable.

Water dogs live on dry land and hunt fish and shrimp in the water. They go to the river for food during the day and return to their nests in the evening.

Look at this place! It doesn’t look like a water dog!
  Seeing this, Lu Jiansheng was not too disappointed. Today's harvest was not small, and in places with water sources, prey tend to move more frequently, and they might encounter other things.

So Lu Jiansheng and Lu Erniu simply led Lao Hei Dabao upstream along the river beach.

With Lao Hei around, Lu Jiansheng's chances of finding his target were always high. After going two or three miles deep, Lu Jiansheng shot two squirrels.

Seeing that it was approaching noon, Lu Jiansheng planned to return to the hunting cabin first, have lunch, take care of the weasels and chipmunks on hand, and then wait until the afternoon to continue hunting.

Just as he was about to call Lao Hei and Dabao home, Lao Hei whined again.

Dabao also shouted towards him.

Lu Jiansheng knew that Lao Hei and the others had discovered a small animal again, so he looked in the direction where Lao Hei was looking.

This river has a lot of water flow, but in this section, it is very gentle due to the erosion and siltation of the sand and rocks. Not far to the right of the river, at the foot of the mountain, a small area of ​​only twenty or thirty square meters has been formed. Bubbles.

There were many aquatic plants growing among the fertile silt and gravel, and on one side of the mountain was a shrubbery with intertwined branches. He looked at it for a while, but found nothing unusual.

Now that Lao Hei and the others have found a target, how can they miss it, what if it is something good!
  "Old Hei, come on."

Lu Jiansheng once again issued the order to hunt down Lao Hei.

In this case, he didn't see anything. If he went first, he would probably alert the snake and let him escape first. It was better to let Lao Hei go first, and the chance of capture would be greater.

After hearing Lu Jiansheng's instructions, Lao Hei immediately walked around the small bubble and got in through the gap in the bushes.

In the bush?
  Lu Jiansheng frowned slightly.

This kind of thorn bush is too dense and not suitable for Lao Hei to run through and fight. It is very difficult to catch prey.

In short, let's go out and take a look. Lu Jiansheng doesn't have much hope anymore.

Just as Lu Jiansheng thought, Lao Hei tried to get into the bushes, but was blocked by the branches and couldn't get in. He walked around for a while and found a larger gap. He bent down and got a few feet away. The water bubbles were only about one meter apart, next to an unknown small bush.

It barked at the bushes and stretched its feet into the bushes to pull.

Lu Jiansheng didn't see any small animals being spooked by it. Instead, he pulled out a large ball of withered grass, and then dug the soil vigorously.

The three puppies also followed and joined in the fun.

However, as he was scratching, Lao Hei gradually stopped and stopped even barking.

Lu Jiansheng was stunned for a moment. Laohei wouldn't stop shouting, which meant that even it had lost its target.

Something strange!
  Greet Lu Erniu.

Then he took the knife from his waist and worked together to chop off some branches.

Soon, Lu Jiansheng and Lu Erniu also walked around Lao Hei, and saw a hole that was deep downwards exposed where Lao Hei had pulled.

He grabbed the ball of dead grass and looked at it again. After thinking about it for a moment, he immediately knew what Lao Hei had found - a water rat!

He suddenly became interested.

Don’t listen to the unflattering name of the water rat, and you might think it’s just a rat. But in fact, it’s a rat, but it’s a very special kind of rat. It also has two other names, green-rooted marten, also called muskrat, or muskrat. .

Lu Jiansheng is very aware of the value of water rats.

Its fur has rich undervelve, bright tips, and strong and tough skin. It is a good material for making high-end fur coats. In the fur market, it is known as soft gold.

Moreover, if it is a male water mouse, during the breeding season, it will also secrete a strong-smelling muskrat scent, which has similar ingredients to the musk produced by forest musk deer. In later generations, it was also used to replace musk in medicine or to make high-end perfumes, but here At this age, it has not yet been recognized, and it is mainly just for the sake of superficiality.

Its fur can still be sold at a good price at the buying station.

The hole that Lao Hei pulled was the hole where the water rat emerged from the water.

Usually when the water goes down and the hole emerges from the water, it will block the hole with weeds.

Often in winter, a lot of weeds are dragged over the entrance of the hole to prevent snow and keep warm.

Lao Hei is neither digging nor barking now, which means that the water rat is no longer in the hole and must have taken refuge in the water along another exit.

When Lu Jiansheng thought of this, he immediately took out his bow and arrow, stood up slowly, and scanned the water surface and surroundings of Shuipaozi.

This guy is a master diver and can even hold his breath for five or six minutes in the water.

Lu Jiansheng waited quietly for about three minutes, and suddenly noticed water ripples on the edge of the bubble, and the water rat's body poked out from the weeds in the shallow water.

Lu Jiansheng, who was well prepared, immediately drew his bow and shot.

(End of this chapter)