Xing'an Mountains 1984: Starting from climbing mountains to support the family

Chapter 101 The silly roe deer fighting wits and courage with the air

"Shitou, Bingzi, don't rush to beat Gray Dog. Pick up pine cones under this pine tree first. When you have finished picking up pine cones under this tree, we can move to another place."

Looking at the gray dog ​​that had disappeared from the old pine tree, Chen Weidong explained to the two of them.

There is not only one old pine tree in this place, there are greyhounds on many other trees. But you should pick up the pine cones first, and then fight the greyhounds after you have picked up the pine cones.

"Brother Weidong, we got it. I think we can pick up enough from this tree alone."

Shi Tou agreed naively.

The trunk diameter of this old pine tree is more than three meters, and the diameter of its crown is as much as forty to fifty meters.

This also results in the fact that there is no tree within a radius of fifty or sixty meters around.

The diameter of the tree crown is forty to fifty meters, which means that there are fallen pine cones within this forty to fifty meters.

It’s such a big place, and no one has come here to pick pine cones for so many years. How many pine cones can there be?
Li Shengli listened to Chen Weidong's arrangements without saying anything. He had nothing to do, so he joined in the fun. He didn't expect to have walked so far, so he quickly took a break to catch his breath.

"You guys start working! I'll go take care of the greyhound and shoot a few pheasants to prepare lunch for you."

Chen Weidong said this and walked into the woods.

The location of the old pine tree is probably at the junction of Taipinggou and Changqinggou of Laoheishan Mountain. This place is rarely visited by people, so there are not only many pine cones and squirrels, but also many pheasants.

Chen Weidong untied the leashes of Black Tiger and White Tiger, then came to the edge of the pond and dealt with the grey dog.

He went to the woods ahead to hunt pheasants. After a short while, Chen Weidong had shot two pheasants.

The black tiger and the white tiger were exploring the way, one in front and one behind, about thirty or forty meters away from Chen Weidong.

However, at this moment, the white tiger that had been running in the front suddenly stopped, sniffed a thorn nest nearby with its pitch-black nose, and then lay down on the spot, turning its head to look at Chen Weidong behind him.

The black tiger also let out a low cry.

What was discovered?

Upon hearing the sound, Chen Weidong immediately ran over, pulled aside the thorn nest in front of the white tiger and examined it carefully.

In just a few seconds, he picked up a handful of short hair the size of a fingernail from the bottom of the thorn nest.

The white tiger just stood up at this time and gently shook its tail.

Chen Weidong quickly reached out and rubbed its head. This action showed that what he found in the thorn nest was the same as what Baihu found.

The short hair was white and soft when rubbed, but slightly harder than dog hair and a little smelly. Chen Weidong didn't dare to smell it randomly, but stuffed it directly in front of the noses of the white tiger and the black tiger.

The black tiger and the white tiger sniffed the tuft of white short hair, then sniffed the surrounding grass and trees, and then the white tiger ran wildly to the left front.

The black tiger arched its back and took a step forward, following closely behind the white tiger, always keeping a distance of one body length from the white tiger.

When Chen Weidong saw this scene, he secretly admired it in his heart.

As expected of a dog with Mongolian ancestry, its thick big feet make it run fast. In terms of speed, the white tiger is much faster than the black tiger.

At the moment, Chen Weidong didn't even bother to notify Li Shengli and the others.

The two dogs and one person moved forward at a high speed along the dense forest! After crossing the front of the mountain and running for another ten minutes,

Chen Weidong panted, looked up and squinted, then quickly called out to White Tiger and Black Tiger to stop immediately.

Hei Hu was still very obedient. As soon as he heard Chen Weidong's voice, he immediately turned around and returned to Chen Weidong.

The white tiger's eyes lit up, and it looked eager to try the slope on the upper left. However, when it saw that the black tiger had already fallen, it had no choice but to look back every few steps and followed in disappointment.

The black tiger and the white tiger each have their own advantages and disadvantages. The black tiger is obviously more obedient than the white tiger. Moreover, the white tiger has been raised for a shorter time and has not been raised from a puppy. Although the black tiger is not an old dog, it is smart, while the white tiger is ferocious.

Chen Weidong covered his brow with his right hand and looked up.

But he saw an animal of medium size on the slope above him, about two or three hundred meters away.

Chen Weidong narrowed his eyes and peeked from afar.

It was a dark brown with a reddish brown hue, a deer-like creature, about one meter long, with a pair of small pointed horns, and it was jumping around aimlessly in place.

Good guy!
This is a silly roe deer!

He still remembers clearly the last time a silly roe deer escaped from Chen Weidong.

From the angle where Chen Weidong was standing, the horns of this silly roe deer were almost straight upwards and looked very sharp.

The silly roe deer was half-lifting its two front legs, with its head lowered, its horns pointed at the air in front of it, jumping and jumping as if to attack in all seriousness.

Not only that, it even moved its two short legs and tried to change direction and crash forward.

It looks like it is fighting a battle of wits and courage with the air.

Chen Weidong quickly threw away the tuft of white short hair in his hand. The tuft of white short hair he had been holding tightly in his hand was the white hair on the buttocks of the silly roe deer that exploded after being frightened, and then was pierced off by the thorn nest when it was running away.

Chen Weidong wiped his hands on his clothes with a look of disgust, and he had a rough idea in his mind.

This silly roe deer should be a young male roe deer that has just reached adulthood not long ago.

A group of roe deer usually consists of a female roe deer with several offspring. At this time, the lone male roe deer should have found the group of female roe deer they like and started preparing to live together in a group.

At this noon, the male roe deer should have been lying in the deep forest, sleeping with the female roe deer in their arms.

Now he suddenly appeared alone on the hill on the back of the mountain, gesturing to the air.

Then there is only one possibility.

This little guy was fighting with another male roe deer for a wife, and he was chased out before he even started.

You can tell from the actions it keeps repeating.

Don't be fooled by its silly appearance, as it is constantly battling wits and courage with the air. In fact, it is just practicing its attack posture.

The roe deer relies on this skill of collision and close biting to win when competing with other males for mates and escape from the mouths of predators.

Of course, the latter has a very low probability of success and can basically only help the predator.

In essence, it is no different from those fancy women's self-defense techniques on the Internet in later generations in terms of the effect they can have on criminals.

Chen Weidong quietly took off the gun from his back and turned on the safety. However, before Chen Weidong could pull the bolt, the male roe deer suddenly stopped moving, turned its head, stood up its ears, squinted its eyes, and looked at where he was standing in a foolish way.

Chen Weidong suddenly cried out inwardly, "Oh no!"
You should know that the silly roe deer is not stupid at all. Not only does it have very sensitive hearing and sense of smell, but this kind of solitary male roe deer is especially alert!
The male roe deer saw the gun in Chen Weidong's hand from a distance, and immediately shrank its neck, and a kidney-shaped patch of white hair appeared on its buttocks. Then its two hind legs kicked back fiercely, kicking up a large cloud of dust, and its four short legs exerted force together, jumping directly on the spot, and jumped far away with a whoosh, and rushed directly into the depths of the dense forest without looking back.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the silly roe deer disappeared completely without a trace under the cover of the dense forest.

Chen Weidong weakly put down the gun, shook his head and sighed dejectedly.

Chen Weidong knew the alertness of the silly roe deer, so he was careful enough. He was about a hundred meters away from the silly roe deer. At this distance, the silly roe deer should not be able to detect him.

However, I don’t know if it was because the movement of taking off the gun was too big, or because the stupid roe deer smelled the dog scent of Black Tiger and White Tiger.

When the black tiger saw the silly roe deer running away, it immediately started to anxiously turn around in circles on the spot, growling and whining in the direction the silly roe deer was running, trying to chase it.

Not to mention the white tiger, its two front paws were constantly digging the ground, and it was already ready to attack.

Chen Weidong immediately put dog chains on the two dogs.

The roe deer can run very fast in a short period of time, and is very good at moving around in rugged terrain. It is very good at using the terrain as cover to escape predators.

If the mountain is blocked by heavy snow in winter, the roe deer will become a little sluggish due to the influence of weather and environment. At that time, there is still a slight possibility that the roe deer can be chased to death by dogs.

But right now, don’t even think about it.

Although black tigers and white tigers are different from ordinary hunting dogs, dogs are dogs after all. Even if you lend them two legs, they cannot catch up with the wild roe deer in the mountains.

And the kind that you can’t even smell the exhaust.

But it doesn't mean there is no chance at all. There is a reason why the silly roe deer is called silly roe deer.

Chen Weidong led the black tiger and the white tiger and trotted to the place where the silly roe deer had just stood.

You can see that this is a slightly flatter slope, covered with messy weeds as high as calf.

After a few casual glances, Chen Weidong discovered that there were actually quite a few bright red hawthorns hidden in the weeds.

This is a kind of berry that is only the size of a fingernail. It only grows above halfway up the mountain and is a favorite of vegetarian animals such as wild boars and wild deer.

Under the grass, there was a lot of dark brown moss growing, forming a large area.

Chen Weidong half squatted down and pulled away the weeds, and found that the hawthorns and mosses showed signs of having been eaten.

Not far ahead, there is a two-finger-wide mountain spring flowing through the cracks in the exposed rocks.

Chen Weidong immediately understood what was going on.

Chen Weidong pulled out a piece of foxtail grass to measure the wind direction, and then found a thorn bush on the parallel line of the gentle slope that could hide his body.

He made a gesture to Black Tiger and White Tiger to lie down. After seeing the two dogs lying quietly, Chen Weidong raised his gun and began to wait quietly.

The roe deer is very curious. Sometimes when they encounter danger, they don’t know how to run away, or they run away, but will come back after a while.

Because of this confusing behavior, this little creature was given the nickname "silly roe deer" by the people of Northeast China.

This is certainly not because it is really stupid and really doesn't know the danger.

The activity range selected by roe deer must be a place with dense vegetation and abundant food.
Once they find a habitat, roe deer will not move easily.

If the danger disappears, they will continue to move around in this area until it is no longer suitable for survival and then leave.

The same is true for solitary male roe deer.

What's more, this gently sloping land has mountain springs, water and food, which is definitely an ideal place for single roe deer!
This is different from the silly roe deer Chen Weidong encountered last time on the mountain. That silly roe deer was probably chased here by something and would not come back because that place was not suitable for the silly roe deer to live in.

Chen Weidong estimated that this silly roe deer would most likely come back.

Sure enough, after waiting for less than five or six minutes, Chen Weidong suddenly discovered a silly round head with small deer antlers poking out from the depths of the forest.

After pausing for about ten seconds, the short and fat lower body of the silly roe deer gradually emerged from the woods.

At the beginning, the silly roe deer was very alert, like a stop-motion animation, taking every step very carefully, and looking here and there with its fat, round head.

After observing for less than a few minutes and finding no danger, it immediately lowered its head and happily began to chew the hawthorns in the weeds.

When Chen Weidong saw this scene, he also found it inexplicably funny.

Although the roe deer can run fast, it has poor endurance and needs to eat a lot of plants to maintain body heat and strength.

This is also the reason why this guy let down his guard so quickly and started eating berries happily.

Chen Weidong shook his head and silently raised the Hanyang rifle in his hand. This time the bolt had been pulled long ago. He pointed it directly at the silly roe deer that was eating. After taking aim, Chen Weidong exhaled slightly and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

"Oh!"

The stupid roe deer didn't even have time to scream before it fell to the ground, its limbs stretched straight out, and it froze on the spot!
The gun went off!
The black tiger and the white tiger wanted to rush forward.

Chen Weidong caught the stupid roe deer, whose four legs were facing the sky. It was dead as hell.

Then Chen Weidong made a gesture and led the black tiger and the white tiger to run towards the gentle slope.

The silly roe deer lay peacefully on the ground with its head drooped to one side, and had been motionless for a long time.

Chen Weidong chuckled.

Young roe deer are good, they fall asleep as soon as they lie down!

Chen Weidong did not deal with the silly roe deer immediately, but planned to take it to the old pine tree to deal with it. After making a teasing remark, Chen Weidong rubbed his hands and moved his body happily.

After all the joints in his body became warm, he half bent down, held the roe deer's two front legs tightly with his right hand, and held the roe deer's two hind hooves tightly with his left hand.

With a slight exertion of strength in his abdomen, Chen Weidong shouted secretly, and suddenly exerted force with his upper body, and the whole silly roe deer was immediately carried directly on his back!
Chen Weidong lifted it up a little and touched it. He found that this silly roe deer weighed more than 100 kilograms!

It's so heavy, it looks like this guy really eats a lot~

After stabilizing the roe deer, Chen Weidong whistled and led the black tiger and the white tiger towards the old pine tree.

The white tiger held his head high all the way, turning around from time to time to look at Chen Weidong, twisting his little butt back and forth with an expression as if he was seeking credit. The black tiger even called out to Chen Weidong from time to time.

"I'll give you food when we get there!"

Chen Weidong smiled bitterly while carrying the roe deer on his back. Sometimes it is not necessarily a good thing for a dog to be too smart.

(End of this chapter)