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

Chapter 142 That’s My Dad
After giving the instructions, Chen Weidong took another look at the condition of the stone.

now.

Shitou had rubbed his feet with snow several times.

"Okay Stone, let me check it out for you!"

Li Shengli squatted down, picked up Dashan's feet, and examined him carefully.

"Brother Shengli, how is Shitou?" Chen Weidong asked.

"It's okay, the stone didn't hurt his bones! It just stretched his tendons. I can just smooth it out for him."

Chen Weidong also breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

You know, the four of them are still deep in the mountains, and they still have a long way to go back!

After Li Shengli finished speaking, he stroked Shitou's ankle, straightened out the tendons, and dispersed the blood clots on the ankle. That was the end of it.

"Okay, Shitou, put on your shoes and take a few steps to try it out."

After Li Shengli finished speaking, he grabbed two handfuls of clean snow and began to wash his hands.

Although he had just rubbed Shitou's stinky feet with snow, Li Shengli still felt a little disgusted, so he rubbed his hands with snow several times.

Otherwise, I really won’t be able to eat for a while.

"Brother Shengli, I'm finally okay!" Shitou took two steps and felt no pain at all.

"Of course not. As long as it's a sprain, I can help better than those barefoot doctors."

Li Shengli said proudly.

At this time, Bingzi brought Chen Weidong's backpack together with the big guy. With the big guy, there was no need to worry about not being able to transport the two blind bears back. Otherwise, it would be really troublesome to rely on six injured dogs.

Bingzi tied the big guy to the tree and handed the backpack to Chen Weidong. Then Bingzi took the initiative to speak:

"Brother Weidong, I'm going to chop branches!"

"I'll go with you too." Shitou's leg injury had just healed, so he went with them too.

People were forced to cut branches in order to make earthen sleds.

Shitou is not very smart, but he is hardworking, strong, and a righteous person. As soon as his injury healed, he rushed to do the work.

Although Bingzi is not as strong as Shitou, he is also hardworking, and both of them do whatever Chen Weidong says. This is why Chen Weidong is willing to take them into the mountains to hunt.

Chen Weidong and Li Shengli took care of the injured dogs, cut meat from the bear, and fed it to the six dogs. After all six dogs were full.

The two men were so tired that they sat down on the snow beside the fire. Chen Weidong took out the bullets from his pistol from his pocket and filled the magazine one by one.
Li Shengli took out a cigarette, lit it, took a deep breath and said with a smile: "Weidong, the four of us killed two blind bears this time. There are not many hunters in the villages of Yushugou who have this ability. It's a pity that I know the location of these bear huts. Otherwise, if we could kill a blind bear every time we go into the mountains, we would be rich!"

"Haha, Brother Shengli, stop daydreaming! Blind bears are so easy to catch. We almost got into trouble just now. Besides, it took us a long time to find a bear barn with bears! Now that we have finished cleaning out this bear barn, and we don't know where to find it, it will probably be difficult to catch a blind bear throughout the winter."

Chen Weidong said slowly.

"Since we can't kill the blind bear, we can go catch a sable. That thing is very valuable!"

Li Shengli laughed.

"Uh... sables are valuable, but they are too hard to catch. Besides, it's snowing now, so it's a little late."

Chen Weidong shook his head.

Sable, also known as "black sable", "forest marten" and "big leaf"

The sable has a petite and delicate appearance, with a body length generally between thirty and fifty centimeters. Its tail is quite long, about half the length of its body.

The fur is soft, mainly gray-brown or tan, with a uniform color throughout the body and a little white guard hair.

The dark facial markings create a unique pattern on its tiny face, making it look like a red panda, with a uniquely cute vibe.

The reason why the sable is named "sable" is not because its fur itself is purple, but because under the sunlight, the tips of the sable's hair can present a faint purple light due to the refraction and reflection of light, so it is called "sable".

In later generations, sable is listed as a first-class protected animal, and its fur is known for "becoming warmer in the wind, melting when snow falls, and not getting wet when in water."

In ancient times, it was the "soft gold" used by the royal family and was very expensive.

However, although the sable is small in size, its limbs are very agile, so catching a sable is a patient job. In order to catch a sable, some old hunters often start preparing in the autumn, looking for the traces of the sable, and then wait until it snows in winter before starting to use splints, traps, or other methods to catch the sable.

Because sables have their own range of activities, generally speaking, they will not easily leave their range of activities.

Therefore, hunters look for traces of sable in summer and autumn, and then wait until winter to catch them.

The sable has keen senses and quick movements. It can climb high and low as fast as lightning, and will run away at the slightest sign of trouble.

Moreover, like the weasel, the sable has the ability to attack by releasing foul odors, and the sable's foul odor attack is more powerful than that of the weasel.

The stench of sable can directly cause people to become unconscious for a short period of time.

In fact, there is a stupid way to catch sable, which is to take advantage of the sable's sympathy.

Sables are kind-hearted by nature. In order to catch sables, hunters can pretend to be frozen in the snow. The soft-hearted sables will actively climb onto the person and use their body temperature to warm the person. At this time, the hunters will take the opportunity to catch the sables.

"If you are lucky enough to catch a sable, you don't have to go into the mountains for the whole winter and can just stay at home comfortably."

Li Shengli said with longing.

"Alright, Brother Shengli, this is getting more and more outrageous. How can a sable be so easy to come across?!"

"That's right. There aren't many sables left in our Gada. I haven't heard of anyone encountering one recently!"

As one of the three treasures of Northeast China, the sable has suffered a lot. Not to mention the past few years, even in the 1970s, the sable was already an endangered animal. In later times, when the country banned hunting, there were very few traces of sables in the entire Northeast.

"It's true. In the past two years, I haven't heard of anyone encountering this thing in the village!"

"..."

The two men were chatting around the fire, while Shitou and Bingzi had already come back with some branches.

Next, start making the sled.

Chen Weidong found two relatively thick branches, used a knife to cut off the extra branches, and then put them on the fire to roast.

Chen Weidong roasted it for a while, then took a wooden stick and quickly inserted it into a small hole in the tree he had just cut, and then slowly and forcefully bent it.

After bending it for a while, Chen Weidong took out the stick and took a look. The head of the stick had been bent.

He changed to another wooden stick, put it on the fire, and then bent it.

Use a big guy to pull it. The two blind bears together weigh more than 600 pounds. This way you can save energy when walking in the snow.

Chen Weidong took a knife and carved grooves on the wooden sticks one by one. Two long wooden sticks and two short wooden sticks were fastened together with the relatively simple grooves.

Form a tic-tac-toe structure.

This is the basic structure of the earth sled, and then use ropes to firmly fix the four wooden sticks together.

Add some wooden sticks on top as horizontal supports and also secure them with ropes.

In this way, a simple earth sled is made.

After the earth sled was made, the big guy was put on the earth sled. Chen Weidong and his four companions had just put the blind bear on the earth sled.

Then I heard the white tiger and the black tiger barking, and then the other dogs also started barking wildly.

Following the line of sight of the black tiger and the white tiger, they saw two wolves staring at them from a distance a hundred meters away.

"Brother Weidong, there's a wolf!"

Shi Tou quickly reminded.

Chen Weidong immediately looked around and vaguely saw about a dozen of them.

"Well, hang all the bear intestines on the tree! Fire two shots and we'll leave immediately!"

Chen Weidong said very calmly that he did not hang the intestines at first because he was afraid that the bloody smell would be too strong and would attract the troublesome wild animals in the mountains. Unexpectedly, it still attracted a pack of wolves.

But Chen Weidong was not afraid. There were six dogs and four people. In fact, the four had encountered wolves several times along the way.

These wolves are not stupid. If it were at night, these hungry wolves might swarm over, but it is broad daylight, and as long as you don't let them sneak up, the wolves will not rashly come over and get shot.

The two gunshots really scared away the wolves that were trying to sneak closer. Then Chen Weidong quickly called Li Shengli and the other two to take the big guy away.

Chen Weidong and his four companions dragged the big guy away. The wolves also knew the power of human fire sticks. They chased him for a while, but when they saw there was no chance, they stopped!
Go back and eat the intestines hanging on the tree.

It was around four o'clock in the evening. Seeing that it was getting dark very quickly, we immediately found a place and started digging a hole in the snow!
Soon, it was getting dark. This time, we spent the night in the mountains with the dead bear. It was different from the previous time.
After dark, various shouts were heard from time to time! There were even footsteps approaching the snow nest, but Chen Weidong did not dare to leave the snow nest rashly, and could only shoot from time to time at night.

Of course, the snow caves could not be entered by wild animals in the mountains unless they dug them with their claws.

The night was uneventful.

At dawn the next day, Chen Weidong immediately called Li Shengli and the other two and started to rush home.

Finally, around three o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Weidong and his group finally returned to Jiuqutun. The journey was not smooth. Not only did the Shiba Inu follow them all the way, but the big guy also tried to escape several times. Fortunately, several people were quick-witted and held him down in time.

As soon as they entered the village, someone noticed Chen Weidong and his three companions.

"Oh my god! Aren't these Weidong, Shitou, Bingzi and Li Shengli from Lijiatun? They killed two blind bears and a big guy. This is not hunting in the mountains! This is picking up money!"

"You can't even pick up money so quickly!"

"Then you have to have that ability!"

"I don't remember how Yang Fugui died a while ago. In the end, he couldn't even enter the village."

"You are right, the four Da Kui brothers. We went into the mountains yesterday and killed a stupid roe deer."

"Silly roe deer are pretty good. My third child went into the mountains for one day and caught two wild rabbits."

"..."

There were a few old ladies in the village who were not hibernating. They watched Chen Weidong and his friends on the sled from afar and talked in low voices.

From time to time, the naughty kids in the village would run out and chase the sled to watch the fun.

Among a group of children who were running towards him, Chen Weidong saw his three children, Sanni, Sini and Wuni.

"Dad! That's my dad, my dad!"

Si Ni seemed to be afraid that others didn't know, so she shouted to the children around her while running.

"Dad, Daddy!"

Wu Ni also cried in a baby voice.

Sanni is more sensible and knows how to be shy. She doesn't shout as loudly as Sini and Wuni, but she can run quite fast despite her short legs.

(End of this chapter)