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

Chapter 181 Red Fox, Little Fox
This is because, when yellow foxes steal chickens, they usually bite the chickens to death and suck their blood. Therefore, when many chickens encounter yellow foxes, their heads are gone but their bodies are still there. Also, when yellow foxes steal chickens, they usually bite the skin of the chicken's neck and chase them away.

Moreover, the yellow fox is smaller than the fox, so it cannot drag the pheasant.

So a dead pheasant like this,
When you encounter a yellow fox, you usually just eat it directly without dragging it away.

Moreover, the yellow fox has a strong sense of revenge. If you provoke it but don't kill it, it will run to your home to take revenge.

He bit all the chickens and ducks in the house to death.

Chen Weidong continued to follow the fox's traces, tracking it all the way.

This fox is very smart. It can play maze games, turn around from time to time, and use its tail to sweep away its footprints on the snow.

Unfortunately, no matter how cunning the fox is, it cannot defeat an experienced hunter.

The fox's self-righteous action of sweeping away all traces of footprints made the traces more obvious in the eyes of experienced hunters who are good at tracking traces.

After a while, Chen Weidong arrived in front of a cave.

Through tracking, Chen Weidong learned that the fox lived in this cave.

This place is less than 200 meters away from the water pond. No wonder the fox would steal his pheasant.

This was when I went to drink water, and I stole two pheasants to eat.

Originally, Chen Weidong was reluctant to hunt foxes. It was not because he was superstitious, but because foxes were difficult to hunt. If you were not a professional fox catcher, you would not know how to track them.

Even for some skilled hunters, it is not easy to catch a fox. Foxes are not social animals, and tracking a fox may take several days.

With these few days, I might as well go to the mountains and kill a couple of wild boars.

Of course, the most important thing is that most of the foxes on the mountain are mixed-hair foxes, which are not worth much! !
Therefore, hunters in the mountains usually don't bother to take action when they encounter those mixed-hair foxes.

Of course, if I encounter a pure-colored fox, I will definitely not let it go.

It's just that one is harder to hit.

And it is very difficult to encounter. Some hunters who specialize in fox hunting often spend one or two months tracking the traces of pure-colored foxes, and they may not necessarily find them.

For Chen Weidong, catching foxes is not cost-effective.

There has always been a legend among hunters that hunters who hunt foxes or yellow foxes will never have a good ending.

Either someone in the family gets sick, or someone has misfortune in old age, or even dies a tragic death.

Chen Weidong naturally didn't believe this. He was unwilling to fight, mainly because the cost-effectiveness was too low.

However, now that the fox has stolen his chicken, he naturally will not be polite.

After all, if an adult fox comes to your door, you should take it. An adult mixed-haired fox is worth 10 or 20 yuan.

Chen Weidong found some dead wood and prepared to light a fire to smoke out the fox first, and then kill it.
Just finished lighting the fire.

After a while, some smoke was seen rising from the back of the cave.

This fox den actually has cave exits, there are five or six exits in total!

It's not that Chen Weidong didn't search, but some of the caves were hidden very tightly! Chen Weidong only found three.

At this moment, there was suddenly a noise from a cave entrance, and then two foxes jumped out from a cave at the back.

When Chen Weidong saw the two foxes, he was stunned and his heart was beating fast.

These are not ordinary mixed-hair foxes! Instead, they are two pure red foxes, and their fur is like a sunset, very beautiful.

Even in this era, this kind of fox fur is worth at least one thousand eight hundred yuan.

"Damn it, too careless! If he knew it was a pure red fox, he would have called Li Shengli and the others over long ago!!"

But at this moment, I can’t care less, there are so many!
Chen Weidong quickly took out the pistol from his waist, turned on the safety, and shot at the fox.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

After a burst of bullets, the fox was long gone! !

"His grandma's!"

It’s not that Chen Weidong’s shooting skills are inaccurate, but there are too many exits in this fox hole. By the time he found it, the fox had already jumped out!
By the time he fired his gun, it was already a step too late.

If this shot can be made, it is purely luck! Seeing the two pure red foxes slip away, Chen Weidong couldn't help feeling a little annoyed.

However, at this moment, a squeaking sound was heard again from the fox cave.

Chen Weidong was immediately delighted. He originally thought that there was still a pure red fox in the cave.
Six fox cubs came out of the cave. These six fox cubs completely inherited the genes of the two adult foxes. Their fur was fiery red. The six fox cubs rolled on the snow like six balls of fire. They were very cute.

Damn, these two big foxes, they abandoned their wives and children, but you are abandoning your children and running away?

Aren’t they said that foxes are very intelligent and protective of their cubs?
This is nothing like what is said in the legend!

However, the two escaped foxes moved very quickly, and now Chen Weidong could only helplessly pick up the six foxes and carry them to the place where Li Shengli and the others were digging Codonopsis. "Brother Weidong, where did you get these little foxes?"

The soldier who was digging Codonopsis pilosula saw Chen Weidong coming and immediately noticed the fox cub in his arms.

The main reason is that the fox cubs are too conspicuous. Holding six fox cubs is like holding six little balls of fire, which attracts a lot of attention.

"I just encountered two foxes trying to steal chickens. I went over and smoked them out, and they ran away, leaving behind six fox cubs."

Chen Weidong smiled and placed the six fox cubs under the tree. He also cut some Ula grass from the surrounding area and made a simple nest for the six little fox cubs.

"fox?"

When Li Shengli and Shitou heard the conversation between Chen Weidong and Bingzi, they stopped digging and ran over to see what was new.

Living in the mountains, foxes can be seen frequently, but this kind of pure red fox is rarely seen.

Even Shitou and Bingzi had only seen a few pure-colored red foxes. Even the old hunter Li Shengli had seen quite a few, but he had never killed one himself.

Moreover, it is even rarer to catch a litter of pure-colored red fox cubs like Chen Weidong did.

"Take good care of them first. My chickens are still over at the pond! Don't let other wild animals steal them again!"

Chen Weidong looked at the three people who were watching the fun, and suddenly slapped his forehead, remembering that he had not yet cooked his beggar's chicken.

After giving instructions, he quickly ran to the pond.

It sounds like a long time, but in fact it was less than half an hour.

When we arrived at the pond, fortunately, nothing unexpected happened this time.

Chen Weidong washed his hands in the pond, then rubbed salt inside the pheasant's stomach, and then took out some prepared ingredients and stuffed them into the pheasant's stomach.

At last.

Chen Weidong used the mud he had mixed earlier to wrap the pheasants. Two pheasants were stolen by the fox, leaving six pheasants. Three would be enough for lunch!
Carry the three lumps of mud under the tree.

At this time, Li Shengli had already boiled water to scald and pluck the feathers of the sand chicken!

Chen Weidong used a slashing knife to dig a large shallow pit on the ground, put the mud ball in it, covered it with some soil, and then moved the campfire to the shallow pit.

Then he went to the side, rubbed his hands with the snow, picked the plucked sand chicken, and chopped it into small pieces with a sharp knife.

Then wash the pot of the picnic tool, put the pheasant oil and sand chicken oil into the pot to refine the oil.

Then put the sand chicken into the pan and stir-fry.

It’s a pity that it’s not the right season, otherwise I could find some wild onions and put them in the pot to stir-fry, and the taste would be better.

Now all you have to do is stir-fry for a while, then add water, cover the pot and wait.

"Weidong, are you going to keep these foxes? The fur color of these fox cubs is pretty good, but they smell a bit strong."

Li Shengli started chatting with Chen Weidong only after he saw that Chen Weidong had finished his work.

"It's okay. I'll keep them in the backyard first. When the snow melts, I'll start building a new house. Then I'll keep them in the old house. That little bit of noise won't affect anything."

Chen Weidong smiled.

Six fox cubs, when raised up, will become six red fox skins. When they grow up, I estimate that a pure red fox skin can be sold for several thousand, right?
Chen Weidong has these six fox cubs for the purpose of skinning and selling them for money after they grow up.

As for breeding, that's just kidding.

How do foxes from the same litter reproduce?

In fox breeding, inbreeding is an absolute taboo.

Unless Chen Weidong goes and brings back another litter of red foxes with pure fur color.

Otherwise, there is no way to reproduce.

Then Chen Weidong went to help dig for a while. Since Chen Weidong went hunting, he has dug more than 20 kilograms.
There are so many Codonopsis pilosula in this place, but it is so difficult to dig them! You definitely can’t dig them all in one day! But before coming here, the four of them had made enough preparations. They would not be willing to go back unless they dug up a lot.

While Chen Weidong was finishing his meal, the others had dug about 30 kilograms. Then Chen Weidong moved the fire away, dug out the mud lumps buried in the ground, and put them aside.

When the lid of the pot was opened, a fragrance spread out under the tree.

Chen Weidong took a look and found that the sand half chicken was already stewed and the meat was boneless. He added a little salt and stirred it.

"Okay everyone, it's time to eat!"

"Brother Weidong, we can finally eat. I'm almost starving to death!"

"smell good!"

As the three of them talked, they took out an aluminum lunch box and consciously came over to serve the chicken soup.

We bring our own dry food, and steamed buns or corn cakes soaked in chicken soup are both delicious.

(End of this chapter)