Republic of China: Guandong Ginseng King

Chapter 124 There are wolves
Master Qu Shaoyang and his apprentice went to attend a wedding and went into the mountains to hunt wild boars. They hadn't been to the shack to set traps for several days.

The next day, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, after eating Laba porridge in the morning, Qu Shaoyang took Xingjia and another servant Tiezhu, and led three dogs up the mountain.

Qu Shaoyang and Liu Dongshan had already discussed it, and they each led their own group and took turns going up the mountain.

This group stays on the mountain for two or three days. After they have finished setting traps and snares, the other group comes to take over.

In this way, there was always fire in the hut on the mountain to prevent people from going up there unexpectedly and freezing everything inside, making it difficult to heat the kang.

Anyway, it is during this period before the New Year, when it is almost the end of the year, we put away the covers, pestles and other things and have a good New Year.

There won’t be much time left after the New Year to prepare for spring ploughing, and by then there will be no time to go hunting in the mountains.

Qu Shaoyang and Xing Jia each carried a gun, while the other guy Tiezhu held a knife.

The knife was less than a foot long, and the handle at the back was similar to a sickle handle, into which a piece of wood could be inserted. It was used for hunting.

There is no other way. There are only four guns at home and both sets need to be used. I can only make do with it for now and buy a few more guns when I have the chance in the future.

The three of them walked for more than an hour and finally arrived at the shack.

It has snowed again in the mountains these days, and a thick layer of snow has piled up outside the shack, so that even the door cannot be opened.

There was no choice but for the three of them to clear the snow on the ground and somehow open the door to go into the house.

I haven't been up for several days, and there's no fire in the house, so it's like an ice cellar.

Fortunately, there was no water in the jar when we went down the mountain, otherwise the jar would have been frozen and cracked.

Qu Shaoyang quickly directed his two servants to carry firewood to heat the kang and the stove. He went out and scooped up a basin of snow and poured it into the pot.

The kang and the stove hadn't been heated for several days, and it was cold inside.

That stove was better. It produced some smoke at first, but it became smooth after a while.

That kang was not good. When the firewood was lit, the flames didn't go into the stove pit but instead floated outwards, filling the whole room with thick smoke.

The three of them had no choice but to come out of the shack, but the wind was blowing hard outside, and if they just stood there, they would probably be frozen to the bone in no time.

"Leave the door open. When the cold air in the kang is out, the kang will not smoke.

Let's go for a walk in the mountains first and take down the traps while we're at it." Qu Shaoyang suggested.

This time when they came up, they brought some traps with them, mainly to prevent wild animals from stealing food.

Naturally, the two guys had no other opinions, they just followed whatever the boss said.

So the three of them took the dog and walked up the mountain.

The group first went for a walk on the pestle. There were four pestles in total on the mountain. One of them was pressing a sable, and the other was pressing a raccoon.

The two little creatures must have been dead for several days and were frozen solid. Qu Shaoyang didn't bother to do that. He just picked them up and waited for them to recover before skinning them.

After walking the pestle, he went to walk the trap, but there was nothing in the trap.

It's easy to imagine, how is it possible that prey will fall in every time? This thing is just a bet on probability.

There were no traps in this area, so Qu Shaoyang led his men to walk the traps. Before they even entered the trap area, Qinglong started barking.

This green dragon grew very fast. After following me up the mountain a few times, it could already distinguish the scent of its prey.

After hearing its call, Qu Shaoyang became alert and quickly led his men upstairs.

"Be careful, I've marked the area around the condom, don't step on it."

As he walked, Qu Shaoyang did not forget to instruct his two servants.

When everyone got up there and tried their traps one by one, they discovered that two or three of the traps had caught roe deer.

The roe deer must have died not long ago, and its body is still soft.

Qu Shaoyang quickly untied the roe deer and cut open its stomach on the spot, using one set of meat to offer to the mountain god and the other set to feed the dog. After feeding the dog, Qu Shaoyang led the two men to remove all the traps.

These are special large iron clamps with serrations on them, specially used to deal with ferocious beasts.

To avoid what happened last time, where you finally caught something and it was eaten by some wild beast.

After Qu Shaoyang took down the clamp, he led his men back. Tiezhu suddenly said he had to pee urgently, so he ran to the side to pee.

After the boy finished peeing, he saw the roe deer hanging on the tree go into the water.

I don't know what I was thinking, but I took it down, divided it into several pieces, and put it near the clip.

It was extremely cold outside, so Qu Shaoyang didn't wait for Tiezhu and went downstairs with Xingjia first.

It took a long time for Tiezhu to catch up. Qu Shaoyang didn't notice them. The three of them carried the roe deer and led the dog back to the shack.

The shack was much better now, and the flames began to move towards the stove, so more firewood was added to the bottom of the pot and some lumps of wood were placed in the stove.

Slowly, the temperature in the room rose and became warmer than before.

Qu Shaoyang took out the sable and raccoon dog, placed them near the stove for a while, then peeled off the skin with a knife and rolled them into a roll.

The meat of sable and raccoon dog is not very tasty, so just throw it outside. The dog can eat it if he wants to, and forget it if he doesn’t want to.

After finishing all these, I skinned a roe deer, chopped it into large pieces, and stewed it directly in the pot.

For dinner, the three of them had stewed roe deer meat and large pancakes.

Xingjia and Tiezhu had never eaten roe deer meat before. This time they followed Qu Shaoyang to try what it tasted like. They were so happy that they ate the meat.

While eating, he praised the delicious roe deer meat.

"Next time I go to Yingkou, I'll buy two more guns. You all should practice well, and we can form a hunting gang in the future.

In spring and summer we farm, in autumn we patrol and protect the fields, and in winter when there is nothing to do, we go up the mountain to hunt.

I can’t say anything else, but it’s definitely okay to get some meat to eat.”

Qu Shaoyang smiled and made promises to the two guys, which made them very happy. They patted their chests and promised that they would work hard in the future and do whatever their boss asked them to do.

After dinner, the three of them went out to walk the dogs. After the dogs finished peeing and defecating outside, they were all brought into the house, the door was locked, and they went into bed and fell asleep.

Qu Shaoyang and his two companions stayed in the mountain for two nights. On the morning of the third day, after they cleaned up the house, they took the dog for a walk.

Not every trap we set on the mountain works, in fact most of the time they fail.

I took a look around today, but didn't find anything special regarding pestles, traps, or traps.

Qu Shaoyang and his men were just about to go back when Qinglong suddenly started barking towards the hillside.

Qu Shaoyang was stunned and looked up the hillside, where he had set the trap.

Although the Qinglong is small, it never bites empty air. Since it is biting towards the hillside, there must be something there.

Could it be that something is caught in it?

"Let's go up and take a look." Qu Shaoyang led the group and was about to walk up the hillside.

Suddenly, a big hairy head appeared behind a big rock on the hillside.

This guy's two ears were standing upright, and there was a white mark on each side of his long face, with black needles dotted in between the white marks, revealing a murderous aura.

It was a wolf, a giant wolf not much smaller than a donkey.

At this time, the giant wolf was staring at Qu Shaoyang and the others with anger, pulling the two white marks on its face up to the middle of its nose, revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth.

(End of this chapter)