Hunting 81: Gathering Goods in the Mountains, I Spoil My Ex-Wife to the Extreme

"roar!"

Just as Li Yunshan was holding his gun, preparing to aim at the lead male roe deer, a tiger's roar suddenly rang out in the forest.

The few roe deer that were nibbling on the grass stems exposed on the ground suddenly raised their heads as if by magic after hearing the tiger's roar. After scanning their surroundings, they immediately took off running quickly into the mountains.

"Depend on."

Seeing the roe deer flee quickly, Li Yunshan slammed his hand, which was gripping the trigger of his shotgun, onto the ground.

That tiger's roar was really a troublemaker. He had almost aimed at the lead roe deer and was about to pull the trigger when the roar startled him and scared the rest of the roe deer away.

"roar……"

At that moment, another tiger's roar came. The terrifying sound wave was like an invisible heavy hammer. Wherever it passed, even the snow on the treetops and branches couldn't help but tremble and fall down.

Li Yunshan pricked up his ears, his brain working furiously to analyze the direction and distance from which the tiger's roar came by.

Because the roar of a tiger contains infrasound waves with a frequency below 20 Hz that are inaudible to the human ear, the roar of a tiger has a strong penetrating power and can travel up to three kilometers away.

Based on the tiger's roar just now, Li Yunshan quickly determined that the tiger that made the roar was more than two kilometers away from him in a straight line, and its position was due north, while his position was due south.

If the tiger were to run towards him, it would have to cross mountains and valleys, making the journey even longer.

Similarly, the same logic applies if he wants to go find the tiger.

However, Li Yunshan had no intention of hunting the tiger at the moment, firstly because there was such a long way to go, requiring him to cross mountains and valleys; secondly, he was carrying the Tiger Head brand hunting rifle today.

This thing has an effective range of only about 60 meters, and the bullets it fires are less lethal than the Mosin-Nagant I keep at home.

Taking a hunting rifle with a short effective range and moderate bullet lethality to hunt tigers, Li Yunshan was no naive newcomer; he wasn't that reckless.

Of course, if he were to go hunting in the mountains today, carrying a Mosin-Nagant rifle, and getting a little closer to the tiger, he would really like to test his skills against it, to see if its charge was faster and its claws sharper, or if his bullets were faster and more lethal.

Thinking of this, Li Yunshan turned around, picked up his gun, and walked towards the edge of the forest.

"roar……"

Even as Li Yunshan was leaving, the roar of the tiger could still be heard occasionally in the mountains and forests, until the distance between the two sides grew further and further until it could no longer be heard at all.

However, the presence of tigers on the edge of the deep mountains and forests caught Li Yunshan's attention.

Under normal circumstances, tigers in the deep mountains have their own territories, and they generally only move within their own territories, rarely venturing to the edge of the forest or near human villages.

If a tiger wanders to the edge of the forest or near a human village, it's either because food is scarce in the mountains, or because the tiger has strayed into human territory while expanding its own domain.

Of course, there is a third possibility: the tiger might simply be wandering around, visiting areas with human activity, such as villages and towns.

Although it is now the dead of winter and the weather is freezing, it is not particularly cold, and there is no shortage of food in the mountains.

Just like the group of roe deer we encountered in the ravine, that's the tiger's food source. This shows that there are enough wild animals in the mountains, and the tiger has a sufficient food source.

Therefore, the only remaining possibilities are that the tiger either wandered into this area while expanding its territory, or it was simply wandering around aimlessly.

Just then, Li Yunshan suddenly saw a pheasant flapping its wings and flying down from the top of a tall tree, landing on the snow. This immediately perked Li Yunshan up.

Upon closer inspection, he noticed that the pheasant had brightly colored feathers that shimmered with a metallic sheen in the sunlight, and a long tuft of tail feathers.

This is a male pheasant.

We missed those roe deer earlier, scared away by a tiger's roar. Now that this pheasant has come to us, how could we let it get away again?

Li Yunshan quickly estimated the distance, and when he found that the pheasant was outside the effective range of his shotgun, he stealthily crept towards it.

Once he was within the effective firing range of the shotgun, he raised the gun, aimed, and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

A gunshot rang out, and the pheasant, which had been frolicking, instantly fell to the ground.

Seeing this, Li Yunshan loaded a bullet into the gun barrel and ran towards the pheasant.

After firing a bullet, Li Yunshan would reload it into the barrel. This was an old habit he had developed while hunting in his previous life. His purpose was to keep two bullets in the barrel after hitting the prey, in case of any unexpected situations or potential dangers that might occur during the hunt.

Soon, Li Yunshan ran to the wounded pheasant, bent down and picked it up.

By weighing the male pheasant in his hand, Li Yunshan estimated that it weighed about three to four pounds.

Of course, if you pluck the feathers and remove the internal organs, it would probably weigh around two and a half pounds.

"A five- or six-pound rabbit and a three-pound pheasant are enough for the whole family to have a good meal."

Li Yunshan untied the burlap sack wrapped around his waist, stuffed the pheasant inside, retied the sack, wrapped it around his waist again, and then headed towards Guapigou Village.

"Yunshan, you're back from hunting."

"Yunshan, where's the prey? Didn't you catch it?"

Back in Guapigou Village, on his way to his elder brother Li Yunshi's house, some villagers greeted Li Yunshan with smiles.

"We didn't catch any big prey, just a rabbit and a pheasant."

Li Yunshan responded with a smile.

Back at his elder brother Li Yunshi's house, Li Yunshan untied the burlap sack wrapped around his waist and handed it to his second sister Li Yunmei: "Second sister, the whole family is having dinner tonight. There's a wild rabbit and a pheasant in this sack, so let's stew them both."

"Alright, come inside and sit down for a bit. Leave the work of dealing with the rabbits and pheasants to me and your sister-in-law."

As Li Yunmei spoke, she took the rabbit and pheasant into the kitchen: "Sister-in-law, the third brother caught a rabbit and a pheasant. He told us to prepare them and stew them all tonight for a good meal."

Wang Xiaolian was steaming buns on the earthen stove in the kitchen when she heard this and was delighted.

Although Li Yunshan assigned the task of cleaning up the rabbits and pheasants to her and Li Yunmei, she also knew that she and her two children were also responsible for the task.

"Okay, my steamed buns are almost done, and there's still some hot water at the bottom of the pot. I'll add some more water and bring it to a boil later. I'll clean this rabbit, and you clean the pheasant. We'll use this rabbit to make dry-pot rabbit meat, and the pheasant to make soup."

Wang Xiaolian nodded and immediately arranged everything clearly, even thinking about how to cook the rabbit and the pheasant.

……

"Daddy, you're back! I want to be lifted up high! I want to be lifted up high!"

As soon as Li Yunshan entered the house, Dou Dou saw him and ran towards him, hugging his leg and trying to lift him up high.

"Okay, okay, let me put the shotgun away first, then I'll lift our little Bean up high."

Li Yunshan smiled and pinched Dou Dou's little nose. After taking down the hunting rifle and bullet pouch and hanging them on the wall of the main room, he reached under Dou Dou's armpits and lifted her high up.

"Giggle giggle..."

"Giggle giggle..."

DouDou laughed happily, revealing her two canine teeth.

"Third Brother, what did you find in the mountains?"

Li Yunlan asked.

"A wild rabbit and a pheasant. My sister-in-law and second sister are already preparing them in the kitchen. We'll treat you and Qianqian to a nice meal tonight."

Li Yunshan smiled.

"Third Uncle, can you tell me the stories of how you fought tigers and bears?"

At this moment, Li Yunlan's daughter, Qianqian, also looked at Li Yunshan with longing eyes.

"Yes, third brother, tell Qianqian about how you hunted the tiger and the bear. When Yunlan was at the Wang family's house, she saw the news about you hunting that tiger in the newspaper and told Qianqian about it. The child has remembered it ever since. When she woke up this morning, she kept asking you to tell her the story, but you had already gone into the mountains to hunt."

Huang Zhifang smiled kindly from the side.

"Okay, then your uncle will tell you the stories of fighting tigers and bears."

Seeing Qianqian staring at him longingly, Li Yunshan couldn't help but soften his heart. He squatted down, holding his daughter Doudou in his right arm and Qianqian in his left. After sitting down on a chair, he vividly recounted to Qianqian and Doudou how he had fought the tiger and the bear.

Of course, he glossed over some of the bloody and cruel content.

Even so, it still surprised the two little girls.

The others in the room couldn't help but smile as they listened to the two little girls' astonishment at Li Yunshan's story.

Time, too, slowly passed.

An hour later, Li Yunmei and Wang Xiaolian finally finished their work in the kitchen and served the prepared dry-pot rabbit meat, pheasant soup, steamed buns, and braised cabbage on the table.

"Wow, rabbit meat, it smells so good."

"Mom, I want to drink chicken soup."

Upon seeing the food served, Qianqian and Doudou, the two little girls, immediately jumped off Li Yunshan's laps, ran to the table, and stared longingly at the dishes.

"Everyone, sit down. You can only start eating once all the food is on the table and everyone is here."

Huang Zhifang said with a kind smile.

Although she loves both her granddaughter and her great-granddaughter, the rules still need to be established.