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

"Phew... Got it!"

Seeing the gazelle fall to the ground, Li Yunshan let out a long breath, loaded a bullet into the barrel, turned off the safety of the shotgun, and then walked towards the fallen gazelle.

This gazelle looks to weigh over a hundred pounds. After removing its internal organs, it can easily yield sixty or seventy pounds of clean meat, enough not only to treat Brother Zhang and Cai Er to a meal tomorrow, but also to have plenty left over.

With the Lunar New Year's Eve just around the corner, and New Year's Eve just a few days away, the remaining mutton is enough for the family to have a good New Year. We can also give a few pounds to Su Lihua to take back home.

Moreover, wild mutton is a highly nutritious food. Stewing it with radish soup can nourish yin and kidneys, and has a very good effect on improving cold hands and feet.

Thinking of the satisfied expressions on Lin Xiulan and Dou Dou's faces as they drank a sip of mutton and radish soup, Li Yunshan smiled.

"Third brother, that's impressive!"

Li Yunshi stood up from where he was lying and ran towards the fallen gazelle, his face full of surprise.

This place is still located on the outskirts of the mountains. He and Li Yunshan had been searching in the mountains for half a day and had only managed to catch two wild rabbits. To encounter a gazelle here was a truly unexpected delight.

He fired first, but the first shot missed the gazelle and scared it away. He quickly fired a second shot, but he still missed.

The gazelle was very fast. After he missed with his two shots, the gazelle had already run a long distance, beyond the range of the shotgun.

Seeing the gazelle about to escape, he immediately regretted it, thinking that if he had aimed more accurately, he would have definitely hit it.

But at that moment, Li Yunshan ran after him.

During the high-speed run, the third brother, Li Yunshan, not only caught up with the gazelle but also raised his gun and fired, hitting the running gazelle with a single shot, catching it just as it was about to escape.

At this moment, Li Yunshi ran to the side of the third brother, Li Yunshan, and saw the yellow sheep lying on the ground, its blood flowing from the bullet holes, staining a large area of ​​the snow red. The excitement in Li Yunshi's eyes intensified, and he could not suppress it no matter what.

If we kill this yellow sheep, we can treat Zhang San and Cai Er to drinks tomorrow, and we can also prepare a couple more hearty dishes on the eve of the Lunar New Year and New Year's Eve.

"Just lucky."

Li Yunshan smiled and said.

"You're not just lucky, you're really skilled."

As Li Yunshi spoke, he couldn't help but look Li Yunshan up and down: "When your father was alive, you didn't want to go hunting in the mountains with us, and your father scolded you a lot for it."

When you went hunting in the mountains before, we all thought you were just a fearless newborn calf who had just gotten lucky. We never expected you to be so skilled.

"That gazelle ran so fast! It darted off so far in a flash. Not only did you catch up, but you also managed to hit it while it was running so fast. I don't have that kind of skill. None of the hunters in our village, or even in several surrounding villages, have your skill."

Li Yunshi became more and more excited as he spoke.

"Brother, you flatter me. I was just lucky. When I saw that gazelle run away, I didn't think much of it and just chased after it. I didn't expect to actually hit it."

Li Yunshan said modestly.

"Hey, whether it's good luck or what, we've hit this gazelle, so we can have a prosperous New Year."

"That's right."

Li Yunshan nodded, then untied the rope from his waist, squatted down, and tied up both legs of the yellow sheep.

But just as he finished tying the gazelle's legs together, he suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck.

Danger!

As a hunter, Li Yunshan was very alert to potential dangers. He instantly tensed up and his eyes scanned the surroundings like lightning, quickly locking onto something several hundred meters away.

There, a majestic tiger was watching them intently.

"Damn it, it's a tiger."

At this moment, Li Yunshi also saw the tiger.

Upon seeing the magnificent tiger with dark gold stripes hundreds of meters away, Li Yunshi's hair stood on end. His heart skipped a beat, and he quickly raised his hunting rifle, aiming the muzzle at the tiger in the distance.

Keep in mind that this place is not far from the village, only two or three miles away, yet tigers are roaming here.

If it weren't for the freezing weather, with all the leaves of the plants fallen and buried under the snow, most people wouldn't even notice it.

As hunters, they had a much stronger sense of danger than ordinary people, which is how they discovered the tiger.

Although the tiger was still several hundred meters away from him, Li Yunshi was on high alert.

He's been hunting in the mountains more than once or twice in his life, but this is only the third time he's seen a tiger.

He first saw a tiger when he was fourteen or fifteen years old. It was winter, and during the off-season for farming, he went hunting in the mountains with the village hunters. With the help of the village hunters, they managed to kill a tiger.

In the process of hunting that tiger, one of the village's hunters died.

The second time he saw a tiger was when he was twenty years old.

That year, a tiger entered the village and carried off an old man. When the village hunters found out, they followed the tiger's tracks and found the tiger, which had already eaten its fill, in a remote mountain area. They fired a barrage of shots and killed the tiger.

This is the third time he has seen a tiger.

Li Yunshi held his hunting rifle tightly in both hands, his eyes fixed on the tiger in the distance, not daring to make a move.

Even more so, due to nervousness, veins popped out on Li Yunshi's forehead.

"Third brother, don't make any rash moves."

While keeping his eyes fixed on the tiger, Li Yunshi didn't forget to give Li Yunshan some instructions.

"Brother, don't worry, I know what I'm doing."

Li Yunshan held a hunting rifle, aiming the muzzle at a tiger several hundred meters away.

Although he was a little nervous about encountering the tiger so suddenly, he was mostly excited.

That's a tiger, it's all money.

Thinking back to the tiger he hunted in the Red Star Forest Farm when he was first reborn, not even including the reward from the forest farm, he earned six or seven thousand yuan just from selling the tiger meat, tiger bones, and tiger skin. Li Yunshan couldn't help but gleam as he looked at the tiger in the distance.

However, Li Yunshan also had doubts.

He remembered that when he and Gao Hongmei went hunting in the mountains before, they had also encountered a tiger.

Although they didn't see the tiger at that time, they heard its roar.

Later, when the tiger entered the village, he, Uncle Zhou, Brother Zhang, and others set a trap and killed the tiger. So for a long time afterward, Li Yunshan actually believed that the tiger they killed was the same one he had encountered when he and Gao Hongmei went hunting in the mountains.

Unexpectedly, after so long, he and his older brother went hunting in the mountains and encountered a tiger again.

Moreover, the tiger they encountered this time was very close to them, only a few hundred meters away.

But when they went hunting in the mountains with Gao Hongmei before, they only heard the roar of the tiger, which they estimated was about two or three miles away.

He just doesn't know if the tiger they're encountering now is the same tiger whose roar they heard when they went hunting in the mountains before, or the tiger that entered the village, the same tiger whose roar they heard.

In just three months, at least two tigers have appeared near their village. What is the relationship between the tiger he and Gao Hongmei encountered, the tiger that entered the village, and the tiger they are encountering now?

However, when Li Yunshi glanced at Li Yunshan and saw that he was not afraid at all, but rather his eyes were shining, he immediately had a bad feeling.

And this time.

With a roar, the tiger, several hundred meters away, let out a low growl, turned around, and ran away.

Seeing the tiger turn and leave, Li Yunshi immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and his tense nerves relaxed considerably.

"They just... ran away like that?"

Li Yunshan was dumbfounded when he saw the tiger turn around and leave.

"If the tiger doesn't run away, do you want it to charge at you?"

Li Yunshi glanced at Li Yunshan and thought to himself that the third brother was really audacious and had wild ideas.

You should know that the two times he encountered tigers before, he was outnumbered and outmatched each time.

It was under these conditions that the village hunters were able to kill two tigers by sheer luck.

Now, with just the two brothers and two hunting rifles?

Although they were using double-barreled shotguns, shotguns have a limited range of only about 60 meters. What good is that?

With just a little effort, the tiger could leap up to them and pounce on them in no time.

The only disagreement was whether the tiger would pounce on him first or on the third brother, Li Yunshan, first when it pounced on them.

Li Yunshan felt that his elder brother Li Yunshi was being overly timid. They were not in a state of being powerless to even kill a chicken, and they were not even holding cold weapons like swords, spears, or halberds, but rather real firearms.

The hunting rifle's range wasn't as good as his Mosin-Nagant rifle, but the bullets were just as powerful. Even if they didn't hit a vital spot, they would still be enough to give the tiger a good beating.

If it hits a vital spot, the victim will die instantly.

However, Li Yunshan also understands his elder brother Li Yunshi.

No matter when, no matter the dynasty, whether now or in the future, when many people talk about tigers, they always automatically associate them with a specific impression built up by terrifying words such as fierce, bloodthirsty, menacing, and majestic.

Just like when people encounter wolves, they feel fear and apprehension.

Many people think this way because they are unharmed.

In reality, if an adult is not afraid of getting hurt, they have a high chance of killing a wolf single-handedly.