After more than half an hour of hard work, I was exhausted.
Zhao Jun squatted in front of the big green dog, held its waist with one hand, and stroked its neck back and forth with the other hand to comfort it.
Li Baoyu took out a cloth bag from his pocket, grabbed a handful of cigarette noodles, crushed it with his hands and applied it to the wound on the yellow dog's back.
The wound on the yellow dog's back was neither large nor deep, and it did not affect the follow-up actions at all.
But it seemed a little depressed at this time, lying down in front of Li Baoyu's feet, with its chin resting on its front paws, its mouth open and its tongue hanging out, breathing white air.
Looking further away, Hua Xiaoer stood on a large lying stone, stretching his head and looking into the distance.
"Alas!" Zhao Jun sighed, shook his head, whistled, and called Li Baoyu to go back with the three dogs.
"Brother, are we going back like this?" Li Baoyu came to Zhao Jun's side and asked with a look of reluctance.
Zhao Jun shook his head and didn't say much. He just said: "Let's go!"
After he finished speaking, he took a shortcut with his knife and headed home.
Li Baoyu sighed helplessly and followed Zhao Jun.
There were two people and three dogs. Although they were not dejected on the way back, their momentum was somewhat sluggish.
"Woof woof..."
Suddenly, the three dogs barked and rushed forward.
Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu were all shocked and shouted loudly. They called their dogs' names loudly.
Not far from the opposite side, someone shouted eagerly: "Watch the dog! Watch the dog!"
There seemed to be two people, and they spoke with Shandong accents.
Following Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu, the three dogs came back shaking their heads.
Zhao Jun strode forward and saw two big men wearing sheepskin coats and dog-skin hats, each carrying a big ax.
"Brother Minister, Brother Erchen." Zhao Jun saw their faces clearly and greeted them hurriedly.
"Zhao Jun." The two brothers spoke with Shandong accents, "Are you trying to encircle us?"
Zhao Jun responded: "Is it snowing? I was trying to catch a pig, but I didn't catch it."
"Oh, Zhao Jun, please be careful." Minister Li spoke up and tried to persuade him.
"Yes." Zhao Jun responded: "Shouldn't we go back now?"
As Zhao Jun spoke, his eyes fell on the big ax behind the two brothers.
This is a large mirror-faced ax produced in Dandong. It is 0.5% thick and the ax is as big as a chopping board. This ax is usually used in the forest farm to break branches. It is extremely sharp.
Seeing the two brothers' costumes and the big axes they carried, Zhao Jun pondered for a moment and asked, "Brothers, what are you doing here?"
"Ah!" Li Erchen, who also couldn't hold back his words, replied: "My two brothers are going to kill Heixia Cangzi, will you two go?"
"Don't go!" Li Baoyu on the side was uncharacteristically pulling Zhao Jun secretly from behind and said first: "My rhubarb is injured. I have to go home to take care of it."
Hearing what Li Baoyu said, Minister Li and Li Erchen looked at each other, and Minister Li said: "Then you guys go back, I and I will leave first."
"Brother Minister."
Zhao Jun suddenly called out to Minister Li and said, "Please pay attention!"
Minister Li was startled when he heard this. He had just given these words to Zhao Jun, but he didn't expect that Zhao Jun would send them back again.
But he knew that Zhao Jun had good intentions. After thanking him, the two brothers walked side by side up the mountain.
Looking at the two brothers leaving, Li Baoyu shook his head slightly and said: "These two gangsters are still worried about killing Heixiazicang..."
Zhao Jun also shook his head slightly when he heard this.
A gangster, not a hooligan.
If you don’t have a house, you’re a gangster, and if you don’t have land, you’re a vagabond.
In Northeastern dialect, hooligans refer to those Shandong people who came from Guandong during those three difficult years.
At that time, the whole country had insufficient food, but the Northeast was much better off than other places.
Many people in Guanli who were hungry heard that this place in the Northeast "beats roe deer with sticks and gourds to scoop out fish, and pheasants fly into the rice pot", so they brought old and young people over from Guanli.
When they arrived in the Northeast, this place was rich in products, with fish in the rivers and animals in the mountains. There was indeed no shortage of food for them, but they were not locals and did not have household registration, so they could not receive food rations.
The locals call them hooligans.
Because there is no food ration, most of these hooligans have to make a living by doing side jobs.
In mountain forest areas, side jobs include collecting mountain products and hunting.
Are you picking mountain products? There are a lot of mountain products in the Northeast, such as Schisandra chinensis, walnuts, hazelnuts, fungus, mushrooms...
But these days, these things are not popular. Even if you take these things down the mountain, you won't be able to exchange them for much money.
Of course, there is a hint of ginseng in mountain products. But there are many stories about ginseng harvesting in the Northeast. How can these people who come from outside the customs understand the secrets?
If you can't collect mountain products, then there's hunting. If you want to make money from hunting, it's easier than collecting mountain products.
Setting a clamp, racket, and pressing sables, weasels, and squirrels are all profitable businesses.
Sable hunting is also called big skinning. The sable skin is not big, but at this time, it is worth more than a hundred yuan.
As for weasels, they are also called yellow skins and yellow leaves. Their skins and hair tubes of males are shiny and they are more expensive than females.
These days, a male's piece of yellow leather can be sold for more than 40 yuan, and a female's one can be sold for nearly 30 yuan.
Squirrels are also called greyhounds, and their skin is also called gray skin, which is more valuable than that of a weasel, costing about sixty yuan a piece.
But these are all delicate tasks, and it is not easy for outsiders to study and understand them.
Besides the skins of these three animals, if you want to make money from hunting, you have to kill bears for their bile.
As for killing lynx, you can make money by killing it, but most people hardly need to think about it.
How many people in this hundred-mile radius can be better than Zhao Youcai in marksmanship?
Even Zhao Youcai, after squatting all morning, only managed to kill one lynx.
Although Zhao Jun scored a hit, more than half of the credit goes to Zhao Youcai, who had to thank Zhao Youcai for forcing the lynx to that point.
Therefore, if hooligans want to make a fortune from hunting, they can only focus on bears.
It's just that they have no money and can't afford guns. If they want to kill a bear, they can only use a special method, which is to kill Heixiaizicang.
This is a very extreme method and can only be done in winter.
Because, only in winter, black bears hibernate. Bear hibernation is called bear squatting in the Northeast.
Xiong Xiazicang can be divided into Tiancang and Dicang. Tiancang is a tree hole and Dicang is an underground cave.
If you want to kill Xiazicang the bear, you can only kill Tiancang with two thick wooden sticks crossing each other diagonally outside the tree hole where the black bear lives.
Then, wake up the black bear by knocking on the tree.
When a black bear is awakened after a deep sleep in hibernation, you can imagine how angry the black bears will be. They will rush out of the barn and tear into pieces the person who woke them up.
But when the black bear pokes its head out of the tree hole, its head will be stuck by the two thick wooden sticks, making it impossible to move forward or retreat.
At this time, a man climbed up with a big ax and chopped the black bear on the head with the ax, killing it.
I have to say, this is simply risking your life. If you play well, it will be fine, but if you play poorly, you will easily end up with your own life.
However, people will die for money, and birds will die for food. Who is willing to do this kind of thing with his head in his belt unless it is absolutely necessary?
Since separation from the Li brothers, Zhao Jun had been restless on his way back.
Suddenly, he stopped Li Baoyu, threw the hemp rope on his shoulder to Li Baoyu, and said: "Brother, please tie up the dog and take it back."
"Brother, what are you going to do?"
Zhao Jun said: "I'll go and help them kill Heixiazicang."
