Stepping on the wooden horse and holding the ski poles with both hands, the three of them quickly slid on the snow.
Going downhill is okay. I lean forward slightly, bend my knees slightly, and keep my balance. It won't take long to slide all the way out. But when I go uphill, I step on the wooden horse and walk on the snow step by step. Although there is no need to
Trekking with your feet deep in the snow, but hanging a wooden horse on your feet is like strapping sandbags. Walking for a day is definitely a very strenuous task.
When they returned to the tent, the three of them had no intention of moving.
But if you want to spend the night in the snow, you can't move without moving.
After a short rest, Lu Lu went to the sledge to get fodder and corn, put the fodder in bags, put it in the mouths of the two horses, and let them eat by themselves.
In this regard, the benefits of Oroqen horses become apparent.
The reins were also lengthened, and Zhui Feng wandered here for almost a whole day, unable to stand at most. As he walked, he picked up some dead grass kicked up from the snow.
However, the Oroqen horses can clearly see the traces of hunching over the snow to find grass, and there are also traces of the snow being eaten. They are indeed the most suitable horse breed for life in the snowfield.
Zhang Shaofeng and Chen Xiuqing were busy looking for firewood to start the fire.
While they were busy, Lu Lu took out the two snowshoe rabbits and a pheasant that he had shot while looking for sables, skinned them, and cleaned them.
As for the six dogs, they had eaten a lot of mink and greyhound meat throughout the day and no longer needed to be fed. They all lay down on the snow in front of the tent and curled up in a ball to rest.
Both the Big Stupid Dog and the Oroqen Hound are very cold-resistant. In the wild snow, as long as they are full, it is not a problem for them to survive the cold.
A fire was burning and crackling in front of the tent. In such a cold winter, it seemed that even the temperature of the flames was much lower. If you didn't get closer, you wouldn't feel the strong temperature.
While Chen Xiuqing was in charge of baking pancakes and barbecue, Lu Lu called Zhang Shaofeng to go to the side to get some branches and leaves and put them in the tent.
A roe deer skin mattress was spread on the branches and leaves to keep out the cold and moisture. At night, he was covered with a fur mattress and spent the night like this.
Of course, there must be a fire in the tent, otherwise the three of them might freeze to death this night.
If the tent is far away, the temperature of the fire outside the tent will be insignificant, so there must be a fire inside.
But the tent is not a tent. If you light a fire inside, the top of the tent may burn in minutes.
We must consider more effective heating methods. The fire in the tent cannot be too big, and it needs to be long-lasting and emit sufficient temperature.
Otherwise, the temperature during the day is still over ten or twenty degrees below zero, and it will only get lower at night. Spending the night in the wilderness, the cold is the most deadly. If the core temperature of the body drops to thirty-five degrees, people will become
I feel drowsy, my body functions slow down, and I don’t know when it will stop and die.
Lu Lu had already considered this.
When collecting the branches to bedding in the tent, he took the chain saw he had brought with him, found a dead tree with a diameter of forty or fifty centimeters nearby, and cut it with a saw. It took him more than half an hour to cut it back into four pieces.
A wooden pier of forty to fifty centimeters.
Yes, Lu Lu also brought the chain saw, just so that if he encounters some blind bears squatting in a tree barn and beats them to death, he will leave them in the tree barn so that he can bring the chain saw with him for convenience.
"Brother Lu, why are you sawing these wooden blocks?"
While eating pancakes and barbecue, Chen Xiuqing couldn't help but ask.
"At night, make a fire in the tent to keep warm!" Lu Lu said simply.
"Let's burn a lot of firewood and move the charcoal into the tent at night, isn't it okay?" Zhang Shaofeng interjected from the side.
"It's not impossible, but the charcoal lasts only a short time. The snow in the tent has been cleared out, but the soil is frozen. As long as the temperature rises, melts, and the moisture increases, the charcoal will be easily extinguished, and the fire will
There will still be a lot of smoke, but it won’t be easy to heat up.”
What Zhang Shaofeng said is also a method, but you can't let people serve you all the time.
"Don't worry about it, you will know when I do it later!" Lu Lu said with a smile.
After filling his stomach, and seeing that it was getting dark, he took a drill out of the bag of the sledge and drilled holes in the middle of several wooden pillars. He also drilled a hole in the middle of the side and the center of the wooden pillar.
Drilling holes are connected.
He took some red-burning charcoal debris from the firewood pile outside and put it into the hole. He blew air into the hole on the side. After a while, flames burst out of the hole in the wooden pier. Lu Lu moved it to the tent.
inside.
Following the same pattern, he drilled holes in the remaining wooden pillars and set them on fire.
Four flames were burning, lighting up the tent red.
"The fire is still small and the temperature is not high. As it burns, it will burn more and more vigorously and last for a long time. When it is the coldest time at night, the temperature will rise a lot. It will burn fully and there will not be that much smoke." Lu
The law explains.
Chen Xiuqing and Zhang Shaofeng looked at this setting, their eyes lit up, and they felt like they had learned something.
"That's a good idea."
Before going to bed, the three of them all put on the 袼褤 shoes they had brought and took off the 靝鞞hoes they had worn in the snow all day.
Jintan shoes with Ural velvet put on them are warm, but they also make your feet sweat easily. The Ural velvet must be taken out and dried, and the moisture on the Jintan shoes must also be baked, so that they will be warm when worn tomorrow.
As soon as the three of them took off their shoes, there was a strong smell of sweaty feet.
The three of them are already accustomed to such things. They are all farmers. Foot odor is already a very common thing, so there is nothing worth making a fuss about.
The three pairs of Jintan shoes were roasted by the fire with wooden sticks. They melted some snow water in the small antimony pot they brought, boiled it and made tea. They drank and chatted until it got completely dark.
, the three of them wrapped themselves in leather mattresses and went to bed early.
One night, the tent was indeed as warm as spring, and we spent the night safely.
The next morning, as soon as it was dawn, the three of them got up immediately, put on their dried leather shoes, put on their leggings, fed the two horses with fodder, and then rode the wooden horses up the mountain to patrol.
Four of the six traps they set up yielded results, including three sables and a yellow-skinned trap, which made the three of them extremely happy.
The remaining two traps had not been touched yet, so Lu Lu ignored them and planned to take a look again in the evening.
I continued my search at different hills, and after a busy morning, I used a slingshot to shoot two sables found on the trees, and used a net to catch one in a tree hole. I also shot a snowshoe hare and a few greyhounds.
Splints and sleeves were also laid out along the way.
Near noon, the three of them made a simple fire, took the pancakes they brought from their hunting bags and heated them up, grabbed some snow in the snow to quench their thirst, and simply solved the problem of eating. After a short rest, they continued their search.
In the afternoon, Chen Xiuqing saw Blind Bear's footprints on the snow.
He and Zhang Shaofeng used Trojan horse slides to search a large area.
Lu Lu was far behind in this aspect, but with Yuan Bao and the others around, their ability to find prey was only stronger than the two of them.
Lu Lu and Zhang Shaofeng were also very happy when they heard that there were the footprints of the blind bear. After getting closer, Lu Lu looked at the fresh footprints and frowned slightly: "This is the blind bear who walked the pack."
The so-called blind bear who walks a pack is a blind bear who does not hibernate in a barn.
Wherever they go, they stay there. They go everywhere, not eating or squatting in barns, but just walking all over the ground.
There are very few blind bears walking on pack animals. Two or three blind bears out of a hundred are considered good.
Many hunters may never see this strange blind bear in their lifetime.
With this weird behavior, Lu Lu couldn't figure out the reason why they didn't hibernate.
As far as Lu Lu knows, even an old Oroqen hunter like Zhao Tuanqing, who has been chasing prey in the mountains of Xiaoxing'an Mountains all his life, has only encountered two blind bears walking on packs over the years.
The kind of blind bear who comes out of the barn after being alarmed and chooses another place in the mountains to squat in the barn does not count.
"Should we pursue him or not?" Chen Xiuqing's eyes gleamed.
"Of course!" Lu Lu nodded without hesitation.
This kind of blind bear who walks a pack is mostly a more majestic type, and it is easiest to become brave.
We are all looking for the red goods. Now that we have come across it, how can we miss this opportunity?
Looking at the deep footprints left on the snow, it is easiest to track such wild animals in the snow.
With Lu Lu's consent, Chen Xiuqing immediately used the ski pole in his hand and slid down quickly along the footprints left by Blind Bear.
"Why are you running so fast?" Lu Lu shouted from behind.
Zhang Shaofeng, who was sliding closely behind, heard the shouting and stopped immediately. However, Chen Xiuqing seemed not to hear it and went far away in the blink of an eye.
"Brother Feng, hurry up and catch up with Qingzi. This kid has been injured by the blind bear. He doesn't understand what's going on in front of him. Don't even bump into the blind bear and don't know. It's too dangerous. You have to stop him!"
Lu Lu slid the wooden horse, caught up with Zhang Shaofeng, and explained to him.
Zhang Shaofeng nodded, used his snow pole again, and chased Chen Xiuqing.
Lu Lu didn't dare to stop and speeded up as much as possible.
Six dogs followed him, jumping and running in the snow, trying hard to keep up with Lu Lu.
The chase lasted for more than ten minutes. Finally, after climbing over a mountain ridge, Lu Lu saw Chen Xiuqing who was stopped by Zhang Shaofeng.
Lu Lu immediately got angry: "What are you doing? Do you know that's the blind bear? Didn't you get scratched enough by the blind bear or something? Are you going to die?"
Chen Xiuqing lowered her head and remained silent.
"Next time, can you wait until I finish what I said? You can't be so reckless when hunting. I haven't explained the situation clearly to you yet. I ran away without knowing what to pay attention to. What are you going to do if you bump into me directly? Something happened.
What will you do if you ask me to go back?"
Lu Lu glared at Chen Xiuqing fiercely.
"I know I was wrong, Brother Lu!"
Chen Xiuqing also knew that Lu Lu was worried about him, so she admitted her mistake in a low voice: "I won't be so reckless next time."
"It's good to know!"
Lu Lu sighed slightly and continued: "Although the blind pack animals do not squat in the warehouse, they often stop to rest and sleep in the snow. Like other wild animals, they also need to ensure that the surrounding environment is safe.
, also know how to hide their whereabouts, so they usually walk around the place where they stay, leaving a large footprint on the snow, and then choose a place to climb down and sleep in the snow.
Those footprints are their temporarily designated safe area. After breaking in, once discovered, they will be regarded as hostile.
Therefore, you must be careful when you see a lot of footprints. Maybe when you enter that area, it will see you before you see it, and it may suddenly rush out from somewhere.
Come out, do you think this will cost your life? I just know that if you keep chasing after you, you will suffer a big loss."
"Okay, calm down. Qingzi already knows that he was wrong. In fact, he also knew that he was afraid before he stopped. Otherwise, with his speed, I wouldn't be able to catch up with him!"
Zhang Shaofeng smiled at Lu Lu and persuaded him.
"Just follow me! I'll let you beat this blind bear today when I find it!"
Lu Lu thought for a moment and then said.
Chen Xiuqing was scratched by a blind bear. Since then, he has never hit a blind bear again. Lu Lu doesn't know if there is a shadow left in his heart. If there is such a psychological shadow, the best solution is to do it yourself.
Face the blind man head-on and hit him a few more times until he gets used to it.
Next, Chen Xiuqing became calm, and together with Zhang Shaofeng, they followed Lu Lu to the left and right, looking around carefully, gliding along the footprints and climbing up.
After walking for more than ten minutes, the three of them finally saw the messy footprints of the blind bear in a leeward col in the mountains.
Yuanbao and Bailong also let out fierce screams, while Heizui just looked up.
"We're nearby, so keep your spirits up!"
Lu Lu said, letting go of the snow pole in his hand, taking off the semi-automatic on his back, checking the bullets, and carefully walked slowly in the direction pointed by Yuan Bao.
Chen Xiuqing and Zhang Shaofeng looked at each other and each took off the semi-automatic. After checking the bullets, they followed Lu Lu's footsteps.
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