Chapter 433 The roe deer plunged into the snow nest
Author: Zhijianling
Chapter 433 The roe deer plunged into the snow nest
When she saw Zhang Shaofeng carrying the bear paws and the bear meat that could produce a lot of bear fat, Li Shumei happily caught and killed one of her own big stupid chickens at Wang Demin's greeting.
As for the bear paws, it is obviously too late to get them to eat now. It will take a lot of time to remove the smell.
This stewed chicken with mushrooms naturally became the main dish for lunch.
After a meal, the three of them chatted for a while and made an appointment with Zhang Shaofeng to meet tomorrow. He went home early.
In this kind of weather, there are horses, deer, deer, flying dragons and stupid chickens to take care of. The weather is too cold, so Lu Lu also wants to save Chen Xiuyu from the trouble. Since he is at home, he should go back and share more.
Just feeding the flying dragons and stupid chickens is easy.
But for horses, deer and deer, the forage must be cut short with a guillotine. There are so many mouths to serve, and a lot of forage is required, so it becomes a manual job.
On weekdays, it would take more than half an hour for Lu Lu to use the guillotine with the help of restless Chen Xiuyu, so Chen Xiuyu would have to spend more time.
After returning home, Lu Lu first boiled water, dipped the bear bile in it and dried it in the shade, then cut the forage grass, and finally finished the work after more than an hour.
There was nothing else to do next, so he replaced his slingshot bow leather with a new tourniquet and went out to try it out to familiarize himself with the feel of the new bow leather.
Considering that he didn't have many bullets left, he was also going to make some.
The soil layer has long been frozen. When the snow is shoveled away, the black soil below is frozen hard. In fact, even if the black soil layer of 20 to 30 centimeters is lifted, the yellow mud below is still frozen, even with a cross
A pickaxe is also difficult to shake.
However, this was not a problem for Lu Lu, as he could dig it out of the underground cellar.
It is covered by a grass roof and half buried in the soil. The soil in the cellar is not frozen like outside, which is convenient.
So, Lu Lu dug a lot of yellow mud. After returning to the house, he added some warm water to soften it and made it viscous. Then he squatted by the fire pond and rolled up the mud balls.
I made two or three hundred more pills at once and put them in a spare room to dry in the shade. I was going to wait until I came back from this trip to the mountains. When they were completely dry, I would calcine them over a charcoal fire to make them harder.
Then, he rode on Zhui Feng again and ran to the area, preparing to buy more hunting gear and bring it with him.
Compared with targeted search, casting the net widely is also an excellent method. After all, it is just for fur. The more traps are set, the greater the harvest will naturally be.
He is not limited to sables and bears, red foxes, yellow skins, raccoon dogs, snow rabbits, greyhounds, etc. are all valuable.
The hunting equipment shops in the area are undoubtedly the best time for business in winter. Many people who have free time want to buy some hunting equipment and seize the time to go into the mountains to hunt some fur and meat.
In cold weather, when wild animals are short of food, baits are put out to trap them. Even near villages, there are often harvests.
For the hunting gear shops in the district, there is a specialized hunting gear factory in Harbin that produces and supplies hunting gear. The quality is pretty good, and they often research new hunting tools.
However, Lu Lu only selected some wooden clamps, flexible steel wires and some nets.
I also bought a dozen small animal traps, which are mainly used to deal with furry animals such as raccoons and red foxes.
As for the big ones, used for hunting wild boars and blind bears, Lu Lu didn't bother to consider them.
Going 20 to 30 kilometers deep into the mountains, or even further afield, to hunt wild boars in a trap is just to look for trouble. If you are serious about hunting, you don’t have to go that far at all. You can follow the trail to find a group and hunt two or three at a time.
Just no problem.
As for the blind bears, in the middle of winter, there aren't many people walking around, and most of them are squatting in barns, which is even more unnecessary.
The key is that a large animal trap is really heavy and inconvenient to carry. If it hits a small animal, most of its fur will be seriously damaged. If it is stepped on by other hunters entering the mountain, it will be even more harmful.
A small iron clip is enough!
After buying the hunting gear, Lu Lu took a look at the buying station. It was obvious that there were many more people selling mountain products than usual. It was already past three o'clock in the afternoon, and there was still a long queue.
After going to the state-owned store and weighing some cakes such as cakes such as hibiscus cakes and canned fruits, Lu Lu rode Zhui Feng and flew all the way home.
Knowing that Lu Lu wanted to rest early, Chen Xiuyu also prepared meals in advance.
When Lu Lu returned home, he had just warmed himself up when a few simple side dishes were already served on the table.
The couple had a simple and warm meal.
After the meal, Chen Xiuyu put away the dishes, while Lu Lu added a kang stove. After finishing their work, it was not dark yet, so they went to bed early.
In the middle of the night, Lu Lu was awakened by the howling cold wind outside. He put on his clothes and went to the door to see heavy snow falling all over the sky.
Seeing this situation, Lu Lu couldn't help but cursed the thief.
Preliminary estimate is that we won’t be able to enter the mountain tomorrow.
What was even more annoying was that for the next three days and nights, it snowed non-stop, in various sizes.
During these three days, Lu Lu couldn't sit still, so he put on a two-meter-long wooden horse and went to a nearby mountain to practice paddling in the snow for three days.
The short wooden horse could sink deeply into the fluffy snow layer, so he had to replace it with a long wooden horse with a larger stress-bearing area.
After three days, I was able to manage the long wooden horse through the forest.
It was also during these three days that he watched the originally dark green mountains turn white. Under the tall red pine trees, except for a circle close to the roots of the trees, the snow could already touch the head of a three-year-old child. It was so white.
The snow is covered with pine cones blown down by the wind. From time to time, you can see greyhounds or chipmunks running around on the snow, pulling pine nuts out of the pine cones and taking them back to store.
How could Lu Lu miss this opportunity, practicing skiing in the mountains while looking for opportunities to shoot with a slingshot?
There is no need to search specifically, just four or five greyhounds that he encounters every day, and occasionally one or two jumping cats, which can be regarded as a spice to his boring life these days.
Such a thick layer of snow made it difficult for the horses to walk. Yuanbao and the others were on the snow, with their bellies pressed against the snow, so they couldn't run at all.
Lu Lu could only wait until the snow layer settled, hardened, and stopped sinking so badly.
When preparing to go out on the morning of the fourth day, Chen Xiuyu made a request: "Brother Lu, can you go get some roe deer and come back? Let's make some dumplings stuffed with roe deer meat and save them."
This suggestion made Lu Lu's eyes light up.
With such deep snow, it is difficult for the roe deer to feed. It has been severely cold and hungry for three days. Even though it can still run very well on the snow, it is no longer unable to catch up with Lu Lu on his wooden horse.
It's time.
Anyway, they are practicing skiing, and chasing roe deer is also a good way.
He immediately nodded and agreed.
Even Jin Jiabao, an elderly blacksmith, had prepared medicinal deer early, let alone others.
However, it is a bit difficult to get roe deer in the mountains near the villages.
Although roe deer like to go to the fields to forage for corn and corn stalks during this season, there are too many people trying to get them, which makes many of these roe deer, like delivering food, never come back.
I escaped the rope snare and the clamp, but I couldn't resist the temptation of medicine beans, especially when it was covered with heavy snow and it was difficult to even eat some dry grass.
It was not easy to find roe deer near the village, so Lu Lu chose to ski into the deeper mountains with a shotgun.
Several dogs followed them out, but when Lu Lu saw them jumping and struggling in the snow, he sent them back again.
It wasn't a particularly deep mountain, and with a gun in hand, he wasn't too worried.
Alone, pedaling through the mountains and forests, Lu Lu spent more than half an hour, going more than ten miles deep, and began to search for traces of roe deer in the mountains.
It didn't take long for Lu Lu to see several snow troughs left by roe deer walking in the snow on the hillside.
He immediately used his ski poles with both hands and followed the snow trough left by the roe deer. In about ten minutes, he saw almost half of his body buried in the snow on the mountain slope, struggling to eat the bushes.
Branches without leaves are slightly pointed.
At this time, only the relatively young branches that were born that year can be eaten.
Hearing the sound of Lu Lu skiing in, the white hairs on the buttocks of several roe deer exploded suddenly. They looked back at Lu Lu. When Lu Lu was close to more than ten meters, they all fled in panic.
But in such deep snow, the higher they jump, the deeper they sink into the snow.
These roe deer, which dogs could never catch on a normal day, were now jumping up and down on the snowy ground in the forest, unable to run very fast at all.
Lu Lu didn't even think about using his gun, so he directly chose the stronger one and ran downwards to catch up.
The skiing speed was far faster than that of Roe Deer. Unfortunately, Lu Lu was very reluctant to turn when skiing on the long wooden horse.
Whenever I catch up with a roe deer and prepare to catch it, it will jump and change direction to avoid it.
Lu Lu, who was originally in the mindset of practicing skiing, was not in a hurry at all and just kept chasing the roe deer, trying hard to keep up with it.
Even if he was thrown off from time to time on the hillside, leaving such obvious traces, it would not take long for Lu Lu to put them on.
The roe deer he chased had long since separated from the other roe deer.
After struggling like this for more than half an hour, the roe deer couldn't run anymore and simply plunged into the snow, leaving only half of its body and butt outside.
Lu Lu also lost interest in chasing an exhausted roe deer.
He directly grabbed the roe deer by its hind legs, dragged it out, pulled out his hunting knife, pounced forward, pressed it into the snow, gave it a knife, and bled it.
In fact, one disadvantage of ski hunting in winter is that the prey you can carry is limited.
On a two-meter-long ski, you can carry about half a roe deer. If it is too heavy, the wooden horse will get stuck in the snow and cannot slide.
In other words, the roe deer that Lu Lu was hunting now couldn't even carry it on his back for skiing.
He could only take the rope from the hunting bag, tie the roe deer's hind legs, and drag it on the snow, which was much easier.
He had to drag hard when going uphill, but he could still drag for a while when going downhill. Lu Lu struggled to walk uphill and downhill in the mountains and forests. By the time he got back to Mukoleng, he was extremely tired.
He could only give up the idea of going out again in the afternoon.
After peeling off the skin of the roe deer, he went into the water and fed Yuan Bao and the others. Lu Lu selected the good meat of the roe deer and gave it to Chen Xiuyu to chop into fine pieces and stir-fry the stuffing.
He thought for a while and prepared to make himself a sledge.
Isn’t there an Oroqen horse?
This is a good horse that is good at walking on the snow, but it cannot be left to wait on and do nothing in the meadow. In a short period of time, Chen Xiuyu is pregnant and cannot ride it. It is just a good horse to let it pull the sledge to avoid trouble.
I thought about going to find Chen Xiuqing. If I had one, it would be convenient.
For this kind of carpentry work, of course, you should go directly to the carpenter Zuo Songling.