It's easy to avoid the fox's stench, just stand upwind.
Yuanbao and the others were very smart. They circled around for a while and then came to the upwind outlet one after another. After waiting for a while and the smell reduced a little, they came to the entrance of the badger's hole and began to dig fiercely.
Lu Lu and Liu Hao were not idle either. They continued to stuff some pine needles into the other two holes and burned them, and continued to smoke them with fire.
However, after waiting for more than ten minutes, the entrance to the badger cave was filled with thick smoke like a chimney, and the badger just didn't come out.
"Why don't you go back and get tools to dig?" Liu Hao couldn't wait any longer.
Badger nests are intricate and often very deep, the deepest can even reach ten meters, and there are more than one caves inside, and there are passages connecting the caves.
The badgers were hibernating, but with the barking dogs and the smoke, Lu Lu didn't believe they didn't wake up.
The reason why they haven't come out is probably because they dug some soil and blocked some of the tunnels, blocking out the fire and smoke.
This thing is a good hand at digging dirt. The dirt dug out in a few minutes can cover itself. In winter, they will not come out easily.
Even though they live in soil caves, badgers are definitely "hygienic models" in the animal world. They never relieve themselves in their own caves, but have several special toilets near the entrance of the cave.
Since the badger's cave is relatively spacious and has many entrances and tunnels, some animals that are too lazy to dig their own holes take shelter in the "outer room" near the entrance of the cave.
In this regard, the fox is simply a rogue.
They covet the badger's burrows, and deliberately get into them to poop and urinate everywhere, and smear the stench all over the hole.
Often in this case, the badger cannot stand the unpleasant smell and has to abandon the cave and build another one somewhere else.
Probably because they have entered hibernation, these foxes came for a slightly shorter period of time, so there was a situation where foxes and badgers were in the same cave. The fox lived outside and the badgers lived deep inside.
It's really not easy to get it out.
"Wait for me to add some food to them. If they still don't come out, let's go to the ravine you mentioned to see if there are any blind bears... Aren't you thinking about fishing tomorrow? There should be a lot of fish in many bends of the Wolong River.
, If we can’t get it out today, we’ll dig it out tomorrow when we come to fish.”
Lu Lu thought for a moment and said: "It's winter, and the soil is frozen. It's very difficult to dig. I'll go find Liu Bao and get some explosives to collapse it."
After listening, Liu Hao nodded and agreed with Lu Lu's statement.
It's not clear how many badgers there are specifically, but even if it's just one, the badger's fur and badger oil are valuable, so it's worth serving with explosives.
Lu Lu then took off his hunting bag and took out a can bottle. Inside, he mixed five-spice powder with chili, pepper, cumin and other condiments. It was convenient to use when going into the mountains to barbecue. Now he plans to
Put some in the fire.
The smell of burning chili peppers is very pungent, and its irritation is much higher than that of fire smoke. It can be called a chili bomb.
If this doesn't work, I'll have to give up today.
He put some powdered seasoning into the two caves where the pine needles were burning, and the pungent smell came out immediately.
He quickly sealed the two cave entrances with snow dumplings and waited at the main cave entrance with Liu Hao.
Gradually, the pungent smell of chili pepper filled the cave entrance, so much so that Yuan Bao and the five puppies barking at the cave entrance had to stay away.
After waiting for about four or five minutes, there was finally movement in the cave, and a badger poked its head at the entrance of the cave.
The two people who had been waiting for a long time had their semi-automatic bayonets ready. Lu Lu seized the opportunity and stabbed it suddenly, easily piercing the badger's head and picking it out.
The reason why bullets are not used is to prevent being startled by the gunfire and scare the badger back.
With the first one, the second one soon came out and was taken care of by Liu Hao. Then came the third one, the fourth one...
In this cave, in the next five or six minutes, eight badgers emerged one after another, which were too smokey to bear. Occasionally, two of them rushed out and ran to the snow without being stabbed.
Yuanbao and the others bit him on the head and tore him to death.
Pigs, badgers, and badgers all have the habit of hibernating. If they run out one by one like this, they will not be able to be aggressive in the face of Yuanbao in this winter.
After waiting for a few more minutes and seeing no more movement, Lu Lu said with a smile: "It should be gone!"
Liu Hao also smiled and nodded: "Let's go!"
In the badger cave, I worked back and forth for more than an hour and got six foxes and eight badgers. This was a big harvest.
He took the rope from the hunting bag and tied the foxes and badgers in series. They each dragged a few of them to the sledges on the river beach.
They were all stinky guys. When they got to the sledge, Lu Lu first threw the fox onto the sledge and left it there. Then he cut open the two badgers with a knife, cut the meat and fed it to them with ingots. After they were half full, he used the rest.
Badger put on sledge.
Foxes are so smelly that Lu Lu doesn't want to touch them easily.
The stench stuck to his body, and it was difficult to wash it off without using any special methods. He didn't want this stench to stay with him all day.
After the two took a short rest, Liu Hao stepped forward to lead the way towards the ravine he mentioned.
Liu Pao was folded in this place, and it was hard for Liu Hao not to be impressed by this place. Even after a long time, he still clearly remembered everything inside.
He led Lu Lu all the way to the ravine. After walking for about ten minutes, the two of them arrived under a big lime tree.
The base of the lime tree was chopped with an axe, revealing a hole. As time passed, the bark grew again, shrinking the hole a lot.
"This is the place where my dad and I fought bears. The mouth of the barn is above!" Liu Hao pointed to the place more than four meters high above the tree trunk and said: "At that time, it was my dad who went up to use a wooden stick to seal the mouth of the barn, and then let
I called the warehouse, and I knocked down there with a mirrored ax for more than ten minutes, but there was no reaction at all. The blind man was sleeping too deeply, so in the end he had no choice but to cut a small hole in the tree and use a stick.
He reached in and poked hard, and then he woke it up.
When the stick was stretched in to stab, it was pulled inward by Blind Bear. The strength was amazing, and it was pulled in all at once, and it was broken into several pieces within a few moments.
As a result, the two of us stayed under the tree, waiting for it to crawl out from the entrance of the barn. As soon as it leaned out half of its body from the hole, it was time to shoot.
It was my first time to shoot a blind bear, and I was very nervous. The blind bear’s head came out, and as soon as one of its forepaws came out, I couldn’t help but shoot. As a result, I was shot, and the blind bear fell back again.
Inside the tree hole, I had no choice but to use an ax to split open the hole.
The two men chopped for more than an hour before they made a big enough hole to drag the blind bear out."
Lu Lu was also looking at the tree hole. He could get through the cut hole by leaning on one side.
After looking at the situation inside, he saw that there was quite a lot of space in the tree hole. He smiled and asked, "Isn't this bear blind at that time?"
"It must have weighed 4,780 kilograms. After my father and I dragged it out, we took out the bear bile. Then we went back to the team and asked two people to drag it back with a sledge. The chopped meat was weighed and the net weight was included.
A little over four hundred pounds."
"As long as a bear barn is stained with bear blood, no blind bears will move in within a short period of time. They are very sensitive to the smell, and they often won't choose such a barn to spend the winter again after several years!"
Lu Lu looked at the barn and said, "Moreover, the hole is too big and it's too cold for Blind Bear to stay still."
"I know!" Liu Hao nodded: "Let's go and look elsewhere. We won't go to the caves where bears have been dug before. Let's go to the other three caves where blind bears may live."
After Liu Hao finished speaking, he continued to lead the way and climbed up the hillside on the left side of the ravine.
In the area where the Wolong River is located, there are many rocks in the ravines and river banks, and some places are quite steep.
Liu Hao led Lu Lu around the mountains for more than two hours and visited three places where he thought there might be blind bears.
Two of them are stone caves, and they are indeed good places. Unfortunately, there are no frost flowers at the entrances of the caves, and Yuanbao and the others don't make any sound. They don't even bother to go over and smell the cave entrances, and are completely sure that there is nothing inside.
However, Lu Lu memorized these two cave entrances. If there is a chance next year, he can hunt some wild animals and make dens here to raise bears.
The third hole was at the base of a big poplar tree. A blind bear came to squat in this tree hole. Unfortunately, they arrived late.
The traces of charcoal left by the large pile of firewood on the snow were enough to prove that the bear's barn had been dug out, and it went smoothly. The blind bear was led out and destroyed.
Lu Lu poked his head and looked inside the root tree hole. There was a layer of grass and leaves inside, and there were indeed signs that Xiong Xiazi had lived there.
There was no harvest in the three places, and Liu Hao seemed a little disappointed.
After wandering around for more than an hour, he still found nothing else. Apart from Lu Lu shooting two greyhounds and luckily shooting a flying dragon that was feeding at the foot of a red pine, there was nothing else to gain.
The red foxes and badgers needed to be skinned and processed, which would take a lot of time. After discussion, the two decided to return.
This time, Lu Lu rode Zhui Feng forward to clear the way, and Liu Hao followed behind with his sledge.
It was noon when I got home.
Chen Xiuyu had not returned from her trip to the district. She still had a lot of things to do, so Lu Lu didn't waste any time. He directly took the frozen dumplings stuffed with roe deer meat from the big vat outside the house and went back to the kitchen to cook them.
Roe deer meat stuffing is basically fried and seasoned before being made into dumplings. The meat is delicious and full of oil and water. Liu Hao ate this meal very happily. He ate more than two big bowls by himself.
"I really envy your life!" Liu Hao couldn't help but sigh.
"You should stop thinking nonsense and stay in the army. No matter what happens, you are better than a commoner like me!" Lu Lu told the truth.
"After I came back, I heard my mother say a lot, and I felt really bad. I am a son who is so ignorant that he ran off to join the army when his head got hot. I can't take care of him at all!" Liu Hao said with a guilty look on his face!
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But Lu Lu laughed: "What are you talking about? Don't you still have me? An Xin will develop in the army and my godmother will be taken care of by me. Don't worry!"
Liu Hao looked up at Lu Lu and nodded after a long time: "Thank you, brother!"
After eating and drinking, Lu Lu went to the meadow and built a fire and began to deal with the foxes and badgers.
Liu Hao also moved the wooden piers himself and asked the invading knife to help.
The smell of fox was too unpleasant, so Lu Lu dealt with it by himself. The odor on his hands had to be washed with white wine or vinegar mixed with some water to remove it. It took several days to completely eliminate it, which was quite troublesome. Lu Lu handled it by himself.
It also saves both of them from getting dirty.
The fox meat is reserved for feeding the dogs and lynxes, but the badger meat is quite good and can produce a lot of badger oil.
When the two of them were finishing the matter, chatter came from the woods outside. It was Chen Xiuqing and Zhao Yongke who were driving back with a sledge pulling a group of women and children.
As soon as the group entered the fence and saw dozens of fox and badger skins spread on the snow, they all came over.
"Brother Lu, you're not taking me with you?" Chen Xiuqing said with envy.
Lu Lu glared at him: "What can be more important than Yanzi... Are you going to the district tomorrow?"
"Three days of New Year are over, I won't go!" Chen Xiuqing shook her head repeatedly: "I want to follow you into the mountains to hunt!"
"There will be no hunting tomorrow. Let's go fishing in the river! Will you go?" Lu Lu asked.
"Fishing for fish... Yanzi said he wants to go to the city tomorrow!"
You don't make money by catching fish, and you just get it back to eat for yourself. Chen Xiuqing suddenly lost interest.
"Go aside!"
Hearing these words, Lu Lu couldn't help but roll his eyes at him.
On the other hand, Zhang Fengzhi showed great interest: "You can go fishing tomorrow, can you take me with you?"
Lu Lu glanced at her: "Of course!"
"I want to go too!"
Chen Xiuyu had not been out of the countryside for a long time. When she saw the opportunity, she would not let it go. Even Pu Guiying and Zhou Cuifen wanted to go along.
Seeing this, Zhao Yongke and Wu Nakan also became interested. They looked at each other and said, "We, the couple, are also going to join in the fun... Where are we going to fish?"
"Go to the Wolong River!" Liu Hao said with a smile: "There are a lot of fine-scaled fish in that river, and they are good things."
Seeing this, Chen Xiuqing began to scratch his head: "How about I go too and invite Yanzi to join us!"
His capriciousness immediately attracted the eyes of many people!