Although they were told to rest, the five of them all got up very early the next morning.
Zhao Yongke, Liang Kangbo and Chen Xiuqing were going to check the traps set yesterday to trap sables, raccoon dogs, yellow skins and other prey.
It has to be said that Liang Kangbo is unique in setting traps. In addition to the hunting tools he brings, he can use local materials, such as stone slabs, wood, rattan and other things to set very effective traps.
Over the past few days, a group of people have learned a lot of trap-setting techniques from him.
Not only Lu Lu, but also Zhao Yongke had to admire this.
Some traps can be called fantastic ideas.
After asking, I found out that Liang Kangbo likes to tinker with and study these things when he has nothing to do at home.
This also makes these traps always have some unexpected rewards.
This trip was a great contribution.
The prey must be brought back, the hunting gear must be recovered, and the traps that Liang Kangbo set casually must be dismantled. Otherwise, if the wild animals are caught in the traps and no one collects them, it will be a huge waste. Also, what if
If someone passes by, these traps are also potentially dangerous.
The deer is a nocturnal animal and prefers to be active in the morning and evening. It is obviously inappropriate to set up a hunting net at this time. It is more suitable to set it up near dusk and collect the net the next morning.
After making some casual breakfast, at dawn, Liang Kangbo and three others went up the mountain, while Lu Luze and Zhang Shaofeng rode horses towards Taoshan to find someone to ask about the location of Qingyang Valley.
Pingding Mountain is the highest peak in the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, and there are many surrounding peaks with an altitude of over 1,000 meters.
Standing halfway up the mountain, it is easy to identify the villages in the distance.
In addition, this is the junction of three forest farms. In order to facilitate logging and forest farm management, many places have access roads.
After recognizing the direction, the two quickly found the main road and rode towards Taoshan.
After walking for more than half an hour, the two heard the sound of chain saws cutting down trees in the distance, accompanied from time to time by warning sounds like "down the mountain."
"Let's go over and take a look!"
There is still a long way to go to the village where we want to go. Since there are people logging nearby, Lu Lu doesn't want to bother: "Let's just ask someone directly. Maybe someone knows and we can avoid some detours."
"That's fine!" Zhang Shaofeng also agreed.
Seeing that most of the woods were on gentle slopes, the two of them immediately threw away their reins and followed the direction from which the sound of chainsaws and shouts came, and went directly into the woods to take a shortcut.
What the two of them didn't expect was that after looking at the gentle mountain forest, they discovered that the terrain inside had become steeper after getting into it for a while.
The green onion that Lu Lu rode was an Oroqen horse, which was very good at walking on the snow.
But what Zhang Shaofeng was riding was an ordinary horse used to plow fields and pull carts. The terrain was slightly steep, so walking became a little uncomfortable.
Especially when they arrived on the hillside and found that the woodcutter was halfway up the steep slope opposite, and if they wanted to get over, they had to get down the steep slope in front of them, Zhang Shaofeng had to jump off the horse and lead him slowly down.
Lu Lu, however, had no scruples and rode down on Green Onion.
The snow in the forest was quite thick, so I saw Green Onion walking down a few steps. Suddenly, I bent my back legs and sat down on the snow. Then I slid down the snow slope with Lu Lu on my back.
The key is that when sliding down, I can also use my front legs to change the direction to prevent hitting the tree. It didn't take long to reach the gentle slope at the foot, and then stood up again.
This scene shocked Zhang Shaofeng.
He never imagined that a horse could have such a strange ability in his opinion.
Don’t horses use four hooves to walk and run?
How can I still ski?
Lu Lu waited below for four or five minutes before Zhang Shaofeng led the horse to the bottom in a zigzag pattern. As soon as he reached Lu Lu, he couldn't help but ask: "I am extremely envious of a horse chasing the wind. What's going on?"
This green onion is so extraordinary and can make the snow slide so smoothly!"
"What's so strange about this? Oroqen horses are kept in the wild all year round and are most suitable for cold mountainous areas. Many Oroqen horses can ski downhill!" Lu Lu said with a smile: "It has many skills in the mountains.
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Zhang Shaofeng looked at the green onions with envy: "No, I have to raise one too. It will be great for hunting next winter!"
"The Oroqen horses do have many advantages in the mountains. They are particularly able to tolerate hunger and thirst, and have good endurance. Even if they are not fed anything for a day of hunting and are tied to a tree overnight, they can hunt as usual the next day.
This horse is most suitable for winter, lying on the snow to graze, and eating snow to quench thirst is not a problem. It is really suitable to be left in the mountains without people around. If a wild beast comes, they dare to fight the wild beast and protect themselves without much worry.
Get a horse. If you want one, go to Mr. Zhao and he will choose a horse.
Well, you can make an appointment with Brother Liang by the way to see if he wants to buy it. With the Oroqen horses, it will be more convenient for us to hunt in winter. If nothing else, even if it is corn rice, black beans, etc. that we brought to the mountain, we can take less and use them.
It’s also convenient and saves trouble.”
Lu Lu gave suggestions.
Zhang Shaofeng nodded: "I'll ask when I get back in the evening."
As they talked, the two walked uphill towards the opposite side. A few minutes later, they saw seven plow boys driving up the slope.
A sledge boy is a person who goes into the forest area to get big logs and is responsible for driving the sledge in the ice and snow.
Slope climbing refers to the work of dragging timber harvested in steep logging areas to flat ground or gentle slopes at the foot of the mountain with a sledge.
Some people may say that when transporting wood from the mountain, don't we use a creeper tractor to carry the original strips directly to Lengchang at the foot of the mountain? How can we use a sledge to drag it?
At this time, which forest farm does not have ivy?
After the trees in the virgin forest are felled to the ground, the branches are cut off, and the entire log without cutting the trunk for lumber is called a log. The tractor carries a log on its back, which is when the tractor uses its own winch to winch the huge log onto its back.
Drag it down the mountain.
However, tractors can only operate in hilly areas with relatively gentle terrain. For example, the area under Pingding Mountain is not only steep but also has many stone ponds, so it is impossible to enter.
Moreover, tractors can only carry out regeneration logging in virgin forests - so-called clear-cutting operations.
There are many operating areas with poor terrain and poor tree growth environment, so selective felling (selective logging) can only be used. Even if the ivy tractor can be driven up, the hauling method of carrying the original strips will cause damage wherever it passes.
A large number of secondary and young trees are not allowed in forest areas.
At this time, the sledge comes in handy.
The selectively felled timber is moved up the slope using a sledge.
The slopes of the mountains in front of us are being cut down.
Seeing the seven people, Lu Lu and Zhang Shaofeng hurriedly greeted them.
"Gentlemen, may I ask, do you know how to get to Qingyang Valley?" Lu Lu asked the oncoming people politely.
"Qingyang Valley, it's not far from here... Just follow the road down and keep walking. If you ride a horse, you will be able to see a very wide valley there in about half an hour, with many things in it.
There is a big green poplar tree, and there is Qingyang Valley. Walking down the ditch, there are several shacks, where some people are managing the ginseng fields of the production team!"
The words of one of the middle-aged men made Lu Lu feel happy.
He didn't expect that Qingyang Valley was so close to where people like him were hunting.
If you go to the villages you saw on the mountain to ask, you will have to walk a lot more.
"Thank you, man!"
Lu Lu bowed his hands to several people, flicked the reins, and led the way along the winding snow path made by driving the sledge down the hillside to the dirt road below. Zhang Shaofeng immediately followed.
Who knows, just when the two of them walked down for a while, a roar suddenly came from above: "Get out of the way, get out of the way quickly, the arrow is flying!"
When Lu Lu and Zhang Shaofeng heard this, they turned around and looked up the hillside, and suddenly broke into a cold sweat.
In snowy days, a sledge is used to pull the original strip on the slope to save effort when sliding on the ice and snow. On steep snow slopes, it is not a good thing if it is too slippery. It is even necessary to use thick iron chains specially put on the bottom of the sledge to make anti-skid chains.
Friction to prevent over-slip.
A heavily loaded sledge can press the chain deeply into the ice and snow, thus slowing down the sledge's descent.
Zhang Shaofeng originally lived in the mountains. If Lu Lu had not gone to the mountains, he would have gone to the forest farm to cut trees.
When Lu Lu was an educated youth, he also did logging work when he went to Wandashan Forest Farm to cut trees in winter.
When they heard the word "jumping arrow", they were all familiar with it, and their nerves became tense all of a sudden.
The Yuanbaos also barked and ran forward as if they knew what was happening.
The two instinctively looked back and found that it was a team of seven people, one of whom was on the left, pulling the ox pulling the sledge hard and coming down at an increasingly faster speed towards Lu Lu and Zhang Shaofeng below. How many of the ox?
He was almost sitting in a sitting position, with all four hooves holding on to the snow, trying hard to stretch the slope on his buttocks, trying to slow down the descent.
They could already hear the squeaking and grinding sound coming from the bottom of the sledge.
As soon as he saw this situation, Lu Lu who was below quickly shouted: "Brother Feng, hurry up, the arrow is flying through the snow."
He clamped the horse's belly and trotted forward.
Zhang Shaofeng's reaction was not slow, and he started running after him. Both of them tried to avoid this area as much as possible.
Obviously, the cow no longer has enough strength to slow down the descent. This is an extremely dangerous thing, not only for the people driving the sledge, but also for people passing by underground.
The sledge is out of control.
It is easy for people and cattle to lose their lives.
There were three or four thick original trees tied to the sledge. If they collapsed all of a sudden, the several original trees would fly down the steep slope like arrows.
Such a big log, let alone being hit by it, even if it is rubbed, it will be quite fatal.
In his previous life, Lu Lu had heard of incidents involving landslides and arrows. A completely out-of-control sledge and a person strangled by a rope fell from a mountain cliff under the inertial push of the original sledge bar. Both the man and the cow were shattered to pieces.
thing.
That incident shocked a huge forest area.
Using a sledge to pull a strip across a snowy slope is the most dangerous thing in the wood gang's job. Life or death can happen in an instant!
The two of them ran dozens of meters away. As they ran, they looked back at the man. He was struggling to control the bull's head and trotted down the hillside in a thrilling way, until the sledge collided with a big tree and suddenly collapsed.
It was broken, and the original strips were stuck on the big tree, which stabilized it.
The ox was panting, with two streams of white air spurting out of its nostrils. It didn't know how much force it had used in those few blows just now.
The man driving the sledge also fell down in the snow.
Needless to say, Lu Lu also knew that he was probably so scared that his feet were sore and his hands were weak and he didn't even have the strength to stand up.
Lu Lu and Zhang Shaofeng quickly dismounted and ran back: "Man, are you hurt?"
"It's okay, just this moment almost scared me out of my mind!" The man patted his chest repeatedly.
"This sledge is broken and can't be used anymore. You can only drag the original sledge one by one to a flat place and find a new sledge. No matter what happens, you are lucky that both the man and the cow are fine!" Lu Luye
Deeply grateful.
"Yes, that's all we can do... If you are in a hurry, just leave quickly. You can't help with this matter, so don't delay!" The man stood up with his hands on his knees and wiped them.
Cold sweat on the face.
It was true that there was nothing he could do to help. Lu Lu nodded at him, called Zhang Shaofeng, and continued to ride the horse, following the road they led to Qingyanggou.