"Yes, yes, it's meat and it's delicious. No matter what, just gnaw on it." So everyone gnawed at the bones again.
But at this time, Sheng Xiping stood up, wiped his hands with a towel, and walked out.
"Xiping, what are you doing?"
When Chen Weiguo and Pan Fusheng saw Sheng Xiping getting up, they quickly got up and walked out.
"It's okay, it's just that when I was chewing the bones, the shredded meat was too thick and it clogged my teeth.
I'll go out and pick up a branch to make a toothpick to pick my teeth."
Sheng Xiping waved his hand and walked out of the house to the firewood shed outside.
In the firewood shed, there were not only large pails, but also some two-chop firewood, which were some trees chopped into two-foot-long pieces.
This kind of tree is very good at igniting fire when it dries out, and can be used for cooking and cooking.
The large zhezi is used to burn the kang for warmth, and the two chops of firewood are mostly used to start fires and stir-fry vegetables.
Sheng Xiping stretched out his hand to poke out a thin branch, and then split it open.
I took out the knife I brought with me and trimmed the half-stretched branch a few times, and it turned into a makeshift toothpick.
The shreds of wild boar are thick and the bones are chewed, so it can easily get stuck in your teeth.
How can there be special toothpicks these days? Even if there are, most people are reluctant to buy them.
Just pull out a branch, trim it, and deal with picking your teeth.
Sheng Xiping picked his teeth with a makeshift toothpick, but left the knife in his other hand.
Suddenly, Sheng Xiping realized something was wrong, and his eyes instantly looked towards a shadow somewhere.
Almost subconsciously, Sheng Xiping threw the knife out of his hand.
Then, a pitiful howl was heard, and an animal smaller than a dog jumped out of the shadows, jumping onto the garden stick.
Maybe because he was injured, the guy couldn't jump up the first time.
"Weiguo, come out with the gun." Sheng Xiping shouted quickly, turned around and went back to the house to get the gun.
He was unarmed now. He couldn't fight a jackal with his bare hands. He had to get a gun first.
The door of the house was not closed tightly and was ajar. When Sheng Xiping shouted from outside, the people in the house heard it and ran out immediately.
"What's wrong, Xiping?"
"Jackal, a jackal spy." Sheng Xiping said as he stepped forward to grab his gun.
The moment the gun was in hand, Sheng Xiping pulled the safety.
But when he turned around, the injured jackal, probably with all his strength, jumped out from a gap in the garden stick.
Seeing that the jackal was about to run away, Sheng Xiping gave chase and chased him directly out of the gate. Regardless of whether he could hit him or not, he fired a shot at the fleeing shadow.
In the night wind, I could vaguely hear what sounded like another chirping sound.
On the night of the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, there was no moonlight, and Sheng Xiping could not see the situation in the distance clearly, so he had to give up and stop chasing.
"Xiping, how's it going? Did you hit it?"
At this time, Wang Jianshe and others also chased them out of the courtyard. Looking at the darkness in the distance, few of them dared to continue chasing.
"I don't know. It sounded like there was a movement, but I didn't count whether it hit or not." Sheng Xiping shook his head.
"Let's go back to the house and rest. The shot fired tonight will definitely scare those jackals and they won't come in again."
Jackals are cunning and suspicious. The spy wolf was injured and he didn't know if he could return to the pack.
The remaining jackals were disturbed by the gunshots and received no feedback from the spy wolf, so they would not come again tonight.
With Sheng Xiping's words, everyone felt relieved, so they returned to the house and continued to chew the bones.
This wild boar was picked at home. In fact, there wasn't much meat on the bones.
Unlike the meat stalls of later generations, bones are more expensive than meat, so there is a lot of meat on the bones.
If you like to chew bones, the main thing is the muscles on them. The more you chew, the more delicious they become.
In fact, this thing is not very serious, it is not enough to eat, let alone hold up.
So even though it is a big pot of bones, a few people can easily chew through it.
It was already midnight, so everyone tidied up the house.
Sheng Xiping took his people to patrol outside a few more times to make sure there was nothing unusual, and then went back to the house to rest.
At four or five o'clock in the morning on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, Sheng Xiping got up, put his gun on his back and went out for a walk.
Sure enough, there was nothing unusual in the pig pen or the sheep pen. Last night, the jackals did not come in.
"That's great. The jackals didn't come in last night to harm the pigs and sheep.
Xiping, what should we do next? With the New Year just around the corner, we can’t keep vigil here all the time, right?”
Several other people also got up, and everyone was very happy to see that the vigil last night was effective.
But then I thought about it, they couldn't guard it like this every day, they had to find a way to deal with the jackals.
"Well, let's take the initiative today. Come on, take a lamb, and we'll go to the woods to lay an ambush."
Sheng Xiping spent a lot of time thinking about it that night. The only way at present was to use the sheep as bait and Sheng Xiping and others to ambush around.
Whenever a group of jackals comes close, they shoot.
The others couldn't think of any better ideas, so they went into the sheepfold, picked out a sheep that wasn't too big, tied it with a rope, and brought a bag of fodder with them.
Afterwards, Sheng Xiping, Wang Jianshe, and Chen Weiguo carried guns on their backs, led the sheep, and followed the footprints around the breeding site to ambush them on the back mountain.
Gao Haining took Zhang Zhijun and Pan Fusheng to stay at the breeding site to prevent the jackals from sneak attacks while people were away.
There were many jackal footprints on the top of the back mountain, so Sheng Xiping tied the sheep to a tree near the footprints.
Put the fodder bag in front of the sheep. The sheep will rarely open it to eat the fodder. It will keep its head down to eat the fodder regardless of where it is and whether there is danger or not.
The sheep were tied up, and Sheng Xiping and others spread out, hiding under the cover of shrubs and grass, and waited patiently.
But I waited and waited until the sky was bright, but I didn't see any sign of the jackals.
"Xiping, do you think those jackals can still come?"
Wang Jianshe and the others had been hiding behind the bushes for quite a while. Early morning was the coldest time of the day. For such a long time, they felt almost freezing.
"It shouldn't be. That spy jackal must have been injured by my knife last night.
According to the character of jackals, there should be a group of jackals nearby this morning to observe and wait for an opportunity to retaliate."
Sheng Xiping couldn't figure out what was going on. According to the character of jackals, they would definitely not miss any opportunity for revenge.
As he was talking, Sheng Xiping suddenly felt a chill on his back and the hair on his hair stood up.
"It's broken. We've been ambushed by jackals. Turn around quickly."
When Sheng Xiping said this, Wang Jianshe and Chen Weiguo immediately turned around and looked behind them with their hands in hand.
Sure enough, more than two hundred meters away from them, there was a brown-red shadow, approaching in a fan shape.
Wang Jianshe and others were shocked. No one could have imagined that a jackal could be so cunning and cunning.
People try to ambush them, but instead of running away like wolves, they ambush humans from behind.
"Xiping, what should I do?"
Wang Jianshe pulled down the safety of his gun and was always ready. When Sheng Xiping gave the order to fire, he shot and killed the jackals.