While they were talking, Liu Yujiang and Liu Yuhe came in from outside. Before they could even step into the house, Liu Yujiang shouted loudly in the yard.
"Dad, I just heard the loudspeaker at the forest farm shouting, saying that a leopard entered the forest farm last night.
Dad, do you think our brigade should also notify the members? We need to keep everyone on guard.
If that local leopard gets his way, can he come to Huo Huo too?"
“It’s the Chinese New Year, what would be bad if something happens to someone’s family?”
As Liu Yujiang spoke, he walked into the house, stretched his head to look into the east room, and happened to see Sheng Xiping.
"Hey, my brother is here? Didn't a leopard enter your forest farm? Why didn't you go and kill it?"
Liu Yujiang didn't mean anything else.
Except for Sheng Xiping, there is no other good hunter at Maekuan Forestry Farm.
Under this situation, Sheng Xiping should have led people up the mountain to surround and exterminate the local leopards. Why did he come to the Great Alkali Field?
"Brother, second brother, I came here to ask for your help.
You also know that there are not many people on the other side of the forest farm who are truly proficient in hunting.
That local leopard is difficult to defeat. Without the help of a few capable people, I'm afraid I won't be able to defeat it alone."
Sheng Xiping stood up from the edge of the kang, smiled and nodded towards Liu Yujiang and Liu Yuhe.
"Boss, you two came back just in time. Let's go together."
Liu Changde waved his hand, signaling Liu Yujiang and Liu Yuhe to quickly pack their things.
Anyone who knows how to hunt, and learns that there are native leopards nearby, will want to take care of them.
Just now, when Liu Yujiang was listening to the loudspeaker shouting at the forest farm, he asked his brother whether he should call Sheng Xiping, and the three of them would find a way to eat the leopard.
Unexpectedly, Sheng Xiping also had the same idea and came to find them, so what else could he say? The brothers would just do it together.
"Dad, it's fine for the three of us to take the dog with us, don't follow us.
How bad would it be for you to follow us up the mountain during the Chinese New Year? No matter how tired you are, how bad is it?"
Liu Yujiang didn't want his father to go up the mountain, so he persuaded him.
"If it were any other beast, I wouldn't go, not this time.
You don't have much experience in dealing with native leopards, so I have to do this." Liu Changde smiled and waved his hand.
"I'm only in my early fifties and not even sixty yet. Do you really think I'm old?"
The old man insisted, but Sheng Xiping and others had no choice but to agree.
So Qin Qiuyan asked her daughter-in-law to pack things for the three men, including dry food, etc. The three men packed up, carried guns on their backs, and walked straight from home to the forest farm.
The four of us didn't get a dog, because it would be useless if we did. Dogs get scared when they see a leopard, and they may not even dare to make a sound, so it won't be of much use.
Besides, Erlang Shen and General Hei were both injured yesterday, especially General Hei's serious injury. How can we let them go hunting in the mountains with their injuries?
Erlang Shen is a big-headed dog, with his head raised and fragrant. The Liu family's Daqing is a two-headed dog, with his head lowered, fragrant.
Erlangshen was injured and couldn't go up the mountain, so taking Daqing with them wouldn't be of much use.
So the four of us discussed it and decided not to take the dog with us.
Sheng Xiping led the three Liu family masters back to the forest farm, and happened to meet Wang Jiachuan who looked anxious.
"Hey, brother, why are you here?"
Wang Jiachuan was about to talk to Sheng Xiping when he saw Liu Changde and others behind him. Wang Jiachuan quickly greeted Liu Changde first.
"Didn't Xiping go over and say that a local leopard has entered the forest farm? I didn't feel at ease waiting at home, so I simply followed him over to have a look.
After all, I am older and have experienced a lot, so maybe I can give them some advice or something." Liu Changde explained with a smile.
When Wang Jiachuan heard this, he was very happy.
"Oh, my old brother, it's great that you can come there. With you as a veteran, no leopard, no matter how cunning, can escape."
This is not a compliment. Liu Changde has been working in the Great Alkali Field for so many years and has a great reputation. Everyone knows what he is capable of.
Although Wang Jiachuan had just been transferred here a few years ago, he had heard of Liu Laopao from the Great Alkali Field.
"I don't want to be a veteran. I just come here to hold down the disciples, so that young people like them who have not experienced things will be careless."
Liu Changde didn't take Wang Jiachuan's words seriously, he just smiled and said.
"Xiping, let's go, take us there and have a look. Maybe we can find a place for an ambush."
Leopards move so fast and are good at hiding. If they don't take some measures to ambush them, they will never be able to catch the leopard in this life if they just run all over the mountain in pursuit.
In this way, the four of them separated from Wang Jiachuan and went to the breeding farm first.
Wang Jianshe and others happened to be there, so we met and had a few words.
Liu Changde took the people around the farm, and then followed the route that Sheng Xiping and the others had followed, all the way to the woods.
Liu Changde wandered around a few times under the tree with half of the sheep's body hanging on it, and then followed the jackal's footprints on the ground for a while into the forest.
After checking the terrain, he directed everyone to set up a temporary tent in a windy and sunny mountain nest.
"This is the only way for the leopards and jackals to steal sheep from the forest farm. We will lie in wait nearby." The old man said.
"Uncle Liu, the leopard doesn't even bark, it comes and goes without a trace.
Even if it passes by, we don't know, would it be useful to ambush here?" Gao Haining looked puzzled.
Will their ambush like this be useful? It's better to take dogs into the mountains. At least the dogs can smell the leopard's scent, and there will be a basis for tracking.
“Leopards can’t bark, so jackals can’t bark?
They have formed an alliance now and are working together. As long as we hear the movement of the jackal, is the leopard still far away?"
Liu Changde was not angry because of Gao Haining's objection. Instead, he explained to Gao Haining with a smile.
Isn't the leopard scary? As long as it has a pig mate like a jackal, its whereabouts will be exposed in a matter of minutes.
After saying this, others also understood, so everyone stopped talking nonsense and quickly set up a temporary shelter.
It is to use more than a dozen wooden poles to form a cone, cross them together, and then cover it with birch bark, hay and other thatch.
Such temporary shacks do not keep warm, they can only block the cold wind.
So everyone built a fire in the shack, boiled some hot water or something, and talked and listened to what was going on outside.
But there was no sound outside except the howling cold wind.
Everyone stayed in the temporary shack for a long time, until the sun went down, but they still couldn't wait for the leopard and jackal to appear.
"Is this leopard not coming anymore? It just ate a sheep today. It should go back to the cave and take a deep sleep now, right?"
A few young people were a little impatient, so Zhang Zhijun muttered in the corner.
"Yeah, we've been waiting here for a long time, and there's been no movement." Over there, Pan Fusheng agreed.
As soon as Pan Fusheng finished speaking, before anyone else could speak, he heard the shrill and sharp howling of the jackal in the distance.
Everyone's hearts trembled, and they all admired Liu Changde.
However, this is not the time to praise, you have to seize the time to ambush the leopard.
"Remember, let those two jackals go and attack the leopard behind. We have to deal with the difficult ones first."