Roe deer looks very much like a deer, but is much smaller than a deer.
The whole body is covered with thick, gray-brown shiny hair, but there are no spots on the belly like the sika deer.
Some roe deer have short three-pronged horns on their heads, while others don't.
This thing has slender legs and is extremely good at running and jumping. It can run very fast, and usually hunting dogs cannot catch it.
Roe deer are docile by nature and have no ability to attack, so they live in groups.
It likes to live in places with lots of grass and sparse trees, and often lives in quiet bushes.
There seemed to be more than a dozen roe deer in front of me. They were running very fast and were about to run in front of everyone.
Xu Shiyan reacted quickly and immediately called out to everyone to chase the group of roe deer north.
So everyone immediately covered up from the south, wielding axes, saws and other tools in their hands, and drove the roe deer north.
While the roe deer were running, they saw people and immediately panicked. Then they saw people carrying things to chase them away from the south, so they turned around and ran north.
Going around the mountain, there is a large shady slope to the north.
At this time, the temperature is high during the day, the snow melts, and becomes soft and loose. The temperature is low at night, and a smooth hard cover freezes on the snow.
Those roe deer had slender legs and small hooves. They rushed to the snow on the shady slope and got stuck in the snow.
The snow underneath was so thick that the roe deer got stuck in the snow and couldn't move.
There is an old saying among mountain people, "The falling snow drives away rabbits, and the snow melts to hunt roe deer." This is what we are talking about.
Everyone was very happy to see about ten roe deer all stuck in the snow.
He stepped forward with the tool in his hand, hit the roe deer on the head, and knocked the roe deer down immediately.
That's how beating a roe deer with a stick comes about.
Seeing that none of the dozen or so roe deer ran away, everyone was very happy, so they dragged the roe deer out of the snow.
At this moment, I didn't bother picking up the big couplet pole, I dealt with the roe deer first.
"You guys wait a moment, I'll go over there and take a look."
Xu Shiyan felt something was wrong, dropped the roe deer in his hand, and looked for it in the direction where the roe deer had just run.
After walking for two or three miles, I found a dead roe deer on the snow among the woods.
A male roe deer was quite big and was surrounded by blood.
He was bitten to death by something unknown, his heart, liver, lungs, etc. were all ripped out, and some of the flesh on his body was also chewed.
Xu Shiyan looked around and saw a few five-petal plum blossom footprints on the remaining snow. One look at the footprints and he knew they were wolves.
Just now, a group of roe deer must have been targeted by wild wolves and killed a big male roe deer.
The rest of the roe deer fled in panic, but met them head-on again, and in the end, the whole army was wiped out.
The wolf must have heard someone's movements and ran away in fright, leaving the roe deer's body behind.
Xu Shiyan dragged the dead roe deer all the way back to join the others.
"Hey, Brother Xu, you are so good. You picked up another one. What kind of thing killed it?"
When several young men saw it, they were very curious and came over to take a look at the wound.
"It's a wolf. Let's be careful when working around here." The closer to spring, the more careful we have to be.
Everyone looked stern and nodded solemnly, "Well, you have to be careful.
From now on, when we go into the woods, we must not be alone, but come together with a few people."
At this time, I didn't bother picking up the big couplet pole. I first got the roe deer back to the venue.
A dozen young men each dragged a roe deer back to the venue, making the other teams envious.
"Didn't you go into the forest to pick up a couplet pole? Why are you dragging the roe deer back here? Where did you meet it?"
This group of young men talked about what happened, and the others listened with emotion.
This is great luck, right? Just go into the mountains and pick up a large connecting pole, and you can encounter a group of roe deer that have been chased away by wolves?
Alas, there is no comparison between people.
Wang Jiaren also came over and looked at the roe deer that these people had made, and he also enjoyed it.
"Come on, hurry up and cut it open and peel off the skin. It will stink if you cover the chest for a long time."
Why are the young men so polite? They quickly found some supplies and cut open and skinned a dozen roe deer.
There was no need to work in the afternoon. Wang Jiaren released all the people in his team from work in advance. They divided the meat from the roe deer and drove the carriage home happily.
"Daughter-in-law, do you see what I brought back?"
Xu Shiyan carried half of the roe deer home and said loudly before entering the house.
Since I came to Donggang, I have been busy, and I have no gun in my hand, so I have no chance to go hunting in the mountains.
The meat originally brought from Dongjiangyan could no longer be stored as the weather got warmer, and it had been salted into bacon by Su Anying. The family had not eaten fresh meat for some days.
As Xu Shiyan spoke, he opened the door and entered the house. Su Anying was not seen in the kitchen.
I stretched my head into the east room and saw my mother Zhou Guilan sitting on the kang. "Mom, why are you here?"
Xu Shiyan was stunned for a moment, why did his mother come at this time?
"What? I can't come?" Zhou Guilan rolled her eyes at her son.
"It's already April, and I estimate that your wife will have a baby in only half a month and twenty days.
Then why don't I come over and take care of you? Otherwise, I'm counting on you?" Zhou Guilan smiled as she spoke.
"Our mother brought two old hens, a basket of eggs, and made a quilt, clothes, and diapers for the child."
Su Anying went down to the ground with a big belly and asked Xu Shiyan to put down the meat.
"Is this roe deer meat? Didn't you go to work in the mountains? Why are you hunting roe deer now?"
Today's Su Anying is no longer the ignorant little wife before.
I followed Xu Shiyan in the mountains last winter. I saw all kinds of prey and recognized it at a glance. It was roe deer meat.
"Well, it's roe deer meat.
There were not enough large poles on the mountain, so we went into the mountain to pick them up. We met a group of roe deer, and we chased them back into a snow nest on a shady slope."
Xu Shiyan did not mention the wolf biting the roe deer, fearing that his mother and daughter-in-law would be worried.
"Mom, how are you at home? I started to be busy as soon as I moved here. I couldn't even go back for the Lantern Festival. Is there nothing going on at home?"
Xu Shiyan put the roe deer meat into a large basin, carried it to the kitchen, and returned to the house to talk to his mother.
"There's nothing going on at home. After the fifteenth day, I made the decision and divided up the family.
The fourth child took his wife back to Qingling. He works over there, and the Wu family is over there. I followed you and raised some money before. It’s enough to go out and find a house."
When mentioning the family separation, Zhou Guilan looked a little lonely.
As an old man, who doesn’t want his children and grandchildren to be with him?
"Your second brother and his wife moved out, and happened to borrow the house of Old Li Tou's family to live in.
Just wait for a piece of homestead land to be approved from the team and build another house.
When Xiaobo and Xiaotao grow up, there will be a house for them to get married and find wives."
Zhou Guilan thinks too far, even thinking about her grandson getting a wife.
"Your eldest brother is staying with us. When your father and I are gone, the house will be theirs.
You guys don’t have to worry about it, it’s been like this since ancient times, whoever provides for you in old age will get your family property.”
Logically speaking, this should be the division. The eldest son's eldest son should provide for his parents in their old age, and everything in the family should also belong to the eldest son's eldest son.