As the days passed, the weather gradually became hotter. The school uniform was changed to a brown short-sleeved standard fine linen shirt, the lower body was still black trousers, and the standard half-high leather boots on the feet were also replaced with flat soles.
Leather shoes. The uniforms for girls in junior high schools are similar to those for boys. The upper body is the same short-sleeved shirt, but the lower body is replaced by a long black skirt.
For this reason, during the twenty-minute break between classes every day, many boys gather in the corridor, looking eagerly at the girls' classroom opposite, hoping that those girls will come out to show off their wonderful figures...
Claude is a little annoyed today because his mother was scolded by his father about leather shoes in the morning. For some reason, Mr. Morsant has been suffering from severe stinginess in the past few days, because Claude is still sixteen years old.
I am a teenager with normal body development. Some time ago, my leather boots became too small. My mother went to buy a pair of larger ones. But after just over a week, when the weather got hot, the school asked everyone to change to flat leather shoes. When I took the leather shoes away, I found that they were also too small. My mother went there again.
I bought a double size one size larger.
In the morning, Mr. Morsant got angry for some reason when he heard what his mother said. He thought that her mother was not living a prudent life at all. He pointed out a major issue that his mother had ignored, that is, the pair of leather shoes that were one size larger than what he had just bought for Claude.
The boots had not been worn for ten days before they had to be put away because of the hot weather, but Claude will still grow up. If he wants to wear them again after summer and autumn, it is very likely that the leather boots will no longer fit and become too small...
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Mr. Morsan thought that the new pair of leather boots might be useless after being worn for only ten days. Isn’t this a waste of the family’s money? He thought that if Claude could bear to live with them, the pair would have already been used.
The old leather boots that have become too small and a bit tight just need to be worn for another ten days or so, just in time to replace them with new flat leather shoes, thus saving the family money on a new pair of leather boots...
Claude wanted to stand on his mother's side and criticize his father. He made such irresponsible remarks when buying a pair of boots. There was only four riaso. Why should he be so stingy? In the end, Mr. Morsan scolded him again.
After a while, I said that it had been more than a month since I bought him a new matchlock gun. I often watched him carrying the gun to the woods outside the town to practice shooting, but why didn't he come back with some prey? Why can't he contribute to the family?
It would be good for the family to have less money to buy meat. If we can’t catch a mountain antelope, why can’t we kill two rabbits and take them home...
Claude was speechless and had no choice but to go to school holding in his anger.
Bock Al knew a little about the news. He quietly revealed to Claude that his fathers were raising the first batch of expeditions to realize the route plan from White Deer Town to the overseas territory of Tilsim on the Nubisia continent.
Funding. Some of the words revealed by his father indicate that many people do not believe that this route exploration plan can be successful, and it is difficult to raise funds. Therefore, it is understandable that Mr. Morsan has become a little angry recently. He is leading this plan.
Well, if he traveled to this different world and became Mr. Morsan's second son, then he should be scolded because the time traveler took over his son's body.
However, being looked down upon by Mr. Morsant made Claude feel very uncomfortable. The reason why he couldn't hunt the mountain antelope was that he couldn't find it, but there were always rabbits. Although he was smarter, Claude didn't believe that he couldn't hunt those rabbits.
Now when Claude went to practice shooting in the woods outside the town, he had already set the target a hundred meters away. There is no way, if you are hunting rabbits, you can't expect to get close to them at a distance of fifty meters. There is a possibility that you can get them at a distance of a hundred meters.
The rabbit won't run away so quickly. From a distance of a hundred meters, the rabbit is only about the size of a soybean. Claude still has to practice his eyesight...
After three days of practice, he was able to hit seven or eight red hearts on a target a hundred meters away. Claude felt that he was almost ready for actual combat, so he made an appointment with Verricro to hunt rabbits with him in the afternoon.
The reason there were only two people was that Erikson had to go to the dock to get his small fishing boat, while Boker was busy doing his business, promoting the new target designed by Claude. It is said that the business was good, and four partners invested in it.
The cost of four silver talers has been doubled, and the carpenter of the Boker family's trading company is currently being entrusted to make the third batch of eighty new targets and print a new batch of three hundred target papers...
Bockard's Obash II standard matchlock gun is currently used by Viricero, and as usual, it has the sight removed.
After the first class in the afternoon, Claude and Verricro stopped preparing for the next two equestrian training classes. They left the school and went to Claude's house first. The two matchlock guns were placed under the bed in the attic.
After grabbing the gun and the necessary things, they went out and called a carriage to take the two of them to the hills and forest in the south of the town, and then the two of them walked up the mountain.
Verricro said that the best place to hunt rabbits is in the mounds and mountain forests in the south of the town. Although this area is full of farms, forest farms, orchards and vegetable gardens, small animals such as rabbits and pheasants are not uncommon. Those large carnivorous animals are not uncommon.
Animals simply don’t dare to come to this area because most of the property owners here are nationals and basically have guns at home. Hunting is also a hobby of theirs. So to a certain extent, these small animals have no
They have no natural enemies, they reproduce very quickly, and their numbers increase a lot.
The main reason why the four of them came here last time and found nothing was because Bockal was bent on finding large prey and kept shuttling through the forest. Small animals that heard the noise either ran away or hid, so it was very difficult for them not to catch the prey.
Normal.
Claude is very strange. Didn't you say last time that the watchdogs here are all good at catching small animals?
Verricro explained to him that most of the watchdogs raised by the owners here were to prevent their own farms, forest farms, orchards and vegetable gardens from being damaged by small animals, and they basically would not let their watchdogs out of their property.
Industry. So as long as two people go deeper into the mountains and forests, they can find a good place to sit and wait. The most important thing to hunt these small animals is patience.
After walking for a while, Viricolo and Claude climbed up a small mound. Under the mound were sparse trees and bushes, as well as dense grass nests.
"Okay, this is the place." Verricro said to Claude with great satisfaction: "We will set up the gun here and wait for the rabbits and pheasants to appear. The match must be lit first, and it must be long. If
If you have a target, put the match rope on the medicine box and fire. If you don't have a target, change the match rope to another one. Also, from now on, let's not talk. Those little things have very sensitive ears. As long as the wind carries our voices,
They will hide or run away again..."
"Are we just waiting here with our guns raised?" Claude asked.
Verricro nodded: "Yes, you must learn to be patient when hunting these little things."
Claude stopped talking. After setting up the gun, he silently stared at the bushes under the mound. Verricro said that pheasants like to move around the bushes best. Well, compared to rabbits,
Claude still prefers chicken soup...
I don't know how much time passed, but Claude felt that his feet were numb. There was still no movement around him, only the sound of gusts of wind passing through the woods and grass.
Just as he was about to move his body, he was poked a few times by Viricero with his fingers. He turned around and saw that Viricero was pointing him towards a grass nest under the mound on the left. When he looked carefully, he saw a grass nest under the mound on the left.
A gray rabbit stretched out its two long ears and looked around, still chewing grass in its mouth.
Verricro stretched out two fingers, tapped Claude and himself, then tapped the rabbit, and finally pointed at the two muskets. Claude understood that he wanted to fire with him to avoid
If the shot fails, the rabbit will run away.
He nodded, put the match rope on top of the medicine box, and started to take aim.
The rabbit was about eighty meters away from the mound. What made Claude happy was that the rabbit stayed in place. Although its head kept shaking, its body did not move.
When Claude felt confident, he pulled the trigger. Even at a distance of nearly a hundred meters, the gray rabbit seemed to hear something. He suddenly pricked up his ears and listened carefully to the surrounding sounds.
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However, it was too late to be alert. Two gunshots rang out, "Boom" and "Boom". Almost at the same time, both Claude and Viricolo had finished shooting.
Looking from a distance, the rabbit seemed to be jumping up high on the spot, then fell into the grass and disappeared.
Claude was very disappointed: "It missed, it ran away..."
But Vericro jumped up: "We hit it, it didn't run away. Let's load the musket first, and then search the grass. The rabbit is around there."
The two loaded the matchlock guns with gunpowder and guns again. After lighting the matchlock and clamping it, they picked up the stand as a crutch and walked down the mound step by step.
"It's a pity that we didn't bring hunting dogs with us." Viricero suddenly sighed.
"Hunting dogs?" Claude had heard Verricro mention that their family had three hunting dogs. It was said that they were hybrids of those native dogs, commonly known as guard dogs and mountain wolves. They were taller than those guard dogs.
He is older, very smart and fierce, and is a good helper for his father when he goes hunting in the mountains.
"Why bring a hunting dog?" Claude asked.
"If we bring hunting dogs, we don't have to go down to search the grass. The hunting dogs will go down and help us bring back the rabbits we shot. But if we really bring hunting dogs, maybe we don't even need to bring guns. My family has
Big black, two black and three black, they can catch all the rabbits and pheasants in this mountain forest by themselves..." Viricero said.
This is bragging, Claude said he didn't believe it.
"Really, I didn't lie to you." Verricro said: "The three hunting dogs in our family have been specially trained to deal with the large beasts in the mountains. Even a wild boar can entangle it so that my father can find an opportunity to open fire.
Killed with one shot. It’s easy to catch rabbits and pheasants in normal times, but now we can’t even find any rabbits in the forest near our home, they have already caught them all.”
"Didn't you say that those watchdogs down the mountain can also catch rabbits and pheasants?"
"Those watchdogs can catch, but they can only catch them in the farms, forestry, orchards and vegetable gardens they guard. If you go to the mountains to catch rabbits and pheasants, you will be lucky enough to catch one or two, but without training, it will basically be the same.
It’s no use, for example, as soon as they enter the mountains, they will bark and all the animals that can run will have already disappeared..."
"Then what do you think we can do to hunt rabbits and pheasants? Can we set traps and traps?"
"Well... let me think about it..." Viricero pondered for a while and said: "When it comes to catching rabbits and pheasants, in addition to using hunting dogs, we basically use shooting to hit the damage from a long distance like we do.
They can be captured only when they arrive. However, many hunters like to use hunting bows and stone crossbows to hunt rabbits and pheasants. Firstly, the hit rate is higher than that of muskets. Secondly, the sound is quieter. Unlike muskets, once the shot is fired, all the objects next to the target are shot.
Scared away.
As for traps and pit nets, they are used to deal with large beasts. I have never heard of them being used to deal with rabbits and pheasants. I really don’t know what traps you are talking about, but I have heard that some people used them soaked in spirits.
Scatter the grains of wheat in the bushes, and wait for the pheasants to get drunk after eating them, and then pick them up. Some people say that the pheasants are blind and cannot run away when covered with torches or lanterns at night. You can catch one with one hand.
It's very simple. I tried it, but it didn't work. They all ran away before you could get close..."
The gray rabbit fell in the grass, with a bullet hole in its back and no air left.
Verricro said that he aimed at the head, and it must have been hit by Claude. Claude couldn't be sure whether he was hit by it, but he still smiled and accepted the gray rabbit, and he had an explanation when he went home in the evening.
, this time I can satisfy Mr. Morsan’s desire to eat rabbit.
Verricro said: "We have to change places. The two gunshots just now have scared away all the small animals around here. Unless we wait until night, we will never see any prey again."
Claude ignored him, he was busy selecting those tough and thin vines from the grass to weave the sleeves.
"What are you doing?" Viricero asked.
"Set a trap." Claude replied, this is a skill he learned when he was a child in a mountain village in his previous life. Which kid in the mountain village is not good at catching fish, pheasants and rabbits. Fortunately, this skill has not been forgotten by him:
"This is a set, a trap specially designed to catch pheasants and rabbits."
"Can we catch pheasants and rabbits?" Verricro also squatted down to help weave the trap, but he was still very doubtful.
"Well, I will place all these covers under the bushes and grass nests. We will take a look tomorrow to see if we have harvested anything." Claude said.
To celebrate National Day today, two chapters will be updated...