Only Xiaoman's grandfather knows what's on the other side of the mountain; he once went there when he was young, looking for a lost cow.

After crossing the mountain pass, there were still mountains on the other side, just like this side, all rocky mountains.

He almost got lost there. He walked for two days without seeing a village, and only found his way home after climbing a mountain.

It means that there's a wild forest over there!

No wonder there was such a large herd of wild boars.

But given the wild boars' breeding rate of two litters a year, with a litter of more than a dozen, these wild boars should have already spread to this area.

It seems that the wildfire at the beginning of the year drove these wild boars away.

Now that we know the wild boar's route, we know where to set a trap.

After a good meal, the wild boars will most likely return the next day. To minimize losses, it is necessary to kill these wild animals as soon as possible.

We only have one day and one night left.

That night, apart from Nini and Xiao Caixia, neither family slept.

Xu Errui, Xiaoman, and Chunfeng carried out the dead trees that had been burned and cut down for firewood from the forest, cut them into neat logs, and then tied them together with kudzu vines to make a wooden fence.

Jiang Zhi found her "Blood-Sealing Throat" and carefully arranged the tip of the stick containing the medicine.

As dawn approached, the group finally lay down to sleep.

Three hours later, it was almost noon. After a quick meal prepared by Xiaoman's grandmother, they packed some dry rations and carried the wooden railing to the ditch.

They spent half a day working here, and by the time the trap was set up, they were so exhausted that they didn't even have the strength to move a finger.

Wild boars are used to taking familiar routes, and since they come and go through this ditch, the trap was naturally chosen to be located here.

Since it was a trap, there were no obvious changes in the ditch, except for a wooden fence that was pulled high with hemp rope.

Below are several wooden sticks forming a ring; stepping on it will cause it to slip and drop the object above, making it look similar to a rabbit trap.

Xiaoman and Xu Errui have been catching rabbits these days, and they have thoroughly studied the techniques of trapping them.

To deal with wild boars, aside from using thicker sticks and ropes, the basic principles remain the same.

The only difference is that a dozen or so sharp wooden sticks are tied to the wooden fence hanging above, which is used to smash wild boars.

The lower mechanism's loop is very sturdy, requiring the heaviest animal to step on it to open, thus preventing the plan from being disrupted by wild boars.

No wild boars appeared that day. As it grew dark, the group thought they would never see any more wild boars and were about to either finish setting up the traps or go home to rest when Xiaoman, who was on lookout duty, appeared from the other side of the ditch.

He waded through the water, running and tumbling, shouting, "They're here! They're here! There are even more than yesterday!"

Xiaoman kept an eye on the wild boars from the mountain pass, worried that the herd might run into people head-on.

Hearing Xiaoman's shout, the group tensed up.

Xiaoman said, "Quickly, throw out the corn that was wasted yesterday."

Worried that the wild boars would pass by too quickly and render the traps ineffective, all the corn that had been ruined yesterday was collected and thrown into the ditch.

When wild boars see food, they stop and crowd together, so that in a limited area, they can injure more than one animal by breaking into the enclosure.

Chunfeng and Jiangzhi quickly threw the dozen or so ears of corn from their baskets into the water.

Jiang Zhi also took out some wheat and scattered it on both sides to ensure that every wild boar could find food.

Just as she threw the handful of beans down, Chunfeng grabbed Jiangzhi: "Auntie, let's go!"

In the short time that was wasted, the wild boar herd had already appeared at the other end of the ditch.

For safety reasons, the group quickly retreated a considerable distance and even had to climb a tree.

Jiang Zhi was quite capable, but the original owner of this body was an older woman who wasn't used to climbing trees. Xu Errui had to push her up the tree branch and then tie her up with a rope to secure her.

Under the moonlight, a group of dark, blurry things silently waded into the ditch, preparing to feast on the crops.

The wild boar leading the way was a sentinel, and it quickly noticed the unusual activity in the ditch.

The sentinel pigs stopped and kept sniffing the air. Jiang Zhi became nervous, worried that the wild boars would discover the trap.

Pigs have an extremely sensitive sense of smell, no less than that of dogs. They can detect roots and stems in the ground and also distinguish the scent of humans in the air.

The pigs ahead stopped when they noticed something amiss, but their kind swarmed over, driven by hunger, and continued onward to the place where they had eaten their fill the day before.

Some of the wild boars even sensed the presence of wheat grains and began searching in the muddy water.

As a result, more wild boars stopped and lowered their heads to forage for food.

At this moment, Jiang Zhi and the others also understood what Xiaoman meant by saying "more than yesterday".

Yesterday there were only about a dozen pigs of various sizes, including a boar and a sow, which seemed to be a small family.

There were at least three wild boars at this time, their enormous size making them easily noticeable among the herd.

Two sows were leading at least twenty wild boar piglets, and roughly speaking, there were forty or fifty of them here.

Jiang Zhi gasped. Could her dozen or so throat-sucking pills possibly be effective?

It's probably for cleaning the teeth of these big boars.

Standing before the massive herd of wild boars, she began to doubt the credibility of the ancient texts.

Chunfeng leaned closer to Jiang Zhi and rested against her.

Everyone was hungry, tired, and scared. Chunfeng whispered in a trembling voice, "Auntie, are these wild boars planning to turn over all the crops in one night?"

Indeed, such a large-scale occurrence in a field would essentially result in a complete crop failure. Even if the crops were sparsely distributed across half a hilltop, they would all be wiped out overnight.

Jiang Zhi suspected that this was the boar that had been scared away by the torches yesterday, bringing its cousins ​​to seek revenge.

With food as bait, these greedy wild boars gradually approached the trap. Some of the smaller wild boars wandered around under the wooden fence and even began to bite and tear at the trap rings.

At this moment, not only Jiang Zhi was nervous, but everyone else was also on tenterhooks. Jiang Zhi didn't know the specific effects of "seeing blood seal throat," and Xiao Man and the others knew even less.

Everyone was waiting for the wooden fence to fall, yet fearing the trap would fail and the crops would be ruined.

Just when everyone was holding their breath, a mischievous little wild boar finally bit open the snare, and the sluice gate above the ditch suddenly fell down with a whoosh.

As luck would have it, two large boars were right below the fence when a loud "bang" was heard, followed by a piercing squeal from the pigs.

The frightened wild boars suddenly huddled in the dark shadows of the ditch, while the mother sow retreated to her young, cautiously looking around.

Seeing no movement, the sow immediately led the boar pups into the ditch and ran quickly away in the direction they had come from, the water rushing around, completely ignoring the boar who was still struggling and screaming under the fence.

Wild boars have tough skin, but that's only relative. At this moment, the sharpened oak clubs, carrying their weight, came crashing down, some breaking in two, and a few even embedding themselves in the wild boar meat.

The pain caused the wild boar to struggle desperately, and the force was so great that the ropes securing the wooden fence snapped.

The wooden fence shattered instantly, but two wooden sticks remained firmly nailed to the pig's back.

Pain and panic made the male wild boars squeal loudly as they desperately tried to blend into their wives and offspring.

This action only made the other wild boars more panicked, and they all crowded into the ditch to escape, inevitably getting injured on the tips of the sticks.

Unfortunately, the claim that the drug was "instantly fatal" was an exaggeration.

Talking about toxicity without considering dosage is meaningless.

Aconitine toxin paralyzes nerves and can cause arrhythmia. It does not require absorption through the gastrointestinal tract to take effect quickly, but large doses are still needed.

If the dosage is insufficient, it will only cause numbness in the limbs and tingling in the body, but will not be fatal.

Soon, the two most severely injured boars, whose backs and bellies were pierced by two wooden sticks, collapsed into the water after running only a few feet, foaming at the mouth and with stiff limbs.

Meanwhile, the rest of the wild boars had scattered and fled. Some of the smaller wild boars even ran headlong towards Jiang Zhi and the others, only to start running around again when they saw people...