Tian Cai happened to hear this. She lowered her head and stroked the fur on Mimi's back. She couldn't help but rub the black hair on the tip of its ear. She shook her head and said, "It's a bobcat. I picked it up when it was still a cub."

Wang Laoer was very envious. He had liked dogs since he was a child, and his family originally had one. Later, when they moved here due to a disaster, the dog starved to death on the way. They had not lived well here, so they stopped raising one.

"This thing is no worse than a hunting dog. It can defeat a wolf alone!"

This was not the first time Yu Mingjiang saw Mimi. During the autumn harvest, Mimi followed Tian Cai every day. Many people in the village had seen it, but Mimi was not so big at that time.

He couldn't help but ask, "If it can grow so big, why is it still called a mountain cat?"

Wang Songbai gave him a strange look. "It's always been called the mountain cat. It seems to have another name. What is it called?"

Wang Songbai turned to look at Tian Cai. She had said this before, but he didn't remember.

When he turned his head, Tian Cai saw the blood mark on his cheek, which seemed to be caused by scratching?

Tian Cai's gaze moved around his face, then turned back to Yu Mingjiang as if nothing had happened. "It's a mountain cat, the scientific name is lynx, and it seems that some places also call it a mountain civet."

Yu Mingjiang nodded when he heard the name of the lynx. He had heard the elders in his family mention it before, but he had never expected it to grow so big. He thought about the big difference in size between the two times he saw it. "Is it an adult?"

"Is it an adult now?" Tian Cai asked uncertainly. When she brought Mimi home, it was still so tiny. She had no idea how old it was then. Besides, it should be about the same size as a cat. Eighty, ninety, or ten months is considered mature? She just didn't know if it was because Mimi was always drinking dew, but she was growing a little too fast. It seemed to be bigger than usual.

A few people walked into the mountains while talking, and after they crossed two hills, the footprints on the ground gradually became more numerous.

After Qin Ling and Hu Gang's research, they speculated that there were several sets of footprints nearby. In addition to pheasant and hare footprints, the most numerous were roe deer footprints. It seemed that there should be quite a few of them, at least seven or eight by visual estimation.

Hu Gang studied the roe deer droppings on the ground and deduced that the roe deer had probably not been away for long. When several people heard the news, their eyes lit up and they unanimously decided to chase them in that direction first and hunt them down when they found them.

Roe deer are very common wild herbivores here. They are non-aggressive and timid by nature. They often move in groups of three or five and will run away if they encounter danger.

This thing is not difficult to hunt. Tian Cai himself has caught it. It is considered one of the easiest small and medium-sized prey to hunt in the mountains.

Everyone followed the hoof prints of roe deer on the ground. After passing through the valley, they came to a large snowy ridge where several roe deer had walked along the path left by their footprints.

Under Qin Ling's command, it didn't take long for everyone to dig six snow cellars on both sides of the foot line, staggered back and forth and with a spacing of two or three meters. Then they found large pieces of hard snow from the side to cover them.

When talking about hard snow, we have to talk about the winter here. Old people all know that it is the best time to hunt after the big smoke bubble in winter. This is because after several days of strong winds, the snow in many places has been blown to the lower ground. After repeated strong winds, the surface of many snows becomes very hard, and people will not fall even if they step directly on it.

In the summer, when hunting, you can only dig traps in the ground, which is time-consuming and laborious. But it is different in winter. When you encounter a snowy ridge like this, you can just dig a pit in the snow. Not only is it easy to dig, but it is also no worse than a trap in the ground for trapping prey.

The trap here was almost ready, so Qin Ling took a few people into the woods to look for roe deer, and then coax them into the snow cellar.

He originally wanted to let Tian Cai guard here, but when he saw Mimi next to him, he changed his mind. Several of them might not be as useful as a mountain cat.

"Stay with me and don't go too far." Qin Ling instructed. Even though he knew that Tian Cai had the ability to protect himself, he couldn't help but give him a few words of advice.

Tian Cai made an OK gesture. She was not a hero and knew when to obey orders.

She pulled Mimi aside and whispered to it for a while, then patted its head. The big cat shot out like an arrow, and disappeared in a few jumps.

Qin Ling glanced at the direction Mimi left without saying a word, but his pace slowed down.

Wang Lao Er was surprised. "Where did you put it?"

Tian Cai smiled and said, "Looking for roe deer. Let it go and look for them. Maybe it can even drive them here!"

Wang Laoer: “…”

It turns out that Bobcat can be used like this.

Not long after, Tian Cai heard a familiar "howl" sound coming from the southwest.

“Here I come!”

Everyone immediately split into two and ambushed in the shallow trenches dug on both sides.

Soon, there was a noise coming from the woods in the south, and four or five brown roe deer ran out with white hair on their buttocks.

When they were about to run to the snow cellar, the people who were ambushing on both sides suddenly jumped out. Everyone banged the things in their hands to make noises, which scared the roe deer so much that they panicked and tried desperately to escape along the same route, but accidentally fell into the snow cellar.

The roe deer were completely trapped in the snow cellar. They struggled desperately inside, but it was in vain to step on the edge of the cellar with their hooves. Soon, they could only gasp for breath inside.

Several men jumped down into the snow cellar with hemp ropes, tied the limbs of the captured roe deer, and then had the people above pull them up. In total, they caught four adult roe deer and one half-grown one.

Of course, these roe deer cannot be sent down the mountain immediately after being caught. They must be cleaned on the mountain, with blood drained and their internal organs emptied. Then they are frozen in a secret place and taken down the mountain.

As for the smallest one, everyone unanimously decided to roast it. At this time, Yu Mingjiang, the only one wearing a watch, reminded him, "It's already half past three."

The few of them felt hungry at this time. Qin Ling assigned four people to clean the roe deer, and the rest of the people followed him to find a place to camp tonight.

The place we finally chose was a snow-capped ridge backed by a mountain. This place was relatively sheltered from the wind and suitable for making snow caves.

Because there were many young and strong people following them into the mountains, Tian Cai didn't need to do any heavy work, so she leaned aside and saw the snow caves made in the Northeast.

Qin Ling and the Hu brothers ran directly to the foot of the snow ridge, took out shovels to dig the snow, and the three of them worked together, first digging a hole that was more than half a meter high and wide, and then went in and expanded it to the left and right and up and down. With one shovel, they could shovel away a large piece of snow, and soon cleared a space two meters high.

Then I came out to clean up the surroundings. At first glance, I saw a house made of snow. The snow under the snow ridge is very hard, so the house made of it is very solid.