Chen Wang raised his shotgun and aimed, but did not pull the trigger. He walked a few steps closer and watched quietly the fight between Ruyi and the badger.
Ruyi has the absolute upper hand.
In that case, why not let it go to its full potential, accumulate some combat experience, and save bullets at the same time.
Of course, he would still shoot if the prey tried to escape.
After a while, Ruyi, which was two or three times larger than the badger, successfully subdued it, biting its neck and pressing the prey with his whole body.
Chen Wang walked over quickly, squatted down, took out a knife and stabbed it into the badger's neck, killing it quickly.
Sensing that the prey had lost its vitality, Ruyi opened his mouth, stepped back and squatted on the ground, sticking out his tongue and wagging his tail.
“Well done!”
Chen Wang smiled and stroked its head, then took out a piece of dried meat and fed it to it.
Ruyi took the dried meat in her mouth and started to tear it into pieces happily.
Chen Wang looked at the badger he had caught for the first time.
Both its body shape and fur color are very similar to the wild hog badger that has been caught before.
The main difference is the head.
The badger has a cone-shaped head with three white vertical stripes on it, and its limbs have curved black claws. The front claws are relatively long, which is why they are good at digging holes.
The badger was simply bled and gutted, and its heart and liver were fed to Ruyi.
While Ruyi was eating happily, he began to skin the badger.
"Awang."
A familiar voice came.
Chen Wang looked up and saw Chen Dazhuang walking towards him carrying a urea sack.
With a few dogs following him, it was easy to find him by smelling the scent.
"Fuck, another harvest?"
When Chen Dazhuang saw him processing the prey, he walked closer with a look of surprise.
"Thanks to Ruyi, a badger hole was found and smoked out, and Ruyi took it down directly."
Chen Wang smiled with great satisfaction.
“Is this true or false?”
Chen Dazhuang glanced at Ruyi with surprise.
Ruyi was eating happily. Four dogs, including Dahu and Dahei, also came over, but they had no intention of snatching food from it.
Chen Dazhuang had already fed the roe deer viscera to the four dogs.
"Badger, I've killed one twice before, and it tastes good when stewed."
Chen Dazhuang watched him deal with the prey and said with a smile.
Before Chen Wang started working with him, he had almost never caught large prey like black bears and leopards, but he could occasionally catch small prey.
"Is this skin worth money?"
Chen Wang raised his sleeve to wipe the sweat from his forehead and asked casually.
"It's OK, about the same as a hog badger."
"Um."
"I'm really lucky today. I've only been in the mountains for less than an hour, and I've found another stupid roe deer and a badger."
"Maybe the mountain god saw that we hadn't killed any animals for so long, so he finally came today and gave us some more benefits!"
“That makes sense.”
While chatting, Chen Wang quickly peeled off the badger's skin completely.
The badger meat was handed to Chen Dazhuang and thrown into a sack, and the skin was put into the medicine basket. Chen Dazhuang also took out the skin of the roe deer and asked him to put it into the medicine basket.
Then, the two continued to move forward in search of prey.
They caught several pheasants and rabbits one after another. There was no need for the two of them to do anything. A few dogs did it all.
Especially Ruyi is becoming more and more powerful. As long as it is close to the prey, it can smell the scent and find the cave of the prey. It has already caught two rabbits from the cave.
At noon, the two found a clean place, lit a fire and roasted two rabbits and a pheasant.
Chen Wang also brought a few steamed buns that he hadn’t finished eating yesterday. They were a bit hard, but they tasted good when they were skewered on tree branches and roasted.
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After eating and drinking and resting for a while, the two men put out the fire, packed up their things and prepared to continue their journey.
This time, the two still chose a route they had never taken before.
At about two o'clock in the afternoon, the two men reached a high point on the hillside. When they looked down, their eyes suddenly lit up.
Below is a winding mountain stream. Clear water flows down from above, washing rocks of all sizes, and gathers at the bottom to form a stone pool.
"Awang, let's go for a swim. It's so hot."
Chen Dazhuang looked at the stone pond with burning eyes.
Chen Wang was about to agree when the little monkey on his shoulder suddenly squeaked.
"Jixiang, what's wrong?"
Chen Wang turned his head to look at it and saw it pointing above the stream. He followed his gaze and was stunned by the scene he saw.
I saw a wild boar drinking water with its two cubs. The two cubs were probably only one or two months old, like two yellow-haired balls.
"Fuck, there's another big shipment."
Chen Dazhuang also saw the three wild boars and shouted in surprise.
"Forget it, I won't fight this one."
Chen Wang shook his head.
It is a rule among mountain herders not to hunt mother animals with cubs.
If no one follows the rules, the resources in the mountains will soon be exhausted.
Spring for growth, summer for growth, autumn for harvest, winter for storage!
Generally, hunters go into the mountains to hunt more in autumn and winter, and less in spring and summer, in order to allow the prey in the mountains to rest and recuperate.
Chen Dazhuang had more hunting experience than him, so he naturally understood these principles. He nodded and said, "What a pity."
"You said... can we catch them and raise them?"
Chen Wang made the suggestion out of the blue.
Hunting will not last long. In a few years, by the end of the 1980s, guns and hunting will be banned.
Therefore, when Chen Wang is free, he also thinks about future ways to make money.
In this mountain village, apart from farming, there are only a few ways to make money.
Breeding, planting or tourism and the like.
As a person who has experienced this, Chen Wang knows that these wild game will become more and more expensive in the future.
The nest of rabbits that we caught before have grown a lot under the care of the little girl, and they can be slaughtered and eaten directly in two or three months.
The key is that it doesn’t cost much, just throw in some rotten vegetable leaves from cooking every day.
"You want to raise a wild boar? But how can you catch one alive? This female wild boar must weigh more than 200 pounds, and it's protecting its cubs, so it's very fierce."
Chen Dazhuang said with a frown.
When a sow wild boar is protecting her cubs, her aggressiveness is extremely exaggerated.
Chen Wang didn't say anything. He looked at the three wild boars, one big and two small, in the distance and thought silently.
"Do you really want to catch it? How about trying to get a few dogs to lure it away?"
Chen Dazhuang looked at the dogs and gave his suggestions.
"No need. Since we have decided to catch it alive, we can kill the sow now. Then we can throw the two piglets directly into my pigpen and raise them together with the pig at home."
The more Chen Wang thought about it, the better he felt it was, and a smile appeared on his face.
After the yard at home is repaired, he also plans to rebuild the pigpen at the back to be bigger, and then build a few dog kennels next to it.
Now that the pigpen is bigger, we must raise more pigs. Wouldn’t it be just right to catch these two wild boar cubs?
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