Chapter 129 The Wild Boar Was Stolen
In the evening, Zhang Shuzhen stir-fried the cooked lynx meat with chili peppers, cooked some sorghum rice, and also stewed some cabbage and potatoes.
The lynx meat, especially the garlic-clove-shaped pieces, was particularly firm, with a slightly sour taste.
Stir-fried with chili peppers, it tasted really unique, and the whole family enjoyed it very much.
After dinner, Sheng Xiping chatted with his parents for a while before returning to his collective household.
At this time, the stoves in the collective households had not yet been lit, but the kang (heated brick bed) was quite warm.
Everyone lay in their warm blankets, chatting about everything under the sun, and before they knew it, sleepiness crept in, and they drifted off to sleep.
On the morning of the 19th, Sheng Xiping and his group ate something quick and then set off up the mountain again with their guns and rations.
This time, they were just going to test the waters with the snares. If they found something, great; if not, they would take back all the snares they had set before.
Hanging leg covers can easily cause injury, and steel wire covers are difficult to obtain; they can't just be left lying around in the mountains.
Today's harvest is not as good as yesterday's. After spending half a day setting traps, we only found one wild rabbit and one pheasant.
This is normal, there's nothing to be discouraged about, so the group continued searching and removing the condoms.
I plan to go home soon so I can help Gao Haining out.
"Xiping, look! The rope loop we set is gone, and the log is nowhere to be seen either."
Many kinds of snares were used before, including wire snares specifically for hunting wild boars.
Steel wire ropes are used to hunt large animals such as wild boars. Because of the oil coating on the outside of these ropes, locals mostly call them oiled wire ropes.
The day before yesterday, Sheng Xiping brought up several steel wires and set them on areas with a lot of oak and walnut trees.
This is the season when wild boars are fattening up like crazy, and they'll head wherever there are jujubes or walnuts.
Setting traps in these areas greatly increases the chances of catching wild boars.
To trap wild boars, the wire snare is usually tied to a piece of wood or a rock.
If an animal gets caught in the trap, it will drag the log along, but it will get stuck after a short distance and can only grind it in place.
So when everyone saw that the wire snare was gone and the wood was gone, they knew that some wild animal had crawled into the snare.
The temperature has been quite low these past few days, and the snow on the ground hasn't melted much, so the tracks left by wild boars dragging logs are quite clear.
Judging from the hoof prints on the ground, the wild boar must have weighed over 200 pounds, which wasn't very big.
Wang Jianshe and Sheng Xiping quickly took out their guns, pulled the safety, and followed the tracks on the ground to chase after them.
After chasing for about a mile, the scene ahead stunned everyone.
The log with the noose attached lay across the two trees, but looking ahead, there was nothing there.
The surrounding area was a mess, with signs of a struggle between people and animals, and bright red bloodstains on the ground.
Further ahead, there were two lines of footprints and drag marks.
Clearly, someone got there before Sheng Xiping and his group, found the snare-trapped, dying wild boar, killed it, and took it away.
"Holy crap, who was this bastard who did this?"
Not only did they steal our wild boar, they didn't leave us anything else, not even the snares!
Wang Jianshe and the others couldn't hold back any longer and jumped up and down in anger.
Wild roe deer and wild deer are a shared prize; this is the rule of hunting in the mountains.
When you go into the mountains, no matter who set the trap, as long as you see prey, you can kill it and take it away; that's not a problem.
However, a portion must be left for the original owner.
Like wild boars, you usually leave them with their hind legs; there's no reason to take them all.
But today I encountered this person, who was so inconsiderate. He dragged the whole pig away without leaving a single piece.
They even took the wire sheath with them; this isn't just unethical, it's immoral.
Wang Jianshe and others were angry and started cursing because of this.
"Xiping, what do we do now?"
After cursing for a while, the crowd still felt unsatisfied, so they turned to Sheng Xiping and asked him a question.
"What should we do? Let's follow the footprints."
In all my years of hunting in the mountains, I've never seen anyone so shameless.
"Let's go, I want to see which scoundrel stole our pigs." Sheng Xiping was also quite angry.
The key point is that no one does things this way. If this person had left behind a pig's leg, it would have been in accordance with the rules, and Sheng Xiping wouldn't have bothered with him.
But to blatantly steal someone else's prey without leaving them anything behind—who wouldn't be able to swallow that insult?
Sheng Xiping didn't want to think about anything else right now; he just wanted to know who did this.
There are no other villages or settlements around here, except for Qianchuan Forest Farm and Dajianchang.
We all live in the same mountain valley, we see each other all the time, and yet someone can do something like this. No matter what, we have to find out who it is.
Judging from the bloodstains on the ground, those two people must have arrived not long before Sheng Xiping and the others.
It's likely that while Sheng Xiping and his group were out hunting for traps elsewhere, they came over, killed the wild boar, and took it away.
A wild boar weighing around 200 pounds isn't too heavy, but dragging it down the mountain would still be quite strenuous. If Sheng Xiping and his group go in lightly equipped, they should be able to catch up.
"Yes, let's go find him. Whoever he is, he can't steal our pigs without saying a word."
Wang Jianshe and the others were quite angry. When they heard Sheng Xiping say he was going to find the other party, what else was there to say? They just followed the footprints.
With that thought in their hearts, everyone hurried to follow the footprints ahead.
But after chasing for more than two miles, Sheng Xiping suddenly realized something was wrong. "Wait a minute, don't move yet."
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