"Get out of here, wait until we get home, then we'll give you some bones to gnaw on."
Sheng Xiping waved his hand, shooing the dogs away to prevent them from tearing apart the venison.
“Brother, we buried four salt bricks before. How about we go take a look around those places?” Sheng Xi’an reminded his brother.
At that time, Sheng Xiping and his brothers dug several salt pits in this mountain forest, and this is the first one they have found.
Sheng Xi'an meant that they should quickly go and take a look around other places, in case there were deer that had been ambushed there as well.
"Well, let's start from here and go all the way. If there are any more deer with 'foot-catching' marks, that would be great. If not, let's pick up all the 'foot-catching' marks to avoid accidentally injuring anything."
The alkali field brigade and the forest farm both raised a lot of sheep.
In early spring, when there isn't much feed left, the people at the sheep farm usually drive the sheep into the mountains to graze on grass and tender branches.
The trap can be used to catch even-toed ungulates such as deer, roe deer, and sheep. If a roe deer steps on it, that's fine, but if it's someone's sheep, then things get complicated.
That's why Sheng Xiping said that if they didn't catch the deer, they should bring back all the talons.
"What should we do with the deer?" Sheng Xi'an asked, glancing at the deer on the ground.
"It's okay, just leave it here. Even if someone else passes by and sees it, they'll know it belongs to someone."
Wild roe deer and wild deer are available to anyone who sees them, but you can't take them all away.
Even if someone goes into the mountains and sees it, at most they'll cut it in half and take it away; they'll at least leave a large piece for the victim.
Sheng Xiping took all the most valuable parts from the deer, and didn't bother with the rest of the meat.
"Okay, let's go then."
Sheng Xi'an nodded, slung his gun over his shoulder, and followed Sheng Xiping. The three brothers, along with the reluctant dog, walked towards the other side of the hillside.
At that time, Sheng Xiping and his team buried four salt bricks and more than ten salt traps on this hillside, just hoping for a chance to catch a herd of deer.
Of course, these four salt pits are quite far apart.
Sheng Xiping led his younger brother and the dog, walking from west to east. They searched for two more dogs, but found nothing.
One of the salt pits had been gnawed on, and the deer's hoofprints were just a hair's breadth away from catching its paws. The other salt pit remained untouched, clearly indicating that the deer had not gone there.
The three brothers could only dig out the salt blocks and salt stones, put them in sacks, and carry them as they continued their search.
"We've been working so hard, and all we've caught is a deer in a salt flat?" Sheng Xikang muttered as he walked.
"One isn't enough? Just that pair of deer antlers can sell for several hundred yuan. We'll just spend a little time and use some salt, and we can get a few hundred yuan, isn't that enough?"
Sheng Xiping laughed upon hearing this, knowing that the third son was still young and spoke in a childish manner.
"There's another one ahead; who knows, maybe we'll find something there?"
As it turns out, Sheng Xiping's predictions were sometimes inaccurate, and in the end, he gained nothing from the salt field.
Sheng Xi'an and Sheng Xikang seemed a little unwilling, but after thinking about it carefully, they realized that their older brother was right. Having one deer was already good enough; how many more could they possibly want?
So the three brothers dug up all the burlap sacks in the area, then carried the sacks back the way they came.
Just as they passed the third salt pit, Erlang Shen suddenly sniffed and shouted towards the west, running westward as he did so.
Several dogs, including the leopard and Black General, followed behind Erlang Shen and ran off in a flash.
Sheng Xiping was startled. What was going on? Was there something to the west? "Let's go, let's go take a look."
The dogs kept by the Sheng family are all very well-behaved. If they weren't given venison earlier, they absolutely won't try to tear it apart again.
Therefore, Erlang Shen's sudden return was definitely not to eat venison, but rather because he had discovered other prey.
Meanwhile, at the first salt flat, two black bears, one large and one small, were gnawing on a dead deer on the ground.
At this time of year, the black bear had just finished its time in the barn and its stomach was empty.
Unlike autumn, spring doesn't offer as many wild fruits to fill the stomach, so the bear can only find moss, insects, or fish to barely fill its belly.
Deer have a strong, pungent smell, and dead deer are most attractive to black bears.
The mother and child may have been foraging in the vicinity before. Black bears have poor eyesight but an exceptionally keen sense of smell, so they smelled the venison and came over to feast.
However, the mother and son had only taken a few bites when they heard a dog barking coming from afar.
Normally, if the bear heard a dog barking, it would probably leave.
But now that they've been starving all winter, and have finally found some delicious food, how could the bear bear bear to just leave the meat in its mouth and turn away?
So, the big black bear turned its head and roared angrily at the dogs running towards it from a distance. "Hmph."
The bear roared, intending to scare the dogs away and make them leave.
However, this action infuriated Erlang Shen and his dogs.
Just now, Erlang Shen and the others only ate some offal; they didn't get a single bite of venison.
So, after being away for just a short while, the meat they couldn't catch was stolen and eaten? This is outrageous!
The dogs barked angrily and charged toward the two black bears, one big and one small.
The dogs approached and surrounded the two bears, barking wildly at them.
When the mother bear saw a group of dogs surrounding her, she got angry and stopped eating the venison.
He pressed his two front paws to the ground, straightened his body, then raised his paws to chest level, and then let out another loud roar at the dogs.
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