Chapter 114: Crisis is coming
Even after Gao Mingcheng had eaten and drunk his fill, the wolves hiding in the dark and spying on him still did not show up.
Wolves are very smart animals. Before launching an attack, they will observe. If they have a chance of winning, they will formulate a strategy and take down the prey. If they have no chance of winning, the wolf pack will give up the attack in order to reduce losses.
Gao Mingcheng had sharp five senses, so he noticed the wolves hiding in the dark, but he was not sure how many wolves there were in total.
As the saying goes, one should remain unchanged in the face of ever-changing circumstances. He had just killed a wild boar and it was time to harvest. If a pack of wolves attacked him, he would either protect the prey and fight with the wolves, or abandon the prey and run away.
Gao Mingcheng didn't want to choose either of these two options. He was also hungry, so he might as well eat and drink on the spot to replenish his energy for the fight.
The black tiger also noticed the presence of the wolves. It was restless and anxious, staring at the distance vigilantly. Sensing danger, it ate the meat very quickly. Before Gao Mingcheng's barbecue was cooked, the black tiger had already eaten up a large piece of meat.
It was clearly preparing for the coming battle.
But the crisis has never come.
Gao Mingcheng didn't want to take the initiative to confront the wolves, but he couldn't continue to waste time, so he picked up the bird gun beside him and picked up the wild boar on the ground.
Even with over a hundred pounds of stuff on my body, I feel relaxed and it doesn't seem heavy at all.
"Black Tiger, be alert!" Gao Mingcheng ordered, and immediately received a low growl from Black Tiger in response.
So, under the watchful eyes of the wolves, the man and the dog quickly left the oak forest and headed towards Gaojia Village at the foot of the mountain.
Throughout the entire process of going down the mountain, the feeling of being watched was still very obvious.
Gao Mingcheng looked back and could vaguely see the figures of a wolves behind the grass and bushes. The wolves here had brown fur that was not good-looking, and looked a bit rustic. They were also not very big, and the older generation called them jackals.
In the previous life, he had heard that there were wolves in the mountains here, but the wolves rarely came down the mountains and there were no rumors of them hurting people.
Oh, in the earlier times, about fifty years ago, there were wolf packs coming down the mountain. Not only wolves, but even South China tigers came down the mountain and disturbed the people.
At that time, the people in the production team organized people to go into the mountains to hunt tigers. If you killed a tiger at that time, you would be called a tiger-hunting hero. But in later generations, if you killed a tiger, the sentence would be life imprisonment!
However, due to the tiger hunting incident, the South China tiger, which was originally distributed in most parts of the country, gradually became extinct in the wild in 1994 due to long-term hunting by humans.
It is 1986 now. There should still be some in the deep mountains here, but there are definitely not many.
Gao Mingcheng only paid one-third of his attention to the ground below, and the other seven-thirds were on the jackals.
In fact, jackals are not wolves, but their hunting methods are similar to those of wolves. They both adopt a relay-style approach of persistence, collective siege, and winning by numbers.
They have sharp claws and are extremely courageous. They appear ferocious, brutal and greedy. They usually surround their prey and attack from all sides, blinding its eyes, biting off its ears, nose and lips, tearing open its skin, and then eating its internal organs and meat. Or they directly attack the prey's anus, scratching and biting it, taking out its internal organs, and it won't take long before they have divided up the prey cleanly.
Therefore, Gao Mingcheng did not want to confront them head-on. If necessary, he could only abandon the prey and run away alone.
But the jackals did not launch an attack until they reached a low hill near the village. Then they stopped tracking. They stood there waiting for a while, and then, led by their leader, returned to the mountains.
Gao Mingcheng looked at their departing backs, a little confused.
He guessed that it might be because people had vigorously killed wolves, tigers, bears and other ferocious beasts in recent years, which gave them the impression that humans were not easy to mess with.
You know, when people deal with a pack of jackals, they will use a very lethal method, that is, hide explosives in pork, and then throw the pork in a place where the jackals will pass by. When the jackals find the pork and eat large chunks of it, the explosives hidden in the pork will explode, injuring or killing the jackals.
Because of these measures, the number of jackals in the mountains decreased sharply, and they eventually became protected animals.
No matter what the reason, the jackals retreated. This was good news for Gao Mingcheng, as the wild boar on him was saved!
After going down the mountain, Gao Mingcheng did not return to his grandmother's house, but went directly into his new home.
Although the new house is empty, it has a hidden yard.
He planned to process the wild boar here and then take the processed meat back to his grandmother's house.
The old village was crowded with people, and it would be awkward to carry a wild boar there. Gao Mingcheng was too lazy to be polite with people. If someone asked him for some internal organs or bones, he would not be able to refuse.
There is no well in the new house, so we can only draw water from the reservoir outside.
Gao Mingcheng plans to ask a driller to drill a well after the spring so that he can use water conveniently in the future.
At this moment, he found two buckets in the room and said to Hei Hu, "You guard the house!"
"Woof woof!" the black tiger responded, sitting cross-legged on the ground and guarding the wild boar like a guard.
Gao Mingcheng walked quickly towards the reservoir. Winter is the dry season, and the reservoir, which originally had a water surface of 17 acres, is now only three or four acres in size.
When there is more rain in the spring, the water in the reservoir will slowly rise. If there is an extremely dry season, the entire reservoir will dry up.
Because the water in this reservoir is gathered from the local mountains and there is no external river to inject water into it, it is greatly affected by natural weather.
Gao Mingcheng carried two buckets of water and returned to his new home.
In the yard, Black Tiger stayed diligently beside the wild boar and didn't steal a single bite.
Gao Mingcheng took out a dagger and prepared to deal with the wild boar. The first step was to skin it. After skinning it, he could put the pork on a large wooden board and process it.
Gao Mingcheng specially asked the carpenter to make this. Originally, people in their village would dismantle door panels when they slaughtered pigs, and Gao Mingcheng also used old door panels before.
However, Gao Mingcheng is now very confident in his abilities. He thinks that he will often hunt large prey such as wild boars in the future, so it would be troublesome to remove the door panels frequently. So he simply asked the carpenter to make a large wooden board directly, which can be used to deal with wild boars and also for drying vegetables and medicinal materials.
After all, it's something that can be used.
Although there was only one person handling it, Gao Mingcheng was relaxed throughout the process. He cut the wild boar meat in a matter of seconds.
But Gao Mingcheng had only one thought at this time, that is, it was time to buy a sharp axe!
Although the dagger is sharp, it is only good for cutting meat, but it is not very effective for cutting bones.
Well, let’s arrange to buy the axe!
(End of this chapter)
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