Chapter 33 Hunting Muntjac (Seeking follow-up reading)
Originally Gao Zhuang also wanted to go, but was stopped by Gao Mingcheng. Being stung by a bee is not a fun thing.
Xi Niangniang was also afraid that something might happen to Gao Zhuang, so she told him not to go. She also told Gao Mingcheng to be careful and to just dig out the beehive, but never mess with the hornets.
Hornets don't produce honey, but they are very aggressive.
"Got it." Gao Mingcheng left a message and disappeared.
Last time he dug one side of a mountain, this time he changed the other side. After entering the mountain, the shade of the trees brought a cool feeling, which gradually dissipated the heat in his body.
Gao Mingcheng began to follow the direction where the flowers were blooming. Where there were flowers, there must be bees, and where there were bees, there must be a beehive nearby.
He has his own method for finding beehives, and it works very well.
This time, he found more than a dozen beehives, most of which were on trees and a small half were underground, or to be more precise, in the cracks of soil and rocks underground. The nests built by the bees here have a characteristic, that is, there are not many exposed beehives, but there are still many in the cracks of soil and rocks, and the honey is generally hidden in the innermost.
In this case, you can only use a small hoe to dig away the soil and rocks near the beehive. However, digging from the front is a big project and is likely to be retaliated by the bees. At this time, you should observe the environment and dig from the back if you can. After digging the beehive, immediately cut off most of the hive and take it away.
When you clean out a beehive, you can't remove all of them.
We need to take the path of sustainable development!
Before the afternoon was over, the bucket Gao Mingcheng brought was already full.
Since there was no container to put the bees in, Gao Mingcheng was no longer greedy. He carried a bucket of bees back to his grandmother's house. He looked at the sky and saw that it was around four o'clock in the afternoon. So he did not deal with the bees for the time being. He just covered the bucket with a piece of wood to prevent insects and ants from entering and destroying the things.
He was carrying an empty bag and walking towards Niuweiling. He wanted to check on the three men and get some prey from the mountains.
Fortunately, his physical fitness has been improved, otherwise he would not be able to run so many places and do so many things in such a short period of time.
After entering Niuweiling, he quickly found the traces of the father and his two sons. At this time, they had dispersed, and the three of them were each searching for traces of the ancient tomb in the mountains and forests.
After Gao Mingcheng was sure that they had not found the ancient tomb yet, he left quietly.
As soon as he left the vicinity of the ancient tomb, he encountered a group of wild boars.
Wild boars are family-living animals, so when you see wild boars, they are usually in a group, with as few as seven or eight and as many as twenty or thirty. These wild boars are extremely domineering in the mountains and forests. As omnivores, they will not only eat delicious wild vegetables and fruits, but also attack some small animals and even eat snakes, even poisonous snakes.
When they are full and satisfied, they also have some special entertainment activities, such as rolling in the mud and covering their bodies with a layer of mud. When the mud hardens, it can effectively prevent mosquito bites.
Adult wild boars, especially male wild boars, will play the game of ramming trees, ramming them one by one and never getting tired of it. Sometimes wild boars will also roar through the mountains and forests, running around in groups and pairs.
The group of wild boars that Gao Mingcheng saw were running happily in the valley, making a lot of noise.
Although there are many mountains here, there are few large carnivores. In his previous life, Gao Mingcheng had never heard of ferocious beasts such as tigers and leopards in the mountains.
Without the threat of these natural enemies, wild boars dominate the mountains and forests. They reproduce quickly, and every winter you can see wild boars coming down the mountain to look for food. At this time, some radishes and cabbages planted at the foot of the mountain suffer.
Gao Mingcheng stood on the hillside, looking at the herd of wild boars roaring away in the valley, his eyes full of greed.
As long as he had a gun in his hand, he could kill a wild boar!
After giving the credit for being a tomb robber to Gao Guobing, I must get a gun from him!
Gao Mingcheng thought secretly and left with great regret.
Perhaps because he had gone too deep into the mountains, he encountered many rare animals along the way, such as foxes, short-tailed monkeys, musk deer, etc. He also saw a group of golden pheasants perched on tree branches. When the golden pheasants flew, their long tail feathers were particularly beautiful, and even Gao Mingcheng couldn't help but take a few more glances.
But he was not moved.
Although the golden pheasant is beautiful, it doesn't have much meat, so it is not easy to catch it.
Now he only wants to eat meat and nothing else.
Maybe God was still kind to him, and he actually saw a yellow muntjac!
The yellow muntjac is also a kind of deer, and it is a large one. They are usually about 1 meter long, with a tail length of 17 to 21 centimeters and a weight of 25 to 30 kilograms. They are solitary animals, timid and cautious in nature, and they mostly forage at night or in the early morning and dusk, and hide in the bushes to rest during the day.
It was dusk now, so Gao Mingcheng was lucky enough to see a yellow muntjac eating twigs in a bush.
The yellow muntjac has a strong reproductive capacity, so there are quite a few of them in this mountain. Although in later generations, the yellow muntjac has become a protected animal, but now is 1986, an era when hunting rifles have not been confiscated and hunting has not been banned!
Finding prey is only the first step in hunting.
Next, Gao Mingcheng needed to consider how to get the yellow muntjac. First of all, he didn't have a hunting rifle, so he couldn't attack from a distance. Secondly, he didn't have a knife, so he couldn't engage in close combat. What's more, yellow muntjacs were very timid and would be scared away by the slightest noise.
From this perspective, he doesn't seem to have much advantage.
But Gao Mingcheng did not give up. In order to eat meat, he was always willing to make some efforts.
He was seen running towards the yellow muntjac without any cover. The yellow muntjac was eating twigs. When it heard the noise, it ran away very fast. Soon, it disappeared from sight.
At this time, Gao Mingcheng did not continue to chase.
He stood where the yellow muntjac was eating the tender branches of the bush and looked around, then chose a relatively secluded place to squat down and picked up a few hard stones.
He just waited quietly, and after about ten minutes, the frightened muntjac came back.
This is a unique survival habit of the yellow muntjac. Their activity range is very fixed. When they are chased and escape, no matter how far they run, they will eventually return to their original activity area.
After Gao Mingcheng stopped chasing, the yellow muntjac that had escaped would realize that there was no danger and would choose to come back.
At this time, it returned to the place where it had eaten the tender branches before and began to chew them in big mouthfuls. After a while, it seemed to be full, slowed down its chewing movements, and knelt on the ground on its hind legs to rest.
Gao Mingcheng, hiding in the dark, held his breath and made no sound, but a gleam of light flashed in his eyes, because he knew that the time had come!
(End of this chapter)
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