For the next period of time, Yi Qingqing would take time out every day to go up the mountain to check and set traps. As for the desolate mountain grave, she didn't dare to go there.

Every day when I go to check the traps, it's like a lottery. Sometimes I get a lot of rewards, and sometimes I get nothing.

She mainly targeted rabbits, and set fewer traps for pheasants.

Once several prey are trapped in one place in succession, no prey can be caught there for a short period of time, so she usually changes the location every few days.

In this way, she has shot 2 pheasants and 5 rabbits.

She also hung one of the pheasants in the woodshed and smoked it, planning to send it back home.

The rest were all slaughtered and processed and stored in the personal space.

The meat was enough for her to eat for a long time, but she still did not stop hunting and insisted on running up the mountain every day.

It is not the busy farming season yet, and people get off work relatively early at noon and in the evening, so we have time to do these things. In another month or two, the autumn harvest will begin, and it will be even busier then. So the more we can store now, the better. Anyway, we have the space with us, and the things won’t go bad.

Today she set the trap in a new place. She hadn't caught anything in the past two days, but the trap mechanisms had been triggered.

The first time she thought it was a coincidence and the prey ran away, but this time she realized something was wrong. Could the prey in this position be particularly smart? Could it always run away?

She carefully checked the traces around the trap and found that the surrounding branches had signs of climbing and breaking, and the location was relatively high. It was definitely not done by pheasants or rabbits. It must be someone who had been there.

This matter is quite frustrating, but there is no place to seek justice.

After all, the thing caught in the trap is just right there.

She set the trap, but this is a collective mountain. If we take it too seriously, going up the mountain to hunt is also stealing collective property and filling personal pockets!

Usually, the villagers go up the mountain to chop firewood, dig wild vegetables, pick up mountain products, etc. Everyone has a tacit understanding that whoever picks up something owns it. It is not a rare thing. As long as you are diligent and run to the mountains, you can pick it up.

But hunting is a technical job. Everyone knows that there are many wild animals in the mountains, but the villagers still lack meat to eat. A little bit of oil can arouse the appetite of people.

If someone can hunt meat in the mountains every day, there will definitely be many people who will jump out and shout that it is collective property.

Otherwise, Yun Guyuan wouldn't be able to hide in the mountains and secretly cook after hunting, because he was afraid of arousing jealousy and getting reported, which would be troublesome.

Yi Qingqing went up the mountain to hunt every day, and always picked up firewood along the way as a cover.

So even if she caught someone, she wouldn't be able to explain herself clearly, and it would put herself in danger.

Although I feel uncomfortable, I can only set the trap in another place.

Section 40

My luck can't be so bad that I get discovered every time, right?

But this matter cannot be let go like this. If she moved to a new place and no one took the prey away in advance, it would mean that the previous incident was just a coincidence and someone happened to discover the place where she set the trap.

Then it will be very difficult to get to the bottom of this matter, and we can only suffer this loss in silence.

But if today's prey disappears out of thin air again, then she will have to find the person.

After all, in the former situation, the money fell on the ground and was picked up by someone. If they didn't return it to you, you would have nowhere to complain. But in the latter situation, you would be staring at where she puts the money and stealing it when you get the chance.

The difference in severity between the two is huge.

Even if I can't argue with this guy about picking up prey, at least I know it in my mind and I will find a way to make up for it from other places in the future.

When she went to check the trap again at noon the next day, Yi Qingqing knew that she was really being targeted. Although the traps were not triggered, she saw signs of broken branches around her again, indicating that someone had been there.

She deliberately avoided places where villagers often gathered when setting traps, so it was unlikely that it would happen by coincidence twice in a row.

She used to set traps after work in the afternoon and come back to check at noon the next day.

If I don't change my location, I won't go up the mountain at night. I can check the prey at noon and restore the trap at the same time.

Because she was in a hurry, she walked quickly after work. If others wanted to know where she set the traps, they would definitely pay attention to her going up the mountain at noon and in the afternoon.

But it would be very difficult to take the prey before her during these two time periods.

Because after work, she would go back to the educated youth site, put on her backpack, and then go up the mountain through the back door without stopping. The educated youth site was closer to the back mountain than where other villagers lived, so it was almost impossible to take away the prey before she got to the mountain at noon or in the evening and avoid her.

Although she would not go up the mountain in the evening unless she changed the trap, this person could not predict in advance whether she would change her location, so in the evening, he would definitely stare at her house, especially the back door.

It would take time to keep an eye on her, as there was no guarantee that she would go out at any time. Therefore, it was not safe to pick up prey at night. The most likely reason was that this person came to pick it up in the morning.

Although the working time in the morning is quite early, the sun rises quickly in this season, so it is not impossible to get up early and go up the mountain, or this person may not have gone to work.

Yi Qingqing thought she was quite alert in the forest, and if the other party was following her closely, she would not have been unaware of it at all.

Then we can only maintain a long distance.

At such a distance, it is difficult to catch the person, and it is also difficult to determine whether the person is really following her. It is better to find a way somewhere else. It would be best if she can get revenge at the same time and teach this person a lesson.

She had a plan in mind and did not set the trap at this point. She also set another one not far away to hide it from the public.

Then she pretended nothing had happened and went down the mountain as usual.

After work in the afternoon, she also hurried back to the educated youth point, but this time she did not go out immediately.

Before, if she didn’t go to work, the first thing she would do when she got home was to light a fire and cook.

She decided that they should keep an eye on her to see if she went out through the back door. In addition to keeping an eye on the back door, it would be best to observe the smoke from cooking. If she was preparing to go up the mountain, she would not cook and eat as soon as she came back. She would definitely have to hurry up the mountain.

Yi Qingqing took advantage of this and paralyzed the opponent first.

As soon as she got home, she lit a fire, but instead of cooking, she boiled water.

The pot is full of water and the stove is filled with firewood, which can last for a while.

Smoke comes out of the chimney, and from a distance it looks no different from cooking smoke.