Chapter 406: The Trap is in Action
That morning, the forest floor was already covered with a layer of frost. Looking up, everything was white.
A gust of wind blew over the forest, and the few stubborn remaining leaves above his head gently slid down. Lin Heng, who crawled out of the shelter, exhaled a breath of white air. The cool air in the early morning made him instantly sober.
Lu Honghai said somewhat embarrassedly: "I have been out for five days, and I haven't caught any decent prey except that wild boar."
He was the one who repeatedly expressed his desire to come here, but the results were not very good.
"Could it be that the black bears are hibernating? If they smelled honey or blood, they would have come here long ago. But the trap has been there for several days and it hasn't had any effect." Li Baiquan said a little doubtfully.
"I think it's possible." Lu Honggang nodded.
After hearing this, Lin Heng shook his head and said, "It's unlikely. Although this area is in the north, it is still close to the north-south dividing line. Black bears don't hibernate that early."
"I think so too. It's only a few days and there's no need to rush." Lin Yue said with a smile.
"Let's cook." After chatting for a while, they lit the fire again and started cooking. The bacon had been smoked and was still hanging on the stove.
The boar meat tastes much better after being smoked and roasted, and it is now one of their staple foods.
After dinner, everyone went hunting as usual. Now five people took turns to guard the camp. Today it was the turn of Lin Heng's third uncle Lu Honggang.
Lin Heng now checks his traps every day before continuing to explore the northwest. Although these traps are silent now, as time goes by, they will be completely integrated with the original environment, and the success rate of hunting will be greatly improved.
In some places, hunters rely entirely on traps for hunting. They set hundreds or even thousands of traps in the woods where wild animals roam, and then check them every day. Basically, after a period of time when the traps have become one with the environment, they will start to catch prey.
After checking the trap he had set, Lin Heng took Xiongba and walked towards a barren mountain. Not long after, Xiongba, who was running in front, began to whimper.
"It seems like it happens every day. From now on, I should call him the Yellow-skinned Killer." Lin Heng walked over with a smile.
This is a small cave under a tree, which looks a bit like a rabbit hole. A weasel died at the entrance of the cave. When it was pulled out, it was found that its front paws and neck were clamped by clamps.
This is a hunting method that Lin Heng saw in a book. It said that weasels like to drill mouse and rabbit holes to catch mice and rabbits. Therefore, you can dig some holes that look like them, or use abandoned rabbit or mouse holes and set a clamp or other traps inside, and the weasels will most likely be fooled.
Since he hadn't caught any big prey for several days, Lin Heng started to try some tricks. It turned out to be quite effective. He would change the location every day and basically he would catch one or two weasels.
Although this thing stinks, it is still quite smooth when the skin is peeled off. After removing the stink glands, it can be roasted and fed to Xiongba as food.
Therefore, this has now become one of Lin Heng's daily sources of happiness. After collecting all the small clips, he found a weasel today.
When it was grilled for Xiongba at noon, he also tasted a little. The meat actually tasted pretty good, but its stink glands were too stinky and no one usually ate it.
In the afternoon, Lin Heng moved the trap to another place, but the search for prey was not as effective as before. It was not because Xiongba was not good enough, but because every time he found that there was no time to return to the camp, he would find that it was too late to search for prey.
These preys run in circles, and following them will also keep running in circles, which is a waste of time. If the clues are from the same day, it's okay, but if they are from the previous two days, then you will basically be in vain.
When we came back at night, although no one was empty-handed, we didn't catch any big prey either, either rabbits or golden roosters.
During the meal, Lu Honghai suggested, "I think we can expand the range a bit. Instead of coming back here at night, we can gather three people and go further away. We can find a place to rest at night. This way, I think we will have better hope."
"I think it's okay. I'll go with you." Lin Yue nodded and turned to look at Lin Heng, "Brother, are you going?"
Lin Heng shook his head and said, "I won't go. I have to continue guarding my trap. Tomorrow it will be my turn to guard the camp. You can take your uncle or third uncle with you."
"Then I'll go." Li Baiquan said.
"Okay, I'll stay and hunt nearby." Lu Honggang said. He didn't really want to be with his elder brother Lu Honghai because he always ordered him around.
After discussion, everyone decided on this.
The next day was November 12th. Today it was finally Lin Heng's turn to guard the camp. After dinner, Lin Yue and the other two left, taking two days' worth of food and preparing to explore further afield.
Lin Heng's uncle discussed it with him and decided to go out to check the traps in the morning. After coming back, he went out hunting in the afternoon.
However, before he had gone far, his eldest brother Lin Yue suddenly returned. Seeing Lin Heng, he excitedly shouted: "Brother, you...your trap has been triggered. It's a black bear. We finally found a black bear."
"What?" Lin Heng was stunned.
"It's the place where we first found the black bear's footprints. I just walked over there and took a look. I found that the trees were trampled. I walked over and saw that the ground and trees were covered with bear scratches, and there was a lot of blood."
"Your trap has caught the black bear, but it's too strong. It broke the rope and ran away. Let's take Xiongba and track it down."
Lin Yue quickly explained and patted Lin Heng's shoulder excitedly.
Lin Heng paused for a moment, took out the squirrel skin water bag he kept close to his body and drank some hot water, then nodded with a smile and said, "It seems my trap is starting to work. Let's go catch the black bear."
He first turned around and told his third uncle to guard the camp today, and then he went to where the black bear was trapped.
As soon as Lin Heng arrived, Li Baiquan laughed and shouted, "Lin Heng, look, this black bear has trampled out such a large area."
"It's really fierce." Lin Heng nodded. Even a tree as thick as his arm was broken by the black bear.
Looking at the traces left on the ground, Lin Heng touched Xiong Ba and said, "Let's go and look for it."
In fact, they didn't need Xiongba to help, they could see the blood on the ground themselves. The black bear broke free from the clamp, causing himself to bleed even more severely.
We followed the trail and thought they wouldn't be far away, but it was already two o'clock in the afternoon and we still hadn't seen the black bear.
After walking a little further along the road, the blood was not very obvious, and it was obvious that the wound had stopped bleeding.
But the traces on the ground showed that this guy was obviously walking forward, and there was a cliff not far ahead.
Lin Heng took out the bow and arrow, checked it and got ready, then looked at the three people who were checking their guns and said, "I will make the first move, then my eldest brother will make the move, and if the prey is not dead by then, then you guys will make the move."
The reason why he arranged it this way was that his uncle and younger uncle both had homemade hunting rifles, which caused greater damage to the bear skin after firing.
If they succeed, they won't do it.
"Okay." The two nodded in agreement.
After getting ready, Lin Heng called Xiongba and Fengshou to the back, as they were not needed at the moment.
Then, the five people explored forward side by side at a distance.
However, before they had walked far, a "big black rat" rushed out of the woods. Its terrifying speed and posture instantly made people's hearts tremble, and they had the urge to turn around and run away.
Lin Heng raised his bow and aimed for about two seconds, then shot an arrow from more than forty meters away. This time, he accurately passed the obstacle and shot the arrow directly into the abdominal cavity from his left shoulder, then passed through and pierced the ground.
The black bear that was shot turned and rushed into the woods. Lin Heng quickly stopped the others from shooting: "Don't shoot, this guy is dead. We can pick up the body later."
"You shot accurately this time." Lin Yue said with a smile.
"After all, I have practiced with moving targets many times, and it's so close." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"I don't think this bear is a male bear. It's rather timid." Lu Honghai said nearby.
Li Baiquan said: "He looked really fierce. I almost couldn't help but shoot. It was really scary when he rushed over."
No matter what the opinion is, everyone is very excited. Black bear, they finally shot a black bear.
"Let's go, it's almost time." Lin Heng said with a smile.
Three or four people followed the trail for more than 500 meters and found the black bear.
It lay on the ground motionless. I poked it a few times with a gun and made sure it was really dead.
"This is indeed a female bear, weighing two hundred kilograms. We have to kill it here before we can take it back." Lu Honghai walked up and mentioned it.
"We must kill them all, otherwise it will be difficult to take them." Lin Heng nodded.
"Yes, it's too heavy. It's hard for two people to carry it even when walking on the mountain road." Li Baiquan also said.
Everyone gathered around the black bear's corpse and looked at it again and again, especially Lin Heng's uncle and younger uncle-in-law. It was the first time for them to see a black bear and they were very excited.
After watching for a while, Lin Heng first released the black bear's blood. Lin Yue didn't want to waste it, so he took out a rubber bag for water from his bag and filled it with about four or five pounds.
The rest was given to Xiongba Fengshou's two dogs to drink.
After bleeding, everyone started to skin the black bear. Everyone was very skilled at this skill, but they were also very careful because the skin would be worthless if there were too many cuts on it.
"My goodness, this guy has really accumulated a lot of fat."
After peeling the skin and cutting the meat, Li Baiquan was shocked.
This black bear has fat that is four fingers wide, a palm-wide layer of grease.
“Black bears have the most fat, but they don’t have much lean meat or bones.” Lin Yue nodded and smiled.
"Now that the bear skins have been distributed, the only valuable things left are the bear paws and the bear gallbladder, right?"
Lu Honghai walked over and said.
"Yes."
Lin Heng nodded. He was cutting the bear paw.
In fact, this thing has a very strong fishy smell, but due to its rarity, rich people like to eat it, so the price is also high.
After taking off the bear's paw, Lin Heng cut open its stomach and intestines. After that, he tied up the bear's gallbladder with a rope and then cut it off from the root with a knife.
Then the internal organs are removed, the bones are removed, and the meat is cut into pieces.
"There's a ditch nearby. I'll go get the bear intestines. Otherwise, it's not worth taking some shit back."
Li Baiquan pointed over there and said that he was very good at this job. He was an expert at turning out the large intestines when slaughtering pigs.
He went to deal with the internal organs, and Lin Heng packed the cut bear meat and other things into snakeskin bags, and everyone would carry them back later.
After the large and small intestines are processed, put them in plastic bags and then put them into snakeskin bags.
This plastic bag was taken from Lin Heng's home to store silage. It is the same size as a snakeskin bag, but is made of thick plastic.
On the way back, everyone discussed the issue of distribution. In terms of credit, Lin Heng was undoubtedly the first. The bear was lured by his ointment and injured by his clamps.
He was also in charge of the subsequent tracking and hunting. It can be said that Lin Heng alone accounted for 70% of the credit for getting this black bear.
But the others cannot say they have no contributions. Without their help, Lin Heng would not have been able to come to the deep mountains alone. They also provided safety guarantees when fighting the black bear.
My third uncle Lu Honggang, who stayed behind in the camp, also deserves credit. Without him watching over us, we wouldn't be able to go out hunting without worry.
After some discussion, everyone decided that Lin Heng would take 60% of the share and each of the others would take 10%.
Because except for Lin Heng, everyone's contribution is almost the same, so just divide it equally.
"The temperature is now over 10 degrees, and there are still many days left. Should we transport this black bear and sell it first?"
After the distribution was completed, Lin Yue asked.
They still have to hunt for another twenty days. The temperature is not low enough now, and the bear meat will go bad if it is not processed for such a long time.
But for bear paws, if you process them yourself you won’t be able to sell them at a good price. The fresher they are, the more valuable they are.
"Yes, someone come with me to the city to sell, and the rest of you continue hunting." Lin Heng nodded.
Li Baiquan said, "Then I'll go with you. How about we go there and come back quickly?"
"Okay, let's take out the valuable ones and sell them, and keep the rest here to make jerky or something." Lin Heng nodded.
After discussing it, they hurried back to the camp.
It was already five o'clock in the afternoon when they returned to the camp. They couldn't leave the mountain today, so Lin Heng picked out the valuable parts of the black bear and prepared to set out early the next morning.
After picking, they fried the bear meat for dinner tonight. It wasn't very delicious because of the lack of cooking conditions in the mountains, but everyone was very excited.
The next morning, Lin Heng and his uncle woke up before dawn at 5:30. They took out the yam and beggar's chicken that they had roasted last night, ate a little, and then set off with their things on their backs.
The things the two men carried were not light, weighing about 40 to 50 kilograms. Lin Heng also took out the medicinal herbs and other things he had exchanged in Yuanbao Village.
When they arrived at Liba Village at noon, Lin Heng took back the Chinese medicinal herbs he had left at Lu Guancheng's house.
It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived at Xiaozhuo Township.
Lin Heng went to get the car out and drove towards Taibai City. Since there were only two people and a dog, the pressure on the car was much less and the speed was much faster.
It was seven o'clock in the evening when they arrived in the city. Li Baiquan looked at the night sky which still had a hint of orange and asked, "Should we stay in a hotel tonight?"
"No need, I'll take you to a place." Lin Heng smiled mysteriously.
Driving on the road at night, he soon arrived at his own factory.
When Li Baiquan saw Lin Heng open the factory gate and drive the car in, he was stunned: "Heng... Hengwa, is this huge factory all yours?"
(End of this chapter)
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