Chapter 42: Hog Badger
"Awooo~"
As soon as he left the house, Xiongba rushed out impatiently and chased a chicken in the distance, sending it flying.
As if it wasn't satisfied yet, it rushed back and pinned down a big rooster and ravaged it, but it was very sensible not to actually bite it.
It seemed to be venting its resentment about being tortured by its little ancestor Xiaoxia at home. The big rooster felt very aggrieved after being ravaged by it, and it called out softly like a little girl.
"Okay, okay, stop playing around." Lin Heng looked at it and said.
“Woof woof!”
Xiongba reluctantly let go of the big rooster and returned to Lin Heng.
Although it had only been in the Lin family for two days, it had been fed well and had its insects removed, and its fur had suddenly become shiny.
It is only over two months old now, but it is already thirty centimeters tall and has a big frame, which makes it look a little thin and ugly.
This is the awkward period for dogs. After half a year, when their bodies have grown, they will look good again.
After taking a look at the sky, Lin Heng took Xiongba and walked towards the Red Maple Mountain west of the village. They would hunt nearby today.
"I'm suddenly very thirsty."
Lin Heng looked around and found that he was not far from his third father Lin Xutao's house, so he prepared to go over and have a drink of water.
When he arrived at the door of his house, Lin Heng saw that the gate to the yard was open and his third aunt Li Xue was chopping grass for pigs inside.
"What are you doing here? Your third father is out working and has no time to help others."
Seeing Lin Heng, Li Xue frowned, with a look of disdain and disgust on her face.
Lin Heng was not surprised by this, because his third mother was like this in his previous life. Because his third father occasionally helped support his family, he was often ridiculed by her in a sarcastic manner.
"Third mother, I'm not here to ask my third father for help. I'm just thirsty and want to drink some water." Lin Heng said.
"There's water in the well at the back, and there are buckets too. If you want to drink, get it yourself."
Li Xue didn't even look at him. She lowered her head and did her own work, with no intention of greeting him at all.
"Then I'll go to the well to drink some water." Lin Heng felt a little bored. It was just drinking water, but the attitude was so bad.
It was a pity that he asked his third father to bring back half a grass carp a few days ago. His third mother was too snobbish.
After going to her room and drinking some water, Lin Heng took Xiongba to Hongfeng Mountain.
Hongfeng Mountain is a mixed wood forest with trees of varying heights. The tall red maples and pines are more than 20 meters high.
What remains are some messy oak trees, locust trees, chestnut trees, cotinus, boxwood, etc., which are only about ten meters tall, and even shorter are the large number of pyracantha shrubs.
The land at the foot of the mountain is sandy, where peanuts, sweet potatoes and soybeans are planted. There are also two fields where glutinous rice is planted.
There were few people coming here, and the grass on the road was very deep. It had just rained and was covered with dew. Xiongba walked in front and got wet in a short while.
“Chirp!!”
A few gray-green birds were chirping softly on the Pyracantha tree, and they didn't seem to be afraid of Lin Heng.
This bird is the size of an adult's fist. Lin Heng doesn't know its scientific name, but it's called "Green Hu Diaozi" in the local dialect, and he doesn't know what it means either.
But it still tastes good. He caught it when he was a child and it was okay to roast it, but there was too little meat.
It would be enough to kill two taels of meat if one of them was killed cleanly.
Lin Heng came here to see if there were any wild rabbits. Logically there must be some here, but unfortunately, after turning around twice, there was no sign of any.
“Chirp!!”
Two more green-bearded crickets flew to a tree five meters away and kept chirping.
"Forget it, a small piece is still meat."
Lin Heng shook his head, raised the slingshot, aimed and was about to shoot when two birds flew out with a whoosh.
"Do we need the Air Force this afternoon?"
Lin Heng exhaled and talked to himself.
"Hey, where's Xiongba?"
Suddenly, Lin Heng discovered that Xiongba had disappeared and there had been no movement for a long time.
He searched around quickly, but he didn't shout for fear of alerting the nearby prey.
“Gada gada!!”
Suddenly, Lin Heng saw Xiongba leap out from the thatched grass, followed by the scream of a pheasant and chicken feathers flying everywhere after being bitten by Xiongba.
“Ouch~”
After failing to hunt, Xiongba cried out in frustration.
“Try harder next time.”
Lin Heng watched the pheasant fly out seven or eight hundred meters before he turned back to comfort Xiongba.
When it came back to him, Lin Heng touched its head again to show encouragement.
"Let's go to Red Maple Mountain and take a look." Lin Heng touched Xiongba and headed towards the mountain.
The sky was getting darker and darker, and with dark clouds covering the sky, it got dark earlier than usual.
It seemed like Lin Heng's luck had run out. He didn't even encounter a turtledove or a bamboo partridge.
“Chirp!!”
Suddenly, the cries of a few green-bearded crickets came from the front.
This time, Lin Heng raised the slingshot and shot out without hesitation.
With a snap, two or three of them flew away in fright, and one fell to the ground.
"There's nothing we can do. We can't use the air force."
Lin Heng shook his head, determined not to be a pushover. He picked up the motionless green-bearded catfish on the ground and threw it into the bag.
Afterwards, he defeated six more in a row, making a total of seven, but unfortunately he failed to summon the dragon.
Boom! Boom! At this moment, terrifying white lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, followed by a deafening roar.
"Oh no, it's going to rain."
Lin Heng's face changed. He picked up the slingshot, shot two more green-bearded catfish, and walked down the mountain with Dahuang.
While jogging, he suddenly noticed a flash of something in the woods opposite.
He thought he had seen it wrong, but when he looked down he found that Xiongba had also stopped.
"What is it?"
Hiding behind the tree and waiting for a while, Lin Heng saw the figure again.
It was the size of a local dog, with two streaks of white hair on its body. Lin Heng couldn't help but hold his breath: "Damn, it's a badger!"
This was the first time he encountered such a large prey since his rebirth.
The largest wild hog badger can grow to 40 kilograms, but most weigh only 20 to 30 kilograms. Its meat is delicious and its fur is valuable.
He estimated that the fish just now weighed twenty kilograms, and it was definitely a problem to sell a complete skin for thirty yuan, and sometimes even forty.
After taking a look at the sky and then at the figure of the wild hog badger, Lin Heng gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go and follow quietly."
If you miss such a big prey, who knows when you will encounter it next time.
As for the rain? It hasn't started yet, has it? "Let's go downwind." Lin Heng pulled Xiong Ba and slowly moved towards the downwind vent.
The wild boar has poor eyesight but a very keen sense of smell, so he has to be careful.
There was a small stream between Lin Heng and the badger, but fortunately they were not discovered. The badger was still digging for something to eat in the woods.
Boom! Lin Heng's heart was beating hard, and the palms holding the bow and arrow were sweating. He was too nervous. This was his first time hunting such a big prey, and he had no experience at all.
Apart from being a fairly accurate archer and having a good dog, he really didn't know much about hunting.
After carefully crossing the mountain stream, Lin Heng poked his head out from behind a pyracantha tree to observe. The badger actually walked another five or six meters away.
Now he is sixty or seventy meters away and he still has to move forward.
Xiongba had already separated from it and was groping forward in another direction, but Lin Heng didn't have much hope for it because it was not as big as the badger.
Tick-tick-tick! Suddenly, the sound of raindrops hitting the leaves came. Lin Heng looked up and saw that it was about to rain.
There is no time for him to hesitate, he must act quickly, otherwise once it rains, the badger will definitely leave to hide from the rain, and it is showing signs of doing so now.
Groping forward, Lin Heng moved forward another five or six meters. Just as he was about to take another step closer, the badger suddenly raised its head and looked in his direction.
"Damn it, I haven't been discovered!"
Lin Heng thought to himself that he was completely confused and wondered whether he should just rush out and shoot an arrow if he was really discovered.
Or should I just ignore it and wait for the next opportunity?
At this moment, a violent dragon-shaped lightning exploded above the forest, illuminating the dim forest, and in an instant it was as if day had arrived.
“BOOM!!”
After the lightning died down, a loud thunder came late.
The badger just looked up at Lightning and then lowered its head to look for food.
It seemed that because it had just begun and there was no food, it was very hungry. It did not return to the cave even when it was about to rain, and was still looking for food on the ground.
Lin Heng calmed himself down, supported the wild hog, turned his head, and quickly moved closer than 20 meters, hiding behind a bush with strong-smelling wild pepper trees and pyracantha trees.
All of a sudden, the distance between him and the badger was shortened to more than 30 meters, which was within the effective killing range of the bow and arrow.
Lin Heng wanted to move forward, but there were no bushes to serve as cover.
After taking a look at Xiongba, he gritted his teeth, selected the best arrow, and put it on the bowstring.
After aiming for five full seconds, the arrow flew out with a whoosh!
Please vote for me, my friends. The big prey is coming and there will be more of them slowly.
(End of this chapter)
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