Chapter 87: Set a trap and kill the snake
"Xiongba, come here and see if you can jump over."
After Lin Heng parted with his wife, he walked all the way to the foot of Hongfeng Mountain and pointed to a one-meter-high Pyracantha tree in front of him and said.
“Woof!!”
Xiongba shouted, accelerated a little, and leaped over without any effort at all.
"Woof!"
It turned around and barked, as if it felt this was no challenge at all.
"Come, there's a taller one." Lin Heng found another one that was two meters tall. He wanted to see Xiongba's limit.
Xiongba took a look at the Pyracantha tree, accelerated, and actually flew over it again. Lin Heng was stunned by his majestic posture.
"Come on, try this again." Lin Heng found a two-meter-five-six-meter-tall Pyracantha tree.
Xiongba stood still on the ground, just looking at him: "Woof~"
That look seemed to be saying, "If you have the ability, come and try it."
"Well, it is indeed a bit difficult for you. After all, you are not even one year old." Lin Heng smiled.
However, he felt that Xiongba could be trained well. Although it understood human nature, there were some things that still required more practice.
When you have nothing to do, you can jump on a tree, run, swim, etc. You can't turn into a big fat dog.
As for commands, Lin Heng felt that they were not necessary. It was very smart and could basically understand commands.
“Woof woof~~”
Xiongba had been locked up at home for several days and had no place to use all his energy. As soon as he came out, he started to have fun and had a lot of fun.
Soon, Lin Heng came to the place where Dendrobium officinale was planted, picked up the ladle that he had placed there yesterday and watered them again.
Then he took Xiongba all the way forward. On the way, he mainly taught Xiongba to obey his orders. This guy is too smart and has been a little jumpy recently.
This is the same as the Border Collie. Once it thinks you are no match for it, it will ignore you.
After Lin Heng's teaching and training, it became much calmer when it arrived at the Sanchagou Canyon at noon.
Half of it is tiring.
When Lin Heng returned to the shelter, he didn't see anyone. He put down the food he had brought and turned around to leave.
"Don't run around. Let's go to the wetland today." Lin Heng touched Xiongba dog's head and warned.
He thought about it on the way here just now and felt that there might be more prey in the wetland swamp in this canyon.
He planned to set down some traps and throw some corn nearby, hoping to catch a badgers, hog badgers, or even a wild boar.
Accompanying Xiongba, the man and the dog headed towards the wetland.
The road was extremely difficult to walk on, and in order not to alert the prey, Lin Heng did not cut any paths.
"There must be prey in here." After entering the wetland, Lin Heng found traces of excavation everywhere.
“Let’s start from here.”
Lin Heng looked at the willow tree in front of him that was as thick as his wrist and began to set up the Yama's hanging.
Although the Yama Hanging Hammer is sensitive and easy to use, even if you use a rope, you don’t have to worry about the rope being bitten through when catching a large prey, because it is usually dropped in mid-air and you can’t reach it to bite it.
But there is one limitation, that is, there must be living trees to provide elasticity, without trees it cannot be arranged.
So Lin Heng also set up some simple noose traps and placed them on the paths where these prey often walked.
Swish!
Lin Heng came to a new place and was about to set a trap when a gray rabbit was startled and jumped out from the haystack and ran away.
He was not surprised that there were rabbits here. The main purpose of bringing Xiongba here was to catch rabbits.
Without waiting for him to say anything, Xiongba chased after him, and a chase drama began.
This hare is an experienced fighter. Whenever Xiongba is about to catch up with it, it uses its small size to turn quickly, thus avoiding him and continuing to run away.
Xiongba slammed on the brakes, turned around and chased after it. Although he didn't catch it in the first place, he still firmly grasped the initiative and was not panicked at all.
It's okay if it makes a mistake, but the rabbit will die if it makes a mistake.
After doing it twice in a row, it mastered the rabbit's braking pattern. When it was about to brake for the third time, it jumped, predicted its position, and bit it.
Accompanied by a shrill scream, Xiongba came back slowly trotting with the rabbit in his mouth, as majestic as a wolf king.
"So handsome!" Lin Heng couldn't help but pat Xiongba's head to encourage him.
The chase just now fully demonstrated its athletic ability, it was so fierce.
“Woof woof!!”
Xiongba dropped the rabbit, raised his head and stuck out his tongue, motioning Lin Heng to touch his chest to show encouragement.
"Awesome, you'll have something delicious to eat when you get back."
Lin Heng stroked the hair on its chest. Xiongba's graceful posture when running was full of wild power and beauty.
This made Lin Heng look forward to the day when it would chase a wild boar. That scene would definitely be quite exciting.
He picked up the rabbit and took a look. It was a fat male rabbit, weighing about seven or eight kilograms.
Xiongba was so ferocious that he broke the rabbit's spine with one bite. His bite force was terrifying enough.
Throwing the rabbit into the backpack, Lin Heng continued to set traps, using both the Yanwang trap and the ordinary noose trap.
Lin Heng also set up a lot of traps at the place where the wild boar was seen yesterday morning.
After one round, he had set up about thirty noose traps and a dozen devil's traps. He couldn't remember the exact number.
"Come on, let's go take a shower."
After setting up the trap in the hot sun at noon, Lin Heng couldn't bear it anymore and took Xiongba to the stream to take a bath.
After taking off my clothes and soaking in the water, I immediately felt much more comfortable.
“Woof woof~~”
Xiongba swam even more happily.
"Don't touch me." Lin Heng lay in the water, hiding under the shade of a tree, with his head resting on a stone.
It was terribly hot in the shelter at noon, and the only good places to go were in the water or in the woods.
However, Lin Heng only soaked in it for a while. The mountain stream water was too cold and he couldn't stand soaking in it for too long.
"Let's go back to Baishitan first."
The man and the dog returned to the vicinity of Baishitan. Lin Heng looked around the shelter and found that there was still no one there.
"Let's set up a hammock right here."
After thinking about it, Lin Heng went to cut some vines and spent half an hour weaving a hammock.
After finishing the weaving, he lay down on it and took a nap, while Xiongba lay under the hammock to rest.
It was noon and Lin Heng had already given up on going to the woods to hunt. Past experiences told him that there was almost no hope of going at this time.
It would be better to find a place to have a good rest and recharge your energy.
…
"Lin Heng, when did you come?"
Lin Heng had been asleep for about an hour when he suddenly heard a voice behind him.
Xiongba stood up alertly and stared at Li Baiquan who was walking towards him from a distance.
"Well, I came here at noon, and then I went to set up some traps and noose traps. I came back and slept here."
Lin Heng yawned and got off the hammock.
"Uncle, where have you been? Did you go hunting this morning? Did you get anything?"
Lin Heng asked again.
Li Baiquan shook his head: "No, but we found traces of wild boars over there, and there was a lot of wild boar feces on the ground.
We tracked him all morning but couldn’t find him.”
"Hasn't this been found yet? Doesn't Tian Baishun have a hunting dog?" Lin Heng was a little confused.
"That stupid dog is no good. It's just going around in circles. We've set up a few traps there. I'll come back to get some ropes. We'll continue looking for it in the afternoon and set some traps on the way." Li Baiquan shook his head, extremely disappointed with the big spotted dog.
"Then let's go together. I'll go take a look too."
Lin Heng thought for a moment and then spoke.
He felt that Xiongba could do the job.
"Sure. More people means a greater chance of finding it." Li Baiquan would certainly not refuse.
The two went to the shelter together to get things, and Lin Heng gave some of the dry food made by Xiulan to his uncle.
"You know what, it's a good thing you brought these foods, otherwise we might not have anything to eat at noon or in the evening."
Li Baiquan said this while chewing a steamed bun.
Apart from tracking wild boars, they didn't find any other prey today.
It took us two or three kilometers to finally reach the place they mentioned.
"Look, this is wild boar shit. It must have been excreted last night."
Li Baiquan pointed to the ground and said.
"This wild boar is not small." Li Heng took a look at the feces on the ground. This size is definitely something that can only be produced by a pig weighing two or three hundred kilograms.
"Yes, but we have been searching for a long time and found nothing." Li Baiquan shook his head.
"Xiongba, you give it a try."
Lin Heng touched Xiongba's head and pointed at the wild boar feces on the ground.
“Woof woof!”
Xiongba lowered his head and sniffed the ground, and quickly identified a direction.
"Is your dog okay?"
Li Baiquan felt that the dog identified the direction too quickly. It was the first time he saw this dog hunting and he did not have much confidence in it.
"I don't know either. It depends on how obvious the scent traces left by the wild boar are." Lin Heng shook his head and did not brag about Xiongba's strength.
It's hard to track this thing. Once the scent is gone, you can't find it.
After tracking for about seven or eight hundred meters, Xiongba stopped.
"It seems that it can't be found." Lin Heng shook his head.
Li Baiquan was not surprised by this: "It's normal. I didn't have much hope in the first place."
The two men cast a few more traps nearby, and then split up to see if they could hunt some small prey.
Lin Heng took Xiongba and shuttled through the forest. There were rotten trees everywhere in this deep mountain forest. Xiongba liked to jump over the fallen trees when he saw them.
With Xiongba around, Lin Heng picked up some mushrooms on the road. There were very few edible chanterelles, and most of them were infested with worms.
I found a few Qingtou mushrooms and Huanglaitou mushrooms, and picked four Ganoderma lucidum, all of which were quite large.
As for prey, I didn't find any after running for the entire afternoon, and even encountered two nests of hornets on the way.
One is at the top of the tree canopy and the other is in the crevice of the rocks.
Fortunately, Lin Heng discovered it early and avoided it in time. Wasps can be said to be the most dangerous things in the jungle in summer.
If you accidentally provoke them, you will often be chased by a group of hundreds of hornets.
It’s okay if you’re stung by one or two, but if there are too many, you’ll be seriously injured if not killed.
Lin Heng would move away as soon as he saw them.
Before I knew it, the forest had gradually darkened. Looking up through the gaps, I saw that half of the sky had turned blood red.
"Fortunately, I brought Xiongba with me today. Having a rabbit doesn't count as empty air force."
Lin Heng shook his head. He thought there was no hope today.
We searched the woods until dark, but found nothing.
“Woof woof!!”
Just as Lin Heng was about to move forward, Xiongba suddenly let out a warning roar.
"hiss!!"
Frightened by Xiongba's voice, a five-step snake came out from under the leaves and crawled away.
"Fuck! Five-step snake"
Lin Heng was shocked and his heart jumped into his throat. He didn't even see the five-step snake.
If it weren’t for Xiongba, I might have died here today.
There are not many poisonous snakes in Qinling Mountains, and the five-step snake is definitely one of the most poisonous snakes.
"I'm so unlucky today, there are wasps and poisonous snakes." Lin Heng was frightened. He picked up the bow and arrow and chased after it.
"You bastard, you still want to run!!"
Lin Heng picked up the bow and arrow, looked at the five-step snake crawling slowly away, and shot an arrow that pierced its head and stuck it into the ground.
Only after watching the snake's body twisting wildly did Lin Heng feel relieved.
He basically never lets go of poisonous snakes when he sees them. What if he lets go this time and gets bitten by accident? It’s better to have fewer poisonous snakes.
After it was dead, Lin Heng came over, stepped on its head and pulled out the arrow.
Then he chopped off his head with a hatchet and covered it with stones.
"Let's go back."
Lin Heng held the snake and said that the venom of poisonous snakes is stored in their brains, so since their bodies are not poisonous, they can naturally be eaten.
I had hoped to find something on the way back, but unfortunately there was nothing.
Lin Heng suspected that the animals here had already discovered their presence and fled.
Back at the shelter, Lin Heng saw that the other three had returned.
“Woof woof!!”
When the big spotted dog saw Xiongba, it rushed up to fight and wanted to teach Xiongba a lesson.
“Woof woof!!”
Xiongba also rushed forward without showing any weakness. He still remembered that it bullied him last time because he was tied up.
After a fight between the two, Xiongba bit the big dog's neck. The dog made a whimpering sound and tucked its tail between its legs, begging for mercy.
"Old man Tian, your dog is no good." Li Baiquan said with a smile.
"Bullshit, it's just hungry." Old man Tian was unwilling to admit this fact.
"Xiongba, come back."
Lin Heng shouted, and Xiongba let go of the big spotted dog and returned to Lin Heng with his head held high.
Putting aside other things, the appearance of the big flower dog is far inferior to that of Xiongba. Xiongba looks mighty and ferocious.
The big spotted dog looks more like a mad dog, sinister and cunning, as if it will bite people from behind at any time.
"Lin Heng, your dog is growing very fast." Old Man Tian said with a smile.
"Of course, I feed it meat every day." Lin Heng nodded.
"But I think it's brave but not wise. It's definitely not suitable for hunting. For hunting, you need a dog like me."
Old Man Tian said as he stroked his big spotted dog.
"Is this rabbit considered prey? Xiongba bit it to death." Lin Heng casually threw out a big wild rabbit.
Old Man Tian: “…”
"It seems that your dog is not bad." He smiled embarrassedly.
"Uncle, didn't you get anything today?" Lin Heng asked again.
"It's not that there isn't any. There are still some Prince ginseng." Lu Honghai said with a smile.
"That's right, what do you mean by no harvest? Aren't these Chinese yam and astragalus the same?"
Old Man Tian pointed at something on the ground and said.
Lin Heng shook his head and said with a smile: "They are all air force guys, only I have gained something."
"Uncle, you skin the snake and I'll skin the rabbit."
Lin Heng threw the snake to his uncle and said.
"Okay." Li Baiquan grinned and took it.
Lin Heng skinned the rabbit and put it in the sun to dry. He then cooked the rabbit head and internal organs and fed them to Xiongba.
"Woof~"
The big spotted dog could only watch where Xiongba was eating. It had already recognized its position after the battle just now and did not dare to snatch food from Xiongba.
"Give!"
Li Baiquan killed the snake, took out the internal organs and threw them to the big spotted dog.
"Let's roast them all tonight. They're not suitable for making soup." Lin Heng looked at the two things and decided to make the rabbit meat into beggar rabbit.
After applying salt, stuff some wild peppercorns, a bag of leaves, and a bag of mud into the belly and throw it into the fire to roast.
The five-step snake was pierced on a wooden stick by his uncle Li Baiquan and roasted next to the fire.
In this way, whether it is snake meat or rabbit meat, the taste is very ordinary, because there is no oil or spices.
Rabbit meat and snake meat are famous for being fat-free, so they taste very dry, especially rabbit meat.
Fortunately, Lin Heng and his friends brought some chili peppers, which tasted pretty good when dipped in fermented tofu and chili peppers.
"Lin Heng, why didn't you bring some wine? You go home and just think about your wife. It's really uncomfortable to eat meat without wine." Old man Tian sighed. He couldn't enjoy life without wine.
"If you don't want to eat, you can put it down. No one is forcing you to eat." Lin Heng glanced at him. It was good enough to have food, but he was complaining about it.
"That's right, you old man are really picky." Li Baiquan also said sarcastically with a smile.
Tian Baishun shook his head and sighed, "Alas, this is the only hobby you have when you get old. If you don't enjoy it, you will have nothing when you die."
Lin Heng didn't respond. After he was full, he fed the bone to Xiongba.
“Ouch~”
Xiongba squatted beside him, staring at the rabbit bones with envy for a long time. When Lin Heng threw it to him, he opened his mouth to catch it, and bit it with a crunching sound. Satisfaction flashed in his pair of golden dog eyes.
"It's so good to be a dog. It's so happy with just a bone." Lin Heng touched it and lay down to look at the starry sky. The starry sky was so beautiful.
However, without any suitable person to appreciate it with him, he soon lost interest in watching it anymore. He went back to the shelter to sleep and called Xiongba to join him.
Because there was a dog next to him at night, Lin Heng was not cold even if he didn't cover himself with grass.
However, the mountain wind howled at night, as if hundreds of ghosts were howling, making it difficult to sleep. Li Baiquan even got up in the middle of the night and put some tree branches on the door of the shelter to make the wind a little smaller.
The next morning, Lin Heng turned over and woke up. Xiongba was licking his chin. He was so angry that he slapped him and said, "How many times have I told you not to be a licking dog? Don't you understand?"
“Ouch~”
Xiongba lowered his head in grievance.
Lin Heng turned over and went outside. The wind was much weaker than at night. The sun had just come out and the grass leaves were covered with dew.
"Oh, it was so windy last night. I wonder if any prey was caught in the trap." Lin Heng was a little worried. There was no catch yesterday, so he had to collect the traps this morning.
"I don't know. Let's go and have a look." Li Baiquan shook his head.
"Uncle, please take a look at the wild boar over there. I'm going to check the noose over there in the swamp wetland." Lin Heng said to Li Baiquan.
"Okay, don't worry." Li Baiquan nodded.
The four of them parted ways. Lin Heng took the dog to the swamp wetlands, while Tian Baishun, Li Baiquan and the other two were obsessed with the big wild boar and wanted to look for it again today.
(End of this chapter)
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