Chapter 21 Catching Chickens and Rabbits, Wild Animals Bring Back Gifts

This chestnut tree is quite large, with many fruits. There are fallen hairy chestnuts everywhere on the ground, not only this year's, but also previous years.

Jiang Ning took the branch and only focused on picking up the green and yellow-brown hairy balls, not even looking at the black ones.

It took about an hour to pick up the hairy chestnuts around. Looking at the small pile in front of her, Jiang Ning let out a long breath, raised her sleeves and wiped the sweat from her forehead.

It's really a tiring job, Jiang Ning thought. This body is more delicate than her original one. After bending over and searching for a while, her lower back and arms are a little sore.

But the work is not over yet, and the chestnuts must be peeled out of these prickly hairy bumps. Jiang Ning squatted down, fixed the hairy chestnut with a branch, inserted the other branch into the opening, and with a force of her wrist, two smooth and round chestnuts were squeezed out.

Jiang Ning threw all the peeled chestnuts into the space and piled them in the corner of the bamboo house. After peeling all the hairy chestnuts, Jiang Ning found through the branches above her head that the sun rose to the middle of the sky. It was already noon.

"Time flies!" Jiang Ning stood up, moved her slightly stiff body, and said with emotion.

She originally went up the mountain to catch rabbits, but who knew that she would encounter this chestnut tree and be delayed for a long time.

And there are so many chestnuts on this tree that have not fallen off. It seems that she will have to come several times in the future.

Jiang Ning grabbed a few raw chestnuts, peeled them and ate them to fill her stomach, preparing to look for traces of rabbits.

Just after turning a small hill, a shadow suddenly passed overhead, and there was a sound of flapping wings.

"Cluck!" The shadow was incredibly fast, calling as it flew, but it was not as light as a bird.

What is this thing? Jiang Ning hurriedly ran a few steps to catch up with the flying thing, and saw it landed on a mound of earth a moment later.

Its copper-colored feathers were shiny and smooth, and its long dark blue tail feathers were flying high. A circle of black ring feathers nestled under its indigo neck, and its arrogant head was covered with a blood-red fleshy crown and face, as well as golden eyeballs the size of mung beans, a blue-black beak and two strong claws.

Jiang Ning recognized this colorful little thing.

It's a pheasant!

Jiang Ning hid far behind a tree, watching the pheasant digging the ground for food, with an excited and determined light in her eyes.

She liked this chicken! Jiang

Ning took a small step tentatively towards the pheasant, and the chicken's head buried in the grass immediately turned around alertly, staring at her with a pair of small golden round eyes. It

's quite alert!

Jiang Ning thought so, and disappeared from the spot the next moment.

The pheasant lowered its head and used its claws to scratch the insects in the grass, and it made a "cluck" sound from time to time. It looked leisurely and comfortable, and had no idea that the danger was approaching step by step.

Jiang Ning slowly approached in the air, aimed at the pheasant's long neck, and moved swiftly, grabbing it and lifting it up. After lifting it up, Jiang Ning realized that she had made a mistake. She should have made a rope with dry grass in advance.

The pheasant was suddenly attacked, and a "cuckoo" sound came from its throat. Its wings kept flapping, and its powerful claws kicked wildly. The force was so strong that Jiang Ning felt her hands sore after a while.

There was no other way. Jiang Ning reached behind her head, untied the hairband that Liu Mingan had braided for her, bit it in her mouth, and then grabbed the chicken's feet with the other hand, lifted the chicken upside down, and tied its two claws together with the hairband.

Feeling relieved now, Jiang Ning brought the chicken with its feet tied into the space and put it in the cage. When she came out, she thought about finding some mushrooms to stew together.

Mushrooms usually grow on dead wood that are not exposed to light, or are buried in dead leaves with only a little head poking out. Jiang Ning specifically went to those dead trees and shady places, and sure enough, she picked a lot of mushrooms and wood ears.

As she was walking, she encountered a tree in front of her. The branches and leaves were sparse, and the branches were crooked, and it looked like it was dying. Jiang Ning stopped and stared at the big hole in the trunk. It was a hole bigger than a basketball, only a little smaller than the trunk, almost hollowing out the tree, and it looked dark.

"A cunning rabbit has three burrows." Jiang Ning said to herself. In order to verify her guess, she picked up a piece of soil from the ground, aimed at the tree hole and threw it in.

The next moment, several furry gray-brown long ears poked out of the hole, their bright black eyes looked around, their three-petal mouths kept muttering, and the black whiskers around their mouths trembled.

"One, two, three, four." Jiang Ning counted silently, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised.

She went up the mountain today just for these guys in front of her. She was lucky to catch a nest of rabbits at once, so she couldn't let any of them go.

Wild rabbits are cunning by nature and are used to digging holes. Jiang Ning knew that there must be holes under the tree hole leading to other places. In order to catch all the rabbits in this nest, she had to find a way to lure them all to the ground.

After thinking about it for a long time, Jiang Ning could not think of any good solution. She could only pick up a branch, break it into small pieces, and then throw it into the tree hole.

The gray rabbits were frightened at first and looked around. After a while, they seemed to find that there was no danger and became braver. One of the big rabbits jumped out.

Jiang Ning waited patiently until it walked away and made sure that the other three rabbits could not see it. Then she flashed into the space. Just like catching a chicken just now, she grabbed the pair of big furry ears quickly and accurately and brought it into the space.

The rabbit was very fat and weighed about eight or nine pounds. Jiang Ning was going to stuff it into the cage, but just as she approached, the seemingly quiet pheasant suddenly jumped up and bit Jiang Ning's hand with its sharp beak.

Jiang Ning felt as if she was hit by a hammer, the back of her hand was torn, blood gushed out, dripping drop by drop onto the bamboo raft under her feet, which was very dazzling.

"You are really tired of living."

Jiang Ning looked at her wound and said to the pheasant that was stiffening its neck and ready to go.

The wound would be healed by drinking some medicinal spring water later, Jiang Ning didn't care much. But this chicken is wild and hard to tame, and the rabbit will definitely be bullied if it is with it, and it might even be killed. There is no way to put the chicken and rabbit in the same cage.

Jiang Ning simply took the chicken out of the cage, tied it to the legs of the bamboo bed, and then threw the rabbit in. During the process, the pheasant kept baring its claws and teeth and wanted to peck her again. Jiang Ning, who was wary, would not let it do so.

After tying up the chicken, Jiang Ning came to the medicinal spring outside the bamboo house, squatted down, scooped up some water with one hand and drank it. After a while, the wound was completely healed.

This time, Jiang Ning watched the broken skin and flesh heal little by little. Even though she already knew its efficacy, she still couldn't help but sigh. This medicinal spring has overturned her understanding of medicine. If it was discovered by someone, it would definitely be a fatal disaster.

A man is innocent, but he is guilty of possessing a jade. Jiang Ning knew this very well, so she didn't plan to tell anyone about this space and this medicinal spring.

After her hand injury healed, Jiang Ning stayed in the space, waiting for the other three rabbits to come out.

Jiang Ning waited and waited, and it felt like she had been waiting for almost an hour but still saw no movement. This first rabbit might have come out to explore the way, and it didn't come back, so the other three shrank back.

Just when Jiang Ning felt that her patience for hunting was running out, a few gray ears popped out of the tree hole, and then all three rabbits came out, three gray little things squeezed together and walked away.

Jiang Ning was troubled by the scene. With her two hands, she could only catch two at most, and the remaining one would definitely run away.

Forget it, let's try next time.

Jiang Ning hesitated for a moment, picked two rabbits that looked larger, and used both hands to catch two of them accurately. The remaining little gray rabbit was so frightened by the sudden change that its ears stood up. It ran away and disappeared from Jiang Ning's sight in the blink of an eye.

Jiang Ning took a rabbit in each hand and put them all into the cage.

She came out to look at the sky. The sun was already setting. It was estimated that it would be dark in two or three hours.

It was time to go down the mountain.