Chapter 30 Goat
On the way to the first trap site, Gu Tang prayed all the way, muttering to himself, and prayed to all the gods and Buddhas, hoping for a good start!
Perhaps the prayers really worked. When he was still ten feet away from the trap, his footsteps might have startled something, and a fluttering sound suddenly occurred.
Gu Tang was very familiar with this sound. His eyes lit up and he ran over with joy on his face.
When I got there, I saw two nooses made of hemp rope, each with a big fat rabbit caught in it.
When the two rabbits saw humans, they were so scared that they continued to struggle and flutter, but for some reason, they all lay on the ground, fluttering in circles, and their limbs kept shaking.
Gu Tang brought the torch closer for illumination and carefully checked the hemp rope. He saw that the rope, which was made of two strands of fine hemp, had been bitten off in half.
She tampered with the hemp ropes used for setting traps. She mashed the fresh aconite she dug up into a paste and then soaked the hemp ropes in it.
After soaking for a day and a night, the hemp rope will become a "poisonous rope".
Aconitum is poisonous. If ingested by mistake, it can cause numbness in the mouth, tongue and whole body, nausea, vomiting, shortness of breath, etc.
If too much is accidentally ingested, it can quickly poison an adult.
Rabbits have strong teeth and will bite through the ropes and escape even if they are trapped. In order to prevent the rabbits from biting the ropes, Gu Tang racked his brains to come up with this idea.
Use a hemp rope soaked in Aconitum juice to set a trap for the rabbit. When the rabbit chews it, the toxins inside will enter its body.
The same poison that can paralyze an adult can easily paralyze a rabbit.
Rabbits also know the danger. After being numb after chewing the hemp rope for the first time, they basically won't chew it again when they wake up and will just be caught obediently.
After these poisons entered the rabbits' bodies, they dissipated very slowly. Most of the time when Gu Tang came over, few of the anesthetized rabbits were awake.
Only after delaying for a long time will you gradually wake up.
Just like today, the rabbit that was knocked unconscious by the black poison began to wake up.
Taking out a sack and new hemp rope from the system backpack, Gu Tang rescued the rabbits from the cages and put them into the sack one by one.
The fur dealers in Bei'an City prefer live wild animals the most. No matter what kind of animal it is, as long as it is alive, the price will be much higher than that of a dead one.
The rabbits that Gu Tang caught were basically alive. The fur dealers were now more friendly to her and hoped that she would catch some live animals and send them to them someday.
After tying the mouth of the sacks, Gu Tang put them aside, then squatted down and took a new "poison rope" and rearranged the noose.
This is the route that rabbits must take. After setting the trap once, Gu Tang planned to set it again to see if he could catch a few more.
After setting the trap, Gu Tang cleaned and arranged the surroundings, covered the hemp rope, and scattered some food as bait.
After finishing all this, she picked up the sack and walked towards the second trapping point.
By this time the sky had become much brighter and the road could be vaguely seen in the forest, so Gu Tang extinguished the torch.
Halfway through the walk, Gu Tang suddenly stopped.
Catching two live rabbits at once is a good sign, so she might as well take advantage of this good sign to sign in quickly. Otherwise, if the good luck fades away, she will be possessed by the unlucky person again!
Thinking of this, she hurriedly put down the sack, tidied her clothes, bowed to the four directions, called out the system panel and started signing in.
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing today's sign-in! Get a live goat! ]
Gu Tang:……!!!
Wow! The opening is really a boom!
Can this sign out a living thing?
She curiously opened her backpack and saw a miniature goat icon in a grid with the word "living creature" marked on it.
The system backpack previously could not store living things. Now that living things are signed out, I wonder if this backpack rule has changed...
Gu Tang plans to give it a try.
She tried to put the sack containing two live rabbits into her backpack, and then she found that she could actually put them in!
It seems that the rules of the system backpack can change with the appearance of sign-in items.
Gu Tang nodded, this is very humane.
He took out a non-toxic hemp rope, took the goat out of the backpack, and then quickly tied the rope around its neck.
The goat was a little dull, not moving or making any noise, just letting Gu Tang play with it.
When the rope was tied, it struggled as if activated, and screamed heartbreakingly: "Mee——"
"Shut up!" Gu Tang raised his hand and punched the sheep a few times.
This sheep was quite docile. After being punched a few times, it quickly calmed down and stopped jumping around. But it was quite annoying and would bark from time to time.
Seeing that it was tamed, Gu Tang finally had the leisure to observe the sheep in front of him.
Gu Tang’s first impression of the whole sheep was that it was big and fat!
Her fur was brown-grey, her shoulders were about as high as her waist, and she had a pair of large, slightly curved horns on her head.
It has such big horns, I don’t know whether it is female or male.
Gu Tang held its back, lifted its tail and took a look - it was a female!
Females are better! Females are more valuable than males!
Gu Tang's eyes were surprisingly bright.
Such a fat ewe can definitely be sold at a high price if sold to landlords who keep the sheep for breeding!
Gu Tang laughed out loud, this was much more practical than the silk he had obtained from signing in previously.
This goat goes into the mountains once and can find a clear way back!
The more he thought about it, the happier he became, and Gu Tang set off again with the goat.
She won’t dig medicinal herbs today. After looking at all the traps, she will go home immediately to sell the sheep!
After leading the sheep around for nearly two hours, Gu Tang finally inspected all the trapping sites.
After one round, we harvested ten pheasants, six rabbits and three partridges.
Adding the two rabbits from before, today’s harvest is really a big one!
It has been a long time since she has seen so many prey. The most important thing is this goat. This is her first time to sign in a living thing.
I haven’t signed in before. Could it be that I signed in at the wrong location?
Gu Tang thought carefully and realized that today was her first time signing in on the mountain.
How about trying again tomorrow?
The more he thought about it, the more feasible it seemed. Gu Tang decided to come to the mountain to sign in tomorrow!
It was impossible to carry so much prey down the mountain. If she did, she would lose half her life.
She put all the prey, including the goat, into the system backpack, and then went down the mountain easily with empty hands.
When she reached the foot of the mountain, she found a secluded place and released the goats and prey.
The prey was put into two sacks. Gu Tang tied the two sacks together, and then put them on the backs of the goats, letting the goats carry the prey.
Leading the goat out of the bushes, they turned onto the mountain path that the villagers had built over the years, and the man and the goat soon left the forest.
At this hour, many villagers came out of the forest carrying firewood, and several of them bumped into Gu Tang face to face.
Seeing Gu Tang walking slowly with a sheep carrying two sacks of things on its back, they all stopped and looked at her in dumbfounded.
A man who was quite familiar with Gu Lianshan asked stutteringly: "Lian-Lianshan's daughter, where did you get the sheep?"
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