Chapter 97: The Rutting Tiger
These two ignorant boys said a lot of things that scared her to death.
It turns out it was all hearsay.
They went up the mountain along the path that had been trampled out from the village.
You can't even take a single step where there are no footprints around you.
First, the snow is so thick in places where no one has ever stepped on that its depth is hard to tell, and you might end up sinking half the people into the snow with just one step.
Also, you never know where they have set traps, so people who are not familiar with the place should not wander around.
One said it was a trap.
Various scenes automatically popped up in Liu Qingqing's mind, such as a deep pit filled with sharp thorns.
If someone or an animal falls down, they will be covered with holes.
When they picked up the first prey, she found that it was far from what she had imagined.
There are sharp objects, but they are not the kind that fill the bottom of the trap.
A roe deer with weak breathing was taken out from the cave.
Gnapper skillfully took out a rope and tied its four hooves together.
Hanni also had a happy look on her face: "It's really good that there is something so close to us."
The three most common animals in Manmo Mountain are wild boars, hares and pheasants, and there are really a lot of them.
Wild boars visit the cornfields every year, and the most common footprints on the mountain are not from humans, but from wild rabbits.
As for pheasants, they often help transport teams free the souls from under the carts.
I don't know when the saying "hit the roe deer with a stick, scoop the fish with a ladle, and the pheasant will fly away and be put into the rice pot" came out.
Although the statement was rather exaggerated, the number it described was large, which Liu Qingqing agreed with.
"This kind of hole was dug before winter." Seeing Liu Qingqing curious about the trap, Hanni came over to explain.
Before the ground froze, the villagers dug a lot of these holes on the mountain. They would first use a pointed wooden stick about 15 centimeters long to nail it diagonally into the ground. The hole was dug to a depth of 70 centimeters, making a small slanted hole.
Wait until it freezes, then pour water into it and let it freeze on top.
In winter, if you throw some bait every now and then, you will get something every few days.
There is another trap that is similar to this one.
The ice buckets were made in the depths of winter, when the temperature here can reach minus thirty or even forty degrees Celsius both day and night.
This trap can be used for a whole winter.
The method of making it is also simple. Use the large iron bucket that most villagers use to fetch water. Fill it with water and put it outside to freeze for a while. It will be almost frozen in about two hours. Then pour out the unfrozen water in the center of the bucket, leaving only a thick layer of bucket-shaped ice skin.
Then separate the ice from the bucket and you're done.
After this ice bucket is placed on the mountain, it is buried with snow and a piece of bait is placed in the bucket. The prey will drill into it by themselves. The wall of the bucket is smooth and even with claws it cannot climb up and will never be able to get out.
There are also some pit groups, which are much narrower than the entrances of these two types of caves, about the thickness of a human arm, but the holes have mysteries and do not go straight down.
It is about ten centimeters straight and then tilted fifty degrees downwards.
It is a less than sign with a wide opening.
This cave is also used to catch four-legged animals such as wild boars and roe deer.
Roe deer are light and usually have a chance to escape, but they are curious and often come back to check after running away...
A wild boar could easily get out if it just stepped in.
The Northeastern wild boar is the largest wild boar in Asia.
Among the other twenty or so Asian wild boar species, those weighing up to 200 kilograms are considered large.
But among wild boars in Northeast China, 200 kilograms is just an average weight.
People of this size often break their legs if their feet are stuck in the holes.
Liu Qingqing seemed like Granny Liu who had just entered the Grand View Garden and was unfamiliar with everything.
As soon as everyone heard the tiger roar, Du Jiang stopped and said, "Let's go back first!"
Liu Qingqing nodded and had no objection, as she valued her life.
Dongzhi muttered, "It's far from here. It's in heat and looking for a wife. It's not even in the mood to hunt wild boars."
Liu Qingqing was very upset. He knew whether the other person was in heat or not.
The lump-headed man pushed him and said, "Stop talking nonsense. What are you saying in front of a female comrade?"
Everyone quickly tied up their prey and started to go down the mountain.
Liu Qingqing's prey-picking activities ended when the tiger went into heat.
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