"Let's walk around in the direction the pheasants fled and see if we can find their nest," Li Yinsheng suggested after tying up the two pheasants and setting them down.
Hu Ge and Reba naturally had no objections. Today, they came with Li Yinsheng to find food, purely to assist and learn.
So the three of them carefully followed the faint tracks left by the pheasant and trekked through the bushes.
Sunlight filters through the dense canopy, casting dappled shadows and adding a touch of adventure.
Li Yinsheng walked at the front, her eyes sharp. She would stop from time to time to carefully observe the feathers, claw marks, or trampled branches on the ground, all of which were clues left by pheasants.
“Look here, these feathers are very fresh. They must have been left by the two pheasants we were chasing earlier,” Li Yinsheng said to Brother Hu and Reba behind her, pointing to a few scattered feathers on the ground.
As they ventured deeper, they found fewer and fewer traces of pheasants. Along the way, they even set up several pheasant traps, hoping to catch some later.
Just when they thought they had gained nothing, a gray-white figure ran past Li Yinsheng. She instinctively drew her arrow and fired a shot. The arrow pierced the air with a sharp whistling sound as it headed straight for the gray-white figure.
What is that?
Did it hit?
Neither Hu Ge nor Dilraba could clearly see what the gray and white animal was, and they asked in unison.
"I don't know what it was? It hit someone. There's blood here. Let's go check it out." Li Yinsheng's tone was a mix of excitement and uncertainty. She quickly bent down and began searching the vicinity carefully.
Sure enough, a faint trail of blood meandered forward among the grass, proving that her arrow had indeed hit its target.
Li Yinsheng had some vague guesses in her mind. She felt that the supplies near Group C's camp were very abundant, so why had they been in such a miserable state before?
The three carefully followed the trail of blood, passing through a dense thicket of bushes surrounded by thorns and sharp spikes. They walked with extreme caution, afraid that they might accidentally tear their clothes or skin.
"There it is." At the entrance of a hole, a small leg was stuck horizontally on the edge of the hole, trying to squeeze in.
Unfortunately, the calf was pierced by Li Yinsheng's arrow, which was positioned across the cave entrance, preventing the wounded prey from climbing into the cave.
Li Yinsheng quickly stepped forward, lifted the rabbit by its leg, and pulled it out of the hole. It turned out to be a plump wild rabbit.
After being pulled out of its burrow, the rabbit tried to break free from Li Yinsheng's grasp, but its hind legs were injured, and it could only kick the air in vain.
Li Yinsheng skillfully pulled the arrow out of the rabbit's hind leg, weighed it in his hand, and estimated it to be about five or six pounds.
"Brother Hu, Reba, look around and see if there are any other holes like this. If there are, leave one open and block up the rest."
"Let's trap them like turtles in a jar. Let's see if there are any wild rabbits left. If there are, we'll take them all in one go." After tying up the wild rabbit in her hand, Li Yinsheng instructed Brother Hu and Reba.
“Okay.” Brother Hu and Reba responded and immediately split up, carefully searching for similar cave entrances along the bushes.
"There is one here."
"I have one here too," Hu Ge and Dilraba's voices rang out one after the other.
They soon found several similar caves. Each entrance was cleverly sealed by them with a mixture of dry grass and mud.
They truly lived up to their reputation of having multiple burrows; Hu Ge and Dilraba found a total of six burrows.
After gathering a pile of firewood, Li Yinsheng began weaving a rectangular basket to place at the outlet that was blocking it.
"Fatty, are you trying to smoke out the rabbit to force it out?" After blocking five entrances and searching around but finding no similar holes, Hu Ge and Reba returned to Li Yinsheng's side. Seeing her intently weaving a basket, they couldn't help but ask curiously.
"That's right, wild rabbits are also afraid of fire and smoke. We'll light some dry grass and branches in front of the only unblocked burrow entrance. The thick smoke will flow in through the burrow entrance, and the wild rabbits, unable to withstand the smoke, will naturally escape through the other unblocked burrow entrances."
"This basket will come in handy then. Once they rush out, they'll fall straight into the basket and won't be able to escape. Hopefully, there are still wild rabbits in this burrow," Li Yinsheng replied without looking up as she wove the basket.
"Great idea!" Hu Ge and Reba gave Li Yinsheng a thumbs up upon hearing this, praising her ingenuity.
After Li Yinsheng finished weaving the basket, she asked Brother Hu to guard the cave entrance. She and Reba then piled up dry grass and branches in front of the unblocked entrance and lit them. Soon, a roaring fire was burning, and thick smoke rose and spread deeper into the cave.
Li Yinsheng and Dilraba were holding banana leaves, fanning themselves vigorously with the smoke, and blowing air into the cave to forcefully push the smoke in.
Time passed second by second, and the rabbits inside the cave seemed to finally be unable to withstand the thick smoke and began to scatter in all directions. Standing on the ground, they could feel the faint sounds.
"Reba, keep fanning." Li Yinsheng seemed to have thought of something, and she quickly stood up, nocked an arrow, and prepared to fire at any moment.
Just then, a plump wild rabbit rushed out of the blocked hole and fell into the basket that had been prepared beforehand.
"Haha, one's out! It's quite big." Brother Hu couldn't help but laugh as he watched a wild rabbit fall into the basket.
"Also, keep fanning, Brother Hu, you held the line too." Li Yinsheng felt a slight movement under her feet, as if she had a premonition.
After taking a few steps back, a gray rabbit scurried out of a relatively hidden cave. Li Yinsheng reacted quickly, drawing the bowstring taut. With a "whoosh," the arrow flew like lightning, piercing the gray rabbit's body with perfect accuracy. The rabbit struggled twice before collapsing to the ground, motionless.
Li Yinsheng didn't even bother to pick up the rabbit; she stepped directly into the unblocked hole.
Miracles happen with great force; Li Yinsheng trampled the cave, blocking the entrance.
Immediately afterwards, Li Yinsheng looked around to see if there were any unblocked openings.
"Another one has come, another one, and more." Brother Hu had initially thought that the plan to smoke the rabbits would fail because he hadn't found a hidden burrow, and the other rabbits would definitely escape through the unblocked burrows.
Brother Hu had already given up hope of catching another rabbit.
He never expected that the chubby girl would be so fierce. It seemed as if she had anticipated this. Not only did she shoot an arrow at the escaped rabbit, but she also stepped forward and trampled the unblocked rabbit hole.
Hu Ge was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but exclaim, "Fatty is awesome!"
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