My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 248 Encountering a Leopard

  It is not difficult to raise snakes, and it does not take up much space. In the villages to the west of Fenglei Town, almost every family raises snakes, and there are hunting dogs "snake dogs" specially trained to find snakes for snake hunting.

  's love for snakes is evident from this.

  According to Wang Cunye, there was a young boy on their side who caught a "medicine guarding snake" a few years ago, that is, a snake guarding near rare herbs.

  The snake was very big, about two meters long, and was caught together with the herbs and the snake. The snake was sold alive for thousands of yuan.

Later, I heard people say that this is still sold less, the medicine snake is not a simple thing, it is a rare good thing, it has a big effect, not to mention selling tens of thousands, it is not a problem to double it on the basis of 1,000 yuan of.

Although the income of raising snakes is not comparable to this, but since Chen Ling sold wine at a sky-high price last time, it is also a good way to make wine with snakes mixed with medicinal materials. Snake" is bad.

   In addition, Wang Cunye felt that if this son-in-law didn't learn some real skills and kept selling the wine by fooling around, it would be easy to cause problems in case of revealing the stuff or encountering difficulties.

  Besides that, that’s what the old man said before.

   Keeping snakes can prevent snakes and some small beasts that are afraid of snakes. Snakes will not go to places where the smell of snakes is strong.

   On the way back, the two found a few nests of snakes, and now they are just taking them home and raising them, so they are all non-venomous snakes, such as cauliflower snakes, grass-headed snakes, black-headed snakes, etc., which are better to breed.

   After catching the snake, they didn’t stay any longer, and the two of them rushed back without stopping.

  Although the days are longer in summer, it gets dark in the mountains much earlier than outside.

   In addition, the wild beasts in the mountains and forests are very active this season, the sooner the better.

  Speaking of beasts, if it wasn't for Xiao Jin's investigation of the situation anytime, anywhere, and if he found the slightest abnormal smell, he would have taken them away in advance, and it is estimated that the dense footprints of beasts and wild beasts by the water would have hit a lot of them.

   said that Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived, and some things could not stand talking.

  Although I have been very careful, in the end, I have entered the mountain, and many things are out of control.

On the way home, they inadvertently encountered a large group of wild boars, each of them lined up, with more than 20 heads. They walked leisurely on the edge of the mountain forest, arching their long noses on the ground everywhere, their bodies still alive. With wet muddy water, it seemed that he had just taken a shower somewhere.

   Fortunately, the distance was relatively far. With Wang Cunye's eyesight, he could only see a few black wild boars moving. He couldn't be like Chen Ling, and he could see how many of them at once.

   Ordinary people can only see vaguely, which is a relatively safe distance.

   However, the scale of this group of wild boars is not small, so it should not be underestimated.

The leading big boar, with Chen Ling's eyesight, can clearly see its sharp fangs. It is walking at the front, and after a distance of three or four meters, the other members of the wild boar family are scattered around behind the big boar. .

   There were more than a dozen little wild boars that didn't lose their patterns. They were stunned at the back, walking while playing, jumping and jumping between their four calves, and they followed behind them like they were happy.

   Weng's son-in-law held their breaths and did not dare to disturb them. They were relieved when the wild boars left.

  The old man stroked his chest a few times: "Good guy, fortunately, I brought Xiao Jin, otherwise I would walk here without a dog exploring the way, and I don't know what I would encounter."

   It was Xiaojin who gave the warning in time just now, and they stopped, only to see that there were wild boars infested.

"I knew I would catch the long worms in two days. It was because of the many roundabouts that I came across this wild boar. Otherwise, I came here a few times before and it was fine, I just saw a few at most. Squirrel and porcupine, oh, I also met two flower foxes, nothing else, and they were very safe on the road."

  The old man is a little regretful now. He regrets that he had to walk a few steps in the mountains to catch snakes and stayed so long.

   As the saying goes: If you walk too much at night, you will easily run into ghosts.

  This mountain road has been walked a lot, and it is normal to encounter some beasts.

The first few times he went into the mountains, he picked the herbs that could be picked, and left marks on the ones that couldn’t be picked. He didn’t make much stops at all. In addition, the herbs came out early, and he went around the mountain in a circle, often before noon. , and even returned home shortly after noon.

  To catch a snake today, I took away a few places, and I stayed in the mountains for a little too long.

   "Hey, it's all right, Dad, look, isn't it time to get to Langdaoyan? After passing Langdaoyan, I basically walked out, and nothing wild came out."

  Chen Ling's words are true. After passing through Langdiaoyan, it belongs to the periphery of the mountains and forests. Since it is close to human settlements, human activities are relatively frequent, and there are no large beasts in the surrounding area.

   Wang Cunye also felt that his son-in-law was right, so he rushed out of the mountain.

  Unfortunately, what they didn't expect was that they encountered an accident again before they went far.

   There are still more than 20 fire rats in the summer, and the weather is still very hot. It is much cooler to walk in the mountains, but the sky will become much darker when you walk in the dense forest.

That is to say, walking through the bamboo forest and the river ditch when he came, and as soon as he entered the forest, he didn't take a few steps to enter the forest, and Xiaojin issued a warning, the alert whimpered and roared slightly, and the three little weasels also stepped out of the grass on alert. Standing upright, his small eyes widened.

At this time, I only heard the sound of branches and leaves in the dark jungle, and then a low and hoarse roar, like a threatening sound made by a cat when protecting its food, but it was much thicker than that of a cat. Listening from a distance, you can feel the ferocity in this voice.

   Hearing this sound, Chen Ling's body exploded, Wang Cunye stopped and grabbed Chen Ling's arm: "Don't move, it's a leopard, there are leopards in the woods."

   As he spoke, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he gestured to Chen Ling to quickly take a shotgun for defense.

As soon as these words fell, when Chen Ling was still wondering why the leopards were haunting in the daytime, a little leopard, not much bigger than the cat, suddenly sprang out from the branches, not knowing what was in its mouth, and a few jumped up and down. After that, it disappeared among the lush foliage.

   After this little leopard left.

Xiao Jin was still staring at a place on the tree in the distance, the hair on his neck was fluffy and exploding, his eyes were fierce, and there was no slack. .

   "The earth leopard is still there, the one that just left is the grass leopard. If these two can make up one piece, then they should go with the leopard cub." Wang Cunye followed the direction Xiao Jin was looking at carefully, daring not to be careless.

   "It turned out to be a leopard with a cub. I'll shoot it a few times and startle it away."

   Chen Ling's reaction was actually much faster than that of the old man. Hearing the roar in the forest was not right, he quickly removed the basket and other debris from his body, held the shotgun in his hand, and was always on guard.

   With his far superior vision, he couldn't see what was on the tree.

   At this time, I was slightly stunned when I heard the old man say that it is a soil leopard, that is, a clouded leopard.

  The clouded leopard is hardly hurtful.

   However, in two special periods, they could not stand the stimulation. If the mountaineers encountered them when they entered the mountain, they would be attacked by sneak attacks, and they would even be followed in revenge for continuous sneak attacks.

   During these two periods, one is when they mate in winter, and the other is when they give birth in summer, they will be unusually sensitive and irritable.

Especially at this time, the little leopards born at the turn of spring and summer have not grown out of their nests, and have not yet had the time to live alone. The male and female leopards will be closely guarded, and humans will invade their territory. attack.

   Even in the daytime.

   Besides, it’s not even daytime in the mountains, after five o’clock, it will be dark soon.

   In this special period, it is useless to retreat when encountering leopards, they will still hold grudges.

   can only use guns.

   "Bang, bang, bang—"

  Chen Ling raised his gun and fired a few shots into the sky. At the same time, he stomped his feet and shouted loudly, trying to scare it away.

   It does work.

   In the sound of gunshots and shouts, the branches and leaves on the distant trees swayed slightly again, and the leopard left silently.

   Not only left, but also something fell from the tree, it looked like the head of a deer, it should be the leftovers they ate.

  Xiaojin hurriedly trotted over, preparing to bring it back.

However…

   Just when it leaned over and just bit the deer's head, a golden-yellow figure suddenly pounced on a tree three or four meters away.

  Fast, swift, and ferocious, but elegant and silent throughout.

   As if the distance of three or four meters is nothing to it, it will arrive in the blink of an eye.

   turned out to be the native leopard who had left, killed a carbine, and pounced with his fangs and claws.

   Compared with its fangs and body, its claws are particularly large in proportion. Just looking at it from a distance makes people shudder. This is definitely a deadly weapon that can deliver a fatal blow in hunting.

   Not to mention a sneak attack.

  If you are not prepared, even a wild animal two or three times its size can be killed by its sneak attack.

   But this sneak attack did not work on Xiao Jin.

   As if Xiao Jin expected it.

Xiao Jin originally leaned over to bite the deer's head, but now it looks like he has eyes on his back. When the leopard was about to pounce, he suddenly turned around, and he even bit the leopard, his face full of hideous expressions. The white teeth are exposed, like a wolf with golden hair attacking, the target is the throat of the leopard.

  The fierce battle broke out.

  The roar of the leopard, the howl of the dog, the two guys bit into a ball the moment they met, and they fought hard.

   makes people's heads and eyes fail to react at all, as if they are fighting together in the blink of an eye.

   The battle was fierce, the fallen leaves were messed up, and blood splattered on the ground.

   "Ow~"

The battle came quickly and ended quite quickly. Maybe it didn't even take ten seconds. The sturdy leopard let out a shrill cry, jumped up the tree with a "whoosh", and quickly disappeared between the branches and leaves. between.

   And then Xiao Jin shook his hair, just like no one else, Shi Shiran picked up the deer's head and returned to Chen Ling's side.

   This sudden battle between the dog and the leopard is dazzling.

  Wang Cunye was even more stunned, and just stood there blankly.

   After a long time, he was stunned, pointed at Xiao Jin, and said to Chen Ling: "This, this, just now this dog and the leopard, did you see Lingzi, when Xiao Jin and the leopard were fighting just now..."

   "That's not right, it was before they fought..."

  The old man hesitated, not knowing how to describe it for a while.

   "I saw it, I saw it."

Chen Ling was also shocked inwardly, looking at Xiao Jin who put down the deer's head and shook his head at him to ask for credit every day, he nodded stunned: "We almost let the leopard play just now, Xiao Jin seems to be deliberately trying to lure him into the bait. "

   This guy, people will definitely not believe it when they say this just now.

   Who would have thought that a leopard would be a wild animal, and would deliberately let people relax their vigilance and kill a carbine.

   And Xiaojin is also very incredible. Not only did he see through the plot of the leopard, but he even managed to win the battle.

   No injuries on his body.

This…

   This is simply…

   Happened to two animals, really incredible.

  But in fact, Xiao Jin is a very good hunting dog, and the lynx even said that it can be a master dog.

  The hunting ability of the master dog can be regarded as the ceiling of the hound, and it is no different from the head wolf in the wolf pack.

   Note, the alpha wolf will formulate the hunting plan of the wolf pack.

   When you hear the word plan, you will understand its wisdom.

   And more cunning than the wolf is the jackal, that is, the red dog and the pagoda.

   They have a very low bottom line, and they do everything they can to hunt. What ambush and sneak attack, what is the first to attract attention, in fact, call their companions to outflank, there are countless.

  The cleverness and cunning of the beast is often more surprising than some works show.

  Therefore, the ancient mountain people admired their wisdom and made up some stories based on these, although some of them became more and more exaggerated and became demonic, while some became more and more bedtime stories to scare little children.

   But I have to say that there are basically no weak beasts that can survive in the mountains and forests.

   And the performance of this leopard is actually not too exaggerated, but even so, it is already amazing.

   "Dog Day's Earth Leopard..."

  Wang Cunye scolded, kept raising his head and observing vigilantly around, this leopard was really too unexpected, not only cunning and treacherous, but also so arrogant that he almost played them Weng and son-in-law.

   I still have lingering fears when I think about it now.

   If it wasn't for Xiaojin picking up the deer's head in the past, he really wouldn't have led the leopard out, and it would be the two of them who would suffer at that time.

"Don't come here to collect herbs in the future. If you are really interested and want to learn, go to Lutoushan over there. I will take you to go around a few more times. The herbalists over there have searched almost all over the place, and the place is familiar. Safer." Wang Cunye said.

   He was indeed a little worried. It took a little longer to enter the mountain this time, and he met wild boars and leopards one after another.

   I thought that I should not teach my son-in-law to collect herbs in the future.

   is too dangerous.

   "Oh, it's okay, Dad, this means that there are more wild things in Beishan, and much better on Xishan and Nanshan. In the past, Susu often went to Xishan to pick mushrooms, and it was really okay." Chen Ling said.

   It's not that he really doesn't care about these things, it's just that there is a sun and moon cave near him, and the art masters are just bold.

"Don't mind. In the past, we used to hunt and collect herbs regardless of family. It was because there were more jackals, wolves, tigers and leopards in the mountains, and people were often killed when picking herbs. Now there are fewer of those things. The hunters are slowly separated."

   Wang Cunye reminded him seriously.

  Chen Ling saw the seriousness on his father-in-law's face, so he nodded, and hurriedly promised that he would not come to Beishan in the future.

   As for the things the old man said, the second brother Wang Qingzhong also said a lot in Lutou Mountain last time.

   Continue to go deeper from Lutou Mountain in Fenglei Town, that is, the further you go to the depths of the Qinling Mountains, the more herbalists and the higher the skills.

   They are often mountain people who farm the land, hunters who hunt, and medicinal farmers who collect herbs.

   And the ability to hunt is often comparable to that of gathering herbs, or even more superb.

   First, for self-defense, in the remote mountains, wild beasts are frequent, and without some self-defense skills, one cannot survive.

  The other is for medicinal materials, which come from wild animals, such as musk, bear gall, tiger bone, leopard bone, deer antler, etc., which are relatively valuable.

   And the further out, like on their side, they still mainly focus on farming.

  Hunting and medicinal herbs are all to subsidize the family, not the main source of income.

   After all, the risk of collecting herbs is too high.

   The wild beasts and poisonous insects in the mountains do not know when they will encounter them, and the terrain where precious herbs grow is often dangerous.

   Farming can have a stable income, so there is no need to take risks.

   Therefore, in recent years, they rarely even go into the mountains to hunt, so they usually put down the animal traps and put down the cover to finish the job.

  Like what the old man said just now, even in Fenglei Town, medicinal farmers and hunters are not the same thing.

  Many pesticide farmers have lost the ability to hunt.

  I don’t want to go to the depths of Qinling to collect herbs.

   In a way, their income sources are now actually broader and diverse.

   This is also a good thing.

   We chatted with each other, most of the old man was praising Xiao Jin, saying that thanks to it this time, Xiao Jin who praised him somehow got better.

   In the end, he just walked quietly beside Chen Ling, as if boasting shyness.

   After walking through the mountains and forests like this, after walking through the Langdangyan, things went much smoother, and I didn’t encounter any beasts again.

  After Weng and the husband-in-law relaxed, Chen Ling was attracted by the deer head in his hand.

   "Dad, come and see, this thing doesn't seem to be the head of a deer, right?"

   (end of this chapter)