The whole mountain is my hunting ground

Gray rat is squirrel, also called greyhound.

Regardless of winter or summer, they are active outside in the morning. When the sun shines on the hills, they return to their nests.

Therefore, if you want to hunt squirrels, you need to get up early in the morning, leave home at five or six o'clock, and go back home at around nine o'clock.

Zhao Jun is a lazy man, but for the sake of a delicious meal, he got up early for the first time and put on a slippery white coat.

After putting the gun on his back, Zhao Jun took out an elm slingshot from the kang cabinet. Along with the elm slingshot, there was a small paper bag containing lead beans slightly smaller than peanuts.

Squirrels cannot be shot with a semi-automatic, otherwise they will be broken into pieces with one shot, and they will not be able to eat them, nor will they be able to skin them.

Zhao Jun didn't have a gun that could shoot squirrels, but he was also a good slingshot. And carrying a gun is to prevent other things from happening.

He came out of his home, climbed over the wall and jumped to Li Baoyu's house. He was about to reach out and push the door open.

The door was pushed open from the inside, and Li Baoyu walked out with his head lowered, stuffing a sack into his shoulder pocket as he walked.

It was only half past five at this time, and the rest of the Li family might still be sleeping. Zhao Jun lowered his voice and asked: "What are you doing with such a big bag? How many squirrels can we kill? How about using a big bag?" What?"

Li Baoyu smiled, closed the door back, turned to Zhao Jun, and said with a smile: "No, I just want to see if I can dig out a few squirrel nests, bring back some pine nuts and hazelnuts, and fry them for snacks."

"You..." Zhao Jun felt that he had no words to praise Li Baoyu. This man was simply too smart.

The two walked out the door, and Li Baoyu took out a slingshot from his trouser pocket. This slingshot was larger than Zhao Jun's. It was also made of old elm wood, but the outside seemed to be painted with a layer of wax.

Zhao Jun knew that this was hot wax. He heated the beeswax and applied it on it to prevent corrosion and moisture.

"Then it's up to you today." Zhao Jun patted Li Baoyu on the shoulder and said.

The two of them left the village and walked south. To the south was a war preparation road that had been used to guard against Lao Maozi. They followed the war preparation road for more than five miles and slanted into the mountains. After crossing the mountain, there was a pine tree hill.

On this hilly area, there is lush vegetation, mostly pine trees.

At this time, it was just dawn, Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu separated from each other, each chose a pine tree, stood against the tree, hid themselves, and listened to the movements on the left and right with their ears raised.

Not long after, Zhao Jun heard a slight noise on the left. He slowly turned his head to look and saw a squirrel coming down from the pine tree on the left.

Zhao Jun did not fight, but turned his head slightly and looked at Li Baoyu quietly.

When Li Baoyu turned his face to him, Zhao Jun raised his chin to the left. Li Baoyu understood and tiptoed two steps towards Zhao Jun.

At this time, the squirrel was on the snow and jumped forward a few steps.

Although Li Baoyu moved very lightly, when his second foot landed, the squirrel swayed its long ears, swung its body back, and ran away quickly.

Snapped!

Snapped!

There were two crisp sounds, and after the second one, the squirrel fell down and lay on the snow.

Li Baoyu hurriedly ran over and picked up the twitching squirrel, only to see a lead bean punched into its belly.

Li Baoyu could tell at a glance that it was Zhao Jun's attack, because his slingshot was big and the lead beans he used were larger than this.

At this time, Zhao Jun came over from behind and said to Li Baoyu: "Baoyu, as long as you are hunting a living creature, you have to calculate the lead time, it still has to run."

"Yeah, yeah." Li Baoyu nodded and accepted humbly. He took out the knife from his pocket, slit the squirrel's throat, held it upside down to control the blood, and then stuffed it into his shoulder pocket.

"Brother." Li Baoyu suddenly said to Zhao Jun: "We brothers have to find a way to get some money?"

Li Baoyu was short of money when buying a dog yesterday, which made Li Baoyu want to make money.

When Zhao Jun heard this, he knew that he was focused on squirrel skin. This squirrel skin was more valuable than round leather, costing dozens of yuan per piece.

Zhao Jun thought for a while and said, "Let's see how many we can play today."

"Okay!" Li Baoyu nodded and began to search nearby.

The two slingshot sounds just now must have scared away all the squirrels within a hundred meters.

But don't forget, Li Baoyu is still looking for pine tree holes to dig out pine nuts and hazelnuts.

Not to mention, Li Baoyu actually found a tree hole. Li Baoyu looked inside and made sure there was no squirrel inside, so he stretched out his hand to catch it.

But the tree hole was not big. Li Baoyu could reach in with his hand and take it out with his bare hands.

But if you grab a handful of squirrel's winter food and your hands bulge, and you try to take it out again, you won't be able to take it out.

"Brother, come here." Li Baoyu released his hand, pulled his free hand out of the hole, and called Zhao Jun: "You have small hands."

Zhao Jun:......

The squirrels don't store all their food in one place, but those little guys have been busy all autumn, which is quite a lot.

From this hole, Zhao Jun took out nearly a pound of pine nuts, more than half a pound of hazelnuts, and seventeen or eight pecans.

"Is there any more?" Li Baoyu asked behind Zhao Jun, holding the sack with both hands.

"Leave some for others." Zhao Jun said angrily: "They've all been picked away, shouldn't they starve to death?"

"Didn't you beat it to death? What else did it eat?" Li Baoyu replied, but said no more, threw the sack aside, and walked away with Zhao Jun.

The two wandered around in the surrounding woods for a long time, and found a few more squirrels, but failed to shoot them several times. Zhao Jun wanted to pick up his gun, but after thinking about it, he held back.

However, the squirrel was not hunted, but he took out five squirrel nests. There were seven or eight kilograms of nuts in the sack, which made Li Baoyu smile from ear to ear.

"This gray rat is difficult to fight." Zhao Jun looked around and said to Li Baoyu.

"Yeah." Li Baoyu nodded and said, "How about we put some pressure on it?"

"Where can we fix that thing?" Zhao Jun said: "After the new year, we both have to go to the forest farm. I go to work and you learn to drive. How can you have time to slide your car every day?"

"That's true." Li Baoyu said, "I'm still thinking that we two brothers can save some money."

"Save money..." Zhao Jun asked: "Last time I skinned the wild boar, my aunt asked someone to make skis for us. When will we be able to make it..."

As soon as he said this, Li Baoyu suddenly raised his arm. Zhao Jun followed his gaze and saw a small birch tree between the two large red pines over there.

Two squirrels climbed up the trunk and stood side by side on a branch.

Li Baoyu looked back at Zhao Jun. Zhao Jun blinked and the two raised their hands in a tacit understanding.

Li Baoyu on the left took aim at the squirrel on the left, while Zhao Jun on the right took aim at the squirrel on the right.

The moment the two men raised the slingshot, the rubber band was fully stretched, and they heard two pops!