The whole mountain is my hunting ground

November 17, 1987.

This morning, Wang Meilan woke up just after three o'clock. She got dressed and went to the ground, lit the stove first, and poured a few ladles of water into the cauldron before washing herself.

By the time she finished wiping her face, the water in the large pot was already warm. Wang Meilan fished out five large pieces of bear meat from the large water basin next to the stove pit and put it into the pot.

Unlike wild boars, bears have very little lean meat and most of it is fat. But no matter how old the bear is, the lean meat on its body is still alive but not firewood.

After blanching the bear meat four times, Wang Meilan scooped out water, put green onions and ginger in it, and then put the bear meat into the pot.

Then, Wang Meilan went out carrying the water for frying bear meat and called Jin Xiaomei through the wall.

Jin Xiaomei came out of the house, took the bucket and carried it into the house.

This morning, Wang Meilan didn't light the stove outside. She had bear meat stewed in the house and couldn't put dog food in it, so the task fell on Jin Xiaomei.

The water used to blanch bear meat is oily and has a flavor, so it is better to use it for dog food than plain water.

After Wang Meilan returned to the house, she went to the bowl rack and scooped out two bowls of soybeans, then took them out to exchange for tofu.

In exchange for soybean curd, Wang Meilan called Jin Xiaomei again across the wall and gave half of the soybean curd to Jin Xiaomei.

When Wang Meilan entered the house again, Zhao Youcai had already gotten up and was adding firewood to the stove pit.

Seeing Wang Meilan come in, Zhao Youcai said, "Why did you get up so early?"

If it's summer, it's normal to wake up at three or four o'clock.

But in this winter, why are you getting up so early?

Especially the Zhao Family Gang is not like their Zhao Family Hunting Gang. They rely on their legs for encirclement, so they have to start early. But when people want to besieged, they all go by car.

"I got up and folded the meat." Wang Meilan said, putting the basin of tofu on the stove and said, "I'll mix the tofu after a while."

"What did I say?" Zhao Youcai said, "What kind of meat are you eating so early in the morning?"

Zhao Youcai said this not because he couldn't eat meat when he got up early. For mountain people these days, eating fat meat in the morning is not a problem. Zhao Youcai simply felt sorry for Wang Meilan getting up too early.

"Oh!" Wang Meilan said with a smile: "My son and the others are doing a big job today, can't I provide them with logistical support?"

"Where did you learn these words?" Zhao Youcai rolled his eyes, went into the east room to get some toilet paper, took it out and went to the latrine.

At about half past four, Zhao Jun and Jie Chen also woke up.

While getting dressed, Jie Chen stretched out his sleeves, pointed to the sleeping Li Ruhai next to him, and said to Zhao Jun: "This child doesn't stop talking even before going to bed!"

Zhao Jun smiled when he heard this. The child talked in his sleep and kept talking.

The two got dressed and went to the ground. Zhao Jun went to the door and picked up the little lynx and left the house.

After washing, Jie Chen took toilet paper and went out to meet Zhao Youcai, while Zhao Jun pulled a small bench and sat next to the stove.

In front of him was a large basin with pieces of bear meat pulled out of the clear water.

Zhao Jun took a knife and cut off a thin slice of bear meat that was as wide as a finger and half a handful long. He called the little lynx over and handed the strip of meat to its mouth.

The little lynx sniffed and sniffed, but did not take a bite, then looked up at Zhao Jun.

Black bears have a special smell, and some dogs don't even eat black bear meat.

"Eat!" Zhao Jun shouted softly, and the little lynx raised its head and took the piece of meat into its mouth.

The little lynx kept biting the meat into its mouth, and the piece of meat was quickly eaten.

Zhao Jun cut off another piece and fed it. Wang Meilan saw the little lynx eating bear meat and couldn't help but ask: "My son, if you feed it like this, it won't bite the little black cub?"

"No, Mom." Zhao Jun chuckled and reached out to touch the little lynx's head.

Although the little black bear didn't take a bath when it got home, Zhao Jun wiped it with a towel from time to time.

Over the past few days, the scent of the mother black bear on the cub has dissipated. In addition, due to Zhao Hong's "education", the little lynx no longer bites the little black bear.

At around five o'clock, Li Ruhai also got up.

At this time, Wang Meilan fished out the bear meat that had been left for nearly two hours. Place it on the cutting board and cut it into pieces like braised pork. Then heat the oil in a pan and braise the bear meat.

More than twenty minutes later, the braised bear meat came out of the pot. Wang Meilan served two bowls, one bowl for Zhao Jun to send next door, and the other bowl for Jie Chen to send to his mother and the old lady.

Zhao Jun took the bowl and shouted outside. Jin Xiaomei came out of the house holding a plate and a bowl in both hands.

Zhao Jun gave the meat to Jin Xiaomei, and Jin Xiaomei gave the plate and bowl to Zhao Jun.

The plate was filled with blanched frozen cabbage, and the bowl was filled with fried egg sauce.

Frozen cabbage is what is not left in the ground in autumn. After it is frozen, you can cut it off, blanch it in water and eat it with sauce. It has a unique taste.

When Zhao Jun entered the room carrying plates and bowls, Li Ruhai had already set the table.

Seeing Wang Meilan coming in with the dishes and Zhao Youcai carrying the rice bowl, Li Ruhai, who was "living under someone else's roof", hurriedly took the plates and basins from their hands one by one.

After Zhao Youcai sat down cross-legged on the kang, Li Ruhai said to Wang Meilan with a smile: "Madam, after dinner, I will go out to discuss the old cow's affairs."

Li Ruhai's words attracted Zhao Youcai's eyes, but Li Ruhai didn't see it.

Sharp-eyed Zhao Jun glanced at Zhao Youcai and then at Li Ruhai.

At this time, Wang Meilan gently pushed Li Ruhai to sit at the table, and then said to him: "Ruhai, please pay close attention to this matter. He bought the old cow and sent it back to our donkey, so that we can make tofu."

As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, Jie Chen came back from outside, and Wang Meilan invited everyone to eat.

After eating and drinking, Li Ruhai put down his chopsticks and left.

Then Zhao Youcai also put on his hat and went out, and he went to borrow a gun from Zhao Guofeng on behalf of Zhao Jun.

When Zhao Youcai came back and entered the courtyard, he happened to meet Li Baoyu who had climbed over the wall from the next door. The two of them entered the house one after the other. At this time, Zhao Jun and the ministers had already finished cleaning up.

After taking the gun from Zhao Youcai, Zhao Jun checked the things he needed to bring up the mountain.

Painkillers, hemostatics, bandages, two full bags and two magazines of bullets were all found to be fine after inspection. Zhao Jun put his bag on his shoulder, picked up a gun and walked out with Li Baoyu and Jie Chen.

The three of them went out to the yard and led all eleven dogs except Little Bear, Hualong and Huanglong out of the house and put them in the car.

In fact, today's fierce battle requires a little bear, but it was born in a few days, and now I can't go to the mountain to get it.

As for Hualong and Huanglong, when Hualong bit the wild boar the day before yesterday, Zhao Jun saw it opening its mouth. If he keeps training with the Dog Gang, Hualong's achievements will definitely exceed those in his previous life.

As for today's bear hunting, if it was a bear weighing two to three hundred pounds, Zhao Jun would lead it. After all, even if it was injured, hunting dogs had to go through this process.

But today the bear is too big. If the dog does not have certain experience, it will easily die in the mountains.

Therefore, Zhao Jun did not lead the Hualong and not the Huanglong based on this consideration. Furthermore, Huang Long is not used to hunting with the dog gang. What if he gets lost while chasing the bear?

"Let's go, Mom, Dad!" Outside the courtyard gate, Zhao Jun greeted Wang Meilan and Zhao Youcai before getting into the trunk of the car.

"Pay attention!" Wang Meilan warned, and she and Zhao Youcai watched the car drive away.

"Let's go back!" Zhao Youcai pulled Wang Meilan and said.

When the couple walked home, Wang Meilan murmured: "You said it would be great if you could ask for leave and follow."

Zhao Youcai: "..."

…

After picking up Zhang Yuanmin, the car drove all the way out of Yong'an and into the mountain range, carrying four people and eleven dogs and running to the foot of the mountain.

Just after seven o'clock, the car stopped at the foot of the mountain.

The four people put the dogs down from the car, each carrying a gun and leading the dogs up the mountain.

There are eleven dogs, and four people can't hold them at all, so they can only lead them up.

Along the way, the hunting dogs traveled east and west, catching a roe deer and chasing a hare from time to time, but all failed.

The four of them kept going all the way, and after two hours, they arrived at the stone pond area.

It hasn't stopped. After walking for so long, the hunting dogs are definitely not as excited as when they first entered the mountain. They are all following people at this time.

But when they arrived at the stone pond area, the black tiger that had been here yesterday must have thought of the big black bear, and it immediately raised its head and looked at Zhao Jun.

At this moment, a man and a dog happened to be facing each other. Zhao Jun waved his hand and shouted: "Go!"

Black Tiger let go and moved forward, heading straight for the big stone.

At this time, Big Fatty, Green Dragon, and Black Dragon also smelled the smell. They ran over after Black Tiger and sniffed the footprints and blood stains left by Black Bear.

This black bear must have run away. Apart from the footprints and blood stains on the ground, there is no smell of black bear in the air or mountain wind.

But the footprints were right in front of him, and the four-headed dogs followed them.

As soon as Big Fatty moved, Sanpang, Huamao and Hualang quickly followed. Seeing that the tabby cat and tabby wolf were gone, the rhubarb and the little flower who lived in the same courtyard with them also left people's side.

As for Erhei, this dog didn't know what happened, but it actually kept up with the black tiger.

As for the white dragon, although it was not following any dogs, it kept following the black bear's footprints and blood stains.

"Hurry up!" Zhao Jun rarely urges his companions, but today this black bear is extraordinary, otherwise he would not have gone to the Tunbu to borrow a semi-automatic tree.

The four of them passed through the stone pond belt and followed the footprints down the northern hill. After walking down for about a mile and a half, we took the northwest fork and went up the mountain again.

There is a poplar forest higher up the mountain. The bark of these poplar trees is the main food source of the red deer in winter.

But today, no deer dared to come near this poplar forest.

Under a big poplar tree, a big black bear nested against the roots of the tree. It was not sleeping, its lower mouth was trembling constantly, and it kept making low growls from its mouth.

On its sides, two bloody holes, one on the left and one on the right, had stopped bleeding, and the wounds were covered with blood-colored ice.

Just like when running, when the black bear's front legs are backward, its hind legs are forward, and its body is arched, the wounds on both sides will not spurt blood. Only when it stretched its body forward did the wounds on both sides spurt out blood.

Last night, the black bear kept its body in a nest, thus controlling the bleeding from both sides.

Suddenly the black bear raised its head, moved its nose slightly, and smelled the smell that disgusted it in the mountain wind.

In the past winter, Zhao Jun killed this kind of hunchback black bear. The few times he led the dog to chase it, the dog could always block the black bear that had not made its den.

But this bear is really different today. At this time, it is seven or eight miles away from Zhao Jun and others, but its sense of smell is too sensitive. When it distinguished the human scent from the mountain wind, the black bear immediately got up and dragged its injured body through the poplar forest.

There are no other trees in the poplar forest in the high mountains, and two kinds of plants must grow on the sunny side of the poplar forest.

One is the old thorn bud, and the other is the fire thorn.

You don’t need to know what they are. Just by looking at their names, you can tell that these two plants are not benevolent.

When a black bear lies in his den, he will always look for the sunny side. This is a habit and an iron rule!

Especially in winter, even if a black bear squats in a barn, the barn door must face the sun!

The old thorn buds, which are thicker than your thumb, grow to a height of three to five meters. Although the leaves fall off in winter, the thorns on them do not fall off.

The big black bear walked step by step, avoiding everything it passed, whether it was pricking old buds or burning seeds, it pushed everything down along the way.

When the big black bear walked into the woods, it heard the barking of dogs.

At this time, Big Fatty, Black Tiger, Green Dragon, and Black Dragon all smelled its scent, and the four-headed dogs began to speed up. Black Dragon and Black Tiger even opened their voices, leading the dog gang to chase the black bear.

The black bear who heard the dog barking actually started to run!

In other words, this bear is too abnormal.

Yesterday, Zhao Jun and others shot it with guns. This big black bear did not fight with guns like other bears. Instead, it ran away decisively after being shot in the body.

Now the dog came to chase him, and he ran away again.

In fact, whether it is a wild boar or a black bear, it is normal to run when being chased by a dog.

Even the big brown bear that Zhao Jun fought in Yongxing, which weighed nearly 1,300 kilograms, when it was chased by a dog, initially fled instead of fighting the dog.

But there is a prerequisite, that is, the bear is not injured.

Older people say: injured bears are dangerous.

Among the three conditions for a bear to actively attack people, one is that the bear is injured.

Not to mention the previous life, just this year, how many bears has Zhao Jun led his dogs around? Any injured bear that did not run away when surrounded by dogs or climb a tree would just start a fight.

But the bear got away!

But when it passed through the poplar forest, it was caught up by Black Tiger and Big Fat.

Along the way, the black dragon kept barking to gather the dogs, so even the old Dahuang was not left too far behind.

Less than two minutes later, on the flat area of ​​the high mountain, a big black bear ran forward. As it ran, it turned its head and looked left and right from time to time.

On both sides of it were hunting dogs.

Among these hunting dogs, even the young Qinglong and Black Dragon can be said to be well-informed.

The battles Zhao Jun fought with these dogs in the past half year were better than those fought by many hunting dogs in two or three years. Not to mention a tough fight, these dogs all know that they must not act rashly when facing such a large prey.

But during the run, each hound gave a demonstration cry to the black bear.

The barking of eleven dogs mixed together in a chaotic mess, causing the black bear to look around.

Seeing that we have reached the end of the gentle slope ahead, there is a steep ridge going up, and a fork to the southeast is the Dagang at the junction of Heilongjiang and Jiji provinces.

At this time, the black bear suddenly turned around, without any unnecessary movement, without standing up or raising its palms, it directly pounced on the black tiger.