The whole mountain is my hunting ground

With two crisp sounds, two squirrels fell from the tree. One of them seemed to have his back broken. He struggled to run, but was pinned to the snow by Zhao Jun, who had quick eyes and quick hands.

Li Baoyu went over, bled them one by one, and then put them in his pocket.

Then, the two men continued to search in the forest, but they searched for a full hour and never saw another squirrel.

Li Baoyu came around from the east to join Zhao Jun. His first words were: "Can't we just let Boss Lao take them away?"

Zhao Jun shook his head and said, "That's it for hitting with a slingshot. That thing is very sharp. When they hear the noise, they all get excited."

Li Baoyu nodded, patted his shoulder bag, and said with a smile: "We can make more than 100 yuan for the three of us today."

"Yeah." Zhao Jun responded: "You still have to pay for more than ten kilograms of gray rat food."

It turned out that in more than an hour, they dug out three more squirrel nests, and now there were almost fifteen or six kilograms of nuts in Li Baoyu's sack.

"Go back." Seeing that the sun was about to shine, Zhao Jun knew it was time to go home. He greeted Li Baoyu, put away his slingshot and walked back.

The two of them returned along the same route. Zhao Jun remembered something on the way and asked, "I didn't finish what I just said. When will our skis be made?"

"I don't know." Li Baoyu thought for a while and then said, "I guess it will be after the new year."

"The day lilies are already cold!" Zhao Jun was helpless. He originally wanted to use wild boar skins to make two pairs of skis so that he could take Li Baoyu up to the foot of the mountain to hold the big skins.

Dapi is the skin of sable.

Sables are very individual. They only eat red food and do not eat dead food.

Therefore, if you want to catch it, you cannot bait it. You can only catch it in winter, after the snow has fallen in the mountains.

Go up on your skis, find the place where the sable passed by, and hollow out the surface of the snow to make room for a clip.

Doesn't this collapse?

Not collapsed.

In the Northeast, the weather is cold and freezing, and the snow can also freeze.

With a certain thickness of snow, the surface layer will be frozen hard, like a hard crust.

Where there are sable footprints, pull the snow away from the side, and then dig out the snow under the sable footprints from the side. As long as you are careful not to touch the frozen layer above, it will not collapse.

Rats have rat ways, snakes have snake ways.

Sables walk back and forth along this path, following the footprints left by the past.

Set a clamp underneath, and wait for the sable to pass by again. The layer of frozen snow will not collapse normally, but it will collapse if it is stepped on by the sable.

In this way, the sable falls on the clamp.

That sable skin is one of the three treasures of the Northeast, and it is much more valuable than squirrel skin.

Zhao Jun was anxious to make money, but his purpose was different from that of Li Baoyu. He had nothing to spend money on, he just wanted to get more money, even if his mother took it away.

Because he made money and kept it for Wang Meilan's emergency needs.

But it seems that the big leather cannot be clipped. Once the skis are made, if you want to clip the big leather, you will have to wait until next winter.

Zhao Jun remembered that Wang Meilan died suddenly of illness at the end of September 1987, on the way back from a big market.

At that time, she said she had a heartache, and Zhao Jun carried her on his back for a while out of filial piety.

When they arrived at the bridge, they asked Wang Meilan to sit on the pier and rest for a while, but after taking a break, Wang Meilan never got up again.

In the end, Zhao Jun didn't know what kind of disease his mother had. Some people also said that if he hadn't carried him on his back on that stretch of road, he might not have died.

Zhao Jun doesn't want to think about this now. He just wants to prepare more money for my mother and some special medicine for the heart in the mountains.

"Baoyu." Zhao Jun asked Li Baoyu, "Do you know anyone who has an antler key?"

"Ah?" After hearing Zhao Jun's question, Li Baoyu turned his head, looked at Zhao Jun, and asked, "Brother, are you going to dig ginseng?"

Seeing that Li Baoyu guessed his purpose, Zhao Jun was not surprised, because the antler key was used to dig ginseng.

"Well, I think I have nothing to do in autumn. I will take you to dig ginseng."

"You can make money from this!" Li Baoyu's eyes lit up when he heard this. Ginseng is not like bear bile and has to be dried in the shade.

You can dig that thing out and sell it off the mountain, and it's still valuable.

However, what makes Li Baoyu difficult is, "Brother, that guy is someone who eats. No one lends it to him, and he usually doesn't sell it."

"Then ask around who can do it."

"Do it?" This time, Li Baoyu looked at Zhao Jun in surprise: "What are you doing? Do we have antlers?"

Zhao Jun glanced at him and then remembered that this boy drank too much at Zhang Yuanmin's house the day before yesterday. He couldn't even remember what he said to Zhang Yuanmin.

Zhao Jun explained to him and said: "Brother Zhang said that he knows how to medicine deer. Let's go with him to medicine deer in the spring. Wouldn't that mean trimming the antlers?"

You should ask around first to see if there is any old man who can make deer antler keys. If not, give him some wages. "

"Ah, okay." Li Baoyu responded, but then asked: "Which Brother Zhang is it?"

"Brother Zhang, did you forget that you ate eight dishes and drank five delicacies and three courses at someone else's house the day before yesterday?"

"Open your crotch wider." Li Baoyu suddenly realized what he was about to say, but suddenly he was startled, and as far as he could see, he saw a row of tiny footprints on the snow.

Li Baoyu ran forward two steps and knelt down to look.

"What?" Zhao Jun came over and asked. They were a series of small footprints. Zhao Jun was too lazy to take a closer look.

"It shouldn't be yellow skin." Li Baoyu muttered. The small footprints were similar to those of a weasel, but when the two went up the mountain from here in the morning, there were no such footprints.

In other words, this footprint was left not long ago.

But weasels are nocturnal, so this cannot be a weasel.

Zhao Jun bent down and took a look, reached out and patted Li Baoyu and said, "Let's go, ignore them."

After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Li Baoyu knew that he had seen what kind of animal this was, so he stood up and asked, "Brother, what is this?"

"Here..." Zhao Jun was about to answer when he vaguely heard the screams of animals. He straightened his neck and listened.

At this time, Li Baoyu also heard it, and the two looked at each other and walked to the bottom of the ditch.

The two of them walked down and saw a roe deer jumping left and right below.

Judging from the size of the roe deer, it must weigh more than eighty pounds, but it was surrounded by several small animals in the center.

Roe deer are said to fly on the snow, and even dogs can’t surround them in winter.

But today, in this ditch and pond, four small animals that looked like little foxes and were not much bigger than weasels had trapped the roe deer.

They are extremely fast, much faster than dogs, but never as fast as roe deer.

But they were so good at cooperating. Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu watched the roe deer leap out of the encirclement, but the four small animals instantly dispersed, with two following and two taking shortcuts from left and right to pursue them.

In just ten seconds, the roe deer were surrounded, and then the two following them pounced on the roe deer, clasped their sharp claws on the roe deer's body, fixed themselves on the roe deer, and then opened their mouths to bite.

One bit the back of the roe deer's neck, and the other bit the roe deer's belly.

The roe deer instantly let out a shrill cry, which was so sad that Li Baoyu was shocked.