It was impossible to keep all four wolves, but Li Long hoped that as many as possible would stay.
So he has to choose a target first.
The smallest of the four wolves ran faster and faster, without much vigilance at all. He ran directly to the piece of wild boar meat closest to him, and then gnawed it hard.
In this long time, the meat has been frozen hard, and there is a thick layer of ice on it. Even though the wolf teeth are hard and sharp, it is impossible to bite the meat into the mouth for a while, so The little wolf was so anxious that he bit and barked at the same time.
The other three wolves were not as impatient as he was. They looked left and right as they ran. When the little wolf started to eat, they were still twenty or thirty meters away from the wild boar meat.
At this time, a wolf stopped and sniffed around, seeming to smell something that alerted him. His ears were raised high and he growled lowly.
The other two wolves also slowed down, but when they saw the little wolf gnawing desperately on something, they stopped doing so much and sped up and ran towards their target.
"It's you!" Li Long's gun immediately aimed at the stopped wolf - Li Long was the most confident when shooting at a fixed target.
Head!
Let’s get a good skin first!
Less than a hundred meters away, with a slight dim light, Li Long glanced behind the wolf's ear and pulled the trigger.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
After the shot, Li Long immediately held the gun and shot it again. The wolf tilted and fell to the ground. In the snow.
The other two wolves whose mouths just landed on the meat were immediately frightened and ran away wildly to both sides. Li Long didn't even look at them, and adjusted the muzzle of his gun to aim at the other little wolf - the greedy one. Guy, I guess you won’t run away so quickly!
Sure enough, the little wolf had successfully chewed up the meat from the ground. Only the wire was still connected to the frozen stone. Although the little wolf heard the gunshot, he was reluctant to part with the piece of meat in his mouth and planned to eat it together. He was taken away, but there was a wire attached to it, and the beast screamed anxiously - before he saw one of his companions, he had already fallen to the ground.
"Bang!"
Li Long shot it and sent it to meet its companions.
Seeing Li Long put away the gun after three shots, Li Junfeng couldn't wait to ask:
"Uncle Xiaolong, how are you?"
"Both ends. Let's go out and have a look!" Li Long said with a smile while holding a gun, "It's not bad, the bait you made is very effective."
"Hehehehe!" Li Junfeng was praised. Li Junshan and Li Junshan both laughed.
Pushing open the door and going out, the sun has already set on the top of the mountain in the west, and the chill in the air is getting heavier. But at this time, the three of them were very excited and walked together in the direction where the wolf fell.
The little wolf still had meat in its mouth and refused to rest in peace.
In order to ensure death with one blow, Li Long hit Xiaolong on the chest. The wolf skin was damaged, but overall it was still good.
"This wolf is not big, almost like a dog." It was the first time for Li Junshan to see a wolf at such a close distance. He was a little curious and said after looking at it, "It looks strangely thin."
"It snowed heavily. , maybe I haven’t caught anything to eat recently, so I’m so greedy, otherwise You won't be killed by me." Li Long kicked the little wolf and said, "Skin it later, let's go, there is another wolf."
The other wolf is twenty or thirty meters away. , it didn’t bleed much, but the nearby snow was pushed away, and it seemed that it struggled for a while after falling.
“This wolf is bigger.” Li Junfeng commented, “It is also fatter, weighing seventy or eighty pounds!”
Li Junfeng came from his hometown, although he was selling fish a few days ago. Kilogram, but I am still used to using jin verbally.
"Almost." Li Long said, "Pull it back. It's a dead end, but it must be skinned and disemboweled as soon as possible, otherwise it will be the same as that wild boar."
With that said, Li Junfeng and Li Junshan They immediately dragged each other to the wooden house with a wolf.
Li Long put down his gun, took the skinning knife, and started skinning the big wolf.
The wolf's body was not hard yet. Li Junfeng and Li Junshan each pulled the two legs on one side to attack Li Long. They were quite envious when they saw Li Long moving so quickly.
It took Li Long about ten minutes to peel off the wolf's skin and then disembowel it. Now that there were two people helping him, he no longer worried about the food getting frozen, and since it was winter again, the meat could be stored easily, so he asked the two people to wash the stomach and intestines while he started skinning the other wolf cub.
By the time the two wolves were almost treated, the sky had already darkened.
Seeing that there was no moon in the sky, Li Long said to Li Junshan and Li Junfeng:
"Let's heat up the remaining steamed buns at night, fry the innards and eat them, and then Rest. You will bring the wolf meat back tomorrow morning." "Uncle Xiaolong, don't you want to keep it here?" Li Junshan asked.
“I’ll just leave a leg here.” Li Long said with a smile, “As long as the gun is there, there will be no shortage of meat.”
"Uncle Xiaolong, I really envy you!" Li Junfeng said sincerely, "If you want to eat fish, you can get so many fish. If you want to eat meat, you can go up the mountain with a gun to eat meat, and you can also make money..."
"Haha, aren't you rich now?" Li Long said with a smile, "When you go back to your hometown, you will also be the envy of others."
"That's true. Yes, I will buy a bicycle when I get back!" Li Junfeng has already thought about it, "I will buy new clothes for each of my family members and buy some fine food for the children. I think Juanjuan and Qiangqiang are very tall. , My aunt said I eat fine grains and meat..."
When you become a father, you will subconsciously want to leave the best things to your children. It is human nature.
"Uncle Xiaolong, why don't we just leave the wild boar meat alone?" Li Junshan asked while eating.
"No matter." Li Long waved his hand, "It won't stink so much when it's frozen. When spring comes next year, I'll go down the mountain. After that thing melts, it will either rot in the ground or be eaten by other things. No need. Take care of it."
After eating and cleaning up, he added lumps of coal to the stove and pressed it with a shovel. Li Long went out and got No. 76 into the cabin. He now feels that when spring starts tomorrow, the wooden house will need to be expanded, and a shed or something will have to be built for No. 76, otherwise it will be difficult to live in the winter.
Of course, in order to prevent No. 76 from destroying other things in the house, he tightened No. 76's reins so that the range of movement was much smaller.
The three of them slept together on the wooden kang in the big room for one night. "Uncle Xiaolong, do you think something will come over in the middle of the night?" Li Junfeng suddenly asked again not long after he fell asleep.
"Isn't it possible?" Li Long was almost asleep, and said vaguely, "How can there be so many things in this mountain?"
As he said that, he turned over and continued to sleep.
Li Junfeng was a little unconvinced. He always felt that those wild boar meats should also be a great temptation for other carnivores in the forest.
He wanted to see it.
I can’t sleep if I have something on my mind. Li Junfeng patted Li Junshan and asked him to sleep in the middle while he slept on the outside. Then he would get up from time to time to take a look.
He didn't make much movement, but he didn't wake up Li Long and Li Junshan.
In his sleep, Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia were holding hands and chatting, when they heard Li Junfeng's urgent voice:
"Uncle Xiaolong, Uncle Xiaolong!"
Li Long climbed up all of a sudden, looked at Li Junfeng calling him anxiously from the bedside, and asked:
"What's wrong Junfeng?"
"There...that meat, there's something there!" Li Junfeng pointed to the window.
Li Long looked at the dimly lit window and asked, "What did you see?"
"I don't know, the sky is too dark, so I can't see what it is." Li Junfeng Shaking his head, "I think there are several, but they are not big!"
Li Long climbed up, put on his coat, buttoned the collar, took the gun to the window and looked out.
It was still dark in the room. Although there was no moon outside, the sky was brighter. Against the background of the snow, Li Long could barely see the places where the frozen meat was originally placed. There were indeed a few that were not there at the moment. Something big is moving.
He took aim with the gun, then shook his head and said:
"It's not accurate, it's too dark."
As he said that, he planned to go back to sleep.
But Li Junfeng suddenly said:
"Uncle Xiaolong, do you want me to try?"
"You know how to shoot?" Li Long asked in surprise.
"How can we not fight? I am also a militiaman!"
"Okay." Li Long stretched the muzzle of the gun out of the window, and then handed the butt of the gun to Li Junfeng. Watching from the side.
Li Junfeng was a little excited, holding the gun and aiming over there.
To be honest, Li Long didn't believe he could hit those guys - they were probably foxes, but it wasn't clear.
This thing is definitely not easy to fight, after all, the sky is too dark.
Li Junfeng took aim for a full two minutes before firing, two shots in one shot.
Li Junshan was startled. Li Junfeng handed the gun to Li Long and said a little uncertainly:
“I don’t know whether he was hit or not...”
"Let's go and take a look." Li Long had already buttoned his clothes and said, "I have a flashlight here, go out and take a look."
Although it could be seen that those gadgets should not pose any threat to the three adults, Li Long still went out with his gun.
Li Junfeng and Li Junshan whispered about what they had just seen.
Li Long was holding a flashlight, Li Junfeng was holding a flashlight, and Li Junshan was holding a stick.
When the three people walked into the snow, they found that there was nothing left there except the wild boar meat that had been ripped open.
“It looks like it’s not hit.” Li Long waved his hand and said, “Okay, let’s go back to sleep.”
Li Junfeng still didn't give up. He rummaged in the snow for a long time, but finally found nothing. He followed Li Long back to the cabin a little dejectedly.
The next day, Li Junshan got up the earliest. As soon as he got up, he turned on the stove and prepared to boil water.
Li Long also got up. He put on his clothes and went out. The air outside was very chilly, but it made his mind clear in an instant. The three of them stayed together that night, and the air in the room smelled very bad, so they kept the door open for ventilation.
Li Long ran to the spring and came back with a bucket of water, and washed his face with cold water in the house. He went to the small room again, cut off a leg of the wolf meat processed yesterday and hung it up. The remaining meat was moved to the carriage outside - No. 76 also took it out.
No. 76, who had been depressed in the house all night, screamed several times in protest. Li Long ignored his protest and got some fodder for him to eat.
After a brief meal, Li Junfeng and Li Junshan hitched up the carriage and went down the mountain.
Li Long told them that when they sold out the fish, he would lead the carriage up again, and then he would decide whether to go down or stay in the mountains.
At that time, if you have to catch something, you can also pull it down the mountain.
After Li Junfeng and Li Junshan left, Li Long began to clean the small room. After cleaning, he added coal to the stove in the big room, kneaded the dough, and prepared to make some steamed buns.
If you put this thing in the house, it can be used as a food reserve at any time.
He wanted to make as many preparations as possible before Harimu and the others came. (End of this chapter)