When the group of people slowly reached the entrance of the cave, Li Long's breathing became quieter and he stepped even more cautiously. He was afraid that there was something in the cave. If he heard the movement and suddenly ran out, it would be a bad thing if he and the others couldn't stop it. .
Li Junshan, Tao Daqiang and others also knew that this was a critical moment. The four of them spread out behind Li Long, holding sticks in their hands in a state of alert. This was the first time they followed a hunt like this. They felt excited, nervous, and scared. If the prey comes out and runs away from you, it will be a shame for you.
“There’s something inside!” Li Long just paused at the entrance of the cave and heard a slight movement inside. He immediately said, “Follow me, if it’s a deer or a sheep, you guys Just hit or pounce on them, knock them down, and it’s best to catch them alive! If it’s a wolf or something like that, take a stick, protect yourself, and run away!”
As soon as these words came out! He said that everyone understood that Li Long was protecting them and paying attention to their safety. Yang Yongqiang smiled and said:
"Brother Long, you are looking down on us! Anyway, the four of us have It’s a stick, if something is going to happen, you have to hit it with a stick first! The wolf is just bigger than the dog, why are we afraid of it with so many people?”
"That's it!" Although Li Junshan felt a little unhappy that Yang Yongqiang had taken away his words, Yang Yongqiang said exactly what he was thinking.
Uncle Xiaolong, you underestimate us too!
"Okay then, just follow along." Li Long stopped talking and walked inside with his gun in hand.
The smell in the cave is still very strong. The smell of urine, the animal's own body odor, and the mixed smell caused by the lack of air circulation are a bit harsh on the eyes.
Li Long couldn't care less. He squinted his eyes, trying to adapt to the light in the cave, and then scanned the space where things might be hidden.
No, it should be at the bottom of the cave.
Continuing to walk forward, Li Long reminded others to pay attention to their steps. When he entered, the first thing he saw was a deer head.
Li Long subconsciously picked up the gun. The deer was behind the stone. When he saw Li Long, he subconsciously took a step back and then barked. The screams were full of fear and helplessness.
Then there was another deer call. Li Long changed his direction and looked away from the stone. Then he found something that surprised him - another deer was lying on the ground, underneath it. A wolf was pressed down, and the wolf's mouth was tightly biting the deer's neck, and the two sides were wrestling.
Deer are much larger and stronger than wolves, but the herbivores themselves are not very aggressive, and the female deer has no antlers, and the wolf is ferocious, biting its neck and not letting go, this deer The wolf and the wolf had a stalemate.
The deer head I saw earlier was a fawn. It was circling around anxiously, not knowing how to help its mother. Occasionally, it stepped on the wolf's hoof, but was scared back by the wolf.
The wolf's mouth was biting the deer's neck, but its body was helplessly pressed by the deer. It wanted to exert force but could not move. It could only exhale through its nose and make a muffled sound to scare the deer.
When it saw Li Long, it suddenly panicked and opened its mouth. As soon as the doe's neck was free, she struggled to stand up, took two steps back and joined the fawn - said It's a fawn, its head is bigger than that of a roe deer, but it's just smaller than a female elk.
When Li Long saw the wolf relenting, he raised his gun and shot. The wolf reacted quickly. When the doe got up, it scurried into the cracks in the rocks. Unfortunately, Li Long's gun was faster and he shot the wolf with one shot. Shot in the spine and again in the head, the wolf died on the spot.
The space was too small, and the sound of gunshots reverberated inside and made my ears hurt. Tao Daqiang immediately shouted from behind:
"Brother Long, what's going on?"
"It's okay, kill a wolf. Come here, there are two deer here..."
Li Long doesn't know yet that the female elk deer was killed by the wolf. The bite was serious or not, so he did not step forward, but stared at the two deer, waiting for the people behind to come up.
Tao Daqiang and four other people came to Li Long and saw two deer. Li Junfeng subconsciously exclaimed:
“This deer is really big!”
"Red deer, aren't they just like horses? The female is smaller and the male is bigger!" Li Long said with a smile, "Let's keep a close watch and capture these two alive."
< br>"What about the wolf?" Li Junfeng was concerned about the wolf at the moment.
"Well, it's dead." Li Long pointed to the position of the wolf and said, "Don't worry about it. Let's catch the deer first. Catch the two deer and go back to our pen. But there is something to support.”
"Then Uncle Luo is going to be busy." Yang Yongqiang smiled, "It's not easy to raise these two deer."
"It's okay, I still raise two deer in the summer. The two of them together should be more Easy to raise. ”
While talking, the four people had thrown away their sticks and replaced them with ropes, and slowly approached the two deer.
"Junshan Yongqiang, you two catch the small deer. Daqiang Junfeng, the three of us will catch the big deer." Li Long ordered, "Press him down and tie him with a rope - Daqiang, you can catch the big deer." Halt?"
"Yes!" Tao Daqiang nodded.
A rope is knotted and tied to look like a halter. This way, the animal's mouth is not easy to break free, and it does not strangle the animal like a neck lasso.
"Then you put on two halters." Li Long ordered again.
While talking, Li Junshan and Yang Yongqiang had already approached the fawn from the left. The fawn was afraid and approached the doe. The doe was also frightened, but she still held her mouth open and made sounds, and kicked her hooves under her feet, trying to threaten.
However, this threat was of no use at all. Li Long and Li Junfeng approached the doe and directly forced the two deer into a corner.
Nothing left to do. When the four people rushed over and pressed on him, the deer began to struggle violently.
“This deer is so powerful!” Li Junfeng was kicked by the doe, and the outside of his thigh hurt. He sighed, “One person may not be able to hold it down!”
"Okay, let's put on the halter." The deer was held down without much struggle. It may not have learned the skills of survival and resistance. Li Long was also thinking, is this wolf stupid? Instead of choosing such a good target, I chose that big deer.
Otherwise, the deer would have been killed long ago, right?
I don’t know if this wolf is the last one in the group of wolves that I sniped and killed. If so, then the group will really be reunited.
The two deer were put on halters, and Li Long went over to check the injury on the doe’s neck.
There are four deep tooth holes and two rows of shallower tooth marks. As the doe moves, blood will flow out, but not a lot.
Fortunately, the aorta was not damaged, so I should be able to survive. Li Long walked over again and picked up the wolf.
There was nothing else in the cave, and Li Long was the last one to come out.
The doe was used to being free, so how could it be allowed to be held by humans? After leaving the hole, it refused to cooperate. It shook its head vigorously, trying to get rid of the rope, and at the same time, it kept kicking its hooves, thinking Attack the person next to you.
On the contrary, the fawn seemed to be frightened just now and was very calm. Li Junshan held it, and it was basically very obedient. It only barked occasionally and followed its mother closely.
"Daqiang, you and Junfeng can capture that doe. Yongqiang, help me here and we'll skin the wolf."
"Okay!" Yang Yongqiang was naturally happy to do this job. He came over with a smile and helped Li Long carry the wolf.
Li Junfeng pursed his lips. In fact, he wanted to do this job. But he was holding the big deer, so it was hard to leave this job to others.
The two deer were led to the carriage. Li Long thought that if the doe still refused to cooperate, he would tie them up and throw them into the carriage.
Fortunately, when we got here, and between two big men, the doe was so tempered that she had no choice but to accept it and follow lazily.
The deer was quite happy. He was very curious when he saw the carriage and even smelled it when he came to the carriage.
Li Long found a piece of flat land next to the carriage, asked Yang Yongqiang to put the wolf down, and started skinning the wolf here.
“Why don’t you take it back and peel it off?” Li Junfeng was a little confused.
"It stinks when we go back." Tao Daqiang explained, "The wolf's body is still soft now, so it's just right to peel the skin."
Li Long peels the skin quickly, and three times five times divides two, and the wolf's skin is Peel off the skin and disembowel. Anyway, the leather was just scraps of skin, and he didn't care if there was some oil or meat on it.
In just a moment, the wolf's skin began to harden after being peeled off, but after being disemboweled, the contents in the belly were still steaming.
Li Long immediately took out the intestines from his stomach and planned to throw them away. Seeing his actions, Li Junshan hurriedly stopped him:
"Uncle Xiaolong, don't waste it! Wash this thing when you go home, it's delicious - then But it’s all meat!”
Li Long thought about it too. , he poked a hole in it with a knife, and Yang Yongqiang squeezed the shit inside and poured it into the snow. Then he spread the wolf skin on the carriage, and the meat and internal organs were placed on the wolf skin, and Li Long carried it on his back. The gun led the carriage, and Li Junfeng and Li Junshan led the two deer and walked toward the wooden house together.
"Uncle Xiaolong, are you going back to the village today?" Li Junshan suddenly asked.
"Go back." Li Long thought for a while and said, "I have to go back. If I don't go back, I will become a savage."
"Hahahaha." Several people laughed.
"This place is really nice!" Yang Yongqiang suddenly said, "There are usually deer hidden in the cave. If you come here from time to time, you can often hunt things."
"Not necessarily." Li Long waved his hand, "Last time I waited for a long time and didn't get anything. It also depends on luck."
That's the fact.
"Uncle Xiaolong, where do you usually hunt?" Li Junfeng pulled the disobedient doe and asked as he walked.
"It's all over the mountains." Li Long adjusted the direction of his horse. "My herdsmen friends can point me to some places where I have seen wild animals, but they may not be there if I go there. There are indeed many things in the mountains. I saw a group of yellow sheep last time, but it’s hard to say whether they could be hunted. "
"It's easy to pry rabbits in the red willow beach on the east side of the team." Yang Yongqiang understood and said with a smile, "It's snowing now, so it's easy to pry rabbits... "
A few people walked towards the wooden house talking and laughing. In order to facilitate the movement of the carriage, Li Long had to turn around a lot, but there was nothing he could do about it. After all, he was in the mountains, so it would be difficult for the carriage to move.
When he arrived at the wooden house, Li Long asked:
"Go back after eating, or should you go back now?"
"Let's go back after eating?" Li Junfeng was a little tired after being led all the way. "Otherwise, I won't be able to walk even halfway." This was a walk back, and Li Long estimated that it would be dark by the time he got home.
"Okay, there's still fire in the stove and meat in the pot. Let's eat something before we leave."
The two deer and horses are tied up. Li Long doesn't need to cook. Go ahead and take care of it. He took the last wolf's head and placed it on the wolf head table, poured water on it and froze it layer by layer. Li Junshan was washing his stomach and intestines at the spring, while Tao Daqiang and Yang Yongqiang were cooking, each with their own division of labor.
After finishing the wolf head, Li Long went to the small room, and together with Li Junfeng, he put the previously decomposed meat into bags and piled it on the carriage. Stack the skins and put them at the bottom so they don't take up space.
Li Junfeng saw the two pieces of colored rock salt and asked curiously:
"Uncle Xiaolong, what is this?"
"Salt." Li Long took a look and continued to pack things. The meat alone filled four big bags, which was a lot.
"Salt?" Li Junfeng was a little doubtful, "It looks beautiful, isn't it a baby?"
"Lick it." Li Long smiled, it was strange that Junfeng could think Miles.
Li Junfeng really licked it. Although he believed it, he still couldn’t understand:
"Such a big piece of salt...how can this be salt?"
After putting things away, the meal was almost ready. Several people laughed and started eating.
As he was about to go down the mountain, Li Long wondered if he had to fix his face? These days, I feel like a hairy person! (End of this chapter)