Chapter 502 Big Harvest
When everyone heard Zhang An’s proposal, they all nodded in agreement.
Because there are indeed a lot of pheasants in the front group. If they can catch them all, it will increase their chances of winning a lot.
So everyone began to look around, looking for the most suitable place to set up the dragnet.
"How about we pull the net in the direction we came from? Everything else has to go uphill. Only the way we came here is a gap going down the mountain. Later we can sneak behind the chicken coop. Go and drive them this way, they will rush down the mountain desperately."
After comparing the surrounding area, Zhang Jianjun spoke first.
Pheasants cannot fly very high, so when frightened, it is impossible to fly to high places. They can only use the height difference to make a short flight.
So the place where everyone climbed up is the most suitable place for setting traps.
Others also knew this, so they quickly pulled up the two-sided net and used the straight fir trees next to it to block the way down the mountain.
"Second uncle, you and my younger uncle will hide here. We will go to the back and drive the chickens down. After they are caught, you can put the net away."
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Without thinking, Zhang An left Zhang Jianjun and the others here to take charge of closing the net.
This time we only brought two large nets, and it was impossible to set up a dragnet, so it was crucial to close the net in time after the previous group of pheasants were caught.
Whether it is the timing of closing the net or the direction of closing the net, there are certain requirements for the person responsible for closing the net.
After all, the chickens were harvested early and the chickens did not fly into the net. The chickens were harvested late and the chickens flew out again after being caught.
As for the elders Zhang Jianjun, they were all people who had driven through the mountains many times during autumn hunting, and they had no shortage of experience in this area.
"Sure, go ahead, we'll leave this place to a few of us."
After hearing Zhang An's arrangement, Zhang Jianjun nodded with a smile.
A few of them are now in their forties and starting to get older, so things like chasing chickens are left to the young people.
So the few people pulled the ropes of their own nets, and then found a place to hide in the snow, waiting for Zhang An and the others to touch it and drive the chickens down.
On the other side, Zhang An led the remaining people and quietly touched up from the left side.
There were eleven people from the six groups, including Chen Ze, a total of twelve people. At this moment, four people were left to take charge of closing the net. Eight of them went to catch the chickens, which was more than enough.
"Zhang An, how are you going to catch this chicken? It's my first time here. Please tell me carefully."
This is Chen Ze's first time personally trying to catch the chicken. , so he was very excited. He carried his hands and feet while walking, for fear that he would make too much noise and scare away the target in front of him.
“This is very simple. Although these pheasants are wary by nature, they are actually very naive. As long as they see a place with people, they will not escape in that direction, so we will After touching it from the back, except for the gap at the bottom of the mountain, if you see no one there, just go over there and chase the chicken into the gap. Anyway, you will know after chasing it away this time.”
Catching chickens is not a complicated matter. In the village, seven or eight-year-old children who can run up hills can do it. After all, they are just chasing chickens and scaring them.
If you have to catch these pheasants directly by yourself, it will be quite difficult without thinking of a way.
Although this thing can't fly very high, it still flies anyway, and it can crawl through the forest very quickly.
While they were talking, they had already touched the back of the wolf bush. At this time, everyone spread out and found their positions.
Zhang An saw that everyone was ready, and there were people blocking the way from all directions.
So with a wave of his hand, he informed everyone to start chasing the chicken.
Several of Zhang An's cousins began to wave their sticks and dance towards the chickens in front, shouting strange chants loudly.
At this time, I am not afraid of the loud voice, but I am afraid that the voice is too quiet to scare these idiots.
Chen Ze and Li Hongbin were a little unfamiliar, but they followed suit and chased after the pheasants in the wolf bush.
Listening to the noise coming from all directions, the pheasants that were strolling in the snow just now were all confused.
So he jumped directly towards the gap where there was no one, flapped his wings and flew up.
"Puchchichi~~Cuckoo~Puchchi~~Cuckoo~"
Hanbao Chicken is indeed a Hanbao Chicken. When he saw a leading chicken taking the lead in charging, the other chickens Also jump down.
Suddenly, the entire deserted slope was full of chickens flying around.
You don’t know this by looking at it. Zhang An was shocked when he saw it. He originally thought that there were only a dozen pheasants here.
But now I saw that there were so many pheasants running out of the small bushes and wolfberry forest in front of me.
Although I couldn't count them clearly, there were at least dozens of them. Now they really broke into the henhouse.
"Second uncle, get ready, the chicken is about to fly into the net."
Zhang An drove a few pheasants that had sneaked away to fish in troubled waters back to the right path. After that, he shouted towards the mountain to inform Zhang Jianjun and the others.
Zhang Jianjun and the others had already noticed the movement above, and were ready to wait for these pheasants to get into the net.
The pheasants were running around, regardless of whether there was anyone chasing them behind them, they just buried their heads and flapped their wings.
In the end, just as Zhang An and the others planned, they all flew into the two-sided net.
“Okay, it’s time to close the net, otherwise they will run away.”
Seeing that most of the chickens had entered the net, Zhang Jianjun quickly shouted and held his hand The corner rope that he kept pulling pulled down the big net hanging on the tree.
Several other people were the same, and the two-sided net instantly fell down from the tree.
When the wide net fell from the tree, it was like a cover from the sky, trapping the pheasants inside tightly.
At this time, the trapped pheasants did not give up and were still flapping vigorously. However, Zhang Jianjun and others had already tied up the ropes at the four corners of the big net. Even if they fled, they still could not escape the dragnet that everyone had prepared for them.
The chickens were trapped, and everyone was very tired. They all gathered around the pheasants in the net to rest.
"Oh my god, why are there so many? I originally thought it would be good to have seventeen or eighteen, but I'm afraid there must be forty or fifty here."
Look Looking at the pheasant that was still "cooing" inside, Zhang An's cousin Zhang Chenglin widened his eyes and gasped.
"Hey, I'm afraid it's more than that. It's estimated to be around fifty or sixty. Look at how full the net is. It's the first time I've chased so many chickens. It's really fun. I've chased chickens before. There were not so many in the mountains.”
The speaker was Zhang An’s second cousin Zhang Chenggong. He and Zhang Chenglin were not brothers, but they were of the same age, both in their thirties, but they were younger. month.
Although they were very tired after chasing chickens for half a mountain, and now they are not out of breath, such a huge harvest is enough to make them forget what tiredness is.
"How are you two, have you recovered?"
Looking at Chen Ze and Li Hongbin who were leaning against the tree and gasping for air, Zhang An turned around and asked.
Just like Zhang Chenglin and others who often work in the fields, they are very tired, let alone the two of them who do not work often.
"It's okay, I've recovered. I'm really tired when I'm tired, but it's also really fun when I'm having fun." Chen Ze tried his best to ease his breathing, his face flushed, and he didn't know whether it was from excitement or exhaustion.
Li Hongbin didn't say anything because he hadn't recovered yet. After all, he was indeed several years older than Chen Ze.
“Come on, drink a few sips of water, and you’ll be fine. You guys are not in good health. You need to exercise more in the future.”
Zhang An took off the gourd from his waist and handed it to The two of them, this is space spring water, Zhang An wants them to replenish their physical strength.
After all, it doesn’t matter to anyone else. I’m used to working, so I can relax after taking a break.
But they were not very good at it. Zhang An was really afraid that they would be exhausted.
Chen Ze and Li Hongbin took the gourd and took two sips directly into their mouths.
After a while, the breathing rhythm gradually stabilized.
"Zhang An, are we going to hunt him down later? This is so enjoyable, much more fun than staying at home."
Chen Ze, who had just recovered, was thinking about chasing the chicken again, which made Zhang An feel that this guy was more playful than the other kids in the village.
“Haha, this is not something we can catch if we want. We have to meet a flock of chickens. It is estimated that it is impossible to meet the big flock of chickens just now. Anyway, If we meet them, we will chase them away. If we don’t meet them, forget it.”
After hearing Chen Ze’s words, Zhang Jianjun laughed and said.
It was very good luck to meet such a large group of pheasants today.
When Chen Ze heard this, he knew that there was no chance, and his face was a little disappointed.
"It's okay, I can't catch the chicken. I'll take you to chase the rabbit later. That thing is more fun than chasing the chicken."
Zhang An looked at the time, it's just past one o'clock now , I can also play in the mountains for half a day in the afternoon, I will definitely have some more fun.
"Okay, now that you have rested, let's take stock of what we have just harvested, and then find a place to prepare something to eat."
Although everyone was talking and laughing, they were still sleepy. The pheasants in the two-sided net have not yet been counted.
When Zhang Jianjun shouted, everyone stood up from the ground and took out the snakeskin bags they had brought out.
These bags are different from the food bags at home because they have many holes poked in them.
This is to allow the pheasants to expose their heads after they are put inside.
Whether it is a stupid chicken raised at home or a pheasant caught by a pheasant, everyone in the village pretends to be like this.
On the one hand, it saves space, and on the other hand, it prevents them from fighting in the pocket.
After all, these guys are very angry when they peck each other. Not only can they peck each other's chicken feathers off, but they can also make them bloody.
Zhang Jianjun opened a hole in the large net spread on the ground, reached in and caught the pheasants inside one by one and bagged them.
“What a good guy, he’s so fierce. It looks like this one should be the boss of the flock.”
As soon as Zhang Jianjun reached in, he was pecked by a big crested rooster inside. One mouthful.
Fortunately, he was wearing gloves on his hands, otherwise, he would definitely have been pecked out with a big hole.
"It should be him. You see, he is bigger than other roosters. The comb is also beautiful. When the time comes, you can take him as a breeder."
Everyone else felt the same when they saw it, because the rooster caught by Zhang Jianjun had a different momentum, more powerful than the big and high-spirited roosters at home.
"If that's the case, let's put it in a separate bag first."
As the leading rooster, it would be worthy of its status to open a separate luxury suite for it.
Next, everyone started counting, catching and counting each one. After spending more than half an hour, we finally bagged all the pheasants caught in the net.
The number also exceeded everyone’s estimate of forty or fifty, with a total of sixty-three.
In other words, each of the twelve people present can get five, and there are three more.
Such a degree of harvest has never been seen before, even in the past.
I don’t know this yet. After everyone rested just now, they ran up and rummaged through the chicken coop in the wolfberry bush.
I don’t know if I don’t dig it, but I turned it over and found many eggs. I don’t know what these pheasants are thinking about laying eggs in the middle of winter.
Aren't they afraid that if they don't hatch this winter, the eggs will be laid in vain?
Of course, after checking that the eggs were still good, no one would object to them at all, and they all gave them to them.
When we return to the village, we will definitely hand over the chickens we just hunted, but these eggs will be divided among our group.
"Why don't we go home first? It's not convenient to carry so much chicken with us. Let's take it back first and eat something hot at home."
Originally everyone planned After counting the harvest, find a place to light a fire and get rid of the dry food.
But now that we have caught so many pheasants and so many eggs, it is not convenient to move forward in the mountains with so many things.
So Zhang Jianjun gritted his teeth and suggested that he simply go down the mountain and go home, taking the prey back and letting it go.
It is much more comfortable to go home and eat hot food than to stand on the mountain and eat dry food.
And with these more than sixty pheasants as a base, they are somewhat confident about the competitiveness of their group and are not in a hurry.
And even if you don't go home, wandering around in the mountains with so many prey will probably take more time.
After everyone gathered together, they found that this seemed to be the truth, so everyone carried a bag of pheasants and went directly down the mountain back to the village.
Back at the entrance of the village, Zhang Jianwen, who was still warming himself by the fire in the house, heard the children in the village say that someone was back and immediately ran out to see.
"Hey, you guys are moving so fast, it looks like you have gained a lot."
A discerning person can see the chicken skulls leaking from the snakeskin pockets on their bodies. There was nothing visible inside.
"Hey, good luck, good luck. I caught sixty-three pheasants in the past half day. Uncle, come and count them. We have something to eat and have to go back."
Zhang Ann put the bag with the pheasant on the ground, and the others also put it down.
Everyone around him had seen so many chicken heads on his pockets, so they were not too surprised by the number sixty-three.
"Good guys, you have found the henhouse, right? It seems that even though they took all precautions, they still failed to guard against you."
Zhang Jianwen shook his head, there were many last night People were still worried about Zhang An taking the dog up the mountain, but now that he didn't take it, it didn't seem to have any impact.
(End of this chapter)