Chapter 232 Lynx? Leopard tracks in the middle of the night!
Seeing the scars on the red dogs, Yue Feng felt less confident than before.
Don’t let anything happen to the old man. They are not familiar with the surrounding terrain and peaks. If something happens, even if they want to find someone, it will be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
However, this concern was quickly dispelled. After about ten minutes, Uncle Zhao held a No. 16 barreled shotgun on one shoulder, grabbed the dog's legs with both hands, and injured one. The injured red dog was carried sideways on his shoulders.
"Uncle!!" Yue Feng saw this scene and immediately rushed forward to greet him.
"Hey, Xiaofeng, you guys are here! How long have you been here?"
Uncle Zhao was very happy to see Yue Feng, and his slightly frowning brows relaxed.
"I came here before noon. When I arrived, I found no one at home, so I cooked some food and waited for a while. What's going on? Did the dog gang encounter a tiger cub?"
Yue Feng said a few words and focused on the red dog that the old man carried back.
Hong Gouzi’s abdomen must have been torn open. Uncle Zhao simply bandaged it with leggings, and the blood stains were faintly visible.
"Don't mention it! It's so mysterious that I didn't give an explanation to these red dogs today!" Uncle Zhao said with lingering fear.
“What’s going on?”
“Go inside first and treat the dog’s wounds before we talk! The red dog’s belly was torn open, but the intestines were not damaged, but there were stains I simply washed it with urine and temporarily wrapped it with leggings. We can’t just sew it up, otherwise we’ll die if it gets infected.”
“Okay! Xiaotao, go boil some water. Take out our anti-inflammatory medicine too!"
Yue Feng immediately started greeting everyone and everyone got busy.
As an old hunter who relies on dogs for food all year round, it is common for his own dogs to be injured. However, unless there is a tough battle, most of them are small flesh wounds. They can be simply disinfected and then sutured. They can be fed and fed well. These hunting dogs have gone through After long-term selective cultivation, the self-healing ability is relatively strong.
The living environment of red dogs in the wild is even worse than that of hounds, and their toughness makes them stronger. With an injury of this magnitude, as long as the internal organs are not damaged and the wound is cleaned, you can basically survive.
Soon Uncle Zhao took out his medical bag in the room.
Wait until the water is boiled, add a little salt to the warm water, and carefully clean the abdominal cavity and wounds.
This injured red dog seemed to know that he was injured and needed someone to take care of it, so he was much docile than usual. Uncle Zhao stroked its head while washing it gently. , and after the blood and dirt in the abdominal cavity were washed away, he took out the suture needle and thread and gave the dog stitches.
At this time, the painful red dog gave up. As soon as the injection went in, he turned around and bit someone with a roar. However, his mouth caught Uncle Zhao's hand, but his teeth did not bite hard.
"This little bitch dares to bite me! Let it go!!" Uncle Zhao scolded in a low voice, and the red dog bit him.
Another shot went in and he sucked it up again.
Uncle Zhao also knew that Gouzi was in pain, so he didn’t blame Gouzi for such a sultry reaction. He waited for dozens of seconds before inserting another needle, and slowly sewed up the wound.
After the stitches were completed and the wound was wiped with red liquid, the old man wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve and started talking.
"Last night, in the middle of the night, I heard an animal cry in the forest. The cry was a bit strange, and I couldn't hear it clearly even from the top of the mountain!
This morning, after breakfast, I took the dog out for patrol. Walking around the mountain. I really encountered it! "
"What?"
"I feel like it's a lynx, but I'm not sure. When they caught up with the dog gang, the beast was already far away, and only a blur of its back could be seen through the forest.
I caught up and looked at the footprints left on the snow. If I read correctly, it should be a female lynx with a cub less than one year old!
My five red dogs will basically not be hurt when they encounter ordinary pigs or even blind bears! Only this lynx is too evil to be cured!
I took the dogs to the woods. Not long after, the bitch got on the show, and a bunch of dogs followed her and chased her out! "
These dogs ran too fast. I hurriedly caught up but it was still a step too late.
"Lynx with cubs? It would be great if these red dogs could come back with all their beards and tails! ”
Yue Feng knew the terror of felines. This thing bullied opponents of similar body size to canines. It could almost be described as a dimensionality-reducing strike. It could be described as crushing.
“Last year, these red dogs suffered a lot from the lynxes. When they circled the two lynxes, they definitely didn’t dare to rush up and speak, so they came back alive this time!
But this one was scratched a lot! Once this one is seriously injured, the other ones must be treated one by one, otherwise the wounds will become suppurative, which will be a big problem!
We will deal with the matter at hand! You’re done, let’s see if I don’t kill this bastard with my gun!”
“Forget it, you mother-in-law lynx!” Yue Feng advised after hearing the old man’s angry words.
Before Uncle Zhao could speak, Yue Feng continued: "Although this lynx skin is worth a lot of money, it is with its cub after all! If the mother lynx is beaten to death, the cub will not survive!
Also I'm not being hypocritical, I always feel that we have a choice, but the lynx and its cubs have no choice!
Let's hunt deer and pigs. Even if the doe and the sow die, the cubs can still eat grass! The lynx cub will grow up, but if the mother dies, the cub will definitely not survive!
Besides, there is no jumping stone pond around, so the mother and son probably have no place to pass by the homeless people nearby! If you encounter a horse again, it will be his life!”
Should I say it, Yue Feng’s idea of not hunting prey with cubs, at that time, In fact, it was a bit ahead of its time.
Why do you say that? Around the 1980s, there was no such thing as protecting animals. Human beings competed with animals for living space, and there was no martial ethics.
When the animals give birth in the mountains in spring, do hunters stop going into the mountains?
Of course, and in some places, hunting teams will be organized to clear out animals that harm people such as wild boars, bears, blind badgers, etc. in the beginning of spring.
In the process of spring hunting, if you encounter other animals, do you want to fight them? Of course you have to! It's a crime to have a gun!
But Uncle Zhao understood the meaning of Yue Feng's words.
With a sharp blade in hand but a compassionate heart, hunters play the role of killing, but they should also have a sense of reverence for nature.
“You kid, you’re not very old, but you always say things that surprise me!
Okay, then I’ll listen to you, let’s let them go!
If you encounter them again, it will be their fate. If you can't encounter them, you won't go out to look for them!" Uncle Zhao said.
"Hey! I just feel emotional casually, but it's not very profound! You can get the other dogs over here, and we can handle them all in one go! I'll give you a helping hand, and I can make it a little faster!"
"Okay!"
Soon, Uncle Zhao dealt with the other red dogs one by one.
The more he looked at it, the more shocking it became to Yue Feng. The sharp claws of this cat were so lethal that any real wounds would go through the skin.
Uncle Zhao cleaned the dog's wounds one by one, and then sewed them. By the time he finished the work, it was already four-thirty in the afternoon.
At this point, it would be impossible to hunt deer again. Uncle Zhao took out the red deer meat from the snow, then slowly boiled it with cold water and gave the little brother some stewed meat. That night, Yue Feng ate meat and drank wine in Uncle Zhao's cellar. He also heated up the white-flour meat buns that Meng Yulan had steamed for Uncle Zhao.
The old man was very happy to be remembered by others. He drank another pound of liquor by himself and took an early rest.
According to Yue Feng's plan, they will eat and drink well at night and rest early. They will set off at dawn tomorrow morning to continue hunting deer in Luming Valley. That thing is so affordable and full of treasures.
However, the plan could not keep up with the changes. At 2:30 in the middle of the night, there was a sudden movement outside the cellar.
The four dogs tied at the door under the eaves suddenly started howling crazily. The sound was not normal at first sight, and there was a lack of confidence in the fear.
Yue Feng was a light sleeper. When he heard the dog barking, he opened his eyes immediately. He stood up and looked outside. He found that Uncle Zhao had also climbed up from the kang and looked out through the narrow window.
Both of them have enough experience to know not to show up at this time. No matter what the thing is, there are three guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in the house. They are not afraid of the tiger.
After observing patiently for a while, the barking of the dog slowly stopped, but Uncle Zhao did not sleep. Instead, he leaned on the side of the small window and loaded the shotgun in his hand. .
"Uncle! What's going on?" Yue Feng asked in a low voice.
"We don't want to provoke that tiger cub, but the tiger cub won't let us go. In all likelihood, that thing sneaked over to Dijiangzi in the middle of the night!" Uncle Zhao was very sure. said.
This has changed its nature. How can others be allowed to snore and sleep under the bed? Yue Feng thought that the number of apex predators was rare and it was not easy to survive with their young, so he softened his mind and let them go. This was already considered something that ordinary people could not do. Son.
But this guy dared to chase the hunter back to his hometown. He was seeking death.
“Look again, if you come again, just jump with a gun!” Yue Feng also took out his 56 and a half.
After waiting patiently for about half an hour, the dogs who had spent the night outside became commotion again.
Yue Feng quietly looked out through the small window, and slowly discovered a pair of eyes like small flashlights wandering outside the fence.
Uncle Zhao was much more decisive than Yue Feng. He directly pushed open the window with the muzzle of his gun and pulled the trigger without even taking aim.
Shut up!
A gunshot woke up the other three people in their sleep. The bullet did not hit the vital part of the prey. The intruder outside ran away after hearing the gunshot and disappeared quickly. into the night.
“What happened!?”
“Who is shooting!”
"Brother Feng, Brother Feng??"
A few people got up in a daze from sleep.
"Don't panic, our uncle is the one who fired the gun. Something came in the yard just now! Uncle, did you hit it? Shall we go out and have a look? I brought a flashlight!"
"The bullet should have grazed, but it probably missed the vital point! Let's go! You can go out and take a look with your flashlight!"
Uncle Zhao broke off the handle of the gun in the dark, and accurately took out the bullet casing in the dark. Then he loaded the bullet between his little finger and ring finger into the gun chamber.
Soon, Yue Feng took out the flashlight from his bag and turned it on, then got dressed and followed Uncle Zhao out of the cellar.
The temperature outside was extremely low in the middle of the night. As soon as he came out, Yue Feng shivered. He held his arms tightly and used a flashlight to lead the way, and quickly walked towards where the beast was standing just now.
From the height of the opponent's eyes, Yue Feng felt a bit like a lynx.
But after walking up to it, Yue Feng took a flashlight and looked around, and found something unusual.
Beside a small pool of blood on the ground, there was a black and yellow tail.
"This..." Under the dim flashlight light, Yue Feng was a little confused.
The lynx has a stubby tail, definitely not like this, but Yue Feng couldn't think of any other animal for a while.
"No need to guess! This is a leopard!" Uncle Zhao picked up the severed tail on the ground and looked at it for a few times before saying with certainty.
"What? Leopard? Damn it, those five red dogs of yours during the day weren't the ones trapped in the trap, were they?
Didn't that cost five dog lives?"
Hearing Uncle Zhao say it was a leopard, Yue Feng took a deep breath for no reason.
If the lynx can be regarded as the sub-top predator in ordinary mountains and forests, then the leopard is at least one level higher than the lynx.
Leopards living in the Northeast are also called Amur leopards and golden leopards. They are the largest subspecies of leopards. Although they cannot compete head-on with the Siberian tiger, the king of beasts, they occupy an ecological niche. His status is almost on the same level as that of Tiger. Wild boar, deer, roe deer and other conventional mountain livestock are all on the leopard's diet.
Moreover, this thing is even rarer than tigers.
No wonder it was besieged by red dogs during the day and dared to find its lair at night. Leopards have such strength to do such things.
In order to keep out the cold, the four dogs at home were tied up and huddled together at the door of the barn. If they were tied alone, the leopard would quietly approach and attack, jump forward with a vertical leap, then choke and bite the spine, for a few seconds. In a matter of minutes, the dog was taken away.
"Looking at it this way, everything seems to be right! I said that the lynx's paw prints feel a bit strange! It turns out to be a leopard!" Uncle Zhao also suddenly realized.
The adult lynx is much smaller than the leopard, but they are both cats. The claws of the two animals are similar in shape, and the snow is covered with frozen snow shells. However, the traces left by the claws were not as clear as those left by the fresh snow, which made the experienced Uncle Zhao misjudge.
There are leopards in Changbai Mountain, but who would have thought that such things can be seen in Woniu Mountain, which is not yet a deep mountain area! Still a female leopard with her cubs.
The lynx can spare its life, but the leopard certainly cannot. This thing is not only extremely aggressive, but also extremely vindictive. If it is not dealt with, sooner or later it will have to destroy Uncle Zhao's house. These five dogs were all killed.
When he returned to the house, Uncle Zhao lit the oil lamp.
When the boys saw the ten centimeters of docked tail, they all lost sleep.
"This is a leopard! Master, after daybreak, let's stop hunting deer and go chase this thing?" Xiao Tao said eagerly.
Today I will update 4,000 words during the day. I will pick someone up at the airport in the next city in the afternoon. I am not sure about the update in the evening. I will update it if I have time. If not, there will be only this update today.
It should not be updated normally in the next two days tomorrow. I will try my best to update continuously.
Thank you all for your support and understanding.
(End of this chapter)