Chapter 209: Lost Pig
Although the winter in the mountains is terrifyingly cold, it is not without its benefits.
For example, if you eat food at home, you no longer have to worry about it spoiling if you leave it casually.
For example, the Chen Ling family used to be afraid of running out of goat milk and wasting it, but now they no longer have such worries. In just a few days, they have saved more than half of the tank.
This is all produced by dairy goats.
This guy's milk supply has not decreased even in the winter.
In addition to feeding the lambs, he can also squeeze out three or four pounds of milk every day.
Whenever he doesn’t want to cook, or gets up late in the morning, he and Wang Susu will boil some goat milk and drink it, which is very comfortable.
On the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, the sky was still gloomy, with no signs of clearing up.
Chen Ling stood in the courtyard and practiced bow and arrow for more than half an hour. After he got used to it, he brought some dry firewood and lit a fire in the courtyard.
Then he took out a few animal traps and threw them into the fire to bake. When they were roasted red, they used dry cow dung dipped in snow water to paste them twice.
This is to cover the rust smell on the clip and the smell left by people on it.
Otherwise, wild animals in the mountains can smell something wrong where the clamp is placed from a distance, and will detour there early and will not be fooled at all.
The clip will be empty and nothing will be gained.
After the iron clip started to smoke, it was done.
Wait for the clips to cool down.
Chen Ling put on his coat and carried it to the foot of the mountain to collect his clothes.
Actually, the traps have not been completely empty in the past few days, and a few hares have been caught.
But such small prey is really not interesting.
The big prey in the mountains are very alert and difficult to catch, so Chen Ling took the clip back and covered the smell again.
In order to cover up the smell of rust more thoroughly, he also roasted it with fire for a while before applying the dung. The smell of cow dung was completely absorbed by the clamps, and there was no trace of rust smell anymore.
"Woof woof woof woof..."
When I walked to the entrance of the village, I saw a bunch of people gathered around the wheat field. It was noisy. Heiwa and Xiaojin led a group of locals. The dog was also spinning around and yelling.
It has been snowing for the past two days, and the two of them have become very playful. They wandered around in the snow with the village dogs all day long. They ran out early in the morning today and did not even bother to eat.
Chen Ling didn't bother to care about them.
But at this time, he saw that something was not right about the situation, and the dog's barking was not normal, so he hurried over.
“Brother Donkey, what’s going on?”
“Hey, it’s Fugui, are you trying to trick me again?”
Er Mao Donkey saw it was Chen Ling showed a smile and pointed to a house next to the wheat field: "Old Troublesome's pig has been lost. His wife has been scolding her all morning, which made everyone quarrel. I just showed it to his house." The hoof marks outside the pigsty are said to be probably caused by a wolf.”
“What? Can a wolf really steal a pigsty? Come to the village to dig out the pig pen? ”
Chen Ling was very surprised.
“It’s not true. There are so many wolf footprints in the snow. What else could it be if it wasn’t the work of wolves?”
The second donkey said and pulled a few people beside him. , and talked to Chen Ling again.
In short, I firmly believe that the wolf took out the pig pen.
Chen Ling looked at the reactions of his two dogs, and then went to the pig pen to have a look.
Lost in doubt.
The walls of the pigsty are not low and the door of the pigsty is not open. How did the pig get out?
Could it be that a wolf did it?
When he was a child, he also heard the old people say that if a wolf digs out of a pig's pen, it will use two clever tricks.
The first is to invite, the second is to rush.
The wolf invited the pig, which means that the wild wolf was very cunning and clever. After quietly jumping into the pig pen at night, he spotted a fat pig and only bit its tail. After biting it, he dragged it back.
Pigs have a bad temper. The more you drag them back, the harder they will move forward.
At this time, if the wolf lets go at the right time, the protecting pig will stand up on its front legs, jump out of the wall of the pig pen in fright, and run wildly into the wild.
It does not hurt them, but it is designed to invite the pigs out of the pen. When the pig comes out of the pen and runs into the dark wilderness, the other wolves in the wolf pack will come to greet it warmly.
This is called a wolf inviting a pig.
And the wolf is chasing the pig.
It's because some wolves don't want to eat pigs very close to the village, and they eat pigs in a hurry and fear.
If the mouth drag is killed by the bite, it will be too laborious and cumbersome to weigh the fat of the dead pig.
They came up with another way to drive away pigs.
Speaking of the method of wolves driving pigs away, it is so easy and ingenious that even people would feel inferior to it.
They just need to open their mouths, bite the pig's ears gently but not hard, and at the same time, swing their thick tail like a broom and pat the pig's butt, and the pig will follow it obediently.
When it goes to the left, the pig follows it to the left. When it goes to the right, the pig follows it to the right.
Only two places on a pig’s body are the most sensitive, namely the ears and tail.
But these two protective areas were touched and used by the wolf. Can it be okay if it disobeys?
I heard that in the past, a family in Chenwangzhuang lost a pig at night and went looking for the pig with a torch. They saw a wolf chasing the pig with their own eyes. They came back to describe the scene and said: It's like a man who is afraid of his mother-in-law. , as obedient as the mother-in-law holding her ears and dragging her away.
However, when the pig is invited into the wolf's den, the result will be even more miserable than that of a man who is afraid of his mother-in-law.
......
"We haven't seen it with our own eyes, so I don't know if it's true or not. Anyway, it sounds like a monster to me."
Chen Ling shook her head.
He knew very well how smart the wolf was, but he still couldn't believe the two who stole the pig.
When he was a child, he heard these things as stories.
“Haha, your baby is still too young. I didn’t believe that wolves were as powerful as others said before, but then you didn’t know that. That time, one sneaked into my house and wanted to steal it. The donkey..."
"It was a coincidence. I caught a cold that night and had a stomachache. When I got up and went to the hut, I happened to meet this wolf. When it saw me, it didn't pounce on me immediately. It waited for me to squat down. He just jumped at me from behind. Tell me how cunning this thing is.” Fan, attracted the approval of many people around him.
Chen Ling didn't say anything else after hearing this, he just asked: "Have you looked for the pig?"
"Yes, I have looked for it several times. I followed the footprints to the west. It should be a wolf. They must have driven the pigs up the mountain at night."
The two donkeys gestured and said, "Old Troublesome, these are half-sized piglets that were borrowed from the village. The cousins are raising them together and planning to kill them at the end of the year. If you eat meat, it will be a waste of time. You only need half a year's worth of food."
"I heard that you want to raise things under the roots of the mountain in the future, so you have to be careful."
"I know, if you want to raise it, you must be careful."
Now that winter has officially entered, things are completely different from those in early winter.
In early winter, although there is little food, you will not be hungry.
This is different at this time. In the coldest month of winter, covered with snow, herbivorous wild animals will move south in large numbers, resulting in a scarcity of prey.
Wild beasts cannot find prey. They are so hungry that they will have no choice but to turn their hunting targets to people in the village and livestock.
Sneak attacks, ambushes and even night attacks occur from time to time.
This kind of thing was relatively rare in the past few years.
This is because people in those years still couldn't fill their stomachs. Before the wild beasts came down the mountain to harm the village, they went up the mountain to hunt one after another.
Later, more and more people went out to work, and there were fewer hunters. Only then did the wild animals on the mountains increase in number. In the past two years, they also began to run down the mountains.
......
"We beat the wolves away last time, but they still dared to come down the mountain. I think their scars have healed and they have forgotten the pain. If you dare to rob this house today, you will do it tomorrow. If you dare to rob that house, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, so you can’t do it like this..."
"Go back and get ready. Let's go and put the clamp on it later. It will be a fool."
Someone saw Chen Lingti slipping the clamp and came up with an idea. The crowd suddenly became noisy, and those who lived on the edge of the village went home to prepare their clips.
When Chen Ling saw that the crowd had dispersed, he stopped staying and went to his own field to plant his own trap.
The sticky bird nets were removed two days ago, and only a few ground traps were set up nearby.
He found another place to put the tongs, and placed grains, sweet potatoes, and meat next to the cover, including both meat and vegetables.
Ground covers and clips are just like traps, not as straightforward as hunting in the mountains.
It takes a lot of patience to wait.
That is to say, after heavy snowfall, the weather will be more advantageous, and it will be easier to harvest than usual.
However...
Chen Ling also didn't expect that he would gain something so quickly.
On the early morning of the 13th day of the twelfth lunar month the next day, he had just climbed out of bed and drank a bowl of hot goat's milk. Chen Dazhi rushed over and called him, saying that a wild boar had been caught near the orchard.
But the wild boar hurt someone, and in anger, it ran away with the clip.
This wild boar can’t run very far with a clip on its leg. If you run after it now, you can still catch up.
The amount of information in these few sentences was a bit large. After hearing this, Chen Ling was stunned: "What's going on? I caught a wild boar, why did I hurt someone?"
"Oh, don't ask this now. That wild boar is quite big. Hurry up and chase it. I'll tell you what's going on on the way."
Chen Dazhi couldn't wait any longer and pulled him away. Chen Ling walked out.
When Chen Ling got the steel fork and other things to do, he called the two dogs at home and hurried out of the village.
The two of them walked in a hurry, Chen Dazhi did not forget to explain the situation to him.
"He is a dirty boy. He was not happy about losing the pig at home. So early in the morning, he called Baoliang and Baoshuan to go outside the village to sneak a trap. He said that he had caught a wolf and he must kill it with his own hands."
"Unexpectedly, these three boys did not see the wolf being trapped. They encountered a wild boar with its legs trapped in your orchard."
The dirty boy is the youngest son of Old Troublesome's family.
Old Troublesome is Chen Baoliang’s cousin.
The three people this morning, Chen Baoshuan, Chen Baoliang and Dang Wa'er are cousins.
Chen Baoshuan has a bad character and no one in the village cares about him. He usually just walks around with a few cousins.
This morning, these three people probably saw a wild boar caught by Chen Ling and wanted to take advantage of it secretly.
It happened that a pig was lost at home. If they could pick up this big wild boar, they would not only lose nothing, but also make some money.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he approached, the wild boar threw a person to the ground and bit him wildly.
The other two people held up hoes and shovels, beating and shouting at the wild boar. As a result, the wild boar was enraged and turned around to attack them regardless of the clamps on its hind legs.
The two of them were so frightened that they ran away.
He ran back desperately and asked the villagers to rescue him.
The ones running back were Dang Wa'er and Chen Baoliang.
That unfortunate guy Chen Baoshuan was left there.
When the villagers arrived, Chen Baoshuan had already been pushed far away by the wild boar and fell into a small river ditch.
The wild boar also jumped into the creek and was still biting Chen Baoshuan.
Seeing so many people coming, he reluctantly fled into the forest.
"Baoshuan deserved it. He was thrown into a manure pit by a wild boar last time. He didn't know how to change. He didn't know how to hide away when he saw a wild boar. He also wanted to go up and take advantage. I really don't know what to do. Talk about him."
"I feel sorry for Uncle Sangui. He didn't save much money and had to spend money on treating his unfilial son."
After hearing what Chen Dazhi said. , Chen Ling didn't know how to say these three people were better.
Although wild boars do not enter villages and harm livestock like wolves.
But when there is less food on the mountain, people will naturally come down to look for food.
And they are the most difficult to deal with at this time.
In the past, it was actually easy to scare people away when seeing them.
But after winter comes, it is difficult to scare them away even by shouting or driving them away.
On the contrary, it will irritate them in most cases.
Not to mention an injured lone pig.
They can only blame themselves for this situation. They deserve to be injured or even killed.
It happened that the villagers had already carried Chen Baoshuan back from outside the village, who was covered in blood and in a coma.
Chen Dazhi ran back to Chen Ling to report the news, much faster than them.
The two sides met.
Chen Sangui lamented again and again.
Although this son is not filial, he is his biological son after all. I don’t know what happened this year.
In the Year of the Pig, I was destined to be attacked by a wild boar. I was injured twice in a row by a wild boar.
Dirty Wa'er and Chen Baoliang's eyes were a little dodgey, not daring to look at Chen Ling.
When something like this happened, everyone in the village actually knew what was going on.
Isn't it because they were greedy and wanted to pick up prey caught in other people's traps, so this happened?
This behavior is no different from stealing.
Gua Tianli Xia is still worried about causing offence, how could anyone come forward to do such a thing like this?
Not to mention the shame, I almost lost my life. From now on, I will be laughed at by others pointing at the back of my head.
In the final analysis, the attack power of the trapped wild boar is still too underestimated.
Do you think the wild boar can be manipulated by them if its legs are clamped? That's a beautiful thought.
On the other hand, Dirty Baby's parents, Old Troublesome and his wife, said some nice words to Chen Ling.
Chen Ling said it was okay.
Anyway, he was not the one who got hurt, and he didn’t raise the wild boar. It’s none of his business if people get hurt, it’s all people who ask for it.
Of course, I think so in my heart, but I am still polite on the surface.
Then he stopped talking nonsense with them and rushed to the orchard at the foot of the mountain with Chen Dazhi.
But Hei Wa and Xiao Jin couldn't wait any longer. At this time, they rushed out and ran far ahead of them.
After crossing two steep slopes, the rapid barking of two dogs came from ahead.
Chen Dazhi was tired from running at this time, so Chen Ling took the lead and walked over, only to see a mess on the snow beside the orchard.
The hut was overturned by wild boars.
I ate all the sweet potato tips and corn residue left by the stove.
On the snow not far from the hay shed, there was a bright red bloodstain and a mess of hoof prints.
There are also clear and conspicuous shoe prints left by people around, leading to the small river ditch.
Needless to say, this was caused by those three guys just now.
The bloodstains of the wild boar have not been interrupted. You can see it after walking a few steps, extending deep into the mountain forest. It is bright red and dazzling, and it is extremely obvious on the snow.
"It's really good. I took away all the clamps, but my clamps are very strong. I guess this wild boar's hind legs have been broken."
"It had a fight with someone just now, and it couldn't run much. Far away."
Chen Ling waved to the two dogs: "Chase!"
(End of this chapter)