Chapter 311 Leopard Cave, go home
"Uncle Han, I will go out to get us some dry food tomorrow. By the way, I also have to go home and check on the situation at home."
After night falls , the expedition team who had been tired for a day sat around the campfire to eat.
Chen Ling gnawed on a "rougamo" and spoke.
Today’s dinner is steamed buns stuffed with meat. Pheasant meat, duck meat, and wild boar meat are all smoked. You can add whatever meat you want.
The soup pot also simmers a pot of pheasant and mushroom stew.
There are a lot of prey in the mountains. Although big prey is difficult to catch, with guns and dogs, catching small prey can be enough to fill the stomachs of the few of them.
But the steamed buns we brought are almost gone now, and there is only a lot of dried noodles left. The dried noodles were specially bought by Han Ninggui’s inspection team. They are durable, long-lasting, and easy to handle, so carry a pack on your back. Eat for several days.
You just eat three meals a day, and you can’t stand it even after eating for a long time.
This was something they had a deep understanding of during their previous days in the mountains.
Wang Lixian and the others didn't say anything, but had three meals a day of noodles and meat. It was very beautiful.
But the same cannot be said for the young people on the expedition team. Last time they finished eating the steamed buns and ate dried noodles for a week, and now they are about to eat like this again. How can this be okay?
As soon as he heard Chen Ling’s proposal, he quickly agreed.
Han Ninggui knew that Chen Ling's family had children and the children were still young, so he understood his feelings very well.
He said: "It's okay to go back and have a look. Tomorrow is the third day. Your wife and children miss you too."
He said with a smile: "I came here in a hurry the day before yesterday. I have to get us something delicious when I go back this time. It's best to buy more steamed cakes from the city. Steamed meat cakes and vegetable steamed cakes will do. We are all craving for that."
The old man was so impressed by the steamed cake bar in Fenglei Town last year that he never forgets it and must eat it every time he comes here.
It is also sold in this county, but there are fewer people buying it every day, so the taste will be worse than that in Fenglei Town.
But it’s okay.
Chen Ling agreed, and then asked: "Uncle Han, how many days will it take you to observe this miasma this time?"
"Well, about half a month."
"What? Half a month, why does it take so long?"
"Not long, the main thing is to do a few more experiments "
Han Ninggui said with a smile: "You guys have had enough of staying in the mountains. If you miss home, you can take turns to go home and leave a few people to help us with some small things. "
But that's it. No one except Chen Ling might listen to what he said. After all, if you stay longer, you will get more money.
In addition, you can also go hunting and earn some extra money, earning double money.
This kind of opportunity doesn’t come around very often, and it’s no better than working outside.
But what they don’t know is that Chen Ling came out of the mountain because he was drunk and not interested in drinking.
After three days in the mountains, he wanted to go home and have a look.
The other one wants to go alone and track the leopards over Eagle Claw Ridge.
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A night without words, spent peacefully.
In the early morning, when the first ray of sunlight shines into the forest, the whole mountain wakes up.
The water is gurgling and the birds are chirping.
After Chen Ling had a simple breakfast, he took Hei Wa and Er Baldy on his way back under the watch of everyone.
Xiao Jin left them behind as a warning.
Otherwise, other hunting dogs are not as sensitive as Xiao Jin, and sometimes they only notice danger when it is approaching.
"Let's go to Eagle Claw Ridge to find the leopard first."
After climbing over a hill, Chen Ling carried a gun on his back and a knife on his shoulder, waved his hand with high spirits, and led the dog He Ying turned around and rushed towards Eagle Claw Ridge.
"Heiwa, start Nassau."
As he walked, he took out a stone stained with the urine of the leopard in Dongtian and asked Heiwa to smell it.
Although it is not the urine of the same leopard, for hunting dogs, it only needs to be the same kind of urine.
It's like the stinky smell of foxes. Even if they are different foxes, as long as people smell this kind of body odor, they will know whether a fox has lived in a certain hole.
The same is true for Nassau hunting dogs, but they can find farther and more accurately.
Unlike humans, you don’t know what kind of prey you are until you smell it.
I saw Hei Wa smelling the stone, then raising his head and sniffing at the sky.
This is called Li Sao.
As the name suggests, it is to sort out the messy smells in the mountain air and find the target smell.
Only after you have taken care of the sex can you start Nassau, which is looking for sex.
“Wow~”
Hei Wa raised his head and sniffed for a while, then opened his mouth and called out twice, glanced at Chen Ling, and trotted forward.
This is showing off.
The kite in the sky flapped its wings twice and flew forward.
"Hope it goes well. As long as we confirm the leopard's territory, we can trap it."
Chen Ling looked up and saw that it was just past seven o'clock, so he had half a day to catch it. Leopard, I have half a day left to go home.
Over mountains and ridges, across river valleys and streams, Hei Wa let go and ran, with Chen Ling following behind.
Finally Hei Wa stopped on the bank of the river below Eagle Claw Ridge.
Leopard tracks were found here on the river bank.
The leopard steps on the plum blossom.
The footprints are like plum blossoms, with five toes in front and four behind.
Chen Ling can now recognize it at a glance.
“This footprint is very fresh, and there are a lot of footprints on it. It seems that the leopard often comes here to drink water.” Heiwa was still sniffing at these footprints and raising his head. , from time to time, he would sniff at the other side of the river and bark.
Chen Ling frowned again when he saw this: "What's wrong? It's not on Eagle Claw Ridge? Has it gone to the other side of the river?"
Leopards can run fast. It has a wide range of activities and is a wandering creature at heart.
As the old saying goes, leopards can travel hundreds of miles at night, never leaving their mouths. They can travel hundreds of miles in one night, chasing their prey along the mountains and forests. They have no fixed abode and often make their homes on the spot.
When there are less prey, just change places.
On the other side of the river from Eagle Claw Ridge is Mopan Mountain. They escaped the rain in a cave on the mountain last year.
At this time, there was only a cry in the sky. The two bald men came and went like the wind. They had already flown back from the opposite mountain, hovering above him and Hei Wa, and kept chirping.
The meaning is self-evident.
"Good guy, it's really on the mountain opposite. It's so easy to run."
Chen Ling glanced at the leopard's footprints on the bank of the river. It was obvious that the footprints were here, but in fact it had already run to the other side.
Muttering to himself, Chen Ling looked at the fresh footprints on the ground and suddenly had a bad feeling.
“Could it be that it noticed us coming in advance and ran to the other side?”
Thinking like this, he took Heiwa along the river, and the river in front of him Cross the river at the narrow point.
At the end of autumn, the water level drops, and the rivers in the mountains also lose weight several times.
After easily crossing the river, enter Mopan Mountain with the dog and eagle.
After a while, Hei Wa and Er Baldy started barking anxiously, and the dogs howled and the eagles cried, making Chen Ling's bad premonition come true.
The leopard heard the noise and ran away.
Right in front of a cave on the mountainside, this leopard just came out of the cave carrying a deer in its mouth.
This is not only about running, but food is also wanted to be taken away.
At this time, they were still quite far away from the leopard, and they could only see the figure of the leopard emerging from the hole.
When Heiwa saw this, he shouted "woof, woof" and rushed towards the leopard like a black whirlwind.
The two bald men in the sky also turned into arrows and fell suddenly.
The leopard was immediately frightened.
This leopard is obviously not as ferocious as the leopard in Dongtian, maybe because it is not injured. Unlike the leopard in Dongtian, which cannot stand stimulation, it will pounce on people and bite dogs when it sees it.
This leopard was very cautious. Chen Ling didn't shoot or shout to scare it. It didn't know if it smelled the evil spirit and blood smell on Hei Wa's body, so it was ready to escape early.
When Hei Wa and Er Baldzi rushed towards it, they saw that the leopard was so frightened that it immediately dropped the deer in its mouth and jumped from the cave entrance to the tree.
Let Hei Wa and Er Baldy's attacks all fail.
After that, there was another leap, from the tree to the steep mountain wall of Mopan Mountain. Each time he jumped, he became shorter by more than three meters and longer by about five meters.
Under the sun, the leopard's golden fur has black spots the size of copper coins. With every leap on the mountain wall, the streamlined body seems to shine and shine, very beautiful.
Until I jumped onto the high cliff, I could no longer see the leopard.
Chen Ling's open mouth slowly closed.
"Grandma, a leopard with a tail can jump high and jump far. No wonder the leopard runs on the rocks. We have seen it today."
"Well, Also, a leopard with a tail is more beautiful than one without a tail. It is bigger and better-looking, and much better than a cat.”
He raised his head and muttered to himself.
I felt more and more regretful that I was chasing him from such a distance so early in the morning. I didn’t expect to pay attention when I arrived. The noise was so loud that the leopard noticed it in advance and ran away.
I couldn't help but sigh: "I don't know where I will go from now on, it's hard to find me."
When you quietly discover the leopard's territory, you can also try to trap it, but after disturbing it, it will No, it will frequently change its territory in a short period of time to ensure its own safety.
Then he suppressed his unwillingness and walked towards the dogs and eagles who were also unwilling to circle and scream outside the cave.
When I reached the entrance of the cave, I realized that the deer left behind by the leopard was not a deer, but a barking deer.
That is, the giant muntjac with fiery red fur that barks.
“It seems that there are a lot of these things in the mountains recently. I have found them so many times in the past few months.”
It’s a pity that the leopards haven’t enjoyed such a good barking deer yet. , I was scared away before I even took a bite. No wonder I kept thinking about it even before I ran away.
To abandon the prey that you have worked so hard to capture without eating a bite would be heartbreaking for you.
It's like losing a hundred dollars.
Grabbing a leg of the muntjac, he picked it up and took it back to the cave. Chen Ling took another look at the cave and was surprised to find that a leopard seemed to have lived in the cave for a long time.
"It's a pity that I don't know whether the leopard is a male or a female. If there is a nest of little leopards left, why should I bother to catch them."
Thinking like this, with a move in his heart, he let Hei Wa took out the leopard hair left in the cave and dug out two pieces of leopard excrement buried under the forest.
Take back the cave together and throw them into the woods of the tailless male leopard.
After throwing them in, he waved his hand and buried these things under the soil in a shallow layer.
The whole process was completed completely by controlling Dongtian's thoughts, silently, and the male leopard with the severed tail was not aware of it at all.
Chen Ling secretly observed its reaction while walking down the mountain.
When it finally discovered the scent of a strange leopard in its territory, Chen Ling was very satisfied with its reaction.
“Well, it seems to be a female leopard. If it were a male leopard, it would definitely bar its teeth and be uneasy.”
"Hei Wa, remember the scent of this female leopard. If we don't catch it this time, we will come back next year. We will keep an eye on it."
Hei Wa patted Hei Wa's big head and stopped staying any longer. , and rushed all the way home.
It feels different now that I have a baby. I have only been in the mountains for two days and I already miss home so much.
I miss my wife and my son.
The main purpose of his going into the mountains was to catch leopards. He failed to catch the leopard and let the leopard run away. Naturally, it was better for his wife and children to stay at home and warm up on the kang.
(End of this chapter)