Dashan Makes a Living 1984 Chapter 11

  Chapter 11 011: Catching Rabbits

  In the Northwest, weasels are not as mysterious as in the Northeast. They like to come to the house to steal chickens, and if they are not careful, they will be locked in the chicken coop and cannot get out.

   Moreover, once caught, they will really be killed, instead of worrying about their retribution and treating them as Huang Daxian.

  Also from the north, the people of the northwest are relatively more sturdy, fearless.

  Wang Tianxiao's family has caught a weasel a few times, all in chicken coops. He would hang the weasel upside down on the wall and starve him to death so that he can get the whole weasel skin.

   Weasels are full of treasures, their fur can be sold for money, and their tails are specially bought at high prices. Although the taste of the leftover meat is mediocre, it is still edible.

  In this era, meat still needs to be supplied with meat tickets. Generally, the urban household registration is satisfied first, and very few are allocated to rural areas. Many people can only eat a little pork, beef and mutton during the Chinese New Year throughout the year. Everyone has less oil and water in their bodies, so they like to eat pork very much. Unlike later generations, beef and mutton are much more expensive than pork.

  Wang Tianxiao saw his younger brother making a fuss, and thought it was amused in his heart. His younger brother is usually very courageous, but he has a passion in his heart ready to devote himself to the country. Unexpectedly, when he came to the mountains, he still showed his youthful side.

  He patted his younger brother on the shoulder, looked at the vast mountains, and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, although the animals in the mountains are dangerous, they are not insidious. Human beings are the animals that need to be guarded most in this world."

   "Brother, you are really becoming more and more like a mother, why are you full of reasoning?"

  Wang Tianxiao was taken aback, and laughed.

  The two continued to walk for a while in the snow, and the nearest village could no longer be seen behind them, so they had really reached the foot of the mountain.

  At the foot of the mountain is a series of hills, which have been reclaimed by farmers into fields one after another. These lands are not under the jurisdiction of the government, so there is no need to pay public grain, so things like potatoes, sweet potatoes, and sorghum are also very good.

  It is winter now, the fields are bare, and rows of haystacks are piled up on the fields of every house.

  Some are sorghum stacks, some are sweet potato vines, etc., which look like long strips of steamed buns under the moonlight.

  The villagers close to the mountains had no shortage of firewood for cooking, but now Li Yali is not in good health, and her belly is so big that she is so nervous to get off the kang, let alone go to the mountains to chop firewood, so the firewood at home has become a problem.

   "Brother, how long do we have to go?"

  Wang Tiancheng felt a little cold. He had no experience of night patrolling mountains. After walking for two hours, his patience and initial enthusiasm gradually faded, and he felt uncomfortable.

   "Hush!"

  Wang Tianxiao stopped, took off the snakeskin bag from his waist and handed it to Wang Tiancheng.

"elder brother?"

  Wang Tianxiao pointed to the haystack in front of him, and then pointed to the snow on the ground.

  Wang Tiancheng followed his brother's hand to look at the snow, and was surprised to find that there were two rows of small paw prints on the ground that extended to the stack of sorghum poles in front of him.

   "Is there a problem?" Wang Tiancheng's breathing became rapid.

   "Look here."

  Wang Tianxiao took out the flashlight in his pocket, bit it in his mouth, untied the soil gun on his back, pointed at the stack of sorghum poles, and slowly moved the stack away, and sure enough, he saw a small hole in the middle.

  Suddenly, the strong light of the flashlight suddenly shone in the hole, and a gray hare was sleeping in the hole.

  The strong light of the flashlight made him panic, but the eyes were stung by the strong light for a moment, and he didn't know where to run, so he rushed straight at Wang Tianxiao.

   "This idiot." Wang Tianxiao had quick eyesight and quick hands, and hit the hare with the tip of the gun, knocking the hare unconscious in the hole.

  A small thing like a hare, despite its flexibility, actually has poor stamina and a stupid brain.

  If there is no terrain restriction, or the help of cover, none of them have the stamina, let alone run a dog.

  Every year during the autumn harvest, when the villagers go to work in the fields, they will bring their native dogs with them. They will run into hares hiding inside and stealing food, and the dogs will rush over quickly.

  Hares, pheasants and badgers are known as the three idiots, describing them as stupid as **** and easy to be caught.

  Badgers, whether they are badgers or hogs, are all putting on airs. Don't look at them as fierce. One wants to bite and the other wants to slap people. In fact, they are just paper tigers and can be easily countered.

   Pheasants may be hunted severely because they are too stupid. In this era, pheasants can be seen in every vegetable field, but they are almost rare in later generations, so they have become protected animals.

  The continuous development of human civilization has squeezed the living space of these wild animals to a certain extent.

   But this is also the natural selection of nature, who calls them wild animals.

   "Give me a piece of the rope."

  Wang Tiancheng hastily pulled out a bundle of hemp rope several feet long and handed it to Wang Tianxiao. Although he had eaten wild rabbits, he had never killed them himself. He was very excited when he saw the unconscious hares.

  Wang Tianxiao was not so excited. Hitting a rabbit was basically commonplace for him.

   is no different from going to the toilet.

   Quickly wrapped the rabbit's mouth with a rope a few times, and fixed the legs, and then he put it into the snakeskin bag and handed it to his younger brother to carry.

  The teeth of the hare are very sharp. If you put it directly into the bag, it will break the bag and run away.

  If only leggings, it can also bite off the rope.

Many people have no idea about the teeth of rabbits, and think that rabbits are really cute, but in fact, rabbits are also rodents. Their front teeth are very sharp, and they can bite through wood. If bitten by a rabbit, they will fight rabies Vaccine, otherwise it might really die.

   In addition, rabbits are also very good at burrowing.

  When Wang Tianxiao was a child, his mother used a small cave to raise many rabbits. As a result, these guys made countless small holes in the walls of the entire cave, and they usually drilled in the holes. If you don't feed them, you can't see them in a hurry.

   But even if you know that the hare may escape, you still can't kill it directly. The price of dead and alive wild animals is not at the same level.

  A live hare can be sold for five yuan in the city, or even ten yuan if you are lucky, but no one wants a dead one.

  In addition, all wild animals should try their best to ensure the integrity of the skin. There must be no holes, gaps, cracks or the like on it. Basically, no one wants the damaged skin.

  That's why Wang Tianxiao doesn't know how to use a gun unless he has to. Even if he uses it, he will load it with very little gunpowder, just to prevent the skin from being beaten too badly, or the rabbit killed, so that the price cannot be sold.

The hare meat tastes just like that, it's not very tasty, and there's so little meat, one rabbit is not enough for a family to have a tooth sacrifice, so people in mountain villages don't care much about it, but people in the city eat it strangely , especially many big hotels, have a lot of demand.

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