Reborn in the 1980s: I made my fortune hunting wild game in Changbai Mountain

Chapter 259 There is an unexpected gain
The next morning, Yue Feng heard his aunt in the outer room getting out of bed and preparing breakfast, so he got dressed early and got out of bed. There were so many preparations to do before going into the mountains, and Yue Feng had already gotten used to it.

Follow the process to complete all the preparations, and then feed the dog at home.

It is worth mentioning that the main purpose of going into the mountains today is to catch sables in Xiatuozi Mountain, so the dogs are not the main force of hunting. When Yue Feng distributed food to the dogs in the morning, he did not feed them half full, but gave them a portion that was about 70% full.

The hunting team members had eaten and drunk their fill and were ready to go into the mountains. My second uncle also came over with a satchel and a rifle.

"Second uncle, why are you carrying a gun?" Yue Feng was somewhat surprised to see the 'weapon' in his second uncle's hand.

Normal people with hunting experience would hardly carry weapons like rifles when they leave home and go into the mountains.

There are many dense forests on the mountain, and a long-handled spear in hand can easily be blocked by branches when walking. Compared with a spear, 99% of people prefer to hang a knife on their backs.

If you really need a long-handled weapon to assist in combat, you can just chop down a small tree stick and the blade on it can become a spear. In terms of practicality, this knife is far better than a spear.

Because they all knew these common sense things, Yue Feng was a little surprised when he saw his second uncle carrying a spear.

The second uncle casually placed the spear next to the door and said, "We bring this thing up the mountain not for hunting, but to prevent wars!

Didn’t I tell you before that there are people over at Blind Camel Mountain who are good at using their wallets to beat the big guys? If you run into them, they will be more afraid if you have a spear in your hand! "

“Um… the atmosphere over there is so dangerous, could it get to the point where people would fight over a single word?” Yue Feng felt a little uncomfortable after hearing his second uncle’s explanation.

"Not really, but it's better to be prepared! If anyone dares to show his teeth, I will use this spear to make him bleed!"

When speaking, my second uncle still gritted his teeth.

It can be seen that my second uncle's words were obviously subjective.

Hearing this, Yue Feng's heart slightly moved, and he asked, "Among the people who stole wallets at Blind Camel Mountain that you mentioned, there may be members of the Qian family, right?"

"Yes! The second son of the Qian family has been hanging around there since the snow fell!

Dare to steal our meat, big brother said to tolerate it, then let's go catch the sable, if he dares to make a noise, I will beat him!"

"Okay, calm down! We may not meet him! Besides, even if we do, we have more people and guns. How dare he show off?"

"That's true!"

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After this little episode, the group of five gathered and left the village. The second uncle took the lead and led the four Yue Feng brothers along the back mountain towards the Blind Tuozi Mountain, and soon disappeared among the mountains.

It is not an easy job to carry a gun, a dog, and all kinds of supplies into the mountains and cross the ravines and hills in the back mountain.

The road that my second uncle took Yue Feng on today was even worse than yesterday.

There are small earthen ridges and deep ditches every once in a while, and it is rare to be able to advance steadily along the ridge.

Fortunately, the snow crust was frozen solid, so the depressions when people walked on it were not too deep. They could just cut a short stick to use as a walking stick, so their progress was not slow.

In the first half, the forest was relatively close to the village, and there were almost no traces of mountain animals except for the occasional footprints of rabbits, pheasants, weasels, etc. in the snow.

These little things were not the target of Yue Feng and his team. To put it bluntly, even if a rabbit was blown up in the aisle, they were too lazy to send dogs to chase it, let alone shoot it with guns.

The 7.62mm medium-power bullet is too lethal to such small animals. A rabbit weighing three to five pounds can be blown to pieces with one shot, leaving nothing useful.

After walking with my second uncle in the mountains and forests for more than two hours, large footprints of mountain animals occasionally began to appear in the snow.

For example, the footprints left by wild boars a few days ago, and the dense footprints left by groups of roe deer passing by, Yue Feng had seen them more than once.

Mountain beasts of these levels are worthy of Yue Feng's serious treatment.

However, judging from the freshness of the footprints, they were all from a few days ago. The success rate of tracking them was too low. They might have gone off direction while we were chasing them, so we didn't chase these old traces.

Such a large group of people bringing dogs up the mountain made a terrifying noise alone. Any prey that was slightly alert would almost certainly hide away. Yue Feng did not encounter any new traces along the way.

However, when it comes to hunting in the mountains, there are too many things that can affect the harvest. In addition to the hunter's hard power, luck is also a very important factor.

When my second uncle and the four members of the Yuefeng Hunting Team were heading towards the Xiatuozi Mountain, near a sunny steep slope about two hilltops away and less than half an hour's walk from the destination, Xiao Tao, who had been pulling the sled in front, accidentally stepped on empty air and slipped.

Whoops! !
Xiao Tao let out a low cry, then rubbed his sore butt and struggled to get up from the snow.

Just when everyone was about to laugh at this reckless guy, they saw Xiao Tao, who had just climbed up, rubbed his eyes and walked sideways towards a big tree not far away.

"Xiao Tao, are you confused after falling? Catch up with the main group!" Yue Feng asked with concern.

Xiao Tao didn't say anything, but waved at Yue Feng and continued walking forward with his head tilted.

Yue Feng also noticed something. Could this guy have discovered something?

Yue Feng followed Xiao Tao and took a few quick steps. He looked in the direction from which Xiao Tao raised his head, and his sight quickly fell on a large oak tree that was at least as thick as three people could hug.

At first glance, this big oak tree is nothing special. There is no forest farm near the Daliushutun mountain village gathering area, and such thick and big old trees are very common in the mountains.

However, Yue Feng looked up along the tree trunk and found that there was an inconspicuous tree hole about three and a half meters above the trunk, near the southeast direction.

"Brother, look at the entrance of this oak tree hole, is there white frost?" At this time, Xiao Tao also saw it carefully and asked, pointing at the hole on the tree trunk.

Yue Feng also saw it. Facing the rising sun in the morning, the white frost at the entrance of the cave did not look very conspicuous, but it could be seen clearly if you looked carefully.

"Damn, you're lucky, you fell down but found a cave for free! There's frost and snow hanging at the entrance of the cave, there must be a blind bear inside!" Yue Feng said with certainty.

After hearing what Yue Feng and Xiao Tao said, several other people also came over.

"Then what are we waiting for? There are so many of us with guns. We can just use force to get the bear out and shoot it to death!" Xiao Tao was very excited and kept glancing at the 56mm half rifle on Yue Feng's shoulder.

Indeed, with the current personnel and firepower configuration of Yue Feng's team, not to mention that there is most likely only one bear in the bear warehouse, even if they deal with two adult black bears at the same time, there is no risk at all. However, in Xiao Tao's expectant eyes, Yue Feng shook his head and said, "There is no rush to kill this blind bear. Let's do the business first, and come back to clean up this warehouse when we are ready to go down the mountain in the afternoon!
Now that the bear has been called out and killed, I have to drag the meat back home. After all this hassle, another day has passed and I haven’t done any real work yet! "

After this explanation, Xiao Tao was no longer eager to try it.

Indeed, Yue Feng thought things through more thoroughly. No one would know if he put it here first, and he could clean up the warehouse when he went down the mountain in the afternoon.

I really didn't expect that there would be such a high density of wild animals on the mountain behind my grandma's house. I even found an unexpected harvest halfway along the way before I even reached the Blind Camel Mountain.

"Okay then, let's talk about it when we go back down the mountain!" Xiao Tao said as he patted the snow foam on his butt.

Yue Feng nodded, turned around and asked his second uncle: "Second uncle, people don't come here often, right? Can you remember the place?"

The second uncle nodded and said: "The road here is not easy to walk, but it is the closest to the Blind Camel Mountain!
Not many people usually walk here, and those who do walk here occasionally mostly pass along the intermittent mountain ridges.

There is a steep slope outside this warehouse, and the entrance is higher than that of ordinary warehouses. If Xiao Tao hadn't fallen, he might not have discovered it if he walked under the tree!
Xiaofeng is right. Let’s leave it here first and come back to clean it up when we come down the mountain!

You guys are really smart. In the winter, as long as the weather is good and I have nothing to do, I will follow the hunters in the village to wander around the mountains.

I haven’t found a Tiancangzi in years, and you came across one on your second day on the mountain!”

"Hey, if we kill this blind bear, we'll have enough money to buy guns and raise dogs! Leave it here first and come back to get it when we get down the mountain (qiu)"

Yue Feng chuckled, put his right hand on Xiao Tao's shoulder and said something.

"Let's go, let's go. Today we have to be careful. Maybe we can meet a sable as soon as we reach Blind Camel Mountain!
First, let's catch as many fish as possible in the next few days and complete your plan, then we can study how to generate income through hunting!" said the second uncle with a relaxed attitude.

After this little episode, the atmosphere of the journey up the mountain became much more subtle.

Today we are guaranteed to catch a blind bear. With this mentality, I will naturally relax a lot when I am on the road and searching for target prey.

In this atmosphere, a group of five people arrived at the main peak of Xiatuozi Mountain at around nine o'clock in the morning. Standing on the high ground and looking down at the mountain streams and ditches below, they had a clear view of the terrain.

My second uncle pointed to the southeast and said, "Do you see the largest mountain stream over there?
That place is called Tulongwei (yi)ba! Below Tulongwei, there are seven or eight branches of different sizes, all of which are gullies and ponds of considerable size.

There are also jumping stones at the bottom of some of the ditches, and the terrain is quite complicated! "

After talking about the southeast direction, my second uncle pointed to the south direction which was a little unclear from the current position.

The view over there was blocked by the treetops of a larch forest, but from above the treetops, one could vaguely see a lot of white water vapor rising.

“The area with white steam coming out of the treetops over there is the location of the Unfrozen Spring in the Big Dragon Stream that I told you about before!
That place is actually the highest among the surrounding ditches and ponds, but our view is blocked by the trees! There is still green grass in many places below the Unfrozen Spring!"

Yue Feng nodded: "Then let's start searching from these forked gullies and ponds in the southwest?"

"I think so too! Few people go to these small ditches and ponds. For example, near the Big Dragon Stream below the Unfrozen Spring, people go there every now and then. Even if there are many good things, they will all be taken away!"

"Let's go! Xiao Tao, you and Xiao Wen hold our dog tightly! I'm releasing the hawk!"

"it is good!"

After getting a response from his companion, Yue Feng took off the hat of the big black eagle that had been squatting on his arm.

Along the way, the big black hawk cackled several times while walking, but Yue Feng was not in a hurry to release the hawk.

Yue Feng was unfamiliar with the surrounding terrain and the eagle had no food in its stomach. He was afraid that it would fly around on the road and find some prey. If it ran away, it would be troublesome for people to find the eagle.

Now that we have arrived at our destination, we naturally no longer have these small concerns.

Yue Feng took off the big black eagle's hat, and it shook its black and gold feathers. It raised its tail and pooped, then flapped its wings and took off. It quickly leaped into the sky above a hundred meters and circled and followed.

"Let's go! The eagle is in place!" Yue Feng called out, and everyone quickly walked towards the bottom of the ditch on the hillside below.

If a hunter wants to find a sable, there isn't much trick to it if we don't consider the element of luck.

The footprints on the ground in the area where these little guys are active are very obvious. If you want to rely on a falcon to catch these things alive, you just have to follow the map and trace them.

The five men each cut a stick to use as support, and then spread out every few meters, moving and searching at the bottom of the ditch like an eagle catching a rabbit on flat ground.

With more people, the search range was larger. A group of five people walked side by side and quickly searched the first mountain stream below.

This place is located at the northwest wind outlet, so it is not easy to keep warm, so let alone sables, even small animals like yellow-skinned mice rarely show signs of activity.

After crossing the first ditch area, everyone planned to follow the terrain branch of the main vein to the second place and continued to repeat the previous actions.

Searching aimlessly in the snow is actually a very boring task. After the excitement wears off, everyone's enthusiasm is slowly declining.

However, Yue Feng was not worried about these things at the moment. The sable was not a mouse in the firewood pile at home. As long as he wanted to catch it, he could find it anyday.

There are many people now and the search area is large. As long as there are sables active in the surrounding area, they will be discovered sooner or later.

Before they knew it, two ditches and ponds several hundred meters long had been turned over. Except for an unlucky rabbit that was blown away and ran into a black wolf in a panic and was bitten to death by a dog, there was still no trace of the sable.

At this time, the benefits of finding a blind bear on the way here were reflected. Everyone was a little lazy, but thinking that even if they got nothing today, they could still have a blind bear as a guarantee, they were still very motivated.

"Damn it! This sable is so hard to find! We've searched so many ditches, but there's no trace of it, not to mention its shadow! There's not even a footprint!"

Xiao Tao held a elm stick in his hand and swung it vigorously, breaking up the snow on the top of a bush near his feet.

As soon as he finished speaking, and before the dust had settled on the snow, he saw a small animal, a size larger than a weasel, rushing out from under the bushes and running wildly along the snow path at the bottom of the ditch.

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