Xing'an Mountains 1984: Starting from climbing mountains to support the family

Chapter 5: Hog Badger
Chen Weidong looked around and found a large rock about five or six meters to his left. It was half a person's height. If he climbed up, he would be able to see clearly what was happening in the bushes.

So he climbed up the rock with his gun in hand. Once he was on the rock, what happened was just as Chen Weidong had expected.

I saw two pheasants, a male and a female, with a group of chicks on a sparse patch of grass in the bushes.

They were leisurely moving through the bushes and grass in search of food.

I encountered a pheasant with its chicks.
Chen Weidong showed no mercy and immediately turned on the safety, aiming at the fattest female pheasant.

Loading, firing, pulling the bolt, and ejecting the shell are all done in one go.

"boom!!"

The bullet hit the female pheasant, and with a scream, the pheasant fluttered twice and fell to the ground.

As for the male pheasant, and a group of little pheasants.

At the moment the gunshots rang out, they were frightened and all disappeared, so fast!!

Chen Weidong happily picked up the female pheasant.

After processing the hen,

Then he rested for a while and continued searching in the mountains.

In a flash, an afternoon passed. Chen Weidong had been wandering in the woods. Although he fired two more shots, he didn't get anything.

In total, we shot two pheasants, and the two pheasants together weighed only about four or five kilograms.

In one day, two pheasants were caught, and another pheasant was delivered to the door. It can be seen that making a living by hunting is not that easy.

He looked at the sky and it would be almost dark by the time he got back.

So Chen Weidong took the harvest and returned by a very short route.

Chen Weidong was traveling through the mountains and forests. Just when he was about to see Jiuqutun after crossing a ridge,
Suddenly a fat figure came into his sight, and upon closer inspection he found it was a badger.

Badgers are extremely ferocious and cunning animals. Badgers are larger than piglets and smaller than domestic dogs, but very strong. They are dark brown in color, with shiny fur, sharp claws and fangs. They run very fast and like to dig holes. They have a very keen sense of smell.
In Laohei Mountain, local people hate two kinds of animals: one is the wild boar, and the other is the badger.

Wild boars and badgers not only steal crops, but also show an extremely greedy and cruel side while eating. They are irrational and have no sense of propriety, and trample on crops at will. Therefore, any crop fields visited by wild boars and badgers are often in a mess and no crops are harvested.

However, after thirty or forty years, this creature has become a second-class protected animal.

This badger has a long white line from its forehead to its neck. It looks white and plump, quite pretty.
However, badgers usually like to hide during the day and come out at night, so he didn't expect to meet one in broad daylight.

This badger is a hog badger. There are two types of badgers based on their appearance. One is the "hog badger", which has a round and bald mouth and upturned nostrils; the other is the "dog badger", which has a sharp mouth and downward-facing nostrils.

When Chen Weidong saw the badger, the badger also discovered Chen Weidong and immediately ran away.

Seeing this, Chen Weidong chased after it. However, the badger had a fat body and short legs, so it couldn't run fast.

After two or three moves, Chen Weidong immediately caught up with the badger, but he was not in a hurry to catch it.
This thing is also very fierce, it is a close relative of the flat head brother, it bites people! And it is very strong,

Chen Weidong remembers an old man who was catching a badger. After being bitten by the badger, he couldn't get out of bed for more than half a month.

When the badger saw Chen Weidong blocking its way, it immediately raised its two short legs and made a gesture as if it was ready to fight Chen Weidong.

"Go ball!"

Chen Weidong took the Hanyang rifle and shot at the badger, knocking it unconscious.

Chen Weidong had no intention of catching it alive from the beginning. This creature had a loose skin, and even if he caught its back, it would still bite it. If Chen Weidong had not had a limited number of bullets, he would have shot it long ago.

Chen Weidong picked up the badger and put it into a sack, but he did not leave in a hurry. Instead, he searched around. When he saw a small mound not far away, he had an idea in his mind.

Normally, wild hog badgers hide during the day and come out at night. It is not dark yet. If you spot a wild hog badger during this period of time, it is very likely that it has just crawled out of its hole.

Chen Weidong had learned about the habits of the wild hog badger from some experienced badger catchers.
Badgers are social animals. There are at least two in a litter, but sometimes there are six, seven or even more.

Moreover, the badger's hole is very large, and every autumn, it is busy building its own home.

When they build their homes, they dig up large amounts of soil and transport it down the mountain and pile it up far away.

But animals are animals after all, and they just think that they can hide their caves by transporting the soil to other places.

However, they overlooked one thing: the soil they thought was transported far away was actually not very far from their caves from the perspective of humans.

So, if you want to find a badger hole, it is very simple. You just need to find piles of earth under the hillside and you can easily find the badger hole nearby.

Sure enough, when Chen Weidong was searching on the hillside, he saw a cave entrance not long after he reached the sunny slope.

Looking at the marks at the entrance of the cave, it is obviously a badger cave.

Chen Weidong left a mark nearby and then went back. It was getting late and he had no tools, so Chen Weidong planned to come and dig the badger hole tomorrow.

"Wuni, what are you looking at here by yourself?"

Before Chen Weidong even got home, he saw Wu Ni, a two-and-a-half-year-old girl, lying alone in front of his yard, in the corner behind the adobe house in front of him, peeking at something outside.
She was wearing very thin clothes. You have to know that in October in the Northeast, the weather had already cooled down, but there were no extra clothes at home. In the past, when it was winter, there were no cotton-padded jackets at home, and the little ones would sleep on the kang. In the summer, this little one and Liu Ni were still naked.

Suddenly he heard Chen Weidong's voice and realized something was wrong. He immediately stuck his butt out and wanted to run inside with his short legs!

Chen Weidong was quick-witted and quick-handed, and he picked up the little guy who wanted to run away and put him in his arms.

"Woooooo~"

Wu Ni was so frightened by Chen Weidong's attack that she started crying.

"Don't cry, Wu Ni. Daddy just wants to hug you."

Chen Weidong said gently.

However, it was of no use, as the little fellow looked as if he was about to be spanked.

"Stop crying. If you cry, your dad will spank you."

In order to comfort the little boy, Chen Weidong could only frown. Sure enough, the little guy stopped crying instantly.

He even quickly used his little hands to wipe away her tears.

"No spanking, Daddy!"

"Do not hit!"

The little fellow spoke in a slurred voice.

"Okay, be good! Daddy won't spank you!"

Chen Weidong touched Wu Ni's cute little face. Although this little girl lived well in her previous life, she also suffered a lot with him.

(End of this chapter)