Forest Farm 1985: Raise a bear cub to climb the mountain

Chapter 33: I was shocked!

Dai Song put the gun into his backpack and touched the 20 yuan hidden in his pocket.
"No matter what, I have to give it to you. After all, you helped save my sister's life. Maybe you can also help me find out where the bullet is."

As he said that, he walked towards Xie Shubao's house.

Xie Shubao had been staying at home for the past few days. When he heard Dai Song calling in the yard, he quickly put on his coat and went out.

"Oh! Little Schoolbag, your cotton-padded jacket has become much thicker!"

"Thank you, Song."

Xie Shubao touched his nose, wanting to say something but unable to speak. His face turned red with anxiety. The cold wind blew, and it felt like a knife pulling flesh, both painful and itchy.

Thanks to the ten yuan that Dai Song had given him before, he bought a lot of old cotton from a peddler passing through the village for two yuan.

He made a simple bow bed and spent three days on it. He had planned to put the cotton in his mother's quilt and cotton-padded jacket, but his mother secretly took apart his jacket at night and replaced all the loose cotton.

He wanted to exchange his cotton-padded jacket with his mother, but she refused to let him. He had no choice but to spend two more days trying to fluff up the old cotton.

But the cotton in his clothes was too old and could no longer bounce.

His mother just smiled and said that they were burning firewood at home so they wouldn't be cold, but he needed to keep warm when he went out and must not catch a cold. The family was poor and it was all because of her poor health, which had dragged him down so much.

Xie Shubao had no choice but to swallow his tears and counted on his fingers, hoping that Dai Song would come to see him.

Now that the time has finally come, he suddenly blames himself for being so ignorant that he can't even say a few nice words.

"Hey~ why are you crying?"

Dai Song rubbed Xie Shubao's head and saw that Xie Shubao's eyes were dry and there were two ridges under his nose.

This kid is really good at holding back. He can definitely hold back the water from coming out of his eyes, even if it can come out of other eyes.

"Brother Songsong, what's the matter?" He wiped his nose hurriedly, and the tip of his nose turned red.

"It's getting cold, so I came to see you. I won't go into the house. If I go in, I'll have to trouble Auntie. Here, take it."

Xie Shubao's eyes lit up, then he blinked and shook his head:

"Brother Song, I can't take it. I already received ten dollars last time and I didn't do anything. I can't take this twenty."

"Are you a tiger?"

Dai Song put his arm around Xie Xuebao's shoulders and said, "This is the money for the tools to carry the mallet, your errand fee, and your wages for carrying the mallet. Do you understand that I will advance it?"

"But this is too much!"

"A lot? Oh, and there's also a thank you in there for saving my sister."

"Brother Song, I didn't do anything."

"Stop pretending to be stupid with me!"

Xie Shubao was slapped on the back of his head and smiled shyly.

"Take it! I'm telling you, I don't have any more money at the moment. I only have 20 bucks in my pocket. But I'm telling you, without you, my sister's situation would be in jeopardy. Don't tell me that!"

Dai Song felt extremely uncomfortable when he suddenly forgot the words that were on the tip of his tongue, but that was the best way to stop there.

After all, if he continued to talk about it, he would only be scolding himself for not being able to accomplish anything, but always causing trouble. Seeing Xie Shubao holding the money in his hand, Dai Song was still a little worried.
"Go buy some food for Auntie to replenish her body! And you, it's hard to carry the mallet up the mountain! You may stay here for two or three days, so talk to Auntie and don't let her worry. And make sure her family is settled, understand?"

"Ok!"

In the end, Dai Song did not ask Xie Shubao about the bullets.

Bullets are strictly controlled these days. Even in the county’s large shopping malls, all you can buy are air guns and lead bullets.

He was afraid that Xie Shubao was so inexperienced that he would do anything to help him, even risking his own life.

Besides, it would be fine if Xie Shubao hadn't found out where the bullets came from.

If anyone finds out, with the twenty yuan, apart from the hammer, tools and a little necessary living expenses, Xie Shubao's stubbornness can be used to buy bullets with the rest of the money.

After saying goodbye to Xie Shubao, Dai Song felt relieved with his pockets empty.

The old sow from yesterday was enough for Erhan to eat for a week. He would just go and check on it as usual later. He would first take a walk around with the clamps, and then go and see how Bangchui was. He would make arrangements in advance to avoid being caught off guard when the time comes.

As he was thinking, Dai Song went up Gouzi Mountain. He figured out the direction and found that he was walking on the same road he had taken yesterday to look for wild boars.

There is a small trap in the snow less than 200 meters ahead.

When he passed by, he found that there were some low shrubs nearby, with grass roots and tubers around the shrubs, which are the things that snow rabbits like to eat.

Dai Song thought of putting one here to try his luck.
Before he got close, he saw a snow-white figure rushing out from where he had set up the traps, jumping a few times on the snow, and then disappeared.

The incident happened suddenly, and Dai Song had no time to raise his gun to shoot. He was a little disappointed, so he had to go to the bushes and find the iron chain buried in the snow, intending to pull out the trap to check the bait.
As he was pulling, Dai Song felt something was wrong. Was he scratching the bushes or something?
With a little effort, he actually dragged out a snow rabbit weighing more than eight kilograms, which was even bigger than the one that had escaped before!
Are they a couple?
Dai Song was packing while thinking, it was only mid to late October.
The snow hare breeding season is from February to April. Before that, snow hares live alone and are unlikely to appear in pairs.

Is it really because rabbits are sexually active?

Dai Song grinned and scratched the back of his head.
He recalled his past life, when he heard the educated youth from the forest farm using rabbits as an analogy to the girl from the hair salon in the city.
What about the male rabbit tapping its legs and the female rabbit covering its eyes?
At that time, I was busy making dirty jokes with a bunch of people. Now that I think about it, if that was really the case, it would be normal to do it a few times a year.

Moreover, snow rabbits can have two or three litters a year. He seemed to have heard this from his hunting teacher in his previous life.

But I can't remember clearly, after all, he didn't care about these little things at that time.
I dream of hunting bears and tigers every day, and at the very least I want to kill a lynx.

But the smile of success at the beginning did not last long on Dai Song's face. After that, he failed to get three clips in a row.
His face gradually became as ugly as it was last night when he had struggled to cover up his mistake for a long time but was finally exposed by Dai Bo with just one sentence.

To the last clamp,
It was very close to Erhan's tree hole. Because there was the smell of Erhan around, Dai Song didn't hold out much hope. He just planned to put it away and put it somewhere else.

When he pulled the chain, a little roe deer came out!

Half of the hind legs...

Looking at the claw marks on the hind legs and the frozen bear feces next to it that looked like black twists, Dai Song felt the veins on his forehead throbbing.

"Damn it!"

Dai Song gritted his teeth and said, "Erhan, you don't think having an old sow is enough to eat, but you insist on snatching the prey from the trap, right?"
The “Siberian Giant Hamster” that I saw on my phone in my previous life was absolutely true!
They don’t eat what’s in the nest, but just keep begging outside, and even bring the leftovers back to the nest!

Dai Song became angrier and angrier, so he didn't even put away the clamp and ran straight to Erhan's tree hole.

As a result, I saw Erhan lying on the ground with his head buried in the sow's stomach, eating with a grunt.

(End of this chapter)