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

Chapter 51: Spiritual Hammer
The two men and the bear sat beside the big pit that Erhan had dug when he stole the sticks.

The clips on Xie Shubao's feet had been removed. Fortunately, the shoes he was wearing were quite thick, so it only hurt a little but he was not pinched.

Erhan seemed fine, except that he twisted on the ground for a long time when he was hit, and then he got up very skillfully.
Maybe it's because the brain has developed its own hardness.
Dai Song searched Erhan's head for a long time but couldn't find where Xie Shubao had hit him with the stick.

Xie Shubao grabbed a handful of snow and wiped it on his face, speaking with a nasal tone.
"Brother Song, what you said before, that there are many ways to 'save your life', is that true?"

"Yeah!" Dai Song was puzzled. "What's the matter? Want to learn? I'll teach you when I have time!"

"Brother Song, don't lie to me. I saw that you had no other options and you just raised your hands in surrender..."

"Raise your hands in surrender?!"

Dai Song recalled for a moment, then patted Xie Shubao on the back of his head, "Why surrender? This is called attracting attention!"

"Huh? Really?"

"Yeah! If I don't help you attract attention, Erhan will definitely chase you. Do you believe it?"

"……letter!"

Xie Shubao used this trick to trick several geese in the village.
When the big goose chased him, he ran away and was led all the way to Tunxi, where he died without any evidence.

"Also, raising your hands high is to make yourself look bigger and more intimidating. The smarter the beast, the more likely it is to flee when faced with an opponent that is obviously larger than them. Even if the opponent is of similar size, they will choose to confront the opponent instead of rushing up at the first opportunity.

At such a short distance, using this gun, I only have one chance to shoot. If I can get the bear to stand up and confront me, I will have more opportunities to shoot its heart and lungs. After all, the bear's skull is really hard and slippery, and the bullet will easily ricochet when it hits it.

Although shooting the heart and lungs cannot make a bear instantly incapacitated like shooting the skull, the tolerance for error in shooting the heart and lungs is much higher!

At worst, after you've shot the bear, you can just find a nearby tree or something and run around in circles. If you keep doing this for a few times, the bear will be unable to hold on any longer."

These were experiences that Dai Song had gained at a great cost. Even now, when he thought of the black bear, he still felt a lingering fear.

Xie Shubao silently memorized these knowledge points. After a few seconds, he looked at Erhan, who was sitting on the right side of Dai Song with his back to them.
"Brother Song, so you plan to train Erhan to be a hunter...bear?"

"Well, all I can say is, give it a try."

Dai Song looked at the broken pieces of the mallet on the ground and the broken whiskers in the dirt, and his heart ached.

"I think it's reliable. Xiao Erhan is quite smart~"

"Stop, stop!" Dai Song glanced at Erhan and found that its two little ears were indeed tilted to listen to the conversation between the two people, so he said,
"You are not allowed to say nice things to it just because you hurt it by accident!"

Xie Shubao saw that the two little ears on Erhan's head immediately drooped down, almost collapsing on both sides of his head.

I admired Erhan even more, but since Dai Song had said so, I could only change the subject.

"Okay, Brother Song, now we are..."

"What else can we do? Fortunately, we came today. If we were two days later, this guy would have eaten everything!"

Dai Song rolled his eyes at Er Han, and seeing that it was still sitting with its back to him in a wronged manner, he slapped its big butt in annoyance.

"Eat, eat, eat! Eat so much! What will you do if you can't mount the little female bear?"

"Puff, huh~"

Erhan lowered his head and seemed to sigh heavily.

"What the hell?" Dai Song laughed in anger.
"Okay! You're not convinced, right?

Come back...you...ah! ...see if I still care about you or not!

"Little backpack, forget about it, let's just keep going along this path!"

"Oh, sure!"

Erhan, who was originally looking aggrieved and sulking, immediately turned around and lay down at Dai Song's feet when he heard Dai Song say that he would ignore him in the future.

With its ears folded behind its head, its two little eyes kept stealing glances at Dai Song and Xie Shubao. Xie Shubao squatted on the other side, looking at Erhan's pitiful and somewhat amusing expression, and couldn't help but want to say a few words to help him.
"Brother Song, don't be angry with Erhan. At least, Erhan helped us loosen the soil, right?

The soil is almost frozen, we don’t know how long it will take to dig it ourselves.”

"Ah."

Dai Song glanced at Er Han, who was secretly looking at Xie Shubao.

After thinking about it, he pretended not to see it. While doing the preparation work with Xie Shubao, he continued what he had not finished saying before and explained the stupid thing in detail.

"The area we are digging now is the growth area of ​​the five-leafed mallotus I told you about.

But there is one thing you have to know: the so-called one leaf every other year, two leaves in three years, and five leaves in six years all refer to ginseng grown in other people's ginseng gardens.

Wild clubwort grows much slower. Take these five-leaf ones for example. It takes at least twenty years to grow, or even thirty or forty years.

Most herders will only come into contact with five leaves in their lifetime.

The mallets of this age are usually about 300 grams, and have more side roots and whiskers. Little schoolbag, it's better to go slowly when we pick them up, and don't rush."

"OK!"

Xie Shubao nodded heavily, then took a deer antler pick and began to scrape along the tip of the mallet.

Dai Song pushed Er Han, who had been clinging to him at some point, aside and helped to lift the mallet.
"Xiaoxuebao, the price of wild mallets fluctuates greatly. A little damage will make the mallet unsellable.
There are also various other sayings,
The more authoritative one is that in addition to the age and weight of the ginseng, one must also look at the "five shapes and six aspects" of the mallet.

Look at the reed, stem, patterns, body, including the last and most troublesome whiskers, which together form five shapes.

The six parts represent the overall shape of the mallet, namely smart, smooth, old, tender, horizontal and stupid.

The spirits are like little people in motion.

The main root and side roots have large forking angles and are extremely flexible, so it is easy to sell them at a high price just because of their appearance.

The old body is wrinkled, yellow in color, with many lines, and does not look as good as the spiritual body, but it has the advantage of being older and having stronger medicinal properties.

The other types are of medium and low quality. If they can be sold by weight, it’s considered good. Most of them are sold by kilogram…”

The two men and the bear stayed in the pit until noon.
During this period, Dai Song stood up and pounded his waist many times. He had been fighting day and night for the past few days and had been squatting for a long time, so naturally he felt a little exhausted.

Xie Shubao was fine. Firstly, he was young, and secondly, this was his only hope to change the status quo. He was full of energy and naturally had greater endurance.

Dai Song twisted his waist and was about to squat again when his eyes suddenly lit up:
"Wait a minute! Little backpack! This is a spirit!!"

Xie Shubao was stunned. He had been focusing on the details and not the whole.

Hearing Dai Song's reminder, he also stood up to observe - the main root and side roots of the mallet had been cleared out, and its shape really looked like a little man who was showing off and jumping in place.

Xie Shubao was ecstatic, "Brother Song! Let's get it out now!!"

"Pfft! Phew!"

"No hurry, no hurry!" Dai Song hurriedly pushed the fool back, fearing that he would be bitten by this one if he wasn't paying attention.

"Now we only need the whiskers. Let's eat first. Don't turn around and your hands will shake with hunger. If you cut the whiskers, you will lose a lot!"

“Yeah!”

Xie Shubao also realized that he was very hungry, so he immediately used the dead tree to dig a hole nearby, made a fire, baked buns, and warmed the chicken.

Dai Song went to relieve himself under a tree not far away.

Seeing that the two men had finally stopped digging, Erhan also became more excited. He originally wanted to follow Dai Song to dig under the tree and mark the territory.
But once it saw the graceful little chick beside the fire, it couldn't take its eyes away.

(End of this chapter)