Reborn in the 1980s: I made my fortune hunting wild game in Changbai Mountain
Chapter 445 Tree Nest
The leopard and the wolf in the yard came over to sniff the moment they heard something was thrown into the yard.
The leopard lowered its head and sniffed, then changed positions to smell other pieces of fat, and finally scratched at them with its front paws, then stood up and returned to its own kennel and lay down again.
Tan Lang is more greedy than Leopard. He usually feeds dogs. He would rather die than give up his money and even dares to snatch food from his big brother Canglong.
But when faced with the fat meat thrown into the yard, Tan Lang just sniffed it, picked up the corners of the meat with his mouth, and placed the pieces neatly in front of the door of his doghouse.
The fat meat that ordinary dogs consider delicious was not eaten by these two wolf-blooded dogs.
Speaking of this, we have to mention the food refusal training that Uncle Zhao helped with.
The last time Qiao Saner put poison bait in the mountains and harmed the dog gang was still fresh in people’s minds, so when Yue Feng and Uncle Zhao fed the dogs on weekdays, they conducted a period of food refusal training for the four smart wolf-blooded dogs in their home.
Whether they are in the mountains or during daily feeding at home, the four dogs only eat food fed by their owner and a limited number of family members. As for other things of unknown origin, the four dogs in the house will not eat them.
After completing the poisoning, Zhou Yuanchao went home with his clothes tucked in and continued to sleep. The village returned to peace, as if nothing had happened.
The next morning, Yue Feng got up at six o’clock as usual. After washing his face, brushing his teeth, and tidying up the house, he went to the new house carrying the still warm dog food he had prepared that morning.
Hearing their master’s movement, the leopard and the greedy wolf came over with a grunt and wagging their tails. Yue Feng poured dog food mixed with a lot of wild boar offal into the two dogs’ food bowls.
Normally, when the two dogs saw the food, they would gobble it up immediately. But today, the two dogs were a little abnormal. They did not rush to eat, but instead wandered around Yue Feng’s feet.
After turning around twice, Tan Lang started to bite Yue Feng’s trouser leg. Yue Feng felt it and followed the dog to the doghouse on the other side of the wall.
Seeing the five pieces of raw meat and fat neatly laid out on the ground, Yue Feng’s heart skipped a beat.
Woohoo! !
Tan Lang used his front paws to scratch the fat on the ground, as if he was offering treasure to his master.
In fact, the dog’s mind is very simple. Compared with the pig offal in the dog food, the dog likes to eat this fat food more.
Report the meat you find to the owner, who will then distribute it among you and you can eat it as you please.
Yue Feng immediately bent down and picked up one of the pieces of raw meat and fat. He pinched it with his hand and found that there was a cut in the middle of the fat by the sharp blade. He pinched it open and checked it, and the dark red trace of rat poison appeared in front of him.
Wang Wang Wang!
Seeing his master holding the meat, Tan Lang called out anxiously.
Yue Feng didn’t dare to let go and put the meat in his trouser pocket. He checked the other pieces of meat and added seasoning to each piece of meat.
“You can’t eat this meat! It contains rat poison. If you eat it, you’ll die! Good dog!!!”
Yue Feng touched the dog’s head and said something to comfort it, then collected all the poisoned pieces of meat.
When they heard their owner say there was rat poison, the two dogs, Tanlang and Huabao, stopped trying to get fat and went back to eat pig offal and dog food.
It has been at least several months since the new house and the fence were built. During this period of time, the dog has always been guarding the new house at night and there has never been a problem.
Just yesterday, he had some disagreements with Zhou Yuanchao at the village office, and the poisoning incident happened that evening. Early in the morning, Yue Feng was in a very bad mood.
Fortunately, the dog at home is well-behaved and doesn’t eat anything indiscriminately, otherwise if he had eaten rat poison in one night, and the dose was larger, he would have definitely lost his life.
After strolling around the new house and making sure there were no problems elsewhere, Yue Feng dug a hole in the vegetable garden behind the house and buried the poisonous meat.
This meat has a high fat content and has the unique taste of badgers. You can tell without any guessing that it is the fat cut from badgers.
Yesterday, when Zhou Yuanchao’s hunting team came down the mountain and returned to the village to gather, they killed a nest of badgers, which indirectly verified his guess.
Alpaca, Zhou Yuanchao, have you thought it through? You are courting death! !
Yue Feng cursed secretly in his heart, but he didn’t tell anyone about it. On the surface, he just pretended that it had never happened.
The barking dog never bites. Yue Feng thought he had done his best to deal with Zhou Yuanchao, a jerk. If it were someone else who didn’t know what was going on, they would have spread the news that he shot Qiao Saner in the back.
Now that you are showing your teeth to me, I’m sorry. Let me find the right opportunity and see how I will deal with you!
Yue Feng, who had sentenced Zhou Yuanchao to death in his heart, rode his motorcycle into the city calmly, and then used the industrial tickets in his hand to buy a large number of medium and large-sized foreign nails and rolls of iron wire at the supply and marketing cooperative.
At eight o’clock in the morning, Yue Feng went directly to the village office after purchasing supplies from the city. Many hunters and strong laborers in the village who had a meeting last night after dinner and drinks were gathered here and waiting.
Seeing Yue Feng coming back from outside the village on a motorcycle, Zhang Junhong approached him with a cigarette in his mouth, smiling: “Xiao Feng, you bought the things so early?” “Yes! Nails, wires, a few hammers, pliers and so on! Each team should get a portion of these things!
We will go up the mountain and select a location along the farmland at the foot of the mountain. If there is nothing else to do, we will start construction today!”
“Okay, the secretary has given this matter to you to take the lead, and we’ll do whatever you say! Everyone is here, take a look at how to divide the supplies!”
“Okay, let’s follow the grouping we planned last night. Uncle Zhang, this is your share. Brother Zhao, this is your responsibility…”
Yue Feng personally distributed the hardware supplies in the sidecar of his motorcycle to everyone, and then moved out a few bags of fertilizer and corn kernels from his father-in-law’s warehouse.
After the preparations were completed, Yue Feng asked Xiaowen to drive the tractor from the new house out.
Two military trucks and a tractor were loaded with corn kernels for making nests, as well as wire, nails, saws, hammers and other supplies for building tree nests. A large group of people took different vehicles and left the village directly.
They are all people from the same village, and everyone knows the location of the land in the village, the radiation range and so on.
Yue Feng and several hunting team captains walked around the production road along the foot of the mountain. In less than half a day, they had selected seven large and small spots for making nests and feeding.
The principles for selecting the locations of these feeding points are quite simple. They should be close to the trails used by livestock to walk down the mountain, and in areas where there is a lot of grain that is about to mature. Each time a location is chosen, it is near a tree that is more than one person thick enough to hug.
In simple terms, the area where animals are fed should be on the route they must take before going down the mountain. The surrounding view should also be wider, and there should be large trees that can support the foundation of tree nests.
After walking around the whole circle, everyone chose the tree hole they were responsible for. Then Yue Feng and several leaders had the final communication on the style of the tree hole.
Actually, this thing doesn’t need to be very sophisticated. Just use the thick trunk of a big tree as the foundation, use wood as thick as your arm to tie it into a platform, and then use the tree climbing foot pegs to fix the wooden platform to the nearest branch, and the prototype will be ready.
They are all from mountain villages, and the men do all the work like building wooden fences in their yards by themselves. They can easily make a simple tree nest, but it just takes some time to collect and prepare the materials.
Nails, iron wires and other things were all ready, and the rest was just to collect some wooden sticks of suitable thickness. With everyone’s cooperation, the first tree hole was soon almost ready.
This tree hole is about three meters above the ground. It uses two branches from the bottom of the tree as a fixed structural frame, and several guardrails are placed around the edge to prevent people from falling.
After it was done, two people went up to try it out themselves. The structure was simple and stable, and they could just lie down there and stretch their legs. It was much better than running around the mountain looking for prey.
After the first tree hole was proofed, the staff was divided into several groups and gradually built more tree hole shooting platforms on the selected trees.
For two consecutive days, Yue Feng led this group of people to work on these things. Even the lunch was brought up from home by Yue Feng riding down the mountain on his military backpack.
Although Yue Feng is young, he is in charge of this matter and does everything impeccably.
Although they were doing voluntary work for the village, the lunch that Yue Feng’s family prepared for the hunters who built nests in the trees on the mountain was white flour meat buns stuffed with wild boar and green onions.
Whether in terms of attitude or details, sincerity is fully demonstrated.
At first, several hunters of higher generation were a little resistant to Yue Feng, a younger leader, but after a whole day of interaction, the last bit of resistance disappeared.
Everyone has a new judgment in their hearts.
Although the second boy of Yue Lei’s family is young, he has already shown quite a lot of ability in how he conducts himself and does things. No wonder he has been able to stand out in the village in such a short time.
By the evening of the next day, all seven tree nests were built, and the infrastructure construction was complete.
As the sky gradually darkened, the brothers Yue Feng and Xiao Tao, each riding a military backpack, put the first batch of corn kernels mixed with some corn bones, grass stalks, grass leaves, etc., and dropped them into the open space under the completed tree nest.
In the next three days, Yue Feng would go personally to check the nesting conditions of the additional nests early in the morning and evening.
I don’t know if the large-scale mountain search and construction operations have scared the wild animals, but the food consumption in the dens is very small, and only small animals such as rats, badgers and pheasants are eating sporadically at the feeding points.
The seven feeding points combined consume less than 30 kilograms of corn kernels every day, and at least half of them are stolen by voles, badgers and the like, or even stored in nearby underground nests.
There had been no new discoveries for several days, and voices of doubt were beginning to rise again among the hunters. However, the villagers’ food had not been destroyed by the wild animals in recent days, and no one had directly asked Yue Feng about his subsequent plans.
On the evening of the third day of raising the nest, Wang Jianguo became a little impatient. It sounded like there was nothing wrong with what his son-in-law had arranged, but there had been no results. Now public opinion was somewhat unfavorable to Wang Jianguo and Yue Feng, the father-in-law and son-in-law.
In response to his father-in-law’s question, Yue Feng grinned and lifted a jar from under the courtyard wall.
“Uncle, don’t worry. The big head is here. It should be ready in three days!”
As he spoke, Yue Feng opened the lid of the jar. (End of this chapter)