Chapter 301: Jackal Meat
A wolf howl, like a sad death knell ringing in the silent night sky, instantly wiped out Yue Feng’s drowsiness.

Wang Wang Wang!
Dahuang immediately shouted.

“Dahuang, stop barking!” Yue Feng put his arm around the dog’s neck, and Dahuang stopped barking immediately.

Uncle Zhao turned over and crawled out from the roe deer skin blanket, opened his hunting bag, found the clip for bullets, and started loading the bullets into it.

“Sir, there are wolves in the valley!”

“I heard you!”

Yue Feng doesn’t have many memories of wolves. In the forest and mountain range surrounding Xing’an Village, there have been no traces of wolves for more than ten years.

In the early years, wolves would come down the mountain every now and then to wreak havoc on the people living at the foot of the mountain.

Later, the Forestry Bureau and the township security departments organized militia hunters from each village to sweep the mountains for several years.

The wolves within a radius of 100 miles were almost completely wiped out, and there were fewer and fewer traces of wolves thereafter.

Uncle Zhao was as calm as ever, and continued to load the bullets while saying, “Today is not a full moon, and the whistling noise in the middle of the night is not a good thing, it’s shaking someone!

“Don’t be idle, you have a few clips over there, load the bullets in advance! Who knows, this wolf cub might come for us!”

“I have two bridge clips.

Logically, the territories of the jackal and the wolf pack should not overlap!

A pack of eight jackals is not too small, how can they live in peace with the wolves? This is unscientific!”

While speaking, Yue Feng found the two empty clips from the hunting bag beside him, took out a handful of bullets from Uncle Zhao’s hunting bag at the back, and loaded the bullets in the light of the fire.

Uncle Zhao: “If this group of jackals is the same tribe as the one I remember, then their former territory was in the lower reaches of Luming Valley, at least 20 kilometers away from where we are!

Jackals and wolves do not get along, but if they are evenly matched, they will not fight to the death!
Another possibility is that the female jackal wants to lure us into the wolf pack’s territory to kill someone with her own knife!
In short, there are many reasonable possibilities, but these are not our focus now! “

“Well? The key is to prepare the bullets first, and then use the bullets to deal with them if they dare to come!” Yue Feng said calmly.

“Yes! Are you scared? You probably haven’t seen many wolves, have you?”

“I’ve never seen a live one! But I’ve seen wolfskin mattresses in the old hunter’s house in the village!
That thing is quite thick and warm! I heard from the elders that a mattress made of wolf skin can relieve rheumatism!”

Hearing Yue Feng say this, Uncle Zhao knew that the boy in front of him was really brave.

Yue Feng didn’t even consider the danger of being surrounded by wolves. Instead, he began to think about the benefits of wolf skin.

“Just don’t be afraid! Now you listen to me and push down the snow wall outside our campfire!” Uncle Zhao began to make arrangements.

“After the snow wall is torn down, it will be much colder in the snow cave!”

“Push if I tell you to!
The snow wall reflects heat, but it also blocks our view!
From where we are now, except for the ridge above our heads which is a blind spot, we can see the area in front of us!
When making a living in the mountains, you have to think about the worst-case scenario and deal with everything!
Most of these beasts were attracted by the barking of jackals and the smell of blood in the evening!
The snow wall blocked everything and we couldn’t see anything. We didn’t even know the wolves had surrounded our snow den!”

Yue Feng obediently crawled out of the cave, and with a few pushes and kicks he pushed down the half-meter-high snow wall and completely cleared the entrance to the snow cave.

After finishing, Uncle Zhao continued, “Come here and stand guard with your gun, I’ll go and deal with those two dead jackals!
Pay attention to the glowing eyes in the dark outside. The wolf’s eyes are yellow-green at night. Aim and shoot at the spot just below the eyes, which is near the neck!”

“Oh!” Yue Feng agreed and held his gun close to the cave entrance to keep watch.

Uncle Zhao crawled out of the snow den holding a sharp little hatchet, then dug out two skinned jackals buried nearby and cut several cuts on the jackals’ bodies with the axe.

After doing all this, Uncle Zhao tied the jackal’s legs with a rope and dragged it, striding towards a crooked elm tree about 40 meters away on the opposite side.

Uncle Zhao had a clear goal. After walking under the tree, he threw the rope onto the branch and then pulled it. Two jackals emitting a bloody smell were hung in the air about two meters above the ground.

After feeling that the height was about right, Uncle Zhao tied the other end of the rope to the trunk of the tree and made a knot.

After doing all this, the old man came back quickly, hunched over.

“Uncle, what are you doing? Wouldn’t it smell less if we buried it in the snow? Are you afraid that the wolves won’t be able to find us if we hang it on the tree now?”

“You know nothing, little bastard!
Do you think that if you bury the jackal’s body in snow, the wolves won’t be able to smell it?
Any wolf from the pack has a nose that can rival that of our hunter’s chief dog!

I am making a nest! God has been very kind to us today, and is sending us wealth!”

When it comes to fishing, Yue Feng, who was a veteran angler in his previous life, knows it very well.

He spread corn and beans in Heicunzaigou to feed pheasants, which is also a kind of nesting.

To put it bluntly, the principle is very simple, it’s just using food to lure prey over!

“There won’t be too many wolves, right? Xiao Tao and his men only have one gun, so they’ll be in even greater danger!” “From a geographical point of view, the wolves won’t bypass us and go to the camp where Xiao Tao and his men are staying overnight!

That place is closer to the lower reaches of Luming Valley and should be the core territory of the jackals!
The current location may be the border or overlapping area between the territories of the wolves and jackals!
As for the number of wolves, this is quite interesting. The number of wolves is directly related to whether there is a good harvest or a bad harvest in the mountains.

In a good year, there are many wild animals and livestock on the mountain, so the wolves have no worries about food. The number of individuals in a pack will be much smaller, with three to five at most, and six or seven at most. They will catch wild boars, roe deer, rabbits and the like.

If it is a bad year, there are fewer wild animals on the mountain, making it difficult to hunt prey, so the wolves will gather in larger groups and work together to attack larger wild animals such as red deer and moose!”

“Can these large and small groups be combined and divided at will?”

Yue Feng was somewhat confused when he heard this answer. It was very different from what he knew about wolves and almost overturned his previous understanding.

“Wolf packs are in competition with each other, but they are also related by blood. Normally, each pack has its own territory and does not invade each other.

But when certain balances are broken, or when facing greater challenges that require unity and cooperation, they will call out to other wolf packs by howling in the mountains!

At this time, the two wolf packs of six or seven wolves may join together to become a large group of more than ten wolves!

Judging from the sound just now, it’s most likely to be someone’s waving!”

“Damn! No wonder your first reaction when you heard the noise was to load the bullets! You don’t need to sleep tonight! Maybe we can kill ten or eight wolves tonight.

Wolf skins are great stuff in this season! Make a few more fur mattresses, and it will be more comfortable to spend the night in the mountains!”

“Hehe, if they dare to come, then we won’t have to worry about the wolfskin mattress! Go take a nap first, I’ll keep an eye on them for a while, so you don’t get tired when the wolves come!”

“Okay! Then I’ll take a break!”

Yue Feng didn’t act pretentiously. He just shrank back obediently, lay down on the roe deer skin blanket and closed his eyes.

His eyes were closed, but the howling of wolves in the distance did not stop. Even the dog lying next to him was awakened and kept looking outside.

Yue Feng was somewhat excited at this moment. The feeling was somewhat similar to the last time when he was waiting for the prey to come to him. He had made preparations in advance and was just waiting for the prey to come to him.

After getting up, Uncle Zhao was not idle. He took out his knife and dug out a lot of snow from one side of the snow pit. He piled them up next to the snow pit to form a temporary shooting position.

When a person lies on the ground and places the gun on a shooting platform, shooting accuracy can be guaranteed to the greatest extent.

The howling of wolves outside did not stop for a long time. Judging from the sound, it seemed to be getting closer.

Yue Feng forced himself to sleep for a while, but he was still in a daze and couldn’t fall asleep.

At one o’clock in the middle of the night, Yue Feng, who was in a daze, felt Uncle Zhao patting his calf.

“Ah? Uncle?” Yue Feng immediately opened his eyes and asked in a low voice.

“Hurry up, the wolves are coming! They are circling around the bodies of the two jackals!”

Hearing the wolf coming, Yue Feng came to his senses in an instant, grabbed his Type 56, quickly checked the barrel and receiver to make sure there was no ice, then turned on the safety and crawled to the position next to Uncle Zhao.

“Adjust your eyes a little and see if you can see the jackal hanging on the old elm tree clearly?” Uncle Zhao continued in a low voice.

Yue Feng rubbed his eyes, slowly feeling the changes in his vision.

In this low-light environment, people’s vision will automatically adjust. After adapting for about ten seconds, with the faint light from outside, Yue Feng could already see the general environment around him and the outlines of the two jackals hanging on the tree.

“I can almost see it clearly! There are four wolves wandering around the old elm tree!” Yue Feng said truthfully.

“It’s not four, there are at least 11! Look behind you! They are still watching from a distance and haven’t come close yet!”

Upon hearing Uncle Zhao’s explanation of 11, Yue Feng’s heart skipped a beat for no reason and he squinted his eyes to observe the area carefully.

There really is one behind it.

Farther behind the old elm tree, one could occasionally see the flash of a wolf’s eyes, but Yue Feng’s vision was not that clear, and he could not count the specific number of 11.

“If we move any further back, I won’t be able to see clearly! When are we going to take action and wait for the wolves to get closer?”

“I calculated the height of the jackal’s body hanging on the tree!
If you want to eat meat, an adult werewolf standing up is basically enough! The rope is tied very tightly, and it will definitely not be pulled off!
As soon as they clear the danger zone and start eating, we’ll be ready to fire!
When you observe, don’t open your eyes wide and look into the distance, squint them and look with the corner of your eye!
It’s too obvious and will be discovered by those beasts. They are now just watching and judging!
When hunting such clever mountain animals in the mountains, you must not be impatient and must be patient. You can’t eat hot tofu in a hurry. It’s better not to fight and not to scare them. “

Yue Feng nodded, and lay there obediently, imitating Uncle Zhao’s way of setting up his gun, and then observed the movements of the wolves in the distance with the corner of his eye.

I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect or I’ve gradually adapted to the dim light outside, but my vision is indeed much clearer.

Yue Feng even found a wolf behind the old elm tree, which was staring at this side intently.

(End of this chapter)