Chapter 350 The Old Hunter’s Hidden Wealth
“This autumn and half of the winter, the total number of rabbits I caught was less than 200!
It’s windy and cold later, so I won’t release the pheasants!

I didn’t really take this hawk hunting seriously before, but when you think about it, the income from hawk hunting in the front door of my house, on the graves and in the corners of the village, is not much less than the income from hunting in the mountains in previous years.”

“Two hundred little rabbits! That’s really good! There are so many rabbits around my house!” Yue Feng nodded repeatedly after hearing this.

Seeing this, some people may question this number. How many rabbits are needed to catch 200 rabbits in a few months? Are there so many?

Yes, there was. In the 1980s, there was no large-scale abuse of pesticides, nor was there any electric capture equipment that seriously damaged the ecology.

It is no exaggeration to say that there are plenty of rabbits around the villages at the foot of Changbai Mountain, on riverbanks, and among grave mounds.

Why in the old society, a good eagle for catching rabbits was considered a large livestock with the same value as cattle and horses? It was because if this thing was kept well, it would bring in a lot of profit.

As long as the eagle is hardworking enough and goes out for a stroll every day, the money earned from catching rabbits in the winter alone can far exceed what you can earn from working hard on the farm for a whole year.

Uncle Chen: “I have finally understood the eagle. After it has been thoroughly trained, it now weighs about 2.3 kg. With its fat body, it can hit stakes and catch prey with surprising ease!

With this small orchid nest, you can catch birds as eagle food. When the weather gets warmer in spring, you can cage it up to feed the big eagle. It will definitely be enough!

Oh, I was just busy talking about eagles! You came to see me in such a cold weather, don’t you have anything else to do? ! “

When it comes to releasing and raising hawks, the grandfather and the other always have various topics to talk about, but after chatting for a while, Uncle Chen suddenly reacted and asked a question specifically.

Yue Feng was not the kind of person who would beat around the bush. After hearing Uncle Chen’s question, he scratched his head and said truthfully, “I came back this time not only to see you after a while, but also to ask you something!”

“You kid, you’re being pretentious with me. If you have something to say, just tell me. I can do it. I won’t argue with you!”

“It’s not that I need you to help me with something, but I want to ask you about playing with the cane fence, and whether there is a good place that you are familiar with!
Didn’t I help my dad find a job at the forest farm? I promised him…”

Yue Feng talked a lot and told Uncle Chen about his promise to help with the forest farm to prepare festival gifts.

After listening to Yue Feng’s ideas and plans, the old man pondered for a few seconds and looked up and said, “You want to ask this!
If there are enough people, playing cane encirclement is really a good choice!

I didn’t participate in many cane games when I was young, but I do know a few good places for cane games! ”

“Let me hear you tell me! Is it far from the Chaiji Road built at the forest farm?” Yue Feng immediately became excited when he heard that there was a way.

As experienced hunters, in addition to superb hunting skills and various experiences, some key intelligence information is also the accumulation on which they rely for survival.

For example, not long ago, Yue Feng went to a water bubble to dig out toads. The location and specific situation of the water bubble where the toads were found was one of the resource points controlled by Yue Feng.

As long as we don’t exhaust all the resources, we can harvest a lot of forest frogs every year.

There are many resource points of this type, such as the locations of some bear warehouses, the locations of wild bees, the locations where sables tend to choose to build nests, and even the areas where pigs, deer, and roe deer like to stay, all of which have similar resource attributes.

This mountain area is suitable for hunting with sticks, and is also one of the hunters’ trump cards.

A good place has abundant food for mountain livestock to fatten them up over the winter, rich resources, more prey every year, and the terrain structure is convenient for hunters to hunt with sticks.

These are the wealth accumulated and passed down by generations of mountain hunters. Unless the relationship is very close, it is generally not passed around.

For ordinary hunters who follow the master to work, unless they are willing to learn and work hard in private to study and research various locations, it will be difficult for them to grasp the essence of fighting with sticks, just like a blind man groping in the dark.

In the same mountain area, a knowledgeable hunter can make everyone in the team return home with a full load, while those who are not knowledgeable may work hard all day and be exhausted without catching a single hair.

Uncle Chen is an old hunter who has retired. None of his sons or nephews are hunters anymore, so there is no need for him to hide the punctuation marks and other information in his mind.

Now that Yue Feng came to ask for advice in person, the old man had no intention of keeping it to himself.

“For the nearby mountain areas, even if the terrain is suitable, there is basically no need to organize people to fight with sticks!
There are only a few active wild animals every year, and every now and then someone will go and shoot them with guns or chase them with dogs! Those who survive are either shot or killed by dogs!
If you want to practice martial arts, it’s best to go somewhere a little further away from the residential areas and villages!

When we were young, we followed Zhang to the mountains to do the cane hunting. We would stay in the mountains for two or three days and sleep in the snow at night! !

How many people can you gather to surround the pole? I can help you choose a mountain area with a better chance of unloading goods! “

Yue Feng counted on his fingers and said, “There are four of us in the hunting team, plus eight to ten people from the forest ranger team.

To be conservative, twelve to fourteen people, plus four dogs and an eagle!

As for guns, 56 and a half, there are seven guns!”

After listening to the personnel and gun configuration, Uncle Zhao nodded: “There are quite a few people and plenty of guns! Then you can go check out the place I mentioned!
Go up along Chaiji Road and you will reach Forest Area No. 42. On the right side of the end of Chaiji Road, there is a Tiger Leaping Cliff with a very large drop. After passing the Tiger Leaping Cliff, go northwest and cross two mountain ridges, and you will basically reach the core location!

Over there is a rare yellow mud land. On the side close to the sunny slope of the mountain, under the deciduous forest, it is densely packed with whole patches of Polygonatum!

This Polygonatum is a good thing, it is the favorite food of wild boars in the mountains!

When it snows in winter, wild boars start to gather in groups here. In previous years when there were more of them, there were three or four groups of wild boars staying in that area with seven or eight gullies and mountain ridges!

The yellow mud ground is not as soft as the black soil. After it freezes in winter, the depth of the wild boars’ foraging is limited. Therefore, every year, the pigs can only eat the top layer of tuberous rhizomes of Polygonatum sibiricum.

If the food below cannot be eaten up, it will sprout and continue to grow in the second year. Over time, that piece of mountain area was named “Wild Boar’s Nest” by the older generation of hunters!

There are several representative terrains in the wild boar nest area. The area closest to the center has a stone top with the highest altitude, which has the best view.
Several ditches and ponds are connected around here. After the pigs are driven out, we only need to ambush them at a few high places in advance, and then we can wait for them to pass by!”

When Yue Feng heard the words “wild boar’s den”, his mind immediately recalled the memories that were about to be forgotten.

Yue Feng had been to that place once in his previous life with other hunters.

Although he was just a small soldier in the gang at that time and had to obey the orders of his leader in everything, Yue Feng still had some understanding of the general situation of the place and the surrounding area, so he was not completely confused.

Before coming here, Yue Feng also considered this place when he was thinking about choosing a place to play the cane-encircling mountain game. However, he didn’t know much about the specific conditions of the mountain site, so he didn’t take it as his main direction of effort.

After hearing what Uncle Chen said, Yue Feng felt that it was time to go.

The yellow mud ground and the entire area of ​​Polygonatum odoratum are the objective conditions where a large number of wild boars gather every year. Add together the commanding heights for observation, and it is indeed a good place.

Even if other conditions are the same, it is worth going to Yuefeng just for the fact that the wild boars eat Polygonatum sibiricum as their staple food during the winter.

Why? This Polygonatum is a very good medicinal material. In Taoist works, this thing has a high status.

The Polygonatum sibiricum that has been steamed and dried nine times is known as the food of immortals. Those who practice fasting only eat it besides drinking water.

The medicinal properties of Polygonatum sibiricum that has not been artificially steamed and dried may not be as good, but the meat quality and edible value of wild boars that eat Polygonatum sibiricum as their staple food during the winter are definitely much better than those from other places.

If you can bring some prey back from this mountain area, whether you give it to others or keep it for yourself to eat during the New Year, it will be a very good choice.

Of course, if you catch too much and can’t finish eating or using it yourself, you can give it to the forest farm to complete the task.

“In this mountain area you mentioned, besides wild boars, are there many other prey in previous years?” Yue Feng asked again.

“There are other species, but in this season, wild boars are the most common! Roe deer may also appear occasionally!
Mountain animals with different habits stay in the mountains for different periods of time. If it is spring or summer, we have encountered roe deer, deer, and even big ones!

But now there is nothing to eat there, so these animals will migrate to other places!

By the way, keep an eye out near Tiger Leaping Cliff over there to see if you can spot any musk deer!
A few years ago, Sun Mazi from the next village set traps over there and caught several musk deer. It seems that this creature is distributed and active over there! “

“Musk deer?”

“Yes, its scientific name is Musk Deer! The male Musk Deer has a hole in its belly button, which you can use to dig out musk!

This thing also likes to move around in mountain streams, jumping stone ponds and other places. It moves very fast on the rocks, so fast that it is no exaggeration to say that it can fly over eaves and walls!”

Of course Yue Feng knew that musk deer were musk deer. He asked about this thing just to repeat what he felt in his heart and take the opportunity to think about something in his head.

Musk is a rare thing, and musk is a top-grade Chinese medicinal material whose value is comparable to gold.

The main species distributed in Changbai Mountain is musk deer, also known as musk deer, fragrant musk deer, mountain donkey, and musk deer.

The original method of obtaining musk is to kill the male musk deer that carries musk and then remove the glandular sac at one time.

Later, this thing was successfully artificially bred. Extracting scent from living musk deer does no harm to the musk deer and can be developed sustainably.

“Xiao Feng? Xiao Feng? What are you thinking about?”

Uncle Zhao glanced at Yue Feng and found that this guy was distracted, so he waved his hand in front of his eyes.

“Oh! I was just thinking about this musk deer! This thing is great. If I catch it and take it home to feed it well, and take musk regularly, it will be more cost-effective than raising fat pigs!”

Three chapters with 10,000 words updated. The monthly votes are a bit low recently, and the enthusiasm of the godfathers is a bit low
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