Chapter 183 Preparation
Yue Feng continued with his dinner. His head was a little confused, but he just finished the meal. Then he said hello and went back to his room.

After a while, Xiao Tao and the brothers Xiaowen and Xiaowu all arrived.

We made an appointment in the morning to have a meeting at my house in the evening.

With the arrival of his friends, Yue Feng quickly adjusted his condition to normal frequency.

“Brother, shall we go up the mountain early tomorrow morning? To find the wild boar king that Zhu Erhai mentioned?” Xiao Tao went straight to the point as soon as he entered the house.

Yue Feng nodded: “The four of us will go, bring guns and eagles, but no dogs! If what Zhu Erhai said is true, there are so many pigs, and even four more dogs will be useless!”

“Sneak attack? Approach quietly and then shoot from behind?” Xiaowen also asked.

Yue Feng nodded, then shook his head: “It’s unlikely that we’ll get a chance to shoot. Let’s go tomorrow, most likely to scout the area!”

“Scouting? What does that mean? No matter how powerful this wild boar king is, he is not afraid of guns. We have two 56 and a half rifles in our hands. If we pull the trigger together, we can fire twenty bullets in one breath! How can he be afraid of a group of wild boars?” Xiao Tao was a little confused.

Yue Feng explained: “Let’s assume that what Zhu Erhai said is the reality and there is no exaggeration.

For wild boars in the mountains, an ordinary herd of seven or eight pigs is not considered a small number. A herd of more than ten pigs is considered a large herd!

Under what circumstances would more than a hundred wild boars gather together?
Obviously, this behavior is not consistent with the habits of ordinary wild boars!

Yes, we have guns, but can twenty bullets kill a hundred wild boars?

We have seen what happened to the armored wild boar last time. What if the wild boar king also has a similar armor?
What would it be like if hundreds of wild boars started running? They would be trampled to death!

What if the wild boar king is bolder and discovers humans and rushes towards them?
A single pig is nothing compared to a gun, but once the number exceeds a certain value, the situation becomes more complicated.

Not to mention anything else, even if more than a hundred pigs were lying in the woods and spending the night in pig sties, how large an area would be covered?
Maybe the wild boar king is in the middle, and the pigs on the periphery are dozens of meters or even farther away.

At this time, can people approach quietly?

If it was a busy mountain area, the target would be lost from a hundred meters away!”

Yue Feng analyzed the possible situations that he had imagined to everyone, and Xiao Tao, who was full of excitement just now, calmed down instantly.

Yes, you can reload and continue after you use up all the bullets, but there needs to be a time interval in between, and this interval is the biggest risk vulnerability for the attacker.

The first thing to consider when going hunting in the mountains is the hunter’s safety!
Otherwise, even if the wild boar king is shot to death, if something happens to the hunting team and someone gets hurt, wouldn’t that be a loss?
“Brother Feng is right! Let’s go check out the place tomorrow and get a thorough understanding of the actual situation. It won’t be too late to make relevant plans later! When doing this kind of hunting, you can’t be too inertial in your thinking. Excessive assumptions will lead to trouble!” Xiaowen also supported Yue Feng’s idea.

“So are we going to prepare anything else tomorrow?”

Yue Feng thought for a moment and said, “Let’s prepare two tree climbing boots! If there is a chance to shoot, even if we accidentally anger the wild boars, we can at least ensure our safety by climbing up a big tree!”

“A foot stick? We have to borrow it! Only the villagers who go up the mountain to pick pine cones have that thing!” Xiaowu also echoed.

Pine cones generally refer to the pagoda-shaped fruit clusters that grow on red pine. The pine nuts we eat are the seeds picked out from the mature pine cones.

This thing needs to be picked manually. The simplest and most brutal way is for mountain people to climb up the tree by stepping on the footpaths, use a pole to break off the pine cones growing on the top of the tree, and then gather them into piles on the ground.

A red pine tree in its peak fruit-bearing period can produce hundreds of pine cones in a good year, which is an important source of income for the local mountain residents.

However, this thing is very dangerous. If you are not careful, many people fall from the tree and get injured or killed every year. So although the income is good, there are not many people in the village who do this business.

“Xiaochen’s house has a pair of foot braces! I’ll go and borrow them, I’m sure I can!” Xiaowen said at this time.

Yue Feng nodded: “Then go and borrow the foot acupuncture first! Don’t delay too late, or people will go to bed!”

“it is good!”

Zhang Xiaochen and Zhang Xiaowu are of the same generation and both are members of the Zhang family, but they are somewhat distantly related, having already been five generations apart. However, their relationship has always been good. His family goes up the mountain to collect mountain products every autumn, so they must have all the tools needed to make foot piercings.

Xiaowen said hello and went out to get a foot massage, leaving the three brothers in the room.

Yue Feng said: “Don’t have too high expectations when we go up the mountain tomorrow. The beasts that can dominate the mountain are more or less spiritual. We should fight them if we have the chance. If we can’t, it means we are not destined to be together. Don’t force it!”

“Without a dog to pull the sled, even if we catch prey, it will be difficult to get there from such a long distance. We can take a small train if we go there in the morning, but we can’t take a car when we come back! It would be much more comfortable if we had a cellar in the mountains at such a far distance!” Xiaowu said thoughtfully.

This is true. For hunters living at the foot of the mountain, there is a certain cost of travel to go into the mountains to hunt. When they rely solely on their own two feet, there is a range of activities for the round-trip distance they can travel on a day.

If you exceed this reasonable range, you will basically have to spend the night in the mountains.

Starting from the different mountain folk gathering areas at the foot of the mountain, the area outside the intersection of these activity circles is what ordinary mountain folks call the deep mountains.

The Changbai Mountains stretch for thousands of miles, and human activities can only affect a small part of the area. From this perspective, the real mountains may be uninhabited for many years.

If hunters want to go deeper into the mountains and forests for long-term activities, underground cellars are something they cannot avoid.

To put it simply, this thing is a temporary residence that is half underground and half open air. A pit is dug underground, and a low house is built on top with wood, and then covered with insulation materials such as bark, moss, and animal skins. If hunters need to move in the mountains, this underground cellar is equivalent to a temporary overnight transit station. It can make people live a little more comfortable in the wild.

Xiaowu said this casually, but Yue Feng’s heart moved when he heard the word “diyunzi”.

When he was flying hawks with Chen Pao, he heard Chen Pao mention an old hunter friend who stayed in the mountains all year round.

Locally, these solitary hunters who live deep in the mountains are called mountain dogs. They rarely have contact with outsiders and may not come down the mountain many times a year. They occupy an area with relatively rich resources and are self-sufficient here.

This old hunter is called Zhao Dashan, also known as Zhao Dapao. He is an expert in marksmanship. However, it seems that some changes happened in his family, which made him rather withdrawn and eccentric. Except for a small number of old friends, he rarely interacts with strangers.

Thinking of this, Yue Feng stood up from the kang: “No, I have to go out and buy some things!”

“What’s wrong, brother?”

“I’m going to buy some loose powder. It might be useful when we go into the mountains tomorrow!” After saying this, Yue Feng got off the kang, put on his shoes and left the house.

After more than ten minutes, Yue Feng and Xiao Wen came back one after another.

Xiaowen was holding two pairs of steel leg braces with leggings, while Yue Feng was holding a ten-jin bucket of high-proof liquor.

“We don’t need so much liquor when we spend the night in the mountains? Drink this to keep warm? It won’t work if you drink too little, but if you drink too much you’ll get drunk!” Xiao Tao scratched his head.

Yue Feng said, “Chen Pao has an old friend who seems to have dug a cellar near the old forest we are going to tomorrow. If we can find a place, maybe we can stay there for a night! This wine can be regarded as supplies for the old man!”

“Being able to live in a cellar? That’s great! I thought we were going to freeze! The wind is strong on the mountain, it’s cold to the bone! Even when you make a fire, your chest will feel hot, but your back will feel cold. If you are not used to it, you will definitely have diarrhea!” Xiaowen was also a little surprised to hear the news.

“Let’s prepare first, just in case! I think everything is ready now. As usual, we will gather at home at 5:30 tomorrow morning to eat, and then go up the mountain! Tell my family in advance that we may stay overnight in the mountains!”

“it is good!”

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After the impromptu meeting, Yue Feng sent his friends out of their homes one by one, then he closed the door and walked into the house with his daughter in his arms.

When we go up the mountain tomorrow, we won’t be able to continue flying the small eagle. But Yue Feng is not worried. After all, his father Yue Lei is taking care of the eagle at home. After he comes back, he will use some big and small food (a feeding method to increase the hunting desire of a falcon. One day, feed it big food to fill it up, and one day, feed it small food to stimulate its appetite. On the third day, the eagle will be particularly hungry.) to stretch it, and it should not be a problem to go to the fields to work.

After Yue Feng had a temporary meeting with his friends and prepared the tools and other things to take into the mountains, he handed the little eagle to his father to keep it for a while in the first half of the night, and then he washed his feet early and went to bed.

The old couple sleeping on the kang in the east room are destined to have a bad sleep tonight.

Wang Jianguo actually fell in love with his own son and wanted to recruit Xiaofeng as his son-in-law. This was something he would never have dared to think about before.

The couple whispered a lot of random things, and argued from various angles the feasibility of their son marrying Xiaona, but in the end they didn’t come to any useful conclusion.

However, Jingjing, the youngest sister, who was lying motionless on the kang pretending to be asleep, had brighter eyes as she listened.

My parents also like Xiaona! Then it will be much easier for my brother to marry Xiaona!
If second brother can marry Sister Xiaona, she will be his sister-in-law in the future!
How great! No, everyone else in the family is working hard, so I can’t fall behind. I have to think of more ideas for my second brother!
Jingjing was in a daze, and her little brain was also brainstorming.
I don’t know what I was thinking about, and my consciousness slowly sank into sleep.

As usual, there is another chapter in the afternoon

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(End of this chapter)