Chapter 233 Lynx? Leopard tracks in the middle of the night!
Seeing the scars on the red dogs’ bodies, Yue Feng no longer felt as confident as before.

I hope nothing happens to the old man. Yue Feng and the others are not familiar with the surrounding terrain. If something really happens, even if they want to look for him, it will be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

However, this concern was soon dispelled. After about ten minutes, Uncle Zhao, carrying a No. 16 barreled shotgun on one shoulder and holding the dog’s legs with both hands, carried a wounded red dog horizontally on his shoulder and brought it back.

“Uncle!” Yue Feng saw this scene and immediately walked over quickly.

“Hey, Xiaofeng, you guys are here! How long have you been here?”

Uncle Zhao was very happy to see Yue Feng, and his slightly frowned brows relaxed.

“I came before noon and found no one at home, so I cooked some food and waited for a while. What’s going on? Did the dog gang encounter the tiger cub?”

Yue Feng said a few simple words and focused his attention on the red dog that the old man carried back.

Red Dog’s belly must have been torn open, so Uncle Zhao bandaged it simply with a bandage, and a little blood could be seen through.

“Don’t even mention it! I didn’t give these red dogs any explanation today!” Uncle Zhao said with lingering fear.

“What’s going on?”

“Go inside first and treat the dog’s wound first! The red dog’s belly was torn open, and its intestines were intact, but they were covered with dirt. I simply washed them with urine and temporarily wrapped them with a bandage. You can’t sew them up like this, otherwise it will get infected and it will die!”

“Okay! Xiao Tao, go boil some water and get our anti-inflammatory medicine out!”

Yue Feng immediately started to greet everyone and everyone got busy.

As an old hunter who has relied on dogs for a living all year round, it is common for his own dogs to get injured. However, unless there is a tough battle, most of them are just minor flesh wounds. They can be simply disinfected and sutured, and kept well fed and watered. These hunting dogs have undergone long-term selective breeding, and have relatively strong self-healing abilities.

The wild living environment of red dogs is even worse than that of hounds, so their toughness is even stronger. For injuries of this degree, as long as their internal organs are not damaged and the wounds are cleaned, they can basically survive.

Soon, Uncle Zhao took out his medical bag from the house.

After the water is boiled, add a little salt to the warm water and carefully clean the abdominal cavity and the wound.

The injured red dog seemed to know that it was injured and needed care, so it was much docile than usual. Uncle Zhao touched its head while gently flushing it. After the blood and dirt in the abdominal cavity were flushed clean, he took out the needle and thread and sewed up the dog.

At this time, the red dog, feeling the pain, couldn’t stand it anymore. After the injection, he let out a roar and turned his head to bite people. However, his mouth contained Uncle Zhao’s hand, but his teeth did not bite down hard.

“This bastard, dares to bite me! Let it run away!” Uncle Zhao scolded in a low voice, and the red dog really let go.

Another needle went in and then he took it up again.

Uncle Zhao also knew that the dog was in pain, so he couldn’t blame the dog for this human-like reaction. He waited for a few dozen seconds before giving the dog another injection, and slowly sewed up the wound.

After the stitches were done and the wound was cleaned with mercurochrome, the old man wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve and started talking.

“Last night, I heard animals calling out in the woods in the middle of the night. The calls were a bit strange, and I couldn’t hear them clearly over the hills!
This morning, after breakfast, I took my dog ​​out for a walk in the mountains. And I actually ran into him! “

“What?”

“I feel like it’s a lynx, but I’m not sure.

By the time I caught up with the dog gang, the beast had already run far away. I could only see a blurry silhouette of it through the woods.

I chased after it and looked at the footprints left on the snow. If I was not mistaken, it should be a female lynx with a cub that was less than one year old!

My five red dogs will not get hurt if they encounter ordinary pigs or even blind bears! But this lynx is too evil to deal with!

I took the dogs to the woods, and not long after I got there the bitch got on with it, and a bunch of other dogs followed and chased after it!”

These dogs ran too fast, and no matter how hard I tried, I was still a step late.

“A lynx with cubs? It would be great if these red dogs could come back safe and sound!”

Yue Feng knew how terrifying cats were. When these creatures bullied canine opponents of similar size, it could almost be described as a dimensionality reduction attack, which could be called a crushing defeat.

“Last year, these red dogs suffered at the hands of lynxes. When they trapped the two lynxes, they must have not dared to rush forward and speak, so they were able to come back alive this time!

But even this one was scratched badly! After taking care of this seriously injured one, the others had to be taken care of one by one, otherwise the wounds would fester and it would be troublesome!
When I finish the work at hand, I will shoot this ignorant ghost with a gun!”

“Forget about the mother lynx with cubs!” Yue Feng advised after hearing the old man’s angry words.

Without waiting for Uncle Zhao to speak, Yue Feng continued, “Although this lynx skin is worth a lot of money, it is after all a lynx with a cub! If the mother lynx is killed, the cub will not survive!

I’m not being pretentious, I just feel that we have choices, but the lynx and its cubs have no choice!
When we go hunting deer and pigs, even if the mother deer or sow dies, the cubs can still eat grass and grow up. But if the mother of a lynx cub dies, the cub will definitely not survive!

Besides, there are no jumping stones around, and I guess this mother and son are just homeless people who don’t have any territory to pass by nearby! Let’s let him go for now. If we meet him again, it will be his death! Do you think it’s okay?”

It must be said that Yue Feng’s idea of ​​not hunting prey with cubs was actually a bit ahead of the times at that point in time.

Why do I say this? Before and after the 80s, there was no such thing as protecting animals. Humans competed with animals for living space, and there was no such thing as martial ethics.

When the livestock in the mountains give birth in the spring, hunters won’t go into the mountains?
Of course, in some places, hunting teams are organized to clear out harmful animals such as wild boars, bears, badgers, etc. in the early spring.

So during the spring hunt, if you encounter other animals, should you shoot them? Of course you should! It is a sin not to shoot with a gun!

However, Uncle Zhao understood what Yue Feng meant.

Holding a sharp blade but with a compassionate heart, the hunter plays the role of killing, but he should also have a sense of awe for nature.

“You may not be very old, but you always say things that surprise me!
Okay, then I’ll listen to you and let them go!
If they run into them again, that’s their fate. If they don’t run into them again, they won’t go out to look for them anymore!” Uncle Zhao said.

“Hehe! I’m just expressing my feelings casually, there’s no way it’s that profound! Bring the other dogs over here, and we can handle them all at once! I’ll give you a hand, and it’ll be a little faster!”

“Row!”

Soon, Uncle Zhao dealt with the other red dogs one by one.

The more he looked, the more horrified Yue Feng found it. The claws of this feline were so sharp and deadly that any wounds caused by its claws would penetrate the skin.

Uncle Zhao cleaned the dogs’ wounds one by one and then sewed the stitches. By the time he finished, it was already 4:30 in the afternoon.

It was too late to hunt deer, so Uncle Zhao took out the elk meat he had hunted from the snow, boiled it with cold water, and stewed it for the boys. That night, Yue Feng ate meat and drank wine in Uncle Zhao’s cellar, and heated up the big white flour meat buns that Meng Yulan had steamed for Uncle Zhao.

The old man was very happy to be remembered. He drank another pound of white wine by himself and went to bed early.

According to Yue Feng and his friends’ plan, they would eat and drink enough at night and go to bed early, then set out at dawn tomorrow morning to continue hunting deer in Luming Valley. That thing is so economical, and the whole body is a treasure.

However, plans could not keep up with the rapid changes. At 2:30 in the middle of the night, there was a sudden noise outside the cellar.

The four dogs tied at the door under the eaves suddenly started howling madly. You could tell from the noise that it was not a normal sound. It was a kind of intimidation with a lack of confidence amidst the fear.

Yue Feng was a light sleeper. He opened his eyes immediately when he heard the dog barking, got up and looked outside. He found that Uncle Zhao had also climbed up from the kang and was looking out through the narrow window.

Both of them had enough experience and knew that they should not show up at this time. No matter what it was, there were three guns and hundreds of bullets in the room, so they were not afraid even if a tiger came.

After observing patiently for a while, the dog’s barking slowly stopped. However, Uncle Zhao did not sleep. Instead, he leaned against the side of the small window and loaded the shotgun in his hand with bullets.

“Uncle! What’s going on?” Yue Feng asked in a low voice.

“We don’t want to provoke that tiger cub, but it won’t let us go. Nine out of ten times, that thing sneaked into the cellar in the middle of the night!” Uncle Zhao said with certainty.

This has changed the nature of the situation. How can he allow others to sleep under his bed? Yue Feng thought about the scarcity of top predators and the difficulty of surviving with cubs, so he softened his heart and let them go. This is something that ordinary people cannot do.

But this guy actually dared to chase the hunter to his hometown. He was just asking for death.

“Let’s wait and see. If they come again, just use my gun to shoot!” Yue Feng also took out his 56 and a half.

After waiting patiently for about half an hour, the dog that had been spending the night outside started to get restless again.

Yue Feng quietly looked out through the small window and slowly discovered a pair of eyes like small flashlights wandering outside the fence.

Uncle Zhao was much more decisive than Yue Feng. He simply pushed the window open with the muzzle of his gun and pulled the trigger without even aiming.

throat!
A gunshot woke up the other three people who were sleeping. The bullet did not hit the prey’s vitals. The intruder outside ran away after hearing the gunshot and soon disappeared into the night.

“What’s wrong!?”

“Who’s firing the gun?”

“Brother Feng, Brother Feng?”

Several people who were still half asleep got up.

“Don’t panic, it was our uncle who fired the gun. Something just came into the yard! Uncle, did you hit it? Let’s go out and take a look. I brought a flashlight!”

“The bullet probably grazed him, but it probably didn’t hit him vitally! Let’s go! Take a flashlight and go out and take a look!”

Uncle Zhao opened the gun handle in the dark, accurately took out the shell, and then loaded the bullet between his little finger and ring finger back into the chamber.

Soon, Yue Feng took out a flashlight from his bag and turned it on. Then he put on his clothes and followed Uncle Zhao out of the cellar.

The temperature outside was extremely low in the middle of the night. Yue Feng shivered as he came out. He held his child in his arms and led the way with a flashlight. They soon walked towards the place where the beast had just stood.

From the height of the other person’s eyes, Yue Feng felt a bit like a lynx.

But after walking up to it, Yue Feng shone the flashlight around and found something unusual.

Next to a small pool of blood on the ground, there was a black and yellow tail.

“This…” Under the dim light of the flashlight, Yue Feng was a little confused.

Lynx has a short and thick tail, which definitely doesn’t look like this, but Yue Feng couldn’t think of some other animal it could be.

“No need to guess! This is a leopard!” Uncle Zhao picked up the broken tail on the ground, looked at it for a few seconds, and said with certainty.

“What? Leopard? Shit, those five red dogs you caught during the day, could that be what you caught?

Isn’t that saving five lives?”

When Yue Feng heard Uncle Zhao say it was a leopard, he took a deep breath for no reason.

If the lynx is considered the second-highest predator in ordinary mountain forests, then the leopard is at least one level higher than the lynx.

The leopard, also known as the Far Eastern leopard or the golden leopard, is the largest subspecies of the leopard species. Although it cannot compete head-on with the king of beasts, the Siberian tiger, its ecological position is almost equal to that of the tiger. Wild boars, deer, roe deer and other common mountain animals are all on the leopard’s menu.

Moreover, this creature is even rarer than tigers.

No wonder the leopard dared to find its lair at night even though it was besieged by red dogs during the day. It must be possible for the leopard to have the strength to do such a thing.

In order to keep out the cold, the four dogs in the house were tied together at the door of the cellar. If they were tied up individually, the leopard would sneak up on them, leap in front of them, grab their throats and bite off their spines. In just a few seconds, the dogs would be carried away.

“Looking at it this way, it all seems to fit! I was wondering why the lynx’s paw prints felt a bit strange! Turns out it was a leopard!” Uncle Zhao also suddenly realized.

An adult lynx is much smaller than a leopard, but as both are cats, the claws of the two animals look similar. In addition, the snow is all frozen snow, so the marks left by the claws are not as clear as if it had just snowed. This led to the experienced Mr. Zhao’s misjudgment.

There are leopards in Changbai Mountain, but who would have thought that this thing could be seen in the not-so-deep mountain area of ​​Woniu Mountain! It was a female leopard with her cubs.

The lynx can be spared, but the leopard certainly cannot. This creature is not only extremely aggressive, but also has a strong sense of revenge. If it is not dealt with, it will sooner or later kill all five dogs in Uncle Zhao’s family.

When he returned to the house, Uncle Zhao lit the oil lamp.

When the boys saw the ten-centimeter-long broken tail, they all lost their sleepiness.

“This is a leopard! Uncle, when it gets daybreak, let’s stop hunting deer and go chase this thing,” Xiao Tao said eagerly.

Today I will update one update of 4,000 words during the day. In the afternoon, I will go to the airport in the next city to pick someone up. I am not sure about the update in the evening. I will update if I have time. If not, then there will only be this one update today.

I probably won’t be able to update normally in the next two days, but I will try to update continuously.

Thank you all for your support and understanding.

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