Chapter 272: Golden Dingzi

The next morning, Yue Feng got up on time and got dressed early.

Yesterday we were busy resolving the issue of the fight with the Qian family. Now that the hidden danger has been dealt with, all the Qian brothers who dared to show their teeth have been put under house arrest. Today, Yue Feng and the others still have work to do.

Leaving aside the trivial matters of gathering for meals, after having eaten and drunk their fill and being fully prepared, everyone led the lead dog, Dahuang, up the mountain again, their target still being the ditch fork near Dalongjian that had not been explored yesterday.

After several days of exploration and actual combat, everyone had become very skilled at using the dogs and falcons to cooperate with the blasting team to catch sables.

They arrived at the hunting ground at around nine in the morning and were busy until around four in the afternoon. Yue Feng and his team caught another six sables.

The entire valley within the main area of ​​the Dalongjian Unfrozen Spring was roughly searched in three days.

Among the six sables, there are four adult male minks and only two adult female minks.

I don’t know whether Yue Feng and his friends are lucky or unlucky.

The plan was to come to my grandmother’s house to catch eight female minks as breeding sources. So far, seven have been caught. Compared with the previous plan, there is still a gap of one.

“Brother, there are seven female minks with cubs at home, are we coming again tomorrow?

“Let’s search the ditches and ponds that we searched roughly with the stick before. It shouldn’t be a problem if we can find one or two sables!”

Xiao Tao asked curiously.

It’s a bit embarrassing that there’s only one missing.

If you come back, it will take at least one more day.

I have basically walked through the valleys in the core area of ​​Dalongjian. Searching them again would be a bit like a complete annihilation.

It’s hard to explain. I had already made a work plan, but I always feel a little awkward because I didn’t complete it.

Yue Feng scratched his head and said, “How about we go to another place tomorrow and take a look at Jindingzi?”

When Xiao Tao heard Yue Feng’s suggestion to change the venue, his eyes lit up: “That’s great, I wanted to say it just now, but I didn’t dare to mention it because I was afraid you wouldn’t agree!”

It is true that the activities in the core area of ​​Dalongjian were extremely rewarding, but after several days of continuous familiarity with the topography, the novelty had worn off.

Xiao Tao has learned to beat around the bush.

“What’s the big deal? The Qian family has been arrested. What do we have to be afraid of? Let’s go to Jindingzi tomorrow and see what’s going on over there!”

Yue Feng made the decision without hesitation.

At this time, my second uncle, who had been silent, said, “There are no warm springs in Jindingzi, but there are many stone mountains and jumping stone ponds.

Also, there is something I want to tell you in advance, you have to be mentally prepared in advance!! “

“Psychological preparation? What psychological preparation? What’s going on? It’s quite mysterious!”

Yue Feng scratched his head, not knowing what his second uncle meant.

“Over at Jindingzi, there are many eagles on the mountain all year round! There are also big eagles. I don’t know if our falcon will be able to go there!

If the black eagle flies around and encounters another eagle, don’t let anything unexpected happen!” said the second uncle seriously.

“There’s an eagle? That’s great! Our big black eagle has never been scared when we encounter a wild eagle!
Last time, we encountered a wild hunting falcon in Luming Valley and captured it in just a few rounds.

If he hadn’t whistled to call the falcon back in advance, this guy would have killed the falcon in one bite!”

After hearing his second uncle’s concerns, Yue Feng became so relaxed that he didn’t take it seriously at all.

What a joke! Our big black eagle is a naturally mutated black gyrfalcon, the top hexagonal warrior in the world of birds of prey, and it has no natural enemies at all.

This big black eagle is in Yue Feng’s hands. He has gone up the mountain with him many times. He sometimes encounters birds of prey when going up the mountain.

In most cases, ordinary birds of prey will turn around and run away when they encounter a black hawk, as if they have seen a ghost.

The only one who dared to provoke a fight was the courageous sub-adult falcon.

Even the larger golden eagle will be abused when it encounters a black eagle.

As for the problems that my uncle was afraid of, such as hurting the eagle, there was no need to consider them at all.

In these mountains, the only ones who can hurt the black eagle are probably the hunters active in the mountains with guns.

“As long as you are not afraid of eagles, I will feel relieved!
If you use this method to catch sables in Jindingzi, you have to bring more firecrackers.

There are a lot of broken stones in the stone pond over there, and there are especially many cracks between the stones of various sizes.

Sometimes they are driven out from here, and then turn around and go somewhere else. Many of the underground caves are still connected!”

My second uncle continued to add.

Yue Feng nodded after listening and said: “Okay, then let’s go to bed early after dinner, and try our luck at Jindingzi Mountain tomorrow!
Do you have any firecrackers left at home? If not, buy a few more when you get back to the village! ” “I’ll buy some later. It won’t delay their use tomorrow. Just don’t worry about it!”

“it is good!”

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After coming down the mountain from Dalongjian, Yue Feng went to bed early to rest after returning home to do some trivial work such as slaughtering and processing the fur of the big mink. It was another fruitful day.

The next morning, the four brothers of Yue Feng’s team adjusted their destination on the mountain according to yesterday’s plan.

Led by my second uncle, they left the village and entered the back mountain, then headed northeast across four or five mountain ridges and headed straight towards the Jindingzi area.

While on the road, Yue Feng kept paying attention to the surrounding mountains and landforms.

The deeper you go into the mountains to the northeast, the more interesting the terrain becomes.

Yue Feng discovered a problem.

Almost all the ridges here have varying degrees of fragmentation, and the further you go, the more gray-yellow rocks there are that resemble the tail of an earth dragon.

Along the way, large and small stone jumping ponds and gravel stalls are common.

There is a piece of common sense that people who have never been to the mountains may not understand: the more rocky the underground mountain ridge is, the more difficult it is to grow towering trees that are hundreds of years old.

If a tree seed wants to grow, in addition to sufficient rain and sunlight, it also needs soil for it to take root.

The mountains are exposed, the soil layer is thin, and there are even many places where bare rocks are exposed.

Under such objective conditions, the further northwest you go, the wider the view becomes, and there are often entire areas covered with 20- to 30-year-old small trees, shrubs, and vines.

After the beginning of winter, several consecutive heavy snowfalls covered the gravel fields and other terrains with a thick white quilt, and many natural landforms were covered underneath the snow.

But Yue Feng knew that these places, although they looked a bit noisy, had a very wide view and almost no big trees to block the sky, and were actually very representative hunting grounds.

If big trees cannot take root and survive, the precious sunlight can shine onto the earth, and all kinds of low shrubs and vines can grow more luxuriantly.

With the presence of bottom-layer plants such as shrubs and vines, various seeds and fruits will mature in large quantities in such ponds, under trees, and at the bottom of ditches in summer and autumn every year, providing sufficient food sources for birds and small rodents at the bottom of the food chain.

With the small animals at the bottom of the food chain as the bottom support, various large and small predators occupying different ecological niches will gather here.

Although the sable is not big in size, it is also a small predator. Although Yue Feng has not yet reached his destination, Jindingzi, he has already made a preliminary judgment in his heart.

The objective conditions here are somewhat different from those of the sables that survive and reproduce during the winter around the Dalongjian warm spring.

After the second uncle led Yue Feng and the others over a relatively flat gravel patch, Yue Feng asked, “Second uncle, there are so many jumping stones here, are there any tiger cubs or other wild animals around?”

“Tiger cubs? There should be some, but I’ve rarely been here and have never encountered one!

I heard from the people in the village that two years ago, Boss Sun from the west end of the village went to a stone pond near Jindingzi and killed a female lynx with a bomb. Later, he killed a half-grown cub with a cast iron clamp in the same place!

We caught two lynxes in one winter, and Boss Sun had a good year!”

The hunting method of entangling explosives is a somewhat unorthodox hunting method.

In the coldest days of winter, everything is bleak and it becomes difficult for large livestock in the mountains to find food. At this time, hunters will go to the mountains to set some special traps.

This bomb is a typical trap.

Hunters will wrap some indescribable chemical components layer by layer as detonators in the meat slices used as bait.

It is difficult to find food in the ice and snow, so many mountain animals will try to eat the meat wrapped with explosives after discovering it. As a result, when they tear or chew the explosives made of meat, the local pressure reaches a certain critical point and an explosion occurs.

Even for the strongest tiger, the mouth is still a fragile organ. An explosion from the inside out can easily blow apart the prey’s mouth. With a slightly larger dose, the head can be blown off.

In the winter, the temperature is low enough, and both the meat and fur will not be damaged in a short time. Hunters only need to go to the places where these special traps are set every few days, and if they are lucky, they can pick up headless prey.

Of course, wrapping the meat with explosives is also a technical job. There is a lot of knowledge involved in adding medicine into the meat slices, the amount of medicine, the levels, techniques and strength of wrapping.

If it is too loose, it will not easily trigger the explosion; if it is too tight, it will be too dangerous for the person who set the trap.

If you are not careful, you may not only fail to kill the prey but also break your hands or blind your eyes. Those who can skillfully use this trick are all skilled and courageous players.

When Yue Feng heard this, he thought of the two leopard mother and son not long ago, and said: “These two tiger cubs, one big and one small, should be mother and son!
The big lynx was killed by the explosion, and the half-grown cubs, unable to survive alone in the winter, were hit by baited traps! “

“I think so! Tiger cub skins are not cheap these days. That cub’s skin sold for seven or eight hundred!

As soon as the spring thaw came, Old Sun bought materials to build three large tiled houses for his son!” The second uncle continued.

“Haha, now that we are near Jindingzi, we have to be careful. If we are lucky, we may run into a tiger cub or something and kill it with our guns. That would be perfect!” Yue Feng said with a smile.

3000 words, the first update, there is more to come. If I can’t finish it in the afternoon, I will make up for it in the evening if I have time.

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