After saying this, Zhou Yuanchao slowly and carefully cleaned up the traces at the scene.

Zhou Yuanchao took care of all the details, including footprints, suspicious bloodstains, minced meat, broken sticks before the bear pounced on them, fallen grass stalks, etc. He even picked up the bullet casings on the ground and put them in his pocket.

At this time, Zhou Yuanchao seemed like an emotionless, cold machine. Even though his companion was still lying there next to him, he seemed unaffected at all.

After finishing these meticulous tasks, Zhou Yuanchao took another look at Liu Laosan, whose bloody face was almost torn to pieces by the bear. Then he untied Liu Laosan’s leggings and tidied up Liu Laosan’s body as if he was tying up a mummy.

The blood quickly soaked the leg bandage, but the person was already dead and no more blood flowed out. Only dark marks of varying sizes appeared on the clothes and bandages.

Zhou Yuanchao simply tidied up the opponent’s body, carried the opponent’s broken body, and waded upstream in the stream barefoot, carrying a brand new 56 semi-automatic rifle that had only two shots fired.

After walking all the way to the water bubble at the root of the mountain spring, Zhou Yuanchao made a big circle and climbed up the hillside, followed the shady side of the slope, and turned to another place with rocks.

In an inconspicuous stone pit more than three kilometers away from the first scene, Zhou Yuanchao picked up large and small pieces of broken stones one by one and then put Liu Laosan’s body down.

Afterwards, he covered the stones again and then moved two slightly larger stones with great effort to place them on top of the pile of stones.

In a matter of an hour and a half at most, the body of an adult weighing more than 100 kilograms was quietly hidden under the pile of rocks.

The autumn wind was blowing gently in the forest, and unknown birds were singing happily on the branches in the distance. No one knew that in just a short period of time, Liu Laosan paid the price of his life because of his credulity.

After hiding the person, Zhou Yuanchao sat on the large bluestone next to him and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

The most important step was completed smoothly.

The most valuable part of a black bear is its gallbladder. After this large copper gallbladder is dipped in boiling water and dried, it will be worth at least a hundred or even a thousand dollars.

In addition to bear bile, there are two other things that need to be dealt with later.

The Type 56 semi-automatic rifle borrowed from the village office by Liu Laosan must not be leaked. Each gun has a serial number and a steel stamp. Although it is valuable, it is extremely risky to keep it with him.

In addition to the gun, there was also the body of the blind bear left there. Zhou Yuanchao was also hesitating whether to find a way to bring it back.

The blind bear has already started to gain weight in the autumn. It is a large male bear. Even without its gallbladder, its value is still high.

But this thing, as the fuse of Liu Laosan’s disappearance, is also a hot potato. If he is greedy for money and calls for people to go up the mountain to carry the blind bear down the mountain with great fanfare, and the news of Liu Laosan’s disappearance spreads, he, Zhou Yuanchao, will definitely be the first suspect.

Before going up the mountain, Zhou Yuanchao asked Liu Laosan if anyone knew anything about the injured bear. Liu Laosan replied that Xiao Tao came to ask in the morning and knew something.

In addition, Xiao Qin, who was on night duty with him, knew about this and mentioned to the other party that he would invite him to go up the mountain to hunt the bear together, and the other party would also promise to share the responsibility if they succeeded.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yuanchao frowned slightly.

Xiao Qin knew that Liu Laosan was planning to find him to go up the mountain to track down the bear, but now the other party was missing.

If Zhou Yuanchao carried the bear down the mountain as if nothing had happened at this time, and Xiao Qin told others about the situation, then Zhou himself would be the biggest suspect.

No! I can’t covet this bear carcass! And I have to create evidence that I wasn’t in the village that day!

Having made up his mind, Zhou Yuanchao decisively chose to abandon the bear’s body. He immediately got up, took another path down the mountain, took a long detour, and headed straight to his relative’s home in Hedong.

Zhou Yuanchao did not leak the village’s Type 56 semi-automatic rifle. On the way down the mountain, he simply wrapped it with a layer of leggings to protect the main parts, and then found a cave in a poplar tree that had been abandoned for many years and hid it inside.

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A day passed quickly and everything was normal in the village.

But near evening, Xiao Qin went to Liu Laosan’s house after dinner to ask him to go up the mountain to keep watch together. However, Liu Laosan’s wife said that her husband had not been seen all day. After breakfast in the morning, he said he was going up the mountain for a walk and never came back.

When Xiao Qin heard Liu Laosan’s wife say that Liu Laosan had been in the mountains for a day and had not returned home, he subconsciously felt something was not right.

The tree nest where the farmer keeps watch at night is actually at the foot of the mountain, only four or five miles away from the village at most.

He set out early in the morning and had not returned until dark, and he went out with a gun.

Liu Laosan is not very good at hunting or shooting, so it won’t be a problem if he chases the bear.

Realizing the possible risks, Xiao Qin turned around and went to the village office to find the village secretary Wang Jianguo.

The members of the farmer protection team were all villagers from his own village. Liu Laosan took the village’s guns and went up the mountain to chase the injured blind bear. He had not returned home for a day. After hearing about the general situation, Wang Jianguo took it very seriously.

A blind bear is not something that anyone can kill. If it were so easy to kill, bear gall wouldn’t be so valuable!
With Liu Laosan’s skills, he dared to fight the injured bear with the 56 gun he received from the village office. This could be a big disaster.

At 6:30 in the evening, before it got dark, the loud speaker at the village office started to sound. All members of the farmer protection team, strong men with no other arrangements, gathered at the village office with lighting tools and went up the mountain to look for people! !
Yue Feng was also eating at home at the moment. He and Xiao Tao were on duty tonight. When he heard the sound from the village loudspeaker, he put down his chopsticks, put on his gun and walked towards his father-in-law’s house.

As the main organizer of this Autumn Wind Operation, although Yue Feng is young, he has a heavy responsibility.

So far, the job of protecting the farmers and keeping watch at night has been done quite well. If this state continues, in another twenty days, this year’s autumn harvest will be successfully completed.

But when Yue Feng heard on the loudspeaker that Liu Laosan had gone into the mountains with a gun to hunt a bear and had not come down yet, he subconsciously became nervous.

Soon, Yue Feng, leading the four dogs in his family, carrying a gun and holding two flashlights, one new and one old, he and his brother Xiao Tao immediately came to the village office to gather.

“Xiaofeng, you’re here!! Come in and sit down first, and wait for others!” Wang Jianguo saw his son-in-law coming in fully armed, and greeted him with a serious face.

“What’s going on, uncle? Who did Third Brother go up the mountain with?” Yue Feng got straight to the point as soon as they met.

“Not sure! The third brother’s wife said that her husband went out with a gun after breakfast in the morning and had no contact with anyone else!” Wang Jianguo shook his head.

“Impossible! Third brother doesn’t normally have the courage to go up the mountain and hunt bears by himself.

In the past, when we went hunting together in winter, he didn’t even dare to measure a wild boar! Is this what the third brother’s wife came to the village office to talk about? “After hearing this, Yue Feng shook his head without hesitation.

“No, Xiao Qin came to tell me! Aren’t they on night duty together? Xiao Qin went to call the third brother up the mountain, and when he heard that he hadn’t come back yet, he came to find me! Xiao Qin is in the house!”

“Oh! Then I’ll go in and ask!!” Yue Feng heard Xiao Qin nod in the house and went in too.

At this moment, Xiao Qin, who was sitting in the village office, could be described as sitting on pins and needles.

He and Liu Laosan are neighbors. Liu Laosan’s wife and Xiao Qin’s eldest brother-in-law are cousins, and the two families have always had a good relationship.

“Brother Xueming! Do you know who Third Brother went into the mountains with during the day?” Yue Feng greeted them as he walked in and went straight to the point.

Qin Xueming’s face looked a little ugly. Facing Yue Feng’s question, he paused for half a second before shaking his head: “I can’t say for sure!

The third brother said this morning that the two shots last night must have hit the bear’s vital parts, and the bear might have bled to death before it could run far. He urged me to go up the mountain with him to look for the bear during the day.

By the way, he asked Xiao Tao this morning! Right, Xiao Tao! “

Xiao Tao next to him nodded. Indeed, Liu Laosan had persuaded him to go back to his eldest brother’s house and take the dog to chase the bear together. However, Xiao Tao remembered Yue Feng’s instructions and refused in person.

After hearing this, Yue Feng sucked his teeth and felt something was not right.

Based on his understanding of Liu Laosan, he was not a man of courage and no one would go with him. Even if he had a 56-and-a-half rifle in his hand, he would not dare to go up the mountain alone to chase the injured blind bear.

“Liu Laosan is really brave. Could it be that he went up the mountain on his own accord without any companions?” Xiao Tao next to him interrupted.

“I don’t know. When the people are almost here, let’s take the dog up the mountain and look for it!

Maybe we are overthinking it, and maybe something has delayed us!”

Yue Feng didn’t think of the worst possible situation. After all, anything could happen on the mountain and there was no guarantee that anything would be delayed.

There was more and more noise outside. The villagers and hunters heard the loudspeaker calling out and rushed to the village office to gather.

The number of people soon exceeded thirty. In addition to the people on night duty from the farmer protection team, many villagers also came with flashlights after hearing the call.

This is how it is in this era. The villagers still have a relatively strong sense of collectivism. If there is any problem, the men in the family have to step forward. Otherwise, when things happen to their family, no one else will care.

There is still more than half a month before the autumn harvest, which is the time when there is not much work in the fields and there are many idle people in the village.

Soon, brothers Xiaowen and Xiaowu also arrived with guns and flashlights. After meeting up with Yue Feng, they waited for the village secretary to speak.

Wang Jianguo explained the general situation, and then appointed several hunters with hunting dogs as team leaders, divided the villagers into five small teams, large and small, and went up the mountain to look for people!

The Yuefeng hunting team had people, dogs and guns. The four brothers formed an independent team. They led their dogs and carried their guns, returned to the new house, rode their motorcycles, and went up the mountain first.

Yue Feng’s idea was very simple. Since Liu Laosan was going to chase the injured brown bear, the starting point must be the No. 5 tree nest.

The bear was shot and injured and bleeding. Without a dog, they could only track it by the bloodstains on the ground. As for the risks of going up the mountain to look for people, they could not care less and had to find the people first.

When the car arrived at the No. 5 tree hole, Yue Feng asked the two dogs, Dahuang and Heilang, to wander around under the tree hole. Soon the two dogs recognized the scent left by the blind bear.

Seeing that the dog was in the air, Yue Feng held the leash and called out, and the dog immediately followed the scent. (End of this chapter)