Mountain driving career since 1982

Chapter 423

Chapter 423

Stepping on the wooden horse, and holding the ski poles with both hands, the three of them glide quickly on the snow.

It’s okay to go downhill, lean your body forward slightly, bend your knees slightly, and keep your body balanced. It won’t be long before you can slide a long way, but when you go uphill, step on the wooden horse and walk on the snow step by step, although you don’t have to worry about it. Trekking with your feet deep in the snow, but with a wooden horse on your feet, it's like sandbags tied to your feet. Walking down in a day is definitely a very strenuous task.

Back at the tent, the three of them had no intention of moving.

But if you want to spend the night in the snow, you can't do it without moving.

After a short rest, Lu Lu went to the sledge to get fodder and corn, put the fodder in a bag, put it around the mouths of the two horses, and let them eat by themselves.

In this regard, the benefits of Oroqen horses have emerged.

The reins were also lengthened, and Chasing the Wind almost swayed here for a day, at most he couldn't stand up, and he picked up some dry grass kicked out of the snow while walking.

Oroqen horses, however, can clearly see the traces of digging through the snow to find grass, and the traces of the snow being eaten. It is indeed the most suitable horse breed for life in the snow field.

Zhang Shaofeng and Chen Xiuqing were busy looking for firewood to make fire.

While they were busy, Lu Lu took out two snow rabbits and a pheasant that he had caught while looking for sables, peeled them and cleaned them.

As for the six dogs, they ate a lot of mink meat and greyhound meat in a day, and there was no need to feed them. They curled up in a ball on the snow in front of the tent to rest.

Both the big stupid dog and the Oroqen hound are very cold resistant. In the wild snow, as long as they are full, it is not a problem for them to survive the cold.

A big fire was burning and crackling in front of the tent. In such a cold winter, it seemed that even the temperature of the flames was much lower. If you didn't get close, you couldn't feel the strong temperature.

When Chen Xiuqing was in charge of baking pancakes and barbecue, Lu Lu called Zhang Shaofeng and went to the side to get some branches and leaves, and laid them in the tent.

The branches and leaves are covered with roe skin mattresses to keep out the cold and moisture, and at night, another fur mattress is covered on the body, and the night is spent like this.

Of course, there must be a fire in the tent, otherwise, the three of them might still freeze to death this night.

If the tent is far away, the temperature of the fire outside the tent is insignificant, so there must be a fire inside.

But the tent is not a tent, if a fire is lit inside, the top may burn in minutes.

More efficient heating methods must be considered.The fire in the tent can't be too big, but it needs to last and emit enough temperature.

Otherwise, the temperature during the day is about ten or twenty degrees below zero, and it will be even lower at night. If you spend the night in the wilderness, the cold is the most deadly. If the body's core temperature drops to 35 degrees, you will become dizzy. Drowsy, body functions slow down, and I don't know when it stops functioning and hangs up.

Lu Lu had already considered this point.

When collecting those branches to lay the tent in the tent, he took the chain saw he brought, found a dead wood with a diameter of [-] to [-] centimeters nearby, and sawed it off with the saw. It took more than half an hour to saw it back to four A wooden pier of forty or fifty centimeters.

Yes, Lu Lu also brought the chainsaw, just in case some bears who were squatting in the tree barn were killed, they would stay in the tree barn for convenience.

"Brother Lu, what are you doing sawing these wooden blocks?"

While eating pancakes and barbecue, Chen Xiuqing couldn't help asking.

"At night, put a fire in the tent to keep warm!" Lu Lu said simply.

"Let's burn a lot of firewood, and move the charcoal into the tent at night, isn't it okay?" Zhang Shaofeng interjected.

"It's not impossible, but the charcoal lasts for a short time. The snow in the tent has been cleared out, but the soil layer is frozen. As long as the temperature rises, it melts, and the moisture rises, then the charcoal is easy to extinguish. There will be a lot of smoke, and it will not be easy to heat up."

What Zhang Shaofeng said is also a solution, but it can't be made to wait on him all the time.

"Don't worry about it, you'll know when I get it out later!" Lu Lu said with a smile.

After filling his stomach, seeing that it was getting dark, he took a drill out of the bag of the sledge, drilled holes in the middle of several wooden blocks, and drilled a hole in the middle of the side, and the center of the wooden block. Borehole connection.

From the pile of firewood outside, I took some red-burning charcoal slag and put it into the hole, and blew air at the side hole. After a while, flames rose from the hole in the wooden pier.Moved to the tent by Lu Lu.

In the same way, he drilled holes in the remaining wooden blocks and set fire to them.

The four flames were burning fiercely, illuminating the inside of the tent bright red.

"Now the fire is still small and the temperature is not high. As it burns, it will burn more and more vigorously, and it will last for a long time. At the coldest night, the temperature will rise a lot. It is fully burned and there is not so much smoke." Lu Law explained.

Chen Xiuqing and Zhang Shaofeng looked at this setting, their eyes lit up, and they felt that they had learned everything again.

"It's a good idea."

Before going to bed, the three of them put on the velvet shoes they brought, and took off the velvet shoes they had worn after a day of tossing in the snow.

The Ula grass velvet shoes are warm, but they also make the feet sweat easily. The Ula grass velvet must be taken out to dry, and the moisture on the Ula grass shoes must also be baked, so that it will be warm to wear tomorrow.

As soon as the three of them took off their shoes, they were accompanied by a strong sour smell of sweat.

For such things, the three of them are already used to it. They are all peasants, and foot odor is already a very common thing, so there is nothing to make a fuss about.

In this way, the three pairs of 靰鞡 shoes were roasted by the fire with wooden sticks, and some snow water was melted in the small antimony pot that I brought. After boiling, I made tea and drank and chatted. , the three of them wrapped themselves in leather mattresses and went to bed early.

The whole night was as warm as spring in the tent, and we spent the night peacefully.

The next morning, as soon as it was dawn, the three of them got up immediately, put on dry sandals shoes, put on leggings, fed the two horses with hay, and stepped on the wooden horse to inspect the mountain.

Out of the six traps they set up, four of them got results, and they got three sables and a yellow skin, which made the three of them extremely happy.

The remaining two traps hadn't been touched yet, so Lu Lu ignored them and planned to come back to see them in the evening.

I continued to change hills to search. After a busy morning, I shot two sables found on the tree with a slingshot, and caught one in a tree hole with a net. I also shot a snow rabbit and a few greyhounds by the way. There are also splints and sleeves along the way.

Near noon, the three of them simply lit a fire, took the pancakes they brought from the hunting bag and baked them hot, grabbed some snow in the snow to quench their thirst, and simply solved the problem of eating. After a short rest, they continued to search.

In the afternoon, Chen Xiuqing saw Xiong Xiazi's footprints on the snow.

He and Zhang Shaofeng used the trojan horse to search a large area.

Lu Lu was far behind in this aspect, but with Yuan Bao and them around, his ability to find prey was only stronger than the two of them.

Lu Lu and Zhang Shaofeng were also very happy to hear that there were Xiong Xiazi's footprints. After approaching, Lu Lu looked at the fresh footprints and frowned slightly: "This is Xiong Xiazi walking a pack."

The so-called blind bear who walks the pack is a blind bear who does not squat in the warehouse to hibernate.

Wherever they go, they stay there, go everywhere, don't eat, don't stay in the warehouse, just walk all over the place.

There are very few blind bears on the pack, and two or three blind bears out of a hundred are not bad.

Many hunters may never see this kind of strange blind bear in their lifetime.

With this weird behavior, Lu Lu couldn't figure out what kept them from hibernating.

As far as Lu Lu knew, even Zhao Tuanqing, an old Oroqen hunter who had been chasing prey all his life in the deep mountains of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, had encountered only two blind bears after so many years.

The kind of bear blind who came out of the warehouse after being alarmed and chose another place to squat in the mountains was not counted.

"Chasing or not?" Chen Xiuqing's eyes lit up.

"Of course!" Lu Lu nodded without hesitation.

Most of these blind bears who walk on packs are of the more majestic type, and they are the easiest to be bold.

The red goods that everyone was looking for, since they met, how could such an opportunity be missed.

Looking at the deep and large footprints left on the snow, it is easiest for Xuetian to follow such a wild animal.

With Lu Lu's consent, Chen Xiuqing immediately supported the ski pole in her hand, and quickly slid down along the footprints left by Xiong Xiazi.

"What are you doing running so fast?" Lu Lu hurriedly shouted from behind.

Zhang Shaofeng, who was sliding closely behind, stopped immediately when he heard the shout, but Chen Xiuqing went out in a blink of an eye as if he didn't hear it.

"Brother Feng, hurry up and catch up with Qingzi. This kid has been hurt by Xiong Xiazi before, and he doesn't know what's going on ahead. He won't even know if he runs into Xiong Xiazi. It's too dangerous, you have to stop him!"

Lu Lu slid the wooden horse, caught up with Zhang Shaofeng, and confessed to him.

Zhang Shaofeng nodded, stretched his snow pole again, and chased after Chen Xiuqing.

Lu Lu didn't dare to stop, and tried to speed up as much as possible.

The six dogs also followed, jumping and running in the snow, trying to keep up with Lu Lu.

This chase lasted for more than ten minutes, and finally after turning over a mountain, Lu Lu saw Chen Xiuqing who was stopped by Zhang Shaofeng.

Lu Lu immediately became angry: "What are you doing? Do you know that is Xiong Xiazi? Are you not being scratched enough by Xiong Xiazi or what? Do you want to die?"

Chen Xiuqing lowered her head and said nothing.

"Wait for me to finish talking next time, okay? You can't be so reckless when hunting. I haven't explained the situation to you. I don't know what to pay attention to. If you run into it, what are you going to do? Something happened. How do you tell me to go back?"

Lu Lu glared at Chen Xiuqing fiercely.

"I know I was wrong, Brother Lu!"

Chen Xiuqing also knew that Lu Lu was worried about him, so she admitted her mistake in a low voice: "I won't be so reckless next time."

"It's good to know!"

Lu Lu sighed slightly, and then said: "Although the blind bears who walk the pack don't squat in the warehouse, they often stop to rest and sleep in the snow. Like other wild animals, they also need to make sure that the surrounding environment is safe. , and know how to hide their whereabouts, so they usually walk in circles at the place where they stay, leaving a large footprint on the snow, and then choose a place to climb down to sleep and rest in the snow.

Those footprints are the safe area they have temporarily designated. Once they break into it, once they are noticed, they will be regarded as hostile.

Therefore, when you see a lot of footprints, you must be careful. If you enter that area, it will see you before you see it, and it may run away from somewhere. Come out, do you think it will kill you?I just know that if you chase after it with a dull head, you will suffer a big loss. "

"Okay, calm yourself down, Qingzi already knew he was wrong, in fact, he also knew he was afraid, so he stopped, otherwise, with his speed, I can't catch up with him!"

Zhang Shaofeng smiled at Lu Lu and persuaded him.

"Just follow me! Today's blind bear, I'll let you beat him when he finds it!"

Lu Lu thought for a moment, then continued.

Chen Xiuqing was scratched by Xiong Xiazi, and since then, he has never hit Xiong Xiazi again. Lu Lu doesn't know if there is a shadow left in his heart. If there is such a psychological shadow, the best solution is to Face Xiong Xiazi directly, and fight a few more times until you get used to it.

Next, Chen Xiuqing became calm, and together with Zhang Shaofeng, followed Lu Lu from left to right, looked around carefully, slid and climbed along the footprints.

After walking for more than ten minutes, in a leeward col in the mountains, the three finally saw the messy footprints of Xiong Xiazi.

Yuan Bao and Bai Long also let out fierce screams, while Hei Zui just looked up.

"It's nearby, everyone cheer up!"

As Lu Lu said, he let go of the snow stick in his hand, took off the semi-automatic on his back, checked the bullets, and carefully walked slowly in the direction guided by Yuan Bao.

Chen Xiuqing and Zhang Shaofeng looked at each other, and each took off the semi-automatic. After checking the bullets, they followed Lu Lu's footsteps.

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