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Chapter 421 Good Omens

Chapter 421 Good Omens

The next day, Chen Xiuqing arrived surprisingly early, driving the sledge, and Zhang Shaofeng was still sitting on the sledge.

The two came together by appointment.When we arrived at Lulu Caodianzi, Lu Lu just got off the kang.

Hearing Chen Xiuqing's call, Lu Lu hurriedly went out to open the door: "It's only three o'clock in the morning, and there are still two hours before dawn, why are you here so early?"

"It's snowing during this time, and I slept a lot of time at home, but I couldn't sleep at all. Isn't it said that it's a long way to go into the mountains? I'm afraid that walking will delay too much time, so I came earlier."

Zhang Shaofeng jumped off the sledge, looking very excited: "This is the first serious hunting!"

Lu Lu smiled at him, but he understood this feeling. For the first time, he was always excited. This was similar to the mood when Zhao Tuanqing promised to take him hunting. He went to bed early, woke up earlier, and then kept looking forward to it. .

"Go, enter the house!" Lu Lu greeted the two of them and walked home.

Chen Xiuyu got up earlier and was busy baking pancakes with bear oil in the kitchen.

Lu Lu had already told her that he would go into the mountains, and he might have to stay outside for two or three days before returning. He was giving Lu Lu and the others the dry food they were going to bring into the mountains.

Yesterday, she had told Ma Jinlan and Pu Guiying that she was going to make dumplings and sticky bean cakes at home, and the big tank outside the house was ready.

Thanks to this natural large refrigerator, a large number of dumplings and sticky bean buns can be wrapped at one time at this time, frozen outside, and then stored in a tank. Wrapped once, you can eat them all winter.

Zhang Shaofeng and Chen Xiuqing had already arrived, and Chen Xiuyu saw that the pancakes were enough, so she was busy steaming the rice.Lu Lu went to the kitchen to look around, and found that there was nothing he needed to help with, so he simply got on the kang, dug out the notebook he had made before going to the mountain, checked it carefully, and planned the route together with Zhang Shaofeng and Chen Xiuqing.

These marked places are places where sables and caves suitable for hibernating bears were found. Most of them are borderless areas, and each area is worth spending time looking for.

As far as these places are marked, one place can spend two or three days to expand the search, plus back and forth and rest, plus weather changes, and when these places are found, it is enough to be busy for more than a month. .

With a plan in mind, Lu Lu went out to feed Zhuifeng and scallions a lot of corn and fodder, and returned to the house to boil corn noodles on the brazier, add some salt noodles and feed Yuanbao and them, and Chen Xiuyu's meals were already finished do well.

The four of them had dinner together, and Lu Lu called Chen Xiuqing to put a tent on the sledge, a mattress made of roe deer skin, and the hunting gear and wooden horses that were constantly accumulating in his hands, and poured out the bear oil again. This time, Zhang Shaofeng and Chen Xiuqing drank the bear oil without any hesitation, and then greeted Chen Xiuyu, and Lu Lu took the lead on chasing the wind to lead the way and went straight to the mountain.

The horses in Zhang Shaofeng's family were not suitable for entering the mountain, so he only brought a semi-automatic horse and a wooden horse, and sat on the sledge with Chen Xiuqing to enter the mountain.

Trot all the way, this walk lasted four hours, and finally arrived at the first location, Mo Niu Ridge.

The sable has a clear limit on where it can move. It lives in mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests above 1000 meters above sea level, but it often does not exceed 2000 meters above sea level. Usually, it lives most at an altitude of 200 meters.

In fact, the statement obtained through investigation in later generations is not suitable for Xiaoxing'an Mountains.

Xiaoxing'an Mountains is a low-mountain and hilly area in Dahuangli. There are not many peaks with an altitude of more than 1000 meters. The highest Pingdingshan is only more than 400 meters above sea level.

However, it turns out that the number of sables captured in the Xiaoxingan Mountains each year accounts for the largest proportion in HLJ.

Of course, the place Lu Lu chose is still a slightly higher mountain range, usually 600 meters above sea level.

This altitude, compared to the plains, is already relatively high.

The Xiaoxing'an Mountains are four to five hundred kilometers long and more than 200 kilometers wide. This is a rather large area with many mountains, and Mo Niu Mountain is just a small section of them.

When they arrived at the halfway of Mo Niu Ridge, they chose a place leeward of the wind and faced the sun to stop. The first thing the three of them did was to set up the tent. They built a fire in the tent, baked hot pancakes and boiled water with snow. After filling their stomachs, the three of them put on their wooden horses, tied up a few horses, and led by Lu Lu, they walked towards the first tree hole they found.

The tree hole was in a linden tree. According to Elulu's observation, it was the Xiong Blind who lived there before.

Skiing all the way down, it didn't take long for Lu Lu to get under the tree, take a closer look at the trunk, and found that there were no paw prints on the trunk from being scratched up and down by Xiong Xiazi.

However, he still did not give up and knocked on the hollow tree trunk with the large mirror ax he carried, and then listened with his ears. After noticing any movement, he led the two of them up the mountain again.

What kind of animal is a sable?Mammalian carnivores are small in stature, much like a weasel, with a slender body, usually weighing no more than one kilogram, with short legs and a large tail, mostly with dark brown fur.

In his previous life, he collected mountain goods, but Lu Lu also knew that the black and purple fur of sables was the most precious.

As a category with great value in the purchase of mountain goods, it is hard for Lu Lu not to pay attention to it, and he knows quite a lot about it.

"Let's search at a distance, just 30 meters apart!"

The dead leaves are all gone, and the bushes and grasslands are covered by snow. It is easy to see the distance in the forest, and the distance between each other is also to increase the search range.

But for Zhang Shaofeng, a novice, Lu Lu had to further explain the traces left by sables walking on the snow: "When sables walk on the snow, they often wade out deep snow trenches, and their usual route back to their nests is through these snows. ditch.

If you suddenly see that there are no traces on the snow, you must have climbed a tree.Also, along the way, pay more attention to the stone caves, soil holes or tree holes you see in the places you pass, especially those with crawling marks, and the snowballs that suddenly fell from the trees, it is likely to be them dropped it.

Of course, you must hold the gun in your hand carefully, and pay more attention to whether there are other wild animals around.Don't get hurt, just focus on it. "

Living in Zhang Shaofeng is a novice, he was arranged by Lu Lu in the middle, and the three zigzag all the way to the high place while searching and climbing.

It's a bit like looking for a mallet when the sticks are pressing down on the mountain.

Perhaps it was because people who went up the mountain for the first time had better luck, after just over ten minutes of searching, Zhang Shaofeng yelled at Lu Lu.

Lu Lu hurried over to take a look, no, there is a sloping snow trough on the snow, and you can see fine and small footprints inside, what else could it be if it wasn't left by the sable?

Look at the latest trace left, that is to go up the mountain.

"Okay, Brother Feng!" Lu Lu smiled and patted Zhang Shaofeng on the shoulder: "Go, follow up and have a look. The first mink that entered the mountain today is probably found."

This snow trough is obviously new.

Chen Xiuqing also quickly approached.The three of them followed the mark and followed it obliquely all the way up.

Sables move quickly, even if you follow them with all your attention, the tracks on the snow will disappear out of thin air. They are like greyhounds, they are good tree climbers, and they often run and jump on the branches of pine trees. Things that can catch squirrels, how can they move? Worse than a squirrel.

After following for a while, Yuan Bao made a sound.

Lu Lu resolutely chose to give up and continue to follow the traces, but followed the direction guided by Yuan Bao, and went straight to Hengli.

Not long after, Lu Lu saw snowflakes falling from a pine tree in front of him.

At a glance, it can be seen that it was shaken and dropped, and there must be wild animal activity.

Looking carefully, the one on the branch is a sable, galloping and jumping fast, chasing a gray dog ​​that is also fast climbing up the tree trunk.

Great opportunity!

Lu Lu put the semi-automatic back on his body, took out the slingshot, grabbed three or four Niwan from his pocket and held them in the palm of his hand. With a ski pole, he came to the red pine tree in a few strokes.

Sensing Lu Lu's approach, the sable was also quite alert, and resolutely gave up chasing Greyhound.Climbing down quickly for a while, he ran towards the tip of a sticking out branch of the red pine, trying to escape.

This is a small thing that can rely on a small branch as thick as a finger, follow the ups and downs of the branch, and with a little force, it can quickly bounce to another big tree in the blink of an eye.

Sometimes, it will suddenly jump down from the big tree into the snow, and hide in the crevices of rocks under the heavy snow or under the bushes.

Move quickly, and if you don't pay attention, it will seem to disappear.

However, Lu Lu was not worried about it jumping onto the snow.

On the snow, the sable is far less agile and agile than on the trees, otherwise, it would not be able to wade out of the snow ditch on the snow.

With its short legs, it can easily take Yuanbao and the others by leaping on the snow at a speed of only [-] to [-] centimeters.

However, judging by its current appearance, it was obviously preparing to escape from the branches of the tree.

How could Lu Lu, who had already prepared his slingshot, give it such a chance.

With Lu Lu's superb slingshot skills, he can easily hit Greyhound, and it's no problem to hit Sable.

Lu Lu, who had already tightened the bow skin, had been adjusting the shooting direction following its jump.Finally finding an unobstructed position, Lu Lu decisively let go of the bow skin.

With a bang, the projectile shot out, accurately knocking the sable off the branch.

When watching it fall, Chen Xiuqing skid down towards the place where it fell, faster than Yuanbao and the others, and grabbed the sable that fell on the snow to prevent it from being bitten by Yuanbao and the others , there were some tooth holes on the intact fur, and by the way, he pinched it fiercely, ending the life of the sable who was still kicking its short legs.

Seeing that he had no chance, Yuan Bao, who rushed up after him, couldn't help but whimpered at Chen Xiuqing a few times, and then barked loudly.

It felt like my job was robbed and I didn't have a chance to show it. I was very upset, and Lu Lu couldn't help laughing.

He waved at Yuan Bao, and Yuan Bao ran back with a few puppies.

Lu Lu rubbed their heads to appease them.

Afterwards, he picked up the slingshot again, and shot at the greyhound that had just escaped from the sable on the tree and was still lying on the tree trunk, and shot out another projectile.

Greyhound fell to the snow, this time, no one competed with Yuanbao, ran over to bite Greyhound on the head, and happily sent it back.

After Lu Lu took it, he took off his gloves, pulled out the hunting knife on his waist, and first cut Grey Gouzi from the mouth, and within two to three minutes, he peeled off Grey Gouzi's leather bucket.

As for the sable, Zhang Shaofeng assisted, Chen Xiuqing cut the knife carefully, and quickly peeled off the leather bucket.

The meat of greyhounds and sables was directly divided into small pieces by Lu Lu with a hunting knife, starting with ingots, and fed to them.

It took only half an hour to search in the mountains, and the first sable was found, which is a good omen!

Lu Lu feels that the preparations he made before were not in vain, and his slingshot skills are also very useful in this season.

Hitting a sable with a slingshot will cause dull injuries. There will be no penetration by bows and arrows, and there will be no damage that can directly blow up the entire head like a bullet. When the fur is guaranteed to be intact, use a slingshot for precise shooting, said It's a magical skill, and it's not an exaggeration.

It's just that the bow skin of this slingshot has been used for so long. Although it has not been used many times after getting the semi-automatic, the bow skin made of the cuff is already a little chapped. root.

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