Only Mr. Man knew what was on the other side of the mountain. When he was young, he walked there once looking for a lost cow.
After crossing the pass, there are still mountains on the other side of the mountain, just like the stone mountains on this side.
He almost got lost there and walked for two days without seeing the village. He had to climb up the mountain to find his way home.
It means that there is a wild forest over there!
No wonder there are such large wild boar herds.
But with the breeding speed of wild boars, which have two litters a year and more than a dozen in one litter, these wild boars should have developed here long ago.
It seems that the wild boar was driven away by the wildfire at the beginning of the year.
Now that you know the wild boar's route, you know where to place the trap.
After the wild boars have had a full meal, they will most likely come back the next day. If you want to reduce losses, you need to kill these wild animals quickly.
There is only one day and one night left for everyone.
Except for Nini and Xiao Caixia, no two families slept that night.
Xu Errui, Xiaoman, and Chunfeng carried out the dead trees that had been burned and cut down for firewood in the forest, cut all of them into neat sections, and tied them into wooden fences with kudzu vines.
Jiang Zhi found his "throat sealing upon seeing blood" and carefully arranged the tip of the stick with medicine.
It wasn't until dawn that a few people lay down to sleep.
Three hours later, it was almost noon. After hurriedly eating the meal cooked by Xiaoman Nai, we took the dry food and several people carried the wooden railing to the ditch.
We were busy here for another long time. By the time the trap was set up, several people were so tired that they no longer had the strength to move their fingers.
Wild boars are accustomed to walking on old roads. Since they come and go through this ditch, the location of the trap was naturally chosen here.
Since it was a trap, there were no obvious changes in the ditch, except for a wooden fence pulled up high with hemp rope.
At the bottom is a loop made of several wooden sticks. Once stepped on, it will slide down and let the things above fall down. It looks similar to a rabbit trap.
Xiaoman and Xu Errui have been trapping rabbits these days, and they have thoroughly studied the trap skills.
Now when it comes to dealing with wild boars, even though the sticks and ropes used are thicker, they still remain the same.
The only difference is that there are more than a dozen pointed wooden sticks tied to the wooden fence hanging above for hitting wild boars.
The loop as a mechanism below is very strong and requires the heaviest animal to step on it to open it, so as to avoid being disrupted by the little wild boar.
No wild boar appeared that day. Seeing that it was getting late, several people thought that they could not wait for the wild boar to appear. When they were preparing to set up the trap or go home to rest, the sentry Xiaoman appeared from the other side of the ditch.
He stepped on the water and ran up and down: "It's coming, it's coming, more than yesterday!"
Xiaoman had been watching the movements of wild boars at the pass, fearing that the pigs would collide with people.
Hearing Xiaoman's shout, several people became nervous.
Little Man said: "Quickly, throw out the corn that was spoiled yesterday."
Worried that the wild boars would pass by too quickly and the traps would fail, I collected all the spoiled corn yesterday and threw it into the ditch.
Wild boars will stop when they see food, and they will all crowd together. In this way, the limited area of the fence can injure a few more.
Chunfeng and Jiang Zhi quickly threw the dozens of sticks of corn in their backpacks into the water.
Jiang Zhi also took out wheat and scattered it on both sides to ensure that every wild boar could find food.
Just after a few handfuls were sprinkled, Chunfeng grabbed Jiang Zhi and said, "Auntie, leave quickly!"
After just a while of delay, the wild boars appeared at the other end of the ditch.
For safety reasons, several people quickly retreated far away and had to climb a tree.
Jiang Zhi was also nimble, but she turned out to be an elderly woman who was not used to climbing trees. It was Xu Errui who pushed her up the tree branch and tied her up with a rope.
Under the moonlight, a group of dark things silently waded into the ditch, preparing to go to the crop fields for a feast.
The wild boar in front was a sentinel, and it quickly discovered something unusual in the ditch.
The sentinel pigs stopped and sniffed the air. Jiang Zhi became nervous. She was worried that these wild boars would discover the trap.
Pigs' sense of smell is actually very sensitive, no worse than that of dogs. They can detect rhizomes in the ground and can also tell the smell of humans in the air.
The pigs in front stopped when they noticed something strange, but the same kind of pigs gathered around them. The hunger in their bellies urged them to move forward to the place where they had eaten yesterday.
Some young wild boars even sensed the presence of wheat grains and began searching in the muddy water.
As a result, more wild boars stopped and lowered their heads to look for food.
At this time, Jiang Zhi and others also saw clearly what Xiaoman meant by saying more than yesterday.
Yesterday there were only a dozen or so, including a boar and a sow. They seemed to be a small family.
There were at least three wild boars at this time, and their huge size was clearly visible among the pigs.
Two sows were carrying at least twenty young wild boars, and a rough calculation meant that there were forty or fifty of them here.
Jiang Zhi took a breath of cold air, could his dozens of blood-sealed throats have any effect?
I'm afraid it's to pick the teeth of these big boars.
In front of a huge herd of wild boars, she began to doubt the credibility of the ancient books.
Next to him, Chunfeng came close and leaned against Jiang Zhi.
At this time, everyone was hungry, tired and scared. Chunfeng whispered with a trembling voice: "Auntie, do these wild boars want to turn over all the crops overnight?"
Indeed, if you appear in a crop field on such a large scale, you will basically get nothing. Even if the crops are sparsely distributed on half of the mountain, they will be all gone that night.
Jiang Zhi suspected that the boar who was scared away by the torch yesterday brought his cousins to take revenge.
With food as bait, these greedy wild boars gradually approached the trap. Some small wild boars walked around freely under the wooden fence, and even began to bite and tear the trap rings.
At this time, not only Jiang Zhi was nervous, but everyone else was also worried. Jiang Zhi didn't know the specific effect of blood sealing the throat, and Xiao Manye and the others didn't know even more.
Everyone is waiting for the wooden fence to fall, but they are also afraid that the trap will fail and the crops will be destroyed.
Just when everyone was sweating, a naughty little wild boar finally bit open the collar, and the railing above the ditch suddenly fell down with the sound of wind.
As luck would have it, two big boars happened to be right under the smashing fence. A "bang" sound was heard, followed immediately by a shrill pig cry.
The frightened little wild boars suddenly shrank into the darkness of the ditch, while the big sow retreated to the child and looked around warily.
Seeing that there was no movement, the sow immediately turned around and dived into the ditch with her little wild boar, running away in the direction she came from, with the sound of water rushing, without paying any attention to the boar who was still struggling and screaming under the fence.
The skin of the wild boar is relatively hard, and the sharp green sticks were smashed down directly with the weight. Some of them were broken into two sections, and a few were pierced into the wild boar.
The pain caused the wild boar to struggle desperately. The force was so great that the hemp rope holding the wooden fence broke.
The wooden fence also fell apart instantly, but two wooden sticks were still firmly nailed to the pig's back.
The pain and panic caused the male wild boars to bark loudly and try their best to get in among their wives and children.
But this move made the other wild boars even more panicked. They all crowded into the ditch and ran away, inevitably getting injured on the tips of the sticks.
It's a pity that even though that drug is said to "seal the throat upon seeing blood", it is also an exaggeration.
Regardless of dose, talking about toxicity is empty talk.
Aconitine toxin paralyzes nerves and can cause irregular heartbeats. The effect does not need to be absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract to be effective, but it does require a large dose.
If the dose is not enough, it will only cause numbness in the limbs and tingling in the body, but will not be fatal.
Soon, the two boars that were the most seriously injured, with two wooden sticks inserted into their backs and abdomens, ran out a few feet before they foamed white and fell into the water with their limbs stiff.
At this time, the rest of the wild boars had already scattered, and even a few small wild boars were panicking. They came towards the direction of Jiang Zhi and others, and saw some people starting to run around again...
