Until Gao Mingcheng had eaten and drank enough, the wolves hiding in the dark and peeping still did not show up.
Wolves are very smart animals. They will observe before launching an attack. If there is a chance of winning, they will formulate tactics to capture the prey. If there is no chance of winning, the wolves will give up attacking in order to reduce losses.
Gao Mingcheng's five senses were sharp, so he noticed the wolves hiding in the dark, but he didn't know how many wolves there were in total.
The so-called constant response to all changes is that he had just hunted a wild boar and it was harvest time. If the wolves attacked him, he would either protect the prey and fight with the wolves, or abandon the prey and run away.
Gao Mingcheng didn't want to choose either of these two options. He happened to be hungry, so he might as well eat and drink where he was to replenish his strength and fight.
The black tiger was also aware of the presence of the wolves. It was restless and stared into the distance warily. Because it sensed danger, it ate the meat very quickly. Before Gao Mingcheng's barbecue was cooked, The black tiger had already eaten a large piece of meat cleanly.
It was clearly preparing for the coming battle.
But the crisis never happened.
Gao Mingcheng didn't want to take the initiative to confront the wolves, but he couldn't waste any more time, so he picked up the gun next to him and picked up the wild boar on the ground.
More than a hundred kilograms of stuff weighed down on me, and it felt light and not heavy at all.
"Black Tiger, be alert!" Gao Mingcheng ordered, and was immediately greeted by Black Tiger's low cry in response.
So one person and one dog, under the gaze of the wolves, quickly left the oak forest and headed towards Gaojia Village at the foot of the mountain.
The whole process of going down the mountain, the feeling of being spied on was still very obvious.
Gao Mingcheng looked back and could vaguely see the figures of wolves behind the grass and shrubs. The wolves here had unsightly brown fur and looked a bit rustic, and they were not big in size. The older generation of people thought Shout the jackal.
In my previous life, I had heard that there were wolves in the mountains here, but they rarely came down the mountain and there were no rumors of them hurting anyone.
Oh, in earlier times, about fifty years ago, wolves did come down the mountain. Not only wolves came down the mountain, but even South China tigers came down the mountain to disturb people.
At that time, people from the production team organized people to go into the mountains to hunt tigers. At that time, if a tiger was killed, it was called a tiger-killing hero. But in later generations, if a tiger was killed, it would be jailed!
However, due to the tiger hunting incident, the South China tiger, which was originally found in most parts of the country, gradually became extinct in the wild due to long-term hunting by people in 1994.
It is now 1986. There should still be some in the mountains here, but they are definitely not many anymore.
Gao Mingcheng only spent three-thirds of his attention on his feet, and the other seven-tenths of his attention was on the jackals.
In fact, jackals are not wolves, but their hunting methods are similar to those of wolves. They adopt the method of relay-style perseverance and collective siege to win with more.
Their claws and teeth are sharp and their courage is great. They appear to be ferocious, brutal and gluttonous. They usually surround the prey, attack from the front, rear, left and right, blind the eyes, bite off the ears, nose and lips, tear open the skin, and then eat the internal organs and Meat, or directly attack the anus of the prey, grabbing and biting, taking out the internal organs, and it will not take long to carve up the prey cleanly.
Therefore, Gao Mingcheng did not want to face them head-on. If necessary, he could only abandon the prey and run away alone.
However, the pack of jackals did not launch an attack for a long time. It was not until they reached the low mountain near the village that the pack of jackals stopped tracking. They stood there and waited for a while, and then, led by their leader, they returned to the mountains.
Gao Mingcheng looked at their leaving figures and was a little confused.
He speculated that it may be that people have vigorously killed wolves, tigers, bears and other ferocious beasts in recent years, giving them the impression that humans are not easy to deal with.
You know, when people deal with a pack of jackals, they will use a very lethal method, which is to hide explosives in pork, and then throw the pork where the pack of jackals will pass by. When the meat is chewed, the explosives hidden in the pork will explode, injuring and killing the jackals.
Because of these methods, the number of jackals in the mountains has dropped sharply, and they have become protected animals later on.
No matter what the reason was, the jackals retreated, which was good news for Gao Mingcheng. The wild boar he was carrying was saved!
Following the mountain road down the mountain, Gao Mingcheng did not return to Grandma Xixi's house, but went directly to his new home.
Although the new home is empty, it has a secluded yard.
He planned to process the wild boar here, and then return to Grandma Xi's house with the processed meat.
There was a dense crowd in the old village, and it was always a bit bad for this man to carry a wild boar over there. Gao Mingcheng was too lazy to talk politely to people. If someone asked him for offal, bones, etc., he would not be good either. reject.
There is no well in the new home, so water can only be drawn from the reservoir outside.
Gao Mingcheng planned to ask a well driller to drill a well after spring, so that water would be more convenient in the future.
At this moment, he found two buckets from the room and said to Heihu: "You guard the house!"
"Woof woof!" Black Tiger responded, sitting cross-legged on the ground with his hind legs, guarding the wild boar like a guard.
Gao Mingcheng walked quickly towards the reservoir. Winter is the dry season. The reservoir originally had 17 acres of water, but now only three or four acres are left.
When there is more rain in spring, the water in the reservoir will slowly rise. If there is an extreme drought, the entire reservoir will dry up.
Because the water in this reservoir is collected from the local mountains, there is no external river to inject water, so it is greatly affected by natural weather.
Gao Mingcheng carried two buckets of water and returned to his new home.
In the yard, the black tiger dutifully guarded the wild boar and did not steal a bite.
Gao Mingcheng took out his dagger and prepared to deal with the wild boar. The first step was to peel the skin. After the skin was peeled off, the pork could be placed on a large wooden board for processing.
This was specially made by Gao Mingcheng by a carpenter. Originally, when people in his village killed pigs, they would remove the door panels and use them. Gao Mingcheng also used old door panels before.
However, Gao Mingcheng is now very confident in his abilities. He thinks that he will often hunt large prey such as wild boars in the future. It would be troublesome to remove the door panels frequently, so he simply asked the carpenter to make a large wooden board directly. It can be used to process wild boar, and can also be used to dry dried vegetables and medicinal materials.
It's always something useful.
Although there was only one person handling it, Gao Mingcheng was in a relaxed state throughout the process. He cut the wild boar meat with the knife in his hand.
But Gao Mingcheng had only one thought at this time, and that was to buy a sharp ax!
Although the dagger is sharp, it is good at cutting meat, but not very good at handling bones.
Well, let’s make arrangements to buy the axe!
(End of chapter)
