Su Weiguo arranged positions for everyone, and guarded the pass with the village chief. This was the most dangerous place if a large animal rushed out.
Su Wen walked into the col with a shotgun on his back and a machete in his hand.
"Be careful and pay attention to safety." Su's father warned.
Su Wen safely reached the depths of the mountain col and lit firecrackers, instantly breaking the tranquility of the mountain forest. When Su Wen returned to the entrance of the mountain col, they had already caught three hares and more than a dozen pheasants with fishing nets.
"There are many rabbits here in Su Wen. We all saw them just now. Even if we didn't catch them, they all ran back." The old village chief was a little excited.
"Dad, I didn't find any big guys inside. Let's go in and do it together. Second Grandpa, let's take someone in and rush out. You're here to guard. If any big guys run out, ask them to get out of the way in time."
"Go ahead and be safe."
Su Wen and his son, armed with shotguns, led more than a dozen people to the depths of the mountain col. Let each of the dozen or so people following them cut a big tree branch and drag it toward the mountain col to make noise.
Bang, a gunshot.
Su Wen saw an ocelot and fired a shot but missed. The frightened ocelot disappeared in a few jumps. Although it is a mountainous area, it is still mountainous and has slopes. Erwazi from the village accidentally slipped and fell. He then dragged Su Xiaoqiang who was standing with him down. The two of them rolled for more than ten meters before stopping. Down.
The others hurriedly ran over. Su Xiaoqiang fainted. After waking up, he patted his butt and sat up. There was only a little skin injury and nothing happened. Erwazi's thigh was injured. It was not known whether it was fractured or broken. Everyone made a simple stretcher to carry Erwazi forward.
When the village chief at the exit of the mountain col saw someone injured, he ran up and asked, "Why is Erwazi injured?"
"I accidentally fell down and rolled for more than ten meters. I even dragged Xiaoqiang down."
"Xiaoqiang, are you okay?"
"Second Grandpa, I'm fine."
"Village Chief, I will take people to send Erwazi down the mountain for treatment. Xiaoqiang will also go to the commune hospital for a check-up."
"Go ahead and be safe on the road. Don't go into the mountains today. Come back tomorrow and go directly to Dongshan Col."
We found two people to carry the second baby, and Su Wen led the way. The way down the mountain was extremely difficult with the stretcher, so we stumbled back to the village and drove the ox cart to the commune hospital. It was already dark. Erwazi's thigh was broken, but Su Xiaoqiang didn't find out the problem. Erwazi's brother stayed in the hospital to take care of Erwazi. Su Wen paid ten yuan for the treatment fee in advance and went home.
Just as Su Wen was about to take off his clothes and go to bed, someone knocked on the door.
When he opened the door, he saw Su Xiaoqiang standing outside with a worried look on his face. "Xiaoqiang, why are you coming to my house if you don't go home and rest?"
"Su Wen, come home and take a look. Erwazi and his family went to your house to cause trouble."
When Su Wen returned to his old home, he found that the front door of his home was crowded with people. "Let Rang, Rang Rang, what are you doing here?"
Su Wen squeezed in and found Erwazi's mother making trouble in front of Su Wen's house, sitting at the door and swearing. Neither his mother nor sister-in-law came out, so Su Wen wanted to go home and take a look around her. This woman hugged her calf and whined.
"Aunt Qian, what are you doing?"
"Su Wen, your family must be responsible for Erwazi. He followed you into the mountains. Now his thigh is broken. You must give Erwazi an explanation."
Su Wen pulled out his leg with force, causing Aunt Qian to stumble. "Explain it to me, Erwazi accidentally slipped and fell, and he also dragged Xiaoqiang down. Fortunately, Xiaoqiang is okay, otherwise your family would be in big trouble. Hunting in the mountains is inherently dangerous, Erwazi did it voluntarily No one forced him to go. If you are unlucky and get hurt, you can only admit that you are unlucky. Don't think that because you are a widow, I can come to my house to cause trouble. If you make trouble again, I will go to the hospital and give Erwazi the ten yuan I advanced. Get the money back and let him be a cripple for the rest of his life."
Aunt Qian looked confused as to whether to continue making trouble. When she was hesitating, Su Wen had already turned around and went back to his house to sleep.
Su Wen's trip to the mountains went smoothly the next day. A group of four people arrived at the col of Dongshan Mountain. Su's father and others had already arrived and were digging traps. Today's hunting went very smoothly. In addition to pheasants and rabbits, we also caught two roe deer.
Return to the village. After weighing and sorting, there were 52 pheasants weighing 130 kilograms, and pheasant eggs weighing 11 kilograms. We caught 15 hares, including 61 kilograms of hares. Many of them were caught but the hares got into the hole and everyone was helpless. The two roe deer together weigh 90 kilograms.
Everyone looked at the village chief with eager faces. The village chief distributed the harvest from this trip to the mountains in the village committee compound. There are 128.7 kilograms of meat belonging to the village, and the rest is distributed to people who go into the mountains to hunt. One kilogram of eggs is calculated as half a kilogram of meat. The Su family and his son received 28.6 kilograms, and Su Wen received 11 kilograms of eggs.
Village Chief: "Let me remind you, those who have received meat should take it to the supply and marketing cooperative to exchange for some food. The big canteen in the village will be closed after New Year's Day."
"Village chief, it's not uncommon to go hunting in the mountains. Can't we just go two more times after eating? It's not easy to see the meat. It would be a waste not to eat one bite. Erwazi fell on his own."
"Do you think you have such a good harvest every time? Before the autumn harvest, I told Weiguo to find a few spots where we can hunt together. Neither Weiguo nor Xiaowen have been to these two mountain passes for more than three months. You only have such a small harvest, do you think you will gain something every time you go into the mountains? It is normal to be unable to catch anything without the mountain terrain. I will go to the supply and marketing cooperative to exchange the meat that belongs to the village for corn flour and share it with everyone."
After the village chief left, several young people surrounded Su Weiguo and Su Wen.
"Second uncle, is what the village chief said true?" Su Weiguo ranked second.
"It's true, it may be more serious. The traps I set on the mountain have not harvested anything for two weeks. The key is that even fresh animal droppings are rare. The small animals that ran away in the mountain col were frightened. They were short I won’t go back to the mountain col in a while. Without the mountain col terrain, what do you think you can catch?”
"Second Uncle, do you and Su Wen also need to exchange the meat they received for grain?"
"I will definitely have to change part of it, and also some Sanbai. This time I went into the mountains and you drank up all the Sanbai I had."
"It's not our fault. It's too cold in the mountains. I can't stand it at night if I don't drink."
In the evening, the family closed the door and stewed meat in the old house. The village chief was carrying a bottle of Erguotou! I came to the Su family's old house.
The mother is about to drag the sister-in-law away. Now women cannot serve at the table when there are guests.
"Mom, please go into the house to stay with the child. Sister-in-law, please stay here. I have something to say and it is related to my sister-in-law."
"Xiao Wen, is what your dad told me about work reliable?"
"Second Grandpa, I should be reliable. The person who promised me is the logistics director of the steel rolling mill."
