Chapter 42: Badger
"Awoooo~"
After leaving the house, Xiongba rushed out impatiently and chased a chicken in the distance.
It seemed that he was not satisfied, so he rushed back and pressed down a big rooster and ravaged it, but he was very measured and did not really bite it.
It seemed to be venting the resentment of being tortured by the little ancestor Xiaoxia at home. The big rooster was very aggrieved by it and cried softly like a little girl.
"Okay, okay, stop playing." Lin Heng looked at it and said.
"Woof woof!"
Xiongba reluctantly let go of the big rooster and returned to Lin Heng.
Although he had only been in the Lin family for two days, he was fed well and dewormed, and his fur color suddenly became bright.
Now he is only more than two months old, but he is already 30 cm tall and has a large skeleton, which makes him look a little thin and ugly.
This is the awkward period for dogs. After half a year, when his body is initially grown, he will look good.
After taking a look at the sky, Lin Heng led Xiongba to the Red Maple Mountain west of the village. They were going to hunt nearby today.
"I'm so thirsty all of a sudden."
Lin Heng looked around and found that it was not far from his third father Lin Xutao's house, so he prepared to go over to drink some water.
When he walked to the door of his house, Lin Heng saw that the gate of the yard was open, and his third mother Li Xue was chopping pig grass inside.
"What are you doing here? Your third father is working and has no time to help others."
Seeing Lin Heng, Li Xue frowned, with a look of disgust and disgust on her face.
Lin Heng was not surprised by this. His third mother was like this in his previous life, because his third father occasionally helped his family, and he was often ridiculed by her in a yin-yang way.
"Third mother, I'm not here to ask my third father for help. I'm thirsty and want to drink some water." Lin Heng said.
"There is water in the well behind, and there are buckets. If you want to drink, get it yourself."
Li Xue didn't look at him either. She lowered her head and did her own work, without any intention of greeting him.
"Then I'll go to the well to drink water." Lin Heng felt a little bored. He was just drinking water, but his attitude was so bad.
He asked his third father to bring back half a grass carp a few days ago. His third mother was too snobbish.
After drinking a sip of water in her house, Lin Heng took Xiongba to Hongfeng Mountain.
Hongfeng Mountain is a mixed wood forest. The trees on the mountain are of different heights. The tall red maple and pine are more than 20 meters high.
The rest are some messy oak trees and locust trees. Chestnut trees, cotinus coggygria, boxwood, etc. are only about ten meters high. Even shorter are a large number of pyracantha shrubs.
The land at the foot of the mountain is sandy land, planted with peanuts, sweet potatoes and soybeans, and there are two fields planted with glutinous rice and rice.
There are few people coming here, and the grass on the road is very deep. It has just rained and it is all dew. Xiongba walked in front and got wet in a short while.
"Chirp!!"
A few gray-green birds chirped softly on the pyracantha trees, and they didn't seem to be afraid of Lin Heng.
This bird is the size of an adult's fist. Lin Heng doesn't know its scientific name. It's called "Green Hu Diao Zi" in the local dialect, and he doesn't know what it means.
But it tastes good. He caught it when he was a child. It was okay to roast it, but there was too little meat.
It would be hard to kill one clean and get two taels.
Lin Heng came here to see if there were any wild rabbits. Logically, there must be some here, but unfortunately, there was no sign after two turns.
"Chirp!"
Two more Green Hu Diao Zi flew to a tree five meters away and kept chirping.
"Forget it, small ones are also meat."
Lin Heng shook his head, raised his slingshot and aimed just to shoot, and the two birds flew out with a whoosh.
"Is it going to be air force this afternoon?"
Lin Heng exhaled and said to himself.
"Hey, where is Xiong Ba?"
Suddenly, Lin Heng realized that Xiong Ba had disappeared and there was no movement for a long time.
He hurriedly looked around, but he didn't shout for fear of disturbing the prey nearby.
"Gada Gada!"
Suddenly, Lin Heng saw Xiongba leaping from the thatch, followed by the scream of a pheasant and the flying feathers of the pheasant bitten by Xiongba.
"Awoo~"
After failing to hunt, Xiongba cried out in annoyance.
"Try harder next time."
Lin Heng watched the pheasant fly seven or eight hundred meters before turning back to comfort Xiongba.
When it came back to him, Lin Heng touched its head again to encourage it.
"Let's go to Hongfeng Mountain to have a look." Lin Heng touched Xiongba and headed towards the mountain.
The sky was getting darker and darker, and with the dark clouds covering the sky, it was dark earlier than usual.
Lin Heng seemed to have run out of luck, and he didn't even encounter a turtledove or bamboo partridge.
"Chirp!"
Suddenly, the cries of several green-bearded pheasants came from the front.
This time, Lin Heng raised his slingshot and shot it out without hesitation.
With a snap, two or three flew away in fright, and one fell to the ground.
"No way, we can't just go empty-handed."
Lin Heng shook his head, determined not to be an empty-handed guy, picked up the green bearded cricket that was no longer moving on the ground and threw it into the bag.
Afterwards, he shot six more in a row, gathering seven in total, but unfortunately he failed to summon the dragon.
Boom! !
Boom! !
At this time, the sky suddenly flashed with terrifying white lightning, followed by a deafening roar.
"Oh no, it's going to rain."
Lin Heng's face changed, picked up the slingshot and shot two more green bearded crickets, and walked down the mountain with Da Huang.
While jogging, he suddenly found something flashing in the opposite forest.
He thought he had seen it wrong, and looked down to find that Xiong Ba had also stopped.
"What is it?"
Hiding behind a tree and waiting for a while, Lin Heng saw the figure again.
It was the size of a local dog, with two white hairs on its body. Lin Heng couldn't help holding his breath: "Damn, it's a hog badger!"
This was the first time he encountered such a large prey since his rebirth.
The maximum size of a hog badger can grow to 40 kilograms, and the average size is only 20 to 30 kilograms. The meat is delicious and the fur is valuable.
He estimated that this one weighed 20 kilograms. It was definitely not a problem to sell a complete skin for 30 yuan, and sometimes it could even be sold for 40 yuan.
Looking at the sky and the figure of the hog badger, Lin Heng gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go, let's follow quietly."
If you miss such a big prey, who knows when you can meet it next time.
As for the rain?
It hasn't rained yet, has it?
"Let's go downwind." Lin Heng pulled Xiongba and slowly moved towards the downwind.
The hog badger has poor eyesight, but a very keen sense of smell, so he must be careful.
There was a stream between Lin Heng and the hog badger, but fortunately he was not discovered. The hog badger was still digging for something to eat in the forest.
Bang bang! !
Lin Heng's heart was beating hard, and the palm of his hand holding the bow and arrow was constantly secreting sweat. He was too nervous. This was his first time to hunt such a big prey, and he had no experience at all.
Apart from his accurate archery skills and a good dog, he really didn't know much about hunting.
Carefully crossing the mountain stream, Lin Heng poked his head out from behind a pyracantha tree to observe. The hog badger actually walked five or six meters further away.
Now they were sixty or seventy meters apart, and he had to move forward.
Xiongba had separated from it and was groping forward from another direction, but Lin Heng didn't have much hope for it because it was not as big as the hog badger.
Tick-tock, tick-tock! !
Suddenly, the sound of raindrops hitting the leaves came, and Lin Heng looked up and saw that it was about to rain.
There was no time for him to hesitate. He had to act quickly. Otherwise, once it rained, the hog badger would definitely leave to hide from the rain. It was already showing this tendency.
Groping, Lin Heng moved forward another five or six meters. Just as he was about to continue to move closer, the hog badger suddenly raised its head and looked in his direction.
"Damn, it was discovered!"
Lin Heng thought to himself. He was completely confused. He was thinking if he was really discovered, should he rush out and shoot an arrow.
Or should he not alarm it and wait for the next opportunity?
At this moment, a violent dragon-shaped lightning exploded over the forest, illuminating the dim forest, and it was as if daylight had fallen in an instant.
"Boom!!"
After the lightning went out, a thunder came late.
The hog badger just looked up at the lightning and lowered his head to look for food.
It seemed that because there was no food at the beginning of summer, it was very hungry. It didn't return to the cave even when it was about to rain, and was still looking for food on the ground.
Lin Heng calmed down, supported the wild hog badger, turned his head, and quickly approached more than 20 meters, hiding behind a bush with a strong smell of wild pepper and pyracantha trees.
At this moment, the distance between him and the wild hog badger was shortened to more than 30 meters, which was within the effective killing range of the bow and arrow.
Lin Heng wanted to move forward, but there was no bush to cover him.
He looked at Xiongba, gritted his teeth, selected the best arrow, and put it on the bowstring.
He aimed for a full five seconds, and with a whoosh, the sharp arrow flew out!
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