Era: Started from raising livestock in the mountains

"Xiongba, come and see if you can jump over it."

After Lin Heng and his wife parted ways, he walked all the way to the foot of Hongfeng Mountain and pointed to a one-meter-high Pyracantha tree in front of him.

"Woof!!"

Xiongba shouted, accelerated a little, and leaped over it, without any effort.

"Woof!"

It turned back and shouted, as if it felt that this was not a challenge at all.

"Come, there is a taller one." Lin Heng found another two-meter-high one. He wanted to see Xiongba's limit.

Xiongba took a look at the Pyracantha tree, accelerated, and actually jumped over it again. Lin Heng was stunned by his heroic posture.

"Come on, try this again." Lin Heng found a two-meter-five-six-meter Pyracantha tree.

Xiongba stood still on the ground, just looking at him: "Woof~"

The look in his eyes seemed to say that if you have the ability, come and try.

"Well, it is indeed a bit difficult for you, after all, you are not even one year old." Lin Heng smiled.

However, he felt that Xiongba could be trained well. Although it was human, some things still needed more training.

It had to jump on a tree, run, swim, etc. when it was free, but it couldn't become a big fat dog.

As for commands, Lin Heng felt that it didn't seem to be necessary. It was very smart and could basically understand commands.

"Woof woof~~"

Xiongba had been locked up at home for several days, and had nowhere to use his strength. When he came out, he started to have fun and had a lot of fun.

Soon, Lin Heng came to the place where Dendrobium officinale was planted, picked up the ladle that was placed here yesterday and watered them again.

Then he took Xiongba all the way over. On the way, he mainly taught Xiongba to obey his orders. This guy was too smart, so he was a little jumpy recently.

This is just like Border Collie. Once it thinks you can't beat it, it doesn't want to pay attention to you.

After Lin Heng's teaching and training, when it arrived at Sanchagou Canyon at noon, it was much calmer.

Half of it was tired.

Back at the shelter, Lin Heng saw no one. He put down the food he had brought and turned around to leave.

"Don't run around. Let's go to the wetland today." Lin Heng touched Xiongba's head and warned him.

On the way here, he thought for a while and felt that there might be more prey in the wetland swamp in the canyon.

He planned to set down some Yama Wang cranes and throw some corn nearby. Maybe he could catch a badgers, or even a wild boar.

With Xiongba, one man and one dog, he headed towards the wetland.

The road was extremely difficult to walk. In order not to alert the prey, Lin Heng did not cut the road.

"There must be prey here." Walking into the wetland, Lin Heng found traces of overturning everywhere.

"Let's start from here."

Lin Heng looked at a willow tree as thick as his wrist in front of him and began to set up Yama Wang cranes.

Although Yama Wang cranes are sensitive and easy to use, even if you use a rope, you don't have to worry about catching big prey and biting the rope, because they are usually dropped in the air and can't be bitten.

But there is one limitation, that is, there must be a living tree to provide elasticity, and it cannot be set without a tree.

So Lin Heng also set up some simple noose traps and placed them on the small paths where these prey often walk.

Swish!

Lin Heng came to a new place and was about to set the trap. A gray rabbit jumped out of the haystack in fright and ran wildly towards the distance.

He was not shocked that there were rabbits here. He brought Xiongba here mainly to catch rabbits.

Without waiting for him to say anything, Xiongba chased after it, and a chase drama began.

This hare has experienced many battles. Whenever Xiongba was about to catch it, he would use his small size to turn quickly, so as to complete the escape and continue to run away.

Xiongba braked and turned his head to chase it. Although he didn't catch it in the first time, he still firmly grasped the initiative and was not panicked at all.

It's okay if it makes a mistake, but the rabbit will die if it makes a mistake once.

After two consecutive times, it mastered the braking pattern of the rabbit. When it was about to brake for the third time, it jumped, directly predicted its position, and bit it.

With a shrill scream, Xiongba came back with the rabbit in his mouth, as if he was trotting back slowly, as majestic as a wolf king.

"So handsome!" Lin Heng couldn't help but pat Xiongba's head to encourage him.

The chase just now fully demonstrated his athletic ability, so fierce.

"Woof woof!!"

Xiongba dropped the rabbit, raised his head and stuck out his tongue, motioning Lin Heng to touch his chest to encourage him.

"Awesome, you'll have something delicious when you go back."

Lin Heng stroked his chest hair. Xiongba's graceful posture when running was full of wild power and beauty.

This made Lin Heng look forward to it chasing the wild hog badger one day, which must be a good scene.

He lifted the rabbit and looked at it. It was a fat male rabbit, and he estimated that it weighed seven or eight kilograms.

Xiongba was so fierce that he bit off the rabbit's spine in one bite, and his bite force was terrifying.

Throwing the rabbit into the backpack, Lin Heng continued to set traps, using both the King of Hell trap and the ordinary noose trap.

Lin Heng also set a lot of traps at the place where he saw the wild hog yesterday morning.

After a round, he set about 30 noose traps and more than a dozen King of Hell traps. He couldn't remember the exact number.

"Let's go take a bath."

After setting the traps in the hot sun at noon, Lin Heng couldn't stand it anymore, so he took Xiongba to the stream to take a bath.

After taking off his clothes and soaking in the water, he felt much more comfortable.

"Woof woof~~"

Xiongba swam even more happily.

"Don't move me." Lin Heng lay in the water, hiding under the shade of the tree and resting his head on a stone.

It was so hot in the shelter at noon, and only the water or the forest were good places to go.

But Lin Heng only soaked for a while, the mountain stream water was too cold, and he couldn't stand it for a long time.

"Let's go back to the Baishitan first."

The man and the dog returned to the Baishitan, and Lin Heng looked at the shelter. There was still no one inside.

"Let's build a hammock here."

After thinking about it, Lin Heng went to cut some vines and spent half an hour weaving a hammock.

After weaving it, he lay on it and took a nap, and Xiongba lay under the hammock to rest.

Lin Heng had given up going to the forest to hunt in the middle of the day. Several previous experiences told him that there was almost no hope of going at this time.

It would be better to find a place to rest and recharge his energy.

...

"Lin Heng, when did you come?"

Lin Heng had been asleep for about an hour, and suddenly a voice came from behind him.

Xiongba stood up alertly, staring at Li Baiquan who was walking from a distance.

"Well, I came here at noon, and then I went to set up some traps and noose traps. I slept here when I came back."

Lin Heng yawned and got off the hammock.

"Uncle, where did you go? Did you go hunting this morning? Did you get anything?"

Lin Heng asked again.

Li Baiquan shook his head: "No, but we found traces of wild boars over there, and there were a lot of wild boar shit on the ground.

We tracked it all morning but couldn't find it."

"You didn't find it? Doesn't Tian Baishun have a hunting dog?" Lin Heng was a little confused.

"That stupid dog is not good, it's circling in the same place, we set up a few traps there. I'll come back to get some ropes, and we're going to continue looking in the afternoon, and set some traps on the way." Li Baiquan shook his head, extremely disappointed with the big spotted dog.

"Then let's go together, I'll go and see too."

Lin Heng thought about it and said.

He felt that Xiongba could do this job.

"Sure, more people means more chances of finding it." Li Baiquan certainly wouldn't refuse.

The two went to the shelter to get things together, and Lin Heng gave some of the dry food made by Xiulan to his uncle.

"You know what, it's a good thing that you brought these food, otherwise we might not have anything to eat at noon or at night today."

Li Baiquan said while chewing on a steamed bun.

In addition to tracking wild boars today, they didn't find any other prey at all.

They walked two or three kilometers before they got to the place they said.

"Look, this is wild boar feces, which must have been excreted last night."

Li Baiquan pointed to the ground and said.

"This wild boar is not small." Li Heng looked at the feces on the ground. This size is definitely something that can only be excreted by a pig of two or three hundred kilograms.

"Yes, but we have been looking for a long time and have nothing to gain." Li Baiquan shook his head.

"Xiongba, try it."

Lin Heng touched Xiongba's head and pointed to the wild boar feces on the ground.

"Woof woof!"

Xiongba lowered his head and sniffed the ground, and soon identified a direction.

"Is your dog good enough?"

Li Baiquan felt that the dog identified the direction too quickly. This was the first time he saw the dog hunting, and he didn't have much confidence in it.

"I don't know either. It depends on whether the scent traces left by the wild boar are obvious." Lin Heng shook his head, not bragging about Xiongba's strength.

Tracking this thing is unpredictable. If the scent is broken, it will be lost.

After tracking for about 700 to 800 meters, Xiongba stopped.

"It seems that it can't be found." Lin Heng shook his head.

Li Baiquan was not surprised by this: "It's normal. I didn't have much hope."

The two of them set down a few more Yanwang hangings nearby, and then separated to see if they could hunt some small prey.

Lin Heng took Xiongba and shuttled through the forest. There were rotten trees everywhere in the deep mountains and old forests. Xiongba liked to jump over such fallen trees when he saw them.

With Xiongba around, Lin Heng picked up some mushrooms on the way. There were few edible chanterelles, and most of them were infested with worms.

He found a few green-headed mushrooms and yellow-headed mushrooms, and picked four Ganoderma lucidum, all of which were quite large.

As for prey, he ran for an afternoon without encountering any, and encountered two nests of wasps on the way.

One was at the top of the tree canopy, and the other was in the cracks of the rocks.

Fortunately, Lin Heng found them early and avoided them in time. Wasps can be said to be the most dangerous things in the jungle in summer.

Once you provoke them accidentally, you will often face a group of hundreds of wasps chasing you.

It's okay to be stung by one or two, but if there are too many, you will be seriously injured if you don't die.

Lin Heng always stayed away from them as soon as he saw them.

Unconsciously, the forest gradually darkened. Looking up through the gap, half of the sky was already blood red.

"Fortunately, I brought Xiongba today, so a rabbit doesn't count as an empty air force."

Lin Heng shook his head. He estimated that there was no hope today.

He searched in the forest until dark, and there was nothing to gain.

"Woof woof!"

Lin Heng was about to move forward when Xiongba suddenly let out a warning roar.

"Hiss!"

Frightened by Xiongba's voice, a five-step snake came out from under the leaves and crawled away.

"Damn! Five-step snake!"

Lin Heng was shocked and his heart jumped to his throat. He didn't see the five-step snake at all.

If it wasn't Xiongba, he might have to die here today.

There are not many poisonous snakes in Qinling Mountains, and the five-step snake is definitely one of the most poisonous snakes.

"We are so unlucky today, it's both a wasp and a poisonous snake." Lin Heng was frightened, picked up his bow and arrow and chased after him.

"The dog still wants to run away!!"

Lin Heng picked up his bow and arrow and watched as the five-step snake slowly crawled away. An arrow flew out and shot directly through its head, pinning it to the ground.

Seeing the snake's body twisting wildly, Lin Heng finally felt at ease.

He would never let go of a venomous snake when he saw one. What if he let it go this time and was accidentally bitten?

It is better that the number of venomous snakes is small.

When it was completely dead, Lin Heng came over and stepped on his head, pulling out the arrow.

Then he chopped off his head with a hatchet and covered it with stones.

"Let's go back."

Lin Heng held up the snake and said that the venom of poisonous snakes is stored in the head, and the body is naturally edible if it is not poisonous.

I was hoping to find something on the way back, but unfortunately I found nothing.

Lin Heng suspected that the animals here had discovered their existence and fled here.

Returning to the shelter, Lin Heng saw that the other three people had returned.

"Woof woof!!"

When the big flower dog saw Xiong Ba, he rushed up to fight and wanted to teach Xiong Ba a lesson.

"Woof woof!!"

Xiongba also rushed forward without showing any signs of weakness. He still remembered the last time he was bullied because he was tied up.

After the fight between the two ended, the bully bit the big dog on the neck. He whined and tucked his tail between his legs to beg for mercy.

"Old man Tian, ​​you are such a bad dog." Li Baiquan said with a smile.

"Fart, it's just hungry." Old Man Tian didn't want to admit this fact.

"Xiongba, come back."

Lin Heng shouted, and then Xiongba let go of the big dog and returned to Lin Heng with his head held high.

Not to mention anything else, the appearance of the flower dog is far inferior to that of Xiong Ba. Xiong Ba looks mighty and ferocious.

The big flower dog looks more like a mad dog, revealing its insidiousness and cunning, and seems to bite people from behind at any time.

"Lin Heng, your dog grows up very fast." Old Man Tian said with a smile.

"Of course, I feed it meat every day." Lin Heng nodded.

"But I think it's brave and foolhardy. It's definitely not good for hunting. Hunting requires a dog like me."

Old Man Tian said while stroking his big spotted dog.

"Is this rabbit considered prey? Xiongba killed it." Lin Heng threw out a big hare.

Old Man Tian: "..."

"It seems like you are okay as a dog." He smiled sarcastically.

"Uncle, haven't you gained anything today?" Lin Heng asked again.

"You can't say it's not there. There's still some Radix Pseudostellariae." Lu Honghai said with a smile.

"That's right, what does it mean to have no harvest? Aren't these yam and astragalus?"

Old Man Tian pointed to something on the ground and said.

Lin Heng shook his head and said with a smile: "They are all air force guys, I am the only one who has gained something."

"Uncle. You skin the snake, and I'll skin the rabbit."

Lin Heng threw the snake to his uncle and said.

"Okay." Li Baiquan grinned and took it.

Lin Heng skinned the rabbit and dried it in the sun. The head and internal organs were cooked and fed to Xiong Ba.

"Woof~"

Wherever the bully was eating, the big-flowered dog only dared to look at it. It had already understood its status in the battle just now and did not dare to grab food in front of the bully.

"Give!"

Li Baiquan killed the snake, took back the internal organs and threw them to the big dog.

"Let's bake it all tonight. It's not suitable for making soup." Lin Heng looked at two things and decided to make the rabbit meat into beggar rabbit.

After applying salt, stuff a little wild peppercorns, a bag of leaves and a bag of mud into the belly and throw it into the fire to roast.

The five-step snake was impaled on a wooden stick by his uncle Li Baiquan and placed near the fire to roast.

In this way, whether it is snake meat or rabbit meat, the taste will be very ordinary, because there is no oil or spices.

And rabbit meat and snake meat are famous for being fat-free, and they taste very spicy, especially rabbit meat.

Fortunately, Lin Heng and the others brought spicy food, and it tasted pretty good when dipped in tofu-cured spicy food.

"Lin Heng, why didn't you bring some wine? You just missed your wife when you got home. It's really not fun to eat meat without wine." Old man Tian said with emotion, he was unhappy without wine.

"You can put it down if you don't want to eat it. No one is forcing you to eat it." Lin Heng glanced at him. It would be nice to have something to eat, and he started to dislike it.

"That's right, you old guy is really picky." Li Baiquan also said sarcastically with a smile.

Tian Baishun shook his head and sighed: "Hey, people only have this hobby when they get old. If you don't enjoy it, you will lose everything after you die."

Lin Heng didn't answer and fed the bones to Xiong Ba when he was full.

"Ouch~"

Xiongba squatted next to him, looking at the rabbit bones with greed for a long time. When Lin Heng threw it, he opened his mouth to catch it, making a crunching sound, and a pair of golden dog eyes flashed with satisfaction.

"It's great to be a dog. A bone makes me happy." Lin Heng touched it and lay down to look at the stars. The stars in the sky were so beautiful.

However, there was no suitable person to watch it with, so he soon stopped watching it and went back to the shelter to sleep, calling Xiong Ba along with him.

Because there was an extra dog beside him at night, Lin Heng didn't feel cold anymore without covering himself with grass.

It's just that the mountain wind howls at night, like a hundred ghosts howling, making it difficult to sleep soundly. Li Baiquan even got up in the middle of the night and put some treetops on the shelter door to make the wind lessen.

Early the next morning, Lin Heng rolled over and woke up. Xiongba was licking his chin. He was so angry that he slapped it in the face: "How many times have I told you not to be a licking dog? I don't understand."

"Awoo~"

Xiongba lowered his head in grievance.

Lin Heng turned over and went outside. The wind was much weaker than at night. The sun had just come out and the grass leaves were all covered with dew.

"Hey, it was so windy last night. I wonder if there were any prey caught in the trap." Lin Heng was a little worried. He didn't catch anything yesterday, so he had to collect the traps this morning.

"I don't know. Let's go and see." Li Baiquan shook his head.

"Uncle, please check the wild boar for me too. I'll go and check the noose in the swamp wetland." Lin Heng looked at Li Baiquan and said.

"Okay, don't worry." Li Baiquan nodded.

The four of them went their separate ways. Lin Heng took the dog to the swamp wetland, while Tian Baishun and Li Baiquan were obsessed with the big wild boar and wanted to look for it again today.