My 1995 Small Farm.

Chapter 509 Bonfire Party
Generally speaking.

Wild boar hide is thick and difficult to break; a knife piercing it won't spurt out blood.

The reason why.

Chen Ling drew his sword too quickly.

In addition, the wild boar's charge was too fierce.

Although he and the lynx managed to dodge to the side, if they weren't careful, the sturdy oak handle of the knife could be snapped in two by the wild boar's strength.

It can even hurt people.

Therefore, after Chen Ling stabbed the boar, he quickly used the boar's fierce momentum to pull the knife back.

A stream of scalding hot pig's blood gushed out with the knife.

There was a "pop" sound.

In an instant, another knife was plunged in.

Even to a normal person, a lynx's movements are considered quite fast.

But he was still two beats slower than Chen Ling.

When Chen Ling stabbed for the second time.

The lynx then suddenly thrust its knife forward.

With a slanted cut, taking advantage of the wild boar's momentum, the blade pierced the area in front of its shoulder blade.

"Aww~"

The wild boar screamed in agony.

The fierce momentum suddenly weakened slightly.

Blood began to flow from the mouth and nose.

Blood gushed out from under his neck.

Chen Ling remained unfazed, drew his knife again, and stabbed it towards the pig's neck once more.

This stab landed next to the cuts from the previous two stabs.

On the wild boar's thick neck, there are three cuts that form a small triangle.

Suddenly, the pig's blood gushed out like a tap had been turned on, and blood flowed like a torrent.

"Aww~"

The wild boar's front legs buckled, and its strength rapidly diminished as it lost a large amount of blood.

Hunting pigs with a knife is all about bleeding them out.

After all, it's impossible for a human to fight a wild boar head-on.

When hunting wild boars, you usually aim for their two most vulnerable spots.

One is in front of the pig's neck, and the other is in front of the shoulder blade.

The reason is that...

The neck of a pig is connected to its cavity; a single stab can reach the heart and lungs of a wild boar.

The location of the scapula is such that it's possible to puncture the pig's carotid artery.

to be honest.

This is the same principle as slaughtering a pig in the village.

However, the danger posed by wild boars is incomparable to that of domestic pigs.

Therefore, hunting pigs with a knife requires extremely experienced hunters who have developed great courage.

Most of the time, they also need the assistance of hunting dogs.

The reason Chen Ling and his companion dared to act this way was because the wild boar had been crashing into walls and houses, and had been stopped by the stockade wall.

If this were in the mountains, a pig like this would charge straight at you.

Chen Ling himself was alright, but the Lynx and his gang would never have dared to charge in with knives if they hadn't brought guns.

"Aww, aww..."

After the wild boar fell to the ground, its screams gradually weakened, and only its body continued to twitch, its four hooves kicking weakly, with a large pool of bright red pig blood flowing out beneath it.

Seeing this scene through the cracked wall, Zhao Dahai's face flushed with excitement, wishing he could take his place.

"Damn it, you two, you two are really impressive."

As he stepped forward, the villagers, mostly women, the elderly, and children, hurried over to ask what had happened.

At this moment, the boy who had been carrying the torches for Chen Ling and the other man stepped forward, looking embarrassed and guilty.

They said they discovered piglets had crawled in from outside the village wall, so they went to catch them.

Unexpectedly, I followed those piglets into someone else's pigpen.

There was a wild boar hiding in that pigsty.

He mingled among the pigs.

If he had just stayed hidden and kept quiet under normal circumstances, people probably wouldn't have noticed.

Seeing the two of them chasing the piglets, she couldn't hold back her anger and jumped out of the pigpen to attack them.

"So you guys are chasing after piglets too."

Zhao Dahai immediately realized what was going on. "I thought something was wrong. I just saw three or four piglets crawling into the waterway in the village wall, but when we chased them into the village, a big wild boar suddenly jumped out. It really startled us."

On the other side, Wang Qingwen and Wang Jusheng helped carry the boy who had been injured by the wild boar back to the village.

"Is the little one alright?"

"It's nothing serious, just a twisted hip, but I was really scared."

"..."

"Fugui, take the pig back and gut it."

"it is good."

"Wow~"

Just as they were about to deal with the dead wild boar down below, a series of fierce barks came from the hillside.

Chen Ling glanced at it, put the wild boar down, and said to the lynx, "The sound isn't far away. Let's go, keep chasing."

Upon hearing this, Lynx snatched two torches from Zhao Dahai and the others without saying a word and handed one to Chen Ling.

They chased after him up the hillside.

The two men didn't even glance at the wild boar they had just hunted.

It's just that hunting has reached a certain point.

Whether we eat it or not, whether we can make money from it or not, it doesn't matter anymore.

The satisfaction of catching a big prey can surpass everything.

Like fishing, it's fascinating and addictive.

The two followed the sound of barking dogs up the mountain and into the forest. When they reached the ridge, they saw two dogs, one yellow and one white, had surrounded the wild boar in a rocky ditch on the northwest slope, barking wildly at it.

When no one was with them, the two dogs seemed even more ferocious than when people were around.

Of course, the fact that they were able to succeed so quickly was also largely due to the small size of the wild boar.

If the pig that just broke into the village pigpen weighed over 200 jin (100 kg), this one is far from that; it probably weighs less than 200 jin (100 kg).

The two Taihang dogs encountered pigs several times today and didn't fail to catch them much.

After several baptisms of real combat in the mountains.

Their confidence and ferocity are completely different from when they were first brought to the mountain.

"Wang Wang Wang!"

The two dogs, their tails held high, circled the wild boar, looking for an opportunity to bite at various parts of its body.

"A good dog should still be brought to the mountains..."

The lynx was overjoyed. "These two dogs are a good match. It's a pity they have to stay here when they leave, otherwise they would be good seedlings."

Chen Ling glanced into the mountains to the north: "There's quite a commotion on the mountains to the north. I saw torches."

"Let's go, finish this quickly, then we'll go help."

Then, while rushing down the mountain, he fired a few shots into the air, blew on his whistle to communicate, and waved his torch to inform others of the situation.

This lets the other side know there are people here, preventing them from hearing noises and accidentally shooting someone at night.

……

It's quite easy for two people and two dogs to take down a wild boar.

However, just as they killed the pig and gutted it to feed the dogs, the sound of a whimpering came from the mountains to the north, along with the cacophony of barking dogs and human voices gradually approaching.

"The signal says there are pigs coming this way, so we need to be careful."

Upon hearing Mei Tong's signal, Chen Ling quickly loaded ammunition.

The lynx stood in the dry area of ​​the rocky gully, looked up, and frowned, saying, "What? Did you lose them?"

"It's not that we lost the dog, it's that the dog couldn't get across."

Chen Ling pointed to the messy bushes and tree branches growing on the hillside: "The forest on the mountain is full of this stuff. Wild boars can wade through it, but dogs and people can't."

Hunting at night is definitely not a good thing.

This is different from the small-scale hunting trips Chen Ling and his friends took at night, using their motorcycles with headlights to chase rabbits and pheasants in wheat fields and forests. This is hunting wild boar, and in the mountains at that.

There are too many unexpected situations in the mountains.

Take this example, for instance.

This is because the small hills here are near the village, and the villagers often go up the hills to cut down trees for firewood or to build houses.

In the less-visited area behind the mountain, after the trees were cut down, new shoots sprouted from the shrubs and stumps, crisscrossing and intertwining.

Dogs can't get through this kind of terrain.

Wild boars, however, can charge and push their way through.

Lynxes often roam in the mountains.

Upon hearing Chen Ling's words, he immediately realized what was happening and hurriedly blew the plum tube in response.

After the sound of the plum blossom pipe, a rumbling noise came from the forest on the mountain, becoming clearer and closer.

"The pig is coming."

Chen Ling waved his torch, stood at the edge of the stone gully, looked at the terrain on the opposite hillside, and darted up in a few steps.

Then, listening to the wild boar's movements, he gestured to the lynx following behind him and stuck the torch at his feet.

Followed by.

They quietly approached the direction of the wild boar.

The sounds of pigs squealing, running, and the loud cracking noises of scrambling through bushes and branches reached my ears.

Chen Ling slowly squatted down behind a large tree.

Upon seeing Chen Ling's gesture, the lynx calmed the two dogs, letting them continue feasting on a large pile of pig offal. Then, it planted the torch in another spot and hid behind a tree about ten meters away from Chen Ling.

Hold your gun and wait.

One second, two seconds, three seconds...

Just then, the wild boar grunted and rumbled as it came over from the messy bushes.

Chen Ling instantly stood up, raised the gun beside him, flicked the safety, and suddenly stepped out from behind the tree, firing two shots at an old sow that was rushing past him.

The old sow let out a miserable scream, and Chen Ling quickly turned south, not even bothering to check the outcome, and aimed his gun at the two wild boars, one large and one small, that were fleeing south.

One of them was also a sow.

The other pig was still a small male pig weighing less than 100 pounds, whose yellow hair had not been completely replaced.

Upon hearing the sudden gunfire, they yelled and turned around, each rushing down the hillside in two different directions.

But Chen Ling had already aimed at them, and this turn exposed his entire body to the muzzle of the gun.

A gunshot rang out.

The old sow screamed and collapsed into the bushes.

The little boar was so frightened that it took off running.

The lynx roared, stepped out from behind another tree, and fired.

The little boar couldn't stop in time and was shot in the face. Before it could even scream, it collapsed on the hillside.

……

A few moments.

Hearing the commotion, the Miao village hunting team hurriedly circled around and were stunned to see four pigs lying on the ground on the hillside.

"They are those people from other places."

"Did those two kill all of these pigs?"

"..."

"Yes, those two were the ones blowing the plum tube just now, signaling that there were two of them."

At this moment, Chen Ling and Lynx were gutting three wild boars.

Even though it's cool on the mountain at night in summer, it's still best to remove your intestines and internal organs as soon as possible.

Jinwa and Muwa from Ranjia Village were almost speechless with astonishment. They ran up to them, rubbing their hands excitedly, "Brother Chen, Brother Zhonglin, how are you guys so amazing?"

Chen Ling and the lynx chuckled and asked if there were any more pigs among the three that had been herded over there.

But they hadn't had enough yet.

Upon hearing this, the young members of the hunting team became excited.

"Yes, yes, just now several groups of us specifically caught one pig to kill, but we didn't expect there to be so many pigs running into the mountains. As soon as we got up the mountain, several pigs came out from every nook and cranny, but we couldn't catch most of them, and they all ran away."

"That's good. We'll take the dog and keep chasing later."

They were talking noisily.

Just then, Zhao Dahai and his group, who had finished dealing with the pig they had hunted at the village, came running after hearing the noise.

Let them take the four pigs back.

Chen Ling and his men continued their pursuit up the mountain, accompanied by dogs and torches.

This time, I didn't bring the two Taihang dogs.

Although they have been trained to a very high standard since they came along this time.

However, since they had just eaten a lot of meat to appease them, they were no longer fit to run around with the wild animals.

It's fine without them following us.

With Chen Ling and Lynx joining the team.

Especially with Chen Ling, whose night vision and hearing are far beyond that of ordinary people, the gains were more than doubled.

By 11 p.m., they had searched all around the mountains.

Not counting the previous four pigs.

They caught another eleven, six of which weighed over 100 jin (50 kg).

The rest were all half-grown pigs that hadn't fully grown.

By this time, the entire hunting party had gathered together while they were searching for wild boars everywhere.

I witnessed firsthand Chen Ling and the lynx's abilities.

Of course, it was Chen Ling who stood out the most; his performance was too dazzling, even if it wasn't too exaggerated, it was still a little bit inhuman.

Back in their village, the villagers of Leijia Village, south of Ranjia Village, recounted how Chen Ling and the lynx saved two children from their village and bravely fought against a wild boar, earning them unanimous praise from several Miao villages.

He immediately offered the prey he had caught to the local earth god.

They also lit a large bonfire around the local earth god temple outside the village, and held a lively bonfire party with singing and dancing.

The Miao people's enthusiasm was fully displayed at this moment.

At first, Chen Ling and the others thought that something had just happened in Xiongjia Village, and that it was not good for things to be so lively.

But later, when members of the hunting team from Xiongjiazhai also arrived, they realized that this bonfire party was not simply for entertainment and to entertain guests.

It was a continuation of worshipping the local earth god, used to intimidate wild animals in the mountains, or to pray for a successful hunt.

After they learned what had happened, Chen Ling and the others finally relaxed.

We ate and drank with several young men from the Miao village, sang folk songs, danced Miao dances, and chatted until late at night.

Chen Ling and his companions had a great time hunting and enjoying themselves to the fullest.

After learning about the outside world through them, the young people in the Miao villages increasingly yearn to leave the mountains.

This thing is actually a cycle.

People nowadays want to see the outside world, and people from the countryside yearn for the city, but for various reasons, it is very difficult.

People in later generations have long been tired of city life and want to go to the countryside and return to their hometowns. However, returning home means no source of income and no way to support their families, which is difficult for most people.

Chen Ling understood perfectly, so his advice to these young people was very pertinent and practical. He also talked about the common scams and tricks that are popular outside these days.

These will be very useful when I go out into the world.

Sensing his sincerity, these young people became increasingly convinced and enthusiastic about him.

Overly enthusiastic, they ended up drinking too much.

It's okay if you drink too much; just lie down by the campfire and go to sleep.

Chen Ling and the others were planning to go back tomorrow, so getting thoroughly drunk like this and then sleeping around a warm fire was an extremely enjoyable and satisfying thing.

However, as the night wore on, the hospitable villagers, worried that the fire would go out and the children would catch a cold, prepared to carry them home.

During this time, Zhao Dahai and the others were fine, sleeping soundly and had no idea where they were.

Only Chen Ling and Shanmao were awakened. They drank some water and then went to find a place to urinate and relieve themselves.

That is, when the two of them urinated in the shadows outside the village wall.

In the stillness of the night, strange footsteps suddenly echoed.

"Tap...tap...tap..."

Actually, Lynx was still a little confused at this point. He turned his head and let out a soft "hmm" before Chen Ling covered his mouth and pressed him down to squat down with him.

Under the dark night.

Chen Ling could see a colossal creature, larger than an ox, slowly walking towards Ranjia Village from the foot of a distant hillside.

(End of this chapter)