Reborn in 80: Starting with hunting in the mountains to get rich

Li Ju'an immediately gave chase.

He discovered that in addition to wolf paw prints, there were also mountain fox footprints in the snow.

The first footprint, slightly deeper in the snow, must have been left by a mountain leopard leaping down from a tall tree, attempting to pounce on the lone wolf. Scattered among the snow-covered footprints were paw prints, also recently made, fresh paw prints.

Li Ju'an was very excited, and the tiger in front was also extremely excited. It led a pack of dogs and chased after the mountain fox and wolf running wildly down the hillside.

Li Guaizi shouted excitedly, "Hurry up, if we run away, Zhang San's whole family will be wiped out!"

The dogs running wildly in the distance began to bark, but Da Hu remained silent. However, the sounds of fighting soon followed.

Listening carefully, Li Guaizi quickened his pace, running even faster than Li Ju'an while carrying his gun, and shouted, "Iron Hammer didn't bark, Big Tiger didn't bark. Damn it! Where did that slippery dog ​​wander off to again?"

When hunting dogs spot their prey, they usually delay the hunt and bark to alert the hunters to draw their guns and deliver a fatal blow.

The tiger doesn't roar, because it bites and drags its prey to death. The tiger won't let go until the prey is dead.

But the fact that Iron Hammer didn't bark made people think a lot. Iron Hammer, the slippery dog ​​in Old Tao's hands, was notoriously unruly. Who knew it might wander off to that hill to play again? He dared not bite or bark, preferring to take advantage of the chaos.

Li Ju'an strode to the ridge on the shady slope, and when he looked up, he saw Da Hu wrestling with a wolf in a groin-grabbing fight. He had just raised his gun when Li Guaizi raised his gun even faster.

Li Guaizi raised his hunting rifle at the wolf and pulled the trigger.

boom!

A shot rang out, clearly missing its mark, and missing it way too far. As he pulled the trigger, Li Guaizi pointed the gun upwards and cursed, "Damn it!"

Li Ju'an, gun at the ready, shouted at Da Hu, "Get down!"

Big Tiger was very clever. He viciously tore a bite out of the wolf's groin, his mouth full of blood, and then jumped away.

Taking advantage of Da Hu's leap away, Li Ju'an opened the 3.5x scope, aimed, and fired a shot at the wolf's head, which had been disemboweled.

boom!

At 50 meters, the distance was well within the Mosin-Nagant's firing range. With the enormous recoil, a flash of light erupted from the muzzle, the spent cartridge was ejected, the gun rose, and he was jerked backward for a moment before the wolf's head was blown off.

Sparks flew, and after firing, he didn't even look at the results. He quickly bent the butt of the gun down with his right hand, pinched the empty bullet casings with his thumb and forefinger, pulled them out, stuffed the handful of bullets in his palm into the chamber, closed the gun, put it to his face, and checked the results through the scope.

The bullet passed under the wolf's ear, going in through the small eye and out through the large eye, spraying blood mist from behind the wolf's head.

The wolf's body fell to the ground with a thud, its limbs twitching stiffly twice before it lay still.

Li Guaizi suddenly grabbed his collar and roared fiercely, "What the hell are you doing!"

Li Ju'an also lost his temper and, in a fit of rage, grabbed his collar and yelled back, "What the hell were you doing firing a shot into the air? Whether it was a mountain weasel or not, that shot scared it away!"

The civet cat was likely nearby. What the dog found was not the civet cat, but a wolf being chased by the civet cat.

Regardless of the outcome, once a shot is fired, the mountain fox will surely be startled and run away. Once the mountain fox is on guard, it will be much more difficult to track it down.

The two men, panting heavily, wrestled together, exchanging punches, neither giving an inch.

Li Ju'an was known for his fiery temper, and those two punches stunned Li Guaizi. He had never seen a young man beat someone so recklessly; his fists were as hard as iron, and when they landed on his face, his head throbbed with pain and his ears rang.

Neither of them fought with their lives on the line, and they remained alert, carrying their guns to guard against sudden attacks from wild animals.

Only after the two had finished fighting did Li Guaizi, with a bruised and swollen face and panting heavily, point at the wolf and curse loudly.

"Kill the big one and keep the small ones, kill the male and keep the female. Damn it, this female wolf still has cubs!"

Upon closer inspection, Li Ju'an realized that the mother wolf's lower abdomen was swollen, indicating she was nursing. There should be a wolf den nearby, and perhaps some wolf cubs crying for milk.

Hunters often say there are three things they shouldn't do when hunting. If they encounter a nursing mother animal, they absolutely must not fire. First, the mother animal will be doubly fierce to protect her young. Second, the mother animal is usually not far from her den, and if disturbed, she may be attacked by a pack of wild animals.

Li Ju'an was also dumbfounded.

He rushed forward to check on the mother wolf. The situation had been extremely urgent, with the surrounding dogs blocking their way, and Da Hu risking his life to fight the wolf. If he had been even a fraction of a second slower, Da Hu would have been in even greater danger. So, he quickly raised his gun to Da Hu's face and pulled the trigger.

Now, looking closer, he could see that the mother wolf was still nursing her pups. In other words, he had shot and killed a mother wolf who was nursing her pups, and the litter of pups she gave birth to would not survive the freezing winter.

Suddenly, a strange and unfamiliar emotion welled up inside him. He began to understand why Old Tao had given up his life of crime. Old Tao had been blasting bears, and a mother bear, clutching the explosives, ran towards the barn, mistakenly faking the death of an entire litter of bear cubs. Looking at the cubs' mangled corpses, Old Tao was distraught, lost in a daze, and spent his days in a daze, eventually giving up his life of crime and never returning to the mountains.

Now, he almost did the same thing.

Li Guaizi sneered at him: "Old Tao is very cold to people, but anyone can see that he's biased towards you. Old Tao hates wolf cubs the most. If you take this litter of wolf cubs away, do you think Old Tao will still lend you his hammer?"

A wolf has ambition; a wolf is a wolf, and it can't become a dog. If he feels sorry for these wolf cubs and takes the orphaned cubs out of the mountains to raise them, he'll be no different from Old Qin, the "Trap King."

If he were more ruthless, he would leave the wolf cubs to fend for themselves in the freezing mountains, which would be against the hunter's principles.

After thinking it over, Li Ju'an suddenly slapped his forehead and said, "I'll send this litter of wolf cubs to the farm headquarters, and then the farm headquarters will transfer them to a zoo in a big city, and that'll be the end of it."

While gutting and skinning the mother wolf, Li Guaizi made sarcastic remarks: "What do big city zoos lack? They lack rare wolf breeds. Gray wolves are everywhere in our mountains. Can big city zoos keep them all? They're not some precious creature, and zoos don't even look at them."

Li Ju'an felt a tightness in his chest, as if something was blocking his throat, leaving him unable to move forward or backward. He even regretted that if he encountered a lactating mother animal again, he should have just fired blanks into the air to scare it away. The old hunter's three rules about not attacking animals had their reasons.

Li Guaizi was hanging wolf intestines on a high branch when Li Ju'an suddenly noticed a string of dog paw prints ahead.

The dog's paw prints moved very carefully, taking small steps, as if it were cautiously tracking some prey, but it was also very timid and dared not disturb the prey. The dog's paw prints followed this direction and walked all the way up the hill.

Li Ju'an turned around and counted the number of dogs around him.

"The hammer is gone."