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Chapter 4 Catching Wild Rabbits, the Effects of the Spirit Spring

Stone Mountain is located on the edge of Pine Mountain, where a large area of ​​land is covered with sharp, protruding stones, as if soil and stone each occupy half of the area.

On this rocky mountain, the production team developed the area and planted sweet potatoes.

Sweet potato vines covered the entire land, concealing the stones that had protruded from the ground.

A sea of ​​green, very pleasing to the eye.

In this era of scarcity, sweet potatoes became a staple food for the people of Jiuwan Village. Whether steamed or roasted, the unique aroma of sweet potatoes could bring joy to people.

Sweet potato vines and leaves can also be used in cooking, and they taste great.

Therefore, Jiuwan Village planted sweet potatoes all over the rocky mountain, hoping to get a large quantity of sweet potatoes in the autumn harvest and store them for the winter.

Pine Mountain and the surrounding mountains are home to a large number of wild rabbits, and rabbit burrows can be found easily when you enter the mountains.

Wild rabbits are nocturnal and hunt for food. When they forage, they look for tender grass, leaves, and various seedlings and vegetables in nearby farmland. They especially like to eat sweet potatoes, carrots and other plants.

This sweet potato field on the rocky hill naturally became the active territory of the wild rabbits of Songshushan.

Almost every year, wild rabbits appear in large numbers in Songshushan, causing great damage to the sweet potato fields, with half of the sweet potatoes ending up in the rabbits' bellies.

Since some members have discovered that wild rabbits have started eating the sweet potato fields, it means that for the next month, a large number of wild rabbits will continue to invade the sweet potato fields.

Based on past experience, the production team would take turns sending people to catch wild rabbits during the day and stay behind in the sweet potato fields at night.

Zhang Jiwu and his nephew Zhang Yun received a basket, a hoe, a hemp rope, and a machete from the production team's warehouse and headed towards the rocky mountain.

“Yun Ya Zi, let me tell you, Uncle San is a professional at catching wild rabbits. Uncle San has caught hundreds of wild rabbits of all sizes over the years.”

Along the way, Zhang Jiwu boasted about his glorious achievements.

Zhang Yun immediately chimed in with an "Impressive, impressive!", a timely and witty response. Zhang Jiwu, even more smug, continued to boast about his experience in catching wild rabbits.

In summary, hares are very alert, but they have a strange habit: they like to take the same route repeatedly, sticking to the same path over and over again, which is quite inflexible.

Once you find the rabbit's activity path, you can set up a snare along that path and then lure the rabbit.

Soon, the two arrived at the rocky mountain and indeed found several places where sweet potatoes had been gnawed in half by wild rabbits.

“Yun Yazi, now follow me and see how your third uncle finds the activity paths of those wild rabbits.”

Filled with anger, Zhang Jiwu began searching the surrounding area, seemingly determined to bring all the wild rabbits to justice within a day.

Soon, Zhang Jiwu discovered the spot where the three wild rabbits had passed, where the reeds had clearly formed a circular path as the rabbits crossed.

"Yun Yazi, do you know how to make a lasso trap?"

At this moment, Zhang Jiwu asked with a smile.

Zhang Yun immediately nodded and replied with a smile, "Of course I know how; this is the simplest trap."

As he spoke, Zhang Yun took out a hemp rope from his basket and skillfully made a circle with the rope. Then, he set up a snare on the rabbit's path.

As soon as the hare touches the hook with the snare rope, the other end of the rope, which is attached to a curved branch, will spring up and tighten, thus binding the hare's body.

The two continued searching for the rabbit's trail and set up rope traps in several places along the way.

It wasn't until the two entered Pine Mountain that they discovered the rabbit's burrow.

These holes are very deep, and it's simply unrealistic to rely on manpower to dig them and catch rabbits.

Zhang Jiwu searched the surroundings for a while, then shook his head: "There are too many rabbit holes here. Judging from the situation, we need to send someone to guard Stone Mountain tonight, and bring dogs with us, in order to protect the sweet potatoes."

There's an old saying in rural areas about dogs chasing rabbits, meaning that dogs are very sensitive to the scent of wild rabbits. Once they smell the rabbit, the dog can chase after it and kill it.

Therefore, the night watchman must bring his dog to scare away the hares as much as possible.

This is the same method we used to protect the sweet potato fields in previous years.

Zhang Yun followed along the way and saw the burrows dug by wild rabbits everywhere.

"Third Uncle, is there any way we can lure these rabbits out?"

Zhang Yun asked the question with a smile.

The rabbits were too alert; they must have heard the sounds the two made as they walked through the thickets and bushes covering the mountainside.

Trying to catch wild rabbits in these crisscrossing forests is a bit of a pipe dream.

The only way is to lure the rabbits out and then drive them into the path filled with snares.

"You little rascal, you're craving rabbit meat, aren't you... Well, your third uncle hasn't eaten meat for almost half a month, and look how thin I've gotten."

Zhang Jiwu bulged out his chest muscles, bobbing them up and down, showing off his physique.

Zhang Yun was speechless and could only watch him show off.

“I just saw some sweet potato vines that were bitten off by wild rabbits in the sweet potato field. I’ll go get them and scatter a section along the way to see if I can lure out the rabbits.”

Zhang Jiwu thoroughly enjoyed Zhang Yun's envious gaze, and left with a smug smile, hurrying back to Stone Mountain.

After seeing his third uncle leave, Zhang Yun's consciousness returned to his mind, and he looked at the spiritual spring space.

"An acre of land, a spring... I don't even know what it does."

As Zhang Yun muttered to himself, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"I don't know what this spring water is for, so let's take some out and try it."

A thought flashed through Zhang Yun's mind, and then with a thought, a fist-sized ball of water landed between Zhang Yun's outstretched hands.

Zhang Yun threw the handful of spring water into the entrance of a rabbit hole.

Then, Zhang Yun clearly heard rustling sounds coming from inside the cave, and he immediately realized that a wild rabbit was about to come out.

Sure enough, a short while later a fluffy gray-white hare scurried out of the burrow, about twenty centimeters long, and went straight to where the spring water was falling.

Where the spring water hits the ground, the thatch grass absorbs it, and the leaves, which were originally somewhat withered and yellow, miraculously turn emerald green again, as if they have been reborn.

"I am coming."

The hare was completely oblivious to its surroundings, engrossed in the pleasure of munching on the grass. Zhang Yun seized the opportunity, leaping up and grabbing the hare with his hands like eagle claws.

The hare struggled, but still couldn't bear to part with the blade of grass in its mouth.

"Can it be stored in the Spirit Spring space?"

When Zhang Yun caught the rabbit, he had this thought, and then he discovered that the rabbit really disappeared from his hand, but reappeared in the spiritual spring space.

The rabbit entered the spiritual spring space and died instantly, its body stiff, with a blade of grass still dangling from its mouth.

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