Reborn in 1963: I Hunted and Stockpiled Meat During a Famine

The large lynx was followed by three smaller, grayish-brown lynxes.

The baby lynx, its mouth smeared with blood and bits of meat, followed closely behind the adult lynx.

Qin Qiming slowly put down his bow and put away the arrows: "The whole family is feasting here. Obviously, this place has been designated as territory by the lynx. The reason that lynx didn't leave earlier was to keep watch on the perimeter, protecting the little ones from other animals, and at the same time, it could catch a rabbit for food."

Qin Hao said dismissively, "Ignore them, we need to speed things up. This place has already been disturbed by the lynxes, and we're not sure if there's anything else. Those pheasants looked promising, but they were scared away anyway, what a shame."

Qin Qiming: "It's okay, they might run into the traps we set and get caught."

Qin Hao smiled after hearing Qin Qiming's words, not taking them too seriously.

Not long after, the two unexpectedly discovered a rabbit burrow.

They caught a few baby rabbits in the burrow.

Qin Hao said with some regret, "If the lynx family hadn't arrived before us, we could have caught a few more this time."

"It's good that we've made a harvest. We can't deplete everything in the mountains; we also need to survive in other ways."

Qin Hao nodded in agreement: "I was too greedy. Let's go check the traps."

“If there’s anything in the trap, take it. If there’s nothing, we still have half a wild boar at home, take that for Kangzi.”

"That's so embarrassing. You're nervous too. I heard they're going to build an extra floor above the station to use for getting married. Huimin is a good girl. You're lucky to have her."

The two chatted as they walked, and before long, after a sharp bend, Qin Qiming suddenly saw a flat stretch of ice.

Qin Hao slowed his pace and walked past the ice surface.

The ice surface was not large, about a hundred square meters, and it gradually narrowed until it was only one or two meters wide, at which point it was completely frozen.

Above the ice surface is a cliff break, with a row of icicles hanging from it, connected to the ice surface.

This is a frozen waterfall, more than ten meters high, with huge blocks of ice falling vertically, which is truly breathtaking up close.

Qin Hao pointed south, his tone tinged with nostalgia.

"See those twin peaks in the distance? The stream flows there, winding around the mountains. After walking for about a mile, there's a lake. I used to go there with the old man from Baijia Village to catch turtles and loaches."

"How many soft-shelled turtles are there in the lake?"

"There are many, and a wide variety, far exceeding the lake next to our village."

The two walked and talked, heading towards the place where the trap had been set, to see if they had gained anything after half a day.

After reviewing it, Qin Hao shook his head and re-secured the trap.

"There's nothing there, just those two mountain rabbits from before."

"It's alright, Brother Hao. Mountain rabbits hunt at night, so it's lucky to catch a whole nest during the day. Let's keep looking; maybe we can find something else."

When they finally found the next trap, hey, they actually caught something!

However, there aren't many left.

The place was covered in blood, feathers were scattered everywhere, and the sheath had been overturned.

I reckon it's a wild pheasant.

"We're too late. Some other beasts beat us to it!"

Qin Hao lowered his head and muttered to himself.

"Look at this, it took the bait not long after we left, but some other thing in the mountains intercepted it! This beast not only stole the food, but also ate it right here!"

Qin Qiming also squatted down, looked at the situation on the ground, and nodded in agreement.

The creatures in the mountains are really arrogant!

Not only did they fight over the food, but they also took the leftovers home!

There wasn't even a bone left on the snow, just some bits of flesh. What kind of deity did this?

Qin Hao and Qin Qiming searched the trap carefully, but they couldn't find the guy who came to steal the food, not even a trace of him.

"Brother Hao, let's hurry up and go check out the other traps. If we can catch this one, maybe we can catch the rest too."

Upon hearing this, Qin Hao did not linger; he moved the cover to a different spot and reattached it.

He knew that once something was caught in this place, there was a high probability that no more wild animals would be caught.

Even the most foolish animals in the mountains wouldn't be foolish enough to approach something they see or smell.

However, Qin Hao did become somewhat interested in this chicken thief.

They took two steps forward and examined several more snares, but found nothing.

"Hey, Brother Hao, look over there, there's some noise!"

From a distance, Qin Qiming could see something wriggling in the snowdrift at Taozidian.

The condom was trembling, looking as if it was about to break free.

"Hey, you have a really sharp eye, you can spot me from this far away?"

Qin Hao squinted and looked at the blurry area in the distance. It seemed like something was moving, but it also seemed like there was nothing there.

Indistinct and unclear.

But he knew in his heart that there was nothing wrong with his eyesight; it could only be that Qin Qiming's eyesight was far superior to his.

"I can see it clearly. That thing is tumbling around in the snowdrift. It looks like a pheasant, not a flying dragon."

"Hurry over and check on it, lest it break free!"

Qin Hao strode forward and soon saw something churning in the snowdrift beside the shelter.

Upon closer inspection, it really was a pheasant.

"Qiming, if you had eyes like that back in the day, as my dad would say, you'd have been a clairvoyant when fighting the Japanese. You'd definitely have a place in the vanguard. And if you ever joined the army, you'd be a sure thing as a reconnaissance soldier!"

The reconnaissance soldiers in this unit are the cream of the crop. Although their missions are demanding and dangerous, they get promoted the fastest.

You can read, you can shoot, and you have such sharp eyesight. If you joined the army, you would definitely be a good soldier!

Who knows, if I make a good contribution on a mission later, I might even become a leader!

"Who can say what will happen in the future? Let's take care of what's in front of us first."

"That's true, let's focus on the immediate situation first."

Qin Hao grabbed the pheasant, wrapped it around the rope he was carrying a few times, and lifted it by the leg to walk towards another snare.

To their surprise, they ended up catching a few wild rabbits.

"Today is pretty good. The front was empty, but we can still catch two more in the back. If one hadn't been stolen earlier, this harvest would be really good."

Qin Hao was quite satisfied with today's harvest.

"It's getting dark. Let's put aside the matter of seeing Brother Kang in Zhangjia Village for now and go tomorrow."

"middle!"

Qin Qiming nodded and went back to the village with Qin Hao.

Neither of them noticed that on the tree branch behind them, there was a white-haired creature that seemed to glow, with tiny black eyes that barely filled its sockets, watching them walk away.

Afterwards, he lowered his head and continued to enjoy the pheasant he hadn't finished eating while still in the tree.

As soon as Qin Qiming returned to the station, the three children surrounded him.

"Come, come, let me show you something."

Qin Qiming opened the basket on his back.

"Hey, mountain jumper."