Defeat natural disasters with farming

The picking team can bring all kinds of mountain goods and fruits back, so the hunting team will naturally gain a lot, especially since they haven't gone up the mountain much in the winter, so the vigilance of the prey on the mountain is much less, don't bother, the arrangement is good There are always unwary prey falling into the trap, including gazelle and roe deer.

They even beat a wild boar, which was hit by itself. In order to stop it, some members of the hunting team were injured, their arms were broken, and they had to recuperate for a while.

The wild boar is different from the domestic pig, its whole body is brown and black, its fur is hard, its limbs are also strong and strong, especially the two fangs on its face are extremely fierce. Fortunately, after the bloodletting, the pig wailed and closed its eyes .

Ye He said: "This is a sow that has just given birth. I think there is a litter of piglets on the mountain. Although the adult wild boars are not tasty, roasted whole piglets are delicious."

Generally speaking, they don't kill prey with cubs, but this wild boar is an exception. Who told it to rush over by itself, and injured Ye Mingde.

He licked the corner of his mouth as he spoke, "We just have a rest tomorrow, so we can go up the mountain to look for it."

Ye Yu was a little moved by what he said, so he discussed with Chu Xufeng: "Let's go together, anyway, it's fine recently." The main reason is that he is a little bored at home, so it's better to go out for a stroll, and change his mood.

Chu Xufeng thought for a while, then nodded and said, "OK."

Therefore, a group of young people who are not too old meet to enter the mountain. There are five people in total, namely Ye Yu, Chu Xufeng, Ye He, Ye Minghui and Ye Shuan. They all know each other. Strictly speaking, they are friends from childhood. .

Ye Yu got up very early that morning, and they still met acquaintances when they walked towards the gate of the city wall.

Someone greeted him: "Where are you two going?"

Ye Yu smiled and replied, "I made an appointment with my brother to go to the mountains."

"Sure, it looks like the weather is fine today, just be careful." The man gave them a few more instructions and let them leave.

Originally, Ye Yu thought that the two of them came quite early, but unexpectedly, Ye He and the others arrived earlier. When they arrived, Ye He immediately waved: "Come on, there are only you two left."

Ye Yu took Chu Xufeng's arm and rushed over, "Why are you all so early?"

"Anyway, I'm fine at home, so I'll come out early." Ye Minghui said.

After the five people had registered their names, they saw with their own eyes that the tall and strong city gate was slowly pushed open, and what came into view was a lush greenery.

After Ye Yu walked out, he frowned suddenly and said, "This forest is spreading a little too quickly."

Ye He had a great say in this matter. He pointed to the grassy slope at his feet and said, "Do you still remember? It used to be a wide grassy slope, but the vegetation on the mountain has started to spread down these years, gradually engulfing the grassy slope, and will It turned into a dense forest."

Ye Yu pondered for a while after listening, and thought to himself, it seems that they will have to burn a dividing line around the foot of the mountain in the future to prevent the vegetation on the mountain from spreading down. , the forest will rob the crops of nutrients and water, and the more plants there are, the more dangerous they will be, with various poisons and beasts emerging in endlessly.

He kept this matter in his heart, and when passing through the forest, Ye He also said: "The only good thing is that there are no large wild animals in this forest, at most you can see some pheasants and hares and the like, sometimes you don't want to enter mountain, we'll lay traps in the woods."

Halfway through, he pointed to a trap on the ground and said, "Hey, it's here."

Ye Yu looked over there, he couldn't see any difference between it and other places at all, at most, the grass grew more lushly, which is enough to prove that the people who laid the traps had excellent skills.

Ye Minghui told him: "The grass mat on top has not been damaged, which means that no prey fell into it."

Ye Shuan also knows this forest very well, "I often come here to catch pheasants when I'm bored, and after it rains, I can still see many mushrooms growing on the shady tree roots."

After hearing this, Ye Yu thought for a while and asked, "Since that's the case, from your point of view, should this forest be kept?"

Ye He took the lead to answer: "Then it should be burned. You must know that this forest is not only good, but also has many disadvantages. The most serious thing is that poisonous insects and snakes often crawl into it along the city wall, and many people are bitten." Fortunately, the toxicity is not strong, most people are covered with bites, and drinking two doses of the medicine will almost heal you."

Ye Shuan echoed while driving the road: "My mother was bitten by a poisonous insect once, and I don't know what it was. It is as long as my forearm, and there are countless legs on both sides of her body. I want to shiver just looking at it."

Ye Yu thought about it, and from his description, it seemed to be a centipede.

While they were chatting, they went out of the woods unknowingly, and it didn't take much time, the outside world was just dawning.

Perhaps because of the high altitude, the trees on the mountain are the first to feel the coming of autumn. There are no more cicadas chirping, but instead countless yellowing leaves. When people step on them, they will make a crisp and crunching sound, which instantly alarmed the original In the quiet forest, many small animals ran away in fright.

Ye Yu also saw several squirrels with fluffy tails jumping over the trees, and soon disappeared before his eyes.

The trap where they caught the wild boar was very close to the foot of the mountain, and it took them only a quarter of an hour to arrive. However, the distance along the way was short and rough, and Ye Yu almost stepped on a lump while walking. Green silky feces, according to Ye Shuan, are the feces left by vegetarian animals.

As soon as he arrived at the place, Ye Shuan began to look around for traces. He had learned from his father for a long time, hunting was no longer a problem, and such a job of looking for traces was extremely easy.

Ye Yu is lacking in practice in this area. Although he is not lacking in theoretical knowledge, he has never tried it himself. Therefore, Ye Shuan will teach him when he is looking for it, and even let him try it out.

Ye Shuan pointed to the scrape mark on a tree and asked, "What kind of beast do you think this was left by?"

They came to look for wild boars. Just as Ye Yu was about to say it was a wild boar, he realized that this problem should not be so simple, so he began to observe more carefully, and even took the hair stuck between the rough gaps in the tree trunks and rubbed it in front of his eyes. Rub it.

The other four people looked at him silently, Ye Yu glanced at them, then wondered, "You all know?"

Chu Xufeng smiled slightly, rubbed his head and reminded: "Do you think about what we met on the way here?"

What did Ye Yu encounter, Ye Yu began to think about it, the journey was smooth, as if he didn't encounter any large animals, no, his eyes lit up suddenly, and something came to his mind, that lump of feces that was almost stepped on.

Since it is a vegetarian animal, coupled with slightly brown hair and a rather large body, these three points quickly made him lock on an animal.

"Red deer," he said.

Chu Xufeng affirmed his thoughts, "That's right, it's the red deer."

Ye Shuan also picked up a handful of hair and said, "I don't know if this red deer is still there?"

The red deer was not the purpose of their coming, so he just read a sentence and then left it behind, and continued to walk out following the footprints of the wild boar on the ground.

As they expected, the wild boar had just given birth, because the five of them quickly followed their footprints to find the wild boar nest, and several wild boar cubs in the nest were groaning and screaming with hunger.

Ye Minghui covered his nose and said, "It stinks everywhere."

Ye Shuan said, "Quickly tie up the piglets and we can go back."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Yu frowned and said solemnly: "Wait a minute, I'm afraid there is more than one adult wild boar. Look over there, the meat of that roe deer is still fresh, and it probably died in the morning."

Ye Shuan looked over when he heard the words, and immediately agreed after seeing it and said, "I didn't realize it, could it be the father of these little piggies?"

Ye Yu nodded, "Probably so."

Ye Minghui thought for a while and said, "The wild boar has a sharp nose. I'm afraid it will remember our smell, so we might as well just catch the old one."

The others nodded in agreement.

Ye Yu went out to look at the location of the wild boar's den, and found that there was only one narrow road to enter, so they decided to dig a deep hole on this only road.

When digging, he said with emotion: "Our most commonly used trap is really digging holes."

Ye He said: "The moves don't need to be old, as long as they work, wild boars have no brains, and they are easy to fall when they collide."

After digging the trap, they dug a layer of grass mat from the side and spread it on it to ensure that it would not fall.

Ye Minghui took advantage of this time to tie up the four piglets.

Then they hid out. It doesn’t matter if the trap they laid didn’t work. At worst, they’ll find someone to come over and kill the wild boars after they go back. Anyway, this litter of wild boars can’t live. They’ve left the smell behind. Revenge given the chance.

They held their breath and waited for a while, and soon heard bursts of violent screams from outside. As the sounds got closer, Ye He and the others took out machetes from their back baskets to prevent outsiders.

Ye Minghui stood at the front. He poked his head out and saw a wild boar with a height of more than one meter rushing towards the nest. The wild boar was not really tall, not even comparable to the previous one, but it was very strong. , as soon as the legs and feet exerted strength, they stepped one meter away.

"Don't stop, don't stop, don't stop," he murmured.

As if hearing what he said, the wild boar did not stop, and even became faster and faster. It didn't take long for the whole body to be revealed, with a pair of fangs turned outward, looking extremely ferocious.

But the wild boar really has no brains, the trap they dug is very rough, even so, it didn't notice anything wrong, stepped on the grass mat, and rolled down in an instant, accompanied by the sound of crackling and its howling, which immediately made Ye Minghui's eyes widen. Bright.

"Success!"

"Come on, let's go and have a look." Ye He said enthusiastically.

The wild boar fell at the bottom of the trap, panting heavily, trying to climb up the dirt wall with its limbs, but failed due to inflexibility.

Ye He and the others stabbed the wild boar to death with a machete, but the pig's blood was not kept. Anyway, the blood of the wild boar has a stench, so it's not tasty, so it's better to just let it go.

Ye Yu saw that they tied the wild boar's limbs with hemp rope, and then passed a smooth wooden stick through the middle. In this way, only two people needed to carry the wooden stick one after the other to carry the wild boar.

He sighed: "This whole family was arrested by us."

Ye Shuan put the little piglet into the basket, "If you catch it, you'll catch it. That bitch even broke Brother De's bone. We're going to avenge him."

"That's true." Ye Yu didn't think anything would hurt him, maybe it was because it was a litter of wild boars.

The five of them were very happy on the way back. They didn't expect it to be so smooth. However, in order to prevent the bloody smell of wild boar from attracting other large wild animals, they did not stop along the way. Take out the good sweet potatoes and share them with them. The lemonade in the water bag is also a good thing. Lemon and honey taste sour and sweet when mixed together, and it can also replenish energy. It kills two birds with one stone.

Fortunately, they didn't encounter any accidents until they returned to the gate of the city.

A group of people who were building the inner city wall saw them carrying a wild boar back, so they put down their work and went over to watch the excitement.

Ye Zhong was surprised and said: "My good fellow, you just took a litter of wild boars."

His son Ye Shuan said proudly: "No, we just wanted to see if we could find the little piggy, but we didn't expect there was a male, so we caught it together."

"Yes." Ye Zhong excitedly thumped Ye Shuan's shoulder vigorously, and praised Ye Shuan while grinning: "You really deserve to be my son."

Ye Yu was also explaining to Father Ye, but he didn't say that much, and mostly attributed it to luck.

After hearing this, Father Ye smiled and said, "In the final analysis, this is also your skill."

Ye Yu waved his hand and said nothing.

These few wild boars were all caught by themselves, so they naturally allocated them when they were distributed.

There are five people in total, and four piglets are not enough. Originally, Ye He thought that he and Brother Bao belonged to the same family, so they could just share one piglet, and the others each got one, but Chu Xufeng said: "I recently Live at Ayu’s house, let’s share one between the two of us.”

Ye He was taken aback when he heard the words, glanced at him, and said, "That's okay, since that's the case, I'll give you more boar pork."

Even though the boar was not considered tall, it was only when the meat was divided that he realized how heavy it was. The five of them could each share dozens of catties of meat that was several hundred catties.

After distributing the wild boars, they separated. It happened to be afternoon, and they could have a combination of lunch and dinner when they went back.

The meat of the male wild boar could not be finished for the time being, so Mother Ye gave some to her relatives and friends, and kept the rest and put them in the cellar, while the piglet was made into a roast suckling pig by her. It is burnt and crispy, and it is still bubbling with oil. After roasting, apply a layer of lemon juice to remove the greasy, and it tastes special.

In the afternoon, Ye Yu ate so much that his mouth was full of oil, and he hiccupped from time to time until night.

They also have all kinds of fruits to eat. When Ye Yu gnawed on the watermelon, he couldn't help feeling that autumn is really a harvest season.