Chapter 448: Catching a small one to get a big one?

The mountain gully looked narrow from the outside, but after entering, he found it getting wider and wider as he walked, and it was quite flat. Li Long thought, was it because of the camouflage at the mouth of the gully outside that made those who entered the mountains feel that the inside was relatively narrow, so they didn't enter?

There were indeed traces of trampling and grazing in the grass, and there was a piece of poop walking inside, and he didn't know if it was left by wild goats or other animals.

Li Long stepped on it and found that the poop was quite soft, and it hadn't been long since it was laid.

He carried the rifle and continued to walk inside. Because there were tall grass and bushes, he couldn't tell how long this gully was for a while.

Walking and walking ahead, it should be at the widest point, the bottom of the gully was shallow arc-shaped, thirty or forty meters away from the mountain slopes on both sides, and there was no stream, it was a good pasture.

There were no traces of cattle and sheep eating, and no traces of mowing grass, so the grass here grew quite messy, but very high. A part of dead grass and a part of green grass were mixed together.

Li Long saw Codonopsis growing on flat ground, tangled together. There wasn't much fritillaria, maybe the environment wasn't suitable, maybe it was all dug out before.

His search speed was very slow, for fear of missing anything, but continuing to walk forward, looking ahead, it was already relatively narrow, and he didn't discover anything.

What Li Long didn't see was that on the mountain ridge ahead, a red deer was anxiously looking down. The direction it was looking was right in front of Li Long's diagonal.

Li Long continued to walk forward, he seemed to smell a faint fishy smell, accompanied by a smell of blood.

What does it mean?

Li Long looked around, but didn't find the source of the smell.

But he was very clear, this smell didn't seem to come from something dead and stinking, but more like the smell of living blood.

Continuing to walk forward, the smell became stronger. He looked slowly within a radius of tens of meters.

Finally, Li Long, after testing for a long time, the smell was light when far away, and strong when close, Li Long finally determined that in a bush, the smell was coming from here.

He searched slowly in the bushes. This was a willow forest, that kind of shrub willow, the leaves were like sea buckthorn, but there were no thorns, thinner than ordinary willow leaves, unlike ordinary willows growing into big trees, what grew here were shrubs, and Li Long had only seen them in such places, and hadn't seen them in other plain areas.

Or maybe it wasn't a willow, he didn't know what that counted as.

This whole area was this kind of tree, not growing high, less than one point five meters, but in large clusters, soon, Li Long discovered a mass of bloody things among them.

Then, he saw a small living thing, that thing looked at Li Long, its eyes full of fear.

This damn thing was a deer just born!

Slightly larger than a lamb just born, quietly lying under the bushes, not moving at all.

Nor calling.

Li Long looked around, didn't find the mother deer—but he was certain that the mother deer must be nearby, just didn't know where it ran.

Li Long was a bit troubled, this small deer and mother deer, how to handle them?

He definitely wanted to take the small deer back, but without the mother deer, this small deer wouldn't eat, feed milk powder?

Thinking about it, Li Long took out a thin nylon rope from his satchel, set a rope snare near the small deer, pressed it well with a small stick, tied the other end to the root of the bush, tied it firmly, he intended that if he could snare it, he would take the big and small deer back together.

If he couldn't snare it, and the mother deer took the small deer away after he left, that was fate.

After setting the snare well, Li Long got up and left.

He turned off the rifle's safety, walked all the way to the mouth of the gully, turned his head to look, didn't see any movement, and walked away with big strides.

He gave the food he had to that Sun Jia Qiang, Li Long was a bit hungry now, but at this time he didn't want to go back, but wanted to turn around in the vicinity, and then come back.

Didn't that Sun Jia Qiang say there were things in a gully? Then go over and take a look.

After Li Long left, the mother deer quickly ran down from the mountain ridge, arrived near the bushes, and its movements slowed down.

It smelled a strange smell, and became very vigilant at this time.

More than an hour later, Li Long found the place Sun Jia Qiang mentioned.

It was a pity that there was nothing in this gully either. Although there were indeed traces left by wild animals, there was nothing now.

Fine, it seemed his luck was really not good these few days.

Li Long felt that he was really very hungry now. He felt that he could eat three steamed buns now.

Although he really wanted to go back to the wooden cabin now, after all, it was closer to go back from here. But he still decided to go back and see if the snare was useful. If it didn't snare, then say nothing. If it snared, then take the harvest back.

When walking back, Li Long felt for the first time that this Type 56 semi-automatic rifle was actually quite heavy. He buried his head and walked, walked all the way to the collapsed mouth of the gully, and was already sweating.

If there was a pedometer, he should have walked thirty thousand steps today, right?

Li Long mocked himself, and then entered the gully.

He really wanted to hear the call of the mother deer, but it was very quiet in the gully.

No movement at all.

Did he snare nothing? Wouldn't that be a wasted trip?

Li Long was building psychological construction for himself, if it was a wasted trip, then treat it as charity. But he couldn't lose the rope, he had to take the rope back.

Walking to that bush, there was still no movement, Li Long deeply suspected that the small deer had been taken away by the mother deer.

But when he pushed aside the bushes to look inside, he found the mother deer lying on the ground, constantly chewing the rope. And that small deer was lying beside the mother deer eating milk, both movements were quite strange.

The nylon rope snared on the mother deer's leg had almost been worn off by it.

When Li Long appeared, the mother deer was startled, hadn't gotten up yet, and was pressed down by Li Long in one go.

Since it was snared, then don't do his charity, take it back and raise it!

At this moment, all the fatigue of his whole body disappeared. This was the first time he got a small deer in the mountains by himself, and it came with a big gift package, really not bad!

He pressed the mother deer's neck with his knees, the mother deer struggled desperately twice, didn't struggle up, and actually resigned itself to fate.

The small deer was a bit terrified, but still leaned tightly against the mother deer, and after seeing Li Long didn't have further movements, it lowered its head and continued to eat milk.

Li Long took out a thicker rope from his satchel.

Thin rope was more suitable for making a snare, needing to cooperate with branches to make a mechanism. Thick ones weren't suitable, but tying a knot on the head with a thick one, Li Long easily made a rope halter, and then put it on the mother deer's head.

Afraid that this halter wasn't firm, Li Long untied the thin rope, and the mother deer suddenly struggled desperately, but it had just given birth to a small deer today, its strength was far worse than Li Long's, and it was still pressed under Li Long's legs. Li Long reinforced the halter with the thin rope, so even if it pulled hard, the halter wouldn't fall off.

Pulling the halter rope, Li Long pulled the mother deer up, and the small deer immediately followed by its side.

Li Long was afraid that the mother deer wouldn't cooperate, so he broke a willow branch from the side. If this deer didn't follow him, then whip it.

The small deer could actually stand firmly, sure enough, it was wild, relatively impressive.

Li Long pulled the mother deer out of the bushes hard. Although the mother deer didn't cooperate much, it was helpless that Li Long's strength was great, and the halter was binding its head and neck, so the mother deer had to follow Li Long. The small deer didn't understand this, but it would follow its mother tightly, so Li Long controlled both of them and walked towards the mouth of the gully.

When arriving at the mouth of the gully, the mother deer stopped, and wouldn't walk no matter what. Li Long pulled several times, the deer seemed to have a donkey temper, Li Long was also angry, raised the willow branch and whipped several times, the mother deer was whipped and cried out, and the small deer also followed and cried.

Don't know if it was because of the small deer or because of the pain, the mother deer stepped out and followed Li Long forward.

Wading through the small stream, Li Long pulled the mother deer and continued to walk forward, having to stop every ten minutes or so, otherwise this mother deer would be strangled to death by Li Long.

At first he was worried that the small deer would run around, but found that the small deer followed the mother deer without stopping.

This stopping from time to time was also to let the small deer adapt, after all, it was born not long ago, and its physical strength might not keep up.

The small deer was also very well-behaved, not long after the mother deer stopped, it went over to suck milk.

When Li Long bypassed two gullies, the sun was not far from the mountain top. He stopped on the grass, let the mother deer rest for a while, and by the way, let the mother deer eat some grass.

It was still very far from the wooden cabin, so he couldn't let them get tired.

Li Long also thought about carrying the mother deer, but this mother deer had just given birth, and he didn't know if carrying it would hurt it, so just walk slowly.

Walking and stopping like this, when arriving at the wooden cabin, the sun had already set for a while. Li Long finally breathed a sigh of relief, tied the mother deer to the tractor, then opened the wooden cabin, got a basin of warm water for it, sprinkled some salt in it, which counted as a benefit.

After the mother deer tasted a mouthful, it drank in big gulps.

Li Long took two steamed buns, ate one himself, and broke the other one to feed the mother deer, which counted as adding a meal for it. This thing was definitely more nutritious than that grass.

The mother deer smelled the steamed bun broken by Li Long, and then ate it quickly, it also knew this thing was good stuff.

As long as it could eat.

Li Long ate a steamed bun, turned around and went to get more, and when he came out, he saw the mother deer had finished the steamed bun, and was looking at him.

Fine, one half each.

The mother deer should also be tired, after eating the steamed bun and drinking the light salt water, it lay down on the wooden floor to rest. The small deer was also tired, lying beside its mother, its eyes closed.

Looking at it getting dark in a while, Li Long originally intended to go back tonight, but thought better of it. Bumping for several hours on the tractor, the mother deer and small deer probably wouldn't feel good either, so better rest for a night, and go tomorrow morning.

He himself also had a good rest.

Set up the stove to boil water, although there was still no wild game harvest, steamed buns with red fermented bean curd were also quite delicious.

!.

Tomorrow, take this thing to the old horse number of the team, and let Uncle Uncle Lao Luo Shu raise it.

Those three small cubs will be put in the big courtyard first, and when coming back, bring some feed to put in the big courtyard, and when Gu Xiaoxia can't watch them, then pull them back to the horse number.

Now his own breeding team has increased quite a lot, and if raised well, they are all running money.

The water was boiling on the stove, Li Long went to the room next door, collected all the fritillaria on the floor, the deer had to live in the room tonight, otherwise if wolves came over, he would have tossed for half a day in vain.

Live for one night, tomorrow put the two deer on the tractor, and pull them away.

When Li Long pulled the mother deer to the small room, the small deer was sleeping very soundly, didn't follow, and was still carried back by Li Long. This trip, the small deer was really tired.

Put the mother deer's water basin over, then locked the door, Li Long went to the back of the wooden cabin to relieve himself, then returned to the wooden cabin, locked the door from the inside, lit the oil lamp, half-lay on the bed, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Quite hard, but also quite worth it.

The day was quite tired, and he didn't even dream all night, and woke up naturally. After he woke up, he didn't delay anything, climbed up and didn't add coal to the stove, first went next door to put two steamed buns for the mother deer as breakfast, and then used the boiling water in the thermos to eat steamed buns, simply had breakfast with red fermented bean curd, tied the mother deer's legs, carried it to the tractor bucket, then carried the small deer that was squeaking, locked the door, shook the tractor, started it, and drove towards the outside of the mountains.

At this time the sun hadn't come out, quite cold, Li Long wore his cotton coat backwards to protect his knees, went out of the mountains all the way, crossed the Qingshui River, and arrived at the county.

Arrived at the meat canteen, Li Long stopped. He went in to buy a few steamed buns, and added some water to the tractor, the oil was enough, the water had been boiling for a while, estimated not much left.

Zhong Guo Qiang was also there, seeing Li Long's appearance, asked:

"You just came back from the mountains?"

"Hmm."

"What did you get?" Zhong Guo Qiang was now very interested in the wild game Li Long got.

"Mother deer with a small deer, not for sale, I'm bringing this back to raise."

"How big is the small deer?" Zhong Guo Qiang asked while walking out, "Let me see."

He was really quite curious.

"So small? Just born?"

"Born yesterday, just happened to be seen by me, so I grabbed it." Li Long said with a smile.

The small deer didn't say, the mother deer was about fifty or sixty kilograms, not small.

According to Sun Guoqiang's statement, there should be a male deer in that gully. Li Long thought about finding time to go over and take a look, couldn't find the male deer, maybe could find deer horns. After all, being able to give birth to a small deer there meant that was a place they often stayed.

"This small deer looks really beautiful." Zhong Guo Qiang praised.

People eating breakfast nearby were looking, all feeling quite rare. With so many people looking, Li Long wasn't afraid of the deer being lost, went into the room to eat the steamed buns, drank two bowls of hot tea, then started the tractor, started it, and went back to the team.

He had been out for several days, the tractor entered the team, and others knew it. After all, this tractor counted as the first one in the team, others knew whose tractor it was even if they couldn't see the person.

Li Long drove the tractor to the horse number, Uncle Uncle Lao Luo Shu was weeding in the vegetable garden, seeing Li Long come back, smiled and asked:

"Why come back at this time? Have you eaten?"

At this time the sun had already risen quite high, Li Long smiled and said:

"Ate. Uncle Uncle Lao Luo Shu, I brought you another job."

"What job?" Uncle Uncle Lao Luo Shu heard, carried the hoe to the waist wall, put down the hoe and asked.

"Look in the bucket." Li Long got down from the tractor, stood at the front beam of the bucket, turned into the bucket, and carried the small deer:

"Look."

"Yo, why so small... by the way, the mother roe deer in our horse number also gave birth to a small roe deer, smaller than this one." Uncle Uncle Lao Luo Shu also gave Li Long a surprise, "Born the day before yesterday when you went to the county."

"Hey, not bad." Li Long was happy, this showed that the breeding things in the horse number could have output.

"Eh, there's a big guy!" Uncle Uncle Lao Luo Shu walked to the bucket, only then saw a big guy lying inside.

"Hmm, mother and small one, I got them back together." Li Long said proudly, "Not hit, I snared them with a snare."

"Impressive, impressive, able to snare a live deer, you are really the first one in our team." Uncle Uncle Lao Luo Shu also said happily.

"Then find them an empty circle, I'll put them in. Bumping on the tractor for several hours, these two are also bumped enough."

"That circle is ready-made." Uncle Uncle Lao Luo Shu smiled, "I knew there would be more later, so there is a circle."

Li Long carried the mother deer down, the mother deer lay for a long time, don't know if it recovered its strength or temper, kicked Li Long hard, but Li Long held it cleverly, it couldn't kick Li Long at all, Li Long put it into the empty circle, Uncle Uncle Lao Luo Shu put the small deer in, and then closed the door.

The mother deer cried several times, turning in a hurry, which actually made the other two deer cry.

Li Long felt a bit worried looking at it. Now the male deer that grew up here is only one, it's a half-grown deer from last year, now it has been separated from its mother, that mother deer. Want to continue to develop, still have to wait for the two small deer in the big courtyard to grow up?

Or work hard himself to get a big male deer back?

Otherwise how to have small deer?

The number of roe deer is also a bit small, it seems he still has to work harder in the mountains.

"When to go up the mountain again?" Uncle Uncle Lao Luo Shu asked, "Can you stay in the team for a few days?"

"Have to go to the county today, enter the mountains tomorrow." Li Long said, "Fritillaria digging started in the mountains recently, see if I can collect some, turn around and earn some money. And these deer and roe deer, I think about getting a few more live ones, there is still quite a lot of empty space in this circle."

"Fine, your tone is not small, you just get that thing back." Uncle Uncle Lao Luo Shu laughed, "But no matter how much, as long as you can get it back, then I can raise it for you. By the way, in a while you have to get some sugar residue. Now the reeds haven't grown high enough, can't cut them, these guys in our horse number are not likely to be put out."

"Hmm, I'll pull a load back in a while. This autumn, I have to get more corn stalks back, that's not bad for feed."

Actually, later generations' silage is even better, but in this year everyone's grain hasn't been enough, it's not likely to do that thing.

Talked with Uncle Uncle Lao Luo Shu for a while, Li Long drove the tractor to his own courtyard.

Sure enough, no opinion at all, mother was weeding in the vegetable garden, didn't see father, of course couldn't see, Li Qing Xia was picking up nets in Li Jianguo's courtyard.

All have their own work, no one interferes with anyone. But hearing the tractor sound, Li Qing Xia put down the net and walked towards Li Long's courtyard.

The youngest son is back, have to see him anyway. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 449 =====