Chapter 166: Four Yellow Dogs

As soon as he entered the courtyard of his second uncle's house, he heard a group of dogs barking.

Following the sound, he saw four large yellow dogs looking at him and barking, but they weren't baring their teeth. It seemed the main purpose of the barking was to notify the master of the house that someone had come.

Wang An knew at a glance that these were four genuine, well-trained mountain-going dogs!

Because all four dogs had healed scars on their bodies, and the shapes of the scars were from being scratched or bitten, which also proved that these four yellow dogs had experienced many tough battles.

In fact, in the Northeast, as long as they are hunting dogs that often go into the mountains, there are none that don't get injured, and it's impossible not to experience tough battles!

Unless the dog's owner, that is, this mountain-goer, is not doing his job properly! Or to say that the dog's owner is not a full-time mountain-goer at all, and mountain-going is just occasionally walking around in the mountains, hitting a pheasant or catching a wild chicken.

Otherwise, it is absolutely impossible for a mountain-goer to want hunting dogs not to be injured!

Normally, the purpose of training hunting dogs is for mountain-going, for hunting, to put it bluntly, for eating meat, and for having money to spend!

Otherwise, why train hunting dogs with such effort? Are you full and have nothing to do?

You have to know that training a dog into a mountain-going hunting dog is really not an easy thing! If there are trained hunting dogs at home, and then using hunting dogs to lead new dogs, it is considered quite worry-free and easy.

If the hunter trains from beginning to end, not to mention other links, just the link of training hunting dogs to chase tracks can tire the hunter to death. It is really risking one's life to lead the dogs to run!

The key problem is that even if the dog is trained, there is a quite high attrition rate.

The mountain-going experience of mountain-goers is all based on the teaching of old mountain-goers or accumulated bit by bit by themselves.

Dogs are the same. Inexperienced hunting dogs, encountering fierce beasts such as large wild boars, black bears, or jackals, tigers, and leopards, are likely to be kicked to death, slapped to death, or bitten to death in just one round!

Is it a pity? Is it uncomfortable? It was trained with such difficulty, and it died before it could play a role.

Besides, people have feelings. After such a long time of training dogs, the relationship between people and dogs has become like relatives. And as the owner of the dog, watching the dog die but being powerless, how "damn" must that mood be?

You can imagine!

Looking at these four large yellow dogs, Wang An was stunned. Mu Xueli bought three dogs yesterday, and today he saw the four dogs Wang Li brought!

When did these two people agree to get dogs?

Or are these two people competing? Competing to see whose dogs are better?

Is the efficiency of doing things so awesome? Not seen for a day, and all the dogs of the two are ready! Awesome, truly awesome!

Wang An thought about it carefully, and then he understood what was going on.

Mu Xueli and Wang Li must have been scared by the appearance of three black bears and seven wolves together! Otherwise, these two people would absolutely not have agreed to get dogs together very tacitly.

But it's also true. With those things arching out together, no matter who you put there, it's scary! It's a miracle that they didn't die this time!

But it's no problem for them to get dogs together. With that situation at the time, if there were a few more dogs, it wouldn't have been that bad!

Besides, mountain-going only has its own three dogs, which is indeed a bit insufficient in strength, and the five puppies at home haven't grown up yet, so it's impossible to take them into the mountains!

Hearing the dogs bark, Wang Li walked out of the house. Seeing it was his fourth brother, Wang Li hurriedly grabbed Wang An and said excitedly: "Fourth brother, look at my mother and my father. Yesterday, they led four dogs back for me from my grandmother's village. Can you help me see how these four dogs are?"

Wang An heard that these four dogs were the masterpieces of his second aunt and second uncle, and couldn't help but understand in his heart. Pity the parents of the world!

Wang Daliang and Yao Ping knew that mountain-going was dangerous, but they still let Wang Li go mountain-going, which was really forced! Debts are piled up, survival is difficult, and there is no way to make money. If Wang Li doesn't go mountain-going, what should he do?

But what they can do is to try to make their son a little safer!

The mother's family of his second aunt, Yao Ping, is more than 40 li away from Kaoshan Village. The couple walked back and forth in one day, but didn't go to borrow a sled from their own home...!

The character of this couple can be seen as how strong they are! At the same time, it can also be seen that when his second aunt asked him to take Wang Li into the mountains, how much courage she must have mustered to say it with the help of alcohol?

Wang An knows that his second brother, Wang Shun, in his second uncle's family, is not idle all year round. In spring, he earns work points for farming, in summer, he earns work points for building water channels or dams, in autumn, besides earning work points for autumn harvest, he also picks mountain goods. Although mountain goods are not very valuable, as long as the quantity is large, he can earn four or five cents a day. In winter, he sells his hard labor at the forestry farm!

Selling hard labor at the forestry farm is really tiring, and most importantly, he can't earn much money. A temporary worker at the forestry farm earns 17.5 yuan a month. Although the work is not light, it is not very tiring.

But selling hard labor is different. It can be said that it is far inferior to temporary workers at the forestry farm. In many places in the mountains, livestock such as mules and horses cannot go up, and they can only rely on manpower to pull them down. The tree trunks that several people can hug are all standard 6 meters long. You can imagine how tiring this work is!

Most importantly, four cents a day, take it or leave it. If you don't do it, the people waiting to do this work are overwhelming.

But then again, no matter when, it is impossible for ordinary people to live easily!

Wang An followed Wang Li to these four dogs and observed these four yellow dogs carefully.

In fact, whether it is yellow dogs, black dogs, white dogs, flower dogs, or blue dogs, except for the different colors and the differences in dog faces, the breeds are the same. They are all Northeast big stupid dogs.

And even if the puppies born in a litter have different colors or patterns, it is an extremely normal thing. This mainly depends on how many colors of male dogs the mother dog has mated with when she is in heat.

However, in order to continue the hunting dogs with good scent heads, mountain-goers generally find a male and a female hunting dog that are equally excellent and let them mate separately. In this way, their offspring are generally not bad, and the patterns are mostly the same. And in a litter of puppies, a good lead dog will generally appear.

There are also many hunters who will try to catch wolf cubs to raise, or directly catch live wolves, and let wolves and dogs mate. Although this is definitely better than the dog itself, this is too rare and too difficult. Wolves are not so easy to catch!

And big stupid dogs generally give birth to 3-5 in a litter. It is normal for small or first-litter dogs to give birth to one or two, but it is extremely rare for a litter to give birth to six or seven.

As long as they are mountain-goers, most of them raise dogs, and the offspring of such excellent hunting dogs are the favorites of mountain-goers!

Those with poor conditions raise one or two, and those with good conditions raise three or four, that is, directly raise a litter. In this way, several dogs that grow up together will cooperate better when hunting.

Mountain-goers who raise five or six or more by themselves are very few. The reason is very simple, the cost is too high, and they really can't afford to raise them!

After observing the four yellow dogs, Wang An felt they were all quite good, especially one of the female dogs. Although the body size was the smallest, it was the best among these four dogs. Compared with Wang An's Da Hei and Mu Xueli's Big Blue, except for the smaller body size because it was a female dog, the others were basically the same.

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