Chapter 182: Sable Clamps

Early the next morning, Wang An checked his equipment for entering the mountains and took a lot of firecrackers and two-kickers, then drove the sled to Wang Li's house.

Since Wang Li started mountain-going, Wang Li's family also started eating three meals a day, because mountain-goers enter the mountains early in the morning, and time is tight. Besides, only eating two meals a day, without food to sustain them, people's physical strength isn't enough.

In this season, normal families go to bed early and get up late. Actually, this isn't because people are lazy, but just to save the grain for one meal!

After all, when a person is lying down and not moving, that is when they save the most physical strength.

Wang An drove the sled directly into Wang Li's courtyard. Perhaps because these four yellow dogs already knew Wang An, only the lead dog, the yellow female dog, lay there and barked three times, then continued lying down.

The other three dogs just glanced at Wang An and then continued doing what they were doing.

Wang An coughed twice and then pushed the door and entered directly, just happening to run into Wang Li who had just come out of the east room. Perhaps because he heard the dog barking, Wang Li wanted to come out to check.

"Fourth brother, entering the mountains now?" Seeing Wang An in his mountain-going attire, Wang Li said with a smile.

"Hmm, you hurry up, we're leaving now." Wang An said casually.

"Hey, alright, fourth brother." Wang Li responded with a smile.

The two walked into the east room together. After Wang An greeted the second uncle and second aunt, he sat on the edge of the kang, waiting for Wang Li to wrap his legs. While talking, Wang An took out 9 ten-yuan bills from his pocket and threw them on the kang.

Then Wang An said: "This is the money from selling those sheep carcasses, wolf carcasses, and black bear meat, distributing 90 to you."

Yao Ping and Wang Daliang looked blankly at the money on the kang. After a while, Yao Ping said: "Old Four, why is there so much? He just started mountain-going, no need to take special care of him, you take it back quickly."

"Hehe, what's wrong, second aunt? Your son exchanged his life for this money, and you still think it's too much?" Wang An said with a smile.

"This... this... this is so bad, he just started mountain-going." Yao Ping said very embarrassedly, looking at Wang Daliang while speaking, meaning to let Wang Daliang say something.

Wang Daliang also felt it was a bit too much, so he said embarrassedly: "Little An..."

Wang An knew what the second uncle wanted to say, so he interrupted the second uncle directly: "Alright, second uncle, it's all done according to the rules. No one is losing out, no one is taking advantage. Don't decline, hurry up and put the money away."

Hearing Wang An say this, Yao Ping took the money on the kang. Looking at the 90 yuan in her hands and then at her son Wang Li, her hands holding the money were trembling a bit.

Then Yao Ping handed the money back to Wang An and said: "Old Four, the other day Little Li also borrowed 100 yuan from you, the remaining 10, wait until next time..."

Wang An glanced at the second aunt and was speechless. Is repaying debt so urgent?

So he interrupted the second aunt again and said: "Oh, there's plenty of time, second aunt. Let's talk about it in a few days when the money for those sheep skins comes back. That's not a small amount of money!" For the last sentence, Wang An deliberately put on a mysterious expression.

Wang An's appearance made Yao Ping stunned, and immediately she started laughing.

Actually, Wang Li had already told Yao Ping all about this, but people's thinking is all the same. If the money isn't in hand, it will never be considered one's own money.

Yao Ping hesitated for a moment, then collected the 90 yuan again. At this time, Wang Li had also finished wrapping his legs, so Wang An in front and Wang Li behind walked toward the outside of the house together.

The two drove the sled to pick up Mu Xueli and Mu Xueli's three dogs, and the three of them walked into the deep mountains together.

First, it was still checking the snares and clamps. This time, because there weren't many iron wire snares set in the forest, the three of them only picked up 28 jumping cats. The harvest from the clamps wasn't big either: 6 pheasants, 8 half-jin birds, and 7 flying dragons. At the same time, they set nearly 200 snares and those clamps that had been used.

Following Mu Xueli's command, the three of them drove the sled directly into a pine forest. Because they came to set clamps to catch sables this time, Wang An and Mu Xueli didn't release the dogs, but walked while leading them.

Mainly because dogs, as animals, as long as they are released, they will wander around and pee everywhere, and sniff everywhere. If they accidentally step on a clamp or touch a clamp with their nose, that would be damn miserable!

One must know that every year in these deep mountains, quite a few hunting dogs are injured by clamps, because this is something that cannot be avoided!

But whoever sees their dog injured, their mood won't be good! It's just that this kind of thing can't blame anyone. Everyone hunts like this, what's the matter? Are you special?

The sable's personality is very solitary. Basically, in a place where an adult sable lives, regardless of male or female, there won't be a second sable nearby. Of course, except during the mating season!

Mu Xueli, according to what his object's sixth grandfather taught, placed the clamp at the suspected footprint of the sable, and placed chopped half-jin bird meat at the trigger of the clamp to act as bait.

Half-jin birds are what they picked up before. There's no need to pluck the feathers; just chop them into small pieces with an axe and it's done. Very simple.

Actually, using clamps to catch sables depends entirely on fate, because this thing isn't as stupid as jumping cats or pheasants. This thing, whether it's hearing, vision, or smell, is very awesome!

It's not just the sable; all marten species are not simple. Like yellow-throated martens, minks, etc., although they aren't big, they are all fierce beasts, or to be accurate, small fierce beasts.

And this thing is very smart, with an IQ on par with a dog. If raised from a young age, it's also a great help for mountain-going.

It's just that catching the cubs of this thing is basically no different from catching the cubs of an eagle; it all depends on fate, that is, "bumping into it"!

If you bump into it, you've hit the jackpot. Even if you don't raise it yourself and sell it, it's worth quite a bit of money!

If you want to look for it specifically, that's a quite strenuous thing. Sables are still a bit better; just take them home and there's no problem.

But the nests of fierce birds like eagles are either on cliffs or on towering trees. If you don't have real skills, digging out a nest isn't an easy thing.

And fierce birds like eagles are quite vengeful. If you dare to dig out an eagle nest, unless you aren't discovered, once discovered, you must be prepared to be retaliated against. Unless you have a gun and your marksmanship is awesome, otherwise you can't even hit it!

Wang An and the three of them, for this sable that didn't know if it truly existed, set quite a few clamps.

And all the cave entrances under trees that were discovered, as long as the dog sniffed for more than 5 seconds, no matter what kind of cave it was, there was inevitably one or two clamps.

This is the clamp tactic Mu Xueli learned. However, whether it can clamp a sable depends entirely on fate. Thinking too much is useless.

After messing around in this pine forest, a total of about 30 clamps were set, and the three of them drove toward the next place.

This place was a rubble beach. Besides weeds, not a single tree grew. However, no one cared about this problem; they just set clamps everywhere. Besides setting clamps at the footprints left by sables, they mainly relied on dogs to find cave entrances.

Because there were too many cave entrances, only caves where dogs sniffed for a long time might have living creatures inside. If there were no living creatures, it was a waste cave, and setting a clamp there was also a waste.

Just like this, the three of them wandered around, a total of 6 places, all finished. Of course, the clamps in these 6 places were all set, because all 200 clamps were gone, not a single one left.

Of course, they had already entered the mountains, so it was impossible to just pull a few jumping cats and go home.

So the three of them discussed and decided to go dig out badgers. Badgers are dog badgers.

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