Chapter 229

At night, Wang An was lying on the kang, and Mu Xueqing was riding a horse at full gallop, but Mu Xueqing suddenly stopped.

Wang An, who was feeling or enjoying it, looked at the milky white snow before him and asked with confusion, "What's wrong, wife?"

Mu Xueqing seemed to have thought of some major event and asked Wang An, "Xueli's box cannon, you didn't ask for money again?"

The tone wasn't very kind, with a feeling of questioning.

This question stunned Wang An, because he didn't understand what Mu Xueqing meant, but Wang An still answered truthfully:

"I asked for it, I asked for both of theirs, 100 yuan for one box cannon."

Hearing this, Mu Xueqing instantly returned to gentleness and also returned to the up-and-down movement.

She said in a not very smooth tone, "Oh, it's fine if you asked for money, 100 yuan is a bit less, but less is... less, our family... our family keeping it... also has no use."

Wang An heard these intermittent words and looked at the snow that was already flying, feeling a bit dumbfounded.

What is in this woman's brain??

Doing such a beautiful thing, shouldn't one be focused on feeling the beauty??

But Wang An understood Mu Xueqing's meaning; it was that the box cannon couldn't be given for free, it must be paid for.

Okay, this woman is truly okay, sensible!

The next day,

Wang An, while packing his equipment for the mountains, was pondering in his head, going into the mountains today, where could he find something valuable to study?

Without a source of information, after going into the mountains, he could only hit whatever he encountered; although the harvest wouldn't be small this way, who wouldn't want to hit big goods when going into the mountains.

Soon, Seeing Mu Xueli and Wang Li arrived; the two used yesterday's operation again, tying the horse-drawn sleds into a string, and then both sat on Wang An's sled.

What Wang An didn't expect was that the two were actually carrying double guns, that is, carrying a 56-semi-automatic on their backs and a box cannon on their rear waist.

The most awesome thing was that the two seemed to have discussed it, each sewing a gun-shaped cloth pocket, putting the box cannon inside, and then hanging the pocket on their waist.

On the way, Wang An asked with confusion, "You two hanging such a thing on your waist, just dangling like that, don't you find it heavy? Doesn't it get in the way?"

"It's quite good, I feel it's really quite serious," Seeing Mu Xueli said quite happily.

"Yeah, Fourth Brother, isn't this thing supposed to be hung like this? If I tuck it into my waistband, I'm afraid I'll lose it," Wang Li also echoed with a smile.

Wang An looked at the two's happy expressions, frowned, blinked his eyes quickly, and then said:

"My meaning is, isn't the 56-semi-automatic enough for going into the mountains? You still have to carry a box cannon?"

Wang Li, while touching the cloth pocket, said, "Yeah, I see you always carrying a big 54 in your pocket, Fourth Brother, I've long wanted a pistol, but there was nowhere to buy one."

Seeing Mu Xueli also said, "Carrying this gun on my body, I feel like I'm not afraid of anyone, I don't know why."

Wang An didn't know what to say, so he could only nod helplessly.

At this time, Wang Li suddenly said, "Fourth Brother, I heard my dad say last night that someone saw a big red deer in that saline-alkali land on the shelf ridge."

Upon hearing this, Wang An was instantly overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Are you sure? When did this happen? Tell me in detail."

Wang Li stammered, "My dad went to the county seat yesterday, and in the county seat, he heard someone mention it; they saw someone nearby, so they didn't say any more, and my dad told me as soon as he got back."

Wang An thought for a moment and decided to go; no matter what, whether there were dates or not, he would hit the pole first.

Although he decided to go, Wang An was also quite uncomfortable; he didn't know when this big red deer was discovered, the main thing was whether it was before or after the snow?

He didn't know how many there were, and the key was whether this red deer had been killed by someone yet.

He didn't know anything, damn, it was just a blind guess!

Red deer,

In the Northeast, red deer are also called red deer, a relatively large type of deer; an adult male red deer weighs about four hundred jin, and a female also weighs about three hundred jin.

However, except for the silly roe deer, as long as it's a deer, it's not easy to hit; this thing's hearing and sense of smell are both quite awesome existences.

The most critical thing is that this red deer runs extremely fast; if it runs normally, the hunting dogs simply can't catch up. Small red deer are okay, the dogs can catch up and trap it.

If it's a big male red deer, even if the hunting dogs catch up, it's useless; although this thing is also afraid of dogs, it's quite difficult for dogs to hurt it, and it's good enough if the dogs can play a role in dragging it down.

Fortunately, this thing has a large body, and no matter what kind of forest it is, it can hinder its speed.

Especially the male red deer, when running, the two big antlers on the male red deer's head are not just ordinarily in the way.

But this also gave the hunter a chance; as long as he could discover it, and then let the dogs cooperate to trap it, that is to say, as long as it entered the range of the gun, if the hunter's marksmanship was a bit good, then it was done.

So the current situation is, the marksmanship of the three is not bad, and the 10 hunting dogs are even better; the key is whether they can find it.

No matter how much the red deer is yearned for, the three still drove the sleds to check the traps and clips first; at the very least, this thing was certain.

Besides the time needed to set traps and clips, when it came to harvesting, pheasants, rabbits, and such were really like coming for free.

The three were busy for a while and had another not-small harvest: 64 rabbits, 12 pheasants, 19 silly half-jins, and 10 flying dragons.

According to the number of pheasants, silly half-jins, and flying dragons caught in the clips, one could see that on snowy days, these birds that relied on eating grass seeds were the hardest to endure.

After organizing the pheasants, rabbits, and such, the three went to check the sable clips they had dug out of the snow yesterday one more time.

As expected, no harvest.

Actually, for the three to catch one sable, it was already a very awesome and lightning-fast harvest.

Although the process of bringing it back was a bit tortuous, no matter what, they caught it, the clips weren't made in vain, and the three weren't wasting time.

After checking the sable clips, the three drove the sleds along the ridge, heading straight for the shelf ridge.

The knee-deep snow wasn't shallow, and fearing the horses would be too tired, they didn't dare let the horses run too fast.

A full two and a half hours later, the three finally arrived at the shelf ridge saline-alkali land.

As soon as the three arrived at this place, their hearts instantly went half cold.

Because on this large saline-alkali land, besides rabbit footprints and mountain rat footprints, there wasn't even a single footprint of a large animal.

But since they were here, they had to be at peace; after tying the horses and feeding them, they let the 10 dogs loose.

They still had to follow the original plan, hit whatever they encountered, otherwise today would be in vain.

So, the three followed behind the ten dogs and started wandering blindly.

Half an hour later, Wang Li couldn't help but take out a cigarette, but was stopped by Wang An.

The three didn't have a big addiction to cigarettes; if they were hunting other animals, then for Wang An, smoking was a normal situation.

Although the current situation was very awkward, nominally they were hunting deer, but in reality, they were looking for other animals to hit.

But the saying "deer have a thousand-year lifespan, every step is worried and sad" had always been kept in Wang An's heart.

And Feng Chengmin had once said that the animal most sensitive to the smell of smoke was the deer.

So from the moment he decided to come to this saline-alkali land, Wang An hadn't taken out a cigarette.

Now smoking would be even more unnecessary.

What if?

What if they could encounter a deer today?

Dreams still had to be had; what if they came true!

If because of smoking a cigarette, the deer that should have appeared ran away, damn, how uncomfortable would that be?

Begging for a follow-up read, rewards are appreciated.

(End of chapter)