Chapter 315

Regarding the matter of Sun Nian and Sun Xianghuo, Wang An stopped thinking and focused on hunting squirrels and sparrows.

Although Wang An's name is still circulating in the circle of thugs in the whole DJ County, Wang An himself has truly retired.

Besides, the update of characters in the thug circle is quite fast.

It can be said that it is like leeks; after cutting this batch, the next batch grows, and every day there will be new leeks sprouting and growing up, and soon they will also become a member of the thugs.

If Wang An hadn't been ruthless enough in fighting and his reputation hadn't been loud enough, no one would have known who Wang An was in the past four months.

In fact, this is also the norm in the thug circle; old thugs step down, new thugs take over, and a new generation replaces the old.

Therefore, changing a bureau chief or county magistrate, even a mayor or a bigger official, has nothing to do with Wang An.

Now Wang An cares about where there are sparrows and where there are squirrels; after all, do what you say.

He saw Wang An shoot the mud pellets out with one slingshot after another, and soon killed a few more squirrels and a few sparrows.

It must be said that Wang An's slingshot technique is rising very fast.

In fact, whether it is shooting a gun or playing with a slingshot, as long as you practice for a long enough time and enough times, even if you can't reach the level of being awesome, you will definitely become a master.

Nothing else, just hand familiarity!

Wang An carried three guns and wandered aimlessly, and the slingshot in his hand would be pulled tight from time to time.

Then after a "Whoosh" sound, a squirrel or sparrow would die in the tree or grass not far away.

Just like that, Wang An walked to a small river without knowing it and stood there pulling the slingshot tight.

There are a total of two such small rivers near the village, both of which are branches of the Hulan River, and the river water is deep in some places and shallow in others.

The deep places might be four or five meters deep, while the shallowest places are only a little over a meter deep.

However, at this time, the whole river surface is snow, and there are only a few scattered ice holes where fish were caught, but they have already been frozen again.

And the reason Wang An stopped to pull the slingshot is that Wang An saw a muskrat.

Muskrat,

Muskrat, originally called muskrat, also called muskrat or water rat.

This creature is at most two jin heavy, about the same size as a sable, and its fur is called muskrat fur, but after being made into clothes, it is not called sable fur, but "fur."

Muskrats are very valuable; a piece of fur is purchased by the supply and marketing cooperative for 5 yuan, which is half the price of yellow skin.

But this creature is not only valuable for its fur, the most valuable thing is actually its scent sac; although a scent sac is only the size of a raw rice grain, the purchase price of the supply and marketing cooperative is as high as 20 yuan.

Of course, only male muskrats have scent sacs; females do not.

However, it is also because the scent sac is too small, and there is not necessarily musk in the scent sac, so the musk of the muskrat that can be collected is basically very few.

Because muskrats, like musk deer, only secrete musk when they are in heat.

But this creature is different from the musk deer in that its musk will not be stored in the scent sac; normally, this creature's scent sac is empty.

This leads to the fact that even if people hit a muskrat, they basically just sell the fur.

After Wang An pulled the slingshot tight, he waited for a long time, but didn't see the muskrat he just saw drill out of the ice hole again.

Muskrats generally live in holes on the river bank, but most of the time, they are looking for food in the water.

And if you want to drill into the water in winter, you must chisel ice, so this creature is very powerful at digging holes; even on the ice surface, it can easily dig a hole.

In the middle of winter, if you see many holes the thickness of an arm on the ice or bank, they are basically all done by this creature.

Wang An, as a hunter, still has patience, and besides, although this creature is powerful at digging holes, it generally only digs one hole to drill into the water.

Because it is not stupid, it also knows it is tired, "crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch" against the ice, and estimated that its two big incisors might also hurt. After about 5 minutes, the muskrat drilled out of the water; Wang An, because he had been staring like this, was about to make his eyes sour.

Just as it climbed onto the ice and shook the water off its body, Wang An's slingshot fired.

Only heard a "Whoosh" sound, and this muskrat lay on the ice without moving.

Seeing this scene, a happy smile immediately appeared on Wang An's face.

Although the muskrat is a rodent, besides the valuable fur, the meat is also very delicious.

In fact, this creature is relatively rare in winter, and summer is the best time to hit this creature.

Because not only in this kind of bigger river, but also in the water ditches in the fields, as well as by the stream, you can see the figure of this creature.

So every summer, this creature, no matter in which village, seriously has to die quite a few.

Wang An walked up and discovered that this was a male muskrat, and it wasn't dead yet; that slingshot just now just knocked it out.

Wang An touched its abdomen in front of its hind legs, because its scent sac is in this place.

If there is musk, then in this place, there will be a small lump.

After touching, Wang An felt a bit regretful; this muskrat has no scent sac.

Throwing the muskrat into the flour bag, Wang An continued to turn around along the river bank.

After killing a few sparrows, Wang An felt that the flour bag he was carrying was already very heavy, so he walked to the other side of the river and walked home along the river.

Fortunately, just when Wang An wanted to leave the small river and take the fork road, he discovered the trace of a second muskrat.

This muskrat, compared to the previous one, had a slight difference in color, but it should be a problem of light.

In any case, if you don't look carefully, you can't see any difference.

But this one was even harder to hit than the previous one; Wang An stood on the bank for almost 15 minutes before this muskrat drilled out of the water.

After another "Whoosh" sound, Wang An actually missed.

It's just that the movement of the slingshot hitting the snow wasn't big, but it still scared the muskrat.

He saw the muskrat couldn't care about shaking the water, and didn't drill into the ice hole, but ran toward the hole on the bank.

The slingshot hitting a moving target is like nonsense, so after Wang An pulled the slingshot tight again, he didn't rush to fire, but waited again.

Because the muskrat, this creature, although it is the same kind as the rat, is also relatively easy to be frightened.

But it has a bad habit like a stupid roe deer, that is, its curiosity is very heavy.

Whether it is on the river surface or in the woods, a little noise is a very normal thing.

But many times after being frightened, muskrats want to see what kind of thing is making the noise.

So people who know it know that there are two chances to hit this creature; as long as you can grasp either one, you can earn at least 5 yuan, and also eat a very delicious meal of meat.

This time, the time Wang An waited was not too long, about three or four minutes.

He saw this muskrat carefully drill out of the hole; Wang An remained calm and waited quietly for it to completely leave the hole.

Sure enough, after several probes, this muskrat seemed to be at ease; after crawling out of the hole, it stood on the edge of the hole with its hind limbs, stretched its neck, and looked at the place where the noise just came from.

Such a good opportunity, how could Wang An miss it?

(End of Chapter)