Chapter 156: Horse Mane Trap

Li Xuewu said, put on his leather shoes, got off the kang, and buckled his cotton hat and mask.

The three Zhao brothers looked at Li Xuewu's majestic and domineering police uniform, especially the pistol at his waist, and were envious.

Where in this village had they seen a police officer wearing leather shoes, and they hadn't seen a police officer riding a motorcycle either.

Today, they only felt the awe they had for their sister marrying a city person, and added to the awe they had for their brother-in-law's family.

Li Xuewu carried his eldest brother's military coat out of the house, and Zhao Gen also sent him out of the house.

Li Xuewu parked the motorcycle, pulled out the key, adjusted the direction, put on sunglasses, let Zhao Yajun sit in the sidecar, Zhao Yamin sit in the back seat, and threw the coat to Zhao Yajun to put on his front, while Zhao Yamin hid behind Li Xuewu's coat.

He greeted Zhao Gen, followed Zhao Yajun's instructions, and rode up the mountain. The children who followed earlier were not afraid of the cold and watched from afar.

The road up the mountain was even worse. Li Xuewu could only ride slowly, very afraid of overturning the car.

After passing a mountain, the car couldn't go anymore. Zhao Yajun jumped off the car and pointed to the mountain gully: "Second brother, the trap I set is over there, it's not far if we walk over."

Li Xuewu parked the car, pulled out the key, and took Zhao Yamin off the car.

"Leave the car here, let's walk over."

At this time, the snow on the mountain was not very thick, because the wind was strong, and the snow was blown away before it melted, but the snow in the mountain gully was thicker.

Zhao Yajun led the way, and Li Xuewu and Zhao Yamin followed behind.

Entering the first gully, Zhao Yajun looked at the snow inside, looked at the horse mane trap, sighed, and said: "This one doesn't have it, there are footprints on the snow, but it didn't go in. Let's go, let's look at the next one."

After speaking, he led the way to the mountain gully on the side.

Li Xuewu's hunting method was to discover the prey and then find a way to kill it, which was quite direct.

And using a horse mane trap to hunt was the first time he had seen it. It was clear that the two brothers often came here. Li Xuewu seemed like a younger brother who didn't understand anything in front of them. The two brothers explained to Li Xuewu very carefully how to set the trap and how to choose a place.

After entering the second mountain gully, from a distance, he saw a gray thing lying on the snow at the entrance of a mountain cave.

"It's a rabbit, it's trapped."

Zhao Yamin shouted with joy and ran toward that side, and Zhao Yajun also ran over.

Li Xuewu didn't know the terrain and was afraid of falling into a snow cave, so he could only follow the path the two brothers walked.

When he walked in, he saw clearly that this horse mane trap was set at the entrance of the rabbit hole with wooden sticks. The rabbit was trapped at the door when it came out to find food, and the more it jumped, the tighter it got, and finally it was strangled to death.

The rabbit was not big, gray, perhaps it had been dead for a long time and was already frozen.

Zhao Yamin carried the rabbit and happily told his brother that his trap was accurate.

Zhao Yajun was very happy for his younger brother and patted his younger brother who was still holding the rabbit and laughing.

At this time, it was a bit cold, and his younger brother's face was chapped by the cold, and he was still running with a runny nose. Zhao Yajun looked at Li Xuewu and felt a bit embarrassed, perhaps afraid that Li Xuewu would laugh at his younger brother for being ignorant.

Li Xuewu smiled, turned his head to look at the small village in the distance, and didn't speak.

The three turned a few more mountain gullies. Including the previous rabbit, they only found one pheasant. There were more pheasants in winter, and rabbits came out less.

Looking at the two pheasants running past on the snow, Li Xuewu thought that if there was a hunting gun, he would definitely be able to hit them.

Zhao Yajun raised the gun in his hand, but thought about it and put it down. This sand gun hit over, let alone a pheasant, even a wild fox would be beaten into a sieve, and he couldn't eat anything.

Afraid that Li Xuewu would misunderstand, Zhao Yajun pointed to the pheasant and said: "This thing looks big, but the meat is not much. Look at it flying fast, but it only lands and jumps three times, and then sticks its head into the snow pile and doesn't move. If we had a dog, we would definitely be able to chase it."

"At that time, you don't even need to chase, you just need to walk to the front and pull the pheasant out of the snow pile like pulling a radish..."

As he spoke, Zhao Yajun stopped talking and walked back in low spirits.

Zhao Yamin held the trapped pheasant and rabbit and followed behind Li Xuewu, saying in a low voice: "My brother has a dog, it's trained very smartly, and it's very powerful in chasing pheasants. But a few years ago, there was a famine, and our family had many people, so hungry that we couldn't live, my dad had no choice but to..."

As he spoke, he felt sad and stopped talking.

Li Xuewu roughly knew what was going on. People couldn't live, let alone dogs.

"Can you train dogs?"

Hearing Li Xuewu's question, Zhao Yajun sorted out his emotions and replied: "My grandfather was a hunter, and my father was too. They were all people who hunted tigers, leopards, and wolves. In the past, there were dogs raised in the family all year round, all trained by themselves. My grandfather taught me these since I was a child, but my hunting skills are not as good as my father's, let alone my grandfather's."

Li Xuewu thought about it and asked: "Any dog will do?"

Zhao Yajun looked up at Li Xuewu, a bit puzzled why he asked this, but still replied: "Hmm, a local dog will do, practice from childhood, and in about a year, it can follow the hunting dog to hunt. In about two years, it will be a mature good hunting dog."

Li Xuewu looked at the honest and simple Zhao Yajun, and looked at the two brothers who were wearing patched clothes but not inferior, thought about it, didn't say anything, returned to the car, kicked it to life, and returned along the original road.

Returning home and looking at the time, it had only been more than forty minutes. Just after parking the car, Zhao Yamin jumped off the car and carried the chicken and rabbit into the house. ===== CHAPTER 157 =====