Siheyuan: Starting from the Pig Killer

There is an old saying called "The elk is on the left but its eyes are not blinking", which is used to describe a person who concentrates on doing one thing, has a firm goal, and is not moved by external objects.

In fact, a good hunting dog also requires such mental qualities.

Due to their nature, dogs are born to search for prey, but if they are not trained, they are of little use for hunting.

Because there are too many prey in the mountains, and the smells are mixed, it can easily affect the hound's thinking.

For example, you smell the scent of a wild boar at first, and after a while, you smell the scent of a rabbit. Then you turn to search for rabbits. After a while, you may be hunted by other prey such as foxes, wolves, badgers, deer, etc. Attract and then convert goals.

Under such circumstances, it is difficult to catch prey, and hunters can easily be led astray. It is possible that they have been busy all day and found nothing.

This is a common mistake novice hunting dogs make.

A truly mature hunting dog will not change its target once it has determined it. Instead, it will continue to pursue the target's scent until it catches up with the prey. Even if other prey passes by, it will remain unmoved.

But for a hound to reach such a state, it requires hunters to cultivate it slowly.

Hua Niu and Hu Zi from Xiang Yunduan's family are not yet at that level, but they are already considered excellent.

"Wang Wang Wang!"

After taking the pheasant just now, not long after, the cries of Huzi and Hua Niu came from the front again.

Xiang Yunduan rushed over and saw that Huzi and Hua Niu were gathered under a big tree. It turned out that there were two snakes twisted together under the tree.

At this time, the "mountain driving" skill immediately came into play. Xiang Yunduan quickly judged that one of the two snakes was highly venomous. Its scientific name is the short-tailed viper. It has a reddish-brown body and a triangular head. There are horseshoe shapes arranged left and right on the snake's back. The round spots should be about 70 centimeters by visual inspection.

However, the short-tailed snake was not in good condition at the moment because it was strangled by another thicker and longer snake and was about to swallow it.

The snake that strangled the short-tailed ventral snake has yellow and black markings all over its body and an obvious "king" pattern on its head. This is the cauliflower snake that many people have seen, and its scientific name is King Golden Snake.

This king snake is about two meters long. It is not too big among the king snake family, but it has no problem at all when dealing with short-tailed snakes.

Although the King Snake is a non-venomous snake, because it is immune to many snake venoms and has the strangulation skills of a python, ordinary snakes are not its opponent at all. There are many venomous snakes in its diet.

There is even a proverb among the people: "One mile of cauliflower snakes, ten miles of non-venomous snakes."

Among domestic terrestrial snakes, the only one that can surely defeat the adult king snake is the adult king cobra.

Interestingly, these two snakes both have the word "king" in their names. That's because both of them have strong snake-eating habits.

"gone!"

Seeing the cauliflower snake devouring the short-tailed snake in a very short time, Xiang Yunduan was eye-opening. However, he did not take the opportunity to embarrass the cauliflower snake, but instead asked Huzi and Huaniu to leave.

Xiang Yunduan only had the idea of ​​​​keeping a respectful distance from such creatures as snakes.

If he could get good luck by killing this cauliflower snake, he would not hesitate. But unfortunately, the cauliflower snake looks very big, but it is not heavy enough, so killing it is useless.

Time flew by and it was already afternoon.

"It's time to go back!"

Xiang Yunduan raised his head and looked at the position of the sun. The sun would set in two or three hours. He had no idea of ​​spending the night in the mountains. Besides, he had to go to work tomorrow.

The most important thing is that his purpose of going up the mountain today has been achieved.

We found a creek at noon. During the meal, we were lucky enough to allow Huzi and Hua Niu to catch a pig badger drinking water by the creek.

The pig badger, like the famous flat-headed honey badger, is a member of the Mustelidae family, but the pig badger is larger than the honey badger. The one Xiang Yunduan hunted today weighed almost thirty kilograms.

This guy's combat power may not be as good as the honey badger, but he is definitely not weak. When he was besieged by Huzi and Hua Niu, he scratched Hua Niu's front legs with one claw. Fortunately, Xiang Yunduan took action in time and captured him.

Sure enough, as he had guessed before, the wild ones are better at providing luck than the domestic ones.

Although the luck provided by this pig badger was only one-fifth of that of a pig, to Xiang Yunduan's surprise, he did get a higher level of red luck from the pig badger.

"It's a pity that we don't have enough time, and Huzi and Hua Niu are not very good at it, so they can't go into the mountains!"

Xiang Yunduan spent most of the day on the outskirts of Xishan Mountain and did not go deep at all.

The harvested prey was only three pheasants, two hares, and a pig badger. As for larger prey, there was no such thing.

There is no way around this. He is not the only hunter. The prey in the periphery is already scarce, and with the hunters hunting, there are even fewer. If you want to hunt larger animals, it is difficult to encounter such an opportunity.

But if you want to go deep into the mountains, not only is there not enough time, but the hunting dogs are also almost useless.

The dangers in the deep mountains are also very great. After all, he doesn't even have a gun. If he encounters top predators such as wolves, black bears, and leopards, he will easily die. This is no joke.

The hound before the Xiang family went into the mountains to hunt and was snatched away by a leopard.

At that time, several nearby villages jointly dealt with wild boars, so there were a lot of people hunting, and there were also many hounds and guns. But in that case, five good dogs were lost in just one night, and there was also a hunter. He was scratched and almost killed.

Cats are basically masters of lurking, especially at night. Even with so many hounds, the leopard was still trapped in a deserted place, killing five dogs in a row.

Xiang Yunduan didn't go that time. It was his father who told him after he came back. According to his father's description, he was really scared at the time.

"Huh? That's it?"

Xiang Yunduan was about to go home when he suddenly saw an earthy yellow ball with a diameter of more than fifty centimeters hanging on a large persimmon tree not far ahead.

The ball is pointed at both ends and round in the middle, more like a peach pit.

"honeycomb?"

Xiang Yunduan stopped immediately. If he could take in such a large hive, he would probably be able to sell it for a lot of money.

"I just don't know if it's a bee's nest or a wasp's nest?"

Xiang Yunduan asked Huzi and Hua Niu to stay away, and he slowly touched them by himself.

If it is a bee nest, the honey, beeswax, royal jelly, pollen, etc. inside it will definitely be worth a lot of money. If it is a wasp nest, it will be of little value.

When he got closer, Xiang Yunduan could see clearly that there were bees coming in and out near the hive. There was no doubt that this hive was a bee hive.

Next, the key question is how to get this hive?

For such a big hive, there will definitely be a lot of bees in it. If it is not handled properly and causes a disturbance, the scene will be unimaginable.