Hunting in the past – the trail of a fox

I went back to the shack with the soldiers, started a fire, and began to boil some hot water to drink, the mutton jerky was too much to say, salty and salty, and I wanted to drink water when I ate it. I was so tired, I ran all day, my shoes were all ice, half of my pants legs were wet, and my pants were also ice, which was very uncomfortable. I want to take off the shoes, rub them with snow, it's okay, because I have been walking, the shoes are not too badly frozen, it is easy to take them off, and then take off my socks, sit at the mouth of the shack, grab a handful of snow, start rubbing my feet, just start to feel nothing, rub for a while to know that it is cold, and I can roast the fire with consciousness.

While roasting my feet, thinking about how far I have to go tomorrow to find the roe deer, a drop of water fell into my neck, so cold, I thought how could it leak? Suddenly remembered that the snow on the roof of the shack had not been cleared, there was a fire in the shack, the snow on the top melted, and slowly seeped in, fortunately, the grass was thick, otherwise it would leak in the morning. Hurry up and clean the snow on the roof of the shack. After another busy time, I began to deal with the rabbits, eat the rabbits at night, and treat them. The soldiers are very good at doing these, a moment to get it done, burn some snow water, put the dried lamb into the boil, there is salt water, evenly sprinkled on the rabbit, began to roast, and then continue to put snow into the boiling, is the mutton soup, and when it boiled, both of them drank a few sips, only to feel that the body heated up, much more comfortable.

We chatted about the day, roasting the rabbit, it was very pleasant, the rabbit in the mountain was very fat, the roasting was also oily, the kind of chatter was very tempting, hungry to eat anything fragrant, the rabbit roasted OK. In the wild, only eat meat I always feel that I can't eat enough, and then take out the dried potatoes, eat up, the dried potatoes are very delicious, that is, the potatoes are stewed, peeled, dried on it, there is a special flavor, really delicious, I like to eat, soldiers also like, his family does not farm, grain is bought, do not need meat to change, so eating potatoes is quite luxurious for him.

In my heart, I always remembered the roe deer with broken legs, worried about being eaten by a mountain beaver or fox, slept very soundly one night, the soldiers slept very soundly, listening to his annoying grinding sound can feel, I woke up, I added wood to the fire, but it was not too cold, one person two sheepskins, spread one, cover one, it was not too uncomfortable.

Early the next morning, I woke up the soldiers, ate something hastily, and set off, which was very cold. After a two-hour arduous trek, to the spot where the roe deer hooves were picked, we sat down to smoke a cigarette and rest, too tired. In order to pick up the roe deer as soon as possible, I found a lot of rabbit footprints on the road, and I didn't come to look for it, and I was worried about picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons.

Suddenly six or seven magpies were spotted, flying overhead, chirping. This kind of thing is annoying, especially when you hit a pheasant, and it keeps flying above your head while barking. The feeling was to call the pheasant police. It's very troublesome, this kind of thing is almost anything to eat, I think it is a harmful animal. It's so annoying because we don't eat its flesh here, very few people beat it, and I've heard that its flesh is very little, and it's particularly woody, particularly hard. Also love to eat dead animals, dead animals, I suddenly thought of the roe deer, is not right in front, it can not live is certain, broke a leg, holding its breath and running out of more than ten miles, as long as it lies down, absolutely can not stand up, a night will definitely freeze to death. Thinking of this, I quickly stood up and said go, not far away, probably in front of me. After saying that, the two went forward again.

Probably walked for more than twenty minutes, walked more than a mile, far away to see the magpies in front of suddenly more, there are more than twenty, next to the fallen roe deer, it fell on the road, may be running and falling, the front legs are curled, the remaining hind legs are still real, keep the look of pedaling. I took a long breath and finally found it, and the heart I was carrying finally let go.

This roe deer is very large, much larger than the one I hit last time, I want to mention to see if the hind legs are male and female, hunters like to look at male and female, hit the heart said, all hope to hit the male, male big. Besides, the mother can also give birth to a small roe deer, so that the fight is endless. But when I lifted my legs, I found that the frozen state was hard, and it was also frozen hard, and the magpie did not move. It was very heavy, and finally I crouched down and looked closely, only to see that it was male, but there was no horn. I mentioned, did not mention, may be frozen, it lay down when the body is still hot, snow melted, waiting to die, the body is also cold, it is frozen with the ground, I and the soldiers spent a lot of effort to get it up, but can not carry, very heavy not to say, the whole body is hard, and finally tied with a rope to climb a plow, two people took turns to pull, fortunately there is snow, otherwise it really can't get back.

The soldier suddenly let me wait, he said to untie his hand, I smoked on the spot, while smoking while looking around, suddenly, a row of animal footprints caught my attention, there is a point, this thing is not small, but definitely not a roe deer, like a dog, but smaller than the dog's step width, there is a mark behind it, it feels like the tail is pulled, not very clear, not always pulling, the tail dragging mark is sometimes there is sometimes not, but the footprints are still there, I remembered that Master and I said one thing, the old fox will use the tail to clean the footprints it left behind ,, could it be a fox. At first, I only paid attention to the footprints of the injured roe deer, and I didn't look closely at anything else. If it is a fox, this New Year will not be worried

(To be continued)