Chapter 173： musk deer

Chapter 173 Fragrant deer

It was rare to come to the mountain once, and Han Wenzhong wanted to take Xu Shiyan with him, so he naturally refused to go down the mountain easily.

Xu Shiyan also felt that there was nothing to do at home, so he might as well wander around the mountains for a few more days, so that he could meet other prey if he didn't make it all.

In this way, the three of them lived on the mountain. One day they hunted two wild boars, the next day they met a black blind warehouse, and the day after tomorrow they met a herd of deer.

With Han Wenzhong, an experienced old hunter, he almost never misses.

Sometimes he went too far and couldn’t go back to see the small house. Han Wenzhong could also find the house left by the hunter in the mountains and forests for a night of shelter from the wind and snow.

When leaving the next day, leave firewood and some rice for the convenience of those who come later.

"Come and see, this is the mountain donkey road, there should be mountain donkeys around here."

On this day, the three of them didn't bring their dogs out for a stroll. Han Wenzhong looked at a line of footprints on the snow and greeted Xu Shiyan and Han Limin.

The mountain donkey mentioned by Han Wenzhong is actually a local name for musk deer, also called musk deer.

Sweet deer looks a bit like a deer, but smaller in size, neither male nor female has horns.

There is a sachet behind the belly button of the male deer musk deer, which contains musk. It is a kind of precious medicinal material and spice, and the purchase price is very high.

Sweet deer is small in size, light and sensitive, and good at jumping.

Not only can you move freely on the cliffs, but you can also climb inclined trees with ease.

Sweet deer deer's vision and hearing are extremely sensitive, and if there is a little trouble, it will run away immediately.

Moreover, musk deer often stands on the cliff and looks out. Once it finds traces of natural enemies, or hunters and hunting dogs, it immediately flees without a trace.

Sweet deer likes to eat lichen and moss, and likes to eat twigs and leaves of pine trees and fir trees in winter.

So most musk deer have a fixed living place, and they will not migrate to other places until they eat up the food around them.

Mountain donkey road, that is, the footprints left by the musk deer.

At a rough glance, it looks a bit like a cow's hoof print of a few sizes, but it is different when you carefully distinguish it.

The hind legs of musk deer are longer than the front legs. When running and jumping, the hind hooves are in front and the front hooves are behind.

Xu Shiyan lowered his head to search nearby, and sure enough, he found some musk deer dung.

If the surface of the donkey's dung is smooth and shiny, it means that it has just been excreted, at most two or three days.

If the epidermis has become dark and rough, it was discharged half a month ago.

If some are dilapidated, it must have been at least one or two months ago.

Experienced hunters can judge the elapsed time of prey through footprints, feces, etc., so as to find out the hunting rules.

Looking at the dung, Xu Shiyan knew that this group of donkeys had just passed by here for at most two days.

Han Wenzhong also found out, so he led Xu Shiyan and Han Limin along the mountain donkey road for a while.

Far away, there seemed to be some voices, "Yo... Yo..." The voice came along the wind, loud and small intermittently.

Han Wenzhong waved his hand, signaling Xu Shiyan and Han Limin to hide in the bushes, with their guns ready at all times.

On the other side, Han Wenzhong pinched his nose with his hands, his cheeks puffed up, and he learned to make a sound like "Yo... Yo... Yo".

Xu Shiyan knew that this was Han Wenzhong's special skill.

Imitate the call of the female musk deer to attract the male musk deer, also called the musk deer.

This is not easy to learn. At first Xu Shiyan learned it from Han Wenzhong for several months before he barely learned it.

Han Wenzhong can not only call musk deer, but also make horns out of birch bark, and blow the sound to call deer.

Xu Shiyan has learned these methods in his previous life, but his knowledge is average, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t work, so he doesn’t use it most of the time.

Just as Xu Shiyan was thinking wildly, the voice of "Yo... Yo..." in the distance became more and more clear.

Obviously, musk deer really came here.

Most of the musk deer are male and female, and every winter is the season for them to find a mate.

When the male musk deer hears the female's call, he will yell and run towards the direction of the call.

Han Wenzhong continued to call, and male musk deer responded from time to time in the distant woods. It sounds like there are a lot of them.

Han Wenzhong also hid in the bushes at this time, ready with a gun, and kept calling.

Xu Shiyan and Han Limin hid behind the bushes and did not dare to move. They looked out from the gaps in the bushes and kept an eye on the situation outside.

Then, I saw a group of guys with short brown hair all over their bodies.

Looks like a deer, with no forked horns on the forehead, a row of white hairs on both sides of the neck, slender limbs, short tail, two big and round ears, and a pair of big eyes.

Sweet deer is alert by nature, pricking up its ears and tilting its neck, looking around cautiously, obviously looking for a female musk deer.

At this time, Xu Shiyan, Han Wenzhong, and Han Limin fired at the same time.

A gunshot rang out, several musk deer fell to the ground, others were frightened and ran away.

This thing ran very fast, and disappeared in an instant.

The three of Han Wenzhong got out of the bushes and looked at the four or five musk deer that had fallen on the ground.

"Today's harvest is not small. This thing can sell for hundreds of dollars, which is no less than a black blind man."

Sweet deer is usually rarely encountered, and even if it does, it would be useless without Han Wenzhong's means.

Before anyone approached, the musk deer ran away.

The three of them stepped forward, quickly removed the sachet, then disemboweled and took out the internal organs.

"Uncle, do you think there is a way to capture them alive?" Xu Shiyan asked Han Wenzhong while working.

Xu Shiyan never thought about it so much if he put it aside.

Hunting is a way of making money. As long as he can make money and improve his life, Xu Shiyan will not soften his heart when he sees his prey.

But since Xu Shiyan met the rascal again and captured a live sable, his thinking has changed a little.

Extensive and savage hunting methods like the present one are very destructive to the sustainable development of organisms.

Wild boars, badgers, etc. harm the farmland, and black blind people can easily hurt people, but it is understandable.

But some wild animals that are of great economic value and do not cause much harm to people, such as sable, musk deer, and deer.

These animals, can you find a way to capture them alive and raise them artificially?

Han Wenzhong listened to Xu Shiyan's words, smiled and shook his head.

"It's difficult, the musk deer is cautious by nature, and it's not easy to set a trap to catch it.

Besides, even if caught, how to raise it? Don't you have to kill and take the sachet if you keep it? "

People in this day and age don't know that musk can be obtained in another way, and it doesn't hurt the life of musk deer.

So hunters directly kill the male musk deer, and then cut the sachet.

Others don't know, but Xu Shiyan knows.

In later generations, musk musk deer, civets, muskrats and other animals were cultivated artificially, and musk can be extracted without killing them.

Xu Shiyan felt that this might be a way. If the research made it clear, there would be no need to hurt the lives of so many musk deer.

It is not likely that these animals will become extinct in a few decades.

"The solution is something that people think of, so think about it."

(end of this chapter)