The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 1216: Baoyu Lets the Egg Hunting Dog Spare the Bear
This morning, the Li family had noodles.

Even after ten or twenty years, dried noodles will not be as popular as instant noodles. Eating them is just fooling around.

But these days, noodles are a good thing.

In particular, Jin Xiaomei first heats oil in a pan, then beats five eggs. After the eggs are cooked, she adds a ladle of water, then swirls around to add the chopped pickled cabbage. When the water boils, she adds the noodles.

The noodles were served in a bowl and each member of the family of five had a fried egg.

The egg white is fried first and then boiled, and the taste is very special. Everyone in the Li family loves it.

But today, Li Baoyu put the egg that belonged to him into Li Ruhai's bowl.

Li Ruhai looked at Li Baoyu in astonishment and asked, "What's going on? Kong Rong gave up his pear?"

Li Baoyu smiled and put his chopsticks on the table. Then he raised his arm to touch Li Ruhai's head, but this action scared Li Ruhai.

"I won't hit you!" Li Baoyu smiled at Li Ruhai and said, "Brother, you behaved very well today. I won't eat this egg anymore. I'll give it to you."

"Hey?" After Li Baoyu finished speaking, Li Dayong asked Li Ruhai, "You knew about the matter between Wang Dalong and Zhao Laosi's wife, why didn't you tell anyone?"

"Huh?" Li Ruhai, who was about to bite the egg, was startled. He threw the egg back into the bowl, looked at Li Dayong and asked, "No, Dad? Is this how your son looks in your eyes? Am I so loose-lipped?"

His question stunned Li Dayong. The key point was that the stunned Li Dayong nodded unconsciously.

Li Ruhai twitched the corner of his mouth and picked up the egg from the bowl and stuffed it into his mouth.

Li Ruhai ate his meal angrily and ate faster than anyone else.

At the same time, at the Zhao family dinner table, Wang Meilan and Zhao Weipeng listened to Zhao Jun's story about what happened outside. When they heard Li Ruhai say that someone had sex with Zhao Laosi's wife, Wang Meilan asked in surprise, "Zhao Laosi's wife, is she the eldest daughter of the old Yan family in our village?"

"Yes, that's her!" Zhao Jun responded, and then he heard Zhao Weipeng continue, "Ah, the night before yesterday when we came back from outside and went to the west to buy sheep, the old woman in that family was whispering to Ru Hai. I overheard a lot of them, and it seemed like they were talking about the fourth son's wife or something."

"Ah..." After hearing what Zhao Weipeng said, Zhao Youcai suddenly realized and said, "That's what I said! How come I haven't heard about this before? If Li Ruhai had known about it earlier, it would have spread throughout our forest area long ago."

"Oh my!" Wang Meilan interrupted and said, "We can't let Ru Hai spread this matter. Zhao Lao Si has a very bad temper. If he knew about it, someone might die."

Wang Meilan's words are not alarmist. There is an old saying: adultery leads to death, and gambling leads to thieves.

The meaning is easy to understand, that is, adultery can easily lead to murder lawsuits, and losing money in gambling can easily lead to dirty deeds.

Zhao Laosi’s wife is different from Jiang Xiaolan. Jiang Xiaolan is a widow, but Zhao Laosi is still alive.

"Yeah." Zhao Youcai said, "I told you not to let Ruhai go out and fool around. The kid has been behaving pretty well these past few days."

Hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Zhao Jun couldn't help but curl his lips. The reason why Li Ruhai performed well these days was because he simply didn't go out these days.

You want him to go out and try?
I went to Yangjia Village the day before yesterday, and he even described his biological mother as his stepmother.

"It's OK, as long as the dogs are saved." Zhao Weipeng continued, "Otherwise, the three dogs would have been wasted."

"Yeah!" Zhao Youcai interrupted and said, "It's so hard for me to deal with these dogs."

When Zhao Youcai said this, Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan both looked at him sideways. His words made him as shameless as Wang Dalong.

After dinner, Zhao Jun and Zhao Weipeng were putting on leg wraps in the west room, as they were going to go up the mountain today. Zhao Youcai was very tactful and did not join them, but went out alone.

Wang Meilan saw Zhao Youcai leaving the yard through the window of the outer room, so she called out to Zhao Jun, "Son, come here!"

Zhao Jun agreed, got up and went to the outer room, and heard Wang Meilan ask: "Son, why didn't your father arrange to go up the mountain with you?"

Zhao Jun glanced out the window and saw Zhao Youcai coming into the yard with a stick and casually stuffing the stick behind the kennel of the three red dogs.

Seeing this, Zhao Jun knew that Zhao Youcai had something important to do, so he said to Wang Meilan, "It's okay, Mom, you don't have to worry about him."

After Zhao Jun finished speaking, a figure flashed in front of the window, and then Li Baoyu pulled the door open and came in.

"Brother!" As soon as Li Baoyu, who was dressed neatly, entered the room, he excitedly said to Zhao Jun, "Shall we go?"

After taking a break today, Li Baoyu was finally able to go up the mountain.

"Wait a minute, we haven't finished cleaning yet." Zhao Jun went back to the house to continue putting on his leggings, while Wang Meilan went over there to get pancakes.

As soon as Wang Meilan walked out of the house, she saw Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong whispering across the wall.

Not far away, Green Tiger was looking at Zhao Youcai's back with his teeth bared.

As soon as Wang Meilan came out, Qing Lao Hu heard the noise and turned around to see that it was Wang Meilan. Then, like other dogs, he wagged his tail at Wang Meilan.

Wang Meilan took out pancakes from the big jar. Big pancakes are not afraid of freezing and they will not freeze solid, so she just broke them off and ate them when she went up the mountain.

As soon as she entered the house with the pancakes, Zhao Jun and the others had already packed up.

Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu, Zhao Weipeng and Zhou Jianjun came out of the house. Before entering the mountains, they had to go to Yongshengtun first to send Zhou Jianjun home.

Wang Meilan also followed him out of the house. When Zhao Jun and his men released the dogs, Wang Meilan took a sack and put meat into it.

Bear meat, wild boar meat, roe deer meat, and beef filled most of a sack for Zhou Jianjun to take home.

"Um..." Zhao Youcai walked up to Zhao Jun and said to him, "You want to knock that black bear down today and send him directly to Yongli?"

"No, Dad." Zhao Jun said, "I have to send the dog back first. Dad... can you come with me when the time comes?"

"I won't go yet." Zhao Youcai said, "But if you go, you can look after your second sister from the Hu family and ask her when Xing Zhiyong will be out. Then I can ask for leave in advance."

On the day of Xing Zhiyong's funeral, the Xing family had to arrange a meal. When Hu Mantang came yesterday, he said that Zhao Youcai would be invited to cook.

With Li Baoyu here, there is no need for Jie Chen to drive. Jie Chen is not familiar with the route, and usually someone in the passenger seat gives him directions, but since Zhao Weipeng came, Boss Zhao has occupied the passenger seat himself, and there is no one to give him directions.

In this way, Li Baoyu drove the car, Zhao Weipeng sat in the passenger seat, and Zhao Jun, Zhou Jianjun and thirteen dogs were in the trunk.

He drove away from home and picked up Wang Qiang, Jie Chen, Jie Zhong and Lin Xiangshun along the way. For men, hunting is as addictive as fishing!

Since there was no work today, Lin Xiangshun also went for a stroll. Neither he nor Jie Zhong wanted any dividends, they just wanted to join in the fun.

The car left Yong'an and headed for Yongshengtun first. After sending Zhou Jianjun home, Zhao Jun and others refused the Zhou family's offer to keep them as guests, and then left Yongshengtun and entered the mountain field, heading straight to the place where Xing Zhiyong was killed.

At five minutes past nine, the car stopped steadily at the foot of the mountain.

Seven people got out of the car one after another, and the hunting dogs scattered around, sniffing, making noises, and urinating. Zhao Weipeng took out some Shilin cigarettes from his pocket and distributed them around.

There were many people going up the mountain today, and Boss Zhao put three boxes of cigarettes in his pocket before coming.

After smoking a cigarette, everyone started to go up the mountain. Li Baoyu led the way with a rifle on his back.

Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang, Xie Chen and Lin Xiangshun were in the middle, with Xie Zhong and Zhao Weipeng at the rear.

Li Baoyu was so fast that he soon left the main group behind. Zhao Weipeng pointed at Li Baoyu and said to Jie Zhong, "That kid is so fast!"

Nearly an hour later, everyone came to the place where Xing and Li were digging the warehouse.

Three days have passed. The black bear footprints and bloodstains are still there, but the smell is very faint.

If people did not restrain them at this time, the hunting dogs would follow the footprints and bloodstains, but Zhao Jun even whistled to keep all the dogs. Then Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang and Lin Xiangshun observed the traces nearby and reconstructed the deaths of Xing and Li as much as possible.

This is not idleness, it is to accumulate experience. In the future, when you encounter such a situation, how should you deal with it and how to avoid mistakes.

The day before yesterday, people from Yonglitun came up the mountain to look for Xing Zhiyong. More than a dozen people left a lot of footprints nearby.

There were too many footprints, so they went to look at the tree trunk. There were traces of Li Hu using a crooked handle to break the tree. In addition, there were also claw marks left on the tree trunk when the black bear climbed down from the tree.

Of course, the black bear had left some marks when it entered the barn, but the marks left three days ago were new and could be identified at a glance.

Seeing the black bear's paw prints extending down to three meters above the ground, Zhao Jun knew there was something fishy going on. Normally, if the bear was out of the barn, they would have to shoot it, so they wouldn't let it come down from the tree.

Combined with the saw cuts on the broken tree, they easily analyzed the situation that day.

After the analysis, everyone sighed that those two were absolutely terrible.

After expressing his feelings, the Zhao army let their dogs chase the bear.

Judging from the footprints, the black bear was heading southwest, towards the big hill.

This is no wonder. The black bear lost one of its front legs, so it can only walk uphill.

The hunting dogs followed the footprints all the way, and Zhao Jun and others followed behind.

Walking southwest up the north-south hill, the hunting dogs walked faster and faster along the black bear's bloody footprints.

The Zhao family dogs, Qinglong and Heilong, are small but already capable of being the leading dogs. Heihu is greedy but increasingly reliable, and it can be said that Heihu has now grown into a qualified leading dog.

But in the two recent bear encirclement operations, it was the green tiger who took the lead.

After more than a month of fighting and good food, Green Tiger, who joined the Zhao family's dog gang, felt like he was in his second life. This old dog was very experienced. He saw the black bear's footprints slanting down the slope to the southwest, but Green Tiger ran straight up.

From the point where the black bear footprints changed their route, the dog gang went up another 200 to 300 meters, and there were no more black bear footprints under their feet. But at this time, Black Tiger spoke.

"Ahhh..." As the black tiger opened its mouth and made a sound, its speed soared. As soon as the black tiger barked, the dogs that followed it slowly swarmed and chased after it.

From here, about six or seven hundred meters up, there is a pile of rocks under the backpack carrying basket on the hill.

This pile of logs was left over from tree planting and timber harvesting a few years ago. The pile of logs was more than one person tall.

Originally these logs were piled here, probably waiting to be pulled to the field by oxen and horses and the Dongfanghong tractor, but they were soon forgotten here.

This kind of thing is very normal in forest areas. In a large forest farm like Yong'an, the amount of wood lost in this way may be as much as one hundred to eighty cubic meters a year.

At this time, on the south side of the pile, a one-armed black bear was lying in a Ge You-like posture, leaning against the pile to rest.

This place is relatively sheltered from the wind, but not facing the sun. Logically, this is not the place for a black bear to lie down. This black bear is lying here, which shows that it can't move anymore.

After it killed Xing Zhiyong, it moved all the way to higher ground, and during that time it changed its route to the southwest. But halfway along the way, it circled back to Gangliangzi.

This couldn't be hidden from the nose of the head dog. The green tiger didn't believe the footprints because it could smell the black bear was right above.

If it were any other animal, with its entire leg gone, even a Siberian tiger wouldn't be able to survive that long.

This is a bear. It has survived until now relying on its tenacious vitality, but now this black bear is almost at the end of its life.

Wild animals can sense that death is approaching, so before they die, black bears find themselves a burial place like this.

But at this moment, a burst of dog barking broke the black bear's last tranquility.

The black tiger came around from the left side of the pile and was about three meters away from the black bear, roaring and provoking it.

"Hum..." The black bear opened its mouth and let out a low roar. It really had no strength to fight.

Poor black bear, he wants to die but won’t stop.

Then, one, two... twelve hunting dogs stood on both sides of the black bear, raising their heads and wagging their tails, roaring at the black bear.

At this time, the black bear didn't even talk back. It just lay there quietly waiting for death.

But the hounds don't know that.

The black tiger on the right side of the black bear took the lead in attacking. It tentatively jumped over and bit the black bear's right calf.

The black bear was sitting on its back, so I could only bite its hind legs.

"Hum..." The black bear swung its right arm and swept its paw towards the black tiger.

The black tiger withdrew and left, and following his lead, the other dogs launched tentative attacks on the black bear.

When attacked on the right side, the black bear was able to respond with a palm strike, but when attacked on the left calf, the black bear, having lost its left arm, felt powerless.

"Hum..." The black bear, who had been continuously bitten by the dogs, became angry. It lunged forward and swept its right palm to the left, forcing back the Green Tiger, Blue Dragon and other dogs.

The dog retreated and the black bear pounced.

Upon seeing this, Heihu, along with his dogs Erhei, Bailong and others, fiercely bit the black bear's butt and hind thighs.

"Hun... hun..." The black bear growled loudly, but at this time it was no longer able to fight.

Gradually, the dogs Qing Lao Hu, Qing Long and others in front of the black bear discovered the black bear's weakness. Qing Lao Hu plucked up the courage to step forward, bit the black bear's ear and pulled it hard.

Seeing that the black bear still did not move, Qinglong bit the black bear's other ear, while Huanglong jumped onto the black bear's back, lowered his head, opened his mouth and bit it.

But the black bear is covered with hair, and the yellow dragon's bite also has a mouthful of hair.

The black bear lay on the ground and let the hounds bite it. Its strong vitality left it with a breath of air. But for the black bear at this moment, this breath of air was worse than no breath at all.

When Zhao Jun and others arrived, they could not see the scene of a dog biting a black bear in Lengdui.

The five men walked diagonally around the pile of rocks and watched the scene. Lin Xiangshun stopped Zhao Jun who was about to shoot and said, "Xiao Jun, let the dog bite! What a good opportunity!"

Nowadays, people don’t have the concept of protecting animals. Besides, bears and wild boars come down from the mountains every year to destroy crops. The people are very angry when the crops they have worked so hard to grow are destroyed by wild animals.

Therefore, many places have the custom of spring hunting.

But just as Zhao Jun put down his gun, the hunting dogs stopped biting, and the twelve dogs, five on one side and seven on the other, looked at the black bear.

"Dead?" Zhao Jun was stunned. At this time, Hua Niuniu beside him jumped out and came to the side of the black bear.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!" Hua Niuniu yelled, and the black bear lying on the ground moved. Seeing this, Dahua and Erhua rushed over and pulled the black bear's butt twice.

But seeing that the other dogs didn't move, Dahua and Erhua immediately relented and stepped aside.

(End of this chapter)