mesbooks Chapter 52 Envious Gazes from Everyone
Chapter 52 Envious Gazes from Everyone
The next day, at 5:30,
The kerosene lamp in the Li family's house lit up right on time.
The sky was still veiled in a light gray mist, and large snowflakes drifted all night.
It dyed the entire grassland into an endless expanse of silvery white.
The withered grass, stunted trees, earthen slopes, and gullies were all completely covered by thick snow.
A small number of perceptive individuals have already begun to notice the unusual nature of this snowfall.
Rumors of a snow disaster were circulating privately...
After finishing his breakfast, Li Xiangdong braved the snow and drove his horse-drawn carriage towards Wuzhen. He was going to deliver fish to the state-run restaurant today and also see if they accepted rabbits.
Two traps were set yesterday, so there's no need to make a special trip to the purchasing station.
No sooner had Li Xiangdong driven the carriage out than Li Xiangyang followed, carrying a kerosene lamp. He was going to check on the traps that had been set up the night before.
He had a feeling that he would definitely gain something today!
When setting the traps yesterday, we saw several rabbit footprints on the snow, as well as a pheasant that we caught by chance last night.
Pheasants are gregarious animals; if you see one, there will definitely be a large flock around it.
Thinking of this, Li Xiangyang quickened his pace.
The snow was thick and soft, and each step made a muffled "crunch, crunch" sound.
It stood out exceptionally clearly in the quiet, desolate morning.
After traveling for nearly an hour, we finally arrived at the sunny, gentle slope where the wire mesh had been laid yesterday.
With excitement, Li Xiangyang parted the first clump of lush, withered grass.
This is the kind of place wild rabbits love to go, so Li Xiangyang set his first wire snare here yesterday.
Unfortunately,
Apart from the cold, hard wire snare hanging on the withered branch, there wasn't a trace of a wild rabbit. The snow was spotless.
"Uh... not at all?" Li Xiangyang gave a wry smile, a hint of disappointment flashing in his eyes.
Gently shake off the snow from the wire loops, then turn and head to the next trap.
The second wire snare was located beside a shallow ditch, with withered grass growing on both sides and a flat, clean path in the middle.
This type of road is usually the only way for wild rabbits to travel back and forth in search of food.
Unfortunately, the wire snare remained completely still, leaving not even a tiny paw print on the snow; only the cold wind swirled the snowflakes around on the ground.
"That shouldn't be the case? Even this isn't there?"
Li Xiangyang was starting to doubt his judgment. He had just excitedly gone to check out the two traps that had the best chance of catching a rabbit, hoping for a good start.
result............
"Sigh... Oh well, I'll just take it easy!" Li Xiangyang sighed, shook the snow off his harness, and continued walking.
He crouched down in the third barbed wire clump and used the gun barrel to pry away the snow pressing down on the grass.
suddenly,
Li Xiangyang felt that the gun barrel seemed to be pressing against something. On a whim, he quickly dug through the snow.
Once the snow was cleared away, a gray-brown hare with its body frozen stiff was revealed.
"I knew it! How could there be no wild rabbits on such a lush, sunny, gentle slope?"
Li Xiangyang smiled.
They quickly untied the wire snare, opened the sack, and put the wild rabbit inside.
Keep going.
Having caught a wild rabbit, Li Xiangyang felt even more confident, and his steps became lighter.
He walked along, checking each wire snare in turn, the fourth, the fifth, the tenth... more than twenty in total.
They caught three more rabbits in succession.
"We should have about twenty more snares left. Let's see if we can catch two more rabbits."
As Li Xiangyang walked, he checked and counted, but he forgot where he was when he started counting.
"Is it because I'm getting old?"
He had some doubts; this might be a side effect of his rebirth, after all, he was reborn with seventy years of memories.
Having too much stuff in your head naturally makes you less as quick-witted as a young person in their twenties.
As Li Xiangyang pondered this, he approached a sheltered slope. Although the wind was not strong, the grass was quite sparse.
When Li Xiangyang came to set the wire snare yesterday, he didn't see any rabbit tracks. So he didn't have high hopes and just planned to take a quick look before heading back.
but,
Just as he was about to part the grass, he heard a few faint rustling sounds.
It was clearly the call of a pheasant.
Li Xiangyang quickly set up his gun, crept closer, and was ready to fire at any moment.
Although this pheasant cannot fly like a bird, it can easily leap more than ten meters away with a powerful leap and a few flaps of its wings.
Except for a lucky break like last night, when a pheasant snuggled into your arms, it's absolutely impossible to catch a pheasant with your bare hands at other times.
Unless you have a powerful flashlight that you can suddenly shine on it and then strike while it's distracted.
"I need to buy a flashlight as soon as possible."
Li Xiangyang thought to himself silently, but his steps did not stop.
When the pheasant was just over two meters away from the trap, it suddenly flapped its wings.
Li Xiangyang's body jolted suddenly, and he raised his gun to fire but then lowered it.
original,
It was a pheasant whose claw was caught in a wire snare, preventing it from flying. It could only keep flapping its wings on the snow.
Without much hesitation!
He gripped the gun barrel with his right hand and swung the wooden butt at the pheasant's head.
With a loud bang, the pheasant immediately fainted.
He put away his gun, squatted down, untied the wire snare, picked up the pheasant, weighed it in his hand, and smiled. "This pheasant probably weighs over 5 pounds. At 6 cents a pound, it should sell for 3 yuan."
Put the pheasant into a sack and head to the next trap to check.
............
An hour later, when Li Xiangyang appeared at the village entrance dragging a sack full of prey, several chatting villagers immediately surrounded him.
"Xiangyang, what good stuff did you bring back?"
A curious villager pointed to the sack in Li Xiangyang's hand.
He thought to himself, "The two Li brothers went out yesterday and found the Deadwood Beach. Who knows what treasures they might find this time."
"Nothing much, just a few wild rabbits and pheasants!"
Li Xiangyang said casually.
"A hare or a pheasant?" You caught this too? Where did you catch it?
When the villagers heard that Li Xiangyang had caught pheasants and rabbits, they were all envious.
That's all meat!
"I went for a walk this morning when I had nothing to do, and I just grabbed some grass when I passed by."
Li Xiangyang didn't want to go into too much detail.
"Wow, that's incredible! Your luck is truly amazing."
"That's right. Xiangyang encountered a deer a few days ago and hunted it down. The day before yesterday, he went for a walk and saw the Deadwood Beach. Now there are pheasants and rabbits everywhere!"
"Sigh, your luck is truly unbelievable."
"Haha, no, I've just been having a bit of good luck lately."
Li Xiangyang continued to laugh it off.
"Okay, you guys chat, I'll head back now."
"Alright, alright, take care." The group waved goodbye.
Li Xiangyang also turned around and strode away.
"That Li family kid is really lucky," a middle-aged male villager remarked, watching Li Xiangyang's departing figure.
"You're the kind of person who believes everything people say."
An elderly man with a full head of silver hair stroked his beard and said leisurely, "He was just being modest! And you actually took it seriously."
"Humble? You mean he hunted the deer, the deadwood beach, and today's pheasants and rabbits? Not just stumbled upon them randomly?"
"Needless to say, the younger generation is truly formidable!"