The New Year often comes faster than expected.
Although it is no longer like when I was a child, counting the days day by day and waiting for the Spring Festival to come, I still look forward to the Spring Festival.
On the 29th, a group of us rushed back to the Northeast.
It looked a bit majestic.
A group of more than ten people rushed from Hangzhou to the Northeast carrying large and small bags.
I have been busy for a whole year, and my free time can be said to be negligible.
Maybe only these few days in the New Year can give me a good rest.
By the time we arrived at my ancestral home, it was already seven or eight o'clock in the evening, and the Spring Festival would be celebrated in a few hours.
A group of us set up a table on the hot pot and chatted around the steaming hot pot.
In fact, they all know very well that after these few days, we will be busy again.
"Is this Brother Lin's home when he was a child?"
Chen Qingzhi looked around with some curiosity.
In fact, it's not just him.
Apart from Liu Xuance and others, many people are curious.
They had never been to the Northeast, so it was hard to imagine the weather with heavy snow up to their knees and a heated kang that was bigger than the bed.
"Yes, I come back twice every year.
I'm sorry that I asked you to spend the Spring Festival with me this year.
I don't know how your family is."
I smiled, picked up a chopstick and put the mutton into little Enya's bowl.
"Hey, Mr.
Lin is going out now.
Besides, there are a few people in our group who have parents, so it's not appropriate to say this.
I heard Brother Liu say before I came here that there are a lot of good things in this mountain.
Let's go into the mountains to catch the blind bear tomorrow morning and try to make sure it's safe, and we can bring back some bear bile and bear paws."
Wang Jiang shrank his neck and said with a smile.
"Are there any bears here?"
Xie Si asked me in a low voice.
Liu Xuance crossed his legs and smoked, and said: "In winter in this mountain, it's hard to see any small animals.
You can always see foxes, roe deer, tigers and bears.
When I didn't go down the mountain, there were almost two animals."
You can see them once every three days, but the bears here are different from the ones you’ve heard about in books.”
"What's different?"
Xie Si asked again.
I touched her hair and said with a smile: "Most of the blind bears in the mountains do not hurt people, but human bears are different.
The human bears in the mountains are the most irritable in winter, let alone seeing people. , even if they see a mouse, they will chase after it.
If we use the words in the book, this kind of human bear is called a mandrill, and the mandrill mentioned in ancient books is also this thing. " "It sounds quite scary."
Xiahou Qingyi picked up some vegetables and said with a smile.
This girl has never been back since she listened to the old man’s words, so she followed me to the Northeast for the Chinese New Year.
"I have seen such things as mandrills when I was alive, but they are considered rare animals in our Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West."
Queen Mother of the West raised her eyebrows and said.
"What does this human bear look like?"
Wang Jiangqian asked.
Liu Xuance said: "The behavior and facial features of the human bear are very similar to those of humans.
It is fierce and powerful and can snatch cattle and horses for food, so it is called the human bear.
This beast has a strong body, bulging shoulders and back, and its thick coat is different.
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The colors include gold, brown, black and brown-black.
In winter, this coat will grow further, reaching a maximum length of ten centimeters.
What is the concept?
It is like a layer of soft armor, plus a human bear.
The skin is rough and thick, and even bullets may not be able to damage it in winter, let alone a machete. " "And these animals are relatively large.
Male bears weigh about three hundred kilograms to five hundred kilograms.
Female bears are slightly smaller.
Most are only half the size of male bears.
Someone in the village used to raise a human bear as a hunting dog.
The tip of that thing's claws can be up to fifteen centimeters long.
Although it looks relatively thick and blunt, not as good as a tiger's claws, it can scratch the belly of a wild boar in one go.
Moreover, the human bear has an excellent sense of smell, which is worse than that of an ordinary hunting dog.
They are outstanding and their strength is not bad.
If they are hit by them in this deep mountain, even if they climb a tree, they will be dead. " What Liu Xuance said was serious, which shocked Xie Si.
Although she had also gone to school in the north, she had never seen an animal like a human bear, and she rarely even went to the zoo.
Liu Xuance glanced at him and saw that Xie Si's expression was not right, and he immediately laughed.
"Why are my siblings so timid?
It's not okay to be scared now."
"Sister, are you scared?"
Little Enya raised her head and looked at Xie Si curiously.
Xie Si shook his head in embarrassment, and then gave Liu Xuance a hard look.
"Okay, okay, stop teasing.
Let's go up the mountain tomorrow morning and catch one for you to have a look at.
It would be even better if we can meet a wild boar.
The meat is very chewy.
I guarantee you I like them all."
Liu Xuance said with squinted eyes, then took a bite of mutton.
"Uncle, can you help Enya catch a little white rabbit?"
When little Enya heard that we were going up the mountain, she timidly tugged on Liu Xuance's clothes and said a little weakly.
Liu Xuance was stunned for a moment, then he touched little Enya's head and laughed, "What's wrong with this?
I'll wait until tomorrow morning for my uncle and your brother to go up the mountain to catch you.
I guarantee you'll like it."
"Thank you uncle"
Little Enya grinned, and immediately stood up from Xie Si's arms and kissed Liu Xuance on the cheek.
The kiss made Liu Xuance's old face turn red.
She couldn't help but sigh: "If my wife is still here, she should be about the same age as little Enya."
"Hey, don't talk about unhappy things during the Chinese New Year."
Chen Changsheng raised his chin as a reminder.
Liu Xuance nodded, and then touched little Enya lovingly.
Since ancient times, there have been many legends about hunters hunting man-bears in the Northeast, most of them outsmarting them.
The most widely circulated one is probably that man-bears like to use the branches of some big trees as their x.
The air in the empty tree is fumigated by heat, and the ice and snow melt.
When the bear is full, he sits inside and falls asleep.
When the hunters find the bear, they throw pieces of wood from the tree.
The bear is stupid, and when he sees a piece of wood falling, he will He would reach out to catch it and sit on it under his crotch.
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As more and more wooden blocks were thrown, the man-bear would pick them up and sit on them higher and higher.
When the position where the man-bear sat was parallel to the tree's opening, the hunters Seize the opportunity and chop off its head with a mountain axe, or stab it to death with a spear from the gap in the ancient tree.
This legend is widely circulated, even among the older generation in the village.
Human bears are clumsy and basically have no brains.
For example, in the winter, if a human bear encounters a fox, it will chase the fox away.
If the fox runs back to its den, it will not move.
Just wait and block the door of Fox D.
If an alien tiger or wild boar comes over at this time, it will roar out and declare that this is its own chassis.
It is like a hunter who was originally going to catch prey suddenly turned into a bodyguard.
I heard these stories often when I was a child, and even now, Liu Xuance can tell some in almost every household in some small villages in the Northeast.
But legends are just legends after all, and stories are just stories.
Although everyone says that human bears are stupid, this may not be true.
Early the next morning, Liu Xuance, Wang Jianggan and Brother Gu carried me into the mountain while it was still dark.
Liu Xuance was smoking a cigarette and holding a shotgun in his hand.
I borrowed this gun from Uncle Liu next door.
It had not been used for several years.
Liu Xuance poked it for a long time before it made any sound.
There were four of us, except Brother Gu, who wore a little less.
The other three were all wrapped up like rice dumplings, wearing military coats and dog-skin hats on their heads.
"Brother Liu, we are not sure when we enter the mountain.
Do you know where the bear is?"
Wang Jiangqian put his hands in his sleeves and blinked.
"Stop talking nonsense, I brought you into the mountain today just to catch a blind bear.
If I can sell it to you, just follow me.
Before I went down the mountain, I didn't know how much deer antlers and bear bile I ate on this mountain.
"I don't have anything to fear from you."
Liu Xuance rolled his eyes at him and walked forward holding the barrel of the gun.
There is indeed a human bear on this mountain.
More than one of the older generation of villagers has heard the roar of a human bear on this mountain.
Uncle Liu's house even has a human bear skull hanging as decoration.
In the past, people in the village believed that the bile of the human bear could cure all diseases, so many hunters went up the mountain to catch this thing.
I don't know how much they could sell for two bear bile and a bear's rug in the town.
Even leftover bearskins can be spread out and used as blankets.
We followed Liu Xuance while walking in the mountains.
There was a lot of snow in the Northeast this winter, with a thick layer on the ground.
I am afraid that the animals in the mountains are also hungry, and they are running around everywhere at this time.
Wang Jiangqian carried a lot of things when he went out.
He carried four or five half-meter-long spears on his back, as well as a long-handled ax for logging.
This ax was much more powerful than the fire axe.
It was sharpened almost every day, and the ax blade was so bright that it would definitely be a head when the ax fell.
This time, Jiang Gan, the king of the mountain, did not bring his crossbow.
Because this beast is different from humans, the crossbow arrows of the Seven-Star Crossbow may be a great weapon to humans, but to humans and bears, they are just scratching their itch.
So Wang Jianggan brought some iron talismans that Chen Changsheng gave him.
Each of these iron talismans was about the size of a palm and as sharp as a blade.
Wang Jianggan was also very good at using hidden weapons, and they were extremely easy to use in this mountain.
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He used them no matter what.
It's just easier to use than a crossbow.
A few of us wandered around the mountain for several times and saw some people coming and going, but Liu Xuance didn't take notice of any of them, so he didn't take action.
Today is New Year's Eve, and every household is busy buying things at home.
We left Xie Si and the others to pack at home.
It would be unreasonable not to bring back some delicious food after going up the mountain
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