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    Chapter 406: The sword is still young

    Who knew he was worrying too much? The next day, half of the milky white bird's cup was exposed under the wooden board, which looked particularly attractive.

    Zhang Qian uploaded the photos of bird¡¯s nests and monkey heads to the 18th floor, which naturally aroused the interest of netizens again.  There are monkey heads in Daqingshan, and quite a few people find it incredible.  It seems that they, like Zhang Qian, were misled by primary school textbooks.

    As for the bird's nest produced by the swiftlets, most people reserved it early and said they wanted to pay for it.  Liu Junhao smacked his lips when he saw it. He had no intention of selling it. The nests built by these few swiftlets were not enough for his family.

    Although the bird's nests were formed, Liu Junhao did not dare to let his wife take them immediately.  After all, these swiftlets have been separated from their original living environment. Who knows whether they will mutate or not.

    He thought about it and called Huo Jun and asked him to come to Liujiagou and get some swallow strips to be tested by someone to see if they were suitable for human consumption.

    Huo Jun didn¡¯t believe it when he received the call, thinking that Liu Junhao was joking for him. Only after looking at the photos online did he realize that he had not lied to him.

    To be honest, he didn¡¯t have much hope when he first gave it to Jin Siyan, and he didn¡¯t expect that Liu Junhao would actually develop it.

    The next day Huo Jun came to Liujiagou and said he wanted to bring some swallow strips back for inspection. Of course, he would leave the matter of collecting the swallow strips to Liu Junhao.  The swiftlets had already been fed, and when he climbed up to the nest with the help of a ladder, these guys did not peck at them, but instead landed affectionately on his shoulders.

    The bird's nest was not big, so Liu Junhao carefully cut off a finger-width strip with a knife.

    "Xiao Hao, why don't you just pick the bird's nest? I've read on the Internet that after people pick the first nest made by the swiftlets, they start to make the second nest without hesitation. You hurry up and pick it.  We can pick a few more." Huo Jun encouraged him when he saw that he had cut off too little.

    "It's better to forget it. It's better to pick less." Liu Junhao kept shaking his head.  Swiftlets make several nests a year, but only the first nest is made entirely of saliva, which has the highest nutritional value and is the top grade among bird's nests.  The second time there was not that much saliva, so the swiftlets had to peck off the downs on their bodies and glue them with saliva to form a bird's nest. The quality of this kind of nest is inferior.

    ¡°After the second nest was taken away, the third time was even more difficult. There was not much saliva left and not much fluff on the body.  They can only take seaweed and other plant fibers and mix them with a small amount of saliva to build the nest again.

    "You can't do this kind of thing of fishing from the lake. If you pick less, pick less. Anyway, you don't expect to make money from bird's nests."

    He found out from the Internet that swiftlets build new nests every year. Even if the nest they built last time is still there, they will build a new nest on top of the original nest and will not be disturbed because the nest they built last time is still there.  No new nests are built, so harvesting bird's nests will not cause the swiftlets to become homeless.

    It¡¯s better to wait until the swiftlets hatch their young, so as to ensure that the water flows smoothly.

    In the past few days, the mountain products in Daqingshan have reached the harvest season. Huo Jun was very busy, so he didn't stay at Liu Junhao's house for too long. After getting a few kilograms of eel, he left in a hurry.

    After sending the guests away, Liu Junhao was just about to sit down and take a breath when he heard a scream of "chirpchirp" coming from the drawer.  He then remembered that he had forgotten to feed the squirrel, as his wife had repeatedly warned him before going to school.

    Liu Junhao is very impatient to raise these little guys now, but he has no choice. His wife likes it very much and said that the squirrel is very cute, so she named it Diandian.

    The guy can¡¯t see yet, so he has to feed him hot milk through a straw, five or six times a day, which is quite annoying.

    Just after feeding the squirrels, Liu Guangju¡¯s phone rang, saying that a hunting team in Daqingshan was set up and he was asked to go to the street to report.

    It seems that he will be busy again from today, so Liu Junhao has no choice but to entrust Professor Zhao to take care of Diandian, while he leads the three yellow-spotted skins towards the street.

    When they arrived at the meeting place, they saw Zhao Guangming waving to him from a distance.

    There are a dozen people in the hunting team, but except for him and Zhao Guangming, they are all elderly, with an average age of at least forty-five.  Moreover, the only dogs they brought were three wolfhounds, and the others were guard dogs.  When several dogs saw Xiaopi, they whined and dodge, not daring to face him at all, obviously feeling threatened by him.

    Liu Junhao looked a little depressed. The combat effectiveness of this team was too poor.

    "You are Liu Junhao from Liujiagou. You raised these yellow spots. You are really amazing" Liu Junhao is now quite famous in Liujiagou. Among these people, there are people who get Tai Sui water from his house, so  They are not strangers to each other either.

    I thought that I would be paid some wages for joining this hunting team, but who knew that there would not be a penny. The so-called hunting team just legalized the hunting of wild boars.

      It¡¯s okay not to pay them, but at least they have to be equipped with a shotgun but it¡¯s a pity that they don¡¯t even have this.  When Liu Junhao asked the person in charge, he learned that the shotguns had been confiscated as early as the 1990s. The sales and use of shotguns and bullets are now managed by the public security department, and the public security department is very cautious about approving gun licenses.  The county does not have the authority to approve the use of firearms, so they can only use primitive methods to hunt wild boars.

    When we set out, there was only one person holding a cannon barrel, and many people went up the mountain with bows, arrows and iron forks. Suddenly, it seemed that they were in ancient times. The crossbows in his and Zhao Guangming's hands turned into advanced weapons.  Isn't this a typical example of just letting the horses run without letting them eat grass? What's more, they don't pay wages.

    What makes him even more depressed is that there are still people carrying gongs Can you use this kind of tool to hunt wild boars?  Liu Junhao was speechless. These people probably thought they were doing acrobatics.

    What he and Zhao Guangming were most dissatisfied with was that everyone actually elected an old man in his seventies to be the captain.  This old man's name was Xiao Baocai. He was trembling as he walked along the mountain road. He might need someone to protect him when he encounters a wild boar.

    But the two of them are juniors and have no right to speak in the team, so they can only follow closely all the way.  The two of them had no hope now and just thought they were wandering up the mountain.

    Pi soon found traces of the wild boar on the mountain ridge and flew forward after them.

    Mr. Xiao hurriedly shouted, "Stop, stop Xiaohao, tell your yellow-spotted skin to walk slowly, don't panic."

    "Old man, if we slow down a little bit, the wild boars will enter the mountains." Zhao Guangming replied urgently.  It was his first time to participate in wild boar hunting. He was very excited and wanted to show off his majesty.

    "What do you know? Wild boars eat all the way. If no one disturbs them, they will stop and go. We just need to follow the hoof prints. You young people are rough and have no patience at all" Mr. Xiao said.  He scolded him vehemently.

    I heard that they have no intention of being active, so they should just go with the flow.  If it really doesn't work, the two of them will act separately. I believe that with four yellow-spotted skins and two crossbows, it won't be a big problem to kill a wild boar.

    This old man walked slower and slower. After every section of the mountain road, he would stop, pick a small stick in the grass for a while, and then nod, looking incomprehensible.

    "Old man, what are you looking at?" Liu Junhao couldn't help it anymore and asked.

    "I'm checking the number of wild boars. I just counted the hoof prints. One big and seven small. Such a large group will definitely not be able to run fast. We can catch up soon." Mr. Xiao explained.

    "I said, old man, are you kidding me? Can you tell from this?" Zhao Guangming asked suspiciously.  He tried to knock on the grass with a wooden stick, but found nothing.

    "Haha, you will be a great person if you find out. Do you know who this old man is? He is the famous 'dog leg' in our town, and everyone knows it." A man explained with a smile.

    Is he famous? Why haven¡¯t I heard of him?  Zhao Guangming made a questioning look at Liu Junhao.

    "Explain to them, how do young people know this nickname?" Another man named Ma followed.

    "Youyou are a dog-legged person." Liu Junhao was shocked. He stared blankly at this old man with an unattractive appearance, and he really couldn't tell.

    "You know me?" This time it was Xiao Baocai's turn to be surprised.  His reputation arose twenty or thirty years ago. Later, when the mountains were closed for forestation, he stopped working as a forest ranger, so few young people know about him.

    "Of course, of course. My grandfather is Old Man Liu, the one who sells thirteen incense." Liu Junhao explained with excitement, "My grandfather once said that there are two strange people in our Daqing Mountain. We go up the mountain to find 'Xiao Dog Leg'  ', you must have 'Liu Tianyan' when going down the river."

    The names of these two people, Liu Junhao, were often mentioned by Old Man Liu when he was a child. Liu Tianyan was Liu Wuye from Liujiagou. He was unparalleled in catching fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs in the water; while Xiao Gouji was the undisputed king of hunters.  It is said that if you see a hoofprint on the mountain, you can know what animal left it, and you can tell the size of the animal's male or female. In short, Old Man Liu was full of admiration when he talked about it.

    "Oh, what do I mean?" Mr. Xiao nodded and asked, "Is Liu Laowu okay? He has rarely been seen on the streets in recent years."

    "Well, my fifth master is now helping the village take care of the chicken farm. I am very busy, so I don't have time to go out on the streets." Liu Junhao's tone became more and more respectful.

    ¡°I¡¯m talking about Liu Junhao, is this old man really awesome?¡± After the crowd left, Zhao Guangming quietly grabbed him and asked.

    "Nonsense, haven't you seen Master Liu Wu's skill of catching turtles with his bare hands? Do you think someone with a different name from him would be fake?"

    "It's hard to say. This old man is in his 70s or 80s. His eyesight has long been hard to use, and he may not be able to use his hands well."Also leave it behind.  "Zhao Guangming was very unconvinced.

    "Everyone, stop," they were saying, when Mr. Xiao suddenly shouted stop.

    "What's wrong?" Liu Junhao hurriedly followed.

    "The wild boar is right in front, let's surround it on three sides and spread out" Mr. Xiao ordered.

    "No, Yellow Spot Pi didn't call out." As soon as Zhao Guangming said this, Xiao Pi, who was exploring the way in front, suddenly turned over and came back and growled at his owner.

    "That's right, the wild boar is right in front." Liu Junhao nodded when he saw the reaction of his yellow-spotted skin.

    "This this is incredible." Zhao Guangming originally wanted to say that a person's nose is smarter than a dog's nose, but when he woke up before he could say anything, he cursed and quickly changed his tone.

    "Lao Wang, Xiao Zhao, and the three bald guys, each of you three will lead a team. You will act after you hear my command. I will go ahead and set the wild boar trap first. Remember that the wild boar trap is tied with a red cloth belt. We will see later.  Don't step on it when you get there," Mr. Xiao said a few words, then picked up a few iron clips and left.

    "There is no cover in this mountain. Who knows which direction the wild boar is running in? Can the iron racks in his hands be enough?" Zhao Guangming was very confused. He really didn't know what medicine the old man was selling in his gourd.

    "Let's see and then talk." In fact, Liu Junhao also had some doubts.

    According to Lao Wang¡¯s instructions, more than a dozen of them were divided into three groups and dispersed.  Probably to take care of the two young people, Lao Wang specially arranged Liu Junhao and Liu Junhao to be with him.  Not long after getting ready, I suddenly heard a loud whistle.

    Before Liu Junhao could react, Lao Wang over there had already grabbed the gong and struck it hard.

    Like an echo, voices started to ring from the left and right, and these people shouted at the top of their lungs and rushed forward.

    Zhao Guangming and Zhao Guangming were attracted by the atmosphere and screamed.

    Just like that, the sound of gongs, roars, and barking dogs all mixed together.

    They had just rushed a hundred meters away when they saw several black figures shaking in the woods in front of them.

    "It's really one big and seven small." Zhao Guangming still had time to check the number of wild boars at this time.

    There were sounds from behind and to the left and right, and the wild boar could only run forward like crazy.  As soon as everyone chased him 200 meters away, Lao Wang asked them to stop.

    "Why don't you chase me?" Zhao Guangming asked strangely, he was in high spirits.

    "Look, haven't we already caught one?" Lao Wang pointed to the front. Only then did everyone realize that there was a wild boar in front of them, grunting in place, and it must have been caught in the trap.

    ¡°Good guy, I didn¡¯t expect to catch a pig at once, weighing more than three hundred kilograms.  The yellow-spotted skins didn't exert any effort at all, so it was all in vain.

    After Zhao Guangming saw a few iron clamps, he felt unspeakably convinced.  Several iron shelves were lowered in a radius of one foot. Obviously, the old man had already determined that the wild boar would escape in this direction.

    Seeing the wild boar baring its fangs and barking at him, he was about to raise his crossbow, but Mr. Xiao stopped him again, "Don't kill it, wait until we bring it back to town before killing it."

    "Bring it back to town, old man, do you think this is a domestic pig?" Zhao Guangming said confused again.

    "You guessed it right, I am the master pig lead." Mr. Xiao pointed to the knife in his waist and said, "Young man, please do me a favor and chop some bamboo poles."

    By the time Zhao Guangming and his two men cut the bamboo poles back, Mr. Xiao had already cut several wooden sticks.  I saw him drilling a few holes in the bamboo pole, then inserting wooden skewers into it to fix it, and then weaving the bamboo pole into an object that looked like a cow's itch rope.

    The cow itch rope is a thing used to tie the cattle when plowing the fields with iron plows in rural areas. When the cattle do not obey the owner's instructions, just pull this thing to make the cattle behave.

    With the help of several people, they quickly put the bamboo poles around the wild boar's body, and the wooden sticks happened to be facing the weak parts of the pig's skin.

    Now Liu Junhao finally understood that the function of this bamboo pole was very similar to that of the cow itch rope, which was to control the animals inside and prevent them from moving.

    "Let's go" Mr. Xiao pulled in front, and the wild boar got up obediently.

    Today we should be able to update 10,000 words in three updates, and we will update 4,000 words first.  The next two updates will probably be completed and released around two o'clock. You can wait until tomorrow to see them.

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