Spring Thunder Chapter 0214 Pulling Gang
After a bad sleep the previous night, Nan Yi woke up early the next morning and prepared to "complain".
After wrapping up his clothes and going out, the north wind like a knife hit Nan Yi's face. The temperature was definitely below minus ten degrees Celsius. After feeling the desire to expand his sphincter, he felt it was not too strong, so he went back to the house, took a burning stick from the kang, hugged a bundle of sticks, and walked towards a secluded place step by step.
After finding a blessed place with singing birds and fragrant flowers, Nan Yi set up wooden planks and lit a bonfire. When the bonfire was emitting light and heat, Nan Yi pushed his hips towards the bonfire at the speed of light. With a crackling sound, the battle was over in thirty seconds.
It’s not that Nan Yi is being pretentious. He has to light a bonfire to go out and pick fish. If you have never picked big fish in the wild in the sub-zero weather in Northeast China, it is probably difficult to imagine how hard it is.
Nan Yi didn't dare to gamble. The holes in the ravines under Bread Mountain were too delicate. If he got any of them, such as hemorrhoids, anal cysts, or anal fistulas, he would cry too late.
After returning to the house and washing up, he drank the porridge made by Pu Dashan with roe deer meat. After packing up, he followed Pu Dashan to Changbai Mountain.
Now that we have arrived at the foot of Changbai Mountain, how can we not go up and take a look?
Nan Yi walked on the icy ground and entered Changbai Mountain. Before his eyes was a world covered with snow, white forests, white mountaintops, and white sky. Wow, it was truly a northern scenery.
The 500-li Changbai Mountain has Mount Paektu as its main peak, which is over 2,700 meters above sea level. It is the highest mountain in the Northeast. The conical top of the mountain is shrouded in clouds and fog, and is covered with snow all year round, so it is called Mount Paektu.
Legend has it that in ancient times there was a huge crater on the top of Mount Paektu, where there were always raging fires, smoke and large amounts of magma spewing out.
At some unknown time, the mountain fire was extinguished, the thick fog disappeared, and a deep pit with a sunken terrain was formed in the middle of the peaks. Over time, water accumulated and formed a lake, which is the Tianchi Lake.
The water of Tianchi Lake is azure blue and as smooth as a mirror, just like a piece of The surrounding peaks are reflected in the water, the mist and the waves, and the scenery is beautiful and moving.
Nan Yi and his group were walking up a narrow path on the hillside when an unknown creature flew out, making a few cackles, and then fluttered past Nan Yi's head.
Nan Yi looked up and saw that the thing above his head had red flowery wings and a bright green tail. It was bright and beautiful, and landed gorgeously on the snowy hill opposite.
The beast tilted his head and glared at Nan Yi with one eye, as if to say, "My grandson, you didn't bring your shotgun, so why should I be afraid of you?"
"How dare you challenge me?"
Nan Yi picked up the old I-shaped [Shanghai B2 air gun] in his hand, aimed at the pheasant's neck and pulled the trigger. With a puff, a tin bullet flew out and accurately passed through the pheasant's neck.
The pheasant fell to the ground and flapped its wings twice before stopping.
"Good shooting skills." said Park Dashan.
"Less than ten steps."
Nan Yi pulled the bolt and said pretentiously, then glanced at the Type 38 rifle in Pu Dashan's hand.
"Boss, I think you'll have to hand over this gun in soon."
"Just surrender them. There are too many guns. Almost all the animals in Changbai Mountain have been killed. Too many people are being disrespectful. They even kill pregnant bears.
Xiaonan, you should come to Changbai Mountain in summer or autumn. When you get there, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery in the mountains, and have melons and fruits to eat. You can also go hiking and enjoy the scenery, and escape the summer heat.
But now, look..." Park Dashan pointed to a world of ice and snow and said, "It's covered with ice and snow everywhere, and occasionally you can only see some roe deer and wild deer looking for food.
It’s dangerous to go into the mountains now. The snow is half melted and covers the traps dug by the hunters. It will be troublesome if you fall into it accidentally.”
" It's okay. I'll just watch from the outside and not go in. Old boss, are you still hunting in the mountains now?"
"No, the fields are divided among households, and everyone is busy tending their own crops. If they want to hike in the mountains, they go with a few good hunters. After hunting, they take the food to the market to sell, and everyone takes care of themselves."
“Are there many wolves in the mountains?”
"There were many before, but now there are fewer. The wolves in Changbai Mountain have different fur colors and sizes. The small ones are about the size of dogs, while the big ones often weigh more than 100 kilograms, like a small donkey.
There are virgin wolves and experienced wolves. Virgin wolves have never fought with hunters and have never seen the world, so they are easy to catch. Just set a trap and they will fall into it themselves.
An experienced wolf is one that has dealt with hunters before and has escaped from guns and traps. This kind of wolf is alert and suspicious. It will look around suspiciously when walking on the road. Once it hears the slightest movement, or human voices or footsteps, or finds any suspicious signs, it will tiptoe and return along the original route.
Even if they find a dry tree branch across the road, they will suspect it is a trap set by hunters, and will go up and sniff it, and hide if there is anything wrong.
This is what we call here 'a skilled wolf can't get in the way of the grass'.
It’s no good. A few years ago, there was no food in the mountains, so wolves came down to look for food and killed a lot of livestock. People from all over the place went up to the mountains to hunt wolves, but they hunted too fiercely, so the remaining wolves went deep into the mountains and ran towards North Korea. I haven’t seen a large number of wolves for many years.”
"Where are the blind bears? Are there many more?"
"Not many left. Bear skins, bear paws, and bear gallbladders are all valuable. Hunters will not let go of them. Even the most unscrupulous will go up the mountain to dig holes in trees in the winter. There are also wild boars. We hunted a lot of them, but they are rare now."
"I heard that wolves have a strong sense of revenge. Didn't they come down the mountain to take revenge?"
"It's not that weird. As long as there is food in the mountains, wolves won't come down easily, unless they kill wolf cubs, in which case the mother wolf will risk her life to come down the mountain for revenge. Otherwise, if people beat wolves or wolves injure people, they will stay in the mountains, not below the mountain.
After all, it was humans who broke into their territory.
You say, if someone breaks into your house, can you not fight him? Back then, I was not even a gun, but I fought with the Japanese in the mountains. Why?
The Japanese invaders broke into my home, how could I not kill them? "
"Old boss, what you said makes sense. We humans broke into the wolf's habitat. If we can win, it's a skill. If we can't win, we deserve to be eaten by the wolves."
"That's the truth. The place where we are standing now was covered with trees decades ago. It was part of the Changbai Mountain forest. Now it's gone. They've all been cut down."
Upon hearing this, Nan Yi looked around. There were many potholes on the ground not far away. These should be left by logging where the tree roots were dug out.
"Old boss, are there still many people falling down the mountain now?"
"Not many. There are forest farms. Now they all go up the mountain to cut down trees. If someone wants to build a house, they will cut down a few trees. There are not many people who specialize in this business. Xiaonan, have you heard of the gang trap?"
"I've heard that when a man in a family loses his ability to work due to an accident or illness, he will discuss with his wife and find another reliable man to marry into the family and become the woman's second man.
Those who are willing to be the second man are all unable to marry because of poverty. In the early years, many men went there to make the transition. Some of them have no fixed place to live. If a family wants to hire a live-in man, they would be more than happy to do so.
Firstly, I have a wife, although I have to share her with others; secondly, I have a real place to stay and a stable home.
When a Labangtao man comes to a woman's home, he becomes a real husband and has all the rights of a husband. He will sleep on the same bed with the woman, have children with her, and of course, he is also responsible for supporting the family.
The child born from the original man and woman will call the new man "Dad", and the child born from the new husband and the woman will also call the former man "Father".
A man who has just married into a family can call a woman "wife" or "daughter-in-law" at home, but he cannot say that to outsiders outside and can only use other terms.
The main task of a Labangtao man is to work. All the heavy work at home has to be done by him. If he is lazy or does not work hard, he will most likely be kicked out of the house.
Some will even find a middleman to sign a contract, stipulating each party’s responsibilities and obligations, which neither party can violate.”
"Many people know that ganging up on women was not allowed after liberation, saying it was a torture of women and a feudal legacy. But they don't know that women who are willing to gang up on women are kind-hearted.
The husband mentioned above was paralyzed and sick. In our area, in winter, if the wife doesn't take care of him and doesn't light a fire in the house and heat the kang, he will freeze to death within three days and will never starve to death.
How can a woman take care of a paralyzed man and a baby? If you are conscientious, what else can you do except recruit a young and strong man to live in your home?
If you don't have a conscience, you can just dump your previous husband and marry a new one. Men are hard to find, but women are not. There are many single men who are poor. If you can't find a good one, isn't it easy to find a bad one? "
"Old boss, why are you suddenly talking about gang traps, right?"
"Yes, we will pass by one soon. They are the gang members."
"Live in the mountains?"
