pjbooks Chapter 56 Blood Wolf Plain
Chapter 56 Blood Wolf Plain
"This belongs to the Armed Forces Department. If you damage it, Sun the Cripple won't be able to hold you accountable, but won't Chu the Blind take it out on you?"
Thinking of the fussy, meddlesome Chu Maolin, Wu Laowai felt sorry for Chu Mingshan.
What an open-minded and principled person Chu the Blind was!
No matter how much support he receives, if he doesn't have a good son, things will remain the same.
"Uncle Wu, is hunting wolves more important, or is the blade more important?"
With that one sentence, Wu Laowai was left speechless, and Chen Tuo then took the steel file and began to pierce the blade.
"Haven't you ever done manual labor before? It's not like that! If you keep doing it like that, you won't even get it right after twenty or thirty tries!"
Seeing that Chen Tuo only made a horizontal slash with the blade, Wu Laowai picked up another steel file and demonstrated:
"To sharpen the blade, you have to pull diagonally from top to bottom or bottom to top. If you have the handle stuck in the snow, and the wolf licks it from bottom to top, then you pull from top to bottom!"
After demonstrating the sharpening process, Wu Laowai pulled the blade twice more.
"As you said, a single-sided blade is enough. Don't test the blade with your fingertip; use your fingernail. If there are scratches, the blade isn't sharp; if it can draw a thin line, it's sharp enough!"
Wu Laowai is demonstrating!
Instead of testing the knife with his fingernail, Chen Tuo used his bayonet to pick up the fish roasting in the campfire.
"What the hell are you doing now? These bayonets, some of them might have been used to kill people, and you're using them to pick fish?"
Wu Laowai glared at Chen Tuo with annoyance, then, ignoring the heat, snatched the dogfish that had been lifted by the bayonet.
Do you drink?
"I brought it."
"The Jade Spring Square Bottle, look at the money you've spent on it! I don't know what to do with all that money!"
Chen Tuo took out the Yuquan square bottle from his overcoat pocket. Wu Laowai had asked about the price a few years ago; it was three yuan and forty-five cents a bottle.
During the holidays, he would buy a bottle of Songling Bai liquor for 1.2 yuan.
I usually only drink cheap liquor that costs 72 cents a pound.
This bottle of wine is enough to exchange for more than four catties of loose white liquor, which can last for at least ten days to half a month.
"Uncle Wu, what's the harm in spending money? Let's drink it, there's wine to be had!"
Chen Tuo opened the bottle, took a sip, and handed it to Wu Laowai. He really couldn't get used to the taste of the liquor with its soy sauce flavor.
"What the hell is this wine? It doesn't taste good at all! It's not as good as the Songling Bai that Cripple Sun makes!"
Wu Laowai's taste is similar to Chen Tuo's; he prefers a strong, clear liquor.
Seeing Chen Tuo flaunting three pike like a starving ghost reincarnated.
Wu Laowai, who could only eat one and a half pieces, could only sigh, "I'm getting old."
Are you full?
"I can eat two more!"
"With the way you eat, what family can afford to feed you? No wonder the forestry bureau doesn't want you; what if you eat them into poverty?"
After eating the taraha, the two didn't rest. They sharpened their knives, dipped them in blood, and made more than sixty bayonets covered in blood.
It's easy to stab the knife into the snow after it's been soaked in blood.
The bayonet handle is stuck into the snow crust, and then a ladle of river water is scooped up; in no time, the bayonet will freeze to the snow crust.
After Wu Laowai finished watering the ice pit, Chen Tuo had caught more than fifty fish in total.
The fishhook is large, so the fish caught are never smaller than a foot.
After finishing the work, Chen Tuo distributed the larger fish (over two feet in length) to Wu Laowai and then dragged more than thirty fish back to the educated youth settlement.
After sacrificing a sturgeon, Wu Laowai left without taking Chen Tuo's water beads, only warning him not to fire indiscriminately.
As dusk fell, he fed the Sun family's several half-grown boys.
Chen Tuo went to the river bend again and fed the cleaned fish scraps to the two mountain dogs that arrived at the river bend on time.
Back at the educated youth settlement, Chen Tuo took a tiny bit of ginseng root from the remaining ginseng and fed it to the puppy Red Hair. Only then did he feel a little sleepy.
He filled the stove, which he had made from a gasoline drum, with firewood before he finally slept fully clothed for the first time.
In the middle of the night, the fire went out, and he was woken up by the cold. In his drowsy state, he fed the puppies and added firewood.
Chen Tuo woke up full of energy when Hong Ye knocked on the door outside.
Although I slept for a night, I could still feel the frenzy brought on by the ginseng.
"Chen Tuo, you went to bed quite early last night!"
Instead of answering Hong Ye's question, Chen Tuo asked softly:
"What time is it now?"
"5:40, I overslept today."
It's estimated that Hong Ye woke up late because he didn't see any lights at the educated youth settlement last night.
Chen Tuo didn't want to mention to anyone that he hadn't slept for three nights, so he just stretched and said:
"Wait a minute, Uncle Wu. Yesterday we set a trap in the Hetao region to catch wolves. We might have a good catch."
"That guy's a womanizer, I'm not waiting for him. Is there anything else you need?"
Although I didn't sleep well last night because I didn't see the lights at the educated youth's station.
But seeing Chen Tuo sleeping in the gatehouse of the educated youth settlement made Hong Ye feel very at ease.
"I don't need anything. If you need anything, I'll just tell you. Be careful on the road."
Chen Tuo wanted to check his physical condition and also wanted to go to Hetao to see the harvest of the traps.
He also wanted to take advantage of the wolf hunt to practice his marksmanship, so he didn't bother with formalities with Hong Ye.
Seeing the warmth and everyday life that had settled over Chen Tuo, Hong Ye didn't press the matter. After helping him tidy up the house, she went back to work.
According to the time given by Hong Ye, Wu Laowai arrived at the educated youth settlement around 6:30.
"Hey kid, what did you eat this morning?"
"Frozen sashimi, smoked bear meat, Uncle Wu, would you like some?"
"Don't you have any vegetables? Don't just eat meat all the time, you'll get constipated!"
Hearing about Chen Tuo's extravagant lifestyle, Old Wu couldn't help but say something nice.
He had seen countless things in the past thirty years, but he had never dared to eat and drink like Chen Tuo.
"Uncle Wu, I have nothing here except a few cabbages! Do you have any dried vegetables?"
"Those are mountain goods meant to be exchanged for money. Even if I had them, I wouldn't exchange them!"
If cabbage isn't considered a vegetable, then what is?
Early in the morning, Wu Laowai was upset by Chen Tuo's antics and headed off to the Hetao region in a huff.
"Uncle Wu, are you bringing a hunting rifle or a water cannon?"
"Bring a shotgun and shove it into the wolf's mouth!"
After saying the opposite of what he meant, Wu Laowai gave Chen Tuo some pointers.
"Your Mingji can only shoot fifty meters? What's the point of bringing it? Bring a water-based machine gun, and don't forget the bayonet!"
Thinking of the possibility of encountering wolves, Wu Laowai turned back and put an axe and pitchfork on Chen Tuo's sled before the two headed towards the river bend.
Before they even reached the river bend, Chen Tuo heard a low, whimpering growl.
"Uncle Wu, isn't that a wolf howling? Our trap worked!"
Grabbing Chen Tuo, who was about to head towards the Hetao region, Wu Laowai asked:
"Kid, didn't you hear the wolves howling last night?"
"Probably not? I was asleep, I didn't feel anything!"
"Why do I have a feeling that wolves are lurking around us?"
Wu Laowai also heard the low, whimpering growls.
Wolves do not follow the rule of being active at night and hiding during the day; they only observe the habits of their prey.
If a wolf's prey is nocturnal, then the wolf will also be nocturnal.
If prey is active during the day, wolves will also be active during the day.
In the nearby mountains and forests, only birds and squirrels are active early in the morning, and these are not food for wolves.
"We have guns and cannons, what are we afraid of?"
"Don't talk nonsense. Wolves are extremely vengeful! They also remember scents. You want a wolf to raid your home? I don't want that."
After hesitating for a while, Wu Laowai still didn't have the nerve to ask the Armed Forces Department for help.
Firstly, it's shameful, and secondly, it involves the distribution of the spoils from the trap.
However, when the two reached the river bend and saw the devastation on the snow, they froze on the bank.
In the snow-white Hetao Plain, a dozen or so blood-red plum blossoms, each about a meter in size, bloomed.
In the heart of each plum blossom lies a blue wolf with its tongue and entrails ripped out by a bayonet.
"Uncle Wu, this is kind of tragic, isn't it?"
Looking at the blood-red plum blossoms in the Hetao region, Chen Tuo's first thought wasn't how tragic it was, but rather the "Blood Wolf Plain," which was similar to the Blood Wolfhound.
From Bloodhound to Bloodwolf Plains, and then to Wolf Totem, if he could find some inspiration, he might be able to write a wolf series...