sbdcsierra Chapter 1665 Creepy
Chapter 1665 Creepy
Chapter 1665 Creepy
Xuri Forest Area is located forty li southwest of Yongxing Brigade.
The Jiefang truck bumped along the way until nearly noon.
Li Wei suggested that everyone go to his house for lunch and a night's rest before continuing the battle the next day.
But Zhang Yuanmin wouldn't allow it; he took out some dry rations from his pocket and distributed them to the group. After a quick bite, they boarded a vehicle and headed straight for the mountain area.
Guided by Li Yuan, the Jiefang truck drove along the winding mountain road towards the high mountains.
Finally, the Jiefang truck stopped in front of a larch forest.
The six men quickly got out of the car, took a puff of their cigarettes, and walked through the woods to a stone pond.
“Brother Zhang!” Li Yuan pointed to a large weathered tree not far away and said to Zhang Yuanmin, “Can you see it? Heixiazi Warehouse is right under that weathered tree.”
"Let's go!" Zhang Yuanmin, carrying his Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, strode towards the direction Li Yuan pointed, saying as he walked, "Let's do it!"
Today is March 24, 1988. Every year from the end of March to the beginning of April, brown bears and black bears end their hibernation.
Today, some of the bears have already left the enclosure, while others are still taking a nap inside.
According to Li Yuan and Li Wei, their target today is a black bear weighing less than 300 pounds.
The black bear was driven out of its barn a week ago by two hunters from the Xuri Forest area. After being shot and suffering minor injuries, the bear did not attack the hunters despite the gunshot wound, but instead fled.
The two hunters chased after them, but no matter how fast they ran, they couldn't catch up with four legs.
The two chased for two days but failed to catch up. On the third day, they gave up the pursuit because of family matters.
The black bear escaped and found a hole in the stone pond and crawled inside. As it was walking through the larch forest, it was spotted by Li Wei on the hill above.
These two guys were quite bold. They found the location where Black Bear was hiding and then started figuring out how to kill him.
The methods they devised were all taught to them by Zhang Yuanmin. But this was a stone warehouse, and burning it might not be effective.
If we were to use water to attack, even if we gathered everyone in the entire forest area to carry water, we might not be able to drown or freeze the black bear inside.
After much deliberation, the two brothers decided to go to Yong'an to invite Zhang Yuanmin.
Zhang Yuanmin, with his short legs, quickly got ready and led a group of people to the front of the warehouse.
He glanced into the warehouse and saw black bear hairs stuck between the stones. Zhang Yuanmin turned to Wang Qiang and said, "Uncle, I'll get to work then!"
"You can do it, Yuanmin?" Wang Qiang was a little worried. Zhang Yuanmin raised his head slightly and smiled confidently, "Uncle, just watch me."
As he spoke, Zhang Yuanmin opened the triangular bag he had been carrying all the way and took out a flour sack.
Zhang Yuanmin opened the bag of flour; inside was a jar wrapped in plastic sheeting.
Zhang Yuanmin unscrewed the lid of the jar and pulled out the fuse inside. At the same time, Zhang Yuanmin said to Li Wei, "Brother, go and cut me two sticks that are about two meters long."
"Alright!" Li Wei replied, drew his sword from his back waist, and quickly left with Li Yuan.
In just three to five minutes, Li Yuan and Li Wei returned, each carrying a stick.
Zhang Yuanmin looked at Xie Chen and said, "Xiao Chen, take the stick and probe."
Jie Chen took the stick and immediately shoved it into the hole.
Because a large, weathered tree grows above the cave, its roots deeply embedded in the rocks and soil below, the space inside the cave is shaped like a pair of trousers.
Jie Chen poked around in the cave a few times with his stick, then turned around and walked up to Zhang Yuanmin, saying, "Brother, it forks after you go in. But the left one is too small; even a bear can't squeeze through."
"Then let's shoot the one on the right?" Zhang Yuanmin said, having already tied the explosive bottle to one end of another stick.
After receiving a positive reply from Xie Chen, Zhang Yuanmin stepped forward, holding a stick with a dynamite bottle strapped to it in both hands.
Upon reaching the cave entrance, Zhang Yuanmin first used a stick to probe inside. After confirming the location, he struck a match and lit the fuse of the explosive bottle.
Then, Zhang Yuanmin quickly used the stick to push the explosive bottle into the hole.
This explosive bottle was made by Zhang Yuanmin himself, and the number of fuses was planned out in advance.
When the stick was completely submerged in the hole, Zhang Yuanmin got up and ran back.
At this moment, Wang Qiang, Li Baoyu, Xie Chen, Li Yuan, and Li Wei were all hiding in the shadows, and Wang Qiang, Li Baoyu, and Xie Chen even picked up semi-automatic rifles.
When Zhang Yuanmin ran to Li Yuan's side, there was a loud "boom," and he felt the surrounding mountains, rocks, and trees all shake.
Not far away, stones and dust were kicked up around the large weathered tree, and the weathered tree also tilted to the left.
Inside the stone cave, the sleeping black bear was jolted awake by a tremendous force. In an instant, the black bear felt as if its entire body, including its internal organs, had been pounded by a sledgehammer.
Blood was oozing from the black bear's mouth, nose, and ears, and blood droplets were also seeping from the bottom of its eyes when it opened them.
The black bear opened its mouth, but couldn't roar. At that moment, it desperately tried to squeeze out of the cave.
The black bear quickly leaped out of the den, a distance of four meters. But the moment it emerged, it plunged headfirst into the ground.
"Huh?" Wang Qiang, who was about to fire, paused, and at that moment several gunshots rang out from the side.
The gun was fired by Li Baoyu and Xie Chen, but the black bear had already fallen when the bullet left the barrel, and all four bullets were fired without a hitch.
"Stop fighting!" Zhang Yuanmin stopped Li Baoyu and Xie Chen, then said to Wang Qiang, "Uncle, be careful, go over and finish them off with a shot."
Upon hearing this, Wang Qiang appeared, holding a gun in both hands, and shouted, "Baoyu, Xiaochen, you two put your guns away."
After saying that, Wang Qiang stepped forward with his gun at the ready. When he was three meters away from the black bear, he stopped, pressed the butt of the gun firmly against his right shoulder, and then pulled the trigger.
"Bang!" A plume of bloody smoke shot up from the black bear's head. The bear's body convulsed twice, then all four limbs stretched out, and it died from exhaustion.
"Bang!" Wang Qiang fired another shot without hesitation, and the black bear was hit in the head again but did not react.
"You guys..." Wang Qiang was about to call those people over when he heard a burst of wild laughter.
"Hahaha...hahaha..." Zhang Yuanmin laughed loudly, his laughter echoing through the mountains and resonating with the mountain wind.
Li Baoyu and Xie Chen both looked at Zhang Yuanmin speechlessly, while Li Yuan and Li Wei looked at Zhang Yuanmin with eyes full of admiration.
"How was it?" Zhang Yuanmin asked Li Baoyu and Xie Chen. "How was it? Huh? This black bear was so well-fought, you could have killed it without firing a single shot. You could have just stabbed it to death with a knife."
As he spoke, Zhang Yuanmin glanced disdainfully at the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle in Li Baoyu's hand and said, "Both of you fired those two shots unnecessarily. Wouldn't it have saved you four bullets? Even if bullets were free, you two still couldn't..."
"Hey, stop dawdling there." At this moment, Wang Qiang called out to them, "Come here quickly, let's take the gallbladder out of this bear."
Upon hearing this, Li Yuan and Li Wei quickly stepped forward and flipped the black bear onto its back.
Neither of them were familiar with the task of gutting and removing the gallbladder, so Xie Chen took over and gutted the black bear.
"Uncle," Xie Chen said, handing the bear gall to Wang Qiang, "where's the copper gall?"
"You're absolutely right." Wang Qiang picked up the bear gallbladder with his right thumb and forefinger and asked Li Yuan and Li Wei, "What are you going to do with this bear gallbladder?"
“My brother Zhang will handle it.” Li Yuan glanced at Zhang Yuanmin and said, “My brother Zhang’s word is law.”
"Uncle." At this moment, Zhang Yuanmin stood up straight, his neck looking as if he had swallowed a chopstick, and strode over with his hands behind his back. He said to Wang Qiang, "We're all family here, let's just let this guy off the hook."
"Buy? It's not even dry yet." Wang Qiang said this because no matter where you buy bear bile, they only buy dried, not wet. Zhao Jun bought wet bear bile twice, both times because of connections.
At this moment, Wang Qiang glanced at the bear gallbladder, then looked at Li Yuan and Li Wei, and said, "I estimate that this gallbladder, once dried, will yield about three taels and four qian. If you want to accept it, I'll make the decision and charge you three taels and four qian."
“Okay, Uncle Wang.” Li Yuan and Li Wei agreed so readily for three reasons: first, they were in a hurry to get the money; second, they felt that Wang Qiang and his team were quite reliable; and third, they hadn’t contributed much to today’s battle.
“Dried copper-coated ones are five thousand a pound.” Seeing the two brothers agree, Wang Qiang continued, “Three and a half ounces is…”
At this point, Wang Qiang turned to look at Li Baoyu and Xie Chen.
After meeting Wang Qiang's gaze, Li Baoyu quickly squatted down and started drawing numbers on the ground with a stick.
Soon, Li Baoyu stood up and said to Wang Qiang, "Uncle, it's 1,700."
“Seventeen thousand, and they’ll take eight hundred and fifty.” These were the words of Zhang Yuanmin. Wang Qiang then said to Li Yuan and Li Wei, “I didn’t bring any money with me. How about this, we’ll get this bear cub on our back now, and we’ll take a bus back to Yong’an right away. Then my sister will get you the money.”
“That’s all, Uncle Wang.” Upon hearing this, Li Yuan hurriedly said, “It’s already this late, let’s not make things difficult today.”
“That’s right!” Li Wei quickly chimed in as soon as Li Yuan finished speaking, “Since we’re already here, let’s all go to my house. I’ll arrange some food and drinks for us.”
The Li brothers had two reasons for keeping their guests: first, they wanted to be hospitable hosts; second, they wanted to cultivate a good relationship with Zhang Yuanmin. But most importantly, they wanted the black bear meat.
If they were to bring the black bear directly back to Yong'an, they couldn't possibly carry the meat all the way back, could they?
"That works too." Hearing the Li brothers' words, Wang Qiang looked at Li Baoyu and Xie Chen and asked, "Shall we go back tomorrow morning?"
“I think it’s a good idea,” Li Baoyu said. “It’s already this late. If we go back now, we won’t get home until seven or eight o’clock.”
“Then let’s leave tomorrow.” Wang Qiang immediately made the decision, and then the group dragged the black bear carcass toward the Liberation truck.
Along the way, while pulling the black bear, Zhang Yuanmin boasted.
“From a young age, my father always said that I would amount to something,” Zhang Yuanmin said. “He said I was the unicorn of our Zhang family.”
At this point, Zhang Yuanmin tripped and bumped into Wang Qiang.
"Hey!" Wang Qiang pushed Zhang Yuanmin away and said irritably, "Don't talk nonsense. With your short legs and big crotch, you look like a deformed child."
"Hahaha..." Li Baoyu and Xie Chen laughed heartily without any attempt to hide their laughter. Li Yuan and Li Wei dared not offend Zhang Yuanmin, so they could only force themselves to suppress their laughter.
"Uncle, what are you saying?" Zhang Yuanmin asked Wang Qiang with wide eyes and an incredulous look, "How can you say that about me? Didn't I do a good job in this battle today?"
As he spoke, Zhang Yuanmin pointed to the black bear carcass and said, "I could have taken down this black bear without firing a single shot."
"Yes!" Hearing Zhang Yuanmin say this, Wang Qiang nodded emphatically and said, "If you don't use bullets, where's your gunpowder?"
"I..." Zhang Yuanmin was speechless, but Wang Qiang continued to press, "Where's your detonator? Where's your fuse?"
Wang Qiang's barrage of questions left Zhang Yuanmin speechless.
……
Meanwhile, Zhang Yuanmin's cousin, Zhang Jimin, was smoking a cigarette and said to a young forest ranger, "Did you see that? This was a reward from our Zhao Jun, the team leader?"
"Brother Zhang, stop bragging," the young forest ranger laughed. "No wonder you and Big Pants are related; you two are both such good at bragging."
"What nonsense!" Zhang Jimin shouted as if he had been greatly insulted. "Yesterday I did something for Team Leader Zhao, and he rewarded me with a reward."
"You'd better turn off the power quickly." The young forest ranger didn't believe him and laughed, "Who is our Team Leader Zhao? Would he need you to do anything for him?"
“Really!” Zhang Jimin pointed at his companion and said loudly, “You have no idea what happened. Yesterday and the day before, the Pang family in Yongsheng and the relatives of Team Leader Zhao got into a fight…”
"Which Pang family in Yongsheng?" the young forest ranger asked. Zhang Jimin, interrupted, replied unhappily, "Which Pang family in Yongsheng? The ones who graze in the mountains, Pang the Blind!"
"My goodness!" the young forest ranger exclaimed in surprise. "They dare to mess with Team Leader Zhao? Don't they want to stay in this forest area?"
“That’s right.” Zhang Jimin gestured with his hand and said, “I went there. I went to their house and gave them a good beating, a good beating to their servility.”
"Oh dear!" Hearing Zhang Jimin's words, the young forest ranger sighed and said, "Why can't I have such a good opportunity? If I were there, I could have taught them a lesson too."
"Brother, are you worried about not having a chance?" Zhang Jimin laughed. "When autumn comes this year, the two of us won't do anything but keep an eye on that Pang family. Damn it, if they touch a single blade of grass or tree on this mountain, we'll punish them to death. After we've punished them, we'll go to Team Leader Zhao to claim credit!"
"Wow! You're really good!" The young forest ranger's eyes lit up, and he said, "Brother Zhang, you're the best at flattering people."
"Go to hell." Zhang Jimin laughed and cursed, then pointed to the second rib of the mountain and said, "Stop talking nonsense, let's go, let's go to Old Wang's shack for a while."
“Okay, let’s go over and get some water,” the young forest ranger said, but Zhang Jimin said, “Getting water is a small matter. That old man is setting traps to pick yellow leaves in this area. Let’s ask him how many he has after the New Year and have him sell them to Team Leader Zhao.”
Hearing Zhang Jimin's words, the young forest ranger admired him even more.
But when the two of them arrived at the shack, they found that the door was open.
"That old man," Zhang Jimin muttered as he walked forward, "It's so cold in these mountains, yet he left the door open."
As they spoke, the two walked to the shack. Following the open door, they saw several bloody footprints at the entrance. They stared wide-eyed into the shack and saw streaks of blood on the ground.
Zhang Jimin reached behind him and the knife was in his hand, while the young forest ranger drew his hand axe.
"Who's in the house?" Zhang Jimin called out, but no one answered. He called again, "Old Wang!"
Still no one responded, so Zhang Jimin pulled the young forest ranger forward. As the two stood at the entrance of the shack, they glanced inside and were instantly horrified!
I'll add an extra chapter tomorrow night.
(End of this chapter)