Claude walked slowly on the mountain road with a matchlock gun on his back. Three rabbits and five pheasants were hung on the gun. These were the harvest of the serial traps left in the past few days. In the past five days, Claude and his three companions have left nearly a hundred traps in the mounds and forest areas. If they were not only set up in five places, it would be difficult for Claude to remove these traps. It won't be that easy.
A few days ago, Claude and his friends set up traps, always shooting at different places. The places they chose were grass nests and bushes in the mountains and forests under the mounds. Each time they laid traps, they were numbered. From ten to nearly a hundred, as long as rabbits and pheasants enter these bushes and grass nests to look for food, they will most likely step into these traps.
This is also the reason why Claude and the others caught so many every time in the past few days. Every time they went to pick up prey at the place where the traps were set yesterday, there would be some traps kept there because no rabbits or pheasants visited them. Claude Just let these traps stay where they are, and go over to have a look the next day, maybe there will be unexpected gains.
The prey that Claude hangs on his musket now are all unexpected harvests, which were caught in the traps that were left over from the past few days. Of the twenty or so new traps set yesterday, only one rabbit was caught. From this point of view, the number of these animals in this area has dropped significantly, and the winning rate is no longer high.
After walking around a large circle between the mounds and the forest, it took nearly two hours to dismantle all the remaining traps, and then Claude walked back.
The weight of these eight rabbits and pheasants was quite heavy. Claude didn't feel tired at all since his friends had shared the harvest a few days ago. Now that a man is carrying a matchlock gun and these prey, walking feels like a heavy burden. Just go to the Baiyangling Farm in front of you and see if Regan wants to drive to the town, so that you can take him along for the ride.
The area of Baiyangling Farm is not large, with less than a hundred acres of farmland. It does not produce food, but mainly grows fruits and vegetables, supplemented by raising chickens and laying eggs. It is said that the owner of the farm is a businessman from the county town. He has only visited the farm a few times after buying it. One of his relatives is usually responsible for the operation and management here.
Regan said there are four farmers on the farm, who are employed to take care of vegetable fields, blueberry fields, chicken farms and citrus groves. And he is a hired handyman, part-time dog husband, coachman, and errand boy. In addition, there are three guard dogs in the farm. They are very big, but unfortunately they are of no use. Apart from eating, they can only bark. They cannot even catch a rabbit.
On the outskirts of Baiyangling Farm is a river ditch more than two meters wide, which is both the farm's irrigation waterway and the farm's dividing line. Farms, orchards, forest farms and vegetable gardens here are basically like this. A ditch is dug at the boundary to indicate the boundary of the land. However, there are also some simple wooden bridges erected over these ditches and rivers to facilitate the passage of pedestrians. Claude walked along the river ditch towards the gate of the farm, but what he didn't expect was that he was greeted by the barking of three big dogs.
This doesn't seem to be a watchdog. It's obviously much bigger than a watchdog, and the coat color is wrong. The watchdogs here in Bailu Town are mostly native dogs. many. But the fur colors of these three big dogs were floral, white, gray and yellow. Claude suddenly felt that these three big dogs looked a bit like the famous "Er Ha" in his previous life.
Hearing the barking of dogs, a fat lady came out of a farmhouse not far away, called to the three big dogs, then walked to the gate and asked Claude what happened.
Claude said he was looking for Regan. The fat lady looked him up and down, pointed to a row of bungalows on the other side, and said go there, Regan should be busy there.
After entering the gate, the three big dogs stopped barking and just followed Claude silently, as if they were escorting him. However, Claude discovered that the three big dogs were not interested in him, but in the string of rabbits and pheasants hanging from the muskets. At the same time, they did not look at these prey with murderous intent. Instead, they felt very curious and wanted to investigate. They seemed to want to understand why these rabbits and pheasants were hanging upside down on the body of this shit shoveler.
The bungalows in this row should be stables. The carriages were unloaded in the open space in front of the bungalows, and the two horses pulling the carts were chewing horse feed in the stables. Regan was squatting next to a large wooden box on the ground.