Chapter 1234

"Then why don't you hunt with your father?"

Xu Shaotang said slowly: "with respect, you are an inexperienced person who hunts alone in these places, not to mention the animals that may kill you. This bad climate is enough for you to drink a pot."

He didn't know Hubert very well, so he didn't have to beat around the Bush to talk. Moreover, it seemed that the people of Xizhou were more likely to accept this directness than the people of Xia, so he didn't think it was wrong to say so directly.

Although Xu Shaotang is not a hunter, he is also a person who has undergone all kinds of strict training. He has much more knowledge about living in these places than Hubert. Even so, if he has no real Qi, he does not dare to venture in these places. In front of him, Hubert only hunted several times under his father's wings, and then he dares to venture here with a gun and several dogs This is very similar to the character of Xizhou people who like to die.

When he heard Xu Shaotang's words, Hubert's face was redder. He didn't know whether he was roasted by the fire or was embarrassed by Xu Shaotang's words.

"My father went hunting far away. He was afraid that I would slow him down and would not take me with him." Hubert blushed, waved his fist and said, "if he doesn't let me go, I'll go hunting myself. I'll prove to him that I'm 18 years old and an adult. I'll be his best helper, not a burden..."

"Wait!"

Xu Shaotang suddenly interrupted Hubert's words, looked at the bearded Hubert in surprise and asked, "how old are you?"

"Eighteen years old!" "I just turned 18 last week," Hubert said

18 years old

Xu Shaotang looks at Hubert with a speechless face. Does he look like an 18-year-old? He thought Hubert was about his age, but he didn't expect that he was only eighteen.

He didn't know whether the people in Xizhou were generally mature, or whether Hubert's slovenness was too deceptive.

However, although Hubert is 18 years old, he is still a child. This can be seen from the fact that he almost lost his life in order to prove his ability to his father. Xu Shaotang can understand why his father didn't take him to hunt in the distance.

Just like him, isn't it a burden? No wonder!

However, Xu Shaotang still had a question and asked Hubert, "is it far away that your father went hunting?"

"Far, far!" "Even snowmobiles take about a week to go back and forth," Hubert said

"Far from your home than here?"

"Far more!" Hubert broke his fingers and said, "if you take a sleigh, it's only half a day away from my home."

As soon as he said that, Xu Shaotang had a general idea in his mind. After that, his father went hunting far away.

"It's so close to your house. Why does your father go so far to hunt?" Xu Shaotang more puzzled asked.

Speaking of this, Hubert's face began to dim down, slowly said: "I don't know why, this year's prey is much less than usual, especially our main food source, reindeer, seems to disappear suddenly. In order to support the family, my father has to go hunting far away with a few friends."

If it wasn't for the scarcity of prey, his father didn't want to risk hunting so far away.

For them, his father's hunting is extremely important. If they hunt reindeer, their winter will be much better. If they don't hunt enough food, they don't know whether the family can survive until the ice and snow melt.

He went out hunting alone, not only to prove his ability to his father, but also to help the family share the burden, because he was 18 years old, an adult, and had the obligation to shoulder the burden of the family.

Xu Shaotang didn't know what Hubert thought in his heart, but he was puzzled and said, "is there few prey in this place? Should it be ok? "

He has also walked through a lot of places in this jungle, and he has seen a lot of prey, such as ferrets, Wolverines, rabbits, etc. He has seen it many times, but he has never seen reindeer and other large prey.

Even so, he also felt that these small animals should be enough to support their family, there is no need to go so far to hunt.

But he didn't know that there were polar days and nights, and the time was not short. Although the small animals here are not very few, they will enter the polar night weather in a short time. In the past two months, they can't hunt, so they have to hunt enough food for the family and the dogs before the polar night. They don't know when to hunt these small animals.

Moreover, not everyone has the ability of Xu Shaotang. These small animals here are not necessarily easier to hunt than those large animals. Instead of spending the same energy to get these meagre food, it's better to spend the energy on hunting large animals. The meat of a reindeer is enough to make them survive the coming polar night weather, such as If they get to both ends, they will have a very comfortable winter."Not bad? It's a long way off... " Hubert said with a bitter smile: "not far away, this time last year, although there were not many reindeer here, they were enough to meet our needs, and there were bison. This year, let alone these large prey, even snow wolves were rarely seen. It's not just us, but many people in the town are trying to find a way to go farther to find large prey. If we can't find enough large prey, people will starve to death. "

At this point, Hubert's face is not in line with his age of worry, this is for the future confusion, for tomorrow is dead or alive worry.

"Where's the big game here?" Xu Shaotang asked curiously.

"I don't know." Hubert shook his head slightly and said, "the migration route of reindeer is almost the same every year. It's supposed to be the migration route of reindeer, but there isn't any reindeer. So I didn't want to take a chance here."

"No reindeer?" Xu Shaotang was puzzled and said, "I heard that someone killed reindeer the other day, but he thought that someone else had gone to his hunting area to hunt his own prey, so he was suspicious."

Huber nodded, pointed to the place where Xu Shaotang went that day, and said, "I know this. It's Allen's hunting area. After that, we haven't seen any large prey."