Everyone walked and stopped along the way. At noon, Jiang Ning chose a relatively flat clearing to rest.
Of course, the main reason Jiang Ning chose to rest here was because Qi Xingzhou quietly told her there was a rabbit burrow nearby.
This morning, after learning about Qi Xingzhou’s unique ability, Jiang Ning wouldn’t allow him to misuse it, lest others notice. Wild game is very alert to humans, and without Qi Xingzhou’s ability, they hadn’t seen a single piece of game all morning. Basically, by the time they noticed the game, the prey had already long since fled.
Hearing Qi Xingzhou mention there was a rabbit hole nearby, Jiang Ning naturally didn’t hesitate. She dropped her luggage on the ground, called Nong Chun, and the three of them went off to catch rabbits in high spirits.
Rabbits may seem cute, but they are actually incredibly cunning, which is why there’s a saying about a crafty rabbit having three burrows.
The trio found the rabbit burrows nearby, marked each one, and then gathered a lot of pine needles and dry grass on the spot. Nong Chun and Qi Xingzhou quickly lit the prepared bundles of pine needles and dry grass with lighters and stuffed them into the marked rabbit holes.
Jiang Ning was squatting and waiting outside the largest burrow, ready to pounce.
The audience in front of the screen knew all of this was staged, but they still couldn’t help feeling a bit tense and looking forward to what would happen:
[Catching rabbits! How nostalgic! Every autumn and winter, my dad and my uncles would go up the mountain to set snares, specifically to catch wild rabbits.]
[Jiang Ning’s rabbit-catching smoke method is so ancient hahaha, it instantly takes me back to my childhood.]
[Rabbit meat is really delicious. I love spicy rabbit and cold rabbit the most, never get tired of them.]
[Right, right! Just thinking about that taste, feels like I’m drooling...]
[Hmm... surreptitiously opens the takeout app...]
[You beasts! Rabbits are so cute... let me have a bite too!]
Nong Chun and Qi Xingzhou successively stuffed the marked rabbit burrows with the lit pine needles and grass. Dry grass ignites easily, and pine needles produce lots of acrid, thick smoke. Rabbits are sensitive and clean animals; they would surely escape towards burrows without the smoke upon sensing danger.
His eyes wide with anticipation, Nong Chun rubbed his hands nervously after a while: "How come there’s not a single rabbit? Could it be that these burrows are empty?"
He turned to look at the holes that were already emitting white smoke, with a tone of doubt, "Or did we not stuff enough in just now?"
"No rush," Jiang Ning said calmly, not perturbed.
The rabbit burrows were narrow and deep, the oxygen inside the burrows wasn’t as plentiful as outside, and the air circulated more slowly, so it was possible that the smoke hadn’t yet spread to the deeper parts of the burrows.
Jiang Ning was very patient waiting for the prey to appear.
A blur of white shot out of the burrow like lightning. Not only did the audience in front of the screen not catch a clear view, but even Nong Chun, standing nearby, couldn’t react in time. Suddenly, Jiang Ning raised her hand and caught the rabbit securely in her grasp.
Just in time, Qi Xingzhou handed over a bag they had prepared earlier, and Jiang Ning tossed the rabbit inside.
[Wow! Jiang Ning’s movements are so fast!]
[Did they just catch it like that?]
[Eh? It’s over? I didn’t see anything!]
[Guys, don’t rush; this is just the beginning. There’s more than one rabbit in a warren.]
Sure enough, after the first rabbit dashed out from the burrow, sensing danger, the others followed one after another—like skewers of sugar-coated haws. But without exception, no matter how fast they were or how densely they emerged, they all fell into Jiang Ning’s clutches.
[With her sharpness and success rate, Jiang Ning is wasted if she doesn’t pursue sports; the national sports team has lost a potential gold medalist.]
[Indeed, I’ve gone rabbit hunting with my dad and grandfather. They’re so agile; even an old hunter like my grandfather misses sometimes, but Jiang Ning has a one hundred percent success rate.]
Once it was all over, Nong Chun looked at the rabbits in the bag, tearfully overjoyed: "Nine rabbits!"
Jiang Ning nodded and said, "We’ll be at the safe house this afternoon. There’s no use keeping these rabbits. Except for the two we’ll eat, we’ll sell the rest, twenty million each, and to the impoverished mountain areas. If Mu Mingxuan and the others want to buy, the price is double."
The rabbits were sold cheaply yesterday, so today she decided to raise their value.