Chapter 8 Digging a Nest to Lure a Snake A Black Cat
As soon as he entered the jungle, Wang Li immediately slowed down and walked around the perimeter of the woods he was familiar with yesterday, trying to see if the blue bird from yesterday was following him.
After going on like this for a long time, he was sure that the bird didn't come today, and he didn't feel like he was being spied on yesterday.
After making sure, Wang Li headed deeper into the forest. At this time, he walked even slower. Every time he walked on the mountain road, he would stop and look at the sheepskin map in his hand. Occasionally, he would mark a few crosses on the map with charcoal.
, and at the same time draw several new curves to mark the crossed positions.
After walking and walking like this for about an hour, Wang Li looked at the map and stopped at a location, holding two red rabbits in one hand, and a clear pool of water appeared in front of him.
"This is the snake pond."
Wang Li put the rabbits on the ground. They did not move and were already dead.
He gave Yu Taigong fifty copper coins for tuition. He thought that Yu Taigong would charge extra for giving him the map. However, the old man was generous and gave him the map directly. He said that he had not been on the mountain for decades, so he must have the map.
Many routes are inaccurate and it’s embarrassing to charge money.
This is true. Just now, Wang Li changed many routes along the way. If it weren't for the iconic vegetation in many places on the map, he might not have been able to find this place today.
Unfortunately, Taigong Yu was afraid that something would happen to Wang Li, so he only gave him a map of the outskirts of the Youdeer Forest. Despite his repeated assurances, the old man still cut off the back two-thirds of the sheepskin in front of him.
The water pool in front of you is marked on the map as a snake pool. It is a good place for hunters from several surrounding villages to come at fixed times to hunt snakes for bile.
The old man told him that there were many snakes here, but there were no ferocious prey. As long as you dug a hole around the pool and put it in, and put in bait every day before winter, the snakes would crawl in and eat on their own. Over time, they would occupy the hole and enter the winter.
The snake will then make a nest in the pit and hibernate.
And once the snake is successfully lured, there will not be two snakes at once, but a nest of snakes hibernating collectively. When the time comes, you can just bring a clip to pick up the snakes.
If you can lure a snake out of its hole, you can also lure a snake into its hole. The second level of body training requires snake gallbladder as medicine. Now you don't have to go to the drug store in town to buy it.
When asking Taigong Yu how to replenish snakes, he also thought about trapping, such as custom-made iron cages and using live animals to catch snakes, but the old man told him that this method would not work in the woods. Live animals often attract more dangerous things, such as
A group of mountain wolves living in the center of the woods.
Wang Li looked around and found that several gray stones on one side had been marked with different graphics by soot. Under each mark there was a small hole the size of a fist, and two of the holes were still open.
There was a lot of blood stains left, and most of them contained the bodies of wild animals.
This is a snake-luring hole dug by other hunters. Taigong Yu has instructed that individuals in the snake-raising pond can only pick up snakes from their own pits, and must not break the rules.
Wang Li thought for a moment, glanced in the distance, and found that marks could be seen on many stones on the opposite side. Several stones even had the same pattern mark on them.
He walked a few steps along the pool, spotted a big rock, took out the two small shovels lent to him by Grandpa Yu from his leather bag and started digging the hole.
After digging the hole, Wang Li drew a mark in the shape of a wine jar on the big stone, took out a dozen spotted bird eggs from the belt around his waist, broke them into pieces and put them into the hole.
After thinking for a while, he glanced at the two rabbits a few steps away, shook his head and decided that it would be more cost-effective to take them back for meat.
Although it is definitely more effective to attract snakes with live animals, he cannot be as willing as other hunters for the time being. After all, he is still growing.
He hunted these two red rabbits on the road. At that time, Wang Li was digging a bird's nest on a tree branch. Unexpectedly, these two red rabbits suddenly ran under the roots of the tree and did something indescribable.
Wang Li felt happy, and immediately thought of the allusion of waiting for a rabbit, and directly used the crossbow to kill two birds with one stone.
I grabbed two rabbits and weighed them. They seemed to weigh five or six kilograms. There were still two hours before noon. I rushed back and gave them to my mother to cook, so that I could eat meat at noon...
On the path among the woods, Wang Li walked quickly towards the village. Birds kept flying in random directions along the way, and he saw that he was not far from the exit.
Suddenly, Wang Li felt a palpitation in his heart, his body suddenly fell down, and he threw himself to the side. He turned and hid behind a big tree surrounded by one person.
Whoosh!
A goose feather arrow was inserted diagonally into his original position.
"It actually missed?"
Surprised sounds came from the forest.
Glancing at the feather arrow on the ground, his body showed an instinctive warning from the life-and-death fight in his previous life. Wang Li showed murderous intent in his eyes and discerned the direction of the sound just now, which was different from the direction in which the feather arrow came.
He sneered in his heart, put the robe under the tree, put the leather bag on his back, and climbed up the tree quietly with his hands and feet.
When he climbed to the middle of the tree trunk, Wang Li spotted a big tree and was about to jump. Unexpectedly, at this moment, a cat meow suddenly came from the direction where he was surprised.
"Aim~"
"hateful!"
"Woooo~ Aim~"
"shut up!"
Wang Li paused, suspecting that this was a trick by the other party to lure him out. The person who shot him with a hidden arrow just now must have been a hunter, but how could anyone go hunting in the mountains with a cat?
Taking out the crossbow, Wang Li took out the crossbow from the leather bag, and took out three wooden arrows from his calf. Looking at the direction where the sound came from, he deviated slightly and quickly nocked an arrow with his hand.
Phew! Phew! Phew!
Three arrows were shot out one after another. When the second arrow left the string, Wang Li immediately jumped out. In mid-air, he shot out the third arrow. He also took out two stones from his waist and smashed them on the ground in the direction of the shot.
go.
"The little boy's arrow can actually shoot fifty steps away!"
The suspicious voice from before came again, but this time it sounded a bit panicky. However, Wang Li saw two more goose feather arrows inserted into the area where the stone hit the ground.
Whoosh!
Throwing a stone again, Wang Liren settled on another big tree trunk. Suddenly he saw a man bending down and running out from behind a tree thirty steps away.
This man had a somewhat wretched figure, with a hunting bow in his hand, a quiver hanging diagonally on his back, and a fish basket slung around his waist, but he didn't look like a hunter in his dress.
"Aim~"
Wang Li heard the cat meow again.
What happened to this man that he was scared away like this?
Although he was a little confused about the man's identity, Wang Li wrapped the crossbow around his waist, summoned up the energy in his body, kicked his feet, locked onto the man's figure, stepped on the big tree and quickly moved forward in the forest to catch up.
He couldn't get off the tree because he was afraid there would be a trap waiting for him below.
Soon Wang Li closed the distance between him and the man. He stood firm and with a flash of sharpness in his eyes, he decisively grabbed the crossbow and quickly nocked the arrow and pulled the trigger.
call out!
ah!!!
This time he got an iron arrow.
The iron arrow nailed to his vest caused the man to fall to the weeds. The arrows in the quiver were scattered all over the ground, and he let out a shrill scream.
When Wang Li saw the man falling to the ground, he immediately moved forward to a few big trees, then attached an iron arrow and shot it again. The forest screamed again, and this time Wang Li shot him in the thigh.
Finally, he stood on a large branch not far from where the man fell to the ground, and both of them could clearly see the other's expression.
Wang Li looked condescendingly at the man below, expressionless, and fired the arrow again. To ensure nothing went wrong, he still used iron arrows.
"Little brother, spare your life!"
The man lying on the ground saw Wang Li aiming at him and hurriedly opened his mouth to beg for mercy.
The only sound that responded to him was the sound of Wang Li pulling the trigger.
"Ah!! Someone is here! Someone killed someone! Help!!"
This time Wang Li aimed with his face in mind, but the man blocked it with his palm, and the iron arrow directly pinned his palm and face together.
In this way, he could scream, and he had more tricks than before, and he could also scream for help with great energy.
Wang Li took aim at the arrow and glanced above his head. It was almost noon.
Phew!
Two arrows were shot out in succession, one of which entered the man's eye socket, while the other never entered the man's nasal cavity.
Quietness finally returned to the forest.
"The last arrow actually missed..."
After making sure that the man was silent, Wang Li shook his head and jumped down from the tree. He had just aimed at the man's mouth with Wangshan.
After taking a few steps to reach the corpse, he began to carefully recover the iron arrow, not letting the blood get on his body. He would have to clean it later.
But just when he pulled out the first iron arrow, the fish basket around the corpse's waist suddenly moved.
Wang Li subconsciously touched his waist and found a dagger in his hand, but he was immediately stunned.
A black kitten emerged from the fish basket, kicked up its legs and shook its head. It stared up at Wang Li with a pair of amber eyes and yawned.
"Aim~"
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When it was almost noon, Wang Li returned home with his robe on his back. Mrs. Wang was gathering firewood in front of the door, preparing to start cooking.
"Mom, I'm back."
"Why!"
Mrs. Wang responded, picked up the firewood, and said, "After you went out in the morning, the two young masters from the county came to see you. I said that you went to the west of the village to find Mr. Yu. Didn't you see them?"
Wang Li was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Oh, no. Later, Taigong Yu introduced me to an Orion family in the next village to teach his children how to read. He didn't give me any money, but he gave me two hares as a reward."
"real!"
Wang immediately raised her voice, put down the firewood in her hand and looked towards her son. She found that her son was actually holding two red-haired hares in one hand. She immediately took the hares from Wang Li and said with a smile: "Later,
It’s all stewed!”
As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly caught a glimpse of her son holding a dark object in his other arm. She took a closer look and wondered, "Hey, why did you bring back a cat?"
"Is this also a gift from Orion?"
Wang Li smiled and nodded: "The hunter said that there are many rats after the harvest in autumn. His female cat just gave birth to a litter of kittens and was sending them out, so he gave me one."
"Aim~"
The little black cat saw Wang staring down at him, shrank his head in Wang Li's arms and let out a cry.
Mrs. Wang gently stroked the black cat and said with a smile: "This is a good thing. The little guy looks very well-behaved. Then you go and make a nest for him first, and I will go in and get these two rabbits first."
After saying that, the person entered the house.
"Um."
Wang Li responded, looking down at the kitten in his arms with a strange look.
After collecting the arrows, he dealt with the traces around the body, and when he was about to go home, the cat followed him.
Originally he didn't want to care about the cat, but after walking a little further, the cat's meowing kept coming from the woods.
In a moment of kindness, he took it back.
He didn't even think about it when he picked up the cat and returned home to avoid others.
How could he feel compassion for a cat when he could kill people without changing his expression?