After running away from his uncle's house, Li Xu realized that he had nowhere to go. There were few young people of the same age in the nearby villages, and those from better-off families had already gone to school. Those from more difficult families had to follow their elders.
Go to the fields and work as a half-strong laborer, or lose your status and work as an apprentice in a shop to save a ration for your family. It is morning, and except for the rogues in the county, no one has a lot of time to waste.
After walking for a while, Li Xu had a good idea. He quickly ran back to his home, first took the blue and white mule back to the livestock pen, filled it with fodder and water. Then he ran to the kitchen and randomly found some dry food to fill his stomach. Then
Returning to his hut, he took off his long gown and put on a short jacket made of linen. Then he picked up the bow given by his uncle yesterday, grabbed half a pot of arrows that he usually used for shooting, and happily ran towards the Daqing Mountain outside the village.
The people in Shanggu are a mixture of Hu and Han, and the folk customs are fierce. The world has not been at peace for a long time, and families with big surnames still retain the habit of letting young people in the clan learn swordsmanship and archery skills. They hope that one of the young people in the clan will become famous in the military.
, the power of the entire family will grow by leaps and bounds. Even if the teenagers have no chance to gain fame in front of the battle, and when bandits come to rob, the elders of the clan can organize them to protect their homeland.
Li Xu's shooting skills are second to none among the disciples of his clan. It is said that he is not able to shoot through a tiger with a hundred steps. He is still somewhat sure of hitting seven out of ten shots within fifty steps. Occasionally, he gets lucky and can hit a rabbit from a hundred and fifty steps away.
Miracles have happened before. But he was really unlucky today. He shot more than 20 arrows, picked them up, and used them repeatedly. In the end, they almost lost their feathers and didn't hit even half a living creature. The one in his hand was worth as much as Jin Jin said.
The "treasure bow" with three coins was very difficult to use, and it was difficult to draw it to full length. The arms of the bow always trembled slightly, and the arrows that were finally aimed were always deflected. Li had only been shooting for half a day, and Li had always had some physical strength.
Xu was so tired that his arms were weak and his fingers were peeled off. If he hadn't been worried about the thousands of yuan worth of this bow, he would have untied the strings, removed the ears (Note 12), and smashed the back of the bow on a stone.
Fooled into chopping firewood.
Seeing that the sun was setting over the treetops, Li Xu had no choice but to walk down the mountain dejectedly. The Daqing Mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, and wild beasts often appear after dark. When a man goes hunting in the mountain, he does not dare to delay too late. As he is walking,
Suddenly, I heard the rustling of grass in the bushes. I looked up and saw a plump roe deer running away thirty paces from the left.
How could Li Xu let go of such a good opportunity? All the fatigue in his body suddenly disappeared. He took out the arrow and drew the bow to full length. With his fingers loosened, the arrow shot towards the roe deer like a shooting star.
Wild roe deer in the mountains and forests have a silly name. Although they run fast, they rarely make sharp turns. It was also Li Xu's turn. The arrow made a pop sound and shot straight from the lower back of the roe deer, deep into the chest and abdomen.
"Moo!" The rapidly running roe deer let out a long and plaintive cry and slowly fell to the ground. Li Xu was so happy that he ran forward with his bow. It was the beginning of autumn, and the game in the mountains and forests had been stored all spring and summer.
The meat is thick and fat. If you drag a roe deer this big to your uncle's inn, it will be a signature dish for half a month. If you peel off the skin from the roe deer and sell it to a wealthy family to make boots, you can earn another two or three dollars.
Ten articles.
Just when he bent down and was about to drag the roe deer's front legs, he suddenly felt a chill in his heart. He looked up in panic and saw a wild wolf the size of a donkey slowly walking out of the woods, its green eyes staring at him.
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"Ah!" Li Xu screamed in fright, quickly straightened his body, bent his bow and arrow. Although he was born in Mozhi, he was considered a son of a good family. He was always well cared for and rarely had the experience of hunting alone in the mountains.
.So he had never heard of such a big wild wolf, let alone encountered one head-on.
When meeting a wolf, the most taboo thing is to turn around and run away. The bow should be fully drawn, and the arrows should... Li Xu memorizes the truth better than anyone else, but in critical moments, the bow in his hand refuses to obey the command. Feather arrows
He was swinging around on the bow, up and down, but could not aim at the wolf's head. Seeing the wild wolf approaching step by step, it was about to attach its forelimbs. Li Xu was so frightened that he lost his mind and shot an arrow.
The arrow passed over the head of the evil wolf like a meteor, and hit the ground half a foot with a pop. The beast in the distance was also startled, and let out a low roar from its mouth, and scratched the ground twice with its front paws.
, jumped up in the air and struck Li Xugeng's throat.
At this moment, Li Xu no longer cared about aiming, drew out the arrow, and released it as soon as he pulled it. As soon as the arrow left his hand, he immediately abandoned the bow, took out the short knife for self-defense from his waist, and swung it up and down with his eyes closed. After waving for a long time, he
I didn't feel any pain in my body and couldn't hear the wolf's movements. My heart was about to jump out of my throat. I mustered up the courage to secretly open my eyes a small slit, and vaguely saw a long blood stain on the ground.
A wild wolf the size of a donkey has long since disappeared without a trace.
"Straight bitch, what kind of trick are you playing on the little grandpa!" Li Xu shouted loudly, rushed forward a few steps, ran to a big tree as thick as an arm, leaned his back against the tree trunk, protected his neck with a knife, and turned around suddenly
Come. Contrary to his expectations, the evil wolf did not sneak up behind him and attack him the moment he turned his head as the legend said. In the huge forest, there was nothing but the shadow cast by the setting sun. The sound of cicadas could be heard on the branches.
Occasionally, they heard each other, and mixed in with them was his own heavy breathing.
No matter what, Li Xu couldn't believe that he could actually scare away a vicious wolf by waving his knife wildly. He turned around a few times with the knife, and it wasn't until he stepped on the horned bow on the ground that he believed that he had indeed saved the day.
He spat hatefully at the wronged horn and raised his foot to kick it into pieces. Fang raised his leg, smiled again, and slowly put his foot down.
"Is this thing worth three ounces of gold?" Li Xu lovingly picked up the "treasure" that almost cost him his life and inserted it back into the bow bag on his back. "I'll sell it to the Zhang family's Xiaowu for four ounces of gold another day. Anyway,
He never shoots accurately!"
Looking back at the roe deer, he saw that the roe deer was already dead. The blood from the arrow wound on its belly had turned black and spread over a large area on the ground. Only when he looked carefully did he find that there was a deep wound on the roe deer's hind leg.
It can be seen that the huge wound on the bone was obviously injured by the evil wolf. Even if Li Xu didn't shoot it with arrows, it wouldn't take long before it would bleed to death.
"It turns out that beast complained about me robbing it of its delicacies. No wonder it wanted to fight for it!" Li Xu finally understood why he had just shot the roe deer and immediately attracted a bad wolf. Thinking about the danger of narrow escape just now, his heart was in a state of confusion.
Jumping. The mountain wind blew by, and the pores all over the body felt tight. When I reached out and touched it, I found that my clothes had been soaked with cold sweat and clung to my body wetly.
Seeing that the sun was about to set, Li Xu did not dare to delay any longer. He walked to the roe deer and tried to lift it on his shoulders. His arms swayed and then dropped weakly. The muscles and bones in his whole body were sore and weak, and he could no longer use them.
Come with half the effort.
"Could it be that that evil beast thought that I couldn't carry the prey down the mountain, so it didn't fight with me?" Li Xu secretly cried out in his heart. This is deep in the mountain, and it is absolutely impossible to expect someone to help. After thinking for a moment, he actually
Out of desperation, he cut down a few tree branches and kudzu vines and made a sledge. He rolled the roe deer's body onto the sledge little by little, tied one end of the kudzu vine to the sledge, and put the other end on his shoulder.
"Hey!" Li Xu shouted and stepped forward. The tree sledge was pulled creaking loudly, and it slowly slid forward along with his pulling. After stumbling for a few steps, he felt the grass slipping under his feet. He lowered his head.
Looking at it, I found a bloodstain on the green grass diagonally upward, pointing far away into the depths of the dense forest.
"Did I shoot the arrow in panic and hurt the beast?" Li Xu thought in shock. With curiosity, he immediately regained some strength. After he became bolder, he greedily took up the idea of a wild wolf.
Animals moult in spring and autumn. One season they shed their velvet and the other season they grow velvet. Therefore, the furs of wild beasts in autumn are the most valuable. For such a big wolf skin, two stones of wheat would not be needed to replace it. Think about my mother’s smiling face after dragging the wolf skin back.
Li Xu became more and more courageous. He found some branches to cover the roe deer, then he held his protective dagger upside down and chased it along the blood trail.
After about two miles of mountain road, Li Xu found a cave entrance under a raised stone wall. The blood stains left by the evil wolf had faded by this point, but were intermittently sprinkled into the depths of the cave. Li Xu turned sideways and
His back was pressed against the stone wall. He raised the knife with one hand and picked up a stone with the other hand and threw it in.
There was a sound of rocks bouncing in the cave, but no wild beasts were frightened out. Li Xu squatted at the entrance of the cave for a while, but couldn't hear any heavy breathing inside, so he boldly went in boldly.
The cave is not deep, and the entrance is facing the west. At this moment, the afterglow of the setting sun happens to shine in, and it shines faintly on a gray-black wild wolf. There is a long arrow stuck in the belly of the wild wolf, and the whole body is black and red. The arrow.
The feathers at the tail were already bald, and they were clearly the ones that Li Xu shot out in a panic. I just sighed that the beast was so tenacious, and even after suffering such serious injuries, it still insisted on crawling back to its own cave.
Seeing that there was only one injured wild wolf, Li Xu became even more courageous. He stepped forward with a knife and wanted to kill him. Before he could get closer, another low * was heard in his ears, and the wild wolf's forelimbs
Suddenly it started to move.
"Brush!" Cold sweat immediately rolled down Li Xu's forehead. He quickly took two steps back, leaned against the stone wall, and waved the scimitar up and down. The wild wolf seemed to be asleep, and there was no movement.
He stood up and fought with Li Xu without trying to climb out of the cave and escape.
"Bang, bang, bang!" Li Xu heard his heartbeat echoing in the cave, his throat seemed to be on fire, and he was indescribably thirsty. He boldly moved forward again, only to find that the wild wolf's eyes had long been lost.
Glory. Under the forelimbs, a small head is desperately sucking the last lotion.
Little wolf cub! Li Xu ran over, grabbed the furry little wolf, and raised his hand to throw it against the stone. But the warm feeling between his palms made him reluctant to let go. After a slight hesitation, the little wolf
The wolf closed his eyes and sucked the edge of his palm with his mouth. It was numb and felt indescribably interesting.
For a moment, Li Xu lost his mind. No one in Zhuangzi had ever raised wolves. Even if a naughty boy accidentally picked up the wolf cubs, the parents would quickly throw them into the wild after seeing them. The wolf protects the cubs the most, and follows the wolf's will
If you smell the smell of the cubs, the she-wolf will chase you hundreds of miles away and fight you tooth and nail. She will not leave until you return the cub. Otherwise, she will harm the donkeys and horses today and bite the chickens and ducks tomorrow. She will never stop fighting.
But today the mother of this little wolf cub has been killed by Li Xu's arrow, so naturally there is no need to consider the mother wolf's revenge. As for whether the wolf can be raised into a good hunting dog, Li Xu does not have any experience in this area.
During the hesitation, the little wolf couldn't suck any milk from the edge of his palm, and groaned. (To be continued)
