"If I had met Brother Xu at the lake last summer, whose tent would I choose?" The girl suddenly felt that her heart was in chaos, as if a deer was jumping, and the expression on her face became very unnatural.
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"Brother Xu's arrow shooting is no worse than Ba Keruo's, and his horse riding is no slower than Ba Keruo's. Every word that comes out of Brother Xu's mouth has a different taste!" Eru secretly glanced at Linfeng Shuhuai again.
Xu Dayan tried his best to suppress the complicated thoughts in his heart.
"I am showing off my youth, and you are far away. I am cutting red candles, but you are already too late..." In the smoke in front of me, a spring scene of Makino that Aunt Qing once painted slowly emerged, with the nasturtiums swaying in the wind.
It always felt like she was pouring out a few regrets. Back then, she didn't know what the regrets were, but now, Eru knows that she understands everything.
She sighed softly, and slowly began to envy her younger sister and her ignorance. Next summer, the entire starlight by the lake will belong to the two of them, and she will give them her most sincere blessings.
And Brother Xu.
"There's wild ass dung here, and it's still hot?" A loud shout interrupted everyone's sweet dreams. Everyone heard the shout and saw Duer using two wooden sticks to pick up a black-green dung the size of an egg.
group, happily running towards everyone. (Note 2)
"Greedy Duer, you are not allowed to eat meat unless you wash your hands three times tonight!" Tao Kuo took off his clothes and shouted loudly. In the cold wind, the dirty thing on Duer's hand was still emitting white smoke, except for this
Except for greedy people, no one can smell the stench of donkey manure.
"I'm going to look at the hoof prints!" Aslan happily ran to where Duer was picking up manure and carefully inspected the nearby river beach. The water in Crescent Lake has a constant temperature all year round, and the snow near the river beach has long melted. Where Duer ran, there were several beaches
The snow, mud and beast dung were mixed together, and it was so filthy. But Aslan didn't care at all, lying next to the donkey dung pile and observing carefully for a long time before straightening up and shouting to everyone: "Yes
A large group of wild donkeys drank water by the lake about half an hour ago. We circle the lake and head west, and we will catch up with them soon!"
Everyone cheered and immediately got on their horses. Li Xu released Gan Luo from the harness on the horse's back and let it chase the mount. Although Gan Luo was small, he refused to follow behind the horse's butt, with four small legs.
He opened it and swooped out.
"We've got it this time!" Duer dropped the ball of donkey dung in his hand and shouted while taking off his bow and arrow from the saddle. The wild donkey is a very large creature. An adult male can grow up to ten years old.
It is feet long, seven feet wide, and weighs more than 500 kilograms. From a distance, it is bigger than a domestic mule. The beast lives by water and grass, and likes to eat wild onions and strange willows, so the meat is tender but has no smell. Here
In one point, any domestic animal, whether it is an ox that has not been worked or a lamb less than three months old, cannot compare with the wild ass.
"Be careful, don't touch their fronts!" Asilan did not forget to remind everyone while galloping. Although wild donkeys are inferior goods that eat grass, they are much more violent than horses. If they startle the herd, head on.
You rushed over. No matter how strong your body is, you can't withstand the collision of a herd of donkeys.
"I know, everyone, work harder and shoot the strongest one to replenish Pada's body!" Calyx's excited reply spread far and wide along the wind.
A quarter of an hour later, the donkey herd appeared directly in front of everyone. This was a small family of wild donkeys consisting of more than fifty members. The backs of all wild donkeys were khaki in color, and their tails had a tuft of green-black hair.
Hearing the sound of the hunter's hoofbeats, the male wild ass on alert immediately neighed as a warning. The group of donkeys that were gnawing on grass roots heard the warning and immediately spread out their four long milky-white legs under the leadership of the first donkey.
"Speed up, follow and chase, drive the donkeys away!" Aslan ordered loudly. He took the lead and rushed towards the donkeys. Duer was not willing to be decapitated by his companions, clamped the horse's belly severely, and howled loudly.
Then he chased after Aslan.
"Gan Luo, chase the messenger!" Li Xu ordered while bending his bow. The little wolf Gan Luo ignored his call, doubled his running speed in an instant, and pounced diagonally toward the donkeys like lightning.
central.
Hunting is its innate instinct, and it is much better than any experienced hunter. When a wild ass flees for its life, the adult male is in the front, and the adult female is in the back. The one in the middle of the team is often less than a year old.
Young donkeys that have not yet been completely weaned. Their escape experience and courage are not as good as those of adult donkeys. If they are attacked by an enemy, they will definitely leave the group.
Although wild donkeys are big, they are naturally afraid of wolves. Seeing Gan Luo approaching, the young donkey, which was about the size of two foals and had a brown dividing line from the base of its front legs to the tip of its tail, fled from the group.
Gan Luo jumped slightly from the donkeys, and jumped away from the donkeys the moment before the female donkey stepped on him. Then he turned sideways in half an arc, forcing the two young donkeys towards Li Xu's
mount.
Li Xu, Xu Dayan, Tao Kuo, and Eru immediately formed a small circle and trapped the two young donkeys in the middle. After a few feather arrows fell, the severely injured young wild donkey let out a cry and fell to the ground.
In the mud beside the lake, Gan Luo cast a disdainful glance at his prey, then jumped after the donkeys again.
"Ah, he thinks the donkey is too small to fit between his teeth!" Xu Big Eyes laughed and jumped off the horse. Each young donkey was hit by three or four arrows, so it was impossible to tell who owned the prey.
It's just that some people are opportunistic and insert every arrow into the donkey's belly without any bias.
"Brother Maogong collected the prey, I'll help Asilan and the others!" Li Xu felt guilty, secretly sticking out his tongue, then drew his horse and left. He had already seen clearly that without his two arrows, he would have cut them off
After the neck part, four people can harvest two intact donkey skins. Without the two arrows, there will be two big holes in the donkey skin, which will no longer be valuable.
Before he could catch up with the donkeys again, Aslan and others had already turned around on their horses. Duer and Bashemi, who were walking in front, were struggling to carry a wild donkey, which looked almost as big as a calf.
Asilan and Ediotai shared one horse, and the other horse was completely given to the prey. The wild donkey on the horse looked like the size of the blue and white mule that Li Xu rode when he was studying, and it was so heavy that
The war horses kept snorting in protest.
"Ouch——" The little wolf Ganluo let out a long howl in the wind. A few drops of donkey blood dripped from its mouth and fell on the snow, blooming into two dazzling red masses.
"The holy wolf is the holy wolf. Cai Ertai and I forced this beast out of the team. Before we could shoot it with arrows, the holy wolf had already pounced on it and bit its throat!" Aslan praised Gan Luo repeatedly.
There is an old legend on the grassland that wherever the silver wolf appears, it will bring harvest and good luck. Today he witnessed with his own eyes that this statement is true. Without Gan Luo, the wild donkeys would not have been scared away from the herd so quickly. Although
The life of the prey is ultimately ended by his own arrow, but the wolf cub that has just grown its teeth already dares to attack a wild donkey that is ten times its size. This is a courage that no shepherd dog can possess.
"Isn't it because of the superb hunting skills of the Asilan brothers?" Li Xu glanced at Gan Luo with a smile and wanted to use the sentence "dog vs. man" to evaluate. Suddenly he remembered that the little thing is a sacred object in the eyes of the tribe.
, forced himself to swallow the second half of the sentence.
The smart Gan Luo seemed to have guessed what Li Xu wanted to say from his eyes. He whimpered a few times and nuzzled Li Xu's mount. The mount was so frightened when he saw the little wolf's bloody mouth.
He jumped up and down and almost threw Li Xu off his horse.
"Okay, okay, Gan Luo, let's stop making trouble." Li Xu was afraid that his mount would be frightened and kick the wolf cub, so he quickly begged for mercy. Gan Luo glanced at it proudly, shook his head, and turned to find Tao Kuotosi.
Want to eat.
Li Xu shook his head, with a wry smile on his face. Ever since he came to the Su Chuan tribe, his and Gan Luo's master-slave status had been completely changed. In the eyes of Lin Ren, the silver wolf was a sacred object sent by Changshengtian, and he was just
The bodyguard Changshengtian secretly arranged for Yinlang had a much lower status than Gan Luo. In the eyes of the barbarian girl Tao Kuo Tuosi, his and Gan Luo's status could not be compared.
Eight people hunted four wild donkeys. Today's harvest was beyond expectations, so everyone was not greedy for more. They first found a few large rocks by the lake to shelter from the wind and temporarily camped, and then cut a piece of meat from the young donkey.
Ganluo satisfies hunger. But people can't eat raw meat and can't find dry firewood, so they have to eat a few mouthfuls of cold and hard milk tofu in the snow to deceive their stomachs.
After everyone had regained some strength, Aslan and Duer immediately began to cut up the prey. This place was far away from the tribe, and the idea of bringing the whole wild donkey back to show off would definitely not work. The prey had not been affected by the cold wind.
Frozen, everyone's only option was to cut off the skin and meat and take them away on horseback. As for the endless heads, bones and internal organs, they had no choice but to take advantage of the nearby ferocious beasts.
"Let's drink in my felt bag tonight, and no one is allowed to refuse!" Duer announced loudly, wiping the sweat from his forehead with his bloody hands.
"Dirty Duer, have you washed your hands before going to cut the meat?" Tao Kuo frowned and asked.
"Definitely - I didn't wash it. I marked the first piece of meat I grabbed with my hands today and asked my wife to cook it and put it directly in your bowl!" Duer stretched out his red fingers, deliberately teasing Tao Kuo to take off his hair.
angry.
The girl made a disgusted expression, turned around and walked away. Duer finally defeated the little devil, and felt very happy. While cutting the meat with his hands and feet, he hummed a pastoral song.
"I killed a wild ass, a wild ass, and used its entrails to honor the wolf. I killed a leopard, a leopard, and used its fur to sew war clothes. I didn't kill the deer next to the felt bag.
I cooked for me when I went hunting. I did not shoot the eagle in the sky, it guided me in the direction of my prey..."
After a while, Asilan, Li Xu and others also joined in the chorus. Xu Dayan was smart. He had communicated with the elders every day in the past two months. His Turkic language improved rapidly, and he soon started humming along with the tune.
"I killed a wild ass, a wild ass, and used its internal organs to honor the wolf..." Everyone was singing happily. Suddenly, the little wolf Ganluo, who was curled up on Li Xu's lap for warmth, pricked up his ears.
