After two hours of beating with the stick, Tong Qian finally gave in.
To put it bluntly:
"Your Majesty, this slave has submitted."
"Go wherever you like and don't come back these days!"
"Slave, I need to rest for a few days!"
So, Song Yang was kicked out of the house by Tong Qian the next day.
Finally, Song Yang and his entourage gradually walked away under the reluctant eyes of thousands of households in Ming Dynasty.
The old hunter's judgment was correct. It rained last night.
Although it is not big, the land is already moist.
Wild animal tracks are easier to detect.
The old hunter took everyone around the camp and found no footprints of the new tiger.
Then he led the team and headed all the way towards Lushan Mountain.
"This...is really a geological disaster!"
When we arrived at the foot of Lushan Mountain, there were rolling gravel everywhere, and the mountaintop in the distance was cracked directly in the middle.
It's like being hit with an ax by agarwood.
As for the Lushan Waterfall, it has long since disappeared.
Song Yang has been here in his previous life, and not only his previous life, but also his original self has been here many times in his memory.
But the scene in front of me was completely different from what I remembered.
"Alas! I didn't expect that all the beautiful scenery of Lushan Mountain would be ruined."
Fang Zhe on the side also sighed repeatedly.
As literati from Jiangzhou Prefecture, their favorite place to hold poetry gatherings was Lushan Mountain.
When I have nothing to do, I make an appointment with a few friends and come over to have a drink and write poetry.
It's better now. The beautiful scenery on Lushan Mountain has been ruined, and there are fewer places for them to relax.
That's not to say that the current scenery cannot be restored, but it seems too messy at the moment.
It will take several years for the vegetation to regenerate and the scenery to be rebuilt.
"There's a discovery!"
When Song Yang and Fang Zhe sighed at the remaining scenery of Mount Lushan.
Over there, the old hunter He Dayou discovered the traces of the beast.
"How is it? Is it a tiger?" Song Yang immediately approached him.
"Old... where is the tiger?"
Fang Zhe clenched his fists nervously and squeezed to Song Yang's side.
The old hunter was squatting there. There were several footprints in front of him, which seemed to have been left this morning.
The old hunter looked at it for a long time and frowned.
"It's not a tiger. These are the footprints of a leopard. It looks quite big."
"This location is only the entrance to Lushan Mountain. In previous years, jackals, tigers and leopards did not come here to roam."
"It seems there really isn't much food on the mountain."
When everyone heard that it was not a tiger, they were all a little discouraged.
But the old hunter said: "Leopards are also ferocious beasts! They can also eat people when they are hungry! Cheer up!"
"What Lao He said is, don't relax your mind and be careful."
Song Yang nodded and supported He Dayou's statement.
When you get to this place, it's your home field.
As a non-professional, Song Yang will never give random instructions.
The team cheered up and walked deeper into Lushan Mountain for another half an hour.
The old hunter suddenly stopped.
"Be careful, there should be two leopards nearby!" the old hunter pointed to the footprints on the ground and whispered.
Song Yang took a quick look and saw that the footprints on the ground were new and were no more than a quarter of an hour old.
"Hush!" The hunter gestured and raised his bow.
Then he signaled the first group and the second group to surround them from left to right.
Song Yang divided the ten-man group responsible for combat into two groups.
One group consisted of Song Yang and five sergeants.
The second group consisted of He Dayou and five sergeants.
The old hunter gave the order, and the two groups moved forward quietly, one on the left and the other on the right.
"Wow~"
"Wow~"
After walking a few steps, the cry of a leopard came over.
That's right, it's just wow...a rather cute sound.
But this is really not a cute beast, but a ferocious beast!
As it gets closer.
"Wow!" The voice got louder and louder.
Song Yang could clearly see a leopard lying on a small tree not far away.
There was another one under the tree that was circling around the tree and roaring upwards.
The two leopards were probably confronting each other, and there might be some food in the tree.
Far away, all members raised their bows and arrows.
It is difficult to shoot from this distance, but Song Yang is sure to hit the target.
So he aimed at the one in the tree.
Seeing Song Yang's gesture, the old hunter aimed his sights at the one under the tree.
"Boom!"
There was a sound from the bowstring, and arrows shot out.
"puff!"
The leopard on the tree fell down.
"Puff!"
The leopard under the tree was stunned, and two arrows hit his body.
"Walk!"
When the bow and arrow were fired, Song Yang had already moved.
He knew he was bound to hit the target.
When we got closer, the leopard that fell from the tree was already dead.
Song Yang's arrow hit the leopard's neck.
But the one under the tree still wanted to struggle to get up.
He was shot with two arrows, both in the torso.
There was a lot of foam in the blood flowing out of the arrow hole, and it must have been shot in the lungs.
"boom!"
The old hunter showed no mercy and ran over and killed the leopard with a stick.
Only then did everyone have time to look up at the top of the tree.
"Well done!"
Song Yang frowned and looked at the two leopards.
There was a half-year-old child hanging on the top of the tree.
The thin torso and the head drooped.
Everyone worked together to put the person down.
However, the child had already died. There was a wound on his neck, which must have been broken by a leopard.
Fortunately, the leopard hadn't had lunch yet, so Song Yang and the others arrived.
Finally, the child's body was returned intact.
After burning the body, Song Yang was in a bad mood.
This is an era where wild beasts eat humans.
If the world is not stabilized as soon as possible, people will continue to die at the mouth of wild beasts.
"My lord, I'll hit you..."
"Huh? I really hit it! That's great!"
Seeing them coming back, Fang Zhe was about to ask about the results of the hunting.
When I looked up, I saw two guardsmen carrying a leopard each.
"Why is the prince in a bad mood?"
Fang Zhe asked He Dayou quietly.
He Dayou told the story about the leopard killing people just now.
Fang Zhe also shook his head and sighed.
The next afternoon, everyone walked around in a large circle on Lushan Mountain.
They also caught a rabbit and two pheasants, which became Song Yang's lunch.
As for the ferocious beasts, they were not found.
No trace of the tiger was found.
"Your Majesty, Lao He. It's almost dark, where should we stay?" Fang Zhe asked, looking at the sun that was about to set.
"There is a village two miles ahead. The grassroots people used to stay there when they went hunting."
"I don't know if there is anyone there now."
He Dayou pointed at the guide and said.
Their current location is probably southwest of Mount Lu.
According to He Dayou, there is a mountain col going south with a village inside.
"Let's go and have a look." Song Yang nodded.
After an afternoon, he had cleared up his confusion and decided to completely eliminate the intrusion of the beast.
After walking along the rugged mountain road for a while, everyone saw a few wisps of smoke coming from the mountain col ahead.
"There's really someone! It's smoke!" Fang Zhe said excitedly.
This shows that the natural disaster did not completely destroy the village.
After walking for another quarter of an hour, a mountain col appeared in front of us, and there was a village in the mountain col.
Although there are ruins everywhere, there are more than a dozen families smoking.
On the way, He Dayou said that this village originally had forty households, with a population of about a hundred people.
When they arrived at the entrance of the village, Fang Zhe finally remembered.
He came here a few years ago, when he went to the countryside with the government to inspect.
"Your Majesty, I remembered it. This place is called Douping Village!"