Guo Song's casual words solved a knot in Gan Lei's mind for many years, why his master was sometimes very kind to him over the years, and sometimes so cold and unkind. This should be what Guo Song said, the master was training.
one's own will.
After thinking about this, Gan Lei suddenly felt relieved in his heart, and any trace of contempt and dissatisfaction he felt towards Guo Song disappeared.
A fat man is a fat man. No matter how vicious his appearance is, once you look at him correctly, his boastful nature will be revealed.
"Junior brother, I'm not very good at rules. I think the rules set by Zixiao Tiangong are just a bunch of shit. Why should we give them the game we worked so hard to hunt?"
Guo Song thought for a while and said: "Master told me that we need to exchange daily necessities with them."
Gan Lei had a sarcastic smile on his face, "Then you are wrong. The only daily necessities we exchanged with Zixiao Tiangong were salt and oil. They were all exchanged for firewood and have nothing to do with game."
"why?"
"The old bastards at Zixiao Temple believe that Kongtong Mountain is their territory, and other wild Taoists who practice here must pay rent to them, so they set rents for each Taoist temple. We at Qingxu Temple have to pay rent to them every year.
Hand over two hundred pieces of wild game, thirty of which must be big ones."
"Just pay the rent?"
Guo Song smiled and said: "Brother, things are not that simple!"
Gan Lei saw that Guo Song was much smarter than he thought and was not easily fooled. He cursed the little fox in his heart and said angrily: "Of course, there is also the Taoist priest's ultimatum. Our monk's ultimatum is given by Zixiao Tiangong.
If we apply to the imperial court and break the rules they set, they can cancel our ultimatum at any time."
That's pretty much it. Zixiao Tiangong uses its own privileges to control various Taoist temples in Kongtong Mountain, and turning over prey is just a means of control.
"Senior brother, do I also have an ultimatum?" Guo Song asked curiously.
"You should have it too. Master has already done it for you, but you won't be able to get it until next year."
Guo Song secretly thought in his heart, wondering if Zixiao Tiangong would still be willing to issue an ultimatum for him after he beat Zhang Huer yesterday?
At this moment, a ray of cold light flew out of Gan Lei's hand, and with a loud hiss, a flying hare was nailed to the root of a tree thirty steps away by a flying knife.
Gan Lei laughed and stepped forward to take off the hare. The hare was very fat and weighed at least seven or eight pounds. He weighed it and smiled at Guo Song and said, "We are lucky today. We will have a good lunch."
He threw the hare into Guo Song's back basket, showed off his skills with a knife, and said triumphantly: "How about it, the flying knife is pretty good! Do you want me to teach you how to use it?"
Guo Song was unmoved. He glanced sideways at the hare and asked calmly: "Brother, are you sure you don't need to take this hare back?"
Gan Lei raised his eyebrows and said, "I'll kill a weasel later and take it back for a mission. I'll stink those old bastards to death."
After saying that, he suddenly felt something. He looked around, licked his lips and said, "The wind is blowing. This is a good sign. Maybe we can catch the big guy today."
He waved his hand and said, "We won't go to the back mountain today. We'll look for food here."
As the saying goes: If you rely on the mountains, you will eat the mountains; if you rely on the water, you will eat the water.
Since they live in the Kongtong Mountains with extremely rich vegetation, as long as they are not picky, there are many edible mountain products, such as various small animals, various wild fruits, various mushrooms, various edible plant roots, and various
Plant wild vegetables.
Of course, you must be careful. The natural world is also full of dangers. All kinds of beasts, poisonous snakes, poisonous insects, poisonous mushrooms, etc., you will encounter if you are not careful.
Guo Song dug out a thick fern root, and a large, colorful red-headed centipede, which was more than 20 centimeters long, emerged from the soil and climbed onto his arm. Guo Song was startled and shook his hand.
, throwing the centipede ten feet away.
"Don't step on it!"
Gan Lei rushed over like a gust of wind, took out a small bamboo tube from his arms, picked it up with a knife, and the centipede got into the bamboo tube. He plugged the mouth of the bamboo tube and said with a smile: "This is a good medicine. Martial arts practitioners must
Used.”
His eyes suddenly widened, he looked at a fern root in Guo Song's hand that was as thick as a baby's arm, and exclaimed: "You are such a lucky boy! I have been digging fern roots for ten years, and this is the first time I have seen such a big root.
"
He stepped around in a circle and said repeatedly: "No! No! The bracken here has been growing for at least ten years. We are lucky today!"
The two of them worked together to dig out hundreds of fern roots around them. The smallest ones were as thick as a thumb. The harvest was very rich.
The fern roots are dried and ground into powder, which is an edible starch. The black stuff in their rice is fern root powder.
They had a good harvest today. In just half a day, they collected more than half a basket of fern roots, packed another basket of bracken, and dug five or six yams.
The prey is a rabbit, two hedgehogs, and a grass snake.
Gan Lei was in a good mood, so he took out the rabbit and disembowelled it. Guo Song found a pile of wood and the two prepared to barbecue.
Suddenly, Gan Lei felt something. He stretched out his finger and said, "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
Guo Song sniffed and smelled nothing except the bloody smell of the rabbit on Gan Lei's hand.
Gan Lei's expression suddenly changed. He gently pulled Guo Song and winked back. When Guo Song turned around, he was so frightened that he saw a black bear standing more than ten steps behind him. He stood up to two meters tall.
, with a strong physique and small eyes staring at him coldly.
"Run!"
Gan Lei shouted, turned around, threw the rabbit at the black bear, and ran away.
Guo Song was worried. Shouldn't he lie down and pretend to be dead at this time? How could they outrun the black bear? But he forgot for a moment that fat senior brother didn't have to outrun the black bear, as long as he could outrun him, Guo Song.
Guo Song ran wildly after Gan Lei. They were still at least 150 steps away from the nearest big tree. Guo Song was almost desperate.
At this time, Guo Song already understood why his senior brother ran away. Lying down and pretending to be dead was only useful to a well-fed bear. But this black bear had just woken up from hibernation and was so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back. He didn't care about life and death. The rabbit was now
This became the key to whether they could escape this disaster.
The hungry black bear was indeed attracted by the bloody smell of the rabbit. It was not in a hurry to chase the two men. Instead, it picked up the rabbit on the ground, threw it into its mouth and chewed it up. However, it was far from being able to satisfy its hunger.
He chased the two men wildly. At this time, the two men had already run a hundred steps away.
Although Gan Lei ran as fast as lightning, Guo Song was still young, so he slowed down the two of them slightly.
The black bear ran at an astonishing speed. It only took six seconds to sprint 100 meters. In just a moment, it was getting closer and closer to the two of them. Boom! Boom! The ground was shaking, and the black bear was getting closer and closer.
The two of them ran for more than ten steps, and there was a big tree in front of them. Gan Lei suddenly grabbed Guo Song's collar and threw it upward, "Grab the big tree!"
Guo Song felt himself rising into the air. Without thinking, he hugged the tree trunk and climbed up with all his strength. He knew that the black bear had just finished its hibernation, which was the most dangerous time.
He climbed several feet in one breath before looking back with lingering fear.
But there was no sign of senior brother Gan Lei, nor was there a black bear.
"I'm here!"
When Guo Song heard the shouting in front of him, he saw his senior brother. He climbed up another big tree. The black bear was leaning on the trunk under him, rubbing its back against the trunk, and the leaves were shaking.
Sound.
Guo Song quickly shouted: "Senior brother, can you try the flying knife and see if you can shoot through his head or heart?"
Gan Lei snorted, "What are you doing by shooting it? It's not just to make the Zixiao Tiangong gang easier!"
"Don't we still have thirty big guys every year?"
"All you need to do is deal with foxes and wolves. Anyway, the meat is smelly and unpalatable, and the fur will be torn by them."
Guo Song was really helpless, his senior brother had a temper.
Speaking of wolves and foxes, Gan Lei suddenly thought of something, rolled his eyes a few times, and shouted to Guo Song: "Stay in the tree, I will take Brother Xiong to visit the neighbors, and I will be back soon."
"Brother, you can't outrun the black bear!" Guo Song shouted anxiously.
"Don't worry! You can't outrun it in the wilderness, but there will be no problem in the rocks. I know it well."
Gan Lei jumped down from the tree, kicked the bear hard on the back of the head, then flipped back to the ground and ran into the woods. There were a lot of rocks in the woods, big and small.
It's about ten feet tall, and even the smallest ones are as high as a person's knees. This rocky belt is several miles long.
The black bear never dreamed that the opponent would tease him like this. He grabbed the opportunity, roared angrily, and chased after him. Despite Gan Lei's obesity, without Guo Song's drag, he ran as fast as the wind and lightning, and he was especially experienced.
It doesn't run in a straight line, it runs in an S-shape.
The black bear was constantly blocked by rocks and woods, and could not move any faster. It was impossible to catch up with him for a while, and the two big fat men, one man and one bear, gradually ran away.
Guo Song jumped down from the tree, packed up his basket and tools, climbed up the tree again and looked into the distance. After waiting for an hour, Guo Song was so hungry that his chest pressed against his back, and finally he saw the fat man Gan Lei.
He came back triumphantly, dragging something in his hands.
"Brother, are you okay?"
"Junior brother, you are so lucky today, look what is this?"
Guo Song was immediately startled. In Gan Lei's hands were two thin, bloody wolves, both small in size, dragged back by their tails.
"Brother, what's going on?"
"I led Brother Bear to the wolf's cave. The mother wolf was raising her cubs, which resulted in a wolf-bear war. Fatty and I benefited from this. Seven or eight wolves surrounded the black bear. Two were beaten to death by the black bear, and the others ran away.
The black bear was injured and left, so these two dead wolves gave me an advantage."
Guo Song was speechless for a long time. He really admired this insidious and cunning fat senior brother. He was bold and thought of leading the bear into the wolf den. I am afraid that no one else in the world would dare to do this except him.
Gan Lei saw that it was getting late, so he smiled and said: "That's it for today, let's go back!"