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After eating, it was evening, the hot sky had gone out, and the moon was showing its face.

Zhou Bo took the bow and arrows and ropes that had been prepared, and ran towards the red leaf forest in the west, and disappeared after a while, as fast as a vigorous cheetah shuttling through the forest.

There are many poisonous snakes and beasts growing in the red leaf forest, so people in the vicinity generally do not dare to enter and exit casually, and only a small number of hunters will move around the periphery.

Due to the dry weather, it is also very hot and humid in the autumn leaves. ……

When he came to the forest, Zhou Bo began to use various means and tools to skillfully arrange traps.

In less than a quarter of an hour's work, more than 20 different kinds of traps, such as "pits", "pedals", "lassoes", "hidden stabs" and many "chain sets", were set up in this forest, which was really murderous. These are all things that Zhou Bo has been preparing for several days, and what he wants to hunt today is the iron-backed black bear, which is known as the most ferocious beast in this forest.

The iron-backed black bear is very tall, not only powerful and lethal, but also very fast, and is one of the most ferocious of the bears. Zhou Tan once hunted such a black bear, the situation at that time was very dangerous, almost became the mouth of the black bear's food, although the final victory, but also paid a great price, seriously injured, fortunately his wife's careful care, lying in bed for more than half a month to recover.

Hunting an ironback bear is a sign of being a good hunter. Zhou Bo set the goal of hunting when he was eleven years old, but Zhou Tan did not agree at that time, feeling that he was not mature enough and lacked in all aspects. After some discussion, Zhou Tan finally decided to let Zhou Bo pass his test before he could hunt black bears.

Perhaps, Zhou Bo is a natural hunter, and now Zhou Bo's hunting skills have surpassed Zhou Tan in his prime, especially in his comprehension and use of traps, which is already perfect, so his father agreed to this operation. Although Zhou Tan had experience in hunting black bears, he was not prepared to tell Zhou Bo because he thought it was also a kind of exercise.

Although it was the first time to challenge such a strong beast, this time Zhou Bo was very well prepared, so he didn't have a trace of nervousness, just the excitement of challenging the difficulty.

After everything was ready, Zhou Bo first sprinkled the red fox's flesh around the trap, because the red fox's flesh was very attractive to the black bear.

After crouching on the trunk of a tree far away from the trap and covering his body with leaves, his eyes began to look at the situation below......

Sure enough, after a while, after the black bear smelled the scent of the red fox's flesh and blood, he walked over looking left and right. After looking at the surrounding environment, there was no danger now, and then sniffed with his nose, and there was no smell of people nearby, so he walked to the food with confidence and began to eat full......

Zhou Bo saw that the black bear had relaxed his vigilance, so he stared at the height of his concentration and prepared to act. Suddenly, the muscles of the whole body tightened, raised the big bow in his hand, skillfully put on the two wooden arrows and pulled them into a full circle, and suddenly let go without aiming.

I saw that under the moonlight, two black shadows flew out in a hurry and shot towards the black bear who was eating.

The black bear was enjoying his meal when he suddenly became alert and instinctively wanted to step back, but before he could move his steps, two wooden arrows had already penetrated deep into his eyes. The degree is so fast, the strength is great, the movements are skillful, the calculations are accurate, everything is in an instant, even if the martial arts master is here, he will be amazed by the arrow just now.

"Roar—roar—"

A few beast roars startled a forest finch, making the deep forest even more terrifying.

The intense pain caused the black bear to destroy it at all costs, and the huge bear paw smashed off one tree after another. In this way, Zhou Bo was aroused......

A few chain traps were laid out, making it even more painful to add to its own injuries.

In order to keep the fur intact as much as possible, Zhou Bo did not use sharp weapons to set up traps, so he tossed for nearly two hours before the black bear lay down exhausted.

Looking at the wolf branches and leaves on the ground and the traps that had been destroyed, Zhou Bo had to sigh secretly, this black bear is really powerful and tenacious.

Although there was some sigh in his heart, Zhou Bo still slid down from the tree neatly, and carefully dived towards the tired black bear with his hunting tools......

Just as Zhou Bo was about to approach the black bear, the black bear suddenly stood up and pounced on Zhou Bo vigorously. Its body was definitely not an order of magnitude compared to Zhou Bo's stature, and its huge body was simply twice the height of Zhou Bo, completely enveloping him in shadows.

This is the black bear's counterattack before he died, and Zhou Tan was seriously injured precisely because of this.

This sudden change shocked Zhou Bo's heart, but he was not in a hurry, as a successful hunter, calm reaction is the key to survival in danger.

Zhou Bo made a decision in an instant, instead of retreating, he rushed forward, took a wrong step, slid to the right side of the bear's paw, and narrowly avoided the black bear's attack.

But it's not over yet, Zhou Bo dodged the black bear's attack at the moment, his right foot hit the ground hard, and he turned his body around, returning to the black bear, at this time, the black bear's forward pounce was exhausted, and he couldn't step forward to attack, and Zhou Bo concentrated the strength of his whole body to his right fist, and by the degree of rotation, he hit the black bear's throat accurately and powerfully.

"Click!" a crisp crack, especially loud in the silent night.

In the moonlight, the figures of a tall and a short figure overlapped, and then slowly separated. I saw that the tall figure was pressed heavily on the ground.

"Bump!", a pile of dust was splashed, and the black bear never moved again. Then the silence of the forest returned.

……

Dragging the heavy prey back home, although Zhou Bo was not injured, he was extremely tired physically and mentally, so he didn't say anything, just took a long breath, threw the carcass of the black bear to his father to take care of, and walked to the house himself.

Seeing this, Zhou Tan couldn't help but praise in his heart: "This kid is not injured, he is really promising!"

……

After returning to the room, Zhou Bo did not lie down immediately, although he was now exhausted, he still insisted on sitting cross-legged on the kang bed, closing his eyes quietly, feeling everything around him.

I silently recited the "Heart Sutra" in my heart, and there was a great frequency between one breath and one breath......

This set of pranayama was comprehended five years ago from Mr. Wan's "Medical Sutra", called "Heart Sutra".

In the "Book of Medicine", there are many ways to maintain health, and long-term practice can make people healthy to get rid of illness and pain, and quickly recover physical strength. According to his own situation, under the guidance of Mr. Wan, Zhou Bo combined these health preservation methods into a set of systematic exercise methods.

This "Heart Sutra" is not long, there are only three paragraphs in total, but it contains the understanding and interpretation of life by the older generation, it can not only make the body healthy, calm the mind, and Zhou Bo has felt that his strength has become greater and greater in recent years, and even his reaction has become more and more keen, so until now, insisting on continuous recitation and practice of "Heart Sutra" has become his habit, and it can also be said to be a part of life.

Time flies by......

I don't know how long I vomited, Zhou Bo slowly opened his eyes and felt the state of his whole body, from the top of his head to the soles of his feet, every part of his body was full of motivation and comfortable.

After getting up, he walked to the window and looked up at the sky, which was already twilight. Feeling the beginning of a new day, his heart was full of hope, and everything seemed to be full of life in his eyes.

……

Outside the house, the fragrance of rice wafted through, and my father got up early to prepare breakfast, and then squatted aside, silently weaving the mesh......

"Xiaobo, I did a good job yesterday, but I was much better than my dad back then. Haha~~~" Seeing Zhou Bo come out, his father praised loudly, and his face was full of pride.

Zhou Bo shook his head and said gloomily: "Dad, if your foot hadn't hurt, I think you would have done better than me, but it's all to blame for my ...... back then" He was about to say more, but was interrupted by his father waving his hand.

Zhou Tan sighed: "Don't feel guilty, I haven't regretted it, you are the hope of me and your mother." And you didn't disappoint us, I think your mother thought the same way!"

Looking up at the sky, he continued: "It's getting late, let's get to work! Next time I go to the city, I will take this black bear skin and sell it, this complete skin should be able to sell for a good price." After a pause, he said, "By the way, after finishing the work, you will divide half of the food you brought back yesterday and bring it to Mr. Wan and them with these bear meats." After saying that, he continued to concentrate on knitting the mesh.

"Okay. Zhou Bo nodded in response, very happy. When he thought of Mr. Wan, Zhou Bo's heart was full of gratitude and respect. Because, it was this Mr. Wan who saved his father's life back then.

Taking a deep breath of fresh air, Zhou Bo felt the early morning time. He hoped that it would always be like this......

Fine.

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Coming to the small forest not far from home, Zhou Bo took off his upper clothes, carefully put it aside, and then walked towards a three-person thick tree.

Don't look at Zhou Bo's thinness, the dark and strong muscles on his body are exposed, but it makes people feel full of explosive power. Gently close your eyes and feel everything around you, then take a deep breath.

"Let's get started. ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw Zhou Bo's hand move, and he took out the woodcutter behind his waist and cut it towards the big tree!

"Peng—"

"Peng-Peng-Peng-"

……

In the forest, Zhou Bo kept wielding the firewood knife, the movements were very simple and slow, but it was very calm and accurate, and each stroke fell in the same position as the previous one. This seems to be a few simple strokes, but if you want to carry a knife of dozens of catties, swing it back and forth, and the knife is in place, people who do not have a certain skill cannot do it at all.

As time passed, Zhou Bo's swing began to speed up, and the splashes of wood chips flew all over the sky, making the surrounding vision more and more blurred. And these sawdust didn't seem to affect his movements, and Zhou Bo, who was still in a state of emptiness, closed his eyes, completely controlling the movement of his body by feeling. The knife became faster and faster, and the body and hands kept twisting, and the wood knife became a blur in the sawdust......

This is a set of simple knife styles, strictly speaking, it is not even a knife method, because the whole process only has five simple actions of "chopping, chopping, turning, racking, and playing", which is just the cooperation of the body and the formation of repeated swings. But these five actions are Zhou Bo's strongest means of dealing with wild beasts! Of course, they are also the best way to chop wood.

……

As the sky became brighter and brighter, after the knife in his hand stopped, the sawdust in the sky slowly regained its calm, and only then did Zhou Bo's thin figure appear. At this time, there was an empty village around him, and the ground was full of firewood.

Wiping the sweat on his body with his clothes, Zhou Bo looked up at the sky, then piled all the wood together, tied it with a rope, carried it on his shoulder, and returned the same way.

The weight of the firewood didn't slow him down much, but each step was much heavier and steady.

……

There is a flowing river outside Ningxian County, and people can't remember how long it has a history, only that it has been nurturing the land and people in Ningxian County, even if it is now a drought, it is still silently paying.

Liushui Village is located not far from the Liushui River, and there are dozens of farmhouses in the whole village, and it is also very quiet.

Although the people here live a hard life, they are living well, especially in the dry season, which is even more harmonious and peaceful. It's just that every time Zhou Bo walks here, he has an indescribable disgust in his heart, or rejection.

……

Outside the thatched cottage at the end of the village, an old man is seriously taking care of the medicine field, and he is what people call Mr. Wan.

This Mr. Wan, formerly known as Wan Liuhuai, is seventy or eighty years old, and used to be an official of the imperial court, but because of the persecution of the people in the court, he lost his relatives and had nowhere to go, and later wandered around to practice medicine. Five years ago, Mr. Wan passed by Liushui Village and happened to meet Zhou Tan who was iron-headed......

The snake bitten him, so he saved Zhou Tan's life. In order to repay him for saving his life, Zhou Tan's father and son erected a simple grass house for the old gentleman at the end of the village, and let Zhou Bo come to visit him often.

At the beginning, when Mr. Wan first moved in, the people in the village were still very reluctant and shouted for him to leave. But as soon as people heard that Mr. Wan was not only knowledgeable, but also able to heal people, everyone accepted it happily and even showed great respect. You know, in a place like the countryside, you can not respect the gentleman who teaches, but you must respect the doctor who sees a doctor, after all, people can't starve to death if they don't study, but everyone will get sick sometimes, right?

……

After a while, a little girl walked out of the thatched house, and after gesturing at Mr. Wan, she obediently followed the old man to collect the morning dew in the medicine field.

Wan Ya'er is an orphan who appeared five years ago when Mr. Wan was washing medicine in the Flowing Water River. At that time, she was floating on the water, her whole body was soaked, and after she woke up, Mr. Wan appeared, it turned out that the little girl was born mute, and she couldn't remember the past, Mr. Wan felt that she was pitiful, and he had no relatives to accompany him, so he left her behind, and recognized her as a granddaughter, nicknamed Ya'er, and the same age as Zhou Bo.

The rising sun shines little by little, making the originally smoked village seem so harmonious and quiet, with a kind of tranquility and far-reaching, faint and bright ambition.

At this time, a figure on the village road gradually approached.

On the village road, Zhou Bo strode over with a large bag of things.

Every time he saw the old and young people having their own fun, his heart was always filled with a kind of warmth, and the smile was unconsciously imprinted on his face.

Xiao Ya'er, who was working, turned around and saw Zhou Bo, and hurriedly put down the jar in her hand and ran towards her grandfather.

The little girl tugged at Grandpa's thank you's sleeve, and then pointed to Zhou Bo who was standing in the distance, and then ran towards the other party happily.

"Oh, why is Bo here today? I guess he came to see my old man. Haha~~~ "Mr. Wan has a white head, a long beard, a red face, and a white cloth all his life.

Zhou Bo affectionately touched Xiao Ya'er's head, patted the things on her body and said, "I had a good harvest yesterday, and my father asked me to bring some to you." ”

"Hehe, then you're welcome...... How's your father doing now?"

"It's still the same, and it can only temporarily suppress the toxicity. ”

While the two were talking, Mr. Wan took Xiao Ya'er and led Zhou Bo into the thatched house.