Chapter 421: Family Hunting
The topic of everyone's talk has long been away from games and learning, and most of the time they are talking about how this year's harvest is, whose craftsmanship is better, which girl is more handsome, and whether there is a betrothal or not. Brother Ruthless has more and more nothing to say to everyone, and he is becoming more and more estranged from them.
Now among his childhood playmates, only six or seven royal nobles such as Jing Mei, Poor Cicada, and Three Faces are still drinking and talking with him from time to time, and he also has other friends, those who have not had a relationship with him before, and have been mainly learning martial arts since childhood.
The teenagers and girls who have been learning martial arts since they were children are relatively weak in spells among their peers in the clan, and there are many people who are much older than Brother Ruthless but still won't become human. They are all descendants of the hunter family, all of them are bold and generous, so they don't take the difference between adults and children seriously at all, they only care about who has higher martial arts and who catches more prey to decide who is more respected.
Brother Ruthless mingled with them, practiced martial arts and hunting, ate meat and drank wine in large bowls, as if he was living in heaven, and he always regretted that he didn't come to live this kind of life earlier, and he had long forgotten about his friends who studied spells together.
"Brother ruthless, are you ready?" asked the charm as she tightened the rope on her armor as she inhaled deeply.
"Ready...... Brother Lu dragged out his voice, gave him a blank look, and kept instructing him to do this and that, "You've asked eight times, are you annoyed." β
The three sides also stood nervously and trembled, this was the first time he wore armor in his life, and he didn't know how to tie the rope on the armor at all, so he muttered, grabbed the two straps one in front and one in the back, and prepared to tie them together: "Forget it, don't care about him so much, just tie a knot!"
"Hey, Sanmian, if you tie it like that, you'll fall off as soon as you run," Brother Ruthless came to help him after helping Wei Mei get it, while complaining, "What are you shaking all the time!"
"I ...... I'm nervous, I'm ...... We are all ...... Very nervous. The poor cicada trembled even more beside him, and even the armor he had worn at home before coming made a rattling sound because he was shivering. Here he was the most nervous, and the hairs on his body stood up one by one.
Brother ruthless poured a glass of water and handed it to him: "Don't be nervous, it's no big deal!"
"Aren't you nervous when you go hunting for the first time?" Charm took the half-drunk cup of the poor cicada and drank it, but her hands were still shaking, and the water in the cup was about to splash out.
In fact, it was not only the two of them who were so nervous, there were more than thirty teenagers and girls of the same age gathered in this room, and they all looked similar to the charm and the poor cicada, excited and nervous.
Most of the hunting in the tribe is done by the hunters, but if a large group of prey is found, the hunters and their children are of course the main force, and if they are not enough together, they will gather the adult men and women of the tribe to form a large hunting party.
Although they have also learned martial arts since they were children, they have never been in battle in person, and this is also the first time that they have gone out hunting as adults, and they are very nervous.
The people gathered in this room are all freshmen, and only Brother Ruthless is not nervous. He has been with hunters all these years, and hunting is easier for him than anything else. He constantly gave them advice and comfort.
"There's nothing to be afraid of hunting! The last time we went hunting whack-a-mole, I caught such a big one!" he gestured with his hand to a length of about four feet, "although it is not large, but the fur is pure white, which is very rare, and I heard that you can exchange it for a cart of silk and a few carts of wood on the ground! β
"Really?"
"You killed it!"
"When?"
"Why should I lie to you!" said Brother Ruthless smugly.
"Brother ruthless, you are really the best!"
The poor cicada pouted: "What's amazing, it's really unjust, and I didn't call a few of us to hunt a few more times earlier, so as not to be so nervous now." β
Everyone nodded in agreement: "That's it, it's really unjust, we must confiscate your white gopher skin." Then sell it for wine and drink it up, as if you apologize to us. β
"I'll tell you, don't be nervous when you see the gopher...... Brother Ruthless began to pass on his experience to everyone, and although he was talking about the clichΓ©s that the elders had said hundreds of times, his friends still listened with relish.
The conversation between them attracted some unpleasant glances. Cang Shu and Kui Yu have been sitting in the corner and looking at Brother Ruthless coldly, they are now doing some work in the school as Wen Ziming's students to teach children, which is a very respected job among the clan, and it also makes them very proud, and they feel that the people around them look at them differently.
What's more, they can now reprimand Brother Ruthless as adults and teachers, and remind Brother Ruthless, the so-called genius, that he is still far inferior to the two brothers in terms of spells.
So as soon as they saw Brother Ruthless's high-spirited appearance in front of everyone, they were very angry, and they couldn't stand the feeling of just surpassing Brother Ruthless in one field, but he was running quickly in front of them from another place.
But the two brothers were silent, they pretended not to be nervous or to feel anything, and more dissatisfaction with Brother Ruthless was brewing in their hearts. It's not just these two brothers who have this kind of thinking about Brother Ruthless.
"He is worthy of being his father's favorite son, even people will not change, so he can go hunting with everyone, I don't know how many elders will be required to protect him. β
"There are so many children of the father, there is still nothing left to protect him in a circle, don't worry!"
"Hahaha, then we should stay away from him, don't let everyone mistake us for a black-haired child like him. β
"Haha......" Several voices emerged from the crowd, and in such a tense atmosphere, they took the sarcasm as a relief.
Brother Ruthless raised his eyebrows, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, but they couldn't swallow this breath, and walked over to the loudest talker, Brother Ruthless grabbed him and shook his head: "Now I will be laughed at by adults when I see them in general, and I will clean them up after hunting." β
"At that point, give them some color and see. Glenched her teeth and glared at them, clenching her fists.
"Of course. Brother Ruthless laughed maliciously.
Of course, those princes didn't know Brother Ruthless's plans, and when they saw that he was silent, they kept talking there.
"Okay! This is going hunting, what are you arguing about!" Yuzu, the eldest son of the eldest son, stood up and scolded them, "And you, Brother Ruthless! You stand at the back, children don't get in the way of adults, so that everyone will be distracted from taking care of you later." β
Prince Yuzu didn't want to ridicule or look down on Brother Ruthless like everyone else, he liked to treat him in the way that adults teach children, which is also the reason why Brother Ruthless is most convinced by Prince Yuzu.
"Hmph. Brother Ruthless shrugged at a few of his best friends.
"Bang. The door was pushed open with a bang, and a group of people of the same age as the boys and girls in the house swarmed in, all of them were hunters' children, and they were the new force of the hunt, all of them in neat armor, and they held their own well-trained weapons in their hands, and they looked full of confidence.
"Brother ruthless, why are you hiding here, there are so many things to prepare! Just leave the matter of protecting the novice to the prince Yuzu and them!" The leading young man is tall and strong, and he also has a big voice, patting the ruthless brother and shouting: "This time we have to compete with each other!"
"Who is afraid of whom!" Brother Ruthless raised his eyebrows, "Don't forget, I still have a ground python against you!"
"I must surpass you this time!"
"I don't know until I compare!"
The two teenagers each raised their necks and slammed their palms, and the surrounding partners coaxed each other, and they immediately brought a burst of vitality to the tense room.
"You don't have to be nervous, it's nothing if you can't catch the prey, it's different, there is no charm, we can't sell the hunt for money, there is no poor cicada, where does our armor come from. Bo Wei patted the charm with one hand, and patted the poor cicada with the other and said loudly to everyone, "So I and Brother Ruthless will fight everyone back, and when the time comes, we will share meat and drink the same wine, there is nothing to be afraid of!"
His words immediately drew a cheer, and everyone began to talk and laugh, and the atmosphere became lively, and the group of young hunters interspersed with everyone, pointing out this and comforting that. Everyone relaxed a lot in the face of these peers, even those who challenged the ruthless brother, looking at this group of wolf-like warriors, there were also many teenagers and girls who were not adults, so they didn't dare to squeak.
An adult clansman pushed the door in and shouted: "Brother ruthless, you come out, the priest's son is sick and can't come today, you go and join the front team in place of him, pay attention to the search, but don't just fight yourself if you find prey, you know?"
"Okay, I'll go to the front team!" Brother Ruthless immediately jumped onto the roof.
Bo Wei immediately squeezed to the front and raised his hands and shouted: "I, I'll go with Brother Ruthless!"
"Uncle...... the adult looked him up and down, "you are the most experienced of the little brothers...... Then the task of taking care of these newbies is left to you, do a good job!"
"Ah......h
"Hahahaha," the ruthless brother laughed and ran out of the door happily.
"It's not fair, hey, ruthless brother, you come back for me, I'll change it with you!" Bo Wei clapped his hands behind and shouted, but ruthless brother had already run away.
This time, the tribesmen went out in a big way, and they wanted to hunt a large group of gophers. This group of gophers at least more than 100 people, not long ago lived in a group less than 30 miles away from the town of the tribe, gophers generally live in a family unit, the most common is a group of three or five, no more than 30, like the such a large group of rats found this time, even the old people in the tribe have never heard of it.
This season is the time when the gopher fur is thick and the meat is at its most delicious, and it is also an important time for the tribe to trade with the ground, so the tribe is ready to launch a large-scale hunt to stock up on the winter meat at one time.
The number of the clansmen's vanguard team is not large, no more than ten, but they are responsible for the task of searching for prey and improvising and commanding the overall situation, which is the most important part of the hunting team.
This time, because the Emperor and the princesses were together, they were replaced by other warriors, and Brother Ruthless was also arranged in it, not only to let him take the opportunity to learn experience, but most importantly, everyone is confident that Brother Ruthless can play a great role in the forward team in the absence of Emperor Zhuan.
Now the members of the forward team are running in the land without any passages, although Brother Ruthless is extremely excited, he still keeps calm, and always runs in the middle of the team with neither fast nor slow steps, that is, he rushes to the front without showing off, and he has never fallen behind and become a burden to everyone.
When they were about to reach the range of the gopher swarm, the clansmen's steps slowed down, and a sniper probably sensed that there was a killing machine he liked, and hid in a hole to peek out.
The tribesmen didn't like this kind of monster that could start a fight, and they didn't want him to appear on the hunt that was about to take place, so one of the tribesmen waved his hand and released a throwing knife, nailing the sniper to the hole.
"Brother ruthless, go and bring him over, he can be regarded as a prey anyway. An adult said to Brother Ruthless.