Chapter 29: The New Year of October
The first day of the tenth lunar month, called the "October Dynasty", also known as the ancestor festival, is the big festival of the Han people, since ancient times, there is a custom of paying tribute to the ancestors during the harvest, in order to show filial piety, do not forget the original. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoIt is not only a festival where harvest ceremonies and harvest feasts are held, but it also represents the beginning of winter, after which the weather gradually gets colder, reminding people to prepare for the cold winter.
Heishui Village is a pure Han Chinese village with a population of less than 1,000, located deep in the mountains near the Heilong Mountains in Zhao's sphere of influence.
A few hundred miles away is where the small city of ink is located in the sphere of influence of Zhao State, the population of the small city is about 50,000 people, and its power just radiates to the surrounding villages and towns.
At this time, these soldiers are quite restless in the vicinity, and often this day also represents the beginning of the raids of the Southern Wilderness, because they need to store enough supplies for the winter. Therefore, from time to time, small groups of soldiers would go around plundering the grain reserves of various villages and towns, as well as cattle and sheep.
Some nearby Han villages are afraid of anger and dare not speak, because they are in the sphere of influence of Zhao State, they have to swallow their anger, and they are shrewd, knowing that they are avoiding the truth and hiding most of the materials, leaving only a small number of six animals on the surface, so as to avoid the other party from being angry and killing people to vent their anger because they did not plunder the materials, and secondly, they can keep most of the materials, which can be regarded as surviving in suffering.
Although the method is good, it is by no means a long-term solution, and with the intensification of the conflict between the three major forces in the Southern Wilderness, the appetite of the guards in the nearby small cities is also increasing, and they often draw their swords and hurt people when they have the slightest dissatisfaction with the various villages and towns under the small cities, which makes the people of the villages and towns panic.
There are villages that resist, but they have no choice but not enough strength, and they fight to die and the net is broken, and the jade is burned, and there are also villages that move to avoid their edge. But if there is even the slightest possibility of survival, who wants to be left without a trace and leave their homeland?
Therefore, the people of Heishui Village are always fighting hard and waiting for the day to prevent foreign invasions. Therefore, Heishui Village has always been a thorn in the eye of the local generals of the nearby Ink City, if it weren't for Shi Min who has been circling around the Black Dragon King City, the local generals stationed in the small city have been afraid of Shi Min's identity and have never dared to act rashly.
As the saying goes, flowers are not red for a hundred days, and people are not good for a thousand days. Although Shi Min's prestige has been unmatched in recent years, but the officialdom will inevitably encounter opposing forces after all, and there are higher-level officials above to hinder it, although the other party can't do anything about Shi Min, but under the cocoon, the relationship between Heishui Village and Shi Min can be found out at a glance, or because of the knock on the mountain and the tiger, a mysterious young figure came to the small city on this day......
At this time, everyone in Heishui Village was busy worshipping their ancestors, and the members of the hunting team were gearing up for the competition, and they all planned to show their skills.
As a good hunter, you can tame a tiger by taming dogs and horses, and you are not afraid to bind a dragon with the hand of an eagle. The deep mountains and dense forests are its ever-winning battlefields, and hundreds of birds and beasts are also the pioneers under the tent. As the so-called wind horn bow roars, Orion hunts deserted cities. The grass is withered, and the snow is light. Suddenly, the eagle was sad and returned to the Black Forest. Looking back at the place where the eagle was shot, thousands of miles of twilight clouds were flat.
Hunting bows, quivers or arrows are indispensable hunting tools for every good hunter, so riding and archery are indispensable in competitions.
The first day is the day of ancestor worship, bathing and fasting during the day, and the ancestor worship begins at night.
The second day is the day of the competition, which will be a test of riding and archery in the village square.
On the other side of the square, hundreds of arrows are hung high in the trees along the way, and then within the allotted time, the members of the hunting team can choose one of the nine animals to be tamed as a mount, and then the participants shoot from the opposite side of the square, riding and bending the bow to shoot arrows, each with their own arrows marked.
At the end of the competition, the ranking is based on the number of targets shot, and the winner will receive the title of the first hunter in the village, as well as a huge material reward. Everyone in the village is proud to have won the title of King Hunter. Back then, Shi Shouren and Shi Feng, the captain of the hunting team, were the people who won the title of King of Hunting.
The reward of the game is the inheritance weapon of Heishui Village, the three-star earth weapon Wanshi Bow. This bow is famous, it is made of rosewood, which is harder than steel but very light, and the bow body is excellent, and the bowstring is extraordinarily strong, and it is made of the tiger tendons of the white tiger of the southern wilderness, which weighs like a mountain.
The arrows of the Wanshi bow are also extraordinary, the tip of the arrow is carefully polished with the fangs of the wolf king, the sharp and narrow arrow tip is striking, but it exudes an irresistible attraction, even if the person who is not good at bending the bow will inevitably see the heart. The whole body of the arrow is scattered with a clear yellow light, which is mysterious and extraordinary.
If the new King Hunter can pass the test of the previous King Hunter, then the Wanshi Bow will be handed over to the new King Hunter by the previous King Hunter himself.
And this time, Shi Xin is bound to win the title of King Hunter......
Hearing Shi Shouyin say this, Xiao Yi patted the back of his head and suddenly realized: "I see!"
"Speaking of Shi Xin, the vice captain of the hunting team, and my father competed for the title of king of hunting, there is still a past. Shi Shouyin said mysteriously.
"Oh, what mysterious past?" Xiao Yi was also curious.
"Back then, although I was not very clear about many things because I was young, but that time the competition was clear, it is said that your father was the Dinghai Divine Needle in the village, and was called Xiao Daxia by many villagers, as one of the congenital masters who can count with one hand in the entire Southern Wilderness, at that time, there was an uncle sitting in Heishui Village, and the prestige of our village was unparalleled for a while, you must know that the three major forces in the Southern Wilderness were also three innate masters sitting in Wangcheng on the surface, you said that at that time our village was not domineering?" Shi Shouyin's voice changed and continued:
"However, I don't know what the reason was, Shi Xin has always been suspicious of his uncle, at that time I heard that my uncle instructed Uncle Shouren marksmanship, and also pointed out my father's swordsmanship, it is said that Shi Xin also learned swordsmanship, but he has been reluctant to let his uncle instruct, and later after my uncle left the village, Shi Xin also secretly ran to my father to learn swordsmanship. ”
"Even after my father handed over the swordsmanship to him, firstly, because he was much younger than my father, and secondly, my father was quite different from my uncle after all, so Shi Xin finally lost to my father in that battle for the king hunter, and it was precisely because it was my father who fought with him that I knew so clearly. It is said that at that time, Shi Xin swore that if he did not defeat my father for a day, he would not fight for the king for a day, and since he came to participate this time, I am afraid that he is full of confidence. ”
"Is it necessary to see the title of a mere king hunter so important?" Xiao Yi wondered.
"You don't understand this, this is not only a matter of honor, not to mention that you will get one percent of the resources in the village this year as a reward, but also be able to obtain the Wanshi Bow, the weapon of our town clan in Heishui Village. Shi Shouyin said with longing.
"It's just a three-star earthcraft, and it's not enough, right?" Xiao Yi frowned.
"Not only weapons, but also supporting exercises, it is said that there is a set of Xuan-level intermediate exercises, the Wind Chasing Arrow Method and the Wind Chasing Body Method. Now you understand, although the Xuan-level intermediate exercises are nothing between the three major countries. But with a complete set of martial arts exercises, that's another matter. Shi Shouyin explained carefully.
"Do you know? Even every time I want to cultivate, my rigid father has always hidden it, and he also said that he can't break the ancestral rules, and only the hunting king can be qualified to cultivate. Do you think he's old and stubborn?" Shi Shouyin said indignantly.
"Didn't you steal your studies?" Xiao Yi said curiously.
"Hehe, you still know me, but every time my old man is tightly covered, mysterious and secretive, I don't have a chance to steal from school!" Shi Shouyin said regretfully.
"Maybe Uncle Shi Feng feels that there are no rules, and he has his own reasons for doing this. Xiao Yi comforted.
"Hmph, that's because you don't know the situation, you must know that it was said that the Lord of Zhao wanted to hit the attention of our town clan, and at that time it was not because he didn't care about your father, you said that if all of us practiced that set of exercises, how good would it be to become stronger? Now that my uncle has been missing for more than a year, I am afraid that many people with a heart have gradually lost it, I am afraid that at this time, someone will throw stones to ask for directions, and now our village does not have top combat power, and it will ......be miserable at that time," Shi Shouyin worried.
"The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, things may not be as bad as imagined, and with Brother Shi Min maneuvering in the Black Dragon King City, I am afraid that even if he wants to attack our village, he will not act blatantly and recklessly. ”
"I'm afraid that some people's ideas can't be stopped by Shi Min's will, such as the crown prince Shi Xuan, such as Qin Gong Shi Tao, and even the country lord Shi Hu, there are too many. Shi Shouyin shook his head and said.
The two looked at each other and sighed. Xiao Yi secretly clenched his hands, seeing that the situation was becoming more and more urgent, and hearing the news of his father again, he secretly decided that he must speed up his cultivation and strive to improve his realm......
"Don't talk about this, by the way, Brother Shouyin, it stands to reason that you and Uncle Shouren should be of the same generation, why do you also call him uncle?" Xiao Yi saw that the atmosphere was a little heavy, so he changed the topic and deliberately gossiped.
"Uh...... I really don't want to mention it, first, because my grandfather got married late, and then I added the old man and my grandfather was old, and Uncle Shouren and his father married and had children early, so the old man and him were a generation apart in age, so in the end, Uncle Shouren was older than my father. Although he is a generation younger than my father in terms of generation, the person who practices martial arts is the first, and Uncle Shouren's martial arts realm is higher than that of me and the old man, so the old man of my family has to sulk alone, and he can only take advantage of it verbally, don't tell my old man about this!"
"How can it!" Xiao Yi said with a dry smile.
"You don't know, when I was a child, I was ignorant, I called Brother Shouren in front of everyone, and I was beaten by the old man of my family, saying that I was not big or small, but as soon as I got home, the old man of my family grinned happily, as if he took advantage of it, he was happy, but my ass still hurt faintly, I was beaten many times, and I had a long memory, so I didn't dare to call Brother Shouren anymore, so I had to call Uncle Shouren like everyone else!"
Xiao Yi snickered, it seems that he was indeed scared when he was a child, and he formed a conditioned reflex.