Chapter Seventy-Four: The Tough Mountain People
When the two village women heard that there was a wild wolf near the pavilion, their eyes immediately lit up, and they ran out in a hurry, and Shumin and his party were dumbfounded.
After a while, though, they all returned.
"Why are you so excited when you hear that there are wild wolves?" asked Da Li.
"How can you not be excited. The wolf migrated and didn't come back for years. No, we went to Lizheng to report the news, they are already organizing people, and they will go to fight wild wolves later. A village woman replied.
"I don't know if there are many wolves, if there are too many, our family wants a whole piece of wolf skin, and I want to make a wolf skin vest for my boy. Another woman spoke.
"Yes, we didn't have a share of the tiger skin last time, I hope we can get some wolf skins this time. β
"Well, you can still eat wolf meat, this wolf meat is fragrant, more fragrant than dog meat" After speaking, she also said to Shumin and his party, "When the time comes, we will make a wolf meat hot pot together, and ensure that you still want to eat it." β
"Thank you. Shumin replied, sweating in his heart.
The people in the mountains are really tough! Everyone sweated a little in their hearts.
Shumin and the others regained their strength, and went to sit down there. When I first entered the village, I didn't have an image, and I didn't even say a formal greeting.
The house of the Li Zheng family is always the best, with a huge yard and several tables in it, and it seems that it is tonight's banquet.
In one corner of the courtyard, more than a dozen villagers were fully armed, armed with spears, bows and arrows, and daggers, etc., and animal skins were tied to their chests, elbows, and foot joints. Why don't you see that it doesn't look like you're going hunting, and those who don't know it think it's going to war!
"When we arrived at the Shili Pavilion in a while, we looked around in the east, west, north and south, and found clues not to act rashly, and sent a signal to wait for the convergence.
Wolves are cunning, they know how to cooperate, and if they are not careful, everyone may be injured, so we must also have a strategy
The wolves must have been the ones we scared away a few years ago, and we can't let them go anymore this time, we must kill them all. β
The one who was the leader was the one who asked Shumin to rest first, he was the eldest son of Li Zheng, called He Shouyu.
Seeing Shumin and the others coming, he immediately stopped the arrangement and walked quickly to greet them. He is very big, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and he walks with a tiger's might. Seeing Shude's face was envious.
"Are you going to fight the wolves? Seeing such a big battle between them, Shude was very excited in his heart, and said to He Shouyu Tiyì.
"Your thin arms and legs, no!" Although Shude is young, his development is not bad, but in He Shouyu's eyes, he has become thin arms and thin legs.
Everyone laughed, Shude looked at his arm, looking at He Shouyu, in comparison, it was indeed "thin arms and thin legs".
"I know martial arts. Shude still didn't give up, took out the official knife, and played a set of drastic knife techniques.
This set of knife techniques is all the fast catching to learn, he is still young, learn things quickly, only half a year, he will play well.
He Shouyu didn't make a sound, raised his hand to make a knife outfit, and cut off the back of Chao Shude's knife. Shude thought to himself, but you asked for it. hurriedly used his dark strength and greeted him.
"Bang Dang" Shude only felt that the tiger's mouth with the knife hurt, and the official knife came out of his hand and fell to the ground, unwilling to turn over twice.
He looked at He Shouyu in disbelief, but saw that he was like no one else, and there was not even a red mark on his dark palm.
"Master!" Shude thought to himself, I really have met a legendary martial arts master.
"You take me as an apprentice, master!" The next moment, he hugged He Shouyu's thigh and shouted, "If you don't take me as an apprentice, I won't be able to get up." β
"It's a shame!" Cheng Sheng stroked his forehead with his hand and said to Shu Min, "Let's stay away from him." β
"Uh-huh," Li also felt that Shude's cousin was too undisciplined. I agreed in my heart that I had to stay away from him.
He Shouyu didn't expect this, he knew that he wouldn't make a move anyway, and now he saw Shude hugging his thighs like an otter, and he was very helpless.
He Shouyu is the best person in the village, and he is also the head of the young people in the village, plus he usually always has a strict appearance, the young people in the village are a little afraid of him, seeing that he was speechless by Shude, next to him are several young people who are ready to fight are holding back their laughter and getting a secret injury.
"You get up!" He Shouyu said.
"No, if you don't accept me as an apprentice, I just won't get up. "Shude is iron-hearted this time. He has always envied Chunquan for having a good master, and this time he met him, how could he let it go.
He Shouyu couldn't resist him, so he planned to walk away, but who knew that Shude was sitting on his right foot, no matter how he walked, Shude sat firmly on his legs, like an otter.
The young man on the side couldn't hold it back anymore and laughed.
"Don't you want to go hunting with us, let me go and I'll take you there. He Shouyu began to flicker.
"No, you have to accept me as an apprentice, otherwise I will go hunting with you like this!" Shude was not fooled.
It's not even convenient to walk, so what kind of hunting!
"If you want to be my apprentice, then you have to listen to whatever I say!" He Shouyu began to play sloppy.
"Then do you mean that you agreed to take me as an apprentice?" Shude has been a catcher for almost a year, where is it easy to fool.
"If you don't listen to my words now, I don't dare to accept someone like you as an apprentice!" He Shouyu changed another method to provoke him.
"You took me as an apprentice, and I promise that you will teach me to go east and I will never go west. Listen to you for everything. "Shude is not agitated.
"You just get him out of the way, leave us alone. We don't know him well!" Cheng Sheng had already seen that this He Shouyu was not simple, not because he couldn't get rid of Shude, but because he was afraid of hurting him.
"You heard it, if you don't let it go, I'll really throw you out!" After listening to Cheng Sheng's words, He Shouyu's brain hole opened and pretended to threaten Shude.
"Don't let go!" Shude is just two simple words.
"Don't let it go, don't regret it. After speaking, he glanced at the dozen or so young people over there, they grew up together, trained together, and had a good heart!
Seeing that they would all understand, he silently lucked, and with a roundabout kick, he threw Shude out in an instant.
Poor Shude had not yet reflected Ali, and he flew out of a graceful arc in the air.
Just when he thought he would definitely fall to pieces, several pairs of hands suddenly caught him steadily, and put him on the ground.
"What are you fooling yourself!" Shude said when he saw that he was fine, patted the dust, stood up.
"Hahaha, I warned you a long time ago. He Shouyu smiled, flicked his pants in a chic manner, and said to the group behind him, "Let's go!"
The young hunters walked out of the village in good training.
"Oh my God, they're too tough. Xiao Li was stunned. When He Shouyu dealt with Shude with a knife with his bare hands just now, she was already very surprised, and then as soon as he raised his leg, Shude was thrown out of the whole person, even Chunquan couldn't do it, right?
"You don't know, just now I went to the kitchen to ask for water, and I saw those women lifting the bucket full of water with one hand. β
Da Li hurriedly ran over and said.
"It's indeed a tough village, I'm afraid the men, women and children in this village are not simple!" Shu Min thought to himself, "Is there still a history in this village?"
"Hehe, how many of you are resting? I don't know if you actually encountered wolves on the road, frightened. β
At this time, Lao Li was walking out and said to Shumin and them
"Thank you for your concern, we're fine. Shumin replied politely, "I see that the group of hunters who just went out are still very young, and it will be dangerous to catch wolves." β
Except for He Shouyu, who was a little older, the rest of the young people just now were in their teens.
"It's okay, with the guardian following, nothing can go wrong. Lao Lizheng was not worried at all, and said to Shumin, "The banquet is ready, let's sit down first." β
"You're welcome. Shumin replied, and followed Lao Lizheng and them into the table.
The inside of the mountain is different from the outside, and every time a banquet is placed, the whole village is invited. When Shumin and the others sat down, the wine and food were served one after another. It's all wild pheasant, roast venison, wild boar and other game.
Even the rabbit pheasant, which has little meat, was disgusted and was not served.
This meat is very difficult to eat outside, and Shumin and the others are very satisfied.
"Where's Shude?" Usually this guy eats most actively, but I didn't see him today.
"It's not good, he must have secretly followed them to hunt!" Cheng Sheng's face sank, that guy who didn't know the severity of the matter, it was very dangerous in the mountains and forests at night, what if something happened?
He threw away the dishes and chopsticks, took the matching knife and went to look for him.
"Little brother, don't worry! he'll be fine. Lao Li Zheng laughed, "The Shouyu will take care of him." β
"It's fine if it's together, but that guy is secretly following," **** said worriedly.
"Rest assured. Lao Lizheng was still not in a hurry, he had already seen the scene in the courtyard just now. Tracking and guarding, just a few times that kid, it is estimated that he will be discovered as soon as he enters the mountains and forests.
Seeing Lao Li's righteous appearance, everyone gradually became relieved.
After Shude's incident, everyone was a little less interested. Lao Lizheng didn't care, and asked them to serve them tea.
"There's maple syrup in this tea, you can taste it. "Adding maple syrup to the tea is the highest standard of hospitality here, Shumin and the others don't know, but this maple sugar tea is really delicious, and everyone has no reason to shirk, everyone drinks tea quietly.
"There's no hurry to make tofu, you guys have a good rest first, and if you have anything you want us to prepare, don't hesitate to mention it. Lao Li Zheng said.
"There's nothing special to prepare, just a plaster. I asked Uncle He before, and he said that there was no such thing in the village, so I brought some of them with me outside the mountain, which should be enough for you to use for a while, and when you go out of the mountain in the future, you can bring some back from outside. β
"In addition, you also need to prepare a tofu rack, this is outside the mountain, I have already asked the county order to send the drawings to the villages, if you don't have it here, I still have preparations. With that, Shumin took out the drawings of the plaster and tofu frames.
Gypsum needs to be simmered over fire, but Shumin brings cooked gypsum after simmering, so naturally there is no need to simmer anymore.
Lao Li was looking at the drawings and found that it was not a very rare thing, so he ordered the carpenter in the village to rush to work overnight and make a few out.