Chapter 22 The Wooden House at the Foot of the Mountain
"We are Orion, this is at the foot of Daqing Mountain, and the little brother has just come down from the mountain?" the middle-aged man stretched out his hand and pointed to the top of the mountain above his head.
Long Zun replied: "Sort of, I almost got lost after walking the mountain road all night last night, and I finally came here and saw you two." ”
The young man in the wooden house came over at this time, pointed the machete in his hand at Long Zun, and later realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly handed the machete to the other hand.
He said: "You can really brag, there are wolves on the mountain at night, and you walk alone on the mountain road and call the wolf to take it away." ”
"There are wolves on the mountain!" said Long Zheng, blinking his eyes, remembering that he had not encountered a single beast except for some stones and dead vines along the way.
Could it be that the young man in front of him is scaring himself?
At this moment, the middle-aged man on the side said: "There is also a mountain road from the middle of the mountain, the road that I think the little brother should take, there are few wild beasts on that mountain road." ”
Long Zun thought that the mountain road he walked did not look like it led to the top of the mountain, otherwise he would not even be able to see a piece of forest, so he nodded and agreed with the middle-aged man's words.
The young man scratched his head and said suspiciously: "No, I have also walked that mountain road, and I can't get to us by walking for a day during the day, let alone at night! Second uncle, don't be deceived by him." ”
"What do we poor hunters have to deceive, do you go and see if the broth is ready?" the middle-aged man walked away from the young man, and then said to Long Zun, "Little brother is rushing to the mountain road for a night, do you want to go into the house and drink a bowl of hot soup." ”
After walking on the mountain road all night, his stomach was indeed a little hungry, so Long Zun was not polite, agreed, and entered the house with the middle-aged man and sat around the fire.
An iron pot hangs above the fire, and the broth in the pot is quickly cooked, and the fragrance is so fragrant that it makes people salivate and can't help but move their index fingers.
The middle-aged man first filled a bowl of broth for Long Zun, then a bowl for the young man, and finally a bowl for himself.
Long Zun took the broth handed by the middle-aged man, thanked him, didn't care about burning his mouth, first took a big sip, and the hot broth flowed into his body, making him breathe a sigh of relief.
At this time, the young man took out two pieces of roasted naan, kept one for himself, and handed one to the middle-aged man on the side, as for Long Zun, he didn't even pay attention to it, as if there was no such person.
"Pillar, why don't you bring out a baked naan for this little brother. When the middle-aged man saw it, he reprimanded the young man, and then turned his head and said to Long Zun with a smile, "I'm sorry, my nephew is not very sensible, so the little brother laughed." ”
Long Zun hurriedly waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay, I'm taking the liberty to disturb the two of you." ”
"I hate bragging people the most, they are not as old as me, and they actually brag that they climbed a mountain in one night. The young man muttered quietly, but still took out a roasted naan and reluctantly stuffed it into Long Zun's hand.
The whining was not very loud, but all three people in the wooden house could hear it clearly.
Long Zun held a bowl with broth in one hand and a roasted naan in the other, and his two hands were hanging in the air in embarrassment.
The middle-aged man also looked embarrassed, raised his hand and patted the back of the pillar's head, and said, "Hurry up and eat, you can't stop your mouth when you eat." ”
"That's what it was!" the pillar grumbled quietly, and when he saw that the middle-aged man was about to raise his hand again, he hurriedly lowered his head and said nothing, eating the roasted naan and the broth in the bowl.
Seeing that the pillar stopped talking, the middle-aged man withdrew his hand, tore the roasted naan into strips, and put it into the broth.
After making it, he didn't eat it right away, but looked at Long Zun and said, "Little brother is from Zhulin Town?"
Long Zun was stunned for a moment, and asked rhetorically, "How did the old man guess that I came from Zhulin Town?"
At this time, the pillar put down the bowl in his hand and suddenly interjected: "My second uncle is the most powerful hunter in this area, as long as it is the road up the mountain within a radius of dozens of miles, there is nothing that my second uncle does not know." ”
Long Zun nodded silently and admitted, "My uncle is not wrong, I am indeed from Zhulin Town. ”
The middle-aged man took a sip of broth, ate a piece of roasted naan, and said: "Zhulin Town is a good place, especially the bamboo forest not far from Zhulin Town. ”
"In winter, the spotted bamboo chicken is full of meat, and it is a good season to catch it. Long Zun echoed.
While chatting and eating, a pot of broth soon bottomed out and was eaten clean by three people.
After Long Zun finished cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks in his hand, he had already noticed that there was no prey in the house, so he asked, "Old man, is this going to go up the mountain to hunt?"
The middle-aged man picked up a waist knife and stuck it on his belt, carried a longbow, and said, "In a few days, it is the birthday of the old lady of the Li family in Tiancheng County, and I will definitely need a lot of meat, so I just take this opportunity to hunt more prey and come back to sell." ”
After packing up the hunting business, he continued: "This wooden house is usually used by hunters to go up the mountain to hunt and rest, if the little brother has nothing important, he can rest for a while. ”
Long Zun didn't answer, when he heard that the middle-aged man was about to go up the mountain, he immediately thought of the elixir growing on the Daqing Mountain, and a hunter who was familiar with the Daqing Mountain took him up the mountain, thinking that it would not be easy to get lost in the forest.
The middle-aged man saw Long Zun in a daze in the wooden house, thinking that he was too tired to travel all night, so he didn't think much about it, greeted the pillar, left the wooden house, and prepared to go up the mountain.
At this time, Long Zun suddenly shouted, "Wait a minute, old man." ”
The middle-aged man stopped, turned around, looked at Long Zun puzzled, and said, "Little brother still has something?"
Long Zun trotted out of the wooden house in a few steps and said, "Can the old man take me to the mountain together, I can't hide it, in fact, I also want to go up the mountain to hunt some prey this time." ”
"You're also an Orion?" the middle-aged man frowned and looked Long Zun up and down.
Long Zun's face turned red, he really didn't look like an Orion, he didn't even have a hunting guy, but then he thought that he still had a dagger pinned to his waist, and hurriedly pulled it out and held it in his hand.
"Haha, you use this to hunt, I'm afraid you can't even hit a rabbit with this dagger. Zhu Zi saw the short dagger in Long Zun's hand and laughed.
"Okay pillar, stop laughing. The middle-aged man scolded the pillar, and then said to Long Zun: "Little brother must be very tired after a night's journey, so let's stay here and rest." ”
The meaning was obviously to refuse Long Zun to go up the mountain with him.
Long Zun also understood what the middle-aged man meant, but he was unwilling to give up this opportunity to go up the mountain to collect elixir, and said: "Don't worry, I can take care of myself, and ask my husband to take me up the mountain with me." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a whoosh, a silver light flashed, and the dagger in his hand was inserted into the wooden house behind him.
The middle-aged man and the pillar standing beside him were stunned when they saw the daggers on the wooden house.
After a while, the pillar suddenly ran over, touched the handle of the dagger exposed outside the wooden house with his hand, and exclaimed, "Wow, you have so much strength, you can thrust so deep with a single throw." ”
He grabbed the handle of the dagger again, and pulled it out with a few strokes, but could not get the dagger out of the cabin.