Hunters like Yu Liang, who are halfway monks and self-taught, are not good at shooting, but good at setting traps.

Yu Liang explained: "Most of the small game in this forest is too small, and because of their small size and the depth of the forest, it is difficult to shoot an arrow with a single arrow, so setting a trap in this forest is more effective than chasing and hunting, and at the same time saving time to search for other things." ”

Lu Xiaoyi smiled: "For example, fungus, mushrooms and red fruits." ”

Yu Liang nodded, "Yes." ”

Yu Liang took Xiao Yi to a trap, the grass and trees on the trap were messy, but no prey fell, but there was a hare hanging on the small tree next to the trap.

Yu Liang let Lu Xiaoyi wait in place, he knew the safe path, walked over skillfully, took off the hare in the lasso, and bent the small tree to connect it to the lasso mechanism on the ground, and then returned to Lu Xiaoyi, shook the hare in his hand, and said with a smile: "Rope trap, how is it?" ”

Lu Xiaoyi admired it very much, "Brother Liang, I thought the traps were all digging pits in the ground!" ”

"Traps don't specifically refer to traps, this kind of rope trap is also a type of trap." Yu Liang explained: "In the past, like you, I only knew how to dig pits, but later I found that the prey has learned wisely, and once the prey changes course, the pit loses its effectiveness. Later, I consulted the old hunters in the village, and learned some simple and practical rope traps, which were used in traps, which were more than enough to deal with these small prey. ”

Lu Xiaoyi is also a person who can understand it at all, "Oh, I understand, if I guess correctly, the messy grass on the pit was deliberately put by you, once the prey is alert, it will take a detour, but it will be hit by the rope trap on the side." ”

Yu Liang praised: "Clever! ”

And then. While walking, he told Xiao Yi: "The prey will leave footprints in the run, and gradually form their routes from the nest to drink or eat, although these routes are subtle, but there are still traces after a long time, I only need to set traps on these routes, as long as the prey steps into the trap, most of them will not be able to escape." ”

"However, traps should not be too close to the prey's nest, as they often lie and listen in the nest, and they will change course or abandon the nest at the slightest disturbance."

Lu Xiaoyi said: "What about the place where it is set up?" ”

Yu Liang smiled, "I used to think the same way." It was later found that they were more alert when they drank water. The slightest movement will also make them escape, so I now like to set traps in the path they naturally step on. Moreover, these traps should be checked from time to time. Fix it often. If you can't catch the prey several times. It is necessary to move to another place as soon as possible, and be careful when setting it up, and try to use the materials in situ. The nose of prey is very sensitive, and when there are other smells in their familiar environment, they will become alert and will not lurk or change course. ”

Lu Xiaoyi is already star-eyed, and he still says the same old sentence: "Brother Liang, you are so powerful." ”

Yu Liang smiled and showed a mouthful of white teeth, "While learning and thinking about improvement, if you still live in a few traps like before, let alone marrying a daughter-in-law, it is enough to build a house." ”

Lu Xiaoyi said proudly: "Nana, you have to thank me for today's achievements." ”

Yu Liang nodded, "Yes, in order to marry you, I also worked hard." ”

Lu Xiaoyi said: "Love to fight to win!" ”

Yu Liang smiled, and took Lu Xiaoyi to the next few traps, and when he encountered a trap where the prey bit the rope, he would appropriately adjust the curvature of the elastic tree, increase the intensity of the trap trigger, and strive to kill the prey instantly; When encountering an untouched trap, he will carefully observe the way the bark is gnawed off, the shells of the nuts left after being eaten, and the leftover berries and tooth marks on the branches, and then adjust the location of the trap appropriately.

Lu Xiaoyi saw Yu Liang skillfully fiddling with his traps, his posture was vigorous and steady, sometimes frowning and thinking, sometimes smiling lightly, serious people are always the most attractive, the more Lu Xiaoyi looked, the more he loved, when he thought that the person in front of him was his man, the sense of happiness in his heart became stronger and stronger, and his eyes became obsessed and hot.

Yu Liang set up the trap, turned around and saw Lu Xiaoyi's appearance, he was stunned for a moment, and just happened to have a yellow leaf floating down his head, Yu Liang caught it and bounced towards Lu Xiaoyi, "What about dreaming?" ”

Lu Xiaoyi came back to his senses and stared at him and laughed.

Yu Liang said: "Let's go, take you to eat well." ”

The so-called good ones are the small red fruits that the surplus grain often brings to her.

The two approached and flew a group of long-beaked sparrows, Lu Xiaoyi exclaimed: "Brother Liang, look, that bird's beak is so long!" ”

"I call them long-billed finch, and they love wild fruits."

Speaking of wild fruits, Lu Xiaoyi hurriedly looked into the bushes, except for a bush that was covered by layers of vines and branches from the remaining grain, the rest of the bushes had scattered red fruits, the ground was sprinkled with fruit pits, and there were long-billed finches that had not pecked clean fruits.

The surplus grain removed the shade from the bushes, and immediately revealed the small red and sweet fruit of the tree.

Lu Xiaoyi was overjoyed, he picked it when he got started, and before he had time to shout careful, Lu Xiaoyi's fingers were pierced with a few long black thorns.

Although it hurt a little, within the range of tolerable, Lu Xiaoyi raised his fingers to look at the black thorn inserted. "Wow, the thorns are so long?"

"Don't move, I'll pull it out for you, if the tip of the thorn breaks in the flesh, it will hurt."

"Brother Liang, this thorny bush is good, let's pick some seeds and plant them back, and plant a circle of thorny fences around the yard, which can not only prevent thieves and beasts, but also have fruits to eat."

The surplus grain agreed, and let Xiao Yi stand aside, he used his spear to pull out the seeds from the foot of the bush, put them in his satchel, and picked some ripe red fruits, and the rest of the fruit was again covered with vine branches.

"Let's go, take you to Qixitou to wash the fruits, and eat something by the way."

At the mention of eating, Lu Xiaoyi felt that he was hungry, looked up at the sky, and through the sparse canopy, he could see that a bright autumn sun had risen into the sky.

"Time flies so fast, it's noon." Today's Lu Xiaoyi, in ancient times when there was no chronometer, has learned to look at the sun to judge the time, if it is cloudy, it depends on feeling, or by hunger.

Yu Liang led the way in front, "Eat something and rest, let's get ready to go out of the mountain, there are still many traps to check on the way back." I guess it's getting home and it's getting dark. ”

"So late? Usually you're home in the afternoon. ”

Yu Liang smiled: "Because I brought a drag oil bottle today." ”

Lu Xiaoyi was not convinced, "Sooner or later, the oil bottle can grow into a right-hand man." ”

"Well, I'll take you with me when I go into the mountains in the future, and I always want to go home after I enter the mountains, but I can't set the traps."

Hearing Yu Liang say this, Lu Xiaoyi's heart was sweet, and he replied: "Okay, you are responsible for setting traps for hunting, and I am responsible for picking mushrooms and fungus." That's right. I took the time to go to Dr. Wu and asked him to teach me how to identify herbs and help him pick some when I went into the mountains. ”

Yu Liang said with a smile: "Collecting medicine is not as easy as you think, and the parts of the medicine are different." The time of excavation is also different. There's a lot to learn here. Next time we go to the city, let's buy a herbal book and come back to learn it. ”

Lu Xiaoyi nodded, and happily shook the spear in his hand all the way. When he came to Qixitou, Lu Xiaoyi felt very cordial. Because she's been here all the way to the mountains.

The two of them washed their hands and faces, and were about to eat dry food, when the black tiger came out of nowhere, holding a in its mouth.

"Yes, yes, I can catch." Lu Xiaoyi praised.

The black tiger wagged its tail happily and lay down to enjoy its lunch.

After eating dry food and resting for a while, the two returned along the road.

There are traps set on both sides of the mountain road, when entering the mountain, because of the black tiger's madness, the frightened hares fled in all directions, several rope traps were touched, two hares were trapped, two rope traps were bitten off, and one was not trapped.

The rest of the grain took off the prey, repaired the rope trap again, and took Xiao Yi out of the mountain.

Lu Xiaoyi came out of the dense and humid mountain forest, as if she had traveled from one world to another, and it was gratifying that the world in front of her was familiar to her, the quiet mountain village, the gray courtyard wall, the brown wooden door, the chubby raccoon cat and the timid hen, I have to say, this feeling is so good!

The tanuki cat jumped lightly from the wall, ran to the feet of the surplus food, and whined at Xiao Yimeow.

Lu Xiaoyi scolded with a smile: "Lazy cat, I'd rather bask in the sun than go to the grass to find grasshoppers to eat." ”

In fact, the lazy cat misses the owner, and he doesn't see him for a day, and he misses it very much, and he thinks most about the small dried fish fed by the owner.

Yu Liang shook the hare in his hand towards the tanuki, and the fat cat immediately stretched out his paws to slap the fluffy rabbit's tail to play.

Lu Xiaoyi saw the interaction between one person and one cat, and his heart was warm.

Entering the courtyard, the two spread the mountain goods on the ground, and after counting, they couldn't stop the joy in their hearts, six hares and three pheasants, as well as pine mushrooms, fungus and some pine cones snatched from the squirrel's mouth.

In the evening, Lu Xiaoyi made stewed pheasants with pine mushrooms and baked some white flour cakes, and when the meal was served, the black tiger and the raccoon cat had been waiting for a long time, and they were more anxious than the owner.

Lu Xiaoyi said: "Brother Liang, you take care of it, your head is dizzy." ”

Yu Liang smiled, picked out the chicken head for the black tiger, and picked a piece of chicken for the raccoon cat, and suddenly the ears were clean.

When it was not long after it was clean, the cats and dogs began to bark again after eating, Lu Xiaoyi got up and poured the cakes soaked in chicken soup in the bowl into the cat plate and dog food bowl.

The roots of the ears were purified again.

Lu Xiaoyi returned to his seat, sandwiched a chicken leg for the remaining grain, and urged: "Brother grain, let's eat quickly, we can't lose to them." ”

Yu Liang smiled and nodded, thinking of the days when he was unmarried, even if he had cats and dogs as companions, he still felt bored eating, but now that there is more Xiao Yi, Yu Liang found that his appetite was getting better and better, and he felt fragrant when he ate.

Lu Xiaoyi is different, she can eat before and after marriage, and even Yulan said that she has a strong mouth.

You can eat two bites, plus a cat and a dog, and a large pot of stewed pheasants with pine mushrooms are eaten cleanly, and there are no bones left.

After eating a full meal and sleeping in the warm quilt, they began to think about some evil things.

Since then, Lu Xiaoyi has gone into the mountains with the surplus grain almost every day, and in the process of collecting, Lu Xiaoyi also found other mushrooms, but she didn't know and didn't dare to pick them indiscriminately, and the most direct way for the surplus grain to teach her was to see if there were insects on the mushrooms.

Lu Xiaoyi was afraid of death and didn't dare to try other mushrooms, so he only recognized pine mushrooms. In fact, she also knows a kind of mushroom, in her previous life, her grandmother took her into the mountains to pick, the local name is fighting mushroom, the scientific name is chicken fir mushroom, it is very delicious, but this season is not, most of it is after the rain in July, and now I have missed the season, only to wait for next summer.

As the number of fungus, pine mushrooms and pine towers dried at home increases, the weather becomes colder and colder.

After the winter, the first heavy snow quietly arrived at night, and the whole mountain village was covered with a thick cotton quilt.

After the snow is a good time for hunting.

Lu Xiaoyi made a bowl of hot sour soup noodles for the remaining grain, and baked a few cakes as dry food, and she didn't follow it very interestingly, because it was difficult to walk in the snow, and it would be a burden for her to enter the mountains like this.

The surplus grain changed into a light-colored cotton suit, took a bow and arrow, and set off.

Lu Xiaoyi sent away the surplus grain, cleared the snow in the yard, and went to check the vegetables in the vegetable cellar. The first time the vegetable cellar was opened, everything was in the experimental stage, the vegetable cellar was not big but deep, about two or three meters high, and there were carrots, white radishes and cabbage she took from her mother's house, and two buckets of water were also put in, using the principle of heat release when the water solidifies, to ensure that the vegetables are not frozen and damaged, don't ask her why she knows, there are explanations in the physics textbooks of her previous life.

Back in the warm room, Lu Xiaoyi packed up the cotton clothes to be worn in winter, and stored all the clothes that were not in season in other cabinets.

Without food to spare, time is too slow.

Lu Xiaoyi wanted to go down the mountain to go back to his mother's house, but he thought that the snow was thick and the road was difficult, so he stopped thinking and turned out a sole of a shoe to accept it, and the raccoon cat was enclosed in the cat basket on the side, sleeping soundly.

At this time, there was a sound of banging on the courtyard door, Lu Xiaoyi was too lazy to go out of the house, lifted the window and said loudly: "Who?" ”

"Me." Lu Zhong's voice.

Lu Xiaoyi hurriedly came out to open the door, "Dad, it's snowing so hard, why did you come up the mountain, come into the house and warm up." ”

"If you don't enter, a few words, and you'll leave after you're done."

Lu Zhong didn't enter the house, stood in the courtyard and said, "Your great-grandmother is seriously ill, and your mother urged me to come and talk to you, so that you and Liangzi can go back and have a look." After speaking, he turned his head and looked around, "Where is the grain?" Not at home? ”

"He went into the mountains to hunt, and I went to see my great-grandmother first."

Lu Zhong waved his hand, "Your mother said, let you go with the grain, and someone will pick the big house in the future of the province." ”

Lu Xiaoyi thought for a while and nodded, "I know, then I'll wait for Brother Liang to come back before I go." ”

"Well, there are a lot of things at home, so I'll go back first."

Lu Xiaoyi thought of Mrs. Lu's gray hair and wrinkled face, and her heart was sour. Now that the old lady is all in her heart, there is no sustenance, and the disease hits, how can she resist it? Lu Xiaoyi had a bad premonition in his heart, and asked: "Dad, can my great-grandmother carry it this time?" ”

Lu Zhong sighed, shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Life and death are fateful." He said, "Let's go in, it's cold outside, I'm leaving." ”

Lu Xiaoyi watched Lu Zhong's tall figure getting smaller and smaller in the vast snow, and finally turned into a small black dot and disappeared on the way down the mountain, thinking that he would also grow old one day, and it would be like Mrs. Lu at that time, Lu Xiaoyi couldn't help but feel sad, sighed lightly, and silently went back to the courtyard to bolt the door. (To be continued.) )