Chapter 7 Talent
Some people are born with abilities that ordinary people do not have, and generally speaking, this is talent, and many people who like to exaggerate call them geniuses.
On this day, Li Po was in the mountains and forests of Luliang Mountain, and saw a person who seemed to be born with the instinct of a beast.
Li Po leaned against a tree and quietly looked at the looming figure not far away.
It was a child, who had left the valley, and the child had been following him all the time.
A day and a night have passed, and this little tail is still alive.
At this time, Li Po understood that the tail behind him must have considerable attainments in tracking.
So, he chose to turn around......
However, to his surprise, it was only a child who had not yet grown up.
Of course, such children, both men and women, who should be in their early tens, are old enough to talk about marriage.
And in this understanding, Li Po is not very profound, in his eyes, stumbling and walking in the jungle, has been tortured by the cold and difficult roads in the mountains, the little figure is a child.
After following for a while, Li Po also knew that he didn't have any experience in surviving in the jungle, but he had a talent that was enough for him to envy, and his keen prediction of danger could also be said to be intuition.
This also ensures that he can always avoid the beasts that are desperate to find food for the winter before danger comes.
Moreover, soon, this child, who was already like a demon in Li Po's eyes, gave him another surprise.
Following his footsteps, the child turned around in a circle, and then began to look at the place he had walked in confusion......
After determining that this child could not be like him, he had undergone special training to do these very miraculous things in the eyes of ordinary people, and that night, Li Po lit a bonfire.
Not to his surprise, the child quickly came to him.
The smell of food and the warmth of the fire are irresistible temptations for a frightened child suffering from hunger and cold.
When he crawled out of the grass and came to the campfire, he finally realized that there was still an owner here.
Naturally, he didn't have the majesty of the Turkic girl before, and after patrolling for a long time, he looked at Li Po cautiously, curled up as much as possible, and sat next to the bonfire.
The firelight flickered, and there was silence, except for the chirping of insects in the woods and the rising north wind.
The two of them, the same dirty as beggars, the same tired and sleepy, and neither very old, but in a sense, they are also the darlings of the mountains and forests, they are next to the campfire in the mountains and forests, absorbing warmth, staring at the food on the fire, and swallowing saliva from time to time in their throats.
The fire shone on their faces and bodies, making them feel warm, as if among them, there was a faint implication, and it could even be said to be a tacit understanding.
Li Po didn't seem to know that there was an extra person beside him, turning over the food from time to time, and he always seemed to be able to conjure up some strange things at hand, which he sprinkled on the barbecue.
This time, the food was plentiful.
He got a few fatty fish from a stream not far away, and that's not all, he was like a hospitable host, wanting to treat his guests to the fullest.
So, he caught a rabbit and dug two rat nests, all of which, under his miraculous play, gave off an alluring aroma.
He finally judged that the heat was almost over, but in his eyes, the fly in the ointment was that the bonfire, in the end, was not as good as the stove, and it was difficult to make a real delicacy.
From the shelf, take a string and hand it to the side.
The uninvited guest next to him was already waiting anxiously, but he still held back his anxiety, knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and then took the food, regardless of chewing it, although he was grinning with his teeth burned, but in an instant, he gnawed the meat skewers cleanly.
In a short time, the food was wiped out.
Li Po burped with satisfaction, these days, he finally had a good meal, and the most reassuring thing for him was that the wolf howl at night was finally inaudible, which could only show that he had walked out of the hunting ground of the wolves.
Turning his head to look, Li Po couldn't help but smile.
The one next to him had his belly facing the sky, and he didn't know when he had fallen asleep.
They didn't say anything, but they seemed to say a lot.
This kid undoubtedly has some upbringing, but he can't see any traces of great wealth and wealth, and the most satisfying thing about Li Po is that he doesn't talk much.
Li Po himself is not a person who talks a lot, so he has never liked people who talk a lot.
Li Po extinguished the bonfire, spread another layer of soil on top of the embers, picked up the child, and threw it on it.
The child suffered a lot, and after a full meal, it was almost equivalent to passing out, and such a toss only made him mumble a few times, and there was no sign of waking up at all.
Trust is a thing that is difficult to understand in words, but in this mountain forest, two strangers have established a preliminary trust.
Even Li Po himself didn't feel too abrupt.
Li Po sat down against a tree, put the short knife on his lap, and slowly, his breathing became long, and he entered a state of sleep.
This is a special skill, relying on such a skill, a person can maintain his body temperature for a long time in the ice and snow, without relying on any foreign objects.
It's like hibernation, but it's very alert......
"If you climb over this mountain beam, you can see the village."
One big and one small walked on the mountain trail, since there was a road, even if he entered a populated place, Li Po felt that he was lucky, and he finally walked out of the mountains and forests before the heavy snow came.
The child who followed him was surnamed Qing and was born in the spring, so it was called Qingchun.
He was born in a village at the foot of Hutou Mountain, and the displaced people on the mountain were all the residents of this village.
The village is not small, with more than 20 families and nearly 100 people.
But in the sixth year of the great cause, there were only more than 50 left.
Such a large-scale relocation of the village was not only because the government was too strict with the government and the civil service was urgent, but also because the two wealthy families in the village offended the tax officials.
This is not as simple as offending people, the representatives of local clan forces are these tax officials.
They wanted to use labor as a threat to obtain a title deed for the Hutou Mountain and forest from the villagers.
Naturally, the villagers could not agree.
In particular, at the end of the sixth year of the Great Cause, the tax will be raised, and it is said that the labor and land taxes will be doubled next year.
The villagers naturally didn't know that this was because the Great Sui was about to conquer Goryeo in Liaodong, and from the sixth year of the Great Cause, not only the grass people, but also the big clans on both sides of the Yellow River, would also be taxed.
In border places like Mayi, which are relatively light, such as Hebei and Shandong, the weight of taxes and labor has exceeded the local capacity.
This is an important turning point of the powerful Great Sui, from the last years of Emperor Wen of Sui to the early years of the Great Cause, all the accumulated contradictions are about to completely erupt