Chapter 16: Worry
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A flock of pheasants grabbing their mouths are comfortably foraging in the meadows.
They are not yet aware of the danger.
Hidden in the deep weeds on the side was a little boy of about six or seven years old. The boy's eyes were fixed on the flock of pheasants foraging for food, holding in his hand the pebbles collected in the space.
Before the pheasants could react, the stones in his hands flew out again, and five more pheasants fell, until the pheasants were left with only one male and one female and the flock of young pheasants that had not grown up behind them.
The flock of pheasants that were still alive quickly disappeared from his eyes, and he got up to collect the nine hens and seven roosters that he had stoned into space.
"This pheasant is quite fat. Not bad~"
After saying that, he left the place quickly, and slowly lurked in other directions.
"Hmph~"
Zhuang Zihao jogged cautiously in the woods.
Suddenly, there was a wild boar voice in front of me, "Hum ~".
Zhuang Zihao lurked more carefully in the place where the sound came from, this can't let the wild boar in front of him find out, and now he doesn't know how many wild boars there are in front of him, so he must be careful. Although his strength is great, he is still young now, and he is not tall, compared to the wild boar that is still a behemoth for him now, he still has to be cautious, and if he can outwit, he will not fight brute force.
He slowed down and walked towards a large tree not far from the sound of the boar, and without any accident on the way, he came to the bottom of the tree safely, and after checking the tree with his eyes, and when he was sure that there was no danger, he held the tree with both hands, and climbed up with strength, and stood on a thick branch.
I saw that a bow and arrow suddenly appeared in his left hand, and he was holding an arrow feather in his right hand.
Zhuang Zihao stood on the tree, looking down at the grass about twenty meters in front of the big tree, where there was only a big wild boar, about five or six hundred catties in weight.
For Zhuang Zihao, who is now short, he is still a great threat to him, but now he occupies a powerful terrain, standing on a thick tree, well avoiding the attack range of the wild boar, and can hide like hunting a tiger, and easily kill the big wild boar from a distance with a bow and arrow while the wild boar is not paying attention.
Zhuang Zihao observed the wild boar that was digging in the field, if I was not mistaken, it was a small sweet potato field, and the wild boar was plowing the sweet potatoes in the field and gnawing on them. The small sweet potato field was very messy, and it looked like it had been spoiled by the wild boar for a long time. Sweet potato vines are scattered all over the place, and the sweet potatoes in the field are also gnawed scattered, many of them are only partially gnawed, and the other part is still in the ground or scattered around.
Zhuang Zihao looked at the big wild boar that was competing with the sweet potato field, did not hesitate, picked up the bow in his left hand, put the arrow on the bowstring with his right hand, and pulled a full bow with his right hand, only to see the arrow feather "whoosh~", and went to the ground of the most deadly head of the wild boar, and a sound of breaking the air sounded, and the arrow passed directly through the head of the wild boar, and half of the arrow body entered a big tree in front of the wild boar.
Such a pity Zhuang Zihao used a lot of strength, as well as his precise archery.
The big boar convulsed a few times as he was dying, and then fell to the ground with a bang. At first glance, it was too dead to be dead.
Zhuang Zihao saw that the big boar was dead, and his eyes looked around again, making sure that there were no other wild boars and other large animals around, so he hurriedly got down from the tree and collected the wild boar into the space.
Zhuang Zihao looked up and knew that it was not early, so he quickly left here, ran down the mountain, and when he was about to get out of the mountain, he found a safe place.
He took out the basket containing Ganoderma lucidum from the space, took out the two fattest pheasants and three hares from the space and put them into the basket, and cut a large bundle of pigweed around the basket and pressed it on the top of the basket, and after making sure that it had been covered, he carried the basket on his back, and a pheasant of about three or four catties appeared in his hand.
After getting ready, Zhuang Zihao went down the mountain in the direction of home.
"Yo, Xiao Hao is mowing pigweed, and he also caught a pheasant." Uncle Mad Demon King, the village's favorite wife, who came back from the field, looked at Zhuang Zihao, who was carrying a basket of pigweed and holding a pheasant in his hand, and asked with a smile.
"Well, it's Uncle Wang, did you just come back from the field?"
"Yes, I just came back from the field, won't I be busy with farming tomorrow, I don't have to worry about this food, so I'll go and see it. It's you kid, why is your mother willing to let you come out to cut pigweed today? ”
"Uncle Wang, you misunderstood my mother, it wasn't my mother who asked me to come out to cut pigweed, I came out behind my mother's back, and everyone in my family had a day off today to prepare for the farming."
"Oh~, it seems that I misunderstood, but isn't your family all a day off today, why are you still running to mow the grass."
"Well, isn't this time to be busy with farming, they are all in a hurry to harvest grain, they will be very busy at home and outside, isn't there still pigs in this house, I want to take advantage of the busy farming to cut more pigweed and go back, so as not to get trouble in the future."
"That's the case, well, uncle knows, but boy, you're lucky, you can catch a pheasant if you go and cut a pigweed, yes, it's better than the boys in the village." Alright, you go home. Your mother hasn't seen you for so long, so it's time to be in a hurry, and it's better to talk to your mother next time you come out to mow the grass. Go for it. ”
Uncle Wang patted Zhuang Zihao on the shoulder. The tone was also a little serious.
In Uncle Wang's opinion, it is not right to run out without saying hello to his family, and cutting pigweed is not a matter of a while, like Zhuang Zihao who came out to mow the grass without saying hello, although the starting point is good, but this will also make his family worry about him, especially his mother.
He thought that if his children ran out without a sound for a long time without seeing anyone, if he made his daughter-in-law angry and anxious, the skin of those boys in the family should be tight.
"Then Uncle Wang, I'll go home first, uncle, see you tomorrow."
"Well, I'll see you tomorrow."
Zhuang Zihao rushed home without looking back.
Along the way, I haven't met anyone else except Uncle Wang. Arrived safely at home.
"Mother, I'm back."
Zhuang Zihao walked into his yard.
"Zihao is back."
Zhuang Zijie was sitting on a stone bench in the courtyard with his father and mother, a pair of chess pieces on the table, tea and snacks made by his mother, and ripe purple grapes picked on the grape trellis in his yard.
Zhuang Zijie is playing chess with his father Zhuang Yi. The mother sat next to her and watched her husband and son play, adding tea to them from time to time.
This warm scene appeared in front of Zhuang Zihao.
And Zhuang Zihao's current appearance is very inconsistent with that scene. It's like a group of literati suddenly mixed in with a martial artist.
But that was just a momentary touch, Zhuang Zihao was still a little radish head, and he didn't look like that tall martial artist at all.
"Second brother, when did you come back?"
Zhuang Zihao asked as he put down the basket on his back. The pheasant also casually put it on the pigweed, and put the basket on the ground.
"Your second brother arrived just after noon, and you had already gone out by then."
"Oh, that's it!"
"Zihao, isn't this right for you?"
"Mother, what's wrong?"
Zhuang Zihao looked at his mother who was frowning and thinking about something.
"No, no, didn't you go out empty-handed when you went out, and didn't you say that you went to the village chief's house to play with the little fat and them."
"I didn't let you cut this pigweed, and where did you get this pheasant?"
"And where did you get this basket, you didn't bring it when you went out!"
Mother, you are really hot-eyed, I know if I don't bring a backpack when I go out.
Zhuang Zihao was asked by his mother more and more empty, looked down at his toes, and said nothing.
"Did you go up the mountain today?"
"Didn't I tell you, don't go to this back mountain, do you want to be angry?"
As soon as Su Huiniang saw her youngest son's weak appearance, she knew that he had gone up the mountain again.
"Hui Niang, don't be angry, this anger hurts your body. I'll clean it up, this stinky boy. You drink saliva first. ”
Zhuang Yi helped his daughter-in-law, let her sit on the stool, stroked her daughter-in-law's back, and brought her a glass of water.
"Zihao, you're going up the back mountain again."
"Hmm."
Zhuang Zihao lowered his head, not daring to look at his father's expression.
"What are you going to do?"
"Hunting."
"What did you shoot all that, a pheasant?"
"It's not."
"Oh, what did you hunt?"
"There were two pheasants and three hares, and it was too hot for my son to hunt more."
"Oh, that's pretty good, much better than your big brother back then."
"Really, Daddy?"
"Yes, your eldest brother couldn't compare to you at the beginning."
"Daddy, child, why are you still boasting about this?"