Chapter 31: Hunting Pheasants
Zheng Sheng said with a smile: "There are many pheasants in this mountain, and there must be not a few people who have been caught. ”
"Hmph, just try it, see if the prince has the luck to dominate? Or is it the way of kings? Liu Wei'er urged.
"Now there is no reason for a person with a different surname to be king, as for hegemony? I'm barely the one in Wanquan Township now, right? ”
Liu Wen'er couldn't help but snort, and then let go and laughed.
Zheng Sheng was a little annoyed: "What are you laughing at?" Let's go, do you want to sleep in the mountains tonight? There are tigers and wolves at night! ”
Liu Wei'er nodded again and again: "Let's go quickly!" ”
She chuckled and urged her horse forward.
After a while, I only heard Liu Wei'er cheering in front of me: "Shizi, look at that!" It's a pheasant! Quick, quick, take the bow and arrow down. ”
Zheng Sheng glanced at it, and saw a beautiful pheasant with yellow, black, and red feathers on the edge of the wild grass nearly a hundred meters away, swaggering and pecking at something on the ground.
"You move small, it's going to be scared away by you." Zheng Sheng stopped Liu Wei'er.
"It's a bit far away, can you do it?" Liu Wen'er said suspiciously.
Zheng Sheng frowned and couldn't stop jumping: "It's just sixty or seventy steps, it's not like I haven't seen them trained, I've also practiced!" ”
He took the wooden bow he had bought from his back the day from the house of the hunter who had stayed overnight, and aimed his arrow at the pheasant.
Zheng Shengru is usually on the training ground, calming his breath and trying to find the feeling of firing arrows. For a moment, an arrow flew straight out.
But it didn't reach its target as it had hoped, and instead hit the grass next to the pheasant. The pheasant was so frightened that it immediately let out a hoarse cry, and at the same time flapped its wings and flew towards the mountains and forests to the north.
Zheng Sheng put down his bow and said helplessly: "I didn't shoot." ”
"Hurry up and catch up!" Liu Wei'er made up her mind to catch this innocent little animal. Zheng Sheng had no choice but to urge the horse to chase after her in the mountains and forests.
The pheasant that poured blood mold did not expect that after it escaped once, the hateful humans would catch up. Half a meter above the ground, after flying for nearly 100 meters in the mountains and forests, it was very tired, fell to the ground, and found a grass hole to get into.
Zheng Sheng and Liu Wei'er followed its cry at first, but then it stopped sounding, and the two lost their traces.
"Don't look for it, we still have to hurry up and find someone to stay at?"
"Be quiet, I'm almost there, huh! Look there, huh! Look so conspicuous that you think you won't be able to find you if you hide in the grass? We slowly got closer, and then we shot it with arrows. ”
Zheng Sheng understood her wide-eyed, caught its traces in the mountains and fields, dismounted with her, and quietly approached there.
When it was only thirty or forty meters away, Zheng Sheng hid behind a tree, quietly bent his bow and arrows, and shot an arrow!
Right on target! Therefore, his practice of archery is not without some results!
Zheng Sheng was a little relieved, but the pheasant that was hit by the arrow still flapped its wings and flew into the distance.
Zheng Sheng couldn't help but be dumbfounded, "Chase it!" Liu Wen'er rushed out.
The two chased after each other, and the poor little beast, who had been bleeding all the way, lost too much blood and fell to the ground and died.
Liu Wen'er gasped and stared at it for a while: "This is a rooster!" Does the prince have the destiny to be a prince? ”
Zheng Sheng frowned: "Why did you mention this stubble again?" And how can you be sure it's a rooster? ”
"With bright feathers, tufts of ears, and a good tarsal distance, the rooster can't be wrong." Liu Wei'er said.
What's it like to have an almost encyclopedic friend? It's Zheng Sheng now.
He shook his head and lifted it up: "It's getting dark, let's take it and hurry to find someone to stay at." ”
Looking at the sky, Liu Yan'er was also a little panicked: "Okay, let's go back and lead the horse." ”
Before he could take two steps, Zheng Sheng suddenly heard the dissatisfied neighing of his three-year-old horse. The two of them paused in their footsteps, and their feet went faster to that side.
During the march, Zheng Sheng dropped the pheasant, bent his bow and arrows, pulled Liu Wen'er behind him, and approached there vigilantly.
Zheng Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, took off the arrow, and walked forward quickly, looking at the little boy who was still pulling the reins of the horse and trying to pull it, he snorted coldly: "When the thief sees the master coming, don't you run away, aren't you afraid of going to the official office to eat in prison?" ”
The little boy looked no more than ten years old, obviously still a bear child, but when he heard Zheng Sheng's words, he still pulled the reins of the horse and didn't let go.
"We're not thieves, brother, let go!" On the side, a weak voice spoke in a panic. Zheng Sheng looked at it, but it was a child who was thinner than this bear child, two or three years younger.
"How can you prove it's your horse?" The bear child suddenly said, "When we came over, we saw that it was here, and no one wanted it." So how can you prove it's your horse? ”
At this time, Zheng Sheng heard the movement behind him, and looked back to see that it was Liu Wei'er who picked up the pheasant again. It's just a pheasant, as for going back and getting it?
Zheng Sheng's thoughts turned, but he put his hand in his mouth and blew the whistle that He Li handed him. When the horse heard this, he immediately swung his head more vigorously, and the boy could no longer bear any strength, and was thrown away by the horse and fell heavily to the ground.
"That's proof of that!" Zheng Sheng calmed the somewhat uneasy horse. At this time, Liu Wei'er also summoned his horse from not far away. He glanced at it, and the two children over there were still staring at them motionlessly, Zheng Sheng shook his head: "Let's go!" ”
Liu Wen'er walked in front of the two: "Two little brothers, we are people who came out of the city to visit the mountains, it's late today, can we go to your house to spend the night?" This pheasant has the right to be rewarded, how about it? ”
Liu Wei'er's affinity is much stronger than Zheng Sheng's, but the bear child is still a little hesitant.
"So, do you want to ride a horse? If I can go to your house for the night, I will ask this big brother to take you on horseback riding tomorrow morning. ”
This temptation is much greater than that of a pheasant, and the bear child's head is like a hen pecking rice: "Okay, you can't go back, I want to ride a horse." ”
Zheng Sheng was convinced: "Sniff, how can you agree to such a thing?" "Take this bear kid on horseback? Don't do it!
"It's getting dark, and the prince really plans to sleep in the mountains?" Liu Wen'er asked.
"Okay!" Zheng Sheng reluctantly agreed.
Two children under the age of ten acted as guides, and took Zheng Sheng and Liu Wei'er, who were only fourteen or fifteen years old, leading horses, to their house.
After walking for a while, the older boy suddenly thought of something and proposed, "We still have a long way to go, so let's ride a horse!" ”
"Running so far to play with your younger brother, aren't you afraid that your parents will beat you?" Zheng Sheng asked with a glare.
"You ran farther with your sister, aren't you afraid that your parents will beat you?" The little boy glared back unceremoniously.