For a while, Li Xu lost his mind. No one in Zhuangzi has ever raised wolves, and even if a naughty boy accidentally picks up a wolf cub, the parents will quickly throw them into the field when they see it. The wolf is the most protective of the cubs, and following the smell of the wolf cubs, the she-wolf will chase you for hundreds of miles. You won't leave until you return the cub. Otherwise, today you will scourge donkeys and horses, and tomorrow you will steal chickens and ducks, and you will definitely never die.

But today, the mother of this little wolf cub has died under Li Xu's arrows, so naturally there is no need to consider the revenge of the she-wolf. Whether he can raise a wolf to be a good hunting dog, he doesn't have any experience in this area. As he hesitated, the wolf cub couldn't suck milk from the edge of his palm, and began to chirp.

Under the call, Li Xudeng's heart softened. Untied the belt around his waist, made a shoulder bag with a diagonal back, and put the little wolf cub inside. Then he put away the short knife, stepped forward and grabbed the wolf's leg, and dragged it out of the hole step by step.

With that bloodstain guide, Li Xu finally didn't get lost. He was careful in his heart, afraid that he would not be able to sell the wolf's fur at a good price, so he found kudzu vine to weave a climbing plow and became a slender man for the wolf. Dragging the plow, he walked along the blood trail for a long time, and finally found the carcass of the wild roe deer that he had hidden. Merge the two climbing plows into one, take three steps and stop, and climb down the mountain panting.

With such a big burden, the road down the mountain is becoming more and more difficult. When encountering a steep place, Li Xu had to first go down the prey one by one with kudzu vines, then fall down the tree and climb the plow, and finally climbed down by himself. When you go down the slope, you have to load the prey again, and pull forward again. After a few tosses, I don't know how long it took to faintly see the lights in the village.

At this moment, it was completely dark, and Uncle Zhong, the housekeeper, had lifted an angry wind lamp and was looking around anxiously. Seeing Li Xu's figure, couldn't wait? stepped forward and complained loudly: "Alas, my little ancestor, you ran there." The lord and the wife are in a hurry, and if I don't see you again, I will definitely gather the clansmen to find you up the mountain! ”

"I hit two big beasts and couldn't carry them, so I went down late!" Li Xu smiled apologetically and explained in a low voice. Pointing to the roe deer and the wolf on the plow, a sense of pride rose in his heart.

"You, you, I see that the master will move the family law tonight, who will intercede for you!" When the old housekeeper Li Zhong saw the huge wolf, he was not happy and angry, and pointed at Li Xu and scolded. "It's in vain that you've been reading for so many years, your parents are in the hall, and you don't understand the truth that you can't risk your life! You fight hard with the wolf, once there is a mistake, who will support this family in the future! Who will provide for your parents? Little unconscionable, look at how the master peeled you tonight! ”

"Uncle Zhong, Uncle Zhong, didn't I come back well. Besides, fighting a wolf is not a risk, didn't the ancestral hero still lead a bow and shoot a tiger? Li Xu hugged Uncle Zhong's arm and begged for mercy. The surname Li believes that after Li Guang, the general of the Han Dynasty, every clansman is proud of the deeds of their ancestors. The heroic deeds of the ancestors are really convincing. Old Li Zhong's rebuke stopped, he shoved the lantern into Li Xu's hand, leaned over and pulled up the kudzu vine, and shouted angrily: "Take it, go and light it up." When I saw your mother, she said that she had come back before it was dark. I met my classmates at the foot of the mountain and showed off my harvest to them, so I went home late! ”

"Yes Lak, Uncle Chung!" Li Xu happily agreed. Reaching out and dragging the other corner of the plow, he walked majestically with the butler in the direction of the house.

Seeing that his son came back safely and brought two prey as big, Li Zhang's family was really happy. Without waiting for Li Mao to interrogate the details, he had already covered a hot hand towel on his son's face, and while wiping the blood stains and mud on Li Xu's face, he praised him: "That is, my son is capable, and he can already shoot a wolf with arrows at the age of fourteen." When my ancestor shot a tiger in the middle of the night......."

"Who said that you want to use the family law?!" Lao Li Mao said dissatisfiedly, "If you don't return after the time, you still praise him." If you fool around with a street scoundrel child, you can't help him! ”

"Didn't the child meet his classmates and be envied so much that he couldn't get away? Why are you so angry! He wasn't really playing in the mountains and wouldn't go home. Look at this fur, Ming'er is familiar with someone, just make him a cloak! The wind is cold in winter......" Li Zhang glanced at her husband and defended her son with a smile. Stuffed the towel into Li Xu's hand, and said lovingly: "Come, wipe your face clean and wash your hands with this water." Your dad is waiting for you to have a few drinks with him! ”

Seeing his wife doting on his son so much, Li Mao couldn't fight one against the other. The teaching work could no longer be carried out, so he had to arrange for the housekeeper Uncle Zhong to drag down the two beasts and deal with them overnight. Then he patted the stool beside him and whispered, "For your mother's sake, I won't punish you today." Let's sit down and eat, the meat soup is hot several times! ”

"Come right away, Daddy and Mom will eat first. I shot the she-wolf today, and I took the little one back! Li Xu agreed, and took out a fluffy little wolf cub from the jacket on his chest like a trick.

"Hurry up and throw it out, that's the disaster star of the loser!" Old Li Maodeng's color changed, he jumped up, and ordered loudly. "We have several livestock, once we ......"

"The she-wolf has been shot by me! Daddy! Li Xu stretched out his voice and prayed. His family's tutoring was not very strict, and after the early death of his eldest brother, his parents took great care of him, so he was about to be fourteen years old, and he still retained a little childishness in front of his parents.

"Then you can't raise it, the wolf is not a dog, you can't see it when you are a child, and when you grow up, you will understand the difference between yourself and a dog, and you will either fight back or leave!" When Li Mao heard his son say that the she-wolf was dead and that the family's livestock would not be threatened, he was shocked and relieved. I thought about it and explained in a low voice.

"Why bother raising it as a dog, when it grows up, it doesn't want to stay, I let it go to the mountains!" Li Xu smiled and said stubbornly.

Li Mao and his wife saw their son's eager eyes, thinking about the inside information they had inquired about from the second brother Zhao from the government during the day, and their hearts softened for no reason, and they expressed their compromises one after another.

"If you want to keep it, keep it. Anyway, this thing was born against the season, and no one has ever been able to feed it! Lao Li Mao was nagging while pouring himself wine.

All wild beasts are conceived in the spring and raised at the beginning of the summer. The cubs take advantage of the abundant summer and autumn seasons to grow hard, so that when winter comes, they can grow enough weight to survive the cold and hunger of winter. And the little wolf cub that Li Xu hunted was obviously just born and had not been full moon, and the chance of survival was less than one percent. So even if Li Mao doesn't like it in his heart, he can't be guilty of comparing himself with his son for a wolf cub who is impossible to raise.

"Don't pamper it too much, once you notice that it's wild. Kill it or drive it away, and don't let it bite you! Li Zhang picked up the bowl and filled his son with a bowl full of meat soup. Drink a bowl of soup first, and then go to touch the wine. There is a lot of wine sent by your uncle, and I can't drink it in half a month! ”

"Thank you, Dad, thank you, Mom!" Li Xu happily agreed, not listening to the old couple's nagging at all. Fei also ran out of the door, settled the wolf cub under his bedside, rushed into the kitchen, and mixed a bowl of rice soup for it. Then he rushed back to eat with his parents.

Ryoko also jumped out like this back then, but unfortunately it ........ Li Zhang looked at his son who was busy going back and forth, and saw tears in the corners of his eyes. During the day, the husband rushed to the city to inquire about the news, and it took more than 20 dollars to buy an errand for the official Zhao Ergouzi. According to the disclosure of the surnamed Zhao, the emperor is planning to conquer Goryeo in person. At present, the officials of the four border counties of Shanggu, Zhuojun, Yuyang, and Lulong (Beiping) are already in a hurry. These places are close to the border, and the soldiers can adapt to the climate of Liaodong, so they are also the key areas for drawing.

"I said Brother Damu, you have to prepare early!" At ten o'clock in the afternoon, Zhao Erguan, who had received Li Mao's benefits, mysteriously revealed, "It is said that the emperor has spoken, and all the sons of the good families in the border counties have enlisted in the army. No matter how many brothers there are in the family, from forty to fourteen....."

"There is only one child left in my family, Xuzi, who is less than fourteen, and I am also over forty!" Li Mao still remembers the embarrassment when he lied, and the last few money in his pocket were also stuffed into Zhao Shuang, hoping that the other party would raise his noble hand at that time.

"The battle is not going to be fought immediately, my big wood brother!" The satisfied Zhao Erguan patted Li Mao on the shoulder and enlightened him earnestly, "As mentioned above, prepare food and armor this year, draw Ding after spring ploughing next year, and then assemble for training and really send troops, it is estimated that it will be spring in the year after next." To tell you the truth, we are friends, brother, I can't guarantee that I can take care of you for three years. If there is a solid-eyed county guard on his head, we who are on an errand are not what people say, how can we agree!"