7. Fat Man (Part I)

Sent away the mother and daughter of Xia Cao, and Li Ci, who was full, was not idle, cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, cleaned them, but did not read according to the predetermined plan, although most of the "Spring and Autumn" Li Ci had been able to memorize it, but after all, Li Ci had not turned a few pages of the book that Mrs. Meng kindly took.

Instead, he found knives and miscellaneous items and began to repair the very old longbow, and he had to enter the mountain before dawn tomorrow morning, although Li Ci was used to getting up early, but he felt that it was a pity to vomit less, after all, with Li Ci's paranoid temper, even in rainy times, the sun and moon were thin, and he had to sit upright for an hour to practice.

"I hope I won't be disappointed by this harvest......"

If Zhang Niu is here, he will definitely be surprised that this kid is very skilled in his hands, and the speed of dismantling and repairing the bow is not like the first time.

I tried the soft and hard elasticity of the cow tendon on my hand, shook my head and tried again, repeating it many times, and I had to adjust it to ninety percent of my maximum arm strength to just pull it up, and I refused to do more or less.

Then he put the longbow aside, found a firewood knife, and fetched water on the grinding stone, grinding it a little bit until it was sharp. Wipe your index finger on the blade and look at a light red mark on your finger before you stop.

And he took the strongest hemp rope in the pile and soaked it in oil and water.

After hesitating for a moment to think about it, I don't know where to pull out the leggings at some point.

I checked the slender iron chain I bought from the bazaar, and it was sturdy and heavy.

turned around and went into the kitchen, took out a jar of grease condensed into lumps of beasts, and caught fire when it caught fire, but Li Xike was reluctant to take it out.

After being busy for a long time, he found all the seven or eight things that he felt could be used in his small family, and Li Xi was willing to give up.

There was a layer of fine sweat on his body, and he was cool by the autumn wind, and he just took the hot water and was going to scrub it, and when he turned his head, he saw that Xia Cao, who was supposed to go home, was holding on to the fence stake at the door, looking at himself with a smile.

Li Ci was stunned for a moment, walked over and asked softly, "Why didn't you go home?" ”

Staying on the side without her mother, facing Li Ci alone, Xia Cao regained her child's nature, smiled mischievously at Li Ci but didn't answer, Li Ci got along with her for a long time, where do you not know this little girl's tricks. also pampered her and let her follow into the courtyard.

Although Xia Cao and Li Ci are much more intimate than others, the rules of family education are much stronger than those of the children in the village, even if they are very curious about these things piled up in the courtyard, they just squat down and look at it, and never move.

"Tomorrow I made an appointment with Uncle Zhang Niu to go hunting in the mountains, and they are all used......

Listening to Li Ci's explanation with a smile on the side, Xia Cao raised her little head and asked ignorantly, "Are there tigers and gray wolves?" ”

Li Xi teased her with a smile: "Yes, naturally there are, even lions and elephants also have ......"

Looking at Xia Cao's surprised look staring at the moist aura eyes, Li Xi felt very cute, and reached out to rub her head, but inadvertently touched her face with his palm.

Natsukusa shrank her head in fright, her expression sad and gloomy. He bowed his head vigorously, as if to hide his sore-covered cheeks......

Li Xi retracted his palm in a daze, looking at this little girl who covered herself with a face towel all year round, if she stayed in her previous life, she was only in the first grade of primary school at the moment, but she would suffer this kind of crime, it was really sad.

But compared to the gloomy Xia Cao, Li Xi quickly adjusted to a warm look, and took out the dark iron plate from his clothes with great emotion, dangled it in front of Xia Cao's eyes, and said to her

"This thing is really godly, you can really see the immortals......"

"Huh...... Not......!? ”

Xia Cao's attention was immediately diverted, and her brows were furrowed, as if I hadn't lied to you.

Li Xi comforted her: "The fairy said that Xia Cao is a sensible and good child, and when she grows up, the fairy will help her remove the poisonous sores on her face......"

Xia Cao glared, buried her head in the crook of her arm, and muttered in a muffled voice: "Liar......"

Li Ci didn't argue, just played with the iron card, and after a while, Xia Cao raised his head and asked in a low voice: "Don't lie?" ”

Li Ci nodded solemnly and seriously......

Looking at the bright smile of the child with yellow muscles in front of him, he felt a lot of emotion in his heart......

The next day was not yet early in the morning, the sky was overcast, Li Xi packed his bags and rushed to a small post at the junction of several neighboring villages.

Li Xi thought that he had come early, but he didn't want the small post to be noisy for a long time.

There are more than a dozen middle-aged men. Because they all rely on the green mountains here to eat, everyone is very familiar with each other, so it is nothing more than sighing that this time I actually found the hunters from several nearby villages, probably to go to the deep mountains to fight the big guys, and then everyone bragged about the skin through the words, such as the big snake that was two years long, the pure white tiger, and the gray-black lion......

After Li Ci and Zhang Niu greeted each other, they quietly stayed in the corner, and they couldn't listen to it, but fortunately, everyone was not slow, and after two or three quarters of an hour, after a few more after another, the people were complete. Then walked out of a man who looked like a principal, and simply untied the back basket without pretentiousness, and distributed a lot of money to the people present, which was about enough for these guys to work hard for half a year.

Li Ci didn't rush forward, because he saw Zhang Niu smiling flatteringly and saying something to the thin man, the other party glared at him, pouted and glanced at Li Ci, and reluctantly added another half of Zhang Niu's money.

Looking at the joy that could not be concealed on Zhang Niu's meaty face, Li Ci only didn't know if he didn't see anything, although Zhang Niu sold him to labor, but if there was no Zhang Niu, he might not have the opportunity to enter the mountain this time, since he had already got what he wanted, he would not be able to tolerate the small calculations of this hard-working man.

However, Li Ci stared at the thin man for a long time, although he was not thin, he had a few strengths on his body, and he had a lot of pure white luck in the life pool, and Li Ci estimated that he would sit on the head of Bai Village, so he only had half of this luck.

The group was led by the lean and thin man who was in charge, and walked sparsely for a long time, approaching the mountain road, looking at the green hills, and they entered the mountains from a small peak in the north.

Gradually walking away, it was towards the depths that everyone did not want to go to on weekdays, and everyone present was a hunter with veteran experience in ten miles and eight villages, so naturally they had heard some evil things, although they were not afraid, but they also felt that this deep mountain was unlucky.

I thought that the person in charge said that he was vague, but he only said that a great nobleman had come to catch a living creature...... Coupled with the real money, I couldn't help but mutter.

On the contrary, Li Ci is quite a bit of a ignorant and fearless, and follows all the way, and it should be to enjoy the scenery.

At the foot of the most horizontal foothill all the way up, the mountain is more and more majestic, the mountain pines and cypresses are abrupt, and the cliff is looping. Full of Luo Cuidai, the stone is green and wet.

The Akitori Ancient Tree is very empty and ethereal.

In the previous life, when I ran to a scenic spot such as Jiuzhaigou in Zhangjiajie, if I didn't go to a remote place where people didn't go to it, I couldn't see such a tacky scenery, and it was already full of tourists.

But how can other people have such a mentality as Li Ci, even if they don't worry about whether this time is dangerous, it is difficult to look at this high mountain and the road is far away, and they have not rested for a long time.

It was hard work for so many people, but the thin man who saw the leader didn't mean to stop.

If it weren't for the white silver face, these grumpy men would have scolded their mothers a long time ago, even now they are enduring like this, and they have already greeted his eighteenth generation ancestors in their hearts......

This man named Wu San is also very bitter, to say that he also has a background, he has been a long-term follower to the county for seven or eight years, he is very brave, and he is trusted, even the head of this Yanghe Township has to be polite, but this henchman is not easy to be, today this matter is really important, so he was sent over. What a fucking chore

And the county lord has repeatedly explained that he must follow the route he has explained, all the way to the past, otherwise there will be accidents, which is what the noble man personally ordered......

He, Wu San, is naturally respectful and obedient to the county lord, and the "big nobleman" who has only heard of it from the mouth of the adults has exceeded the imagination of such a small person, where can he dare to have the slightest disobedience.

This little man, who is already a big man in the eyes of the villagers, is full of caution and apprehension.

But I don't want to know why, in the shade of a miscellaneous tree, there is a little family......

With Wu San's heart, he naturally wanted to go over directly, but everyone was tired and wanted to rest, so where was he willing to anger everyone, so he had to agree.

The hunters stepped forward and knocked on the door, and the reckless people took care of the courtesy, pushed the door and entered, but a wooden house the size of a modern forest keeper was soon filled with people squeezed in.

Everyone sat on a few inferior benches inside, looked around, and cleaned up, not like they had not lived in for a long time. I don't know where the owner of this house has gone.

Naturally, the people of the village had no rules to say, they looked here and touched there, and it didn't take long for someone to find that there was sweet wine in the vat poked there.

They are all reckless men, hungry and thirsty all the way, although they all bring dry food and water, but where is there wine to relieve fatigue and enjoyment.

These people are not very particular, some people proposed to leave some money for everyone to scoop and drink, and the rest of the people got this lot of money today, so naturally they didn't care about these two melons and dates, and they all responded to it. Take the scoop in the jar, you handed me what you passed, and you ate the dry food brought by your mother-in-law.

The county magistrate refused to eat and drink, but he couldn't stand the push of so many men, so he drank it, but found that the wine was more delicious than the good wine at the banquet at the county lord's house, and it was a few scoops down, which was very happy.

No one paid attention to Li Ci, who had been watching coldly from the sidelines, frowning hesitantly and struggling to make a choice, and finally stepped forward to take a sip, and then sat silently, his body was indeed tired, it was good to recover more physical strength after all, who asked him to bring something really light.

Everyone rested for a while, Wu San was afraid that he would miss a big event, so he asked everyone to set off, and a group of men responded happily, while packing up and getting up.

However, I found that after getting up, I suddenly felt lightheaded, very dizzy, all of them were extremely uncomfortable, dry and vomited, but nothing vomited, I felt that Touren'er was stuffy, and it was difficult to get up.

Not long after, they all fainted, and they were piled up all over this already small wooden house, and Li Xi didn't get together with others when he sat down, but at the moment he fell in the corner. It's not next to those stinky men.

And not long after the gang was on the road, the door of the cabin opened gently, and there were no thieves or robbers, just half of the fat face poked in, not fierce at all, and even the eyes were kind and pure.

Looking at the people who fell to the ground, the fat man let out a sigh of relief, opened the door a little, and squeezed his whole body in, like a student who had successfully skipped class over the wall.

A fat man, twenty-seven or eighteen years old, although he has a remarkable and tender baby face, but for Li Ci, he is an uncle.

He was dressed in a half-new Confucian costume, but he had no hat and some blades of grass and dirt hanging from his hair.

After carefully looking at everyone again and confirming that they had all fainted, they were finally relieved, and the worried expression finally dissipated, as if he was going to kick down a man who occupied the chair, but he still couldn't bear it, and gently and carefully put the unlucky man on the ground, and then sat on the bench. What do you want to do with this room of people.

At this time, there seemed to be something in his placket to drill out again, and the next moment, a snow-white fox like the snow of the Qinling Mountains came out of his arms, the size of which was larger and limited than an adult man's palm. The eyes are the same as a faint amethyst.

The most strange thing is that it actually has four tails, fluffy, the size of fingers, swinging one after another, making this fat man very itchy, and hurriedly grabbed it out and put it opposite him.

She complained very sadly: "She just wants to catch the lion and ride it for a few days, let her catch it, and let it be released in a few days......

Last time, she had to take you back to her vegetable garden to eat cabbage, and I begged for nothing, and she said angrily that she would never come to me in her life......

I'm a man who is almost thirty, and I have to bully an eleven or twelve-year-old girl, what a shame it is......"

The little fox naturally didn't understand, but looking at the flowers and leaves on the fat man's head, it looked very beautiful, so he was very happy to "huh, huh", the fat man saw that the fox had a tendency to himself, and hurriedly took his hand and gently held it.

The fat man, who hadn't seen a few people in a year, continued to spit bitterness on the fox

"Since I was fifteen years old, I have planned to frame the world, assist the Lord, and repay the common people to a peaceful and prosperous world...... Why do you want to do such a thing......"

The fat man looked at the people in one place very depressedly, and finally came to the conclusion that he didn't care, and when they woke up and went by themselves, the little girl wanted to save face, and she wouldn't hire someone to catch her a second time.