Chapter 382: The Expedition Heading West

"Husband, someone is coming!"

Lin Shilang glanced at Wu Feng lightly, and sneered, "The Lin family is very honored to come by the champion Lang deignantly!" ”

Wu Feng's face was a little embarrassed when he heard this, and he arched his hand and said: "Lin Shilang, it was my fault before, today I am sincerely here to propose, and I hope Lin Shilang can forgive me for my previous offense." ”

"Heh, offended, what kind of identity is Wu Zhuangyuan, how can he offend me?" Lin Shilang sneered.

Having said that, in Lin Shilang's heart, he still likes Wu Feng very much, this young man is definitely an outstanding talent in the same age, and the circumcision technique he has studied has even been praised by Wang Lang.

But this kid broke his face before, and he still has to breathe this breath in his heart.

"Lin Shilang said with a smile, you are an important minister of the imperial court, I am just a junior student, and in front of you, I can only be a junior." As he spoke, he glanced at Lin Xin, who was kneeling beside him, and suddenly knelt beside her, and said, "Lin Shilang, Mrs. Lin, I really like Lin Xin, please marry Lin Xin to me." ”

Lin Shilang squinted his eyes, stared at Wu Feng, and said, "You go back!" ”

Wu Feng's face sank when he heard this.

Lin Xin knelt in front of Lin Shilang and pleaded, "Father, please fulfill us." ”

"Shut up!" Lin Shilang glared at Lin Xin coldly.

"Wu Zhuangyuan, if you want to marry my daughter, it's not that easy." Lin Shilang said in a deep voice.

"Please also ask Lin Shilang to make it clear!" Wu Feng arched his hand.

"Heh, if you can make great contributions to the court within two years, and worship the four products, I will fulfill you."

After Wu Feng listened, he suddenly felt that Lin Shilang was trying to make things difficult for him.

He is now only a fifth-grade official, and he has jumped two levels in two consecutive years, which has never happened in the history of the Xia Kingdom, and the difficulty can be imagined.

The fourth-grade official is a big member of the government, and if he is promoted to another level, he will be a court official, those are the most noble group of people in the Xia Kingdom, how can he achieve such a high achievement in such a short period of time.

Seeing Wu Feng's surprised expression, Lin Shilang squinted his eyes and said: "If you can't do it, you don't have to talk about it anymore, don't harass Lin Xin in the future, for the sake of being an official in the same dynasty, I won't embarrass you, go back!" ”

Wu Feng gritted his teeth, and when he saw Lin Xin on the side looking at him expectantly, he couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart.

"Lin Shilang, don't worry, I agree to this condition, and Wu will become a fourth-grade official within two years." Wu Feng said solemnly.

Lin Shilang didn't speak, just sneered.

Wu Feng got up slowly and bowed to Lin Shilang and Mrs. Lin: "Wu has taken his leave, and I hope you will keep this promise." ”

glanced at Lin Xindao and said, "Xin, don't worry, I will definitely marry you." ”

Lin Xin smiled and nodded.

Wu Feng arched his hand to Lin Shilang, and walked towards the courtyard gate with a solemn face.

Lin Shilang looked at Wu Feng's departing back, the corners of his mouth curled, and he muttered to himself: "Good boy, I want to see how you do it." ”

Western steppe.

Zhou Yu's team traveled a long way along the way, and I don't know how far they went.

The mountains don't look far off on the map, but it's hard to get there.

The exhausted expedition had been by a stream for three days, and the food they had brought with them had already been eaten, and during this time, the members of the expedition had to hunt and move forward, and life was extremely difficult.

A fire was lit by the stream, and the team members sat together, silently eating the fish caught during the day, no one spoke, and after dinner, the team members on night consciously held weapons to guard around.

Zhou Yu lay on the ground tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, looking at the starry night sky, Zhou Yu got up and took out his backpack, and took out the diary issued by the Ministry of Rites to everyone from it.

By the light of the fire, Zhou Yu began to write:

"In the eleventh year of Taichu, on the third day of May, by now we have basically left the scope of activities of the Xia Kingdom, this place is deserted, there are terrible beasts everywhere, we don't know how long it will take to reach the destination, yesterday Li Wall was sick, according to our judgment, he should have caught a cold, took some medicine during the day, and his condition improved a little, I don't know if these companions can still live when we go back, the wild world is too terrible, I don't know how the previous people survived in this environment, Now that we have sharp weapons, it will be extremely difficult to deal with those terrible beasts, and we will stay here for a few more days in the next few days, and we can only move forward when Li Wall is cured. ”

Zhou Yu closed the diary, carefully put it in his backpack, took out a book, and read it carefully by the firelight.

The team members didn't say much about Zhou Yu's behavior, they are all students, and they all hope to be named on the gold list in the future, although this exploration and discovery plan can add points to themselves, but more important is their own knowledge level.

In the early morning, the breeze blew, and the people who had been lying on the grassland all night were inevitably stained with dew.

Zhou Yu shuddered, got up and walked to the river to wash his face and sober himself.

"How's the Li Wall?" The captain asked Zhou Yu.

"I just looked at it, and the fever seems to have subsided, and I guess it's going to get better." Zhou Yu said slowly.

The captain nodded and said, "Let's rest here for another day, replenish the supplies, tomorrow we will continue to hurry, and you will stay here with four people to guard the camp in a while, and I and the others will go to catch some prey." ”

"Don't worry, captain, I'll be optimistic about here."

"Well, let's call everyone up, and we'll do it after eating."

Breakfast was very simple, one grilled fish per person, a few baked bird eggs, barely filling the stomach.

The captain left the other two people and Zhou Yu and Li Wall to guard here, and he took most of his men out to hunt.

There are many wild beasts in this grassland, and since humans occupied the east, a large number of wild beasts have begun to migrate to the west, so that the species here have suddenly become richer.

Naturally, people do not seek out ferocious predators as their hunting targets, and there are a large number of herbivores roaming around the area.

The herds of animals are like a delicacy at your fingertips.

More than a dozen members of the expedition searched for a long time, and finally found a small group of beasts, this group of beasts is a small mammal, the size of a wild boar, as long as one is captured, it is enough for the team members to eat for several days.

After this period of life in the wild, everyone's hunting skills have improved to a great extent, and it can be said that hunting this animal is not difficult.

Several archers were responsible for shooting and wounding their prey, and spearmen and sword and shield men were responsible for chasing their prey.

A dozen hunting beasts lurked in the grass, cautiously approaching their prey.

The beasts are very vigilant, and as soon as they detect an abnormality, the prey in their hands will fly.

The captain raised his hand to signal the group to stop, and pointed to one of the targets in the herd.

The three archers nodded, and the rest scattered to prepare for the pursuit.

The archers bent down to hide their figures as much as possible, and when there were more than twenty meters left in the prey of the game, several people suddenly burst out of the grass.

"Whoosh!"

The three arrows whistled and headed straight for their goal.

Although the archery skills of the three of them were much inferior to those of professional soldiers, such a close distance, coupled with the fact that the three of them attacked a target together, with a scream, everyone knew that they had succeeded.

The frightened prey began to flee in all directions in a panic, and the prey that was shot followed the team in a hurry with blood in a hurry.

The lurking team members, after a loud whistle, began to pursue with their weapons.

The wounded prey, due to the constant loss of blood, was gradually left behind by the herd, and let out a cry of despair.

The team picked up speed and sped through the waist-high grass jungle.

Gradually, the prey could not run, and he lay on the ground and looked at his companions who were gradually moving away, his eyes full of despair.

Seeing that the prey stopped, everyone was overjoyed, and the speed increased by a few points, and more than a dozen people surrounded the poor prey.

Such a fat prey greatly boosted morale, and the captain drew his waist knife.

"Bring a kettle, this blood can't be wasted, we have to save some salt." The captain said in a deep voice.

When one person heard this, he hurriedly took an empty kettle from his waist and handed it to the captain.

The desperate prey tried to struggle to get up from the ground, but the two arrows stuck in it fell back, so it could not stand up at all, and could only scream in the face of impending death.

Let a few people hold the prey firmly, and the captain slashed its throat with a sharp waist knife, and asked people to quickly put the kettle on the wound.

The blood gushing out of it flowed into the kettle, and the man whose hands were splashed with bright red blood were all over his hands.

After receiving two full bottles of blood, the blood gradually decreased.

The team quickly disemboweled, and the field was removed, leaving only the heart and liver, and the rest of the internal organs were left in place.

The offal is too cumbersome to eat, and now there are no good conditions, just roasted, and the taste is difficult to swallow.

After the limbs of the prey were tied, they were carried by two team members and walked in the direction of the camp.

They don't dare to delay here, for after a long time, the carnivorous beasts will smell blood, and then there will be trouble.

The individual beast team members are naturally not afraid, but some carnivores appear in groups, if they encounter hyenas, or wolves and dinosaurs, although they are not completely powerless, but unless there is really no way, no one wants to fight these beasts to the death.

The camp is safe and sound, Li Wall's body is recovering well, and it seems that there is no problem at all.

The hunting party had a good harvest, and everyone worked together to set aside the food they had eaten today and smoke the rest of the food, so that the food could be preserved for a longer time.

At this creek, the expedition spent its last night and continued its march westward.

The grassland is vast, and apart from the occasional sight of oddly shaped trees, the surrounding scenery is barely noticeable.

There is still no mountain range in front of them, which makes the team members a little discouraged, there will be no valuable things to be found on this grassland, these animals wandering around, in addition to becoming the supplies of the team members, there is no need to record at all, the breeding industry of the Xia Kingdom has developed, every household will raise a few domestic animals, and the existence of wild beasts is only as a supplement to food.

After continuing to walk for more than ten days, the surrounding scenery finally changed a little, the grass in front of it was no longer the same, and the trees gradually increased, although it did not reach the level of jungle, but the density was quite considerable.

In this hot weather, with trees to shade the sun, the team members finally did not have to endure the scorching sun.

Seeing under a big tree, Zhou Yu opened the kettle and drank a little water, the water in the kettle was running out, and before finding a new water source, it must be used sparingly.

After a short rest, the captain took out the compass from his bag, looked at the direction, and wrote something on the blank booklet with charcoal.

Zhou Yu glanced over there, then withdrew his gaze, he knew that the captain must be recording the route and discoveries taken during this time, which is the obligation of every expedition leader.

After everyone rested for a while, the captain called the team members to his side and said: "Today is May 14th, we have been leaving Xia Kingdom for almost two months, I just roughly calculated, the direction we are going is correct, now we are about three hundred miles away from Dingbei City, there are several small hills in front of this small forest, if I guess correctly, over these small hills, we should have reached our first target point." ”

Hearing that they had finally arrived at their destination, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, although they were still in the wilderness, but as long as they got there, they could build a place to live, and as for exploring the surroundings, that was later, at least it was more comfortable than lying on the grass.

"Captain, how long are we going to stay here?" Someone asked.

"It depends on the situation, if we find something useful in this area, we will naturally stay for a while, if we don't find anything in two months, we will leave here, record the terrain here, and continue to move towards the west, it is said that there is a very wide river in the west, after crossing that river, it is the farthest place that we reached before the Xia Kingdom, what is the specific situation over there, no one knows, these will be talked about later, it is not early in the heat now, we will rest here tonight, Tomorrow we'll go to that mountain range. The captain said slowly.

Seeing that everyone had no opinion, he ordered the team members to prepare things for the night around, and when the fire was lit, the fear in the hearts of the team members was reduced a lot, and the beasts were afraid of the flames, and in the dark night, the fire was the safest place.

When Zhou Yu was on duty at night, he continued to write his diary, and the thick diary had already been used for a small time, and he knew that he would have to save on it in the future.