Chapter 39: Hunting
As summer began to fall in eastern Liaodong, it was the season when various animals were active in the mountains and forests, especially the decades-long war between Tang and Goguryeo, which caused the population of Liaodong to drop sharply. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Due to the decline of the population of the primitive mountain forests, there is less human support, and the wild animals are more and more abundant, so that every night, the roar of tigers in the mountains and forests can be heard in the distant mountains and forests in the city.
When the sun rose and a new day began, the east gate of Anshi City opened, and hundreds of black Xuanjia soldiers roared out of the city gate hole on tall horses, rushing towards the mountains and forests in the distance.
"Jun Xun, I heard that the exquisite sable fur is produced in the Taibai Mountain, is it okay to make one for the slave family?"
Ling'er's delicate face looked at Li Yu expectantly and begged, wearing a black military uniform with her gradually growing graceful figure and black silk tied into a ponytail and long hair to the waist, Li Yu's heart shook for a while.
Sins and sins, people are still girls! Li Yu confessed to God in his heart, although he did not believe in God.
"As cute as Ling'er, Ben Yan will make a sable fur for you to make a shawl no matter what."
"The slave family also wants it!"
"Mei'er is well-behaved and cute, and naturally indispensable." Li Yu said happily and rubbed Mei'er's hair, which she had spent a long time combing, which made her pouting and the boss unhappy.
"Jun Xun, the slave family wants to play a tiger skin." Xing'er asked unceremoniously, and the exit highlighted her style as a woman.
"Ahem>< Li Yu replied with some embarrassment: "Tigers are not easy to hunt, so let's change apricots." ā
Tigers are not so easy to hunt, don't think that after watching Wu Song in the Water Margin, you think that a strong adult man can kill a tiger with his bare hands.
What's more, the tiger in Taibai Mountain is the largest carnivore on land in the world after the extinction of prehistoric animals, and a hunter who is not very familiar with hunting wants to hunt tigers alone? That's a joke, a tiger's claws can disembowel.
It is still feasible to go tiger hunting with an elite guard of a few hundred people, but today I came out to hunt just to have fun, and I can't afford to go to the danger of hunting tigers. Li Yu was embarrassed to refuse.
"Jun Xun, the slave family has taken people to hunt by themselves, and the slave family has long wanted a complete tiger skin as a cloak." Xing'er didn't care and said very domineeringly.
Li Yu looked at the equipment on her mount curiously, in addition to the usual eight-bucket bow, she actually brought a hard bow with one stone, it seems that Xing'er has been prepared.
"What kind of skin does Xin'er want?" Li Yu smiled and asked Xin'er, who had never spoken, compared to the other three little girls, Xin'er is fifteen years old this year, and she is more eye-catching in her eyes.
Xin'er's smart eyes blinked at Li Yu, "The slave family wants a white fox skin, but the slave family wants to take it themselves." ā
Taibai Mountain is the Changbai Mountain of later generations, lying in the eastern part of Northeast China, showing a northeast-southwest trend. In this era, the Taibai Mountains were densely forested and sparsely populated, and the war made the local population even more sparse.
But this is a treasure land, but unfortunately, in addition to the Warring States period of the Yan State in order to survive to Liaodong, the later Chinese rulers of the past generations of Chinese people paid serious attention to this place, only because its winter is longer than the Central Plains for a month or two.
The three dynasties of the Qin, Han and Tang dynasties, as the most pioneering era in Chinese history, were limited to the northeast region.
Qin has always been committed to the south, and after the Han and Tang dynasties dealt with the Wei Manchu Korea and Goguryeo in the northeast, which threatened them, their attention was always focused on the northwest region, but the northeast direction was selectively ignored.
As a result, after the national strength weakened, the eastern Liaodong region was more difficult to hold than the Hexi region, which was opened up by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. An important reason is that the rulers of the current dynasty did not pay attention to Liaodong, resulting in a vast area but a serious shortage of Han residents, always becoming the first area of the Chinese nation to fall into the hands of foreign people, becoming a bridgehead for foreign races to strengthen themselves, attacking the Chinese mainland, the military grain base, the Han, Jin, Tang and Ming dynasties are nothing more than this.
Li Yu and his entourage entered the mountains and forests only a few hundred meters before they saw several mountain ginseng plants that were enough to sell dozens or hundreds of ginseng in the Central Plains, which made Xin'er and the others very happy.
I have long heard that the mountain ginseng in the mountains and forests of eastern Liaodong has long been heard, and Xin'er, Ling'er, and Mei'er have specially asked local doctors to learn to identify mountain ginseng.
Digging the largest one, which was two fingers thick and five inches long, Li Yu had to sigh that the three treasures of Liaodong, this is only one of them, and he is looking forward to the other two treasures more and more.
"Your Highness, a herd of deer has been spotted by the creek ahead."
The sentinel sent to reconnoiter the prey in the nearby mountains and forests came back to report, Li Yu, Xin'er and others put away the fun of looking for mountain ginseng, and the group began to move closer to the river with strong bows and crossbows.
The cat is in the woods, and the second treasure of Liaodong Sanbao deer antler by the river is presented in the eyes of Li Yu and others.
In addition to the guards in charge of vigilance, Li Yu, Xin'er and others raised the bows and crossbows in their hands and pulled the full strings to aim.
The male deer with its strong antlers seemed to have sensed something, raised its grazing head, sniffed its nose into the air, and looked alert.
"Whoosh ......"
Nine arrows suddenly flew out of the woods on the other side of the river where the deer drank water, and the deer were suddenly startled, and they jumped up with four hooves to prepare to escape.
At this time, Xue Ne was still not satisfied, and he ran out of the woods and raised his bow to shoot, and three fleeing deer were shot down on the spot.
Li Yexu was unwilling to be left behind, even if he knew that his archery skills were inferior to Xue Ne, he wanted to compete with him at this time, and he was easy to shoot with Xue Ne's bow as he ran out of the woods. It's just that the archery skills are not as brilliant as Xue Ne's, but he can also shoot accurately with arrows while running, shoot three arrows, and finally stabilize his body and shoot another arrow before shooting down a deer running at the back.
Xue Ne smiled kindly at the dejected Li Yexu and said, "Li Eryang, archery has made great progress!" ā
"Hey, it's far worse than you, why is your archery skills so harmful? You'll have to teach me another day. ā
"This is a family heirloom, and it should not be leaked!" Xue Ne sighed with a slight mystery.
Li Yexu was a little annoyed, and every time he said this, "You just blow it, Your Highness can learn it, but I can't learn it?" ā
"Hehe, that's different!"
"Li Eryang, Xue Dayang doesn't teach, this king teaches!" Li Yu was overjoyed and the four daughters of Xin'er, Xue Yao, the military staff of the office, Yu Chengzhi, the general of the Qilin Guard, and others came out of the woods, and when they saw the two arguing about archery, they joked.
"Hey, Your Highness's archery skills still need to be improved, I'm afraid it will take a long time to learn!" Li Yexu said with some disappointment.
This made Li Yu's smiling face a little red, although his own archery skills were studied by Xue Rengui and often practiced with Xue Ne, but due to the limited body of a teenager and the short time of practice, the archery strength and rapid fire were not good.
"Hey, hey, Jun is despised." The four daughters of Xing'er were smiling on the side, which made Li Yu's face red-red and a little embarrassed.
"Count the results!" Li Yu shouted and ran to look at his loot to divert everyone's attention.
Mei'er and Ling'er watched the others count their prey, but they couldn't find their prey with a bow in their hands.
"No need to look for it, the prey of the two sisters has run away with your arrows again as they did last time." Xing'er stepped forward to hug Mei'er, who looked depressed, and Ling'er laughed.
This made the two women embarrassed and ashamed, every time they hunted, they couldn't even shoot a bird, which will be confirmed again.