"Shoot a hare with a flintlock pistol?" Li Hongji stared at Ulan Sobud's pretty face, "You can figure it out, it's too wasteful, right?" ”

"Our bows and arrows can shoot men and horses as well as hunt, and don't you boast that flintlock pistols are powerful? Why can't you hunt some hare pheasants? Ulan Sobud jumped off the little white horse, and she couldn't wait.

"Okay, I'll let them try!" Li Hongji also jumped off his horse, and he beckoned to the attendants.

The attendants jumped off their horses and gathered around Li Hongji, "Your Excellency, ......"

"I said, there are these hares and pheasants around, and you have flintlock pistols on you, isn't it a waste if you don't fire a few shots?"

"Your Excellency, you mean, to shoot a hare with a flintlock pistol?"

"yes, can you hit it?" Li Hongji was uneasy, for fear that the attendants would not be able to fight.

"My lord, it's okay, but it's ......"

"What's wrong? Any questions? ”

The attendant approached Li Hongji and prostrated in his ear: "My lord, Commander Yuan said that the flintlock pistol is a newly created firearm, and I don't know if it can be used in such a cold weather." ”

"Oh," Li Hongji understood, he frowned, "Then what if you encounter an enemy?" ”

"We don't know, so we'll have to try our luck."

A flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in Li Hongji's mind: "If you don't try it now, if you encounter an enemy, is it too late?" ”

"What do adults mean......"

"Treat it as if you've met an enemy, fire a few shots, and maybe we'll still have something fresh and delicious at night." Li Hongji thought, it's winter, and it's still the far north, so it's time to try the flintlock pistol.

"Since your lord agrees, let's try." The attendants unloaded their flintlock pistols from their backs and began to reload the gunpowder.

Li Hongji and Ulan Sobud are both helping to find the hare pheasant.

An earthy gray hare, bouncing into Ulan Sobud's field of vision: "Hongji, hare." She whispered to Li Hongji, for fear of alarming the hare.

Li Hongji called an attendant: "The rabbit is so small, can it work?"

The attendant stretched out the thumb and forefinger of his right hand, he closed one eye, measured the distance, "It's only fifty steps, no problem." ”

The squire began to aim.

The hare is a little afraid of people, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right, always circling around the crowd.

Maybe it was tired of running, maybe it felt that human beings had no malice, it suddenly stopped, its blood-red eyes looked at the crowd opposite, the long beard on its lips curled up one by one, and it also snorted at Li Hongji.

"Bang!"

The flintlock pistol went off.

Ulan Sobud was startled and almost fell to the ground, but fortunately, the reaction was quite fast, she grabbed Li Hongji's arm tightly and leaned on Li Hongji's body, so she didn't fall.

The hare rolled backwards twice, lay on his back on the ground, kicked desperately on his hind legs, and then remained motionless.

Ulan Sobud poked his eyes out of Li Hongji's arms and looked at the hare in the distance: "Dead? ”

"Dead!"

Unconvinced, Ulan Sobud broke free from Li Hongji's arms and trotted towards the hare, which was lying motionless on the ground.

She picked up the hare, looked around for injuries, and found that the hare's head had blossomed, "Hongji, it's really dead!" ”

"Of course."

Ulan Sobud took pity on the hare and ran back to Li Hongji's side, "Hongji, what was the voice just now?" Flintlock pistol? ”

"Hmmm! The speed of the bullet was too fast, and that was the sound of the bullet breaking through the air. Li Hongji didn't know why the flintlock shot made such a loud noise, but fortunately, Ulan Sobud didn't understand anything.

"Good boy, no wonder flintlock pistols are more powerful than bows and arrows, how fast is this?" Ulan Sobud opened her mouth and glared, she looked at the flintlock pistol from a distance, "Hongji, can you let me take a shot?" ”

"No, when the flintlock gun is fired, the recoil is so strong that the woman can't hold it at all." Li Hongji flatly rejected her.

Ulan Sobud was slightly disappointed, and she glanced at Li Hongji with disgust: "Look down on us women? ”

Li Hongji laughed: "Shooting and archery are not women's business, and on the battlefield, I didn't see women charging." ”

Ulan Sobud no longer paid attention to Li Hongji, she shoved the hare into Li Hongji's hand: "Take it, I want to see them shoot!" ”

"Aren't you afraid of the loud noise of a flintlock pistol firing?"

"You're afraid!" Ulan Sobud stood far behind the attendants, and she carefully observed the power of the flintlock pistol.

In less than two pillars of incense, the attendants hunted twelve hares, three pheasants, and a badger pig.

When the flintlock pistol was fired, there was a loud noise, and the small animals were far away, and the attendants had to retreat to Li Hongji's side, "Your Excellency, ......"

"Enough, I can finally have a fresh meal tonight!" Li Hongji asked the attendants to take out the cloth bags, pack the prey, and hang them on the back of their horses.

It was still early and the sun was still hanging in the sky, and they continued to the southwest.

The mountains were getting higher and higher, and the horses could no longer run, so they were all on their horses, slowly moving towards the heights.

After walking for a few miles, the mountain rises sharply, and there is only a sheep farm trail on the left, but fortunately it is winter, and the weeds and thorns on the trail are withered, and the path is clearly abandoned.

Li Hongji vaguely heard a voice, like the waves were afraid of hitting the embankment, and like a downpour hitting the ground fiercely, in such a valley, it was terrifying, "What sound?" ”

Ulan Sobud listened attentively, and immediately rejoiced: "Waterfall, waterfall, waterfall has arrived!" ”

She sped up her horse and made a small cannon on the trail.

"Ulan Gege, slow down, the mountain road is uneven, be careful." Li Hongji shouted loudly from behind.

"Got it!" Ulan Sobud agreed, but the speed of the horse did not decrease, and she took the lead, and soon crossed the sheep intestine path.

In front of her, there is a large gentle slope, and people can see the waterfall in front of them when they stand on the gentle slope.

When Li Hongji chased after her, Ulan Sobud had already dismounted, and she was standing alone on the edge of the gentle slope, facing the huge waterfall in front of her.

Li Hongji jumped off the horse, grabbed her little hand, and pulled her back to the center of the gentle slope.

"What? Aren't you going to see the waterfall? Didn't we come all this way to see the waterfall? ”

"It's okay to see the waterfall, but you have to have a life to see it first!" Li Hongji let go of her hand, and his eyes moved to the waterfall in front of him.

"What did you say?"

"There are waterfalls here all year round, and the water is likely to wash away the soil below, and the soil and rocks at the edge will be suspended in the air, and the soil and rocks that poke out are prone to landslides, and then ...... Haha, you've got to see the waterfall. ”

Ulan Sobud gave Li Hongji a blank look, but he didn't walk to the edge of the gentle slope again.

Li Hongji approached Ulan Sobud and looked forward carefully, the water flow in winter was not very strong, the waterfall was broken into three sections, and the flowing water of white flowers fell on the bluestone, splashing countless white water droplets, as if a fairy was exuding a white belt.

Li Hongji visually inspected it, if in the peak water season, the three waterfalls are combined into one, from top to bottom, no less than 80 steps. What a spectacular event it would have been if you had come and watched it then!

The entourage also followed, and Lan Lan and Mei Mei were like kidnappings, one left and one right, holding Ulan Sobud's arms.

The red sun was gradually sinking in the west, and its figure was completely obscured by the mountains, with only a trace of afterglow, still illuminating the valley.

Li Hongji paced around the gentle slope, but did not find an open area, "Ulan Gege, it's getting dark, where are we setting up tents today?" ”

Ulan Sobud's gaze finally moved from the waterfall, she looked around, and frowned slightly: "Hongji, let's set up a tent on this gentle slope, and we can listen to the waterfall at night." ”

"Here? There are a dozen of us, can we fit a dozen tents here? Li Hongji estimated that if all the tents were set up here, he was afraid that he would reach the edge of the gentle slope.

"It's okay, Hongji, didn't you say in the morning that the night is cold? Let your attendants, the two of them share a tent, and I will let Lan Lan and Mei Mei share one as well, it should be possible. ”

"Okay!"

Lan Lan set up Ulan Sobud's tent on the side close to the mountain, Li Hongji's tent was close to her right as usual, and his attendants set up their tents on the outside of the mountain, near the side of the waterfall.

Mei Mei was setting up a tent for herself on the left, but Lan Lan asked Ulan Sobud: "Gege, anyway, we sleep together at night, do we still need to set up a tent?" ”

Ulan Sobud put her hands behind her back, her face was as calm as water, she lowered her head slightly, "Let's stand up first, it doesn't matter if you don't use it." ”

Half of the attendants went to look for dead wood and weeds, and began to raise the fire, which was still three piles.

The other half of the attendants skinned the badger pig and plucked the pheasant, but Lan Lan and Mei Mei cleaned up the hare.

The Mongols dealt with small animals very quickly, Lan Lan even with the fur, three to clean up a hare, and then pulled out the short knife around the waist, cut off the head and four claws of the hare, and then cut open the belly, pick out all the internal organs.

The hare did not need to be washed, and before the blood was drained, Meimei had already begun to roast on the bonfire.

Lan Lan has disposed of all the twelve hares, and Li Hongji's attendants have not yet taken care of the badger pigs.

"What a clumsiness!" Lan Lan said as she took the three pheasants.

This dinner was eaten so much that everyone was oily and sweaty.

Lan Lan and Mei Mei went to light a fire in the tent.

Ulan Sobud and Li Hongjizi sat by the campfire for a while, Ulan Sobud tilted her little head, she had been listening to the sound of the waterfall.

The cold is approaching.

"Ulan Gege, let's go back, lie on the bed, and listen to the waterfall."

"Hmm!" Ulan Sobud answered, but his body did not move.

"Gege?"

"Oh, go back!" Ulan Sobud raised his eyes to look at Li Hongji, her eyes shining brightly under the light of the dim bonfire, as if they could glow naturally.

They walked into their tents.

Lan Lan lifted Ulan Sobud's tent, "Gege, are we here?" ”

Ulan Sobud stopped undressing, "You go back first, nest in the valley, the temperature should not be low, if it's too cold, I'll call you again." ”

Lan Lan wanted to ask again, but Mei Mei pulled her back to the tent.

Ulan Sobud re-tied her clothes, she secretly lifted the tent on her right, and asked in a low voice, "Hongji, have you slept?" ”

"Not yet! Ready for bed. ”

"Move your wood brazier over here!"

"What? Don't you have a wood brazier? ”

"I'm still cold!"

Wouldn't I be cold without a wood brazier? Li Hongji decided not to be like a woman, he picked up the firewood brazier and lifted the corner of the tent, "Gege, the firewood brazier is here, where to put it?" ”

"The front of the bed is already there, you can put it in the back, there are wood braziers in the front and back, and the night will not be cold." Ulan Sobud sat on the bed, she turned her face away and didn't look at Li Hongji.

"Oh." Li Hongji put down the wood brazier and turned around to come out.

"Where are you going?"

"Back to the tent! Do you still go to see the waterfall at night? ”

"You don't have a wood brazier in your tent, and sleeping in it at night will freeze you to death."

“……”

"Stupid! Silly melon! Ulan Sobud scolded as he got his coat into the quilt.

"Ah......" Li Hongji was stunned in front of Ulan Sobud's bed, his whole body sweating, not knowing whether it was too cold or too hot.

Anyway, he gently lifted the corners of the quilt and squeezed it into the quilt.