Ah Lian couldn't see anything in the dark, and only then did she feel hot when she took it. She took a small bite, a burnt smell, "Potatoes? ”

"It used to be a potato, but now it's a hash brown." Jiang Yanchao spread a layer of soil on the fire pit, "Eat the fish in it, be careful of the fish bones." Don't eat the uncooked parts in the middle, and don't eat the mush outside. ”

Ah Lian nibbled on potatoes and fish, and through the faint light of the night, she saw Jiang Yanchao lying on the fire pit, covered with a blanket and a thick coat, picked up another potato and ate it.

"Sit here and put your feet in the blanket." Jiang Yanchao rolled the blanket into the shape of a cocoon and wrapped himself in it like a worm. "It's easy to get cold at night."

Ah Lian sat next to him, and put her feet into the blanket as he said, and after a while she felt the heat of the fire pit penetrate and warm her feet. Ah Lian simply lay down, and the ground under her was warm.

"I was supposed to stay up in the middle of the night," Jiang Yanchao said vaguely, his mouth full of potatoes. "But you've never spent the night in the wilderness, and you must not have had a good night's sleep on the first night, so you might as well sleep when you're tired. Tell me to get up in the middle of the night for you. ”

"Okay." Ah Lian agreed, and her mouth was stuffed with potatoes and fish.

There was silence all around, not a hint of wind, only the moon peeking out of the clouds from time to time.

Almost simultaneously, both men let out a loud hiccup. After a brief silence, both men burst into laughter at the same time.

After a while, Jiang Yanchao heard a slight snoring from Ah Lian beside him. He carefully slipped out from under the blanket and gently moved Ah Lian to the fire pit and helped her cover her with the blanket. Tuck up every nook and cranny. He shoved a package under her head. Ah Lian rolled over. He muttered something and fell back asleep.

He sat beside Ah Lian and looked at her face by the moonlight. It was a small face tanned by the sun, and the corners of the mouth were still covered with black ash. Jiang Yanchao smiled secretly and gently helped her wipe the charcoal ash off the corner of her mouth. In her sleep, Ah Lian curled up like a kitten, with her fists under her cheeks, her long eyelashes trembling, and her eyebrows dark and shiny.

Far away. The howl of the beast was heard again. Jiang Yanchao looked at Ah Lian again, got up and walked towards the woods.

Ah Lian woke up feeling a little cold. She rolled over and accidentally hit her head on the ground. Ah Lian scratched her head in a daze, opened her eyes slightly, and looked at the small branch she had caught in her hand a little confused. Then, she remembered where she was.

Ah Lian lifted the blanket from her body, sat up, yawned, and shivered again. Jiang Yanchao was lighting a fire next to him, roasting something. A burst of fragrance wafted in. It is the taste of meat.

The sun had risen, through the cracks in the woods, through wisps of light. There is a nice smell of dead grass and mushrooms in the air. Ah Lian reached out and touched the tip of her nose. Cool. She let out a big sneeze, followed by a drop of snot that sounded like water.

Jiang Yanchao turned to her: "Awake?" ”

Ah Lian muttered an answer, stood up and stomped her foot hard.

"Let's go to the river and wash our face." Jiang Yanchao turned his head and smeared something on a piece of barbecue.

Ah Lian wiped her nose with her sleeve and rubbed her eyes again. Jiang Yanchao sat by the fire, with several branches stuck in the ground, and on top of them were skewered pieces of meat cut into long strips, which looked like they were already roasted. He had two legs of an unknown animal beside him, resting on a large piece of animal skin.

"What is this?" Ah Lian took a closer look, but didn't see why.

"Meat." Jiang Yanchao took a branch with meat on it from the stand, rubbed it on it with a piece of fatty meat, and the melted oil coated the meat pieces with a layer of shine, "I found it in your trap this morning." You're in luck. ”

Ah Lian stared at the two hind legs, which were not much smaller than the hind legs of the cow. I really didn't expect the trap to catch such a big animal.

The water in the creek is not yet completely frozen, but it is cold to the bone. Ah Lian washed her face and immediately felt refreshed. "I'll help you."

"Okay. Then help me remove the meat from this leg and skewer it. ”

"Hmm!" Ah Lian agreed very energetically, pulled out the dagger with a brush, and cut off the meat against the bone. "By the way, did I fall asleep last night?"

"yes. By the time of my vigil you had just woken me up and I fell to the ground, saying that I was sleepy, sleepy, unbearable, and then fell asleep before I could close my eyes. Or I'll help you put on the blanket. ”

Ah Lian scratched her head a little embarrassed, "I don't even remember when I fell asleep......"

"It's like this if you're too sleepy. It's good to get used to it. ”

"Oh, got it. What is it? Is it a deer? Ah Lian asked, pointing to the meat on the ground.

"Hmm...... It's a deer. Jiang Yanchao said.

"What about the others? Why are there only two legs left? ”

"I'm a little late, and I'm left with the back half of my body." Jiang Yanchao said vaguely, "Maybe it was eaten by something." These are the only ones left in the pit, and nothing else. ”

"Oh." Ah Lian thought for a moment, "I heard something screaming last night, and I've never heard that sound before. ”

"That's what it did." Jiang Yanchao put a piece of roasted meat next to the fire and took another one and roasted it. "Winter is coming. Animals want to eat more. ”

"Alright." Ah Lian stood up and clapped her hands, looking at her results with satisfaction. "It's all skewered."

"Then go find some sturdy grass and rub a string of thin grass."

"Straw rope? Do? ”

"Hang these barbecues."

When they got up again and went on the road, each of them had a dozen barbs of barbecue around their necks, which smelled like a walking kebab.

"Why don't you want that piece of skin?" Ah Lian caught up with Jiang Yanchao and pouted.

"It's all gnawed so messy, why do you want it?" Jiang Yanchao casually picked two gray mushrooms on the ground, put them on the tip of his nose and smelled them, and put them in his backpack casually. "Besides, we can't nitrate, it will stink in two days."

Ah Lian closed her mouth unwillingly, grimaced at Jiang Yanchao, and immediately found the topic again: "Why do we hang meat around our necks?" ”

"It's easy to break if you put it in a package. We lit a fire and grilled it, and when we walked, we let it blow and it turned into jerky so that it would not spoil easily. Didn't you make jerky when you were at home? ”

"That's hanging on the beams ......of the house," Ah Lian replied quickly. Only then did I remember that there were no beams now.

On the trees in the distance. A man in gray and a little girl were listening silently to their conversation. When the little girl heard Ah Lian's words, she leaned back and laughed, covering her mouth with one hand and holding the branch with the other, so that she did not let herself fall from the tree.

Seeing her appearance, the man in gray just smiled slightly, and a white leopard behind the little girl let out a low roar with some dissatisfaction, and made a sound when he saw the leopard. The little girl quickly turned her head, put her finger on her lips and "shh

It is no wonder that the white leopard is dissatisfied, Jiang Yanchao and Ah Lian ate the meat in their stomachs and hanging around their necks, which originally belonged to it, but they had to give up under the mandatory order of their masters.

"Xiaohao, you know what? When I was little. Just like them......" The man in gray, Kirikuin Takeemon, smiled and turned his head, and said to the little girl beside him in a voice that only the two of them could hear.

The little girl's name was originally Xiaolong. Kirikure Takeemon thought her name was too boyish, so according to Japanese custom, she changed her name to Koha, she didn't really care what the name was, but after hearing the Kirikuin Takeemon who was proficient in Middle-earth poetry and literature chanted a poem such as "The twilight rain does not come and the spring goes, the flowers are all over the ground, and the moon is hazy", she felt that this name was indeed nice and elegant, so she happily recognized the new name.

"The two of them are so stupid, if it weren't for Xiao Hei's help, they would be so hungry that they wouldn't have the strength to hurry today. Just like that, I went to Beijing to take the martial arts exam, don't talk about it. Xiao Hao pursed his lips, looked back at the white leopard again, and the white leopard roared dissatisfiedly, this time the voice was a little loud, alarming the two people in the forest, and the two young men of the Misty Hidden Takee saw that the two young men, a man and a woman, each had weapons in their hands, standing back to back, and looked around vigilantly.

Kirihide Takeemon noticed that what Jiang Yanchao was holding in his hand was a swarthy iron short spear, and he couldn't help but be secretly surprised.

He had already seen that this young man was extraordinary, but he didn't expect that the young man was using a Qimen blade that he had never seen before.

"Yes, they found out, Xiao Hei, you idiot!" Xiao Hao patted the white leopard's head with his hand, and the white leopard shook his head impatiently.

"Let's go over." Kirikure Takeemon said and jumped silently from the tree.

Xiao Hao pursed her lips again, and then jumped down from the tree, and the white leopard also jumped down, compared with the white leopard of the Misty Hidden Martial Guard, her body style was obviously a little worse, and the movement when she landed was also relatively large, causing the two people in the forest to be nervous again, Jiang Yanchao clenched the short iron spear in his hand, and Ah Lian pulled the bow in his hand into a full moon.

Seeing a gray-clothed man walking with a little girl, and behind the little girl was a white leopard, Jiang Yanchao was taken aback and shouted, "Who are you?" What do you want to do? ”

"If you want to go to Beijing to take the martial arts exam, then you can take the test, have you passed the children's test and the township test?" Misty Hidden Takee Guardian slowly came to Jiang Yanchao, stood with his hands in his hands, and asked.

"I ...... Of course, after ......," Jiang Yanchao, who was not good at lying, blushed.

There is indeed a document of the Wuju people in his package, which was given to him by the village chief Uncle Liu, which is the stuff of a Wuju person who has passed by the village this year, but he accidentally ate unclean things, got sick, and died in the village soon after, and his relics are also kept by Uncle Liu.

The reason why Uncle Liu gave that person's things to Jiang Yanchao was to ask him to leave the village as soon as possible, so as not to bring disaster here.

"Even if you're over, is it too late for you to go to the capital?" Kigakure Takeemon looked at the two of them in ragged clothes, smiled, and asked, "At your speed, I'm afraid that when you arrive in the capital, the time for the exam will have passed." Besides, you don't have horses, how can you take the exam? ”

The words of the Misty Hidden Takee Right Emon hit Jiang Yanchao's soft underbelly, and he was like a deflated ball, and suddenly became frustrated, and the short iron spear in his hand hung down weakly.

There are three types of martial arts examinations in the Great Qian Dynasty: bow (bow crossbow musket shooting, divided into infantry shooting and mounted shooting, use a bow and crossbow and use a gun to listen to yourself), horse (fight immediately), knife (foot combat skills),

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