Chapter 45: Morning in the Woods
The silence of the night, accompanied by the "crackling" sound of the campfire, gradually receded. Only in the woods, the chirping of nighthawks heard from time to time still drifted through the trees of the gradual dawn.
In the early morning, the old forest was covered with a thin mist. If you look at it from a high place, you will feel that the whole forest seems to be surrounded by white smoke. Although it is the hottest time in the old forest, the head sun is warm. But in the early morning, it was still cold.
White smoke and dust mingled with a faint mist in the forest. The bonfire at night was also burned out at this time. All that remained, the wisps of white smoke that slowly rose.
Although Xin Laosan slept a little shallower, he was still able to sleep peacefully and steadily. His very bright ears can make him wake up immediately when he notices something unusual.
And last night, it was really a little uneasy. It was also in the middle of the night that Xin Laosan heard the sound of something approaching him and Xiaohuzi. When he heard the noise, he woke up. But it didn't take long for the moving object to go away again. And this is nothing for Xin Laosan.
He has been hunting in this old forest for most of his life, and he has never seen anything in the forest. And once at night, when he went out hunting alone, he did not encounter fatal dangers. And like last night, the object that he didn't know what it was, approaching and going away, was just a common thing for him.
And he took Xiaohuzi with him, and he is now in the realm. Although they entered the old forest, where they were only in the front section of the Kidnapping Mountain, they did not go too deep into the forest. And the objects dangling in the territory in front of this kidnapping mountain are not much of a threat to him. The most you can encounter is the long-haired wild boar in the forest.
But it is not excluded that in the forest, those big guys who eat meat will run outside from the deep mountains. But the possibility of encountering it is not very large. Even if he encounters it, the big stone bow in his hand will definitely be able to shoot through the eye sockets of a good beast with an arrow, and ask for its good skin and flesh!
From time to time, Xin Laosan slowly opened his eyes amid the birdsong in the forest. Then he got up and began to pack up. By the way, he used clay to cover the bonfire with a trace of white smoke. He didn't wake up right away, and the little tiger who was still asleep next to him. I also thought that I had walked for another day yesterday. Xiaohuzi was really a little tired, so he wanted Xiaohuzi to sleep for more hours.
"Daddy"
"Hey! Wake up! ”
But when Xin Laosan was still packing up, Xin Huzi, who was asleep, rubbed his sleepy eyes and slowly sat up. In the last day, I walked for another day, and I was really tired. After eating roast pheasant and looking at the stars in the sky for a while, I went to bed early. At this time, Xin Huzi was still sleepy-eyed, but after a good night's sleep, he was almost rested.
"Give"
When Xin Laosan was packing up, he handed the one he had on his body, with less than half a pocket left, to the little tiger who had just woken up. This water skin bag was brought from the Yan family and filled with wine. But in the tunzi, in the days of preparation, after drinking all the wine inside, Xin Laosan was taken out as an object to hold water. In the past two days, he hasn't drunk a few sips of water. But Xiaohuzi has walked a lot, but he drank more than half of the water.
"Daddy, let's, the water in our skin. All of them are almost drunk. What to do? ”
Xin Huzi took the water skin sac handed to him by his father, drank a sip of water and covered it with a stopper. But he was a little worried, and drank all the water in the water skin bag he was carrying. If the water in this skin bag is drunk, then what will he and Daddy drink? He also saw that Daddy hadn't drunk a few sips of water in the past two days. He also asked Daddy curiously, but Daddy said that when he went out hunting on weekdays, he didn't drink much water.
"Hey! Don't worry! Today, Daddy will take you to Stone Creek! When we get there, we'll have water to drink. ”
Xin Laosan said, then took the little tiger who stood up, handed him the pawnshop cover of the skin, and said: "Huzi! The water eyes there are really delicious! It's sweet! And ah, there are often some fur and horned objects there, and they go there to drink water. Let's go over today. Maybe I'll be able to wait for some good beasts! ”
"Huh? Also, with sweetness? Also, there are still woods? Also go there to drink water? ”
Xin Huzi heard Daddy say this, which really aroused his curiosity! But it was still a little, and when he just woke up, his sleepy eyes were swept away, and he came to the head of the spirit.
"Good! All right! Dad! Let's go, let's go quickly! ”
Xin Huzi said, and stretched out his hand to carry the leather bag that he used as a pillow.
"Hey! Don't worry! We'll definitely be able to get there today, and I guess we'll be able to get there before noon."
Xin Laosan said, and straightened up. He looked at the forest in front of him with no end in sight. But he had been hunting in this forest for many years. For the hunters in this forest, the abduction mountain that often hunts, is really familiar. Although this kidnapping mountain is really not small, it is really nothing for an old hunter like him, who has been hunting in the forest for most of his life.
The Tunzi hunters who hunt in this kidnapping mountain are not only Xin Laosan, but the hunters in this forest come here to hunt. Because Kidnapping Mountain is not only close to the forest where he is, but also connected to other forests. Therefore, those tunzi hunters in other forests often come to hunt in this kidnapping mountain. Therefore, the hunters who hunt in the kidnapping mountain often encounter the hunters of the tun people in other forests, but it is not uncommon.
Xin Laosan has been hunting in the Kidnapping Mountain for many years. I have also encountered a lot, other hunters in Tunzili. Over the years, he has hunted in the Kidnapping Mountain and rescued several Tunren hunters. I even met people who were gnawed away by the big guys in the woods, and only a bunch of bones remained. Although he didn't know where the gnawed and only the bones came from. But as long as he meets it, he will bury the bones left over from the gnawing according to the old rules of the Tun people. It can be regarded as accumulating some virtue for yourself, if you are also in the forest that day, you will be harmed by these good beasts with fur and horns. I hope that Master Shan will see this meager merit of him, so that the passing Tunren Orion can see it, so that he can bury himself in this old forest that gave birth to him and get a good life.
According to the rules of the old forest, even if you are plagued by those good beasts in the forest. As long as there are some bones left, buried in the old forest, they can also go to the other side to die. And the hunters of the Tun people who hunted in the old forest would also bury the bones of the Tun people who were killed by the scourge in the forest according to the rules of the old forest when they hunted in the forest.
Xin Laosan also got lost in the Kidnapping Mountain, but as long as he didn't reach the deepest boundary of the Kidnapping Mountain. He's still sure he won't go the wrong way. And the deepest boundary of Guizi Mountain is also close to the outside of the pass. In the past hundreds of years, many wolf leaders from outside the customs have crossed the Kidnapping Mountain. Therefore, the hunters who hunt in the Kidnapping Mountain often only hunt some prey in the front and middle sections of the Kidnapping Mountain, but rarely go to the deepest part of the Kidnapping Mountain.
In the deepest mountain of Abduction Mountain, Xin Laosan has been there. He also hunted large objects from the deep mountains of Kidnapping Mountain. Even the old prince's skin that was once prepared to marry Juanzi's sister. It was hunted from the deep mountains of Kidnapping Mountain. He also went from the deepest part of the Kidnapping Mountain to the other side of the Kidnapping Mountain. There are denser forests, but the mountains are steeper. It's no wonder that the fast horses of the wolf leader outside the pass can't come to the pass in large numbers, but it's not easy to come to this pass.
When Xin Laosan tied up the mouth, the big/burlap bag. The faint mist shrouded in the mountains and forests has gradually receded. Xin Laosan was carrying a big/burlap bag, and smiled at Xiaohuzi: "Go!" Daddy, I'm going to take you to Stone Creek! ”
"Daddy! Dad! So, are there any fish there? ”
"Hey! Absolutely! Uncle Calf and I have eaten fish there! Well! It's really not small! ”
Xin Huzi listened to Daddy's words, and became even more energetic about the stone stream he was going to go to. When even urging Daddy to hurry up, let's go to the stone stream early.
Xin Laosan was still walking not fast or slow, but it made Xin Huzi, who was following him, angry.
"Huh?"
Before Xin Huzi could follow Daddy's back, he walked far. He turned his head and looked again at the place where they had slept, not far from them. He just now, suddenly he felt it, as if something was following him. But I suddenly remembered the big cat that Daddy told him. Thinking of Daddy's almost being bitten off by a big cat, I was a little afraid.
When he turned his little head and looked behind him, he didn't see anything. Only a few that still haven't cleared, a faint mist shrouded the forest.
"What's wrong? Toilet? ”
"No, nothing"
Xin Laosan heard that the little tiger behind him stopped, so he also turned around and looked, still looking at the little tiger in the distance.
Xin Huzi saw that there was nothing behind him, so he didn't say what he just felt, as if there was something behind him, and followed his own affairs. At this time, he was all focused on the Stone Creek he was about to go. Since there was nothing behind him, he didn't want to say anything more.
"Daddy! Let's go to Stone Creek quickly! ”
"Hey! Walk! ”
Xin Laosan is still walking in front, and Xin Huzi is still following behind Daddy. In this way, the two of them walked in the forest that gradually dissipated the mist. Head towards the stone stream ahead.
The mist had now dissipated, and a white hair slowly drifted down from the forest in the gentle breeze. Gently fell to the place where the two of them slept on the bonfire last night.