At night, Canghai brought out the hunting guys, carefully inspected and polished, and worked until midnight, when the preparations were finally ready. When he was done, he picked up the shiny knife in his left hand and the sharp arrow in his right hand, and sighed: "Old friends, whether my father and son eat meat or drink wind this year depends on whether you fight or not." Don't let my dad draw half a winter's bread to satisfy his hunger like last year. ”

Looking back, the room was still full of lights, and he shouted, "Dad, why don't you sleep yet?"

Cangbai said: "Don't worry. You go to sleep first. ”

Canghai walked into his room, only to see Cang Baizhong leaning against the edge of the bed, holding a few calculation chips in his right hand, and staring intently at a piece of paper on the ground in front of him. The paper is densely filled with numbers. Canghai said: "Are you counting this thing again?"

Cang Baizhong didn't raise his eyelids, and said: "I'm a waster, what else can I do besides teaching this arithmetic to earn some money for wine?"

Canghai was sad and said, "My son is useless, I have to let you earn your own wine and drink." ”

Cang Baizhong said: "You are only an adult, and you naturally have a chance to work hard." He scratched the chip on the paper in his hand, and said: "Fate is unfair to me, and I don't believe that my son is like this." ”

Canghai clenched his fists, straightened his chest and said proudly: "If fate is unfair to you, my son will change this fate! If fate is unfair to me, my son will break this destiny!"

Cang Baizhong said lightly: "Hey, it's really a child's talk, it's easy to say." What do you change? What do you break? Do you rely on your hunting knife that kills rabbits?"

Canghai was suddenly speechless, and his face turned red with embarrassment. Cang Baizhong said: "You go to sleep, don't worry about me, tomorrow I will go to Da Niu's house to teach his son arithmetic." He asked his son to sell silkworms, and his son counted a tael of silver missing, which made him angry. ”

Canghai agreed, and stood and watched him draw the piece of paper, dizzy and dizzy, and couldn't see why. He didn't like arithmetic by nature, and his father never took the initiative to teach him, so although he watched him calculate for more than ten years, he didn't know anything in the end. He shook his head and went back to his room to sleep.

Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Ji San came over to call the door. Canghai picked up his sword and arrows, went out to see him alone, and asked, "Third brother, aren't the others in the village going?"

Ji Sandao: "They said that there are many people who fight, and there are many people who score, and there are not many people who get it." Besides, some people contribute a lot, some people have a small contribution, but things have to be divided equally, and it is inevitable that people who contribute a lot will feel uncomfortable. Forget it. We brothers don't care so much about how many points we score. ”

Canghai smiled: "It's the same." My family has no food, and I don't eat and drink you every day. ”

Ji Sandao: "Family, don't talk about life." ”

The two of them set off in full gear. Hongxia Village leans on the Mangmang Mountains, and the mountains are called Yunwu Mountain by the locals because of the perennial clouds and mist. The so-called "relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water", there are many birds and beasts in the Yunwu Mountain, which have fed generations of people in the surrounding villages. However, the cloud mountain is extremely deep, the deeper the danger, the more serious the danger, the beasts, poisonous insects, miasma wrapped layer by layer, the general hunters are only hunting in the front mountain, only a few dare to go deep into the back mountain, as for the back mountain deeper, most of those who dare to go in will never be able to get out.

The two walked around the front mountain for a long time, almost nothing, and only shot a pheasant. There are many traces of traps in the jungle. Ji Sandao: "This front mountain has really been hunted by the next village, and the animals that have escaped the net are probably all fleeing into the back mountain." ”

Canghai said: "Such a rush to kill them all is really not a way to live." ”

Ji Sandao: "No way, you can't go back empty-handed." Let's go inside again. If the number of roads is wrong, the quick retreat is. ”

The two continued to walk deeper into the mountains. At first, there were still trails opened by hunters to guide the way, and the more you walked, the thicker the surrounding trees, the vines were entangled, and the bushes were dominant, and gradually there were no traces of human activity. Occasionally, poisonous insects passed by, and when they smelled the smell of yellow medicine on the two of them, they immediately retreated, but they did not attack. When passing through a mountain pass, there was not even any wind, and the surroundings were quiet, except for the footsteps and breathing of the two men. Even if the two were born with the jungle as their companions, they couldn't help but be apprehensive at the moment.

Fortunately, I later hunted a yellow sheep and had prey, and the anxiety in my heart faded. The two of them swept out an open space, disemboweled, lit a fire and roasted it to eat it to their heart's content, and cut the remaining meat into small pieces, dried the outer blood, and put it in a backpack.

At this time, the sun was setting, and the fog in the forest was getting thicker, so the two set up a few traps near the fire, and then climbed a big tree next to them, cut down the vines, and sprinkled yellow medicine everywhere to drive away insects and ants, and built a resting place between the branches.

There was no danger as imagined along the way, and the two were relieved. When night fell, the eerie scenes of the day were annihilated in the darkness, and they seemed less terrifying. The two of them were lying on the big tree, chatting about family life with or without a match. Canghai said: "Third brother, have you ever thought about going outside?"

Ji Sandao: "My ancestors have been begging for a living in this mountain for generations, and I don't know what it looks like outside, and I don't want to go." Where the roots are, there I am. You're different. I heard the older generation say that your father is an outsider, so he must have wandered outside. ”

Canghai said: "Well, he did mention it, and he didn't have long been outside." Later, something happened to the hunt, and he stayed in the village all the time. It was in this forest that I encountered a vicious beast and was bitten off my hands and feet. ”

Ji Sandao: "If Uncle Baizhong didn't have this kind of thing, he would be an excellent hunter." ”

Although the resting place chosen by the two is high, there is no shortage of beasts in the forest that can climb trees to hunt for food, and the two of them take turns to keep vigil that night, and the sea keeps watch for the first half of the night, and then gets up again in the second half of the night. During this period, you can hear the roar of beasts in the forest from time to time, and even animals scurry through the bottom of the trees. Ji San clenched the handle of the knife and did not dare to relax for a moment.

When the black curtain gradually dispersed and the sky was about to turn white, Ji San breathed a sigh of relief, and was just about to go down the tree to explore, when he suddenly woke up from the sea and exclaimed, "A big guy is coming." ”

At this time, although the morning sun was falling, the fog in the forest was still very large, and as far as the eye could see, it was not clear five steps away. Ji San listened for a moment, shook his head, and said, "Where? I'm afraid you heard it wrong." ”

Canghai said: "That's right. About two hundred paces ahead, the thing walked extremely carefully and slowly, and now stopped. ”

Ji San knew that his facial senses were different from ordinary people, and when he was a child, he followed adults out hunting, and he could gain insight into the prey that was difficult for adults to see, so he didn't dare to take it lightly, and slowly fell down and watched the changes.

The mist was swirling, stirring as the two of them breathed, the birds chirping in the morning, and the air where the sun was beginning to appear contained a faint crisis.

After a long time, there was still no movement, Ji San couldn't help but say, "This guy is so quiet, but what kind of beast is he?"

Canghai made a boo gesture and said, "It's coming." ”

There was a bird in front of him that was frightened and flew up, but it wasn't until the thing got closer to a distance of twenty paces that Ji San really saw the other party's figure. It was a huge four-legged animal, more than three meters tall, and its length was not a little long, and at first glance it looked like a tiger, but it had sharp horns on its head, and its feet were extremely light, which was very different from a tiger.

The beast slowly walked under the big tree where the two of them were staying, and suddenly stood still. The hearts of the two were beating wildly, and they couldn't help but glance at each other, and an ominous feeling was about to come up.

I saw the beast's two front paws on the body of the tree, and the man stood up, baring his teeth and letting out the first roar towards the tree!

Whew——!

Ji San shouted, "Oh no, it found us!"