Chapter Seventy-Nine: Fighting the Tiger
When Ao Bai and his party arrived at the Shanxi border, the mountain road became a little crowded. When he arrived in such a place, he always paid more attention, and couldn't help but wonder how to set up an ambush here if there was a war. Looking at the art of war too much, he is already a little bit of a sign of going crazy.
After asking the local passers-by, when approaching the town, Ao Bai separated from the five and asked them to take their horses. His image is too easy to recognize, his hair has grown a lot, but he still can't pull his hair up, and he is much taller than ordinary people, and if they go to the town together, they may attract people's attention.
He saw the dense forest, and he was also a little itchy. After leaving the Kingdom of Jin, he hadn't hunted for a long time, and he wanted to have a good time. He doesn't like to kill people, but hunting animals has always been his biggest hobby.
The five brocade guards rode to Wang Jinshitang Town first. The town is not far from the forest, a dirt road leads directly to the town, the road is dirt, but it is quite flat, and most of the houses are bungalows, which cannot be compared with Jingzhong. It was noon, and the smoke was faint on the roofs of every house, showing a farmhouse scene.
Aobai's order was to sell his prey to his own shop when he returned from hunting. As soon as they entered the town, they inquired around, and soon found a shop near the entrance of the town where they bought their game.
Among the five, Li Xin was the oldest, and he looked the most like a businessman, so he took the lead in the door and asked, "Is the boss there?" ”
While eating in the house, a thin man in his thirties with a pockmarked face walked out and said, "I'm the boss, what's the matter?" ”
Li Xin has no experience in business at all and will not bargain. said directly: "Boss, we have taken a fancy to your store and want to sell it, so let's make a price." ”
He thought that this would cause disgust and was ready to pay more money, but he didn't expect the boss to be very happy when he heard that they wanted to buy the store, and said with a smile: "Really? Please sit in the room. ”
Seeing the boss's eyes rolling back and forth, as if he was a thief, he kept looking at them, and the five of them felt that something was wrong. As a secret agency, people are often very sensitive, Li Xin first looked around, and then said coldly: "I heard that you are here to buy animal skins and animal meat, why don't you have a single animal skin?" And we want to buy your store as soon as we open our mouths, why are you so happy? Say, are you the boss or not? What about the guys in the store? ”
The boss was already thin, and he pulled out a random person here, and it was a piece of cake to beat him, seeing that these people were angry and carrying knives, and he didn't know what the reason was, he panicked and said: "Don't worry, a few big brothers, I am really the owner of this shop, and I do collect prey, usually I get fur, and then sell meat to restaurants in the town." It's just that in the past six months, tigers often hurt people in the mountains, and hunters don't dare to go into the mountains to hunt, and business has been much worse. I've heard that a group of hunters are banding together to hunt tigers in the mountains, and maybe it will be better in a few days. ”
Liu Hong hurriedly asked, "You said there are tigers?" It's not the mountain to the south, is it? ”
The thin man nodded and said, "That's it, the hunters here all go to that forest." ”
When Liu Hong heard this, he wanted to run out, and said hurriedly: "It's broken!" Broken! If something happens to Childe, it's going to be troublesome, so let's go find it. ”
Li Xin grabbed him and said lightly: "What's the hurry, have you forgotten the identity of the son?" He's definitely fine, and if we rush into the mountains, there will be danger, so let's wait here. ”
Li Xin tried to compete with Aobai, and he was defeated in a few hits, and he was very confident in him. Liu Hong listened to his words and calmed down.
While they were talking about business, Ao Bai had already walked a few miles through the forest.
This is different from Liaojing. Many of the stones seem to have been weathered and eroded for a long time, with ravines and bare rock formations. From a distance, the mountain is majestic, and the entire mountain vegetation is dense and lush. The water of the spring is trickling and beautiful.
Even if you have a horse, you can't ride into the mountains, and the plants here are too lush. Ao Bai found a lot of herbs, codonopsis, licorice, skullcap and so on...... If it was a previous life, if you came into the mountains and picked a circle, you would have made a fortune. However, at this time, the medicine is not very valuable.
Where plants are abundant, animals are naturally also abundant, he saw foxes, hares, badgers, woodpeckers, sparrows, stone pheasants and other birds, but the animals are too small for him to be too lazy to fight. The deeper he walked into the forest, he felt very strange, why the forest was so big, not even a hunter could see it, it is said that the people are living in hardship, hunting is not a good way out?
As he walked, he suddenly heard the roar of a beast from the forest on the right: "Woo! ”
Got a tiger? Ao Bai hurriedly closed the seal of the king of the immovable Ming, holding the iron spear in his hand, concentrating on vigilance. He didn't want to get hurt in a place like this, it would be too embarrassing. He has even killed brown bears, and as long as he is not attacked, he has absolute confidence in killing a tiger.
In a few moments, a tiger sprang out of the woods, and roared again. It was the first time Ao Bai had seen a tiger, much bigger than he had seen in the zoo in his previous life. He threw his bow and arrows to the ground, without the slightest fear, held a gun in one hand, stared at the tiger, and said to himself: "Tiger, if you don't want to die, come and don't mess with me." ”
This is not "The Great Forest", "Whirlwind Butler", how can the tiger understand? It lunged at Aobai.
Ao Bai flashed, jumped to the tiger's side, and stabbed out the spear, accurate and ruthless, piercing the tiger's back. The tiger was in pain, roared louder, raised its claws and grabbed Aobai. If he was hit this time, he would definitely lose a large piece of flesh, but he had practiced tiger boxing, and his attack on the tiger was very clear, so he jumped backwards, and took advantage of the moment when the tiger's claws landed, stabbed down with a shot, and accurately nailed one of the tiger's front paws to the ground.
He had enough strength, jumped on the tiger's back, held the tiger's head with his left hand, and smashed his right fist violently, beating the tiger into a daze with a few blows, and his eyes and nose were bleeding. He reached out and pulled out his gun, plunged it into the tiger's neck with a snort, and with a strong turn, the tiger was silent.
It seems that I am much more fierce than Wu Song, and it doesn't take much effort to kill the tiger, even if there are a few more, I can take it. It's just that this tiger is so big, how can you get rid of it? Ao Bai stood up, stretched, and thought that he could only cut a few pieces of meat, peel off the tiger skin and leave.
At this time, there was movement not far away, like the sound of human footsteps.
Ao Bai picked up his gun and walked towards the grass, and when he saw two men, he immediately thought that they were local hunters.
A strong man about forty years old saw Ao Bai and asked, "Who are you?" ”
"Passers-by, I came into the mountains to hunt, I wanted to get some meat to roast and eat, but I didn't expect to meet a tiger." Ao Bai smiled: "You only came here when you heard the voice, right?" ”
Before the strong man could reply, the thin young man beside him saw the tiger's corpse and cried out, "Father, the tiger is dead." ”
The strong man was surprised and delighted, and glanced at the tiger's corpse around Aobai, and said loudly: "Strong man, you killed this tiger?" ”
Isn't this confusing? Ao Bai nodded. "Of course I killed it, anyway, I can't get such a big tiger myself, so I'll give you some of its meat."
The two thanked each other repeatedly.
The young man sighed, "Big brother, you are so powerful. Many of us here have been injured by tigers, and we don't dare to go into the mountains to hunt, so we have come out together to hunt tigers these days, and the others should arrive soon. ”
In later generations, it was difficult to take a picture of a tiger, but now the tiger is a harmful animal, and there is merit in killing it. Ao Bai arched his hand and said: "In Xia Huang'an, what do you call the two of you?" ”
The strong man said: "Under Yang Yuankui, this is my son Yang Guang." We hunters have injured more than a dozen people, but the strong man has helped us a lot this time. ”
Ao Bai asked, "Are there many tigers on this mountain?" ”
Yang Guangdao: "There are several, it may be a litter, and by the time everyone pays attention, they have all grown up." ”
Ao Bai thought for a while and said with a smile: "I will stay in the town for a while, and I will simply help you kill all the tigers." You just have to lead the way, and it's even better if you know where the tiger's den is. ”
When the two heard him say this, they admired the five-body body. Yang Yuankui said excitedly: "Thank you Huang Zhuangshi for your great kindness." ”
The effort can be thanked, so why not? As long as he becomes a hero of fighting tigers, it will also be good for him. The Lu family would definitely not doubt his identity. He happens to be idle these days, and he wants to find something to do.
After a while, the hunters came one after another, and they were overjoyed to hear that Aobai had killed a tiger. Together, they carried the dead tiger away. Ao Bai returned to the town with them, and someone had already reported the news, and many ordinary people gathered at the entrance of the town to watch, cheered in unison, and sent him to carry him into the town in a sedan chair.
Five brocade guards also came to the entrance of the town, and Li Xin said: "I'll just say, how could the son be injured by a tiger?" Now he's famous. ”
The other three also exuded adoration. The four elephants in brocade clothes are really strong.
The name "Hoang An" quickly spread around the town. As expected, Ao Bai became the hero of the town. That night, he stayed at Yang Yuankui's house and had a good exchange with the hunters in the town. Compared with hunting, the Han people cannot be compared with the Jurchens. He is an expert, and he has taught the other party a lot of hunting tips, so that people can also gain something in winter.
The next day, the hunter team led by Ao Bai entered the forest again. He held a three-stone bow that no one else could pull open, and the arrows were not missing, and he quickly hit a bunch of prey. Then he encountered another tiger, this time more neatly, and he shot an arrow through the tiger's head. A group of hunters didn't have to do anything, just follow him to collect their prey and cheer.
Ao Bai was not short of money, and he was also very generous, giving away all his prey, and in two days, he was almost rumored to be a god-like figure.
The whole town rushed to invite him to dinner, and a few of the more active townspeople wanted to find someone to talk to. Ao Bai also connected with several of his subordinates on the pretext of selling prey.
The only depressed person in the town was the shopkeeper, who couldn't figure out why he had just sold the shop and had such a powerful hunter here.