Chapter 7: Hunting
Zhu Yi, who was "disappointed in his career", returned home with an earthy face.
When she left not long ago, Zuo Chu and his entourage did not stay long, and also set off to return to the ancient village.
At three o'clock the next day, Zhu Yi woke up. I looked out the window in a daze, and the sky was slightly bright.
The ancient village in the distance is clearly extinguished, and several bonfires are burned. Smoke curls up, and someone is barbecuing. Zhu Yi was so hungry that his chest was pressed against the back of his abdomen, so he went back to the house to get a bow and arrows, wrapped himself in a thick robe, and went out hunting.
There has been no snow in the past ten days, and there are many footprints on the snow in Xilin, and there are many animals and people.
That day hunting accidentally took a photo with them, although there were thick bangs to cover up, after all, Lu Mai was suspicious, this time Zhu Yi specially wore a velvet hat, covered with a veil, and only a pair of eyes were exposed on the whole body.
On the side of the ancient village, Zuo Qi once again refused the wild game that the people in the village had specially made a trip to barbecue for them, and wanted to go to Xilin. Several young ladies were too lazy to go out, but seeing that Zuo Chu and his party had to get up early to hunt in the cold, they recommended themselves how to practice their families, and they wanted to do their best to accompany Zuo Chu to come.
Zuo Chu was the most disliked, and the polite refusal a few days ago didn't work, so he lowered his face and said: "Zuo just wants his own people to feel a hunt outside the plug, and he doesn't need the guidance of the 'master', is it possible that Zuo doesn't have the right to do it himself?" ”
He was already cold-minded, and now he said it directly. No matter how thick-skinned the eldest ladies were, they didn't want to bore him, so they left unwillingly.
I prepared two carriages, called a few people with me, and went to Xilin. The departure time is a little later than that of Zhu Yi.
The weather was extremely cold, the forest was a little higher, and from time to time there were gusts of west wind, and Zhu Yi's hand holding the bow hurt as if it had been cut by a knife. Walking deep and shallow in the snow, the white robe swept over her footprints, almost covering the traces of her coming.
Walking through a large clearing, it is easy to find a birch forest that is inaccessible. Looking around, it is already the westernmost boundary of Xilin, and further west, there is only an endless snowfield.
Zhu Yi squatted under a birch tree, put the bow and crossbow on his lap, and was so cold that he planned to "wait for the rabbit". Anyway, just a random hare is enough for her to eat for two days.
This time it was a good luck, and it didn't take long for a white snow rabbit to jump towards the east.
Zhu Yi immediately went on a shortcut interception.
Snow hare is smaller than ordinary hares, and since they are the same color as snow, they cannot be seen without careful attention. Today, it ran wildly like its tail was on fire, and Zhu Yi raised his bow to aim, and suddenly heard a sharp and long eagle roar piercing the silence of the snow forest. Startled, Zhu Yi immediately hid behind a tree.
When I looked up, I saw a vulture swooping down in the air, heading for the snow hare. She said that the snow rabbit was desperately fleeing, and she had encountered such a ferocious natural enemy.
Zuo Qi and the others naturally heard the eagle roar that resounded through the snow forest, and Huan Qi beside him said in surprise: "Isn't that Miss Zhu?" ”
Everyone followed the direction he pointed, and they saw that in the large woodland in front of them, a long robe of the same color as the snow was standing behind a thick poplar in the distance with an arrow.
Her arrows were ready to fire, but she hesitated when she stared at her prey.
Zuo Chu looked at it and was shocked to realize that her prey was actually the huge vulture.
"Eucalyptus, vultures are easy to hurt people, help her."
Xu Yingying took the long arrow handed by Lu Mai and pulled the arrow to wind......
And Zhu Yi here hesitantly put down the arrow, thinking: if the competition with the vulture for prey provokes it, then her worst fate should be to lose her life. After all, the vultures of Xili are not eagles, they are huge, even bigger than a child. In addition, vultures have long been heard of hurting people's lives.
This guy is so hungry that he pounces on everything.
The vulture swooped down like an arrow from the string, and seeing that the snow rabbit was about to die in the eagle's talon, it happened that Zhu Yi's stomach growled a few times, she was really hungry!
I didn't want anything else, so I put the arrow on the string again, and stared at the huge black object. Sure enough, people are so hungry that they can ignore anything.
The vulture stretched out its claws and grabbed the snow hare that was still running wildly on the ground, and with a "whoosh", the arrow in his hand carried away with a fierce cold air, piercing the vulture's abdomen. The vulture flapped its wings violently on the snow, and the snow hare was able to escape from the vulture's claws. Seeing the vulture fluttering on the spot, she did not dare to rush forward, drew her bow and shot another arrow.
The arrow pierced its left wing, and the vulture was so angry in pain that it limped and choked and jumped towards Zhu Yi. Looking at the creature that had fallen to the ground, which was almost bigger than a child, she panicked and fired several arrows in a panic until the vulture breathed.
Lu Mai, Huan Qi, and Shi Qiao were stunned. Look at Xu Eucalyptus again, when the vulture jumped towards Zhu Yi just now, why didn't Brother Xu release the arrow? What if the people over there don't have time to react?
Xu Yuying put down the arrow and said with a smile: "It's because we're blindly worried, Zhu Yi's archery technique, we haven't seen it, and we don't need others to help." ”
Zhu Yi stepped forward with weak legs, and carefully observed, the poor vulture had become a hornet's nest, and his death was extremely embarrassing.
She bowed to the vulture in disbelief, and then tried to drag it, but her own strength was really limited, she looked left and right, stretched out her foot and kicked the bent and intricately bent sand date dead tree around her a few times, and the huge body of the tree swept away the snowdrift, burying the dead vulture in an instant.
She was going to call Qiu Shui to come and drag it back.
The snow-white robe was covered with a large patch of blood, and it was terrifyingly scarlet.
After straightening his robe, a sudden eagle roar resounded through the snow forest again, and Zhu Yi thought that the vulture's scream before death had summoned his companions, and he was so frightened that he quickly shrank behind the snowdrift.
It turned out to be just a few goshawks.
Zhu Yi thought about how she was hiding, and couldn't help but be a little funny.
The sharp eagle eyes of the goshawk overhead were staring closely at the snowdrift where the vulture was buried, and it was not easy to rush down and grab it in view of the presence of someone.
I counted them, and there were six of them.
If you shoot them all down, even if you can't finish it, you can bury them with the vultures and hide them first. She was sure she would hunt them all. Although cruel, she really didn't want to run out to hunt every day. This time, she pulled out three arrows directly and wound them.
Zuo Zhu here raised the corners of his lips slightly, stretched out his hand, and Lu Mai hurriedly handed the master an arrow crossbow.
The three arrows were wound at the same time, aiming at the hovering goshawk, just waiting for Zhu Yi to strike.
Zhu Yi did not hesitate, focusing on observing the flying trajectory of the goshawk, and shot an arrow off the string with a "whoosh......
At the same moment, Zuo Chu also let go of the arrow, Qing Xiao skimmed, and six arrows roared up from two directions like a loose horse, "poof" and "poof" The arrows hit the target, and the goshawk staggered and fell.
Zhu Yi didn't look at who the other party was, and was bent on lifting the eagle. Calculate as you go: I shot three arrows, and the opponent also had three arrows, and the prey was only half divided.
After stepping on the snow with difficulty, she approached and saw that her three arrows had hit the target, but the opponent's three arrows had actually shot four eagles. This is embarrassing: an eagle is pierced by the arrows of two men together. The other's arrow pierced its neck, while hers pierced the eagle's belly.
While the other eagles were still fluttering on the ground, this one was killed. It's weird.
But whose is it? I shot three, and the other party counted four of them......
After thinking about it, the hunters in Guzhai are not easy to mess with, and they have a big temper, so this time she should suffer a loss for herself, so she only mentioned two of them.
Zuo Qi called out to Xu Eucalyptus, and Xu Eucalyptus Ying took the order and walked towards that side.
Zhu Yi picked up the two eagles and turned around to leave. Xu Yuying spoke out at the right time: "The girl is very skilled. ”
Her bent waist was so stuck, she didn't squat, and her hand stopped in the air in embarrassment, and she was worried in her heart: Why was she more unlucky than last time, and she actually ran into Xu Yuying?!
Zuo Chu's first right-hand man, the one who shot without a shadow, took off invisible, and was calm and healthy.
She didn't know how to respond for a while, and she was afraid of revealing her stuffing, so she didn't make a voice to arouse suspicion. Xu Eucalyptus walked closer and stopped behind her, "Girl? ”
Zhu Yi thought, this field, no matter what, couldn't be more weird, so he had to pretend to be normal, get up slowly, pick up the scarf and cover it more tightly, and then pretended to be "generous" and looked at the comer.
She comforted herself: I am so well armed today, no matter how capable anyone who comes, they will not recognize me......
Xu Eucalyptus deliberately glanced at her hastily, and then went to look at the eagle, her face was not abnormal, and she only said: "The girl's good archery skills are admirable." ”
Zhu Yi nodded weakly and wanted to retreat, but before he could lift his feet, he immediately froze as if he had been splashed with ice water.
She saw someone walking in the snow with the help of the little servant, and he asked, "What happened?" ”
Gently shallow, plain and leisurely, like a magnetic voice, she once listened to the voice of fascination.
Unintentionally staying, Zhu Yi pretended to be calm and took steps to leave, but he couldn't block the conversation between the two behind him:
"I met a girl while dabbling. Her archery was accurate, and I admired it for a while, and I wanted to talk about it. ”
"Oh? Which girl is it? Zuo Chu smiled lightly and asked knowingly.
Looking at the departing back, such a close distance, step by step far......
It's just that it won't be far, will it? He smiled even more, because he was happy, and his phoenix eyes were like a warm spring breeze, and he smiled and showed his elegance.
Xu Eucalyptus looked at Zhu Yi who was walking away, and said with the master: "She has already walked away." ”
Zuo Chu turned around and looked at it one last time, "That's it, let's go back too." ”
“……”
After walking far away, Zhu Yi dared to turn back, and there was no sound on the blank snow. She carried the two eagles around the road to her home. The mood fluctuated all the way, and he was able to meet the people of Yaozhuang on both hunts, and even Zuo Chu himself, which was really unlucky.
She felt that she should not have gone out hunting for a while.