Chapter 338: Dervishe
Xia Li was wearing a sky-blue and moon-white riding suit, blue mille-feuille boots, his hair was combed into a twisted braid and tied on the top of his head, and he was carrying a Wanxing bow. The three girls are also dressed like this, and each of them is holding a rope tied to Dangdang, a bear, and a sunspot. As soon as they appeared in the outer courtyard, the men also took a few more looks.
When a few people knew that they were going to play in the mountains, they were so happy that they barked wildly.
Not to mention that Ye Guogong, the second master Ye Wen, and the third master Ye Jing are all armed, and even the old Guogong is here. Only the second master of the adult man did not come, he was not in good health, and he did not like to move since he was a child.
Ye Guocheng is persuading the old man, because he and Ye Feng are going to the court tomorrow, and they must return to Beijing tonight, for fear that his old man will not be able to stand the hardship. Ye Feng also went to persuade him, but Ye Guoye had to stop thinking.
A few women and two bears rode in a carriage, and the rest rode towards the east gate. When I arrived at the East City Gate, it was just time to open the City Gate, and Qiu Jili also came with a few people. The people went out of the city gate and headed towards Lingxiu Mountain.
Lingxiu Mountain is located in the remnants of the Yanshan Mountains, sparsely populated, rich in vegetation, not far from the capital, is a good place for the nobles in Beijing to hunt.
When they left the city, they could see the continuous mountains, and they walked east along the mountains, and they ran for more than half an hour before they came to the foot of Lingxiu Mountain.
The carriage couldn't enter the mountain, so Xia Li and a few people got off. In order to conserve their strength and speed up, they sat on the sliding pole first on the gentle part of the mountain road, and the men still rode their horses, and the two dogs and one bear finally ran happily.
Xia Li secretly made up his mind that he should still learn to ride a horse in the future. Many of the nobles in the capital would ride horses, and occasionally follow the men of the family up the mountains to hunt. Of course, there are no large wild animals in the places where they hunt, and they will put in more hares, pheasants, deer and other docile animals for them to hunt.
A stream several zhang wide flows out of the valley, rushing into the distance, and flowing into the Baiquan River in the distance. They followed the stream deeper into the mountain and stopped, after which the road was so steep that they had to climb. They left a dozen people here to watch the horses, Silver Bell and Baoling were also left behind, and the remaining thirty or so people went up the mountain to hunt.
Xia Li doesn't shoot when she sees wild things, she doesn't shoot when she has a big belly, and she doesn't shoot when she shoots cute animals that eat grass. Now I am not as poor as I used to be, and I want to shoot more prey and sell it for money. She didn't fight monkeys, she always thought that monkeys were spiritual creatures.
She also asked Jin Ling to bring a slingshot, and if she encountered a cute prey that she wanted to capture alive, she would shoot it with a slingshot.
Climbing to the top of the mountain, Xia Li only shot a wild boar, shot his left eye, and killed him with an arrow. He also shot two beautiful unknown birds, knocked them out with a slingshot, and took them back to honor the old man who loved the birds.
Lingxiu Mountain is not very high, nor is it very steep, and it is relatively easy to climb up.
Ye Guogong and Ye Feng both used the Ten Thousand Star Bow several times.
It was late noon, and everyone was sitting by a stream near the top of the hill eating dry food, while two dogs and a bear were eating their prey. The bloody scene scared the three girls so much that they didn't dare to look at it, but Xia Li was used to seeing it.
Suddenly, when Dangdang stopped the food in his mouth and stood up his ears, the bear saw it, and also stood up and listened, and jumped up together and rushed to the north.
Xia Li and Ye Feng saw it, stood up and ran along, and more than a dozen people followed. Heizi also wanted to follow, but was pulled back, and Lao Guogong and others would not follow, so a Rong dog must be left here.
Dangdang and the bear ran extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, they left them behind, and they couldn't stop screaming.
Far away, I saw them running under a huge pine tree, and when they barked underneath, it would not climb the tree. The bear-like looked up and climbed up with the trunk of the tree. The pine tree has a thick trunk and the leaves are not luxuriant.
Xia Li had already seen clearly that there was a leopard crawling on a thick branch on the tree, and a monkey hanging on the other branch, it must be that the leopard went up the tree to catch the monkey.
The bear is a strength type, not yet an adult, if it is underground, maybe it can win. But in the trees, the leopard is agile, and the bear is certainly no match for it.
Xia Li calculates the distance, if it is an ordinary bow, it will definitely not be able to shoot. But the Ten Thousand Star Bow can definitely shoot it, and the speed is much faster. She stood down and mounted her bow and arrows, and when the leopard was about to pounce on the bear, she shot the arrow.
She was not aiming at the leopard's position at this time, but at the position where the leopard should be after the arrow arrived.
As soon as the leopard and the bear were about to make physical contact, the leopard was hit by an arrow in the throat and fell off the tree.
When he went up and bit his neck again.
Ye Feng and the others arrived first and saw that the leopard was dead. Several of the guards shouted loudly, and the monkey was already stupid, and he was still hanging from the tree.
Xiong Xiang also wanted to eat the monkey, but was stopped by Ye Feng.
Xia Li looked at the Wanxing Bow in his hand and smiled brightly. This kind of peerless good bow can only be used by her grandfather and her so that she will not be humiliated.
She has been here for more than three years, and it is the first time she has encountered a leopard.
The two guards dragged the leopard to find the large army, and Xia Li climbed the top of the mountain to look around.
Unlike the Huaxiang Mountains, which are almost mountain-to-mountain, the mountains here are not so dense, and the hinterland of the mountains is very vast, with lakes and streams, as well as large grasslands and dense forests.
Ye Feng watched with her, and tightened the ropes of the bear-like and dangdang in his hand to prevent them from running around, and several other guards protected them from afar.
Almost every mountain here is covered with greenery, except for one mountain in the distance, which is not big, almost straight up and down, very high, and full of rocks, with only a pine tree sticking out of the rock on the side, but the top of the mountain is full of greenery.
The mountain was on the other side of the forest, and it should be four or five miles away in a straight line.
Xia Li felt that the mountain was very unique, a bit like the mountain in a famous scenic spot in his previous life.
Suddenly, she found that in the dense forest at the top of the mountain, a few cornices were exposed.
Xia Li was very surprised, there were actually people on such a high and steep stone mountain. She pointed to the mountain and asked Ye Fengdao, "Brother Ye, there is a house on the top of that mountain." ”
Ye Feng looked in the direction of her finger and said, "That mountain has a strange name, it's called Single Finger Peak. Because of the strange terrain of the mountains, people can't go up at all, how can they have a house? ”
Xia Li said, "Really, I saw it." ”
She continued to look, and saw another stone door on the stone wall a few meters below the top of the mountain, and in front of the door there was a stone platform, a stone table, and a stone step leading to the top of the mountain. Two large trees protrude diagonally, and next to them sit two people playing chess with their heads bowed. Diagonally facing her was a bald old monk.
Xia Li was even more surprised, and whispered again, "There are two more people playing chess, and one is a monk." ”
Ye Feng exclaimed, "Could it be that there are ascetics practicing there?" In his mind, only self-inflicted ascetics would live there.