Chapter 52: Life in the Mountains
There are four wooden houses, three large and one small, surrounded by a half-man-high wooden fence to form a courtyard.
The door of the courtyard is open to the volcanic lake not far away, and standing in the courtyard and looking at the lake and mountains in the distance, it really makes Luna find a little artistic conception of "facing the sea, spring flowers blooming".
The three large wooden houses all had simple furniture, tables, chairs and beds, all of which were made of wood, not delicate, and even a little rough, but judging from the lack of worn stubble, Luna felt that these houses should have not been inhabited since they were built.
The smaller one, in fact, is not accurate to say that it is a house, but to Luna it is more like a shed made of wood, with windows on all sides of the wall and rows of empty wooden shelves inside.
Walking into the courtyard, the first thing Gote did was to carry the medicinal herbs he had collected that day into the cabin and spread them out on the wooden frame.
Samuel, who knew the art well, took a bucket out of one of the wooden houses, and after telling Leah to keep an eye on Luna and tell the two of them not to run around, he turned and headed out of the courtyard.
Looking at her uncle's back as she walked away, Luna wrinkled her nose, spat out a pink tongue, grimaced, and walked around the yard.
Speaking of which, this yard actually doesn't look like it has been abandoned for a long time, although the furniture in the house is a little dusty, but there is no trace of insects and ants, the yard is even more neat and clean, in such a place full of trees, not only there are few fallen leaves in the yard, but even on the roof, there is no accumulation of rotten fallen leaves.
The sight gave Luna the impression that it wouldn't be long before someone would come and clean up.
When Samuel came back from fetching water, the three adult orcs worked together, and it didn't take long to wipe down all the furniture in the house, and spread the hides they had brought with them on their beds, and they were ready to move in.
That night, Samuel went hunting, and because it was already dark, he did not go far, but brought back only six cleaned pheasants and two hares, Gotte and Ria shared a pheasant with baked potatoes, Luna ate one pheasant and half a hare by herself, and the rest went into Samuel's belly.
After eating and drinking, Samuel left the courtyard alone, and it wasn't long before Luna smelled a strong smell of urine, slowly invading the courtyard in a clockwise direction.
With the smell of pee, the image of a dog walking a few steps to cross his legs and pee a little bit involuntarily jumped into Luna's mind, although she knew that Samuel was doing to protect them from the beast, but she still felt that it would be difficult to face her uncle's handsome face in the days to come......
After settling near the crater lake, Luna took Ria with her every day, either to collect herbs with Gote and learn all kinds of knowledge, or to follow Samuel around the mountains and learn to hunt.
Compared to the ease with which she learns all kinds of knowledge, Luna feels that as a wolf, she is actually a failure.
Nine times out of ten hunts, you can't catch anything, that's trivial, and the worst thing is that most of the time the tenth time it's not Luna who catches the prey, but Luna who will be attacked by the prey.
Especially since the animals here have all kinds of strange habits and appearances, Luna, a wolf cub who entered the mountains for the first time, finally understands that it is not easy to survive.
These days, with Samuel with her, Luna has hunted a big rabbit with a long tail with three eyes, two pairs of winged pheasants, and a wild boar cub with wings, and she has not harvested any prey, but she has wounded herself.
She has been bitten and kicked by rabbits, scratched and pecked by pheasants, and chased by wild boar cubs and mothers, and escaped all over the mountains, although in the end these have become Samuel's mouth and Luna's belly, but this frustration is real, making Luna a little incompetent.
However, Samuel has always been in a good state of mind, not only did he not reprimand Luna for her failures, but he took the trouble to explain to Luna again and again the shortcomings of her hunting process, as well as the matters that need to be paid attention to and the habits of wild animals, and even praised Luna when she made a little progress.
Although Luna also understands that hunting is a completely new field for her, it still makes her very depressed with an old stamen, and at the same time, she is trying harder and harder to get rid of the embarrassment of zero harvest from hunting.
Of course, walking in the mountains, Luna couldn't have seen only these small animals with little lethality, all kinds of large beasts that belonged to this world, and little by little revealed his mystery to her.
What two heads, a bear that fishes and eats with its own long hair, three heads, each with only one eye, but because of the fluffy hair, it looks very soft and cute, petite, but ferocious and abnormal, and can independently prey on male mountain deer kittens, and even her uncle will walk around when he encounters it, obviously looking skinny, but the belly is like a bottomless pit.
Generally speaking, Luna's life in the mountains these days is actually relatively happy, the only fly in the ointment is that only Liya takes care of Luna, and it is inconvenient to take a bath, so that in the past two days, she occasionally has itchy on her body, and every time she tickles, if she is seen by Gotte, he will show a weird smile at Luna.
This kind of laughter is not infiltrating, but it makes Luna's heart inexplicably hairy, and there is always a sense of foreboding.
"Pack up, we'll go down tomorrow morning. On the evening of the seventh day, the group gathered around the campfire in the courtyard, said Goute.
"Are you going back?" Luna blinked, and to be honest, she was a little reluctant.
Although life in the mountains is not a grade worse than in the castle, she just likes such days when she can run freely, and she even doubts that she will miss the feeling of being bullied by her prey when she goes back.
"Tomorrow when I go down the mountain, I have to go to the village to see a few patients, and if I go back, I may have to wait for three or five days. Gou explained simply.
Luna nodded thoughtfully, she seemed to know who the patients Goite was going to see, it should be the villagers that Lakun had mentioned with Gotte in the beast cart before.
Thinking about the herbs collected by Gote recently, Luna suddenly realized that the medicines collected by her teacher had always been targeted, but she had been playing crazy these days, and she had never studied them carefully!
However, the teacher obviously hadn't seen those villagers, so he just listened to what Lakun said, so could he confirm the medication?
Luna tilted her head to look at Gotte, her eyes flashing with curiosity, and for the first time, she wanted to explore the extent of her teacher's medical skills.