Zhang Guoqing and his second brother had just cleaned up the backyard, and when they saw Dad Zhang coming, the two looked at each other and smiled and squeezed their eyes, it was rare that his father was late.

Dad Zhang looked left and right, and looked at the pigsty strangely, but there was still no figure, "It's strange, why didn't your eldest brother get up?" ”

Zhang Guoqiang said with a smile: "The eldest brother got up, and I saw that there was nothing to do in the backyard to go outside, probably to ask my sister-in-law to prepare breakfast, prepare dry food, and wait for the mountain." ”

"You guys go to the mountains, can you go to the city today?" Dad Zhang hesitated and said. "You guys go to the mountains, can you go to the city today?" Dad Zhang hesitated and said.

Zhang Guoqiang waved his hand and said helplessly: "It was all said a few days ago, but you can't say it." Just wait for us to go and recognize the way, and then come back after eight o'clock to run errands. Both of us have eaten, and when the eldest brother eats, we will go directly to their house early. ”

"Let's go, it's all cleaned up here, and it's all right. It's going to be dawn, go early and come back early. After Dad Zhang finished speaking, he waved his hand to let them over, and he still didn't feel at ease to look at the firewood house, pigsty and chicken coop.

The three brothers wore patched old jackets and took a few people from Qingshan and walked towards Daqingshan. The group avoided passers-by from a distance, and soon arrived at the foot of the mountain.

Zhang Guoqing looked around, it snowed lightly last night, and the road was not easy to walk, but it was really conducive to hunting. After consulting with everyone, he sorted out the tools. Zhang Guoqing took everyone to the west.

As time passed, the sky became clearer. The footprints of animals can also be seen clearly on the mountain. A few people divided into small teams and slowly searched for the dense forest. The pheasants on the road are stupid and can't fly high. A few ignored them, and walked up to the creek as agreed.

Many of the trees on the periphery have turned yellow, and the weeds and vegetables on the roadside have grown old and withered. When the wind blows, the dead leaves on the trees also fall. However, the closer you get to the dense forest, the temperature is a little abnormal. Mushrooms can also be seen in some corners. Dark and damp places saw black fungus attached to dead wood. In the grass, you can also see hares and pheasants being skewered around.

Zhang Qingshan looked at the front of him and sighed again and again, "Xiao Wu, you really know how to find a place, this piece has really not been discovered." You see, the temperature is different in this place. In the north, hares can only be seen on the mountainside, and pheasants and hares can be seen everywhere here. It's full of traps. It's good here, in addition to the prey, there are also mountain goods to pick. Look at this wild fruit, the brothers have sent it, even if it doesn't hit the big head, these things are not old or young. ”

Zhang Guoqing estimated that there should be a hot spring nearby. He didn't plan to tell outsiders about this, but when he had time, he would bring Zhou Jiao and the others over to have a look, maybe he could discover the secret.

At this moment, he lay on the ground, listened quietly, and didn't find any big animals, and then stood up, "I think it's better to go to the stream in front of you first, everyone be quiet." There were always animals drinking from the creek, and we snuck over them. ”

After speaking, he first carried a large bag of stones, loosened the opening, and threw it out at any time. As for the bow and arrow on his back, he didn't intend to use it because he didn't encounter a big prey.

Zhang Qingshan took the lead in taking out his bow and arrows and asked everyone to prepare. After seeing that everyone was in order, he waved his hand to Zhang Guoqing and signaled that he would wait for him to arrange it. He knew that Xiao Wu had learned his grandfather's ten-out skills.

Zhang Guoqing divided everyone into three teams, scattered from the left, middle and right respectively, and lightly led everyone to the creek not far in front.

Zhang Qingfeng was close to the boss Zhang Qingshan. At this time, I saw several wild deer and some animals drinking water in the stream not far away, and I was about to speak out excitedly. Zhang Qingshan quickly covered his mouth, he had long been paying attention to his cousin's behavior, and he was worried that the other party would be reckless.

When he saw Zhang Guoqing on the left, he gestured with his hand. They nodded as soon as they were two goals. He looked at his younger brothers beside him, nodded his bow and arrows with his hand, and gestured to a deer for himself, and the rest were a few of them and a deer, and the rest was casual, depending on their luck.

Quietly wait for Zhang Qingya and the others on the right to make arrangements. Everyone endured the excitement and prepared their bows and arrows. After a while, as soon as the signal arrived, everyone quickly shot arrows.

All of a sudden, the animals on the side of the creek screamed, and the fallen wild deer startled the other animals to rush in all directions.

The brothers of the Zhang family on the left, middle and right released arrows one after another, moved closer to the middle, and the wild objects that ran away saw Zhang Guoqing throw a stone in one hand, and then fell down.

Seven or eight people looked at the wild things on the ground, hugged each other happily and cheered. Everyone was not prepared to chase the fleeing animals, and they didn't see that some of the people behind them had already been stoned to death by Xiao Wu.

Zhang Guoqing saw everyone's excitement and hurriedly arranged: "Don't get excited, everyone." Let's move these things back first, so that we don't have to wait for the smell of blood to usher in something big. Brother Qingshan, you can arrange it. I'm going to chop some branches to make a shelf and pull them back. After saying that, he didn't care about them, and hurried to cut down the tree and make a frame around the rope.

Zhang Qingshan listened and looked at the wild things that fell to the ground everywhere, "Let's move the farther ones here first and pile them together." When Xiao Wu came over with the shelf, we changed to carry it. Qingya, you take two people to move first, Qingling and Qingyan deal with the smell of blood on the ground. There are six deer, three silly spores, and a goat, enough of them, so let's go back first. If you want to come back, you'll have to wait a few days, and I see that the deer has only run away, and I guess we are extinct at this end. ”

Zhang Qingfeng carried the wild deer not far away, and shouted: "I knew that hunting was so good, I would have followed Xiao Wu to hunt a long time ago." Look at how effort-saving it is. Loss, loss, why am I so stupid? ”

Zhang Qingya glanced at him angrily, "If they are all so easy to fight, then there are still wild things in Daqingshan?" This is what Xiao Wu has been looking for a long time ago. With such a dozen, it will take at least a month for wild things to come. Don't talk about this land, we'll fight here ourselves in the future. How good it is here, wild fruits can be seen in the dense forest on a cold day, if people know, there will be no family affairs for us. ”

"I'm not stupid, why don't we set up a few traps?"

"No, I can't. If you don't set traps, those wild animals will come and drink water, and we will keep them. With traps, there are few wild things. These things are no more stupid than people. Zhang Qingya shook his head, seeing that there was less blood here, he grabbed a few handfuls of herbs and went to the side.

Zhang Guoqing soon came back with two shelves, "Brothers, hurry up, put it all on it, you carry it away, and I will pick up the rest with a rope." ”

Everyone helped to move it to the shelf and left in a hurry. Zhang Guoqing carried a wild deer on his back, grabbed the stone in the bag in his hand, and pressed the formation behind him. From time to time, when he saw a pheasant, he threw a stone at it. Seeing the wild eggs, he shook his head regretfully, and he couldn't take it this time, so he had to come back next time.

After a while, there were five or six pheasants in the bamboo basket hanging on his shoulder, and his Jiaojiao did not like to dry wild animals, which was specially made up for Jiaojiao.

Not far from the foot of the outer mountain, Zhang Qingshan and the others hurriedly put down the shelf, and were so tired that they sat on the side to rest, and they couldn't care about the snow on the ground before it melted.

Everyone saw Zhang Guoqing easily carrying a wild deer on his back, a bunch of pheasants in the bamboo basket, and not even a hare.

Zhang Qingfeng's mouth opened wide, and he pointed to the bamboo basket dumbfounded, "Xiao Wu, you won't be looking for a mother, right?" What about the male? And what about rabbits? ”

Everyone laughed, they all knew that this was Xiao Wu thinking about his little daughter-in-law, otherwise where would they be so coincidentally wild hens?

Zhang Qingshan laughed enough, and then asked Zhang Guoqing, "Xiao Wu, is this a herd of deer here?" Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many, and you see there are three stag in it. Do you know where those wild boar herds are? ”

Zhang Guoqing saw that everyone was looking at him with blank eyes, and said funny: "There are wild boars on the mountainside, but there are wolves on the side. There is also a group of monkeys in the mountains before they reach it, and there are black bears in it. There were a lot of wild fruits in the monkey group, but there were wolves on the left, and there were black bears in it, so I didn't dare to go. This piece is far away from that side and is safer. If you want to fight tooth sacrifices, go up here. Don't go anywhere else except for the village where hunting is held, it's too dangerous. ”

Zhang Qingfeng said regretfully: "I thought I could catch wild boars by going to the mountains with you a few more times." It's a pity, you say the wolves won't leave. ”

"Animals in the mountains have natural laws, big fish eat small fish, and they all have their own territory. You see, the wild boar dares not to go far from the wolf, because there are monkeys and black bears on it, and they don't go deep into the mountains, where there are more big beasts. This time, the men from the three villages went up the mountain strongly, and we just aimed at the wild boar and the black bear. Wolves and monkeys run fast, and when they see so many people, they will definitely go deep into the mountains, but not wild boars. Black bears have hidden honey, and they feel sluggish in the winter and can't run. Zhang Guoqing said with a smile.

"Okay, it's time for us to go, what to do with so many things?" Zhang Qingyan looked at a pile of wild things on the ground and said.

Zhang Qingshan looked at the game on the ground, "It's all taken by Xiao Wu, I also shot one, Qingya also shot one, and the others were all made up by Xiao Wu." In this way, we will send one wild deer to our family, and the rest will be sent to the second uncle's house. After speaking, except for the three brothers Zhang Guoqing, they all nodded in agreement.

Zhang Guoqing said with a calm face: "Do my brothers look down on me, or what?" The six deer are just two heads of three families, and the number of males and females is well divided. The spores are also three-headed, one for each family. Don't object, and give me the rest of the goats. I've got more goats, okay, that's all. Let's all carry it back to the uncle and arrange whether they want to sell it. It's best to sell them all, and tomorrow everyone will go up the mountain and you're afraid of a lack of meat? ”

After speaking, the wild deer on his back led everyone to the foot of the north mountain. He often walked this trail, and he could enter directly through the back door of his house, saving him from being dazzled.

When he returned to Zhang Guoqing's house, he beckoned everyone to put it in the backyard first, and he hurried to the main room.

Seeing Zhang Guoqing come in, Dad Zhang asked in surprise, "You're back so soon?" What did you hit? What about your eldest brother? ”

"They're all back, and it's going to be all in the backyard. Today, we were lucky enough to have a lot of wild animals by the creek, so we gathered around to fight. There are two deer and one spore in the family, and we have an extra goat. Do you want my mother to see if you want to sell it? ”

After speaking, seeing that Kiko was going to run to the backyard, he hurriedly shouted, "Kiko, don't run yet." You go and ask the big grandfather and the little grandfather to come over, and say that you will hit the prey and wait for them, and shout quietly. ”

"I know, uncle, don't worry." Kiko nodded and took her younger brothers to look for someone outside.

Zhang Guoqing thought about it and said to his father: "Dad, don't sell the goats, keep the pot for the winter." Those you and the eldest brother Zhang Luo, the second brother and I will go to the county to do errands first. ”

"You get down to business first. Leave the family to me and your eldest brother. Your father-in-law has already gone to the county seat, and you can discuss it with him if you have something. Dad Zhang said as he walked to the backyard.

Zhang Guoqing hurriedly followed, and said in a low voice: "Dad, I won't go to the backyard, you make a look and let the second brother come out." I'll go wash first. Seeing that his father nodded, he watched his father enter the backyard before turning around and walking towards the west wing.