Chapter 40: The Wild Boar
The next day, Liang Hu met his cousin Liang Shan at the door of his house, the latter had a back on his back, and actually held a hunting fork in his hand, Liang Hu asked, it turned out that Liang Shan repaired a few animal traps yesterday just to try his luck, after all, in the mountains and forests the wild boar is the real overlord, when he goes crazy, even the big tree with a thick bowl mouth can be broken, and even the tiger, the default king of beasts, has to avoid three points, wanting to besiege such a prey is not something that a child in Liangshan can do, his real idea is to take this opportunity to go into the mountains to get some game out, ready to add some meat to the New Yearγ
"I don't know if I don't ask, but I'm shocked when I ask. Liang Hu had only read the description of this weapon in the book, and his curiosity was suddenly aroused, but when he took the crossbow from his cousin, he was a little disappointed to find that it was more like a toy, although the tail of the crossbow was stuck with a few beautiful feathers as in the description, but it was only a foot long in total, and the strength of the bracket was really much worse, and it could be easily wound with one finger.
The mountain road was rugged, and although the village where the wild boar was in a row was separated from Liang Hu's hometown by a big mountain, Liang Hu followed his cousin Liang Shan around for three hours, and it was already nine o'clock in the morning when he reached the ground. Liang Shan was more familiar with the people in this village, and after a few words of conversation, a child one or two years younger than him took Liang Hu and them to the place where wild boars once haunted. Liang Shan squatted in the terraced fields for a long time, followed the footprints that may have been left by wild boars for a distance of several hundred meters, and then placed all the four traps brought from the back guard.
Liang Hu stood aside and watched his cousin busy, and suddenly remembered something, so he asked, "Isn't this thing afraid that the villagers will step on it by mistake?"
"Don't be afraid!" said the boy who brought them from Liangshan, "You can't usually use this clip near the village, but now everyone knows that there are wild boars, and they know that someone has scattered clips around here, so they will definitely not go outside again, and if they want to walk, they will only take fixed paths, and they will not pass through these woods." Besides, didn't Brother Shan put a mark to remind him?"
Liang Hu looked at the little boy's hand and found that Liang Shan was using a knife to cut off the bark of the tree next to him, which was probably the mark that the boy said.
When Liang Shan had finished all the work, the little boy said, "Brother Shan, you are going to hunt in a while, can you take me with you?" I promised Xiao Nan to make her the most beautiful feather shuttlecock. β
"Okay. Liang Shan agreed.
The boy turned around excitedly and ran towards the village, presumably to prepare tools for hunting. Liang Shan and Liang Hu followed the boy and walked back slowly, as the other party just said, if you want to enter the mountain, you must take a fixed route, and if you want to enter these wooded places, you may step on the mechanism arranged by others.
When Liang Hu and the others returned to the village, the little boy also packed up and ran over, he also carried a small backpack on his back, but instead of a hunting fork in his hand, he had a slingshot. Liang Hu noticed that the little boy was carrying a cloth bag around his waist, which was bulging with things, which he estimated should be used for hunting.
Liang Hu talked to the little boy for a few words, and learned that his surname was Tong, because he was the fifth in the family, so his name was called Tong Wu, Liang Hu asked about the bag on Tong Wu's body by the way, and the latter took out one from it and handed it to him, Liang Hu took it in the palm of his hand and found that it was actually a stone the size of a dragon's eye, but the appearance was quite smooth, and it was obviously carefully selected and even polished.
Along the way, Tong Wu pestered Liang Hu to tell him stories, for these children in the mountains, Liang Hu is definitely a rare college student who comes back from a big city, in the words of that Uncle Jin, he is a showman in ancient times, and he will be a big official and do great things in the future. Liang Hu first talked about "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but the four famous works have long been familiar here, so he moved out of Mr. Jin Yong's "Dragon Babu".
Just as Duan Baimian and Uncle Qiao had drunk and played the game of tortoise and rabbit racing, suddenly the grass on the side of the road moved, and a hare came out of it, its speed was extremely fast, and it immediately drilled into the grass next to it after it appeared. The speed of the hare is fast, the speed of Tong Wu is even faster, I saw that he raised his arm and didn't know when he actually felt the stone bullet and pulled the slingshot, and then the sound of "whoosh" came, and the hare that was about to disappear into the grass stumbled, obviously being hit by Tong Wu.
Tong Wu struck a successful blow, and immediately fired another stone projectile, hitting the hare's body again, and the latter fell into the grass, and then Tong Wu's third stone bullet followed suit, and the chaotic grass fell silent. Tong Wu ran over quickly, touched the grass a few times and grabbed the hare just now, twisted the neck of the dying hare very casually, and threw it into the back basket behind him with his backhand.
Liang Hu was impressed by Tong Wu's reaction speed, and couldn't help but praise a few words, Liang Shan said: "Xiao Wu is the most powerful player with slingshots in this piece, that is, a bird flies overhead, and he can shoot it down." β
Tong Wu touched his head a little embarrassed, and said to Liang Hu: "I just practice a little more than others, it's nothing." Brother Huzi, you should continue to tell me that story, which of the two of them will win?"
Along the way, Liangshan and Tong Wu have gained, but there is no golden chicken that Tong Wu wants, so Tong Wu pestered Liang Hu to continue to tell him the story, while pulling Liang Shan to the depths of the mountain. After walking for a while, seeing that the sun was already in the west, it must be dark when he walked home at this time, so Liang Shan patted Tong Wu's head and said, "Okay, Xiao Wu, it seems that you are not very lucky, let's come back next time." β
Although Tong Wu was young, he also knew that the night in the mountains was full of danger, so he had to pout his lips and follow Liang Shan to walk back, the three of them walked a few hundred meters, and they heard the sound of "squirming" in the grass not far away, Tong Wu's eyes suddenly lit up, he buckled the stone bullet on the slingshot and quickly pulled it away, aiming at the grass that made a sound.
Liang Shan is older than Tong Wu and has a lot of experience, he heard that this voice was a little wrong, and hurriedly wanted to stop Tong Wu's movements, but unfortunately he was half a step late, when his hand pressed on the opponent's arm, Tong Wu had already released the slingshot, and the round stone projectile had already pierced the air and flew out. Hearing only a "snap" sound, Tong Wu's stone bullet hit the target, but there was no sound of flapping wings such as "fluttering ridges" on the opposite side, but there was a sound of "smack", and then a wild boar covered in earth brown burrowed out of the grass with red eyes.
"Wild, wild boar!" Tong Wu was startled by the situation in front of him and cried out in a lost voice. The adult wild boar weighed about 100 kilograms and was nearly two meters long, and when it appeared, it immediately let out a roar of "εε§εε" and rushed towards Liang Hu's side, apparently to retaliate for Tong Wu's previous attack on him.
"Quick, go up the tree!" Liang Shan immediately said this, Tong Wu heard it and picked up the slingshot and turned his head and ran towards the nearest crooked neck tree, Liang Shan took a step, but saw his cousin Liang Hu standing motionless in place, and thought that he had been scared stupid, so he pulled Liang Hu's body hard, wanting to drag his cousin away.
The wild boar's running speed was extremely fast, just such a little delay, it had already come to the front, Liang Shan gritted his teeth, squeezed Liang Hu away to block in front of him, and he pressed down the hunting fork in his hand, hoping to resist a few times, at least to give Liang Hu a little chance to escape.
Liang Hu didn't expect that at such a critical moment, his cousin Liang Shan would use his own flesh and blood to block in front of him, which made Liang Hu's heart quite moved, of course he would not sit idly by and watch Liang Shan get injured, so he stepped out of Liang Shan's side first, transported all the power of the "Quenching Jade Jue", and punched the head of the wild boar that rushed over. I only heard a muffled sound, Liang Hu's iron fist hit the wild boar's head, although the wild boar's sprint was extremely powerful, but Liang Hu punched from the side, so that only a part of the power equivalent to the sprint was needed to knock its head open and avoid the wild boar's fangs from hurting Liang Shan's body next to it.
Liang Hu punched out, watching the wild boar just break the hunting fork in Liang Shan's hand, and the latter passed by, and suddenly relaxed a lot in his heart, but the action in his hand did not have any delay, he chased after him with an arrow step, and rode on the back of the wild boar, and then Liang Hu put his body close to the wild boar, and strangled the throat of the wild boar with both arms and contracted hard, never giving it the opportunity to throw off itself and continue to charge.
After the wild boar was attacked, of course, he was not reconciled, and walked through the grass and woods frantically, wanting to throw off the Liang Hu on his back, Liang Hu only begged not to hurt Liangshan by mistake at this time, and saw the wild boar running in the direction away from Liangshan, so he naturally let it go, and his body did not know how many bushes and thorns had been scraped by this way.
Liang Shan, who picked up a life, rolled and climbed out of the crossbow from the back he fell, and Tong Wu with the slingshot followed closely behind to chase away, even if the two of them were used to walking the mountain road since childhood, they still couldn't catch up with the speed of the wild boar's wild run, and could only watch Liang Hu's figure disappear into the bushes in the distance.
"Brother Shan, what should I do?" Tong Wu's voice was already filled with crying.
Liang Shan held the crossbow in one hand, pulled out the firewood knife from his waist with the other, gritted his teeth and said: "Chase, you have to see people in life, and you have to see corpses in death!"