Xiangling came to Xiaoshan's house, her family moved to a new house, Zhang Ren came back, Xiangling wanted Xiaoshan to accompany her to Li Gui's brother-in-law's blacksmith shop to build some farm tools, a dagger and pots for the Qilong stove.

When I arrived at Xiaoshan's house, I took Xiaoshan out of the nest of trouble, and heard that I could go to the village to have fun, Xiaoshan immediately came to the spirit, not only went by himself, but also found Xiaosong, Guoguo and dog rhubarb, the three children learned the appearance of Xiangling, carrying a basket behind their backs, and the things in the basket were almost the same as Xiangling, a broken firewood knife, a thick rope, like a temporary hunting team.

Xiangling was a little confused, and was led by the three children and went straight to Guoguo's uncle's house.

The three children were very excited, and asked Xiangling about hunting while walking, and completely regarded Xiangling, the "three-legged cat hunter", as an idol.

It is no wonder that the three children are happy, because their own adults hunt all year round, but they all treat them as children, and none of them have the patience to answer their childish questions.

Xiangling doesn't have much knowledge of hunting, and knows a lot of animal anecdotes and fables, such as chickens eating stones to promote digestion, praying mantis giving birth to eat male mantises, dogs sticking out their tongues in summer to sweat, etc., which made the children stunned for a while, and their eyes were full of stars.

The four of them and a dog were walking forward, when suddenly, Rhubarb stood in front of him and barked twice, and his ears stood up alertly.

Xiangling instinctively protected the three children behind her, fully opened her senses, and felt the direction of the grass.

It's not a big beast, there are two, and the shadow that looks at the shadow is brown fur, not a wolf, and the taste is very big, Xiangling has an epiphany, it's a fox.

Although she knew that fox skins were valuable, but with three children, Xiangling didn't dare to venture forward, thinking that as long as the two foxes didn't act rashly, she wouldn't act rashly.

Xiangling doesn't want to take the initiative to cause trouble, and the fox doesn't want to take the initiative to cause trouble, so she can't stand the owner who brought the troublemaker today---- dog Rhubarb.

It may be that the dog rhubarb is used to bluffing and scaring people in Chujia Village, and the fierce one "rubs" into the grass and fights with the two foxes, and suddenly the sound of the fox and the dog biting or wailing.

The first to be anxious was Xiao Song, the owner of the dog rhubarb, who threw down the basket and rushed over with a broken wood knife.

Xiangling pulled him back and instructed the three children to stand back to back, and she passed cautiously herself.

At this time, Rhubarb successfully bit the neck of one fox, and the other fox bit Rhubarb's leg.

All three animals were bloodied.

Xiangling took the slingshot and shot it at the fox who was biting the big yellow leg in the eye.

The fox screamed miserably, and blood oozed from his left eye, and he immediately relieved of the pain.

In Xiangling's opinion, if she blinds the fox's eyes, the fox will immediately scare away, after all, the fox, unlike the tiger, is not a ferocious beast.

Na Cheng thought, not only did the fox not go, but also jumped up violently and rushed straight to Xiangling.

Xiangling instinctively bent down, picked up the awl, and stabbed it into the fox's throat.

Although it was stabbed in the throat, the fox did not immediately bleed to death, and turned around and pounced on Xiangling again.

The awl in Xiangling's hand was gone, and there was a broken wood knife pinned to his waist, saying that it was too late and that it was too fast, and he slashed down again according to the fox's throat.

Xiangling used almost all her strength to cut off half of the fox's entire neck, and this time she was finally dead.

Xiangling didn't dare to delay, grabbed a handful of dry soil to block the fox's blood hole, and rubbed the blood on her clothes to reduce the smell of blood, so as not to attract other big beasts.

The two foxes were stuffed in a basket and covered with pungent stinking grass to hide the smell of blood, and the three children took turns carrying the rhubarb on their backs and hurried to the blacksmith's shop.

When he arrived at Uncle Komatsu's house, he saw Xiangling and three children dressed in pickles, Uncle Komatsu was startled, and checked that several children were not injured, but Rhubarb was injured, so he was relieved.

Because fox meat is slightly poisonous, except for people with sores, ordinary people never eat it, so Uncle Komatsu asked his son to help pick the fox skin and throw away the meat.

Seeing a few children excitedly talking about fox hunting, Uncle Komatsu said to Xiangling suspiciously: "If you guess correctly, you are the girl who asked my sister to make a fire fight last time, right?" ”

Xiangling nodded, embarrassed: "The fire bucket is very useful, thank you." This time, I have to trouble you, make seven pots for my house, there are deep pots for stewed soup, a large pot for steaming wotou, two stir-fry pots, a flat pot for pancakes, and a few sets of grates that cover the stove...... A secret cellar door with a lock, a wood knife, an axe, a shovel, an iron fence, two hoes, an iron plough, fifty mouse traps, a bow, twenty feathered arrows, a dagger, ......"

This is a big business, Uncle Komatsu asked with a hesitant face, "Are you sure you want seven pots and fifty mouse traps?" ”

There are only four people in a family, and as for the use of seven pots?

How many rats can a family get in, and fifty rat traps?

Xiangling smiled and nodded: "You heard it right, it's seven pots and fifty mouse traps." Do you calculate how much it is? ”

Uncle Komatsu roughly calculated the price, which was equivalent to two taels of silver in total.

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After explaining the matter, Xiangling said goodbye and went home, and when she arrived home, it was just time for dinner in the afternoon, and the courtyard of Xiangling's house was filled with the strong fragrance of big bone cabbage soup.

The four members of the Xiangchu family smell the bone broth as if they smell the smell of traditional Chinese medicine, and they smell it every day, no matter how good the bone broth is, it is unpalatable.

The three children were so hungry that they were about to drool.

Xiangling smiled and said to the three children: "You wait for a while, I'll go to the room to add dishes and reward you for your fox hunting!" The fox skins will be put in my house first, and when your father comes back from hunting, the skins will be sold in the city, no matter how much money you get, it will be divided equally among the four people, do you disagree? ”

"I, too?" Guoguo's face was incredible, he didn't expect him to get a copy.

Xiangling smiled: "You must have a share!" Rhubarb's leg was injured, you bandaged it, and you helped carry it back, not only we have credit, but rhubarb also has credit, and in the future, my family's big bones will belong to rhubarb. ”

The faces of the three children were very excited, after all, it was the dream of the boys in the mountains to hunt, and after shooting two foxes, they could brag about their skills in front of their friends in the future.

The three boys excitedly told Chu Xia about the experience of beating the fox, and Xiangling ran back to the new house to pick eggplants, and saw that there were a little few eggplants, so he picked up two potato seedlings, picked out four or five potatoes that were not too big, and prepared to add some more pork belly to make authentic three fresh foods for a few children.

After picking the vegetables, Xiangling was about to push open the courtyard door and go home, when she suddenly heard a faint cry of small animals from the bottom of the cellar.

Xiangling was shocked, put down the dishes, cautiously approached the cellar entrance, opened the broken mat covering the cellar mouth, and quietly looked into the cellar.