Zhao Rong: "This is too troublesome, and they may not be obedient, if you want me to say, it's better to just close the mountains and not let them in." ”

Zhao Hanzhang looked back at him for a while, and suddenly smiled, "Zhao Rong, you are older than Zhao Zheng, and you are still studying in Taixue, haven't you entered the ranks?" ”

Zhao Rong said a little smugly: "Mr. said that I am suitable for studying, and I will continue to study deeply, and I will take the recruitment examination in the future." ”

Zhao Zheng did not go to the recruitment examination, but because he helped the county government to do things with all the Taixue students, he was valued by the imperial court, and then recruited.

Oh, the recommender is Zhao Kuan.

Zhao Hanzhang smiled at Zhao Rong and said to him: "It just so happened that I hunted a lot of prey today, and after a while, a few of you will borrow fire from the village under the mountain with me, and we will roast something to eat, as for your question, you can think about it yourself first, if you haven't figured it out when you eat, I'll tell you the answer." ”

Zhao Zheng followed Zhao Hanzhang's side step by step, turned his head and said to Zhao Rong: "Cousin Rong, since we are officials, we should focus on the people, they are very sad, and they may be able to find a way to survive when they enter the mountains." ”

Zhao Rong disagreed, "Would a person who is really hungry have the strength to dig such a big trap and arrange such a sinister wooden thorn?" Cousin, you almost died. ”

Zhao Zheng: "These are two things. Even though we are in danger for the sinister reason of this trap, the trap itself is not aimed at people, but against beasts. The person who arranged it made a mark, and we waited for our shallow knowledge and didn't pay attention, so we accidentally stepped on it. ”

"Even if we want to talk about cause and effect, we are not innocent."

Zhao Rong couldn't help but reach out and touch his forehead, "Are you scared?" ”

Zhao Hanzhang's eyes fell on Zhao Zheng, who was frowning, "Zhao Kuan told me, although you are young, you have a long experience, and your reading is no worse than any of them, and the most rare thing is that you have a bodhisattva heart." I didn't believe much before, how old are you, how did you grow a bodhisattva heart? But now I believe it. ”

She and Zhao Rong said: "Okay, you and your cousin are frightened, be careful that the cold wind blows and gets sick for a while, your differences don't have to be in a hurry to distinguish between right and wrong at this time." ”

Zhao Hanzhang put his cloak on Zhao Zheng, and asked Zhao Erlang to wrap Zhao Rong with his own cloak, pack up the prey, and the guards also helped to set up the trap back before leaving.

They carried a lot of prey, plus there was blood, because it was cold, the blood that came out quickly coagulated, so the smell of blood was not heavy, but they still had to be careful in the mountains and forests, so the group accelerated the speed of leaving.

The guards carried the deer and roe deer, and Zhao Erlang and the others also got together in three or two to carry a big prey.

Zhao Hanzhang carried two rabbits in his hands, and the horses followed happily, and she thought about how to eat the two fat rabbits in her hands along the way, and suddenly paused and looked up at the front.

Zeng Yue found out, pressed his hand on the scabbard, signaled everyone to stop, and he led someone to step forward quietly.

In a few moments he brought a man with him, a man with a scruffy beard and black eyes, barely covered his body with a pile of rags, and wrapped in strips of cloth around his feet, and then he was wearing straw sandals, and his thumbs were open to the top of his feet, and his bare toes were red from the cold.

When he was brought up by Zeng Yue, his eyes were full of fear, but when he saw Zhao Hanzhang standing in the middle of the crowd, the panic faded, he knelt on the snow with a flutter, and said: "Little one to meet the general, I, I am not an assassin, I am an ordinary person who goes into the mountains to hunt and find food." ”

Zhao Hanzhang asked him to get up and asked, "What's your name and where do you live?" ”

The man didn't get up, just knelt up, and after a pause, he pointed to the outside of the mountain and said, "Just, I live in Lu Village under the mountain, the little Lu Si." ”

Zhao Hanzhang looked at his face and lips, tore off the purse around his waist, poured out two rice cakes from it, and stepped forward to hand it to him.

The man's eyes straightened when he saw the rice cake, and he knelt in the snow and looked up at Zhao Hanzhang.

Zhao Hanzhang stretched the rice cake in front of him again, and the man took it, quickly stuffed a piece into his mouth, and received the other piece in his arms quietly.

Zhao Hanzhang didn't see it, and Zhao Erlang took the water bladder and handed it to him, and asked, "You just went up the mountain empty-handed?" ”

Zeng Yue said: "I brought a wooden stick and was beaten by a lowly position." ”

Immediately, a guard turned around and found the wooden stick that fell behind him to show Zhao Hanzhang.

Zhao Hanzhang took the wooden stick and tossed it upside down, nodding, "It's still useful." ”

After he drank two sips of water and swallowed the rice cake, Zhao Hanzhang asked him, "Can you see people clearly?" ”

The man was surprised when he heard this, "How did the general know that I couldn't see people clearly just now?" ”

"You're going to faint, you're hungry," Zhao Hanzhang stretched out his hand to pull him up from the snow, pointed in the direction of the creek and asked, "There's a big trap over there, you dug it?" ”

Only then did some of the blood-colored face immediately turn pale, and the man snapped and knelt on the ground again, and said in fear: "Yes, is it the one who hurt the general?" ”

"Almost," Zhao Hanzhang said: "The location of your trap is wonderful, but there are too many wooden thorns in the pit, if someone doesn't understand the sign of the trap, it is easy to fall into the pit and get injured." ”

The man's head was pressed against the snow, and he shivered with fear.

Zhao Hanzhang asked, "Did you set this trap alone, or did you have a companion?" ”

The man gritted his teeth and said: "I arranged it alone, the person who almost injured the general by mistake is a small crime, please punish the general heavily." ”

Zhao Hanzhang laughed and stretched out his hand to pull him up, "Then punish the people who are in charge of this piece of the mountain, and tell them not to insert wooden thorns into the trap again, so as not to injure people by mistake, we are going to hunt, but we can't cut off people's lives, right?" ”

The man was stunned for a moment and then responded.

Zhao Hanzhang beckoned to a guard carrying a roe deer, and the guard stepped forward.

Zhao Hanzhang said to the man: "No, this is a roe deer that didn't run to your trap with long eyes, and it happened to be stabbed to death by a wooden thorn, take it back." ”

The man was pleasantly surprised, but as soon as he saw the wound on the roe deer's body, he could see that it was not a wound from the wooden thorns they had sharpened, but an arrow wound.

The man's mouth opened, and he wanted to speak several times, but he couldn't say it, so he could only look at Zhao Hanzhang with tears in his eyes.

Zhao Hanzhang laughed when he saw it, patted him on the shoulder with his big hand and said, "What are you still doing in a daze, take it quickly, do you want us to help you carry it down the mountain?" ”

The man knelt down with his head down, kowtowed to Zhao Hanzhang twice, and then got up and raised his hand to wipe away his tears, and stepped forward to take the roe deer.

The guards originally wanted to carry it for him, but when they saw that he was shivering with cold, they thought about it and put the roe deer on his shoulder.

Carrying the prey, the man was excited, and felt that the cold wind on his body was not so cold, and after walking for a while, his body became even hotter, and he couldn't help but smile on his face, and praised Zhao Hanzhang as he walked: "The general is really powerful, he can hunt so many prey as soon as he enters the mountain." ”

Zhao Hanzhang smiled: "It's just lucky." ”

Good night

(End of chapter)