Chapter 36: The Strange Old Man

The next day, early in the morning, Dongzhang was woken up by a rumbling stomach.

Rubbing his eyes and looking at the forest in front of him that had become unusually clear in the morning glow, he stood up and stretched his waist fiercely against the rising sun, Dongzhang made a suicidal move that would undoubtedly be in the future.

The whole person just planted backwards, the person just fell down from the tree more than ten meters high with his head down and his feet up, the whistling wind ruffled Dongzhang's hair, but it couldn't blow his clear eyes, seeing that he was about three or four meters away from the ground, Dongzhang adjusted his body in the air, and the whole person became a horizontal state, kicking the wide and heavy trunk with both feet, and the huge reaction force instantly offset the huge force of the downward fall, and the whole person became a state of flying out. When he was about to land, he took out the long sword that was slanted into his waist, and the scabbard was against the ground to cut off the few castrations, and finally stood firmly on the ground with a beautiful somersault, and then shook the dirt sword on the scabbard and returned to his waist.

I touched my head in annoyance, I ate pheasants last night, what should I eat today, I saw a river in the tree that seemed to be not far away, go and see it, eat fish in the morning...

Countless delicacies flashed in his mind, and finally he chose to walk towards the river in front of him, and when he walked out of two miles, he heard the sound of chopping wood in his ears, and Dongzhang walked slowly looking for the sound.

Closer, the sound came from not far from the river, only to see a white-haired old man slowly chopping branches with his hands and feet, although his hands and feet were not very sharp, but each axe cut down was still quite powerful, every three times he had to gasp violently for a moment, Dongzhang approached, the old man still ignored himself, ignoring the arrival of Dongzhang this stranger, and Dongzhang also stood quietly next to him for a while, and did not want to ask for help.

The two of them don't care about anyone, one looks, one cuts, does not interfere with each other, but it is also quite harmonious, at this time the old man is actually tired and sweating and panting, but he still stubbornly does not rest, still puffing and waving the axe, at this time, Dongzhang, who has been standing quietly next to the watch, spoke:

"Uncle, I'll lend you a stick."

The old man squinted at Dongzhang, turned his head to cut down his tree, and only after a moment did he reply: "If you want to use it, you can take it yourself." ”

"Hey, thanks."

Interesting old man, Dongzhang hehe happily thanked him, casually found a branch about two fingers thick in the old man's few firewoods, took the long sword out of the sheath, sharpened the end of the branch, took off his shoes and socks, and then slowly walked to the river next to him.

There is no pollution of industrial wastewater, no electric fish, and no large-scale fried fish, the ecological environment of the river at this time is still very good, it may just be the backwardness of fishing tools, standing in the river, Dongzhang looked at the crystal clear river water under his feet, and swam three or two river fish from time to time nearby, and his eyes began to squint slightly, concentrating.

Shout!

A stabbing blow as fast as lightning, a palm-sized fish was rubbed and pierced the fish head, although it did not pierce the fish head, just rubbed, but it was already only in the river in a circle, I don't know if it hit its nerves, Dongzhang thought, the refraction of the water and the distance between reality is a little different, and then adjust the angle, a soft sound, this time it is easy to pierce the fish's head.

Pick up at will on the shore, the fish fell safely on the shore, Dongzhang continued to stab the fish, and when he turned to almost seven or eight places, the shore was already full of more than ten fish of similar size, Dongzhang's own appetite knew it, so he picked more than a pound of big fish, which would pass less than an hour, and when he stabbed seven or eight more, Dongzhang then put out the fire and went ashore.

Counting, oh huo, there are a total of twenty-seven fish, at this time the sound of puff puff continues, Dongzhang raised his eyes to see, at this time the strange old man is still tied up and chopping, Dongzhang looked at the ground, there are seven or eight fist-sized wood, those small branches are not counted, but isn't it, a fist-sized firewood, with the old man every time he slashes violently for more than half a minute, that such a big firewood he has to cut at least half an hour or so to cut down.

Without paying too much attention to him, Dongzhang used his more than 20 fish to clean up the internal organs of the river with a vine, because he had done a lot in later generations, so it only took 20 minutes for Dongzhang to dispose of the internal organs of all 27 fish, and when he walked back, Dongzhang found that the stubborn old man finally stopped wielding the axe and stopped to rest.

At this time, he was sitting next to his firewood, chewing the rice ball in his hand carefully, basically chewing the rice ball had to drink three sips of water to swallow, you can imagine how hard the rice was.

Dongzhang threw twenty-seven fish everywhere and walked to the old man, looking at the firewood on the ground happily, Dongzhang smiled and said, "Uncle, can you borrow some firewood?" ”

The old man glanced at the fat fish all over the ground behind Dongzhang, looked at the rice ball in his hand calmly, and said plainly: "If you want to use it, you can take it yourself." ”

Hey, hey, hey, this old man is really interesting.

"Hehe, that relationship is good, that's really thankful for the uncle, you're welcome, kid."

After speaking, Dongzhang took away five fist-sized firewood, which was already most of the old man's labor in the morning, when Dongzhang took away the firewood, the old man didn't even raise his eyes, and still concentrated on chewing the rice balls in his hands, as if it was the most delicious food in the world, and even when Dongzhang passed by him with firewood, the old man's eyes didn't even glance at Dongzhang.

Coming to the shore, Dongzhang took out the fire fold and lit the fire smoothly, looking at the fish piled up at his feet, Dongzhang ran to the old man and took away a dozen finger-thick branches, the old man still said the same thing, he wanted to use himself, but he still didn't look at Dongzhang the whole time, just chewed the rice ball in his hand, and Dongzhang took it happily.

When the flame was in full swing, Dongzhang was already full of fish around the fire, and at the moment he was leisurely waiting for the food to be cooked, while the old man behind him had already rested, and at this moment he was also starting to chop firewood again, and the two unrelated people were doing their own things, seemingly unconnected, but as if they were connected.

Not long after, the fish around the fire were cooked, Dongzhang began to feast, and continued to insert the raw fish next to the fire, at this time the old man cut down four or five fist-sized firewood, the entire undershirt on his body has been soaked with sweat, and the rest time after swinging the axe has obviously become a lot longer, and Dongzhang here after eating seven fish, the firewood is obviously not enough.

Looking at the old man sitting on the ground wheezing, Dongzhang smiled and walked towards him again...