Volume 5: Dissidents are ignorant of kindness, and non-homogeneous beasts have plans to repay their hearts Volume 5, Chapter 16: The One-Eyed Overlord
A few days later, Sheng Yushen arrived somewhere in Meizhou, where he is now only more than 100 miles away from Jinguancheng, the capital of Yizhou, surrounded by mountains, with beautiful scenery, known as "Pengzu Mountain".
Peng Zu, one of the Taoist immortals, a figure in ancient times, it is rumored that he lived for more than 800 years, and later became an immortal and ascended, ranking in the immortal class, and this place is rumored to be the place where Peng Zu and his daughter practiced and ascended to immortality, so it is also called "Peng Nu Mountain".
However, the country boy Sheng Yushen did not know these allusions, he originally passed by a village at the foot of the mountain, and was about to settle here, but for some reason, this village seemed to have been abandoned for several months, Sheng Yushen climbed to the top of a large tree, and found that there were no people in a radius of several miles, which can be described as a strange thing. However, Sheng Yushen did not think about it, so he broke into the deep mountains and continued to hurry, until late at night, when he fell asleep on a big tree.
After leaving Ya'an, Sheng Yuyan has always adhered to several guidelines set by himself, and along the way, when he meets pedestrians, he lowers his head to prevent the other party from seeing his appearance clearly; When passing through a few towns, he occasionally encountered scoundrels abducting others and squires running rampant in the countryside......
One day, he was eating the roast pheasant he had brought from him, when suddenly a pedestrian offered to buy it, and the price was an astonishing fifty wen, and from then on, Sheng Yuyan seemed to have found a way to make money, so he bought a bag of salt, kept hunting, and then pickled the prey, and sold it in the town.
Sheng hunted in the embers, never used a bow and arrows, and when he came across a bird, he threw stones to strike. When they encounter a beast, they quietly lurk over, and then use their most skillful "little grappler" to twist the neck of their prey......
It is precisely because of this that the more than 30 pheasants and birds, as well as more than a dozen rabbits and two wild boars that he has brought in the past few days have been very well preserved, and their fur will not be damaged. This makes his prey very popular and often sells for a good price.
In just a few days, Sheng Yuyan had already earned two taels of silver, and he seemed to finally understand what his master said to him before leaving—there are thousands of ways to make money in this world, doing farm work and stealing dogs are almost the slowest to make money......
Doesn't hunting make more money than these two at the moment? Two taels and seven dollars for three days, and twenty-seven taels for thirty days......
Therefore, Sheng Yuyan is very annoyed now, the game he caught yesterday has been pickled, but the village below the mountain is empty, and he hasn't even earned a penny today, which makes him very helpless when he tastes the sweetness of hunting for the first time.
"Day, sleep!" Sheng Yu Ember muttered and lay down on the tree and fell asleep.
And a few pheasants that he had already pickled were hung from the branches, giving off an enticing aroma that you could draw to even the darkest of nights, without looking at your eyes, with your nose alone......
"Roar!" A roar of a fierce beast woke Sheng Yu Ember up, and he immediately rolled over and got up, took out the Yan Ling knife, and was on full alert.
The sound came from behind the tree against which he was leaning, which startled Sheng Yushen's heart.
A few of his pheasants happened to be hanging there, and it seemed that the smell had attracted some beast.
"Isn't that Lao Tzu's thing eaten? Ge Dog Zhle! Sheng Yu Ember couldn't help but cry out in his heart, and then he angrily drew his knife, ready to teach this stealing beast a lesson.
Sheng Yushen poked his head out from behind the tree, and through the dim moonlight, he saw a strange animal with strong night vision—
This is a pitch-black tiger, more than a foot long, a long tail is only nearly four feet, the forehead is very wide, but the mouth is very short, the tiger's face has many pockmarks, and although it has lost a right eye for some reason, but the only remaining left eye is glowing yellow, unusually bright, cruel and fierce at a glance.
This is a bully Yao, and the Sichuan people also call him "Ma Tiger".
Sheng Yuyan saw that a few pheasants hanging on the tree had disappeared, and there were a few fragments of chicken bones under the overlord monkey, it seemed that this overlord was the culprit who stole his prey.
However, Sheng Yuyan didn't choose to shoot directly, because he saw that Overlord Yao was roaring at a pile of trees in the distance, as if he was challenging something in the pair of trees.
Sheng Yu Ember stood still, watching the changes, the overlord roared continuously, but did not dare to attack, it seemed that what was behind the bushes made it very jealous, but it was unwilling to leave.
"Roar!" There was another roar, exactly the same as the one that woke Sheng Yu Ash, the roar of the beast behind the bushes, very majestic, but the tip of Sheng Yu Ember could hear it, this roar was much weaker than the first time, and it was much shorter.
With the roar attracting the attention of the overlord Yao, Sheng Yuyan took the opportunity to climb the tree and condescendedly, only then did he see the true face of the beast behind the bushes.
It is an iron-eating beast, also known as the "black and white bear", which is a large bear that does not eat much meat and has a soft spot for bamboo. He had a relatively mild temperament, and had occasionally encountered this kind of bear before Sheng Yushen, but both sides did not invade each other, and this was the first time he had heard the roar of a black and white bear when it was angry.
The black and white bear eats bamboo, and the overlord eats meat, and the two will never fight over food, so for what?
"Squeak squeak...... A series of faint cries like mice came from behind the black and white bear, Sheng Yu looked at it closely, and found that behind the big black and white bear, there was a puddle of flesh and blood, and then looked closely, only to see that it was a puddle of blood and a section of the umbilical cord, and a small thing was wriggling, and a slight "squeak" sound came from the mouth.
In this way, Sheng Yuyan knew what was going on - his position was the territory of the black and white bear, but the pheasant hanging on the tree attracted the overlord fox, and after the overlord lynx quietly ate the pheasant, it was still discovered by the female black and white bear, but the black and white bear happened to be in the brunt at this moment, and after giving birth to the little black and white bear, he was no longer able to drive away the intruding overlord fla, but the overlord jeopardy seized the opportunity to take advantage of the weakness of the female bear and the male bear was nowhere to be found, and wiped out their mother and son, no, the two bears.
In fact, Sheng Yuyan didn't know that three or four months ago, the father of the little black and white bear had been killed by this overlord Yao, because of the hunter's pursuit, the overlord Yao left Pengzu Mountain at that time, and when he returned today, he made a special trip to ask for the lives of the mother bear and the little bear.
At this moment, witnessing this scene, Sheng Yuyan was a little hesitant in his heart - this one-eyed overlord stole his pheasant, and it stands to reason that he should hunt it out in order to let out a bad breath in his heart, but he saw this beast for the first time today, and he was really not sure how to make a move. Besides, the overlord is looking for the bad luck of the black and white bear, and he took action himself, wouldn't he break the principle of "not helping others"?
After hesitating, the she-black and white bear's roar became more and more frequent, but it became shorter and weaker, and then Sheng Yushen saw the she-bear turn around, gently licked her newborn child, and then walked out of the bushes with trembling steps, facing the one-eyed overlord who was eyeing him.
The Overlord tilted his head, as if he had been impatient, and with a low roar, he bowed his body - this is the action of all tigers before predation, and the next moment, it will swoop up and bite the throat of its prey.
And at this moment, Sheng Yu Ember also moved.