The scorching breath continued to fall, and the remnants of the blood-setting sun shook out the last rays of afterglow.

Zhang Xuezhou looked at the sky at the beginning of the night from the window, and realized that the difficult day had finally passed.

This kind of hot weather makes it difficult to feel comfortable, there is no thermometer, there is no cold water, there is no high-rise buildings to shield the layers of sunlight.

Even the house where he lived still showed a little faint afterglow.

Heaven and earth are like a steamer, and he is the poor worm in the steamer.

Zhang Xuezhou just wants to lie down in the bucket in this weather, waiting for this day to pass quietly.

"It's good that I don't have to practice martial arts with that group of brute bulls!"

Zhang Xuezhou stretched out his head and looked at the center of the village more than two hundred meters away.

It was a popular gathering place for young people in the village, and it was also a place for young people to practice martial arts.

The practice of young people is not advanced, it is nothing more than archery, constantly tempering muscle memory and eyesight.

In this day and age, archery hunting is an essential skill if you want to fill your stomach.

Only by constantly hunting wild beasts can people keep getting meat and strengthening their bodies.

Survival skills are a rigid need for everyone, not only young people need to take the initiative to cultivate, but also parents, patriarchs, elders and other highly respected people will also supervise the cultivation.

Zhang Xuezhou's ability to be lazy is not because he has a pivotal position in the village, nor is he the second generation of the village, he is just weak.

is almost an adult, and Zhang Xuezhou can only lift a stone grinding disc of 100 catties.

Compared with Zhang Changgong, the leader of the young people, who can easily hold up more than 400 catties of iron piers with his arms, Zhang Xuezhou's strength is a little unreachable, and he is a little lacking in pulling ordinary bows and arrows.

The village does not raise idlers, and it is impossible to practice martial arts, and Zhang Xuezhou's business is to count and calculate.

In addition to learning words, his most important learning is numeracy.

Hunting beasts, good and bad crops after harvest......

In the villages, the various harvests are counted and the contribution of each household is calculated to distribute the harvest.

Equilibrium calculation is extremely easy for Zhang Xuezhou, it is nothing more than addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, but to do things in place, not to cause an imbalance in distribution, and to convince everyone not to be angry, this is a technical job.

The people in the village who do this work are not pleasant, and they will always offend some people.

Even the patriarchs and respected elders have a headache because of the distribution of food, so they can only keep introducing some scapegoats to share the pressure.

Whoever can't do it anymore is assigned to someone else.

There is a constant rotation, and every three or five years there are different newcomers to the position.

Wheel after turn, Zhang Xuezhou, who followed as an apprentice, was also pushed to the front of the stage.

"Boat cub, the hunting group is coming back soon, quickly take the scale rod and scale, and get ready to work!"

More than 100 meters away, the second elder Zhang Houtu, who supervised the young people's martial arts training, shouted.

This made Zhang Xuezhou respond quickly and jumped out of the big wooden barrel full of water.

He draped over a coarse cloth shirt and lifted the large scale of the village, which symbolized fairness and justice.

This is a large scale that can weigh thousands of catties, the rod of the large scale is more than two meters long, and the scale is ten catties.

The specifications of the large scale are not strange, Zhang Xuezhou weighed more than 800 catties of wild boars in the past.

The more than 300 people in the village have seven cents of rations, and they all count on the harvest of the hunting group.

Whether you eat grass or meat depends on the skills of the village team.

Zhang Xuezhou lifted the big scale and strode out of the yellow mud wall house.

At the entrance of the village, the cheerful barking of the hounds and the voices of people are approaching.

When the hunting group returned, the village was lively like a festival.

Young people, old people and children, farmers in the fields, and women busy with needlework all gathered in the middle of the village.

"Brother Xuezhou, divide a little more meat in my house for a while, my mother hasn't eaten meat for half a month!"

"This month's hunt is full of crows and sparrows, there are not a few taels of meat, but there are a bunch of bones, and I can't fill my stomach at all."

"Zhang Cigong, your mother hasn't eaten meat for half a month, it's not because it's all given to you to eat, if you eat a few bites, your mother will have meat to eat, why should you share more meat!"

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In the midst of the crowd, there is no lack of relationship with Zhang Xuezhou, and there is no lack of irony.

Food is the sky, and even the best friendship will deteriorate in the face of hunger.

If it weren't for the long time of contact, it would be difficult for Zhang Xuezhou to understand the emotional changes of human beings when they lack food.

He trotted and followed behind the lame Second Elder, muttering "Everyone has meat to eat", and stared at the few young juniors who were pulling the gate of the village.

Whether he can eat meat or not, whether he can divide more meat, it does not depend on his distribution, but more on the harvest of the hunting group today.

The heavy wooden door was laboriously pulled open by four posteriors.

After the large wooden gate was opened, the hound rolled its tail merrily and burrowed into the village.

The sound of tall men and women with bows and scimitars on their backs and heavy steps came into view.

This made Zhang Xuezhou happy, and many people's faces also showed joy.

There is obviously a difference between carrying heavy loads and walking with light goods.

The lighter the steps, the less you will gain.

The heavier the steps, the more the harvest will be.

It was the heaviness of the harvest.

But when the village gate was fully opened, many of the villagers who greeted the hunting group retreated slightly.

Zhang Xuezhou, who prides himself on being bold, can't help but feel a chill in his heart.

They are accustomed to seeing jackals, tigers, leopards and beasts, but they rarely see pythons, and they are huge poisonous pythons.

This python has even turned into a single horn, and it must be extremely old.

Zhang Xuezhou glanced at the disgusting color of the python, and his pupils contracted slightly.

Even if some of the murderous creatures are dead and disabled, they still exude the aura of not being allowed to enter the living, which is intimidating.

Two scimitars are inserted into the side of the python's head, and the blades are pierced together.

A knife is the ox ear knife of the patriarch Zhang Baojia, which is sharp enough to pierce the tortoise shell, and has a strong penetrating power, and is usually regarded as life by Zhang Baojia.

One knife is a windbreaker.

As the name suggests, the Wind Breaker can even cut through the wind, although it is an exaggeration, but the Wind Breaker is also a rare good knife.

The most important thing is that the owner of this knife is Zhang Xuezhou's father, Zhang Chong.

Zhang Chong's strength is at the middle and upper reaches of the village, but with this knife, Zhang Chong has become the deputy of the hunting group.

At this time, the two knives were inserted into the head of the python, and Zhang Xuezhou did not need to look at it to know that this python only had a trace of ferocity, and it was difficult to hurt people.

"This snake skin is poisonous, don't touch it, you melon baby!"

There are more than 40 people in the hunting group, all of whom are extraordinary, but this python that is more than three feet long makes the hunting group have to use half of the manpower to do the transportation.

Zhang Baojia scolded Zhang Changgong, who was eager to try to touch the murderous thing, and immediately made the bold Zhang Changbow shrink his hand back.

"Can this poisonous python be eaten?"

Zhang Changgong couldn't help but ask.

"When you're hungry, you can even gnaw on the bark, and you can't eat the meat anymore" Zhang Baojia scolded: "Don't pick and choose at a young age, this kind of fierce thing is here near us, and you can't see a large beast for hundreds of miles around, I don't know when it will be when to eat meat next time!" ”

"Xuezhou, you give me two catties more, and I will pick ten buckets of water for your family tomorrow!"

Zhang Baojia's words made Zhang Changgong lose any picky thoughts, and instead began to pull the relationship, which immediately caused a lot of coaxing.

"Remove the poisonous fangs, drain the poisonous blood, peel off the snake skin, and remove the poisonous veins, this python is good meat everywhere else!" Zhang said in a deep voice.

"While it's still fresh, let's make another effort" Zhang Baojia shouted: "Take the big bucket of bloodletting in the village, and make a few more basins of water!" ”

The giant python entered the village, and the eyes of many people who had been waiting for meat for a long time were shining, each with their own help.

Zhang Xuezhou put the scales down, and Zhang Zhong and others began to measure the gross weight.

"The scale pole is not enough, this python is at least two thousand ......"

Seeing that the scale was placed at the end of the scale rod and still hung high, Zhang Xuezhou roughly made an estimate.

He blurted out the guessed number, only to see a flash of light fly out of the python's almost white eyes.

tyrannical, cruel, murderous, ruthless......

was noticed by the giant python, Zhang Xuezhou only felt that the giant python's eyes were filled with too many negative emotions.

If it can be done, Zhang Xuezhou has no doubt that the python wants to slaughter the people in the village.

"It doesn't make sense, this dog thing is so heavy!" Zhang Baojia scolded.

After weighing all year round, Zhang Xuezhou has a very good estimation ability.

Zhang Baojia felt that there was a big difference between his estimated weight and Zhang Xuezhou's estimate.

Of course, everything is subject to what Zhang Xuezhou said, after all, he only understands white knives and red knives, and the things that are calculated are unprofessional.

But the weight of this python did exceed Zhang Baojia's estimate by a long way.

Although his weight assessment level is low, he will not be wrong by hundreds of catties.

"This body, this size, this ...... Forget it, cut it into two pieces and then pass the scales and it will be clear! ”

He only felt that it was difficult for his brain to figure out why his estimating ability was so low, and by the time the bloodletting barrel was fetched, the bull ear knife he had inserted in the python's head had been quickly taken out, and the knife was cut seven inches at the snake.

The bull ear knife was shot down heavily, and the python's body swayed weakly, and was pressed down by many people.

When Zhang Chong's wind splashing knife relayed, the blood of the giant python's body suddenly flew out like a fountain.

Zhang Xuezhou only felt a slight explosion sound in the air, and faintly, a burst of incense-like smell overflowed.

There seems to be some sweetness in the air.

"Dogs have to fart before they die!"

Zhang Baojia scolded, and the ox ear knife penetrated into it, and a white snake tendon was suddenly picked out by the ox ear knife.

"Good tendons, can be used as a top bowstring...... How can there still be a chicken head? ”

The snake tendons pulled upward, and the python's wriggling body suddenly poured up the swallowed things in the abdomen.

Zhang Baojia saw a huge colorful brocade chicken's head in the snake's belly being pulled out by the way.

Like the python they caught, the multicolored also had a residual breath, its head swollen to the size of a pig's head, and there was a hint of happiness and confusion in its eyes.

Zhang Baojia's head instantly knew the biggest reason why everyone was able to hunt this fierce beast, and also knew why his estimation of the weight was ridiculously wrong.

"You can't eat the poisoned parts!"

He reached out and grabbed the snake tendon, and the ox ear knife in his hand slashed quickly.

But when the ox ear knife pierced the head of the colorful brocade chicken, a knife fluttered through, faster than his ox ear knife.

The head of this colorful brocade pheasant suddenly flew high.

Can be entangled with the python and fight, and even has been fighting against the python, until now there is still a breath left, the colorful brocade chicken seems to have an auspicious name, but it is obviously not a good stubble.

This is far beyond the jackal, tiger, leopard beast, once the consequences are unpredictable.

Zhang Bao's family is fast, and so is Zhang Chong.

With a slash, the head of the chicken flew out, and the sound of air explosion in the air sounded again.

The previously sweet air suddenly condensed into a small area of water mist.