Chapter XXV. War and Peace

The falcon had been on its knees in the air for a few weeks before letting out a helpless chirp and falling back onto the hunter's arm.

Tai Zhou sighed, straightened down his nine-foot-tall majestic body on the horse, grabbed the three-stone hard bow in his hand, and locked his eyebrows slightly.

It's not good...... In the snow-covered Huaguo Mountain, even if a rabbit runs through the snow, it will never escape the falcon's sight.

But he has released the eagle three times in a row, but each time it has been in vain, which can only show a problem: under their continuous hunting for many years, there are fewer and fewer animals in Huaguo Mountain, otherwise in such a cold winter, as long as the animals do not want to starve to death, they must go out to find food, and now even the stupidest rabbit can not be seen.

The humans of Dongsheng Shenzhou were born taller and more sensitive than the Nanzhan people across the sea, and even if an old hunter like Tai Zhou abandoned the falcon, he could find out how Huaguo Mountain was withered by just sniffing with his own nose. I've already walked through a few dense forests, not to mention smelling tiger urine, and I can't even see a wolf.

A team of hundreds of hunters is almost halfway up the mountain, and the biggest catch is the dozen pheasants caught by the falcons......

"Taizhou, our ancestors once taught us: Don't dry up and fish, don't take all the small beasts, but we just took it as a deaf ear.

In the past few years, many of the animals I have hunted are small beasts that have not yet fully developed, and I once said, "This is not allowed!" If you always hunt like this, one day you will have no hunt! Unfortunately, no one listens to me, not even you! Hey......

Mu Xijing is Taizhou's best brother, and he is also a good hunter in several nearby villages second only to Taizhou, not long after entering the mountain, he shook his head and sighed repeatedly, he couldn't figure out why Taizhou, who was better than him, couldn't see it?

"Tai Zhou, you are the leader of this trip, if I were you, you would immediately order the end of this hunt. The old people, women and children in the village gave us the last food, hoping that we could go back with a full harvest, but not for us to come to Huaguo Mountain for an outing!"

"Go back? Just go back like this, let the villagers eat and drink, what do you spend this winter, you will starve to death!"

Tai Zhou roared, as if he wanted to vent all his frustration: "I, Tai Zhou, am the best hunter in a dozen nearby villages, as long as I can hunt a tiger, or a jade fox, I can exchange their beautiful furs for a lot of food! Those rich men in the capital will be willing to pay a lot of money!"

"Wake up Tai Zhou, the last time we hunted a tiger was three years ago, and it was just a small tiger cub! As for the jade fox? This legendary precious fox species is even rarer than the hundred-year-old Lingzhi, do you think we can meet it? According to me, we still don't waste all our time in Huaguo Mountain, it is better to try to hunt in other mountains, although the nearest mountain is hundreds of miles away from us, but we have horses, it is not a big problem. ”

"Are you crazy or stupid? There are more or less spirits on other hills, and they can eat people! If there is no mage to follow, we will go and deliver food to the monsters!

Although there are fewer and fewer animals in Huaguo Mountain, we can still look for herbs and ginseng zhi, but it is really not good, don't forget that there are monkeys in Huaguo Mountain. The monkeys here are still alive, there should be a lot of them, and if they can catch them alive, those nobles who like to eat live monkey brains will pay a lot of money!"

"Tai Zhou, we hunters hunt for a living, and if we kill the prey, we will kill it, which is like a wolf eating a lamb, there is no right or wrong. But those nobles want to open the skull of the living monkey, pour hot juice into it, and watch the monkey die of pain and take pleasure in it! This is not what people should do, it is a demon! Are you really willing to be an accomplice of those nobles? Don't be too careful, you will be punished!"

Tai Zhou Chang took a breath of cold air: "Mu Xijing, I admit that you have a point, such a cruel thing even we hunters refuse to do." But do we still have a choice? Think about the villagers and elders behind you, think about your wife and children, they don't have any excessive demands...... They just want to have a stutter so that they can survive this winter.

Mu Xijing, we are all the strongest men in the village, if I can exchange my sins for the food that the villagers need, let me do it. Brothers, there is a wooden house we have built in front, rest and eat something first, and then release the hounds and search for the traces of the monkeys!"

"I advise you to save it, your hounds can't find my monkeys at all, and if they can find it, they will have to wait until now?"

As soon as Tai Zhou's words fell, he heard someone in front of him laugh and said, "Your name is Tai Zhou, right? And this Mu Xijing, they are all good men, I like it." Remember what I said, war can't solve any problems, and what can really bring you food must be peace. Would you be interested in talking about peace and peace?"

"Who is it?"

Tai Zhou and Mu Xijing glanced at each other, secretly vigilant in their hearts, hundreds of hunters were veterans of battle, and they also quickly bowed and unsheathed, as if facing a great enemy.

"Don't be nervous, this king's surname is Sun Dakong, and the Monkey King of Huaguo Mountain is also. I have just heard you discussing how to capture my monkeys and sell them to the rich men to eat monkey brains, and this king is very unhappy.

Fortunately, you also know that this move is too cruel, and it is a helpless move to help countless villagers and elders, and this king is a lot less angry. As the saying goes, 'Friends come from afar, are you happy?' Since you are neighbors of Huaguoshan, why shout and kill, maybe you and I can come up with a way to benefit both of us, wouldn't it be better?"

As he spoke, a monkey in a linen robe came slowly from the mountain with his hands behind his back.

This monkey is different from what they have seen in the past, even if other monkeys can walk upright, they still have their forelimbs hanging to the ground and their backs bent, and in the end they still retain many monkey appearances. But this monkey who called himself the 'Monkey King of Huaguo Mountain' was straighter than them, walking in all directions, walking extremely calmly, with a slight smile on the monkey's face, and the expression that seemed to be under control made Taizhou very uncomfortable.

"Demons, could it be said that Huaguo Mountain, a mountain that has never been a monster, has also produced monsters!"

The hunters suddenly changed color. Although the animals of Dongsheng Shenzhou are quite intelligent, ordinary animals cannot communicate with people. Monkeys are more intelligent than ordinary animals, and some particularly intelligent monkeys can speak human language, and it is said that the monkeys of Huaguoshan will also make simple transactions with merchants. But the monkey in front of him, who called himself the Monkey King, not only could speak, but felt even better than what they said, not to mention anything else, just the sentence 'There are friends from afar, and they are happy', so that Taizhou and they could hear it in a fog, and they only felt that this should be a good word, but they couldn't tell what it meant.

Could this monkey in front of him be a big demon? Tai Zhou's hand holding the hilt of the knife tightly was soaked with sweat......