In the southeast of Yunyang Mountain, which is 100,000 miles away, there is a valley, called Taiping Valley, and there is a village in the valley, called Taiping Village, there are more than 100 households and more than 1,000 people, and the people in the village are almost living a life of half farming and half mulberry from generation to generation, and they can still be self-sufficient, and they are almost isolated from the world outside the village. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The Li family is the only hunter in Taiping Village who does not work as a farmer, and makes a living by exchanging the wild animals they hunt with their neighbors for food. Or for the sake of hunting for generations, the men of the Li family were all born with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and their strength was like that of an ox, even if they only had a peeled animal skin around their waists during the wax moon season, they did not feel cold.

Li Qiyue is not like the Li family, he is like an ordinary person, but he was born like a hemp pole, thin and weak, although his facial features are upright, his face is dark and yellow, and he looks like a sick seedling, as if a gust of mountain wind can blow him away. The children and grandchildren of the Li family, especially the boys, all fought the adult wolves with their bare hands before the age of ten. And Li Qiyue, who is now twelve, every time he hunts with his two brothers, he falls and his nose is blue and his face is swollen just by walking on the mountain road, rolling all over the ground, not to mention pulling a bow and shooting arrows. On the way back, the two brothers carried him on their shoulders as if they were carrying a wild boar, otherwise with his foot strength, he would not have finished walking for three days.

Li Qiyue followed the two elder brothers, and carried a small bamboo bow made by the second brother for him, of course, it is not the same as the clear bow made of horn and tendon as the main material used by the Li family, there are more than ten arrows in the quiver with sharp pear wood feather arrows, and the belt hangs a pair of ruler-long antler knives shaped like a crescent moon that the eldest brother gave him last year, of course, these equipment are not for him to catch tigers and wolves, nor are they used to defend himself against beasts. So far, Li Qiyue has never hunted a single hare pheasant running all over the mountain, the intention of the two brothers is very simple, just to let him look like a hunter, as for the use of the medium or the medium and the use, anyway, it is a spectrum, put it out, don't let the people in the village underestimate the name of the "hereditary" hunter.

There is also a small basket made of mountain rattan on the shoulder, this small basket is the real use for Li Qiyue, which is called to make the best use of people's talents, he can always pick up wild mushrooms and mountain mushrooms behind the buttocks of the two brothers, and when everyone returns with a full load, the small basket is absolutely full - everyone is not idle in labor, but the division of labor is different.

The uncles of the Li family saw that Li Qiyue was "Si Si Wenwen", but they didn't know that it was "one" and had nothing to do all day, so they discussed with his parents and tried to work together to reclaim a few acres of cooked land at the foot of the mountain east of the village in the past one or two years, so that he could support himself, and naturally cut off Li Qiyue's prospect of becoming a hunter.

Before the land was ripe, something happened in Taiping Village.

At the end of August, the harvest in the farmland was in sight, but it was destroyed by a group of nearly 100 wild boars of all sizes that came from nowhere. The Li family took the lead, and under the siege of all the villagers, most of the wild boars were killed and injured, and there were not a few who were captured alive, but there were still more than 20 wild boars who escaped.

So the three generations of the Li family's grandfather and nephew, as long as they were men and women who could walk, were all draped all over their bodies, and swore to go out, vowing to slaughter this group of scourges cleanly. Even Li Qiyue's eight-year-old little sister rolled her arms and sleeves and trouser legs, scrambling and eager to try, of course, after being reprimanded by her father, she pouted and chirped and went home step by step.

Although Li Qiyue couldn't pick up his hands and couldn't lift the strength of the chicken, he was not far behind, and vigorously joined the team of chasing wild boars.

Although the wild boar is not capable of fighting a heavily armed hunter, and it is not cunning, it is extremely arrogant, but there is a gap for escape, whether there is a road or not, even if there is a cliff in front of it, with a thick skin and thick flesh, it is buried in the rampage, no matter how strong the Li family is, they have to avoid its edge and let it escape for a while.

In round after round of pursuit, the group of wild boars was sniped one after another, and five days later, only one and a half human as tall as a calf remained, and it had run nearly 200 miles away from Taiping Village. The Li family summed it up, leaving only three people to continue the pursuit, and the rest of the people sorted out the hunted wild boars and returned to the village, while Li Qiyue's two brothers were among the three people, and he himself had already been left behind in the middle of the road, waiting for the people who turned back to return to the village together.

Three days ago, he was left in a hole two feet high from the ground, this cave is the place where the Li family must settle down in the mountains for hunting, the entrance of the cave is narrow, the cave is relatively spacious and dry, more than ten people live in it and do not feel crowded, a mutton fat oil lamp reflects the light and darkness in the cave, a simple rattan bed is built in a corner of the cave, there are stone pots and bowls, there are a lot of dry firewood stacked in another corner, and there are half stone grains.

Li Qiyue observed for a long time and didn't know whether this cave was naturally formed or if the ancestors of the past dynasties were bored and dug it, so he didn't have the heart to continue researching. There is a mirror lake ten zhang in front of the hole, the lake surface is wide about a thousand hectares, the green mountains and green waters, make people feel refreshed and happy, for several days in a row, he sits by the lake to watch the sunset and sunrise. On the fourth day, when the sun was setting, he was bored and was about to leave the lake and return to the cave to continue sleeping, when there was a sharp birdsong in the distance, and he looked far away, and found a black spot flying in the distance, but after a few breaths, the black spot gradually became larger, and a white-tailed vulture with wings about a foot long flew towards him, and at the same time he also saw a turtle dove flying in front of the white-tailed vulture, which was fleeing in a hurry. The brownish-yellow turtle dove flew staggering, staggering, and saw that it had died in the belly of the white-tailed vulture.

The turtle dove made a few sharp turns, and although it escaped the claws of the white-tailed vulture for a while, it was not in danger of getting rid of it at all, but at this moment it was exhausted and frightened, like a pebble falling straight into the lake, causing a circle of ripples.

The white-tailed vulture circled around the turtledove in the water, and a whistling sound came out of its sharp beak, and even Li Qiyue, who was standing a hundred feet away, felt a faint pain in his eardrums.

The white-tailed vulture hovered at low altitude, several times swooped into the water to catch the turtle dove, but all of them were empty claws and returned, about the fear of water, and finally flew away unwillingly, the turtle dove floated on the water like a duck and did not move, Li Qiyue, who had been frightened, came back to his senses and saw that the turtle dove in the lake seemed to be alive, about a hundred feet away from the lake, so he took off his clothes, and a fierce man plunged into the water and swam towards the turtle dove.

The water at the edge of the lake is crystal clear, but the more you swim to the lake, the deeper the water, only swim out more than ten zhang away, you can't see the bottom of the lake, and at the same time feel that the lake is getting colder and colder, at the beginning of September, the sunset just sets on the west mountain, the mountain wind rises suddenly, the lake is rippling, Li Qiyue feels that the lake is biting cold, only swims out of thirty zhang away, the lower teeth keep trembling and bumping into the upper teeth, the body has not much strength, at this time every time you swim out of a zhang away, you feel that the strength of the body is lost exponentially.

When he was still ten zhang away from the turtledove, he insisted on swimming forward, and swam forward five zhang away, he hesitated for a moment and continued to swim forward three zhang away, when he felt his limbs stiffened as if they were frozen, and he trembled and gritted his teeth and swam forward a zhang away.

An inexplicable feeling of near-death rose in his heart, causing him to panic for no apparent reason, and this feeling of panic was something he had never felt before in his life, was this what a person felt before he died?

The turtledove in the distance was already dying, and the black eyes of the bean were less and more closed, and when he saw Li Qiyue, he fluttered his wings and rowed towards him like seeing the mother of the turtledove.

Li Qiyue stepped on the water and did not swim to the turtledove to greet him, he was worried that he would scare the turtledove away, so he took advantage of this time to collect the only strength in his body and adjust his breath...... When he stretched out the arm close to the turtledove, at this time the turtledove's eyes were wide open, and the instinct for survival made it subconsciously struggle, and Li Qiyue could reach out to touch the turtledove, because of its fluttering, not only did not get closer to him, but was a finger away from his fingers.

The mountain wind was getting stronger and stronger, and the sky was getting darker and darker, and Li Qiyue paddled towards the lake with his feelings, not so much that he was swimming, but that he was like duckweed rippling to the lake.

As he approached the lake, the dying-feared feeling faded from his mind. At midnight he finally crawled out of the water, and he almost crawled into the hole, lit a wood fire to keep warm, and boiled pot after pot of water, and when he drank a stomach full of water, his body warmed up, and then it was almost dawn, and the feeling of soreness in his whole body mixed with extreme exhaustion came at once, and he fell into a groggy sleep.

When he woke up, it was dusk again, he was awakened by urine, staggered up, saw that there was still a little gruel left in the stone pot, buried his head in the stone pot and licked it clean.

A ray of sunlight slanted into the narrow hole, making the cave dazzlingly bright, and he straightened his clothes and walked out of the cave, and the sound of the lake murmuring in the distance made him involuntarily walk towards the lake.

Looking at the surface of the lake in front of him, he shuddered at the thought of the dying panic of yesterday, and he didn't want to continue to enjoy the rippling waves, just as he closed his eyes and turned away, he saw a fist-sized brown and yellow thing rippling with the lake not far away.

He looked closer nervously, and sure enough, it was the turtledove that wanted to be rescued yesterday but died because of his last abandonment, which can be said to be a failure.

An hour later, there was a two-fist-high tomb on the edge of the lake.