The sun set, and there was a golden afterglow outside the city.

On the hillside, there is a simple thatched hut, which looks particularly lonely from a distance.

There, is Li Yuefan's home.

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After arriving home, Yue Fan put down the goods he brought back from the city one by one, and his heart was full of joy. looked up at the sky outside the window, and couldn't help muttering: "Dad should go up the mountain to collect medicine, it seems that he will come back in a while, I will go and prepare first." So saying, he went to the back room.

The inner room looks very simple, and can even be described as simple, except for a large kang bed and two broken quilts, there are only some tools for hunting.

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Sitting on the kang bed, Yue Fan sharpened the arrows seriously.

Suddenly hearing a familiar sound of footsteps outside the house, Yue Fan put down the tools in his hand and got up to welcome him out.

"Daddy—"

"Oh, Xiaofan is back, it's early today. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a middle-aged man with a thin body and a bearded face appeared outside the door. After he put down the medicine basket on his body, he limped in front of Yue Fan step by step, patted the other party's shoulder and said, "You still have to hunt tonight, let me go get something to eat, you go ahead and prepare......"

This person is Li Tan, Yue Fan's father, wearing shabby clothes, a pair of calloused hands, a slightly sickly dark face, and cloudy but sharp eyes. Once, he was the best hunter in this area, but now he is not only unable to hunt, but even has to bear the entanglement of residual poison, and can only rely on dragon snake herbs to suppress the poison every day.

"Well, it's almost ready. ”

Yue Fan paused, then walked to the table and said, "Dad, these are all things I got in exchange for selling firewood in the city, enough for us to use for a while." Moreover, the owner of the teahouse asked me to send him firewood every three days, and I think our future life will be stable for the time being. As he spoke, he handed his father a bag of rice grain on the table.

Li Tan took the rice grain and said with a pleased smile: "Child, I have suffered you all these years, but you have never disappointed me, I think your mother will be proud of you in the spirit of heaven." As he spoke, he looked at the sunset outside the window, and was silent for a while, and there was an indescribable cold silence in the room.

Seeing this, Yue Fan smiled and said, "Mother knows, I will continue to work hard." ”

Li Tan came back to his senses and laughed at himself: "Hehe, I didn't expect to be so sad at my age, it's really ...... Come on, I'll go get some food first. After finishing speaking, he patted Yue Fan on the shoulder and walked outside the house.

Looking at his father's back, Yue Fan felt very uncomfortable in his heart. In fact, he understands his father's feelings, but the living still have to go on, and they can't stay in the past.

After standing for a while, Yue Fan turned into the inner room and continued to prepare tools.

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―――――――――――― filled my stomach, it was already evening. The scorching sky has gone out, and the moon has shown its face.

Yue Fan took the bow and arrows and ropes that had been prepared long ago, and ran towards the red leaf forest in the west, and disappeared after a while, his speed was so fast that it was like a vigorous cheetah shuttling through the forest.

There are many poisonous snakes and beasts growing in the red leaf forest, so people in the vicinity generally do not dare to enter and exit casually, and only a small number of hunters will move around the periphery.

Due to the dry weather, it is also very hot and humid in the autumn leaves. When he came to the forest, Yue Fan began to use various means and tools to skillfully arrange traps.

In less than a quarter of an hour's work, more than 20 different kinds of traps, such as "pits", "pedals", "lassoes", "hidden stabs" and many "chain sets", were set up in this forest, which was really murderous. These are all things that Yue Fan has been preparing for several days, and what he wants to hunt today is the iron-backed black bear, which is known as the most ferocious beast in this forest.

The iron-backed black bear is very tall, not only powerful and lethal, but also very fast, making it one of the most ferocious bears in the species. Li Tan once hunted such a black bear, the situation at that time was very dangerous, almost became the mouth of the black bear's food, although the final victory, but also paid a great price, the whole body was seriously injured, but fortunately the careful care of his wife, lying in bed for more than half a month to recover.

Hunting an ironback bear is a sign of being a good hunter. Yue Fan set the goal of hunting when he was eleven years early, but Li Tan did not agree at that time, feeling that he was not mature enough and lacked in all aspects. After some discussion, Li Tan finally decided to let Yue Fan pass his test before he could go hunting black bears.

Perhaps, Yue Fan is a natural hunter, and now Yue Fan's hunting skills have surpassed Li Tan in his prime, especially in his comprehension and application of traps, which is already perfect, so his father agreed to this operation. Although Li Tan had experience in hunting black bears, he was not prepared to tell Yue Fan because he thought it was also a kind of exercise.

Although it was the first time to challenge such a strong beast, this time Yue Fan was very well prepared, so he didn't have a trace of nervousness, just the excitement of challenging the difficulty.

After everything was ready, Yue Fan first sprinkled the red fox's flesh around the trap, because the red fox's flesh was very attractive to the black bear.

After crouching on the trunk of a tree far away from the trap and covering his body with leaves, his eyes began to look at the situation below......

Sure enough, after a while, after the black bear smelled the scent of the red fox's flesh and blood, he walked over looking left and right. After looking at the surrounding environment, he found that there was no danger, and then sniffed with his nose, and there was no smell of people nearby, so he walked to the food with confidence and began to eat full......

Yue Fan saw that the black bear had relaxed his vigilance, so he stared at his gaze and concentrated his attention and prepared to act. Suddenly, the muscles of the whole body tightened, raised the big bow in his hand, skillfully put on the two wooden arrows and pulled them into a full circle, and suddenly let go without aiming.

I saw that under the moonlight, two black shadows flew out rapidly and shot towards the black bear who was eating.

The black bear was enjoying his meal when he suddenly became alert and instinctively wanted to step back, but before he could move his steps, two wooden arrows had already penetrated deep into his eyes. The speed, the strength, the skill, the accuracy of the calculation, everything is in an instant, even if the martial arts master is here, he will be amazed by the arrow just now.

"Roar—roar—"

A few beast roars startled a forest finch, making the deep forest even more terrifying.

The intense pain caused the black bear to destroy it at all costs, and the huge bear paw smashed off one tree after another. In this way, it attracted several chain traps arranged by Yue Fan, making it even more painful to be injured on its own.

In order to keep the fur intact as much as possible, Yue Fan did not use sharp weapons to set up traps, so he kept tossing for nearly two hours before the black bear lay down exhausted.

Looking at the wolf branches and leaves on the ground and the traps that had been destroyed, Yue Fan had to sigh secretly, this black bear was really powerful and tenacious.

Although there was some sigh in his heart, Yue Fan still slid down from the tree neatly, and cautiously dived towards the tired black bear with his hunting tools......

Just as Yue Fan was about to approach the black bear, the black bear suddenly stood up and pounced on Yue Fan with all his might. Its body was definitely not of an order of magnitude compared to Yue Fan's stature, and its huge body was simply twice the height of Yue Fan, completely enveloping him in shadows.

This is the black bear's counterattack before he died, and Li Tan was seriously injured precisely because of this.

This sudden change shocked Yue Fan's heart, but he was not in a hurry, as a successful hunter, a calm reaction is the key to surviving in danger.

Yue Fan made a decision in an instant, instead of retreating, he rushed forward, took a wrong step, slid to the right side of the bear's paw, and narrowly avoided the black bear's attack.

But it's not over yet, at the moment when Yue Fan dodged the black bear's attack, he hit the ground with his right foot, turned his body around, and returned to the black bear, at this time, the black bear's strength was exhausted, and he couldn't step forward to attack, and Yue Fan concentrated the strength of his whole body to his right fist, and with the speed of rotation, he hit the black bear's throat accurately and powerfully.

"Click!" a crisp crack, especially loud in the silent night.

In the moonlight, the figures of a tall and a short figure overlapped, and then slowly separated. I saw that the tall figure was pressed heavily on the ground.

"Bump!", a pile of dust was splashed, and the black bear never moved again. Then the silence of the forest returned.

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―――――――――――― dragged the heavy prey back home, although Yue Fan was not injured, but his body and mind were extremely tired, so he didn't say anything, just took a long breath, threw the black bear's corpse to his father to take care of, and walked to the house himself.

Seeing this, Li Tan couldn't help but secretly praise in his heart: "This kid is not injured, he is really promising!"

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After returning to the room, Yue Fan did not lie down immediately, although he was exhausted now, he still insisted on sitting cross-legged on the kang bed, closing his eyes quietly, feeling everything around him.

I silently recited the "Heart Sutra" in my heart, and there was a great frequency between one breath and one breath......

This set of pranayama was comprehended five years ago from Mr. Wan's "Medical Sutra", called "Heart Sutra".

In the "Book of Medicine", many health preservation methods are recorded, and long-term practice can make people healthy to avoid illness and pain, and quickly restore physical strength. According to his own situation, under the guidance of Mr. Wan, Yue Fan combined these health preservation methods and summarized them into a set of systematic exercise methods.

This "Heart Sutra" is not long, there are only three paragraphs in total, but it contains the understanding and interpretation of life by the older generation. Not only can it make the body healthy and calm, but Yue Fan has felt that his strength has become greater and greater in the past few years, and even his reaction has become more and more keen, so until now, insisting on constantly reciting and practicing the "Heart Sutra" has become his habit, and it can also be said to be a part of life.

Time passes slowly......

I don't know how long it took to vomit, Yue Fan slowly opened his eyes and felt the state of his whole body, from the top of his head to the soles of his feet, every part of his body was full of motivation and comfortable.

After getting up, he walked to the window and looked up at the sky, which was already twilight. Feeling the beginning of a new day, his heart was full of hope, and everything seemed to be full of life in his eyes.

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