Chapter 8 The pheasant is easy to hunt, but the fox is difficult to chase
Fang Zheng got up earlier than yesterday, and at this time he had finished his morning exercise and was making final preparations for going up the mountain. Although he slept late last night, he was still in good spirits today. Now that my mind and body are getting better every day, and it seems that I am improving every minute, I am fascinated by the feeling that I am fascinated. Fang Zheng has clearly felt that his sense of smell, hearing, and vision have been greatly improved, and his strength is like a sprout in the spring. Everything is developing in a good direction, which makes him full of confidence in today's trip.
Fang Zheng was doing the final inspection, a pot of feather arrows and a longbow were carried on his back, and he carried a cloth bag around his waist, which was the dry food that Aunt Zhao had sent over before, and there was a small kettle with him. Then there was a rope the thickness of his thumb that he wrapped around his waist. That's all he does. The dry food and kettle were prepared for Fang Zheng when Aunt Zhao got up in the middle of the night, which made Fang Zheng feel the warmth that he had never felt before, maybe this is family affection, and the legendary maternal love is as touching as it is!
After packing up his sso, Fang Zheng turned around and went out. I saw that at this time, he had changed from the appearance of a scholar in the past, his hair was tied into a bun, and the azure robe made Fangzheng's already tall figure even more upright because of the rope at his waist. The eyes are bright and bright, the two neat eyebrows lined with are like swords, and the angular facial features have a unique charm that is different from the aborigines of this world. The unfinished scholarly vitality is mixed with a bit of a cultivator's unique sense of dust, blending a different kind of temperament, and there is a different kind of edge in the elegance!
Fang Zheng himself felt a little awkward, he was quite satisfied with this outfit, but he was a little unaccustomed to it, looking at his empty hands, he felt that something was missing, and he was thinking about whether to get a sword and put on a façade. Thinking of this, he smiled dumbly. I've never seen a hunter go hunting with a sword.
Today's weather is good, although the sky is still dark at this time, the sky is full of stars, it is a good day to go out. Just as Fang Zheng was about to go over to say hello to Aunt Zhao and go out, he saw the door of the east house "squeak" open. The little girl poked her head out of the crack in the door and looked at Fang Zheng, and saw Fang Zheng standing in the courtyard, ignoring the cold air of this late autumn morning. rushed directly to Fang Zheng's arms and handed over "brother", Fang Zheng hurriedly hugged the little girl, afraid that she would catch a cold, and turned around and walked towards the kitchen, "Why did Yaya get up so early?" Fang Zheng asked. "My brother asked to hunt, Yaya got up and gave it to my brother, and Yaya still had a gift for my brother. As he spoke, he handed over a small bronze square pendant, and Fang Zheng took it curiously with one hand. "This is Yaya's peace charm, grandma said that Yaya was given by grandpa when she was just born, Yaya has always carried it, and now it is given to my brother, it will definitely bless you." Fang Zheng kissed the little girl on the forehead, smiled and was about to refuse, but saw the little girl's big eyes full of expectation. At this time, the two had already arrived in the kitchen, and Aunt Zhao was cleaning up the things on the stove. Seeing this scene, he smiled slightly, "Xiaofang, you can wear it, this is also Yaya's heart." ”
"Is it okay for the girl to help my brother put it on. ”
"Hmm!" the little girl happily took it and hung it around her neck.
Fang Zheng put the little girl down, "Brother is about to set off, Yaya should listen to grandma's words at home, eat obediently, and remember to drink medicine!"
"Well, Yaya will listen to grandma, brother should be careful when he enters the mountains. The little girl responded obediently, and her eyes were full of reluctance.
"Okay, my brother also wrote down Yaya's words, I will be careful, you go back to sleep, the child needs to sleep more to grow up and grow taller quickly." As he spoke, he touched the little girl's head again, turned around and strode away.
At this time, Fang Zheng's appearance was a little embarrassed, the placket of the long shirt on his body had disappeared in half, and his face was covered with stains, looking like a refugee. There are two small prey hanging from their waists, but if you look closely, they are always gray-haired pheasants and a hare. At this moment, he was chasing a white shadow in front of him who could not see the exact appearance of the white shadow in the forest. In late autumn, the mountains and forests are no longer green, and the plants have almost lost their vitality, but because of the inaccessibility, the forests are full of dead grass and vines, and there is no place to stay. Fang Zheng could only step on these plants and trees and run.
It was past noon, and the originally sunny weather was now a little gloomy, and the listless sun hid behind the clouds and released a bit of weak heat and light. Fang Zheng was really a little depressed at the moment, after going out in the morning, he came all the way to the wild dog slope, and met a few hares and a flock of pheasants on the way, with his half-baked archery skills, it was a small gain, and the results were naturally the two hanging on his waist. But the journey after that was quite unsmooth, first met a bear more than one person tall blind man scared him so much that he could only flee in the wilderness, jumping up and down along the way, and finally got rid of it, and then even the dry food on his waist did not know where to throw it. Just when he found an open place to drink a few sips of water and rest, he met the fox in front of him again, the white fox to be precise. Even a layman like Fang Zheng knows the value of this thing, Zhang Qi was lucky enough to hunt one when he was in Qingniu, and it is said that the skin was sold for ten taels of gold in the county seat. Fang Zheng was also shocked after hearing it, he also probably knew the value of gold and silver in this world, and ten taels of gold was a real huge amount of money. Compared with the currency of the earth, the purchasing power of ten taels of gold is almost equivalent to the value of about 200,000 yuan on the earth. At that time, Fang Zheng still felt a little emotional, although the world is different, there will be no shortage of rich people anywhere. From time to time, there are people on the earth who sweat blood and sweat for a full meal, and there are also people who are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in a piece of clothing. The same is true here.
Looking at the ten taels of gold in front of him, Fang Zheng naturally shot with an arrow, but he didn't want this little thing to be so fast, and the flexibility of his movements was incredible, and even Fang Zheng felt that "it" seemed to be playing with himself, but Fang Zheng didn't even hurt a single hair after shooting a pot of arrows, and this little thing didn't escape, just stood quietly and looked at him, with a mocking look in his eyes. Fang Zheng was extremely angry for a while, although his archery skills were very poor, but he would not let a little fox laugh at him. The clay man also has three points of fire, so Fang Zheng is chasing after him, this chase has been chased to the present, at this moment Fang Zheng has long been difficult to distinguish things in the forest, and there is almost no difference between the withered yellow everywhere, except for the bald leaves of the trees are weeds and withered vines. What's even more excessive is that this little thing runs and stops, and seems to be deliberately stopping and waiting for him when he is about to lose his goal in pursuit. It's been chasing for a few hours now, and Rao is now a little unsupportable of the long-lasting Fangzheng. Sweat was already soaking the back of the shirt. The shoes on his feet even showed his toes. At this moment, Fang Zheng was ready to give up, it was still not early, and he couldn't even figure out the direction now, so it was obviously not a wise choice to chase after him. He didn't want to spend the night in this forest, which would make Aunt Zhao and Yaya worried.
At this moment, the little fox in front of him disappeared in a flash, and Fang Zheng wondered. In front of it was obviously a mountain cliff, only a few zhang wide on the left and right, but it was extremely high, at least from here it could not be seen from the top, and Fang Zheng was very sure that the little fox did not turn to the left and right, but disappeared directly in front of the cliff.
Fang Zheng took a few steps forward to take a closer look, it turned out that there was a gap about three feet wide in front of the cliff, but the outer edge of the rock on the left was in a strange situation, extending from the entrance of the crack just to block the crack behind, and from the previous angle, the cliff seemed to be a whole.
Seeing that the spirit of the square here has come again, you might as well go in and have a look if you have arrived here. Mystery always evokes curiosity. The other party is saying that this place is a bit mysterious. Walking all the way along the gap, Fang Zheng held a feather arrow in his hand and guarded carefully. Some of the gaps are very narrow, Fang Zheng can only send it sideways, after walking about ten zhang Fang Zheng finally out of the gap, what he sees in front of him is a small valley, some peculiar is that the valley is very green, some unknown plants even bloom bright small flowers. There are three thatched huts in the valley about 100 zhang away. The white fox is long gone. Fang Zheng didn't care about it at this time. The appearance of such a view here made him slightly excited. The peach blossom source written in the book of the ancients is everyone's yearning, although there are no traces of people here, but the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and the three thatched houses all indicate that this place is extraordinary.
Fang Zheng didn't care about anything else, and walked directly to the thatched hut and called out loudly, "Is anyone here?" But he didn't hear any echo, Fang Zheng looked carefully at the thatched house in front of him, the front of the house was overgrown with weeds, and even the roof of the middle house had a big hole broken, which had been abandoned for a long time. There was a slight disappointment in my heart. "It's just a deserted place" Fang Zheng made such a judgment, so he stepped forward directly, walked to the front of the house on the left, stretched out his hand to push the door, the wooden door had long been seriously decayed, and it fell directly into the house under Fang Zheng's push, bringing up a few traces of dust. Fang Zheng stepped in, in front of him should be the owner's living place, the house is simply furnished, a three-foot bed with complete bedding, but it has decayed. In addition, there is a square table in the middle of the room, on which is placed a set of coarse porcelain tea sets. On the left wall near the doorway is a low table with a clay basin on it, apparently used to wash hands and faces. Seeing that there was nothing strange in this, Fang Zheng turned around and walked out of the house without touching anything, after all, this is someone else's place, even if no one is there, they shouldn't mess with other people's things.
The room with a hole in the middle roof is a kitchen, and objects such as stoves and utensils are very obvious.
The remaining leftmost room has already had the excitement it had before, according to the previous two rooms, this is just a very ordinary place, I don't know how long ago someone lived here, that's all. Pushing open the door of the last room, Fang Zheng found something different after entering, this room was not as normal as the previous two, the wall facing the door was not made of grass and trees, but a mountain wall. When he was outside, Fang Zheng noticed that the three houses were built close to the mountain wall, the front two rooms were all four-walled, but this one only had three sides. And what is even more peculiar is that there is a hole in the mountain wall of this room that is more than one person high, and it is pitch black inside.
Fang Zheng came to the entrance of the cave and took out the fire fold on his body, which he had bought in the county seat of Binxian County to prepare for Qingyun's trip. After blowing it, take it in the left and right middle, hold it in front of your chest, and lean inside. In his right hand, he still held the feathered arrow.