Since Yuanba found a way to earn money to support his family, the birds and animals near Jingshi have been wiped out, and he has a harvest every day when he goes out to hunt, either a wild duck pheasant, or a wild boar and wild badger.

Sometimes he will sneak into the West Inner Garden, poaching the precious beasts of the West Inner Garden, in just two years, he hunted five leopards and more than a dozen clouded leopards in the West Inner Garden, as well as foxes, argali, antelopes and other animals are countless, because of his existence, the six golden leopards raised in the West Inner Garden are all extinct.

Time flashed two years later, Yuan Ba has grown into a ten-year-old man, during this period Zhang Xutuo came back once, pointed out his martial arts at the key point, and let him continue to learn by himself, Zhang Xutuo because of the pacification of the Yi rebellion meritorious and rewarded, awarded the same ceremony, but a year later, the Queensland Yi people rebelled again, Shu King Yang Xiu impeached Shi Wansui for accepting bribes, shielding the leader of the Yi people, Shi Wansui was cut to the people, and the army led by Wen Min, the general of the Left Guard, to quell the rebellion, Zhang Xutuo went out with the army again, temporarily stayed in southern Xinjiang.

And Yang Su has also been paying attention to the growth of his grandson Yuanba, but he did not interfere, and completely let Yuanqing grow according to his own trajectory, the only thing he did was to use the name of Zhang Xutuo to order Tzu Chi Tang, the largest pharmacy in the capital, to send medicine to Yuanba regularly to ensure that he needed to prepare pills.

There were a few flavors in the Yuanba Pill that were too expensive, and even if he fought more clouded leopards, he couldn't afford them.

Just after the New Year of the 19th year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, the Shangyuan Festival is the Shangyuan Festival after five days, because the war in Goryeo has ended in the autumn of last year, the prices of the capital have gradually fallen, and the rice has fallen from 60 to 20 yuan, so that everyone in the capital is happy, and the New Year of the 19th year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty is particularly grand and lively.

The emperor was also in high spirits, and ordered to watch the lanterns on the Yuan Festival for three days, and the people were happy, and the will was issued, and the price of ornaments in the capital skyrocketed, and the price of a pheasant feather rose from ten to fifty yuan, and Yuan Ba couldn't sit still.

At noon, in the valley west of Longshouyuan, Yuan Ba was looking for pheasants everywhere with bows and arrows in hand, he was still the same as two years ago, first practiced knives at the bottom of Qujiang Pond, and then ran long distances to hunt in the area of Longshouyuan, not that he didn't want to come to Bashui to practice knives, but he got up in the third watch, when the city gate was not opened, he couldn't go out of the city at all, so he could only practice in Qujiangchi.

Although it was the middle of January, this year's winter was not cold, except for a snowfall last December, and the snow had largely melted, and the forests on both sides of the valley were a mixture of deciduous and evergreen forests, giving a grayish, inky scene.

'Goo!'

He walked along the eastern edge of the valley, pouting his mouth to learn the call of the female pheasant, attracting the roosters who had just come into heat and did not know whether they were alive or dead.

At this time, Yuanba's height had reached five feet eight (about one meter seven), and the effect of building the foundation began to be reflected in him, although he had entered a period of stagnation two years ago, but two years of hard training did not make him stagnate like others, but continued to improve.

This made Zhang Xutuo very surprised, he didn't expect Yuanba's progress to be so fast, and the reason, it was estimated that it was because of Yuanba's hunting, but even he didn't believe in this reason, and in the end he could only conclude that Yuanba's physical endowment was abnormal.

It's just that his appearance is a little young, Yuanba's appearance is no different from that of an adult, and more importantly, his psychological age is already an adult in his twenties, and his speech and demeanor are very mature, many times, everyone will unconsciously regard him as a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man with a baby face.

Yuanba was still dressed in a thin cloth shirt half-worn in blue, which was his habit, and he did not wear silk clothes because his life was better.

He wore a flat scarf on his head, a pair of half-worn leather boots on his feet, a short knife on his waist, a pot of arrows on his back, and a black horn riding bow in his hand.

This valley is the valley where he first shot a pheasant, but further north, about twenty miles away from the West Inner Garden, the valley in this area is about two miles wide, stretching for more than ten miles, with dense vegetation and shrubs, plus full sunshine, and a large number of pheasant hares hidden in the grass shrubs, which is an excellent place for hunting.

Last year, he had hunted almost all the pheasants in the Qujiang area, and then gave them a year to recuperate, and this year it was his turn again.

He had barely screamed a few times when he saw a small black shadow skimming over the forest two hundred paces away, and he was overjoyed, and he rushed up the slope of the valley and ran into the depths of the forest, speeding like the wind, and screaming 'coo!' from his mouth, but the male pheasant had apparently realized that he had been deceived, and had just flapped its wings to fly deeper into the forest.

An arrow whistled, 'poof!', a few feathers withered in the air, the pheasant fell from the sky, Yuan Ba rushed forward, this is a very large pheasant, weighing three or four catties, the bright long tail feathers are dense, he counted, there are twenty long feathers, this is ten hanging money.

He smiled triumphantly, and looked up again, and now the weather was fine enough to keep his eyes far away, and he saw a dark shadow flying over the west side of the valley, and landing on a tall pine tree on the other side of the valley.

Yuan Ba was once again galloping westward, and when he was still about twenty paces from the valley, he suddenly stopped, and at the same time he heard two sounds, one of the bushes 'whoop!', and the other of horses' hooves running.

Someone actually came, Yuan Ba was very surprised, there was no road here at all, he had been hunting for nearly two years in a radius of dozens of miles in this area, and it was the first time he had met someone.

His first reaction was the Wuwei soldiers, because this place leads directly to the West Inner Garden, and the West Inner Garden is the left and right military guard station, so it can only be the Wuwei soldiers who come over, and there is only one person.

But Yuan Ba paid more attention to the sound made in the bushes, he lay on a rock, his eyes were fixed on the bushes on the side of the valley, with his experience, it should be the sound of a wild boar or badger, or even a bear, bears are generally in Zhongnan Mountain, but in autumn they will also enter the Guanzhong Plain to forage and hibernate, this valley is sunny, very warm, although the hibernation period should not be over, but this year is a warm winter, it is possible that some hibernation animals come out in advance.

He stared at it for a long time, but did not find any movement, and at this time, the man on horseback had already rushed over, only to see that this person was about fifty years old, wearing a white robe inside, a purple shirt outside, a jade belt around his waist, a black cage square gauze hat on his head, ** black leather boots on his feet, a long beard under his chin, a straight nose and a wide mouth, and two eyebrows were especially long, like two curtains on his eyes.

It looks like an official, he is dressed like this, Yuan Ba has seen it on his grandfather Yang Su, it is the official's regular clothes, he was angry at this time, and he kept listening to him scolding angrily: "Jealous women..... killing is not allowed, everyone will die together!"

From time to time he sighed, he suddenly stopped his horse and looked up to the sky and sighed: "O heaven, have mercy on my pity!"

At this moment, the bushes more than twenty paces ahead of him moved, and Yuan Ba was about twenty paces away from the man, and he also saw a swarthy object emerging from the bushes, with sharp hairs standing up.....

It's a wild boar!

Yuan Ba reacted suddenly, he immediately opened his bow and arrows, and at this time, the middle-aged man's horse also sensed the danger, its hooves were erected, and it let out a long neigh, the man was taken aback, he reacted very quickly, took off the bow and arrow, and aimed it at the bushes is an arrow.

Yuanba knows that something bad is wrong, wild boars generally do not attack people, but if people attack it first, it will go crazy and retaliate.

Hearing a terrible howl, an adult male boar like a calf rushed madly towards the horse, revealing its long fangs, and it had just run less than ten paces when Yuan Ba shot an arrow into the back of the boar, and with a muffled sound, the strong force failed to penetrate the boar's skin, and the arrow was bounced out.

Immediately the man was astonished, he drew his bow and released the arrow, but the force was too strong, the bowstring was broken, the wild boar hit the horse's front legs, and the long fangs actually broke the horse's legs alive, the horse neighed miserably, and fell hard, and immediately the man also fell more than two feet away, and fell on the slope of the valley.

The wild boar screamed again and pounced on the middle-aged man, who was so frightened that he closed his eyes and secretly shouted, "My life is over!"

"Brute! Hugh hurts. ”

A blue figure jumped down from the valley and was riding on the boar, slashing at the boar's beak with both hands, only to hear the boar's earth-shattering howl, its nose split in half, and its fangs were also severed.

The middle-aged man saw clearly that it was a young man in blue, and shouted in shock, "Be careful!"

The boy is naturally Yuanba, he saw that the situation was critical, jumped down from the slope of the valley, saved the life of the middle-aged man, the wild boar has gone crazy, it twisted desperately, trying to throw Yuanba down, Yuanba practiced riding and archery in Zuo Wuwei for two years, equestrianism has already been very skilled, more importantly, he practiced knife at the bottom of the lake for five years, his two legs have to clamp a big stone at the bottom of the lake, so that his crotch training is extremely strong, at this moment he is like clamping the big stone at the bottom of the lake, and firmly fixed his body on the back of the wild boar.

The wild boar can't get rid of him, but it's not easy for him to kill the wild boar, Yuan Ba has shot a lot of wild boars, he usually shoots an arrow head-on from the mouth of the wild boar, but today he didn't have a chance to fight the wild boar head-on, but he knew that there was still a chance.

At this time, the wild boar was cut by a knife and the pain was unbearable, it opened its mouth and screamed again, this moment of opportunity was seized by Yuan Ba, he held the handle of the knife with both hands and poked it inward, the knife pierced into the mouth of the wild boar, the tip of the knife went straight through the back of the head, and the wild boar let out a last earth-shattering scream, and fell to the ground with a bang.