burning nations

Chapter 19 Tiger Hunting
In the winter of the 38th year of Zhangwu, Qingcheng Mountain in Qizhou.

Gently pushing open the weak door, there is a musty smell coming over the face. Looking around the room, although the furniture and furnishings are unchanged, they are all covered with dust.Returning to the hut on Qingcheng Mountain again, Zhang Cai felt a kind of warmth and relaxation that he had not seen for a long time. He did not forget to clean the doors and windows and clean the dust on the floor.The room is small, and the windows are bright and clean after a while, and the body and mind seem to return to that lazy state
"Hey, what about the tiger you're talking about, don't you just trick me into cleaning the house with you?"

Zhang Cai was absorbing the essence in the room, but he didn't want to hear the voice of resentment behind him. Zhang Cai let out an oops and held his forehead, then turned around with a sorry expression on his face.

"I'm sorry, sorry, I haven't been back here for a while, and I couldn't resist forgetting my brother for a while, so I will take my brother into the forest."

As he spoke, Zhang Cai picked up the horn bow and a pot of iron arrowheads on the table and went out, followed by Qi Tong with a resentful expression behind him.

"Hey, that's where you lived before you met grandpa?"

"What? Do you want to live a hard life?" Zhang Cai asked back.

Qi Tong shook his head quickly: "No, I'm just curious."

"What are you curious about? Curious about how I grew up so big?"

Qi Tong nodded honestly: "Just that kennel, if I lived there, I would have died a long time ago. It's a miracle that you can live to this day!"

"Hmph, so this is the reason why your anointed children are arrogant, and it is also the reason why the imperial soldiers' combat power is corrupted. I have heard the old man lament many times that one enjoys life more than the other, and the battlefield is softer than the other. In my opinion, starving you for two days and one night, you can't even wield a knife!"

Qi Tong was not angry. In fact, all members of the Qi family opposed the corrupt and degenerate lifestyle of the aristocrats. Even the Donglin Party members were against it, and the emperor was against it. In theory, it was a united front.

But Qi Tong was surprised by Zhang Cai's insight: "Your insight is so similar to someone of the same age, I'm really surprised."

"Oh? There are heroes in the world who see the same thing? Who is it?"

"My surname is Tan and my name is Yang. Aren't you going to the Imperial Capital? You will get to know each other sooner or later."

"By the way, what did you eat to grow up, to be so strong?" Qi Tong said with lingering fear.

Since he failed in the martial arts competition, Qi Tong did not believe in evil and fought every day, so he gave in to Qi Tong because he discovered a fact-not only Zhang Cai's sword skills, boxing skills, spear skills, and arrow skills are all excellent, but her strength is also good. Big, this young man is no match for him.

This made Qi Tong very suspicious of life. After all, Zhang Cai is too thin. Although there is a bit of flesh on his arms, he can still hold the bones with a pinch. You must know that Zhang Cai was skinny and bony before, so he followed Qi Qi's dietary needs. , but it is still a proper system for weak women.

Being defeated one after another by a weak woman, Qi Tong is not as thick-skinned as Zhang Yun.

Zhang Cai didn't take Qi Tong's question to heart, and replied truthfully, "I'm a hunter, so of course I grew up eating meat."

"Eat meat every day?" Qi Tong was surprised. If he eats meat every day, then this life can compete with the life of the direct descendants of his superiors.

Zhang Cai rolled his eyes at him: "Nonsense, either I can catch the prey and eat it to satisfy my hunger, or I can't catch the prey and I will be hungry. Otherwise, what else can I eat? What do you mean by relying on the mountain to eat the mountain? Although I can occasionally pick some mushrooms and wild vegetables , asparagus and berries, but my main food is meat."

Qi Tong sighed: "Sister, your life is quite good, you must know that not everyone in the capital city can eat meat every once in a while."

Zhang Cai turned his head in surprise: "People in Dijing don't eat meat all the time, do they eat chaff all the time?"

A black line suddenly flashed above Qi Tong's head.

"Rye bread, barley cake, butter bread. Have you ever eaten these? Have you ever heard of them? These are the daily rations of the people in the imperial capital."

"Oh~ So it's similar to the people in Qizhou. It seems that I'm being self-indulgent. But I have eaten rye bread, the taste is not good, and there are stones, which hurt my teeth. After eating it once, I will never eat it again."

Zhang Cai said that I want to eat rye bread as my staple food every day. My white and good teeth have long since rotted, which greatly lowered my appearance.

Qi Tong said that is indeed the case, just looking at your teeth, you are indeed a pampered young lady
Even after almost a year, Zhang Cai is still familiar with hunting in the mountains.This time I took Qi Tong back to Mount Qingcheng because Qi Tong wanted to give Qi Qi a tiger skin as a token of filial piety.He wanted to show his filial piety, but he couldn't buy it in the market. He heard that Zhang Cai was a hunter before becoming Qi Qi's daughter, so he begged Zhang Cai, a hunter, to come.

Sending Qi Qi a tiger skin, recalling the old man Qi's care, Zhang Cai couldn't refuse this kind of reason, so he came here.

Entering the dense forest, Zhang Cai followed Aji's teaching and first hunted a live animal, then let the blood out and discarded it on the snow, and used it as bait to catch tigers.She was not afraid of danger, but she was afraid of hurting Qi Tong and would not be able to explain, so she took Qi Tong to smear him with urine and cement and hid in a tree to observe.

Qi Tong was quite critical of this.

"Why did you smear my face with a thick layer of mud? It still smells bad! I can hardly breathe!"

"My young master, shut up for a while, I will tell you that the tiger climbed the tree, do you want to provoke the tiger to eat us?" Zhang Cai said weakly, "It's as if we are setting up an ambush and killing a tiger , the mud on your face is the best camouflage in the woods, anger will make the tiger lose its sense of smell, as long as you don’t act like a tiger, you will not be found, we can launch a sudden attack. It’s like being caught without your awareness A needle sticks in the ass."

"Okay, okay, I'm afraid I'll cover my crotch if you continue talking. Where did you get these words?"

"Scared? No one really stabbed you."

"If you go on, I don't mind stabbing you first!"

"First, you can't beat me. Second, if you can beat me, you won't be able to pass the old man. Third, we are a family now, don't you want your reputation?"

Qi Tongtong choked for a while: "You are really eloquent!"

"Thank you for the compliment."

"I didn't praise you!" Qi Tong said angrily, "Why haven't you come after waiting for so long? Will the tiger come? It's freezing here!"

Zhang Cai gave him a blank look: "You are dressed thicker than me, and still afraid of the cold? Do you want me to take off one for you, young master?"

"Don't talk useless, tell me the answer."

"It will definitely come, be patient, especially when waiting for the prey to come to your door." Zhang Caiyan said, "Both humans and animals have to eat. Tigers can't catch prey in this snowy day, so I drained all the blood and smelled it. The smell of blood will come. Don't worry, the tiger's nose is very "

Before Zhang Cai finished speaking, he suddenly covered Qi Tong's mouth, signaled him not to speak with his eyes, then opened the bow and set the arrow, gently and slowly pulled the bowstring away, aiming forward.

Qi Tong looked for the tip of the arrow, and saw a big tiger with a white forehead and dangling eyes in the distance, walking towards him gradually.Even though he knew that the tiger hadn't found him, Qi Tong's legs were still trembling. He found that the tiger was not as fragile as he imagined, but on the contrary it was a terrifying beast.

Just as the tiger approached, another tiger appeared in the distance, and Qi Tong's heart suddenly rose to his throat. How can the two of them deal with the two fierce beasts?That's a tiger, one head can catch up with four or five people's combat strength, and at this moment, I can't help but regret not bringing guards.

She moved her eyes to ask Zhang Cai for help, but unexpectedly Zhang Cai was still aiming with her bow up, her delicate face revealed calmness and calmness, and the corners of her mouth were curled into a smile.

Isn't it just two tigers!
Zhang Cai ignored Qi Tong's expression and movements, and focused all his attention on the two tigers. The moment the first tiger grabbed the bait, Zhang Cai let go of the string suddenly, and the horned bow, which was many times more powerful than the hunting bow, suddenly sent out the iron arrow. Plunge into the tiger's eye.The tiger let out a miserable roar, loosened the bait from its mouth, and swayed to the ground on the snow. The tiger's blood flowed from its eye sockets to the ground, adding a dazzling color to the snow-capped ground.

When another tiger saw it, it immediately roared and rushed towards the tree. Qi Tong was already frightened, but Zhang Cai wisely chose to go down by myself.So holding an iron arrow in each of his left and right hands, he jumped down from the tree, right in front of the tiger's eyes.The tiger rushed forward quickly, Zhang Cai calmly slid a sliding shovel across the tiger's belly, the carp straightened up and flew onto the tiger's back, raised two iron arrows and stabbed viciously into the tiger's eyes.

The tiger suddenly felt the darkness in front of him, screaming and struggling desperately.Zhang Cai waved her pink fist, sitting on the tiger's back, and punched the tiger's head one after another. Seeing her pink fists rain down, the tiger fell to the ground and gradually became silent.

Zhang Cai jumped off the tiger's back, glanced at Qi Tong, showed a cheerful smile, and kicked the tiger's body several times to signal that it was safe.

Qi Tong jumped down in shock, looked at the two tigers, and then at Zhang Cai, the image of this woman in his heart immediately grew taller.

"Zhang Cai, you really look like the goddess Qiao Su (Valkyrie) reincarnated."

After dragging the tiger back to the hut, Zhang Cai immediately started to plan it.On the same day, the two harvested two intact tiger skins and a lot of delicious tiger meat.

(End of this chapter)