On the Difficulties of Escape in Ancient Times

The Xiao family still doesn't know that everyone in the village is waiting to see the excitement in their home?

When Xiao Lian saw the bows and arrows, her eyes lit up, and she was dazzled by the choices she made: "Oh, these bows and arrows are better than the last time."

"I haven't been shooting for a few days, and I'm panicking."

Xiao Xiao heard this and said, "Then let's have a competition?"

Regardless of whether there will be danger in the future, it is always good to be proficient in archery, as it will give you a better chance of surviving.

Besides, for the time being, they still want to hunt and earn some money to support their families.

Without martial arts or brute strength, one can only rely on good archery skills to hunt.

Xiao Lian also put down the needle and thread in her hand, came over, picked up a bow and tipped it, and said with a smile: "Just in time, my grandfather made seven or eight grass targets for us earlier. Let's try not practicing bow and arrow for a few days." , has there been any regression?”

Xiao Dalang also came to join in the fun. After one round, Xiao Xiao ranked first, and Xiao Lian and Xiao Xiu were not bad either. However, Xiao Dalang missed the target and was laughed at and disliked by the three sisters.

Boss Xiao also quietly picked up a bow and arrow, but instead of practicing with his daughter and nephews, he secretly went out and walked around at the foot of the mountain.

It has to be said that his daughters are very talented in archery, which puts a little pressure on him.

He wants to save face and is afraid that he might not be as good as his daughter, which would be embarrassing.

When he went out, he subconsciously looked back at his new home.

With blue bricks and black tiles, there are more than a dozen rooms in a row, which look very grand.

The house in the front is a mud-walled house, separated from their house by a vegetable garden about three-thirds of the land. The house in the back also has seven or eight blue-brick and black-tiled houses. The left wing of their house is close to their main house.

It is said that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. From now on, he hopes that these neighbors will be easy to get along with.

He was very courageous, but he also cherished his life. He did not dare to go deep into the unfamiliar mountains and forests.

After entering the mountains, I could hear the cries of pheasants deep in the grass and trees, and saw traces of hares a few times.

There were only twenty arrows in total, and he was only allocated four arrows. After shooting them all, he still had to retrieve them.

This arrowhead is made of triangular-shaped iron. It looks very sharp and can definitely shoot through a rabbit.

Unfortunately, Boss Xiao's four arrows failed to hit the pheasant or hare under his nose.

He would never admit that it was because of his poor archery skills, but he thought it was because the wild animals were too fast and were too clever.

He was not discouraged. If the hunters were really that easy to hunt, there would be no hunters in the village.

Of course, during slack times, the village would also organize strong men to go hunting in the mountains.

But that is mainly about digging traps or making nooses. Most of them carry hoes into the mountains.

The main reason is that bows and arrows are too expensive.

Now ten taels of silver is enough for an ordinary family of seven or eight people to eat, drink and chew for a year.

But if you want to buy bows and arrows, you can only buy two bows and arrows.

Except for the Xiao family, or the small wealthy families with some foundation, ordinary people are reluctant to spend so much money on bows and arrows.

Moreover, talent is required for bow-drawing and archery. Just like Xiao Laoer, he can accurately bypass the target even if he cannot shoot it.

However, hares can give birth to seven or eight rabbits in a litter, and they can give birth to three or four times a year.

Pheasants are also very powerful. They lay an egg every day and can hatch a dozen at a time.

There are not many hunters, and the mountains are lush with vegetation, making it a happy home for animals.

Therefore, before Boss Xiao reached the halfway point of the mountain, he felt that his plan to become an Orion was very promising. When he went up the mountain, he found nothing. When he went down the mountain, he was lucky. He encountered a black snake entangled with a rabbit. He immediately shot two arrows at it, and he had two more prey.

Wealth that does not return to its hometown is like walking in brocade at night.

He felt like this at the moment.

So he specially found a stick, knocked the black snake's head flat, and then used vines to hang the prey on the stick. Then he carried the stick and went home in a big way.

As the sun set, the people who came to rest after sunrise also carried hoes and returned home from the fields.

Everyone is either saying that your late rice harvest will be good this year, or that my peanut harvest will be good.

Either ask when your corn will be harvested, or the sweet potatoes need to be dug.

Anyway, August and September are the harvest season. When the harvest is good, in addition to paying taxes, there will still be a lot of food left, which can be sold and enough to feed the family for several months.

Therefore, the sweaty faces of the farmers are less sad and more joyful.

Coincidentally, at this time, I saw Boss Xiao striding forward with a bow and a wooden stick on his back. The nearly two-meter long worm and a three or four kilogram hare made everyone couldn't help but take a second look.

The two items add up to at least seven or eight kilograms of meat.

It’s not the busy farming season, it’s not a festival, and there are no relatives coming to visit, so very few people will be willing to buy meat to eat.

The past few years have been smooth, there are no corrupt officials, and they have enough to eat, so they feel that their lives are promising.

What's more, I raise chickens and ducks at home, and occasionally I eat scrambled eggs, which is a good meat dish, or cut a few slices of bacon and roll a pot of tofu, which is also a good dish with meat.

But now seeing Boss Xiao carrying so much meat, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Boss Xiao not only wanted to show off his good archery skills, but also wanted to let everyone in the village know that he was not someone to be trifled with.

It was to scare them and stop them from thinking about bullying.

Therefore, he went out of his way to chat with a few people, and 'unintentionally' revealed that his daughter and nephews were both good at archery.

They also said that their family has been hunting for a living since then. If they want to eat hare, pheasant and pheasant, they can buy it from their family.

He also said it nicely: "Now we are all from the same village, and we all say that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. From now on, if you come to buy, it will be two cents a pound cheaper than the market price outside."

He had roughly inquired about the prices here before. Good pork belly costs twenty-five cents per catty, and lean meat costs twenty-two cents per catty.

Live chickens cost twenty-two cents a pound, and eggs cost two cents a pound.

Good rice costs ten cents per catty, and the second-order brown rice costs six or seven cents per catty. Generally speaking, prices are quite stable, not much higher than in their hometown.

In order to have good relations with the villagers, he didn't care about this little money.

Anyway, he felt that not many people would be willing to buy wild game to eat.

Moreover, they are also a business without capital, so it doesn’t matter if it’s cheaper.

After Boss Xiao left, several people gathered together and murmured: "The new Xiao family doesn't look easy to mess with. They can also hunt. There must be no shortage of meat to eat. No wonder they can grow so tall and strong?"

"Xu Laosan's family is not a good one. Ever since his nephew entered the Yamen, he has become more and more arrogant day by day."

"No, their old house was a bit far away from our village. Ever since his nephew became a businessman, new houses have been built in the village, and even Uncle Dacheng was scared away."

"The Xu family will be back tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. I wonder what the Xiao family will do?"

"The Xiao family doesn't know the details of Mr. Xu's family, so they will definitely suffer!"