Martial Arts: Start by Obtaining the Wild World

Chapter 129 0128: The Old Man’s Thoughts
That night, the group of five were preparing things for tomorrow.

Regardless of whether he would encounter the creature that looked like a lynx, he had to prepare the necessary backup plans.

He also brought the return to city talisman, which he had never used before.

Once you encounter danger, tear open the return to city talisman and you can return to the market hut by just staying in one place for three seconds.

This is life-saving stuff!
Silent all night.

The next morning, after Ma San and his companions had dealt with the vegetable plots, fields, pig pens, chicken coops and other matters, they were ready to go, waiting for Cheng Zongyang to set off together.

Cheng Zongyang put on his armor and protective suit and took everything he needed.

In the past half month, a refined long sword appeared in the inventory. This was given to Xu Yang.

Xu Yang has a talent for mastering swordsmanship, while Ma San has a talent for strength, so both of them have swords.

As for Li Xingyun and Luo Zheng, they used an ordinary bow and arrow and an ironwood bow and arrow.

Cheng Zongyang himself uses a Tang sword.

However, what surprised Cheng Zongyang was that not only did Ma San bring a trap, but Luo Zheng also brought two slender black snakes with triangular heads, which looked very poisonous.

Seeing Cheng Zongyang's suspicious look, Luo Zheng immediately said, "Sir, I call these two snakes Black Iron Head. I found them by accident in the mountains. When I was hunting a pack of gray wolves, a gray wolf was bitten by it and died in twenty breaths."

"So poisonous?!" Cheng Zongyang was quite surprised.

Luo Zheng smiled and said, "So I keep them so I can use them whenever I need them."

Cheng Zongyang nodded. Although the exotic beasts were very valuable, once they were really needed, they would not care about their price. But he still reminded:

"If you want to use it, just tell me."

Exotic beast meat is effective for martial artists' training, so it cannot be wasted. Unless it is an emergency, try not to use it.

Of course, the situation has not been investigated yet, so it is not clear whether the action will actually be taken.

Heading northward, Cheng Zongyang looked at the surrounding situation and could only sigh that he did not have enough points.

Otherwise, if more people are deployed to clean up this five square kilometer area, the resources collected will definitely not be underestimated.

Whether it is medicinal herbs or minerals, they are all worth developing.

He didn't complete any of the long-term tasks on his task bar, so it was a waste to just leave them there.

"Perhaps these things should be put on the agenda." Cheng Zongyang walked in the middle, thinking to himself.

Luo Zheng was in the front, following some footprints and moving upwards. Ma San and the other three people dispersed in the other three directions, protecting Cheng Zongyang in the middle.

However, when Cheng Zongyang looked at this route, his brows raised slightly - this was the direction he took when he went up the mountain to find the black-horned python.

They did not bother Luo Zheng's pursuit. But the higher they went, the more they found traces of dragging and even fighting in some places, and the traces seemed quite recent.

The group of five became increasingly serious.

However, as they moved forward, their route gradually deviated from the path Cheng Zongyang took to find Heijiao Mang, and they went around from the other side.

Half an hour later, they arrived at their destination and saw a cave.

Outside the cave, there was nothing except some animal carcasses.

Several people looked at each other, stood in a position, and looked around carefully.

Luo Zheng put down a black iron head at the entrance of the cave. Without seeing how Luo Zheng did anything, he just pointed into the cave. The black iron head circled a few times, then crawled toward the wall of the cave and went deeper inside.

Next, Luo Zheng checked the area where the animal carcasses were. Because of the smell of the seven-herb powder, many insects were forced to flee.

After a while, Luo Zheng came under a tree and bowed to Cheng Zongyang and said:
"My lord, judging from the degree of decay of these remaining bones, they are basically all within seven days. I have already sent Black Iron Head to check."

Cheng Zongyang is very satisfied with Luo Zheng's major.

Although Luo Zheng used to be a breeder, he is indeed quite professional in his understanding of the habits of organisms.

"I see." Cheng Zongyang nodded, but after thinking for a moment, he asked again, "How do you communicate with animals?"

Luo Zheng bowed and said, "Sir, this is a small talent. I am relatively friendly to animals and can understand their intentions from their actions. Then I can make some corresponding actions to let them perceive what I am expressing, thus forming a connection."

When Cheng Zongyang heard that it was related to talent, he immediately stopped asking. I can't learn it.

A moment later, Black Iron Head crawled out of the cave.

When he came to Luo Zheng, he saw him hovering on the ground and shaking his head. Then he crawled away for a distance.

Seeing this, Luo Zheng threw a small piece of dried meat to Hei Tietou. The little snake happily bit the dried meat and let Luo Zheng take it away.

Luo Zheng came to Cheng Zongyang and reported, "Sir, the big guy is not inside. It has already left."

Cheng Zongyang knew that the snake had not been brought in vain today, so he immediately said, "Luo Zheng, come in with me. Ma San, the three of you stay here. If anything happens, shout."

"Yes, sir!" Ma San and others responded.

Cheng Zongyang had never been to this cave, and the location was relatively hidden, so it was normal that he had not discovered it.

Besides, he didn't explore the entire area thoroughly at the beginning. At most, he just walked around in a circle.

As we walked inside with the torches lit, a strong animal smell wafted out.

He looked at the uneven surface of the mountain wall at the entrance of the cave, which was obviously natural and not man-made.

If it is man-made, then it would be a big problem.

Cheng Zongyang and Luo Zheng were not in a hurry to leave, as the range illuminated by the two torches was limited.

But as they went deeper, the smell became stronger, and eventually they both had to hold their breath.

The space inside was not as spacious as imagined, it was about four or five square meters, and it was uneven. But it was very dry.

There were also a lot of broken bones inside. Cheng Zongyang and Luo Zheng looked for them separately. Finally, Luo Zheng found some hair in a slightly cleaner area and also found a lot in the corners. He each collected some.

Seeing that there was not much to discover, Cheng Zongyang gestured and walked out.

It was obvious what was inside, and since it was a natural cave, there was nothing to find.

After leaving the cave, Luo Zheng took out the things and said, "Sir, this is collected hair, but it is hair from two different species."

Cheng Zongyang took it, looked at it and checked it.

One type has grey hair that is slightly softer, but the other type has black and white hair that is slightly coarser.

"It seems that there were animals living here before, but they were later occupied by this new one, or even killed."

Luo Zheng also said this about Cheng Zongyang's speculation: "Your Excellency is wise, I think so too."

Cheng Zongyang smiled and said nothing more. He collected the two clumps of hair and prepared to identify them when he returned.

However, I remembered that the market hut was still being updated, so the function was not available. But I still took it back and waited for the update to be completed before appraising it.

Since there was no gain, Cheng Zongyang did not plan to return home, and said: "Since we are out here, we cannot return empty-handed. Let's set up an ambush first. If we are lucky, perhaps our way of dealing with this big guy will be simpler. Ma San is in your hands."

Ma San smiled and said, "Yes, sir!"

So he took out the trap tied on his back and placed it two meters inside the cave entrance.

As the pillars of the trap were driven into the ground and the switch was turned on, eight lotus-like leaves spread out. Ma San simply spread some fallen leaves on top for a simple camouflage, and then retreated.

"Sir, it's all ready." Ma San reported. Cheng Zongyang nodded, "Everyone is out. Let's explore and clean up this area today. Take back any valuables you come across. If there's any reaction here, we'll rush over to deal with it."

"Yes, my lord!"

Ma San and others all nodded in agreement.

Cheng Zongyang brought four people and launched a mopping-up operation to clean up the area.

As long as they see prey, they will hunt them. The territory has a fresh-keeping warehouse that can also store it.

In addition, those that can be raised can be taken back and raised in captivity, and perhaps they can be raised on a large scale in the future.

The living are far more valuable than the dead.

Time passed by minute by minute, and Cheng Zongyang and his team harvested a lot along the way. They took all the animals that could be raised, and killed all the animals that could not be raised.

Under the siege of five warriors, no animal could escape unless it was very close to the isolation area.

From morning to noon, from noon to afternoon.

At the end of the day, not only did he gain more than 200 points, but he also got a lot of other mountain products.

At dusk, Cheng Zongyang and others dragged back the hunted and collected supplies on stretchers for the last time.

Thus, the territory was roughly swept. If I were to go into detail, there would definitely be a lot of mountain products, but I just didn't have the time.

I guess that big guy wouldn't be able to find food even if he came back, unless new animals came in from outside the partition.

But that day, they did not hear any roaring sound in the mountains, which meant that the trap should not have been triggered, otherwise any creature that fell into the trap would struggle and roar in anger.

The next step is to classify them into categories.

The first floor of the fresh-keeping warehouse is filled with meat, eggs, and some rice and flour, and the carcasses of the animals they hunted are not processed, but just put directly in.

There is no need to deal with it, most of them will be taken out in the future.

The second floor is filled with vegetable and fruit seeds, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and some rice and flour.

Medicinal materials are stored on the third floor. We harvested a lot of them this time and they are all stored here.

The snake gallbladders had already been taken out, and the rest were thrown into a bamboo basket and piled up. Ma San and others would take them out and process them when they needed to eat.

Cheng Zongyang left these matters to them to deal with. He simply changed back into his original clothes, took two hundred kilograms of salt and left the wilderness world.

There are many people in the territory now, and the prey is much, so a lot of salt is needed for pickling. It is estimated that these two hundred kilograms of salt will not take long.

"The search for mineral salt must be put on the agenda," Cheng Zongyang murmured. Then he carried two bags of coarse salt and headed for the inner mountain pass.

He did not bring any food this time. The food he took out two days ago was enough to last for half a month. He would bring more food when it was almost used up.

There is a lot of food in reserve, so there is no need to worry about not having enough food. When the wild rice is planted in the spring of next year, the harvest will definitely satisfy everyone's food in the summer.

Because the current land reclamation is still going on, by the beginning of next spring, the available paddy fields will be estimated to be around 100 mu, or even more.

After all, reclaiming wasteland now requires contribution points. If you reclaim one acre of wasteland to meet the farming needs, you can get 500 contribution points. Many people who have the strength are willing to try to reclaim it.

The contribution is so high because the garrison now needs more arable land to prepare for rice planting in the spring of next year.

Once the demand is met, the contribution point will drop, so the amount of contribution is also affected by supply and demand.

This time, Cheng Zongyang brought back two large bags of coarse salt. After handing them over to the warehouse for storage, he went to a temporary training area in Hanoi to check on the training situation of the hunting hall personnel.

When he got here, he realized that it was his father Cheng Guanghai who was training these people, and he couldn't help but ask, "Dad, where is my uncle?"

After Cheng Guanghai corrected a person's posture, he said, "Your uncle said that it's okay for him to do it himself, but he's not used to it and doesn't know how to teach others, so he asked me to teach. I let him do other things."

Hearing this, Cheng Zongyang thought of his uncle's temperament. He was indeed a person who was not very good at teaching others to do things. He also smiled at this:

"Then let him be, and give him time to adapt."

Cheng Zongyang felt that his skills were also taught by his father, so it was not bad to be taught by his father.

Yesterday, I took the people from the Hunting Hall out for a test run and learned about their problems, so I started training them later. It won’t be too late to take them out after they are a little more familiar with the skills.

"Yes, by the way, your grandfather told you to go to the ancestral hall when you come back." Cheng Guanghai reminded them.

Upon hearing this, Cheng Zongyang nodded, turned around and returned to Hanoi.

He simply washed up before going to the ancestral hall.

Only the Cheng and Zhou families can enter here; other outsiders are not allowed to come in.

When he entered the ancestral hall, he saw his grandfather sitting on the armchair at the edge of the yard, flipping through a booklet, and Cheng Zongwen was saying something beside him.

The armchair was spawned in the wilderness world and has special effects. It is basically used by the old man.

"Brother." Cheng Zongwen called out immediately when he saw Cheng Zongyang, looking somewhat delighted.

"Yeah." Cheng Zongyang smiled and nodded, then looked at the old man: "Grandpa, I'm back."

The old man looked up and smiled when he saw Cheng Zongyang coming back: "Glad you're back. You haven't been back all night, is everything ok?"

"It's okay." Cheng Zongyang responded, and then nodded to his cousin, who immediately said to the old man: "Grandpa, my eldest brother is here, so I'll go out first."

"Oh, okay. Thank you!" Mr. Zhou patted the back of Cheng Zongwen's hand and said with a smile.

"No way. It's my duty as a junior." Cheng Zongwen also responded with a smile and slowly left the ancestral hall.

At this time, the old man handed the booklet in his hand to Cheng Zongyang and said:

"Your father said that you are responsible for the Cheng family tree. I have asked your cousin to write down the names of both your two families. Brother Cheng was a man of foresight. If it weren't for your grandfather, I would not have changed the names of your uncles.

For a clan, it is very important to pass down the order of generations. It is also necessary to compile the family tree and record the family history. These are all left to you to take care of. Your uncle will take care of the Zhou family, so you don't have to worry too much."

Cheng Zongyang didn't expect that the old man asked him to come because of the family tree.

"Grandpa, I will do this later. Don't worry about it. Just take care of your health." Cheng Zongyang said with concern.

An old person in the family is like a treasure. When dealing with many family affairs, the elderly know the rules and priorities far better than the young.

The old man smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'm in good health. Life is getting better and better, and your grandmother and I will live a long time.

By the way, I have already told your uncle about the Hanoi ancestral hall. It will not be there. When the Hanoi Cheng family ancestral hall is built, the Cheng family ancestral tablets in this ancestral hall will be moved there, and it will become the Zhou family ancestral hall. "

Cheng Zongyang shook his head: "Grandpa, don't worry, I have already planned the location of the ancestral hall. I will take care of it. Trust your grandson."

The old man shook his head and wanted to say something, but Cheng Zongyang changed the subject.

He understood his grandfather's idea, which was not to let outsiders think that the Cheng and Zhou families could not distinguish between the primary and the secondary.

Just as Cheng Zongyang thought, the old man knew that the Zhou family could be what it is today because of the Cheng family.

The old man wants to make clear the rules of priority.

Otherwise, it doesn't matter now, but what about after the fourth generation? That will easily cause problems.

Rather than letting his grandchildren speak, it would be better for him, an old man, to take the initiative to bring it up. This would benefit both parties and prevent the Zhou family's younger generations from being confused about who is the real head of the clan.

The Zhou family is, after all, an outsider family, and only these three generations are involved.

　Thanks to the book friend "胃你撞到安全岛" for the 100 book coins reward

　　
　
(End of this chapter)