Dad's Pastoral Life

Chapter 128

The sunset glow in the sky is already on fire, it is red and gorgeous, and it is extremely beautiful.

Cheng He hugged his crying daughter and comforted her: "Okay, baby, don't cry! Dad will hunt you for another one later, okay?"

The little girl was still muttering: "The snail can't shoot..."

Cheng He smiled and said: "Well, that's because the baby is still young, and he can shoot when he grows up, okay?"

The little girl was sobbing: "Then when will I grow up?"

"Come on, come on."

Every child is eager to grow up, thinking that he can do many things when he grows up.

But when they really grow up, they will always fantasize a few times: If only I could go back to my childhood, that would be great.

Human growth is so helpless.

Cheng He held an ordinary bow and never thought about hunting any big animals. In fact, his bow hunting skills were only average. He learned a little bit from adults when he was a child, and he didn't shoot again for many years.

In the mountains near Taohua Village, there are not many kinds of animals, and there are not many prey that can be encountered, so there are basically no people who hunt for a living. At most, they hunt for some extra meals and sell a small amount of money.

Of course, this also means that living in a village is safer and less likely to be attacked by animals.

Cheng He took a bow and shuttled carefully through the forest.

There are some rustling sounds around. These are small animals that come out to forage in the evening, such as frogs and snakes.

Cheng He doesn't like things that are too small.

Just as he was thinking about returning home without success today, he noticed a slightly bigger movement among the dead leaves in front of him.

Cheng He immediately stopped and said to Cheng Xinxin in a low voice, "Honey, don't make any noise, there is a rabbit in front of you, if you call it, it will scare away, you know?"

After she had the experience of failing to hunt, Cheng Xinxin had already roughly understood what hunting was, so she nodded obediently.

Now she probably desperately hoped that her father would be able to hunt, to repay the shame of her failure to hunt.

The big yellow dog yelped "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo".Cheng He stopped it and told it not to go.He wanted to try it himself.

Cheng He gently put down his daughter, and then drew his bow.

This is just an ordinary bow bought online. It can't hunt big animals, such as rabbits and mice, so it's not a big problem.

Rabbits are about the size of rabbits, they grow very fat, they live on plants, they eat everything, everything on the ground and underground is eaten by them.

And the reproduction is very fast. As long as a rabbit is found, there must be many around it, making holes everywhere.If this thing is near the crop field, it will be troublesome.

Now, Cheng He wants to hunt one and see if his skills can still come in handy.

When shooting with a bow, his movements are very light and slow, for fear of making too much noise and scaring the prey away.

Cheng Xinxin watched with wide eyes, without blinking.

"咻", an arrow shot out, hitting the head.

Cheng He breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, with his own original skills, he might not be able to hit it with one arrow.He used the magical power of the Venus in his body.

He didn't know what was going on, anyway, when he wanted to hunt down the rabbit, he felt a magical force pouring into his arm.

He bent his bow with greater strength, and his hand was more steady when he released the arrow.

The speed of the arrow flying out was faster than he had imagined. When the rabbit heard the movement, it could no longer run away.

He never thought that it was quite a surprise that he could hit with an arrow.

With a smile on Cheng Xinxin's face, she knew that her father was omnipotent.

The big yellow dog rushed forward immediately and took the prey back.

Cheng He took it over, patted it on the head, and praised it: "Good dog, well done! You will be rewarded when it is cooked in a while!"

The big yellow dog sat on the ground and accepted the praise happily.

Cheng He weighed it. This rabbit weighed more than three catties. After removing the fur and internal organs with a hatchet, there were only two catties left. If there were only Cheng He and his daughter, it would be enough to roast and eat, and there would be some leftovers To the rhubarb dog.

But there is still an expedition team over there, so you can't eat it by yourself, let others watch it.

It was getting late, and Cheng He didn't know if he could find other prey, so he went to the other side of the pool, caught a fish and went back.

Roast a rabbit and a fish, it should be enough for everyone to try something new.

In fact, I have eaten the dry food that comes with me, so I won’t be hungry.But in the mountains, if you don't have some barbecue or something, it seems that you can't justify it, and you always feel that something is missing.

I want to barbecue, so I picked up some dead branches and went back.

When we returned to the cave, it was almost dark, and Lu Wenpeng and his friends had already built a fire. Cheng He put the dead branches aside to prepare for the fire, and then roasted the cleaned rabbits, mice and fish on the rack.

With Lude's hand, these people were stunned.

To be honest, everyone also went into the mountains, climbed mountains and rivers, and others carried a daughter on their backs. When they got here, everyone was too tired to move, and he even went hunting and came back.

This made Lu Wenpeng and his friends, at a loss for what to say, envious.

Eating wild game barbecue, this must be more exciting than the barbecue restaurant on the street, especially the food is fresh, rabbits and mice have never seen it before.

Cheng He cut the rabbit open, and then supported it with twigs to increase the heating area and make the fire more even.

As for the fish, after he wrapped them with branches, he handed them over to Lu Wenpeng, who let them handle the fire by themselves, and he directed them beside him.

When he entered the mountain this time, Cheng He knew that he was going to hunt wild game, so he had prepared enough condiments.

The seasoning powder for barbecue is mixed together and put into a small bottle. Now it only needs to be sprinkled evenly on the rabbits and fish.

It didn't take long for the unique aroma of barbecue to emanate, which directly whetted people's appetite.The roasted oil dripped on the flames, making crackling noises.

Although everyone has already eaten dry food to satisfy their hunger, the bread and biscuits they have eaten are not worth mentioning in front of these barbecued meats.

Especially the sense of accomplishment from grilling by yourself is even more pleasant.

This is real life in the wild!
The fun of exploring the mountains is fully displayed at this moment.

They don't need to eat bugs raw like Mr. Pei, they need to eat some horrible things.

After the barbecue was done, everyone took out their small Swiss knives and cut off a piece to eat.

In fact, I have already eaten enough, and now it is just a taste.One fish and one rabbit are enough to eat.

It's a pity that there is no wine, so I can only drink it with the cold water I brought, which is a fly in the ointment.

After eating and drinking, and having nothing to do, they all sat down and started chatting.

Lu Wenpeng asked Cheng He: "Are there any bizarre legends in your mountain village? Such strange things?"

I don't know why, it seems that when you are in the wild and around the campfire, it is particularly inappropriate if you don't talk about strange things.

While picking his teeth with a twig, Cheng He recalled the stories he heard when he was a child.

He thought for a while and said, "It really is."

He remembered a story told by the elders when he was a child.

In fact, this is not a story, because when the elders tell it, they tell it with a very "true" attitude.

It is said that Taohua Village also produced talents hundreds of years ago. There was a man who was a Jinshi in high school and became a high official.

It is said that this Jinshi was originally a child of a poor family, and the family saved food and drink for him to study hard. He hoped that he would be named on the gold list and knowledge would change his destiny.

Later, the child lived up to expectations, and won the first place in the provincial and national examinations, and he was about to go to Beijing to catch the exam in a blink of an eye.

He went to Beijing with some scattered silver that he had collected in the village. On the way, he met a crazy Taoist priest who stopped him from leaving, saying that it would rain heavily soon and he would be soaked in water in a while.

He looked at the bright sun in the sky, and there was no sign of rain at all. He thought that the Taoist priest was scaring himself with crazy words, and he refused to believe it.

It was important to hurry up for the exam, how dare he delay the time, scolded the Taoist priest away, and hurried on his way.

As a result, as he was walking, it was raining heavily in front of him, and he was drenched. He regretted not listening to the mad Taoist, and was forced to go to a temple to hide from the rain.

When the boy who was rushing for the exam was hiding from the rain, he had a dream. Some god told him the answer to the exam.Then he went to take the exam and found that it was the topic he had predicted, so he was named on the gold list in one fell swoop.

Success came too easily, the young man was appointed a high official, his journey went smoothly, he gradually began to be complacent, he also began to follow the crowd in the officialdom, practiced favoritism, etc., and was finally given a three-foot white silk by the emperor to commit suicide.

The senior official thought about his own officialdom and regretted it.But there is no way, the emperor asked him to commit suicide, can he escape?

Just as he was wrapping the white silk around his neck, he suddenly felt a pain in his forehead and woke up with a start.

It was the mad Taoist who woke him up.

Open your eyes and look, where is there any big official residence nearby?Surrounded by a wilderness, miasma filled the sky.He was standing under a big ancient locust tree, and was just digging his head into the rope on the tree.

And on this ancient locust tree, the branches stretched horizontally, and all of them were hanged corpses, whose yang energy had been sucked dry.

It is conceivable that if the Taoist priest hadn't woken him up, he would have hanged himself like these people.

He has fallen into the path of the evil spirits in the mountains.

The mad Taoist rescued the boy who was rushing for the exam, so the boy went to Beijing to catch the exam.With his talent, he was admitted as a Jinshi in high school and was made a high official by the court.

And because of that evil incident, he was always alert to himself, and he couldn't mess around when he was an official, so he became a generation of upright officials and did a lot of good things for the people.

This is the most widely circulated story in Taohua Village.Whenever the elders of Taohua Village talk about it, they will inevitably say: Our ancestors also had high officials, and Taohua Village is also a treasure.

Modern people will definitely laugh at such wild tales, but they really treat them as if they were true, and they have been passed down from generation to generation with relish.

Lu Wenpeng sighed with emotion: "This is the real mountain village culture!"

It is precisely because of such small stories passed down from generation to generation that it sets off the historical and humanistic sense of each small mountain village.It is this kind of historical and humanistic atmosphere that can unite generations of people.

Cheng Xinxin also listened with great interest, wondering if she understood.

(End of this chapter)