Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 156 Three Wives (1)

"How did it get on your face?" Huang Shimei gave up her shyness and asked with her head held high. Anyway, this kind of thing will inevitably happen in the future, so it's better to be mentally prepared early
"Come here, I'll talk to you carefully..." Xu Qingkou said so-and-so, so-and-so, until Huang Shimei's neck turned red, so she gave up.The art of the room is the first choice for the army of cultivators at this time.

After agreeing on the hunting location, the two said goodbye.

The next day, Xu Qing selected a few hunters among the guards, met Huang Shimei, and went up the mountain together.But when seeing Huang Shimei, Xu Qing found that she was a little unhappy.Looking again, Huang Shimei's team suddenly realized that Ouyang Zhendong was also there.It's just that Ouyang Zhendong was much more honest this time, and when he saw Xu Qing, he just kept silent.

This hunting, there were 12 people in two teams, there was no big ostentation, and the methods used were just digging traps and the like.Of course, digging traps is also the easiest and safest way to hunt.

It doesn't need a lot of people, and it doesn't need a lot of equipment, even the most ordinary people can do it.

The guards Huang Shimei selected were also old hunters.Looking at these people, one could tell that they often hunted in this mountain. With these people who were familiar with the environment, Xu Qing's heart was half relieved.

Huaxia focuses on family biography, a house, an acre of paddy field is a family biography, a book, a pen, a sentence can be counted as a family biography, and there are also job postings, even if it is a doorman or a government servant, he also pays attention to the words of the father and son continue.And a route with a lot of prey on this mountain was also passed down by the ancestors of the old hunters.The old hunter is here, Xu Qing has selected a few good hunters, they can't help at all, they just walk with their heads down.

The old hunters observed every leaf and every vine along the way, going deeper and deeper.When it comes to hunting, Xu Qing and Huang Shimei are just watching. Others do the dirty work.

Going up the mountain without riding a horse, Xu Qing leaned on a wooden stick, and his waist and legs ached from walking.Xu Qing's physique is quite good, even though he walked in such a mess, the others were just panting slightly, nothing serious, even a scribe in Ouyang Zhendong.Xu Qing was secretly surprised by the body of the ancient man, while secretly looking at those various hunting traps.

Different traps for different prey.For roe deer, there is a fairly simple clip:

Take a long bamboo tube to open it, make a few holes on the top of the bottom, and then use grease to smooth the inner wall of the bamboo tube.Find a place near the place where roe deer often come and go, and put a little food on the bottom. When the rabbit smells the food in the bamboo tube, it will get into the bamboo tube, but it can only see but not eat.When they had no choice but to get out, they found that it was easy to get in but difficult to get out. The narrow bamboo tube has very little space, especially after the inside is smeared with grease, the roe deer will slip inside and it is difficult to get out.

There is also a more powerful trap, which is used to catch wild boars.The pincers made of iron are sharp to the touch, and once a wild boar steps in, it can pinch off the pig's hoof.

When Xu Qing was secretly learning from the teacher, an old hunter stopped everyone's footsteps and said in a low voice:
"There is prey!"

Finally found the first prey!Xu Qing suddenly felt joy in his heart, and bent down.Xu Qing couldn't help, so he let the hunters go first.The old hunters pushed aside the clumps of trees, and saw a gigantic animal humming and chirping. Xu Qing was shocked when he saw it, it turned out to be a huge male wild boar!
The wild boar's leg was clamped by the iron clamp, but it was only clamped, and its leg was not injured.Once it breaks free, this irritated wild boar is more fierce than the black blind man and the big bug!

The joy in Xu Qing's heart was swept away, and he quietly touched the musket pinned to his waist, pretending to protect Huang Shimei behind him.

The wild boar in front of him was huge, at least three hundred catties in black.Fortunately, it was a big frame specially used to deal with it, otherwise Xu Qing and others would have bumped into the muzzle of the gun.When the wild boar saw Xu Qing and others, he was furious. Even though he was caught in the trap, he ran amok there.The clip was tied to a thick tree, which could not allow the wild boar to shake it for the time being.

You can't wait for the wild boar to be exhausted, who knows how energetic that guy is?

Xu Qing asked: "Then what should we do now?"

"Kill it." An old hunter's eyes burst out with fierceness, Xu Qing and Huang Shimei backed away, Ouyang Zhendong also backed up a little, and then the other nine people drew their bows together, preparing to kill the wild boar with a mixture. .

The people led by Xu Qing are all archers, and they have a high-quality strong bow equipped for them in the army.The nine people each took out an arrow and aimed at the howling wild boar.At the same time, there was a deep vibration of the bowstring, and the arrow whizzed out.

"Whoosh!"

When Xu Qing looked at the wild boar, several arrows were bounced off by the "thick armor" on the wild boar without any injuries.The rest of the arrows only pierced a shallow layer.The old hunter's expression darkened, and he said, "Prick it's eyes!"

The nine nodded, knowing that the rest of the wild boar is extremely hard, so if you want to attack, you must attack its weak point.So the nine people set up the feather arrows again, they were lucky enough to find the right opportunity, and released them together.Whoosh!

The bow and arrow sounded, and almost at the same time, the wild boar screamed and fell to the ground.Taking a closer look, the wild boar's two eyeballs were pierced with feather arrows, and there was also one pierced through the nose.

"Okay!" Xu Qing couldn't help shouting.

The wild boar's eye was injured, and the bleeding continued. After struggling for a while, he finally stopped moving.

"Let's do it, we have to hurry up. After a long time, if the wolves and tigers smell the blood, they will be in trouble." The old hunter called other people present to slaughter the pigs together.

In the mountains and forests, whether it is a lone tiger or a pack of wolves, they are all animals that hunters dare not provoke.

This wild boar is too big, so it is inconvenient to carry it directly down the mountain.The old hunter planned to slaughter it on the spot, and then throw away some unnecessary internal organs, etc., cut it into several large pieces, and everyone took them away separately.

"One, two, three, use your strength!"

A group of people, those who grab the pig's feet grab the pig's feet, and those who grab the pig's ears grab the pig's ears. Xu Qing has the least strength, but he wants to join in the fun.The hunters dared not refuse, so Xu Qing was honorably given the task of pulling the pig's tail.Several people worked together to lift the big wild boar to a forest area where the trees were sparse. The hunters took out a short sharp knife to bleed the big wild boar.

Seeing the pig's blood splattering, Xu Qing couldn't help feeling sorry, so he quickly stopped him.

"It's too wasteful. Everyone bring all the water shells and pick up the pig's blood."

"Pig blood is too fishy to taste."

That's because you don't know how to eat it, Xu Qing despised him for a while, how could pig's blood taste bad.Pork blood is not only delicious, but also easy to make.

Take the fresh pig blood of the pig that has just been slaughtered, add some salt and shake it well to make it solidify. Made excellent blood tofu.It is very convenient and delicious to cook and stew.

Seeing Xu Qing's insistence, everyone still took out a gourd for drinking water and handed it to Xu Qing.Xu Qing collected some of the remaining pig blood. While the blood was still hot, Xu Qing quickly took out a salt bag from his body and put a lot of it.When it was over, let the hunters continue.

Everyone is a good hunter, and the speed of killing pigs is not slow.But they saw that they directly hoisted the pig's two front hooves, and then worked together to hang the pig on a tree trunk.Then he stabbed into the pig's neck, from top to bottom, and accurately stabbed every soft place of the pig.

The heart, liver, intestines and lungs full of stomachs came out all at once, and the hunters threw them away as soon as they hugged them.When Xu Qing saw it, he quickly yelled no.Domestic pigs cannot be eaten because they are too disgusting to eat. These wild boars are no better than domestic pigs.Moreover, this wild boar is also a rare delicacy in later generations.A real wild boar belly in the later generations can make five dishes, and one dish costs seven or eight hundred miles.Don't waste it, don't waste it...

This wild boar was a boar. After the hunters finished dissecting it, they pulled out the boar and gave it to Xu Qing respectfully.Xu Qing didn't care about this, and gave it to the hunters.

In order to clean up quickly, the fur of the wild boar is not shaved, and the internal organs are only cleaned of food residues without fine treatment.With such gains, Xu Qing and his party stopped being greedy, and took another road with traps to exit the forest.

Not following the old path is also the law of hunting in the mountains and forests.Because the road that people walk will leave breath, if you take the old road, you will easily encounter some predators.From a revenue point of view, going the old way won't do you much good either.

After leaving the forest and finding the horses, Xu Qing gave the hunters a lot of rewards and asked them to send the wild boars home.He took Huang Shimei to ride a horse in the wilderness, and of course, there was Ouyang Zhendong who followed behind him all the time.

Although Ouyang Zhendong didn't mess with Xu Qing, Xu Qing still had a lot of opinions on him: you are so big, and you can light up a light bulb, can you be conscious?

"Shimei? Why did you suddenly think that you want to go hunting with me?" Xu Qing asked. Hunting is usually in late autumn and early winter. Hunting at this time is not common.

"It's nothing, I'm just bored, I just want to go for a walk..." Huang Shimei muttered as she touched the sitting horse.

"No way, what is there to do in this wilderness?" Xu Qing shook his head and said to Huang Shimei: "Just tell me if you have anything to do..."

"Brother Xu, do you like me?" Huang Shimei suddenly burst into tears.

"I like it, what's the matter with you..." Xu Qing couldn't see the girl crying, and was in a hurry.

"Then why haven't you come to propose marriage?" Huang Shimei asked Xu Qinghe with tears in her eyes, "Do you know how much time I spent persuading the elders in the clan? I'm a girl, and I go to your house every day, and you still want me?" What kind of hint?"

Xu Qing suddenly realized that it was like this.That's right, since Huang Shimei mentioned it last time, Xu Qing forgot about the marriage proposal.On the one hand, it's because he and Huang Shimei are like an old married couple after you come and go to each other every day, and they forgot that they are not a family.The second aspect is also because Xu Qing has experience, and he is not as anxious as marrying Xun Xueer.

Xu Qing turned his head aside:
"Then Mr. Ouyang, what are you doing here?"

(End of this chapter)