Earth Immortal Righteous Path

Chapter 322
The two foxes lingered at the entrance of the cave for a while, and after a while, a large family of foxes came out of the cave, detoured around the back of the hill, and absconded carefully all the way.

Although it is hilly here, there are still villages located here.

Usually, the foxes of this big family would go to the nearby villages to kill a few chickens from time to time, all for extra meals.

In autumn, the ground is full of fallen leaves. After leaving the hills, this group of foxes went straight to the nearby mountains.

Maolin is not a mountainous place, but there are some hills that are not too high.

Not long after the group of foxes left, the sound of boiling dogs barking came from a distance, and then a team of hunters rushed here following the trail.

"There is a fox den here, that's right, a den of foxes, just left not long ago."

The hunters inspected the cave, and the dry grass inside was still warm.

"Chase!"

The usual falcon was released and circled around a few times.

Hawks are predators in the sky, with a wide field of vision, and they are used to looking for prey. In addition, the shade of trees in autumn is not as lush as in spring and summer, so they are quickly discovered.

Falcons sang in the sky, circling to guide the hunters.

"Foxes have spirituality and knew we were coming, so they fled to the mountains behind."

"My Ah Huang said that there are about 20 foxes. I think it's almost the same number."

A hunter whistled proudly, and a falcon flew down, talons around his shoulder.

"If the fox escapes into the mountains, it will be difficult to find. Although Huqiu Mountain is small, it has a radius of one or two miles and a height of three hundred feet. It takes a lot of work to find it."

After some discussion, one of these hunters was left behind to be responsible for the men and all kinds of trivial matters behind, and the others followed the trail to catch up.

The servant followed all the way, already sweating profusely, and said nothing else, just sat on a bullock cart, holding a dry towel, and kept wiping off his sweat.

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At the entrance to the mountain, there is no one's hut.

This is a place familiar to people who come and go to the mountains to gather herbs and hunters, no matter who they are, they can stay here overnight.

The wooden house is very simple, but it is stable, able to keep out the wind and rain, and shelter from the cold. There is a fireplace and piled firewood in the house, and some dried meat is hung. People who come and go will remember how much they use.

It is convenient to be with others conveniently.

In this area, this is a silent rule and a custom.

People who rely on mountains to eat mountains, rely on water to eat water, and point to the products in the mountains to supplement their families will always have an extra element of simple awe.

Therefore, this hut has been standing firmly here, and it has been repaired and rebuilt many times by many people in hundreds of years.

The firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea in the house are always used and added, and occasionally some more sun-dried animal meat, fungus, shiitake mushrooms and other fungi are added.

In the spring, summer, autumn and winter of a year, every three or five days, there will always be medicinal hunters and hunters who are too late to go home and stay here.

On this day, it was still daytime, the sun was high in the sky, but there were already guests visiting.

"Little fox, what are you hiding from? Follow me obediently, otherwise, I'll sell you to those hunters."

The person who came was a young man carrying a medicine basket and holding a medicine hoe.

With his back against the gate, he shouted into the corner of the room.

"Really not coming out?"

After waiting for a while, the boy seemed to have lost his patience, frowning slightly.

"Hey, there are about a dozen hunters over there, five eagles are flying in the sky, and more than 20 dogs are running underground. This Huqiu Mountain is only a little big, and they will be able to cover this area in less than two hours." Once. When the time comes, you won't be able to hide it anymore. "

"You know, the eagle's eyes are sharp! Looking down from the sky, it's very clear! The dog's nose, I don't need to tell you how good it is. When you go to the village to steal chickens to eat I've been kicked out by dogs a lot. How about it, won't you come with me now?"

Still no response.

The young man became impatient, he raised his hands lightly, a few cold lights flashed, and the simple furniture in the house turned into sawdust, but the walls were not hurt.

Lying among the sawdust, there was a small white fox cub, about the size of a mouse, with half-closed eyes, circling in circles in panic, in a cute shape.

"It turned out to be such a small one..."

This young man is Ding Dang who came after hearing the news. He pretended to be a herb picker along the way, and while collecting some useful medicinal materials, he followed the hunters from a distance.

Even if he was discovered, others would not suspect him when they saw that he had picked a basket full of herbs.

Stepping forward a few steps, Ding Dang grabbed the little fox and held it in his palm.

Suddenly caught, the little white fox opened its mouth and bit one of Ding Dang's fingers as if its fur had exploded.

It's a pity that this little fox's teeth don't seem to be sharp enough to bite at all, and it didn't even leave a mark after biting for a long time.

"This little thing knows how to bite people at such a young age, and it must be non-stop when it grows up."

Tie up the limbs of this little fox with the hemp rope that he carried with him, and pay special attention to repeatedly tying several dead knots so that it could not move or make a sound. Ding Dang buried the fox under the medicine basket with satisfaction, and used A bunch of soft herbs cover it.

"Listen, I'm saving your life. If you fall into the hands of so many people outside, those foxes will die in vain."

"There are more than 20 foxes. When I came here just now, I saw one that was chased by a dog and climbed up a tree. If it wasn't for the purpose of distracting the dog, could it be so stupid?"

"Follow me, don't worry, even if you are discovered, I can still escape with you..."

Regardless of whether the fox could understand or not, Ding Dang carried the medicine basket on his back, took the medicine hoe, and wiped the herbal juice on his face, arms and legs. In an instant, he became a commoner boy who had to venture into the mountains to collect medicine in order to make ends meet. Freshly baked.

"Figs are twenty cents a catty, ginkgo fruit four cents a catty, fresh fungus forty cents a catty... It's not easy to pick herbs!"

Ding Dang sighed, pushed away the hunter's hut, took another road, and rushed to Fucheng.

This trip back and forth, counting the long detour, is more than 300 miles, and it may take a day and a night to stop and go.

On the way, without accident, he passed a hunter with a hunting dog.

The hunter just asked him a few questions routinely, and didn't suspect him.

Ding Dang had prepared a lot of herbs to repel mosquitoes and snakes in advance, and mixed it with water to smear it all over his body. The strong and pungent smell of the medicine was enough to fool the noses of hounds and cover up the smell of foxes.

Herb collectors who go to the mountains to collect herbs are often bitten by mosquitoes, or encounter poisonous insects and snakes. This method of covering the whole body with herbs can effectively repel mosquitoes and insects. It is a common method used by experienced drug farmers. Ding Danghua Ten taels of silver obtained a complete set of formulas from a nearby drug farmer and prepared a complete set, including the medicine hoe and other equipment on his body.

(End of this chapter)