I was a hunter in ancient times

Chapter 31

  At sunset, Zhou Du carried a basket of dead branches and bean bags, and set up a fire by a field next to a stream.

The fire was burning slowly, and there was a crackle or two from time to time, which added some noise to the silent night and made the night not so lonely.

Zhou Du sat by the fire, watching the fire quietly, adding a dead branch or two from time to time.

Doubao is not the case, relying on the wide terrain, running around.

Zhoudu doesn't care about it, as long as it doesn't go to the fields to harm the crops, let it torment.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Dou Bao to tire himself out, ran back slowly, and fell down next to Zhou Du's feet.

Zhou Du kicked it with his foot, but it didn't respond.

That's right, at this time, it usually falls asleep with Zhou Du, so it's time for it to sleep now.

It's just that Zhou Du, the master, is still awake, so naturally he won't let him do what he wants.

Zhou Du glanced at him, and said vaguely: "Fire-roasted bean buns."

The eyelids of the bean buns were about to drop, and when Zhou Du called it, he immediately opened his eyes again, and looked at Zhou Du in puzzlement. Du: "Wow."

Zhou Du kicked it into the fire with his toe, and it was so frightened that it immediately ran away on all fours, and looked back from time to time to see if the hair on its body was burning.

It wasn't until he found that his body was unharmed that he stopped his frantic pace, ran back to Zhou Du again, and showed Zhou Du a few spikes that were not yet fully grown, expressing his dissatisfaction.

Zhou Du looked at it, noticed the anger in its eyes, raised his eyebrows, picked out a burning dead tree branch from the fire, approached it, and was about to stuff it into its mouth.

Doubao was so frightened that he quickly withdrew his mouth and ran away from the fire. Seeing that Zhou Du did not chase after it, he sat down on the ground with a sigh of relief, not daring to approach Zhou Du any more.

After such a commotion, Doubao lost all sleepiness, and sat not far from Zhoudu to watch the night with Zhoudu.

When Zhou Du was satisfied, he stopped tossing it, and went to add dead branches to the fire instead.

Time passed, and before you knew it, it was late at night.

The other night watchmen in the field couldn't stand it any longer. They either leaned against the tree, or fell to the ground and took a nap with their eyes closed. Zhou Du was the only one who looked at the blazing fire with vigor.

"If the wild boars haven't appeared in the middle of the night, you can go back to rest. You just agreed to help them kill the wild boars, but you didn't promise to keep watch." Shen Xi came to Zhou Du with a basket in one hand and a lantern in the other.

He put down the basket, blew out the lantern, and asked Zhou Du, "Are you hungry? I made some supper."

Zhou Du added another handful of firewood to the fire, which made the fire brighter. Thinking of something, he asked, "Where is your land?"

"Land?" Shen Xi smiled, "Do you think I am someone who can afford land?"

"Not like," Zhou Du looked at Glancing at him, he said again, "But it's not that I can't afford it."

Shen Xi took out an earthen pot from the basket, and filled a bowl of fine powder from the earthen pot, and handed it to Zhou Du: "I bought the land. Neither I nor my uncle know how to plant, so let's forget it, not to mention that we don't have any money left to buy land."

Zhou Du took the bowl he handed over, and asked, "What is this?"

Shen Xi took another pair of chopsticks and gave Zhou Du another pair of chopsticks . : "Ginger and spicy radish powder, try it."

Zhou Du took a sip, and it tasted like hot and sour powder: "It's not bad."

Seeing that Shen Xi was feeding Zhou Du again, Dou Bao boldly walked over, opening his mouth to beg for food.

When Shen Xi saw it, he slapped his forehead: "Oh, I forgot about you, you little thing."

Doubao hadn't seen Shen Xi take out delicious flesh or meat for a long time, and knew that Shen Xi never fed it. Thinking about it, she turned her back in a fit of anger, and looked at Shen Xi with her ass|butt.

Shen Xi tiptoed up: "I'll go back and get some meat."

Zhou Du said coldly, "You don't need to get used to it."

Shen Xi sat back down again.

After Zhou Du had finished his supper, he didn't see him leaving, so he asked doubtfully, "You're not going home yet?"

Shen Xi rearranged the fire, and smiled: "It's so boring for you to watch the night alone, let me accompany you."

Zhou Du refused: "No need."

"Yes," Shen Xi was not afraid of Zhou Du's indifference, and used a pine cone to make a torch into Zhou Du's hand, "Help me, let's go."

Zhou Du got up and asked: "Where are you going?"

Shen Xi took off his shoes, rolled up his trousers to his knees, revealing his fair calves.

"To the stream?" Zhou Du seemed to understand his movements, and followed suit to take off his shoes.

"Don't move," Shen Xi hurriedly stopped him, "There are leeches in the stream, don't go into the water, just help me shine the light on the bank."

Zhou Du stopped his movements: "Aren't you afraid?"

"My blood is bitter, They don't suck me." Shen Xi shook his head, then he took out all the things in his basket, carried the basket into the stream, bent down and fumbled for something in the water.

"What are you looking for?" Zhou Du held the torch high so that the light could shine further.

"Here, look for them." Shen Xi took out a handful of snails that were not too big or small and handed them to Zhou Du, "The night is still very long, we will watch the night while talking about snails, so that we won't be bored. Zhou Du lowered his eyes ,

and his eyes followed the person who was groping in the stream.

Not long after, Shen Xi touched a small basket of snails, looked left and right at his calves, and only after finding no leeches, he loosened his trouser legs with confidence.

When Shen Xi was looking for snails, Zhou Du didn't feel anything wrong. It wasn't until he got ashore that he frowned: "It will take a long time to spit out sand." The

implication is that he won't be able to eat it tonight.

Shen Xi laughed: "I'm here, don't worry."

As he spoke, Shen Xi picked up the cloth bag he had just taken out of the basket, took out a pair of scissors from it, and began to cut the snail's tail very quickly.

He asked him to clean up a small basket of snails in a short while. He put the snails with their tails clipped back into the basket, brought them to the edge of the stream, and shook them repeatedly.

About a quarter of an hour later, he came back with beads of sweat on his forehead: "It will be clean this way, isn't it very fast."

Zhou Du's gaze paused for a moment on his sweaty forehead, and he nodded slightly.

Shen Xi wiped off his sweat with his sleeves, squatted down to get the earthen pot that had just been filled with fine ginger and spicy radish powder, and did not wash it, just put it on the fire to roast.

After the bottom material inside was heated, he put down the snails, added some rice wine he brought over, and turned them over with chopsticks.

Seeing him keep taking things out of the cloth bag like a magic trick, Zhou Du couldn't help being curious: "What did you bring out?"

"They are all things that can be used by night watchers." Shen Xi picked out a snail with chopsticks, tasted it, "Okay."

Zhou Du happened to pull out an allegro from his cloth bag, and asked suspiciously: " Is this also usable?"

"Of course," Shen Xi took down the earthen pot from the fire and placed it in front of Zhou Du, snatching the allegro from Zhou Du's hand, "This one, just look at it."

Zhou Du said Picking up the snails in the earthen jar to eat, while watching him.

Shen Xi held the Allegro, cleared his throat, said with his hands and mouth together: "Zhou Du, I invite you to a banquet, dragon liver and phoenix gallbladder, bird's nest shark's fin, deer antler and ginseng, canned pheasant, canned quail, pheasant and rabbit , vegetable python, whitebait, sauce chicken, bacon..., fine wine and jade liquid, are you satisfied with your meal?"

Zhou Du dropped the snail he just picked up in his hand to the ground, looked at Shen Xi and said, "You still have this Talent."

Shen Xi picked up the allegro, took a sip of rice wine with the rice wine pot, and pursed his lips: "I haven't practiced for a long time, a little rusty, how is it?"

Zhou Du nodded approvingly: "Very good."

Shen Xi smiled lowly for a moment.

Zhou Du glanced at him: "What are you laughing at?"

"Laughing at you," Shen Xi's eyes curved, "I thought you couldn't praise others, but according to what you said before, you would definitely say..."

Shen Xi stopped here mouthed.

Zhou Du asked: "What would you say?"

Shen Xi cleared his throat again, imitating Zhou Du's expressionless expression, pinched his throat and said in a cold voice: "The wild boar is starved to death by you."

Zhou Du The corners of her lips were slightly raised, and a smile flashed across her eyes: "It's pretty good."

Shen Xi looked at Zhou Du's smile, his chin was stunned: "You...you can laugh too?"

Zhou Du was taken aback, then withdrew his smile, and tapped the edge of the earthen pot with his chopsticks: "Eat snails, you can eat it." It's getting cold."

Shen Xi looked at Zhou Du's face intently, and said indifferently: "It's okay, it tastes better when it's cold." The

two of them ate the snails in a crock pot for a long time, and Shen Xi suddenly asked: "Zhou Du is cold." Du, what do you know?"

Zhou Du didn't even raise his eyebrows: "Pull a bow and shoot an arrow."

Shen Xi asked again: "Except for this?"

Zhou Du shook his head: "No more."

"Okay." Shen Xi nodded , didn't say anything more.

Zhou Du glanced into the woods, and asked: "Want to learn archery?"

Shen Xi was startled, and became interested: "Can you?"

"Yes." Zhou Du put down his chopsticks, picked up the bow and arrow that was put aside, She raised her chin towards Shen Xi.

Shen Xi understood immediately, stood up, and stood in front of Zhou Du.

"If you use your left hand, draw the string with your left hand and hold the bow with your right hand." Zhou Du glanced at his arm, handed the bow into his hand from behind him, and taught him how to stand and shoot.

Shen Xi listened carefully, and followed Zhou Du's instructions to set up the posture and place the arrow.

Zhou Du embraced him from behind, with his left hand on his bow-holding right hand, and his right hand on his bow-stringed left hand. He glanced at Dou Bao who had stood up and was ready to enter the fighting state. He lowered his head slightly and looked at Shenxi Asked in the ear: "Can you make jerky?"

Shen Xi felt that his heart was about to burst, and said without thinking: "Yes."

Zhou Du hummed, his eyes flickered, and he took Shen Xi's hands to pre-draw, draw, and aim in one go.

With a sound of "嗖", the arrows in the hands of the two people flew off the string, piercing the sky like a shooting star in the dark night, and flew into the woods.

"Awwhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh." Suddenly there was a burst of pain in the woods, waking up the entire sleeping Taoyuan village.

"The wild boar is coming, the wild boar is coming down the mountain!"

Someone shouted, and the dim village suddenly brightened up. Those who were leaning on the trees and sleeping on the ground all got up, shouting in a daze : "The wild boar is caught, the wild boar is caught, the wild boar is caught!"

After Zhou Du shot an arrow, he ignored the others, calm as if nothing happened, and ordered to Shen Xi: "Take the arrow."

Shen Xi immediately Pulled out an arrow from the quiver, set up the arrow according to the steps learned just now, and was led by Zhou Du to shoot again.

He could not hear all the bustling sounds around him, only the sound of Zhou Du calling him to set up arrows remained in his ears, and his body would only follow Zhou Du's orders to execute.

There is only the last wisp of consciousness left in my mind.

It's over, the little magpie is about to fall completely.