I farmed in ancient times

The mist filled the sky, the moon had not yet set in the west, the gradient blue sky was dotted with broken stars, and the soft-boiled egg yolk-like sun had emerged in the east.

In the green mountain forest shrouded in white mist, two figures moved rapidly towards the mountain one after the other.

Along the stone steps, the two soon arrived at the mountain temple. Uncle Shi unloaded the quiver behind him, sat on the stone bench, and opened the bamboo tube to drink water.

At Uncle Shi's feet, there was a dark shadow. It was a black puppy with obsidian eyes that Uncle Shi had reared after Rhubarb passed away. He named it Huzi.

Rhubarb was raised early and had never been trained by Uncle Shi. Huzi went up the mountain with Uncle Shi when he was young. After training for two years, he followed Uncle Shi and became a most capable assistant.

By the time Cassia Ming catches up with wheezing and wheezing, the sky is already bright.

After letting Cassia Ming rest for a while, Uncle Shi got up from the stone bench, "Let's go into the mountain."

Caesar hurriedly put away the bamboo tube, wiped his mouth and followed Uncle Shi's pace.

Yesterday, Uncle Shi was talking about autumn hunting in October, and when Jue Ming brought a basket of pies to Aunt Shi in the evening, he asked Uncle Shi to bring him for hunting tomorrow.

Uncle Shi fully agreed, explaining that he planned to go to a deeper forest tomorrow, and asked Caesar to prepare food, and Maochu (5:[-]) was waiting at the door.

Now is the time when the wild animals are fat and strong, the fur is smooth, and the meat is tender and delicious.

"It would be great if I could hunt a big guy." Uncle Shi said with emotion.

Needless to say, Jue Ming could figure out that Uncle Shi didn't hunt for meat, but wanted to make more fur coats and hats for Aunt Shi.

The men in the village thought that Uncle Shi would pamper his wife, and he didn't let his wife worry about it except cooking and washing. He gave birth to Shi Xiaohua for many years, and he didn't even have a family to carry on.

But the women in the village are envious of Aunt Shi's good life. They are all the same age. Aunt Shi is favored by Uncle Shi like a newly married bride, with fair skin and no wrinkles on her face.

People who dote on women like this were rare in ancient times. While thinking about whether Shi Xiaohua, who was eating dog food between Uncle Shi and Aunt Shi, would be very miserable, he followed Uncle Shi's footsteps around the small pool, Go further.

"It's here." Uncle Shi pointed to the small lake and said, "This is where the fox trail I saw last time."

Compared with the sika deer, the Panshan fox is more cunning, almost no one has seen it.

In the past few years, it is convenient for the fox to go down the mountain along the repaired stone steps. At night, it sneaks into the backyards of villagers in the desert village to steal chickens, and has been bumped into it no less than a dozen times.

Foxes must pass through Uncle Shi's house when they go down the mountain, so Uncle Shi took a few hunters to hunt a few foxes, and deliberately peeled off their furs and hung them at the door. Seeing that his companions were skinned, the foxes gradually restrained themselves and turned back to the mountains.

It is said that there are tigers and leopards in the deeper places. It has been passed down for a long time, and no one is sure whether there are any.

This lake is exactly the one that Jueming discovered back then. The two circled around the lake. The tiger sniffed the fox's footprints and barked towards the east.

Uncle Shi walked eastward without hesitation, and Hu Zi walked in the front. Did he stop and trot and sniff a few times?

Caesar, who was following behind, only sighed: It is good to have hunting dogs!

Following Huzi, the two quickly found three fiery red foxes.

In the bushes half a person's height, two foxes were actually fighting.

Uncle Shi bent over and probed quietly.

One of the foxes raised its front hooves to restrain the other, and the other, not to be outdone, raised its front hooves and waved. For a while, neither of the two foxes could get close to the other.

There is also a fiery red fox, which is lying leisurely on a piece of dead wood in the open space beside the bushes, with its tail flicking and its head raised, looking at the other two foxes without blinking its eyes.

Uncle Shi took out a feathered arrow from the quiver, put it on the bow, pointed to the fox on the wood, and then pointed to Cassia.

Jueming understood, nodded, took an arrow from the quiver and put it on the string, aiming at the fox lying on the wood.

The two stared at the three foxes intently.

The four front hooves of the two foxes were staggered, neither of them could take advantage of the other, so they opened their mouths and screamed at each other.

The fox lying on the wood was motionless, shaking its ears from time to time.

Suddenly, Uncle Shi let go of his fingers, and Caesar, who had been working half-heartedly, let go of his hand in an instant, and the two arrows flew through the air with a "swish" and went away through the wind.

The foxes who were fighting suddenly shot an arrow through their eyes, and fell straight towards the enemy.

The fox lying on the dead wood was firmly nailed to the wood by an arrow.

The only surviving fox twisted a few times under his partner. After getting rid of it, before he could take a few steps, he was shot in the back of the head by a second arrow in a row.

Hu Zi quickly ran to the front, guarding the fox and waiting for Uncle Shi to pass.

"Uncle Shi is mighty!" Caesar gave a thumbs up.

"You haven't retreated, kid. You've gained a lot of strength." Uncle Shi also gave Jueming a thumbs up. I often see Jueming making gestures like this. Uncle Shi knows that it is a compliment without having to say anything.

The two pushed aside the bushes and walked up to the fox. The fox nailed to the wood was completely dead. Caesar pulled out the arrow and hugged the fox.

Uncle Shi resisted the two foxes and was as happy as a child who had eaten candy. Seeing that it was still early in the day, the two found the cabin, unloaded the fox, ate some dry food, and continued to search nearby separately.

Without hunting dogs, Cassia could only rely on his previous experience to search for it. Unexpectedly, he found traces of sables in this deep mountain and old forest.

Panshan is so big, and because of the valleys, the climate is diverse, but Jueming didn't expect that the mink that should exist in the east is also here.

The sable was about the size of a cat, and it was difficult not to leave a hole, so Jueming changed to a small arrow, put it on the bow, and stared intently at the sable who was only twenty steps away from him.

The fish that the sable had dragged from nowhere, was engrossed in eating, unaware of the danger that was getting closer.

When Jueming was about to shoot an arrow, he suddenly saw that the sable's belly seemed to be bulging.

Taking a closer look, the sable's belly was indeed bulging, and it was not flexible at all when it moved. Caesar put down his bow and arrow, avoided the sable, and looked for it further.

After hunting two pheasants and a gray badger, it seemed that it was almost time, and Caesar returned to the hunter's hut where he rested with Uncle Shi. Uncle Shi was already waiting there, surrounded by a cloud of gray shadows.

Looking closer, the gray shadow has a big tail hanging down, a long and pointed face, and only one ear.

Cassia: "Wolf? There are wolves around here again."

Uncle Shi nodded, "Yeah, fortunately there is autumn hunting every year, otherwise when the number of wolves reaches a certain level, they will definitely come down the mountain to harm people."

"The wolves are too cunning now. If the tiger didn't remind me, I would have been bitten to the leg by it." Uncle Shi shook his head. There will be more things.”

Wolf is cunning, and Caesar has the deepest experience. The left arm bitten by wolves still bears scars. Now that he has the ability to kill wolves, Caesar will not relent.

The two went down the mountain with their prey on their shoulders. They went out before dawn, and it was dusk when they got home.

Caesar unloaded the fox and badger, took out a handful of wild mushrooms from the kitchen to soak, and took two pheasants to the river to pluck their feathers. After processing, he took one to the Shi family.

Back in the kitchen, Caesar washed his hands, took out the soaked mushrooms from the basin, washed them and cut them into pieces, went to the backyard to pull out two scallions, grabbed a few fennel, went back to the kitchen and chopped the onions, ginger and garlic. Disassemble the pheasant into eight pieces and blanch it in boiling water to remove the blood.

Clean the small pot, heat it dry, put oil in it, stir-fry the onion, ginger, garlic and pepper together, after the aroma is released, put the chicken and fennel into the pot and stir-fry, Cassia adds a piece of cinnamon, throw the mushrooms in, add soy sauce, and stir-fry After a few times, add water to cover and simmer.

Clean the cauldron, go to the stove, hit the iron piece with a flint and steel, light the tinder, and carefully blow a few mouthfuls with it. Soft wood burns quickly.

After lighting the firewood under the big pot, Jue Ming went to the front and put rice into the pot, covered it, sat on the pony, added a few sticks of firewood to the two pots, turned around and went to the river to disembowel the fox , Come back and soak the fox fur in water.

Every once in a while, Jue Ming would go home to see how the firewood was burning, and add another firewood in due course.

The chicken in the pot was tumbling in the water with the mushrooms, and a wisp of aroma struggled to escape from the kitchen and spread to the free field. Zhao An sniffed the aroma, couldn't help but stop the pen in his hand, and rushed to the kitchen, shouting: "Brother! I'll help you taste it!"

"You want to eat meat, right?" Jueming rolled his eyes at Cen Chaoan and stopped him, "It's not quite cooked yet, wait until it's fully cooked before tasting it."

"Hey, I want to come to accompany you." Cen Chaoan moved a small mat and sat down next to his brother. Seeing that the sky was too dark, he ran to the main room and brought two lamps.

According to his elder brother, Cen Chaoan opened the chatter box, said something east and west, suddenly he thought of something, patted Cassia Ming's leg,

"Brother, Erhu is going to take an exam."

——Two Tigers?

——That brat who blamed Chaoan?

Cassia made a "hmm" and asked, "Why so early."

Erhu is only 13 years old this year, and Erhu's father is too impatient.

"Father said he was talented and let him go." Chao An put his cheeks on his hands and muttered, "I don't think I'm bad. I know what Erhu can do."

"How can you compare with the two tigers?" Jue Ming stretched out his hand and flicked Cen Chao'an's forehead, "Who is the one who cooks every night?"

Covering his forehead, Chao An looked innocently, "I want to play too, but Dad won't let me."

"What's wrong with me?" Cen Daonian came in from the kitchen, "I seem to have heard someone speak ill of me?"

"Father~" Chao An got up and hugged Father Cen's arm, "I want to take the exam too!"

"Nonsense!" Father Cen scolded him mercilessly, "You are only eight years old, wait a few more years."

Hearing this answer, Cen Chaoan pouted, "I wish I were the elder brother, so I can take the exam."

"You think the exam is to go to the mountains and rivers." Jue Ming added firewood to the stove, and said, "I live in a small cold room with no one for three or four days, and I can only eat dry cakes and drink." Cold water, the toilet is on the side."

Chao An shivered, and shouted in a drawn out voice, "Brother—you're scaring me!"

There was an invisible smile on Jueming's mouth, he got up and lifted the lid of the pot, "Dinner is ready!"

A scent hooked Zhao An and immediately drooled, no longer caring about the exam or not, and rushed to the side of the pot with bright eyes.