Three thousand miles in exile

The next morning, when Liu Zhan went out after breakfast, he saw the three young men waiting at the door, presumably the Missing Trap came over early in the morning.

"Let's go, let's go up the mountain and have a look." Liu Zhan swaggered ahead.

The forest covered with thorns was still covered with morning mist, Liu Zhan followed the animal path neatly to find the location where the trap was set.

The first trap was triggered but failed to trap the prey, the teenagers looked disappointed.

Liu Zhan didn't bother to pay attention to the feelings of the younger brothers, and carefully checked the situation of the trap, and found that there were signs of struggle on the ground of the trap.

Going up along the animal path, the second trap is also empty, there are still signs of struggle, and there are messy footprints.

When the third trap was found, it finally failed!

"It's a pheasant! What a fat pheasant!" The teenagers were very excited.

Liu Zhan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and he didn't want to open the skylight just to show his hands in front of his younger brother for the first time.

"Yes, it should weigh three to four catties." Liu Zhan weighed the pheasant in his hand, and then threw it to Cao Zhuang. "Hold it for me, let's move on."

"Okay, okay!" Cao Zhuang's eyes straightened.

Wen Qingshan was even more excited and said: "Boss, if this big pheasant is sold in the city, it can be sold for tens of pennies! I have seen Orion selling wild animals in the county town. I like to eat."

Cao Ming also said: "Boss, teach us!"

These three guys even changed their titles, but Liu Zhan pretended to be on the inside. "Go and collect the next few traps first."

Perhaps it was because the wild boar king made the hunters move away. Liu Zhan set eight traps and six of them failed. Among them, there were at most four pheasants, and he also set a hare and a mink.

At this time, the third younger brother has already worshiped Liu Zhan very much, not to mention whether the prey can be sold for money, if he can learn some fur and occasionally add some meat dishes to the family, it is also very good. taste.

Liu Zhan knows the truth of not eating alone, but he doesn't want to teach them so soon.

After setting up the trap again, Liu Zhan led the younger brothers out of the forest. No matter how much the third younger brother praised him, he didn't say a word along the way, and only stopped when he reached the edge of the forest.

"This is for you, take it back, eat it or sell it as you please, I will come tomorrow, will you come too?" After Liu Zhan finished speaking, he shared a pheasant among them.

The three nodded in unison. "Come on! Of course!"

Liu Zhan said again: "Tomorrow I want to set a bigger and stronger trap, but I don't have any tools. Can any of you bring a dagger over here tomorrow? A small knife is fine, even if you don't have a sickle."

Cao Zhuang was the first to raise his hand. "Boss, I have it, my family has it! My father is a blacksmith, and there is no shortage of knives at home."

With the tools, the traps made later will be more sophisticated, and the success rate will be higher.

After solving the tool problem, Liu Zhan has one more thing to do. "I can't tell anyone that I can hunt. When people ask, they should say that we met an old hunter on the mountain. The old hunter took us to hunt, understand?"

"Understood!" The three said in unison.

"Boss, don't worry, I understand! This is our secret!" Cao Zhuang even patted his chest to assure.

It was getting late now, so Liu Zhan didn't say much. "I, Liu Zhan, don't have any great skills, but I won't let my brothers go hungry. Let's go, let's go today."

The three teenagers went home happily, and Liu Zhan also carried the prey back to Liu's house. On the way, he deliberately avoided people and returned home without attracting any attention.

The Liu family was naturally very happy. He explained to Liu Xueyuan again the story of meeting an old hunter. Maybe it was too long since he had eaten chicken. Everyone was very happy that the Liu family did not ask carefully. The chicken goes to process.

Liu Zhan gave Liu Xueyuan another suggestion. "Father, the furs of this hare and mink are valuable and should be sold for a good price, and they should be exchanged for some food."

Liu Xueyuan nodded with emotion. "Tomorrow morning, I will go to the county town with your third uncle to find buyers."

"Now our family doesn't even have a copper coin, so it's better to keep the money for emergencies if we don't exchange the money for food."

Liu Xueyuan was stunned by Liu Zhan's unintentional maturity. His son seemed to have grown up overnight.

Sensing Liu Xueyuan's gaze, Liu Zhan realized that he seemed to have talked too much, so he hurriedly found an excuse and went out again.

There is a small hill behind Liu's house. He found wild peaches on that hillside half a month ago, and it should be ripe by the time, so he just went to pick some back.

That night, the Liu family ate the first meal of chicken, which was hard to come by. Mrs. Zhao stewed a pheasant with mushrooms. A pheasant can be divided into more than a dozen people, so each person can't eat a few bites, so Mrs. Zhao stewed the broth for each person. Divide a bowl.

Liu Zhan mixed the broth with multi-grain rice, not to mention how delicious it was. After the meal, there were peaches to soothe the tiredness. Everyone in the Liu family enjoyed this meal very happily.

The next morning Liu Zhan took his three younger brothers up the mountain again, and only one half-sized pheasant was caught in the eight traps, and the rest of the traps were destroyed by a bigger animal just like yesterday.

"Boss, what should we do?" Cao Zhuang scratched his ears anxiously.

Liu Zhan stood up calmly. "I expected it a long time ago. It must have destroyed the two traps yesterday. Did I bring the knife?"

Cao Zhuang hurriedly took out a dagger from his belt.

Liu Zhan tried the sharpness of the dagger, and it was far from the modern saber, but it was acceptable.

"Let's go, let's set a new trap!"

Using the method of trapping prey can only trap small prey, and larger prey can easily break free. Liu Zhan is not surprised that the harvest will be so poor today.

The vigilance of wild animals is very high. If you want to get more harvest, you need to hunt and kill with your hands besides traps. It's a pity that his body is too weak for only 12 years old.

Liu Zhan asked Cao Ming to roast the pheasant on the spot, and the four of them shared a piece.

"Boss, this is for you." Cao Ming wisely gave the biggest piece to Liu Zhan.

The young boy is growing up, and Liu Zhan is not hypocritical.

The pheasant chicken was roasted crispy, and the mouth was full of oil after one bite. The four of them almost chewed up the bones of the pheasant and ate it.

After everyone finished eating, Liu Zhan reassigned tasks, instructing the younger brothers to dig pits to dig pits, and chop tree forks to cut tree forks.Rearrange the traps in the bestial distribution of this thorn forest, and upgrade the noose traps to cage traps!

"Put in the leftover bones." Liu Zhan stood aside and instructed.

As long as an animal runs in, it will trigger the mechanism to buckle the cage.

There are also pothole traps. The pits are full of sharpened wooden stakes. The hole is covered with leaves and sprinkled with bones. Even if a wild boar comes and falls, it will be enough for it.

The teenagers went down the mountain full of joy after making arrangements, and Liu Zhan made an appointment to go up the mountain again in three days.

Liu Zhan has not been idle for the past three days. The Liu family's thatched shed is still too thin to withstand the severe winter in northern Xinjiang. Liu Xueyuan called the Liu family to mobilize again to repair the house.

Another layer of straw was added to the roof of Liu's house, which was pressed tightly with wood, and the places where the air leaked around were tightly sealed with mud.

The house had just been repaired, but it rained heavily on the mountain the next day. Liu Zhan's original plan to go up the mountain with his younger brothers had to be postponed.

In the morning Liu Zhan was lying on the kang, listening to the pattering rain outside the house, feeling bored, when suddenly he heard Zhao's exclamation.

Liu Zhan almost reflexively jumped up and rushed out, and Liu Xueyuan, who was busy making a stool in the main room, also rushed out.

"My husband! The firewood we hoarded is all soaked and can't make a fire." Mrs. Zhao was circling anxiously in front of the stove.

At this time, all the people including Liu Zhan discovered a problem. It would definitely not work for them to put the firewood under the eaves like this. It was only a moderate rain that completely drenched the firewood.

All of a sudden, everyone started to transfer the firewood to the main room in a hurry. Now this firewood is the most important property of the Liu family just like the food, but it can't be careless at all.

Because of the rain, the temperature dropped sharply in the mountains. Liu Zhan only wore a light cotton padded jacket and an inner jacket. He was shivering from the cold when he left the kang. It came so unexpectedly.

Liu Zhan felt uncomfortable seeing Zhao's thin clothes and enduring the cold winter cooking for his family.

The second room, Ning, doesn’t know whether it’s real madness or fake madness, she’s depressed in her room all day long, and the third room, Fang’s, has a headache today and a stomachache the next and is sick every day, not to mention the old lady, since she came to Tiancang Village, she’s been out of the gate every day. If you don't go out of the second door, you don't take a step.

Mrs. Zhao cooks three meals a day for the Liu family. In the morning, they have to go up to the mountains with the women to collect goods, and at night, they have to boil hot water for the whole house to wash. To be honest, Liu Zhan can’t stand it anymore. Shi's background is no lower than theirs!

Liu Zhan looked at Liu Xueyuan. As the head of the family, Liu Xueyuan was not idle, carrying water, chopping firewood, repairing houses, plowing the fields, planting winter vegetables, etc...

Liu Zhan knew that he was a soft-spoken person. The old lady was a grandmother, and the two wives were aunts. If he said some things, he might be regarded as unfilial.

Furious, Liu Zhan went to the kitchen and squatted in front of the stove to help Mrs. Zhao light a fire.

There is one thing that Liu Zhan didn't realize by himself. After getting along with each other these days, he has cared more and more about his parents in this life.

The rain continued for several days until the temperature dropped below freezing.

As soon as the sky cleared, the third younger brother immediately came to look for Liu Zhan. Outside the gate of Liu's courtyard, besides the tall, short and fat three, there was one more person.

Cao Zhuang scratched his head in embarrassment. "Boss, this is Zhang Xiaoman. The four of us are the best brothers. I guarantee that Manzi will not tell our secrets. He has the strictest mouth!"

Liu Zhan looked at Zhang Xiaoman and found that his face was familiar. "Is Zhang's aunt your mother?"

"Yes, that's my mother." Zhang Xiaoman looked shy.

Zhang's aunt is the woman who often helps Mrs. Zhao get closer to Mrs. Zhao, so Liu Zhan naturally welcomes Zhang Xiaoman.

"We will be brothers from now on. Thanks to your mother's care, my mother will not treat you badly. In the future, if we have a share, we will share it with you."

The teenagers were overjoyed when they heard this, and Liu Zhan's timely generosity brought them closer together, and the teenagers chattered non-stop along the way.

"Boss, will we be ruined if we haven't gone to the trap for a few days?" Wen Qingshan walked in the front.

"It must have been ruined by the heavy rain in those days." Cao Ming shook the branch in his hand.

"That's such a pity." Zhang Xiaoman was looking forward to participating in the wild hunting for the first time, and this news was like a basin of cold water.

"What's the pity, if you ruin it, just destroy it and do it again." Cao Zhuang was annoyed.

Liu Zhan occasionally walked in the middle in response.

Due to the rapid drop in temperature after the heavy rain, the water on the ground turned to ice, and the road was wet and slippery. They walked very slowly, and finally found the place where the traps were placed. Sure enough, most of the traps were destroyed by the heavy rain. Although everyone is mentally prepared, it is inevitable that they will be disappointed.

In his previous life, Liu Zhan loved camping, and even spent millions of dollars on hunting trips to the United States. According to his experience, animals in winter rains like this are also cats. At least the animals will not be active until the sun comes out after the heavy snow falls. , At that time, there will also be a wave of hunting and harvest.

After a few words of comfort to the younger brothers, Liu Zhan took everyone to find the last pothole trap, and when they were near the trap, Liu Zhan signaled everyone to stop.

"The trap is near here, don't come over here so as not to step on me by mistake to confirm."

The sharpened branches buried in the trap can penetrate the soles of feet, and Liu Zhan himself walked very carefully.

The heavy rain washed away all the marks he left, and he had to tap the ground with a branch to confirm every step he took.

Suddenly Liu Zhan stopped suddenly, he seemed to hear the panting sound of a beast!

Liu Zhan turned his head and gestured for everyone to be quiet, and suddenly the panting became clearer, even the fourth brother heard it!

"Yes, is it the Wild Boar King?" Wen Qingshan's legs began to tremble.

"No, no way..." Cao Zhuang wiped off his cold sweat.

"Shut up!" Liu Zhan scolded in a low voice.

He touched it carefully and brushed away the bushes, only to see half of a wild boar with a black body and a mane fell into the pit, half of which was covered in blood!

The wild boar was not very big, about seventy or eighty catties. Liu Zhan judged that it should be only six or seven months old, so it was able to come here through the dense thorn bushes.

God help him!

Without hesitation, Liu Zhan drew out the dagger from his waist and rushed over to give it a fatal blow!

Perhaps driven by the instinct to survive, the wild boar felt the crisis of death and suddenly struggled so hard that it crawled out of the pothole at a critical moment!

Liu Zhan didn't dig the hole very deep. He wanted to catch some small animals, but who would have thought that a wild boar would come.

Liu Zhan's eyes were scarlet, and he pounced on it again without thinking, he wanted this wild boar!must!

After the wild boar lost too much blood and jumped out of the pothole, it was exhausted and panted. It wanted to run away immediately, but it had no strength. However, no matter how weak the wild boar was, he, a 12-year-old boy, couldn't handle it!

The wild boar screamed and turned Liu Zhan over with all its strength, and bit down without hesitation with its big mouth. Liu Zhan barely avoided it with all his strength.

"What are you still doing!"

The fourth little brother was completely frightened and was awakened by Liu Zhan sipping a drink. At this time, Liu Zhan had already wrestled with the wild boar for several rounds, and he didn't know whether the blood stains all over his body were his own or the wild boar's.

"Ah!! I'm fighting with you!!" Cao Zhuang was the first to jump over to help.

Then there was Cao Ming, Zhang Xiaoman, and finally Wen Qingshan. The four of them, some with sticks and others with stones, beat the wild boar with all their might.

At this time, Liu Zhan saw the timing and stabbed the wild boar's throat with precision, and the wild boar who was screaming immediately became dumb.

The teenagers collapsed on their backs.

Liu Zhan pushed away the wild boar lying on his body and stood up. He felt pain everywhere, especially his left hand.

Luckily, he didn't dislocate or break the bone when he touched the bone himself. Liu Zhan felt it was inconceivable that this wild boar had the strength to kill him with only this little injury!

But Liu Zhan didn't regret it, he was born with a desperate spirit to start from scratch in his previous life!

The fourth little brother came back to his senses, first he was afraid, then he was in a daze, and finally he was so excited when he saw the wild boar's corpse!

"We killed a wild boar!!!"