Chapter 410 The Great Worm
Lin Changning looked at the goose in his guard's hand, which he had shot through with an arrow, and felt somewhat annoyed. The arrow had gone straight through the goose's wing and abdomen. The goose was meant to live, but this one probably wouldn't live much longer.
After thinking for a moment, Lin Changning looked at the guards behind him and said, "Go into the reeds and help drive them away."
After he finished speaking, the two guards behind him dismounted, picked up two wooden sticks from the bank, and shouted as they hit the reeds in the reeds.
After helping to chase the geese once, Qi Rong ran towards Lin Changning. Seeing that his relatives were all going down to help chase the geese, he nodded.
He also drew his bow and shot at the birds that flew out of the reeds.
Li Mingxiu and Li Mingde were itching to try their hand at archery, but their skills were mediocre, so they could only watch helplessly as Lin Changning and Qi Rong rode around the reeds, shooting arrow after arrow.
After a while, three guards carrying two geese, three egrets, and several wild ducks walked towards Lin Changning and his group.
"My lord, these two are alive, only their wings are injured."
Lin Changning's eyes lit up. He took the two wildly flapping geese from the guard's hands, frowned as he looked at the two geese, which were of slightly different sizes, and said...
"Why do they look so different sizes? Let's keep going, they'll look better if they're the same size."
Qi Rong looked at Lin Changning's somewhat fussy manner and chuckled softly: "You're quite serious. One big one or one small one is fine, just right for you and my sister."
Lin Changning stared wide-eyed in disbelief at the people teasing her.
"Second brother, when did you turn bad too?"
Qi Rong chuckled twice: "You flatter me, Xiao Liu."
After saying that, he continued riding his horse and galloped around the lake. The two pairs of guards continued to chase the birds along the shore. Lin Changning held a bow and arrow and rode around the lake. Finally, a large goose was chased out of the reeds again.
The goose flapped its wings, preparing to flee into the woods on the other side of the lake. Lin Changning, whose head was quite large, had a bright idea and shot an arrow at the goose's wing.
With a whoosh, it struck the wild goose squarely. The goose tumbled through the air and plunged into the lake with a splash, frantically flapping its wings as it swam toward the shore.
Lin Changning squinted as he watched the wild geese flap their wings and paddle across the lake, fleeing into the woods on the opposite side. He quickly rode off to catch up.
This one is big, about the same size as the one he just hunted, just right, it should be suitable as a betrothal goose.
Thinking this, Lin Changning chased after it, riding Moyun along both sides of the lake and quickly approaching the forest on the other side. The wild goose flapped its wings to speed up, its two short legs moving quickly. After getting off the lake, it quickly plunged into the forest on the other side like a free-range chicken.
Lin Changning chuckled and rode Moyun straight into the forest. The wild geese were flapping their wings and running around on the ground. Lin Changning quickly approached the wild geese that were wandering aimlessly in the forest.
When Li Mingxiu and Li Mingde outside saw Lin Changning plunge into the woods opposite, their expressions changed, and they quickly called out to Qi Rong to rush over there.
"Second brother, stop Changning! Father says there are tigers in the forest!"
Qi Rong saw Lin Changning plunge into the woods with a tense expression, and he followed suit, rushing into the woods as well.
The lake here is beautiful, but people from Taiyuan never come here because there are several tigers in the forest. A few years ago, one of them ate a person here, and ever since then, ordinary people, including officials' families, have stopped coming here.
It is said to be a ferocious tiger weighing several hundred pounds, which devoured almost all the wild boars and large wild animals in the area.
Seeing Lin Changning blindly plunge into the woods, the three of them quickly led all their guards in after him.
Lin Changning had just caught up with the flapping geese. He dismounted and grabbed the geese by their wings, feeling quite pleased with himself. Now the two large geese looked exceptionally symmetrical, which made him look quite impressive.
Lin Changning, who was carrying the goose and about to head back, mounted his horse and attached the goose to its saddle. Suddenly, he heard a rustling sound coming from the bushes beside him.
Without a second thought, he drew his bow and shot an arrow into the bushes behind him. A red fox with snarling fur emerged from the bushes and fled outside.
Lin Changning's eyes lit up. This fox's fur was much smoother and more lustrous than the one he had seen on the Daxing Grassland. The bright red fur was an exceptionally vibrant color. He could take it back and make a scarf for Yue'er.
Thinking this, Lin Changning spurred his horse and chased after it. He drew his bow and fired three arrows in a row. However, the fox was exceptionally cunning. It leaped left and right, using the trees in the forest to dodge several of Lin Changning's arrows. The last arrow struck its hind leg.
The fox let out a miserable cry and continued to limp forward, though its speed had slowed considerably.
Lin Changning excitedly rode Moyun and chased after it.
The two bodyguards who chased after them turned pale.
"My lord! Don't go any further in! There are huge tigers in these mountains!!!"
"Sir!!! Stop!!!"
Lin Changning heard someone calling her from behind, but because the distance was quite far, she couldn't hear what the guards behind her were saying. She only heard them say that there were some insects.
Lin Changning turned her head to look at the guards chasing after her, and frowned slightly. What was there to be afraid of about insects? She turned her head back and saw the fox that was already very close to her.
Lin Changning rode Moyun directly after it. When he got close to the fox, he saw the fox hissing and rolling over to try to avoid Lin Changning's horse.
Lin Changning flipped off the ground, grabbed the fox by the neck, lifted it up, tied its four mouths together, and hung it on the horse's back.
Only then, satisfied, did they prepare to head back.
After mounting Mo Yun, Lin Changning tugged at the reins, but for some reason, Mo Yun remained stiff and motionless for a long time.
Lin Changning was completely bewildered, thinking that Mo Yun was just throwing a tantrum. He stroked Mo Yun's head and combed the horse's mane a few times: "Don't be tantrum, be good. I'll give you extra good feed when we get back."
Mo Yun remained stiff. Chang Ning tugged at the reins a few times before he began to move slightly. Lin Chang Ning noticed that something was wrong with Mo Yun and frowned as he looked around.
Only then did I realize that something was very wrong with this forest. In broad daylight, if someone wasn't lying in ambush, why would the forest be so quiet? There wasn't a single bird chirping, not even a cicada's song.
Realizing something was wrong, Lin Changning quickly became alert and slowly retreated on his Moyun.
With a deep roar, a striped tiger, nearly twice the size of Mo Yun, drooled as it roared and walked toward Lin Changning.
Holy crap! A tiger!
Lin Changning then realized that the guards who had been chasing him weren't talking about insects, they were talking about a huge insect! A tiger!!!
Lin Changning looked at Mo Yun, whose body was stiff and almost unable to move, and then at the golden pupils staring at them, and gritted his teeth to put away his bow and arrow.
He slowly tightened his grip on his long sword.
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