Chapter 28 A Good Wild Thorn Bubble
The torches were bright, and everyone at the cave entrance saw the wolf pounce on Xie Yanyan and screamed in fear.
When Xie Xiangxiang and Xie Tingting heard that the wolf had attacked Xie Yanyan, their hearts were pounding with excitement. Did they get what they wanted so soon?
When Tang Zhan heard the first scream, he felt a gust of cold wind brought by the wolf's pounce.
He was shocked, but did not dare to shoot the arrow immediately, for he was afraid of hurting Xie Yanyan by mistake.
At that moment, someone pushed Old Shen at the entrance of the cave, and Old Shen rushed forward, just in time to "push" Xie Yanyan out.
The wolf used its two claws to hold down Old Shen, and its sharp claws scratched Old Shen's face and neck.
Old Shen howled like a pig being slaughtered.
When Tang Zhan saw the wolf fall to the ground, he shot an arrow from his hand. The arrow hit the wolf's neck. The wolf let out an "Ouch!", bared its teeth, pressed its front paws on the ground, and pounced on Tang Zhan.
Xie Ning and Xie Anfeng both reacted and rushed over desperately. The wolf was stunned. So many people fighting against one wolf?
It stopped grabbing the horse and fled in the direction it had observed beforehand.
Tang Zhan shot another arrow.
Hit the wolf's head.
The wolf screamed and fell to the ground. Xie Yong took the wooden stick and beat the wolf hard, making it deader than dead.
Old Shen was still howling, and Xie Qingmu was upset and shouted, "Mom, stop howling. If you don't come back, you will be eaten by the wolves."
Old Shen then used all four limbs to climb towards the cave.
The wolves rushed over frantically, and Li Rong shouted, "Tang Zhan, shoot them."
Tang Zhan immediately loaded three iron arrows into the crossbow, and with a whoosh, he shot out three arrows, killing the two wolves in the front. Li Rong and Liu Mingjie were already swinging their goose-feather knives at the other wolves.
Zhu Ba lit the remaining torches, called a few men over, and yelled at the wolves while holding torches.
Xie Yanyan instinctively hid in the space just now. Now she has come out and shouted in the shadows: "Brother, there is a bow in the secret compartment on the roof."
Xie Ning ran very fast, grabbed the bow and quiver, and shot the wolf together with Tang Zhan.
With Li Rong and his men's goose-feather swords, two bows and crossbows, and Xie Anfeng, a general with rich combat experience, five wolves were quickly killed and several others were injured.
"Oh wow~" The wolves were almost wiped out and retreated immediately.
Li Rong and his men did not chase after them. The wolves certainly did not dare to come again today.
The night in the mountains was too quiet, but the shouting and fighting here still woke up the people in the distant Duangou Village.
The village head brought the villagers on patrol to come and see.
I was surprised to see so many torches and that 5 wolves were killed.
"Oh, you killed so many wolves?"
"The wolves on this mountain are very ferocious and have injured many passers-by."
Li Rong was still in shock and didn't look very nice to the head of the village.
They originally wanted to stay overnight outside the village, but the headman refused. He knew there were wolves here, but he didn't warn them. Fortunately, the third lady had torches and crossbows left by Prince Zhou in her carriage, otherwise they would have all died here.
He said nothing, and everyone in the cave was terrified. If they had not been able to stop the wolves, they would have been bitten to death or injured.
The village head asked Li Rong: "You have killed so many wolves, it is not convenient to take them away, can you..."
Li Rong refused outright: "No!"
Free? What the hell are you thinking!
"The weather is getting hotter and hotter. The wolf skins are useless to you, and the wolf meat is inedible. How about we exchange them for food?"
Li Rong hated the village head, but he was somewhat tempted by the village head's proposal. It was indeed inconvenient to carry five wolves, so it would be better to exchange them for some dry food.
Zhu Ba talked with the head of the village for a while and decided to exchange the two wolves for 400 hot cakes and 10 buckets of millet porridge.
Each person can get 2 pancakes and a bowl of millet porridge to calm their nerves.
Xie Yanyan was reluctant to part with it. Two wolves for such a small amount? Even in the country market, two skins could be sold for at least ten taels of silver.
One tael of silver could be exchanged for about 250 coins, a steamed bun was only 2 coins, and the homemade cakes in the village didn't even cost a coin.
This account is really a big loss.
But she couldn't say it now. More than 200 people were starving, and she was too lazy to cook wolf meat for so many people.
The head of the village asked people to go back and make pancakes and porridge, saying that they would definitely be delivered at 3 pm. He also left two people to help stand guard and told Li Rong and the others to rest quickly.
Xie Yanyan said to Li Rong, "Master Li, please give me one of the remaining three wolves."
Li Rong readily agreed: "Thanks to your torch and crossbow today, all three wolves are yours. I'll ask Zhu Ba to help you peel off the wolf skins and dry them in the sun. You can make a wolf skin mattress for the winter."
She didn't care about the mattress or anything like that. She wanted to make some spicy wolf meat jerky as a snack on the way.
After tossing and turning for half the night, Xie Yanyan returned to the earthen kang and fell asleep.
Old Shen cried out in pain, saying her neck and face were bleeding. The Xie family's side branches were almost fed up with this family and shouted, "Master Li, we don't want to be with them anymore."
Li Rong thought of the wolf hunting, when this family was still dismantling the show. They were exhausted, but now they said nothing. They got up, held up the torch, and said fiercely: "Beat!"
As the torches got closer, I could see the family's faces and faces answering each other.
The resentment in his heart became even stronger. Not to mention Liu Mingjie, seven or eight escorts drove the Xie family out of the cave, and beat them to death, regardless of gender!
Apart from the sound of the whip, there was the crying and begging for mercy of the Shen family. No other prisoners even offered any advice.
Even though Xie Jinrong was not beaten for the sake of Xie Anfeng, he was still dragged out of the cave and thrown outside.
After the fight, the Xie family members didn’t dare to quarrel anymore. They huddled together and shivered in the spring cold.
At the hour of Yin, the sky was getting a little light and the villagers brought cakes and millet porridge.
The biscuits were made with shoddy materials, the size of a palm and as thin as paper. The millet porridge was also very thin. The prisoners shared the biscuits and porridge and only ate half full.
Li Rong looked unhappy. This villager was really mean.
But they were just passing by and didn't bother to make a fuss about it.
Xie Yanyan received the same bread and porridge as everyone else, which was fair. The prisoners were also very happy and asked her what she was going to do with the three wolves.
Xie Yanyan said that the torches and crossbows were given by Prince Zhou, and her father asked her to process the wolf meat and make some food to repay the favor.
Everyone also thanked Prince Zhou. If it weren't for the torches and crossbows, everyone's life and death would have been in danger at night.
After eating the pancakes, Xie Yanyan held the hands of Xiao Baozi and Xie Lingyu and said, "We will set off soon. Let's go to the foot of the mountain to see if there are any wild fruits."
Xie Lingyu is very smart. If her sister asks her to see if there are any wild fruits, then there must be some.
He jumped off the kang, picked up Xie Yusheng, and said, "Uncle will take you to find wild vegetables, and then ask sister to make porridge for us."
Xie Yanyan walked around in front and saw a field of small white flowers dotted with densely packed small red fruits.
Bubble!
On the roadside and in the grass, there are large patches of prickly ash (also known as raspberries), scientifically known as Rubus idaeus.
The fruits are not big, and they are not densely distributed in the wild, but there is such a large area that you can pick a lot.
She picked two large leaves, folded them into cone-shaped corners, and put some prickly ash in the corners.
People living in northern cities didn't know that this wild fruit was edible. Normally, no one picked it. Only children in the countryside would occasionally pick some to eat, but they would never sell them. So Xiao Baozi and Xie Lingyu had never known about this little fruit.
I picked a few and put them in my mouth. They tasted okay, sour and sweet.
“Eat quickly.”
Xie Yanyan put a handful of prickly ash in the hands of Xiao Baozi and told Xiao Baozi and Xie Lingyu to eat quickly, otherwise everyone would come over soon and there would be too many wolves and too little meat, so they would never get any more.
(End of this chapter)
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