Chapter 106 Going into the Mountains Together
Just then he saw a pheasant startled from the bushes, cackling and flapping its colorful long wings. He didn't have time to draw his arrow or bow, so he just threw a wild pear in his hand at the pheasant, and the pheasant fell down screaming.
"Hit it!" Zhao Lixiang and Zhao Lin cheered and rushed over to pick it up.
Zhao Liya couldn't help but show her surprise, her eyes shining, and she couldn't help but applaud and praise: "Wow, Brother Zhou is amazing!"
Zhou Han Sheng was sent to Shuzhong by his family to learn martial arts since he was a child. He was talented, smart and hardworking, and he heard countless praises from childhood to adulthood.
He never thought those empty words had any meaning, and he always looked calm and composed in his heart. For this reason, people praised him for being so calm and steady at such a young age!
But hearing Zhao Liya's praise, Zhou Hansheng felt genuinely happy and proud. He smiled and said to Zhao Liya, "It's just a trivial skill, not worth anything."
Zhao Liya laughed and said, "Only someone as capable as Brother Zhou would be qualified to say this in such a tone. Anyone else would never be able to say this!"
She couldn't help but envy him: "Although I know some martial arts, I am definitely not as good as Brother Zhou."
"Oh?" Zhou Hansheng couldn't help but look at her in surprise. "So you know some boxing skills. That's good. It'll be safer this way."
Zhao Liya was a little worried at first, wondering if he would say something like, "It's too rude for a girl to behave like this." Hearing that, she felt relieved and said with a smile, "Yeah, I think so too!"
Zhou Hansheng added, "However, unless it's absolutely necessary, it's better not to fight with others."
Hmm? Zhao Liya tentatively jokingly asked, "Could it be that Brother Zhou thinks it's too rude for a girl to hit someone?"
"How could that be?" Zhou Hansheng was surprised. "It's just that you are a woman after all, and your physical strength is naturally inferior to that of men. If you face some strong men, you will probably be at a disadvantage. If you can avoid it, then avoid it. If you can't avoid it, then you must catch them off guard and strike decisively. Don't linger in a fight."
These words really touched Zhao Liya's heart!
Zhao Liya was immediately overjoyed and smiled: "Brother Zhou is absolutely right! I wouldn't fight with anyone easily." In fact, she was still relatively gentle and her image could not be ruined.
I felt so emotional in my heart. Brother Zhou is not only good-looking, but also very capable and has a good character. He does not have the bad habit of looking down on women and not taking them seriously in this era. How can such a good person be so likable!
It's a pity that it's too good, so good that she can't afford it.
This is such a bummer!
Zhao Liya couldn't help but sigh softly.
While the two were talking, Zhao Lixiang and Zhao Lin had already jumped back, holding the injured pheasant that was cackling.
"Sister! Brother Zhou!"
"Look! We got it! We got it!"
“What a beautiful pheasant!”
Zhao Liya and Zhou Hansheng hurried over to greet them. Zhao Liya took the pheasant from the two children and spoke to them with a smile.
The two children were so excited when they entered the mountain that they couldn't calm down for a moment. Zhao Liya and Zhou Hansheng accompanied them to run all over the mountain and picked a lot of wild fruits. The two children picked up many beautiful leaves and saw several little squirrels hunting. They were so cute with their bright black eyes, fluffy big tails and shiny brown fur.
Not long after, Yu Xiaofang ran over to them with a smile on his face: "Come with me quickly, we found a large field of wild chestnuts on the ridge ahead, let's go and smash them!"
"Okay! Let's go!" Zhao Liya's eyes lit up and she called out to the two children and Zhou Hansheng.
She was just thinking about eating chestnuts when she came across them by chance.
Sugar-fried chestnuts, chestnut syrup, chestnut cake, etc., as well as her most missed chestnut roast chicken and chestnut and winter bamboo shoot stewed pork belly!
Many families in Zaihu Village and Bajiaozhai have chestnut trees. Some families even have old trees that have been growing for decades. They grow on the mountain with lush branches and leaves like giant umbrellas, some are as high as seven or eight meters, and some are eleven or twelve meters. Every year, the trees are densely packed, and all you see are hedgehogs.
She had wanted to ask the villagers for some, but now that she could make her own food and clothing, it was naturally better.
Yu Xiaofang quickly led them to the top of the mountain ridge, where there was indeed a large patch of wild chestnut trees growing on the gentle ridge.
The tree is not very tall, so you can climb up to pick the thorny chestnuts. Use a stone to smash the thorny shells on the outside, and you can get the chestnuts one by one.
Qu Yutao, Luo Shuyan and two or three of Zhou Hansheng's followers were also here. Zhao Liya and the others came and joined in while chatting and laughing.
There were so many chestnuts on the tree that Yu Xiaofang and the others easily picked down a large pile, and Zhao Liya and the others smashed them together.
Zhao Liya had certainly seen such chestnuts in her previous life, but not in this life. She cooperated with the two children who had never seen them before and were shouting and marveling at them, and was also surprised.
The chestnuts had strong thorns, so she didn't dare let the two children touch them. Luo Shuyan smiled and asked the two children to look for them in the surrounding grass. "There are also many fallen ripe chestnuts in the grass. They don't have thorns on their shells. Look, they are like this, one by one. Can you go look for them?"
The brother and sister thought that finding chestnuts was more fun than smashing them, so they went there happily.
Zhao Lin quickly found one, which was black, shiny, plump and very beautiful. He proudly told the adults about it and received a lot of praise, which made him look for it even more enthusiastically.
When Zhao Lixiang saw this, he also became excited and wanted to compete with his brother. Both of them were looking for it with great enthusiasm.
You know what, they actually found quite a few!
When everyone left the mountains in the afternoon, they had gained a lot.
The medium-sized backpack was filled with chestnuts, probably about thirty pounds. There were also many wild persimmons and pears. On the way back, I also dug up five or six winter bamboo shoots.
Besides Zhou Hansheng's pheasant hunt, Lin Mo and his companions also reaped a boar weighing 130-150 kilograms. It wasn't huge, but it wasn't small either. In this weather, it was just enough for a group of people to eat for three or four days.
After all, it’s not the twelfth lunar month yet, when we make bacon and sausages, so it’s not good to keep the meat for too long.
After returning to the village, Widow Qu and Aunt Li Shiyi hurried into the kitchen to boil water to scald the wild boar and shave its hair. The backyard became busy and bustling.
When they carried the wild boar into the village, the villagers were extremely envious.
"Such a big wild boar, it's all meat, it will take several days to finish it!"
"Lin Mo is good at hunting, it's not surprising."
"The Zhao family is so lucky. Lin Mo is so close to them. They will have endless meat to eat in the future!"
"That's not true. I've seen it three times recently. Cousin Lin Mo and his brother sent pheasants, rabbits, and other things to the Zhao family."
"Why didn't you send it to the Luo family before?"
Whenever Lin Mo was mentioned, the topic always seemed to turn to the Luo family. Everyone was silent for a moment, and then they all laughed.
"Of course I won't send it, even if it were me I wouldn't send it either!"
(End of this chapter)
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