Chapter 909 Return
An hour later, the group finally got down the mountain.
The three people who stayed at the foot of the mountain saw Captain Qi bringing the embarrassed Li Gangtie and a group of guards, and hurried forward to help.
"Oh my god, Captain Li, you guys have such a great harvest, so many things!"
"It was just bad luck that I ran into a wolf."
When Li Gangtie heard this, his eyes widened and he said, "What are you talking about? If I had bad luck, how could I have killed so many prey? What's wrong with the wolf? Can't we eat it?"
"Hey, I was just joking. You don't know, seeing you guys haven't come back yet, Yuan Enli is so worried."
"Yes, yes. Lao Yuan almost went up the mountain to look for you. But we were worried and held him back. We waited until Captain Qi came down the mountain before asking him for help."
Li Gangtie immediately straightened his face and thanked Yuan Enli: "Thank you, Xiao Yuan! If you hadn't asked Captain Qi for help, we would have been eaten to pieces by the wolves."
Yuan Enli smiled shyly and quickly helped Captain Li up: "Don't say that. If you hadn't let me go down the mountain first, I would have had to fight those hungry wolves. My skills are not good enough, and I might have died before Captain Qi could help me. From this perspective, I should thank you."
Li Gangtie wanted to say something, but Qi Xili slapped him on the forehead: "Why, my contribution is not worthy of your thanks? All along the way, you didn't even say a polite word!"
Li Gangtie opened his mouth wide, stunned. He didn't expect Qi Xili to take credit for it.
He quickly hugged the other's arm and said flatteringly: "No! Without your help, I, Li Gangtie, will become scrap steel. I just want to treat you to a good meal when I get back. You and Xiaolin must come then."
Qi Xili smiled with satisfaction, but still waved his hand: "Come on, you should go back and take good care of your injuries. When you are well, you can step up your training."
"Okay!" Li Gangtie let go of Qi Xili's arm and said seriously, "Old Qi, thank you very much!"
"Yeah." Qi Xili patted the other person's shoulder and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, don't be so dull, let's quickly count the harvest!"
Chang Anhui hurriedly counted them, and a few minutes later he said happily: "Boss, we have caught a total of 23 rabbits, 18 snakes, 7 pheasants, 2 sparrows, a wild boar, 2 sheep, a deer, 132 fish, and 35 wolves.
My god, this harvest is enough for us to eat until this time next year, right?"
Li Gangtie nodded and said to everyone with a serious face: "We agreed before we came here that the results would be divided equally between the two teams. Although our team has gained more, without the help of Captain Qi and others, we would have been eaten by wolves. So give them the meat to eat, and don't have any ideas."
In the previous hunting trip, the difference between the two teams was not big, so he didn't say this. But today, their team has dozens of times more people than the other team, and he was afraid that someone would be petty.
As a result, the team members all smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay. Captain Qi is our savior, so we can give it all to him."
Li Gangtie smiled with relief and looked at Qi Xili. Qi Xili was not polite and nodded: "Just follow the original agreement."
"Well, we have to divide the team into half." Li Gangtie thought about it and asked everyone: "How about we hand over the wolf and the snake and divide the rest equally?"
"Sure! I'm a little afraid of snakes."
"Well, wolves are also thinner."
"But Captain, can we have a wolf skin? It's so cold in winter, it would be much better if we had a wolf skin mattress."
Qi Xili found that most of the wolf skins were still intact, so he nodded and agreed: "I will negotiate with the Wenmeng official, and it should be okay for each of us to have one."
"Okay, thank you Captain Qi."
After the group agreed, they threw the prey onto the horse-drawn sleigh. Because there were too many things and not enough space for everyone to sit, three carts were used to pull the prey, leaving one cart for everyone to take a rest.
Of course, the injured take priority.
Just like that, Shen Yanming was pushed onto the horse sled by the friendly guards, and then staggered towards the escort team.
At first, he was still in high spirits, and he gently comforted Bi Qiaoan in the space: "I'm fine, just slightly injured. As long as there is a space, I won't die."
Bi Qiaoan didn't have the heart to say anything to him. After all, no one had expected this. So he nodded and said, "Well, let's not participate in such dangerous activities in the future."
Shen Yanming smiled but didn't say anything. He thought that even if he didn't want to go, Li Gangtie would not abandon him as they had a love of living and dying together. But he didn't say it out loud to make his wife worry.
The two chatted in this way, and then Shen Yanming's eyelids became more and more sleepy, until more than ten minutes later, he fell asleep leaning against the horse sleigh.
That is to say, on the way back, everyone was leaning on their legs, and the horse sleigh was moving very slowly, so he was not thrown off.
Qi Xili saw this and tucked the torn quilt around him. Others were also yawning as they walked along in the cold night.
The snow on the road was deep, making it very difficult to walk. After walking for three or four hours, the group was so tired that they stopped to rest.
The horse-drawn sleigh stopped suddenly, and Shen Yanming fell forward and suddenly woke up.
He opened his eyes in confusion and looked at the dark surroundings, not knowing where he was.
"I fell asleep!" Shen Yanming's throat was a little dry. He rubbed his eyebrows and felt a little headache: "Where did you go? What time is it now?"
"I don't know where this is, but we are halfway there. It will probably take another three or four hours to get back," said Li Gangtie.
Shen Yanming felt that his hands and feet were a little stiff. He tried for a long time before he raised his arms and gently pinched them with his fingers that were not quite straight. After the activity started, he rubbed his legs and feet.
Then he got off the bus and said to everyone, "I'm sorry, I didn't expect I fell asleep."
"It's okay. You've never participated in a hunt before, so it's normal that you don't have the physical strength to keep up." Everyone waved their hands indifferently.
Shen Yanming squatted beside the fire that had just been lit and stretched out his hands to warm them. When he felt warm, he opened his backpack, took out the thermos cup, and drank two sips of Lingquan water and ginger tea.
It tasted good, but it was a little cold and only the bottom was left.
I couldn’t share it with others, but after I finished drinking it, my body quickly warmed up.
Bi Qiaoan prepared a lot of buns for him, and after distributing them during the day, there were still five or six left.
He ate two himself, gave one to Ji Kangyong, and the rest was eaten by Qi Xili.
He praised the filling of the buns again, chewed two slices of ginger, patted his slightly full stomach, and said with a smile: "Let's go, it's time to set off. Let's walk faster so that we can return to the escort team by dawn."
Shen Yanming nodded and packed up his things. Chang Anhui put out the fire with snow, put the unburned firewood on the car, and then the group set off again.
This time Shen Yanming did not ride the sled. He felt dizzy and needed to move.
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