The hot aura continued to decline, and the remaining blood of the setting sun shook out the last trace of its afterglow.
Zhang Xuezhou looked out of the window at the beginning of night and realized that the hard day was finally over.
This hot weather makes it difficult to feel comfortable. There is no cooling device, no icy cold water, and no high-rise buildings to block the layers of sunlight.
Even the house where he lives still has a faintly visible afterglow.
The world is like a steamer, and he is the poor worm in the steamer.
In this weather, Zhang Xuezhou just wanted to lie down in a bucket and wait for the day to pass peacefully.
"Fortunately, I don't have to practice martial arts with those wild bulls!"
Zhang Xuezhou stretched his head and looked towards the center of the village more than 200 meters away.
It was a favorite gathering place for young people in the village and a place for young people to practice martial arts.
The young people's practice is not advanced, it is nothing more than archery, and they continue to hone their muscle memory and eyesight.
If you want to fill your stomach in this era, archery hunting is an essential skill.
Only by constantly hunting wild beasts can people continue to obtain meat to strengthen their bodies.
Survival skills are a necessity for everyone. Not only young people need to take the initiative to practice, parents, clan leaders, elders and other respected people will also urge them to practice.
Zhang Xuezhou's ability to be lazy is not because he has a pivotal position in the village, nor is he a second-generation villager. He is just physically weak.
Almost an adult, Zhang Xuezhou can only lift a hundred kilograms of stone millstone.
Compared with Zhang Changgong, the leader of the young people, who can easily lift an iron pier weighing more than 400 kilograms with outstretched arms, Zhang Xuezhou's strength is a little weak, and he is somewhat lacking in pulling an ordinary bow and arrow.
If the village does not support idle people, martial arts training will not be successful. Zhang Xuezhou's livelihood activities are based on counting and calculating.
In addition to learning words, his most important learning is calculation.
Hunting wild beasts, good and bad crops after harvest...
In villages, various harvests must be counted, and each household's contribution must be calculated to distribute the harvest.
Balanced calculations are extremely easy for Zhang Xuezhou. It is nothing more than addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. However, it is a technical job to do things properly without causing imbalance in distribution and to convince everyone without any resentment.
No one in the village who does this job is lovable, and they will always offend some people.
Even the patriarchs and respected elders would have a headache from distributing food, and could only constantly introduce some scapegoats to share the pressure.
If anyone can no longer do the job, the elders will assign it to another person.
There is constant rotation, and a different newcomer takes over every three to five years.
Turn after turn, Zhang Xuezhou, who was following him as an apprentice, was pushed to the front of the stage.
"Zhou Zaizi, the hunting group is coming back soon. Get the scales and weights and get ready!"
More than a hundred meters away, the second elder Zhang Houtu, who was supervising the young people's martial arts training, shouted.
This made Zhang Xuezhou respond quickly and jump out of the large wooden barrel filled with water.
He threw on a coarse cloth haphazardly, and then raised the big scale that symbolized fairness and justice in the village.
This is a large scale that can weigh a thousand kilograms. The scale's beam is more than two meters long and its weight weighs ten kilograms.
The size of the large scale is not surprising. Zhang Xuezhou has weighed more than 800 kilograms of wild boars in the past.
The more than 300 people in the village depended on the hunting group's harvest for 70% of their food rations.
Whether to eat grass or meat depends on the ability of the village team.
Zhang Xuezhou picked up the big scale and strode out of the yellow mud-walled house.
At the entrance of the village, the cheerful barking of hounds and the sound of people gradually approached.
When the hunting group returned, the village was as lively as a festival.
Young people practicing martial arts, old people and children, farmers in the fields, and women busy with needlework all gathered in the center of the village.
"Brother Xuezhou, give me some more meat later, my mother hasn't eaten meat for half a month!"
"All we hunted this month were crows and sparrows. There was only a few taels of meat and a pile of bones. It was not enough to fill our stomachs."
"Zhang Cigong, your mother hasn't eaten meat for half a month, and it's not because I gave it to you to eat. If you take a few less bites, your mother will have meat to eat. Why should you share more meat!"
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Among the crowds of people, there were many who were trying to connect with Zhang Xuezhou, and there were also some who were sarcastic.
Food is the most important thing, and even the best friendship will deteriorate in the face of hunger.
If he hadn't been in contact for a long time, it would be difficult for Zhang Xuezhou to understand the emotional changes of humans when they lack food.
He jogged and followed the lame second elder, muttering "Everyone has meat to eat" and keeping a close eye on the young men who were pulling the village gate.
Whether he can eat meat and whether he can share more meat does not depend on his allocation, but focuses more on the hunting group's harvest today.
The heavy wooden door was opened with great effort by four young men.
After the big wooden door opened, the hound happily turned its tail and entered the village.
The heavy footsteps of many tall men and women carrying bows, arrows and scimitars echoed in their ears.
This made Zhang Xuezhou happy, and many people's faces also showed joy.
There is obviously a difference between carrying a heavy load and walking with a light load.
The lighter your steps, the less you will gain.
The heavier the steps, the greater the gains.
This is the heaviness of the harvest.
But when the village gate was fully opened, many villagers who greeted the hunting group took a few steps back.
Zhang Xuezhou, who prided himself on being bold, could not help but feel a chill in his heart.
They are used to seeing jackals, tigers, leopards and ferocious beasts, but they rarely see pythons, and they are huge and poisonous pythons.
This kind of python has even grown a single horn, so it must be extremely old.
Zhang Xuezhou glanced at the disgustingly colorful color of the python, and his pupils shrank slightly.
Even if some vicious creatures are dead and maimed, they still exude the aura of being forbidden to strangers, making them intimidating.
Two scimitars were inserted into the side of the python's head, and the blades were pierced in simultaneously.
One of the swords is the head knife of the Zhang Bao family. It is sharp enough to pierce a tortoise shell and has extremely strong penetrating power. The Zhang Bao family usually regards it as life.
One of the swords is the Broken Wind Knife.
As the name suggests, the Wind-Breaking Knife can cut through even the wind. Although it is a bit exaggerated, the Wind-Breaking Knife is also a rare good knife.
The most important thing is that the owner of this sword is Zhang Xuezhou's father, Zhang Zhong.
Zhang Zhong's strength was at the upper-middle level in the village, but with this sword, Zhang Zhong became the second-in-command of the hunting group.
At this time, two knives were inserted into the python's head. Zhang Xuezhou knew clearly without looking that this python only had a trace of ferocious power left, and it was difficult to hurt anyone.
"This snake's skin is poisonous, don't touch it you melon!"
There were more than forty people in the hunting group, all of whom were extremely powerful. However, this python, which was more than three feet long, forced the hunting group to use half of its manpower for transportation.
Zhang Baojia cursed at Zhang Changgong who was eager to touch the beast, and the bold Zhang Changgong immediately retracted his hand.
"Can this poisonous python be eaten?"
Zhang Changgong couldn't help but ask.
"When you're hungry, you can even chew the bark of a tree. I can't even eat meat if I give it to you." Zhang Baojia scolded: "Don't be picky at a young age. This kind of vicious thing is coming near us. You can't see it for hundreds of miles around." Big beast, I don’t know when the next time I’ll eat meat is!”
"Xuezhou, give me two more pounds, and I will pick up ten buckets of water for your family tomorrow!"
Zhang Baojia's words stopped Zhang Changgong from having any picky thoughts, and he started to build relationships instead, which immediately triggered a round of booing and scolding.
"Remove the venomous fangs, drain the venomous blood, peel off the snake skin, and remove all the venomous veins. The rest of this python is full of good meat!" Zhang Zhong said in a deep voice.
"While it's still fresh, let's all try our best," Zhang Baojia shouted, "Bring the big bucket of bloodletting from the village and get a few more basins of water!"
When the giant python enters the village, the eyes of many people who have been waiting for meat for a long time shine and everyone helps.
Zhang Xuezhou put the scale down, and Zhang Zhong and others began to measure the gross weight.
"The scales are not enough. This giant python must be at least two thousand..."
Seeing that the weight was placed at the end of the scale pole and was still hanging high, Zhang Xuezhou made a rough estimate.
He blurted out the guessed number, and saw a glimmer of light fly out of the giant python's eyes that almost turned white.
Violence, cruelty, murder, ruthlessness...
Being noticed by the giant python, Zhang Xuezhou felt that the python's eyes were filled with too many negative emotions.
If it could be done, Zhang Xuezhou had no doubt that the giant python wanted to kill everyone in the village.
"It makes no sense, this piece of shit is so heavy!" Zhang Baojia cursed.
Zhang Xuezhou has very good estimation skills as he weighs things all the time.
Zhang Baojia felt that there was a big difference between his estimated weight and Zhang Xuezhou's estimate.
Of course, everything depends on what Zhang Xuezhou said. After all, he only knows white knives and red knives, and he is not professional in calculating things.
But the weight of this giant python was far beyond Zhang Bao's expectations.
Even though his estimate of the weight was low, he was not wrong by hundreds of kilograms.
"This figure, this body shape, this... forget it, cut it into two pieces and weigh it and you'll know!"
He just felt that it was difficult to figure out why his estimation ability was so low. When the big wooden barrel for bleeding was brought, he quickly took out the cow-ear knife inserted in the python's head and cut off the snake seven inches away.
The bull-ear knife was struck down hard, and the python's body swung weakly before being pinned down by many people.
When Zhang Zhong's wind-splitting knife was relayed, the blood from the python's body suddenly shot out like a fountain.
Zhang Xuezhou felt a slight explosion of energy in the air, and faintly, waves of fruity aroma overflowed.
The air seemed to have some sweetness.
"That bitch has to fart before he dies!"
Zhang Baojia cursed and thrust the bull-eared knife into it, and a white snake tendon was immediately picked out by the bull-eared knife.
"It's so muscular that it can be used as a top-grade bow string... Why is there still a chicken head?"
The snake's tendons pulled upward, and the python's squirming body immediately pushed up the swallowed food in its belly.
Zhang Bao's family saw a huge golden pheasant's head being pulled out from the snake's belly.
Like the python they captured, this colorful golden pheasant also had a breath left, its head was swollen to the size of a pig's head, and there was a trace of happiness and confusion in its eyes.
Zhang Baojia instantly understood the biggest reason why everyone was able to hunt this ferocious beast, and also understood why his estimate of the weight was so wrong.
"Don't eat the poisoned parts!"
He stretched out his hand to pull the snake's tendon, and the cow-ear knife in his hand swiped quickly.
But when the cow-eared knife pierced the head of the colorful golden pheasant, a knife passed by lightly, faster than his cow-eared knife.
The colorful golden pheasant's head suddenly flew high into the sky.
Able to tangle and fight fiercely with pythons, and even fight against pythons all the time, and still have some breath left until now. The colorful golden pheasant seems to have an auspicious name, but it is obviously not a good person.
This is something far superior to wolves, tigers, leopards and ferocious beasts. Once it regains its strength, the consequences are unpredictable.
The Zhang Bao family was quick to strike, and so was Zhang Zhong.
With one slash, the chicken head flew out, and the sound of air explosion sounded again.
The sweet air before suddenly condensed into a small area of mist.
