The light rain outside the window started pattering again. This was the fourth rain since June.
It doesn't sound like much, but it's only the third day of June.
It always rains more in Moshi Village than elsewhere, and the villagers should have been used to it, but now they have sad faces because the rain comes at the wrong time.
Wheat is harvested in mid-June. At this time, the wheat is in the maturity stage. The wheat ears themselves are very heavy. In addition, on rainy days, the soil is moist and they will fall down if there is a slight breeze.
Wheat lodging will make harvesting more difficult. This is secondly. If there is too much rain, the wheat grains will become moldy and sprout. This is a major problem, which can affect the livelihood of the villagers in the next six months.
While the farmers in the south of the village were discussing whether to harvest early, in a small courtyard with a different style in the north of the village, a certain young man was leisurely showing off his artistic talent.
He moved a small stool and sat under the eaves. He mixed some mud with the rainwater flowing down from the eaves, and began to rub it attentively. The mud ball kept changing shapes in his hands.
"Woo~"
At his feet, a small pure white beast with fluffy hair roared.
"This time I'm pinching Mr. Guan. Once it's done, we'll put it in the C position."
"Woo?"
"C position means core position. This word was first used in games. It would take a long time to explain it from the beginning. Fortunately, I am a talkative person and I have the patience to explain it to you. Just listen to me and explain it to you slowly..."
"Ha~"
The little beast yawned, drooped its ears, and lay on its side listlessly. It knew that this guy was starting again. There are many strange things about this human being, one of which is that he can speak so enthusiastically even though he cannot understand the language.
The boy who is chattering is named Wei Feng. Based on the time he was born in this world, he is almost 17 years old.
17 years old is a youthful and energetic age. You should be studying, traveling, and working as a security guard... ahem, in short, you shouldn't be playing in the mud here.
Of course, Wei Feng will definitely argue that doing something with his hands can't be called playing in the mud, but there is always a reason for being so leisurely.
While he was chattering away, a statue came to life... well, to be precise, it was a weird clay sculpture that took shape in his hands.
From the iconic long beard and Qinglong Yanyue Sword, it is not unreasonable to say that this is the Martial Saint Guan Yunchang, but it is still a bit ugly.
"Woo?"
The little beast glanced at the clay figurine in his hand and whimpered in a strange tone.
"Don't worry about what the old man looks like. Praying for the second master is like worshiping the second master. The main thing is sincerity. Sincerity is spiritual. You don't understand." Wei Feng felt guilty but his tone was not at all.
Making figurines is a technical job, but he really doesn't have any skills. This always requires a lot of practice. He is just a seventeen-year-old boy. Making a living was a problem in the past few years. How could he have so much time to practice and be able to make a figure? A rough outline is fine.
After placing the kneaded Guan Erye on a wooden frame and waiting to dry, Wei Feng took a basin of water and washed the mud off his hands. He looked at the sky and saw that it was not completely dark yet, but considering that it was raining today, he should There are no pedestrians either, so it’s okay to set off.
He called to the little beast: "Cang Gou, let's go."
Cang Gou was the name he gave to the little beast. It was not a dog in itself. Wei Feng could not recognize what kind of creature it was, but the way it followed Wei Feng reminded him of the companion who had been with him throughout his childhood. Just think of it as a dog.
Cang Gou seemed to know the purpose of going there. He grinned slightly and followed closely. Although his limbs were short, he moved very frequently.
"Woo?"
"Yes, let's go to the mountain to get something to eat."
"Woo~"
The young man carried a short knife and did not wear a raincoat, so he walked openly into the rain. The gray dog did the same, but the rain was a little shy and avoided both of them.
There is an endless mountain range not far to the north of Moshi Village. People in the village don't know how vast the mountain range is, and they only move around the nearest peak on weekdays. They don't give it a name, just call it the back mountain.
In the past few years, small predators in the back mountains often went down the mountain, which caused harm to many poultry raised by villagers. It was not until Wei Feng moved to the north of the village that things improved.
Wei Feng originally lived in the north of the village. He walked not far from the village and reached the foot of the mountain. There was a small field at the foot of the mountain. The rain stopped when it reached the edge of the field. It was an acre of land that belonged to him.
But this was not the destination of this trip. He spiraled upward along a winding mountain path. Judging from his skillful movements, he had repeated it many times.
When Wei Feng climbed halfway up the mountain, the light rain from the south of the village had already reached the mountain peak. However, the intensity of the rain had decreased, and the drizzle became thin. If it didn't rain for a while, it would be difficult to wet the mountain road.
Starting from the middle of the mountain, the mountain road has some branches. These are the trails that the villagers have trampled all year round.
He walked along one of the paths, walking on his hands and knees through the woods. After a while, he came to the gap between two bushes. If he squatted down and looked carefully, he could find a length of hemp rope exposed in it. The rope The end is still trembling slightly.
But Wei Feng didn't need to look carefully. He bent down slightly, stretched out his hand and pulled out the hemp rope tied to the root of the tree. His movements were smooth and natural.
The other end of the rope was strung into a noose, and it was tightly wrapped around the lower abdomen of a gray rabbit. Due to the rabbit's instinctive struggle, the rope became tighter and tighter, and the noose had already been cut into the fur and stained with blood.
He first knocked the rabbit unconscious with the back of his knife, then carefully loosened the noose, took out the rabbit, and hung the noose on a bunch of branches in the bush. After doing this, he pressed the bunch of branches hard. Cut it off, leaving its lotus roots intact on the bush.
"Ugh?" Cang Gou squeezed out a sound from his throat.
"This is called slow water and long flow." Wei Feng said with a slight grin on his face.
After arranging everything, he carried the gray rabbit and continued walking into the mountains. When passing by a stream, he cleaned the rabbit with the help of the stream water, took away the fur, and left the internal organs in place. There would be predators to help him clean it, and then one person would clean it. The dog wandered around and came to a hidden cave somewhere.
There were flint and firewood stored by Wei Feng in this cave. He skillfully raised the fire and began to roast the plump rabbit.
At the same time, another villager went up the mountain despite the rain. He is Liu Laowu from Moshi Village. He lives in the south of the village. Seeing that the sky is getting darker, he will have to wait until tomorrow if he doesn't go up the mountain. If it rains, just brave it. .
For some reason, the rain in recent years always likes to catch up with his house and his fields. Not only is the harvest not good, but the grain stored in the family is also moldy. If he didn't have many brothers, he would also help out on weekdays. Life has long been unbearable.
So I went up the mountain in the rain today, just to see if there were any harvests from the condoms at the bottom of the mountain, and to get some meat.
It was drizzling but it continued for a while. The mountain road became muddy, slippery and a little difficult to walk. Liu Laowu walked through the mountain road with one foot deep and one foot shallow. He set a total of five traps, but found nothing in the first four places. The last place left.
This was the place he was most hopeful about, so he checked it last. When he walked to two bushes, his shoes and trouser legs were already covered in mud.
He bent down and groped for a while, and found his own hemp rope. He pulled it back and found that there was resistance coming from him. He suddenly felt happy on his face. This must be a reward!
Liu Laowu hurriedly increased his strength, and there was a "click" sound, and the resistance suddenly disappeared. He pulled out the noose, but only found a broken branch.
"Damn..." Liu Laowu couldn't help but cursed. On the one hand, it was because Kong was happy, and on the other hand, it also meant that today was another fruitless day.
When I was about to put away the noose, I accidentally saw some blood on the inside of the noose. Thinking of the branch that I just pulled off, I couldn't help but curse a little bit more unpleasantly.
He secretly thought that it was bad luck, thinking that the rope trap must have caught the prey, but at the same time it also caught the branches, leaving some gaps for the prey to struggle away. He couldn't help but secretly regret that if he had come to this trap earlier, maybe the prey would have been trapped. Haven't run away yet.
When I thought that I might have missed a meat meal because I arrived late, I felt even more depressed. I cursed in my mouth, maybe it was the continuous rain, or maybe it was the twists and turns of the mountain road. Will himself.
While he was cursing, it rained harder again, and he could only walk down the mountain in a hurry. It was already dark, and the road down the mountain was slippery, making it difficult to walk. In addition, he was angry and couldn't go down the mountain. Something else will happen on the way...
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"Pfft~"
In the cave, Wei Feng, who was roasting rabbit, couldn't help laughing.
"Woo?"
"Nothing, I thought of something happy. Ah, the rabbit is roasted, let's get started."
"Woo, woo~"
"Calm down, we'll go out for a trip when I feel better. Then we'll see if we can get some salt, pepper, cumin, etc. Then we can sprinkle it on to make it delicious."
"Uh, woo~" Cang Gou would also respond to him with his mouth open while enjoying his meal.
Ten minutes later, everyone and the dog had had enough rest, and Wei Feng was ready to start tanning the rabbit fur that had just been peeled off.
Suddenly, he made a movement in his hand and asked in a strange tone: "Have you ever seen anyone use a sword?"
Cang Gou rolled his eyes lazily: "Huh?"
Wei Feng rubbed his chin: "I have seen it, but I have never seen a sword that can shine..."
"Ugh?" Cang Gou wondered, will the sword also shine?
In the distant mountain forest, a long sword in the hand of a person is shining brightly. As for why Wei Feng knows, it is because the rain will tell Wei Feng everything it is witnessing...
