Zhao Tong felt heavy. After a big meal, he hid a lot of cooked clams in his sleeves. Without him, the fish would be too difficult to get.
Walking on the road, I held my sleeves across my arms, for fear that the shells inside would fall out and I would be wasting my time.
But as I walked, I thought, there isn't much food in this shell. It's better to carry a fish and carry it away openly without hiding it. It doesn't matter what others think, just be shameless. Otherwise, you will end up hungry. Feeling uncomfortable at home.
Although there are lanterns hanging on both sides of the road on the island, it is always dim and not very bright. There are people who are returning home on the road, but there are not many Du Bo. Before setting off, Zhao Tu asked them to bring more things back. Maybe at this moment Not finished hiding yet.
You can't always go with them, it would be too embarrassing if your secret is exposed.
It's a pity that it's a seafood banquet. It would be great if there were cattle and sheep, or even worse, some birds and game.
Zhao Tong was in a complicated mood and couldn't help but quicken his pace. He wanted to hurry back to the cabin before he breathed a sigh of relief.
But just as he was walking quickly, a black shadow suddenly rushed down from the sky.
This black shadow was as fast as lightning and it was impossible to guard against it. Even though Zhao Tong had watched all directions and had been more vigilant and cautious since arriving on the island, he still didn't take much precaution against it in the sky.
I haven't heard of any kind of martial arts falling from the sky. Doesn't it mean that the person who uses martial arts has to give birth to a pair of wings?
But the black shadow did have a pair of wings, carrying strong wind, and flew straight down from the sky.
Zhao Tong was almost about to slash out Mo Xie's sword, but he saw the wings and knew it was a big bird, so he reached out to catch it.
His hands are so fast, not to mention that human palms are always more flexible than the claws and beaks of birds. He immediately grabbed a bird's leg and felt the shape. He knew it was an eagle-like creature. He leaned back slightly and avoided the inevitable attack. With a peck, he turned his palm and grabbed the other claw of the eagle.
With its two talons and legs together, the eagle immediately lost its balance and fell down. However, after all, the raptor only fell halfway, so it raised its back, straightened its waist and stretched its neck, trying to peck Zhao Tong's palm.
How could Zhao Tong let it peck? After shaking it vigorously for a few times, the eagle was dizzy and lost its energy. It gasped for breath, its head hung upside down, and it just stared sideways at Zhao Tong with its round eyes.
Zhao Tong was afraid that the clam in his sleeve would fall, so he did not dare to put his hands flat, so he had to hold the eagle across his chest, but he was ecstatic in his heart.
Okay, this is really great. I was worried that I had nothing to eat and would have to live in poverty in the future, so God sent a big bird. This is a good sign.
He was speeding up his pace at this moment, but before he had gone far, he heard a female voice like a silver bell coming from in front of him: "Maha, Maha..."
What Maha? Zhao Tong was puzzled. Thinking about it, it seems that this word does not exist in any language, but it cannot be said that it does not exist at all. Could it be salmon on the beach at this moment? He was very confused.
While he was thinking, suddenly there was a running sound of "thump, thump, thump" in front of him. This sound was strange, as if it was a wooden board hitting the ground, and it was especially clear and sweet.
Then he saw a slender figure running towards here.
Vaguely visible is a white scarlet skirt with lavender streamers and tassels, long black hair, a neat princess cut, a small face with melon seeds, and a face as delicate as jade.
Zhao Tong felt a little bad and hurriedly hid the eagle behind his back. However, the eagle was big and there were always some brown and white feathers exposed, but it was dark and blurry, so he didn't care about them and just lowered his head and walked aside.
"You, samurai..."
Poor tone, is he Japanese? Zhao Tong glanced suspiciously, pretended not to hear, and continued walking forward.
"You...lang, ronin..." The girl was so anxious that she was about to cry and looked at Zhao Tong.
What wave? You are a prodigal, your whole family is a prodigal!
Zhao Tong naturally understood the meaning of her words, but he accelerated his pace even more.
There was a "whoosh" sound, a white shadow flashed, and the girl used some means to stop directly in front of Zhao Tong: "Wu, Master Samurai..."
The girl stretched out her arms to block the way. Zhao Tong frowned and watched. Through the moonlight in the sky and the light of the lanterns on the roadside, he could see that the girl was actually not very old, only about 14 or 15 years old.
"Excuse me, have you seen...my eagle?" The girl finally said a complete sentence.
Hearing this, Zhao Tong tightened his grip on the eagle's leg behind his back and continued to pretend not to understand.
"Eagle, so big, brown, brown..." The girl seemed to have discovered something, and glanced behind Zhao Tong.
"I didn't see it!" Zhao Tong said coldly.
"No, it's not..." The girl was very anxious and wanted to look behind Zhao Tong.
How could Zhao Tong leave his back to others? He immediately turned around, but unexpectedly the eagle struggled desperately.
I don't know if the eagle's claws scratched his sleeve, or if he lowered his arm a little too low in order to control the eagle. There was a "clatter" and the clam fell to the ground.
The girl stared blankly at the cooked shells on the ground, then glanced at Zhao Tong, then lowered her head to look at the shells again. There were so many shells, so many that one person could not eat them.
Suddenly, an aggrieved but somewhat high-pitched eagle call sounded from behind Zhao Tong.
The girl looked at Zhao Tong, her face filled with anger after she was in a daze.
Zhao Tong was very distressed. All the shells on one sleeve fell off. Fortunately, there was another one. He didn't care about his face at the moment and said coldly: "Your eagle stole my shells and let it take its place." !”
"Maha, Maha never eats clams!" The girl became anxious and spoke smoothly.
Zhao Tong didn't care about this. If there weren't scattered people walking around, he might have killed the Japanese girl long ago.
"When I say you eat it, you eat it!" Zhao Tong said coldly: "Sheep is food. If it is eaten, it will also become food!"
"Maha, it's not food..." The girl suddenly moved again, as if gliding, trying to turn behind Zhao Tong.
How fast Zhao Tan's movements were, he didn't even use 50% of them at this moment. No matter how the girl slid, she always faced Zhao Tan's front, as if the two of them had never moved from the beginning to the end.
The girl suddenly stopped gliding and seemed to have figured out something. She said with a cold face: "Food? I can buy the eagle back. How about you buy other food?"
Zhao Tong raised his eyebrows when he heard this. Do you want to redeem the eagle with money? This is not bad. Now that the money is tight, the eagle can only eat a meal and a half to satisfy its greed. If the eagle can be exchanged for some money, wouldn't it meet the urgent need?
He nodded happily and stretched out one hand forward: "Fifty taels of gold!"
The girl was immediately stunned, fifty taels of gold? That's a huge amount of money, even for some famous families in Japan, it's a big fortune.
She shook her head in panic, then stretched out her little hand, revealing five slender fingers.
Zhao Tong frowned: "Fifty taels of gold?"
"No, no..." The girl waved her hands quickly: "Silver, silver."
silver? Five taels of silver? Zhao Tong was furious. Isn't this just teasing him? He wanted to send him away for only five taels of silver. Isn't this just a daydream?
He said nothing, snorted coldly and was about to leave. The girl suddenly became anxious and stretched out her hand to stop him. Zhao Tong raised his arm to block it, and saw a cold light suddenly blooming from the girl's white fingers, but there were several sharp edges. The sharp edge is exposed.
Zhao Tong sneered. Sure enough, Japanese people are willing to play some tricks. I don't know if this girl is a Ji warrior or a ninja.
The samurai and ninjas in Japan have two different identities. The female samurai is called a ninja, while the ninja does not use that name. It is a male ninja and a female ninja.
Zhao Tong thrust his wrist forward in an instant, using the sky, his arms grew three inches, avoiding the sharp blade between the girl's fists, and directly grabbed her wrist, then dark energy surged out, and he pushed back, and the girl immediately "thump thump thump" Back out.
He didn't use much strength at this time, but the opponent was thin and unexpected. The girl took more than ten steps back before she stopped. Her slender clogs fell aside. She steadied herself a little, with a look of panic and surprise on her face. With Zhao Tong.
Zhao Tong snorted again and shook the eagle in his hand. The eagle struggled hard and screamed. He said: "If you collect enough money, you can come to me to redeem this flat-haired beast. Don't blame me for being late." Leave it alive.”
After saying that, he continued to move forward and was nowhere to be seen for a moment.
The girl stood there, her little face was as white as snow, and tears were rolling in her eyes, but she tried her best to hold back and not let them flow out.
She clenched her fists tightly and bit her lips bloodshot.
At this moment, a shadow slowly appeared behind a big tree not far away. It turned from light to dark. It turned out to be a black cloak. As the front of the cloak was lifted up, a beautiful face was revealed. It was morning. A Japanese woman swimming in the sea near the island.
She walked up to the girl with her hands behind her back and sneered, "What is our little princess of the Utsunomiya family doing?"
The girl looked at her and remained silent.
The woman chuckled: "Don't you need my secret protection? You can't even take back a beast after being captured!"
The girl gritted her teeth and said, "Utsunomiya Ritsuka, you don't have to worry about it, I'm happy!"
The woman shook her head and said: "Don't you even call me sister? Are the old people in the family spoiling you? This is not a good thing. It seems that this time I go back to Langsu, I want to talk to the head of the family about this. Our family Don’t let your little princess be ruined by pride and stupidity like this!”
The girl's fists were clenched tighter and tighter. The scattered passers-by stared at the two girls with interest. However, after hearing the language of the two and knowing that they were Japanese, they all shook their heads and did not understand. There is no point in talking or watching the quarrel.
The woman continued to laugh and said: "The stupid eagle will have its feathers plucked, its internal organs cut off, washed and roasted, and maybe sprinkled with some spices picked by the roadside. That Song Dynasty person is not a kind person, especially... …He is a poor man who secretly took things from the banquet. He probably doesn’t have the money to buy food in the store. He will never let this idiot Maha go!”
The girl murmured: "I must find Maha!"
"Don't think about it, my sister!" The woman shook her head and said with a smile: "Fifty taels of gold? The family will not pay such a large amount of money to redeem an animal."
The girl glanced at him and turned away. The woman continued to chatter: "Stop thinking about fair trade. If you really want that stupid eagle to live, the only way is to snatch it back and kill the Song man to take back Maha." !”
The girl paused.
The woman continued to say bewitchingly: "My sister Fengwu can help you, help you kill this Song man in the darkness and get Maha back!"
The girl said: "Utsunomiya Ritsuka, what do you want?"
Utsunomiya Ritsuka whispered something. The girl hesitated and said, "I promise you, but can I not kill anyone?"
Utsunomiya Ritsuka smiled charmingly: "Who can say this well..."
Zhao Tong carried the eagle and walked quickly back to the wooden house, lit the fish oil wax, poured the clams in the other sleeve on the wooden table, and then went to take a look at the eagle.
There is no discernible species of eagle. It is not very large and cannot match the size of a vulture, but it is one of the most majestic among ordinary hawks.
He is covered in brown and white feathers, and his round eyes are as bright as gems. When Zhao Tong looks at him, he can't help but move his beak up and down, and screams "chirp".
Zhao Tong thought for a while, tore off a few strips of silk from his body, twisted them into ropes, and tied up the eagle's beak and talons. Then he felt that it was not safe, so he pinned the two eagle wings together behind his back. , the wings are pinned very firmly in this way, and the eagle can't help but tremble in pain. It can't break free by this method without anyone's help.
Then Zhao Tong hung the eagle upside down from the beam, and then slowly went to bed and lay down. Not long after, Du Bo and others came back, but they had a lot of harvest. Some of them didn't care about face like Zhao Tong, and only took clams and fish. The shrimps were all ready and the whole table was filled.
Wu Song looked at the hanging eagle on the beam and wondered: "Master, where did you catch the bird?"
Zhao Tong said: "If it falls from the sky, let it be raised for two days. If no one claims it, it will be slaughtered and eaten."
Du Bo said, "I haven't eaten an eagle for a long time. The meat of this eagle is the strongest. I'll be greedy when I see it. Let me see what kind it is."
After saying that, he stepped forward and pinched the eagle's head, looked at the feathers again, and wondered: "I have never seen an eagle like this before. It doesn't look like I have seen it before, but it is very fat."
Zhao Tong smiled and said: "If no one redeems this flat-haired beast, you will be the one to do it."
He didn't think about killing it directly. After all, the Japanese girl on the road seemed to be very anxious about the eagle. She was afraid that either she really wanted to redeem it, or the price of fifty taels of gold he offered seemed a bit high. I wonder if the Japanese girl could match it.
In fact, it is not impossible to negotiate the price. It is better to exchange some silver than nothing, but it is absolutely impossible to exchange for five taels of silver. How can he, the majestic King of Qin, trade with others for five taels of silver? That's not the most ridiculous thing in the world!
After sending the three of them away, Zhao Tong closed his eyes for a while and thought about how to deal with things on the island. Then he blew out the fish oil candle, put on his clothes and went to sleep.
Just over an hour after he fell asleep, the bolt of the wooden door suddenly moved quietly, as if something was scratching outside. The bolt opened after a few breaths.
Then a moment later, the wooden door opened a narrow gap, and a black shadow squeezed into the house little by little, like dark clouds gathering in the sky, and then spread and expanded, clinging to the wall, and then blending into the darkness, as if it had never appeared before. generally.
After an unknown amount of time, the dark clouds drifted down from the wall and moved towards the bed. When they reached the bed, they suddenly became thick and dense. They still made no sound and just covered the bed.
At this moment, I saw a fist suddenly appear on the bed. This fist dispersed the dark clouds with just one blow, and a tragic cry came out, and then a large cloud of gray smoke "canopied" out of the dark clouds, spreading throughout the wooden house...
After a while, Zhao Tong stood in front of the bed, waving a black cloak in his hand with great interest, while Du Chu and the other three, sweating profusely, stood beside him and confessed.
Zhao Tong shook his head and said with a smile to himself: "Kunoichi, it's interesting..."
(End of chapter)
