This plainly dressed and somewhat beautiful woman was named Xu Xiuniang. She was originally the daughter of a private school teacher in the North. After the turmoil, Xu Xiuniang's ancestors and their family followed the villagers to a remote mountain to escape the war.
As a result, seventy or eighty years later, they were still discovered by the foreign Huns. Their original husband was tortured to death by the cruel foreign barbarians. The older one was killed when his father was killed and he rushed to fight with the Hun soldiers. The younger one was killed directly. Xu Xiu Niang was sent to a foreign slave camp. Because of her beauty, Xu Xiu Niang was given to the Hungarian nobles. Because of the child, Xu Xiu Niang, who wanted to commit suicide, survived in humiliation.
Later, the two women were rescued by the Daqian army. After the Northland was pacified, they were given Ning Hutou to start a family, and they moved to this village. However, the second child of Xiu Niang also died of illness during the migration.
As for the current two children, Ning Tao and Ning Feng, Ning Feng was born to her and Ning Hutou. Since she married Ning Hutou, apart from giving birth to Ning Feng, she never gave birth to Ning Feng. Never been pregnant.
Ning Hutou often went into the mountains to hunt game, collect some medicinal materials, and nurse Xiu Niang's health. Finally, there was another happy event last year.
As for Ning Tao, he is the son left by Ning Hutou's eldest brother Ning Jiaotou. Ning Tao's mother Yang Hongniang was also a poor person who had the same experience as Xu Xiu Niang. As soon as she found support, the man died while hunting a white tiger, and she also Ning Tao died in childbirth while giving birth to Ning Tao. Poor Ning Tao, God's will made people separated from his father and mother forever as soon as he was born.
"Xiu Niang, please stop being so busy recently and take more rest. Your body is already weak. I'll call two brothers to go into the mountains and take a look. At this time of year, the red antler in the mountains is just right. Let's take a look." If you can’t catch some game, it’s just a good time to help our little guy improve his physical condition.”
"Okay, Brother Tiger, you have to pay attention to safety. It doesn't matter if you can't find it. You are the backbone of the family. The most important thing is that you have to pay attention to safety. Don't hit a pregnant female if you see one. ha."
"I know, don't worry." After saying that, he went into the house to get the hunting equipment. He took off the leather armor, short bow, hunting fork, hemp rope, etc. from the wall inside the house. After thinking about it, he took a short knife and pinned it on the wall. Putting on the leggings, he greeted the embroiderer who picked up the work again and went out.
It is said that after Ning Tao and Ning Feng went out with sickles and led the big ox, they walked all the way to the back mountain.
The two brothers made some strange movements while walking. One moment they were walking like a cat, and the other moment they were like a tiger pouncing on food. This is exactly the cat-tiger step in martial arts. It is required to be light and steady, lifting the feet without kicking, and letting the energy from the back move them. Lift your feet and let them land silently. Use the Qi of Dantian to make your feet land flat and loose.
Like a cat walking like a tiger, loosening and falling, like trekking in a swamp, swimming on land, more like walking in space, like moving on clouds and flowing water.
When they came to a place near the woods at the foot of the back mountain, they found a place with abundant water and grass and let the big cattle go to eat by themselves. The two brothers began to pick up the sickles and began to cut the green pigweed in front of them.
"Brother Tao, let's see who of us can cut faster. The loser will have to imitate the big black scream."
Ning Tao looked helplessly at the silly brother in front of him.
He said helplessly, "Okay, just don't cry anymore when the time comes."
After a while, he harvested two full baskets. Ning Tao cut a little faster than Ning Feng, but he didn't tell his brother to imitate the big black call. Ning Feng looked at his brother, his cunning eyes rolling. After walking around for two times, he didn't speak. The two did not stop there, and continued to cut the pig grass until they felt that it was enough for the pigs at home.
The two of them lay on the soft grass and looked up at the blue sky. A few white clouds were floating slowly in the sky. From time to time, a few birds flew across the sky, mixed with the occasional low moo of the big ox not far away, and the breeze Brushing across the grass, the two of them seemed to be lying in the green ocean, letting the natural waves caress their bodies.
Ning Tao casually pulled a grass stalk and put it into his mouth. Ning Feng also imitated his brother and put a piece of grass into his mouth.
"Brother, what do you want to be when you grow up?" Ning Feng turned his head and looked at Ning Tao.
Ning Tao thought for a moment and said, "I...I haven't thought about it yet. Maybe I need to see how high the sky is and how wide the land is."
"Brother, don't you want to be a general? I want to be a general when I grow up. Being a general is so majestic. I want to go north and kill all my enemies. Brother, you must be better than me. I'm not bad either. We two brothers will join forces to let everyone in the world know our reputation and let everyone praise our reputation." He said while clenching his little fists and waving them.
Ning Tao looked at his excited brother, stood up like a carp, and said, "Okay, let's get started. For our ideals, princes and generals like Ning have the guts to do it. We two brothers will one day stand on top of the world."
"Yes, Prince General Xiang Ning has the guts." He also jumped up as he spoke.
"Hey...ha..." The childish voice drifted into the distance with the breeze, to the wilderness, to the mountains...
The warm sunshine shines into the quiet mountain forest, and the dappled sunshine lights up the fertile land.
Three middle-aged men holding hunting forks, carrying bows and arrows on their backs, and carrying ropes on their shoulders were walking on the animal path in the forest.
It seems random, but it echoes back and forth. One person holds a hunting knife in front to clear the way, one person holds a hunting fork and stands behind, and another person holds a bow and arrow to provide support in the middle.
"Bu Er, be careful ahead. The beasts in early spring are particularly ferocious to protect their cubs, and they are very thoughtful."
"Brother Tiger, what are you afraid of? We haven't been near the beast's den. How can there be any ferocious beasts? If we really come, we can just go back and give the children a teething ceremony." Although he said it, it can be seen from his alert eyes. Still take it seriously.
As I was walking, a head suddenly popped up from the bushes next to me.
"Whoosh... bang..." A roe deer hissed and fell to the ground. With a crash, several roe deer and their cubs ran out of the bushes in panic, stopped twenty or thirty meters away, and continued to look around.
The man holding the bow and arrow wanted to open his bow again, but Ning Hutou quickly stopped him, "This one is enough. Those few have young deer. If we kill the younger ones, they won't survive. Let's go find Chiantong first. The little ones at home are still alive." I'm waiting for this main ingredient to strengthen my body. It's hard to carry too much, so I'll seal the stag's blood with mud first." After saying that, the man with the knife took out a shovel from his backpack and found a soft one. There was some mud in the place, he pulled out the arrow, stuck it on it, and then fixed it with a rope. The other two people helped him hold it on his shoulders.
"Bu Er, you go in the middle and let me go in the front." Ning Hutou said and walked to the front of the team.
The few people marched for about half an hour and arrived at a place where red pine trees grew. They saw tall red pine trees standing tall and straight in this mountain forest. The bark on the trunks was like red dragon scales.
"Be careful. This is the territory of black bears. There are often mother bears who like to bring their cubs to eat red velvet."
As they spoke, several people hunkered down and observed the surrounding movements as they entered the red pine forest.
After walking for about a hundred or ten meters, "Brother Tiger, over there." The man holding the bow squawked to the left in front of him. The other two people looked in the direction he was pointing. They saw several matsutake-like fungi five or six meters away. Class comes into view.
"Hey, the eyes of the bow player are like thieves. I saw it right away. If any of the young wives didn't close the door properly, you have to take a closer look. I will also teach my brothers tomorrow. I can't waste it alone. Eat."
"Gungungun, specially looking after my wife."
"Haha, Bu Er, this guy has such a bad mouth. Bao Jin, just keep an eye on him. I'll help Bu Er find a tree branch to hang the deer up."
As Ning Hutou said that, he stuck the hunting fork on the ground, helped Bu Er take off the stag, found a branch and fixed it with a rope, and hung the deer on it.
Then he put the hunting fork behind his back and pulled out the short knife from his leggings. Bu Er also hung the hunting knife on his waist and took out the shovel in the basket behind him. The two of them walked towards the red antler, ready to dig out the red antler.
When I got closer to the red antler, I saw that the red antler had a dark red umbrella head as big as an apricot and thick stems growing at random on the bottom of the red pine.
Red antler antler is warm in nature, beneficial to blood and qi, has mild pharmacological properties and is easy to absorb. It is widely used as one of the main medicines for regulating the body and exercising. Ginseng soup can greatly speed up the physical exercise process and lay a solid foundation for children.
The two of them walked up to the red antler, picked out four or five red antler plants regardless of size, and put them into the basket behind Bu Er. Because if you don’t pick it at this time, other beasts will find it and eat it after a few weeks.
Although picking it in advance will lose some of its medicinal properties, it is better to have one bird in hand than ten birds in the forest. Besides, knowing that if you stop for a while, it will be eaten by wild animals, it is better to pick it directly.
After picking a few red antler plants, several people continued to walk inside, searching the forest in a fan shape. One person found the red antler, and the others stopped and waited until the picking was completed before continuing to search.
By noon, several people had harvested a full harvest. They took out the red velvet antler from the bags on their waists and backpacks and counted it. There were more than a hundred plants in size, and there was also a wild ginseng that was more than ten years old mixed in the middle. The little green stems that came out did not escape the thieves' eyes of these men and fell into the clutches of the devil.
"This is really a treasure mountain. We picked more than two kilograms of red antler for one tael of silver in one noon. This was enough to buy several acres of new fields. In the past, these barbarians guarded the treasure mountain without knowing it. It was really A bunch of idiots!"
"Why do we always say that barbarians are vulgar and ignorant? This is the reason. Otherwise, why would they be beaten by us and run away like rats?"
"Eat something quickly and take a rest. Continue to search this area and go back early."
"Brother Hutou misses his sister-in-law. Hehe, I remember that my sister-in-law is about to give birth. If she gives birth to a daughter, she will have to recognize us as godfathers. The two brats at home are more mischievous than the other, so they know how to eat and eat. My heart trembles every day and I get angry when I see them. No, I have to find a reason to beat these two brats when I get back."
"But pull it off. Who doesn't know that you, Bu Er, are the most jealous of your two brats? You will get angry when you see them. Don't give them to me. Take my surname and call me daddy. I'm not afraid of poverty."
"Thief Eyes, I really hold a grudge. I just said a few words to you. Are you treating me like an elder brother? You really hold a grudge!"
"Hey, do you want it? If you don't want it, I'll take it away when I go back."
"roll roll roll."
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The three of them ate some simple dry food, rested for a while, and then continued to search for red antler.
After another hour, the three people had harvested a lot, and the sun had begun to set to the west. Several people estimated the time, prepared to search more, and prepared to go down the mountain. Just as he was about to turn around and search in another direction, he suddenly smelled a refreshing fragrance.
"What does this smell like? Why does it smell so good?"
