Republic of China: Guandong Ginseng King

Chapter 109 Hunting in the Mountains
"Yes, yes, that makes sense." When Liu Dongshan heard what Qu Shaoyang said, he slapped his thigh happily.

"Oh, young people are smart, I never thought of these.

OK, Shaoyang, your idea is right, Master supports you."

Seeing his apprentice growing so fast, Liu Dongshan nodded repeatedly with satisfaction.

The master and apprentice chatted for a while, and Xiaozhi just happened to come back from school.

It was snowing heavily outside, and there was a thick layer of snow on Xiaozhi's hat and shoulders.

Qu Shaoyang quickly took the broom and swept the snow off Xiaozhi's body.

"How is it? Is school fun? Can you understand what the teacher teaches?" Qu Shaoyang asked while sweeping the snow.

Before this, Qu Shaoyang had discussed with Liu Dongshan about sending Xiaozhi to a private school.

Later, they asked around Maoer Mountain and actually found an old man.

Liu Dongshan specially prepared a generous gift and took Xiaozhi with him. After the old man asked Xiaozhi a few questions, he was quite satisfied with him and accepted the gift.

Xiaozhi has been studying with the old gentleman for almost half a month. He was always busy before and Qu Shaoyang had no time to pay attention to him.

I happen to have some free time today, so I just had to ask and show my concern.

“The school is very good, and I can understand everything the teacher teaches.

The teacher was very strict. He asked us to memorize the text, and if we couldn’t memorize it, he would hit our hands with a ruler. ”

When talking about the school, Xiaozhi started talking about it with great interest.

“I have never been punished, and I have completed all the homework assigned by the teacher very well.

"Erniu from Old Qiu's family could never recite the scriptures, and was always beaten by the teacher."

Liu Dongshan and Lin Ruolan are both literate. Before Xiaozhi went to school, he had already learned a lot of words from them.

This child is smart and can read people's faces. After entering the school, he is very much liked by the old teacher.

Qu Shaoyang nodded when he heard this, "That's good, you should study hard with the teacher and don't act naughty.

In the future, when you have learned enough, you can do other things even if you don’t take the imperial examination.

If I find out that you don't study hard, I will beat you first, not to mention Master." Qu Shaoyang deliberately frightened Xiaozhi.

Xiao Zhi nodded obediently, "Okay, I understand."

The snow continued to fall until the evening. After the heavy snow, the temperature dropped sharply, and the land of Kanto began to hibernate from then on.

After being busy for half a year, people have now become idle. They spend their days either eating and drinking, visiting friends and relatives, or playing cards and gambling.

Not only the old farmers hibernate, but most of the bearded men also divide the accounts at this time.

With money in your pocket, you can either go home and enjoy yourself, or find an inn to stay in, or rely on others for help.

If you really have nowhere to go, you can go to the mountains to work as a woodcutter. You can earn some money while hibernating.

The big managers of those gangs, with silver in their pockets, would move directly into the largest inns or brothels in the city and start to enjoy themselves by spending money like water.

So, at this time, the beard is relatively less.

Some wealthy families would also load their grain onto trucks and sell it at the steamer after the land was frozen solid.

The land of the Qu and Liu families can only be planted next year. With so many people to feed in the family, they must prepare more food.

So Qu Shaoyang ordered a lot of grain from several wealthy households in the market town.

It was snowing so I had the guys harness the carts and bring back all the food, putting it in the warehouse so they could eat it slowly.

The next day was the day that Qu Shaoyang and Zhou Chuanren had agreed to go up the mountain to hunt.

After breakfast, Liu Dongshan and Qu Shaoyang put on big socks, then put on boots, and tied the waistband of the big socks and trouser legs with leggings.

Big socks are not the kind of socks that people wear in later generations. They are made of cotton cloth, similar to the style of boots, with a layer of cotton stuffed inside.

Wearing these big socks, your feet won’t get cold even in the coldest weather when you go out.

Of course, one could only wear this if the family was rich. Most people would just stuff their boots with Ula grass.

"靰鞡" is the pronunciation of Manchu. It is a kind of shoe made of cowhide by the Manchu people. It looks like a boat.

The upper and sole of this kind of shoes are connected, and a number of pleats are evenly sewn on the front of the shoe.

A piece of leather shaped like a nose is sewn on the pleats of the shank, forming the front face of the shank.

On the back of the bridle, a piece of leather one inch wide and two inches long is sewn, which is the bridle support.

A few shoe ears are nailed on the upper of the shoe to thread the shoe strings to prevent the shoes from falling off the feet.

After putting on their boots and tying the boot ropes tightly, they put on their sheepskin coats and fur hats, and the master and disciple were ready.

Qu Shaoyang reached out, took the gun from the wall, slung it across his shoulder, and then hung the bag filled with bullets around his waist.

They also put on the bag of dry food and packed everything. Then they went out and untied the dog's chain.

Take a hemp rope, tie a chain buckle around the dog's neck, and take the dog out.

Dahuang and Qinglong have never gone into the mountains to hunt, and basically have never left the house since they grew up.

Bringing them out out of the blue made the two dogs very happy, and they were having a great time.

Qinglong was a male dog. He raised one leg and urinated outside the garden stick.

The master and his disciple carried guns and led their dogs, left home and headed straight for Lao Zhou's house.

When we arrived at Lao Zhou's house, we saw that Wang Jiaxiang and his sons had arrived, and Lao Zhou's four brothers had also packed their things.

Last year, the third and fourth sons of the Zhou family went to the mountains to cut wood and earned some money. This year, Old Zhou arranged a marriage for his third son, and he will get married after a while.

So, the third child didn’t go to the mountain field this year.

Originally, the fourth child wanted to go, but this year Liu Dongshan was no longer the head of the mountain farm, and the old Zhou couple refused to let the fourth child go no matter what.

There was no choice, the fourth child had to stay at home.

Erqing is a female dog. She gave birth to a litter of puppies a few days ago. The puppies are not even a month old yet, so Erqing cannot go up the mountain.

So the Zhou family gave out two dogs today, the Wang family gave out two, and Qu Shaoyang and his friends also brought two.

If hunting dogs want to hunt together, the first thing they need to do is to form a gang. If they can't work together, at best the dogs will be lost on the mountain, at worst the dogs will fight as soon as they meet, or even bite each other to death.

Qu Shaoyang was unsure because his two companions, Dahuang and Qinglong, had never been to the mountain before, so he did not dare to loosen the rope in his hand and kept holding it tightly.

Fortunately, Daqing was friendly enough and came over to smell Dahuang and Qinglong.

The other dogs followed Daqing's action and came over to smell it.

At Qu Shaoyang's signal, Dahuang and Qinglong did not hide, but instead carefully moved closer and sniffed each other to get familiar with each other's scent.

Seeing that the dog showed no obvious signs of rejection, Qu Shaoyang breathed a sigh of relief, so everyone took the dogs out and walked directly north.

Xiaodonggou is too far away. Today is the first hunting day after the snow. It is easy to find animal tracks on the snow, so there is no need to walk so far.

Not long after entering the forest, Da Qing raised his head and sniffed the air, then shouted loudly towards the front.

Qinglong glanced at Daqing, and also learned to raise his head and sniff in the air. Then, Qinglong blinked in confusion.

It seemed to smell a smell, but the smell was very strange and it didn't know what it was.

Qu Shaoyang was very sensitive to Qinglong's actions and couldn't help but feel happy.

Oh my, this is incredible, it seems that this Azure Dragon is also looking up at the incense.

(End of this chapter)