On the way to escape famine, my parents divorced

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However, the luck of the four of them was not good. When it was getting dark, Li's mother kept standing at the door, looking back and forth, thinking that Li Shiyue and the others would be back.

As a result, Li Shiyue and his friends didn't return home until it was completely dark.

"We didn't walk far before we killed two rabbits and three chickens. My brother climbed up a tree and robbed two bird nests, getting a few eggs."

Li Shiyue poured out the hares and pheasants that had been frozen solid from the backpack and said this to Li's mother and Zheng Meiniang.

"Mother, I shot this one!"

Li Xiatian happily pointed at a pheasant with beautiful tail feathers on the ground, turned around and said to Zheng Meiniang.

"Sister must be talented in archery. If there is a chance in the future, I should ask Deputy General Ma for some pointers."

But with just a few things like these, how could I possibly show them off?
It's fine to keep it for your own consumption, but if you say you want to give it away to others, that would be a slap in the face.

"Mother, peel the skin, drain the blood, and dry it. We can save it for our family to eat during the New Year.

I will get up early tomorrow and go deep into the mountains to take a look at the gifts I have given them. "

Mother Li really wanted to tell Li Shiyue not to go, but when she saw Li Shiyue's expression, she couldn't say it.

The next day, the weather was not very good. At dawn, we could see snowflakes falling from the sky. It looked like it would snow that day.

Li Shiyue went out with a few dry biscuits and a water bag.

Li Qiutian, Li Xiatian and Shitou all wanted to follow Li Shiyue, but Li Shiyue said to them, "You all know my speed. If I meet a big guy, I can run away by myself.

But if you come with me, I will have to distract myself from taking care of you, and wouldn’t that hold me back?
It would be best for me to go alone.”

What Li Shiyue said was true. They had no choice but to watch Li Shiyue walk alone on the snow towards the back mountain.

The whole day passed, and Li's mother was restless at home, going to the door eight hundred times a day.

"Didn't this mean that you can be back by evening at the latest?
It's almost dark, why hasn't October come back yet? Did something happen?"

Zheng Meiniang was burning a fire nearby. She said a few words to comfort Li's mother. But even though Li's mother knew how powerful Li Shiyue was, she was still anxious and uneasy.

The sky had become completely dark, and another layer of snow had accumulated in the yard. Now, if you stepped on it, it would be up to your calves.

Li Qiutian dressed neatly and went out of the yard. Seeing that she was about to go out, Li's mother followed her out the door.

"I'll go out and look for it. I know the route October often takes. I'll go and see. If I find him, we can come back together.

If I can't find her, I'll come back first, and we'll ask Uncle Wangshui to go look for her together."

Li Qiutian turned around and was about to leave, but Li Wangming stopped her.

"Take the stones and hold the torches, and go together, so that you can at least have someone to look after you.

If you cannot find it on the road when you are on the mountain, you should come back quickly, otherwise October will change the road and you will lose your way."

So, Shitou held the torch, took the knife and went out with Li Qiutian.

Li Xiatian also wanted to go, but was persuaded by Li Qiutian to go back. After all, although Li Xiatian was strong, he really couldn't catch up with Li Shiyue and Li Qiutian. As a man, Shitou was naturally stronger than Li Xiatian. Just like Li Shiyue said, if Li Xiatian went, he would not only be of no help, but might even be a burden.

I went up the mountain holding a torch. It was pitch black and I couldn't see anything. I could only see two steps away in the light of the torch.

Shitou and Li Qiutian were not afraid of the dark. They followed the route that Li Shiyue often took. After walking for a while, Li Qiutian would call out "Shiyue" twice.

Li Qiutian knew that Li Shiyue had very sharp ears and could hear her even if someone called her from far away.

As a result, just when they had just climbed over a mountain and fell flat on their backs, a clear whistle sounded!
It was the sound of the whistle that Li Shiyue had made when he organized the people of Liujiatun to patrol the mountains!

Li Qiutian exclaimed in surprise, "Shi Tou, go over there, the whistle is coming from there!"

When they rushed in that direction, it took at least quarter of an hour to cross mountains and hills. Li Qiutian saw a faint fire ahead.

The two of them hurried over there, getting closer and closer. Li Shiyue stood up and waved at the two people running over, shouting, "Sister, here, here!"

They finally met, and Li Qiutian immediately hugged Li Shiyue tightly, while Shitou was beside her, calling "sister, sister".

After making sure that everyone was okay, Li Qiutian finally had the mind to look at the things piled around the bonfire that Li Shiyue had built.

"Hey, what is this? Why does it look so weird?"

Li Qiutian looked at the two robed corpses on the ground and poked them twice: "Shiyue, is this the deer you shot?

Why doesn't this deer have horns?

Don’t we always say deer have horns? Why doesn’t this deer have horns? "

Shitou also squatted down to watch and even touched it, and Li Shiyue sat down again. She smiled and said to the two of them, "The male deer has horns, but the female does not.

This is not a deer, it must be a roe deer.

I walked quite a distance before I spotted these two, and I followed them for quite a while before I found the opportunity to kill them."

With the torch held by Shitou, Li Qiutian searched everywhere but could not find any wounds on the two roe deer. She turned around and looked at Li Shiyue and asked, "Did you get these by waiting for them to come to you?
How did you kill them? There were no wounds on their bodies. "

Li Shiyue used the "Invincible Eastern Embroidery Needle" which had not been used for a long time. She threw the embroidery needle into the roe deer's brain, penetrating it with one blow and killing it on the spot.

It's just a small hole in the fur that can't be seen clearly unless you look carefully, so it's what Li Xiatian meant by "no wound".

Li Shiyue felt that with further practice, she could use this embroidery needle as a long-range attack skill. Li Shiyue even thought that this embroidery needle was very suitable for assassination. It could fly into the back of the head and directly destroy the brain stem, which would be a fatal blow.

"I chased them for most of the day and finally took them down. It was already dark by then and I was so tired that I only wanted to light a fire, eat a few bites of biscuits and go home. How could I have thought that you would come looking for me?"

Li Shiyue ate the dry biscuits in two bites with the water in the water bag, then put out the fire with the snow beside him and planned to go back home with Li Qiutian and Shitou.

She thought that if she didn't go back, Li's mother would be so anxious that she would go out to look for her herself.

Li Shiyue really said it. Li's mother waited anxiously at home, but no one came back. She couldn't sit still any longer. After discussing with Zheng Mei Niang and Li Wangming, they went to Li Wangshui's house with torches. (End of this chapter)