The Ming Dynasty began from Sarhu

Chapter 352 Big Bear Paw and Dried Fish (I)

"Run away and don't look back."

The giant bear's blood flowed from the wound onto Jiang Liuer's face and body. His eyes were bloodshot and he remembered the words his father often said when he was alive.

But although my father escaped all his life, he still couldn't escape the fate of being killed.

Jiang Liuer had stopped running away a long time ago.

He slid under the giant bear, grasped the beheading knife in both hands, and stabbed it into the giant bear's lower abdomen.

The giant beast's right eye was shot blind by a Jurchen hunter. At this moment, it was wounded all over its body and could not bear the pain. It growled and scratched around with its bear paws, trying to catch Jiang Liuer who was moving left and right.

Suddenly, the giant bear's heavy body shook slightly, and then it froze in place. Jiang Liuer quickly dodged to the side, and the giant beast fell to the ground with a bang.

Alesa was afraid that the bear was not dead yet, so he shot a few more arrows at it until the brown bear was completely motionless. Then he collapsed on the ground, gasping for breath.

Jiang Liuer wiped the blood off his face, stood up and looked around. Zhang Dabiao had been dead for a long time. He and Alessa went to the bushes to look for their brother who had just been knocked away by the giant bear.

Captain Huang was curled up in a bramble bush more than ten steps away from the brown bear's corpse. His whole body was purple, black blood was gurgling from his mouth, and his eyes were staring at Jiang Liuer.

"Fire, fire,"

Jiang Liu'er's eyes were red, and tears welled up in his eyes. He had grown up eating at many people's homes, and he had always been grateful to others. All the way to Sakhalin Island, Huang Wenyu had taken good care of him.

The first time he went onto the battlefield, his enemy was a bear.

Alessa nudged Jiang Liuer, motioning him to come forward and listen carefully.

Jiang Liuer quickly leaned forward. Captain Huang's eyes had begun to blurt out, and he muttered:
"Fire, set fire..."

Jiang Liuer held his rough big hand and felt a deadly chill. Before he could speak to the captain, Huang Wenyu's head tilted and his eyes dimmed.

Jiang Liuer burst into tears.

Alessa quickly pulled the Han friend away, stepped forward to take a look, and reached out to close Ye Bushou's eyes.

A groan came from behind.

The two men hurriedly turned back and found Lao Qian in another bush. Lao Qian was thrown to the ground by the brown bear, but fortunately he was not seriously injured, just a few scratches on the skin.

Jiang Liuer helped him stand up.

Old Qian looked at the bloody auxiliary soldiers beside him, then looked at the wild Jurchens who also had murderous looks on their faces, then looked at the giant bear that fell in the distance, and asked Jiang Liuer stutteringly.

"Did you kill him?"

Jiang Liuer was immersed in great sorrow and didn't listen to what others were saying. He subconsciously said "oh".

Old Qian showed an incredible expression on his face, and when he looked at Jiang Liuer again, his eyes were obviously different from before.

Alessa still squinted his eyes, his expression unchanged. He looked around, sniffed with his hooked nose, and said to the two of them:
"Let's go. The bodies are piled up here. The beasts will come again soon."

Two of the four Night Warriors and one auxiliary soldier died before they found their enemy. I wonder what other ferocious beasts there are on this Kuyi Island.

The three survivors suddenly lost the courage to move forward.

"Where to go?"

Jiang Liuer wiped away his tears, his eyes became firm again. He looked at the Jurchen hunter and said word by word:

"Go back to the ship? I won't leave. I'm going to find the Rakshasa ghost. I want revenge!"

Alessa muttered something in the Yi language, but no one knew what he was saying.

Jiang Liuer raised his head, already the core of the three.

"Before I can take revenge, I have to do one thing first! I'll find a shady hillside ahead and bury my brothers. Captain Huang just said that the soldiers of Kaiyuan will not abandon their comrades to be eaten by wild beasts."

Jiang Liuer's words were a double entendre. It wasn't just the wild beasts that ate people on Kuyi Island.

If the Rakshasa ghost were to encounter them, the two Kaiyuan Ye would be killed without a trace.

Alessa nodded and turned to carry the body. Although Lao Qian was very reluctant, he had to agree since things had come to this point. He lent a hand to the wild Jurchen and put the body on Alessa's shoulders.

Jiang Liuer went ahead to explore the way, and he took the path that the black bear had taken.

The ground was covered in black bear blood. Jiang Liu'er walked a few dozen steps east, choosing a burial spot. After making sure there was no danger around, he returned and asked the two men to join him. Jiang Liu'er carried Zhou Dabiao, who only had half his head left, while Lao Qian and Alessa carried Huang Wenyu. The three of them slowly walked towards the eastern foothills.

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After great efforts, the three men finally carried the two bodies to the foot of the mountain.

The wild Jurchens waved a piece of rag as a spirit-calling banner and performed two shaman dances around the corpse. The three men began to dig holes in the ground with their swords and daggers.

It was late autumn, and the island was still freezing cold, but everyone was exhausted and sweating.

Old Qian was the first to be exhausted. He waved his hand to indicate that he couldn't go on, walked forward a few steps, and sat under a big pine tree that was more than one meter thick to drink water and rest.

After drinking the water from the coconut ladle, Jiang Liuer still felt thirsty, so he took off his own coconut ladle and threw it to Lao Qian.

Lao Qian nodded to the hidden auxiliary soldier, raised the coconut ladle above his head, and the refreshing cool water moistened his throat, making him feel relaxed.

He turned around suddenly and saw a tiger lying behind a tree, its lantern-like eyes staring at him.

Oh!

Old Qian screamed and the coconut ladle fell to the ground. He choked on the water, his cheeks turned red, and his body swayed as if he was poisoned and he fell backwards.

Jiang Liuer just walked over, and with quick eyes and hands, he quickly stepped forward to support him and patted his shoulders hard.

"What's wrong? Old Qian, no one is competing with you..."

Before he could finish his words, he caught a glimpse of a tiger lying behind a tree out of the corner of his eye.

After being slapped twice, Lao Qian recovered in one breath and crawled back away.

Jiang Liuer thought that this was going to be bad. He had just fought the giant bear and now here came the tiger. Even if Wu Song was reincarnated, he would not be able to survive.

Alessa was still humming shamanic spells in the distance to pray for the souls of the dead.

Tigers hunt in a flash, leaving no time for people to think.

"Run away, don't stop,"

The words my father often said when he was alive rang in my ears.

He exhaled deeply and raised his dagger like a stubborn mantis.

The dying smiling faces of the white-pole soldiers appeared before my eyes.

"Don't cry, just live well."

He held the beheading knife in front of his neck and slightly retracted his neck. A tiger always bites people starting from the neck.

Everything is ready, waiting for death.

After a few breaths, everything was calm.

The tiger remained motionless.

Jiang Liu'er was puzzled. Even if it was asleep, it should have woken up after what Old Qian had done just now.

"Is he deaf?"

I don’t know what was going on in Jiang Liuer’s mind. Just like when he rushed towards Ding Bi, suddenly, as if possessed by a ghost, he stretched out his foot.

He actually stepped on the tiger's tail.

You are still the same boy who stepped on the tiger's tail, without any change.

The tiger's tail is limp.

Jiang Liuer jumped out from behind the giant tree and was shocked by the scene before him.

A tigress lay limply under a tree, with a wound more than a person's length torn across her belly, which was pressed against the ground. The tiger's blood had long since drained away, and the area under the tree was dyed bright red.

A furry tiger cub curled up beside the mother tiger and growled softly at Jiang Liuer.

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Jiang Liuer took out the dried fish he had brought with him and handed it to the hungry tiger cub:
"Eat it! The fish from Hunhe River is delicious."

(End of this chapter)