The Great Seminary

Chapter 37 Killing the Tiger

I had a full meal and drank a belly full of strong tea.

Zhang Gui returned to his room comfortably, but saw Mrs. Yang waiting for him.

"Mom, aren't you asleep?"

"I can not sleep.

My son, I feel that our family is getting better and better now, so you don’t have to make trouble.

Mother has thought about it. All five of your cousins ​​are pretty. I can choose two to marry you, or three will be fine.

I'll talk to your aunt and uncle, I think they will agree.

Then we’ll make the sauce and you can sell it.”

Zhang Gui's aunt, Qiedan Jena, gave birth to five daughters.
The eldest and second daughter are already married.

The remaining ones are the third oldest, Yang Duoqing, the fourth oldest, Yang Xiulin, and the fifth oldest, Yang Sha.

The first and the last ones have above-average looks, but the fourth one in the middle has skin as smooth as milk and is as beautiful as a flower.

My aunt-in-law, Qiadan Sangjia, gave birth to four daughters.

The eldest and second oldest died in infancy, leaving the third oldest, Yang Tongwa, and the fourth oldest, Yang Caicai.

One has a cute baby face, and the other is ordinary and timid.

Regardless of whether they look ugly or beautiful, teenage girls full of youth always have a beautiful side.

But the problem is that although such a girl can get married in this world, in Zhang Gui's previous life, the crime would be punishable by three years in prison and at most death by shooting.

"Mom, what are you talking about?

Yesterday I thought I had finally seen the true color of the stone corpse 'Female Big Stone Crown', but why did you change your mind today?

It’s too late now.”

Although Zhang Gui was moved, he had the bottom line of a civilized person. He interrupted his mother in a hurry, took out a handful of gold ingots from his pocket, and slammed them on the table with a "pa".

Under the dim light of the oil lamp, the purple-gold ingot emitted a dazzling glow.

Mrs. Yang's eyes widened suddenly, and her mouth was so dry that a layer of hair formed on her lips in just a few seconds.

She reached out and touched the gold ingot on the table. It wasn't an illusion. She asked in a dry voice:
"Son, you, you, you went to kill people and rob them of their gold and silver?"

"That's not true.

Just last night, on my way home from Zhilin Mountain, I met a young man who was hunting. His guards mistook him for a wild animal and shot him with an arrow.

I got angry and killed the guard and took the money bag and weapons."

As he spoke, Zhang Gui pulled out a rapier and a crossbow from his sleeves.

"It's just enough to build momentum."

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Yang was speechless for a moment. After a long while, her lips trembled slightly, and she said with an indistinguishable emotion:
"Good, good, good boy, good skills, good, good, good, good!"

He got up and left Zhang Gui's house.

Zhang Gui blew out the light, lay on the bed and closed his eyes.

Outside the house, a dark cloud obscured the bright moon.

The brain inside Zhang Gui's head was boiling as if it were being boiled in hot water.

The brain turned into a thick black paste and flowed out from the fontanelle.

Soon the bed was soaked.

"So that's it, that's it!

"You say I am a demon, so I will create the biggest demon in the world."

After making nesting dolls, do Yan Emperor, Shennong and Chi You still want to leave something to make trouble for? My ancestor, you are really willful and free!

An unconscious murmur faintly came out of Zhang Gui's mouth.

The black slurry beneath him transformed into layers of fungal mats...

Dawn the next day.

Mrs. Yang and the others haven't gotten up yet.

Zhang Gui felt nothing unusual but was in high spirits, so he washed up and went out.

It was still dark and there were few people on the road.

He walked quickly to the foot of Zhilin Mountain and entered the forest.

The Xuanzhi Mountains are over a hundred miles long and wide, so they are neither big nor small.

However, hundreds of years ago, the area surrounding the mountain was covered with dense forests and meadows, which supported countless animals and beasts, making it the birthplace of the Barbarian Stone Corpse. Unfortunately, the terrain here is now completely different, and tigers have become rare.

Zhang Gui specifically asked Lao Sanggui for the secret of hunting tigers and set out to hunt tigers himself.

He first caught a roe deer in the mountains, cut half of the Achilles tendon of its hind leg, and threw it on the ground.

The roe deer screamed in panic, bled, and limped as it ran around.

Zhang Gui used the "vertical and horizontal flying kicking technique" and followed the roe deer.

After chasing and fleeing for half an hour, the roe deer bled to death. It collapsed to the ground without any warning while running, shook its body a few times, and died.

Zhang Gui had no choice but to catch another small animal and continue bleeding it and chasing it until evening.

I don’t know how far I have run.

Suddenly, a heart-wrenching roar came from the hill on the right.

Immediately afterwards, a tiger about ten feet long leaped out from the weeds, ignoring the injured doe and rushing straight towards Zhang Gui.

Tiger coming down the mountain, tiger coming down the mountain.

Without seeing with your own eyes the swiftness and brutality of a tiger pouncing from a high position, it is impossible to imagine the horror of a mountain tiger.

Fortunately, Zhang Gui remained alert throughout the entire process, and climbed up the tree with great risk, thus avoiding the tiger's pounce.

An adult tiger weighing five or six hundred kilograms and a monk who practices ordinary martial arts can fight each other to the death head-on and be evenly matched.

However, the difference between humans and animals is that humans can use weapons.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when the tiger missed its pounce and landed on the ground with its limbs bent, Zhang Gui used the "vertical and horizontal flying kicking technique" to gain leverage from the tree trunk and turned around, then shot an arrow at the tiger's neck with the ox crossbow he had obtained last night.

It was my first time using a crossbow in combat, and my accuracy was clearly lacking, but the tiger's neck was thick enough so I still managed to hit the target.

The ox crossbow was so powerful and heavy that even if it missed, it still cut a deep gash in the tiger's carotid artery, and blood gushed out like red rain in the air.

The tiger roared miserably, stood up and fell down again, losing its life instantly.

The more blood, essence and energy a beast has, the faster it will die if its vital parts are injured.

Because they are so big, they need a lot of blood and energy to flow when they move.

Once a vital part is injured, it is like a hole in a high-pressure bag, and the person will bleed to death quickly.

Zhang Gui was quite surprised that such a simple crossbow could kill the tiger.

But think about it, if he hadn't mastered the 'Chiyou Shencong Three-Piece Set' last night, he would probably have been shot to death by the ox crossbow.

I couldn't help but feel some insights in my heart.

Without absolute strength, strong adaptability is sometimes more important than superimposed strength.

While thinking, Zhang Gui carried the dead tiger on his shoulder and walked towards Mushroom Valley.

If he had been chasing wild beasts for so long before, he would probably find it difficult to remember the correct direction of the Mushroom Valley.

But now the real name of Mushroom Valley is called "Xia Shishi Jing", and there is a mysterious connection.

Even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't find the wrong direction.

It’s mid-November in the blink of an eye.

The first snow caused the temperature in Pingyang Town to drop sharply, and it suddenly felt like winter.

The rich people on the street put on furs, and the poor people put on cotton jackets.

In the equally cold Xuanzhi Mountains, Zhang Gui, who had changed his career to become a hunter for thirty days, caught tigers and became more and more experienced.

A total of seven tiger skins, more than thirty bear skins, leopard skins, and hundreds of wolf skins were shipped, attracting a lot of covetous eyes.

So there was one more ten-stone corpse soldier and a dozen single-stone corpse soldiers in the world.

At this time, the wild beasts around Mushroom Valley had almost been wiped out.

Zhang Gui handed over the hunting task entirely to his subordinates, and only went to the mountains quietly when he had two or three days of free time.

It took another month to transform the remaining members of the Stone Corpse Tribe into Stone Corpse Warriors, and also to create two more Ten-Stone Corpse Warriors.

It was near the end of the year.

The ghost stories of Xuanzhi Mountain also began to spread gradually in the surrounding area.

The chips have reached the limit that can be raised at present. Zhang Gui did not continue to stir up trouble but lay dormant for the time being.

I plan to wait until the government offices and military garrisons are closed before making any plans.

On the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, Yangsao was still not resting. She took her sister-in-law and niece to the fish market to buy fish and sauce early in the morning.

Zhang Gui, who had apparently rested for more than two months, slept until the sun was high in the sky before getting up.

(End of this chapter)