During famine years, I had a divination slip in hand, and my whole family ate chicken, duck, fish, a

Ye Dali's heart skipped a beat. He clutched the jar tightly and asked nervously,

Should we water it now?

The jar contained kerosene, which my father bought after the wolf pack attacked the village last year, but there wasn't much, just one jar.

He has to use it carefully.

Ye Qingqing listened intently again, then shook her head. "No, it's still a bit far... Dad said that wolves have the most sensitive noses and can smell kerosene."

"Um."

Ye Dazhuang took a deep breath, his eyes fixed on the darkness.

In just two or three minutes, the rustling sounds grew closer, and a faint stench of burning hair and flesh, along with the distinctive fishy smell of wild animals, wafted through the air...

Though invisible in the darkness, a pack of wolves seemed to be right next to them.

"Brother, pour oil on it!"

Ye Qingqing showed no panic on her face. While keeping an eye on the distance of the green light in the darkness, she silently weighed her options in her mind and suddenly let out a soft shout.

"oh!"

Ye Dali slapped the lid off, picked up the can, and poured oil onto the firewood, continuing to pour it along the pile of firewood.

At the same time, Ye Qingqing took out a tinderbox, flicked off the cap with her thumb with a "bang", and brought it to her lips with a "whoosh" to ignite a small blue flame.

"Whoosh..."

The flames were ready to ignite at any moment, and the firewood pile shot up more than two meters high, transforming into a fiery dragon like a mountain dragon.

Ye Dali ran to the last pile of firewood, poured out the last bit of oil from the jar, and saw the fire dragon leaping over.

The flames grazed his face, and instantly you could smell the burnt hair.

At the same time, in the area illuminated by the firelight, more than a dozen wolves had already rushed forward.

The alpha wolf's sinister and fierce eyes met Ye Qingqing's, instantly revealing its ferocity.

Ye Qingqing also gasped and involuntarily tightened her grip on the torch.

Holy crap, this wolf looks like a calf, with thick, dark fur that shines in the firelight. If we hit it, we could skin a pelt a size bigger than that lone wolf's.

She won't sell it for less than fifteen taels of silver!

"Qingqing, come here!"

Ye Dali dropped the can and ran to Ye Qingqing's side, grabbing her arm and pulling her behind him forcefully. "Quick, get behind the fire!"

He stood in front of his sister, and even when the wolf pounced on him, it would eat him first!

He, as the eldest brother, was simple-minded and clumsy. He didn't have the hunting skills of his older brother, Da Zhuang, nor did he have the good luck of Er Ya Tou.

But he can chop wood, carry water, and farm. He can do all kinds of heavy work at home so that his father and two younger sisters don't have to work hard. He has to take good care of the whole family!

"Awoo! Awoo..."

Having learned its lesson, the alpha wolf shuddered involuntarily when it saw the fire again, and its steps came to an abrupt halt in front of the fire.

Is this never going to end...?

Human, besides using this terrifying thing to scare wolves, what else can you do?

That's cheating! If you're so capable, use your teeth and claws to fight, and see who can beat whom!

"Awoo... Awoo..."

Upon receiving the alpha wolf's command, the wolf pack turned around and ran in another direction without saying a word.

Who would have thought that this direction was a route specifically designed by cunning people to "catch a turtle in a jar"!

Ye Dazhuang narrowed his eyes slightly.

The instant he saw the flames, he also keenly heard the chaotic sound of running.

coming.

He leaped up the high slope, his long legs spread wide to form a stable stance, straightened his body, reached up to grab the bow from behind his back, and pulled three arrows from the leather bucket with one hand.

Three arrows were nocked on the bowstring in unison. He gripped the arrow's tail with one hand, his arms straining so hard that veins bulged, and in an instant, he drew the bow to its fullest extent.

The action of drawing the bow was fluid and natural, as if it were a memory ingrained in one's very bones.

He was already tall and burly, but he didn't look bulky. It was just that it was dark and windy, and there was no one around, so no one saw his impressive bow-bending pose. He looked really cool!

With that kind of force, Ye Dali could do the same with his brute strength, but the accuracy with an arrow is worlds apart.

Ye Dali is just like his mother; he's too soft-hearted and simple-minded.

Let alone firing three arrows at once, even with just one arrow, when Ye Youliang was teaching his son to shoot arrows, he almost vomited blood in anger.

"Awooo..."

The alpha wolf led the pack in a frenzied charge. Upon seeing a person standing on a high slope under the moonlight, its wolf eyes immediately became wary.

It was just one person; there was no smell of other people in the air, nor any terrifying fire. The alpha wolf, whose pace had slowed slightly, quickened again.

Is this to give them extra food since they and their brothers didn't get any meat?

"Whoosh..."

Just as the wolf pack charged toward Ye Dazhuang, within a distance of no more than thirty meters, a whooshing sound rang out.

"Whoosh...whoosh..."

Almost simultaneously, two arrows were fired at the wolf pack.

The bowstring hummed.

Ye Dazhuang didn't wait to see if he hit the wolf. Instead, he instantly grabbed three arrows from the bucket, nocked them on the bowstring, drew the bow, and the three arrows shot out like bullets.

The best moment to shoot an arrow is only that one moment, and he didn't waste a single second.

"Awoo!"

"Aww... Aww..."

"Waaaaah..."

The wolf pack was thrown into chaos, with the sounds of thuds echoing as wolves fell to the ground. Six wolves lay dead, their heads and chests deeply pierced by arrows, blood gushing out. Their limbs twitched incessantly, and they let out pitiful, chilling whimpers...

"Big brother, listen!"

Behind the roaring fire, Ye Qingqing suddenly pricked up her ears and shouted excitedly, "He hit it! Big brother, listen, that's the howl of a wolf! It must be Brother Dazhuang who shot the wolf!"

Ye Dali listened intently, his eyes wide, and then he rubbed his hands together excitedly.

"Hmm! Yes, yes... there seem to be several, Qingqing!"

"abuse!"

Unable to contain herself, Ye Qingqing jumped out from behind the fire and ran towards Ye Dazhuang.

"Qingqing, what are you doing! Come back, come back quickly, it's dangerous!"

Ye Dazhuang was so frightened that he shuddered and tried to pull her back but failed. He then hurriedly chased after her.

……

In the village.

The villagers, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, began to feel panicked again when they heard the incessant howling of wolves in the distance.

"Weren't the wolves driven away? Why are they still howling..."

"You don't want to come back again, do you?"

"No, listen, the wolf's howl sounds like it's been skinned alive. How can it sound so pitiful?"

……

Something's not right.

The village head also climbed to the window, pressed his ear against it, and listened intently. The more he listened, the more his brows furrowed, and he muttered to himself.

"Something's not right, something's not right. That wolf's howl sounds like it's killed its parents..."

The village head's wife leaned over and asked, "Are other villages also hunting wolves?"

"Bullshit! Wolves are solitary creatures; only one pack of wolves can occupy one mountain."

A surge of annoyance welled up in the village head's heart. He cursed and muttered, "Logically, after suffering a loss, these wolves should have fled into the mountains. Could it be that hunters from other villages took the opportunity to hunt wolves?"