Turbulent Times Chapter 2: Blood jade and hunting

The old man who took in Wang Junlin was surnamed Chen. He had a pair of sons and daughters. The son was Chen Xiaoliu, who was in his early twenties and two years younger than Wang Junlin. The daughter is called Chen Rouniang, fifteen years old, with a pair of **** eyes, very cute.

Chen Rouniang helped Wang Junlin clean the wooden house, blushing, and ran out with her head down.

Outside the wooden house, the old man Chen smiled very heartily, but Wang Junlin smiled bitterly in his heart. He had already guessed that the old man wanted to marry him in as his son-in-law. The idea of ​​a son-in-law.

In this era, Wang Junlin ate the first meal at Old Man Chen's house. The latter invited him, but he was not polite. ignore.

After eating, he went back to the wooden house and lay down. Wang Junlin took out the blood jade pendant and began to study it. Wang Junlin remembers that blood jade is not natural, it refers to jade that has been soaked in blood, whether it is jadeite, jade, or topaz, as long as it is really bloody, it is considered blood jade.

"Could it be that the blood in this piece of jade is also due to blood seeping through, but how much blood must be infiltrated to make the whole jade be blood-colored."

After playing and studying for a long time, Wang Junlin didn't find anything special about the blood jade pendant except that he felt abnormally cold.

Take out the roll of animal skin. The characters on it are not Chinese characters, but more like symbols. Wang Junlin didn't recognize any of them, but he just vaguely felt that it was something important and should not be taken lightly, so he put it away together with the blood jade.

Where do we go from here? Wang Junlin needs to think about it. Of course, the first thing to be solved right now is food and clothing. This is the most basic problem. It is impossible for him to live on the villagers' relief.

The scene of the young man in brocade clothes robbing the civilian girl during the day left a deep impression on Wang Junlin. He learned from the Chen family's father and son that the young man's name was Zhang Hongmeng, and he was a son of an aristocratic family. He relied on his family background and was domineering. He raped a young girl every month, and when he got tired of playing, he sold her to a brothel. Someone once went to the county government to sue him, but he was fine, but the person who sued him died tragically on the street the next day.

Wang Junlin understands that historical records can never represent the truth, not to mention the exaggerated language used by ancient Chinese. Take the eleventh year of Tianding as an example, although the world is stable, it is far from reaching the level where all states, counties, and counties have clear governance and people live and work in peace and contentment. What's more, the Sui Dynasty was influenced by the nine-rank system of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the hierarchy between the aristocrats and the common people was extremely clear. The exaggerated privileges of the aristocratic families and the appalling injustices of the common people.

In short, this is an era when the life of a commoner is as cheap as a dog. How can Wang Junlin, who is just a commoner and even a black family, feel safe?

Wang Junlin has already asked. There are three main ways for villagers to make a living—farming, hunting, and silkworm raising and weaving. He doesn’t know how to farm, let alone raise silkworms and weave. It will never change the fate of being mermaid. He intends to obtain the first pot of gold through hunting, and after ensuring food and clothing, he will arm himself with a certain ability to protect himself, and then make plans.

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As soon as it was dawn, Wang Junlin couldn't wait to take the hunting bow and hatchet borrowed from old man Chen, and went out wearing the old clothes and shoes given by Chen Xiaoliu.

When the fields are not good, the villagers will go hunting in the mountains, but because there are many beasts in the mountains, hunting is dangerous after all. go hunting. But Wang Junlin is both highly skilled and bold, but also can be considered hungry.

Wang Junlin was originally a retired special soldier in later generations. Later, by chance, he joined the third-ranked fire mercenary group in the world. In time, the third deal in the mercenary group took place.

Wang Junlin is not the first time to use a bow and arrow. In later generations, he often used a bow to shoot arrows equipped with miniature bombs to kill the target. Therefore, his archery skills are also very good. In addition, once in order to complete a special task, he also specially practiced horse riding, and even participated in a folk horse riding competition in Inner Mongolia. Therefore, Wang Junlin can be regarded as adept at bowing horses.

Although the clothes and weapons are crude, Wang Junlin is as tall and straight as a gun, and his steps are as agile as a wolf. After asking the Chen family's father and son last night, the hunting place Wang Junlin chose for himself was the mountain range north of Shetang Village, because there are many peaks, deep valleys, dense forests, and wild animals often appear here.

Half an hour later, Wang Junlin came to a secluded valley. There were dense forests on both sides of the valley, towering old trees abounded everywhere.

Wang Junlin's eyes were like lightning, and suddenly he saw a shadow flashing through the bushes 50 meters away. It was a male golden pheasant with long colorful tail feathers. Xiao Liu told him that a golden pheasant tail feather can be sold for ten dollars.

What Wang Junlin needs most now is money, and he chases after him like a cheetah.

Three years of special forces devil training and three years of mercenary career have made his physical fitness and fighting skills far beyond ordinary people.

The distance was shortened quickly, and the golden pheasant sensed the danger, so it accelerated its speed and was about to fly into the dense forest and bushes to escape, but Wang Junlin was already running and drawing the bow. The golden pheasant let out a mournful cry, and fell from mid-air.

Wang Junlin was overjoyed, and ran over to pick up his first prey. This golden pheasant had thirteen beautiful tail feathers, which meant that he had already obtained a sling of thirty coins.

Just as he was about to pluck the tail feathers of the golden pheasant and eat the meat roasted, Wang Junlin's expression suddenly changed, he quickly wound the bow and arrow in his hand, turned around sharply and shot the arrow without hesitation, the whole process was done in one go.

Almost at the same time, a ferocious leopard leaped from the bushes five steps behind him and rushed towards him.

This is an adult male leopard, and the **** smell of golden pheasant blood attracted it.

The leopard is very good at lurking and sneak attacking, but it didn't expect that Wang Junlin's eyes and ears would be so sensitive, he would spot it in advance, and he would strike so decisively. Now that it was in mid-air, the distance between Wang Junlin and Wang Junlin was so short, and it was caught off guard, how could it avoid the arrow in Wang Junlin's hand.

With a bang, the long arrow shot half an inch deep from the leopard's forehead, blood spattered, and the leopard's body was stunned amidst the screams, but it landed firmly on the ground.

Wang Junlin secretly cried out that it's a pity, the strength of the bow and the sharpness of the arrow are really too bad, otherwise the arrow just now would have killed the leopard.

It's a pity in my heart At the same time, Wang Junlin took the opportunity to retreat quickly, opening a distance, the injured beast is the most dangerous.

Sure enough, the great pain made the leopard furious, let out an earth-shattering roar, and rushed towards Wang Junlin again desperately.

However, the moment the leopard jumped up, Wang Junlin shot the second arrow. This time he aimed at the leopard's left eye intentionally, but this time the leopard was also prepared, and it swung it However, he dodged the arrow, kicked his hind legs, and rushed towards Wang Junlin again from a few feet away...

At this time, it was too late for Wang Junlin to shoot the third arrow, so he threw away his longbow, drew out his hatchet and slashed at the cheetah fiercely. His moves are just two words - fast and accurate.

The knife is as fast as lightning, but the leopard is also known for its speed in the world of beasts. I saw it swinging in the air like a flying shadow, and it was even faster than Wang Junlin's knife. He struck, and leaned over, his front paws pounced on Wang Junlin's head, the sharp canine teeth opened, and bit Wang Junlin's throat fiercely.

Wang Junlin let out a sharp roar, and at the moment before the leopard's claws touched his body, his body suddenly fell backwards, making the leopard just miss the air, and when he fell, the hatchet in his hand was already going up with all his strength teased out.

The abdominal defense of four-legged animals is usually the weakest in the whole body, and the leopard is no exception. With a chirp, the leopard let out a painful roar, and was disembowelled on the spot, poured down like hot blood, and its intestines fell off. When he came out, Wang Junlin rolled over on a donkey and dodged to the side, and the leopard's body fell to the ground.

Wang Junlin was lying on the ground gasping for breath. From the appearance of the leopard to being killed by him, although it was only a short period of four or five breaths, he had consumed a lot of physical energy and energy.

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An hour later, Wang Junlin returned to Shetang Village with two leopard legs and the leopard skin, which caused a sensation in the whole village, and the villagers gathered around to watch.

Wang Junlin originally wanted to go directly to the town, but he didn't know the way and was not familiar with the situation, so he wanted Chen Xiaoliu to take him there when he came back.

Leaving the two leopard legs to the Chen family and the villagers who helped him yesterday, Wang Junlin and Chen Xiaoliu rushed to Maiji Town.

The two of them had just arrived at the east end of Maiji Town, when they were surrounded by seven or eight merchants who specialized in buying fur here. Leopard skins are rare and expensive, and after being purchased, they can be processed a little bit and sent to county towns or county towns, and the price can easily double.

"Brother, would you like to pay 100 taels for this leopard skin?" A middle-aged man who looked like a shopkeeper spoke first.

The five baht coin in the Sui Dynasty was also called the Kaihuang five baht. It cost one hundred coins, and ordinary people could live for a month with four or five coins. A windfall.

Wang Junlin shook his head and said, "It's not for sale for a hundred hanging!"

Before coming here, Mr. Chen said that this leopard skin can be sold for at least two hundred tangs in Maiji Town, but this person actually offered one hundred tangs, how could he agree.

"I'll offer one hundred and fifty hanging!" Another bid.

Wang Junlin's reserve price was two hundred dong, but he was going to ask for three hundred dong, and then bargain with these people.

At this time, someone shouted in the distance: "The people in front get out of the way, don't get in the way!"

The onlookers on the street moved away one after another, only to see a group of armored knights coming, the leader of the knight was tall and strong, he was wearing bright light armor and his eyes were as sharp as a knife. Beside him, half a step behind, was a thin scribe in a long gown, with wise eyes.