" Cousin brought it here." Guan Hanyan blushed and said," She said it's a wedding gift for us."
Qin Feng immediately understood that his cousin must be afraid that Guan Hanyan would starve after marrying him.
"Then have you thanked cousin?"
"You're not angry?" Guan Hanyan probed.
She had heard in Guanjiawan that Qin Feng was a self-proclaimed scholar who cared a lot about his face. He was worried that Qin Feng would think that his cousin was humiliating him.
"Why should I be angry?"
Qin Feng smiled." No matter what, my cousin is doing this for your own good. I feel sorry for you. I can't thank her enough. Moreover, my cousin has given you such a big gift."
Lin Yunfang's man, Zhang Liang, joined the army a few years ago and lost an arm on the battlefield. He couldn't do a lot of work. When Zhang Mancang was young, he broke his leg on the mountain and became a cripple. He could only chop wood and burn charcoal for a living.
The family had a hard time and could not eat a few full meals a year.
It was indeed a big gift for Lin Yunfang to send a bag of wild vegetables.
With Qin Feng's family's current condition, they didn't eat lunch. However, when she heard that Qin Feng was going hunting in the mountains in the afternoon, Guan Hanyan still cooked some oatmeal.
This time, no matter what Qin Feng said, even if he was as fierce as yesterday, it was useless. She just refused to eat. She stubbornly squatted in the courtyard and looked at the crossbow.
Although Great Kang already had crossbows, due to the backward craftsmanship, the crossbows they made were complicated to operate and not very practical, so they were rarely seen among the people. Hunters preferred to use the simpler longbows.
"Boss, is this a bow? Why is it different from the bow and arrow of our village's hunter uncle?"
It was the first time Guan Hanyan had seen a crossbow, so she asked curiously.
"This is called a crossbow!"
Qin Feng took the crossbow, pulled the bowstring, loaded the arrow, and pulled the trigger at a big tree more than 20 meters away.
Whoosh!
The arrow flew out and nailed itself onto the tree. The arrowhead sank into the tree trunk, and the tail buzzed.
"So…so powerful!" "Master, did you do this?" Guan Hanyan was shocked.
"Who else is there besides me?"
Looking at Guan Hanyan's sparkling eyes, Qin Feng was rather pleased.
After explaining to Guan Hanyan how to use the crossbow, Qin Feng carried his quiver and walked out of the courtyard.
As soon as he went out, he met a group of women who were going to the back of the mountain to dig wild vegetables.
"Qin Feng, why aren't you at home with the bride?"
A girl with two pigtails winked and asked.
She was the daughter of the village chief and had a lively personality. The unmarried girls and young daughters-in-law in the village all followed her lead.
"Let's go hunting at the back of the mountain!" Qin Feng replied casually.
"You're going hunting?" "When did you learn how to hunt?" Xiao Yu asked with a smile.
"Why do you care?"
Qin Feng couldn't be bothered to tangle with a group of women, so he lowered his head and quickened his pace.
There were also some women who were curious about the crossbow in Qin Feng's hand, but before they could ask, Qin Feng left.
"Don't get lost when you enter the mountain!" " Come back quickly if you can't get anything! Don't make the bride wait!" Xiao Yu shouted from behind.
The other women laughed even harder.
There were often people around the back of the mountain, so there weren't many prey. If they wanted to hunt, they had to climb another mountain and go deeper into the old forest.
In his previous life, Qin Feng was a child from a mountain village. He had followed his grandfather to hunt in the mountains since he was young. He was no stranger to the mountains. He carried a loaded crossbow and nimbly shuttled through the forest, looking for traces left behind by animals.
It was the end of spring, the mountains were green, and the tree crowns covered the sky. It was also the season with the most animal activity.
Not long after, Qin Feng found a gray rabbit drinking water beside a small puddle.
The wild rabbit was extremely vigilant. Even when it was drinking water, its eyes kept scanning its surroundings.
Patience was the basic quality of a hunter. At this moment, the rabbit was already within the range of the crossbow, but Qin Feng did not attack. Instead, he held the crossbow and waited patiently.
After B. Rabbit finished drinking the water and turned to leave, he pulled the trigger without hesitation.
In the blink of an eye, the arrow flew across the distance between the two and nailed the rabbit to the ground. By the time Qin Feng rushed over, it was already dead.
"Not bad, you're quite fat."
Qin Feng stuffed the rabbit into the pouch at his waist, put away the arrow, and continued to search for the next prey.
...
The sun was setting in the west. The women digging wild vegetables at the foot of the mountain were preparing to go back.
"Hey, did you guys see Qin Feng come back?"
Xiao Yu, the daughter of the village chief, asked the bystanders.
"No."
"I haven't seen him either."
"Are you really lost?"
"Did you encounter a wolf?"
" We can run away if we encounter wolves, but we're finished if we encounter bandits!"
" I heard that there's a mountain ghost in Old Bull Ridge. He just married a jinx. What if he encounters an evil spirit?"
The village women were ignorant and mean, but most of them were simple and honest. They usually pushed Qin Feng to be the first, but no one really wanted him to die.
Seeing that the sun was about to set and Qin Feng had not returned, they were a little worried.
Xiao Yu looked at the hunter's concubine." Cui Hua, your master is familiar with the mountains. Why don't you let him go and take a look?"
"The head of the household went to town to repair his bow today. He will only be back at night."
"You guys wait here. I'll go back and ask my father to call someone to search the mountains." Xiao Yu was a little anxious.
" Look, there's someone over there. Isn't that Qin Feng?"
The hunter's concubine pointed at the back of the mountain.
In the setting sun, a figure crossed the mountain ridge and was descending the mountain.
"If it wasn't him, then who was it?!"
Xiao Yu muttered, clearly relieved.
"Do you think he hit anything?"
"I heard from the head that the rabbits and pheasants in the mountains are more shrewd than humans. They run away when they're not careful."
"Qin Feng has never gone hunting in the mountains before," said the hunter's concubine."It's good enough that he didn't get lost."
"Yeah, if the prey was so easy to hunt, everyone would go up the mountain to hunt."
A woman echoed.
However, as Qin Feng got closer and closer, many people saw that the cloth bag at his waist was bulging and dripping with blood.
"Qin Feng, did you get something?"
When Qin Feng approached, the women surrounded him.
"Of course!" Qin Feng proudly threw the two rabbits on the ground.
" What a big rabbit! There are two of them!"
"This big one should be about six to seven catties, right?"
"I think so. These two rabbits can be exchanged for at least 40 catties of grain in town."
No one teased Qin Feng anymore. All of them were filled with envy.
During the slack season, many people in the village would try their luck in the mountains. However, most people did not have bows and arrows. Who could catch a rabbit in the mountains with just their legs?
Most of the time, they returned empty-handed.
He didn't expect Qin Feng to have such a huge harvest on his first hunt in the mountains.
40 catties of millet, cooked with wild vegetables, was enough for two people to survive the winter.
"Qin Feng, did you use this thing to hit the rabbit?"
"Let me see," Xiao Yu pointed at the bow and asked curiously.
"Yes."
They were all from the same village, so Qin Feng didn't hide anything. He openly took out the bow for them to see.
"Can I try?" Xiao Yu fiddled with the bow and was eager to try.