Yan Yongchun did not refuse such admiration, "Originally, the cultivation sect was not allowed to participate in mundane affairs, and it was also because the situation said by the patriarch of Chengzhu was too unscrupulous, and some officials from the Tang Dynasty came to the door. ”

Hearing this, twenty years ago, Princess Taiping nodded, and knew the situation at that time, this should be the border area between Goguryeo and the Tang Dynasty, and it really belongs to the extremely chaotic land of Sanzhi.

The beggar Seung-so sighed:

"At that time, it was really a hard time, it turned out that the local Su Mo Jin was almost killed by the Goguryeo people, and the cause of the war between Su Mo and Goguryeo was to fight for control of Fuyu's hometown! At that time, they were already in an extremely disadvantageous position, and we migrated here in order to persuade the final Sui to be attached, not only to survive, but also to keep the homeland from being lost, how could the Sui Dynasty at that time only know that we were treated as substitute ghosts, but fortunately, it soon became the world of the Tang Dynasty! ”

Yan Yongchun patted him on the shoulder to show comfort:

"I got acquainted with the patriarch of Chengzhu earlier, this little old man and his brother were a figure back then, although they had no cultivation, their brains were very good, and it was his idea to migrate here, and now he is also a landlord, otherwise he would not have the current value on the black water!"

Intending to liven up the atmosphere, he cleverly diverted the topic.

The elder brother of the beggar Chengzhu is his cousin the beggar Zhongxiang, Li Zhike knows that this person is powerful, although his son will be more famous in the future, it is also based on the country laid by the beggar Zhongxiang in advance.

Therefore, he agreed with Yan Yongchun's rhetoric in his heart, and also knew his fundamental intention: "The only person who can call the little old man of the Chengzhu patriarch is an old friend like Sect Master Yan!" ”

Hearing this, the beggar Seung-su was really in a much better mood:

"Hehe, when I met him, I was also hunting, but that time it was in Taihang Mountain! At that time, I was sent to Kannai to purchase, and I saw a kind of bear deep in the mountains, and the locals called it a skinny bear! This bear is not as strong as the pimple grizzly bear and black bear in the northeast, and it is slender and long, and it runs very fast, and many people die under the sharp claws of this bear. I've never seen it before, but I've been chased by it for miles, and if it hadn't been for Yongchun coming, I'm afraid that sooner or later I would have died of exhaustion! ”

Yan Yongchun smiled and continued: "I was only a second-level hunter at that time, and to be honest, it was not easy to deal with a skinny bear, but fortunately, that bear was also a little weak at that time, but how to make friends was not because of the bear, but also because of a series of strange things that followed!" ”

The two of them are like the cross talk of later generations, you say a word, I say a word, as if discussed in advance, gradually lead the story out, but there is no smile in the process, but a chill on the back.

At that time, the same as the beggar Chengzhu, the few people brought by Yan Yongchun were also from the Northeast and stayed in the nearby village.

The difference is that the former just came to play, although there was a big braid dragged behind his head that made people look strange, Yan Yongchun and his party were invited to join the wolf fighting team during the experience.

There is Jingcheng County, located in the belly of Taihang Mountain, is the most rampant period of wolves, wolves hide in the caves formed naturally in the deep mountains during the day, and attack pigs and sheep in the evening, and boldly take away the young from the edge of the village. Tong, owes a lot of blood debt.

At that time, people talked about the wolf color change, the sun just set, the villagers closed the courtyard door, did not let the children go out, opened the village chronicles, hundreds of miles nearby, almost every village has wolves to take away the young. Records of children.

Moreover, the government has also made accurate calculations, an adult wolf, according to eating three kilograms of fresh meat a day, is more than 2,000 catties a year, if its life expectancy is 15 years, it will eat more than 15,000 catties of various wild animals in this life, which has caused a great waste of wild resources.

Therefore, the elimination of a wolf can protect tens of millions of wild animals, and the formation of a wolf team is absolutely necessary, and it can also change a good reputation.

Therefore, the local county government organized a wolf-fighting team to carry out a mass wolf-fighting campaign, but because of the treacherous terrain and the ferocious and excessive number of wolves, the people would pool money to hire capable cultivators.

Since the thin bear came down to beg Chengzhu, hearing Yan Yongchun's purpose for coming here, he was also a little moved, not to earn some silver taels, but he was born in Orion, and he was very grateful to Yan Yongchun for saving his life, and wanted to help him.

The two returned to the village, and soon their people got together, and there were still many experienced old hunters in the local area, some of whom were still professional hunters, and although they were more enthusiastic about the two groups of people who came from afar, they did not believe them very much in their hunting experience.

Especially the Orion team with a long pigtail, there is a northeast smell in the mouth, this is the Taihang Mountains, not the Great Xing'an Mountains, in the Northeast they may be a good hunter, but in the Taihang Mountains, it may not work, especially in this mountain, there are many strange legends, will not point to the crooked way, if you are not careful, you will never get out.

Therefore, after the establishment of the wolf fighting team, they did not rush up the mountain, but conducted a few days of intensive training, which can be regarded as letting each other understand each other first, increase the tacit understanding, and at the same time let the people of the hunting team be familiar with some more advanced hunting tools.

In addition to the daily cost of eating and drinking, they killed a wolf, and with the wolf corpse as evidence, they were rewarded with 2,000 catties of millet.

At that time, people's staple food was millet, and 2,000 catties of millet was a ton, which shows that the government and the villagers have made a bloody investment.

Under the heavy reward, many hunters led the hounds to pour into the wells and patrol the mountain streams to participate in wolf hunting.

However, wolves are fierce and cunning by nature, alert and suspicious, quick in action, very developed in hearing and smell, fast in running, and very strong in endurance, and are very cunning beasts. People are in the open, wolves are hidden in the dark, and it really takes hunters to fight wits and courage with wolves.

Compared with the thin bear, the local people are more afraid of the wolf, the wolf of Taihang Mountain, is the essence, the older generation of people say that in the era of war and chaos, the wolf here ate a lot of human flesh, stained with dead popularity, will learn to walk, sometimes will hide in the grass to learn baby bark, lure people over.

There was a large-scale wolf plague in this area before, affecting many villages, the old people in the village mentioned the wolf plague, their faces were extremely ugly, although now there are often wolves down the mountain to attack livestock or children, but the number is obviously relatively small, not enough to become a disaster.

But what was left of them was only essence, and as soon as the sun set, the wolves howled, as if to blatantly tell the locals that they were coming.

The Jingcheng Mountain Village and more than a dozen nearby villages are quite barren, and every farmer raises pigs and is diligent and thrifty to support the family.

Because the smell of pig feces is too great, people set up pig houses outside the yard, and in the dead of night in winter, pig farmers living at the edge of the village become the target of wolf attacks.

Living on the edge of the village, I often hear about whose pigs were killed by wolves at night, or eaten.

The wolf eats pigs very skillfully, a pig weighs two or three hundred pounds, the wolf piglet is big, the wolf can't drag the pig, so he bites one of the pig's ears with his mouth, and uses his thick and powerful tail to beat the pig's butt desperately, drive the pig to a remote place, and then bite the neck suddenly, and then eat the pig in a hurry.

The common method used by farmers to prevent wolves at night is to dry a hard plant called kudzu needle, plant it in bundles with mud, and plant it on the wall of the pig house to prevent wolves from entering.

Many farmers draw several one-meter-diameter white circles with white ash on the walls of the pig house, saying that wolves are cunning and suspicious, and they dare not come for fear of being caught when they see the white circles.

There were a few bells or small iron cylinders hanging at the mouth of the pig barn, and the wolf rang as soon as he touched it, and was frightened by the sound and ran away.

The most helpless thing is to make a wooden door with a thick wooden board for the mouth of the pig house, use a lock, lock it every night, and open it every morning, although it is troublesome, but it is reliable.

At that time, the pig farmers who lived at the edge of the village became frightened birds every winter, and when they heard the dog barking at night, the male owner had to get up quickly, holding a dung fork and shouting to go out to check, and the hostess would quickly check the pig barn first thing after getting up every day.

The sun just sets, there is a burst of wolf howls in the mountain, the old man who farms the land said, "The wolf is going down the mountain, the night is the time for the wolf to move, the day is our farming, we should call it a day and go home." ”

When night fell, the adults in the family hurriedly pulled the children home, closed the gate of the yard tightly, and did not let the children go out.

As long as it is not a rainy and snowy night, on the mountain road at night, the professional wolf team drives the mules and horses, with a strict division of labor, and several people are accompanied by lanterns and torches to illuminate, and carry knives and guns to protect themselves against wolves.

Six or seven mules and horses are small, twelve or three are medium-sized, and more than 20 are large-scale, with three mules in turn, including a head, a medium mule, and a tail mule.

The man with the head of the mule knows the way, no matter how big the wind and sand are, he does not dare to be careless with his eyes wide open, and searches for the attack of the evil wolf; The tail mule is relatively relaxed after breaking, as vigilant as the head mule, and rides on the mule's back with its face facing back; The middle mule rests and sleeps, and becomes a reserve in case of a situation, protecting the mules, horses and bait.

One day it snowed heavily, and the wolf team decided to take advantage of the fact that they could inspect the footprints on the snow and go deep into the mountains to look for wolf tracks, after all, this season's wolf team only fought two wolves in the past half a month.

A wolf-fighting team of thirteen people entered the mountain with various tools and hounds.

Talking all the way, they got acquainted with each other, and several local hunters talked about the captain Wang Changlu, a year ago, it was he who brought people to the village to lead the wolf team, and in the season he was in alone, he killed sixty-eight big wolves and twenty-two small wolves, and the first wolf was almost killed by him.

Hearing this, Yan Yongchun and his party were better, they were all first- and second-level hunters, and they were dedicated to fighting wolves for several months, and dozens of them were not a problem.

But the beggar Chengzhu and the other five people were shocked, they were all from generations of hunting families in the northeast, but it was not easy to know the harvest of nearly 100 wolves in March.

The people of the Yan Dynasty asked Wang Changlu in the team half flatteringly, half respectfully, but they didn't want this person to look bad, not because of his blunt attitude, but because he seemed to be very reluctant to be mentioned about it.

And his former team members were still walking in front and talking about this person's great achievements, Yan Yongchun vaguely sensed something, so he stepped forward to divert the topic from those people.

Experienced hunters are good at checking faces and colors, and beggar Chengzhu quickly saw that Wang Changlu's face really didn't have the strange look he had before.

However, he could still see that this person's mental state was far worse than before entering the mountain, and the deeper he went into the mountain, the more solemn his expression became.

After a heavy snowfall, all the information of the wolf was exposed to the snow, including the cave where the wolf slept, the activity route, which section of the slow walk, the fast run, and the eating of leftover animal scraps.

According to the wolf's footprints and pace, the hunter can basically judge the wolf's height, length, number, male and female, and large and small wolves.

The wolf is a nocturnal animal, hiding in deep mountain caves during the day, and also coming out during the day when it is sparsely populated, and often howling loudly in the open mountains and forests at night, and the sound shakes the four wilds.

It was daylight, and after a few hours, some traces were finally found, but before they could follow them, they saw that it was dark.

So the army decided to spend the night in a relatively distant location, and to stay in the next day to dig out their nests.

It was only when they found a water source that they found a string of obvious wolf paw prints, and looking at the marks, it should be an adult male wolf.

Because it was very large and had not been formed for a long time, the oldest hunter in the team judged from experience that he should have stayed half an hour ago.