Chapter 211 The Wilderness
Chapter 211 The Wilderness
Liu Zhiyuan looked at Liu Luochen with mixed emotions in his heart.
He used to complain about this big brother, even hated him, but in the end when he failed the exam, everyone around him ridiculed him, and even his parents felt that he had no hope.
However, Liu Zhiyuan was overjoyed at that moment when he was unexpectedly supported by the family. He even felt extremely grateful for the support of the elders in his ancestors. He was also working tirelessly to study hard.
By chance, Liu Zhiyuan learned from the eldest son of the village chief's family that the so-called support from the family was provided by Liu Luochen in the case.
This elder brother secretly concealed his identity and gave him money to support his studies. It was also this elder brother who gave him the opportunity to copy books in the bookstore to earn taels of silver so that he could continue to study.
The closer he gets to Liu Luochen, the more he can feel the broad mind of the other party. All the previous things made him feel ashamed, but he also sincerely admires this big brother. He really got this family fortune from nothing, all thanks to him my ability.
After so many things, all kinds of prejudices in the past are like the dissipated mist, allowing Liu Zhiyuan to see Liu Luochen's true nature, and he is more grateful to this elder brother, and he is more determined to work hard to take the imperial examination and gain a good future. .
Liu Luochen and his party had a carriage for four people, which was relatively spacious. They wanted to enjoy the scenery along the way and appreciate the great mountains. Liu Luochen and Nan Nian set off half a month earlier, and they also stopped and stopped on the road, which was quite leisurely.
When the weather is fine, Liu Luochen and Nan Nian ride a horse together.Running horses outside.
Sometimes when the weather was gloomy, or when we were in the wilderness, Liu Luochen and his party would nestle in the carriage, Liu Chun would drive the carriage in front, and Liu Luochen would chat with Nan Nian occasionally.
Liu Luochen usually likes to eat some nut snacks, and right now he is holding a hazelnut with both hands, and is working hard to shell it.
However, he is quite strong, if he uses force, the hazelnut will be crushed by him.
If you don't use force, there is no way to peel off the shell, but Liu Luochen is so worried that he throws the hazel aside angrily.
"Hmph, why can't this hazelnut be made into an open shape when frying, is it convenient to eat that way?"
Nan Nian looked at his unreasonable look amusedly, stretched out his hand and pinched his earlobe: "It's because you can't do it right, just squeeze it slowly like this, and then peel off the shell."
Nan Nian casually took the nut basket next to him, took out the hazelnuts from inside, peeled the shells of the hazelnuts casually, and stuffed the chubby pulp inside into Liu Luochen's mouth.
When Liu Luochen ate the hazelnut he was thinking about, his eyes lit up instantly, and he looked at Nan Nian with a smile and said, "Ah! Ah Nian, you are so good, peel me some more!"
Nan Nian smiled, "Okay, do you like pine nuts?"
Liu Luochen: "I like it."
So the two of them peeled one, and the other ate it, and they complemented each other. Sometimes Nan Nian deliberately refused to go, and put the peeled hazelnuts in his mouth and refused to let Liu Luochen eat them, the two of them would laugh and quarrel.
The ancients were relatively traditional. Even if it was a husband and wife or an intimate matter between husband and wife, they closed the door and did not talk to outsiders.
Seeing Liu Luochen and Nan Nian's intimate relationship, Liu Zhiyuan turned his head, feeling a little embarrassed.
At the beginning, Liu Luochen was too embarrassed to get too close to Nan Nian because there were other people in the carriage, but after a long time, the relationship between each other was familiar, and Liu Luochen didn't care so much. If you go to bed, you won't lazily lie on Nan Nian's lap and chat with him.
Liu Zhiyuan would take the time to read on the carriage. Seeing his nervous appearance, Liu Luochen couldn't help shaking his head, and reminded him: "The carriage is bumpy. If you read like this, be careful not to get dizzy and hurt your eyes."
Liu Zhiyuan put down the book embarrassingly, scratched his head: "I'm a little nervous."
Liu Luochen picked up a book by Liu Zhiyuan casually, looked at the title "University" on the cover, and flipped through the contents, and found that it was similar to what he remembered, and he was a little surprised.
It seems that this world is not completely unrelated to his world. Some cultural systems, such as the Four Books and Five Classics, and the University's Doctrine of the Mean, are still the same system.
Seeing this, Liu Luochen became a little interested. He was a novel writer in his previous life, so of course he has read a lot about these ancient books.
When he saw similar articles, he wanted to know whether the annotations in the ancient texts of modern knowledge were the same as the annotations in this ancient text, so he was naturally very interested.
So he closed the book casually, and discussed the content of the book with Liu Zhiyuan.
It can also be regarded as killing the boring time on the road.
Liu Zhiyuan was also Liu Luochen at the beginning, just gossiping with him when he was bored, and the more he communicated with the two, the more surprised he was to find that Liu Luochen actually explained some of the books he had learned.
Although Liu Luochen was not very familiar with memorizing some of the articles, the meaning of some annotations was very novel--everything, which made him amazed.
While Liu Zhiyuan was secretly startled, he also thought that this elder brother must have been smart and eager to learn since he was a child. After he separated from the Liu family, he had the opportunity to read and write. For the road of imperial examination and official career, I am afraid that he has already won the examination early on.
I have to say that this is a beautiful misunderstanding. Although Liu Luochen has a general understanding of some ancient books due to his occupation in his previous life, he is still far from the scholars of the imperial examinations in this era, let alone poetry, literature, history and laws. On the one hand, he doesn't know anything about it, that is, in terms of policy theory, he has a little weird opinion.
Today's Liu Zhiyuan has become Liu Luochen's little enigma. Ever since Liu Luochen showed his unique insights into these articles, he would gather around Liu Luochen every day with a book in his hand and chatter about some interesting content.
The carriage drove to a mountain forest today, it was getting dark outside, and they couldn't reach the village or the ground. It seemed that they could only sleep in the wilderness tonight.
When the carriage reached a ruined temple in the forest, Liu Luochen simply stopped the carriage and everyone got out of the carriage to rest.
If you miss this ruined temple and there is no place to camp in front of Nanbao, then you will really be camping outside.
This dilapidated temple looks very desolate, the roof tiles also have some light leaks, there are broken grass everywhere, and the statues are mottled. It looks like it has been dilapidated for a long time, but fortunately there is a place to shelter from the wind and rain.
"A Nian, when I passed by just now, I closed the woods, and there were quite a few rabbits and pheasants in it, why don't we go and hunt some for dinner."
Liu Luochen touched his growling stomach. He ate some dried meat and dry food along the way, which was really boring. He wanted to hunt some prey with Nan Nian to eat.
"Okay." Nan Nian nodded, untied a longbow from under the carriage and carried it on his back, and said to Liu Chun: "You and the third brother stay here to clean up and set up the fire. back."
Liu Chun cupped his hands: "Yes!"
When Liu Zhiyuan heard that the two were going hunting, he was a little worried, and quickly jumped out of the carriage and said, "It's getting dark outside now, brother, you should pay more attention to safety when you go out."
Holding a special slingshot in his hand, Liu Luochen raised his eyebrows confidently and said, "Don't worry, we'll go back as soon as we go, you guys get the firewood and boil some hot water."
After speaking, Liu Luochen and Nan Nian didn't delay any longer. They went to the dense forest ahead and searched carefully.
Since Liu Luochen was able to come out alone with Nan Nian without Liu Chun, he had absolute confidence. With Nan Nian's skill and the longbow in his hand, let alone prey, even if they encountered any beasts, the two of them would not be afraid .
Along the way, the sky became darker and darker, and the small animals in the forest all restrained their lives, but they still couldn't escape the eyes of Liu Luochen and Nan Nian.
Although Liu Luochen held a slingshot in his hand, but this slingshot was specially made by him and put iron marbles on it, it was quite powerful.
The two cooperated with each other and caught two fat rabbits and a pheasant in a short while.
But other prey were hard to find. Seeing the sky gradually getting dark, Liu Luochen tugged at Qian Nannian's sleeve and said, "That's it for today, the prey should be enough for us to eat."
Ow!
The two were about to walk back when suddenly there was a deafening roar of tigers in the distance, followed by the sound of large wild animals fighting.
"It sounds like a tiger in front of you?" Hearing this voice, Liu Luochen cautiously covered his figure in the bushes, and whispered to Nan Nian who was beside him.
Nan Nian nodded, and tightened the longbow in his hand: "This place is too close to the ruined temple. If we don't solve it, I'm afraid we won't be able to sleep peacefully tonight. Let's sneak over and see if we can take a look." , Jiang Zhi has solved it.”
Liu Luochen nodded: "Alright, I don't know how many wild beasts are there, we'd better proceed with caution."
Liu Luochen took out a wide-mouthed white porcelain bottle from his bosom, then Nan Nian took some crossbow arrows from his side, and dipped the iron arrow tips into the liquid in the bottle.
Before leaving, Liu Luochen specially entrusted Liu Chun to make some sweating medicine, and put it on the arrows. If swallowed or hurt the skin of wild animals, it will have a miraculous effect.
After processing all the arrows with them, Liu Luochen and Nan Nian quietly walked towards the source of the sound, and the sound became louder as they got there.
By the moonlight, Liu Luochen vaguely saw the colorful tiger with the known yellow background and black spots, fighting with a big black bear that was more than three meters high and covered in pitch black.
Big Hu nine pieces could not stop roaring ferociously, but that Kumamoto was tall and powerful, the two beasts fought evenly, and his whole body was injured.
Gradually, Liu Luochen saw the clues. The tiger was probably injured before, and his strength was not as good as that. After fighting for a few rounds, the big bear gradually lost the upper hand.
It's just that the tiger is the king of beasts after all, and the big bear's stomach was torn open by the tiger, and blood dripped from the intestines and viscera, and the eyes of the two beasts were already red.
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