Chapter 12 Discovery of Poisonous Sweet Potatoes
About half an hour later, Zhao Liehu and others returned with three fat wild goats. Under Niu Er's command, everyone rushed to open the goat's intestines and tear their stomachs, dismantled them from eight pieces, and then baked them on a rack.
After the roasting, Chang Jin also distributed a few pounds of mutton. The roasted goat meat had a fishy smell and was difficult to swallow. However, in order to fill his stomach and deal with what was about to happen, he could only eat it with his teeth.
After eating and drinking, Zhao Liehuo divided the remaining people into several groups to watch, and Chang Jin was also among them.
He originally thought Niu Er and others would take advantage of the night, but he didn't know that they would be safe all night, and only wild beasts kept roaring from afar.
In the early morning, everyone finished sharing the remaining mutton and ran towards the mountains under Zhao Liehuo.
This place is forty or fifty miles away from the outer edge of the mountain, and it can be called a deep mountain. Usually, except for a very small number of hunting outdoors, ordinary people will not come here at all. Therefore, there are no traces of human activities around them. Looking up, trees that are thick with embrace can be seen everywhere, and dead branches and leaves under their feet are three or four feet thick. It is difficult to pull them out if you step in with one foot.
After passing through the woods, my eyes became wider again.
However, the road is still difficult to walk, and the feet are covered with artemisia half a human deep. Fortunately, Zhao Hunter has rich experience and quickly found a mountain road and led everyone along the mountain road.
After listening to the conversation of several hunters in the previous session, Chang Jin realized that the so-called mountain road was trampled by wild animals walking and trampling among the mountains, and was not artificial.
When passing by a mountain depression, Chang Jin turned his head inadvertently, stopped immediately, and looked at the distance in disbelief.
"Hey, sweet potato seedlings, there are sweet potato seedlings here?!" After carefully looking at the large crawling vines in the grass, he couldn't help but scream.
Sweet potato, also known as sweet potato. On the earth in his previous life, Chang Jin once was curious about sweet potatoes and searched the relevant information online. He knew that this thing was an imported product and was introduced to China in the 16th century. The yield of this thing is extremely high, with thousands of kilograms per mu. Sweet potatoes are delicious when steamed and roasted, and they can also be cut into slices and dried into sweet potatoes for storage, or broken into filtered out starch to make vermicelli.
In the following hundreds of years, it has been a life-saving food for the poor people in China.
Unexpectedly, this plant grew in the deep mountains in this world. However, Chang Jin soon became confused. He had been in this world for several months and had never seen anyone planted it in a nearby village, and he had not received any information in his predecessor's memory.
Hearing his screams, the hunting tigers around him turned their heads and looked.
One of the hunters saw him staring at the vines on the ground in a daze, and came over and said with a smile: "Scholar is so knowledgeable. He also knows poisonous sweet potatoes. Be careful, this thing is poisonous."
"What, it's poisonous! Have you ever eaten it?" Chang Jin screamed again.
This was the first time he heard that sweet potatoes were poisonous, and instinctively felt that the words were ridiculous. However, looking at the expression on the other person's face did not seem to be fake. Instinctively, he felt that there was a deviation inside.
"Scholar said something strange. Even though he knew it was a poisonous thing, why should he eat it? This thing was egg-shaped. It was as big as a white bowl. The wild boars in the mountains liked to eat it. In autumn, we often dig some poisonous sweet potatoes and sprinkle them on the mountain roads. If the wild boars eat poisonous sweet potatoes, they will fall into a coma and even fall to the ground to die."
After hearing what the other party said, Chang Jin became a little uncertain. Or in this world, many things have changed.
"Okay, don't talk about poisonous sweet potatoes anymore. Let's continue on the way and try to arrive at Yingzhujian at noon." Zhao Huowen shouted suddenly and drove everyone away from the poisonous sweet potato seedlings.
Along the way, the feces of wild animals among the weeds increased significantly. Every time they found feces, Zhao Hunter would come over to observe and give instructions one by one. This was left by the fox, which was the feces of the bison. However, they searched for nearly half a day and did not find any traces of the tiger.
When they reached a fork, Zhao Liehuo asked everyone to stop and rest again.
"Captain Zhao, why don't you rest on the spot? I will take a few people to the Yingzuijian to check to see if there are any traces of the white tiger there?" Niu Er, who was in the middle of the team, suggested.
After Zhao Liehuo agreed, he turned his head and shouted, "Let's go, Xiucai, go with us..."
Seeing the undisguised murderous intention of several people, Chang Jin immediately knew that the matter was about to end, so he nodded immediately and followed with his sword.
As he guessed, several people walked out of everyone's sight and did not head towards Yingzuijian. Although they understood what the few people were thinking, Chang Jin still asked: "Didn't Zhao Liehuo let us go to Yingzuijian? How can we turn southeast?"
"If you want to follow, follow me, there is no such a lot of nonsense." Niu Er snorted coldly and explained, "This is the shortcut..."
Chang Jin stopped talking and quietly held the sword in his right hand.
After walking forward for more than two miles, his eyes suddenly shrank, and Niu Er on the left couldn't help but tighten his long sword, as if he was rushing to Dong Chao behind him.
It's time to do it? Chang Jin suddenly pointed to the side of the dense forest and shouted: "What is that?"
The three of them were communicating silently in secret. Suddenly they heard shouts. They thought that some beast was appearing. They subconsciously turned their heads to look, but found nothing.
As the leader of the three, Niu Er was more flexible and immediately felt inappropriate.
The next moment, he felt a murderous aura coming from behind him. He was surprised and hurriedly wanted to dodge. But he knew that the sword was coming quickly. Before he could turn around, he was stabbed in the back and blood spurted out.
"You..." It was not until this moment that Niu Er said something, his face full of incredible words. I really couldn't imagine that a weak scholar would be so decisive and suddenly kill him without giving him a chance to react.
With one sword, Chang Jin did not stop and kicked it out.
With a dull sound of "Tun", the whole person flew out with blood, hitting a big rock two or three feet away, and then slowly falling down.
Among these three, Chang Jin only valued Niu Er a little. After all, his ancestors opened a martial arts school and had great skills in boxing and kicking. And judging from his luck, he was as white as his fingers, so he was obviously a character that was not easy to mess with.
Such a person must be eliminated while he is unprepared. Otherwise, when he reacts and joins the other two, he may suffer a great loss.
Fortunately, the two were too close, and Chang Jin took action quickly, so he did not give Niu Er the opportunity to display his skills.
At this time, Dong Chao and Ma Xiaosi finally reacted and shouted in horror: "My surname is Chang, what do you want to do?"
Chang Jin had no intention of answering at all. Before the two joined forces, he bullied himself forward and waved his sword with a cold light to stab Dong Chao's neck.
Because the incident happened suddenly, the wide knife on Dong Chao's waist had not been pulled out yet. At this moment, he saw the sword flying over and hurriedly waved his hand to block it.
He could only hear a "pop" sound, as if he had cut open the bare grain. Dong Chao's arm was immediately cut off, and the white bones were exposed. He screamed loudly in pain.
The murderer must have the awareness of being killed. Of course, Chang Jin would not sympathize. He went forward and cut off Dong Chao's neck with another sword.
He finally breathed a sigh of relief after he had dealt with the two of them with lightning speed. He turned his head to look at Ma Xiaosi who was still far away. He was now stunned, with his mouth wide open, looking like a wooden sculpture, and was not as rampant as before.
When Chang Jin stepped closer, Ma Xiaosi finally reacted and hurriedly pulled back, screaming: "You...what do you want to do, dare to kill someone... know who Brother Niu is?"
Chang Jin still did not answer, and walked slowly with his sword in his hand. The tip of the sword was dripping with blood beads, leaving a dazzling red line on the mountain road.
When Ma Xiaosi looked at Chang Jin again, he felt that this person was extremely terrifying. Thinking of the encounter outside the mountain, his courage to fight back disappeared, but he kept retreating and shouting: "Scholar, no matter what I do, it was Wang Mazi who found Brother Niu and asked us to kill you. Give me your life, let me spare my life!"
At the end of the day, his crotch suddenly became wet and he was so scared that he was incontinent.
"Is that true?" Chang Jin sneered and stood in front of the other side.
He naturally understood the principle that he would not die by killing a snake, but would suffer the consequences of his pity, so how could he let the other party go? He raised his hands and fell down his sword and quickly solved the other party's life.
After killing the three people, Chang Jin completely relaxed his spirit. It seemed easy to fight just now, but in fact there were many plans. The first thing was to be surprised.
Niu Er has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, so he is naturally not a mediocre person. If he doesn't kill him suddenly, and Niu Er reacts and entangles him, the remaining two will attack him from the front and back. If he wants to deal with them, it will probably take a lot of trouble.
So as early as the beginning of entering the mountain, he made a plan to kill Niu Er first and then kill Dong Chao. As for Ma Xiaosi, he did not regard the other party as a human being.
After taking a break in place, Chang Jin stood up to check his luck. He found that there was a black blood on his head, and the black blood aura was like a living thing, constantly swallowing the red air on his head, and in a moment, half of the red air disappeared.
At least as the red energy weakened, the blood black gradually dissipated in the air.
What's going on? Chang Jin was very frightened. When he looked at the corpses on the ground, he finally understood. This situation should be very similar to the karma backlash mentioned by the Buddhist family. He killed Niu Er and others with his own hands, and he would naturally be backlashed by their karma. At this consumption rate, if his luck is not replenished, he is afraid that the red qi will turn into white qi and eventually turn into gray qi...
No wonder there is a famous saying on earth, "If the clay pot is broken from the well, the general will inevitably die in the formation." If you can become a general, your luck should be very strong, but in the end you cannot escape death. The reason is that you kill too many times, and you are plagued by many karma, and you will slowly consume your luck. Your luck is strong and fashionable. Once your luck fades, you will have to die.
It is probably because of this that the founding generals are unable to die.
Chang Jin did not deal with the corpse on the ground, but let the smell of blood drift away with the mountain wind.
There are many wild beasts in the mountain, and I believe that it will not take long before the beasts will come to smell the smell of blood. When the beasts tear the corpse to pieces, they can ask Zhao Liehu and others for help.
As expected by Chang Jin, not long after, several hungry wolves came with the smell of blood. The beasts in this world were much stronger than those on earth, and even the hungry wolves in front of them were as fierce as they were. They were fierce and tall, with a fierce aura all over their bodies.
Chapter completed!