Chapter 6 Lost in the Mountains
After the Daxing Empire unified the world for more than 40 years, it has shown a gradual decline. The battle to combat rebellion in the north has been fought for more than ten years. The King of Pingxi in the west has also raised the flag to rebel for many years. The wars have continued, and soldiers, bandits and bandits have been in chaos everywhere. In order to quell the rebellion, the court had to impose intensive taxes, continuously increase taxes, and force military conscription, which has caused the people to live in poverty.
Old Man Xu's home is within the jurisdiction of Tongyuan County, adjacent to Xiamaguan, the capital of the Western Regions of King Pingxi. This is the front line for quelling chaos in the west and the place where taxes are the most powerful.
Fortunately, Lao Xu's family lives at the foot of the mountain outside the village. He opens up land and farms himself, and men farm and women weaves without paying taxes. He lives a paradise-like life and is free. However, drought and flood often occur in the past two years, and the harvest is getting smaller and smaller, and life is becoming more and more poor.
The young man Tianlang rarely goes to the big millstone to attend classes now. He always likes to run up the mountain to find the group of wolves. He always feels that he has a story with them and wants to find out what the hell is.
With his talent in listening, he could always find traces of these wolves in the dense forests of mountains and mountains. He often followed them, or climbed up high treetops, watching them search, hunt, and hunt their prey.
Through observation of the wolves, Tianlang saw the ferocity, cruelty, wisdom and team spirit of the wolf, as well as the wolf packs showing their innate military talent and ability to divide labor and cooperate. When the wolves hunted, they were very organized and the formation changes were very wonderful. Few prey could escape from their formation.
He also discovered many advantages of wolves, such as keen observation, dedicated goals, tacit cooperation, surprising tolerance, and perseverance, etc., which enabled wolves to always succeed. In the life of wolves, there is nothing that can replace the spirit of perseverance. It is precisely because of it that wolves can survive through endless hardships. The ability of wolves to control changes makes them one of the most tenacious animals in the world.
Especially the wolf, it impressed Tianlang very deeply. Its wet nose emitted white air, its body was strong and powerful. The two amber eyes were bright and bright, revealing its keenness and wisdom. The two ears stood straight on the head, as mighty as a crowned crown. Under the dense silver-gray fur, the strong muscles were clearly visible, and it was a young wolf in its prime.
After spending a long time with the wolves, he could still hear the various howlings made by the wolves. Gradually, he could fully understand their meaning. He also began to make wolf howls, conveying messages to the wolves. Because he climbed high and looked far, he could often tell the wolves where there were preys, or that prey ran toward them.
With his cooperation, the wolves were even more and more like fish in water, and they caught more and more prey. In order to thank Tianlang for their help, the wolves would often leave some spoils after hunting, as a reward for him.
Aunt Zheng was very happy to find that her son could always bring some rabbits from the mountain and some pheasant back. She asked him, "Wolf, can you catch your prey when you enter the mountain empty-handed? It's much more harmful than your father."
"Mom, don't look at me empty-handed. I'm running as fast as a wolf now. I'm more agile than a monkey when I climb a tree. What's the point of catching one or two small animals?" Tianlang said proudly.
With the mountain goods caught by Tianlang, the family's life is enjoyable and the wolf boy is getting stronger and stronger.
One day, Tianlang followed the hunting wolves to climb over several mountains and walked a long way. Because it was getting late, he could no longer return home. Tianlang slept on the tree all night.
The next morning, when Tianlang woke up, he found that the wolves had started a large-scale hunting activity.
Tianlang sat on the tree and watched the wolves shrinking the encirclement. Most of the animals hunted were captured by the wolves. It seems that the harvest of this battle is quite good.
At this time, he found that the wolves were not in a hurry to share the fruits of the battle, but were still trying their best to round up an animal, which was a roe deer.
He found that this roe deer was very different from those silly roe deer in the forest. It changed directions and ran around the corners, as if it knew the intentions of the wolves and could always slip out of the gap in the wolf formation, but it seemed that it was not in a hurry to escape, as if it was deliberately playing with the wolves.
After dealing with the wolves for a while, the roe deer finally completely got rid of the wolves' surroundings and rushed to the back of the mountain.
After seeing this, Tianlang let out a long roar to the wolves, reminding the wolves of the direction of their prey running, but the wolves seemed to have been fainted by the roe deer and were at a loss in the forest.
At this time, Tianlang suddenly saw a huge wolf chasing out alone in the direction of the roe deer running. It was the gray-headed wolf.
He hurriedly came down from the tree and followed the direction the wolf chased. But he chased after him, and chased after dozens of miles of mountain roads. He distinguished the direction of the wolf with his keen hearing, and followed him over several peaks and continued to track it.
After chasing for two days and one night, Tianlang crossed a mountain and rushed into a dense forest. After tracking the forest for a while, he finally found that he had completely lost the target of tracking. He blindly ran around the trees and could not find the direction. Only then did he find strangely that he was lost!
This is the first time he has been playing big in the mountains since he was a child, and he has never encountered such a situation. He repeatedly searched through the trees, but he could not tell the direction he came from, nor could he reach the exit to get out of the tree.
He had to stop and look at the surrounding woods. It was no different. After he walked around for a few times, he found that it was the same everywhere, as if the woods were playing hide-and-seek with him.
He found a stone from the grass and carved a mark on a tree beside him. Every time he walked, he carved marks on the tree. After walking like this for a long time, when he was about to carve marks on the tree, he found that the tree had already had marks that he had made. This surprised him. What's going on? He didn't go back, why did he go back again?
He tried to calm himself down, leaned on the tree for a while, and then walked in another direction, and still kept drawing marks on the tree.
Three hours later, he found that he had marked the tree trunks in every direction around him.
Chapter completed!