vrcanaries Chapter 138 Barehanded Grabbing
Chapter 138 Barehanded Grabbing
When Zhou Gu and the other two heard that their uncle had sold twelve pheasants in one go, they were all excited. "Uncle, I'll go with you tomorrow. I can't catch pheasants, but my eyesight is pretty good. I can show you the way."
"Uncle, I'm going too. Twelve pheasants cost more than two hundred coins. Can you give me some when the time comes?" Zhou Mi started to think.
Zhou Dacang nodded readily, "Okay, as long as you can help, I'll give you a share."
Several people were very excited. To be honest, this was the first time they had truly earned money on their own. All of a sudden, the food didn't taste good anymore and they wanted to go into the mountains right away.
The next day, the Zhou family's children got up before dawn because they wanted to make money, and they didn't sleep much all night.
Zhou Guo also woke up, and she wanted to follow him in. The old man said that today they would go into the mountains to practice their leg skills and catch chickens with their bare hands.
The camp was very quiet at this time. After a whole day of picking yesterday, several mountains had been almost completely cleared. No one dared to go deeper into the mountains. Only a few families quietly got up, holding torches and carrying their belongings, they went in again.
Everyone didn't even have breakfast. They just went out with their sacks. They were already there, so if they couldn't kill any pheasants, they could bring back some mushrooms so they wouldn't go home empty-handed.
As they were walking, they found a few people following them.
They looked back and scared those people, "I, I, we are going into the mountains to pick mushrooms."
"Yes, yes, let's go in and pick mushrooms. Oh, you guys are in the mountains so early too, it's really early!"
Zhou Dacang smiled and said, "Uncle Yongde, Uncle Yongan, Uncle Daqiao, you are all here so early, then you go forward, we walk slowly."
"Oh, no, no, no, it's still daybreak and there are a lot of us, so let's go together so we can have some company."
Zhou Dacang glanced at them. As far as he could remember, they didn’t seem to ask him to order pheasants.
Zhou Guo and the old man were walking at the back. She was speechless as she saw these people acting sneakily from behind. “If you want to follow, then just follow. If you want to learn, then just learn openly. Why are you acting like a thief?”
"This is not something you can learn casually. If anyone can learn it openly, how will those craftsmen make a living?" The old man put his hands behind his back and glanced at her. "Do you think you can learn kung fu casually from me? You must have become my disciple. If you didn't, you would have let me teach you. You would have been kicked out long ago if I hadn't taught you."
Zhou Guo was speechless, and suddenly remembered that this was different from the knowledge-sharing 21st century where she had lived. Here, to learn something or a skill, one had to become an apprentice and pay a price. But when she thought about it carefully, it seemed that in that era, to learn something in depth seriously, one also had to pay a price. In essence, they were the same.
Some of the internal skills that her master taught her were not even taught by her uncle. I guess that's the difference.
A group of people entered the woods. It was still dark in the woods and it was difficult to see clearly.
But the eyes cannot see at this time, but the ears are most sensitive. Everyone can hear the slightest movement in the woods. If the movement is a little louder, like a rustling sound, you know it is a pheasant.
"It's flying away! Chase it!" Zhou Mai watched a black shadow fly forward from the tree branch and ran towards that direction.
Zhou Gu and Zhou Mi hurried forward to chase after him.
Zhou Dacang went in another direction. It was a waste of manpower for four people to chase a chicken.
When the three people following behind heard there was a pheasant, they hurriedly followed.
Zhou Guo followed him into the woods, and everywhere in the woods was gray.
"Find an open space and practice your internal energy for two hours first." The old man ordered from behind.
"Yes." She did as she was told. She had started practicing internal energy since she became an apprentice. At the beginning, sitting cross-legged for an hour was her limit. She felt nothing except numbness in her legs.
In addition, she was busy recently, so she practiced intermittently. After practicing for so long, it was only in these few days that she finally got a little bit of the hang of it. For the first time, she felt the warm air in her dantian that her master had talked about, which made her very happy.
The old man was even more excited than her. You know, this kind of energy is not something that ordinary people can feel. Those without talent may never find the trick in their entire life. This proves that his vision is still very good. His apprentice can practice internal skills at such a young age.
The two found an open space.
Zhou Guo sat down cross-legged to meditate, and the old man also sat down cross-legged.
The two men practiced internal energy with their eyes closed in the dense forest, and they were as motionless as the two stone statues. After an unknown amount of time, a pheasant quietly came not far from them and lowered its head to peck at insects.
Not long after, another one came.
The old man slowly opened his eyes, picked up the two stones in front of him without leaving any trace, and threw them out.
The two pheasants flapped their wings on the ground for a while, then they ran out of strength and died.
He closed his eyes again.
More than an hour later.
When Zhou Guo opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was two dead chickens lying on the ground, with blood all over the floor.
She looked at the master next to her and was full of admiration. This old man did not delay hunting while meditating. How come she didn't hear any movement? He didn't fall asleep this time.
The old man opened his eyes and smiled kindly, "I hunted two chickens while I was meditating. I don't ask you to do more. Catch one within half an hour. Is that too much?"
Zhou Guo didn't say anything.
"You are not allowed to use anything else. You can only rely on your own feet to chase and catch with your hands." The old man added.
Sure enough, there is no such cheap thing in the world.
She stood up resignedly, warmed up, stretched her arms and legs, and walked away calmly, as if she was strolling in her own back garden.
The old man couldn't help but remind him, "You only have half an hour to practice. If you can't finish it, practice for an extra hour today."
"Got it." Zhou Guo waved his hand back.
After twisting and turning in the woods for a while, I found a pheasant with a long tail not far ahead. It was fat and strong, and should weigh about three kilograms.
She took her breath and chased after it. The pheasant heard the noise and fluttered forward. It was as fast as a small cannonball in the bushy jungle.
She followed closely behind. Seeing that it was being chased, the pheasant became even more panicked. It spread its wings and flew forward more than a hundred meters.
On the other side, the three Zhou Gu brothers who were chasing the third chicken saw another chicken running not far away, and they were immediately overjoyed. It was really a case of searching for something without any effort, but finally getting it without any effort. This chicken just came to their doorstep.
Zhou Gu was going to catch this one.
"The chicken is mine!" Zhou Guo shouted at the back. If he caught it, she would have to find a new one and start chasing it from the beginning. She would be exhausted.
Everyone was startled and turned to look, only to see Zhou Guo chasing after them from behind in a rage, his eyes as big as a cow's, and his appearance was similar, with dead branches and leaves and chicken feathers all over his hair.