20demayo Chapter 133 Ask for advice humbly
Chapter 133 Ask for advice humbly
She had to ask for help, so her words lacked confidence and her palms were wet and sweaty.
"it is good!"
"Oh, okay?" She looked up at Han Zhibai in surprise. She didn't expect him to agree so readily.
He nodded, "You go chase one of your prey now, and I'll watch from the side."
"it is good!"
She turned around, said hello to Li Benfu and the others, and went to look for prey with Heihei.
The three men of the Li family hurriedly followed.
Soon, Heihei tracked down several bamboo rats hiding in the grass. Their arrival startled them and they ran around in panic.
Xia Qingyue, who was well prepared, took aim at a bamboo rat and raised her bow and arrow.
An arrow was shot, just a little bit away from hitting the target.
At the same time, the three men of the Li family and Heihei and Xiaobai ran over to surround the escaping bamboo rat so that Xia Qingyue could continue shooting.
Han Zhibai said: "Don't wait until you are ready to shoot the arrow before you take action, because at this time, the prey is also moving and will not stop."
Xia Qingyue looked at the arrow in her hand. What he said made sense. It is true that those who are involved in the matter are often confused, while those who are not involved can see things more clearly.
She nodded and said, "I'll try again."
"And your posture is a little wrong. You're too tense. Relax a little." Han Zhibai picked up a branch from the ground and tapped her shoulders, back, and elbows.
After ordering, he picked up his bow and arrow and began to demonstrate.
She carefully observed how Han Zhibai held the bow and arrow, and how he adjusted his body posture when shooting the arrow. After watching, she had an epiphany.
She took a deep breath and tried again. This time, she no longer thought about whether she had to hit the target, or whether the prey would escape or where it would escape. She relaxed her whole body.
Aiming at the prey, she loosened her grip and the arrow flew away.
With a "whoosh" sound, the arrow pierced into the abdomen of a bamboo rat.
Xia Qingyue's eyes widened in disbelief, and she stuttered, "I...I, shot...hit?"
"Well, you are very smart." Han Zhibai raised his lips. Infected by her, he was in a good mood.
"Remember the feeling of shooting the arrow just now, and try it again."
Xia Qingyue recalled the feeling at that time, her palms were sweaty. She wiped them on her clothes and raised the bow and arrow.
This time, he almost hit the target.
Seeing the disappointment in her eyes, Han Zhibai said:
"You have improved a lot. Your hands are steady and your body is in good condition. Compared to an ordinary woman, your strength is also good. If you keep doing this and practice diligently, you will have no problem hunting rabbits and pheasants in two months."
"Yes, Qingyue, you have made a lot of progress. Take it slow. You can't become fat in one breath!" Li Benfu encouraged.
He took out his bow and arrow, recalled the scene of Han Zhibai instructing Xia Qingyue, adjusted his posture, and shot the last bamboo rat with one arrow.
After ejaculating, he felt his whole body was unblocked and he looked at Han Zhibai in surprise.
This kid is really good!
Having learned a lot of useful knowledge today and put it into practice, Xia Qingyue was very satisfied. "Thank you, Han Zhibai. I will practice hard when I get back."
At noon they had a barbecue by the stream as usual.
After eating, they spent the afternoon looking for medicinal herbs, so they came to the forest where they had found persimmons before.
After digging up a medicinal herb, Xia Qingyue reached out and pulled up a green plant next to it, patted the dust off the plant, and put it in her mouth to chew.
Her sudden action startled Li Weikang who was standing by, "Sister Qingyue, be careful, it's poisonous!"
She smacked her lips, her mouth was sweet, with a fresh plant fragrance, "This is rock sugar grass, it's not poisonous, it's also a herbal medicine. I'm very thirsty, eat some to quench my thirst."
Rock sugar grass can be eaten raw, dried and boiled in water to drink. It can be taken for lung heat cough and toothache caused by wind and fire.
This was a snack she often ate in her previous life, and could be found near fields and on roadsides.
After hearing this, they each pulled a handful of rock candy grass to eat.
Li Weisheng: "Sweet, really sweet!"
Li Benfu: "Like eating candy."
After searching for several hours, as the sun set, they headed back with their harvest of the day.
On the way, Xia Qingyue, Li Benfu and Li Weikang humbly asked Han Zhibai about archery.
Han Zhibai answered each question one by one and explained the reasons by demonstrating himself.
From then on, except for Li Weisheng, Xia Qingyue and the other three looked at Han Zhibai with a hint of respect in their eyes.
"Han Zhibai, how do you think I should practice next time?" she asked, looking at him.
"The more solid your basic skills are, the more advantageous it will be, whether you are shooting at living or dead objects, or at any distance.
You can try to gradually increase the distance from the target you are shooting at.”
“Once you have done all of the above, you can then observe the prey and anticipate its future movements and where it will hide.
In addition to mastering archery, you also need to observe more. You may not see results so quickly in the early stage, but as you hunt more and accumulate a certain amount of experience, you will gradually have a premonition when facing prey and can probably guess its movements in advance. "
Xia Qingyue memorized all of this.
After they parted, Han Zhibai walked a distance and stopped, turned around, his eyes fixed on Xia Qingyue's back.
He looked gloomy and murmured in a low voice: "How come the day goes by so quickly?"
night.
Xia Qingyue made a quick dinner. She found some thin vines that she had brought back from outside in the evening, and wove them crisscross to form layers of circles. Finally, she tied them together to make a target.
The center of the target is painted with a black dot using charcoal.
The target is inserted into a long wooden stick, starting from a distance of several meters.
From then on, she practiced on this target at home.
It was dark at night and there were only a few candles left, so she finished early and went to bed.
For the next three days, Xia Qingyue and his group went hunting and searching for medicine in the dense forest. They mainly hunted in the morning and searched for medicinal materials in the afternoon.
Every morning, after daybreak, Xia Qingyue would practice archery at the target whenever she had time. Her chances of hitting the target improved, and the target was placed farther and farther away.
That evening, when they were parting, Xia Qingyue told Han Zhibai that they would not come to the dense forest in the next two days and would go down the mountain.
She suggested: "Han Zhibai, you should buy more food. You never know, it might get more and more expensive in the future."
Han Zhibai nodded seriously and said okay.
Returning to the tiankeng, Xia Qingyue put away the medicine she had found recently, went to the kitchen, opened the lid of the rice jar, and found only a little rice at the bottom.
She used to mix a little sweet potato or pumpkin into every meal, but now the pumpkin is gone and the sweet potatoes have been planted, so she only has rice, which she eats very quickly.
"We need to buy more food tomorrow."
"Hey, wait, I bought so many things, how am I supposed to get them back?"
She recalled that last year she carried 130 to 140 kilograms of things up the mountain alone, and it took more than three hours of walking on the mountain road to get back to the tiankeng. It was so hard and tiring.
"It seems that there were mules and donkeys for rent at the market before, as well as cows and horses. I'll go and see tomorrow and see if they're available."
He definitely couldn't afford to buy her. Among so many poultry, the starting price for any one of them was ten taels of silver.
What's more, prices are skyrocketing now.
If available, renting one for two days to transport supplies up the mountain is convenient and saves trouble.
On the contrary, no, she put the supplies at Li's house first, and then carried them up one by one.