Tibet

Chapter 112 The first show of skill
Before dawn the next day, everyone got up. A maidservant had boiled water for them and made breakfast for them. They washed up in a hurry, had breakfast, and were ready to go.

Starting today, they will be free to hunt for three days. On the one hand, they will be familiar with the terrain, and on the other hand, they will let everyone practice their hands first.

Of course, free-roaming hunting is also a kind of competition. If a large prey can be hunted, the emperor will have extra rewards, which will also be included in the total score of the competition.

The predecessors of Wutingchuan shouted horses, and groups of hounds roared and galloped in front of them. Groups of hunters rode across the river. From Wutingchuan to the west, dozens of miles are vast forests, low hills and undulating hills. All kinds of people live in the forest All kinds of animals are very suitable for hunting, but also hidden dangers.

Li Ye's team consisted of seven or eight members. Cheng Changyin had participated in three spring hunts and two autumn hunts. He had rich experience and he was the oldest, so he was the leader of the team.

Then came Li Ye, and three Cheng family children, Cheng Changdi, Cheng Changhui, and Cheng Changyao.

These three people are about the same age as Li Ye, but they are obviously more raw, but they are all dressed in warrior uniforms, full of energy, with bows and arrows in their hands, and swords on their waists.

In addition, there were five hounds and several servants. Cheng Xiaojiao also wanted to follow, but was stopped by her mother.

"Brother, this is for you!"

Cheng Changyin gave Li Ye a sharp dagger, "Put it in a leather boot, it's very practical!"

"Thank you!" Li Ye happened to be short of a dagger.

"Let's go!"

With a wave of Cheng Changyin's hand, the five urged their horses to run into the forest.
The forest is lush with trees and bushes on the ground. The light is dark and quiet, only the rustling sound of their horseshoes stepping on the leaves.

Hundreds of hunting teams entered the forest, and the animals were too frightened to take a breath.

"A Ye, which direction do you think we should go?" Cheng Changyin asked.

Li Ye thought for a while and said, "There are hills in the northwest, so there should be more opportunities there!"

The group of people immediately turned to the northwest direction. They were lucky along the way and caught more than a dozen prey in a row, almost all of which were hares and pheasants.

Li Ye raised his bow and set an arrow, and shot towards the top of a big tree dozens of steps away. The speed of the arrow was astonishingly fast, and a fat pheasant just flapped its wings and flew up, "Pfft! ’ The arrow shot through the breast of the pheasant, and the pheasant fell from the tree.

"Good arrow technique!" Everyone cheered in unison. It is not difficult to shoot a stationary pheasant, but it is extremely difficult to shoot a flying pheasant. It is necessary to deduce the flight trajectory and take-off timing of the pheasant in advance, and it is almost impossible.

At this moment, the barking of hounds was heard not far away, and a servant shouted, "The hare is coming!"

Everyone turned their heads, and saw a sturdy hare being chased by hounds, running towards it like lightning, and everyone chased after him. Li Ye also galloped on his horse. The movement, the running of the hare is like a combination of countless water streams, and its changes can be foreseen in the subtleties.

Seeing that the hare was about to rush into a bush, Li Ye's heart suddenly moved, and the arrow was slightly deflected, and shot in another direction.

Everyone smiled and shook their heads, but the hare suddenly turned around and jumped to the other side, saying, 'Pfft! 'It happened to be shot by Li Ye's arrow, and fell to the ground, and several hounds rushed up to throw it down.

"Okay!" Everyone's eyes widened and they gave thumbs up.

Cheng Changyin stepped forward and asked in surprise: "Your brother's prediction is very good! How do you know it will turn?"

Li Ye shook his head, "I don't know, it's just a hunch that it won't drill into bushes!"

The leader of the family Ding smiled and said: "Young Master Li is right. Even if a hare burrows into a bush and hides from a hound, it cannot hide from people. It must turn and run. We only realized it after the fact, but Young Master Li can wake up in an instant. This is either the accumulation of more than ten years of experience, or it is talent!"

Li Ye smiled and said nothing, he didn't have more than ten years of experience, and he didn't have such a talent, but the understanding brought to him by practicing swords in water, he can see the truth from the subtleties.

Others only saw the hare running fast, but what he saw was the ups and downs of the hare's limbs, and the subtle movement of the hare's neck twisting, which was a sign that the hare was about to turn around.

Of course, his eyesight and perception ability must be far beyond ordinary people to do it.

The people continued to move northwestward and entered the hilly area. The terrain began to become more complicated, and everyone became more careful. Before they left, they learned that a large beast appeared in this area.

Li Ye suddenly raised his hand, and everyone stopped their horses one after another.

"Aye, what did you hear?"

Li Ye listened intently for a moment, then whispered: "There is movement in the nearby trees!"

Everyone looked up the tree one after another. There were pine trees all around, and they didn't hear any movement. Li Ye's brows furrowed deeper, and he felt a kind of danger coming.

Several war horses also began to get restless and restless, "I saw it!" Cheng Changyin pointed at the top of a tree, and a pheasant flew into the air. Everyone shouted excitedly, and they all stretched their bows and shot.

"No, behind you!"

A strong sense of crisis made Li Ye turn around, only to see a leopard appearing on the boulder behind Cheng Changyin, staring coldly at Cheng Changyin's back.

Li Ye's reaction was incomparably quick, Zhang Gong shot an arrow, and the Leopard shook its head, but Li Ye deliberately missed it slightly, and the arrow hit the Leopard's neck.

Enraged, the leopard roared and jumped up, throwing itself at Cheng Changyin's back.

Everything happened between the ups and downs of the rabbit, Cheng Changyin also reacted, and wanted to get off the saddle, but it was too late. Seeing that the leopard was about to pounce on Cheng Changyin, a black shadow rushed from the side, knocking the leopard to the ground .

The black shadow was Li Ye, and at the critical moment, he threw away his bow and arrow, and jumped towards the leopard. The leopard was thrown down, and with a loud roar, he slapped Li Ye's face.

Li Ye dodged a fatal slap, and the dagger in his hand stabbed hard into the leopard's jaw until it reached the handle. At the same time, the leopard's tail lashed Li Ye's back fiercely, knocking him over in a somersault.

At this moment, the other Cheng family disciples came to their senses and shot at the leopard one after another. The leopard was pierced through the head with a dagger, which was its fatal wound. One step, he fell headlong to the ground and died.

Everyone gathered around one after another, Cheng Changyin helped Li Ye up, and asked anxiously, "Ah Ye, how are you doing?"

Li Ye was whipped by the leopard tail so that his blood was so angry that he couldn't move for a while. If it were someone else, this whip would have smashed his spine long ago, but Li Ye was put in the potion by his mother Pei Sanniang since he was three months old He soaked in the bath until he was seven years old, and he has developed a body of copper and iron. No matter how hard the leopard's tail is, it can't hurt him.

He waved his hand, "I'm fine, just rest for a while!"

At this time, the three Cheng family children hugged the dead leopard and cheered.

Cheng Changyin has experience, he shouted: "Leopards usually don't attack people actively, this should be a female leopard, you go around and look around, maybe you can find a little leopard."

The three of them quickly put down the leopard and looked around.

Not long after, Cheng Changdi yelled that he had found out.

Li Ye also gradually recovered, stood up, and walked forward with a limp, only to see the three brothers of the Cheng family walking over with two little leopards in their arms. They were very small and had not yet been weaned.

Li Ye sighed, he beat the two mothers to death, what a crime!
Cheng Changyin turned to Li Ye and said, "A Ye, you killed the leopard, you decide!"

Everyone knew that the leopard died when Li Ye pierced its head with a knife, and it had nothing to do with other people's shooting.

Li Ye smiled wryly, "Take them back first!"

Cheng Changyin and Li Ye had a special leather bag, so they put the little leopard into the leather bag and carried it behind their backs. The leopard was put on a pack horse, and they turned the horse's head back to the camp.

A few miles away from the camp, a team of hunters and all female guards came in front of them. The two leading female generals were both wearing armor and holding bows and arrows. They were quite heroic.

Li Ye recognized one of them at a glance, wearing a mask, it was Suzaku, but the woman next to her was the protagonist, with exquisite eyebrows and eyes, very noble.

Cheng Changyin is a palace guard, although he has only been in the palace for a year, but he knows the head woman, so he hurriedly stepped forward to greet her, "Humble rank Cheng Changyin, see Princess Guangning!"

When Princess Guangning saw Cheng Changyin, her pretty eyes lit up, she looked at Cheng Changyin and said with a smile: "I sent someone to find you, and I want you to accompany me to hunt. They said that you have left, which makes people very disappointed!"

Several Cheng family children turned their heads and smiled secretly. Li Ye also lamented that Tang Nu was unrestrained and never concealed his feelings. He originally wanted to go forward to pay respects, but now he found it unnecessary.

Cheng Changyin was really embarrassed and didn't know how to answer. Suddenly, Princess Guangning shouted in surprise: "What a cute little leopard!"

It turned out that the little milk leopard in the leather bag on Cheng Changyin's back was feeling stuffy, so he got out, stood on Cheng Changyin's shoulder, tilted his head and looked at Princess Guangning, and Princess Guangning's heart was suddenly melted by the little milk leopard, " I want it, give it to me!"

Cheng Changyin quickly handed the little leopard to her, and Princess Guangning held the little leopard in her arms, loving it very much.

"You hunted the leopard?"

Suzaku came to Li Ye's side, lowered her eyebrows and asked pleasingly, but her eyes secretly glanced at the leather bag on Li Ye's back. The leather bag moved, and Suzaku's beautiful eyes suddenly lit up.

(End of this chapter)