chewing dragon

Chapter 17

At dusk, the sky is getting dark.

Qi Jingzhi hid in a bush, carefully looking out along the gaps in the branches and leaves.

Not far in front of him was an old pine tree, under which was covered with a thick layer of pine needles.

On the pine needles was a large bamboo cage with the mouth open, and inside was a pheasant tied up with five flowers.

Time passed like water, the blood-red sunset gradually disappeared in the treetops, and the dense forest became more and more dark and gloomy.

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound under the old pine tree.

Qi Jingzhi was shocked immediately, and stared wide-eyed, and saw a small figure appearing beside the bamboo cage in the dim skylight.

It was a little guy more than a foot long, with red fur, a slender nose, and a pair of faint green eyes.

"Is it a fox?"

Qi Jingzhi thought to himself, but still didn't move.

I saw the red fox walking around the bamboo cage, and suddenly let out a humming sound, as if a baby was laughing.

It didn't get in through the mouth of the bamboo cage, but went around to the side close to the pheasant, opened its mouth and bit the cage.

Its teeth were extremely sharp, and it took a few bites to open a tough bamboo strip.

Sensing danger, the pheasant in the cage became visibly agitated, staring and turning its neck uneasily, but its wings and paws were tied tightly, so it couldn't get up at all.

In just a short while, the red fox has already bit a big hole in the bamboo cage.

It carefully stretched out a front paw, slowly stretched it into the bamboo cage, and hooked the string that bound the pheasant's feet.

The pheasant began to struggle frantically, and let out a high-pitched and sharp cry.

The red fox immediately gritted its teeth and whined a few times, as if threatening to reprimand.

The pheasant suddenly stopped struggling, and its cry changed into a whine, allowing the red fox to drag it out of the cage.

Seeing this, Qi Jingzhi couldn't help frowning, and gently clasped the handle of the sharp knife in his left sleeve with his fingers.

The handle of the knife was only slightly warm, which was far worse than when Lu Yunzi showed up.

The boy was slightly relieved, and continued to look in the direction of the bamboo cage.

I saw that the red fox had already pressed the pheasant to the ground, biting its neck fiercely with its sharp teeth.

The smell of blood quickly spread in the mountains and forests.

After a while, the poor pheasant died.

The red fox let go of his mouth, stood up, and let out two more groans, as if he was extremely proud of himself.

At this moment, the thick pine needles under the old pine tree suddenly slammed, and a large net jumped up from below, instantly engulfing the chicken-stealing red fox, pheasants, and bamboo cages, dangling in the air .

Qi Jingzhi pushed aside the bushes, nimbly got out of it, and jumped under the old pine tree in a few brisk steps.

He looked up, and saw that the red fox's fur was as red as fire, and its color was extremely gorgeous.

Seeing the young man, the red fox immediately flashed a fierce light in his eyes, bared his teeth, and let out the low growl just now again.

The corners of Qi Jingzhi's mouth turned up slightly, and then he opened his mouth to scold: "How dare you bark your teeth when you are about to die! In the past few days, you have stolen a lot of bait from my young master. I didn't want to embarrass you, but you just got worse I really don’t know how to write dead!”

After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the red fox by the neck through the net bag.

The red fox became fierce immediately, opened its mouth wide, revealing a circle of white fangs, turned its head and bit hard at the boy's palm, and scratched randomly with its four claws.

Qi Jingzhi snorted coldly, and exerted force with his hand, only heard a crackling sound, the red fox screamed, and his body froze immediately.

The young man took out the hunting knife from the back of his waist without hesitation, and using the handle as a hammer, hit the red fox's eyebrows and the back of the head hard a few times, smashing its eyeballs, muzzle, and nose. Bleeding, I can see that I am dead.

Seeing this, Qi Jingzhi heaved a sigh of relief, looked at the red fox's body and said with a smile: "This guy has a good fur, which is just used to pay off the debt of stealing bait, and the fox meat is the best nourishing meat! "

He looked up at the sky and saw that the moonlight was already shining through the gaps between the trees. He muttered: "I'm a little far away today, I'm afraid I won't be able to go back. Besides, it's too late to peel the skin and get the meat while it's hot." The skin and flesh are inseparable, and it is a crime to waste a good thing in vain."

Saying that, Qi Jingzhi retracted the hunting knife, put down the net, took out the fox carcass, looked around again, and saw a small stream not far away, which looked very bright under the moonlight, and immediately packed up a set of tools walked over.

He found a big stone by the stream, put all the sundries on the stone, and sat down with his back against the big stone.

Immediately, he pulled out the sharp knife with the ear of one hand, picked up the right hind leg of the fox corpse with the other hand, started to cut the knife from the elbow joint, picked along the inside of the thigh all the way, and opened the gap for the fox corpse first.

"Speaking of eating meat, I only learned the first level of kung fu of stretching the muscles and pulling the bones. The amount of food is doubled. I have to eat a lot of meat, otherwise I don't have to go so far into the mountains."

While peeling the skin, Qi Jingzhi thought in his heart: "Fortunately, I am not yet 16 years old, and the fascia of the joints has not yet died. After these days of hard work, the stretching of the muscles and bones has already achieved results. I can try to get involved in the second layer. , began to wash the marrow and cut the hair."

"I remember that it was specifically mentioned in the "Xian Yu Jing" fragments that fox meat can remove evil spirits from the five viscera, and it is best eaten when washing the marrow and cutting the hair. This beast bumped into my hand recklessly, and it was just the right time."

After thinking about it, Qi Jingzhi has already neatly peeled off the skin of the fox corpse's right hind leg, cut off the tailbone and leg bone, leaving only the foot pad of the right hind paw.

"Well, these bones have no special effect on cultivation. Choose a few and bring them home to make wine for Grandpa."

Under the bright moon, in the deep forest, beside a small stream, beside a big rock, the young man with a smile on his face quietly skinned the red fox corpse.Ordinary people would be scared out of their wits when they saw it.

Qi Jingzhi himself didn't realize it, and pulled the fox corpse's left hind leg over.

After similarly skinning and deboning, he turned over the skin of the two hind legs of the fox corpse, and while pulling it up, cut off the tendons with a knife, completely separating the skin from the meat.

Then, he went to make the two forelimbs in the same way, not forgetting to make an inch-long slit in each of the fox corpse's armpits, so that the leg bones can be pulled out from the skin later.

The last step is scalping. This step requires the most precision. The ears, nose, eyes, and mouth of the red fox must be preserved intact.

In the past, this kind of work was done by the old man himself. Qi Jingzhi really didn't do it a few times. If he wanted to make no mistakes, he had to concentrate on it.

He worked hard like this, and he didn't know how long it took before he finally put down the knife.

The young man held the whole fox fur in front of him, carefully looked at it for a long time, nodded in satisfaction and said: "The next step is to shave the oil, wash the skin, shape it, and dry it. .”

As he spoke, he spread the fox fur on the bluestone, picked up some firewood at random, lit a fire, roasted a fox leg, and ate it hungrily.

With a full belch in his mouth, the boy thought contentedly: "Let's practice Feihe Fist first."

In the remnants of the "Xian Yu Jing", the step of boiling the muscles and bones outside Zhuangming is divided into three layers, namely stretching the muscles and bones, washing the marrow and cutting the hair, and focusing on the softness of the Qi.

As an introductory boxing method, Feihequan is the most powerful frame that can stretch muscles and bones, and it requires Qi Jingzhi to practice diligently for a long period of time.

He stood up slowly, not in a hurry to practice boxing, but first recited boxing scriptures silently.

"Those with fairy feathers are also cranes."

"Cranes, yang birds, swim in yin. Because of the golden energy, they ride on the fire essence to support themselves. The number of gold is nine, and the number of fire is seven. Therefore, the crane has a small change in seven years, a big change in 16 years, and a hundred and sixty years. , It has been shaped for thousands of 60 years."

"The body is clean, so its color is white. The voice hears the sky, so its head is red. It eats water, so its beak is long. It lives on land, so its feet are tall. It flies in the clouds, so its hair is thick and fleshy. To spit out, repair the neck to absorb the new, so the life span is immeasurable. You must rely on the continents and islands, stop gathering forest trees, the patriarch of the Gaiyu clan, and the Qiji of the immortal family..."

(End of this chapter)