Fields of Gold

Chapter 113: Participate in the king (second watch)

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Zhao Han saw the plant that the little golden cat was digging desperately, with palm-shaped compound leaves growing on it, and the leaflets were oval, so he thought it looked familiar. He hesitated and said: "Xiaocao, has your cat become a spirit? He actually recognizes ginseng?"

"Ginseng? Are you saying that Xiaotangyuan dug up a ginseng tree?" Yu Xiaocao felt that this ginseng plant must be extraordinary from the excitement of Butianshi since she was a child, and it might be more than a hundred years old! Century-old ginseng... well developed! !

Yu Xiaocao rushed up a few steps, took a small shovel from the back basket, and carefully helped the little golden cat dig up the ginseng. Not long after, a human-shaped ginseng plant about thirty or forty centimeters high was dug out.

Zhao Han's voice was full of excitement: "This wild ginseng must be at least a hundred years old! According to legend, ginseng can be cultivated for a hundred years to form a human body, five hundred years to give birth to five sense organs, and if it exceeds a thousand years, it can give birth to spiritual wisdom! This ginseng has a human form, faintly You can see the facial features—Xiaocao, the ginseng you dug up is the king of ginseng!"

The little golden cat flicked the dirt off its paws, jumped onto Xiaocao's hand, hugged the ginseng plant with its little paws, with an intoxicated expression on its face: [What a strong aura! Let me suck it all at once! !]

"Be careful!" Zhao Han quickly grabbed the kitten in his hand, no matter how hard it struggled, he would not let go, "This is a priceless treasure, don't let your cat spoil it!"

Yu Xiaocao looked amusedly at the little Butianshi caught in Zhao Han's hand and threatened him with sharp teeth, gave it a soothing look, and communicated with it in her heart: "Don't worry, ginseng can't run away, go home Say it again!"

[This damned human, if it weren't for the fact that he helped you, the god stone would have torn him to pieces long ago!]The appearance of Xiao Butianshi showing his teeth and claws, in the eyes of others, is just a bluff.

Zhao Han thought the little guy was cute, so he rubbed its furry head with his hands, and accidentally got two red marks from the blown-up kitten.

"Little Tangyuan, don't arrest people!" Xiaocao hurriedly rescued the little golden cat from Zhao Han.

After Xiaobutianshi regained his freedom, he flipped over neatly and jumped onto Xiaocao's shoulders, all his hair stood on end, and roared angrily at Zhao Han a few times. What Zhao Han sounded like was just the baby cat's babyish voice.

Yu Xiaocao wrapped the ginseng with grass leaves a few times, and sprinkled a few drops of spirit stone water to keep it fresh. This is a treasure, it is always valuable! You have to keep it well!

Wangshan runs like a dead horse. It looks like the mountain is not high, but it is not easy to climb it. Fortunately, after half a year of baptism with Lingshi water, Yu Xiaocao's body was incomparable to what it used to be, and with Zhao Han taking care of her from time to time, the two quickly climbed over the hill.

"Wow! Is this the reed marsh you mentioned?" Yu Xiaocao was intoxicated by the beautiful scene in front of her.

A quiet and emerald lake surrounded by high mountains came into view, with whole patches of reeds surrounding the shore of the lake, and a round of red sun reflected in the clear lake water through the reeds.

The water vapor rises from the water, covering the whole pond curlingly. Not far away, there is an unnamed tree with stretched branches and a straight trunk. Surrounded by the mist, it seems like a fairyland in the sky.

The reeds and flocs left in the winter are like the feathers of flocks of cranes floating in the air. Take a closer look at the reeds, and you can see a smear of green reeds breaking through the ground, revealing vigorous vitality. There are many unknown birds laughing and playing on the branches, tilting their heads from time to time to look at the two uninvited guests...

Zhao Han took a step forward and stood side by side with Yu Xiaocao, overlooking this peaceful paradise: "Yes! This reed marsh is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the towering cliffs block the cold wind from the north. It is also as warm as spring. Many migratory birds who return early will stay here to rest in spring."

"Look! There are wild ducks over there!! Let's look for wild duck eggs nearby!!" Yu Xiaocao became excited and plunged into the reeds.

Zhao Han looked in the direction Xiaocao was pointing at, and the corner of his mouth twitched fiercely a few times. He caught up with Xiaocao in two or three steps, and stood beside her, holding back a smile and said, "Xiaocao, do you know wild geese?"

"Big geese? Of course I've seen them! But, the geese are flying in the sky, too high to see what the geese look like! Brother Han, don't you know the wild geese? Then how do we catch wild geese!!" Yu Xiao Cao's eyes patrolled the grass, and his mouth was not idle.

Zhao Han laughed out loud. Under Xiaocao's puzzled eyes, he pointed at the animal she called "wild duck" just now, showing his white teeth: "That's a wild goose! The wild duck looks like a domestic duck, and the male duck has a head like a duck. It has green feathers on it, so it is also called mallard. And wild geese, with purple-brown feathers, white belly, flat beak, short legs, and webbed toes, generally live in groups near the water. When flying, they line up... "

Yu Xiaocao looked at the wild goose carefully through the reeds, and said, "What! I look like a duck!! Well, if you say it's a wild goose, you can go wild! If you catch the wrong one , the magistrate beat you out, don't blame me..."

Hearing the little girl's thoughts, Zhao Han shook his head amusedly, took a special longbow from behind, took a feathered arrow, and aimed at the nearest wild goose...

"Wait a minute, wait a moment!" Yu Xiaocao hurriedly lowered his bow and arrow, and said with a frown, "The magistrate must live a wild goose to celebrate the geese ceremony, right? If you accidentally shoot to death, don't you?" A busy day?"

"The geese are very vigilant, and ordinary people can't get close to them easily. They live in the water, so how can I catch them without a bow and arrow? My arrow skills are good. As long as I hit the geese's wings, it will run away!" Zhao Han said confidently He raised his bow and arrow again.

Yu Xiaocao still disagreed: "It doesn't look good to take out the injured wild goose! Let me think of a way!"

Wild geese live in flocks and are highly alert and difficult to hunt. Therefore, many people use geese instead when celebrating the wild goose ceremony.

The fiancée of the prince of the prefect is the youngest daughter of Jing Zhaoyin in Beijing, and her father is a high-ranking official in Beijing. The prefect naturally wants to make the three books and six rituals perfect, so as not to be looked down upon by his in-laws. Therefore, there is more than half a year before the day of giving away the geese gift, so they searched everywhere to find live geese.

But it was the beginning of spring at this time, and most of the geese had never returned to the north. If it weren't for the unique terrain of this reed marsh, it would be hard to find a single goose feather, let alone live geese!

Yu Xiaocao pondered for a moment, then suddenly clapped her hands and said, "I have an idea, I don't know if it will work!"

"What's the idea, let me hear it?" Zhao Han asked casually, thinking about the chances of diving into the water and approaching the wild geese.

Yu Xiaocao said: "My sewing needle is bent into a large fishhook, and the bait that wild geese like to eat is wrapped on it. When the geese swallow the bait, we will pull the thread on the hook. As long as the fishhook hooks the wild goose neck, it can't escape even if it wants to!"

Zhao Han thought about it, but there was no other good way, so let's give it a try!

Xiaocao burned the sewing needle red and hammered it into the shape of a hook with an iron tool. Zhao Han catches fish and shrimps that wild geese like to eat, and gives them to Xiaocao to make bait.

After Yu Xiaocao made the simple fishhook, she quietly sprinkled some spirit stone water on the bait, and asked Zhao Han to throw the bait in the direction of the geese.

The bait landed no more than three or four meters away from the geese. The wild geese in charge of guarding vigilantly yelled a few times, and the geese immediately scattered and fled, and some even flew into the air.

Zhao Han thumped his palms angrily, thinking that the first bait had failed. He was about to take back the hook, but was stopped by Xiaocao: "Wait a minute! Fishing geese is the same as fishing, there is only one secret, that is 'wait'! Let's wait and see!!"

Seeing Xiaocao's confident appearance, Zhao Han calmed down and squatted among the reeds, closely watching the movements of the geese.

The flock of wild geese, not aware of the danger, quickly calmed down. The strong aura on the bait quickly attracted several wild geese not far away. A strong and powerful male goose swooped with flapping wings, snatched the bait to its mouth, and looked at the other competitors proudly.

Seeing that the bait has been caught, some geese gave up fighting; some geese, not to be outdone, rushed to the winner, stretched out their long necks, and wanted to grab food from the opponent's mouth.

The victor nimbly avoided the rushing wild goose, moved the clear water with his flippers, took the bait in his mouth to his partner and put it down gently, and gently rubbed his neck against the body of the female goose. He did not forget to threaten other wild geese approaching with his eyes.

The female goose also expressed her gratitude to her mate, gracefully lowered her head, and swallowed the bait that smelled tempting into her throat...

"I can't bear to catch them anymore!" I heard that wild geese don't live alone, so the number of geese is even. When one wild goose dies, its mate will also commit suicide and die in depression. Seeing the scene in front of her, Xiaocao felt compassion.

Zhao Han was also quite moved. He said softly, "Don't worry, these wild geese will be released after the ceremony."

After speaking, he silently tightened the fishing line in his hand. The female goose swallowed the bait, and was gradually drawn by the fishing line, and her mate followed behind her, like a loyal knight beside a princess.

"I'll pull the fishing line, and you take the fishing net I brought. When the wild geese approach this side, you cast the net out." Yu Xiaocao said while quietly pulling another fish that was dipped in Lingshi water. Take the bait, and drop into the nearby water.

The male geese seemed to sense the spiritual power emanating from the bait, and swam towards this side quickly, and soon entered Zhao Han's hunting range. With Zhao Han's superb hunting skills, the male geese are naturally doomed. But the mother goose struggled a few times and became a shackle.

Risking the risk of being pecked, Yu Xiaocao carefully took out the fishhook from the female goose's mouth, fearing that the hook would damage her throat, she secretly fed a few mouthfuls of Lingshi water to it.

Zhao Han felt very strange that the female goose, which was struggling desperately, was more obedient than the domestic duck in Xiaocao's hands, and was held by her motionless. Looking at the wild goose in my hand, it was extremely ferocious, and my hand was pecked several times by it, it really hurt!

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The freshly released second update, hehe!