"Shooting a hare with a flintlock?" Li Hongji stared at Ulan Sobud's pretty face, "Fortunately, you can figure it out. It's too wasteful, right?"
"Our bows and arrows can shoot people and horses as well as hunting. Didn't you brag that the flintlock is very powerful? Why can't you shoot some hare and pheasant?" Ulan Sobudd jumped off from a young age, she has some Can't wait anymore.
"Well, I'll let them try!" Li Hongji also jumped off his horse, and he waved to the attendants.
The attendants jumped off their horses and surrounded Li Hongji, "My lord..."
"I said, there are these wild rabbits and pheasants around, you have flintlocks on your body, wouldn't it be a waste not to fire a few shots?"
"My lord, you mean, shoot the hare with a flintlock?"
"Yes, can you hit it?" Li Hongji was anxious, for fear that the attendants would not be able to hit it.
"My lord, it's all right, but..."
"What's wrong? Is there any problem?"
The attendant approached Li Hongji and leaned in his ear: "My lord, Commander Yuan said that the flintlock is a newly made firearm. I don't know if it can be used in such cold weather."
"Oh," Li Hongji understood, he frowned, "What if you encounter an enemy?"
"We don't know, so we have to try our luck."
A glimmer of light flashed in Li Hongji's mind: "You don't try now. If you encounter an enemy, will it be too late?"
"My lord's meaning..."
"Just take it as if you have encountered an enemy, shoot a few shots, maybe we can still eat fresh delicacies at night." Li Hongji thought, it's winter, and it's still far north, just to try the flintlock.
"Since the adults agree, then we will try." The attendants took off the flintlocks on their backs and began to fill the gunpowder.
Li Hongji and Ulan Sobud are both helping to find the hare and pheasant.
A dusty hare hopped into Ulan Sobud's field of vision: "Hongji, hare." She quietly told Li Hongji, for fear of alarming the hare.
Li Hongji called an attendant: "Can a rabbit be so small
The attendant stretched out the thumb and index finger of his right hand. He closed one eye and measured the distance. "It's only fifty steps, no problem."
The attendant began to take aim.
The hare is a little afraid of people, turning left and right, always spinning around the crowd.
Maybe it's tired from running, maybe it feels that human beings are not malicious, it stopped suddenly, with blood-red eyes, looking at the people on the opposite side, the long beard on its lips curled up and down, and it barked at Li Hongji's three-lobed mouth.
"boom!"
The flintlock went off.
Ulan Sobud was taken aback and almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, the reaction was quite quick. She tightly grasped Li Hongji's arm and leaned on Li Hongji's body, so that she did not fall.
The hare rolled back twice, lay on his back on the ground, kicked his hind legs desperately, and then stopped moving.
Ulan Sobud peeked out of Li Hongji's arms and looked at the hare in the distance: "Dead?"
"died!"
Ulan Sobud was a little unbelievable. She got out of Li Hongji's arms and ran towards the hare, who was lying motionless on her back on the ground.
She picked up the hare and looked around the injury, and found that the hare's head was blooming, "Hongji, it's really dead!"
"of course."
Ulan Sobud pityed the hare and ran back to Li Hongji, "Hongji, what was the sound just now? Was it a flintlock?"
"Yeah! The speed of the bullet is too fast, it's the sound of the bullet breaking through the air." Li Hongji didn't know why the flintlock shot made such a loud noise. Fortunately, Ulan Sobud didn't understand anything.
"Hey, it's no wonder that the flintlock is more powerful than the bow and arrow. How fast is this?" Ulan Sobud opened her mouth and stared at her. She looked at the flintlock from a distance, "Hongji, let me shoot A shot?"
"No, when the flintlock fired, the recoil was so powerful that the woman couldn't hold it." Li Hongji flatly refused her.
Ulan Sobud was a little bit disappointed, she scorned Li Hongji: "Look down on our women?"
Li Hongji laughed: "Shooting or shooting arrows is not a woman's business. On the battlefield, there is no woman charging."
Ulan Sobud no longer paid attention to Li Hongji, she stuffed the hare into Li Hongji's hand: "Take it, I want to see them shoot!"
"Aren't you afraid of the loud noise when the flintlock shot?"
"You're scared!" Ulan Sobud stood far behind the attendants, and she also carefully observed the power of the flintlock.
In less than two sticks of incense, the attendants hunted down twelve hares, three pheasants, and a badger pig.
When the flintlock fired, there was a huge noise. The small animals avoided far away, and the attendants had to retreat to Li Hongji's side, "My lord..."
"Enough, I'm finally able to eat fresh food tonight!" Li Hongji asked the attendants to take out the cloth bags, packed the prey, and hung them on the horse's back.
It was still early, the sun was still in the sky, and they continued to head southwest.
The mountain is getting higher and higher, the horses can no longer run, they are all riding on horses, slowly moving forward.
After a few more miles, the mountain suddenly increased, and there was only a sheep farm trail on the left. Fortunately, in winter, the weeds and thorns on the trail were all withered, and the trail was clearly let out.
Li Hongji faintly heard a voice, like a sea wave being afraid of hitting the embankment, and like a downpour hitting the ground fiercely. In such a valley, it is creepy, "What sound?"
Ulan Sobud listened carefully and immediately overjoyed: "The waterfall, it's a waterfall, the waterfall is here!"
She speeded up her horse and started a cannon on the intestines.
"Wulangge, slow down, the mountain road is uneven, be careful." Li Hongji yelled from behind.
"Got it!" Ulan Sobud promised, but the horse speed did not decrease. She took the lead and quickly passed through this small intestine path.
In front of her, a large gentle slope appeared, and people standing on the gentle slope could see the waterfall in front.
When Li Hongji chased him, Ulan Sobud had dismounted, and she stood alone on the edge of the gentle slope, facing the huge waterfall in front.
Li Hongji jumped off the horse, grabbed her little hand, and pulled her back to the center of the gentle slope.
"What are you doing? Don't you want to see the waterfall? We ran so far, didn't we just come to see the waterfall?"
"It's okay to watch the waterfall, first of all you have to see it!" Li Hongji let go of her hand, and his gaze also moved to the front waterfall.
"what did you say?"
"There is a waterfall here all year round, and the water flow is likely to wash away the soil below, and the soil and rocks on the edge will hang in the air. The soil and rocks that have been explored are prone to landslides. At that time... Haha, you have to see the waterfall."
Ulan Sobud gave Li Hongji a white look, but he did not walk towards the edge of the gentle slope anymore.
Li Hongji approached Ulan Sobud and looked forward carefully. The water flow in winter is not very strong. The waterfall is broken into three pieces. The white water falls on the bluestone, splashing countless white water drops, just like a fairy radiating white. Belt.
Li Hongji made a visual observation. If the three waterfalls merge into one in the prosperous season, there would be no less than 80 steps from top to bottom. If you came to watch it then, it would be spectacular!
The entourage also followed, Lan Lan and Mei Mei were kidnapped, one left and one right, holding Ulan Sobud's arms.
The red sun gradually sinks, its figure has been completely blocked by the mountains, with only a trace of afterglow, still illuminating the valley.
Li Hongji walked around on the gentle slope, but did not find an open area, "Ulangege, it's getting dark, where are we going to tie up the tent today?"
Ulan Sobud's gaze finally moved from the waterfall. She looked around and frowned slightly: "Hongji, let's make a tent on this gentle slope. You can listen to the waterfall at night."
"Here? We have more than a dozen people. Can a dozen tents be set up here?" Li Hongji estimated that if all the tents were tied up here, I was afraid that it would be the edge of the gentle slope.
"It's okay, Hongji, didn't you say that it was cold at night in the morning? Let your attendants and two of you share a tent, and I will let Lanlan and Meimei share one. It should work."
"Ok!"
Lan Lan tied Ulan Sobud’s tent on the side close to the mountain. Li Hongji’s tent was close to her right as usual. His attendants tied the tent on the outside of the mountain, near the waterfall. On the other side.
Mei Mei was setting up a tent for herself on the left, but Lan Lan asked Ulan Sobud: "Gege, anyway, we sleep together at night, do we still use a tent?"
Ulan Sobudd had her hands behind her back and her face was as calm as water. She lowered her head slightly, "Stand up first, it doesn't matter if you don't need it."
Half of the attendants went looking for dead wood and weeds and started to start a fire. The campfire was still three piles.
The other half of the attendants went to peel off the badger pigs and pluck the pheasants, but Lan Lan and Mei Mei cleaned up the hares.
The Mongols dealt with small animals very quickly. Lanlan even had leather belts and fur, and cleaned up a hare after three of them. Then he pulled out the short knife from his waist, cut off the head and four paws of the hare, and cut off the rabbit’s head and four paws. Cut open the belly and pick out all the internal organs.
The hare does not need to be washed, and when the blood is still running out, Meimei has already begun to roast on the bonfire.
Lan Lan has processed all the twelve hares, and Li Hongji's attendants have not cleaned up the badger pigs.
"It's really clumsy!" Lan Lan said, and took the three pheasants over.
During this dinner, everyone was eating oil on their mouths and sweating on their bodies.
Lanlan and Meimei went to light a fire in the tent.
Ulan Sobud and Li Hongjizi sat by the bonfire for a while, Ulan Sobud tilted her head, and she had been listening to the sound of the waterfall.
The chill gradually came over.
"Ulangege, let's go back, lying on the bed, you can also listen to the waterfall."
"Yeah!" Ulan Sobude replied, but his body did not move.
"Gege?"
"Oh, go back!" Ulan Sobud looked up at Li Hongji. Under the light of the dim bonfire, her eyes were shining, as if they could glow naturally.
They walked into their respective tents.
Lan Lan opened Ulan Sobud's tent, "Gege, are we here?"
Ulan Sobud stopped undressing, "You go back first, nest in the valley, the temperature should not be low, if it is too cold, I will call you again."
Lan Lan wanted to ask again, but Mei Mei pulled her back to the tent.
Ulan Sobud refastened her belt. She secretly opened the tent on the right and asked in a low voice, "Hongji, are you asleep?"
"Not yet! Ready to sleep."
"Move your firewood brazier here!"
"What are you doing? Don't you have a wood brazier?"
"I'm still cold!"
Wouldn't I be cold without a wood brazier? Li Hongji decided not to be familiar with women. He picked up the firewood brazier and opened the corner of the tent, "Gege, the firewood brazier is here, where to put it?"
"There is already in the front of the bed. Put it in the back. There are wood braziers on the front and back, so it won't be cold at night." Ulan Sobud sat on the bed. She turned her face away, not looking at Li Hongji.
"Oh." Li Hongji put down the firewood brazier and turned around to get out.
"Where are you going?"
"Go back to the tent! Do you still go to see the waterfall at night?"
"You don't have a firewood brazier in your tent. Sleeping in it at night will freeze you to death."
"..."
"Idiot! Idiot!" Ulan Sobud scolded as he slipped into the quilt with his clothes.
"Ah..." Li Hongji was stunned in front of Ulan Sobud's bed, his whole body was sweating, not knowing whether it was too cold or too hot.
Regardless, he gently lifted the corner of the quilt and squeezed it into the quilt.