sinovels Chapter 1923 Yong'an Spear Mastery: One Spear, Two Bears
Chapter 1923 Yong'an Spear Mastery: One Spear, Two Bears
Chapter 1923 Yong'an Spear Mastery: One Shot, Two Bears
With his gaze withdrawing from the green hills, Zhao Youcai let out a soft sigh of relief, then carried the bag of flour containing the pancakes into the courtyard.
As Zhao Youcai entered the courtyard and walked along the path, a familiar voice reached his ears: "Mom, why did you make Dad go up the mountain?"
Zhao Youcai paused, a cold glint flashing in his small eyes.
"He insists on going, what can I do?" Wang Meilan, who was pulling lettuce in the yard, said, "Didn't your Uncle Li say that it's safe in that watchtower? Is that right, son?"
"Safety...it's alright..." Zhao Jun, sitting on the low wall, blinked and said, "My dad's good at shooting, so he should be fine."
After saying that, Zhao Jun changed the subject and continued, "But in the middle of the night, if he's not home, shouldn't we be worried about him?"
"Then what do we do?" Hearing Zhao Jun's words, Wang Meilan threw a bunch of lettuce into the small basket woven from tree branches and said irritably, "He was so stubborn when he came up here, he kept nagging and whining if we didn't tell him to go..."
"Ahem!" Suddenly, a soft cough interrupted the mother and daughter's conversation. They turned their heads at the same time and saw Zhao Youcai looking at them with unfriendly eyes.
Zhao Youcai wanted to curse, but fearing that Wang Meilan might change her mind and prevent him from going up the mountain, he took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and coldly asked Wang Meilan, "What? Are you praising me?"
Wang Meilan smirked, glanced at Zhao Youcai, and ignored him.
"Dad," Zhao Jun jumped down from the low wall and walked towards Zhao Youcai, "If you want to go up the mountain, I'll go with you."
Zhao Jun knew Zhao Youcai was a skilled marksman, but no one would dare to take on a bear. Even Zhou Chengguo, who was supposed to be formidable, lost his hand, didn't he?
Zhao Youcai said he would take Gu Yang with him, but Zhao Jun thought it would be no different from him going alone.
Zhao Jun wanted to rest at home, but his father was going up the mountain, and he was worried about him, so he had to go with him.
"I don't need you." Zhao Youcai glanced at Zhao Jun and said, "You stay home and keep your wife company."
After saying that, Zhao Youcai walked past Zhao Jun and went into the house.
Zhao Youcai's words were not tinged with much emotion. Zhao Jun had been away from home for many days, leaving Ma Ling alone in the empty house.
Zhao Jun was going to Lushuihe in a few days, so Zhao Youcai told him to stay home for a few days.
"Dad," Zhao Jun called out to Zhao Youcai, "then I'll drive you there."
“No need.” Zhao Youcai stopped and turned around, saying, “I’ll ride my motorcycle this afternoon.”
"This..." Zhao Jun was at a loss. This person was too stubborn and wouldn't listen to anything he said.
Zhao Youcai went inside, put down the pancakes, and turned to walk out again. As he passed Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan, the mother and daughter stared at him, but Zhao Youcai didn't even glance at them.
After leaving the Zhao family compound, Zhao Youcai went straight to the old house. But instead of returning to his own old house, he went to the Li family's house in the west courtyard.
When the Zhao family left, they took Hua Niu Niu with them from the Li family. When Li Bao Yu left, he took Xiao Hua and Hei Niu with him.
Now, only Da Hua and Er Hua remain in the Li family. When they saw Zhao Youcai enter the yard, the two dogs raised their heads and barked twice.
Hearing the noise, Li Dayong, who was inside the house, glanced outside and ran out without saying a word.
In his haste, Li Dayong didn't even notice when he knocked over the small stool.
"What are you doing?" Jin Xiaomei, who was cooking, asked, but Li Dayong ignored her and went straight out of the house.
Seeing Li Dayong's anxiety, Jin Xiaomei curiously looked out the window. At the same time, Li Ruhai, who came out of the west room, came to Jin Xiaomei's side and also craned his neck to look outside.
"Big brother!"
"Dayong!"
"Brother, come in quickly!" Li Dayong wanted to invite Zhao Youcai into the house, but Zhao Youcai smiled and shook his head, saying, "I won't go in. I came here just to tell you that I'm going up the mountain this afternoon."
"Huh?" Li Dayong was taken aback, and then Zhao Youcai added, "I'm not coming back tonight. I'll stay there and wait for that big bear."
"Hey!" Hearing Zhao Youcai's words, Li Dayong hurriedly said, "Brother, you can't fight Xiong Ba by yourself, can't Xiao Jun and the others go with you?"
“They’re not going…” Zhao Youcai hadn’t finished speaking when Li Dayong said, “Brother, if they’re not going, I’ll go with you.”
"Brother, how are you going to get here from work?" Zhao Youcai asked. Li Dayong replied decisively, "Don't you call me at night? I don't go home after get off work, I'll come looking for you from there."
At this moment, Zhao Youcai heard Li Dayong's heartfelt concern and saw Li Dayong's enthusiastic face.
Touched, Zhao Youcai patted Li Dayong on the shoulder and laughed, "You don't need to bother, brother. You've had a long day at work, come back and rest after get off work. Someone will come with me."
"Who is it?" Li Dayong asked. Zhao Youcai replied, "Gu Yang, my apprentice."
"Ah..." Hearing Zhao Youcai's words, Li Dayong nodded slightly and said, "Okay, brother, you're skilled enough, whoever you lead... anyone will do."
"Hahaha..." Zhao Youcai couldn't help but laugh out loud when Li Dayong said this.
Seeing Zhao Youcai laughing happily, Li Dayong, standing opposite him, also laughed. Then, the two old brothers looked at each other and burst into laughter.
"What are my dad and uncle laughing about?" Li Ruhai, who was inside the house, couldn't help but be even more curious when he saw this scene.
"Who knows?" Jin Xiaomei looked away, continued kneading the dough, and said, "All day long, I either ate too much or drank too much."
Upon hearing this, Li Ruhai looked at Jin Xiaomei and smiled, "Mom, insightful."
After saying that, Li Ruhai turned to look at the two brothers who were still smiling at each other outside the window, and muttered to himself, "Could it be that the Zhao Family Hunting Gang is plotting something that is detrimental to our Zhao Family Gang? No, I have to report to my elder brother right away!"
Jin Xiaomei glanced back at Li Ruhai out of the corner of her eye and said, "I think you're just as gluttonous as I am."
Li Ruhai: "..."
……
At 12:30 pm, Zhao Youcai, dressed neatly, slung a bulging satchel over his shoulder, carried a semi-automatic rifle on each shoulder, and pushed his motorcycle out of the yard.
The motorcycle had a roll of luggage and a sack of flour for pancakes attached to the back.
More than a dozen men, women, and elderly people came out to see him off. Xing San said to Zhao Youcai in front of the car, "Second brother, why didn't your apprentice come? Why don't I go with you?"
“No need, brother.” Zhao Youcai slung his motorcycle over his shoulder and said, “I’ll go to his house to pick him up.”
“Dad, if he doesn’t want to go, then forget it,” Zhao Jun said from the side. “I’ll go with you.”
"You stay home," Zhao Youcai said. "This house is so big, if the two of us leave, will your mother and her children be able to manage?"
Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan: "..."
"Alright!" Zhao Youcai waved to Zhao Jun and the others, started his motorcycle, and headed towards the Gu family's house.
When the sputtering sound of a motorcycle rang out in the Gu family home, Gu Yang looked out and immediately shouted, "Mom, my master is here, I'm leaving!"
At this moment, Zhao Youcai rode his motorcycle directly into the Gu family's courtyard and headed straight for the front of the house.
Not every family's yard is as spacious as the Zhao family's. The motorcycle arrived at the Gu family's house in less than five seconds after entering the yard.
The moment Zhao Youcai parked the car, he heard Gu Yang's mother, Huang Caiyu's voice: "Youngest son, you go up the mountain with him and keep an eye on the old ox. You stay out of the way!"
Zhao Youcai was furious upon hearing this. He dared not lose his temper at home, but he dared not do so outside?
"Old woman Gu, what nonsense are you spouting?" Zhao Youcai roared. After a brief moment of surprise, Huang Caiyu subconsciously pursed her lips.
But the next second, Huang Caiyu came out of the house and said to Zhao Youcai with a smile, "Uncle Zhao, have you eaten yet? If not, let me get you a bite."
She has no elderly man in her family, and her two married sons are at work. How could Zhao Youcai possibly eat at her house?
However, Huang Caiyu's attitude gave Zhao Youcai a way out, so he didn't hold her nonsense against her.
"I'm finished eating," Zhao Youcai replied, then looked at Gu Yang, who was carrying his luggage, and said, "Let's go!"
Gu Yang readily got on the motorcycle and followed Zhao Youcai on their hunting expedition.
After a bumpy journey, the master and apprentice finally arrived at Zhao's shack around 5 p.m.
The two entered the shack, and without even washing their hands, they took out pancakes and ate some pickled vegetable strips they had brought from home to make do with a meal.
After eating, the two rode their motorcycle straight to the lookout tower.
As the motorcycle approached the lookout tower, a stench wafted on the wind. Gu Yang, sitting behind Zhao Youcai, blurted out, "Who pulled this motorcycle here?"
"What pooped here?" Zhao Youcai said irritably, "That's the stench of deer, bears and the like."
As he spoke, Zhao Youcai parked his motorcycle below the watchtower.
"Master." The moment he got off the motorcycle, Gu Yang said to Zhao Youcai, "Go over there and have a smoke. I'll take care of making the bed and stuff, you don't need to worry about it."
Zhao Youcai was very satisfied with his apprentice's thoughtfulness, but he instructed Gu Yang, "Eldest apprentice, remember this: we must never smoke while squatting. If the wild animals come and smell the smoke nearby, they should leave."
"Yes, Master, I've got it." Gu Yang was very excited about his first time hunting in the mountains and readily agreed with Zhao Youcai's instructions.
Zhao Youcai nodded in satisfaction, watching Gu Yang bustling around.
When Gu Yang finished his work and came to call Zhao Youcai, everything on the lookout tower had already been arranged perfectly.
Two worn-out mattresses were laid side by side on the bed, with cotton-padded jackets and trousers spread out on top. Two semi-automatic rifles were placed to the right of the two mattresses respectively. On Gu Yang's mattress on the left, there was also a large four-section flashlight.
In addition, Zhao Youcai's satchel and military water bottle were both on the right side of the mattress. If Zhao Youcai lay on that mattress, he could reach the satchel and water bottle with his hand.
"Master." Gu Yang, having finished tidying up the watchtower, came to Zhao Youcai and said with a pained expression, "I was watching the Shitang area from the watchtower just now. My brother Jun and the others threw so much meat, and it was all for nothing."
"Well, there's nothing we can do about it," Zhao Youcai said as he climbed the wooden ladder to the lookout tower. "It's not winter, and we can't eat all that stuff if we take it back. Besides, we can just leave it here as food for the bears. Or can we go up to the big bear enclosure?"
After Zhao Youcai finished speaking, he went up to the shack. Then he lay down on the mattress, raised his gun, and aimed it towards the Shitang area.
In the Shitang area, flocks of crows were hopping around on the rocks, some pecking at their feathers, others pecking at the meat.
"Bang!" Zhao Youcai aimed at a crow and made a mock gunshot sound. He didn't fire the shot, for fear of disturbing the nearby livestock.
Looking at the crows near the beast's carcass, Zhao Youcai was confident that he could fire every single bullet from his magazine without missing a target.
As night fell, the master and apprentice changed from sitting to lying down.
By this time, the other side of the hideout was no longer visible, but Zhao Youcai still kept the gun in front of him with the safety off and the butt of the gun pressed firmly against his shoulder.
Gu Yang, who was lying nearby, nervously gripped the flashlight. At the slightest sound or movement, Gu Yang craned his neck to look around.
The master and apprentice kept watch like this, one still and one moving, until late into the night, when suddenly a "tap tap" sound reached Gu Yang's ears.
Gu Yang jolted awake and turned to look beside him. In the darkness, Gu Yang could only vaguely see his master.
Who is Zhao Youcai? Gu Yang heard it, how could Zhao Youcai not hear it?
Zhao Youcai lay there steadily, motionless, without uttering a sound.
Soon, a series of "roaring" and "whirring" sounds came from behind. Even Gu Yang could tell that these were the sounds of wild boars.
Gu Yang looked at his master again, and then heard Zhao Youcai say, "Open!"
Gu Yang pushed the flashlight switch with force, and in an instant, a beam of light shone on the nest in the Shitang area.
In the Shitang area, a cannon brood was preparing to feast on the rotting flesh in its nest.
Wild boars prefer to eat carrion, and they will not even spare the corpses of their own kind.
Just as it was about to bite, a flashlight shone, making the wild boar squint. Then, with a "ha!", the boar panicked and ran away.
Seeing this, Gu Yang was completely dumbfounded. Wasn't his master known as the invincible marksman? Why wasn't he firing just now?
Not only did they not attack, but they also shouted, scaring the wild boar away. Isn't that ridiculous?
Just then, Zhao Youcai's voice came from the side: "The flashlight is off."
Gu Yang subconsciously turned off his flashlight, then peeked out and asked Zhao Youcai, "Master, why aren't you hitting him?"
"Why should I shoot it?" Zhao Youcai said irritably. "If I shoot it, won't I scare away the big bears nearby? How much does a shot cost for testicles? How much does a big bear cost?"
Hearing Zhao Youcai's words, Gu Yang fell silent. Yes, even if you sold a cannonball, down to its hair, how much could it fetch? But what about Big Bear? One gall bladder could be worth over a thousand.
After this little incident, the master and apprentice continued to keep watch on the lookout tower.
He squatted there until 2 a.m.
After the initial excitement and nervousness, Gu Yang was now drowsy.
But just then, a mountain breeze blew by.
"Roar... Roar..." Accompanied by the mountain wind, there were also roars of beasts.
Gu Yang jolted awake, suddenly feeling an overwhelming urge to urinate.
A bear! It's a bear!
Gu Yang felt as if an electric shock had struck his face and his scalp was tingling. He subconsciously wanted to look at Zhao Youcai beside him, but his body seemed unable to move.
Hearing the beast's roar, Zhao Youcai, who was standing nearby, hooked his finger on the trigger and waited patiently for his prey.
"Roar... Roar..." The beast's roar grew closer and closer, and Gu Yang next to him trembled all over. He gritted his teeth and squeezed his buttocks together to prevent himself from wetting his pants.
Zhao Youcai frowned, however. He sensed something amiss in the beast's roar.
That wasn't just one bear, it was two!
"Roar... Roar..." The beast's roar grew closer and closer, followed by the smacking sound of its lips.
"Open!" Zhao Youcai shouted sharply, then held his breath.
Gu Yang really didn't let anyone down. When he heard Zhao Youcai give the order, he immediately turned on his flashlight.
When the flashlight beam shone over, a reddish-brown patch appeared. Gu Yang looked over and saw two brown bears standing next to the wild boar carcass.
One brown bear was feasting, while the other brown bear wasn't eating meat but was sniffing the first bear's rear end.
"Bang!" A gunshot rang out, shaking the night sky. A bullet entered the female brown bear's groin, exited from her rear end, and then struck the male brown bear's neck!
A few days ago, the food in the big vat outside started to rot, and I couldn't bear to throw it away. I almost ate it all... I even vomited bile yesterday...
There will be one more update a little later, brothers, go to sleep first.