How can someone travel through time and space and become a beggar?

Chapter 183

Jia Wanqing made both of her brothers upset, and was even hit by her own brother. She ran back with her head covered. Both sisters started to eat breakfast, "Why don't you wait for me?"

"Aren't you waiting for me? Come and eat. You can go play after you're full." Xia Chu waved.

Before we finished breakfast, the hunter had already arrived. He called Jia Junting and Jia Junjie, and the group set off for the mountain.

Li Xuemu had already started learning the Five Animal Play from Jia Qingwu. At first, he was not very relaxed and felt a little embarrassed. His movements were slow and he performed them like an old man in his seventies or eighties who could not walk.

The leading hunter was a man in his forties, carrying a wooden bow on his back and a hatchet at his waist. His equipment was rudimentary, but he knew the mountain route like the back of his hand. He could even spot a pit and warn everyone to watch their step.

Jia Junting and Jia Junjie also each carried a bow on their backs and a quiver hung from their waists. Dressed in tight-fitting clothing that bound their wrists and ankles, they looked like chivalrous warriors, their high spirits attracting attention.

"There are no prey outside this mountain. There are so many people lately that the rabbits and pheasants have been scared away. Let's just take a walk around. I don't dare to take you deeper into the mountain." The prey explained as he walked.

"Thank you, we can just take a look from the outside." Jia Junting said.

"Nothing?" Jia Wanqing's eyebrows drooped, and her lips curled up. She looked around and said disappointedly, "There's nothing to see here, just trees."

"What else do you want to see?" Jia Junting asked unhappily.

"We're just looking around. Hunting isn't fun." Xia Chu held Jia Wanqing's hand. "Rabbits and pheasants aren't very aggressive. If we encounter wild boars, we won't be able to run fast. We don't dare go inside, be good."

The hunter also had a girl of Jia Wanqing's age. Seeing her dejected, he comforted her, "There's a pheasant nest nearby, and I haven't touched it. Can I take you to hunt a few?"

"Great, great!" Jia Wanqing immediately became excited. Hunting pheasants was better than nothing. "Second brother, let's compete to see who can catch one!"

Jia Wanlin glanced at his brother and felt very confident in him.

After walking a short distance, the hunter turned around and signaled everyone to keep quiet. Then he crept forward, bending over. He parted a patch of grass and slipped inside, then quickly retreated. "The nest is still there, warm. They must have gone out to look for food. Let's go wait for a while."

Led by the hunter, they squatted behind a big rock. The hunter lay on the rock, staring at the direction of the pheasant's nest, motionless.

Everyone else followed suit, except Jia Wanqing, who was a bit unruly. After squatting for a while, she couldn't stand it any longer, looking around and moving from time to time.

"Be quiet, the pheasants are very alert." The hunter turned around and reminded.

Jia Wanqing held her sister down and said in a low voice, "If you make any more noise, there will be no pheasants."

"How long do I have to wait?" Jia Wanqing endured for a moment, feeling a constant discomfort under her feet. The ground was scratchy, and her feet hurt from squatting. And it was so boring to be so still.

Jia Junjie also found it boring. What if the pheasant didn't come back? Wouldn't it be a waste of time?

"Cluck...cluck..." Just when Jia Junjie could no longer bear it, a few rooster crows were heard.

Jia Wanqing wanted to stand up excitedly, "Is it... um..."

Xia Chu quickly hugged her back and covered her mouth, "Shh."

Two colorful pheasants slowly walked over, rubbing their small pointed beaks on the ground from time to time.

The hunter quietly put on his bow and signaled the young master with the bow and arrow behind him to come to the front.

Three bows and arrows were placed on the rocks, and Xia Chu held her breath nervously. Jia Wanqing stopped struggling and held onto Xia Chu tightly, not daring to move, for fear of scaring away her prey.

With a whoosh, Jia Junjie unleashed his arrow first. Jia Junting followed closely behind, his iron arrowhead piercing the air. The two pheasants clucked in terror and tried to flee, but it was too late. The arrows pierced their wings, and the pheasants flapped frantically, but they could no longer fly.

"You two young masters are good archers." The hunter praised sincerely. He didn't expect that each of them would catch one, and both of them didn't escape. He didn't shoot an arrow. He came out today not to hunt, but to please these nobles. He took the initiative to go out and catch the pheasant, and tied the chicken's feet with a few grass stems and held it upside down. He pulled out the arrow and returned it to the two young masters. "We have a harvest."

"Wow! Second and third brothers each got one? That's amazing!" Jia Wanqing came over and circled around the pheasant. "So this is what a pheasant looks like. Is my shuttlecock made of these feathers?"

"That's not the case. Our shuttlecock seems to be made of domesticated chicken feathers." Jia Wanlin walked over and said as he looked.

"Then make two pheasants. We can use the tail feathers of this chicken." Xia Chu said with a smile.

After shooting two pheasants, the hunter took them to pick some wild fruits and mushrooms. Jia Wanqing was very enthusiastic about these things. She wanted to try the wild fruits and mushrooms at the sight of them. If Jia Wanlin hadn't been keeping a close eye on her, she would have accidentally touched a poisonous mushroom.

The hunters knew all of these mushrooms and taught them to identify which ones were edible, which ones were safe to touch, and which ones should be crushed with their feet. "I only recognize a few of these mushrooms. There are so many varieties of mushrooms in this mountain. Don't pick any you don't know. Mushrooms are very poisonous. If you accidentally touch and eat one, even gods can't save you. There was a widow in our village who was all alone and starving, so she went up the mountain to pick mushrooms. But she didn't pay attention and picked a poisonous one and stewed it in a pot. She died foaming at the mouth that day. Her hands and face were black and purple, and it was obvious that she was poisoned."

Jia Wanqing was frightened. She hugged Jia Wanlin's arm tightly and didn't dare to pick mushrooms anymore. She even wanted to throw away what she had just picked. She was already imagining a poor woman lying on the ground, her body purple and foaming at the mouth. The more she thought about it, the more scared she became. "Let's throw away the mushrooms."

"Don't be afraid. Take these mushrooms back and the servants will pick them again. You'll be fine." Xia Chu comforted him. "The people in the manor all live here permanently. They will definitely be able to identify poisonous mushrooms."

"Yes, this young lady knows a lot. The people in the village are all old people from the mountains. They wouldn't cook poisonous mushrooms for food." The hunter agreed. "Besides, these freshly picked mushrooms are so tender. If we stir-fry them at home, you won't be able to stop eating them."

"Is this true?" Jia Wanqing didn't believe it.

The hunter didn't explain, just smiled and said nothing.

"This is true." Xia Chu had eaten fresh mushrooms before. "Fresh mushrooms, when fried, are so fragrant that they'll make your nose go off."

Jia Wanqing wrinkled her nose and said, "Then I'm going to have to taste it later."

Xia Chu and Jia Wanlin looked at each other and smiled.