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"Brother Chen, what are you so happy about?" Cheng Ming stared at Chen Mu and asked curiously.
"Am I happy?"
"Did you see it wrong?"
Jie Jia's bright yellow eyes slowly turned, glanced at Chen Mu and said calmly: "Your mouth is almost grinning from ear to ear."
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
"I am so sad and angry!"
"It's sad!"
"I'm just an ordinary person with average talent. Why should I be happy?"
"I am just sad!"
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 56 On the way
A dilapidated inn.
A large group of people drove the convoy to check in.
The desolate and quiet post station quickly became lively.
Jiejia, Chen Mu and others found a secluded corner to put their luggage.
Ever since the conflict with the bald strong man, Jiejia has been excluded by the other guards of the Xue family warehouse.
Chen Mu's "relatives" like these were not welcome either.
Every day when we stop to rest, we are always separated from the main group.
Chen Mu, on the contrary, enjoyed the peace and quiet.
A simple fire pit was made by digging a pit on the spot, surrounding it with a circle of stones, throwing dry firewood in and lighting it. Two arm-thick wooden stakes were erected on both sides, and two hares were roasted over the flames.
Chen Mu kept turning it over, sprinkling some special seasonings from time to time, and the fragrance filled the air.
Beside the campfire, Zhang Ye and Du Huai, who were chewing on their dry food, stared at the sizzling hare, their mouths drooling wildly.
"Brother Chen, can you give me a rabbit leg?" Zhang Ye approached Chen Mu with a silly smile on his face.
"I'll pay!" Zhang Ye said quickly.
Du Huai beside him couldn't help but look at Chen Mu. In the wilderness, it was no big deal to spend a little money to eat a delicious barbecue.
"Not for sale." Chen Mu said indifferently.
Zhang Ye wanted to polish it a little more.
Chen Mu rolled his eyes and glanced at him expressionlessly.
Zhang Ye's neck shrank immediately, and he sat back down beside the campfire.
Chen Mu came back to his senses and continued grilling the meat.
He himself was worried about where to get more food, so why would he sell rabbit meat to others?
The new breathing method was very useful, allowing him to practice it while walking, sitting or lying down.
But the consumption is also high, and the dry food he has stored is not enough.
"Why are you so afraid of him?" asked the fat County Lieutenant Du curiously.
"I don't know?" Zhang Ye was also puzzled.
Scared by the hidden dagger? Not really...
Anyway, he didn't know why, but he was instinctively scared from the first moment he saw the other person.
I've never seen this person before? Strange...
Zhang Ye scratched his head, puzzled.
"You can eat if you want." Chen Mu looked at Zhang Ye and said, "It doesn't cost money, but you have to hunt all the prey."
"No problem!" Zhang Ye was delighted: "Just wait and see!"
After all, he is an expert in bone-changing, so catching pheasants and rabbits is easy for him.
Chen Mu nodded calmly.
Very good, I gained a tool man.
This way, he will have more time to improve his proficiency.
……
The next day, a truck broke down in the convoy, delaying their journey and forcing them to sleep outdoors.
Chen Mu dug a fire pit, prepared pots and pans, and sat beside the campfire to practice quietly.
Ever since he improved his breathing method, Chen Mu has been brushing whenever he has nothing to do.
Now his proficiency in the form training technique has exceeded six thousand. The progress is gratifying and he is becoming more and more obsessed with it.
When he heard the noise and opened his eyes, he saw Zhang Ye standing next to the fire with a flushed face.
"What's wrong?" Chen Mu was confused.
Zhang Ye stretched out his hand, and in his palm were five quail-sized eggs of an unknown bird.
Chen Mu: “…”
“Hahahaha…” The little Taoist boy Chengming laughed while holding his stomach.
Chen Mu's face darkened: "Don't tell me, you worked so hard for so long and only found five bird eggs?"
Zhang Ye's face turned even redder, and his full beard couldn't cover it up.
"It's really not my fault. Prey is just too hard to find." Zhang Ye felt wronged.
Chen Mu was speechless.
Yesterday, I saw that the other party was full of confidence and I thought he was an old hunter, but it turned out that he was also a newcomer.
Having good skills but no experience is useless if you can't find prey.
It seems that I can only eat fasting pills to fill my stomach tonight.
I was just thinking about getting up and finding a secret place to open the Five Ghosts Bag.
A burly figure appeared beside the fire.
boom!
A wild boar weighing more than 300 kilograms was thrown to the ground.
The white girl walked out from behind the burly figure and said softly, "Excuse me, Mr. Chen."
Chen Mu glanced at the figure beside Miss Bai who was taller and stronger than Zhang Ye.
He is two meters and two centimeters tall, with a broad waist and arms that are thicker than his thighs.
If he hadn't been wearing women's clothes, Chen Mu almost thought he had seen Kongzi.
"No trouble." Chen Mu nodded politely.
I can’t afford to offend you.
He immediately glanced at Zhang Ye. You are a grown man, but you are not as good as a maid. You are still the leader?
Zhang Ye's neck turned red, and veins popped out instantly.
But after looking at Chen Mu's calm eyes, and then at the "maid" who was a head taller than him, Zhang Ye's face twitched and he became scared.
……
The next few days were calm.
Except for the occasional vehicle damage, which delays the journey.
Nothing like accidentally encountering bandits or seeing a fight on the road happened.
Chen Mu was quite disappointed.
He also wanted to witness the scene of ancient bandits robbing people on the road.
It would be even better if a great master came, and let Jiejia move around.
Otherwise, his two hundred silver coins would have been wasted.
pity……
……
Nanyang Prefecture is located in the southwest of Daliang.
The climate is humid and rainy.
The vegetation is lush and the river system is well developed.
The convoy often encountered rivers blocking the way, and sometimes it would take a whole day just to cross the river.
The convoy set up camp beside a river about seven or eight meters wide to make repairs.
Chen Mu and Jie Jia said something and left the convoy.
We rushed upstream along the river, far away from the convoy, and found a hidden river bay with relatively calm water.
Chen Mu took out the drunken bait from the Five Ghosts Bag and sprinkled it down, then sat by the river and waited patiently.
He catches fish mainly to feed the bag.
Ever since that white girl joined the group of people eating for free, Chen Mu has never been short of meat.
The burly maid had a name that was completely opposite to her figure - Cuicui.
With this Cuicui, jackals, tigers, leopards, wild boars and mountain bears all became food.
Zhang Ye was also busy hunting all day, but he was still a rookie after all.
The largest prey they caught was a hare weighing two pounds.