chapter 6 Amazing

"My cousin brought it,"Julianna Guan said with a blush, "She said it was a wedding gift for us."

Abraham Jin understood immediately that his cousin must be afraid that Julianna Guan would starve if she married him.

"Then thank you, cousin?"

"Aren't you angry?"Julianna Guan asked tentatively.

She had heard in Guanjiawan that Abraham Jin regarded himself as a scholar and was very concerned about his appearance. She was worried that Abraham Jin would think that his cousin was humiliating him.

"Why should I be angry?"

Abraham Jin smiled and said: "Anyway, my cousin is doing this for your own good and feels sorry for you. It's too late for me to thank her, not to mention that my cousin gave you such a big gift."

Stacy Lin's man, Zhang Liang, joined the army a few years ago and lost his arm on the battlefield. He was unable to do many jobs. Greg Zhang broke his leg in the mountains when he was a child. Since then, he has become a cripple and can only make a living by chopping firewood and burning charcoal.

The family was already living a difficult life, unable to afford a few full meals a year.

Stacy Lin can send a pack of wild vegetables, which is indeed a great gift.

Given the current conditions of Abraham Jin's family, they would not eat at noon, but when they heard that Abraham Jin was going to go hunting in the mountains in the afternoon, Julianna Guan cooked some wheat porridge.

This time, no matter what Abraham Jin said, it was useless even if she was as fierce as yesterday. She just refused to eat and squatted stubbornly in the yard, looking at the crossbow.

Although Dakang already has crossbows, due to backward technology, the crossbows produced are complex to operate and not very practical, so they are rare among the people. Orions still prefer to use simpler longbows.

"Master, is this a bow? Why is it different from the bow and arrows used by Uncle Orion in our village?"

Julianna Guan asked curiously as this was the first time she saw a crossbow.

"This is called a crossbow!"

Abraham Jin took the crossbow, loaded the arrow, and pulled the trigger at a big tree more than 20 meters away.

Whoosh!

The arrow flew out and hit the tree. The arrowhead sank into the trunk, and the tail buzzed and trembled.

"So...so awesome!"Julianna Guan was startled: "Master, did you do this?"

"Who else but me?"

Looking at Julianna Guan's shining eyes, Abraham Jin was quite proud.

After explaining to Julianna Guan how to use a crossbow, Abraham Jin put his quiver on his back and walked out of the courtyard.

As soon as I went out, I met a group of women who were digging wild vegetables in the back mountain.

"Abraham Jin, if you are not at home with the bride, what are you doing?"

A girl with two braids asked with a wink.

She is the daughter of the village head, with a lively personality. The unmarried girls and some young wives in the village all look up to her.

"Go hunting in the back mountains!"Abraham Jin replied casually.

"Are you going hunting?"Fiona said with a smile, "When did you learn to hunt?"

"I want you to take care of it?"

Abraham Jin was too lazy to tangle with a group of women, so he kept his head down and quickened his pace.

Some women were also curious about the crossbow in Abraham Jin's hand, but before they could ask, Abraham Jin left.

"Don't get lost when you go into the mountain!"Fiona shouted from behind: "If you can't find anything, come back quickly. Don't let the bride wait in a hurry!"

The other women laughed even harder.

There are often people moving around the back mountain, and there are not many prey. If you want to hunt something, you have to climb over the mountain again and go deeper into the old forest.

In his previous life, Abraham Jin was a child from a mountain village. He followed his grandfather to hunt in the mountains since he was a child. He was no stranger to the mountains. Carrying a strung crossbow, he dexterously shuttled through the jungle, looking for clues left by animals.

It is late spring, the mountains are lush with green, and the canopy of trees overhead blocks out the sun. It is also the season when animal activity is most frequent.

Not long after, Abraham Jin found a gray rabbit drinking water next to a small puddle.

Rabbits are extremely vigilant and their eyes are constantly scanning their surroundings even when drinking water.

Patience is the basic quality of a hunter. At this time, the rabbit was already within the range of the crossbow, but Abraham Jin did not take action, but waited patiently with the crossbow.

When the rabbit finished drinking water and turned to leave, he did not hesitate to pull the trigger.

The arrow flew across the distance between the two in the blink of an eye, pinning the gray rabbit to the ground. By the time Abraham Jin rushed over, it was already dead. ..

"Not bad, quite fat."

Abraham Jin stuffed the rabbit into the bag on his waist, put away the arrows, and continued to look for the next prey.

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The sun is setting in the west, and the women digging wild vegetables at the foot of the mountain are preparing to go back.

"Hey, have you seen Abraham Jin come back?"

Fiona, the village chief's daughter, asked others.

"Not seen."

"I haven't seen it either."

"You're not really lost, are you?"

"Did you encounter a wolf?"

"You can run away when you encounter a wolf, but you're done when you encounter a bandit!"

"I heard that there is a mountain ghost in Lao Niuling, so he married a disaster star. What should I do if he encounters a ghost?"

The village women are ignorant and mean in speech, but most of them are simple and honest. They usually rush to Abraham Jin, but no one really wants him to die.

Seeing that the sun was almost setting and Abraham Jin hadn't come back yet, he became a little worried.

Fiona looked at Orion's concubine: "Viola, your master is familiar with me in the mountains, why don't you let him go and have a look."

"The master went to town to repair his bow today and won't be back until tonight."

"You guys wait here, I'll go back and ask my father to call someone to search in the mountains."Fiona was a little anxious.

"Look, there's someone over there, is it Abraham Jin?"

Orion's concubine pointed to the back mountain.

In the setting sun, a figure crossed the ridge and was descending the mountain.

"It's not who he is!"

Fiona muttered, obviously relieved.

"Do you think he hit anything?"

"I heard from the boss that the rabbits and pheasants in the mountains are smarter than humans, and they will run away without paying attention."

Orion's concubine said: "Abraham Jin has never gone hunting in the mountains before, so it's good that he didn't get lost."

"Yes, if the prey were so easy to hunt, everyone would go to the mountains to hunt."

A woman agreed.

But as Abraham Jin got closer and closer, many people saw that the bag around his waist was bulging and dripping with blood.

"Abraham Jin, did you hit something?"

When Abraham Jin approached, the women gathered around him.

"Of course!"Abraham Jin threw the two rabbits on the ground quite proudly.

"What a big rabbit, two more!"

"This big one must weigh six or seven pounds, right?"

"I think it's almost the same. These two rabbits can exchange for at least forty pounds of millet in the town."

No one made fun of Abraham Jin anymore, everyone was filled with envy.

During the off-season, many people in the village go to the mountains to try their luck, but most people don’t have bows and arrows. How can anyone catch a rabbit in the mountains with just two legs?

Most of the time we come back empty-handed.

I didn't expect that Abraham Jin would gain such a big harvest when he went hunting in the mountains for the first time.

Forty pounds of millet, mixed with wild vegetables to make porridge, is enough for two people to survive the winter.

"Abraham Jin, is this the rabbit you used to hit?"

Fiona pointed at the crossbow and asked curiously: "Show me."

"Yes."

They were all from the same village, and Abraham Jin did not hide it, but openly took out the crossbow and showed it to them.

"Can I try it?"Fiona fiddled with the crossbow, eager to try it.