allonlinenovel Chapter 7 Zhang the Hunter
Chapter 7 Zhang the Hunter
After going around in circles, we finally got to the point. Wen Yuxia blinked her big eyes and looked at Wen Dashan.
"Old woman, give her the household registration documents for Daya and her siblings," Wen Dashan said. Knowing his granddaughter was shrewd and that the documents wouldn't get lost if kept in the house, he readily agreed to let her keep them.
Wen Lin silently got up, took out a small wooden box from under the bed, and handed the household registration to Wen Yuxia. At this moment, as long as she could keep the key to the grain cabinet, she was willing to make concessions on everything else.
Having obtained her household registration, Wen Yuxia, in pursuit of economic freedom, made new demands: "The two mu of paddy fields will be rented by Hong'er to Grandpa. After taxes, 80% of the annual output will go to Grandpa, and 20% will be used for my and Hong'er's food. I will be responsible for the firewood and wild vegetables for the household..."
Wen Yuxia said that the grain from the land was divided in two parts (20% to 80%), and she and her siblings only needed 20% to eat. The three taels of silver they received when the family divided the property, as well as the price difference from exchanging fine grains for coarse grains over the past two years, would still be kept by Wen Linshi. From now on, they wouldn't have to hand over any silver they earned.
Hearing the first part of her speech, Wen Dashan was very unhappy; it seemed Da Ya was trying to distance herself from them. Only after she said she wanted to earn money to send Xiao Qi to a private school did Wen Dashan's expression gradually return to normal.
“Fine, as you wish,” Wen Dashan said expressionlessly.
The old woman liked to give money to her parents' family and secretly take food to the eldest son's family. It's better to be honest, since most of the grain in the fields will belong to him. From now on, the old woman won't have to sneak around taking grain back to her parents' family or to the eldest son's family anymore.
The next day, Wen Yuxia told Wen Dashan and his wife that she and her brother would not be coming home for breakfast, and that this would continue unless it rained. They would only eat one meal a day at home. Then she took Wen Yunhong and carried a basket on her back as they walked out of the yard.
The siblings practiced their lightness skills on the mountain, while the other practiced horse stance. Lunch was naturally brought out by Wen Yuxia from her spatial storage; the main dish was rice balls, with vegetables and fruit as side dishes.
Wen Yuxia has already tested the kitchen and storage room in the space and found that the food stored there won't spoil. Every day after lunch, while Wen Yunhong is taking a nap, Wen Yuxia goes into the space to steam a pot of rice.
Anyway, the kitchen and storage room have preservation functions, so it's always good to prepare more food when you have time.
In fact, Wen Yuxia is very good at cooking. Now that her small body has been in a state of semi-starvation for a long time, she dares not eat too much. She can only fill her stomach first and then slowly add meat after her stomach gets used to it.
A month later, Wen Yuxia was already able to jump from the ground to the top of the tree. Wen Yunhong lacked internal energy and couldn't learn light-body skills yet. After he mastered the horse stance, Wen Yuxia had him practice boxing with her.
The book "Mighty Fist Technique" has a brief introduction that says that after learning this fist technique, one's strength will increase significantly. Wen Yunhong longs to become a strongman and loves this fist technique very much. He pesters Wen Yuxia to explain it to him until he understands what is written in the book, and only then does he let Wen Yuxia put the book away.
While practicing boxing, Wen Yuxia also honed her lightness skill. Time slipped by quietly as the siblings trained diligently. Six months later, their powerful punches were formidable.
Wen Yuxia's lightness skill had also improved to a new level; she had gone from leaping onto tree trunks to standing on bamboo tips to enjoy the scenery.
So she decided to take Wen Yunhong hunting in the deep mountains. "Hong'er, do you dare to go into the deep mountains?"
"Dare!" Like a newborn calf unafraid of a tiger, Wen Yunhong raised his small face and said firmly.
Since he lacked internal energy and couldn't practice lightness skills, Wen Yuxia prepared many sandbags for him. These sandbags were never removed during practice; without them, even a wild boar probably couldn't outrun him.
Moreover, he had recently been feeling a warm current flowing through his body, and he wondered if it was internal energy. Wen Yuxia had mentioned the importance of focusing one's energy in the dantian, and he tried his best to guide this warm current into his dantian.
He didn't want to tell Wen Yuxia about this for the time being; he wanted to give her a surprise. Perhaps hunting in the deep mountains would allow this warm current to successfully flow into his dantian.
Without further ado, the siblings set off into the mountains early the next morning. As expected, when they were almost deep in the mountains, Wen Yuxia had Wen Yunhong remove all the sandbags.
Over the course of six months, Wen Yuxia did not hide her use of the spatial storage from Wen Yunhong. She told Wen Yunhong that her master had given her his storage bag before he died.
To this end, she even made a small cloth bag to deceive Wen Yunhong, saying that the small cloth bag was a storage bag, recognized her as its master, and that no one else could use it.
She even performed a trick on Wen Yunhong, showing him how an iron pot on the ground could disappear and reappear out of thin air, which startled Wen Yunhong so much that he repeatedly told Wen Yuxia not to tell anyone else that the little cloth bag was a treasure.
All the sandbags were concealed in her spatial storage using small cloth bags as cover. Wen Yuxia then took out a stainless steel kitchen knife, a heavy cleaver, a hoe, and an iron crowbar from her spatial storage.
The villa only contained kitchen knives, cleavers, sickles, hoes, shovels, iron bars, and fruit knives. Wen Yuxia chose the four most lethal weapons.
"Hong'er, here," Wen Yuxia said, sheathing the cleaver in her back and holding the iron crowbar in her hand. She handed the kitchen knife and hoe to Wen Yunhong.
Wen Yunhong had never seen stainless steel before—no, he had never seen a knife made of steel. He held the kitchen knife in his hand, examining it with obvious delight.
He added, "Sister, I don't want a hoe, I'll use a knife. Master's martial arts are superb, and the knives in his storage bag are extraordinary. Master is amazing!"
Since learning the boxing style, Wen Yunhong has regarded the master mentioned by Wen Yuxia as his own master, and he always says "master" smoothly when he speaks.
"Da Ya, Xiao Qi, what's going on?" came Zhang the hunter's puzzled voice from behind.
Hunter Zhang knew that Wen Yuxia dared to go deep into the mountains to dig for wild vegetables, but this was the first time he had seen her bring her 5-year-old brother into the mountains.
"Hello, Uncle Zhang," Wen Yunhong turned around and greeted him politely. He was only responsible for greeting him; he wasn't responsible for answering Zhang the hunter's questions.
Wen Yuxia turned around and bowed deeply to Zhang, the hunter who had brought the unconscious original owner of the body home from the deep mountains. She said in a clear voice, "Thank you, Uncle Zhang, for saving Daya's life."
Zhang the hunter felt ashamed to accept the bow and quickly stepped aside, a smile spreading across his rugged face: "Da Ya, why did you bring Xiao Qi along today?"
Wen Yuxia thought for a moment. She decided that the matter of her and her brother learning martial arts should be made public. Only by being open about it would the villagers not speculate wildly if they earned money.
Looking at Zhang the Hunter's square face covered in a full beard, Wen Yuxia said frankly, "Uncle Zhang, the old man who collapsed next to me earlier took me as his apprentice before he died..."
It turned out that the old man had transferred his inner energy to Daya, and Daya fainted because she couldn't withstand it.
When Zhang the hunter first saw Daya and the old man, Daya hadn't fainted, and the old man wasn't dead. Even now, Zhang still feels a chill run down his spine from the old man's sharp gaze.
When Da Ya fainted, the old man gave him his sword and purse, begging him to take Da Ya home. Having been entrusted with a task, Zhang the hunter not only took Da Ya home but also helped the old man to his final rest.
"Want to come along?" Hunter Zhang asked kindly. Although Wen Yuxia said that the two of them were very strong after practicing martial arts, Hunter Zhang was still worried that the two children might encounter danger in the mountains.