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Chapter 23 Misunderstanding in the forest

[Thanks to book friend "Lao Zhou Lao Zhou" for his enthusiastic reward!]

In front of the Cao Family Manor, more than a hundred knights sat upright on their horses, waiting for the order to set off. As for everyone's entourage, the groom and others, they also prepared their luggage and sat in the carriage that transported tents and other supplies, ready to set off at any time.

The old man Cao Song gave Cao De an in-person opportunity in the ancestral hall, and he would come to announce the start of the hunting event in person later. Although hundreds of people gathered in front of the manor, it was not too noisy. The young men of the Cao family also divided into small circles according to the degree of closeness and alienation of their past relationship.

Among them, Cao Ang was surrounded by Cao Ren, and several familiar faces such as Xiahou Qi. Everyone has similar status and their relationships are harmonious on weekdays. At this tense time, they couldn't help but get together. Although Cao Ang was the youngest, due to his excellent performance in the past and his approachable style, he became the center of everyone. Especially recently, Cao Song attached great importance to him and strengthened his core position.

After chatting for half a quarter of an hour, everyone saw the gate of Cao's mansion open. Cao Song stepped out, and Cao De, who had put on an arrow suit, followed closely behind.

When the more than a hundred knights of the Cao family saw the head of the family coming here, they all turned over and dismounted and bowed.

Cao Song raised his hand to support him, lifted his breath of the Dantian energy, and said loudly: "When our Cao family settled in Qiao County, there were only more than ten slaves and a hundred acres of thin land. Now, there are more than a thousand slaves in the family and hundreds of hectares of good land. Together with the Xiahou family, they support each other and firmly rank among the powerful in Qiao County!

What is the best life? It depends on the support of brothers, uncles and nephews in the clan and their sincere cooperation! It depends on the unity of our Cao family and Xiahou family, and the children in the family do not avoid bows and arrows and strive for progress. Now the younger generation of our Cao family and Xiahou family has gradually grown up, and in the future, we will rely on you to bring our family glory, future and status!

I won’t say anything extra, but it’s still the same rule. This hunting uses the number and quality of prey as the scoring criteria. The champion is the one with the most prey or the largest prey you get. You can hunt alone or in groups to hunt for you! My second son Cao De will lead more than a hundred servants to set off after you as your logistics support. Now listen to my orders and set off!"

After hearing Cao Song's shouting, everyone saluted him together, quickly jumped onto the war horse, whipped the horse, and rushed into the distance.

All of these more than a hundred war horses were bought from the Bingzhou area by Cao Cao and provided to the clan's nephew for free. They were very majestic. More than a hundred people rode their horses and whipped them at the same time, which was very spectacular.

Cao De turned around, bowed to Cao Song, and was about to get on the horse and leave. However, Cao Song whispered: "Mingshan, don't let me down again!"

When Cao De heard this, he was stunned. He then smiled concealedly: "I don't understand what my father said!"

Cao Song ignored him, but sighed and walked towards the middle gate.

Looking at his father's slightly hunched figure, Cao De hesitated for a moment, but still turned over. Father, only I can bring prosperity to the Cao family; only my son can inherit the resources of the Cao family, and no one else can do it!

Cao De straightened his back and ordered loudly: "Send an order, let's go to Lijiazhuang camp tonight, bring all the equipment, and don't miss it!"

The servants took the order loudly and surrounded him and left quickly. Cao De in the crowd was as calm as he was commanding, but he still couldn't help but turn around. However, the door of Cao's family was closed at this time...

Two hours later, the young people of the Cao family had already dispersed their actions and looked for camping sites. Cao Ang, Cao Ren and Xiahou Qing acted together voluntarily, and now they have found a suitable camping site, just by a small river.

This time when going out for hunting, Cao Ren has always been alone and not taking his servants. Cao Ang brought Xiao Yi and Lao Zhao, and Xiahou Wei also brought one of his old family members, named Xiahou Shi.

After everyone selected the camping site, they began to set up tents and prepared to spend the night here. In the next five days, all the children of the Cao family will camp in the wild like this. Only when they encounter dangerous situations can they return to Cao De's main business for help. Of course, the main business will also send people to patrol the grassland and forests here from time to time to register the details of each camp.

Seeing that it was the end of Shen Shi, Lao Zhao and Xiao Yi teamed up and quickly set up the camp tent; Xiahou Shi also rode a bad horse and went to the main business to report the general direction here. As for Cao Ren who was going out to hunt, he had a lot of harvest. He carried the pheasant and the rabbit smiled and went to the stream to open his intestines and break his stomach. By the way, he was very good at this job.

Cao Ang went to the edge of the woods by the river to collect some dry branches. Anyway, today is the first day of hunting, and everyone has not yet entered the woods, so there will be no danger on this periphery.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion had just passed, and many people left their land in order to avoid the war. Now the fertile fields have turned into wilderness, and the ridges are full of weeds. From time to time, some hares and pheasants emerged from the grass. When they saw Cao Ang and the others, they were so scared that they turned around and ran away.

The two of them did not bring bows and arrows, and their archery skills were really average. They could only smile and look at the prey that was escaping from afar, and kept bent down to pick up hay and dead branches. Soon, the two of them picked up their arms. They quickly rubbed some straw ropes and tied the firewood tightly.

Xiahou Wei volunteered and dragged the dead branches towards the camp; Cao Ang stayed nearby and continued to pick up the dead branches.

Soon, the dead branches nearby were picked up by Cao Ang. Cao Ang straightened up and saw that Xiahou Wei had not come back yet, so he decided to walk forward to see if there were any larger dead trees. The long night was long, and relying on these dry hay dead branches alone, it was easy to turn off the fire, and you had to find some durable and rough branches.

After walking about twenty feet forward, he had already entered the edge of the woods. Cao Ang suddenly saw red strips of cloth in the grass in the distance.

He was very surprised and quickly pulled out his waist knife from his waist, squatted down, and carefully touched the grass. After about fifteen feet forward, Cao Ang stopped moving forward and stayed there and looked carefully.

From here, there was a person lying on the grass in the distance. The red cloth strip I just saw was part of the clothes that the man was hooked on the branches. Cao Ang looked carefully and saw that there were several pools of blood near the grass. It seemed that the man was seriously injured and barely hid in the grass and lost his strength, fainted or died there.

Cao Ang waited in the grass for a while, and saw that there was nothing unusual around him, so he arched his body, blocked the knife in front of him, and walked carefully towards the grass.

Five zhang, four zhang, three zhang, two zhang, one zhang...

The man in the grass did not respond at all. Cao Ang continued to move forward. He stopped when he was six or seven feet away and asked loudly: "I am a native of Cao's Mansion in Qiao County. Who is Zunjia?"

The other party had no reaction, and seemed to have lost consciousness. Cao Ang scratched his head and continued to walk forward. He found that a little girl in coarse cloth was lying in the grass. The girl's shoulder was wrapped around white cloth, and blood could be seen vaguely. It seemed that she had suffered an external injury. The red cloth strip in the grass was the blood-stained clothes on the man's shoulder, and it might have been accidentally hooked by a branch.

Cao Ang walked to the man and flipped over the man's body with the back of the knife. The other party had no response. He might have died!

Cao Ang felt a little nervous. He licked his dry lips and squatted down. He continued to hold the knife with his right hand, and learned from the Hong Kong and Taiwan drama police and gangster films with his left hand, and touched the man's neck.

Cao Ang touched it, then he found that it was smoother to get it, and the other party's skin was well maintained. However, Cao Ang only touched the other party's neck and felt a little warm, and as for the pulse, he didn't notice it.

The tricks learned in the police and gangster movies are not effective, so try something else, such as listening to her heart to see if it is still beating.

Cao Ang made up his attention and looked around again. Seeing that nothing was wrong, he inserted his waist knife into the ground and listened to the man. At first, the man's heartbeat was not obvious through the clothes; Cao Ang pushed his head hard and pressed his ear against the man: "Pu...Pu...Pu..."

The heart beats, and the frequency is relatively fast. This person is indeed not a dead person. Cao Ang pressed the man's body and raised his head, but found that the little girl had barely opened her eyes and glared at her. Especially the little girl's gaze was staring at the hand that Cao Ang pressed on her chest.

He quickly explained: "Misunderstanding...misunderstanding...I just see if you are dead... This hand is just to put it on the way, not intentional..."

The girl scolded angrily: "You disciple, I...I..."

Maybe he was too nervous and excited, and the girl fainted when she glared.

"Hey...hey! Wake up!" Cao Ang slammed the girl's shoulders hard and shook them hard.

However, the other party fell into a coma and could not wake up no matter how hard it was. Cao Ang faced her and looked at the other party carefully. Seeing that the girl looked pretty pretty but her face was very pale. Maybe it was because of the injury on her shoulder that she lost too much blood.

Cao Ang felt very wronged. Please, I am not a disciple. This time I am really wronged! With the size of your chest, it is probably not as big as Xie'er. I am too wronged to be able to earn the title of a disciple.

At this moment, footsteps came from the distance. It turned out that Xiahou Qing had walked back from the camp. Seeing Cao Ang squatting in the grass, with a girl lying down under him, Xiahou Qing turned around and ran away: "Brother, keep going, I didn't disturb you on purpose!"

While turning around, Xiahou Wei said in admiration: "Aang, I really didn't expect that you would do so quickly! Brother Yu is a few years older than you, and you have never held a girl's hand before. You actually pushed someone down. I admire you! I admire you!"

Cao Ang's face turned pale. Why did my bravery act look so dirty when Xiahou said this?
Chapter completed!
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