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Episode 1 National Treasure Chapter 6 Strapped for Money

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    The journey is long, and Xiao Yi plans to buy a horse to travel.  "It's just that he has worked in Wudang Mountain for eight years without receiving a penny of salary. The only money he has in his hand is less than two hundred five baht, which he exchanged with his brothers when he came back from hunting and gathering medicine in the mountain.  It just so happens that horses in ancient times are as expensive as modern cars. An ordinary walking horse starts at 30 guan and 5 baht, and a famous horse costs more than 10,000 guan.  Xiao Yi really couldn¡¯t afford it, so he had to walk on two legs.  It was almost noon, and finally saw a noodle shop on the roadside. Xiao Yi immediately went over and found a seat to sit down.  The waiter came over and asked what to eat, and Xiao Yi ordered a bowl of the cheapest Yangchun noodles.  For Xiao Yi, a bowl of Yangchun noodles worth seven copper coins is not enough to resist hunger. Even if Xiao Yi could bear it, his expenses would not be enough to reach Daxing, and he would starve halfway through the journey.  Xiao Yi was thinking about it while eating noodles.  No wonder people in ancient times rarely traveled far. The hassles on the road alone would consume half their life savings.  If I don't think of ways to make some money, I'm afraid it will be difficult to reach Daxing.  It¡¯s just that the surrounding areas are all remote areas. If you want to find a job and make some money, you can only go to big towns.  The closest big place is Xiangyang City.  There were not many customers in the noodle shop, so Xiao Yi chatted with the shopkeeper and asked about some news in Xiangyang City.  The store clerk had never been to Xiangyang City since he was a child, but merchants often revealed some information, so he asked Xiao Yi to hear it.  Many of the messages were actually out of date a long time ago, but the man immediately reminded Xiao Yi when he said that people in the city like to eat game.  He could kill some game and sell it in the city. He could not only exchange for some traveling expenses, but also eat some wild game to fill his stomach, killing two birds with one stone.  Xiao Yi suddenly became happy and asked his friend about the places where prey were found nearby.  Coincidentally, the guy really knew something and told Xiao Yi.  In the next few days, Xiao Yi stopped and went hunting in the mountain forest near the official road.  Over the past eight years, Xiao Yi's arm strength has increased explosively due to diligent training. At this time, the steel plates used to increase the elasticity of the Cloud Chuan Bow have been added to ten, reaching the power of ten stones and being able to be fully drawn.  With the ten-stone strong bow and the carefully modified cross-tailed cloud-piercing arrows, any prey within two hundred steps would not be able to escape.  With this Cloud-Piercing Bow, Xiao Yi finally filled his stomach.  Every day I could catch some wild deer, roe deer, pheasant and other prey, and I got some money, but it was still far from buying a walking horse.  During this period, Xiao Yi was happiest when he hunted a giant panda.  In ancient times, there were an extremely large number of giant pandas, especially in the Badong area where Xiao Yi was now. Giant pandas were as common as hares in the mountains.  Later generations would dare to eat anything but dare not eat giant pandas. Now Xiao Yi has eaten several delicious meals of panda meat, but he has no regrets.  When Xiao Yi was about to arrive at Xiangyang City that day, God favored him. While chasing a group of wild deer, Xiao Yi encountered a once-in-a-century white fox deep in the forest.  The reason why this is a once-in-a-hundred-year encounter is that this fox looks like a white fox, but the real white fox lives in the bitter cold Arctic Circle.  The fire fox that Xiao Yi met was actually a mutant fire fox. Every hundred years or so, a unique recessive gene in the fire fox population would produce a snow-white fire fox mutant.  Xiao Yi knew the preciousness of the white fox, known as soft gold, so he naturally refused to let it go and pursued it all the way.  That white fox is already old, probably seventeen or eighteen years old, and is an extremely old member of the fox group.  According to the survival and elimination rules of the fox group, this white fox has been driven out of the house to fend for itself.  It¡¯s just that the white fox has a kind of innate pride and dignity, and even if it dies, it will never let humans catch and skin it.  Seeing Xiao Yi chasing after him, the white fox was old and frail, knowing that he would definitely die, so he ran towards a cave.  When the white fox arrived at the entrance of the cave, it neighed and seemed to be calling for something.  Xiao Yi chased after him and was overjoyed when he saw that the white fox had no way to escape. He hurriedly bent his bow and arrow to kill it.  But the next moment, Xiao Yi suddenly showed a look of horror. It turned out that the cave was the territory of a giant python.  The giant python was three feet long, as thick as a strong man's body, and seemed to weigh at least five hundred kilograms.  Xiao Yi was immediately horrified and quickly retreated, immediately letting go of the white fox and aiming at the giant python with his bow.  The giant python came out at night, but was deliberately awakened by the white fox.  Of course, this white fox is not smart enough to use the giant python to deal with humans. It just doesn't want to be skinned by humans, so it plans to sacrifice itself to the giant python.  The giant python immediately entangled the white fox and soon strangled it to death.  Seeing that the giant python was about to swallow the white fox, Xiao Yi couldn't help it. How could he give up the prey he had obtained to a beast.    Xiao Yi immediately held his breath and concentrated, shook his hands and shot an arrow, hitting the python's neck.  Even though the giant python had rough skin and thick flesh, it could not withstand the sharp arrows shot by the fifteen-stone bow, and blood spurted out wildly.  Xiao Yi shot out an arrow and immediately hid behind a big tree. He knew that snakes rely on infrared sensing.  Xiao Yi used the big tree to block the infrared effect of his body. In addition, he was one hundred and fifty steps away from the giant python. As expected, the giant python failed to detect Xiao Yi and just circled in place.  Beasts are beasts after all, and they always only know how to protect their prey.  This giant python wanted to swallow the white fox, but Xiao Yi didn't give it a chance.  The giant python is so big that one arrow cannot kill it.  Seeing the opportunity, Xiao Yi shook his hand and shot three more arrows at it, all of which hit it.  Not long after, the giant python lost too much blood and fell to the ground motionless.  Xiao Yi waited for more than half an hour, picked up a few stones and kept throwing them. Finally, when he saw that the giant python had no reaction, he walked over with confidence.  After confirming that the giant python was dead, Xiao Yi picked up the strangled white fox.  The white fox was strangled to death by a giant python, but its skin was intact. Xiao Yi was immediately happy, knowing that the skin would definitely fetch a good price.  Looking at the python corpse again, Xiao Yi couldn't help but smack his lips. He wanted to drag it out and sell it together, but it felt too heavy.  So Xiao Yi took out the gallbladder of the giant python. The gallbladder was the size of a goose egg. It was naturally very satisfying to take it back and make wine.  Xiao Yi was feeling proud when he suddenly heard a loud rustling sound. When he looked back, he was startled.  I saw another giant python coming, but it was the same size as the dead giant python. Xiao Yi couldn't help being shocked, secretly wondering if they were a couple.  How could Xiao Yi dare to stay? He picked up the white fox and ran away.  Seeing that his spouse was killed, the giant python immediately chased Xiao Yi.  Seeing the giant python chasing closer and closer, Xiao Yi broke out in a cold sweat. He wanted to stop and fight the giant python several times, but finally gave up the unrealistic and silly idea.  Suddenly, Xiao Yi thought that snakes follow an 'S'-shaped curve. As long as they run in the opposite 'S' curve, they can avoid the python's pursuit.  Xiao Yi immediately followed the instructions, and sure enough, the giant python could not catch up with Xiao Yi.  Until Xiao Yi rushed out of the dense forest, the sun was shining directly outside, and soon the giant python couldn't bear the exposure and gave up the pursuit.  Xiao Yi ran all the way down the mountain and didn't stop until Xiangyang City was in sight.
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