Chapter 4 - 004 Eccentric Injury
Li Jianqing, at his age, rarely played with girls. Upon hearing his sister speaking to him in such a soft and sweet manner, his eyes lit up and he quickly ran over to ask, "What, you say, I won't tell anyone else."
Li Xianglu immediately said with a bright smile, "Brother San, I've set a trap in that piece of forest. I want to check it out; maybe we'll actually catch some wild game."
As soon as Li Jianqing heard this, his eyes lit up with excitement. His sister was really smart to be able to set traps! He eagerly grabbed her hand and ran toward the woods.
The mountainous regions in Northern Guanzhong don't have dense, tall forests, just sparse woodlands that wouldn't exist if they were not near rivers. Thus, there are no fierce beasts inside, but there are rabbits, field mice, and such, which villagers have caught before. And Li Jianqing was at that mischievous age, loving to play and make a ruckus, so hearing about the trap made him absolutely thrilled.
The skill of setting traps that Xianglu possessed came from her past life during an internship, where she learned from an older apprentice brother. Speaking of him, one must mention Xianglu's major from her previous life – archaeology. In her senior year during a six-month internship, which was about tomb restoration or excavation, and as most tombs were in the mountains, this apprentice brother from a mountain village was skilled in hunting. So, in their free time, he would take Xianglu to set traps and catch wild pheasants, which allowed her to learn the skill.
Meanwhile, Li Xianglu carefully camouflaged the trap she dug with some soil and miscellaneous grass. If not observed carefully, one wouldn't detect the trap at all, but it was between two trees, so people passing by wouldn't accidentally step into it.
Li Jianqing didn't know where the trap was, so he just closely watched Li Xianglu, only to hear her exclaim in surprise. She quickly knelt by the disturbed trap, and exclaimed, "Ah, it looks like there's a catch!" The soil and grass covering the trap were a mess, so she hurriedly brushed them aside to look, and saw a grey rabbit lying in the half-meter-deep trap, its leg pierced by a sharpened stick at the bottom of the pit, already breathing its last.
Li Jianqing got even more excited, leaning halfway into the pit to pull out the rabbit, exclaiming ecstatically, "Little sister, this rabbit weighs more than three pounds!"
Li Xianglu smiled widely, nodding her head, "Mhm."