Chapter 3: The Mysterious Master of the House

  Mysterious Big Boss

  When Wei Zhen walked into the mountain stronghold training ground, 21 Han men, including Zhao Yun, were already holding weapons and gathered together discussing something in a low voice.

  As Wei Zheng walked in, Zhao Yun let out a cough. Then the twenty men stopped talking and with expectant faces, focused their attention on Wei Zheng, shouting in unison.

  "It's really good..."

  Although from everyone's inquiries, Wei Zheng, who had a keen sense of smell, had already felt his high prestige in the mountain stronghold was truly as Zhao Yun said, he would say one and no one would dare to say two, and some people would even take the initiative to die for him.

  However, Wei Zheng's face did not look much better because of this, but instead became more and more solemn.

  Because, after Wei Zheng observed these people at close range, he found that although the twenty Han men were all in their 20s and 30s, they were all pale and extremely thin due to long-term malnutrition, as if a gust of wind could blow them down.

  "It seems that in order to have one's own military strength in this chaotic world, training them is a minor matter, but first and foremost, they must be well-nourished, otherwise, as Zhao Yun said, there would be no way to train them at all." Wei Zheng thought to himself.

  Of course, Wei Zheng did not say these words.

  Taking a deep breath, he said in his most powerful voice: "Brothers, you have suffered, following me, Wei Zheng's line, we can't even eat enough. This is all my fault as the big brother. But today, I want to tell everyone that our days of hunger are over, starting from today."

  Seeing the complex expressions of longing and doubt on everyone's face, Wei Zheng changed his tone and continued to shout: "No matter whether you believe it or not, since I, Wei Zheng, have said it here, I will definitely keep my word. I, Wei Zheng, would rather die than let my brothers starve to death for me, and become a ghost with an empty stomach."

  Having said that, he didn't wait for everyone's reaction and directly ordered.

  "Brother Zhao, I'll leave the mountain stronghold matter to you for now. Before nightfall, I will definitely bring everyone back."

  "Brothers, let's set out together and go hunting in the back hills to eat some meat."

  Because this place is located on the border, wars often occur. Therefore, within hundreds of kilometers of the original forest, there are no human rulers, let alone signs of human passage.

  There aren't even people, let alone hunters.

  So, the whole forest is almost everywhere with prey. Along the way, everyone saw at least four or five fat wild rabbits scurrying out from the bushes beside them and then disappearing from their sight.

  Wei Zheng, who was walking in the front, didn't notice these wild rabbits at all. He felt deeply regretful that he had been guarding such a treasure mountain without knowing how to utilize it, and was seriously searching for something around him.

  Wei Zheng did not notice that: behind him, twenty men had already begun salivating at the sight of the wild rabbit.

  Just then, Wei Zheng suddenly stopped. Pointing to the grass under his feet that seemed to have been trampled by an animal, he ordered Wang Feng behind him.

  "Wang Feng, bring four people here to dig a pit and cover it with thatch. Remember, the pit must be big enough, so dig it seven feet square."

  Seeing the environment and surroundings here are basically no different, Wang Feng asked back with a puzzled face: "Master, is this effective? We didn't use to dig pits in vain before, but in the end, wasn't there no harvest?"

  After staring at Wang Feng fiercely, Wei Zheng said with a rare serious face: "I don't care how it was before, now you just need to do what I say and I guarantee that you will have meat to eat tonight."

  After finishing speaking, he directly led the remaining fifteen people to continue searching forward.

  In the next few hours, under Wei Zheng's orders, twenty people dug out seven pitfalls one after another.

  Seeing his subordinates gathering around him, completely exhausted from hunger.

  Wei Zheng thought to himself: After everyone has made such great efforts, it's time to give them some benefits and show off his own strength, further enhancing his prestige in the Shanzhai world. Otherwise, even if no one says anything, they will still have some dissatisfaction in their hearts.

  He picked up the only standard bow and arrow in the mountain village, and said to everyone with a confident face: "Brothers, we've been tired for so long, it's time to let everyone rest. Next time, I'll go hunting ahead, just follow me."

  After asking everyone to keep quiet behind him as much as possible, Wei Zheng, with his keen sense of smell, walked back and forth while searching for something in the dense forest around him.

  Soon, a wild rabbit crouched in a bush forty meters away appeared in Wei Zheng's line of sight.

  Under the gaze of twenty Han men behind him, Wei Zheng drew his bow very skillfully, taking aim...

  "Whoosh..."

  A faint whistling sound pierced the air, and an iron-headed arrow was swiftly shot out by the bowstring. It drew a silver streak in front of everyone, flying towards its target.

  "Hmph..."

  In the blink of an eye, a sound of an arrow piercing flesh came from a thicket tens of meters away. A wild rabbit hiding in the grass was directly pierced by the arrow and nailed to the ground, kicking back futilely for a moment before lying still.

  "He hit it! The master of the house hit it!" Wang Feng exclaimed excitedly, following closely behind Wei Zheng, as if he had shot that arrow himself.

  Then, without waiting for Wei Zheng to speak up, he scurried out from the original place and rushed towards a thicket tens of meters away.

  Soon, a wild rabbit weighing up to ten catties was brought back by Wang Feng.

  They saw the wild rabbit, and then they saw the feathered arrow that pierced through its body. Everyone's gaze towards Wei Zheng changed unknowingly, and in their admiration for him, there was an added hint of unspeakable reverence.

  After seeing everyone's performance, Wei Zheng said with a satisfied face: "Everyone be quiet, it's just a wild rabbit, if you all continue to make noise, you'll scare away all the wild rabbits around us."

  "Everyone be quiet, let's try to shoot a few more wild rabbits on the way back and see if there are any gains in this morning's trap."

  After harvesting three wild rabbits and four mountain chickens again.

  Everyone's body is very tired, but it can't be seen on their faces. They are all discussing how the big boss became so fierce, and following such a big boss, they will never go hungry again...

  Just as everyone was getting closer to the first pit and thought that the eight pits would not yield any results, a faint sound of a pig's oink suddenly reached everyone's ears.

  Wei Zheng, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped and exclaimed with a surprised face: "Heaven is indeed not disappointing us. Wild boar, it's wild boar, it seems we'll have pork to eat tonight."

  As everyone approached the pitfall, the wild boar's cries grew louder and louder.

  Racing to the edge of the pit, a wild boar weighing 150 pounds was pushing back and forth on the earthen wall around the pit. In the corner of the pit, a large pile of mud had already been pushed down by the wild boar. It can be imagined that if the pit wasn't dug deep enough, this wild boar might have escaped.

  At this point, Wang Feng's eyes lit up and he thought of jumping into the pit.

  Wei Zheng swiftly blocked him and shouted loudly, "Are you crazy? This is a wild boar, not a rabbit! Haven't you heard that a mad wild boar is more ferocious than a bear? If you want to die, then jump down!"

  After finishing, he directly took a long spear from behind his back and aimed at the wild boar, fiercely stabbing forward. At the same time, a loud roar also came out of Wei Zheng's mouth.

  "Kill..."

  Under the gaze of a pair of eyes staring in shock, the iron spearhead as long as one foot was not stuck in the pig's head, but rather stuck in a pile of straw, along with the handle, all submerged in the pig's head.

  Just as everyone was still in shock, another loud shout came from Wei Zheng's mouth. The spearhead that had been stabbed into the wild boar's head by Wei Zheng was pulled out in a flash.

  Then, all sorts of white brains and red blood began to gush out from the hole that Wei Zheng had just poked. The wild boar, which was still extremely fierce just a moment ago, seemed to have been instantly drained of all its strength, and it went limp in the pit, not moving at all.

  The hundred-step piercing Yang's archery skills had already made his subordinates full of reverence, and the current Wei Zheng's re-emergence of a masterstroke directly made these shocked subordinates feel the unfathomable depth of their own leader.

  The master standing in front of him, what other ultimate skills have not been shown. It's worth knowing that, just based on the two hands revealed by Wei Zheng, many people can't reach this level even if they study for a lifetime. And his own master, at such a young age, already possesses two ultimate skills, which can't help but make everyone feel admiration and awe.

  After seeing everyone's performance again, Wei Zheng knew that his goal of buying people's hearts and intimidating everyone had been achieved. He smiled at Wang Feng behind him and gave a decisive order.

  "What are you still dazing about? Don't go down and drag up the wild boar. You two, go down and dig the pit another half foot deeper, take away all the soil stained with blood, don't pile it here to scare away the wild boar..."

  "It is, at home....." At this moment, no one raised an objection again.

  Twenty honest men's answers from the bottom of their hearts are very refreshing.