Catch hare
Boyhood Monarch Yao the tree on a flock of young associate that often bringing the village draws out bird egg, pick wild fruit, collect pine nut, next rivers fish, catch shrimp, feel crab.
A year winter, issued the goose feather heavy snow of one night one day. Flurry is wrapping snowflake, lasher root is in little move to have half foot thick, much move has half person deep. This is children the good time of amuse oneself. Slippery ice and snow, caboodle snowman plays but happy. Suddenly a few hare fall to gallop toward hill from hill skip and pass, aroused the child's interest. Aloud of a child says: "Hare, fast drive out. " they flock and go up to be chased after accordingly. Chase all the time, made mix the strength of the body, sweating, pant continuously, put oneself in another's position is weak faint, lumbar acerbity leg aches, the result is fatigue and without obtain.
After going back, children told this matter in every detail Monarch Yao. Monarch Yao considered carefully a little while, ask authority, what feature does bunny have? Some saying: "The ear of bunny is long, the tail is short. " some saying: "Pinkeye, brushy. " return some saying: "Hind leg long foreleg is short... . " Monarch Yao say, we think the hind leg of bunny grows foreleg weak point, lasher climbs slope on we cannot be caught up with for certain. Its and go instead, from go up downward drive out how?
The following day, children are searched with respect to ground of all over the mountains and plains, find hare from go up to be intercepted downward. The kill is really quick still, cannot drive a few lasher, bunny is inserted in lasher root firn, good gracious capture.
From now on, snow day of inning that became their empty-handed to catch hare.
Domesticate bird
The home also is a kind of wild animal before gallinaceous early, it is a course slowly domestic and improved ability had sundry domestic chicken.
One day, monarch Yao when collecting bird egg with children, reachcapture incidentally answer a bird. Begin to be put in home inner lane to live feed, laid better egg. They feel to do what collect on the ground that draws out than be on the tree to want to go to the lavatory more so, want to be caught more a few raise in the home. But, such wild bird unlike present chicken, wing is bigger, the tail is longer, claw is smaller. Wing can fly greatly, the tail grows the way that can master advancement, although claw is small but can walk, can go so can fly.
Should catch such " bird " honest not quite easy. Monarch Yao reachcapture day and night with his children, not bright did not catch blackly. Felt a few characteristics of this kind of bird slowly, black day compares good by day capture, there is bit of activity by day it rouses a double wing to fly away. Night bird people also Morpheus, kongfu does not lose an observant and conscientious person, allegedly Monarch Yao the bird that with young associate black day crouchs in the hillside group in, they fumble a method, it is light with handle gently below bird abdomen one kick, the bird does not cry also not Jing, such capture laws are harvested but big, can reachcapture several or a few.
Capture answers " bird " raise through old group, wing is small also, the tail is short also, abdomen is big also, and escape no longer. These birds often are fed often eat, do not have full constantly, successors call it wild bird no longer, and rose to it renown child make chicken.
Feel crab
Say as it is said, in ancient time crab unlike present crab runs amuck 8, the animal that resembles other however is same, crawl slowly forth like the tortoise, like the fish swim freely forth euqally, it also is climbing to go ahead.
One day, weather is sunny, the sun is illuminated the earth is burningly. Monarch Yao belt is worn a flock of piquant young associate go bathing in the river feel crab. You lift this stone, he digs that mud hole. Do not feel a lot of crab a little while. Monarch Yao capture the crab with big mouth of a bowl, let the ungual clamp before crab not carefully give clipped finger. Young associate plays cartridge case this, that is dragged pull a leg, words of some come to an agreement or understanding pray, some curse, of no help. Clip finger not to loosen all the time, they are at a loss what to do. Monarch Yao show resourcefulness in an emergency, lighted a match, the belly of barbecue crab, crab is dropped go up, boil repeatedly belt climb, rapid move flees for his life. At this moment Monarch Yao look at red swollen finger, scold: "Smelly crab, not be a thing really, do not go continuously forth later, run amuck 8. " from now on crab can walk along forthright ahead with respect to or else.
Li Youzhi
