I am a temporary worker in Jinyiwei, how did I become a powerful official?

Chapter 184: Hundred Flowers Immortal Wine
The shadow gradually approached the trap.

The moon was curved like a sickle, and the forest was pitch black. Lin Shisan couldn't see what the black shadow was.

Fuman's son Juechang'an was born with night vision. He whispered, "Black bear."

The black shadow was indeed a black bear.

Black bears are actually not stupid or dumb. Their mental capacity is similar to that of a clever seven or eight-year-old child.

It stopped about ten steps away from the clay jar filled with honey and looked around vigilantly.

Humans cannot control their desires, and neither can bears.

For black bears, the temptation of honey is like the temptation of money to humans.

The black bear couldn't help it! It moved its fat body towards the clay pot filled with honey.

"Boom!"

How could the thin branches on the trap support its body weighing hundreds of pounds?

The branch broke, and the tarpaulin covering it fell into the trap, and the black bear fell into the trap.

Fuman looked up to the sky and shouted, "Thank you, Master Cuhazhan!"

Then he led his people to the trap.

Lin Shisan followed. The black bear roared in the trap, waving its paws in anger. Under its feet was a large deer tendon net.

Fuman took out a blowgun and shot it at the black bear. A blowgun dart hit the black bear's big head.

This blowgun is like a tickle to the black bear, but the arrowhead has been soaked in the juice of the mandrake flower for a hundred days, which can paralyze the black bear.

It seemed that one arrow was not enough, the black bear was still arrogant and roared loudly.

Several Jurchens picked up their blowguns and blew them at the black bear. Soon, seven or eight blowgun darts appeared on the black bear's head.

The black bear staggered and fell down, fainting.

Fuman ordered his tribesmen: "You guys go back to the camp and bring the six cows here."

Then Fu Man pleaded with Lin Shisan respectfully: "My Lord, can you send ten men with muskets to accompany them to lead the cattle? I am afraid that the wolves will take revenge on the way."

"Wolves are most afraid of the sound of gunfire."

Lin Shisan nodded and ordered Yu Juanmao, who dared to eat shit, "Take ten of your comrades and go back with them to lead the cows."

About an hour and a half later, the Jurchens led the six cows to the trap.

Fuman tied the six ropes of the deer tendon net under the trap to the six cows, and whipped them "Snap!"
The six cows worked together to drag the deer tendon net and the black bear in the net out of the trap.

The black bear escaped from the trap, and Fuman was very worried, fearing that the poison he had used to blow the arrow was not strong enough.

He pried open the black bear's bloody mouth and poured the entire bag of Datura pollen into the bear's mouth.

Mission accomplished. A black bear!
Lin Shisan praised: "Everyone has his own specialty. Your method of hunting black bears is really ingenious."

Fu Man said modestly: "No, no. This is just our poor cooking skills."

Lin Shisan began to make big promises to Fuman: "If you present this black bear to the palace, the emperor will be very pleased and might even confer a hereditary military position on you."

Fu Man was delighted: "If we can become military officers of the Ming Dynasty, our death will be worth it."

Lin Shisan and his team were lucky. Two nights later, they captured a second black bear.

These two black bears are enough to lure out the black bear demon.

On the third night, the group first tied up a black bear tightly with deer sinew ropes, and then covered it with a deer sinew net.

I have to say that the medicinal power of a whole bag of Datura pollen is indeed strong. The black bear has been sleeping for three days.

Several Jurchen strongmen placed a copper trumpet-shaped object in front of the black bear's head. The large copper trumpet was engraved with shamanic spells in Jurchen script.

Fuman then ordered everyone to tie six more iron chains around the black bear, using the horseshoe buckle method. If the black bear woke up, the more it struggled, the tighter the chains would be.

Everything is ready, you can give the black bear the antidote.

The antidote to the datura flower can be found everywhere in the dangerous mountains, and that is licorice.

Fuman ordered his people to crush a large bundle of licorice in a wooden barrel and squeeze out the juice. They collected two large bowls of licorice juice.

He pried open the black bear's mouth through the deer tendon net and poured licorice juice into it.

Fu Man said, "After taking the licorice juice, the black bear woke up a moment later. Imperial envoy, it's time to add the fish bone powder."

Lin Shisan nodded: "Okay."

Fuman then sprinkled a clay pot of fish bone powder evenly on the black bear.

Lin Shisan lit six torches next to the black bear and stuck them into the ground.

After doing all this, everyone hid in the bushes in the distance. This time, the Jinyiwei not only brought bird-beak guns, but also three-eyed magic guns and Langji rapid cannons.

Fuman distributed a large bag of ginkgo nuts to everyone. Everyone followed his instructions and stuffed their ears with ginkgo nuts. Not only that, everyone also put cotton ear warmers on their ears.

Fuman waved his hand again, and everyone opened their mouths in amazement.

After a while, the black bear woke up.

When it found out about its situation, it was furious and struggled desperately, but the deer sinew ropes, deer sinew nets and chains with horse hoof buckles on its body prevented it from moving.

The more it struggled, the tighter the chains became.

It let out a hysterical bear roar: "Roar!"

The bear roared through the copper horn in front of it, and it seemed to be several times louder. If Lin Shisan and the others hadn't plugged their ears with ginkgo nuts, covered their ears with cotton wool, and opened their mouths wide, their eardrums would have been ruptured.

"Roar! Roar!" The sound echoed throughout the forest.

The bear roared for a moment. The bear seemed to have exhausted all his strength and fell into despair. The roar turned into a groan of "hum, hum".

The groaning sound also passed through the copper trumpet and spread throughout the mountains and forests.

The black bear groaned for half an hour. Lin Shisan and the others had already taken off the ear warmers and removed the ginkgo nuts from their ears.

Lin Shisan asked Fuman: "Isn't it time for the Black Bear Demon to show up?"

Fuman still said the same old thing: "It depends on what Master Chuhazhan wants."

Suddenly, Lin Shisan heard a sound "Teng, Teng, Teng".

It seemed to be the footsteps of some giant beast in the forest.

Lin Shisan's eyes lit up. Fu Man whispered, "Here it comes."

The Black Bear Demon is the king of the black bears in the dangerous mountains. However, it is unruly by nature and does not live with other black bears, but lives alone in a hidden cave.

However, if the bear's cubs or grandchildren are in danger and the bear hears them roaring or groaning for help, it will definitely appear to rescue them.

Black bears are afraid of fire, but the black bear demon was not afraid of the torches that Lin Shisan had just lit around the bait.

It rushed to Xiong Sun.

Lin Shisan saw clearly with the help of the torchlight that the black bear was more than ten feet tall and probably weighed one or two thousand pounds!
The black bear demon waved his huge bear paw and tried to tear the iron chain to save his grandson. However, the iron chain became tighter and tighter.

If the black bear's mind is like that of a clever child of seven or eight years old, the black bear spirit's mind is like that of an old fox who has been roaming the world for many years; the rabbit god from the previous year - Old Chen; or the old sparrow in Dongting Lake.

It circled around Xiong Sun for a few times and found a flaw in the chain buckle. It pulled hard on the back of the buckle and it loosened a lot.

This time, the black bear demon did not use brute force, but instead used his bear paw to slowly open the horseshoe buckle.

Lin Shisan looked at all this and was shocked: No wonder it is called the Black Bear Spirit. It really is a spirit! It is smarter than ordinary people.

The black bear demon took some effort to untie the six iron chains on his grandson.

Xiong Sun also had deer sinew nets and deer sinew ropes on his body.

These two things could not resist the sharp teeth of the black bear. It opened its bloody mouth and bit the deer tendon net. After a while, the deer tendon net was torn open by it.

The last deer tendon rope was like soft noodles in front of it. It tore it apart after a few tugs.

The grandson bear finally regained his freedom. He howled at the black bear twice, as if to thank his ancestor for saving his life.

After such a long struggle, the black bear demon's palms were covered with fish bone powder from his grandson's body.

After saving Xiong Sun, it’s time to avenge him.

The black bear demon has an extremely sensitive sense of smell, and its pair of bear eyes can see everything clearly in the dark.

It looked around and easily spotted Lin Shisan and others lying in ambush in the distance.

"Roar!" The black bear roared to the sky and rushed towards Lin Shisan and others. Xiong Sun followed closely behind, ready to follow the ancestor to seek revenge.

At this moment, Fuman shouted, "Get up!"

All the Jurchen hunters and Jinyiwei comrades stood up.

The Jurchen hunters drew their bows and shot arrows, but they did not shoot at the black bear demon, as their arrows could not penetrate the copper skin and iron flesh of the black bear demon, and would only anger it.

Archery is used to demonstrate force and drive back the black bear monster.

For the black bear demon, arrows are far less intimidating than muskets and Portuguese cannons.

Lin Shisan yelled, "Fire!"

The three-eyed gun and the bird gun fired "bang bang bang" towards the black bear demon ten steps in front of him.

Lin Shisan's goal was not to kill the Black Bear Demon. If the Black Bear Demon died, its lair and the Hundred Flowers Fairy Wine would be difficult to find.

Lin Shisan's goal was to force it back and follow it to find its nest.

After firing the three-barreled gun and the bird gun, Lin Shisan shouted, "Fire!"

Li Dayan lit the fuse of the Portuguese cannon, "Swish, boom!"

The Portuguese cannon roared, and the solid iron cannonballs broke a large tree next to the black bear demon in half at the waist.

Fu Man shouted at the black bear demon: "There is an old saying in the Ming Dynasty, called the Hee Hee Dancer Wei Junjie. You have saved your bear children and grandchildren, leave quickly!"

The Black Bear Demon may not know who Wei Junjie is, but he has seen the power of artillery and fire guns.

This group of stupid humans actually hold the heavenly thunder in their hands?

A good bear will not suffer a loss in front of him. I have rescued the grandson of the bear. I'd better not use my big head to resist the thunder.

The black bear stopped and stood there for a while, then got on all fours and ran into the darkness. Its grandson followed suit and also disappeared into the darkness.

Lin Shisan smiled and said, "Alright! Let's wait until dawn."

Fu Man flattered Lin Shisan: "The Imperial Envoy is indeed a born lucky star. Everything he does goes smoothly."

The black bear demon has a habit of being active at night and sleeping in its bear cave during the day.

Everyone waited until dawn. Lin Shisan said, "We can release the hounds to find the bear's den."

Fish bone meal is a favorite of Jurchen hunting dogs, they are familiar with the taste.

Last night, Fuman sprinkled fish bone powder on Xiong Sun, just to make the black bear spirit have a scent, so that the hounds can sniff it.

Fuman led the hound and searched in the forest. Soon the hound smelled the scent and walked forward, followed by everyone.

After walking for about half an hour in the rugged mountain forest, a cave appeared in the distance.

The hound seemed to sense the danger and stopped moving forward.

Fuman pointed to the cave and said, "That should be the black bear demon's den. There's no doubt about it."

Lin Shisan nodded: "Okay! Let's get some sleep first. Then we'll split up in the afternoon according to our prior agreement."

In the afternoon, Lin Shisan and Old Man Fuman split up their forces.

Lin Shisan, along with ten of his comrades, a Portuguese cannon, and ten Jurchens, stayed in the bushes far away from the bear's den and hid.

It is better to keep the most powerful firearm in your own hands to save your life.

Old man Fuman took the rest of the people back to the place where the trap was set last night.

Whether Zhao Wenhua can get the Hundred Flowers Fairy Wine to honor Yan Song and paralyze Yan's party depends on tonight!
At night, Lin Shisan anxiously waited for Fuman to start his plan to lure the bear out of its den. The bait was the second black bear that had been caught.

The moon was above the treetops. Lin Shisan heard a bear roar in the distance. Fuman had started to fight.

Not long after, the black bear demon heard the cry for help from another bear descendant, and ran out of the cave in a menacing manner, running wildly in the direction of the bear's roar.

The grandson bear that it rescued last night followed it closely.

After the Black Bear Demon and his grandson ran away, Li Dayan said, "Master Thirteen, is it time to go in?"

Others respectfully call Lin Shisan "Lin Chuanfeng", and his brothers call him "Master Shisan".

Lin Shisan said: "Wait a little longer, in case the black bear demon returns halfway."

After waiting for two or three quarters of an hour, Lin Shisan ordered his comrades to light torches, check the muskets and Portuguese cannons, and then enter the bear cave.

The bear cave was full of bones, and Lin Shisan recognized that there were tiger bones and wolf bones among them.

Yu Juanmao stepped on something and shone a torch on it: "Fuck you, mother and father, people, heads!"

Lin Shisan looked over and saw a human skeleton in front of Yu Juanmao. There was also a hat next to the skeleton.

Lin Shisan had seen this kind of hat in a painting preserved in the palace. The painting was a picture of the Yuan Dynasty emperor on a hunting tour. This hat was a hunting cap worn by Mongolian military officers.

In other words, the skeleton in front of us is likely to be a Yuan Dynasty person. The Mongol Yuan Dynasty has been around for more than a hundred years, so the black bear demon may be more than a hundred years old.

It really is a spirit!

As everyone walked forward, Lin Shisan suddenly smelled a strong aroma of alcohol.

Not far away there is a huge natural stone trough. The aroma of wine emanates from the stone trough.

Li Dayan asked, "Master Thirteen, this should be the Baihuaxian Bar?"

Lin Shisan walked over and looked at the stone trough in the light of the torch. He saw a lot of withered petals scattered in the stone trough.

He scooped a mouthful from the stone trough and tasted it.

Hey, it's sweet! It smells delicious! After drinking it, a comfortable heat rises from the top of your head to your hips. In two words: comfortable!
The most amazing thing is that after Lin Shisan entered the mountain, he had a nasal disease and was blocked. After taking a sip of wine, his nose was able to breathe smoothly and he was cured.

Lin Shisan said, "This is the Hundred Flowers Immortal Wine that can cure diseases and prolong life as mentioned in ancient books. There's no doubt about it! Serve it up, quickly!"

Two comrades brought the wine jars that had been prepared in advance and scooped the Hundred Flowers Fairy Wine into the jars with a ladle.

Not more, not less, just enough to fill two jars, about ten pounds.

Lin Shisan ordered: "Retreat quickly. We should run as far as we can before the black bear demon comes back."

After getting the two jars of Hundred Flowers Fairy Wine and bringing them back to the capital, Zhao Wenhua would probably treat Lin Shisan as his real father.

These two jars of wine are the stepping stones for Zhao Wenhua to enter the cabinet.

Around midnight, Lin Shisan and his companions returned to the camp. Old Man Fuman had been waiting for him.

Old Man Fuman asked, "Have you found the wine?"

Lin Shisan nodded.

Fu Man suggested: "We have played tricks on the Black Bear twice. We also took away its Hundred Flowers Wine. I'm afraid it will go crazy."

"In my opinion, we should leave the dangerous mountain first. Wait for it to calm down in half a month, and then go into the mountain to catch the black bear."

Lin Shisan smiled and said, "Okay, I'll do whatever you say."

(End of this chapter)