Zhang Guoqing brought along his hunting musket, bow and arrow, and other hunting gear, stealthily slipped out from the back door with a bamboo basket on his back, and quickly headed towards Daqing Mountain, avoiding people along the way.
He had no idea how long Daqing Mountain was, as the peaks were connected one after another, with villages in between some of them. Since the age of five, he had followed his grandfather from the south to Tiger Gully and could still see the distant peaks to the south. Going north to the neighboring county, he could see small hills one after another. Daqing Mountain did not belong to their county, and the neighboring county was at the northernmost part of Daqing Mountain. "Living by the mountain, one survives on the mountain; living by the water, one survives on the water." Every family living by the mountain depended on Daqing Mountain to sustain generations.
