Liu Qingshan followed Old Man Tan for a few minutes on the mountain road and came to a fork in the road.

Old man Tan pointed to the intersection on the left and said, "Just now, when I chased the wild boar here, the wild boar plunged into this intersection on the left. ”

"Oh, didn't you catch up with it, did you just chase it here?"

Old man Tan shook his head and walked towards the intersection on the right: "Come along, you'll understand later." ”

Liu Qingshan saw Old Man Tan walking towards the intersection on the right, and was anxious: "Grandpa Tan, you took the wrong road, didn't you say that the wild boar ran to the intersection on the left?"

Old man Tan didn't look back and said, "That's right, just follow along." ”

Liu Qingshan was quite helpless, so he had to keep up with Old Man Tan's footsteps.

He wants to see what this old man Tan wants to do.

After walking into the intersection on the right and walking into the deep forest for about a few minutes, Old Man Tan suddenly raised his hand to signal Liu Qingshan to stop.

Liu Qingshan stood still and looked forward following Old Man Tan's gaze.

Ahead is an open forest. The tall trees in the woods can be counted, and they are not unknown. Because these trees are very tall, the largest ones are about one meter in diameter, and the smallest ones are estimated to be more than half a meter. All of them have huge canopies, pulling at each other's dense branches, intimate in mid-air.

The emerald greenery that spreads out in mid-air is like a heavy emerald blanket, separating the azure sky from the tranquil woodland.

Countless jumping rays of sunlight wore thick blankets like needles and threads, flickering and swaying in the forest with the gentle mountain breeze.

The terrain in the forest is very flat, and all kinds of dwarf shrubs rely on these jumping spots of light to survive under the canopy, like a group of children surrounding the feet of adults.

A slow-flowing stream zigzags between the trees, through the bushes, through the meadows, and flows softly into the distance with an invisible movement.

The sparkling water, like the pearls sprinkled by the fairy, is spread on the river, like a precious pearl and jade belt, decorating the earth and nourishing the flowers and trees with life.

In the flat meadow by the brook, a huge black sow without fangs was lying there humming. Probably because of the pain of the wound on the foot that made it uncomfortable, it was also very likely that the group of ignorant children in its arms were pulling its **, which made it feel distressed.

If it dies, what will happen to these children living in the wilderness?

Will they become a money-making tool for humans, or will they become a meal for other large carnivores in the mountains and forests?

No one knows what will happen later.

However, it knew that even if it was going to die, it would never affect its children.

So, when it came to the fork in the road, it plunged headlong into the fork in the opposite direction without any hesitation with tears in its eyes.

However, what it didn't expect was that the cunning human actually saw through its intentions, and instead of running after it, he ran to its lair with his keen intuition.

It was terrified, but there was nothing it could do, so it made a desperate determination to run after the hunter.

The cold shotgun in the hunter's hand was raised high, and finally gently lowered.

There were no gunshots in between.

It doesn't know why.

But its instincts tell it that both it and its children are exempt from death.

It is relieved, excited, and terrified.

It pounced on its own child, holding the frightened child in its arms, and it was not until the hunter had left that it was relieved and fell to the ground.

The old hunter pointed to the sow in front of him and said to the piglets: "Qingshan, if it were you, would you do it?"

Liu Qingshan looked at the picturesque picture in front of him, looking at the mother-son relationship that was natural to that day, he didn't know how to answer.

If you catch the sow and the piglet, and when the piglets grow up and kill them together, it will definitely sell for a lot of money.

However, he suddenly had some doubts.

Why?

Just because a wild boar is a wild boar, not a person, not a pet?

However, in their world, they are also parents, babies in their parents' arms.

"I don't know. Liu Qingshan said in a low voice, "I don't know what I'll do." What about you?"

Old Man Tan sighed faintly and asked, "Qingshan, do you know why I blocked the gun?"

Liu Qingshan turned his head to look at the withered old man Tan on his side, and saw that his expression was full of sadness, and he couldn't help but be curious: "I don't know, why?"

"Alas. Old man Tan sighed a few times before he said, "Back then, when I was still hunting, I once met a wild boar in the mountains, and the wild boar was surprisingly fat, surprisingly big. I didn't think much of it at the time, I just thought I was going to get rich. As long as you hit that wild boar, you must have an income of one or two hundred thousand yuan. At that time, although the wild boar was not as expensive as it is now, the wild boar I saw was really big, estimated to be about 300 catties, even if a catty of wild boar meat was 50 yuan, it was enough to have 15,000. At that time, 15,000 was a huge fortune, especially for a mountainous area like ours, it was an astronomical amount.

I was so happy that I almost forgot who I was, and I ran after the heavy boar. Strangely, the boar was also surprisingly fast. Faster than regular wild boars. It stands to reason that its fat body can't run fast, but the wild boar is very abnormal, not only can it run fast, but it can run regardless of the terrain, whether it is downhill or thorny roads.

You know, the wild boar is too big to run downhill, because it will damage the pig's trotters and make it hurt badly. But the wild boar didn't care about it, it just ran hard.

In the past, I chased a wild boar, and it usually took two or three hours to catch it. However, the wild boar of the chaser took me most of the day.

He was about to catch up with the wild boar, but the wild boar suddenly rushed down the steep slope.

The slope is so steep that even if a person runs down, he may not be able to survive unharmed, let alone such a fat wild boar.

But it completely ignored its own body, and it ignored the steep slope, and just plunged headlong down.

Sure enough, after a few steps, it fell and rolled down like a ball for a long time.

By the time I chased it down and found it, it was lying motionless on the ground. ”

"Is it dead?" asked Liu Qingshan.

Old man Tan closed his eyes and nodded: "Dead, not only dead, but his face is full of tears." I think it's strange why this wild boar, which I think is just food, is crying, what is it sad about, why is it crying?"

The old hunter wept, two rugged tears slipping from his sunken eye sockets and curling across his ravine-covered cheeks like the stream that winded ahead.

After a long time, he breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "When I saw its bulging belly and the blood flowing from its lower body, I suddenly realized that this is not a simple sow, this is a pregnant sow. ”

"I was so shocked that I quickly peeled off the sow's belly, and sure enough, I found the little piglets inside, and there were more than a dozen of them. ”

Speaking of this, the old hunter was already in tears: "Qingshan, you say, why do people do so evil?"

Liu Qingshan didn't know what to say.

Looking at Old Man Tan, Liu Qingshan suddenly remembered the mood when he had just fought with a wild boar and mistakenly thought that the wild boar was dead.

At that time, he just felt that the wild boar was dead, and he couldn't help but feel uncomfortable, so the old man Tan, who found that the dead sow was pregnant with more than ten little piglets, must have been extremely uncomfortable.