Chapter 21: A Chance Encounter in the Mountains
"Then let Xiuyun go, what her second uncle said is right, she is familiar with the mountains in our family, and she knows how to run even when she encounters something. After a while, Tian Xueren said in a low voice, knowing in his heart that he had no face for saying this, but compared to his own face, of course, it was most important to stay away from danger. He is not like the eldest brother and the second brother, he has an adult son in the family, and only relies on his eldest daughter. As they said, they are so familiar with the mountains, and there are so many people in the village, how can they not be in danger.
"Yes, yes, her father said yes, let Xiuyun go. Zhao Chunmei saw that her husband had spoken, and she hurriedly answered, anyway, as long as it wasn't her husband who went out.
"Xiuyun, what do you say?" Grandma Tian turned her head to look at Tian Xiuyun, and the expression on her face couldn't tell what she meant.
"I'll go. Tian Xiuyun did not disappoint Tian Xueren and his family, and agreed directly. And Tian Xiuyun knew in her heart that when the second uncle mentioned her, this matter was mostly a foregone conclusion, she was a water that would be spilled out in Grandma Tian's heart after all, naturally not as important as her son, in the past days, Tian Xiuyun did not deeply understand this truth for a moment.
Whether she agrees or disagrees with the matter of going up the mountain, she can't change anything, Grandma Tian is still looking at her now, so she can still ask face, if she dares to say a word, then it is estimated that the days will stop in the future, and in the end, she should go to hunt or have to go, in this case, why don't she be happy, the temporary compromise is just for the sake of being quieter in the future.
Of course, Tian Xiuyun agreed so happily, and it was indeed very satisfying to Grandma Tian, and the more she looked at this granddaughter, the more pleasing she became, and without affecting the interests of her sons and grandsons in the family, she didn't mind giving her a better face in her future life.
"Alright, let's go back and rest. Now that the matter of the hunting candidates has been finalized, Old Man Tian also opened his mouth to symbolically end today's meeting and drive everyone away.
On the day of the hunting, Tian Xiuyun got up early to prepare, although her ability is very powerful, but outsiders don't know! So the basic preparations still have to pretend, at least the firewood knife has to be sharpened a little, and the clothes are also tied tightly with the cuffs and trousers as much as possible.
When Tian Xiuyun packed up and rushed to the bottom of the mountain to meet the villagers, it did cause a lot of commotion, and everyone looked at Tian Xiuyun's appearance with a damn look, and began to communicate in private.
Because it is close to the mountain, it is not a big village, and the whole village is full of more than 200 households, and the total population is less than 1,000. But every year the hunt is voluntary, and each time there are twenty or thirty people who participate, and these participating families will share more meat than other families, but few little girls participate.
"Well, this Lao Tian's family is really okay, such a big girl is really willing. "A villager who doesn't have much contact with the Tian family on weekdays smacks his tongue.
"Cut, what kind of good people are you in the Lao Tian family, what can't you do for some meat?"
"There are a lot of unhappy girls in our village, but they all have to be face-saving, and they don't see their daughters pushed out even if they are more serious than her family. "That villager is still a little unacceptable, in the countryside patriarchy can be said to be a common phenomenon, even in the city is not necessarily less, but most families still have to be face-saving, and will not do too much to say.
"Ha! As far as Tian Xueren's cowardice is concerned, a girl, it can be compared to his own life, besides, the hunting we organize every year is not really drilling into the deep mountains and old forests, and most of them are not dangerous. Someone else answered.
Tian Xiuyun listened to the whispers of the people in the village in her ears, and she didn't care much, anyway, no one in the village knew about her father's appearance. Besides, Tian Xueren dared to let her come out, and he was already not afraid of what others said.
"Okay, everyone is here, right? The captain of the production team in the village organized the people and took the team to start walking into the mountains.
The number of participants in this hunt is a little more than in previous years, mainly because there are few accidents in these years, so there are more people willing to participate. However, the village still adheres to a voluntary attitude towards this matter, and does not force it, just like the three old men who were delegated to this side to transform, it is not good in terms of identity, and in some places these bad elements are often pulled to the front line, but the mountain village is relatively humane, considering the age of the three old men, they are not forced to participate in the hunting.
After the team entered the mountain, they kept going deeper, and when they arrived at the location of the hunt in previous years, they still had no intention of stopping, and at this time, the villagers who often participated in the hunting in previous years were inexplicably panicked.
"Captain, why are you still going inside?" someone couldn't bear it anymore, so he hurriedly asked.
"Hey, we go into the mountains to hunt every year, and the animals in the mountains are also smart, and there are more of us this year, so if we go inside, there will definitely be more prey." The captain also replied helplessly, the harvest of the hunt in the past two years has decreased year by year, and it can be seen that the wild animals on the mountain are also smarter, so this time seeing that there are many people involved, several cadres in the village discussed going a little farther this time.
"This, isn't this appropriate?" The new villagers who joined this year were a little dissatisfied, and they had been hunting outside in previous years, but this year they had to go deeper, and there was no guarantee, and the danger was not to choose not to appear because of the number of people.
"Hey, there are so many of us, what are you afraid of?" The bold ones didn't care at all, but relied on the fact that there were many people and had the urge to try.
Tian Xiuyun looked coldly at the various expressions on the faces of some villagers, and silently released her spiritual sense, but unfortunately her cultivation is not high now, she only broke through the fourth layer of the qi refining period two days ago, and she has not learned many spells, and the range of her spiritual sense is only 800 meters away, so she has still benefited from the rebirth of her soul.
In addition to the captain, there is also the village chief Li Chang. Every year, the village cadres will send two people to lead the team, and the rotation system is also used, and this year it is the turn of these two people.
According to Tian Xiuyun's understanding of the two, the captain Chen Fusheng is a hard-working and pragmatic person, and Li Chang's words, with the previous chance encounter, his understanding of him has also become hypocritical and cunning. For the two of them to lead the team this time, Tian Xiuyun didn't plan to move forward from the beginning, although the captain looked okay, but Li Chang was by his side, and he was hostile to himself, Tian Xiuyun felt that it was better to stay away, not to mention that Han Yingxue and the three old men didn't come this time, she also happily walked in the team and pretended to be silent.
Just when everyone was about to go inside, Tian Xiuyun, who had been on guard with her spiritual sense, discovered the danger, and in the range of her spiritual sense, a small group of wild boars suddenly appeared less than 600 meters away from the team, probably six or seven adult wild boars and a few small wild boars.
In this case, Tian Xiuyun's first reaction was not good, the civil strife in the past few years, the original village some people who lived by hunting still left the earthen guns and shotguns have also been handed over, and now although there are more than 30 people in their group, they are all holding some shovels and firewood knives, and they have no teamwork ability, and they don't all run for their lives when they encounter this group of wild boars.