Early in the morning, at the entrance of Gaonan Village.

"Go back, go back."

Looking at the group of people who came to see him off, Todai Kento felt that his head was big, not long after he entered Tian Zecun's family yesterday, he had just said a few words to the people in the house, and the head of their village, Kinoshita Tojiro, came to the door.

Although the village chief clearly said that he came to see Tian Ze Cunichi's father, Todai Kento actually knew that the other party's real purpose should be for him, an 'outsider' who suddenly appeared, which can be felt from the fact that the other party has been constantly looking at him since he entered the house.

In the end, in order to dispel the doubts in the village chief's heart, Dongtai Jianren reported his identity to his home, saying that he had gone out of the village more than two years ago, and now he came back to see the changes in the village.

Dongtai Jianren, who reported his home, originally planned to have a simple chat with the village chief and finish the matter, but he didn't think that the other party would sit down and not move the place, and in the end, he was even more like he was making a fortune outside, otherwise how would he drive a jeep back.

As for the meaning of the words of the village chief of his village, Dongtai Jianren understood, and the other party probably thought that he had committed an accident outside and ran back to take refuge, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he showed the other party his external identity royal guard certificate, and strictly stated that this time he came back on official business.

I thought that the village chief Kinoshita Toyoshiro would be able to stop being honest after knowing his identity, but what Todai Kento didn't expect was that after the village chief knew his current identity, he immediately knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, which made him faint at that time.

In the end, it was not easy for Dongtai Kenren to take care of the suddenly abnormal village chieftain, and asked him the reason for crying, and the other party told him: "Dongtai-kun is now on an errand by His Majesty's side of the emperor, and this is the biggest official in our Gaonan Village in the past generations, and Dongtai-kun will take care of him in the future." I think they are the people in the East Village and the West Village, who still dare to compete with our South Village for water. ’

For the village chief's words, Dongtai Jianren didn't know what to say, and what he didn't expect was that the other party actually wanted to gather the whole village to come over to celebrate him, which made him unable to stop him, and finally he had to spend money to buy some things door to door. Treat the whole village to a meal.

It sounds like a lot of people in the whole village are invited to eat, but in fact, it doesn't cost 200 yen in total, so Dongtai Kento has become a rich man in the mouth of the entire Gaonan Village, and it is precisely because of this meal that so many people came to see him off this morning.

Kinoshita Toyoshiro, who was standing in front of the crowd, heard Todai Kento's words, and replied with a smile: "Todai-kun, you are the most successful person in our Gaonan Village, and when you came back yesterday, you invited the whole village to dinner. So it's right for us to send you off today, right? ”

With Kinoshita Toyoshiro's questioning, a group of villagers behind him who had eaten Todai Kento's treat yesterday cooperated with each other, and some children even cried because of this face, and the village was chaotic for a while.

Seeing the chaotic appearance of the crowd, Dongtai Jianren felt that he couldn't say anything, and it was useless to let him roar with this group of ignorant fellows.

As for yelling with this Kinoshita chief. Dongtai Kento really wasn't in that mood, so he put up with it. After all, there are not many opportunities to come back in the future.

Ignoring the noisy villagers, Dongtai Jianren turned his head to Tian Zecun on the side: "Tian Zejun, I don't know when I will be able to come back again when I leave this time, you can take care of yourself in the future." ”

Listening to Dongtai Kento's farewell words, Tian Ze Cunyi was a little sad, different from the rest of the village. They didn't know what their friend was going to do this time, but they just thought that they were just going back to the village to take a look at their office business.

But Tian Ze Cunichi knew that his old neighbor, who had grown up together, was going to destroy the monsters on the mountain of Gaocun this time, which made him very worried, for fear that this old neighbor who grew up with him would never return. After all, this kind of thing is too dangerous to kill demons.

Although he was very worried, Tian Ze Cunyi couldn't tell anyone, because Dongtai Kenren had already told him that this matter should be kept secret and not let the villagers know, so as not to spread it by then, so he could only suppress this matter in his heart alone, and he didn't even tell his parents and wife.

"Dongtai-kun, take care of yourself, you must come back next year."

Tian Zecun didn't mean what he said in his words, but Dongtai Kento understood, and he didn't say anything about it, but just stepped forward and hugged the other party, and then got into the jeep.

The village chief on the side, Kinoshita Toyoshiro, saw Kento Todai boarding the jeep, and hurriedly said to the group of villagers with percussion instruments in their hands behind him: "See off Todai-kun, the big guys are all together." ”

"Knock knock, knock knock,......"

Listening to this sound of gongs and drums, Todai Kento who was sitting in the jeep couldn't control himself anymore, and directly stepped on the accelerator, and then the jeep 'buzzed' out.

Although Gaonan Village is under Gaocun Mountain, the village is actually quite far away from Gaocun Mountain, with a distance of nearly three kilometers.

"Squeak"

There was a screeching sound of brakes on the mountain path, although Todai Kento picked it up from the jeep, it was actually a short distance from Takamura Mountain, but because there was no road ahead, he had to get off here.

Looking at Takamura Mountain in front of him, Todai Kento's eyebrows gradually wrinkled together, and at the same time, the expression on his face became heavy.

"Xue Ji, today I'm going to take revenge on those monsters, if you have a spirit in the sky, then bless me with a smooth trip."

After the words fell, Dongtai Kento began to walk towards the Takamura Mountain, and at the same time, in the Takamura Mountain, there were also two humanoid spirits dressed in human clothes walking along the mountain road towards the outside, according to the route, the two sides would actually meet at a certain point, which has to be said to be a coincidence.

Walking on the forest path of Takamura Mountain, Kento Higashidai couldn't help but recall the scene when he first met Yukihime, when he was still an ordinary mountain village boy, and he spent his days thinking about how to eat his stomach.

Due to the early death of his parents, and the fact that Japan was at war with other countries in those years, this led to the great pressure on the lives of farmers in the countryside such as Dongtai Kenren, and the tax rate to be paid often reached 7 mins 3. In this way, sometimes some special taxes are paid, such a high tax, which means that not much of the annual harvest of the peasants falls into their own pockets.

Originally, Dongtai Jianren who lived alone should have a better life, after all, he was alone, and he fed the whole family without hunger.

However, the past few years have just caught up with the wind and rain, so the harvest is not good. Moreover, the age of Dongtai Jianren is also the age when half of the eldest child eats the poor old man, so although he has a little bit of land in his hands, he often can't eat enough.

What to do if you can't eat, of course, you need to figure out your own way, and Gaonan Village is not near the sea, so of course this fishing is not good, but fortunately, there is something else to rely on, Dashan, Gaocun Mountain. In order to be able to eat enough, Dongtai Kenren often went into the mountains of Gaocun to find food.

Once in winter, after the whole village paid the public tax, there was not much surplus food in the family, and the same was true of the Dongtai Jian family, who was usually not too good at living, and before the winter passed, he ate his own rice bowl to the bottom.

If this happened in previous years, Dongtai Jianren would definitely go to Tian Zecun's family for help. However, because every household does not have much food left this year, and the population of the Tian Ze family is relatively large. So he didn't open his mouth too much, but packed up his bags alone and went into the mountain.

The mountains and forests in winter are quite cruel, and many fierce beasts will come out to hunt, and Dongtai Jianren is very unfortunate to encounter a winter bear that has not stored enough food for the winter.

When he saw the bear, Dongtai Kento started running as soon as possible, but the speed difference between the two sides was too big, and the distance was approaching rapidly. Finally, as a last resort, he climbed a big tree and took refuge in the tree, trying to make the bear give up on his own.

But Kento Todai clearly underestimated the bear's pursuit of winter food, in order to be able to eat his prey. The bear tried to climb trees, hit trees, these methods did not work.

Here I have to say that Dongtai Jianren's luck is still good, the tree he found is very straight, which makes the bear unable to climb up, and the thickness of the tree is also good, so that the bear keeps crashing.

Looking at the bear who had nothing to do, Dongtai Kenren thought that the other party would retreat and leave after a while.

However, Dongtai Kenren's idea is good, but the prey in winter is too rare, especially a prey with a large volume like him, so the bear will naturally not give up.

After wandering under the tree for more than ten minutes, the bear made a move that frightened Dongtai Kenren, and the bear actually began to gnaw the trunk with the fiercest force, which was obviously intended to gnaw off the tree and then eat the prey hiding on the tree.

Regarding the bear's actions, Dongtai Kenren roared in horror and threw the other party with the branches on the tree, but none of these worked, and it couldn't stop the bear's behavior at all, but it also angered the other party a little and made the other party move faster.

Watching the bears under the tree gnawing on the trunk little by little, Dongtai Kento felt that he was slowly waiting for death.

Although the trunk of the tree is frozen hard due to the cold winter season, Dongtai Kenren can estimate that according to the bear's gnawing rate, the tree will be inferred by the bear in less than three hours.

That's right, it's an inference, because Dongtai Kenren also found something that made him feel cold, that is, every time the bear gnawed on the trunk, he would push the trunk with a pair of thick bear paws, trying to see if he could infer it, and then continue to gnaw on the trunk after finding that he couldn't push it.

This discovery made Todai Kento completely lose his confidence in survival, because he had heard from the old hunters in the village.

When the bear is chasing a prey in winter, it means that the bear is about to go crazy with hunger, and it does not store enough fat for the winter, and only when the bear is completely full, it will return to the burrow to hibernate by itself, and if the fat does not accumulate enough, the bear will not hibernate and sleep, because it knows that if it sleeps, it will never get up again, so they would rather hunt in the winter. ’

If this kind of winter bear is unfortunate enough to encounter it, then this person usually does not have a chance to live, because the winter bear will chase every prey it finds to the end, which is the case with Dongtai Kenren.

Knowing that he had encountered a winter bear, Dongtai Kento no longer had much hope for survival, but just quietly hugged the trunk, thinking about the past, about his parents, about his friends, and many other things.

Time passed minute by minute, a sudden shaking of the tree trunk almost shook Dongtai Kento to the ground, when he came back to his senses, he found that the trunk had been eaten by the bear more than half, which made him feel a chill in his heart, in reality, there are few people who can die senselessly, after all, everyone is not a real samurai.

The countdown to death made Kento Todai almost go crazy, and he wanted to do something, but he found that he couldn't do anything.

Because of the nearly three hours in the tree, Dongtai Kento was frightened and frightened, coupled with the cold wind in the mountains, he was already frozen, and his whole body could not move, and he could only maintain a movement of hugging the trunk.

If things don't happen, it won't take more than half an hour for Kento Todai to be eaten by the hungry bear under the tree, even he himself thinks so.

But sometimes miracles often happen at the last moment, when the trees shake more and more violently, when Dongtai Jianren has completely died, there is a sweet humming in the woods, this sweet humming sound, to the cold winter Gaocun Mountain added a trace of warm vitality, but also let a person and a bear have changed.

When Kento Todai heard this sweet hum, his mind had already begun to blur, after all, after staying in the tree for so long, his body was already about to reach its limit.

Hearing the sudden sweet humming sound, the bear gave up the tree trunk it was gnawing on, and ran straight towards the source of the sound, because it was also very eager for its newfound prey.

After the sweet humming, Dongtai Kento didn't last long and completely fainted, but when he was confused, he seemed to hear the scream of the bear, and he was very miserable.

As for whether it was a hallucination, Kento Todai himself was not sure, but he was willing to believe that he was right.

I don't know how long it was, maybe it was a long time, maybe it was a short time, but when Kento Todai woke up, he found himself lying in a cave, which made him know that he had been rescued by someone.

It's just that before the Dongtai family can find the benefactor who saved him, he heard the sweet humming voice he heard again when he was confused. (To be continued......)