With the addition of the Yang family, the road up the mountain seemed to become much easier, and it didn't take long to reach a flat place on the slope of the middle of the mountain where the three siblings met in the morning.

Yang put Man'er on the ground, cut a few shrub branches with a firewood knife and put them on the side, and told the three of them: "You wait here, the third aunt goes in and cuts two bamboos and comes out?" ”

This flat land is a must for the people in the village to collect firewood, and there is a mountain col overgrown with bamboo, and the adults who go up the mountain to chop firewood are not like children like Yun Ying who pick up a handful casually and carry them home, but will cut a bamboo tree and cut it, and take a tough bamboo strip to tie the firewood, so that the firewood picked up at one time can burn for a long time.

Yun Ying saw that this place was quite big, and she was not afraid that the two sensible little ones would walk around and fall, so she begged the Yang family to take her to the bamboo forest together.

Although you can't see Lijia Village and the fertile fields in front of the village in the bamboo forest, you can clearly see the bubbling stream in the west of the village and the West Mountain, which is regarded as a forbidden place; Yun Ying knew that the Nanshan Mountain, where she was now, had already been trampled by the people in the village, and if there was anything that could earn money, it was estimated that it would be almost tossed; However, there are few people on the West Mountain, and maybe she can find something that can be exchanged for money, but the premise is that she must find a chance to go to the town and see what kind of business is in the town.

"Huh? Third aunt, didn't you say that no one went to Xishan? Who is that? Yun Ying coincidentally found a thin figure flowing across the stream, put on the shoes and socks in her hand and went into the forest.

Yang turned around and could see the man's blue-black back, just from a back, Yang also recognized who that person was: "He? He is the only one in our village who has gone to the periphery of Xishan and returned home safely. ”

"Off Orion?" If Yun Ying remembers correctly, this Guan Orion appeared in the Yang family's mouth, but it seemed that he was already a dead man who could no longer die.

Sure enough, Yang's next words solved her doubts: "That's right, it's Guan Ping, the son of Guan Orion." Speaking of this Guan Ping is also a bitter fate, his father Guan Orion is the only man who dares to go to the periphery of the West Mountain to hunt some prey by relying on the hunting skills handed down by his family, so his family has always been good, and he also sent Guan Ping to the school in the town, as if the baby was only ten years old two years ago and passed the children's exam. Unexpectedly, Guan Orion shot a wild boar two years ago, but it caused a disaster. ”

Yun Ying clumsily learned from Yang to remove the extra branches on the bamboo with a sickle, and asked curiously, "What kind of disaster?" ”

The Yang family is already a person whose mouth is idle, and he doesn't care if Yun Ying's age can understand it, so he continued: "Wild boars can't be sold at a good price in our Baijiaji, so Guan Orion took the wild boar to the county, who knew that when a young young master didn't give money, he would have to buy a wild boar; Guan Orion was naturally unconvinced, and he grabbed the young master as soon as he came and went; The young master was surrounded by a lot of subordinates, and this fight naturally swarmed up, beating the hunter half to death on the spot, and snatching the wild boar. Guan Orion was finally sent to Baijia Market Town by a few well-wishers, and he vomited blood after not holding on for a few days when he went home. ”

Yang's telling of the story did not hinder the work at hand, and he cut the bamboo in a few strokes, splitting the bamboo into thin strips the width of his little finger, and then cutting horizontally from them, taking only the tenacious strips; Yun Ying couldn't help with this work, but suddenly remembered a bamboo toy gun that she played with in her rural hometown when she was a child in her previous life, so she picked up the waste materials thrown by the Yang family and tried to fold them, and didn't forget to ask the Yang family what happened to the Guan family next? Idleness left and right is also idleness, and listening to gossip to adjust life is not a bitter pastime.

At that time, Guan Ping had just spent all his family's savings to be admitted to Tongsheng, and the ten-year-old Tongsheng was the master of everyone in Shili and Eight Villages who gave a thumbs up. It's a pity that Guan Orion spent a lot of money to recuperate after returning home, the Guan family is a single surname in Lijia Village, and his daughter-in-law's mother's family is also poor. When this kind of thing happens, Guan Ping's book can't go on, and if he wants to borrow money to go to the county to complain, there is no place to borrow it; Now the life of orphans and widows is also difficult, I heard that this baby did not study in the early years and followed Guan Orion into the West Mountain a few times, I estimate that this baby is learning to be a hunter in the past two years! ”

Yun Ying could only help when she heard Guan Ping's tragic encounter, but it was the Xishan in Yang's mouth and the only hunter in the village that made her interested again: "Third aunt, Orion earns so much money, isn't there a hunter in our village?" ”

At this time, Yang had already rolled the peeled strips into a circle and carried them diagonally to his shoulders, and his hands quickly put one on Yun Ying, got up and patted his body, and sighed: "Why not?" More than ten years ago in our village, there were several men who were good hunters. It seems that it was also ten years ago, when I heard that the side of Xishan was a big county, and the middle-aged men in our village were ready to turn over from Xishan to take a look, and it was these hunters who took the lead. Who knows, just after crossing the stream, he was cursed by the mountain gods, and one or two of them were red and swollen; A few of the few who persevered had not yet reached the halfway point of the West Mountain, and encountered a herd of wild boars, if only one or two were enough, this group of wild boars must have at least dozens of them. ”

"How dare the men in the village confront the wild boar herd, this rush, more than 20 people were rushed to pieces; Now it's all right, a pig barks for a while, a scream for a while, and some people say that they heard the cry of a big worm; In short, after that, only four or five men returned home, except for Guan Orion, who hid in a tree and didn't see anything and was not injured, the rest had a Dong Sanlang with a broken hand, Wang Sihai was blind in one eye, and Li Zhu'er went crazy directly. Dong Sanlang, who heard the severed hand, said that that day, there were more than a dozen big tigers driving wild boars down the mountain, and they were lucky to be able to get out of danger. ”

"About a dozen?" Yun Ying put away the two simple toy guns that had been folded, and her expression was incredulous: It is said that one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, although it is true that he is not familiar with wild animals, but he also knows that tigers are definitely not social animals, and there are more than a dozen? Brag about it!

"Scary, huh? So, since then, no one in our village has dared to go to Xishan. It's just that Orion thinks about whether the big tiger in the West Mountain will drive the wild boar down the mountain again, and from time to time he has to go to the periphery of the West Mountain to take a turn, but he only dares to go around there, and he doesn't dare to go in. Yang gestured around the West Mountain, Yun Ying looked at it, and within a hundred meters of the foot of the mountain, the trees grew relatively sparsely, and there were more bushes.

"Let's go, let's go up there and collect firewood. I'll go back and ask Guan Pingniang what's going on? How can you let the baby go to death? The Yang family led Yun Ying to the flat place, and while walking, he was still worried about the safety of the Guan who had entered the West Mountain, he was really a good person who couldn't be idle.