Chapter 1: Youth

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Except for some insect chirping, it is extraordinarily quiet, and Lion Rock, which is named after the lion, does not look majestic at all at night, but it looks a little hateful. The faint-hearted are not frightened.

There were a few large rocks scattered on one side of the small valley, and a young man sat quietly behind one of them, looking at the small flat ground in front of him from time to time. The boy had a short flat head and wore a camouflage uniform. There was also a homemade shotgun at his feet. I looked at my watch in the bright moonlight, and it was four o'clock in the morning. Looking at the sky in the distance, there was a slight light, "It's really early in summer, and it is estimated that there will be no wild boars coming out tonight." He whispered to himself.

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound from the mountain, and the boy quickly lowered his head, hid behind the big rock again, and looked ahead with his eyes motionless. My heart moved, "I'm afraid that the wild boar has come out." "In the distance, the sound of animals stepping on dead branches as they walked grew louder and louder, and it was particularly harsh in the quiet valley. However, when the boy heard this voice, he thought it was so beautiful. As the sound got louder and louder, he also became more and more quiet, and his ears listened carefully to the sound, and judged: It is estimated that there are 4.5 of them, and there must be a big guy taking the lead. Wild boars generally come out to forage in groups, but this time it is only a small group, and it is estimated that it is a small family.

The sound was quiet, and the black group of wild boars finally walked out of the mountain forest and walked to the flat land, and the young man fixed his eyes and saw that there were 5, 4 small ones, and one big one. The small one is about 7.80 catties, and the big one is about 200 catties. The pigs snorted and ran happily to the ground, and the big ones and a few small ones ran into the flat ground, arching their mouths hard towards the ground. By the light of the moon, the young man, who was only twenty meters away from the wild boar, could clearly see that the fangs of the big wild boar were still shining slightly. He picked up the gun, gently withdrew the five shotshots that had been loaded, took out two solid bullets from his pocket, and reloaded the two solid bullets and three shotshots into the magazine. Adjusting his body slightly, he gently stood behind the stone, leaned forward half a step forward with his left foot, held the handle of the gun with his right hand, put his index finger on the trigger, grabbed the front handguard with his left hand, and stared at the wild boar with his eyes.

Golden opportunity! The big boar traveled half a meter ahead of the small boar. The young man's left hand grabbed the front handguard and pulled it back, with a slight click, the bullet was already loaded, and the small loading sound was a little crisp except for the sound of insects and the snorting of the wild boar arching the ground, and the wild boars all raised their heads and looked in the direction of the young man. The boy quickly pulled the trigger, grabbed the front handguard with his left hand and pulled it back, pulling the trigger, and before there was a second in between, another "bang" sound sounded. In the firelight, two consecutive solid bullets hit the head of the big wild boar, and several small wild boars were frightened, turned around and ran towards the mountains and forests. The big boar staggered a few steps and fell to the ground, his limbs twitching slightly, and gradually stopped moving.

The boy looked at the sky, and the white belly of the fish slowly appeared on the horizon. I glanced at my watch, and it was 5:20, and before I knew it, it had been more than an hour. He pulled out the few remaining bullets from the gun, turned around and put the gun into the bag that his grandmother had sewn with camouflage cloth, and put it in the bag he was carrying. Slowly pack up other things like water, insect repellent and the like. One hand pulled a pack of cigarettes out of his pocket, lit one, and took a hard puff. Carrying his backpack, he walked towards the fallen boar. "I've been guarding you for three days, and I've finally caught you."

The young man's name is Xu Ziling, but this Xu Ziling does not have a brother of Young Marshal Kou, nor does he have a confidante like Shi Xianzi. 19 years old, the only son in the family, just graduated from high school. After filling in the volunteer at school, he returned to his hometown in the countryside, and now there are only grandparents in his hometown, and his father Xu Haoran is also an only son. Later, he opened a small stone mining company in the town, until now.

It is said that it is a stone mining company, but in fact, it is to turn large stones into small stones with machines and use them to build roads. In recent years, most of the cement roads have been built in rural areas, so the company's business is not bad, earning one or two million a year. I bought a house in the county 10 years ago, and the whole family moved to the county seat, and my grandparents lived for a while, and felt that they were not used to the city, so they went back to the countryside. So every year on holidays, Xu Ziling will go back to the countryside to accompany his grandparents. Both grandparents are in their 70s, but they are walking like flying, and they always like to grow some vegetables or something. Xu Ziling always told them not to plant, and his grandfather always said: "I'm used to doing things, and I can't be idle when I'm old, but my body hurts everywhere when I'm idle. ”

Whenever he heard his grandfather's words, Xu Ziling always cried and laughed. In the end, they can only let them go. Just think of it as exercise, and the elderly may live longer. When I came back this time, my grandmother told Xu Ziling that the sweet potato field at home was always overturned by wild boars. Now the countryside is also rich, and few people will go into the mountains, so slowly wild boars, pheasants and so on, gradually increased, and in the past few years, wild boars have become disasters, so there is a scene at the beginning of the article.

Xu Ziling walked up to the fallen wild boar and kicked it, but the wild boar didn't move, it seemed that he was completely dead. Blood foam was still pouring out in the middle of the brain, and occasionally blood-stained brain plasma was occasionally mixed in the middle. Flicked the cigarette between his index finger and thumb to the ground, lifted his foot in the jungle combat boot and stomped it out. He put his backpack on his back, grabbed the boar's hind legs and dragged it towards a path that was exactly one man's width on the edge of the flat ground. On the left side of the road is the mountain, on the right is the terraced rice fields that have long been deserted, and the weeds on both sides are overgrown with human height.

After walking slowly for about a kilometer, the sky was already bright at this time, and I came to a flat land, where my grandfather planted sweet potatoes. The ground was about 100 meters wide, with mountains on both sides, and it bent five times and stretched south. That's why the people in the village call this valley the Five Bends Valley. In fact, this flat land turned out to be the innermost part of the valley, Xu Ziling's just hunting place was only in the 6.70s of the last century, reclaimed on the Lion Rock, but now it has been almost abandoned for ten years, three days ago when Xu Ziling came to check, it was obvious to see the wild boar in the wild grass walked a "road." "I followed the road and found the flat land in front of the mountain forest, so I chose to hunt in this place where wild boars must pass.

There is a stone road on the right side of the flat land, which is also the oxcart road built by the older generation when they reclaimed Lion Rock, which is about more than four meters. There is a small stream between the stone road and the mountain, and the mountain spring water winds down the mountain side and flows into the village. Through the clear water, you can also see mountain crabs and small fish feeding in the water. Xu Ziling threw the wild boar that had been dragged to the ground with no hair on the front half of his body, walked to the stream, washed his face and hands, and drank a mountain spring. I drank the slightly sweet spring water, and I felt refreshed. took the bag off his back, walked to the small depression at the end of the flat side, where Xu Ziling specially borrowed the pickup truck from the quarry this time, opened the door, put the bag in the back seat, took out the key to start the pickup, and accelerated violently, and the pickup truck rushed out of the depression like a leopard. As soon as the rear of the car came out of the depression, Xu Ziling quickly stepped on the brakes, and his right hand immediately hung up the reverse gear, stepped on the accelerator and quickly drove backwards to the flat ground, just a few dozen meters away in the blink of an eye. He didn't look at the reflector, stepped on the brakes, and with a "z", the old pickup truck without ABS, the tires were tightly hugged on the ground and slid three or four meters, just about one meter away from the wild boar on the ground.

Xu Ziling got out of the car, opened the back door of the pickup truck, bent down, grabbed the hind legs of the wild boar with one hand, and grabbed the front legs with the other. Grabbed the boar and put it in the back box, closed the door, turned around and got into the car. I started the car, and seeing that it was still early, I drove home slowly.

The pickup truck swayed out of the valley, and the mouth of the valley was the cement road to the neighboring village that was repaired a few years ago. Five minutes later, Xu Ziling returned home, a small two-story building, with a courtyard of about 100 square meters in front of it, and parked the car in the courtyard. Grandpa, who heard the sound of the car, walked out of the house, "Ziling Lingzi, how is it, did you stay there last night?" Hurry up and wash up, it's time for breakfast, your grandma is cooking, it's almost ready. ”

"Grandpa, it's hit. I came out at 4 o'clock this morning, and I came out a little late. Xu Ziling replied.

"Really? Let me see. Xu Ziling opened the back door.

"Well, that's good, it's estimated to be about two hundred pounds." Grandpa looked at the pig's head, "The marksmanship is getting better and better, and one shot hits the brain." It seems that you haven't forgotten what you were taught. ”

Grandpa was a veteran of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and after returning from the army, he returned to the mountains to become an old hunter. When Xu Ziling was eleven or twelve years old, every time he returned to his hometown during the winter and summer vacations, his grandfather always took him to hunt. It wasn't until the past two years, when his grandfather was old, that Xu Ziling went hunting alone every time. It's just that this is the first time I've encountered a wild boar.

"Hehe......" Xu Ziling smiled a few times with an honest look. Grandpa, I won't forget what you taught. ”

"Okay, put the things away, go wash up, have breakfast, and wait for you to send the wild boar to your uncle, this wild boar is coarse and not very tasty."

"Well, that's good." There is an old hunter's house, these wild things can always be eaten, when Xu Ziling was young, his grandfather could always catch them every once in a while. So until now, the whole family doesn't like to eat wild boar very much.

I closed the door of the car, took my backpack from the car, and put it in the room. I took off my camouflage uniform and changed into casual clothes. I went to the yard and washed up. Walking into the living room, grandma was walking out of the kitchen with two bowls of porridge.

"Grandma!"

"Hey, listen to your grandfather, today's guard? My little grandson is very powerful. Grandma said with a smile.

"This is all taught by my grandfather when he was a child." Xu Ziling replied with a smile.

"Alright, alright. Hurry up and have breakfast. "Grandpa sat down at the table and gave the order.

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