The next day, Second Uncle Niu had already found more than 30 people to come over to work.

At this time, the road was already half dry, and Xiao Ding drove the donkey cart to the town to buy a lot of goods. Including rice, noodles, meat and vegetables, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, etc., a large number of commonly used agricultural tools were ordered, such as shovels and pickaxes.

At noon, the food on the construction site was made by Li with Xiaoya Xiao'e and Erniu.

Xiao Ding felt that it was a bit hard to let the girls in the family cook for so many people, especially if they had to recruit thirty more people in the future, and Tang Yunzhi and Zhao Laixi in the family needed someone to take care of them.

So after lunch, Xiao Ding found Uncle Niu and said that if Aunt Niu was willing to come over to help make lunch, she could let Aunt Niu come over to make lunch, and at the same time, she could find three or five more women from the village to come over and be her helpers. Xiao Ding was willing to pay 20 wen per person a day and provide lunch.

Second Uncle Niu was naturally very happy when he heard it. At this time, it is the agricultural season, and his mother-in-law is just doing some needlework at home, and she can get 20 yuan when she comes out to cook, so why not? And his eldest daughter-in-law is also idle at home, so they can come over to make money together.

Therefore, Second Uncle Niu agreed without thinking about it.

In the afternoon, Xiao Ding was still busy with things in the wasteland and on the small hills. The people of Yao Ji Brick Kiln sent two ox carts of green bricks, and Xiao Ding asked Niu Er Uncle to take someone to count the quantity, and then report it to him, so that he could settle the money for the people of Yao Ji Brick Kiln.

Got into the quilt at night, and was still pestered by the second girl to answer a few questions between men and women she didn't understand, and then went to sleep.

As soon as it was dawn the next day, Xiao Ding heard the little wolf in the yard barking wildly.

Xiao Ding hurriedly put on his clothes and got out of the shack.

Tang Yunzhi was also awakened, sat up vigilantly, and looked outside.

Xiao Ding came to the gate of the courtyard and saw a figure in a lake-blue robe standing outside the courtyard, it was Mei Ruoxue, one of the Mei sisters who had been away for two days and two nights, and behind her were two horses, one black and one white.

At this moment, her hair is scattered, her clothes are torn in many places, and there are a lot of blood stains, I don't know if it is her blood.

Seeing Xiao Ding come out, Mei Ruoxue cried in a hoarse voice: "Brother Xiao Ding, my sister, my sister is missing...... After speaking, Mei Ruoxue let go of the reins, her body was weak, and she fell to the ground.

Xiao Ding was startled, and hurriedly stepped forward to check, seeing that she had fainted.

Xiao Ding reached out and picked her up, walked to the courtyard, and put her on the donkey cart.

The two horses of the Mei sisters were very spiritual, and they followed them into the courtyard. The black horse was sticking his neck out of the donkey cart, as if to see what was going on with his master.

"What's wrong with her?" When Xiao Ding passed by Tang Yunzhi's grass shed, Tang Yunzhi asked.

"Fainted, don't know what's going on." Ding replied.

At this time, the second girl was already dressed and walked over. Recently, she has practiced the exercises, and she doesn't sleep as dead as she used to.

Xiao Ding gave Mei Ruoxue a pulse. Secretly channeled some spiritual power into her body.

Mei Ruoxue was just a little overworked, coupled with the disappearance of her sister, she was nervous, and she was chased and killed, so she fainted after seeing an acquaintance.

After a while, Mei Ruoxue woke up. Seeing Xiao Ding and Er Niu standing in front of the car, her tears couldn't help but flow down again.

Xiao Ding asked the second girl to pour Mei Ruoxue a glass of water first, and then see if there were any leftovers to help heat it up.

The second girl answered and walked to the backyard.

After drinking half a glass of warm water, Mei Ruoxue's state calmed down a little. She stopped crying and recounted in a hoarse voice.

It turned out that after the Mei sisters left Xiao Ding's house, they followed the route told by Xiao Ding and came to the foot of Luoxia Mountain.

When I got closer, there were more than a dozen people gathered at the foot of the mountain.

These people are all rangers, there are no rivers and lakes, their martial arts are not very good, and their courage is very small, but they are all delusional and plan to come over to try their luck.

But a person didn't dare to go into the mountain, so someone came forward and took the initiative to recruit some individual tourists here, and those who were willing to join would form a team to go into the mountain together. In this way, even if you encounter danger, you will have a better chance of escaping.

The leader who took the initiative was named Guo Jing, because his head was bigger than the average person, so everyone called him Guo Bighead.

The second daughter of the Mei family saw that Guo took the initiative to recruit them, and thought about it, anyway, the two of them also came to see the excitement, it was just a novelty, and following these people, maybe they could get some useful information. So he nodded and agreed to join their team.

When it was almost noon, Guo Datou recruited three more people, and then led everyone towards the mountain.

Naturally, you can't ride a horse up the mountain, and at the beginning, everyone who has a horse still leads the horse towards the mountain. Later, the mountain roads became more and more rugged, and it became difficult to walk with horses. So, they found a remote place with grass and tied the horses to a tree.

The horses of the Mei Ruoshuang Mei Ruoxue sisters are good horses with spirits, and after years of training, they let go of the reins and let them move freely on the hillside. They only carried their burdens and swords on their backs.

On the way into the mountain, the two sisters rarely spoke, they were dressed in men's clothes, and listened to Xiaoding's advice, for fear that their words would show their feet.

Everyone went all the way into the mountain and searched all the way, but everyone had heard that there was a divine object in Luoxia Mountain, but they didn't know where the divine object was, what it looked like, how to find it?

People who are strong in martial arts, or have accurate information, have long gone into the mountains silently to look for them, where are these rabble, swaggering through the market to find treasures?

That night, they set up camp under a leeward cliff. In fact, it was to make a few fires, catch some pheasants and hares, roast them, drink some water from their water bags, and then find a clean place to rest. Guo's big head arranged for people to take turns to be on duty when they slept.

As a result, the smell of the crowd's barbecue attracted a giant bear. There was no fierce fighting, and of the seventeen men, two were killed by the bears, four were seriously wounded, and nine were slightly injured.

Because of her timidity, the second daughter of the Mei family jumped into a tree early to hide and was not harmed.

The giant bear was also slightly injured, grabbed some half-cooked barbecue, feasted on it, and then staggered away.

After the giant bear had been gone for a long time and there was no movement, Guo's big head climbed down from a tree and beckoned everyone to come out.

He was also slightly injured, but fortunately he was able to climb a tree quickly and save his life.

In a short time everyone climbed down from the trees and stones. I checked the six people lying on the ground, and saw that two of them had lost their breath, and the other four would not be able to live long, and even if they could save their lives, they would not be able to move forward.

Guo Datou arranged for everyone to help the four seriously injured people get the gold medicine and dig the pit and bury the two deceased.

The Mei sisters have not yet reacted from the shock, they have lived in the mountain villa since they were children, and they have never seen such a scene.

Just now, we were talking and laughing about barbecue, but in the blink of an eye, they became two corpses! Moreover, when the giant bear came, everyone tacitly fled for their lives, and no one stepped forward to rescue the few who were slow to escape.

Doesn't it say that all beasts are afraid of fire? There are several fires here, why do the giant bears dare to come?

The sisters looked at each other and were silent.

Because of this incident, almost everyone didn't fall asleep that night. For fear that the beast would come when they were asleep, they all ran for their lives, and were eaten by the beast without notice.