At this time, Qin Forget also stepped on this path.

A month ago, the old and weak women and children who had been waiting for a month finally confirmed that their pillars would not come back. They looked at the deserted villages, at the dilapidated houses, at the empty grain tanks, at the collapsed wooden shelves for drying animal skins。。。。。。 Despair permeated everyone's faces. I don't know who made the first cry, and for a while, the whole small village was drowned out by the sound of crying, screaming, and scolding. At that time, Qinjia Village was a sea of suffering, and people who had no support would have to drown in this ocean sooner or later.

That night, more than a dozen people committed suicide by hanging from a beam. The worst thing is the simple Qin Sanjia, his mother-in-law was licked off half of her face by a blind bear in the forest the year before last, and she was rescued by luck. Since then, half of his face has been blurred with flesh and blood, and he has become a terrifying half-faced person. But she has always been strong and alive, hunting, fishing, cutting bamboo and wood, regardless of spring, autumn, winter and summer. Everyone gave her a thumbs up. is such a woman, who was found dead on her own kang early the next morning, holding three dolls with blue lips in her arms. On the table was a vial of poison。。。。。

What about yourself? Qin Forget still remembers the scene at that time。。。。。。

Qin Ji's expression was indifferent, without a single tear, just standing there and staring blankly at Taihang Mountain, motionless from morning to dusk. The big beautiful and bright eyes have lost their brilliance, despair, regret, helplessness, and sentimentality。。。。。。 There were too many things there that Qin Forget couldn't understand.

At that time, Qin Forget took the hunting knife that was now pinned to his calf and carefully wiped it over and over again with a piece of cotton cloth. His lips pursed tightly, he didn't believe it, he didn't believe that there would be an accident with his father's skills, not to mention that there was Sixth Uncle Duan, and there were so many excellent hunters in the village. Yes, he did not believe, why should he believe it? Daddy is the best, isn't he?

"Mother, Dad will definitely come back." He looked at his emaciated mother at the door, and the afternoon sun left her with only a gray shadow behind her. He whispered as if to tell his mother and comfort himself.

After saying that, a tear crept down his face, dripping onto the knife, like the cry of a knife. He finally couldn't take it anymore and cried with his hunting knife.

Qin Ji finally came back to his senses, looking at his son who was crying in front of him, tears slowly wet his eyes, "Forget your son, I am sorry for my mother to know you, but you must be strong, like your father, no matter what happens, you are a man who stands up to the sky." Qin Ji's tears poured down her eyes as she spoke, and she turned her face unwilling to let her son see her crying.

"Mother! Daddy is gone, gone! I don't have a dad, I don't have a dad! Qin Ji's comfort didn't have any effect, Qin Forget cried even louder, and the heart-rending cry floated over the village for a long, long time, until it drifted deep into the forest.

Qin Ji looked at her son in pain, a complicated look appeared on her face, at this moment she had a strong urge to tell him all the secrets buried in her heart for fifteen or six years, "Forget your son, I have something important to tell you for my mother." She stretched out her hand to straighten her son's tear-stained face, stared into his eyes and said seriously: "Actually, in addition to your mother and your father, you also have blood relatives." ”

"Mother, do I still have relatives? Aren't we just three of us? When Qin forgot to hear this, he felt confused. When he was fourteen years old, he had never heard his father and mother say that he had other relatives, except for the people in Qinjia Village, he had never seen other outsiders, and he was surprised when he first heard the news.

Seeing his son's sad and surprised eyes, Qin Ji's heart was suddenly shocked, it was not time yet, they were all too young, and they knew that there were only disadvantages and no benefits, "It's nothing, I mean you and all the people in Qinjia Village, they are all your relatives." ”

Qin Forget looked at his mother-in-law with an unnatural face, and his intuition told him that his mother-in-law must have something to hide from him, but at that time, his heart was filled with pain, so he was not in the mood to investigate deeply.

Even now he firmly believes that his father is still alive, and it is impossible for a god-like man like his father to be stumped by a small Taihang Mountain. He was just desperate that his father might not be able to bring the whole village back before they starved to death. He didn't know how desperate his father would be if he came back and found the old and weak corpses in the village. At this time, Qin Wang's eyes were full of pain, and those bright eyes seemed to be unable to hold them.

While walking, Qin Forget unconsciously arrived at Taihang Mountain, or the entrance of the mountain, the roadside or the old pine tree, and the resting stone next to it was still so smooth, it seemed that nothing had changed. Everything here seems to prove that nothing has changed, but the reality has long since changed beyond recognition.

Along the way, Qin Forget had planted several traps in hidden places, and when he did this, his mood was extremely heavy. His father had taught him all about hunting, and when he began to do it, he couldn't help but think of the man who looked like a mountain.

He picked up a few scrawny roe deer, foxes, and pheasants. The snow was so great and it had been raining for so long that the wild creatures had either simply frozen to death or were dying in the snow, and their fur was covered with ice. Checking it with his hand, Qin Forget shook his head in disappointment, this little thing, except for boiling a pot of clear soup, there is nothing left. God is ruthless, not only people, but also these forest spirits have no way to live. Maybe he won't be able to get out, and he will be like these wild things, frozen in this mountain forest, picked up and chewed by some unknown animal.

The mountains and forests are still vast, the dense larches stand bare one by one, the thick snow bends the thick branches, and even the thick trunk is frozen with a thick layer of ice, which is covered with snowflakes and snow particles.

Purple shirts, hazelnuts, euonymus, honeysuckle, elderberry, hooks, thorn roses, roses and other low shrubs were intertwined, so that Qin Forget didn't even have the space to put his feet down. Qin Forget approached step by step, and the firewood knife in his hand struggled to cut at the branches blocking the road from time to time. The heavy wheezing made his lungs look like a leaky bellows, and he felt dizzy after such a great physical exertion because he had not eaten for a long time. He could feel his empty stomach throbbing violently, and acid water was bubbling up from his stomach as if it was about to digest itself. With each step, his whole body tilted in the direction of his footing, and he couldn't stand at all when he swayed.

He wants to climb over the Monkey's Back Ridge, the Monkey's Back Ridge used to be called the Back Back Ridge, and I don't know when it started to become the Monkey's Back Ridge. Monkey Back Ridge, as the name suggests, resembles a big monkey squatting there. Climb slowly up the slightly gentler middle spine to the top of the narrow line of sky, and the terrain on both sides is steep like a person's shoulder blades, hence the name.

The Monkey's Back Ridge is as high as dozens of zhang, except that the middle is relatively gentle, the two sides are extremely steep, especially the top of the first line of heaven several zhang long, the end is "a husband when the pass, ten thousand people do not open". Over the Monkey's Back Ridge, it is the only big basin in the Taihang Mountains, a radius of 100 miles, except for the only exit of the Monkey's Back Ridge, three sides are high mountains into the clouds. This basin is called "Monkey's Nest" by the people of Qinjia Village.

The dangerous Monkey's Back Ridge also brought great trouble to Qin Wang.

Qin Forget hurriedly roasted and ate those wild animals at the foot of the mountain, and the sum of the few prey only made him feel half full, which gave him a little replenishment of physical strength. Taking a deep breath, he took his first step to climb the Monkey's Back Ridge.

The Monkey's Back Ridge is the same as seen with the naked eye, and it can only be climbed up along the middle "spine". The spine was not so steep that it was impossible to climb, but the slope that formed an S-curve made it impossible for Qin Forget to stand firm for a moment. He either clasped the stone walls on either side with both hands, or stuck his hunting knife in the ground with his hand, desperately trying not to let himself roll down.

It didn't take long for Qin Forget to feel that his arms were no longer his own, and he was numb as if they were filled with sand. The cold and sharp ice cubes quickly scratched Qin Wang's hands, and blood flowed all over his hands, but his hands were already numb, so he didn't feel much pain, and the hot blood melted the ice cubes under his hands into a thin layer, making Qin Wang's grasp even more unreliable.

After all the hardships, there were two times when he almost fell, Qin Wang finally stood on the Monkey's Back Ridge, holding his knees with his hands that he didn't have time to bandage, panting and panting, he looked like a tired old cow. Looking at the snow under his feet, which was much thinner than the outside, Qin Forget couldn't help but smile happily.

His father had secretly brought him here this time without telling his mother, and he knew that because of the special terrain, the Monkey's Back Ridge would be much warmer than outside, and the snow would be much less. Some herbivores will find food under the snow, which can also attract large numbers of predators. There are a lot more prey here than outside. Of course, there are many more dangers.

Descending the mountain, he crawled like an old hunter in the forest, where the snow was more than half thinner than outside, but there was a "creaking" sound when he stepped on it, and it was enough for the animals to escape. His whole body was pressed to the ground, his cold eyes swept everything around him from time to time, and his body was already smeared with bison cow dung, so he didn't have to worry about his prey smelling him.

Trees, rocks, caves。。。。。。 He didn't let go of every place. Compared to these, his attention was more focused on the footprints in the mountains and forests, because it had just snowed, and the trees were full of footprints. Bamboo leaf prints of pheasants, hoof prints of bison plates, plum blossom footprints of wild dogs, crescent moon prints of wild deer or wild sheep。。。。。。 It's just a pity that these footprints have been frozen into shells, indicating that the prey has long gone away.

Qin Forget was not disappointed, in this season, if the wild creatures outside wanted to live, they could only come here. It could be said that more than half of the living prey within a radius of ten miles had gathered here, so he knew that he would not find nothing, which could be seen from the dense footprints just now. He continued to search forward, the constant cold in his body, and the hunger that struck again, made it impossible and unafraid for him to stop.