"Grandpa, let's go with you, let's go a little deeper, the firewood on the periphery is estimated to have been picked up a long time ago. Otherwise, let's go to the valley where we pick the peppers, where the firewood must be young and old, and we will pick the peppers back by the way. Luozhi picked up the bowl, took a sip of rice porridge and said.

"I think it's okay. Then everyone hurry up and eat, and after eating the dried peanuts, we will set off. "The old man is a Mali person, and once he decides something, he acts quickly.

After the meal, Luozhi brushed the dishes and wiped the stove, the old man took Ah Shu to carry peanuts out to the bamboo curtain, and the Luo'an people took a rake to rake and bloom.

"Sister, going to the mountains will stain the new robe, right?" Luo'an already knows how to cherish things at a young age, and Luozhi is very happy. She hopes that Luo'an will know since he was a child that every vegetable and meal in life is not easy to come by, so that he will always be grateful.

"So what to do?" Luo Zhi asked with a deliberately sad face.

"Why don't we wear old clothes?" Luo An said hesitantly. The good-looking eyebrows are tangled and slightly furrowed.

"That's good, let's go!" As a result, the family's new clothes were not hot, and they changed back to coarse linen clothes.

As the saying goes, "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools; If you want to make the best use of the instrument, you must first get its method. "After drying the peanuts, the old man took out the whetstone and sharpened the sickle and axe for chopping wood very sharply, and there was no problem with the sharp tools.

Luozhi gave Butcher Zhang's meat bun to Uncle Mu Si and took it to the town, then returned home, wrapped the remaining dozen or so big meat buns with lotus leaves, put them in a bamboo basket and carried them, brought water to drink, and the family set off in a mighty way.

Along the way, Luozhi found that there were many people who went to cut wood in groups, and now there are still more than a month before the rice harvest, which is the time of farming, so there are many people who go to the mountains to cut wood. Most of the villagers are self-sufficient, and they have endless work to do all day long.

"Old man, this is the whole family!" There was the warm villager and the old man greeting.

"The children are afraid that I will be tired, so I have to follow" Old Man Mu's old face stretched quickly.

"Your children are sensible and filial," someone praised.

The old man and his close villagers chatted and walked, and Luozhi followed him honestly.

The roadside is covered with small yellow daisies and unknown wildflowers, the breeze is gentle, the dancing posture is graceful, the fragrance is fragrant, with the faint fragrance of natural earth, the faint fragrance of wild flowers, and everyone continues to move forward with the fragrance.

At the mountain crossing, everyone dispersed, Luozhi's family continued to go deep into the mountains and forests, Luo'an people had short calves, and they stumbled and stumbled, Ah Shu directly lifted him, put him in the bamboo basket, and carried him all the way.

Entering the valley, Luozhi looked up at the sky, and the sky was as blue as a wash, like a sapphire washed with clean water, blue and deep. Birds are singing happily in the mountain streams.

"Ah Shu, you slow down" Luo Zhi watched Ah Shu jump forward with Luo An on his back a few steps, and disappeared when he turned the corner.

The old man had already taken out the machete and began to pack up the firewood, Luozhi was afraid that Ah Shu would not know the severity, so he took Luo'an to run around, and hurriedly chased after him.

"Sister, sister, come here!" Luo'an's voice came through, and Luozhi was afraid that something would happen to him, so he ran over.

When Luozhi rushed to Luo'an, he found that he was fine. What's wrong is the pepper tree, many pepper trees are barely alive, and the pepper has also been ruined a lot, Luozhi looked at the traces on the ground, and it is estimated that it is the "masterpiece" of the wild boar herd. ”

"Let's pick everything we can and bring it back," Luozhi arranged for Ah Shu and Luo'an to pick the slopes, while she carefully climbed down the hillside, squatted down, and began to work with her left and right hands, picking up the peppers.

After picking, she barely had a bamboo basket, Luozhi estimated that these pepper trees would slowly wither after a week at most, fortunately she found a few vigorous ones in the corner, picking dozens of plump and tender red peppers, which were very good to keep for seeding.

Ah Shu carried the basket, Luozhi carried Luo'an, and the three of them went to meet with Grandpa and chop wood together. The old man was splitting the downed tree into sections for easy tying.

"Grandpa, take a look, are these footprints from a wild boar?" Luo Zhi said, pointing to the marks on the ground.

"Yes, let's not go any deeper, just chop wood here, in case we run into wild boars, it will be a big trouble." The old man frowned, squatted down and took a closer look and said.

"Good" Luo Zhi nodded in agreement, she had heard people say before, "one pig, two bears and three tigers," once this wild boar is crazy, it is more terrible than a tiger and a black blind man, and ordinary people are difficult to parry.

She arranged for Luo An to pick up small branches in the middle and not out of everyone's sight. He took out a kitchen knife from the bamboo basket and began to chop down trees that were the thickness of his arm.

Ah Shu has a lot of strength, and he can break branches from a big tree directly with his hands, but he doesn't use much of the knife in his hand.

Soon, stacks of firewood were piled up, and the branches were cut more and more vigorously, not to mention, as long as there was a simple joy in the work without using the hands and brains.

"Hmph", Luozhi's ears moved slightly, she seemed to hear the sound of a wild boar, Luozhi was tense, and her hairs stood up. She rolled her eyes to look at Ah Shu and Ah Ye, who were about two hundred meters away from her, and she slowly moved out step by step.

Soon, as the sound drew closer, a wild boar was revealed after a large clump of ferns had been trampled to the ground, which was an adult wild boar, with a fierce body, gray-black pig/hairy root barbs, and small pointed ears that fit snugly against the back of the ear. The long-beaked fangs, the sharp teeth like blades flashing with cold light.

Luozhi stared at it for a moment, then got up and ran. She didn't dare to shout for help, for fear of annoying the wild beast.

When the wild boar saw her running, the bristles of the pig stood even more upright, and with a glaring of hind legs, he chased after Luozhi.

At this time, she was really frightened, and shouted screaming, "Grandpa, Luo'an, Ah Shu, you run quickly." ”

She was in a hurry, and she had seen that wild boars couldn't climb trees, so she quickly changed her tone and shouted, "Climb to the tree, climb to the tree." After saying that, she felt a strong wind coming from behind, and she knew that the wild boar would kill her in minutes.

She braked suddenly, turned around and ran to the side quickly, thanking Grandpa for not wrapping her little feet, these big feet helped her a lot at the critical moment.

The wild boar rushed forward for some distance due to inertia before returning, spewing hot air from its mouth and stinking saliva, and its whole body was furious, and it chased after the branches.

God, you are going to kill me, today my life is at rest, Luo Zhi thought of his family in his previous life, his relatives in this life, he lived twice, and he died early, is there anything more tragic than her?

The wild boar bowed her head violently, Luozhi turned around, knowing that she could not escape death, she held the kitchen knife tightly to protect her chest, even if she died, she had to cut it to blind.

"Bang bang bang," the wild boar was thrown out violently, and Luo Zhi was lifted up with a strong force, feeling that he was flying in the air, and then landed firmly on Ah Shu's back.

Ah Shu carried her on his back, holding a knife in his hand, and made a piercing sound in his mouth, slapping and driving away like the primitive people Luo Zhi had seen.

The wild boar quickly stood up and swooped over with his head down, and Ah Shu's heavy punches completely angered it.

Luozhi motioned to Ah Shu to look at the boar's abdomen, she had just found a bloody cut in the boar's abdomen at the moment when the boar was raised, no wonder she was attacked!

Luozhi knows that wild boars living in the deep mountains and old forests rarely encounter humans, and as long as people have no malicious intent, under normal circumstances, wild boars will not harm people. Unless they're hurt, or they're irritable and crazy. However, this probability is very low. When wild boars are injured and aware of the danger, they are in an attacking state.

And a group of wild boars is not very aggressive, the most afraid is a lone wild boar. Such wild boars are really crazy, they will ignore it and will not stop until they kill each other. The boar was probably injured before, and when he saw Luozhi holding a knife, he chased her as an enemy or food.

The old man also surrounded him with an axe, and Luo Zhi hurriedly shook his head to stop him from coming, and asked the old man to quickly find a place to hide. What are you kidding, Grandpa's old arms and legs don't come to make trouble.

Luozhi got down from Ah Shu's back and was protected by him, Ah Shu's muscles tightened, and his eyes stared at the wild boar for a moment. At the moment when the wild boar rushed over, he swung his kitchen knife sideways to avoid the wild boar's attack and slashed hard in the wild boar's abdomen.

To their surprise, the knife only caused the wild boar to suffer a little skin injury, and there was not much blood.

This time the wild boar was furious, quickly turned his head and attacked again, Ah Shu pushed the Luozhi away, turned over and rode on the wild boar, tightly dragged the pig's ears in one hand, and slashed at the injured part of the wild boar with a knife in the other, the wild boar let out a furious wail and rushed forward, and a person and a pig soon disappeared.

Luozhi took Grandpa's axe, asked him to take a good look at Luo'an, and chased after the blood trail left by the wild boar all the way.

There was no blood on the slope of the pepper tree, and Luo Zhi looked down, and Ah Shu was grinning at her with dead branches and leaves.

Luozhi climbed down with his hands and feet, and the wild boar lay dying on the dead leaves, and a cloud of blood congealed under his body. Luozhi pulled Ah Shu up and hurriedly checked whether he was injured, but fortunately, except for a little abrasion, it was not a big deal.

The old man hugged Luo'an and shouted at them with a pale face, and Luozhi told them not to come down, saying that it was okay.

The powerful Ah Shu once again showed his might, and one person carried nearly 200 catties of wild boar up from the bottom of the slope, and the family was amazed around this behemoth.

"Grandpa, there is no shortage of meat in our family." Luo'an said.

"Oh, oh, good," Ah Shu drooled as he said.

"This boar is a good thing." Grandpa squinted his eyes and said.

Luo Zhizheng's face was full of sadness, how to get such a big guy home is a problem that needs to be solved urgently, so that the village can see it and attract people's eyes.

"Don't worry, let's transport it out first, and then we'll get it home after dark." The old man said.

This time, the family had no intention of chopping wood, and when they saw that the time was also noon, Luozhi took out a large meat bun wrapped in lotus leaves, and the family had lunch with clear water. Tie the firewood that had been cut before with vines, and tie the trunk of the tree into the middle of the firewood, and it will become a burden to carry out.

Ah Shu carried the wild boar, Luo Zhi and Ah Ye picked firewood, Luo An followed behind Ah Jie, and the family went out of the valley.

When he was about to approach the periphery, the old man asked everyone to stop, and the mountain was silent except for the birdsong, and the old man quickly cut a bunch of ferns, and dug a shallow pit, so that Ah Shu put the wild boar in, and covered it tightly with weeds and branches. Such a disguise is not a caring person, it is difficult to find, and very few people in the village here come in, so there is no need to worry about the wild boar being led by the sheep.

On the way back, the old man praised Ah Shu fiercely, and at the moment of crisis, he stepped forward to save Luozhi's life, which was the great benefactor of his family.

Ah Shu, who was praised, happily stretched her head in front of Luozhi, Luozhi understood in seconds, she stretched out her hand and touched his hairy head, and he was so happy that he danced and was very happy.

The family washed their hands and faces, and Luozhi went to Mu Ying's house to boil peanuts, preparing to sell them at the market tomorrow. Luo'an and Ah Shu naturally followed. The old man prepared things for killing pigs at night at home, and by the way, he turned over the peanuts and harvested them, so as to make room for killing pigs.