The hunters carried the unconscious man to a nearby stone hut, where they surrounded him, some taking his pulse, some pinching him.

An old man in his fifties, the eldest of the hunters, said: "Second and third, don't toss around, he faints from hunger, cold and overwork, just pour him some hot water and let him lie quietly for a while." ”

The middle-aged man, known as "Er", scooped a bowl of hot water from the hanging pot on the fire and fed it to the man. This person is not awake, his teeth are tightly closed, and he cannot be injected. He exclaimed, "Boss, no. ”

The old man walked over: "Second brother, I'll come." ”

The boss patted the man's face and pinched his jaw so hard that his mouth opened automatically. The old man took advantage of the situation and hurriedly fed water into his mouth. Half a bowl of hot water in his stomach, the man let out a breath of turbid air and opened his eyes. What he saw were rough but friendly faces. He struggled to sit up, but the boss held him down: "Brother, you are so hungry that you are prostrating, don't move, I will ask them to get you something to eat." ”

The boss raised his head and shouted into the corner of the house: "Little five! ”

"It's coming—" A young hunter handed him a large bowl of steaming red meat: "Come and eat, wild boar just out of the pot, big supplement!" ”

The man swallowed a caterpillar and retched. The boss removed the bowl of meat and reprimanded the young hunter, saying, "Foolish, you who are too hungry, eat this bowl of wild boar, and you will not die!" Go, bring him a bowl of rice porridge. ”

Lao Wu brought a bowl of rice porridge, and he swallowed it in two bites, and his spirit immediately improved.

The boss looked at him and said solemnly, "This brother, what is your name?" Are you an ascetic head, or a fugitive from the government? Why did you break into this deserted deep mountain and old forest alone? ”

This person smiled bitterly: "In Xia Huineng, thank you for your rescue in advance." I, I'm a homeless homeless man, lost. ”

Lao Wu was about the same age as Huineng, and hurriedly said, "Then you can stay with us." You can't make a fortune hunting, but you can't starve either. What do you say, big brother? ”

The boss nodded and said, "We still lack a man to collect firewood for cooking, if you want, work with us!" ”

Huineng nodded: "Thank you, big brothers, for accommodating." ”

Hui Neng stayed in the hunter team - in the cold winter of Layue, there was no other crowd activity in the deep mountains, and he had no choice if he wanted to survive.

Early the next morning, the hunters went out into the field to lay nets, set traps, hang traps, and set up ambushes...... Huineng stayed in the stone room to wash vegetables and cook, and was very busy. He simmered the rice, extinguished the fire, and meditated in front of the stove, unconsciously entering meditation.

At noon, the hunters returned to the stone house.

The old three, who was five big and three thick, shouted as he walked into the house: "This morning, Lao Tzu was so hungry that his belly was pressed to his backbone. Hey, Huineng, is the meal ready? ”

No one should respond indoors. The third child stretched out his head to look at the stove, and saw Huineng sitting quietly, with a smile on his face, and muttered: "This kid, sitting and sleeping still dreaming!" Did you dream of a big girl? ”

He picked up the iron scoop and slammed it in Huineng's ear. Huineng came out of meditation and asked, "Big brother, are they all back?" ”

"It's all back! Is the meal ready? We're starving! ”

Huineng stood up and said, "It's good morning." Start eating right away. ”

Huineng brought the food to the stone house. The hunters gobbled around a steaming pot of flesh and bones. Huineng picked out a few wild vegetables from the pot, picked up the bowl, and squatted aside to eat.

The third child knocked on the meat pot and shouted at Huineng: "Hey, Huineng, why don't you eat so much meat?" ”

Huineng smiled unnaturally and said, "Brother, I don't have this blessing." Third brother, eat by yourself, I have wild vegetables to eat. ”

The third child's eyes widened: "Can wild vegetables be better than meat?" I don't believe that there are people in the world who leave wild meat and don't eat it. ”

Huineng said: "I'm used to it!" ”

The fourth child glanced at Hui Neng and said gloomily: "Are you not hungry, when you are about to starve to death, you will also eat human flesh!" ”

The days of hunting in the mountains are like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. During the day, they hunt and Hui Neng cooks; In the evening, they gathered in the stone house to talk about women and legends, while Huineng meditated alone in the cave.

One day in early spring, the sun had just risen, and a ray of red light shot into the cave and shone on the door of Huineng's brain, which was sitting in silence.

Outside the cave, the boss coughed. Huineng opened his eyes and said, "Big brother, please come in." ”

The Boss walked into the cave. He looked around and asked in surprise, "Why don't you even get a cover, how do you sleep at night?" ”

Huineng patted the grass ball under his buttocks. The boss didn't believe it: he asked, "All night, you're sitting like this?" For more than a month, you have been meditating like this every night and not sleeping? ”

Huineng nodded and said, "When I sit, I rest." ”

The boss thought for a while and said, "What kind of magic skill are you practicing?" You don't sleep in a stone house with everyone, I thought you loved to be quiet and afraid of trouble. What kind of evil and crooked kung fu is to dare to love! ”

"Big brother, this is not a magic skill, but a meditation kung fu of the Eight Classics, a practice method of Buddhism."

"I don't care what you do, as long as you don't doze off every day and don't delay cooking for everyone. In the next few days, we will go to the other side of the mountain to open up new hunting grounds, and you will take care of the nets and sets here. When we catch our prey, we kill them and sell them when we come back. ”

Huineng nodded yes. Before leaving the hole, the boss muttered: "Strange man, people can't figure it out......"

After the hunters left, Huineng went to the preset hunting grounds to inspect the situation. A monkey was covered by a large dense net. It squeaked and struggled, but the more it struggled, the tighter it wound. It seems that the only way to do this is to wait for the hunter to come and slaughter it......

Huineng walked through the dense forest towards the trap net. When the monkey saw someone coming, he seemed to have a premonition that the end was coming, and he struggled more and more, and his mouth let out a desperate wail......

Huineng heard the monkey cry of "squeak-squeak-" and saw the monkey who had been caught. He hurried over to untie the net and let the monkey go.

After the monkey escaped, it didn't seem to believe that Huineng had really let it go, and when it looked back and saw that Huineng was not chasing, it jumped away from the branches and disappeared into the depths of the dense forest.

Huineng couldn't bear to see the animals that had been caught in the net dying and struggling, so he let the pheasants go and rescued the little hedgehog from the trap...... Three days later, the hunters returned with a full load. However, they were surprised to find that Huineng's side found nothing.

The boss glanced at Hui Neng and didn't say anything, and the third and fourth went out with gloomy faces.

After a while, the two of them broke into the rock cave where Huineng lived, and without saying a word, they punched and kicked Huineng.

The second and fifth children ran in and pulled them apart. The second child shouted: "The third, the fourth, are you crazy? Why don't you beat people without asking, it's too unreasonable! ”

"I'm going to kill this dog mongrel!" The third child broke away from the second child's pull and slapped Huineng hard. Huineng slammed to the ground, blood flowing from the corners of his mouth, but he didn't say a word and sat back on the futon.

The second hugged the third child who wanted to kick Huineng. The third brother roared: "Second brother, you let go of me, I have to beat him to death today!" ”

The second child said: "The third child, you have to let the family speak for big things, make it clear in advance, find out the situation, and it will not be too late for you to do it." ”

The fourth said: "What else to check!" We walked for three days and returned with a full load. But in the hunting ground we set up here, we didn't even catch a pheasant. ”

"Hunting is meant to be a matter of luck. Maybe these days, as Hui Neng said, no prey has been caught. Lao Wu said.

The third child pointed at Huineng's nose and scolded: "We have all been deceived by this dog mongrel!" The fourth child and I went to the hunting ground to inspect one place after another, and there were badger hairs, wild boar hoof prints, dog and bear feces in several traps, as well as those nets and sets, all of which had traces of birds and animals. ”

The second child was taken aback: "Really? The fourth said: "Steamed, still boiled!" Our brothers have been hunting together for more than ten years, when did I blind you? Those prey add up, to say the least, they can be sold for a few taels of silver! ”

The second child looked at Huineng: "This, this, this...... What's going on? ”

The fourth said: "It must be that this kid took advantage of our absence to secretly sell to the dealers who went into the mountains to buy game!" ”

The second child asked Huineng, who had a blue nose and swollen face and a bloody face: "Huineng, if you treat me as a brother, please tell me, what's going on?" Is what they say true? ”

Hui Neng wanted to speak and stopped. The third child roared angrily: "If you don't take out the silver, you will beat him to death!" ”

They were just about to pounce on Huineng and continue beating Huineng, when a majestic dry cough sound outside the cave shook everyone's actions. The Boss walked into the cave with his hands behind his back. The third child said: "Big brother, you came just in time, this kid is a thief and stole our prey."

He should be taught a good lesson! I ......" The boss glared at the third child, walked up to Huineng, squatted down, and slowly asked, "Brother, what's going on?" ”

The third child said: "Do you still need to ask?" He stole his prey and asked him to hand over the silver! ”

Huineng wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said, "Big brother, please believe me, I didn't sell my prey privately, and I didn't swallow everyone's silver. ”

The fourth said: "You didn't sell it, where did so many prey go?" Have you eaten them all? Don't you never eat meat? ”