Ya'an is located at the intersection of Sichuan-Tibet Road and Sichuan-Yunnan Road, is an important hub on the ancient tea horse road, known as the throat of western Sichuan, Sichuan-Tibet gateway, the geology is complex, there are many rivers, for thousands of years Han, Tibetan, Miao, Yi and other ethnic groups in this radius of hundreds of miles between the mountains and valleys of the multiplication, but also because of thousands of years of nationalities, contradictions and interests of the people, created a strong folk customs here.

When the spring flowers are blooming, the mountains are stacked on top of each other, and the eyes are full of green and full of vitality, and the German engineers of the expedition group cannot help but praise the idyllic landscapes, the complex geological formations and the ore specimens that are constantly discovered under the guidance of local guides, which make them even more happy.

Xiao Yiming did not travel with the German experts of the four groups, he needed to go to the banquet of the baggage camp with Qiluo, meet with the Ya'an Mansion and officials at all levels, and visit the two local traditional clans, dizzy and drunk for three or four days, Xiao Yiming remembered that the Ya'an prefect had not seen anyone, and after careful questioning, he learned that the prefect did not go to Chengdu for business, but this grandson claimed to be inactive, and after the Spring Festival every year, Ya'an squatted for a month and left, and then came to see the tax collection of the counties after the autumn harvest. The others are lying in the luxurious courtyards of Chengdu.

It is no wonder that for thousands of years, the people of Ya'an have pursued their own set of laws, and the simple atmosphere has made the various ethnic groups basically peaceful, and no matter how big the dispute is, even if there is a murder, they will solve it by themselves, and the government only needs to collect the annual taxes, and the others will not bother, otherwise they will soon "stir up public resentment" and be blown away.

Today's Ya'an is even more so, the old man Wang Yutang, who is highly respected and has thousands of disciples, is deeply supported by the people of the surrounding six counties, under his prestige, there have been very few disputes between ethnic groups for more than ten years, and the Han nationality, which accounts for more than seventy percent of the total population, gets along harmoniously, therefore, several mine owners who have been mining for many years are very willing to listen to the opinions of the old man Wang, and after seeing Xiao Yiming, the proud disciple of the old man Wang and the closed disciple of the Minister of Frontiers, the mine owners are all happy and energetic -- Xiao Yiming not only does not use his power to bully others, but also take advantage of the tricks. On the contrary, he gently persuaded them to do everything possible to expand production, and he purchased all the sulfur, manganese ore, miscanthus salt, and rock salt in large quantities to meet the needs of the Ya'an factory that was being built.

On the morning of the seventh day, Wang Jian, He Qiwu and Xie Mingyang took leave, and took several experienced hunting masters from their division to follow the Huanglongxi into the mountains with Xiao Yiming to find giant pandas.

Noon has passed, everyone finished eating a bamboo tube rice and continued to walk along the winding mountain path, along the way still encountered a lot of small animals and birds as when they came, but no one could look at it, walked five or six miles, Xiao Yiming finally saw two giant pandas lying on the edge of the bamboo sea in front of him more than 100 meters, and was just about to take a gun in excitement, Xie Mingyang hurriedly grabbed him: "Little brother, that's not a panda, it's a human, you can't fight." ”

Xiao Yiming quickly took out the binoculars in shock, and looked closely at the two hunters who were wrapped in panda skins, and the two hunters were still holding two long firearms in their hands.

Xiao Yiming listened to the words of Wang Huai, the third senior brother of the guide, closed his mouth and sat down to rest, and after about six or seven minutes, two gunshots rang out, which shook the wild birds all over the mountain and rushed out of the dense forest in fright, and escaped clean in a blink of an eye.

The gunshots were still echoing in the mountains, and Wang Huai, who was in his thirties with a scruffy beard, said with a smile: "You can go, it is estimated that the two Peng family boys in front of me have hit good things, fortunately we are at the downwind, otherwise we may have scared the beast away earlier." ”

Everyone followed Wang Huai and strode forward, and soon saw that there was a clear pool under the cliff that was as high as 100 zhang in front, and the two "giant pandas" had already squatted on the edge of the pool to check their prey, which were two adult twisted horned antelopes weighing more than 100 catties, both of which were accurately hit at the junction between the neck and the head, the two antelopes were still twitching slightly, and the two pools of blood on the grass were still steaming, and the desperate antelope eyes had little life left.

"Third uncle, why are you here?"

The stout young man who was about seventeen years old shouted, ran quickly to Wang Huai to give a salute, and then greeted Wang Jian and the others, and his bright eyes looked at the strange Xiao Yiming from time to time.

Another emaciated boy of about fifteen years old soon ran over, and after calling "uncle", he stared at the brand-new Mauser spear in Xiao Yiming's hand.

Wang Huai introduced two young Peng brothers to Xiao Yiming, and praised the two boys' marksmanship for catching up with their father, if it weren't for his father who was the border army shed a few years ago when he was killed in an ambush on the way to Tibet, the two brothers would have gone to the city to study, the two brothers were very competitive, filial piety to their parents and filial piety to their grandparents, and there were two younger sisters at home, and the whole family had been supported by the two brothers hunting in recent years.

The elder brother saw that his younger brother stared at the guest's gun eyes without blinking, and he had long forgotten to salute according to the rules, so he couldn't help but slap his younger brother on the head: "It's rude, it's itchy skin, right?" ”

The boy came back to his soul and hurriedly saluted everyone, and his little face was flushed, causing everyone to laugh.

Seeing each other, the Peng brothers said that they would not let everyone leave, and they had to go over the mountainside to his house for dinner, I heard that Xiao Yiming was from Chengdu, and he was also a proud disciple of the "righteous generation" under the old man Wang, the two hurriedly saluted again according to the etiquette of the elders in the Jin Dynasty, and listened to Xiao Yiming mention the giant panda, and the boss stammered and explained:

"At this time, the snow in many places in the mountains has not melted, and the new tender bamboo has not grown well, and the pandas with the surname of people will not go down to this mountain.

Everyone was accompanying Xiao Yiming out to relax, and it was easy to beat a few goats and roe deer if they couldn't beat the panda, so they all looked at Xiao Yiming to ask for his opinion.

Xiao Yiming had no choice but to give up, he really didn't have time to drill the mountains, although he had some regrets, but he enjoyed the natural scenery along the way, and saw many animals and plants that he had never seen before, which was not worth the trip, so he agreed with everyone's opinion and went to Peng's house to sit and rest for one night.

When the Peng brothers saw Xiao Yiming agree, they were immediately overjoyed, ran to the edge of the pond and squatted down and snorted twice, both of them threw the more than 100-kilogram twisted horned antelope on their shoulders, and walked in front of them to lead the way. Others didn't care, talking and laughing, as if they had long been used to it.

Peng's house is located on the mountainside facing south, with several acres of green seedlings in front and east, a mountain spring meandering through it in the west, and behind two rows of tall buildings built of wood and stone, all tall and dense woods, from a distance, look like a family living in a fairyland.

The family was enthusiastic when they saw the guests visiting, and the two old men took Wang Huai's hand and asked how the old man Wang was doing? When the two elders saw Xiao Yiming give a small red cloth bag with both hands in accordance with etiquette, they excused themselves for a long time before letting the simple daughter-in-law accept it.

Not long after the daughter-in-law finished thanking her and entered the back room, she hurried out again and whispered behind the old man's ear.

The old man of the Peng family hurriedly walked up to Xiao Yiming, took his hand and was grateful: "Little brother, I can't help it!" The etiquette of ten great dragons is too thick, and they are all disciples in the sect, so they are not like this. ”

Xiao Yiming said with a smile: "The younger generation is coming to the door for the first time, and it is right to respect the elders in the door, you are old and the master's generation, and the age is still above the master, what is there to do?" You can't let the younger generation take it back, right? How can you say that these younger brothers and sisters all call the juniors uncle, haha! ”

The old man heard Xiao Yiming so sincere, his heart was even happier, pulled Xiao Yiming to sit beside him and asked again and again, and learned that Xiao Yiming led the foreigners to open a survey mine this time, and had preliminarily set to build two factories in the south of Majiagou in the north of the city, all of which recruited local young people to work in the factory, and the monthly salary was at least six oceans, the old man was so happy that he praised this as a great good deed for the benefit of Sangzi, and then quietly asked the two grandsons if they could work in the factory?

Everyone looked at each other and smiled, Wang Huai, Wang Jian and others had already seen Xiao Yiming's love for the Peng family brothers, and they were likely to ask for one to take with them, so they all smiled and let Xiao Yiming say it himself.

Xiao Yiming thought for a while and asked with a smile: "Uncle Shi, the two brothers are the pillars of the family, are you willing to let them leave your side?" ”

"What words? When I was young, I was a member of the horse gang in the door, and I have been through ups and downs for decades, from Kaze in the west, to Gannan in the north, and to western Yunnan in the south. At that time, I didn't hear my old man say a word of reluctance, and their father who died in battle, who didn't praise him for being brave and a hero? Now that the two little cubs have grown up, why don't let them go out to see each other for a long time? ”

Old Man Peng is not less arrogant, and his knowledge is not bad.

Xiao Yiming nodded: "Uncle Shi, if you agree, you will leave his brothers and sisters to serve by your side for two more years, I heard that the mountain lady has already set a family business, so why don't you marry your mother-in-law back first, and then talk about it after two years...... Don't worry, listen to the little nephew slowly tell you, you won't let the two brothers rest for the past two years, aren't they good hunters who can't count in the local area? The factory that the little nephew ran in Chengdu just needed to buy oryx horns and other good skins, and let them help get them back, the more the better, definitely better than working in the factory to make money. ”

The old man was surprised: "And this is the case? Worthless antelope horns still someone wants? ”

"Someone wants it, and I'm afraid many people will rush to ask for it in the future, uncle, don't you think it's better to use antelope horns as a knife handle than anything else?" Xiao Yiming said with a smile.

The old man suddenly realized: "Oh, I remember!" Tibetans like to do this the most, and they can also make medicinal herbs, but there are too many of these things to be worthless, our place, and the mountains hundreds of miles to the west are everywhere, no one has ever accepted this thing, we used to fight back to the antelope, except for the skin is to eat meat, everything else is thrown away, there are a lot of piles in the stone pit behind my house, if you use it, you can take it all. ”

Xiao Yiming shook his head: "Don't worry, just wait for the two nephews to go down the mountain and send them someday, and the third senior brother will help the little nephew do this." ”

Not long after, the simple and sumptuous feast began, the women were busy before and after, the men sat around and toasted and drank, a large pot of delicious antelope meat, five or six plates of rare meat, Xiao Yi sighed and sighed happily, until dark, a group of people withdrew the banquet, chatted and drank tea around the fire.

The old man was not energetic and rested early, and several brothers who had drunk too much were also wrapped in cotton clothes or fur and snoring, only Xiao Yiming, Wang Huai and Wang Jian stayed in the Peng brothers' house and chatted in a low voice with the excited two brothers.

The next morning, Xiao Yiming and his entourage had breakfast, and then went down the mountain to rush back to Ya'an City, before leaving, Xiao Yiming untied his long rifle, and asked the guards to also untie the spear and leave all the bullets, and solemnly handed it over to the Peng brothers.

The Peng brothers were so excited that they almost cried, and sent one paragraph after another, turning over three mountainsides in a row, until they couldn't see the shadow of Xiao Yiming and his party, and still stood on the hill in a daze, Xiao Yiming's words still echoed in their ears:

"Mountain boy, little pine nut, from now on, you two don't have to worry about the livelihood of your family, you have time to practice marksmanship, hard practice search and concealment in the mountains, fight an antelope and a beast as an enemy, get a thorough understanding of this gun as soon as possible, be familiar with the special surname of the gun, understand the impact of long-distance shooting wind direction and weather changes, don't worry about the bullet, go to the city to find your third uncle when the bullet is gone, one day you yourself feel that you can shoot within five hundred steps, you can go down the mountain to find me one day, I will personally put on a military uniform for you......"

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