Chapter 34: Danger
It was getting late, and Mo Lan and his party were now subconsciously slowing down, and their speed inevitably slowed down.
"Howl~~~~Hmm" "Howl~~~~Hmm"
A burst of wolf howls came, Mo Lan didn't dare to stay here, and said to the three captains in a low voice:
"It's getting late, I'm afraid it's not all, the wolf howl just now doesn't sound too far away from us, the team leader leaves one to continue to lead, and the other two go to the back of the team to keep an eye on it. Change two vice-captains to the front to lead the team. All the villagers accelerated forward. ”
In the cold night sky, the silver plate-like moon quietly climbed into the sky, through the sparse branches, the bright moonlight shined on the ground, after an hour of rushing, they finally walked out of the mountain, the entrance was clear, only to see the old village chief Mo Huaiqing and other people in the village holding torches in their hands, seeing their figures, the anxious and worried look on their faces was instantly filled with a cheerful look.
This trip to the mountains, although there was no danger, but they were also exhausted, and they were ordered to go deep into the mountains again in the second half of the day. And they departed.
Mo Lan originally wanted to go to the old village chief Mo Huaiqing again to report the situation of entering the mountain, but the old village chief saw that Mo Lan was dark and tired, waved her home to rest, and then talked about it later.
Mo Lan, who originally planned to go home to get something to eat and then rest, was tired and made her eyes slowly close and fall asleep.
When I fell asleep, I saw a group of people chasing after me, although Mo Lan often exercised, but the long-term running still made her sweat a lot, the breeze blew through the hair and was stuck to the face by sweat to block the view, a burst of bright light hit through the hair, I didn't have time to react, I only felt that I had a splitting headache and was knocked to the ground, Mo Lan was so frightened that she suddenly sat up, gasping for breath, and her heart beat wildly for a long time before she quieted down.
This is not a dream, it is true, the death of the previous life, this life must be cherished, if in the previous life, even if he has not died, I am afraid that the second half of the life will be difficult to have a bright future. It's just that Mo Lan couldn't sleep anymore, got up and walked to the courtyard, looking at the full moon in the sky shining on the clearing, silver and white. Thinking of the low yield of sweet potatoes in the woodland this year, he turned around and took out half of the jar of sweet potatoes in the grass shed. When I was a child, my family used to grow sweet potatoes, and sweet potatoes are generally harvested in autumn and winter. In the middle of a long period of growth, it is necessary to plant the sweet potato whole into the ground, cover it with a layer of rotten leaves, and then cover it with a thin layer of soil, and when the local melon seedlings grow thirty or forty centimeters, cut them off, cut the three leaves into several sections and cut them into small pieces. The cuttings of each plant are usually about 30 cm. You can grow on your own. Mo Lan didn't want to use pure natural excrement as fertilizer, so she pulled a pile of grass and wood ashes and turned over the ground in the yard with a firewood knife and sprinkled grass and wood ashes, she thought that the trap by the river should catch the prey in the past two days, so she only left three sweet potatoes and planted all the other sweet potatoes in the ground. He carried the bucket back and forth to the waterhole two or three times, and watered the sweet potatoes. The sky is just beginning to brighten, vaguely seems to be the miserable howl of an animal, smiling and shaking his head, he is thinking of the prey and wants to go crazy, and he has auditory hallucinations, but he still hopes that there will be a brainless beast falling into the trap, if he enters the mountain for two consecutive days but can't find food, I'm afraid that the village chief will not have the right to speak.
After boiling some rice and cutting half of the sweet potato and putting it in the pot to cook, eating the bland sweet potato porridge, Mo Lan didn't have much appetite, put the remaining half of the sweet potato in his pocket and pouted, at this time, there was no hygiene to talk about, he took the kitchen knife and firewood knife in his hand, and walked to the meeting place. It didn't take long for the three teams to arrive. According to yesterday's route, when they arrived near the river, they found that there were several buffaloes there who seemed to have finished drinking water and were about to leave, and one of the team leaders asked excitedly:
"Village chief, you see there are several cows there, how can we catch them?"
The bright and greedy eyes made Mo Lan feel a little funny, they were all hungry, but there were too many people to take it, who knew if there would be other beasts nearby waiting for the praying mantis to catch cicadas, and then said:
"Don't move, wait a while, after they leave, we will go and see the traps, these buffaloes are too big, although we have a lot of people, we may not be able to catch them, wait a little longer, all the villagers rest in place to recover their strength, the three deputy captains look at the surroundings more, and remind everyone in time if there is danger."
Mo Lan arranged these and waited for the buffalo to leave, but the hateful thing was that these guys stopped and went back again, and the angry villagers gritted their teeth and creaked. Mo Lan was more patient and sat on the ground and looked at the situation by the river through the gap in the big trees, and was indeed shocked by the scene in front of him into a cold sweat, and turned around and motioned to all the villagers to lie down and not make a sound.
I saw two larger lions running quickly in the direction of the buffalo, the villagers didn't know the lions, Mo Lan had seen them, the two lions seemed to be very hungry, they flew over and bit the neck of the buffalo fiercely, the buffalo shook its head in pain, trying to push the lion away with its horns, and the other buffaloes ran away without caring about the life or death of their companions. The other lion took advantage of the fact that the buffalo was bitten by his companion on the neck and pounced on the buffalo's body, and the scene of the bite, the bright red blood made Mo Lan endure the feeling of nausea so that he did not vomit, and the bite lasted for more than 20 minutes, and in the end the buffalo was defeated.
After the two lions had eaten their fill, they drank some water by the river, and then walked back in the direction in which they had walked leisurely. A gust of wind blew, Mo Lan shivered, but he was so nervous that he didn't feel the sweat soaking his back.
After making sure that the lion had gone away, he looked back at the villagers who kept swallowing his saliva, and motioned for the two teams to go to the trap by the river to check if any prey had fallen into the pit; Another team divides the carcass of a buffalo that has been gnawed by a lion and puts it in a basket.
From a distance, I saw that the place where the trap was set up yesterday to cover the branches was a little messy, and I was happy in my heart, the middle part of the branches was extremely thin, and I was afraid that the animals would fall into the trap if they stepped on it and did not wait for the end of the walk. As expected, there were three traps with prey, there were three sheep and two rabbits in the pit, a wild boar, and one was about the same size as a wild boar, Mo Lan didn't know it, because he was afraid that the bloody smell of the buffalo would attract the beast again, so he didn't dare to delay, restored the trap, and instructed the villagers to tie up these prey with ropes and put them in the back basket, and carried the back basket in groups of two, and when they were tired, they all took turns, saying that they couldn't stay here anymore. This trip into the mountain can be described as a full return!