[132] Human nature

It was getting dark, and night covered the entire Boar Ridge. The three sons on the branches were shivering with cold, but they didn't dare to take it lightly.

The one-eyed man who hid in the crack of the stone, looking at the wild boar that coaxed around the stone and refused to leave, also thought that it was death. It's a pity that the big plan that was brewing can't be realized now, and he thinks of the three daughters in the family, and also thinks of the mother-in-law who abandoned him and ran away with the wild man. Thinking about it, I took out the red hairpin and looked at it, and the dirty cuffs were dusting off the hairpin.

The hairpin suddenly flickered, and a dark light pierced deep into One-Eye's intact eyeball, and a slender figure was reflected on the eyeball. One-eyed suddenly seemed to be a different person, staring hatefully at the wild boar outside.

After a night of fear, when the sky was dark, the third son did not see the wild boar under the tree, but saw the one-eyed uncle beckoning to him.

Uncle One-Eyed's clothes were torn and messy, covered in blood, and his sunken eye socket was dripping blood.

The third son wanted to ask Uncle One-Eyed how he dealt with the wild boar, but as soon as he opened his mouth to say something, he glared at him fiercely and swallowed the words back into his throat.

After crossing the boar ridge and walking a difficult hillside, they went down and saw a house on stilts.

It is located in an ethnic minority area, and various language barriers cannot communicate.

After a few days and nights of life and death, the third son rejoiced like a child when he saw a human home. He rushed to the stilted building, not noticing to trip over an invisible filament visible to the naked eye. After tripping over the filament, he suddenly came out of a bush under the stilted building, and there was a soft 'boom', and suddenly something shot out directly at his arm.

With the force of the catapult, the pain in the arm of the third son was unbearable, and he lifted his sleeve to see that a thing like a sleeve arrow penetrated his clothes and pierced deeply into the muscles.

Blood flowed out of the wound instantly, and the pain made the third son grin and tears. One-eyed complained that he was too young and immature, in the end he was a tender calf who had never seen the world, and he didn't know the sinister environment in the rivers and lakes.

After picking away Miko's injured arm, One-Eye knew that Miko had been hit by a self-made secret weapon. This kind of hidden weapon is used by the owner of the stilted building to prevent wild beasts, and these three sons are jumping around, and they may touch the hidden filament mechanism before they are hit.

It may be that the sound of the third son shouting in pain alarmed the people in the stilted building, and the originally quiet stilted building suddenly heard the squeaking sound of feet stepping on the wooden board, and then walked down from the upper floor, a man with a head bag of sappa and a fierce appearance wearing a blue and white horizontal striped minority costume.

The man was indeed the owner of the stilted building, and he was unaware of the other party for a long time when he inquired, so he had to use his hand to bring the third son and one-eyed into the stilted building, and asked his wife to bring the medicine powder to the third son's wound for a series of treatments.

The man didn't apologize too much for Miko's injury, because words could not communicate, and they could only communicate with gestures and actions.

One-eyed gestured to tell the minority man that they had come to buy food.

When the man and his wife understood, they brought potatoes and rice from the house and asked them if they wanted it.

Miko was still wallowing in the pain in his arm, and there were no words.

One-Eye nodded, staring at the lamb bleating and grazing downstairs on stilts.

The master understood, picked up a sharp knife one by one, went downstairs to slaughter a fat sheep, and quickly cleaned it and packed it in a plastic bag.

The four bamboo baskets picked by the third son and One-eyed were full, and the two of them took out the two hundred yuan given by Zhiqing and handed them to the owner of the stilted building.

Two hundred dollars was not a small amount at that time. On the way here, One-Eye carefully estimated that this trip could make some kickbacks or something, but the owner of the stilted building didn't seem to have the intention of giving them change, but asked his wife to make another bag of dry food for them to eat on the road.

knew that this was unreasonable, but the one-eyed two were in a foreign land, and they didn't dare to protest blatantly. In the end, in desperation, the two had to leave in a huff and hurried back.

Just this time, the third son saved his life because of the fearlessness of the one-eyed, and he made a note of this favor in his heart.

By the time he returned to the station, Miko's wound had purulent.

One-eyed is naturally a big brag, and its purpose is to ask for credit!

But the credit of the two of them is indeed not small, Zhiqing not only gave them verbal praise, but also asked Xiao Wang to take care of the wounds of his third son.

In the evening, the fragrant smell of a large pot of mutton soup wafted through the mountains where the station was located, and the station had not smelled the meat like this for a long time, and they ate it in a big gulp, constantly praising the ability of One-Eye and Sanzi.

In the middle of the night, a big event happened.

Zhiqing, who was sleeping hazy, suddenly heard gunshots coming from somewhere.

He scrambled to his feet and called out to his sleeping colleague that a bandit was coming.

All the lights in the station were extinguished, and everyone was very nervous and hid behind the nearest tree. At the same time, the whole body is on alert. The shotgun was also unchambered at the first time, ready to shoot at any time.

Because there is only one shotgun, Zhiqing ordered Lao Zhang, who took the gun, to shoot only as a last resort, and everything must be done cautiously and carefully. All of them abandoned their tents and evacuated to a few meters away from the station, quietly waiting for the bandits to leave.

The gunfire was undulating, and I don't know how long it tossed. Zhiqing had an extra eye in his heart, he felt that there had never been a situation where bandits had been infested in the past, so it would happen tonight for Mao?

He put his suspicions on One-Eye and Sanzi, wondering if the two of them had exposed the whereabouts of the station to outsiders, so that they attracted the attack of the bandits.

I don't know when the gunshots disappeared, anyway, Zhiqing and they fell asleep under the branches all night.

The mist drifted faintly over the hills, and when the first chirping of birds came from the forest, they returned to their station.

The station had become a mess, as if it had been the subject of an unprecedented raid, and no part of it was intact. Even the big iron pot was devastated, and their clothes were torn to shreds, and they couldn't wear them at all.

This is cutting off their retreat! Think of the top of the mountain, the climate is abnormal, hot and cold. If you don't add clothes, what will you do in the future? Without a big iron pot to cook rice, what will you eat in the future?

The harsh environment coupled with the destruction of people asked this made Zhiqing very angry, he called the third son and the one-eyed in front of him, asked Xiao Wang to calculate their working days, and immediately dismissed them both after taking out their wages.

The third son was already well injured, but he was unwilling to leave like this. He begged bitterly that he needed the job, and when he earned the money, he would go home to repair the house and marry his wife.

Zhiqing categorically left his third son, and he felt that one-eyed was dangerous, so he insisted on dismissing him.

One-eyed didn't say a word, nor did he receive wages, so he hated and was silently stunned in place.