Chapter 22: The Past of the One Horn

The story goes something like this, Dujiao's previous occupation was a truck driver, specializing in delivering goods to farms. Because the farm was in the meat export business, his salary at that time was considered high among his peers, which was equivalent to a decent job.

His job is similar to the contracting mechanism, he generally raises his own car, and the people and cars that have hired him for a long time in the yard belong to his own family, but the logo of the farm is printed. Dujiao's father is an old driver, the family has an old-fashioned military truck, due to perennial alcoholism, early suffering from a body of illness, driving skills taught Dujiao, so the unicorn drove the car, for the family's expenses. That truck has become a cash cow for the family.

Now the one-horned father has long passed away, and the mother has been sent to other countries to support the elderly.

According to Dujiao's recollection, he was only eighteen years old at the time, and the season was probably about the same as now. The eldest sister of the warehouseman in the factory called Dujiao over and told Dujiao outside the warehouse that she had found him a job and could earn some extra money, that is, to pull a few friends out to run errands. Hire him for two days, which is equivalent to a month's salary, and of course the unicorn is happy, so he readily agrees.

The specific job is actually to receive a few tourists, and like us, we are not blind. Among those men, two men and one woman were about the same age as him, and they were accompanied by an uncle, who seemed to be intellectuals. Their destination was the Krulun River Basin, where the Krulun River originated, but on the eastern slopes, opposite our starting point.

The man was carrying a lot of things, so he had to hire his truck to load them, most of them were camping tents, as well as some equipment, tools, and household items. The unicorn and they don't understand the language, so it's not very convenient to ask, looking at those people's equipment looks like gold diggers, but judging from the staffing of the team, it looks like they're going to play.

Those people were simply local tyrants to the unicorn at that time, and their food, clothing, and use were very high-end. The canned meat he brought with him was something that the unicorn had never eaten. Because they are peers, they are very easy to get along with, and everyone does not understand the language, but they still talk and laugh, and teach Dujiao some simple Chinese phrases.

On the first day they set out early in the morning, carrying a cart of goods, and drove happily for the day, arriving at their destination in the evening, which was the upper reaches of the Kruren River. After setting up their tents, they enjoyed a campfire dinner, and the food was high-end canned food.

The older old man called the unicorn to his side, and even made a gesture with an explanation, but the unicorn understood what he meant, that is, let the unicorn be here, help them watch the tent and supplies, they were going into the mountain, and when they came back the next night, the unicorn nodded and agreed.

The next morning, when the unicorn woke up, the four people, the old and the young, had already set out, taking their tools and some supplies with them, leaving only a row of tents and the unicorn himself. The unicorn also kept his promise to guard the tents for them, and when they returned, he would use his own truck to pull the people back, even if he was earning money.

But it's easier said than done, and an eighteen-year-old young man, alone by the river, was kept watch before it was probably noon, and he was bored. He first fished and played by the river, and then got himself covered in water, but he didn't succeed. Then he began to rummage through those people's materials to see if there was anything he hadn't eaten before, and took them out to taste, but he didn't dare to squander them, for fear that they would not be able to explain when they came back.

Boredom tossed until noon, the unicorn couldn't bear it anymore, he learned from the others, prepared a set of equipment, armed himself, followed the footprints of those people, and walked along the river, first, to be curious about what these people were doing, and then to see if he could help, it was really uncomfortable to be idle there.

It turned out that he had made a wrong decision, and after walking along the river for about two hours, he did not see a single person, and he thought that he had taken the wrong path, and that if he had gone any deeper, he would not have been able to return to the camp in the evening. There was no way, his blood was drenched in cold water, and he had to go back dejectedly.

When it was dark, the unicorn returned to the camp, thinking that he would be reprimanded for leaving the tent and running away, but the tent was still empty and uninhabited. The unicorn pretended to wait for a day, sitting there waiting for the people to return, glad that his actions had not been discovered.

At about ten o'clock in the evening, it was already completely dark, and the unicorn realized that something was wrong, and said that he would come back in the evening, and there was no sign of coming back at all. At night, the beasts in the mountains will come out, and if someone encounters an accident, the unicorn will not be able to go back and explain to the eldest sister of the treasury management.

After waiting for another half an hour, no one came back, and the more he thought about it, the more wrong he became, so he picked up his equipment again, turned on his flashlight and chose another way into the mountain. The wattage of the old-fashioned flashlight is not large, and the unicorn almost enters the mountain in the dark.

I don't know how long he walked, he vaguely saw a white mass in the forest, the unicorn thought that he had found those people, and happily ran towards the white, and when he got closer, he found that it was a white wild horse, and the leader of the unicorn will never forget that the forehead of this white horse actually had a spiral-shaped and slightly curved horn.

Curiosity drove the unicorn to get close to the white horse, wanting to get in close contact with this strange creature, but unexpectedly, the originally docile animal was flickered by the unicorn's flashlight, and immediately became irritable. With his head down, he pressed against the horn and rushed towards the horn.

The sudden change scared the unicorn stupidly, and he couldn't dodge the attack smoothly, and the unicorn's horns stabbed him into the stomach, if it weren't for the ribs in the way, it was estimated that his life would be lost.

The unicorn who endured the severe pain, thinking about saving his life, crawled back on the ground holding his stomach. But the white beast's attack was not over, it stood beside the horn, raised its two front hooves high, and made a gesture to kill the fallen man.

The unicorn closed his eyes, thinking that he would definitely die, but at the moment of waiting for death, a baby's cry came from the woods, and the cry actually shocked the unicorn, and the unicorn did not trample on it, but turned and ran into the jungle. At the same time, the unicorn also saved his own life.

The one horn got up again, endured the severe pain, looking for the direction where the cry came from, under a big tree, the one horn found a baby in swaddling clothes, the only clue on the swaddling clothes was to show a word with a red thread, Yan, he picked up the baby and walked back. In the case of life and death, the potential is incomparably great, and the unicorn not only found the camp, but also drove his truck back to the city overnight with the child, straight to a hospital.

After about half a month of hospitalization, the unicorn injury healed, but fortunately, only the ribs were broken, and the internal organs were not injured. The baby he brought back was also fostered in his own home with the help of his mother. At that time, the most worried about the people who entered the mountain, if they did not obey the orders to wait for the camp and drove away because of their own affairs, it would be difficult to escape the blame.

With great apologies, Dujiao returned to the unit, wanting to ask the eldest sister of the treasury manager about the specific situation, and gave up the remuneration as a punishment, hoping to get the other party's forgiveness. What he didn't expect was that the eldest sister of the treasury management had already resigned and left the factory as early as the day he set off, and the matter was over.

Later, the story of the unicorn spread in the unit, and everyone said that he had stolen someone else's child and came back with serious injuries. The unicorn always explains to others his own special experience. But who would believe the bizarre story of being attacked by a unicorn and saved by a child's cry? In the end, Unicorn had to give up his job and vowed to catch the unicorn for the rest of his life to show to those who didn't trust him.

The unicorn practiced his hunting skills hard, but after all, he did not see the unicorn again, and then he was introduced by insiders, and started a business of selling prey, and the business became bigger and bigger, and the story of the unicorn he once caught became more and more divine, and then everyone called him unicorn, and then the young man who entered the industry, no one knew his real name.

And that baby, when he grew up, became his assistant named Dai Qin. Dai Qin's biggest feature is his baby face, in fact, he is at least ten years older than us, but he looks the same age as us, and his personality is also very naughty and childish. Unihorn has always believed that this child is a gift from Tengger, and he has a talent for intimidating beasts.

After speaking, the unicorn silently shed tears again.

I didn't comfort him this time, because in his story, I heard some clues that I couldn't let go, maybe what happened to him had a lot to do with what we were going through in a certain time and space.