CHAPTER XVII

After getting the answer, Lin Xiaoxi did not doubt Zhang Xiaochi's words, looked at the backs of the two aunts, and showed a trace of worry on her pretty face.

"Husband, what if the second aunt still has to go to the back mountain?"

Zhang Xiaochi sighed and said in a deep voice.

"I can only take one step at a time."

The second aunt is his relative, and she is not bad to himself, Zhang Xiaochi doesn't want to watch the second aunt and Zhang Fenghe die in the mouth of the beast.

On the way back to the village, the two met the villagers who went to the town to sell wild meat, and everyone had a good harvest, and some villagers even caught a wild deer bigger than Zhang Xiaochi's.

For these villagers, Zhang Xiaochi thought about reminding them, but when he thought of his second aunt, he would be suspicious of his words, let alone these villagers who were wary of him.

After thinking about it, I decided not to do such a thankless thing for the time being.

"Husband, look, it's Ajuan in front."

Just when Zhang Xiaochi was thinking about how to solve this hidden danger, Lin Xiaoxi's voice woke him up.

looked up, and sure enough, I found Ajuan's family walking towards me.

"Yo, I even caught a wild boar, it looks like it's at least fifty catties, and I can buy it at a good price."

Zhang Xiaochi greeted them with a smile, but Ajuan's family was as uncomfortable as eating a dead mouse, they still owed Zhang Xiaochi ten taels of silver, and now that they were bumped into by the other party, they might be asked to pay back.

"A person with a black face, rest assured, Lao Tzu will not rob you."

Zhang Xiaochi didn't know why the other party had this expression, so he pretended not to know and teased.

Seeing Zhang Xiaochi, who was more muddy than his own family, Ajuan's family pretended not to hear it, and carried the wild boar to speed up and leave.

Looking back at the direction of Qingwa Town, Zhang Xiaochi was silent for a while, and then the expression on his face was a lot more relaxed.

"Husband, have you thought of a way?"

Next to him, Lin Xiaoxi, who had been paying attention to Zhang Xiaochi, saw his relaxed expression, and was overjoyed, so he hurriedly asked.

"There are so many people selling wild meat in our village today, which will definitely attract the attention of others, and I guess that there will definitely be more people in the mountains behind our village tomorrow."

"There are many people, even if there are fierce beasts, don't be afraid."

Back in the village, there was still a group of villagers sitting at the entrance of the village, and the villagers were discussing who had gained more, and they were so excited that they ignored Zhang Xiaochi, who took the initiative to say hello.

Back at home, after lunch, Zhang Xiaochi planned to go to the back mountain to check the trap he had arranged, so many people went to the back mountain in the morning, even if his trap caught the prey, it would be cut off by the villagers.

Sure enough, when he went to the back mountain to check one by one, he found that the traps he had set were all damaged.

"In this situation, it's useless to set traps, even if you catch it, it's a wedding dress for someone else."

Zhang Xiaochi muttered to himself, stood up and looked around, saw that there was nothing to find, and then left the back mountain.

When I first came to the village, I found a large number of people gathered at the entrance of the village from a distance, and I was curious, so I walked over to check the situation and found that on the road outside the village, a group of people were walking towards the village.

In the crowd outside the village, dogs barked from time to time.

Seeing this, Zhang Xiaochi knew that these people must be hunters who rushed to hear the news, and they all wanted to come to get a piece of the pie when they heard that there were many prey in Wagang Village.

Zhang Xiaochi smiled bitterly, he still underestimated everyone's greed.

Some of these people are from Qingwa Town, and some are from other villages, and the villagers want to keep them out, but they can't afford to offend, so they can only let these people go from the village to the back mountain.

"Let's go, let's go, don't let them run out of prey!"

"yes, hurry home and get something!"

For a while, the villagers of Wagang Village scattered in a hurry, one by one, for fear that if they were too late, the prey would be snatched away by others, and it was not long before Zhang Xiaochi was left alone at the entrance of the village.

"Xiaochi, everyone has gone to the back mountain, why don't you go?"

At this moment, the second aunt took a firewood knife and passed by with Zhang Feng and Huo Huo, and saw him standing at the entrance of the village, so she asked curiously.

"I just came down from the back mountain, and I didn't see any prey."

Zhang Xiaochi replied, pausing slightly, and then added.

"Second aunt, you go to the back mountain, don't act alone, it's best to be in a crowded place."

Zhang Xiaochi knew that the second aunt would not listen to him, so he had to persuade him earnestly.

"Got it, let's go first!"

The second aunt replied casually, and then pulled Zhang Fenghe and hurriedly set off towards the back mountain.

Zhang Xiaochi was helpless, thinking that the back mountain was still very calm just now, and thought that nothing would happen, so he went home.

In the yard, Lin Xiaoxi was chopping firewood hard, and his thin body was in stark contrast to the stout firewood trip.

"Xiaoxi, let me do this kind of work in the future, be careful to tire yourself."

Zhang Xiaochi said distressedly.

"Husband, I'm fine, I'm used to doing this kind of thing."

Lin Xiaoxi wiped the sweat from his forehead and said suddenly.

"Just now I saw the second aunt taking Fenghe to the back mountain."

"I also saw that there are many people from the town and other villages who have come, and there are many people who go to the back mountain, as long as the second aunt doesn't walk around and follows everyone, there will be no accidents."

Zhang Xiaochi replied.

After saying that, he looked at the open-air stove in the yard, and there was not even a kitchen and bathing place at home, so he decided to build his own kitchen and bathroom.

Zhang Xiaochi is a doer, he did what he said, took the firewood knife from Lin Xiaoxi's hand, and then went straight to the back mountain.

As soon as I entered the back mountain, I saw people looking for them with various weapons, and some of them were a little bolder, and even entered the forbidden area of Wagang Village.

Zhang Xiaochi didn't meddle in things, found the second aunt and Zhang Fenghe in the crowd, told him again, and then began to busy himself with his own affairs.

With his current strength, he had scraped together enough wood to build the kitchen and bathroom in an afternoon, but after these things were ready, it was slowly getting dark.

"Xiaochi, you are preparing so much wood, are you planning to build a house?"

The second aunt took Zhang Fenghe back from the back mountain and saw that he was peeling the wood, so she asked curiously.

"Well, there is no kitchen in the house, I plan to build one."

Zhang Xiaochi replied, and then continued to ask.

"Second aunt, do you have any harvest in the back mountain in the afternoon?"

Hearing this, the second aunt sighed and said that she hadn't even seen the hare's hair, but that people from other villages had gone deep into the back mountain and shot a wild deer weighing more than 30 catties with a bow and arrow.

Speaking of wild deer, the second aunt's tone fluctuated significantly.

"Those people from Qingwa Town and people from other villages have camped at the entrance of the village, and I heard that there will be more people coming to hunt tomorrow."

The second aunt said.

Zhang Xiaochi nodded slightly, so many people came this afternoon, and there is still a harvest, and more people will come tomorrow, which is naturally reasonable.