Chapter 878: Disguised Transaction
Time flies, time flies. Li Gui unconsciously grew up to the age of thirteen and became a naughty teenager. Often climb mountains and trees, climb mountains and climb to the highest and most dangerous cliffs to pound eagles' nests, climb trees and climb to the steepest and wildest side branches to dig out old eagle eggs. The villagers gave him a nickname: Flying Centipede.
He also suffered from it, that time to the back mountain, the mountain was full of pine trees, he went into the mountain and found a tall pine tree on the top of a huge bird's nest, so he pulled his hand sleeve, hugged the tree and climbed straight up, he guessed that there must be eggs in the bird's nest, and planned to get it down, bury it in the ashes of the fire, burn it and eat it. He had eaten it a few times, and the bird's eggs that had burst their shells were fragrant and fragrant.
At this moment, his body scrambled up the tree, his mind wildly imagining the delicious taste of the bird's eggs. But when he climbed halfway up the tree, suddenly, a black shadow flickered in front of him, followed by a "quack" cry, Li Gui felt his body trip, and knew that it was the old woman who was protesting that he should not climb the tree and endanger its nest.
Li Gui stared at the crow hovering overhead, not afraid, continued to climb up the tree, and when he approached the nest about half a meter away, the old eagle woman swooped down from the sky and pecked Li Gui's forehead with her gray and black pointed beak. A sharp pain struck, and Li Gui instinctively shook his hand to drive away the approaching crows.
At this moment, due to excessive force, his body fell unbalanced, and it happened that a side branch under the tree stopped him, and he quickly grabbed the branch so that he did not fall. His heart almost jumped out of his throat, his forehead was drenched with thick liquid, and when he touched it with his hand, it was blood, and his fingers were stained with that terrible red, and there was a fishy smell. He slowly retreated from the tree, sat down at the root, and looked at the old woman with a sad face and hatred still circling the nest.
When Li Gui returned home, the bloody scars on his forehead were seen by his family and asked him what was going on and if he had a fight with someone. He lied that he had accidentally smashed a stake on his forehead.
Mother said angrily: You are too wild, if that stake sticks stick into your eyes, then you will become blind, see if you dare to run around.
Mother's resentment of hatred of iron and steel made Li Gui's heart tremble. Yes! If the eagle hadn't pecked his forehead, it would have been his eyes. Thinking about it this way, he no longer dared to go up the tree to trick the birds' eggs. But he hated the old woman who pecked at his forehead. Can you shoot it? He suddenly remembered Liu Duanping, the hunter in the village, who was a hunchbacked old man in his fifties, who had been hunting for a living for many years, and he generally did not shoot birds that were too small, to say that the smallest bird he shot was the turtle dove, the turtle dove had a feather, and the net meat was only four taels, and he was too lazy to patronize the birds less than four taels.
Li Gui didn't know if the old eagle had four taels of meat, if he asked Liu Duanping to shoot the crow that was nesting in the pine tree in the back mountain with a shotgun, would he be willing? Li Gui thought about how to let Liu Duanping be at his mercy. He frowned, and he had a ghost idea.
That day, Liu Duanping was taking a nap, and when he woke up, there was an extra bundle of firewood in the hall, he rubbed his sleepy eyes and saw clearly, strange, who sent me a bundle of firewood? I have to thank people, but I don't know who is secretly helping him. Just as he was about to wash, Li Gui walked into the hall from outside with a smile on his face, saying that he had sent the bundle of firewood.
Li Gui, you are so good. Liu Duanping praised and approached Li Gui excitedly. Li Gui said, I know that you have suffered iniquity. The sin he was referring to probably meant that Liu Duanping had lost his parents in his early years, had no money to marry a daughter-in-law, and lived alone and in desolation.
At the moment, there was a child who cared about himself, he was very moved, and asked Li Gui if he had eaten lunch, Li Gui said that he had eaten, and asked Liu Duanping if he had anything to ask him to help, Liu Duanping did not answer, took his little hand, looked at a bloody scab on his forehead and asked: What are you doing? Li Gui said: I'll tell you next time.
Are you telling me no now?
No way! I have to tell you, you have to arrange a few things for me to do, and when you are satisfied, I will tell you what is the bloody scab on my forehead.
Li Gui was talking to him, but his eyes caught a shotgun hanging on the wall of the hall, and he hated to use this shotgun to kill the old woman who pecked at his forehead.
Liu Duanping thought this kid was very interesting, rubbed his hands, and said to Li Gui: Then I will arrange for you to clean the front and back of my house, and you can tell me the reason for the blood scab on the forehead!
Li Gui nodded, went to get the broom, and when he took the broom, he looked at the shotgun hanging on the wall again, and imagined the tragic situation of the old eagle woman being killed—it was shot and fell from the pine tree, fell to the ground, and was still jumping, its wings moved, and the black pearl-like eyeballs were slowly closed by the eyelids.
For about half an hour, Li Gui cleaned the front and back of Liu Duanping's house, and the broom in his hand had not been put down. Liu Duanping approached him: Okay, you should be able to tell me the reason for the blood scab on your forehead.
Li Gui came to Liu Duanping and put down the broom, then knelt down and said: Uncle Liu, you want to avenge me! These words made Liu Duanping inexplicable, he thought that someone had bullied Li Gui, and he also left a scar on Li Gui's forehead. Then he asked, "Say, Who has wronged you?" I'm going to support you and ask for an explanation for you.
Li Gui shook his head: There is nothing to say, it's not people who bully me, it's the old eagle who bullied me, and my blood scab was pecked by the old owl.
Why did the old woman peck you? It's also strange that no one else pecks. Liu Duanping stretched out his hand to pull Li Gui up as he spoke: Don't kneel, I can't help you avenge this, the old woman who pecked at your forehead, who knows where it flew? There's really nothing to say about that.
Li Gui was about to kneel down again, but was pulled by Liu Duanping. Li Gui said: You can help me avenge this, I know where the old eagle is. Next, he told him the reason why an old eagle in the big pine tree in the back mountain and the reason why he was pecked by the old owl because he climbed the tree to take the old owl's eggs. Li Gui knelt down again: Uncle Liu, you must avenge me for this.
How can this revenge be avenged? Liu Duanping still pulled him to prevent him from kneeling, and asked him so.
Li Gui glanced at the shotgun hanging on the wall of the hall and said that you can hunt, so why is it difficult to shoot an old woman?
Liu Duanping pondered for a long time, looking at the brightly swept venue, thinking that Li Gui was making a deal with him in disguise by asking for him. But this deal, he felt that it was not a loss, not to mention that Li Gui, the kid, helped him very well-behaved, but it didn't help, knowing this matter, he should also accept Li Gui's request, hunt the crow, and vent his anger for Li Gui.
At that moment, Liu Duanping picked up the shotgun and went out, turned around and said to Li Gui, who followed him: Don't come, just wait at home. I might be able to shoot the old owl.
Li Gui stood reluctantly, he thought: Even if you kill an old eagle and come back, who knows if the old eagle you killed is an old eagle that makes a nest in that pine tree? It's not uncommon for me to kill an old eagle elsewhere.