After the four of them went back, they didn't have much of the heart to stay at home, and they had to talk to others about this exciting news, otherwise, they would feel itchy to stay at home.

There is no better place to pass on gossip than at the entrance of the village.

After Qin Xi closed the door, he went to the entrance of the village with them.

As soon as Tang Ying saw the two eldest ladies who were familiar with her sitting under the shade of the tree, taking her little grandson, she came over.

Qin Xi and Qin Jiang also followed, but they did not approach, but sat down on the stone pier opposite a few people.

This distance is just right, more than a meter away, neither too close, nor too alienated, the other party can hear what they say clearly, and they can also see what expression the other party has on their face.

"Auntie, did you go to the forest today?" Tang Ying asked mysteriously.

Her performance immediately ignited the curiosity of the eldest lady, what happened in the forest? I don't know!

"Nope! With this little demon king all the time, what happened in the woods? Aunt Xiao's wrinkled face was full of curiosity.

During this time, the four of them went into the mountains to cut firewood every day, and the others, more or less for various reasons, reduced the frequency of entering the mountains.

After all, chopping firewood can be regarded as heavy physical work, and those who work have to eat a lot of food every day to maintain consumption, and there are very few people in the village who can supply this food.

In the days when sweet potatoes and potatoes were just separated, there were constant voices in the forest, but there was silence behind.

Aunt Li, who was sitting next to her, also leaned slightly to their side, just to listen more carefully.

"Just now we went to the forest to collect firewood, and found that the caterpillar was everywhere visible to the naked eye, and even there were a lot of trees climbing, which was scary."

"We didn't even dare to chop firewood, so we came back directly, after all, that thing is quite scary to look at, and I don't know if it's poisonous?" Tang Ying patted her chest and said with a look of palpitation.

Although she was really taken aback at the time, it was very limited, not so exaggerated, her current appearance has an element of performance in it.

After all, caterpillars, she is just stunned, she doesn't like it, but she hasn't risen to the point of being afraid, she is afraid of snakes and centipedes, which are very aggressive at first glance, caterpillars, to her, there is no threat.

"Really?" Aunt Xiao asked loudly.

This reminded her of the great drought more than ten years ago, when there were so many caterpillars in the forest that there was no place to put their feet, and children did not dare to go into the forest at all.

To this day, those who have seen that scene regard it as one of the shadows of their lives.

"Really, would I lie to you with this kind of thing, which can be known at a glance?" Tang Ying swore and said, almost swearing.

"If you don't believe it, you can ask Qin Xi about them, we went together, and they also saw that scene, it was very terrifying."

"If it continues to develop like this, no one will dare to enter the forest in the future."

In fact, what Tang Ying said before, Aunt Xiao had already believed it, and the latter sentence was true, but it was just a reflexive question, not questioning the reliability of Tang Ying's words.

"I believe it, I didn't expect such a thing to happen, I hope it is not serious, otherwise, the forest in the back mountain will be all over."

This pine caterpillar's attack on trees is not soft, but the deadly kind.

It's daytime, when the sun is shining, Tang Ying and the others have seen a lot of pine caterpillars in the forest, but you can imagine what kind of scene it will be in the forest behind the mountains at night.

Pine caterpillars are photophobic, like damp and dark environments, day and night, and at night, there is really no place to put foot in the back mountain forest.

Moreover, some pine caterpillars are poisonous, and when touched, they are a large area of redness and swelling, painful and itchy, which is really scary.

However, the only consolation is that these pine caterpillars do not go out of their way to run into the village, they feed on pine trees, and the juice contained in the pine needles is the favorite food of the larvae.

If there are too many pine caterpillars in the forest, a whole pine forest may be eaten up in just a few days, and it looks yellow and charred from a distance.

Moreover, the damaged pine trees are also easy to attract the invasion of dry-boring pests such as pine ink beetle and pine white star signs, so the growth of the damaged pine trees is affected by the light, and the heavy ones die, and the consequences are still very serious.

Hearing this, Mrs. Li, who was sitting next to Aunt Xiao, was curious, and she wanted to see the strange scene with her own eyes.

But when she looked down at the little grandson she was holding in her arms, she still dispelled this idea and waited for the evening to go.

At the entrance of the village, there is a big banyan tree holding an umbrella overhead, and the wind is everywhere, the most cool and fast, at first only a few of them are talking here, and then this person is gathering more and more.

The last people to come, there is no place, and they will go home to get a small bench, and some people with more experience come directly with a small bench and a fan.

The words of the old people in the village are the most interesting, because they have experience, and in the corner, there is an old man, sitting on a small bench, and in front of him are a dozen children, squatting or sitting, and he is telling the ancients, that is, telling stories to the group of children.

Some are his own personal experiences, some are strange fantasies of goblins and ghosts, and some are the facts told to him by others, but after his deep processing, they have become unusual.

The old man was literate, wore a pair of eyes, and looked very kind.

When he was young, he was wandering outside, and when he got old and the society settled down, he returned to his hometown with a large family, and he was one of the people who came to Qinxi to buy rabbits before.

Now there are no more rabbit breeders in the village, and now people have nothing to eat, how can there be anything to feed the rabbits, so there is no one left for everyone to sell and kill, including Qinhe theirs.

This story, Qin Xi listened to it with relish, this is one of the few entertainment activities she has in the village, in addition, picking up stones, jumping ropes, jumping lattice, hide-and-seek, jingle these small games, only the children in the village play, they don't get involved, Qin Xi and Tang Ying have never played these together.

Before you know it, time flies by, the sun rises and rises, and when the time reaches ten o'clock, the big sun hanging in the sky, like a big furnace, emits an amazing heat, enough for all living things on the earth to actively avoid it.

Even if it was just a little bit of light and shadow from the gap between the leaves, it made many people present feel uncomfortable, and the fan in their hands flew away, and soon, they were sweating.

(End of chapter)