Chapter 3: The Great General
The next morning, when the sun has not completely climbed uphill, when the coolness has not completely slipped away, the spring breeze in April is still blowing everything in the world.
Smoke had risen over Mao'er Village, perhaps because he had slept too heavily last night, and Widow Liu's purple-crowned rooster did not croak as if it was in estrus as usual.
The people in the village named this big rooster the general, and the big chickens, small chickens, roosters, and hens in the village, as long as they were chickens, were sincerely obeyed by its sharp claws.
"Squeak"
Widow Liu opened the wooden door in the courtyard, simply put on a cloth coat, stepped on a pair of small embroidered cloth shoes, and walked along a gravel path to the chicken coop in her yard, but she did not see the general pounce as usual.
When she took a closer look, she saw that the thin rope that was originally set on the general's claws was lying alone on the ground.
", who stole my general?"
The old man next door picked up his baby early in the morning, a big smoking gun, pulled out the inferior tobacco, and scolded in his mouth: "This early in the morning, why did Widow Liu scold her dead ghost again?"
But then again, what about that kid for the rest of my life? Where did I run away early in the morning, he was six years old, and he was still making trouble everywhere like a three-year-old child, thinking that I would "start a family" when I was five years old!
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Maoer Village is located in a small town in Taizhou, Zhejiang, and the town has a special name - Dogtail Town!
The traffic in Maoer Village is not developed, the signal is not good, more than a dozen families in the village, only the village chief's home has a TV, or I don't know how many years of miscellaneous goods, every three or five times, the children in the village will form a team to make trouble to the village chief's house, saying that they want to see the gourd baby to save grandpa.
Even if you see it halfway through, the screen of this TV, which is older than some children, will suddenly go black, but the children just enjoy it.
The whole Maoer Village is surrounded by mountains, and the only way out is a gravel road leading from the entrance of the village to the outside world.
There is a small forest in the back mountain, and whenever the weather is hot in summer, many old men and grandmothers will bring rolls of smoked mosquito grass to the grove to enjoy the shade.
Behind the grove there is a small waterfall, about a dozen meters high, and above the waterfall there is a small river, which is connected from a nearby body of water.
In April, the mountains and forests are lush and green, and the first insects and birds chirp to add a bit of life to this quiet grove!
A path stretches from the bottom of the mountain to the depths of the woods, which is a dirt road that the villagers have been stepping on up the mountain to chop firewood all year round, twisting and turning, like a small snake.
But at this moment, a tender voice suddenly sounded, accompanied by a violent rooster crow.
Yu Sheng was wearing a white cloth gown, wearing a pair of black cloth shoes that the old man Yu begged from Widow Liu's dead face, and a pair of bright big eyes looked left and right as if he was a thief, and after finding that there was no one else, he finally stretched out his fleshy right hand and gently stroked the general who was constantly making noise in his arms.
"Shhhh Yu Sheng touched the general's red and purple cockscomb, and looked at the small waterfall behind the trees.
There are many joys for children in the village, such as digging bird eggs in the trees, fishing and shrimp in the river, picking wild fruits in the mountains, etc., which are not experienced by children in the city.
The same is true for the rest of his life at the age of six, he has the same simplicity and quirkiness that mountain children have.
In February of this year, a few children from the village came to the grove to hide and seek, and the rest of their lives were very clever and hid far away, but he was about to go back after waiting for a long time, when a snow rabbit jumped in front of him, the rabbit was not big, it was the size of an adult's fist, and it probably hadn't grown yet.
Yu Sheng's eyes immediately lit up, what a cute rabbit, no matter how small the rabbit is, it is also meat! If you catch it back and give it to Old Man Yu, you can have more food at night, quack......
However, the ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny, and the cold wind in February blew the rest of my life to wear an extra cotton jacket, and the small body highlighted a little bloated.
Isn't it whimsical to chase a jungle snow hare in the mountains with bare hands in such a state?
But the rest of my life was full of rabbit meat, how could I think of those?
One chased, one ran, and unconsciously arrived near the waterfall at the top of the mountain, the waterfall had been cut off, and the rest of his life was running excitedly, and suddenly a black light flashed in front of him.
I saw a big black snake slowly retracting into the hole, the snake's mouth was still biting the snow rabbit, and a pair of cold triangular eyes stared coldly at the rest of his life not far away.
The little face was frightened and snow-white for the rest of his life, and he felt cold sweat breaking out, and the tension of the numb crisp suddenly rushed straight to his head from the soles of his feet.
After more than ten seconds, Yu Sheng finally turned around and ran down the mountain, but when he turned around, he accidentally saw a touch of green next to the snake cave.
It seems that it is the occasional source of income in the village - wild ginseng!
Thinking of the roof of the house that leaks when it rains, and the window that leaks when the wind blows, I have hidden this discovery in my heart for the rest of my life.
It's just that the young heart forgets things, and it didn't take long for the rest of his life to forget the rabbit that once fell into the belly of the snake and the green color.
Until the day before, Liu Dali, a carpenter in the village, went up the mountain to chop firewood, but was rushed to the nearest hospital, and heard that he was bitten by a poisonous tongue.
Fortunately, it was delivered in time, otherwise I was afraid that my life would not be guaranteed.
The speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, and the rest of his mind suddenly remembered the death of the snow hare in February.
With a grunt of his eyes, the little man took it to heart.
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Finally calmed the general in his arms, and Yu Sheng reached out to wipe the sweat on his head.
Looking at its sturdy chicken feet, isn't the little snake head directly pinched and exploded? Thinking of this, Yu Sheng suddenly felt that it took a lot of effort to steal out, uh, what a wise choice it was to lend the general!
A pair of small feet walked neatly, and after a while, they arrived near the snake cave, the waterfall in April is more turbulent, but the snake cave is near the waterfall, about two meters away from the edge of the cliff.
Although the waterfall is not big, when Yu Sheng walked near the snake cave, the roar of the water impact still made his little heart unconsciously speed up.
"It's okay, it's okay, come on, general, it's up to you!"
Yu Sheng, who kept cheering himself up, took a deep breath, suddenly bent down and picked up a small wooden stick about half a meter long, and rushed to the vicinity of the snake cave for a while.
Yu Sheng suddenly felt that the stick was tight, so he threw the wooden stick, saying that it was too late, it was fast, Yu Sheng retreated, and a big black snake about a meter long rushed out of the snake hole.
Although he was prepared for the rest of his life, the reality still impacted his young mind, especially the big black snake constantly spitting letters, and his body couldn't stop swaying from side to side, and what was even more terrifying was that the two gray-black patterns near the snake's head looked like a pair of glasses.
"Go, General!" Yu Sheng threw the general in his arms forward, and hurriedly retreated behind a tree behind him, pouting his ass and waiting to see a good show.
"Giggle......
"Hiss ......"
"Come on, General, catch it, yes, peck it, it's good......! Hey, be careful!" Yu Sheng's little face tightened, and his mouth shouted loudly for the general.
Finally, after about five minutes of fighting between the two, the general spread his wings, which had few feathers left, as if to show off his might, and under its claws, a large black snake was lying.
"Yay" cheered, and Yu Sheng ran from behind the tree excitedly and warmly hugged the general who had won a miserable victory.
Impatient for the rest of his life, he hurriedly ran to the vicinity of the snake cave, and a green plant quietly swayed in the mountain breeze in a charming figure.
Sure enough, it was wild ginseng, and Yu Sheng recognized it at a glance, and some people in the village had dug up wild ginseng many times before, which seemed to be worth a lot of money, and for valuable things, Yu Sheng could always remember it, which was mostly affected by the old man Yu who loved money like his life!
Picking up the wooden stick he had just discarded, Yu Sheng hurriedly began to dig next to the wild ginseng.
I didn't expect it to take much time for the snake to get it done, but it took a full half an hour to dig this thing, which can make the rest of my life tired enough.
It's just that the rest of my life pouting my ass didn't notice that the big snake behind me that I thought it had burped began to move again.
"Plop"
A buttocks squatting, grinning with pain for the rest of his life, but when he saw the human-shaped wild ginseng in his hand, he still couldn't close his mouth happily.
He struggled to get up and patted his dusty pants, but he was stunned for the rest of his life.
The big black snake that "came back from the dead" was constantly spitting snake letters, as if it knew that he was the real culprit who injured it.
Before Yu Sheng could react, the black snake pounced straight in this direction.
Completely stunned, Yu Sheng took a few quick steps back, but seemed to forget that behind him, there was a waterfall.
"Ahh
The weak body seemed to slow down as if the camera was slowing down, slowly falling towards the bottom of the waterfall, and a scream resounded through the sky, startling the birds napping in the woods.
"Bang Dang"
Old man Yu, who was preparing breakfast for the rest of his life, suddenly looked at the debris on the ground in a daze.
I don't know why, his heart suddenly beats faster!
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In the depths of the East China Sea, a stone statue that had been silent for six years suddenly shot out two beams of golden light, and then it flickered a few times as if it had run out of power, and then fell silent again!