Chapter 17 "Returning to the Old Business"
Li Hang found a thick and tall tree, jumped on it, climbed to the top of the tree along the thin branches, and looked in the direction of the high-voltage line.
With a yawn, he climbed down the tree, stepped on the shadow cast by the high-voltage wire, and walked towards the power tower.
What is usually not a very far distance now seems to be extraordinarily far away.
The birds in the trees chirp happily, as if welcoming the start of a new day!
He finally made it to the power tower!
In the distance, the tiny power tower, which seemed to be only the size of a toothpick, stood like a giant on the flat ground halfway up the mountain, making Li Hang standing at its feet feel extremely small.
Li Hang circled the power tower a few times.
Not disappointed when he found that there were no signs or directions he hoped to see, he turned and ran towards a tree he found on the road nearby, there was a hole in it, and he decided to sleep first, and wait until he woke up.
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A few more days passed
Li Hang panted and squatted on the branch at the foot of the mountain, straightening up and breathing rapidly.
What catches your eye is a large area of terraced rice fields, shrouded in clouds and mist, like a ladder of heaven, from the foot of the mountain to the entire mountain lying on the surface.
Along the way, Li Hang felt that he had finally rejoined the group of human society.
He still had his own blood on his body, full of embarrassment.
It was the result of a thrilling encounter, and there is a story about him and a badger fighting over food.
At the end of the story, Li Hang, who turned into a rabbit, paid the price of being scratched on his back, and finally drove the badger away and grabbed the prey.
Of course, the badger that was driven away was more seriously injured, and if it weren't for a thicker layer of fur, it might have been confessed there.
Li Hang licked the wound that was oozing blood again, stared hungrily at the terraced fields in the distance for a while, and found no trace of human beings for the time being, he jumped off the tree, walked on the sparsely weeded mountain road, and walked towards the terraced fields.
As we got closer, the trellises and cherry trees planted in the terraces appeared in front of me.
He searched the ground carefully, found a rag hanging from the vine, looked down and sniffed, followed the faint human smell on the rag and walked up the path next to the crop, and went around the mountainside, and saw a small village on the side of the hill in the distance.
Surrounded by a few thick trees, dozens of scattered houses form a small village, yellow mud houses and individual gray cement bungalows.
At the entrance of the village, facing Li Hang's side into the mountain, under a big tree with a twisted trunk, a tractor was parked, it was not yet noon, there were few people in the small streets of the village, white smoke was rising from the chimney, and it seemed that they were all cooking.
He was a little impatient, and despite the pain of the wounds on his body, he rushed to the village.
"Wang, Wang"
As soon as he reached the entrance of the village, he was spotted by two dogs that had come out of a house one after the other.
They barked and pounced.
Li Hang gasped, hurriedly stopped, turned around and fled.
The dogs in the mountains, although they are also domestic, but they follow their masters all year round to wander in the mountains, and their hunting skills are quite mature.
"Huzi, Dasha, come back!"
The curtain of the door of the house was lifted, and a strong old man who looked to be in his fifties walked out, calling out to the two dogs with a full breath, and looked suspiciously in the direction of Li Hang hidden by the grass.
"Wang, Wang, Wang!"
The two dogs didn't chase far, squatting not far from the entrance of the village, barking at Li Hang, who was fleeing.
Hearing the master's voice, they looked back at the master with some unwillingness, and then looked at Li Hang, who had run away, turned around and ran towards the master, stopped beside the master and wagged his tail, grabbed his two paws on his body, and licked the master's hand vigorously, as if asking for credit.
"Old Yangtou, what are you calling at noon, you dog, and you were stung by a wasp again?"
In the opposite room, a middle-aged woman with a dark face and a headscarf stuck her head out of the window and shouted to the old man.
The old man laughed, lowered his head and teased the dog at his feet, and said, "It's not so stupid, I guess I may have smelled a rabbit and mouse or something, I didn't catch up, let me run away!"
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Li Hang felt that the dog behind him was not chasing anymore, stopped his steps to escape, and took advantage of the grass to dodge, looking at the small village again.
He looked at the two dogs with some headache, thinking about how to get around them into the village, and after a while he had an idea, and went out into the grass.
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At midnight, dark clouds obscured the starry sky, and the mountain village was exceptionally silent!
Li Hang stayed on a tree on the side of the village, raised his head and tore a leaf from the tree, opened his mouth, and let the leaf float to the ground. Then he jumped off the tree and walked cautiously against the wind towards the village.
Avoiding the house with the dogs, he walked around the village, spotted the only two-story cement bungalow in the village, and snuck into the yard.
It seemed that there had been a dog in the yard before, and a large iron cage half a man high was placed in the corner, but fortunately it was empty, and he jumped on the windowsill, and looked through the window, room by room, and found the bedroom of the owner.
The window was ajar, only the bed was covered with a mosquito net, and the inside could not be seen, and the owner and his wife seemed to be asleep, only two slow breaths came out!
Li Hang tiptoed in, didn't dare to make a sound, rummaged through the room gently, and finally found a box of amoxicillin capsules in a drawer.
That's right, this is the purpose of Li Hang risking his way into the village.
The wound on his body had been around for several days, and it had never healed, and even True Qi could not stop the wound from becoming inflamed.
Because of this wound, he could not hunt, and ate the worms for two days! He regretted that he had fought with other beasts in a hurry, and finally knew why his first mission was to survive for six months.
Li Hang picked up the half box of medicine, carefully left the house again, ran out of the village, and returned to the tree before.
After eating a capsule, he hid the rest of the medicine in a gap in the tree, jumped off the tree, and ran towards the village again.
When I came in just now, although the most important thing was to find anti-inflammatory drugs, I also found a family with chickens and ducks.
It was much easier to catch a captive poultry than a wild bird, and Li Hang followed the tree, climbed into the yard of the house, and burrowed into the fence.
He squeezed away a few hens that were frightened by his wild breath, and in the timid "clucking" of the chickens, he bit through the eggs under him, and ate them quickly, eating more than a dozen eggs in a row, and then he felt that his stomach was full.
Fill his stomach, finally have the opportunity to carefully observe the whole flock, because of the wound on the body, he did not dare to scratch too big, afraid that he would not be able to get out for a while, but the opportunity is only this time, missed, tomorrow if the owner finds that there are less chickens and eggs, there will be a trap to prevent him from coming again.
Li Hang still overcame his greed, found a hen that was not very big, bit it to death by the neck, and ran out of the village along the same path.
The morning star quietly appeared, hanging in the sky, the sky, it's almost dawn!
Because he was afraid of being pursued by the two dogs, he simply didn't go to the tree where the medicine was hidden, changed directions, ran all the way, ran for five or six kilometers, and then found a tree hole, stuffed the hen into it, and then lay down at the mouth of the tree hole and began to cultivate.
Since this is already considered human territory, he is not very worried that other wild beasts will come to grab food.
After Li Hang finished cultivating, he slept until the sun was in the sky, and when he woke up, the first thing he did was to eat the chicken, saving him a lot of dreams at night.
Sensing that the wound on his back had begun to scab over, he happily walked towards the tree where the medicine was hidden, ready to eat another grain.
With the elimination of inflammation, True Qi can already help him heal his wounds, Li Hang has been recuperating for three days near the mountain village, and finally healed completely, leaving only an ugly scar on his back.
The family that raised chickens in the village really didn't give him a second chance, and even borrowed a dog! It was Li Hang who met one of the two dogs, and he tied the dog to the yard at night, barking at the slightest movement.
Li Hang could only give up, except for catching a vole in the grape field in the terraced fields, he survived a few days of recuperation by eating insects.
After his injuries were healed, Li Hang left the village and walked along the winding path outside the village towards the outside of the mountain.
The gravel road under his feet gradually widened, extending to a ring mountain road, he avoided the more and more mountain people and tourists who appeared on the ring mountain road, and walked to a small town at the bottom of the mountain.
The town is surrounded by mountains and rivers, most of the ancient buildings in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, each house faces the street, the front is the shop, the back is the residence, a piece of antique. It is that every door has stalls selling all kinds of handicrafts and wandering tourists all over the street, which is very lively, and there is a sense of disobedience compared to the surrounding scenery.
Li Hang smelled the fragrance of various snacks in the air, and thought of the voles and insects he had eaten in the past two days, and suddenly burst into tears.
He started his old business as a city cat, first carefully licked the stains stuck to his body in the grass, carefully cleaned the hair on his body, and made himself look like a domestic cat again, "Mi~Whoa" cleared his throat, and walked out of the grass into the town.
He came to a stall selling kebabs, chose a conspicuous step on the side of the road and squatted, and the cute seller gently screamed "meow~" to the tourists who ate kebabs.
After a while, several boys who looked like middle school students walked up to him with two cute girls of the same age in their arms, and placed a few meat skewers on the ground in front of him.
He was unceremonious, lowered his head and ate it, the long-lost delicacy made his eyes sour.
"Click"