Chapter 65: The Empty Valley (3)
On this day, Xu Mo came down from the mountain to exercise his mood and returned to his residence, but found that the five monkeys were not there, he called a few times, but he didn't listen. This scene is really a bit abnormal, in the past, even if the five monkeys went out, they would not leave the residence too far, and usually one of them stayed, this time the five went out together, and it was very rare to stay away from the residence.
Xu Mo looked up at the sky, it was past noon at this time, and he couldn't help frowning slightly, the Mango family lived with him, and they also adapted to the dietary rules of human beings, usually at this time, it was the time for them to cook the soup.
Xu Mo then checked the shack where the five monkeys lived, and the shack was naturally empty, and it looked a little messy, but the monkeys' dwellings were never too clean, and nothing could be seen from this point.
When he got out of the shack, he walked more than a dozen steps to the right, and then he came to the side of an earthen stove, there was a clay pot on the earthen stove, Xu Mo squatted down and grabbed a handful of wood ashes in the earthen stove, the wood ashes were all cold, he opened the lid of the clay pot, the clay pot was filled with more than half a jar of water, and the water was soaked in a washed and peeled pheasant, and there were some spices floating on the water.
The pheasant has been soaked in the water for so long that it has begun to emit a foul smell, and even some small scavenging bugs are afraid to enter it and move in the water and on the chicken.
Xu Mo easily poured out the contents of the crockpot, and his heart became even more worried, judging from the clues left, the five monkeys actually left in a hurry, what happened to them, why did they go out for so long and haven't come back?
Rao is mood at this time is different from the past, but those monkeys have been with him for a long time, and their feelings are extraordinary, and it is inevitable that they will be careless, and they sit and wait for a while, and they can't help but feel anxious, so they get up and go to the mountains and forests to look for them.
He first searched in the valley where he was, although the valley was large, but he was deaf and clear, within a radius of a few hundred meters, there was no movement that could hide from his eyes, so the search speed was not slow.
Soon they searched the valley, but there was still no sign of the five monkeys. Xu Mo thought for a while, and recalled the scene when he first met mangoes, "Mangoes, they originally lived in the valley on the other side, but they only came to live here after following themselves, and now they are not here, are they returning to their residence?"
Xu Mo couldn't help frowning when he thought of this, when he met the five monkeys, he was halfway down, and as for where they originally lived, he never knew the way. But no matter what, it will never get out of the valley on the other side.
Without thinking about it for a moment, he strode towards the valley on the other side. On the other side of the valley, he had been to the valley a few times before, but after a few times, he found that the herbs on this side were actually similar to the side where he lived, and they were all the same thing. It wasn't long before he got so excited that he never came again.
Still, the terrain on this side was mostly familiar, and he climbed the mountain between the two valleys, and walked down the slope until he reached the bottom of the hillside, and followed the north-south river until he went on, calling the names of the five monkeys as he went.
Following the river, to the foot of the mountain on the other side, Xu Mo turned to the left, and went around in a small half circle, and when he was still dozens of meters away from the hillside, he suddenly heard several monkey screams, the screams were terrible, obviously mixed with anger.
Xu Mo's heart was shocked, and for a while, he couldn't tell whether it was from the Mango family. Hurry up and head in the direction where the sound came from.
I didn't go far, and I saw from a distance that under an old mango tree with two or three people hugging each other, the Mango family was leaning against the old mango tree, and they were confronting several other monkeys.
In Mango's paws, he held Xu Mo's dagger, and barked at several monkeys opposite, with a fierce look on his face, and the dagger was stained with blood, and the blood was dripping on the grass drop by drop. Not far from them, at the feet of several other monkeys, one of them was lying on the ground with his paws clutched in his stomach, already unconscious.
The monkey had a wound five or six centimeters long on its lower abdomen, bleeding from it, and a monkey squatted beside it, and several times wanted to stretch out its claws to touch the wound on the monkey's lower abdomen, but it didn't dare, just a strong wail.
The monkeys on the opposite side are obviously also a family, counting the one lying on the ground, there are seven in total, and the power is originally greater than that of the Mango family, but Mango obviously used the means of killing chickens and rabbits these days in the fight with several monkeys on the opposite side, and stabbed one first, which frightened the other monkeys, and did not dare to move forward for a while, and several pairs of eyes just stared at the dagger in Mango's hand. The mouth is noisy, pretending, and obviously a little weak-hearted.
The Mango family leaned against the tree, as if they were guarding something, and refused to attack first.
There is also a small monkey on the opposite side, and the hair around the left eye circle is white, as if it has a one-eyed glasses, it looks about the same size as a dragon's eye, and it looks very clever.
The white-eyed little monkey's eyes suddenly turned to the right of the dragon, trying to get close to the mango tree from the other side, that side happened to be the dragon's eye guarding, it saw the white-eyed little monkey, immediately ruthless, bared its teeth and screamed a few times, and immediately pounced, the white-eyed little monkey did not show weakness, came forward, and the longan scuffled together, and tore up.
The two monkeys were about the same size, and they were about the same as they fought, and they were desperately hissing and biting, scratching and scratching each other. The other monkeys on both sides were afraid of each other's might, so they didn't step forward to help, but stood in place and shouted to cheer for their own monkeys, while grinning at the other monkeys on the other side, as if threatening.
Xu Mo looked at it for a moment, and suddenly felt bored, besides, the monkey fights, and it is not good to hurt either side, so he shouted loudly and walked over quickly.
When the Mango family heard his voice, they were overjoyed, and when they saw him coming, they immediately made a loud noise, and the monkey on the other side was obviously shocked when they saw Xu Mo.
The white-eyed little monkey was taken aback, and was immediately overturned to the ground by the dragon's eye, held down and bitten, and as Xu Mo got closer and closer, the other monkeys all retreated in fright, leaving only the injured monkey on the ground.
The one who was originally guarding the injured monkey withdrew some distance, but screamed at Xu Mo again, baring his teeth, looking vicious, as if threatening Xu Mo not to approach the injured monkey.
The white-eyed monkey was so frightened that he wanted to escape, but he was firmly held down by the dragon's eye and couldn't break free. The dragon's eye took advantage of the situation to scratch it a few times, and the white-eyed monkey immediately had several more scars on its body.
Before Xu Mo got close to the old mango tree, he smelled a smell of wine coming from the old mango tree, which was exactly the same as the jar that the grapes had given him when he was thanking him for healing mangoes.
Xu Mo was surprised, and for a while he had no time to think about how the fragrance of wine could come from the mango tree, and walked straight towards the longan and the white monkey, and the white monkey was even more frightened when he saw him coming in his direction, and struggled desperately, making a series of terrible screams, and the other monkeys heard it and followed suit, and for a while, the whole valley was full of terrible monkey screams.
The Mango family was excited, and they also shouted, the atmosphere was obviously different from the few monkeys opposite, and it was very full of joy of victory.
"Alright, let it go. Xu Mo walked up to him and reached out to pick up the dragon's eye.
The white-eyed little monkey was free, screamed again, got up from the ground, and ran away without his head.
Xu Mo put down the longan, stepped forward, and checked the injury of the injured monkey, the monkey fainted in fright, the injury was not serious, but the skin was broken, and there was no need for stitches, Xu Mo found some herbs nearby and smeared it on it.
The monkey had never been injured like this, and it was probably frightened, and after such a long time, he still did not wake up. Xu Mo picked it up and put it on a large rock, and motioned for several monkeys on the opposite side to take it away.
But the monkeys could not grasp what he meant, and none of them dared to come near. Mango barked at them triumphantly, and an old monkey stood up on the opposite side, responded a few times, and barked a few times to the monkey next to him, Xu Mo couldn't understand what they meant.
After a while, two monkeys beside the old monkey left their place and went deeper into the woods, while the others remained where they were.
The valley was silent for a while, and even the Mango family stopped calling.
Xu Mo was shocked in his heart, looking at this, not long ago, the two monkeys seemed to have reached an agreement, but what it was, Xu Mo couldn't guess.
Fortunately, they didn't wait too long, and the two monkeys who left came back, and Xu Mo was far away, and he saw that in the arms of the two monkeys, each holding something.
A monkey carried in his arms several fat peaches, which were delicate and had green leaves, apparently freshly plucked from the tree. The peaches looked plump and juicy, each one was bigger than Xu Mo's fist, and I didn't know what kind of variety it was.
The other monkey was holding a few bunches of purple grapes, which were the same as the peaches in the arms of the other monkey, and they looked very good.
When the two monkeys came, they took a few steps forward, placed the peaches and grapes on the ground, and then stepped back.
The old monkey barked at Xu Mo a few times, stretched out his paws, pointed to the peaches and grapes on the ground, and then pointed to the injured monkey.
At this time, Xu Mo finally understood, it turned out that the old monkey thought that he had caught the injured monkey and refused to return it, so he asked the other two monkeys to go back and pick peaches and grapes back, intending to exchange them with him.
After figuring out the joints, Xu Mo couldn't help laughing, this old monkey's approach is very similar to redeeming prisoners of war with property on the battlefield.