HCB Chapter 218 Group up the mountain
Chapter 218 Group up the mountain
Early in the morning, Uncle Chai sat under the eaves and wiped his longbow. He planned to go up the mountain and shoot two pheasants. It was because Yangyang had been thinking about beggar's chicken since he came back from the farm yesterday. Since the child wanted to eat chicken, what was the difficulty?
Hang Shuheng came back from his morning run with Yangyang, and Uncle Chai had just hung the longbow on his back, ready to set off.
"Uncle Chai, what are you doing? Are you going hunting?"
"The kids like to eat chicken, so I went to the top of the hill and shot two pheasants."
Wearing a conical hat, carrying a longbow on his back, and a dagger on his waist, Hang Shuheng saw that he was ready to go.
"Have you recovered enough to draw the bow now?"
"It's okay. The wounds have almost healed. As long as we don't go into the mountains and don't encounter wild beasts, we'll be fine."
Hang Shuheng had weighed the bow before, and it was very heavy. He had a hard time lifting it with one hand, but Uncle Chai Wu seemed to be able to lift it effortlessly. This was the difference between a warrior and a scholar!
He suddenly became curious and wanted to see how this middle-aged man drew the bow and shot the arrow to see how strong he was.
"Uncle, since you are not going into the mountains, you might as well take us with you and let us broaden our horizons." The more he thought about it, the more feasible it seemed. "You wait a moment, let's go change into some old clothes." Regardless of whether Uncle Chai nodded or not, Hang Shuheng had already taken Mudun back to the house.
Song Ning was in the house. When he saw the father and son rummaging through the boxes and cabinets, he asked, "What are you two looking for?"
"Aning, where are our older clothes? Where did you put them?" Hang Shuheng searched for a long time but couldn't find it.
"What are you looking for old clothes for?" Song Ning was puzzled, but still went to help them find out the old clothes.
"Mom, Daddy said we are going up the mountain to hunt with Grandpa Chai." Yangyang said while changing his clothes.
Song Ning was surprised for a moment when she heard this. They were going up the mountain to hunt, but they didn't invite her...
How is this any different than having something fun to do but not bringing her along?
"Is it true? Then I want to go too." As the saying goes, if the mountain doesn't go to me, I will go to the mountain.
The father and son paused while changing their clothes and looked at her, somewhat uncertain.
"Why? I can't go? Are you afraid that I'll hold you back? You guys won't take me with you wherever you go now, huh?"
Her three consecutive questions made the father and son deny it immediately, and their desire to survive was extremely strong.
"Yes, of course. You are the eldest in our family, so you have the final say."
"Yes, yes, yes. I like going with mother the most."
Song Ning smiled. She was just joking, but the father and son knew how to cooperate. She found a set of old clothes that were more convenient and went behind the screen to change into them.
Uncle Chai was waiting in the yard, but unexpectedly, the three of them came out in changed clothes, each with an eager look on his face. He had a feeling that they went up the mountain for fun, not for hunting.
"Let's carry a backpack, maybe we can dig some wild vegetables." Song Ning seemed to be more enthusiastic than the father and son. He quickly found a backpack and brought a small hoe. "Okay, let's go!"
When several people go out together and walk on the small path in the village, it is hard not to attract other people's attention.
"Shuheng, Shuheng's wife, where are you going?"
"Uncle, aunt, let's go up the mountain with Uncle Chai for a stroll."
When they met fellow villagers on the road and greeted each other, those people would subconsciously avoid looking at Uncle Chai's face when they saw him. Firstly, they would be scared by his face full of scars, and secondly, they were afraid that he would think too much and think that everyone would dislike him.
After Hang Shuheng decided to keep him, he did not intend to conceal the matter about Uncle Chai Wu. A living person who had been recuperating in the Hang family for so many days and occasionally went in and out would have no way of not being known by outsiders.
When the villagers saw Uncle Chai's face for the first time, most of them were frightened. Someone secretly told the head of the village, who took it very seriously and asked the old clan leader to come to his house to find out what happened.
At first, they were worried that the man's origins were unknown, and that Hang Shuheng's rash acceptance would be detrimental to them. However, after Hang Shuheng explained Uncle Chai Wu's tragic experience in a roundabout way, they began to sympathize with him.
Miserable! This is really too tragic. So they said words to comfort Uncle Chai Wu, asking him to live in the village with peace of mind and treat the village as his own home. Hang Shuheng was quite relieved at that time.
Fortunately, since He Li became paralyzed on one side of her body, she can no longer go out, and her speech is even more incoherent, so Shangtang Village has become much quieter. Otherwise, if this matter of Uncle Chai Wu was to be spread by her mouth, who knows how it would spread.
The people in Shangtang Village were relatively accepting of Uncle Chai Wu, and no one showed any ill will towards him. Along the way, they met several groups of people who were going to work in the fields, and everyone was quite friendly.
To go up the mountain, they had to pass Shuisheng's house. Unfortunately, their team had two new members.
When they got to the top of the mountain, Song Ning looked at their team and couldn't help laughing: "We are so large and powerful that the prey must have been scared away long ago."
Hang Shuheng picked some snake repellent grass and asked them to hang it around their waists. In this wilderness, the most fearful thing is to encounter poisonous snakes and wild beasts. This place is not deep in the mountains, so there is no need to worry about encountering wild beasts, but poisonous snakes must be guarded against. Snake repellent grass has a special smell, and snakes are very afraid of that smell.
"Young master seems to know a lot." Uncle Chai said after hanging up the snake-repellent grass. He also knew how to collect this kind of medicine, but he used to disdain to use these to avoid snakes. He would just kill the snakes if they appeared.
"Born and raised in the countryside, I know a little bit." Hang Shuheng helped Song Ning and Yang Yang hang the snake repellent grass, and then checked whether Mudun and Shuisheng were hung properly, and then hung his own, "Okay, let's go, the road on this mountain is not easy to walk, you should be careful of your steps."
When they came to a road that was too difficult to walk on, Hang Shuheng would carry Yangyang on his back and free up one hand to hold Song Ning's.
Along the way into the mountains, Song Ning discovered many edible wild vegetables. He stopped from time to time, digging a little here and a little there, and soon he had dug half a basket.
There are also some fruit trees that have already borne fruit. Mudun, like a naughty monkey, quickly climbs up the trees to pick the fruits.
It’s a pity that after walking such a long mountain road and seeing a lot of wild vegetables and fruits, I didn’t even see a pheasant or rabbit.
Song Ning sighed helplessly. She knew that with their large force, the prey would have been scared away long ago!
Unexpectedly, just as she finished complaining in her heart, she heard Yangyang shouting happily: "Chicken, there's a chicken over there." He was sitting on his father's shoulder at this time, with the widest view, and his round fingers pointed in the direction where he found the pheasant.