Chapter Twenty-Six: A Chance Encounter in the Mountains and Forests
"The business of this pharmacy is getting harder and harder, alas. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info "The one who spoke was an old man in his fifties, and the deep wrinkles on his face were carved with the years of Cangsang.
"It's all those damn little devils, if they don't come, our medicine shop will have a good life, God told them not to die well!" A young man in his early twenties beside him cursed fiercely.
"Pillar, how many times have I said you, why didn't you guard the door with this mouth? If this is heard by the Oriental, it will be killed. The old man said, looking around.
"Where did the devil come from in this deep mountain and old forest? Dad, your guts are getting smaller and smaller. The pillar snorted.
"Then you have to be careful, if you say it one day, you can pay it back?" The old man still didn't give up.
Seeing that his father was still nagging, the pillar snorted and closed his mouth, but broke a branch in his hand fiercely.
This old man and young man are two masters, the older one is called Liu Gui, and the younger one is his son Zhuzi.
Liu Gui worked as a buddy in the Rongji pharmacy in the county seat, and since the devil occupied the county seat the year before last,
The merchants in the countryside who were engaged in the purchase of medicinal materials basically stopped, and the medicinal materials in the pharmacy were not enough, and there was no way, so the shopkeeper of the pharmacy let this Liu Gui and Rong Chao, who was the shopkeeper of the young shopkeeper, go to the forest to dig some medicinal materials by himself, and Liu Gui brought his son again in order to be more courageous.
They rented a carriage in partnership with some other people who went up the mountain to collect goods, but the carriage was waiting for them at the bottom of the mountain, and they had been working in the forest for a long time, and were sitting and resting in the old forest, with two baskets beside them, in which were newly dug astragalus, red peony and other medicinal materials.
"Young owner! "Lao Liu stood up and shouted, looking around.
This summer is not like winter, the woods are dense, and often only the leaves can be seen in a dozen steps.
"Young owner! Less proprietors! Liu Gui saw that there was no reply, and he was a little panicked in his heart, although this young shopkeeper is twenty-three years old this year and has already married a family, it is the first time to enter the old forest, don't do anything.
"Why don't you run away with?" Liu Gui muttered quietly, but picked up the old earth gun that had been with him for many years in his hand.
"Lao Liu, I'm here, look at how fun this little guy is!" A dozen paces away came a voice from the bushes.
Liu Gui breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Rong Chao's voice, he glared at the pillar that was still sitting on the ground, and said, "Let's go, take a look." ā
The pillar stood up with a muttered mouth, and muttered in a low voice: "The rats in the city are short-sighted, and it is not enough for him to enter the mountains for a day!" But after all, I still followed my father.
"Oh my little shopkeeper, where did you get a bear blind cub?!" Liu Gui shouted, leaning in front of him to see that Rong Chao was leaning over to tease a blind bear cub, the bear was blind, not big, fluffy, very cute, and was being rolled under the roots of the tree by Rong Chao with a wooden stick.
"Don't tease it, little shopkeeper. This blind bear will summon the mother bear! Liu Gui shouted anxiously.
"How is that possible?" Rong Chao disagreed.
But before he could finish speaking, a loud roar came from the bushes dozens of paces away, and it was the roar of the she-bear.
Then I saw that the branches of the tree trembled from far and near, but the mother bear who was looking for the little bear rushed over in a rage.
Liu Gui saw that it was too late to run, and raised the old earth gun with both hands.
At this moment, the she-bear had already rushed into the sight of the three people, the she-bear was nearly two meters tall, not to mention that the limbs were not long, but the crawling and running were extremely fast.
The mother bear saw the little bear that was still beside Rong Chao, and roared again, the big open mouth with a fishy smell was ten steps apart, so that all three people could smell it, and Rong Chao sat on the ground with a "mom" and his legs were weak.
The she-bear was about to pounce, Liu Gui was about to pull the trigger, but at this moment, a hand suddenly stretched out next to him, pressing the old earth gun down, Liu Gui's shot was not successful, and when he turned his head to look, he didn't know when there was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old Xiao Nian standing next to him.
The boy was shirtless, with a buckskin around his waist, and his hand was on the barrel of his gun.
The young man didn't care about Liu Gui, just looked at the she-bear opposite.
The she-bear was roaring, but when she saw that the boy was like a great enemy, she snorted rapidly, but she did not pounce.
As soon as the young man stretched out his hand and dragged Rong Chao's shoulder, although Rong Chao was not blessed, he had to have a hundred pounds, but the young man didn't seem to have any strength, and directly picked up Rong Chao, who was soft into a puddle of mud.
Immediately after that, the young man rushed to the little bear cub in front of Rongchao, and the little bear woke up like a dream, twisted his belly and ran to the side of the female bear.
When the mother bear saw the child coming, she rubbed her big nose on the little bear's cheek a few times, and her snort slowly eased rapidly, and she no longer paid attention to the crowd, but turned around and disappeared with the little bear into the bushes a dozen paces away.
"Thank you, little brother." All this happened too fast, and it was a bit incredible, why did the blind bear just leave! Liu Gui stayed for a while before he came to his senses, and remembered to talk to the little man in front of him.
"No thanks." The young man didn't seem to be a little scared in the face of the crazy she-bear just now, and there was a slight smile on his face, "Why are you messing with that little bear cub?" The black blind man usually doesn't pounce easily, but if you touch her cub, the she-bear will be like crazy. Hehe, fortunately, nothing major happened. ā
"It's the first time for us to go back to the mountain, so we ......" Liu Gui said half of the words, but because of Rong Chao's identity, he didn't say the second half of the words that everyone knows below, "Dare to ask the little brother's surname, where are you going?" Liu Gui asked the young man.
"My surname is Huo, I got lost in the mountains, and I'm looking for a home." This young man is Huo Xiaoshan, who escaped from the Tiankeng Jedi, and he has been walking all the way south in the hinterland of the Tiankeng for more than ten days.
Seeing the boundless green mountains and jungles, Huo Xiaoshan couldn't help but miss winter, if it was winter to use skis, he could use at least half of the time.
"Lost?" Liu Gui couldn't help but look up and down at this strange young man in front of him, he just wrapped a piece of deerskin around his waist, his upper body and thighs were bare, and his skin was black and shiny, obviously he was dressed like this all summer.
He had long hair, and he was carrying a bag from which a knife came out.
"Yes, I've been lost for a long time, I've been walking in this mountain for months, don't you see that I don't have any clothes to wear?" Huo Xiaoshan saw Liu Gui's question, so he took the initiative to explain.
"Oh, I see." Liu Gui nodded, and did not ask any further, although the appearance of this young man was really contrary to common sense, giving Liu Gui a strange feeling.
Liu Gui couldn't have imagined that Huo Xiaoshan was in the inaccessible deep mountain sinkhole, it wasn't that Huo Xiaoshan deliberately lied, naturally he wouldn't get lost, it was really his bizarre experience was too unbelievable, even if he wanted to say what he had experienced in the past three years, it was not something that could be explained clearly in a while.
At the same time, since he had an intersection with the snow ape, his body didn't know why he had the breath of the snow ape, as long as it was a carnivorous animal, he was not afraid, otherwise Huo Xiaoshan would inevitably have a fight with the blind bear, but it didn't seem bad at the moment, but he didn't make a move but saved the lives of the three people in front of him.
As for why carnivores are afraid of him, Huo Xiaoshan himself only knows why he doesn't know why, and the wolves in the sinkhole are afraid of him, but he didn't expect that the other blind bears in the old forest didn't want to fight with him, anyway, it didn't matter to him, because even if he fought with the blind bear now, he didn't dare to do anything.
It was getting dark
A bonfire had been lit in an open area in the valley.
Six or seven people sat around the bonfire and roasted wild boar to eat, it was the three of Rong Ji Pharmacy, and naturally there was Huo Xiaoshan who was walking together, and there were three other people, who also went up the mountain to get some mountain goods and rented a carriage in partnership with Rong Ji Pharmacy.
The owner of the cart had tied the reins to a small tree next to him, and the horse was grazing with a flick of his tail.
Walking in the mountains and wilderness, it is a very lucky thing to meet companions.
Huo Xiaoshan soon became familiar with these people who went into the mountains to do mountain goods.
At this time, he no longer wore the deerskin as a cover for shame, Rong Chao took out a set of his change of clothes and let Huo Xiaoshan change them, Huo Xiaoshan was polite and didn't say anything, Rong Chao was about the same height as Huo Xiaoshan, both of them looked like one meter seventy-five, but they were slightly fatter than Huo Xiaoshan.
Huo Xiaoshan sat by the fire, the firelight reflected his calm face, and putting on his clothes again after three years gave him a strange and familiar feeling, the wild boar meat that was roasted and yellowed and sprinkled with salt made him eat extraordinarily sweet, and he was only fifteen years old, and he actually had a feeling of being reborn in his heart.
The others were also eating meat, but from time to time they all looked at him with a strange eye, and the pillar and Rong Chao looked at the boy in front of them who was several years younger than themselves with an almost adoring eye.
When it was almost dark, when they were carrying medicinal herbs out of the forest to look for the carriage parked at the foot of the mountain, they ran into a wild boar again.
The hunters who hunted in the mountains all year round knew that the most terrible beasts in the forest were not the blind bears or the wolves, because the blind bears and wolves did not attack humans easily, and knew how to flee when they encountered powerful enemies.
But this boar is different, this boar has only one tendon in its brain, and once it has a conflict with other animals or people, it will definitely fight you to the death.
Liu Gui hit the wild boar with one shot, but the wild boar has been rolling under the mud and pine resin all the year round, and the skin on its body has already become extremely hard, and the bullet has not penetrated.
This shot stimulated the wild boar to go crazy, like a small tank that could knock down all obstacles in front of it, and it rushed with the fangs of the white forest.
At the critical moment, Huo Xiaoshan jumped up from the side, and almost cut off the pig's head with one knife, and the pig's blood spurted more than half a meter high.
The pillar and Rong Chao, who were standing in front of the wild boar and were almost pushed by the wild boar, looked stupid, and they didn't wake up until the wild boar's blood sprayed on their faces for a while, and their mother screamed out and collapsed on the ground.
Huo Xiaoshan didn't think about the glorious and tall image he left in the eyes of others at this time, he thought that according to the way he walked, he should be about to arrive home, I don't know if the Japanese soldiers would kill people after entering the village three years ago, how many people they would kill, although he heard Hao Cunyi say that the Japanese were extremely cruel, but after all, he had no experience, and he always had a trace of luck in his heart, and he didn't know if his father and mother were still waiting for him to go home in the village.