After entering the forest, Ah Huang also showed great excitement.

It loves the mountains and forests, and the various scents that float there, some familiar and some unfamiliar.

This is another unknown world. Ah Huang wants to rush out and explore, but Chen Chongshan holds on tightly to the leash.

After struggling several times without being able to get its owner to let go, Ah Huang was puzzled. It didn't understand why its owner would restrict its movements after entering the mountains. In the past, it should have been following the other little guys and rushing ahead.

Ah Huang never goes against Chen Chongshan's wishes. If Chen Chongshan doesn't let go, it can only obediently follow him. However, it is still excited inside.

Once inside the mountains, Ah Huang felt that many unknown things awaited him.

Although the group walked rather slowly along the rocky path in the forest, their progress was quite considerable because they had a clear goal and did not waste time due to the small prey they encountered.

Before the sun had set in the afternoon, they had already arrived at a small village hidden in the mountains, a place like a paradise.

The village is small and quiet, and the peach blossoms in the mountains and fields are in full bloom, creating a breathtaking scene.

Gazing at this beautiful scenery, Xu Jiaming was suddenly inspired to write poetry, rewriting Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Spring": "Walking along the mountain path, forgetting how far the journey had been, suddenly they came upon a peach grove... fragrant grasses, beautiful blossoms, and fallen petals in abundance..."

"Although this place is quite far from the outside world, there are still quite a few groups that come here to explore and hunt throughout the year. So, although it seems isolated from the world, they still have a lot of connections with the outside world. And there are also many commercialized things here."

Liao Bin said with a smile, leading the group into a rather large house at the entrance of the village: "This is a farmhouse inn. We'll stay here tonight. The owner is quite honest, and his cooking skills are also very good."

"Oh, Mr. Liao, you're here again."

Upon seeing Liao Bin and the others enter the courtyard, a middle-aged man who appeared to be around fifty years old, who was picking various wild vegetables growing in the spring, quickly came to greet them.

Seeing the large pack of hunting dogs, the middle-aged man said, "Mr. Liao, the mountains have only just opened up, the temperature hasn't even risen yet, are you in such a hurry to go into the mountains? It's not comfortable."

"Haha, Lao Zhang, we haven't been up the mountain for quite a while, and we were itching to go, so we came in to take a look."

"We'll rest here with you today, and we'll go into the mountains again tomorrow. We won't go far, so you don't need to worry."

Liao Bin replied with a smile, and it seemed that he was quite familiar with the boss.

"Oh, that's good. Come in, come in quickly, old woman, we have a guest. Pour some tea."

Old Zhang smiled and nodded, then invited everyone into the house.

Old Fu led the hunting dogs to the bungalow at the back of the yard, which was originally a dog-keeping room prepared for hunting teams that frequently went into the mountains.

"Brother, living here must be quite inconvenient, right? You have to buy all your daily necessities, like firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and tea, from outside the mountains?"

Xu Jiaming looked around and asked curiously.

"It's alright, one purchase is enough for half a year, and it can be brought in by mule in one go."

"We grow all the vegetables ourselves, raise two pigs a year, and occasionally catch some wild game in the mountains with traps, so we have enough meat."

Old Zhang replied with a smile, "Even if you want to eat fish, you can get some from the mountain streams."

"That's quite a lot."

Wenfei smiled and praised him.

"The main problem is that we're used to living in the mountains, and we're not used to living down the mountain all of a sudden. The children also want us to live down the mountain, but I feel that nowhere is as good as home."

Old Zhang chuckled and sighed.

In fact, there used to be many villages on the outskirts of Shennongjia, but the villagers moved out of the mountains later.

However, some people are reluctant to leave this place. For example, this middle-aged man renovated his house and started a farm stay business.

As the group chatted, a middle-aged woman in her forties busied herself pouring tea for everyone, and then went to the courtyard to gather all the wild vegetables that had fallen to the ground.

"Old woman, we have distinguished guests today. Cut up all that cured muntjac meat and wild boar meat, and get some fresh wild vegetables too."

"And the grouper from the stream that Old Li brought over yesterday, I'll cook that too."

As Old Zhang called out, he lit a charcoal fire in the house. It was getting late, and the temperature in the mountains was still a bit cool, so people needed to warm themselves by the fire.

"Haha, these dishes sound so delicious they make my mouth water."

Xu Jiaming laughed heartily, then adopted a curious expression and asked, "Brother, I've heard there are wild men in these mountains. Is it true or false? You've lived in these mountains for many years, have you ever seen one?"

"Savages? Of course they exist."

Upon hearing Xu Jiaming's question, Old Zhang immediately became interested.

After lighting the fire, he dragged a small stool over and sat down next to Xu Jiaming, then slowly said, "In the past, there were quite a few villages in these mountains."

“In their villages, women often go missing. I remember more than ten years ago, in a village a little inside our village, a family’s daughter suddenly disappeared for several days. The villagers searched for her every day, but they couldn’t find her.”

"But just when everyone thought she had been eaten by a wild animal, she came back perfectly fine."

"After she came back, she didn't say anything. After a while, everyone could tell that she was pregnant."

Old Zhang also took a sip of tea and said slowly.

"She's pregnant?"

Xu Jiaming's eyes widened, and he asked directly.

Although he had read many interesting stories about wild men, he still found it somewhat unbelievable to hear the people in Shennongjia telling such strange tales.

"Yes, she was pregnant. After ten months of pregnancy, she gave birth to a hairy monster, a baby with long hair. But the baby died a few days later."

"You mean this thing was born, so it must have been captured by savages?"

"Is that really true?"

Chen Chongshan was also stunned by what he heard, and asked a question.

"Of course it's true."

Old Zhang said confidently, "It's said that there are still hairy children in the villages to the north who can't even speak."

"You young men going into the mountains seems fine, but you've brought so many dogs. If there are any women with you, you should be careful."

"Who knows what strange things might happen."

"this……"

Hearing Lao Zhang's words, Chen Chongshan and the others looked at each other in shock. Lao Zhang's words seemed to make a lot of sense, and they all found it hard to believe.