Gao Shuzhen from Gaojia Village was also looking at the various supplies she had brought back on the table with great pride.

"I didn't expect that woman from the Hu family to be so easily offended. Although she didn't let us into the village, she still brought us back so many things." Gao Shuzhen looked through the pots and pans on the table and touched the cloth next to her.

The several middle-aged women who had gone with her were also smiling as they stared at the things on the table. Among them was the money that Gao Shuzhen had promised to give them as a reward for their hard work.

"Gao family girl, we still have a lot of things to do at home. Give us our things." After some pushing and shoving, the group found a representative to speak.

"Look, we didn't get into their village this time, and my in-laws only gave us this little bit of stuff. And these are things our families urgently need. Could you all please wait a little longer? I'll definitely make up for it next time." Gao Shuzhen looked at the pile of things in front of her, all of which were things her family desperately needed, and she was reluctant to give any of them away.

Hearing this, the group became anxious. They didn't care who took the lead anymore and all surrounded her. "That's not how it works. You know, you wouldn't be able to leave Gaojia Village without us. And even if we get our share, you'll still have most of it left."

“If that’s the case, who will go out with you next time! You know we’re taking a risk. If the village chief finds out, we’ll be in big trouble.”

"I'll take these metal basins with me; I just need them at home." Someone started it, grabbing the items and heading out the door.

Once one thing leads to another, before Gao Shuzhen could even react, the others also grabbed the items they had their eyes on and turned to leave.

"How could you people do this? And this is not what I promised you." When Gao Shuzhen realized what was happening, she hurriedly shouted towards the door, but no one paid any attention to her and walked away.

Looking at the items still mostly left on the table, Gao Shuzhen's heart ached. She knew she didn't have any of those things at home. If she had known this would happen, she would have done it herself to distribute them.

Si Cheng's salt transport team didn't have such a smooth journey. Just as they were about to reach the next water collection point, a scream suddenly came from behind the crowd, and the whole team panicked.

"Grab your weapons and surround the women." Si Cheng's first reaction was to drop his belongings and run back. Today, the one walking at the back of the group was Gaojia Village. The screams that had just been heard sounded somewhat familiar to Si Cheng.

Before he even arrived, he heard someone shouting, "It's a leopard! How can there be a leopard here?"

Perhaps startled by the gasps of the crowd, the leopard grabbed its prey and began to pull it aside. The person whose arm was being bitten struggled to break free, which may have angered the leopard. It shook its head, biting deeper with its teeth, followed by another scream.

Although the people from Gaojia Village, who were not far from him, were all holding machetes, none of them dared to attack him.

When Si Cheng and the others arrived, they found that there were so many people around, but only Gao Liang was waving his machete around, trying to scare the leopard and make it loosen its teeth.

Only then did he realize that the person whose arm had been bitten by the leopard was his uncle, Gao Zian. Perhaps due to the pain, Gao Zian's face was deathly pale, and he was half-hanging in a strange position, with his other hand supporting him on the ground.

"Brother, what should we do? Think of something quickly to save my dad!" Gao Liang cried out for help when he saw Si Cheng approaching.

Si Cheng didn't respond; his eyes were fixed on the leopard in front of him. It was an adult leopard, about 1.5 to 1.6 meters long. Although it was biting Gao Zian's arm, its eyes were still warily watching the other side.

Just as the two sides were locked in a stalemate, the monkey, who had quietly moved to the side, found an ideal shooting position and fired directly from the side, hitting the leopard in the throat.

The sound of gunfire made many people immediately crouch down and cover their heads. They always knew there were firearms in the group, but this was the first time they had heard gunfire at such close range.

The sudden pain made it loosen its teeth and pounce towards the monkey, but Si Cheng was a step ahead and rushed forward, punching it to the ground. The monkey stubbornly raised its head, trying to turn around and bite Si Cheng, but Si Cheng didn't give it a chance. He punched it in the throat again, and it fell to the ground and couldn't get up.

Before anyone could react, the Yunnan team was already treating Gao Zian's wounds with their first-aid kits.

Because leopards are canines with relatively short teeth, the wound looked frightening, but fortunately, it didn't bite the bone.

To avoid infection, Yunnan Yao instructed his apprentices to squeeze out the foul blood and retrieve a small bar of soap from his medicine box. This soap was something he had used for years to clean his hands, and he had only brought one bar with him this time, so this was all he had left.

"Go and collect all the water and keep washing him." There are no vaccines for animal bites these days; it's all down to luck.

"Dad, how are you?" Gao Liang couldn't squeeze in and could only call out to him from behind when he saw his brother-in-law leading people to clean his wound.

"I'm fine." Perhaps hearing his son's anxious shouts, Gotsian struggled to open his eyes. Although he couldn't see his son, he still responded.

Only when they saw that the leopard was completely lying on the ground and not moving did people slowly begin to gather around.

"Where did this leopard come from? Shouldn't these things be in the primeval forest?" The person in charge of Gaojia Village asked after circling the leopard.

When Si Cheng saw that he was ignoring the injured people in the village and instead crowding around curious about the leopard's origin, he didn't want to answer him anymore. He simply walked past him to Uncle Gao's side, glanced at the wound, and then turned to ask about Yunnan medicine.

"Uncle, how is my uncle?"

"Fortunately, no arteries were damaged. Now it's up to his luck. We've done our best to clean his wounds. Since there's no vaccine, we can't be 100% sure he'll be alright."

"Thank you for your hard work, Uncle." After saying that, he walked towards Gao Liang.

"You were with your uncle at the time, how could he have been attacked?"

Upon hearing his cousin's question, Gao Liang looked at Gao Dongxing, who was hiding behind the crowd. "When we were on the road, Gao Dongxing was always lagging behind. My dad was worried that he would fall behind, so he stayed behind with him the whole time."

Gao Liang, unable to bear his father's constant consideration for Gao Dongxing, simply ignored them and continued on his way with his friends. However, after hearing a scream, he discovered his father had been bitten on the shoulder by a leopard, and Gao Dongxing's first reaction was to drop everything and run far away.