Fu Ciyi made a gesture to her to keep quiet, then listened carefully. After a moment, he said to her, "Follow me."
He just strode away, and Yan Funing hurriedly followed him.
The two walked along the cliff for a while and then walked towards the top of the mountain for a while.
Suddenly, Fu Ciyi stretched out his arms to stop her.
"What's wrong?" Yan Funing was confused.
Fu Ciyi pointed to the ground with his chin: "It's right here."
Yan Funing took a closer look and saw that the ground was covered with fallen leaves, which looked no different from ordinary mountain ground at first glance.
But when I looked closely, I found that there was a trap here, and a hole had been smashed in one corner.
"trap?"
Fu Ciyi: "It was probably set up by the hunters."
The cry for help was very faint, and it came from here.
Yan Funing squatted down and pushed away the dead leaves, revealing a few branches lying across the pit.
At the bottom of the trap, curled up was a white-haired old man.
"Sure enough, there's someone." Yan Funing threw the branch aside, raised her hand like a trumpet, and shouted towards the bottom of the trap, "Old man, how are you?"
The old man moved his body slightly, and his half-closed eyes opened slightly.
When he saw the daylight and the two beautiful women, he wanted to say something but fainted instead.
"Hey, old man, what's wrong with you?" Yan Funing asked anxiously.
Of course, this trap was obviously prepared for wild animals. It was very deep, and once you fell in, you would never be able to climb out.
Fu Ciyi said to her, "Since there are traps here, it means wild animals frequently come here. Look, aren't there a lot of claw marks on the trap walls?"
Yan Funing looked carefully in the direction he pointed, and sure enough, she saw a lot of claw marks.
The trap is surrounded by mud, but the belly is big and the mouth is small. Once the beast falls into it, it will be difficult to climb out of the ground even with powerful claws.
If a person falls in, he or she doesn’t know whether his or her legs or feet are injured. Even if they are not injured, he or she can only wait for someone to rescue him or her.
It is a deep forest in the mountains, rarely visited by people, unless the hunter who dug this trap comes.
But hunters usually come after some time, so it is very dangerous for people to fall into them.
Yan Funing nodded.
Fu Ciyi put the backpack on the ground and said, "Just stay here and don't move."
He was afraid that when he went to rescue the old man, a wild beast would suddenly appear.
By then he would be caught between a rock and a hard place.
Yan Funing said softly, "I won't move."
"Okay." After saying that, Fu Ciyi jumped into the trap.
Yan Funing didn't expect him to jump in to save her. Her heart was pounding. "Fu Ciyi, let's look around to see if there are any vines or something. You're..."
Before she could finish her words, Fu Ciyi had already led the old man out of the trap.
Yan Funing quickly checked his body and face for any scratches, and was relieved to see that his clothes were neat and his face looked normal.
Then he looked down at the old man he had placed leaning against the tree trunk.
"Old man, how did you fall into the trap and when did you fall into it?"
The old man opened his eyes slightly and said weakly, "Yesterday morning."
"It's been so long." Yan Funing frowned, "Where are your family members?"
"Is there any water?" the old man said in a hoarse voice.
"There are oranges." Yan Funing quickly took out an orange from the backpack and gave it to him.
The old man took the orange, looked up at them, and said slowly: "My family will come to look for me. It's getting late, you should go back."
Yan Funing asked, "Ah, there are many wild animals here. Is it okay for you to wait here?"
The old man shook his head: "It's okay, you can go back."
Yan Funing felt strange. They saved him, but not only did he not say a word of thanks, he also told them to leave quickly.
As if he was afraid that they would blackmail him for money.
Fu Ciyi picked up the backpack without saying a word, grabbed Yan Funing's arm and left.
The two walked for a long time in silence.
Suddenly a whistle sounded from behind.
Fu Ciyi's ears moved. If what he guessed was correct, the old man probably had some background.
Yan Funing was in a complicated mood. After thinking for a moment, she said to him, "Fu Ciyi, maybe I'm meddling in your business."
Fu Ciyi said calmly, "Your original intention of saving people is not wrong, and everything you did just now was right, but not everyone will be grateful and repay you. Be more careful in the future."
Yan Funing asked, "Do you think the old man just now was afraid that we would extort money?"
His clothes looked like those of a rich family, while they wore fine cotton clothes.
Fu Ciyi said: "It is probably possible."
Yan Funing sighed, "We didn't find any Ganoderma lucidum today, and we only picked a few Oyster mushrooms."
"Tomorrow we'll go back into the mountains, take a different route, and climb a different mountain."
"good."
The two men came out of the deep mountains and old forests and passed by the place where they picked oyster mushrooms. They found several figures surrounding the dead tree, so they quickened their pace and walked over.
It turned out that the five members of the Hu family tied up the dead tree with a hemp rope, passed a carrying pole through the knots of the hemp rope, and lifted the dead tree directly.
Yan Funing shouted, "Hey, what are you doing?"
Hu Ajing put her hands on her hips and said with a smile, "You are allowed to come early every day to pick the dead wood, but we are not allowed to take the dead wood for yourselves?"
"Take it for yourself?" Yan Fu frowned. "This dead tree is in the forest, it doesn't belong to your Hu family."
Hu Ajing laughed again: "Let's carry it home. It will belong to our Hu family." She turned to her family and said, "Grandpa, Grandma, Dad, Mom, hurry up and lift it up."
Hu Dahai, Hu Xingwang, Fu and Qian all shouted slogans, and the thick dead tree was carried away by them.
Hu Ajing said to Yan Funing proudly, "We'll put the dead wood in our yard. When you want to eat oyster mushrooms, you can pick some and sell them for money. You won't have any wild oyster mushrooms to sell in the future!"
Fu said sarcastically, "As a teacher, I have to support a family of five, and now I have to take care of Ali, a child without a father or a mother. Haha, tsk tsk tsk, I can't even pick oyster mushrooms."
Qian also said: "Oyster mushrooms are delicious and valuable. Whoever carries away the wood on which the mushrooms grow will own it..."
The Hu family members started chattering, saying all kinds of nasty things.
Fu Ciyi and Yan Funing looked at each other, ignored them, and walked straight ahead.
The Hu family members were carrying the dead wood and could not move fast, so Fu Ciyi and Yan Funing left them far behind.
When they reached the downhill road, Fu Ciyi stopped and said coldly, "Oyster mushrooms won't grow on a dead tree if it's destroyed."
Yan Funing then stopped and said, "You mean we should wait here for them, and trip them as they pass by, so that the dead wood will fall down the mountain. Since the wood is already dry, it will definitely shatter."
Fu Ciyi nodded and said bluntly: "That's exactly what I mean."
Yan Funing laughed out loud.
"What are you laughing at?" Fu Ciyi was puzzled.
"We only picked three or four pounds of oyster mushrooms today. I looked carefully while picking them. The wood had dried up, and all the nutrients had grown into oyster mushrooms. We've already had several crops, and the rotten wood beyond that won't grow any more." Yan Funing laughed again, "What they brought back today was just rotten wood. It's useless, not even good for starting a fire."
Hearing this, Fu Ciyi chuckled softly, which was rare for him.
Yan Funing blinked. This man had a very nice smile.
Being stared at like this by her, Fu Ciyi felt a little uncomfortable and said in a hoarse voice: "It's getting dark, let's go back quickly."
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