Chapter 79: Battle of Wild Boars
Everyone's expression changed.
The three Ye An brothers huddled together in fear, "Why did the wild boar come down the mountain?"
Shen Yi asked Su Chunlin to close the door with a serious look. He had just drawn his sickle and axe for self-defense, but before he walked out of the yard, he saw a figure appear in the snow not far from Su's house.
Song Yongnian's face turned black, "You all saw it!"
"Quick! Close the door!" Han jumped up in panic.
"It's too late." Shen Yi rushed to the gate and quickly closed it. Then he climbed to the top of the wall and shouted, "The wild boar is coming, the wild boar is coming, everyone hide quickly!"
He shouted three times, looked around, and only breathed a sigh of relief when he confirmed that there were no villagers nearby.
At this time, the wild boar had already arrived at the door of the Su family, rummaged around on the ground twice, and suddenly crashed into the gate.
The people in the yard were terrified.
Song Yongnian urged Ye An and the others to go into the main room with Su Chunlin's family and bolt the door, while he himself climbed up the wall with great effort to fight alongside Shen Yi.
"What should we do now?" Song Yongnian turned around and waited for Shen Yi to make a decision.
There was no panic on Shen Yi's stern face, his eyes were always fixed on the wild boar, "Why are you asking me?"
"Because I believe in you, you are a powerful person." Song Yongnian said with certainty.
Shen Yi glanced at him for the first time, and then he set his sights on the wild boar again, and said thoughtfully: "This wild boar is estimated to be more than 300 kilograms. It is a strong and powerful guy. It is difficult for the two of us to fight it. The best way is to drive it away."
"How to chase it away?" Song Yongnian stared at the wild boar, feeling very panicked. He dared to fight with the little wild boar, but he couldn't fight head-on with this adult wild boar. If it pushed him, he would lose half his life.
Shen Yi thought about it and said hesitantly: "Use fire?"
"Okay! I'll get firewood now." Song Yongnian returned to the Su family's yard.
When Su Chunlin heard the noise, he bravely opened the door. Seeing that Song Yongnian needed firewood, he immediately came out and led him to the woodshed, where he turned out all the flammable straw, dead branches and leaves.
The whole woodshed was filled with dust.
Song Yongnian didn't care about the dirt and handed the firewood to Shen Yi on the wall.
Shen Yi was seen throwing straw, dead leaves and branches down to form a circle. During this time, he tried to drive away the wild boar with branches, but he didn't expect that he angered the wild boar and it rammed the door crazily.
Su Chunlin was so scared that he hid back in the main room.
Song Yongnian didn't know what was happening outside, so he could only continue passing the firewood.
Those loud noises were like a hit on the soul. Anyone with a less courageous heart would probably faint from fright.
Seeing that the firewood had almost trapped the wild boar, Shen Yi lit two bundles of straw and threw them to the left and right outside the firewood circle.
When the outer part was on fire, the wild boar was still trying hard to arch its back. When it realized something was wrong and wanted to escape, Shen Yi and Song Yongnian were adding firewood to the fire from the left and right.
With the help of the northwest wind, the fire grew stronger and stronger, even reaching the top of the wall.
From below came the shrill howls of a wild boar and the increasingly violent banging of the door.
Song Yongnian's heart was beating fast when he heard this. "Can this door hold up?"
Shen Yi nodded uncertainly, "It should be OK. My father-in-law specially asked the carpenter to reinforce it."
Just as he finished speaking, there was a creaking sound and the door bolt broke into two pieces. A ball of fire rushed into the yard, knocking over the stone table and stone benches, and knocking down the firewood piled in the corner.
Sparks flew up from the pile of firewood.
Shen Yi's expression changed drastically, "Not good!"
After saying that, he resolutely climbed down the wall, raised the axe, found the right position, and chopped at the wild boar with all his might.
The wild boar's howling cut through the sky, and the hearts of those in the house beat like drums.
Just when the wild boar was fighting back desperately, Song Yongnian rushed over in time and stabbed it again, then quickly ran away.
The wild boar could no longer run, and even its howling gradually weakened. It walked slowly for a few more circles like a headless fly, and finally fell to the ground.
Shen Yi and Song Yongnian looked at each other, and they both breathed a sigh of relief.
He quickly grabbed the snow and put out the burning firewood.
"Father-in-law, mother-in-law, it's safe!" Shen Yi shouted.
The door to the main room opened.
Su Chunlin was the first to rush out holding a stool, followed by a group of pale-faced little followers.
Everyone was dumbfounded when they saw the wild boar burned into a black mass in the yard and then looked at the messy yard.
Song Yongnian ran to find Su Changxi.
After a while, villagers came one after another to help.
As soon as everyone entered the yard, they subconsciously stayed away from the wild boar, but couldn't help but secretly look at it while working.
After Shen Yi finished his work, he was the first to step forward and kick the wild boar twice. After making sure that the wild boar was dead, he said, "It's okay."
Everyone swarmed over and started chattering.
"Why did the wild boar come down the mountain for no reason? Is there nothing to eat in the mountains?"
"But why did it run to Chunlin's house? Could it be that it knew there was food at Chunlin's house?"
Su Changfu stroked his chin and thought, "I guess it was the smell of peanut oil that attracted it."
As he said this, he looked at Shen Yi with a thankful look on his face, "Fortunately, you are selling oil here today, otherwise we would have to wait until the wild boar caused trouble before we knew it had entered the village. A guy this big might not be able to escape if he saw it, and if it was seen by the elderly and children, there would be no way to survive!"
Everyone thought, isn't that right! They all thanked Shen Yi.
Shen Yi looked modest, not daring to take credit for it, "It was Song Yongnian who discovered the wild boar entering the village, so if you want to thank someone, thank him."
Song Yongnian shook his head seriously, "I found the wild boar's footprints at the foot of the mountain. Some shallow places have been covered by snow. I guess the wild boar entered the village yesterday, but it just hasn't found its target yet. It's probably the same as the village head guessed, and it was lured out by Brother Shen's peanut oil."
Su Chunlin chuckled, "You don't have to be so modest. I saw you fighting the wild boar with my own eyes. You two are both great contributors to our village!"
"Dad, weren't you hiding in the house with us?" Su Ming asked innocently, causing everyone to laugh.
Su Chunlin's face flushed with shame. He glared at his troublesome son, then licked his face and looked at Su Changxi, "Brother, you have seen how my good yard has been ruined by wild boars. And my front door is half burned and half broken. I must make a new one, and the outer wall must be repainted with yellow mud. Otherwise, it will be outrageous. All these will cost money! I have to share more wild boar meat to make up for the loss."
There is an unwritten rule in the village that whenever a wild boar enters the village, no matter who kills it, some of the boar must be given to the villagers to eat as a pig-killing dish.
Su Changxi was somewhat speechless, and laughed and scolded: "Your son-in-law helped kill the wild boar, so how can you not get a benefit? Don't worry, we won't take advantage of you. So, we'll get 34 kilograms of meat, put some dough balls in it, and stew it in a pot. Everyone can have a bite of meat."
"Okay!" This was what Su Chunlin was waiting for, and he immediately went out to find a butcher to help.
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