Ye Meizi looked at Qin Nian:
“During the past few years of drought, your uncle Geng and Geng Feng went up the mountain to hunt almost every day.
Sometimes when there were too many prey, he would take them to the town to sell them and exchange them for some change to buy food, so he could live a decent life.
Although it is a famine year, two coarse flour cakes are nothing. Xiao Nian, just consider it as a token of my thanks to you.
If you accept it, I will feel better."
After hearing what Ye Meizi said, Qin Nian didn't refuse and took the two cakes: "Thank you, auntie."
Ye Meizi smiled and said, "That's right."
Ye Meizi went back.
Grandma sighed and said, "Your aunt Geng must have guessed that we were out of food and was worried that you couldn't go up the mountain, so she sent you some cakes.
She was afraid of hurting our self-esteem, so she didn’t tell the truth. It really made things difficult for her.”
There were two cornmeal pancakes. Grandma asked Qin Nian to eat one and a half, but she ate half, saying that she was old and would be full after eating a little.
Qin Nian disagreed no matter what. He had been hungry for so long. No matter how old he was, half a pancake would not be enough. Even if he ate two, he still couldn't be full.
The grandfather and grandson ate corn cakes with hot water.
After a simple breakfast, Geng Feng came.
The young man was tall and upright, wearing blue coarse cloth clothes and trousers, with a bow, hemp rope, quiver and water bag slung over his shoulders, and a three-pronged iron fork in his hand. He looked handsome and heroic.
“It’s great to be young.”
Grandma looked at Geng Feng and sighed: "Even though he was so hungry, he didn't get shorter at all."
This old lady Li always comes up with golden sentences, and Qin Nian was amused to the point of bending over with laughter:
"Grandma, you can become thin due to hunger, but you can't become short due to hunger."
Grandma stared at Qin Nian and said, "If a person is hungry for a long time, he will be short. You have only been eating salt for a few years, how can you know as much as I do?"
After he finished speaking, his eyes fell on Geng Feng's face: "Boy, if you are hungry for a long time, will you become shorter?"
Geng Feng suppressed his laughter and said, "Grandma Li, you have been eating salt for more years than I have, so you are right.
Xiao Nian, let’s go.”
Qin Nian nodded: "Okay, let's go."
After saying that, Qin Nian picked up the small basket from yesterday, which contained a short wooden-handled knife for digging vegetables.
When she walked out of the yard, she saw a small cart placed beside Geng Feng's legs. Qin Nian understood that it was not realistic to find the wild boar and carry it back from the mountain, and using a cart would save a lot of effort.
Qin Nian put the small basket in her hand on Geng Feng's cart. She followed him and the two of them walked towards the east entrance of the village.
Outside the village is Dongshan.
On a morning in early May, the weather was only slightly chilly, not cold at all.
There are already people at the foot of the mountain, all out looking for wild vegetables.
In bad years, wild vegetables are the means of survival for most people. But since there has been no rain for three years, wild vegetables are very difficult to find.
Geng Feng took Qin Nian to the foot of the mountain. He found a forest and hid the cart in a small ditch beside the forest, covering it with branches and straw.
The two began to climb the mountain and walked into the mountain. After passing the halfway point, the mountain became steep and there was almost no road, making it very difficult to walk.
There were many places where Qin Nian couldn't get ahead and needed Geng Feng's help.
Maybe there are not many people coming here, Qin Nian picked up some mushrooms, dug up a handful of dandelions, and some other wild vegetables.
Walking to the place where they fought the wild boar yesterday, Geng Feng's expression began to become serious. He looked at Qin Nian and said:
"Xiao Nian, you stay with me and can't be too far away from me."
Qin Nian knew it was dangerous here. Even if Geng Feng didn't tell her, she wouldn't dare to leave him. She even stopped digging wild vegetables when she saw them.
Yesterday, the wild boar suddenly rushed out and attacked Geng Zhenhai from behind, scraping his calf with its sharp tusks.
At that time, Geng Feng was walking in front. By the time he realized what was happening, his father had already fallen down, seriously injured.
Holding a wooden stick in his hand, he turned around and hit the charging wild boar on the head several times.
One of them hit the wild boar right in the eye socket.
Geng Feng hunts all year round and is strong enough. The wild boar was hit so hard that one of its eyes popped out.
In severe pain, the wild boar dared not fight and turned around and escaped into the grass.
Geng Feng tore off his clothes, bandaged the wound on Geng Zhenhai's leg, then carried Geng Zhenhai on his back and reached the foot of the mountain as quickly as possible.
He took out the hidden cart and pushed Geng Zhenhai back home. Because he had used up all his strength on the way, he could no longer carry his father by himself after entering the hospital.
Then he told his mother to stop crying and help him carry the person into the house.
Geng Feng remembered where the wild boar escaped. He held the iron fork, lowered his head, and looked carefully for bloodstains on the ground.
At the same time, Geng Feng paid close attention to Xi Zhou's movements and glanced at Qin Nian from time to time.
Qin Nian was very cautious. She shook her head slightly and told Geng Feng not to worry about her and that she would be very careful.
Soon, Geng Feng found the bloodstains and walked along the intermittent bloodstains along a long winding mountain road.
Then, they saw the wild boar lying under the cliff, and it was not dead!
The wild boar also saw them, stood up and rushed over. The eyes that had been blinded by Geng Feng yesterday were covered with a layer of blood, which looked very scary.
Geng Feng hurriedly pushed Qin Nian behind him: "Xiao Nian, stay away, don't come close."
As soon as he finished speaking, he shook the three-pronged iron fork in his hand and stabbed the wild boar's one eye.
The wild boar dodged nimbly and avoided being stabbed. It rushed towards Geng Feng with its fangs raised.
Geng Feng was neither afraid nor discouraged. He rushed forward with a shaking three-pronged fork. He quickly turned to the side of the wild boar and hit it in the abdomen.
Still not tied.
Qin Nian was watching from a distance, secretly regretting in his heart that he should bring the oak bag he used to take the photo of Qin Rongsheng yesterday with him when he went out.
The oak is so hard that I don't believe that it would make a wild boar deaf if you hit its ears with it.
Now that you are blind and deaf, it will be easy to defeat this beast.
There was no use regretting. Qin Nian turned her eyes and found a wooden stick. She bent down to pick it up and walked over holding the stick.
She was very smart and slowly turned to the side where the wild boar's eye was blind. The wild boar was busy fighting with Geng Feng and didn't see her. Qin Nian swung the stick and hit the wild boar on the head.
The wild boar cried out in pain.
Opportunity is rare and will never come back. Geng Feng took this opportunity and stabbed the iron fork in his hand into the wild boar's belly.
Without stopping for a second, he quickly went out and quickly went in.
With six holes pierced in its stomach, the wild boar howled and finally lost its fighting power. It lay on the ground, its legs twitching, and it was obvious that it was dying.
Geng Feng looked at Qin Nian approvingly: "Xiao Nian, you are quite courageous and you acted decisively."
Thinking of Qin Nian helping his father suture his wound last night, Geng Feng shut his mouth.
After a while, the wild boar stopped twitching.
Geng Feng slowed down his pace, slowly moved closer, and touched the wild boar's wound with the three-pronged iron fork in his hand.
The wild boar made no sound.
Geng Feng was very cautious. He touched the wild boar's bloody eye sockets again, but the wild boar still did not move.
Geng Feng heaved a sigh of relief and said to Qin Nian with a smile, "It's completely dead."
Qin Nian looked at the wild boar, estimating it to be over 300 kilograms, and she smiled and said to Geng Feng, "I didn't expect the wild boar to be so big.
It will take us at least two hours to get it to the foot of the mountain."
Geng Feng smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm here."
He turned his head to look at Qin Nian: "We have been walking for so long and hunting wild boars for a long time. You must be tired, right? Let's drink some water and rest for a while before we continue."
The two men sat on the rocks in front of the wild boar. Geng Feng took off the water bag on his body and handed it to Qin Nian.
Qin Nian took it, pulled out the stopper, lifted the water bag, tilted it slightly downward, and a thin stream of water fell into his mouth.
The posture of drinking water was quite graceful, and the lips did not touch the water bag at all.
After taking a few sips, he handed the water bag to Geng Feng. Geng Feng's posture of drinking water was exactly the same as Qin Nian's.
The two polite people did not touch the mouth of the water bag with their lips.
After drinking the water, Geng Feng stood up and dragged the wild boar behind the rock for a few meters: "The weather is getting hot, put it in the shade first."
After the two men rested for half an hour, Geng Feng stood up, caught the wild boar with a hemp rope, and prepared to drag it down the mountain.
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