Chapter 010 Squirrel's Thank You Gift
The first early bus from the suburbs to the city leaves at 6:30 in the morning.
At that time, not many farmers had vehicles for transportation. In a production brigade, you might not even find a household that bought a bicycle. If you wanted to go to the city, you had to take the bus.
So even though it was only half past six, there were already quite a few passengers boarding the bus from the town's departure station.
There was a lot of noise inside the car, with people chatting about family matters or some interesting news that had happened in the production teams recently.
The atmosphere was getting lively and lively when suddenly the swaying bus braked suddenly and stopped abruptly halfway.
The members who were sitting or standing in the car were all caught off guard by the driver's kick. Due to inertia, their bodies all fell forward at the same time. Some of them lost their balance and stumbled.
"What's going on, Master?"
"Why are you braking for no reason?"
After the passengers in the car steadied themselves, they expressed their dissatisfaction.
The driver was also angry. He pulled the handbrake, opened the car door and rushed down, cursing:
"Who is so wicked to leave such a long vine across the road? Fortunately, I was driving slowly, otherwise if it had hit me, my car would have flipped over!"
While cursing, the driver rushed to the cane to check the situation.
Good guy, several vines as thick as arms were placed across the middle of the road, with the two ends tied to the trees on both sides of the road, blocking the bus's way.
At first glance, the driver thought it was a prank played by some bastard from the nearby village, and he was so angry that his face turned pale.
He hurried back to the car, found an axe in the toolbox, rushed over and started chopping at the vines.
After cutting the knot of the vine tied to a tree nearby, he prepared to return to his car.
As a result, when I turned around, I saw three people lying in the grass next to the tree.
This scared him so much that he almost screamed out loud.
"Who's there?!"
The driver immediately asked in a deep voice.
The people in the bushes didn't react at all.
The driver's face turned pale immediately.
It's so early in the morning, and at the foot of such a deserted mountain, how can one not think too much?
A lot of ideas suddenly popped into the driver's mind.
Are these three people dead? Did they dump the bodies after killing someone? How cruel must this killer be? Could the murderer still be hiding in the woods nearby?
Thinking of this, the driver couldn't help but shudder and subconsciously wanted to escape back to the car.
But considering that this might be a murder case, he finally plucked up his courage and moved forward cautiously.
When he finally got there, the first thing he noticed was the varying degrees of injuries on the three people's bodies.
Two of them had their hands and feet tied up with vines, and their faces were bruised and swollen like buns from being beaten by someone unknown, and their original appearance was completely unrecognizable.
The remaining one was not tied up, but his shirt was gone, and the wounds on his body must have been treated and bandaged with cloth strips.
The driver bent down to check the breath of these people when he suddenly noticed a folded piece of paper on the chest of the shirtless man.
He subconsciously picked up the paper and unfolded it.
The handwriting on the paper was crooked, but the content was still clear:
[Comrades who see this paper, please do not be surprised or make it public, please remember this!
The shirtless comrade is a people's policeman. He was shot and fell into coma during the process of arresting the remaining two spies and urgently needed to be sent to the hospital for treatment.
I happened to see two spies committing a crime, so I helped the policeman. However, due to special reasons, I cannot show up, so I can only help to this extent.
So I'll have to trouble you to provide assistance for the rest. Currently, all three are in a coma, but it is possible that they will wake up halfway. Please send the three to the public security personnel as soon as possible! ]
Inside the folded paper was a big knot, on which was a small note that read:
——Here’s ten yuan as a reward for your hard work. This is paid out of my own pocket. There’s no need to inform the police. Thank you very much!
After reading the note and confirming that this was not a murder scene, the driver's nervousness and fear immediately disappeared. Not only was he not afraid, he even felt a little excited.
After all, these days, the public's political awareness and vigilance are very high. Once they hear about catching spies, everyone will respond enthusiastically, regardless of gender, age or status.
So even if the person who left the note didn't pay the ten dollars as a reward, as long as the driver knew there were two spies among them, he would send them to the police station without hesitation.
However, because spies were involved and the person who wrote the note emphasized that the matter should not be made public, the driver did not dare to call for help. Instead, after thinking for a few seconds, he quickly ran back to the car with the axe.
Fearing that other passengers might notice something was wrong, the driver pretended to start the car, but he failed to start the engine after several attempts. The driver slapped the steering wheel in frustration, then waved his hand and called his conductor colleague over.
After the two of them whispered to each other for a while, the conductor calmly began to urge the passengers to get off the bus.
"There's something wrong with our car. We need to get someone to fix it as soon as possible. Now everyone get out of the car and take the next bus to town!"
As soon as the conductor said this, many villagers on the bus started to complain.
"What's going on? Why did you drop the anchor?"
"Why didn't you check the vehicle before setting off? Isn't this just a delay?"
"We are in a hurry to go to the city to do some work. How can we go back to the town in time?"
"Can't you take us into town first and then fix the car?"
The eight major officials in the 1960s and 1970s had stable jobs. Those who could become drivers and conductors all had bad tempers and were not easy to deal with.
So when the conductor heard these villagers complain, he immediately frowned, slammed the door and started to curse:
"You don't understand what I'm saying? My car broke down and I can't drive it. How can I take you to the city? If you're so capable, how about letting you drive the car?"
Seeing the conductor cursing with a stern face, the passengers had no choice but to get off the bus with their luggage no matter how unhappy they were.
Fortunately, the foot of Sheshan Mountain is not far from the bus stop in the town, and it only takes ten minutes to walk there. After getting off the bus, these passengers were afraid of missing the next bus if they were delayed, so they all hurried back to the town.
After these people left, the driver and the conductor hurriedly carried the three unconscious people from the bushes into the car, then stepped on the accelerator and sped towards the city.
After hiding in the woods for a while, Ye Qing finally felt relieved when he saw that the bus was emitting a trail of black smoke and only the back of the bus could be seen. He turned around and went back into the depths of the dense forest.
She spent a whole day in the woods yesterday and only screened three or four hectares of trees.
So Ye Qing planned to continue her efforts to upgrade her supernatural powers today.
However, after the squirrel came to settle the score yesterday, Ye Qing was extra careful when choosing trees today, for fear that he would destroy the nests of other small animals if he was not careful again.
There was such a large forest, and Ye Qing was very happy while absorbing the special energy. When he was hungry, he would pick some wild fruits from the forest to eat.
She was lucky enough to encounter a few pheasants running around in the woods. She waved her hand and a few vines suddenly stabbed over, killing them with every strike. Three pheasants were strangled to death in an instant and fell to the ground in unison.
The beginning of September is the time when animals start to gain weight. These three pheasants are quite fat, each weighing at least three or four pounds.
Ye Qing didn't want to treat himself badly. He found a mountain stream, killed a chicken with a pencil sharpener, built a fire by the stream and started roasting the chicken.
It's a pity that the conditions are limited. She has no pot or clay pot, otherwise she would have made a pot of wild mushroom stewed chicken soup. The delicious taste is enough to make people drool just thinking about it.
However, even though there was no soup, the fresh and ripe wild fruits and the roasted chicken that was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside were enough for Ye Qing to have a good meal.
She couldn't remember how many years it had been since she had tasted such crispy, tender chicken. Even though the chicken was not seasoned with any seasoning, Ye Qing still ate it with relish and was quite satisfied.
Ye Qing only ate one of the three pheasants. As for the remaining two, she planned to take them back to the city later to see if she could sell them on the black market.
However, right now, her most important thing was definitely to absorb energy, so after eating, she did not delay, but continued to move towards the mountains.
What Ye Qing didn't expect was that while she was madly absorbing wood energy in the woods in the afternoon, the two squirrels that scolded her yesterday actually came to her again.
There are actually quite a lot of squirrels in this forest, and they all look basically the same. It has only been two days since Ye Qing entered the forest yesterday, but he has already encountered at least a dozen of them.
But the squirrel that came to her for help yesterday had a small tuft of black hair on its forehead and had very obvious features, so Ye Qing recognized it at a glance.
Seeing these two, Ye Qing was both angry and amused:
"I didn't destroy your nest this time, did I? Why did you two come to me again? You don't want to ask me for compensation, do you?"
The squirrel couple obviously couldn't understand human language. They didn't understand a word of Ye Qing's chatter.
But the two little guys didn't care. After squeaking a few times at Ye Qing, they began to take things out of their bulging cheeks.
One, two, three...
Soon, a pile of strange nuts appeared in front of Ye Qing, from pine nuts to chestnuts to wild peanuts to pecans. Almost all the varieties that could be picked in the forest were collected by the two of them.
Ye Qing was impressed by how much the squirrel's mouth could hold, but at the same time he was a little confused as to what these two furry creatures meant by this.
After the two squirrels emptied their mouths, they nudged the pile of nuts and gestured to Ye Qing.
Ye Qing understood immediately, and said with a smile:
"Is this for me?"
She squatted down and picked up one of the wild peanuts.
Seeing that Ye Qing accepted their gifts, the two squirrels jumped for joy and squeaked at Ye Qing to take away the remaining ones.
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