Jin Fu stood up in surprise and peered forward.
"Mother, is that you? Mother—"
He shouted loudly.
Suddenly, a figure appeared in the previously white expanse ahead. It was tall and broad, but the fog made it difficult to see clearly.
The figure raised its right arm and waved to Kim Bok.
Jin Fu wasn't sure if this was his mother, since she was too thin. Was it because she was carrying a bamboo basket that she looked thin?
"mother?"
He started walking forward with a puzzled expression.
When he had walked about halfway, a figure suddenly pounced on him.
"Ugh————"
Jin Fu was so frightened that he was about to scream, but his mouth was covered tightly by a warm hand.
This taste...it's Mom's!
Only a mother would wash her hands with small white wildflowers from the riverbank every day.
"Shh, don't make a sound, hold your breath!"
Yan Xia's voice was very serious.
"Hide behind the tree, and whatever you do, don't come out! Remember, no matter what happens, don't come out!"
Jin Fu was terrified and nodded repeatedly.
She slowly let go of his hand and crouched down to walk around him.
But his gaze remained fixed on the figure in front of him.
As she circled around to the back, Yan Xia raised the stone in her hand and jumped up, smashing it with all her might against the back of the figure's head.
"boom--"
The massive figure fell straight down.
He died without even making a sound.
It turned out to be a grizzly bear.
Yan Xia breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the grizzly bear looked rather thin, weighing at most 300 pounds, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to kill it with a single rock.
"Son, come out."
Jin Fu, who had been hiding behind a tree, finally moved. Just then, the mountain mist began to rise, and the visibility around them increased.
"Mother! What is this? What is this?"
Jin Fu was horrified to see the grizzly bear on the ground, even though it was already dead.
"This is a grizzly bear, also called a brown bear. Just now it was imitating a human standing and walking, probably trying to lure you over and then eat you. Luckily it's not very big, only about two meters when it stands up, otherwise even if I jumped high, I wouldn't have been able to hit the back of its head."
Fortunately, she arrived in time, otherwise this silly boy would have really lost his life.
Even if the grizzly bear is small, one swipe of its paw can shatter its skull.
Its power should not be underestimated.
"You should be glad you didn't run into a mature grizzly bear today."
It's worth noting that a strong adult grizzly bear can stand three to four meters tall.
Those two bear paws were several times larger than a human head, and their weight reached an astonishing 1,000 jin (500 kg).
Even if you press down on someone, you can still crush them to death.
Moreover, this thing likes to eat live animals and is inherently cruel.
It will start eating from the lower body of its prey until it dies from the excruciating pain.
Similar things have been observed in modern times: grizzly bears love to mimic human walking on foggy days, then lure lost humans to approach them, and finally eat them alive.
However, Yan Xia did not intend to tell Jin Fu these things. At sixteen years old, he was not even an adult in modern times, and she was afraid of scaring the child.
"Oh my god, where's my little deer?!"
She was so focused on saving this brat that she somehow lost sight of the deer.
The mother and son searched for almost half an hour but couldn't find it.
Yan Xia looked at Jin Fu with resentment.
"You brat, why do you insist on going into the mountains? Look, the deer I hunted with all my might is gone. Who knows which animal picked it up? They're doing well, it's almost New Year's, but what about us? We'll be starving tomorrow!"
Jin Fu lowered his head in remorse.
The boy was nearly 1.8 meters tall, and Yan Xia had to slightly raise her head to look at him.
"I'm sorry, Mother. I was just worried about you. Didn't you promise me you wouldn't go into the mountains?"
“Mother went in. Do you think I’m alright? I can protect myself. Can you protect me? If I hadn’t saved you just now, you would probably be a pile of grizzly bear poop, forever buried in the deep mountains. I know you’re doing this for my own good, but you have to believe in my abilities. Alright, you can carry this grizzly bear back now. I’ve never eaten bear meat before.”
Yan Xia was determined to teach this rebellious son a lesson today.
"Carry??"
Jin Fu was completely dumbfounded.
"Mother, this grizzly bear weighs at least 300 pounds, which is equivalent to three domestic pigs. How can your son carry it?"
"Ha, someone like you is trying to stop me from coming to the mountains? Just you wait and see, you'll have to learn from me!"
Yan Xia gave a cold snort.
Grab the grizzly bear's arms with both hands and swing it upwards.
The grizzly bear's body was firmly attached to her back.
However, Yan Xia looked completely relaxed.
"Mom, you, you're amazing!"
The shock he felt from the wild boar earlier faded over time, until he saw it with his own eyes and was completely convinced.
From this day forward, Yan Xia will never dare to utter another word when she comes to Gaoshan.
He could only silently stuff an axe into his mother's basket.
So that she could use it for self-defense.
Yan Xia carried the grizzly bear down the mountain without taking a break.
The whole village was in an uproar.
They picked up their rice bowls and stood on both sides of the road, watching Yan Xia in astonishment, forgetting to eat.
"Good heavens, that's incredible strength! It can even lift a grizzly bear?"
"Xia Xia is so lucky after her divorce! She even found a grizzly bear. Wow, that fur would be so warm if it were used to make winter clothes."
"All you think about is clothes. I heard when I went to the county to buy things that a single grizzly bear paw can sell for tens of taels of silver! And this bear has two paws, Jin Fu's mother is going to make a fortune—"
"What—several tens of taels of silver? Wouldn't a pair of bear paws sell for a hundred taels?"
"My God, one hundred taels! I could never earn that much money in my entire life! Xia, you're going to become a landlord! Could you help out my family? We're from the same clan!"
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