The four of them ran for five or six minutes straight, and only stopped when they saw that there was no movement behind them.
Fu Wan was panting, her hands supporting her knees. Fu Ming and Ye Lin collapsed onto the grass. Ye Jianguo, on the other hand, remained calm, his brows furrowed as he stared in the direction they had come from, lost in thought.
"Ah Wan, have some water!"
Fu Ming took a water bottle out of his basket, unscrewed it, and handed it to Fu Wan. Fu Wan took a sip and then heard birds in the distant mountains startled and fly away. She didn't know what had happened.
"Ah Lin, you take Fu Wan and Fu Ming back first. I'll go check and be right back."
Ye Jianguo couldn't let go of the wild boar after all, so he took two machetes and went back to check on it.
"Uncle, why don't we go together?"
Fu Ming chimed in, "That wild boar just now looked like a small, immature one. We can go over and help you."
Ye Lin disagreed, saying, "I'll go with my father, you go back with A-Wan."
"These chestnuts are also in the woods. Come find us here later with a wheelbarrow."
He was used to going up the mountain with Ye Jianguo, and he wouldn't feel at ease letting his father go alone.
"Fine, let's go together!"
Ye Jianguo thought for a moment, "There's still a long way to go down the mountain. If Awan and Aming get lost without us leading the way, we won't know where to look for them."
"Let's quickly hide these chestnuts, carry the wild rabbit with us, and go check on the wild boar from a distance!"
Wild boars haven't been caught near Qingshan Village for a long time, but the crops at the foot of the mountain are often ravaged by them.
These wild boars are very clever; they always come at night. The villagers have been trying to catch them for days, but they haven't succeeded.
Since the only elder, Ye Jianguo, had spoken, Fu Wan and the other two younger members had no reason not to listen.
This time, Fu Ming was the one carrying the rabbit. Ye Jianguo stuffed a machete into the hands of each of the three young men. Luckily, Li Chunhua had borrowed two packs of machetes from next door for self-defense when they went out today, otherwise there wouldn't be enough machetes to go around.
The four of them had various guesses about the wild boar, but when they got closer, they were shocked by the mess in the forest.
The large wild boar was lying motionless on the ground, with bees flying around it every now and then to nibble at it.
As for the beehive, Fu Wan looked at the empty tree branches and finally found a spherical object that resembled a beehive in the bushes under the tree.
This is truly a lose-lose situation!
Ye Jianguo boldly stepped forward, while Fu Ming followed Fu Wan toward the beehive in the jungle.
"Oh, what a pity!"
Fu Ming sighed softly. The beehive was somewhat broken from the fall in the jungle. Although there were still a few bees circling around it, they were not a significant threat.
Fu Wan thought for a moment, took out a spare cloth bag from the bottom of Fu Ming's basket, then picked up a branch and poked the beehive hard.
After poking her, she pulled Fu Ming back, but after waiting for a long time, she didn't see a swarm of bees flying out.
"Ah Wan, there aren't many bees in there! I'll go and retrieve that beehive!"
Fu Wan grabbed him, "Wait!"
Just then, a large, trembling bee flew out of the hive, its body a full size larger than the other bees.
Fu Wan understood immediately; this was probably the queen bee.
As they were doing this, Ye Jianguo and Ye Lin circled around to the wild boar. Ye Jianguo tapped the wild boar's leg with the back of his knife, but it didn't react at all.
That's strange, surely the bees couldn't have killed the wild boar by stinging it?!
Ye Lin walked around to the front of the wild boar and then noticed that its head was covered with large welts from bee stings, and for some reason, the top of its head was a bloody mess.
"This wild boar is probably done for. It must have been stung in the eye by a wild bee. It was running around wildly and crashed into a tree."
That explanation makes sense, because several trees nearby were knocked down, which shows how intense the incident was.
Fu Wan and Fu Ming noticed that there were no more bees in the beehive. Fu Ming then took a cloth bag and boldly parted the bushes to retrieve the beehive.
Fu Wan watched in fear. She was originally supposed to go, but Fu Ming pulled her back and she volunteered to go herself.
The two actions were basically simultaneous. Fu Ming quickly picked up the honey and put it into a cloth bag, while Ye Jianguo, fearing that the wild boar might rise from the dead, tied it up tightly with hemp rope.
This time, we truly returned with a full load.
Ye Jianguo wiped the sweat from his forehead and exclaimed, "I haven't had such a wonderful time on the mountain in many years!"
Isn't it amazing? From picking chestnuts on the mountain and encountering a pine tree, to rescuing a pangolin, to picking up deer antlers and catching rabbits, they unexpectedly ended up with a big wild boar.
Oh, and there's also a honeycomb that weighs at least five or six pounds.
Although this wild boar doesn't look like it's fully grown, it's still bigger than the domestic pigs raised in the village, weighing at least 200 pounds.
I had known that adult wild boars could grow to over 400 pounds and be just as deadly as bears in the mountains.
"Okay, now it's really time to go back!"
Ye Jianguo originally wanted to lift the wild boar up, but after struggling for a long time, the wild boar was still on the ground.
Fu Wan took the basket from Fu Ming's back, and then held the cloth bag containing the honeycomb in her hands.
“Uncle, you, A-Ming, and Brother A-Lin carry this wild boar together. You take it to the chestnut farm first, and I'll go ahead and ask Auntie to call for help.”
"Okay, that's the only way."
Aside from the wild boars, the four bags of chestnuts they brought back are still in the woods, and they can't forget about them.
Perhaps because she had a great harvest, Fu Wan didn't feel tired at all and walked very fast.
In addition, the wild rabbits in her basket were in a bag, and the cloth bag in her hand was not conspicuous. When the villagers saw her for the first time, they thought she was visiting relatives and had no idea that she came down from the mountain.
Chen Guifang and Li Chunhua were picking vegetables in the yard, while the four children were playing hopscotch.
Seeing Fu Wan come in carrying a large basket, Li Chunhua was the first to react, "Wan, why are you carrying things back? Where are your brothers?!"
These two boys dare to make their sister do things; they probably want bamboo shoots stir-fried with pork tonight.
Fu Wan, following Chen Guifang's force, unloaded the basket from her back. Without even taking a sip of water, she hurriedly said:
"Auntie, quickly find two young men to push a cart or wheelbarrow up the mountain, we've encountered a wild boar!"
"What! We've encountered a wild boar!"
Li Chunhua was so startled that she stood up, knocking over the vegetables on the ground.
"Yes, but the wild boar killed itself by crashing into something, and my uncle and the others couldn't get it down, so I came back to get help."
"Alright, alright, I'll call for help right away!"
Oh my, this is a wild boar! In Qingshan Village, they haven't seen a wild boar for more than half a year!
If this wild boar were brought down the mountain, the village would be in an uproar!
As expected of Li Chunhua's family, her arrival on the mountain caused a sensation throughout the village!
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