The wild boar spirit has really become quite cunning now.
Now that the sows in the pen are pregnant, Peppa Pig has stopped being a pervert and has resumed her aloof, single, and carefree behavior.
During the day, he either sleeps soundly in his little cabin or wanders around outside.
The roosters don't fight, and it doesn't even bother to come over to the pigsty.
However, he would often take advantage of Chunfeng's inattention to leap over the waist-high pen as lightly as a swallow, lick the leftover scraps from the sow's trough clean as if they had been washed with water, and then slip away.
When Chunfeng comes to feed the pigs, she will find the trough empty.
Worried that the pregnant sows would go hungry due to increased appetite, they would increase the amount of food they gave them, day by day.
No matter how much she added, and the trough was always washed clean, the sow would still knock on the pen early in the morning begging for food.
One day, when Chunfeng was cleaning, she saw Peppa easily flying in and out of the enclosure. Only then did she realize that Peppa had gone so far as to steal food, so she began to keep a close watch on her.
Every day, Peppa has a big bowl of cooked vegetable and rice porridge and green peppers. After eating and drinking her fill, she is chased out and not allowed to come back to lick the bowl.
Peppa's days are very boring, while other wild boars are busy looking for food to fill their bellies and survive.
It had food and water, and just wandered around the mountains and forests every day looking for fun. Unexpectedly, it actually found a great joy.
That night, three people appeared suspiciously on that deserted road, and upon meeting him, they tried to stab him with a knife.
The wild boar demon, who had only intended to scare the people away, became enraged. A fierce battle ensued, leaving the three of them with gaping wounds. They were then thrown off the cliff, and the boar demon itself was also slashed several times by the knife.
If Errui and the others had looked closely at the time, they would have been able to tell that the knife wound was different from the tooth wounds from the previous fights with wild boars.
In the midst of the chaos, no one pays attention to these small details.
Jiang Zhi was in the village at the time, so she knew even less.
After having a meeting with Lao Song and Zhang Juntou at the post station to discuss the murder, she hurried to the Tian family to check on Xiaoman's condition and to ask what had happened on the mountain.
When Xiaoman's grandparents arrived at the Tian family's house, Xiaoman had been sleeping for half a day and had already woken up, but she had lost too much blood and was listless and lacked energy.
She was quite surprised to see her grandparents arrive, and tried to sit up but the wound was in excruciating pain.
Everyone hurriedly told him to lie down and not move.
When Xiaoman's grandparents saw her and realized she was alive and well, they were finally relieved and immediately wanted to kill a chicken without even taking a break.
Tao'er's mother and Tian Gui quickly stopped them: "Grandma Xiaoman, I already killed a chicken and stewed it this morning. Xiaoman just drank it. Don't kill any more now. It's hot, so wait until after you've eaten. You're tired from walking down the mountain, so rest first."
When Xiaoman's grandmother saw that the Tian family had actually put the chicken in the pot to stew, she knew it wasn't just a polite remark.
She asked Qiaoyun to help put the chickens into the Tian family's chicken coop: "Alright then, keep these for now, it will be hard on you and Tao'er."
Tian Tao helped her into the house to sit down: "Grandma, rest and don't move. If we do anything wrong, just tell us."
Grandma Xiaoman sat down as instructed, looked around, and saw that the Tian family's house was clean and tidy. Although Tao'er was young, she was very considerate. She was satisfied.
A baby less than a year old was sleeping in a straw basket nearby, and I couldn't help but ask him about everyday things.
Xiao Caixia will only be two years old next month. She is fair-skinned, chubby, and has a lovely appearance. Ten-year-old Tian Xiaoxi was very fond of such a little baby and immediately found her own little cloth monkey for her to play with.
Beside him, Tian Gui also told Xiaoman about the reason why his family had become refugees.
The two families sat down and began to chat.
When Jiang Zhi arrived, this heartwarming scene greeted her; the bloodshed she had worried about at the post station was nowhere to be seen.
Did those three not go up the mountain, but give up halfway?
The thought only flashed through her mind before she dismissed it; fifty taels of silver was enough to make someone risk their life.
There are still many things to do. Jiang Zhi was busy all night. Knowing that everything was safe on the mountain and that Xiao Man had relatives by her side, she finally couldn't hold on any longer and had to leave to rest. Qiao Yun also left with her mother-in-law and the child, leaving Xiao Man's grandparents at the Tian family's house.
Jiang Zhi can rest for now, but some people in the village can't rest, and Xu Gensheng is extremely anxious.
His wife, Ms. Pi, went to the city with her great-grandfather Xu Changming, her uncles, and two other members of the Xu family to look for Xu Xiaogu. They had been gone for two days and two nights and had not yet returned.
Previously, he could sit calmly and wait for news. When the village discussed the mosquito coil workshop, he could even joke that these people were drinking.
But when he saw the dead bodies being carried out of Qingquan Bay, he couldn't sit still.
Now everyone in the village knows that the man went to Qingquan Bay to kill Xiaotian, and Xiaoman was just a scapegoat.
They're all people who're going to kill, so even if my great-grandfather Pi and his family are drinking, it's probably poisoned wine.
He wanted to find Jiang Zhi, but Qiaoyun stopped him.
My mother-in-law and Errui were so worried and didn't eat or sleep all night. They finally managed to lie down, but going to the city to find someone would be too much for them, even if they were made of iron.
Qiaoyun said to Xu Gensheng, "Master Changming and the others went into the city to look for people. Now the town and Inspector Zhang are also looking for people. You can go with them. The government officials and Magistrate Zhang will take charge."
This reminded Xu Gensheng, and he immediately went to the town, found Song Tingzhang, and said that his wife and family had been in the city for two days and had not yet returned.
Old Song was on his way to the county government office to submit an official document, so he took him along.
The village was bustling and chaotic, and so another day passed.
The next day, Li Laoshi and Errui went up the mountain again and found that everything was fine; not a single chicken or scallion was missing.
As the weather gradually warms up, the wild boar still sleeps all day in its little wooden house, only venturing out to roam around in the evening after it has eaten and drunk its fill.
Errui recounted how three other people had taken money that day and tried to cause trouble, but then disappeared: "Those three didn't return to town; Mother is worried they're heading up the mountain."
"Now it's just the two of you and the child on the mountain, why don't you come into the village and stay for a few days?"
Upon hearing this, Chunfeng shook her head: "You take Nini down the mountain, Dazhu and I are not leaving."
"We can't stay inside, so we'll stay in the woods next door. It's easy for two people to hide in such a big mountain. Tell your aunt not to worry about us."
Seeing that the two people really weren't going to leave, Errui and Li Laoshi stopped forcing them and took Nini down the mountain to be with Xiao Caixia.
Jiang Zhi originally planned to let Chunfeng and her husband go back to the village to stay for a few days.
But thinking about the chickens and pigs all over the mountain, for farmers, abandoning livestock is equivalent to losing their own lives. They could guess that Chunfeng and Xu Dazhu would be reluctant to leave, so it was good that they could take Nini with them now.
Xu Changming and Xu Gensheng did not return the next day, and Jiang Zhi did not go to the city either.
People are responsible for their own words and actions. Xu Changming is an old man who has lived a long life. He brought a few people into the city to cause trouble, so he has to bear the consequences of failure.
She, as the village chief, is not a Thousand-Hand Guanyin who needs to be perfect in everything and also responsible for ensuring that the villagers' wishes come true.
So, while waiting for news of Lao Song's investigation in the city, they organized people to build a shed for the mosquito coil workshop.
Someone died at the pharmacy. Although the body has been removed, the site still needs to be left to cool down for a few days, and operations cannot resume for the time being.
Moreover, Xiaoman is still in critical condition and cannot leave the village. We cannot waste this time; we must build this place up first.
So, while discussing the brutality of the murderers, the villagers also talked about their promising future and started a new round of infrastructure construction.
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