Song Anxin quickly comforted her, "Mother is fine, not hurt at all. You can see for yourselves if you don't believe me."
Song Anxin wasn't a reckless fool. She had secretly trained for so long and was confident in herself. In addition, she knew the wild boar's fatal weakness, which was why she dared to go up there—a heavy blow to that spot would either kill or render the boar unable to get up.
Before the group could even settle down, the sound of "humming and panting" came from the fields again.
Gradually, the sound grew louder and the frequency became shorter.
Song Anxin knew inwardly that this was bad! It wasn't just one group, but a whole bunch!
The groaning sounds from the area were heard by all the villagers present. Zhang Mei and Sister-in-law Lin, who were closer, heard it even more clearly, and their faces turned pale with fright.
Lin Erxi immediately hugged Lin Dongzi tightly, while Lin Fengnian and Lin Fenghe surrounded their mother and Lin Fengyao.
Looking closer in the field, the men saw patches of dark shadows—three, five, no, more and more, impossible to count—all with black faces and fangs.
The men were so frightened that they broke out in a cold sweat. They wanted to run but couldn't move their legs and stood there dumbfounded.
Song Anxin shouted to them, "Quickly, quickly carry Da Mu up here! Run!"
He quickly pulled a few others up with him, shouting, "Get up there! Run!"
Everyone suddenly realized what was happening and quickly took off running. Lin Dazhuang was also carried away by several men.
But the wild boar seemed to have seen its companion killed and relentlessly chased after them. It was clear that the men carrying Lin Dazhuang, including Brother Lin, were about to be caught.
Upon seeing this, Sister-in-law Lin turned around and cried out, "Husband, hurry, run faster, run even faster..."
At this moment, Lin Fengshou came over carrying a bunch of gongs and drums. These were the village's public property, and they were usually taken from the ancestral hall for weddings and funerals.
Seeing this, Lin Fengshou cried out anxiously, "Mother, elder brother...where are you...?"
Upon hearing Lin Fengshou's shouts, Song Anxin immediately ran to his side, took a gong from his hand, and said, "Quickly, strike it! You strike it too, Fengnian."
Lin Fengshou and Lin Fengnian didn't hesitate either, picking up gongs and drums and starting to bang them away.
The men, running while carrying another person, grew increasingly slow from exhaustion. They were on the verge of being overtaken by the wild boars, their faces filled with fear and despair. But when they saw Aunt Lin and her family approaching, banging drums and gongs, they felt as if a divine intervention had descended upon them.
"Clang clang dong dong..." "Clang clang guang guang..." For a moment, the sound of gongs and drums filled the air.
The wild boars that had been chasing the people suddenly seemed to have been greatly alarmed, and they panicked and turned tail and ran back in fear.
The villagers who were running ahead stopped when they saw this, turned around and picked up the remaining gongs and drums on the ground, beating them vigorously.
Song Anxin said, "Everyone, take your torches and shout. The wild boars are afraid of us."
The men suddenly seemed to have found their leader and came back to life, chasing after the wild boar with torches and shouting at the top of their lungs.
"Waaah! Waaah!... Ah..."
The villagers gave chase, and the wild boars were driven across the fields and back up the mountain.
Lin Lizheng said, "Alright, alright! Everyone, stop chasing. The wild boar has gone up the mountain; it's not safe to go any further."
The villagers then stopped banging gongs and shouting. After surviving the ordeal, they collapsed to the ground, their last breath of life gone.
"Ah! That scared me to death..."
"Yeah, I thought I was going to be trampled to death by a wild boar."
"......"
Some women rushed forward:
"Are you alright, honey? Oh dear, if something happens to you, how will my child and I survive...?"
Sister-in-law Lin, standing beside Brother Lin, asked, "Honey, how are you? Are you hurt anywhere...?"
"......."
Song Anxin and her two sons were also exhausted.
Just then, a cry came from the field:
"God... if you're going to take someone's life, take this old woman's life instead of making my son suffer like this..."
"My husband, you can't die..."
"Father... Father..."
When Song Anxin walked over, he saw the village head's wife, her eldest daughter-in-law, and several grandchildren surrounding him, crying and shouting.
Lin Lizheng also looked grief-stricken, holding back his tears, while a group of villagers carrying torches surrounded him.
Song Anxin stepped forward to look. In the bright firelight, she saw Lin Dazhuang lying there with his eyes closed, his face and lips pale. The wild boar had gouged a large bloody hole in his thigh.
Blood gushed out of the hole, looking horrifying in the firelight. Lin Dazhuang whimpered in pain, but had no strength to scream.
Song Anxin knew something was wrong. If Lin Dazhuang wasn't dead now, he would probably bleed to death soon. She squatted down and used strips of cloth from Lin Dazhuang's body to plug the bloody hole.
She called out, "A bountiful harvest! Hurry up and go to the foot of the mountain to gather herbs, the kind that your mother picked for you to apply to your shoulders before. Crush them up and bring them here."
Lin Fengnian and Lin Fengshou didn't dare to delay for a moment and went immediately. Lin Lizheng also sent his second son along, and some enthusiastic villagers also went to help.
Many hands make light work, and soon a large pile of herbs was mashed and brought over. Song Anxin took it and quickly applied it to Lin Dazhuang's wound. The herbs were quite effective; the bleeding stopped instantly, and Lin Dazhuang's complexion looked much better.
She said to Lin Lizheng, "We need to get him to the county clinic for treatment as soon as possible, otherwise his life will still be in danger."
Once the bleeding stopped, Lin Dazhuang stopped groaning in pain, and Lin Lizheng's grief lessened somewhat: "I've already told Lin Da to hitch up the oxcart."
No sooner had he finished speaking than Lin Da drove over in his oxcart, and several men worked together to lift Lin Dazhuang onto the oxcart.
The village head's second son, Lin Erzhuang, along with his elder brother Lin Jiugui and Dazhuang's wife, went to the county. The old couple stayed behind to look after their grandchildren. The village head's wife watched the oxcart drive away and wiped away tears repeatedly.
Lin Lizheng walked up to Song Anxin with a torch in hand, his old face twitching as he said:
“Fengnian’s mother, I don’t know how to thank you. Without you, we don’t know how many more people in our village would have been injured, and Dazhuang would have been gone long ago.”
Other villagers, upon hearing this, exclaimed:
"Sister-in-law Lin, I was prejudiced against you before. You turned back to save us. We men are no match for you."
"It's true," a man said sincerely.
Aunt Zhao said, "Yes, Fengnian's mother, thank you for saving my husband. Otherwise, how would Da Mao and the others survive without their father..."
"Grandma Fengnian, this old woman thanks you so much, otherwise I would have... I would have... Waaah..."
The village headwoman started crying again when she thought of her son, whose fate was unknown.
“............”
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