That very night, after telling the story of "Crossing the Sea Under Cover of Darkness" to the younger children, she went to bed. Before she had even dozed off for a short while, a commotion erupted in the village.
"Mom, something terrible has happened! It seems like wild boars have entered the village."
Lin Fengnian's voice rang out in the courtyard.
Song Anxin quickly got dressed and got up. Wild boars are ferocious animals. There's a saying that goes, "First a boar, second a bear, third a tiger," which shows how powerful they are. Six or seven men might not be a match for a single adult wild boar.
Lin Fenghe and Lin Fengyao also got up and went to the yard with their mothers. Lin Fengshou and Zhang Mei were also there. Song Anxin looked out of the yard and saw a patch of firelight over the rice paddies in the village.
Lin Fengnian said to his mother with a grave expression, "Could it be that wild boars have come to eat the rice?"
Song Anxin frowned. It was not unusual for wild boars to ruin grain; similar things had happened when she lived in the village as a child in her previous life.
Lin Fengshou lit two torches, handing one to Lin Fengnian and saying:
"I'm going with my older brother to take a look over at the rice paddies."
Song Anxin said, "I'll go with your older brother. You go to the ancestral hall and bring all the village's gongs and drums to the fields."
He then said to Zhang Mei and the others, "Meizi, take Feng He and Feng Yao to my room and use two more pieces of wood to prop up the door."
Lin Fengshou asked, puzzled, "Mother, why are you going to get the gong and drum?"
Song Anxin said, "I read in a book before that this beast is afraid of fire, and wild boars are very sensitive to sound and afraid of loud noises, so I thought that if there really is a wild boar, this gong and drum sound might scare it away."
Zhang Mei said worriedly, "Mom, you should stay home with us. It would be too dangerous if it really was a wild boar."
Lin Fenghe also said, "I'm worried about Mother. If Mother goes, I'll go too."
Lin Fengyao also expressed the same sentiment. Song Anxin knew that the children were worried about her, so she finally decided that the whole family would go and see her together.
Lin Fengnian lit two more torches and the family went out. Lin Fengshou headed towards the ancestral hall, while Song Anxin and the others walked towards the rice paddies.
The night was cool, and a crescent moon hung in the sky. There were few stars, as if to say that this night was special.
When the group arrived at the field, the field was already crowded with villagers. This field belonged to the village head, and the soil was fertile, making the rice grow better than that of other families.
Sister-in-law Lin was also in the crowd. Seeing Song Anxin's family coming over, she quickly stepped forward and said:
"Sister-in-law, you've all come for the harvest! Look at the state of the village head's rice paddy, it's been ruined! What a tragedy!"
Song Anxin walked closer and looked down at the rice paddies. A patch of golden rice had fallen over.
The village head, his son, and several men from the village, including Brother Lin, were inspecting the ruined land.
The village headwoman cried out from the edge of the field, "You beastly thing that was struck by lightning! My rice!"
Granny Han sighed, "I don't know what kind of beast it is. All this grain has been wasted."
Granny Liu said worriedly, "Has the village head found out what it is? I hope my rice won't be ruined."
Granny Liu's rice paddy is right next to the village head's.
Song Anxin silently walked down the field embankment and carefully examined the footprints left by the livestock on the field. These footprints were those of a wild boar! Judging from the depth of the footprints, the wild boar was quite large.
Lin Lizheng saw Song Anxin coming over and said, "Fengnian's mother, you're here. Judging from these footprints, it's definitely a wild boar."
He looked worried: "Sigh, it's not raining. We finally finished watering the rice, and it's heading and growing well, almost ready for harvest. Now this beast is causing trouble. Is God trying to kill us?"
Song Anxin's face was very serious. She didn't respond to him, but said something else: "Village head, this wild boar might still be hiding in the rice field. It would be bad if so many people gathered here and someone got hurt."
Lin Li was startled by Song Anxin's prompting and was about to tell everyone to hurry back when they heard a rustling sound coming from the rice paddies not far away.
The villagers who were chatting also heard it and quieted down. The sound was getting closer and closer. Song Anxin even heard two "grunts". Oh no, the wild boar was still here.
She shouted sharply, "Everyone, run! Wild boars are coming!"
As soon as Song Anxin finished speaking, the wild boar rushed out, and everyone could see it clearly at that moment.
The wild boar was covered in black fur, had a large body, weighed about 200 pounds, and had two sharp, upturned tusks.
A moment of panic erupted on the field.
"There really are wild boars!"
"Ah! Wild boars are coming! Everyone run!"
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Song Anxin said to the person above, "A bumper harvest in a bumper year, protect Feng Yao and the others well."
Lin Fengnian protected his family members, calling out to his mother, "Mom, come up here quickly!"
Just as Song Anxin was about to step forward, she heard the villagers standing on the field embankment exclaim in surprise. The village head's wife and Lin Dazhuang's wife cried out:
"Big pile!"
"Honey!"
Some of the children who had come to watch the commotion immediately burst into tears, with Lin Dazhuang's children crying and calling out, "Father, Father..."
Song Anxin looked back and saw that the village head's two sons and the men were in the fields, so they were the first to come into contact with the wild boar.
The wild boar went berserk upon seeing so many people and charged at Lin Dazhuang, the eldest son of the village head. Lin Dazhuang was immediately knocked back ten feet.
A group of men in the field, armed with tools, rushed to drive away the wild boar, but they were no match for it, and the boar pushed them back step by step. Lin Dazhuang ended up at the front, and the wild boar saw that Lin Dazhuang was still breathing and struggling to get up.
It raised its paws, preparing to charge at Lin Dazhuang again.
Wild boars are persistent creatures once they launch an attack; they won't stop until they've taken someone down. Song Anxin thought to himself, "This is bad. If this happens again, Lin Dazhuang will probably be dead."
Without hesitation, she snatched a long wooden stick from one of the men, sprinted forward, and leaped into the air, plunging the sharpened end of the stick straight into the space between the wild boar's eyes.
This is the wild boar's fatal weakness.
A cool breeze swept by, and Song Anxin froze in front of the wild boar; the surroundings instantly fell into a deathly silence...
"Mother!" A scream pierced the night sky.
The wild boar immediately collapsed.
Lin Fengnian and his companions' voices roused everyone from their daze. The men around the wild boar were dumbfounded. The wild boar was dead just like that?!
Lin Jiugui was also driving people away in the field. This was his uncle's land, and Lin Dazhuang was his cousin.
He watched as the fallen wild boar's tusks still gleamed in the firelight. He swallowed hard, thankful he hadn't fought with Lin Ersao back then; that woman was truly ruthless.
The people on the field instantly erupted in a frenzy:
"My God! Did you see that? Aunt Lin flew up! That wild boar was killed by Aunt Lin."
"We saw it! We're not blind. Sister-in-law Lin is really impressive. She took down the wild boar all by herself."
"Oh my, Sister-in-law Lin has changed a lot, but her ruthlessness hasn't changed at all..."
"......"
Lin Gangzi was also dumbfounded, then snorted. She really was a rough and uncouth country woman, and he suddenly forgot how timid and cowardly he had been just now.
"Mother, are you alright?"
"Mom, did the wild boar hurt you?"
"......"
Lin Fengnian and the others rushed down to Song Anxin's side and asked her anxiously.
Zhang Mei's eyes welled up with tears: "Mom, it was so dangerous, why did you rush towards the wild boar? You scared me to death."
Sister-in-law Lin also came over with Erxi and Dongzi. She patted her chest, still feeling lingering fear, and said:
“Sister-in-law, how could you be so reckless? You dared to go after such a big wild boar. What would happen to Fengnian and the others if something happened to you? Fenghe and Fengyao are still so young; they can’t be without their mother.”
Lin Fenghe and Feng Yao's faces fell down upon hearing this.
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