The old man squinted and looked ahead. It seemed as if an injured mother gorilla carrying a baby had come down from the mountain. It was quite a strange sight.
A gift from the mountains! The whole village slaughtered it together; each household could get at least fourteen or fifteen pounds of meat from this big guy.
Let him get a little closer to see what's going on.
A lifeline was approaching. Li Sheng was finding it difficult to speak, but he could tell from the way the old man was walking over, hunched over and squinting, that his eyesight seemed to be failing.
Don't let this lifeline slip away.
"Grandpa, help me!"
The sudden noise startled the old man, who stumbled. "Oh my god, a male gorilla!" he thought. "He's an old man, no match for it. He might get hammered to death."
Startled, he turned and left.
Li Sheng: ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
"Old man! Help!"
This time, he put in all his effort, seriously suspecting that the old man had poor eyesight and was hard of hearing.
There's no doubt about it; it's a case of severe presbyopia and hearing loss, and the obstacles between the two go far beyond that.
The old man finally understood a little better. The voice sounded like a person, but he couldn't understand what it was saying.
However, he managed to go back again and get close to Li Sheng, less than ten centimeters from his face, his breath almost touching. This time he could see clearly that it was a wild man.
Li Sheng had a bad feeling, but he couldn't worry about that now. Saving his life was the priority, and who knew when his backup would arrive?
"Grandpa! Help!"
Grandpa Ada was severely hard of hearing, and even now he couldn't quite hear what the wild man in front of him was saying. The wild man's voice was as soft as a mosquito's buzz.
"Huh?"
The elderly man shouted so loudly that Li Sheng almost went deaf. This old man was indeed hard of hearing and would subjectively think that others were speaking softly because of his hearing impairment. He himself basically relied on shouting to output his own voice.
Li Sheng once again focused his energy in his dantian and continued to unleash his power, this time right next to the old man's ear. This time it should work: "Help!"
Ada really couldn't understand what the savage in front of her was saying.
"Huh?"
Li Sheng: ...Could it be that Heaven intends to destroy me?
Even though he couldn't understand it, Grandpa Ada could see that the wild man was injured, and quite seriously. He guessed that the wild man had fought with wild animals in the mountains, and it was not easy for him to come out alive.
He couldn't carry it himself, so we needed to call a few more people to carry it back.
He'll go back and call someone, and tell him to wait here: "@￥……￥￥##……%%#%\\u0026……".
Li Sheng was stunned. He hadn't expected that there were places in the South where Mandarin wasn't widely spoken. In other words, even if the old man had heard him, he hadn't understood what he was saying.
The overwhelming despair that came at this moment.
never mind.
Let's just wash it.
I lay down on the ground and resigned myself to fate.
The old man glanced at Li Sheng and Naituan lying on the ground, then took small, shuffling steps, leaning on his cane.
Li Sheng lay down and observed the village. The old man was wearing a Zhongshan suit from the last century. The clothes were faded and patched, and he was wearing yellow rubber shoes that looked like they had been worn for many years. The buildings in the village were also like that.
All the houses are single-story red brick and tile buildings, which look very old. Many of them are dilapidated, and some are even mud houses made of yellow earth. The most outrageous thing is that the village doesn't even have a utility pole, which means that there is no electricity.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed that such a secluded place still existed in the Southern Kingdom.
That means there might not be a road coming in from the outside at all. There's a saying that goes, "If you want to get rich, build roads first." If there were a cement road leading in, this situation wouldn't exist.
Has this small village been forgotten by the times?
He couldn't help but worry whether someone would come to pick him up, otherwise he would have to stay here and try to survive until his injuries healed before taking the healer out.
A short while later, Li Sheng heard a commotion. The old man arrived with a number of people and surrounded Li Sheng for a while, presumably discussing how to handle the matter.
Of the twenty-odd people here, ten are elderly people in their seventies or eighties, five are slightly younger elderly people around sixty years old, and five are middle-aged people between twenty and forty years old.
It seems that most of the people here are elderly, and there are very few young people.
Li Sheng, carrying the baby, was placed on a wooden stretcher and carried towards a red brick house not far away. Since it was Grandpa Ada who found the baby, everyone decided to take the baby to his house and discuss the rest later.
The elderly people were all a bit hard of hearing, but they deliberately avoided Li Sheng when they spoke, whispering loudly to each other in his ear, which made it hard for him not to hear.
But there's no need for that; he simply doesn't understand.
Ada glanced at Li Sheng: "@%%%***）*……*\\u0026￥."
The old man on the left glanced at Li Sheng again: "...%*￥)(）\\u0026**...%."
The old man over there took another look: "...*()\\u0026%...￥%￥@￥".
He felt a strong sense of powerlessness in the face of reality, and he chose to remain silent.
The old men were discussing where Li Sheng came from and how he ended up here. They hadn't had any outsiders come to their area for over ten or twenty years, so how did he come in from the mountains?
Ada: "Where did this savage come from? He's fairer than a girl and has a little girl with him. He must be a city person."
Old man A: "Why would city people be so foolish as to run up the mountain?"
Older man B: "I think he's badly injured. A grown man with a baby, he probably doesn't have a wife anymore."
Grandpa C: "I heard that the city is hundreds of kilometers away from here. How did you get here?"
Ada: "I don't know. My Sangsang went to school in town for half a year and she also said that. I'll ask her when the time comes."
Grandpa Ding: "He'll need a long time to recover and will need to eat a lot of rice. I think we should just keep him as our son-in-law."
Grandpa Wu: "It's good that my grandson-in-law is from the city. Once he recovers from his injury, he can stay and be your grandson-in-law. He's knowledgeable and can teach the village children to read and write. Our generation has never left the mountains, so let the children go out and see what it's like."
He hoped to see all the children in the village leave these mountains before they, the old folks, passed away.
Uncle Ada had some schooling and was considered by everyone to be the village chief. If he really came from the city, he would definitely have to be the man for his daughter Sangsang. This little girl is only a few years old and doesn't even remember anything, yet he can be raised to be docile.
He is handsome, knowledgeable, and strong, both in and out of bed. Most importantly, he can teach the village children to read. If they are obedient and honest, they will definitely treat him well. After he is buried, he will become the village chief.
His granddaughter Sangsang is beautiful, hardworking and capable. She is good at housework and farming. She can weave the most beautiful floral fabrics than anyone else. Although she only studied for half a year, she is good enough for a man from the city.
He didn't mind that the man had a child; a second-marriage man isn't as valuable as a first-marriage man.
If they don't behave, just lock them in the pigsty for a few months and starve them a few times, and they'll behave. Anyway, they're injured and have babies with them, so they can't run away.
Li Sheng never dreamed that he would encounter such a situation. He had only ever heard of women being abducted to the mountains to become wives, but he was the man who had offered himself up and was forced into becoming a bandit chief.
Unfortunately, he couldn't understand a single word of what the group of old men were muttering.
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