Night falls quickly in early spring. It's not yet the planting season, so there's not much farm work to do. Every household turns off the lights and goes to bed early after dinner.
Only Wang Sanbao's candle was still burning.
"Da Ya, I, I~~~" Wang Sanbao was interrupted before he could finish speaking.
"Sanbao, hurry up and go. That brat is already bad luck enough. Keeping her at home is just asking for trouble. Do you want our family to be happy?"
Niu Daya couldn't stand her husband's timid and hesitant manner, so she pushed him out directly, saying, "After tonight, our family's good luck will come."
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"Just imagine what you'll be able to eat whatever you want, drink whatever good wine you want, live in a big courtyard, be waited on hand and foot, and our Da Cai might even become an official."
The endless layers of flatbread eventually made Wang Sanbao give in. He made up his mind, slung the bamboo basket over his shoulder, and his figure quickly disappeared into the night.
He couldn't walk on the wide main roads, so he could only take those secluded paths. Wang Sanbao had lived in Dashi Village for almost thirty years, so he was naturally very familiar with the main roads and paths.
He soon arrived at his destination, the back mountain of the village.
This village is divided into a front mountain and a back mountain. The front mountain is not high, and people often go there to pick wild vegetables, herbs, and hunt. There are many small paths leading to the top of the mountain.
The back mountain is different; it is lush with vegetation, the mountain paths are rugged, and few people go up there. There are very few families living nearby.
Most importantly, according to the older generation in the village, there used to be a lot of infant skeletons on this hill behind the village. If you weren't careful, you might have stepped on someone's head.
"Ah." Thinking of this, Wang Sanbao suddenly stopped in his tracks. He looked up and saw something moving in the pitch black.
The whooshing sound kept swirling around his ears, as if something was surrounding him.
"May the Bodhisattva protect me, may the Buddha protect me," Wang Sanbao muttered to himself, trying to climb up the mountain, but his legs seemed to have a mind of their own and he couldn't lift them.
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He was terrified. The mountain was a black hole, and he couldn't see anything. Humans are most afraid of the unknown. Even though he kept praying, he dared not go any further.
When he came out, Niu Daya told him to go into the mountains, at least to the halfway point. But now he had only been on the mountain for a short time.
Just as Wang Sanbao was hesitating, the basket on his back suddenly moved. Already feeling guilty, he screamed in fright and hurriedly took off the basket and threw it aside, not even noticing the muffled groan coming from inside.
Wang Sanbao took off running. The early spring night was still a bit chilly, but Wang Sanbao's clothes underneath were wet.
Half of it was cold sweat, and the other half was from being scared to death.
The basket he had thrown aside was now stuck on a small rock. Several tattered cloths covered the basket, but the cloths that had been covering it had now come undone, and a small head was slowly peeking out from inside.
Her hair was disheveled like weeds, and her big eyes were darting around. It was pitch black all around, and she couldn't see anything. She wanted to get out of there.
The dirty little chicken claws had just touched the edge of the bamboo basket when the stones suddenly loosened, and the unsupported bamboo basket rolled down the slope due to inertia.
"Ouch!" The sudden rolling made the person in the basket dizzy. She clung tightly to the edge of the basket, afraid of being thrown out.
A moment later, the basket hit an obstacle and came to a sudden stop. At the same time, the person inside saw stars and fainted again.
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Before she fainted, she thought helplessly, "I've already died once at the beginning, am I going to die again? I'm out of spiritual power, if I die again, the whole book will really be over."
"Dad, why do I hear someone shouting?" There are several families living not far from the back mountain, the closest of which is the Xu family.
The speaker was Liu Fang, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Xu family. Their room window faced the back mountain, so they could hear it more clearly.
"There's no one here, it's just the sound of the mountain wind blowing through the trees," Xu Genshan mumbled, turning over in his sleep.
Liu Fang listened for a moment, but there seemed to be no sound. The man next to her started snoring, so she moved closer and soon fell asleep as well.
Even before the busy farming season, the villagers still get up very early, and as soon as it's dawn, smoke begins to rise from the chimneys of some houses.
The Xu family was the same; as soon as the rooster crowed, all the women in the family would get up.
"Eldest daughter-in-law, we're going to till the land today. Put extra rice in the breakfast so everyone can have a good meal." The speaker was the Xu family's matriarch, who was over fifty but still very healthy and held absolute authority in the family.
"Okay, all right." Since it was Grandma Xu who was in charge of the family's food, Liu Fang added some more rice to the pot after hearing her words. With a spoon, the pot was no longer rice water, but porridge.
After the adults got up, they started to get busy. The children had nothing to do, so they went off to play around since it wasn't mealtime yet.
"Let's go play in the back mountain." Other children in the village were afraid to go to the back mountain, but the children from several families living nearby were not afraid at all.
There used to be a patch of land overgrown with weeds at the foot of the mountain, but these children trampled it flat and now it has become their playground.
Someone shouted, and the children, calling to each other, ran towards the back of the mountain.
"Big brother, do you want to play with us?" The person who asked the question was Xu Mao, the second son of the Xu family.
The person he called "Big Brother" was named Xu Yi.
Xu Yi shook his head. What's so fun about playing house? We might as well go up the mountain and see what good things there are.
He is now eight years old, the oldest of the group of children, and he considers himself to be disdainful of their childish behavior.
Xu Mao was just asking out of habit. Seeing his older brother heading towards the mountain path, he ran and called out, "Brother, don't go too far. We'll be going back for dinner soon."
The other children had already started playing, and he no longer cared about his older brother.
Xu Yi responded and strode inside with his not-so-long legs. He and his father had come this way countless times. If his father's leg hadn't been injured, today might have been the day they went into the mountains to hunt.
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Thinking of this, Xu Yi's face was full of dejection. The doctor said that his father's leg would not get better and he would never be able to go hunting in the mountains again.
He wanted to grow up quickly, go hunting in the mountains, earn money to treat his father's leg, and help his father get better.
Just as Xu Yi was silently making a vow in his heart, a muffled groan suddenly came. Xu Yi stopped and looked around alertly.
Although he often came this way, it was still the back of the mountain, and there was always the possibility of wild boars or something similar.
The muffled groan was brief. Xu Yi looked around but saw nothing. He remembered his father's teachings: he should hurry down the mountain at this time, in case of danger.
However, when Xu Yi looked back, he could clearly hear the children playing and talking down the mountain.
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