"Xiao Ning, why are you arguing with them?" Hua Zi sighed.
After spending time together yesterday, and with his father saying that Ning Yuan is a grateful and kind girl, he began to treat Ning Yuan like a younger sister and try to persuade her.
Ning Yuan smiled dismissively and picked up the carrying pole again: "It's alright, Brother Hua, I'm too lazy to get entangled with them."
These people are so concerned about those few work points every day, but soon the area will be fully open to the public.
As long as you are quick-witted and hardworking, you won't starve!
She was glad she didn't associate with Tang Zhenzhen's clique, as it meant she would suffer less and at least wouldn't have to constantly be on guard against that woman's malicious schemes.
Hua Zi arranged for Ning Yuan to work with the villagers. Remembering his father's instructions, he privately told the villagers he was on good terms with to take good care of Ning Yuan.
Most of the villagers, seeing that Ning Yuan had actually married a sent-down youth, thought this young educated youth was both stupid and pitiful, and were willing to take better care of her.
Ning Yuan found it much more comfortable than working in the educated youth team. Although she was physically tired, she wasn't mentally exhausted.
When they finished work at night, Hua Zi's wife, Man Hua, stuffed several large steamed buns and freshly pickled green beans into her hands, and also picked two handfuls of tender green vegetables for her.
Consider it a small return gift for that bottle of wine and candy.
Ning Yuan was quite happy. After a long day working in the fields, she was too lazy to catch fish. She simply stir-fried some vegetables and pickled beans and ate them with steamed buns and sweet potato porridge for dinner.
Rong Zhaonan, as usual, was responsible for washing the dishes, tidying up, and cleaning. He didn't complain about the lack of meat for dinner and ate quietly.
At night, Ning Yuan washed up as usual and continued reading. She waited for Rong Zhaonan to fall asleep first before going to bed herself.
But when it started raining late at night, Ning Yuan groggily sat up and found that... she was alone in bed again.
Her heart skipped a beat. She stared blankly at the bed as Rong Zhaonan disappeared again without a trace.
There was still no trace of him leaving. Ning Yuan lay on the bed for a long time, determined to find out what Rong Zhaonan had gone out to do.
After all, her roommate's secretive and furtive behavior made her feel uneasy.
So the next night before going to bed, she deliberately ate only a little bit of food and drank a large glass of water before going to sleep.
Sure enough, I couldn't sleep soundly. I was in a daze for the first half of the night, and my stomach was growling.
until……
A cool breeze suddenly blew onto her face.
Ning Yuan jolted awake and instantly became fully alert.
She turned her head sharply and saw that there was no one beside her. But by the moonlight, she could see that the window next to her was closing silently.
A tall figure was cast on the window paper; who else could it be but Rong Zhaonan!
Ning Yuan held her breath nervously, waiting to see him close the window, then pull a thin wire from the window crack and fasten the window latch from the inside.
It turns out that Rong Zhaonan didn't use the door, but the window, and he could make it look like the window was closed from the inside.
Ning Yuan felt a chill run down her spine. If this person were a thief or an assassin, he wouldn't even leave any clues, and no one would be able to catch him, right?
She secretly peeked through the crack in the window to see the direction Rong Zhaonan had left in. She quickly got up, dressed, locked the door, and followed him out.
What on earth is this person doing? Sneaking around in the middle of the night every day, at least tell us!
Those people in red armbands and those who were targeting him were watching him so closely. What if they brought people to check on him in the middle of the night? How would she explain that?
Even his cheap wife is going to be dragged down by him, and Ning Yuan has been living in fear for days. She can't take it anymore.
She decided to go and investigate on her own.
Fortunately, Rong Zhaonan didn't disappear all at once.
She knew Rong Zhaonan was a very wary person, so she didn't dare to get close and only followed that tall, silent figure from a distance.
But the other person was agile and moved through the mountain paths as if they were in an empty place. She could only try her best to keep up and barely managed not to lose them.
After following her for about an hour, Rong Zhaonan suddenly stopped and turned to give her a cold glance.
Ning Yuan was startled and quickly squatted down.
When she got up again, she found—damn, he was gone?!
Ning Yuan was stunned. She would never dare to go up the mountain alone at night. What should she do now?
The surroundings were quiet, and under the hazy moonlight, the atmosphere was cold, dark, and gloomy, with only the chirping of insects, the sounds of night birds, and the strange cries of some unknown beast.
She felt a sudden panic, looked around, but couldn't see Rong Zhaonan anywhere.
She lost track of him!
Ning Yuan then realized what a stupid thing she had done—she, an educated youth who had never been up the mountain at night before, had lost herself in the Daqingshan Mountains at night while following someone!
They really act without thinking!
Fear made her whisper, "Rong Zhaonan... Rong Zhaonan..."
But only the silent night and the eerie roar of some unknown wild beast answered her.
No, we have to get down the mountain! This is the 1970s, the ecological environment is good. She remembered the old people in the village saying that in addition to snakes, there are also bears, jackals and even wolves on Daqingshan Mountain!
Ning Yuan hurriedly turned around and walked back.
But after walking for more than ten minutes, she realized that she seemed to be lost!
Ning Yuan's eyes were red and she was panicking. She pinched her thigh hard to force herself to calm down.
No, I can't cry, I can't panic!
If you panic and run around aimlessly, you're likely to get injured and lose your strength. If you fall into a hole or cliff, or startle a wild animal, you're doomed!
She took a few deep breaths, trying to recall how she used to come down the mountain when she went up to chop firewood during the day, and where the village was located in the mountains. She slowly made her way down the mountain.
The sky was obscured by trees, so the Big Dipper was not visible, but the trees with moss growing on their trunks were mostly on the north side.
The village is located on the south side of Daqingshan Mountain.
Using the little knowledge she had learned about orientation, Ning Yuan stroked the tree trunk and picked up a branch to use as a walking stick.
She carefully stumbled out, silently praying that she wouldn't encounter any snakes or wild animals.
After walking for almost half an hour, we still couldn't see a single light from the village.
Ning Yuan couldn't hold back her tears any longer. She wiped them away, gripped the tree branch tightly, and slowly continued to explore the path.
She's finally been reborn, she absolutely can't let herself die here! She has to find the place where the villagers usually go to chop firewood!
But after taking only a few steps, she suddenly felt her stick touch something soft.
Then the thing suddenly emitted a strange humming sound: "Chirp chirp..."
Then, suddenly a large, dark figure stood up and made a "snoring" sound towards her.
By the moonlight, Ning Yuan's eyes widened suddenly, and she saw clearly that what was baring its teeth at her not far away was actually a ferocious wild boar with fangs!
The wild boar looked enormous, almost 200-300 pounds, and was angrily baring its teeth and hissing at her.
The soft thing she accidentally touched with her stick was a few wild boar piglets!
Damn it! Ning Yuan's pupils contracted.
Even black bears aren't as aggressive and fierce as wild boars, and they're incredibly strong. If a wild boar rams into you and bites you, your bones will break, and you'll die!
The key point is that it wasn't just one wild boar; it was a whole litter, with four or five large wild boars, their eyes gleaming fiercely and their tusks sharp!
Ning Yuan's legs went weak, and she slowly backed away.
Seeing the lead wild boar's glowing green eyes staring at her and its head lowered, she instinctively knew that the boar was about to charge at her!
The moment the wild boar charged at her again, Ning Yuan screamed and turned to run desperately up the mountain!
Fortunately, she remembered that when wild boars chase people, you can't run downhill, because you can't outrun them and you might fall to your death in a panic!
Ning Yuan ran desperately, listening to the howls of wild beasts and the sounds of trees crashing behind her.
The night wind whistled in her ears, and she ran so hard her heart felt like it was going to jump out of her chest, and her lungs ached.
Her adrenaline surged, and she suddenly remembered—that's it, climb a tree, she wanted to climb one of those big trees that wild boars couldn't break through!
Ning Yuan rushed towards a large tree with a thick trunk, not daring to look back, and climbed up using both her hands and feet.
The moment she grabbed the lowest branch, hung herself up, and pulled her legs back, the tree trunk shook violently—
The wild boar charged at us headfirst.
"Ah—!" She struggled to climb up, squeezing her body up as hard as she could.
The enraged beasts continued to ram the tree wildly, and Ning Yuan was almost shaken off the tree. She clung to the trunk with all her might.
She doesn't want to die here!
The next moment—
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!" Several sharp sounds rang out as something tore through the air.
Ning Yuan suddenly felt that the wild boars were hitting the tree less hard. She subconsciously looked down and saw that several arrows were deeply stuck in the backs of the large wild boars.
The air was filled with a strong smell of blood.
The wounded beasts grew even angrier. They lowered their heads, bared their sharp fangs, and charged at the tall figure shooting arrows, like cannonballs being fired.
The tall, agile figure neither dodged nor evaded. He bent down, deftly drew his bow, and then with a swift movement, pulled out two knives with both hands.
With a flash of his blade, he charged into the pack of wild beasts like a sharp arrow.
The shadow's cold hand swiftly brought down the blade, the blood and the roars of wild beasts mingling together.
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