Luo Hongkai thought for a moment, "It flows down from the mountain."
Luo Yonggang shared Li Xiangdong's idea: "If we tie the wild boars together with rope, like a string of goat's milk fruit, and throw them into the stream, with someone controlling the direction and someone else intercepting the wild boars in the stream in front of our house, we can easily transport all the wild boars home!"
Luo Hongkai gave Li Xiangdong an approving look, "What a clever little boy!"
Luo Hongkai immediately instructed Luo Yonggang to go to the nearby hilltop and call Bai Yulong and Bai Yufeng, the brother and sister, to come up the mountain together to transport the wild boar.
Bai Yulong and Bai Yufeng are twin siblings, both twenty years old this year. When their mother was ten months pregnant, their father wanted to go hunting in the mountains to get some game to exchange for money because the family was too poor. Even if they couldn't sell it, the game could still provide nutrition for his wife who was about to give birth.
Who would have thought that his luck would be so bad? He was slapped to death by a raging bear as soon as he went up the mountain. The bear had been stung all over its head by bees while stealing honey and went bersty. As soon as it smelled the scent of a stranger, it pounced on him.
Bai Yulong's mother waited and waited at home, but her husband didn't come. It wasn't until midnight that her husband, whose face was completely disfigured, was carried back.
The poor woman suffered a massive hemorrhage and, with all her remaining strength, gave birth to Bai Yulong and Bai Yufeng, before passing away!
Faced with the brother and sister crying loudly from hunger, a woman in the village who had just given birth fed them milk. They had grown up eating milk and food from many different families.
Because Luo Yonggang was only one year older than the Bai siblings, Luo Hongkai and Liu Jiangsu couldn't bear to see the two children's pitiful state, so they squeezed out their own food to help the two siblings. The three children grew up together in the Luo family.
After growing up, Bai Yulong and Bai Yufeng both inherited their father's hunter genes, and now, in addition to farming, they often go into the mountains to hunt.
Luo Yonggang hurriedly left with a pine cone torch. Although the two mountains looked very close, going up and down them would waste a lot of time.
Seeing Luo Yonggang leave, Luo Hongkai instructed Li Xiangdong to quickly go to bed and rest, as it would take a lot of effort to catch wild boars in the back mountain later.
Li Xiangdong also felt soreness and weakness in his limbs. He obediently lay down on the bed and soon began to snore softly. Zhao Sufang quietly entered the room, closed the open window to prevent the cold wind from catching on her son in the late night, and covered him with a thin blanket before leaving.
Luo Hongkai quickly changed into his mountain gear and found a large bundle of hemp rope from his home. This type of hemp rope was made by adding vine fibers from the horn vine, and after being woven, it was soaked in tung oil. The dried rope was extremely strong and could hardly be cut with a knife.
To transport wild boars across the stream, he had to prevent stones and dead branches from cutting the ropes binding the boars, so he took out his precious horn-tendon vine rope.
Liu Jiangsu looked at him with some concern, "Old man, why don't you let the children go? It's dark and the roads are slippery. Don't let your old bones die on the back mountain!"
Zhao Sufang also advised her stepfather, "That's right, Uncle Luo, we'd rather not have the wild boar than have you fall!"
Luo Hongkai laughed heartily, "You two don't need to worry. I used to hunt in the mountains all year round! Which tree on the back mountain haven't I touched?"
The mother and daughter tried to persuade him a few more times, but Luo Hongkai insisted on going. They had no choice but to keep telling him to be careful.
At 12:30 a.m., footsteps and laughter came from outside. Luo Hongkai said with a smile, "The children are here!"
The main door was pushed open, and Luo Yonggang was followed by a young couple. The man had dark skin, high eyebrows and deep-set eyes, and a fierce air about him. The woman had wheat-colored skin, high-arched eyebrows, a pair of beautifully shaped phoenix eyes, thin lips, and upturned corners of her mouth.
"Uncle, Aunt, is this Third Sister?"
Bai Yufeng's voice was clear and crisp as she greeted everyone as soon as she entered the room.
Liu Jiangsu smiled and introduced Bai Yulong and Bai Yufeng, the siblings, to Zhao Sufang, saying, "These are your younger siblings from the Bai family!"
Zhao Sufang took a liking to Bai Yufeng as soon as she saw her. She walked up to her, took Bai Yufeng's hand, and said, "You must be Yufeng. Your aunt always praises you!"
Bai Yufeng stole a glance at Luo Yonggang, her little face flushed.
Zhao Sufang then greeted Bai Yulong.
Li Xiangdong was awakened by the noise. He stretched his limbs, got up and met the Bai siblings. The group of five then headed towards the back mountain!
On the way, Bai Yulong inquired about Luo Yonggang and Li Xiangdong's extermination of the wild boar herd and said enviously, "Yonggang, why didn't you call me? Hearing about it makes me so eager to try it!"
Luo Yonggang laughed heartily, "I never expected to encounter a herd of wild boars! But it was really exhilarating!"
He was hoping to catch one or two wild boars, but he was so lucky that he ran into a herd of wild boars that were resting!
Upon hearing about Li Xiangdong's marksmanship, Bai Yulong began to re-examine this tall but slender young man. He looked quite young, yet he could hit the bullseye every time.
The sky was pitch black, and five pine cone torches moved swiftly through the mountains...
Finally, when they arrived at the place where the wild boar herd had been killed, Luo Hongkai, Bai Yulong, and Bai Yufeng were dumbfounded!
They anticipated there would be many wild boars.
However, they didn't expect there to be so many wild boars!
One wild boar after another was piled up like a small mountain!
Under the glow of the pine torches, a flock of crows that had been eating the top of the wild boar flew away with a "whoosh"!
"This, this... you guys did all of this?"
Luo Hong stammered as he opened his mouth.
Luo Yonggang nodded smugly, "How about that? Is that enough for me to brag about for a year?"
Bai Yulong punched him on the shoulder, "That's enough to brag about for ten years! How many wild boars did that take!"
Bai Yufeng whispered to Luo Yonggang, "Brother Gang, you're amazing!"
Luo Yonggang glanced at her pretty face. As the saying goes, a beauty is seen under the moon. In the light of the pine torch, Bai Yufeng's face looked even more gentle and beautiful!
"Take the wild boar leg you picked out home and eat later!"
Bai Yufeng nodded shyly.
Li Xiangdong, who witnessed everything from behind, thought: "Can a wild boar leg really win over such a beautiful girl?"
It looks like he'll be getting an aunt soon!
Luo Hongkai took Li Xiangdong to check the stream, while Luo Yonggang and the Bai siblings tied up the pig with hemp rope.
They first tied their forelimbs together, then tied their hindlimbs together, and then strung them together with a rope through the middle of their forelimbs and hindlimbs, one end after the other, just like a candied hawthorn skewer!
Luo Hongkai used a dead tree branch to probe the bottom of the stream. It was about a meter deep, and the water was flowing gurglingly and very fast.
"This stream really is the one that leads to our house!"
In his youth, Luo Hongkai traversed the entire back mountain, knowing the location of every tree, river, and stream like the back of his hand.
Li Xiangdong was overjoyed. "Then shall we throw the pig into the stream?"
Luo Hongkai nodded, then shook his head.
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