Chapter 189: Danger in the Mountains
That night, Gao Mingcheng's father Gao Yuanjian took time out to visit him. It turned out that he learned about Gao Mingcheng's injury from his daughter.
As soon as Gao Yuan saw him, he asked Gao Mingcheng to look at his wound.
Gao Mingcheng refused to do so and said that the wound had been bandaged and could not be opened.
His father is not like his sister. His father has seen gunshot wounds. As long as you see the wound, your father can immediately guess something.
Chinese people have the habit of reporting good news to their parents but not bad news. Gao Mingcheng also doesn't want Gao Yuanjian to worry about him, mainly because Gao Yuanjian's worry is expressed in a very rude way. He would first scold him, then lecture him, and finally give him some instructions.
This care package is daunting.
"Dad, it's almost June. How is the fourth child doing in school? Can he be admitted to high school?" Gao Mingcheng cleverly changed the subject and shifted the conflict to the fourth child.
I would rather die than let my friend die!
Speaking of the fourth brother, Gao Yuanjian's face really didn't look good.
He snorted and complained, "None of you are good students! I went to the school a few days ago and talked to the teacher of the fourth child. According to the teacher, the fourth child will not be able to pass the high school entrance examination. As for the idea of passing the junior technical secondary school or the secondary normal school, that's even more of a dream!"
"Alas, it's a pity that the fourth child has a rural household registration. If he had an urban household registration, he could consider going to a technical school. Forget it, since he can't go to school, he can come back to farm after graduation!" Gao Yuanjian sighed. Although he said he was disappointed, he was actually mentally prepared.
After all, when it comes to studying, you can tell whether someone has potential from the very beginning.
When Gao Yuanjian mentioned technical school, Gao Mingcheng disagreed.
The core purpose of technical schools is to solve the employment problem of young people with urban household registration, so they only recruit people with urban household registration. After graduating from technical schools, they can also be assigned jobs.
But those who graduated from secondary technical schools and secondary normal schools are considered cadres, while those who graduated from technical schools are considered workers, and this status is very important nowadays!
Vocational school graduates will be assigned to factories, mines and enterprises. Although their status is lower, it is still a stable job, so many people will choose this path. However, in the 1990s, there will be a large-scale wave of layoffs, and many people who have studied in technical schools will face layoffs.
If the fourth child starts attending a technical school now, he will be laid off not long after he is assigned a job.
Therefore, even if the fourth child could go to a technical school, Gao Mingcheng did not quite agree.
After talking about the fourth brother, Gao Yuanjian turned the topic to Gao Guobing. He looked at Gao Mingcheng and asked, "Your uncle Guobing has been promoted. You must know about it, right?"
"I know." Gao Mingcheng nodded, wondering in his heart what his father was going to do when he mentioned Gao Guobing.
"You have had a good relationship with Gao Guobing's two sons since you were young. Now you often go to the county. Have you had any contact with Gao Guobing? How does he treat you? Can he help you find a job in the county?" Gao Yuanjian asked with concern.
Gao Mingcheng had contacts with Gao Guobing, and Gao Yuanjian hadn't hidden this from him, but he hadn't said it in detail. Now after hearing what Gao Yuanjian said, Gao Mingcheng immediately said, "I won't go to the county to work. I raise so many bees in the mountains, and I make a lot of money selling honey every year. It's no fun to work in the county."
Gao Yuanjian's expression did not change, but he said, "If you don't want to go, can you let your third brother go? The third brother has been looking for something to do recently. The eldest brother said before that he would let the third brother go to the construction site to work, but there is not much to do at the moment."
Gao Mingcheng exclaimed, "Wow, he was waiting here!"
Asking him is false, asking the third brother is true!
But after all, they were brothers, so Gao Mingcheng did not refuse outright. Instead, he said, "I was injured recently and it is not convenient for me to move around. I will go to the county to ask in a few days. I also have to ask the third brother to see what he wants to do."
Gao Yuanjian said: "It's good enough to let him do something. What can he think of?"
Haha, typical patriarchal behavior!
The next day, Gao Mingcheng went to find the third brother and asked him what he wanted to do. The third brother was a very honest man and said that as long as he had something to do and could make money, it would be fine.
Gao Mingcheng thought about it and decided to ask Gao Guobing when he met him in a few days if there was any factory where he could find a job for the third brother.
In his previous life, after he returned to the county from outside, he took his brothers to work together. There were some conflicts and some personal gains. In this life, he didn't want to involve everyone in one thing.
Because of his injury, Gao Mingcheng had a rare two days of rest at home and didn't even go into the mountains. However, after his wound scabbed over, he still went into the mountains, mainly to check on the growth of the Poria cocos plants. The dead ones had to be pulled out in time to avoid affecting the normal growth of other plants.
Also check the beehives. Even if there are no black bears stealing honey, you still need to check the beehives regularly because bees have natural enemies and will split. If you don't take care of them, the bees in the beehives may die or run away after a while.
If there were no bees, where would the honey come from?
Gao Mingcheng brought his two dogs, checking each beehive one by one. The two dogs played around nearby and occasionally chased some small animals. Ever since the silly dog Elf bit a hedgehog once, it held a grudge against such animals. Whenever it saw a hedgehog, it would chase it. After the hedgehog hurriedly hid deep in the bushes, it would bark at the hedgehog a few more times before giving up.
Gao Mingcheng was speechless when he saw its amazing operation.
No accidents occurred during the entire process of checking the beehives. The forest here seemed to be much safer than the one near Kengli Village. There were neither tigers nor the deadly threat of the wild boar king.
He stood next to the beehive, casually hitting some hornets with a wooden stick. It would be very painful when these hornets stung people, but it was easy to hit them with the stick. As long as you aim and knock the hornet to the ground, it would be almost dead. If it was not dead, you could step on it again.
These hateful thieves not only eat bees, but also steal honey. They are the biggest enemies of beekeepers!
Gao Mingcheng raised his stick and swung it down, killing a bee with each blow.
Only after he had killed all the hornets near the beehive did he throw the stick aside, waiting to use it next time.
"Black Tiger, Elf, let's go!" Gao Mingcheng shouted and walked down the mountain with the two dogs. However, he stopped after taking a few steps. He looked suddenly in one direction and his pupils quickly shrank.
It's a gunshot!
"Black Tiger, Elf, go down the mountain and go home!" Gao Mingcheng ordered, and then without caring about them, he ran towards the place where the gunshots came from.
The two dogs barked and instinctively chased after him, but Gao Mingcheng ran too fast and even Hei Hu couldn't catch up with him.
"Woof woof!" The black tiger stopped and barked a few times towards the place where Gao Mingcheng disappeared. If it followed the scent, the black tiger could catch up with him, but the black tiger understood human nature and could understand commands.
After hesitating for a moment, it took its little elf down the mountain and returned home.
After returning home, Black Tiger lay in the shadow of the door, staring at the way down the mountain, waiting for his owner to come down the mountain as soon as possible.
When he heard the gunshots, Gao Mingcheng guessed that someone must have come to the mountains to poach!
The target of poaching is naturally the only remaining tiger!
He ran for more than ten minutes following the sound of gunfire, and then heard another series of gunshots, accompanied by the roar of a tiger.
All the big and small birds and animals in the mountains hid themselves, and the forest was much quieter than before. Gao Mingcheng walked quickly through the forest, and after a few minutes, he finally saw the poacher!
There were eight poachers in total, each of them was holding a hunting rifle, and one of them even had a pistol on his waist. This amount of equipment was really a large sum for their small county!
Through these equipment, Gao Mingcheng concluded at a glance that these people were not from their county, but should have come from other places. When he thought about the Mr. Luo he met last time, Gao Mingcheng had some guesses in his heart.
Mr. Luo was not here, and there was not even a young master like Mr. Luo. This group of poachers were all veterans, fully equipped, well-coordinated, and brought three good dogs to track the tiger.
When they caught the tiger, the three dogs pounced on it with extreme ferocity, forcing the tiger to not just run away but to teach the dogs a lesson from time to time.
But this proved that the dog had left the tiger behind! At this time, the poachers following closely also caught up, they raised their hunting rifles and shot at the tiger.
There is a drawback to hunting rifles, which is that steel balls and gunpowder must be loaded every time a shot is fired. However, there are eight of them, and if they take turns firing, they can cause terrible damage.
The tiger was injured, but fortunately not fatally, so it kept running away. However, with both gunshots and dog bites, the tiger's situation was worrying.
Gao Mingcheng hid behind a tree and witnessed it all.
His face was gloomy, with a look of heartache and anger.
He regarded the entire mountain as his hunting ground, and all the resources in the mountain as their local property. However, now they were coveted by outsiders, so he was naturally unhappy.
Then I thought about how the South China tiger became extinct in the wild in 1990, and all of this has something to do with these people!
They shot without mercy, and it was obvious that they were aiming to kill the tiger.
Gao Mingcheng subconsciously touched his waist and found that in addition to the dagger he carried with him, there were also two throwing knives.
But that's not enough!
There were too many people on the other side, and he had too few swords, so there was no way he could defeat all of them.
But it was too late! Gao Mingcheng's eyes flashed with a fierce look, and the flying knife in his hand had already slipped out.
With a whoosh, a hunting dog that was about to bite a tiger fell to the ground with a crash. A small knife was stuck in its head, with the blade completely embedded in its head, leaving only the handle outside.
As soon as the hunting dog fell, Gao Mingcheng shouted: "This tiger is mine, get out!"
But what Gao Mingcheng never expected was that as soon as he finished speaking, a bullet suddenly flew towards him. Although it did not hit him, it exploded not far from him. The steel balls and iron sand inside exploded, causing certain damage to everything around it.
Gao Mingcheng dodged quickly and was not hurt by the steel balls and iron sand.
At this time, a rebellious voice rang out over there: "Are you the person that Luo's kid mentioned? Ha, I came into the mountain just to meet you! I want to see if you have three heads and six arms to dare to speak nonsense!"
"Shoot!" With his order, the others raised their shotguns and shot at the place where Gao Mingcheng had been before.
But he had already left quickly, and his movements were so light that no one noticed him at all.
However, human eyesight and sense of smell are limited, making it difficult to find Gao Mingcheng in the forest. But trained hunting dogs are more powerful. Two of them ran towards where Gao Mingcheng was.
They are strong, have loud voices, and can respond quickly without any orders from their owners. They are two excellent hunting dogs.
Compared to them, the black tiger and the elf are both weak.
Gao Mingcheng had a dagger and a throwing knife on him. He threw the throwing knife without thinking, and this knife still accurately hit the head of a hunting dog.
The hunting dog fell to the ground with a thud after being killed.
The remaining hunting dogs showed no fear and continued to chase Gao Mingcheng, while the eight poachers quickly followed behind.
At this time, their target was Gao Mingcheng, not the injured tiger.
The tiger was a disloyal guy and took the opportunity to run away.
Gao Mingcheng only had a dagger in his hand, and he was reluctant to lose it, so he could only run away.
Damn it, is this a dragon from another country coming to attack the local snake?
He did not dare to run towards Gaojia Village for fear of being discovered. At this time, he ran towards the place where he met the Wild Boar King last time. He did not know whether the Wild Boar King was there today. If so, please help him block it!
(End of this chapter)
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