Chapter Forty-Eight: Wild Boar Attacks the Village
Lin Baozhu: ...
After cutting two slices of watermelon for them, the rest were put in a basket and hung in the well, so that when Lin's mother and Lin Sanlang returned, they could eat the chilled watermelon.
After hanging the watermelon, she went to the kitchen to cook a pot of mung bean porridge, adding a handful of sugar along with it. The sweet mung bean soup was then hung in the well as well.
These past two days she's been taking Lin Sanlang out, leaving Lin's mother alone at home. She has to do chores and cook, and the clothes and sheets at home haven't been washed yet. Since it's not so hot now, she decided to wash all the accumulated stuff.
The Lin family had a well, so she didn't have to go to the river to wash like the others.
Lin Baozhu was washing clothes at home when she heard a series of rapid gong sounds coming from the village, and someone was shouting, "The wild boar is coming down the mountain! The wild boar is coming down the mountain!"
Upon hearing this, Lin Baozhu quickly stood up, pushed the two children inside, locked the door, and said urgently, "You two go back inside. Don't open the door until your aunt comes back, understand?"
Tiger leaned against the window and shouted, "I heard you, Auntie, Grandma is in that field at the foot of the mountain..."
"knew!"
Lin Baozhu took the wood-chopping knife off the wall and headed straight out of the village...
The village was in complete chaos, with many people running frantically into the village. Lin Baozhu ran against the flow of people towards the edge of the village...
At the foot of the mountain, Lin's mother was leading Old Man Yan and Zhang Wenzhuo towards the educated youth compound, cursing as she ran: "Those people are out of their minds! Why didn't they think to install a sturdier door for the cowshed? If I hadn't reacted quickly, you two would be dead. Hurry up, the doors at the educated youth compound are all reinforced..."
Just as the three were about to reach the educated youth compound, the people inside slammed the door shut and bolted it. At this point, the wild boar was still more than a hundred meters away from them, giving them plenty of time to open the door and let the people in.
But when Jiang Meng, who was hiding behind the gate of the educated youth compound, saw Lin's mother running towards them, she inexplicably closed the gate...
Outside the door, Lin's mother kept banging on the gate of the educated youth compound, her voice urgent: "Open the door, open the door quickly, the wild boar is coming!"
Seeing Jiang Meng's actions, the educated youth in the courtyard reached out to open the door: "Jiang Meng! What are you doing? The wild boar is clearly far away from them. If you keep them outside like this, what if... Aren't you afraid Lin Baozhu will cause you trouble? Open the door quickly, maybe you can still save them."
Jiang Meng pressed her body firmly against the door: "No, I'm doing this for everyone's safety."
"Don't try to drag us into this. We never said we couldn't let them in. The relationship between the villagers and us educated youth was already delicate. Have you thought about the consequences of what you did today?"
But it's too late to say anything now!
Just then, Lin's mother suddenly cried out in pain from outside the courtyard. The educated youth in the courtyard all turned pale and exclaimed that it was all over!
As soon as Lin Baozhu arrived outside the village, she saw a huge wild boar charging towards her mother's abdomen. If those enormous tusks were to pierce her mother's stomach, she would be dead before the doctor even arrived...
"mother……"
Lin Baozhu ran towards her mother as fast as she could, but the wild boar was too close. Even though she was running at her best, she still couldn't catch up...
Just then, a figure swiftly tackled Lin's mother and the others to the ground. The wild boar couldn't stop in time and crashed directly into Lin Baozhu and Qin Haifeng's buttocks. Qin Haifeng groaned, his black pants stained red and wet with blood.
Just as the wild boar was about to attack again, Lin Baozhu arrived. Looking at the people lying on the ground, her eyes were bloodshot. She grabbed the wild boar's hind legs with both hands, and to everyone's shock, she swung it up and then slammed it heavily to the ground. The wild boar screamed in agony as it was hit. Out of curiosity, the people from the educated youth compound climbed onto the roof. When they saw the wild boar with its brains splattered, they trembled like leaves.
Jiang Meng, in particular, was so frightened that she rushed down from the roof and hid in her fellow villager's room, trembling with fear. She was much lighter than a wild boar and couldn't withstand such a fall.
At this moment, she was filled with regret and fear, only hoping that Lin's mother was not in danger and that Lin Baozhu would let her go.
Lin Baozhu threw the wild boar aside and ran over to check on her mother!
"Mother, where are you hurt?"
Looking at Lin Baozhu covered in blood, Lin's mother burst into tears: "Baozhu, you almost didn't get to see your mother again, sob sob..."
The heat from the wild boar's breath still seemed to linger, causing her stomach to ache intermittently.
"Alright, alright, I've killed the wild boar! Where was it injured?"
Lin's mother let out a heavy sigh, suppressing the surging fear in her heart: "Mother just has a little scrape on her arm. If it weren't for Feng, I guess, sob sob sob..."
As Lin's mother was crying, she saw Qin Haifeng slowly standing up against the wall and exclaimed, "Daughter, come and see Qin! He's injured!"
Upon hearing this, Lin Baozhu turned her head and saw that his clothes were already soaked with blood. She reached out and wiped his buttocks, and unsurprisingly, her hand was covered in blood.
Lin Baozhu took a deep breath, turned to her mother and said, "Mother, let's go home first."
"Yes, yes, let's go home."
Lin Baozhu bent down, picked up Qin Haifeng, and strode towards home, with the other three following closely behind, their eyes warily scanning their surroundings.
Qin Haifeng's handsome face turned red as he struggled to get down: "You, you put me down, I can walk by myself."
He's a grown man, and he's been carried back to the village in a princess carry by a woman. He'll never be able to face anyone again.
Upon hearing this, Lin Baozhu slapped his buttocks twice with one hand: "Behave yourself. What are you trying to do now? The more you walk, the faster you bleed. You'll bleed to death before you even get home."
Qin Haifeng didn't hear what she said, but felt his body suddenly stiffen, and his face turned even redder than before, but he didn't struggle.
Upon arriving at the Lin family's house, they found the gate open and several men with machetes fighting off three wild boars. Seeing this, Lin Baozhu put Qin Haifeng down and handed him to her mother, saying, "Mother, you all go hide at the neighbor's house for now. I'm going home to check on things."
After saying that, he picked up a stone from the ground, held it in his hand, and threw it at one of the wild boars...
The stone struck the wild boar, which let out a miserable cry and collapsed to the ground with a thud. Upon closer inspection, the stone was completely embedded in the boar's body!
Qin Haifeng looked at Lin Baozhu in surprise. This method was very similar to that of the person who secretly helped last night. Was that person her?
Lin Baozhu didn't go to see Qin Haifeng; after killing a wild boar, she went straight home...
"Baozhu, these wild boars have gone mad, be careful."
Don't worry, Uncle.
Seeing its companion killed by a stone, the wild boar was not afraid but instead became ferocious, lowering its head and charging towards her stomach...
"You beasts, today I'll leave you all here to eat meat."
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