Chapter 60: The Road Home (Part 2) If he...
Everyone was happily packing up to go home. When they thought about being home by this time tomorrow, everyone's face was filled with smiles.
At this moment, a low growl of a wild beast broke the joyful atmosphere and successfully attracted everyone's attention.
“Ouch!”
Sun Dalang's heart was in his throat at that moment. There really was a bear! The brother hadn't lied to him. There really was a brown bear roaming around here! And they had just happened to run into one!
Before he could react, the paw in the bushes moved, and then a brown bear came out from the bushes. It shook its mane and shook off the leaves that were stuck to its body. Then it looked in the direction of the crowd, as if it had seen something delicious. Its eyes lit up and its ears stood up.
While howling, he rushed towards the crowd.
When approaching the crowd, he accidentally tripped over a stone under his feet, fell and saw stars. He rolled on the ground several times before he stopped.
The scene was quiet for a while, but after the brown bear appeared, everyone remained unusually calm.
Because... the one in front of you is a young bear!
It looked no more than a year old, and stood no taller than half a man. Its thick fur concealed a skinny body, and it looked like it had been starving for a long time.
Sun Dalang: Damn! Who was that kid who lied about military intelligence and made me so nervous all the way here? I'm going to blow his head off when I get back.
The little bear seemed to be dazed after the fall. It held its head with its paws and cried loudly, looking cute and funny.
While it was funny, the villagers were still extremely vigilant. Such a small brown bear would usually be accompanied by its mother, so it would be an adult brown bear.
Juvenile brown bears are not dangerous, but adult brown bears are different. They are very strong and can crush even the hardest human skull like a watermelon with one palm.
However, brown bears also have their own fixed food, and humans are not within their food range, so they generally will not actively attack humans unless they are provoked or very hungry.
They waited for a long time but the mother bear didn't show up. Instead, the little bear rolled around a few times, recovered, and stumbled towards the crowd... The green fruit next to it?
The green fruit that Zhao Mingsheng had once despised now became its most delicious food. It couldn't wait to pick one up and stuff it into its mouth, but soon it tasted the sourness of the fruit. It opened its mouth and spat it out, whimpering pitifully.
"This little bear must have gotten separated from its mother." Uncle Cao inferred based on its behavior.
Ferocious beasts like these usually roam deeper in the mountains, quite a distance from here. This little bear must have accidentally run out of its usual range and couldn't find its way home, so it wandered here.
"A bear of its size probably hasn't learned basic foraging techniques yet. It can only eat wild fruits, which is why it's so skinny from hunger."
After hearing the little bear's story, Zhao Mingsheng suddenly felt pity for it. Seeing the little bear whimpering with its ears drooping from hunger, she couldn't help but pull out a piece of bread from her backpack, break off a small piece, and throw it in front of the little bear.
The little bear smelled the food and sniffed it with its wet, dark nose. It was a strange smell it had never tasted before, yet it exuded an alluring aroma. The little bear hesitated for a long time, but couldn't resist the hunger in its stomach. With a flick of its tongue, it rolled the pancake into its mouth, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it.
With just one bite, its ears immediately stood up and its eyes lit up.
Zhao Mingsheng broke off another piece and threw it to it. This time it did not hesitate and swallowed it directly. After eating, it took two steps closer to Zhao Mingsheng.
Yan Zhuo was worried that the little bear might hurt someone, so he stepped forward and blocked her way.
"It's okay, it's just hungry." Zhao Mingsheng pursed his lips and assured with a smile: "I will be careful and won't get too close to it."
"Well, you'd better be careful, its teeth are very sharp." Yan Zhuo took a step back, but his eyes kept following the little bear's movements.
Zhao Mingsheng was just about to continue feeding when Sun Dalang appeared beside her.
"If you keep feeding it like this, it will stay with us."
Zhao Mingsheng paused as he was breaking the pancake. They couldn't really take the bear back. The mother bear would eventually follow the scent and find it.
"What should I do then?"
"Let me feed it."
Sun Dalang took the cake and walked deeper into the forest outside the orchard.
The little bear followed closely, his mind fixed on the biscuit in his hand.
Sun Dalang broke off a piece of bread and fed it to the bear as he walked. He led the bear a long way. Finally, he threw the whole piece of bread to the bear and trotted back, waving his hand to everyone:
"Go!"
Everyone hurriedly picked up their packed baskets and followed him out of the orchard.
Zhao Mingsheng took one last reluctant look at the little bear, hoping that the mother bear could find it soon!
After another three days and two nights, everyone finally returned to the foot of the mountain at noon on the third day.
As soon as she arrived at the foot of the mountain, Zhao Mingsheng found a group of guards in black tights. There were about twenty or thirty people gathered there, ready to go. She found a familiar figure in the crowd.
She waved her hand in surprise and said, "Jingliu!"
Jing Liu was surprised to hear someone calling his name and turned around suddenly. He saw the young lady from the Zhao family whom he had not seen for a long time. When his eyes moved to the person next to her, his calm expression immediately collapsed.
"Master! It's great that you are still alive!" Jing Liu looked like he was about to cry.
Jing Liu also knew that Yan Zhuo had gone into the mountains to search for clues about Cui Cen's disappearance, but what he didn't expect was that Yan Zhuo had been gone for three days!
This made him very anxious. He gathered people to guard the foot of the mountain, but did not dare to go into the mountain rashly.
Jingliu thought to himself, this mountain must be poisonous!
How come all the people who went in disappeared without a trace? If Yan Zhuo didn't show up today, he would lead people into the mountains to search!
Finally, Jing Liu finally stopped wanting to burst into tears when he saw Yan Zhuo's face getting darker and darker, and reported to him everything that had happened in the past few days.
On the day he left, there happened to be an important letter that needed his personal review, so he ended up being away for three days.
Yan Zhuo was anxious to go back and deal with some business, so he took off the backpack and was about to ask his men to help carry it back to Zhao's house, but Zhao Mingsheng stopped him with a smile: "Don't bother them, I can carry it myself."
Yan Zhuo saw the seriousness in her eyes, so he stopped insisting, nodded slightly, and left with a group of people.
The villagers who witnessed this scene were left speechless, thinking, "Oh my goodness, who on earth is this guy?"
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