Chapter 75: Danger at the Creek
Next, Wen Ran realized what it meant that there is strength in numbers.
In two hours, the firewood shed was built, and the Zhang family even collected the firewood for the winter.
The neatly chopped wood filled the firewood shed and even spread to the side of the walnut nest.
Walnut:"?"
It was angry, and it ran out with its short legs, baring its teeth and yelling at everyone, "Awoo~Awoo~"
It has almost no lethality, but it is quite good at being cute.
Wen Ran felt embarrassed, "Aunt, this is really a bother for you."
"What's the trouble?" Aunt Zhang said solemnly, "We have done too little. You are our family's savior."
"Yes," the gentleman who appeared again this time said with a serious expression on his face, "Wen Zhiqing, you may not realize what you have done until now."
Wen Ran: “?”
What the hell.
He pushed up the glasses on his tall nose and said, "Those eight people are fugitives who came all the way from the northwest to rob and plunder.
They used to specialize in robbing trucks. They were very ruthless and anyone they targeted would basically die alive.
Later, some of them were caught accidentally, and the rest fled in all directions. A few were caught here and there, and only these eight people are missing. "
Aunt Zhang was really glad that she hadn't been so kind and asked Wen Ran to get on the ox cart and go with them.
as a result of……
Wen Ran understood, she frowned, "So, this time..."
The man sneered, "There's not even a chance to work, and a piece of iron peanut can be sent to the sky."
That's good. People like this are wasting oxygen even if they are alive.
So, can she still get a certificate this time?
It looks pretty good when pasted on the wall.
The Zhang family was busy making Wen Ran's courtyard spotless, and even optimized some places that were not very convenient to use.
She felt embarrassed for Wen Ran and thought she would leave some food for him, but he left so quickly.
Aunt Zhang, Zhang Jian, and Baozhu stayed behind to cover the retreat. "No need to send us off. We will treat each other as relatives from now on. You don't have anyone to rely on here."
After thinking for a while, Aunt Zhang frowned and tried to test him: "How about I use my connections to get you transferred to our team?
Then, there will be someone to take care of you.”
"No, no," Wen Ran really couldn't stand it any longer, "I'm fine here, the captain is a nice guy, and I have friends here."
"Really?"
“No need.”
Aunt Zhang still felt it was a pity, smacked her lips, "Well, if you have any problems, you must come to us, just say Zhang Jian's name, it won't go wrong."
"OK."
After seeing off the Zhang family, Wen Ran let out a long sigh, closed the door, and flashed into the space. He took a hot bath inside and did not forget to get something to fill his stomach.
Looking back on these days, it was really exciting with each passing day.
Wen Ran smacked her lips, sincerely hoping that the days ahead would be a little more peaceful. She, an old lady, could not bear this kind of stimulation!
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It was drizzling, and everyone rested at home for three days, and then started to do their own things.
After all, if you want to have a fire to keep you company during the winter, not feel hungry, and occasionally roast some peanuts, walnuts and the like, you have to work hard now.
Wen Ran had nothing to do after cutting grass for the pigs, so he simply made an appointment with Bao Wenxuan and Xiao Chenxing to go to the river to catch fish and shrimp.
Xiao Chenxing has become familiar with Wen Ran, and calls her "Sister Wen" all the time. Bao Wenxuan was also reserved at first, but later on, she was the one who laughed the loudest.
I wish I could scare all the birds standing on the trees away.
"Hey~" Wen Ran reminded: "Laugh softly."
"What are you doing?" Bao Wenxuan raised her eyebrows, "I can't even be happy?"
Wen Ran said calmly, "You opened your mouth too wide, I can see your throat. There are bugs on the trees and bird droppings falling from the sky. What do you think..."
Bao Wenxuan: “!!!”
She looked horrified and quickly shut her mouth.
No matter which one it was, it was a snack that Bao Wenxuan found hard to accept.
"Oh, by the way," Bao Wenxuan said seriously, pulling Wen Ran to talk quietly about the Youth House, "Do you know what happened next at the Youth House?"
Before Bao Wenxuan could continue speaking, she heard Xiao Chenxing shouting at the top of his voice, "Tian Jinbao, don't bully others!"
Wen Ran and Bao Wenxuan turned their heads and found that Xiao Chenxing had stood up and walked among the children with a heroic and confident look.
"What are you doing?"
Tian Jinbao is seven or eight years old this year, just at the age when he is a fat boy who is hated by cats and dogs. However, because he is spoiled at home, he has eaten himself into a little fat boy.
Hearing Xiao Chenxing's scolding, he felt a little guilty, and the hand that was pulling the little girl's hair loosened almost instantly, "Why are you yelling? I'll tell my mother later, you're such a grown-up, and you still bully me!"
Xiao Chenxing put his hands on his hips and asked, "Why are you pulling her braids?"
"I didn't!" Tian Jinbao insisted, "Who said I pulled her braids? I was just playing with her."
"Then you have to see if they are willing to play with you."
The little girl's braids were untied, and she jumped away almost instantly, "I don't want to play with you, you have no manners at all!"
The hair her mother had combed was all torn apart.
She snorted, turned her head and did not forget to thank Xiao Chenxing, "Thank you, Sister Xingxing, Xiaowei and I will go somewhere else."
"Go ahead," Xiao Chenxing rubbed Miaomiao's head, "Be careful."
Only after scaring the naughty little fat boy Tian Jinbao again did Xiao Chenxing give up.
Seeing the children wandering around the creek, I couldn't help but remind them, "Don't run around. It's dangerous near the river."
"knew!"
The children scattered and ran to another place to play.
In just a blink of an eye, Tian Jinbao was next to Miaomiao and Xiaowei again, playing with them.
Of course, little girl Miaomiao still dislikes Tian Jinbao.
Xiao Chenxing sighed, "This little bully from the Tian family, really..."
Seeing that Xiao Chenxing was no longer paying attention to those children, Wen Ran turned around and continued to ask Bao Wenxuan calmly, "Hmm? What's the follow-up?"
There's nothing I can do about it, who told her to love eating melons.
"What?"
Bao Wenxuan was a little confused. After Xiao Chenxing's interruption, she had forgotten what she was just saying.
Xiao Chenxing still remembered it, and poked his head in, "Has anything happened in the Youth Hostel again?"
The word "again" is very appropriate.
Bao Wenxuan looked at Xiao Chenxing, slapped her head, and remembered.
She said seriously, "Come to think of it, this matter is somewhat related to your family."
Xiao Chenxing: “?”
Her watery eyes suddenly widened, "Huh? Why is our family being targeted? What does this have to do with us?"
Wen Ran had no choice but to briefly explain what happened with the educated youth who came to his house before. With the help of Bao Wenxuan, Xiao Chenxing understood it and was immediately shocked.
"I wouldn't even dare to do this in my daydreams."
Xiao Chenxing complained: "I took care of those two big fat pigs with my neighbors, and when the New Year comes, I hope to use them to visit relatives and friends.
I really want to attack them..."
"Who said it wasn't~" Bao Wenxuan rolled her eyes, but then she thought of their current fate and covered her mouth with her hands, laughing non-stop, "Guess why they didn't make any moves later."
As the culprit, Wen Ran was quite calm, with just the right amount of curiosity, and tilted his head, "Why?"
"The pig is gone."
Wen Ran: “?”
Her eyelids jumped. The heartbreak grass that was fed to the pigs was supposed to cause diarrhea, it shouldn't be so toxic.
It’s really far to the north!
Her hands are dirty and she has a pig's life on her shoulders.
"Why is it gone?"
"After we finished looking for you, it started to rain intermittently. They were all very angry and thought that since they had someone to feed them, they just gave up and didn't care.
As a result, no one fed the pigs, so they starved to death," Bao Wenxuan said with a sigh, "I have never seen a pig so skinny that it was just skin and bones in my life."
Therefore, even if Wen Ran hadn't climbed over the wall and thrown in those two pieces of heartbreak grass, the pig would definitely have died.
hiss~
I just felt unhappy, as if my plans had failed and it was like I had punched a piece of cotton.
Wen Ran opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but gave up. She just muttered in her heart, "Look, this has nothing to do with her. Brother Pig, if you want to take revenge, take their lives!"
The little girls talked about all kinds of wild ideas. After gloating for a while, they put the topic out of their minds and started chattering about their fantasies of hibernating.
Xiao Chenxing sighed, "I want to make a new cotton coat this year, but I don't know if it will work."
Cotton is fine, there are mountains nearby.
Just find a secluded place on the mountain, cultivate some land, plant some cotton, fruits, etc., and basically no one will say anything.
Everyone kept it a secret tacitly while they continued to plant and harvest.
Even if someone else found it later, so what? Who could prove who it belonged to? The worst that could happen was that the harvest for the whole year would be wasted.
It's just that cloth is hard to come by.
Alas~
Xiao Chenxing sighed.
When Wen Ran saw this, he looked thoughtful.
We caught a lot of fish and shrimp. The big ones can be cooked and eaten, and the medium-sized ones can be cleaned and dried. When winter comes, we can take them out and fry them slightly, and they will become a dish.
Small fish and shrimps are easier to deal with. Just pour them directly into the chicken coop. If they eat well, the eggs they lay will be nutritious.
"Almost."
Wen Ran looked at the big fish in the basket and decided to give up. "Let's go home."
"Hmmmm."
The three of them were about to leave when they suddenly heard a scream behind them.
“Ahhhhh~”
Wen Ran's heart skipped a beat and she turned her head to see a scene that they would never forget: a snake over two meters long and as thick as a wrist was wrapped around the child's body.
The child was not a stranger, but the little fat boy who had just been naughty - Tian Jinbao.
To be honest, even if a wild boar fell down from the mountain at this time, Wen Ran would not change his expression at all. He would just raise his fist and charge forward to deal with it.
But what was before him was a living, breathing worm. Its scales and texture were so real that Wen Ran felt his throat tighten just thinking about it.
She was practically pinned to the spot, barely able to move.
Xiao Chenxing's hair was already standing on end, "Ahhhhhhh!"
The children were all terrified and screaming. Some of the timid ones were even frightened to death and fainted.
The snake was frightened and stretched out its long tongue.
It let go of Tian Jinbao, and threw the unconscious Tian Jinbao into the stream. It was a lone snake, swimming towards the group of children.
Wen Ran grabbed the fish in the bucket, turned pale, and threw the fish out.
What a coincidence, it hit the vital point!
The snake was smashed half to death. Wen Ran closed her eyes, gritted her teeth and rushed forward. She jumped into the stream and accurately grabbed the snake's tail. It felt slippery and cold.
Wen Ran just felt like he had died a little bit.
She grabbed the snake's tail, used it as a hemp rope, and started swinging it by the tail.
“Huff, huff, huff~”
The sound of wind whistling could be heard in his ears, and Wen Ran's face turned paler and paler.
It was unclear whether the snake was fainted or dead. When it fell to the ground, it was stretched into a straight line.
She wanted to move forward and kill the snake while it was still in its infancy.
But his feet were so limp that he sat down in the stream.
Fortunately, Wen Ran knew a little about swimming, so he didn't get drowned in the stream.
Just like that, she watched Bao Wenxuan pass her sight, rush to the front of the snake, and relying on her weight and agile jumping ability, she stomped hard on the half-dead snake's head.
“Ahhhhhh!”
She jumped and danced on the snake's head. The snake's body twitched nervously twice and then became motionless.
Bao Wenxuan was so angry that not only her face but even her neck was red.
At this moment, all she could think about was killing him!
Xiao Chenxing went into the water to retrieve Tian Jinbao, leaving Wen Ran lying in the stream, feeling weak. He did not forget to persuade Bao Wenxuan, weakly saying, "Alright, alright, that's enough. The snake has been stepped on to death."
She suffered a mental shock and hadn't recovered yet. She just felt weak all over.
As for the snake...
To be more precise, it was completely dead, and its head was crushed into minced meat.
Bao Wenxuan calmed down a little, looked at the bloody mess on her shoes and feet, and sat down on the ground in a cowardly manner.
She cried loudly, and while crying she rolled and crawled to the stream and stuck her feet in.
I really can’t keep this foot anymore!
Wen Ran: “!!!”
She felt like her hair was about to stand up.
sisters!
What the hell!
I'm downstream from you.
Wen Ran was still in shock after rolling and crawling onto the shore. Xiao Chenxing picked up Tian Jinbao and ordered in a panic, "Kids, hurry up and find the captain!
Just say that Tian Jinbao was bitten by a snake and ask him to drive the ox cart over quickly. "
The snake is dead, but Tian Jinbao was also bitten. Whether he is poisoned or not depends entirely on luck.
Xiao Chenxing wiped the water off his face and patted Tian Jinbao's chubby face, "Jinbao? Little Fatty? Wake up!"
The crowd who had noticed something wrong earlier rushed forward, and seeing other adults coming, Wen Ran finally closed his eyes with relief.
Well, grabbing a snake and swinging it around was beyond her psychological expectations.
It's safe now, you can faint.
Before she closed her eyes, she seemed to hear familiar shouts and cries. Before she completely lost her senses, she felt her body lighten, as if she was being picked up.
Yes, who is it?
Wen Ran couldn't open her eyelids, and the next second, she fell into a deep sleep.
(End of this chapter)
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