498: A wild man and a skinny monkey on the mountain
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Seeing that they were only concerned with surrounding him, Zhou Ziheng urged:
"Let's carry the things."
"Yes, carry the things, let's take Director Zhou up the mountain!"
Because of the arrival of the general manager, the group of people were particularly motivated. They lifted the sacks with the shoulder poles as easily as if they were carrying empty sacks.
Zhou Ziheng carried his luggage and walked up the mountain with them along the mountain road.
The snow on the mountain has not melted yet and the road is a bit slippery.
Fortunately, the mountain was not steep. Everyone tied a long rope around their waists, making it like a string of candied haws. Led by the bearded captain, they walked up one step at a time.
After walking for more than twenty minutes, we saw another savage coming down the mountain, carrying a heavy load.
Compared with these people in the logging company, the one coming down from the mountain looked more like a savage. He was wrapped in animal skins and looked tall, strong and very tough. Only two eyes were exposed on his face.
Zhou Ziheng had sharp eyes and when he saw the savage's swaying figure coming down, he had a vague feeling of déjà vu.
In fact, the members of the logging company were all selected from various branches. It would be normal if there were one or two people Zhou Ziheng knew among them.
But Zhou Ziheng's intuition told him that the wild man coming down from the mountain was not from the logging team, nor was he from their farm.
At this time, the wild people on the mountain shouted to the people below:
"Captain Beard, why did they come early this time? I wasn't prepared—"
"Ahem!"
When the people in the team saw the wild man on the mountain, they were a little nervous. Several of them coughed dryly, as if they were afraid that Zhou Ziheng would discover something.
The bearded captain simply stopped and waved at the savage, signaling him to go back:
"Go back, go back, Lao Yang has left! Go back quickly!"
The savage who came down from the mountain found that this group of people were unusual today. He was a smart man and reacted immediately. He looked at the team again and saw Zhou Ziheng in a military coat.
Oh, someone is following us.
This man looks very handsome at first glance, and must be no ordinary person.
He was probably a leader or something, so Captain Beard and the others were so nervous and didn't want to reveal anything in front of this person.
The Savage was startled for a moment, then stopped and said calmly:
"That's all right."
Then he turned around, picked up his load and quickly went back up the mountain via another path.
After the savage turned around, Zhou Ziheng discovered that behind the savage's carrying pole were two skinned wild beasts, with their limbs tied up and hanging upside down on the pole.
Judging from its size, it looks like a deer or a roe deer.
In addition to the two wild beasts, there were several other neatly packed wild animals, all frozen solid.
Zhou Ziheng guessed that this man should be a hunter living in the mountains.
There are many ethnic groups in the Great Northern Wilderness who make a living by fishing and hunting.
Although after the founding of the People's Republic of China, many nomadic people were called down the mountain to learn farming, there were many such people on their farms.
But not everyone can adapt to farming life all at once.
There are still many people who insist on staying in the mountains, leading a free nomadic life, without household registration, without identity, and unknown to outsiders.
They can survive by relying on the hunting skills passed down by their ancestors.
However, judging from the accent of the savage who just came down from the mountain, it was obvious that he was not a nomadic person.
That's strange. He lives in the mountains and is neither from a logging company nor a nomadic tribe. So his identity is very suspicious.
More importantly, when Zhou Ziheng looked at the savage's tall stature, walking posture, and accent, he felt a sense of déjà vu, inexplicably familiar.
Zhou Ziheng remained calm and pretended not to notice anything.
The bearded captain seemed relieved to see the savage cleverly turn around and go back.
"It's okay, let's keep going."
The team continued to move forward.
Zhou Zi ()
498: A wild man in the mountains, a skinny monkey for free...
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Heng waited until the others gradually let down their guard, then pretended to ask casually:
"Who was that person just now?"
The bearded captain turned his head slightly and replied:
"Oh, there's a hunter living in the mountains. We all call him Wild Man. He lives not far from where our company is stationed. We're neighbors and he'd come visit us occasionally, so we knew each other."
"Has that hunter always lived in the mountains?"
"No, he only came last summer."
"He came alone?"
"Yes, he came alone."
The bearded captain took a few deep breaths and added:
"In fact, this savage's life was saved by a car owner from the second division.
It was last summer, not long after the logging company was established, that Lao Yang drove a horse-drawn carriage to deliver supplies to us.
According to Lao Yang, he was driving his carriage forward when he saw a man lying in the wilderness halfway. He was carrying a bedding roll and was wearing tattered clothes, like a refugee fleeing famine.
Lao Yang said that he thought it was a dead person at the time and wanted to see if it was dead.
If it is dead, dig a hole and bury it on the spot to avoid attracting wild wolves or something. If they eat half and leave the other half, and it becomes bloody, it will be scary to look at on the way back.
But I came down and poked it twice with a stick, and it actually moved. It wasn't dead yet!
Old Yang looked at him and found no injuries. He guessed that he had collapsed on the road because he was traveling alone without food or water. So he dragged him to the carriage, gave him some water and some food, and he came back to life.
On the way, Lao Yang asked the man where he was going.
The man said he had nowhere to go and had not yet decided where to go.
Lao Yang had no choice but to abandon the man halfway, so he brought him to us and asked if he could be settled in the mountains.
How can our company accommodate him?
Let's talk about him
This person is unclear and no one knows his origin, so they want to drive him away.
But he said he wouldn't leave.
I thought, if you don’t want to leave, then don’t leave. The mountain is not ours, and we don’t have the final say on who wants to stay here. Just don’t mess with us.
Old Yang didn't care about him and just left him here.
This guy actually stayed and has been here until now, which is almost half a year."
Hearing this, Zhou Ziheng became interested in this person and asked:
"How did he survive in the mountains all by himself?"
The bearded captain shook his head:
"It's certainly difficult for him to survive alone in this desolate mountain. In fact, there is another resident on the mountain who arrived earlier than us. However, this person has some mental problems and is as thin as a monkey. We all call him Skinny Monkey.
Skinny Monkey has a wooden house on the mountain. He lives in the house alone and doesn't interact with anyone.
Before, people from our company wanted to borrow an axe from this skinny guy, but he was not very smart. When we found him, he had disheveled hair and was naked, and he was not afraid of being seen.
No matter what we said, he poked us with sticks like crazy and almost killed one of us.
We could see that he wasn't very smart, maybe he was born mentally retarded, or he had been stimulated by something and gone crazy.
Later we ignored him and no one bothered each other.
Later, when the wild man that Lao Yang picked up on the way came, someone gave him a bad idea, saying that there was a wooden house on the mountain and a skinny monkey lived in the wooden house.
If he is not afraid of danger, he can stay with Skinny Monkey.
As a result, the savage was really brave and went there.
After he went there, we didn't see him for a while. We all thought he was gone, or he went to Skinny Monkey's place and was stabbed to death by him.
But guess what, the wild man was really good. I don't know how he communicated with the skinny monkey, but he actually stayed in the cabin. The skinny monkey didn't stab him to death!
From then on, the savage and the skinny monkey lived in the wooden house, and they lived in peace.
498: A wild man in the mountains, a skinny monkey for free...
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The skinny monkey is not very smart, but he can hunt.
The savage can't hunt, but he has a good brain.
Sometimes the savage would bring the meat hunted by the skinny monkey to our company to exchange for food—"
498: A wild man in the mountains, a skinny monkey for free...
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