Chapter 104 Leopards, Ants, and War
Yike's heart was pounding, and the warmth in her chest seemed to overflow. She excitedly hugged Ziyi back, kissed his neck again and again, and bit Ziyi's chin hard. The last bit of oxygen was taken away by Ziyi, and she finally fell asleep peacefully.
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The next day, Ziyi rode a bicycle with Yike, Tang Jianguo rode Ma Youcai, and Wang Hongjun rode Dong Guoqing. The six of them set off at dawn. They planned to return directly to the paradise from the back mountain of Ma Youcai.
When everyone arrived at Ma Youcai's house, they hid their bicycles in Ma Youcai's cellar and took the farm tools they had bought long ago: hoes, sickles, plows and rakes.
There are more cows than plows and harrows at home now, so Ma Youcai and Dong Guoqing bought a plow and a harrow and left them at Ma Youcai's house when they came back last time, and they just happened to bring them with them when they went back this time. There was less stuff this time, so Ziyi carried Yike on his back the whole time, so the return was very fast. At noon on the third day, everyone returned to the paradise.
"Mom, I missed you so much!" Yike found Zhang Yuling cooking in the kitchen. He hugged her and jumped and shouted, extremely happy.
"Yike, why did you come back so soon?" Zhang Yuling asked in surprise.
"Mom, I missed you, so I ran back without stopping. Do you miss me?" Yike shook Zhang Yuling's arm and acted coquettishly.
"Hey, think about it! How could mother not think about it! Hey, stop shaking, my hands are all greasy, and you will get dirty." Zhang Yuling said lovingly, with her hands stretched out and she dared not put them down, one of her hands still holding a piece of meat.
"Mom is cutting meat, I want to eat cherry meat." Yike acted coquettishly.
"Okay! Okay! Okay! Mom will make it for you. Go ask your brother Jiankang to wash some carrots. I'll cut the meat and cook it for you. But I've got to go out and say hello to the guests first." Zhang Yuling washed her hands and walked out of the kitchen with Yike. In the living room, Li Haoran was talking with Tang Jianguo and others. When he saw Yi Ke and Zhang Yuling coming in, he introduced them, "This is Ziyi's sworn brother Tang Jianguo." Then he said to Tang Jianguo, "This is my wife Zhang Yuling."
"Hello, auntie!" Tang Jianguo called out politely.
"Okay! Okay! Jianguo, I often hear Ziyi and his son mention you. They always disturb you when they go out. This time you come, you have to stay a little longer before leaving. Don't be polite." Zhang Yuling said enthusiastically.
"You're welcome, you're welcome. Ziyi is my brother, and you and uncle are my elders. When you are outside the mountain, it is my responsibility as your elder brother to entertain you. There is no need to be so formal. When you go out in the future, you can stay at my house so that I can have the opportunity to entertain you. We are all family." Tang Jianguo said with a smile.
"Okay, I will definitely come to your house to visit you next time I go out. You sit down and talk to your uncle, I'll go cook." Zhang Yuling said.
"Okay, okay, thank you for your hard work, auntie." Tang Jianguo said with a smile.
"What nonsense are you talking about, kid? It's just cooking, it's not hard at all." Zhang Yuling smiled and went to the kitchen to cook.
"Dad, Mom is so happy when you are at home. Have you noticed? Mom seems to have become younger!" Yike added boiling water to Li Haoran and Tang Jianguo's enamel cups and teased his father.
"You are getting more and more naughty, you even dare to make fun of your mother. Why don't you go and see if your Ziyi has finished taking a bath? If he has, let your brother Tang take the bath."
"Oh! Okay! Dad will just assign me orders and won't talk to you anymore." Yike pouted and walked out of the living room. As soon as he went out, he saw Du Jiankang and remembered what Zhang Yuling's mother had told him.
"Brother Jiankang, I'm back. Mom asked you to wash some carrots." Yi Ke said from a distance.
"Sister Yike, you're back so soon. Why don't you play outside for a while?" Du Jiankang said as he looked at Yike.
"It's not fun. It's more fun at home. What are you looking at?" Yi Ke asked doubtfully.
"I didn't see anything, I just saw that my sister seemed to have lost weight. Is the food outside not delicious?"
"It's not delicious. My mother's cooking is better. Where is my godmother? Why can't I see her? Where are the others?"
"My mother should be feeding the chickens and ducks. The others are in the orchard. They won't be back until the evening."
"Oh! Then you go wash the carrots, I'll go see my godmother." Yike ran to the hidden cave and forgot what Li Haoran had told him.
In the hidden cave, Wang Cuihua was sweeping the floor. Yi Ke walked over quietly, came behind Wang Cuihua, and suddenly shouted, "Godmother!"
"Ah!" Wang Cuihua screamed in fright and ran forward suddenly. After running a few steps, she stopped and turned to look at Yi Ke. When he saw that he had scared Wang Cuihua so much that her face turned pale, he felt extremely regretful. He had never expected that his godmother was so timid.
"Godmother, it's me, don't be afraid. I'm sorry, I just wanted to make a joke, I won't dare to do it again next time." Yike hurriedly stepped forward to support Wang Cuihua and stretched out his hand to help her calm down.
"Ouch! I was almost scared to death. Kid, don't make this kind of joke anymore. I thought it was some ferocious beast and almost lost my soul." Wang Cuihua took a deep breath.
"I'm sorry! Godmother. I was wrong. I won't dare to do it again." Yi Ke said aggrievedly. I wanted to give her a surprise, but it turned out to be a shock. "But godmother, you are too timid."
"Alas, child, it's not that your godmother is timid, she is really scared." Wang Cuihua said slowly: "In the past, the cave in our family was not formed naturally. It was chiseled out by your godfather and me with hammers, so the entrance of the cave is close to the ground. There is a pear tree not far from our cave. The tree is very tall. Every time the pears are ripe, we ask your father to climb the tree to pick pears. That day, Jiankang's father and your father were picking pears on the tree, and Jiankang and I were cooking in the cave. No one expected that a leopard would suddenly break in and pounce on me. I was so scared that I didn't know how to dodge. I had a spatula in my hand, but I didn't know how to use the spatula to block it. Seeing that the leopard was about to pounce on me, Jiankang raised the burning firewood and poked the leopard, so the leopard did not pounce on me, but pounced on Jiankang instead. If I hadn’t seen Jiankang about to be bitten by the leopard, I would have woken up from the shock and grabbed the kitchen knife to chop at the leopard. The leopard’s back was injured by me, and it gave up biting Jiankang and pounced on me again. At this time, I had forgotten to be afraid, and I only knew that I had to chop it to death, otherwise my son would be bitten to death by it. I don’t know where I got the strength at that time, but I actually held on until your godfather and others came. From then on, I would be startled by the slightest noise, so your shouting scared me. "
"Oh my God! You and brother Jiankang are so lucky! No wonder you were so scared just now. I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Godmother, I really didn't know this happened. I won't scare people anymore in the future." Yike was also scared. What if something bad happened from this scare? Fortunately, fortunately!
"Your cave is good. Except for flying animals, animals on the ground basically can't get in. But once the cave door is closed, even flying animals can't get in. So since we moved here, I can sleep well at night. Why did you come back so early? Did you play more when you went out? Did you eat well outside? Is there any meat to eat? Let me see if you have lost weight?" Wang Cuihua, who had recovered her breath, turned Yi Ke around to take a look.
"There is meat to eat, but it's not as delicious as what our mother cooks. In the village, we don't dare eat meat openly. We eat it secretly. It's not as good as what we have at home." Yike complained.
"Haha! You are such a greedy person. You keep talking about going out. Now you know it's not good outside. It's better to be free in the mountains. People outside have nothing to eat, but your family eats well. Then someone will say you are a capitalist, and someone will want to cut off your capitalist's tail. It's better for you not to go out in the future. You see, you have lost weight after only a few days out." Wang Cuihua said with concern.
"Yike! Yike!" Ziyi shouted at the entrance of the cave.
"Hey! Here!" Yi Ke answered loudly.
"Come out and take a shower. I've got hot water ready for you."
"Okay! Godmother, I'm going to take a shower first. I'm covered in dust after traveling for several days."
"Go ahead, go ahead, put the dirty clothes in the bucket, I'll help you wash them later.
"No need, I can wash myself." Yike ran to the cave entrance.
"I've brought the hot water to the bathroom, and I've prepared your clothes." Ziyi handed her the change of clothes.
"Brother Ziyi, you are the best!" After saying that, she kissed Ziyi on the cheek, then went to the bathroom with her clothes in her arms, smiling.
Ziyi touched his cheeks with his hands, and his ears turned red. He looked around guiltily, and when he saw that no one was paying attention, he breathed a sigh of relief, "How daring!"
At noon, on the dinner table, there was indeed my favorite cherry meat. The pork and carrots cut into small pieces looked like cherries, with a cute appearance and sour and sweet taste. The pork was fat but not greasy, and the carrots were soft but not rotten. tasty!
In the afternoon, Ziyi, Yike, Tang Jianguo and Wang Hongjun did not go anywhere, but slept comfortably. Only Ma Youcai, Dong Guoqing and Liu Bing went to the wasteland they had reclaimed to check on the growth of crops.
Around five o'clock in the afternoon, Ziyi and Yike finally rested enough. They got up and were about to get some farmed earthworms to feed the chickens and ducks. Before they reached tunnel entrance No. 1, they heard Ma Youcai yelling, "Help! Sister Yike, help! Ahhhh, it hurts! Quick, quick, go call sister Yike, sister Yike, come and help me."
Ziyi and Yike's faces changed instantly, and they hurried towards Ma Youcai.
"What happened? Who is injured?" Ziyi asked first.
"Ma Youcai, Ma Youcai has been poisoned." Dong Guoqing replied.
"Poisoned, bitten by a snake?" Yi Ke asked curiously, "Didn't I give you medicine to cure the snake venom? Is it gone?"
"It's not a snake, it's an ant, a lot of ants. We don't know if we can take the antidote for snake venom, so we don't dare give it to him."
Liu Bing explained.
"Sister Yike, it hurts and it itches, it hurts so much. What should I do? Please help me quickly. Ouch, it hurts so much. Sister Yike..." Ma Youcai cried out, ouch, ouch.
Yike felt funny in his heart. The ant bite would not kill you, but it would be very painful. Not only would it hurt, it would also itch and be extremely uncomfortable.
"Stop shouting. There is a way. It just depends on whether you think it's dirty or not." Yi Ke said.
"Any method is fine as long as it can relieve the pain immediately." Ma Youcai hopped on one foot, holding his painful and itchy foot.
Yike whispered the method to Ziyi. Ziyi looked at Yike with amusement, and Yike walked away laughing.
"Hey, sister Yike, you haven't given me the medicine yet?" Ma Youcai became anxious when he saw Yike leaving.
"Don't scream. I've already told you the method. It's just a pee shower or a urine bubble. It will be clean after ten minutes."
Ziyi said with a look of disgust.
Ma Youcai was confused, "Is this true or false?"
"It's up to you, believe it or not." Ziyi said and left, leaving Ma Youcai with a look of despair on his face.
"Hey, do you want to try it? I think a girl like Yi Ke wouldn't lie. I think you should give it a try. Do you want our brothers' urine..." Liu Bing said with a smile.
"Get out!" Ma Youcai jumped towards the bathroom angrily.
"Brothers, this is for your own good, hahaha!" Liu Bing laughed.
Ziyi and Yike dug up a basket of earthworms and brought them to feed the chicks. When they came back, Ma Youcai was sitting in the cave chatting.
"Brother Ma Youcai, your feet don't hurt anymore?" Yi Ke asked mischievously.
"Hey, sister Yike, the method you mentioned is really good. After you pour urine on the area bitten by the ants, the burning sensation instantly becomes cool and the itchiness stops. It just hurts a little. Sister Yike, you are really amazing!" Ma Youcai said exaggeratedly.
"Haha, how come you were bitten by ants in so many places? Did you step on an ant nest?" Yi Ke asked curiously.
Liu Bing laughed first and said, "Sister Yike, you guessed it right. He was so absorbed in looking at the corn in his field that he didn't even notice that his foot stepped on an ant nest. Haha, the ants would definitely not be polite to the foot that invaded their nest, so a war between the ants and the foot was triggered."
Dong Guoqing also added a description of the densely packed ants on Ma Youcai's feet and legs, and the scene of their battle between Ma Youcai and the ants.
As soon as I imagined the densely packed ants biting me, I shuddered and quickly closed the picture in my mind...
In the evening, at the dinner table, Ziyi and Yike learned that Hu Haohan, Li Youcai and Chen Shengli had moved out of the cave and went to build a house in the cave on the other side of the orchard.
"Have they reclaimed all their wasteland?" Yi Ke couldn't help but ask curiously.
"How can we reclaim all the wasteland? We are just stopping here temporarily. We can't live here forever, right?" Li Haoran said.
"When your father came back, he got really angry at those people. He said that not only did they not take care of you kids, but they also took advantage of their seniority to bully you. Haha, those people he scolded didn't even dare to raise their heads." Du Jiankang was sitting on Yike's left with Ziyi on his right. Seeing Yike's puzzled look, he spoke quietly.
"Did they bully us?" Yi Ke was even more confused. "It was because Chen Shengli wanted to get the sweet potato seedlings for free that your father scolded him the most harshly." Du Jiankang found it funny when he thought of the way Chen Shengli hung his head and dared not say a word.
"Good scolding! He eats and lives for free and still wants something for free. How shameless of him." What should I do if I feel like scolding Chen Shengli too when I think of his face?
"Dad, have they occupied the place we want to use?" Yi Ke asked worriedly.
"No, I told them that the place they built was also designated by me. Except for building the house, everything else is yours, including the lake. You can use the lake however you want in the future. The entire cave is yours. They are just building houses there temporarily. If you don't want to, you can drive them out at any time. We can't spoil them and let them think that we should help them." Li Haoran said.
"Yes! Helping them is a favor, not helping them is our duty, and no one can blame anyone else." Du Qingcang also said.
"You all came back together this time to get meat, but it won't be easy to get it in a short time." Li Haoran said again.
"I know where to get it. I've been to a place before where there were wild boars with super reproductive ability. However, they have a strong sense of territory and are very aggressive, so I usually didn't go there hunting before. This time we are going to get so much meat, and that place is the easiest to hunt." Ziyi said.
"I'm worried about you guys going there without any hunting experience, so your godfather and I will go together. We won't be afraid if we encounter a group of wild boars. Brother Qingcang?" Li Haoran said and looked at Du Qingcang.
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