Jiaohu

Chapter 18 Returning to the Village
Until dawn, Zhao Cunwu didn't see Zhao Huniu come back,
He panicked.

Before dawn, Zhao Cunwu left home. He walked on the only road leading to Pitian Mountain, but he dared not go any further.Just like what he said to Zhao Huniu before, he has never been to Pitian Mountain since he was born, even Pingshan.
Looking at the mountain tops like sleeping beasts in the thin morning mist,

No matter how anxious Zhao Cunwu is,
It can only circle in circles in situ.

The sun slowly climbed out along the cliff, and the first ray of morning light fell on Zhao Cunwu's body and into his worried eyes; the sound of footsteps behind him made Zhao Cunwu turn his head,
I saw Zhao Zheng, who was carrying a crossbow and a dagger, coming in his direction.

The man paused, then trotted up to meet him.

"Little Four!"

Zhao normal years of hunting, honed his eyesight like torches, he has long seen Zhao Cunwu standing in front, but he did not call him first.

to ask why,
Although they are distant cousins, they are all from the same village——Zhao Huniu's mother has a gentle and kind personality, and Zhao Zheng and this distant cousin have had a good relationship since childhood.As for Zhao Cunwu, his cousin-in-law, he has always looked down on him,
It turns out he was right,
Others said that Zhao Huniu's mother died of a disease after giving birth to her, but only Zhao Zheng knew that her cousin was forced to death by her vicious mother-in-law.

So after Zhao Huniu's mother died, he almost cut off contact with the family.

"Little Four! Little Four!"

Seeing Zhao Cunwu approaching in his direction, Zhao Zheng frowned.When Zhao Cunwu came to him, he naturally saw the disgusted expression of the man. Although he was embarrassed, he still said:

"Are you going to Pingshan?"

"What's wrong?"

Hearing him ask himself this question, Zhao Cunwu immediately became vigilant.He was probably thinking that Zhao Cunwu was going to ask for something from him, and his refusal was beyond words, but Zhao Cunwu didn't care.Hearing that he gave an affirmative answer, Zhao Cunwu spoke again, becoming more and more anxious,
"Can you go to Pingshan to find Huniu? Huniu went up the mountain yesterday, and she hasn't come back yet!"

"what?!"

Zhao Zheng's eyes widened suddenly, and he grabbed the neckline of Zhao Cunwu with his right hand. How could the frail Zhao Cunwu resist him?He was held tightly by him immediately.

"You just let Huniu go up to Pingshan by herself. She didn't come back all night and you just waited here!"

"me."

Zhao Zheng's anger caused Zhao Cunwu, who was already panicked, to stutter. He looked at his brother-in-law with some fear, and I couldn't say a complete sentence for a long time.
Seeing his weak and timid appearance, Zhao Zheng felt more and more angry.

"Hey!"

Throwing his hand away suddenly, Zhao Cunwu was almost thrown to the ground by Zhao Zheng.

"In the final analysis, you are still useless! You let a girl from Huniu go hunting in the mountains to support you! It was not enough for your family to kill her mother, but now you are going to kill her! She is a girl who spends the night in the mountains by herself, how can you alive?"

Zhao Cunwu's hands and feet were trembling as he said these words, tears seemed to have welled up in his eyes,

Zhao Zheng looked at him with an expression of extreme disdain and disgust, turned around and ran towards the village,

"I'm going to tell the village head about this, and ask him to ask all the men in the village to go up the mountain to look for it! You're just waiting here! Wait and see if the mountain god will bring your daughter's body back to you! "

Hearing the last sentence, Zhao Cunwu couldn't bear it anymore and fell to the ground, beating the ground with his hands and howling loudly——

"My daughter! My good girl—"

When Zhao Huniu came down from the mountain and stepped on the road into the village, she saw a person sitting on the ground crying from a distance;

Isn't that my father?
Why did he not talk about it here, why did he sit on the ground and cry bitterly?

Why did Zhao Huniu not come down from Pingshan until early in the morning? It all started with the wild wolf last night.

Last night, she used a fox carcass to attract the attention of the wild wolf, and took this opportunity to flee towards Pingshan. After entering the range of Pingshan, I still found a tree and climbed up.

She listened for the footsteps or breathing of wild wolves for a while, but she accidentally fell asleep after a tiring day.
When she woke up, she realized that it was dawn.

Fortunately, the wild wolf from last night did not chase after her. Zhao Huniu waited for a while before coming down from the tree with confidence.This is down the mountain.

Unexpectedly, when I got off the mountain, I saw Zhao Cunwu who fell to the ground and screamed.

"Dad, dad?"

There seemed to be a voice not far away,

Zhao Cunwu was immersed in his own sorrow, and vaguely heard someone calling him, vaguely as if calling from all directions.

Is the soul of the good girl back?

She couldn't bear her father, so did she come back to see him?
Thinking of this, Zhao Cunwu was very sad, and couldn't hold back his tears.

"Good girl, I'm sorry, father, I'm sorry for you."

"What are you talking about, Dad?"

This time the voice sounded true and earnest above his head.Zhao Cunwu looked up abruptly, and saw a girl with a slightly embarrassed appearance standing in front of him, looking at him suspiciously.

Who is it if it's not your own daughter?

"Tiger, tiger girl?"

"What's the matter, dad, why did you come here so early in the morning? Why are you crying? What did grandma say to you?"

"Good girl, are you still alive?!"

"what?"

Zhao Huniu frowned, "Who told you I was dead? Grandma? Or that bastard Zhao Erdan?"

"You're not dead, girl! That's great!"

Without answering Zhao Huniu's words, Zhao Cunwu "teng" stood up from the ground, hugged Zhao Huniu and cried bitterly,
"It's great that you didn't die, my good girl, if you die, dad doesn't want to live—"

The girl hugged by Zhao Cunwu froze for a moment, and let her father hold her stiffly.

This was a very strange experience for Zhao Huniu. After all, she had no mother or father. Although she had a master, the master was more stubborn than a child. Apart from teaching herself to practice exercises, she just played tricks on her. Own;

Shi Shu,

Although the uncle is very kind to him, he doesn't feel like a mother.

Zhao Huniu had never thought about what it was like to have parents.

Zaimura Takeshi's body is too thin, not only for a man, but also for her; but the arms that tightly hug her are so hard, it seems that they can carry something in an instant. ,
Zhao Huniu just let Zhao Cunwu hug her in a daze, until Zhao Zheng, who was rushing to call someone, came with a group of middle-aged men from the village.

"Tiger girl?"

Looking at the intact Zhao Huniu in front of him, Zhao Zheng opened his mouth in surprise; then he noticed the tinkling things hanging on Zhao Huniu's body,
A fox, two hares, and,
Is that snake meat?

Zhao Zheng could see that it was snake meat, but he couldn't believe it—even though Zhao Huniu only had two pieces of snake meat on his body, the snake meat,
Is it too big? !

If the thing hanging on her was really snake meat, how big would the snake be?
"Tiger girl, are you alright?"

"I'm fine,"

Looking at this large group of people, Zhao Huniu probably guessed what happened.Afraid that he dragged himself out until Tian Liang, father thought that something happened to him when he entered the mountain, so he asked the people in the village to go up the mountain to look for him.

She took a glance and found that Zhao Erdan was also among the group of people. After meeting her eyes, he immediately moved his face away.

"But your father said"

"I met a wolf when I went down the mountain yesterday, so I found a tree and waited until now. I made all the uncles worry."

An understatement of a sentence, but made everyone present stare wide-eyed,
"impossible,"

Zhao Zheng said solemnly: "It is absolutely impossible for Pingshan to have wolves. I have been hunting in Pingshan for more than ten years, and I have never seen Pingshan with wolves."

"It's not Pingshan, it's Jianlin Mountain."

"what?!"

There was an uproar.

If what Zhao Huniu just said just made them panic, what Zhao Huniu said now shocked them very much.

"Jian, Jianlin Mountain, you went to Jianlin Mountain?!"

The man behind Zhao Zheng spoke in disbelief, and Zhao Huniu nodded—"Impossible! You went to Jianlin Mountain for a whole night as a girl, how could you be fine?!"

"I did go to Jianlin Mountain, but I didn't stay overnight in Jianlin Mountain. I didn't rest until I reached Pingshan."

"That also."

"Hey,"

As soon as Zhao Zheng raised his hand, he stopped questioning Zhao Huniu.He looked at the snake meat hanging from Zhao Huniu's body,
"Is that snake meat?"

Zhao Huniu raised her eyebrows,

"It's still fourth uncle who has a higher vision."

With Zhao Zheng's affirmation, the rest of the people noticed that the few pieces of fresh meat hanging on Zhao Huniu's body turned out to be snake meat? !

"Snakes this big are indeed only found in Jianlin Mountain,"

Zhao Zheng nodded solemnly, and his eyes fell on Zhao Huniu again.

"Are you all right, Tigress?"

"It's all right, very good,"

Zhao Huniu patted herself on the shoulder.Except for a few scratches and slight bruises on her right wrist, as well as the shock when she was thrown to the ground by the giant snake, Zhao Huniu really didn't hurt anything.

Under the shocked eyes of the villagers, Zhao Huniu yawned,
"Uncles, I want to go back and catch up on my sleep now. If you have anything to ask, please wait until I wake up."

Although everyone wants to ask Zhao Huniu about too many things, she is indeed too tired at this time; after she wakes up, she has to go to the city to deliver things to Jinlulou, and there is really no time to talk to these people in detail .

Zhao Huniu thanked the people who came and said goodbye, and then dragged her exhausted body back home; Zhao Cunwu had stopped crying after following her, he looked at Zhao Huniu's back several times and hesitated to speak. ,

In the end is not asked.

Zhao Huniu returned home and took off the snake and fox hanging from her body. The snake was hanging under the eaves and the fox was hanging on the wall.
After washing his face with water, he went back to his room to rest.

This sleep lasted until noon.

(End of this chapter)