Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 67
Caogou Village, as usual, is full of aging like an old man in his twilight years.

As soon as the little wolf dogs entered the village, the chickens and dogs in the village seemed to smell the breath of wild animals, and there was no movement in an instant.

Walking on the stone road eroded by history, Mr. Xu shook his head while watching. Looking around, he saw dilapidated scenes and no trace of people.

"Brother Li, this village is a bit desolate. Where have everyone gone?"

Li Hongbing sighed, "I went to work in the city and moved out of the mountains, leaving my homeland hard to leave."

To be honest, the scenery of Caogou Village is really good. There are mountains, water and a vast alpine meadow. It can be said to be an undeveloped treasure land. Although Mr. Xu loves to play, he still has a vision.

"Why don't you engage in farmhouse entertainment, special tourism and the like, now the country advocates this."

Li Hongbing raised his finger and pointed to the road leading to the outside of the mountain, "What to do, the road is not easy to walk, and there is no infrastructure. If you can get electricity, you need to find a relationship to help, and land development is not allowed in the forest area, it is difficult!"

Such a hassle!

Mr. Xu shut his mouth wisely after hearing this.

Walking to the square at the entrance of the village, several naked children were playing with snot in their noses.

But as soon as the little wolf dogs appeared, the little kids ran away in fright.

quack!

A few crows called from the sky, and then a black shadow landed firmly on Li Hongbing's shoulder.

The messy feathers glowed metallic blue in the sunlight.

Good Shen Shenjun's crow.

Mr. Xu couldn't help sighing, it should be the crow raised by Brother Li!
Li Hongbing turned his head to look at Bai Zui who was combing his feathers.

Fortunately, I didn't hit my head and bleed.

"Where did you die, you dare not return home at night, if you don't learn from the good ones, if you insist on learning from the black corner, you can't go home, you will lose again!"

quack!

Bai Zui raised his arrogant head, his small black eyes rolled around, flapped his wings, and told Li Hongbing that he was defeated, expressing his great anger.

"All right, all right, you cow, go back and wait for Sister Cui to clean you up."

quack!
Hearing the words Sister Cui.

The white mouth was like a frosted eggplant, and it suddenly withered.

At home, the little ones are not afraid of Li Hongbing, Shan Xing, or silly children, but only sister Cui.

Especially doing something wrong.

Being caught by Sister Cui was a half-hour ideological education class, double the time if you dared to sneak away.

Hey!
Mr. Xu was secretly stunned.

Brother Li's pets are more spiritual than each other, and they feel like people.

At the entrance of the village, Lao Gen appeared with a bamboo basket on his back, and greeted him from afar.

"Uncle Red Soldier, why did you come out?"

Li Hongbing responded, "I don't want to take friends around the village to experience rural life."

Lao Gen chuckled, "What's going on in the countryside? This is Boss Xu who supplies electricity to the village. Come and sit at my house. I just killed a rabbit in the field. Let's drink one at noon."

As he spoke, Lao Gen took out a plump gray-haired rabbit from the bamboo basket.

Sudden.

A burst of crackling firecrackers sounded over Caogou Village.

Lao Gen was stunned for a moment, then looked outside the village in surprise, "Finally came out."

what came out

Li Hongbing looked bewildered.

"The mountain running team has come out, let's go and pick them up." With a smile on his face, Lao Gen threw the hare back into the bamboo basket and walked out of the village.

At this time.

The originally desolate Caogou Village.

I don't know when, men and women, old and young, dozens of people poured out, like mushrooms growing out of the ground overnight.

"Come out, come out."

"It's been half a month since I entered the mountain, and I finally came out."

"Mom, hurry up, Dad is out of the mountain."

……

In the crowd, Li Hongbing saw Da Kui, Tie Zhu, Shui Sheng, Fu Sheng and several sister-in-laws were also there. They also had joy on their faces, but there was a little worry under their smiles.

Li Hongbing knew that their sons were all running the mountain team.

The son travels thousands of miles and the mother is worried. Running mountains is not entering the city. The vast mountains are full of dangers. If you encounter wild animals, you will be afraid of getting lost in the mountains. If you get lost in the original old forest, the consequences will be very serious.

"Uncle Hongbing, you are here, Hongqi and the others have left the mountain." Fu Sheng greeted.

"It's good to go out of the mountain, I will pick them up too."

Li Hongbing took Mr. Xu and followed the crowd to the entrance of the village.

There are rules for mountain runners to go out and come back. They must exit from the village entrance and enter from the village entrance. This is called going and returning.

……

Bai Piya.

Located on the eastern side of Yuanbao Mountain in Caogou Village, the only way to enter the mountain is the white-bark pine trees thick as buckets all over the mountain. In October, the white-bark pine trees will form palm-sized pine cones. Li Hongbing often came to pick up the pine cones when he was a child. Eat the pine nuts inside.

At this time, the pine cones on the white bark pine are still blue.

More than 20 gentlemen squatted at the Baipi Pass with bamboo baskets and urea bags on their backs. There was no joy of going out of the mountain, and no laughter of harvest. Instead, there was deep sadness on everyone's face.

A dark-faced man squatted on the ground, looking up at the old man sitting on a dead tree stump.

"Father, how are you going to explain to Uncle Fu Sheng, Uncle Lao Gen, and Uncle Shui Sheng later?"

Ugh!
The old man sighed deeply, fumbled out a crumpled cigarette case in his pocket, opened it and there was no cigarette in it, and threw away the cigarette case in annoyance.

"What can I say, just say it. If I send you back, I will go into the mountains. I want to see people when I am born, and I want to see corpses when I die. Otherwise, I will have no face to meet some old brothers."

Immediately, the atmosphere of the mountain running team became more sad.

25 people went into the mountain, only 21 left, 4 people missing.

This is not 4 pigs, 4 chickens, 4 rabbits.

It is 4 big living people, 4 pillars.

There are 4 families behind them, wives and children.

soon.

The welcoming team walked to Baipiya.

Each household finds its own man.

"Red flag, red flag."

"Xiu Cai, Xiu Cai, where are you?"

"Victory, victory, where did you die?"

"Jianjun, what about Jianjun?"

In addition to joy, the crowd was also filled with shouts. When the men who came back heard the voices, they all lowered their heads and grabbed the hands of their wives and children.

Seeing this, Li Hongbing inexplicably had a bad premonition.

really.

Only a miserable sound sounded.

"My son, Li Huaizhong, return my son."

"Son, where are you!"

That was the cries of sister-in-law Yuzhi and sister-in-law Tiemei. The villagers who greeted them felt a thump, and asked the man who was pulling him home in a low voice.

Li Hongbing hurriedly pushed away the crowd and walked into the team.

Fu Sheng, Lao Gen, Tie Zhu, Shui Sheng, Dakui and a few unfamiliar villagers stood together, and the sisters-in-law fell limply in the arms of the same village woman, crying profusely.

"In my arms, what happened to Hongqi and the others?"

The old man sitting on the tree stump looked up at Li Hongbing, hesitated for a moment, nodded after confirming the number.

"Uncle Hongbing, you're back, it's Hongqi and the others who got lost."

"How can you get lost in the mountain? You are also an old man, and there are more than [-] people who are lost in the mountain." Lao Gen asked sharply with his sallow face showing paleness.

At this time, the young black-faced man came out, "Uncle Gen, it was Shengli who said that he kept a ginseng nest last year and brought them a red flag to pick it. We persuaded them for a long time, but they refused to listen."

"Yes, we really persuaded him to go to Jianjun, saying that he would be able to marry a wife by the end of the year after picking a nest." A mountain villager in the team interjected.

Other mountain-running villagers spoke one after another.

"Uncle Tie Zhu. We really persuaded you."

"It's true, Uncle Gen, Shengli doesn't listen to us."

"Hongqi is dead stubborn, whatever you say, go."

"We can't stop it."

……

(End of this chapter)