Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 10 Harvest Prey
The Junling Railway is not far from Gaojia Village, only about five miles away. After meditating in Gaomingcheng, people in the village who are interested in working as temporary workers on the railway all walk towards the Junling Railway.

When repairing railways, a group of temporary workers are often recruited locally. Most of these temporary workers do physical work, such as carrying stones, carrying sleepers, mixing cement, etc. Those regular workers will do some work with certain technical content. The wages are more than temporary workers, and they are not as tiring as temporary workers.

On the railway, all kinds of materials were piled up all over the floor, and hundreds of young men were waiting here, waiting for orders.

Except for the regular workers on the railway, these people are all from several nearby villages. Some of them are familiar with each other, while others are unfamiliar.

And among this group of people, there was a thin old man with a goatee beard and a half-new Chinese tunic suit. His temperament was completely different from the rough guys around him. He looked like a teacher.

So someone asked him: "Are you also here to work? Are you old? I'm afraid you can't carry the stone anymore, so you should go home, so as not to be bent over by the stone."

"Exactly! This bag of stones weighs at least a hundred catties!"

The people around echoed, and everyone looked at the old man.

The old man seemed to be in a bit of a dilemma. He stared at the sleepers and gravel, as if he was thinking about whether he could lift them up.

In the end, with a helpless face, he said, "Forget it, I'd better go."

After speaking, he bent slightly and left here.

No one cares about this episode, at most someone chatted with an acquaintance: "This person looks unfamiliar, unlike the people in the nearby village."

"Probably someone from farther away." The acquaintance replied casually.

At this time, the old man had already left the railway site and went down the mountain along the path.

At the foot of the mountain, two young men were waiting in the shade of a tree.

"Dad, how's the situation?" Seeing the old man coming down, a man immediately asked.

The old man was not in a hurry to speak, but pulled off the beard on his mouth. It turned out that the goatee beard was not a real beard, but pasted on.

His back was straight, and after losing his beard, he looked much younger.

"I went to see it. Basically all the young and strong people in Gaojia Village are here."

After receiving this affirmative word, the two young men showed satisfied smiles.

They got the news that there is a Song Dynasty tomb in the mountain next to Gaojia Village, but they haven't found out exactly which mountain it is, because the village is full of familiar faces on weekdays, and once a new face enters the village, it will cause trouble. Great attention.

For people like them, they don't want to be noticed.

Fortunately, they have ruled out some places, leaving only Niuweiling and Xiaoyuanshan as the most likely.

It is said that in the Ming Dynasty, a Jinshi came out of this area. This Jinshi also passed the Xiao Sanyuan test. After his death, the mountain where he was buried was called Xiaoyuan Mountain by the local people.

With this legend, the father and son decided to explore Xiaoyuan Mountain first.

Xiaoyuan Mountain is located between Gaojia Village and Dongjia Village, but the terrain is steep when entering the mountain from Dongjia Village, and the terrain is gentler on the Gaojia Village side.

At the end of August, the weather was hot and there was not much work in the fields. In addition, all the men had gone to Junling, so there were not many people left in the village. The father and son avoided the villagers and went up to Xiaoyuan Mountain quietly.

If Gao Mingcheng saw these three people, he would be very familiar with them.

Because in his previous life, he had dealt with the father and son.

However, at this time, Gao Mingcheng was checking the trap he set up yesterday, and did not meet these three people.

There are two kinds of traps that Gao Mingcheng sets up. One is to dig a hole in a suitable place, and then cover the hole with twigs and grass. If the prey passes by, it will step on the air and fall into the hole. .

There is also a slipknot made of vines, which is similar to a cover made of steel wire, both of which play a role in catching prey.

Gao Mingcheng searched all the way, and found that some traps had not been destroyed, indicating that no prey had passed by, and then some traps were destroyed, but no prey remained, indicating that although these prey touched the traps, they escaped vigilantly.

Seeing this, he was not annoyed and continued to search.

Finally, he found movement in a bush!
There are large tracts of trampled marks on the grass, and in the deepest part, there seems to be something struggling.

Gao Mingcheng bent down and stretched out his hand to pull the grass away. After the lush grass was pulled away, the things hidden inside were immediately exposed.

It was a grey-brown hare, tightly entangled in several vines, one of which was tied to a nearby tree, so that the hare struggled to get away, but in vain.

Finally got the harvest, Gao Mingcheng couldn't hide his joy, picked up the hare with a grin, and then tore off the vines wrapped around the hare.

After binding the hare's feet with flexible grass, Gao Mingcheng carried the hare and continued to walk forward. In front, there was a well-arranged trap.

Maybe it was the god of luck. At first, Gao Mingcheng had no harvest, but after finding this hare, in the last trap, he also got a harvest!

Seeing from a distance that the tree branches concealed above the pit had been destroyed, Gao Mingcheng felt a tinge of anticipation in his heart, walked forward quickly, and saw that there was a pheasant in the pit!
The hole is small and deep, so it is difficult for the pheasant to fly up after sinking into it. But if the hole is wider, the pheasant can use its strength to fly up.

Gao Mingcheng didn't kill the pheasant, he just caught it. He held the pheasant in one hand and the hare in the other. He lowered his head and thought for a while, and finally decided to sell them for money.

Eating meat is great, but it’s bad if you don’t have money in your pocket. You can eat meat later, so it’s better to get some money first.

When the gang of tomb robbers came, he had to take a car to the county town to find Uncle Gao Guobing.

If he really has no money, he can borrow it from Gao Zhuang, but it's best not to borrow it.

Every 1, 4, and 7, there is an old market in Junling. 2, 6, and 8 are the county events. Today is No. 30. I haven’t caught up with any of the events, but I want to sell these prey in my hand. For Gao Mingcheng, it's not difficult.

He carried the prey and walked to a family in the village.

This family can be regarded as the second bedroom in Gaojia Village, but the family is promising and their life is one of the best in the village.

Today, most of the men in the village went to work on the Junling Railway, but this family did not go, and both husband and wife stayed at home.

There was no heavy work in the field at this time of year. The man was lying on a wicker chair under the shade of a tree, listening to the radio leisurely, while his wife was making clothes beside him, and the sound of the sewing machine sounded from time to time.

"Uncle, I'm free!" Gao Mingcheng greeted with a smile after entering the door.

Hearing the words, the male host immediately opened his eyes, saw that it was Gao Mingcheng, with a smile on his face, and greeted him kindly: "It's Mingcheng, come in and sit down! Feixia, pour Mingcheng a bowl of tea!"

The host is about 40 years old, the same age as Gao Mingcheng's father, but his attitude towards Gao Mingcheng is more enthusiastic than his own father.

(End of this chapter)