My village can't be like this

Chapter 466 In the wind and rain, looking for someone in the mountains

"Now that everyone is ready, let's set off. I heard from Chen Erniang that the couple went to Erdaoyan yesterday to put fertilizer on Baogu, so today we are going to Erdaoyan."

Seeing that everyone was here, Zhang Jianwen called everyone together and told them his plan.

"Since we have a large number of people this time, we will be divided into three teams later. There happen to be three main roads on the side of Erdaoyan. At that time, everyone will split up. Everyone knows that there are no woods around Erdaoyan. There are a lot of rocks and caves, so if you go there today, you must pay attention to the inside of the cave. The couple may have seen the rain being too heavy, so they ran to the cave to hide from the rain."

This Erdaoyan is a small place name in Changqing Mountain, and only the Changqing people would call it that.

It is not the same place as the old man Yang Qingfa's village before. Although they are both called Erdaoyan, their village is a place name that everyone knows.

"The most important thing is that you must pay attention to your own safety, so no one is allowed to leave the team alone. You must act together with everyone so that if anything happens, you will have someone to take care of you."

Finally, Zhang Jianwen gave everyone a death order.

Because the team that went out to look for people this time were basically young people in their twenties and thirties from the village.

The oldest one is only forty years old, so Zhang Jianwen is worried that they will not be able to distinguish the importance and will sell themselves out when the time comes.

If something happens to someone outside, then this is not a matter of unity and disunity, and the two families may become enemies by then.

Although this kind of thing has never happened in Changqing, it is not unfamiliar in other villages.

In the past, when Zhang An was still young, a man in Xiahewan went into the river to take a bath. His legs suddenly cramped and he drowned. He was also entangled in water plants.

At that time, there was a man in his thirties in their village, who immediately jumped in to save people.

But I don’t know why, the one who drowned at the beginning was not rescued, but the one who jumped into the water later to save also fell in.

In the end, both people drowned in the water, and the two families became enemies.

Even though the former family made compensation and gave away their only valuable homestead, to this day, the two families are still like enemies.

Therefore, Zhang Jianwen is not willing to see this kind of thing happen. Although saving people is important, it is not worth trapping anyone again.

For this reason, Zhang Jianwen also brought this matter up and said it in front of everyone, just to let everyone know the importance of it.

After finishing speaking, Zhang Jianwen began to allocate manpower.

"For the first team, follow me, and we will be responsible for the upper part of Zhiqa. For the second team, you will lead the team and be responsible for the lower part of Zhiqa."

The person named by Zhang Jianwen in the second team was called Huang Weiguo, Huang Weimin's younger brother.

This man was in his thirties, and his work style was calm and sophisticated. Zhang Jianwen took a fancy to his stability, so he named him.

"The last team, Zhang An, you will be in charge. You will be in charge of the upper slope of the rock."

When Zhang Jianwen said these last words, even Zhang An himself was a little unable to react.

He didn't expect that he would be ordered to fight by his old uncle. After all, although there were many young people present, there were not all uncles.

In fact, Zhang An himself was confused. When Zhang Jianwen was divided, it didn't mean that he was older. Otherwise, why not let the experienced old men in the village come with him.

The person who takes the lead must not only be considerate when encountering problems, but also be able to control others.

After several years of observation, Zhang An's performance has long been in Zhang Jianwen's eyes. Needless to say, Zhang An's conduct as a person goes without saying. What's more important is that everyone in the village is willing to listen to what he has to say.

In this regard, not to mention the younger generation, even the older generation, there may not be anyone who can compare with Zhang An.

This is why he has always wanted to persuade Zhang An to take his place and lead the village to continue to develop after he retires.

And other people didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Instead, they thought it was normal.

When it was time to separate, Zhou Yang and Huang Ming ran over to follow Zhang An without saying a word, while Zhang Ping wanted to follow Zhang Jianwen.

If Zhang Jianwen didn't go, he would naturally follow Zhang An and the others. After all, the Four King Kongs in their village were not called for nothing.

Finally, Zhang An called his second uncle and third uncle over. After all, they were a family and they must be together. He would be able to take care of them if anything happened.

The rest just called a few people to form a team of eleven people.

When everything was ready, everyone put on their raincoats and braved the heavy rain to leave the village.

Erdaoyan is not far from the village, but it is not close either. It usually takes thirty or forty minutes to walk to the village.

It's raining heavily now, although it's not as heavy as yesterday, but it will probably pass, and it will take more than an hour.

At the beginning, everyone walked together, and they split up until they reached Erdaoyan’s iconic Big Rock Mountain.

"Let's do this. While we're searching, we'll go to Chen Laoliu's property to see if we can find anything."

While walking along the road to Yanshang Slope, Zhang An told everyone his thoughts.

The place their team is responsible for is exactly the area where the land of Haochen Laoliu's family is located.

He roughly calculated in his mind that there was not much time between thunder and rain yesterday.

If Chen Laoliu and his wife were in the fields and saw the weather suddenly change, they would definitely pack up and go home.

But the period between thunder and heavy rain was not enough for them to walk down the mountain from the fields.

So Zhang An decided to follow the mountain road in the direction of Chen Laoliu's land and pay more attention to the caves in the nearby mountains.

Others had no better suggestions, so they had no objections, and everyone moved forward along the muddy mountain road with sticks.

As for Huang Ming and the others, they shouted Chen Laoliu's name loudly as they walked, hoping that this sound would be responded to somewhere.

Unfortunately, after walking for a long time, all I could hear was the sound of rain.

Along the way, whenever we encountered a cave, everyone would climb up and look for it together.

Unfortunately, everyone has searched all the caves in this area, but still found nothing.

"Brother An, there is actually a cave here that many people in the village don't know about. Let's go and have a look."

At this time, Huang Ming pointed to a place and said to Zhang An.

Zhang An looked at Huang Ming strangely. Is there something else here that everyone doesn't know about?

After all, everyone has been born and raised in the village for many years. Even if they don't have land here, they are very familiar with this place.

Especially for Zhang An and his generation, there wasn’t much to play in when they were young. These mountains have been plowed over for a long time. For them, coming here is like returning home.

You know, when they came here just now, they had already searched all the caves they knew.

"Then you take the lead and you must not fall behind."

Zhang An didn't have any doubts about Huang Ming's words, because this guy was much wilder than him before.

If Zhang An and his friends had searched this area when he was young, then Huang Ming would not have spared even the woods on the mountain.

Because Huang Er is also an experienced old hunter who wanders in the woods all day long. As the grandson of his old man, Huang Ming has been exposed to some things since he was a child.

This is also the reason why Huang Ming never got lost when he was crawling around in the woods.

As soon as Huang Ming heard this, he took the lead and led the way, as if he had become the lawless wild child he used to be in the mountains. But in the next second, this guy didn't pay attention, his feet slipped, and he fell onto the muddy road.

Because it was uphill and the road was extremely slippery, Huang Ming fell to the ground and was unable to stop the car.

Zhang An quickly stretched out his hand to grab him, but he couldn't let him slide all the way down, otherwise he would really roll down the mountain.

"Hey, this road is too slippery. If you don't pay attention, you will slide down. Please be careful when walking."

After Huang Ming was pulled up from the ground by Zhang An, he had an awkward smile on his face.

After all, there were so many people, and none of them had ever fallen. He was the only one who had a big butt squat.

"Okay, let's go quickly, don't waste any time."

Although Huang Ming's pants were wet with water and full of mud.

But he didn't care, and it would have been the same for anyone else.

When going up the mountain in this kind of weather, this situation is bound to happen.

Even though Zhang An and his group had never fallen, their pants were still covered in mud.

Although he was wearing a raincoat, it could only block the rain from the sky.

And the muddy water splashing on the ground was impossible to notice.

Finally, we climbed through several ridges and arrived at the cave that Huang Ming mentioned.

"Da Mingzi, how did you find a cave here? I really haven't wronged you by calling you wild."

Zhang An really didn't know that there was a cave in this place, and the others shook their heads.

"When I was in the sixth grade, I went to the woods. I met a pheasant. I chased it and it brought it here. I found that this was its lair. Later, I picked up a lot of things here. Where are the wild eggs?”

Huang Ming chuckled and said somewhat proudly.

At that time, he did not run in and bring the chicken and the nest to the pot. Instead, he quietly left and left the chicken to lay eggs.

Every few days, he would come over and pick up a few eggs, and always leave one or two behind so that the nest of pheasants could keep laying eggs.

"You are quite smart. You know how to leave the chicken to lay eggs."

You must know that eggs in the past were comparable to meat and were not ordinary things.

Huang Ming's ability to do this shows that this guy's IQ was online before.

"Hehe, all three-year-old children in our village know this kind of thing, and you still fell in love with me. By the way, there are several wild loquat trees behind this cave, and the wild loquats they produce are quite delicious."

Only then did Zhang An know that the wild loquats Huang Ming had given him were picked here.

No wonder he doesn't tell me every time I ask, this is his secret treasure place of love.

Although I discovered a cave that I didn't know before, it was a pity that Chen Laoliu and his wife were nowhere to be found here.

All that's left is to go back to the road and continue looking elsewhere.

"Forget it, everyone is very tired, so let's rest here for a while."

However, Zhang An was not in a hurry to leave this time because he felt that everyone was already very tired.

Not only did we climb uphill along the way, we also had to climb into every cave to look for it.

Normally, it would actually be nothing to everyone.

However, it is still raining heavily, and the physical exertion is no easier than when working at ordinary times.

So taking advantage of the fact that there was a cave to shelter from the rain, Zhang An asked everyone to take a breath and relax their strength.

Because on the way back, it was not so easy to catch my breath, and I had to endure the heavy rain.

Even if you don't think about others, you still have to think about your two uncles, lest they fail to be found by then and end up exhausting everyone.

When the others heard this, they directly found a place to squat on the ground and started to rest against the rock wall.

If you are not in a hurry to find someone, it would not be bad to light a fire in the cave at this time.

"Ouch, we were in such a hurry that we forgot to bring a bottle of water. My mouth is so dry right now."

The speaker is named Zhang Daming, who is of the same race and generation as Zhang An, but is a few years older.

It wasn't just him who forgot, maybe it was because of the rainy day that everyone forgot about it.

When we set off, there were dozens of people in the three teams, and no one brought tea.

"Hahaha, when I was drinking noodles just now, I asked you to put less salt in it, but you didn't listen. Now you know your mouth is dry."

Elders like Zhang Jianjun would not miss this opportunity to tease their nephew.

Everyone knows that Zhang Daming is very salty when eating, especially when eating noodles, he always adds them one spoon at a time.

"Hey, I thought it was a big deal that you forgot to bring it, but I didn't forget it."

After saying that, Zhang An took out the gourd from his waist.

When setting off, Zhang An actually forgot about this matter.

But this doesn't matter, because his gourds are still in the space.

Just now, while everyone was climbing over the ridge, he quietly packed a gourd of space spring water and took it out.

"No one else has thought of this. It's Zhang An. Give me a few sips. I'm really dry."

Seeing Zhang An take out the gourd, Zhang Daming's eyes lit up, as if someone who had been in the desert for a long time suddenly discovered an oasis.

He took the gourd from Zhang An's hand, opened the stopper, and drank eagerly.

"Hey, brother Daming, don't finish the drink alone. Others will also drink later."

Seeing Zhang Daming gulping down water, Huang Ming quickly spoke.

Because he saw that Zhang An's gourd was not big, and according to Zhang Daming's drinking method, he was finished in just a few mouthfuls.

He was not dry at first, but suddenly he saw water and became thirsty.

"Hey, I'm sorry, I forgot."

Only then did Zhang Daming remember that there were so many people, so he touched his head in embarrassment and said.

I stopped drinking water now and prepared to put the stopper in place.

In fact, he couldn't drink so much water. He just felt that the water Zhang An brought today was too delicious, so he didn't pay attention for a moment.

(End of this chapter)