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Chapter 381: The Little Red Fox Blocks the Road Again

During this period, Xu Ning had basically no time to rest. He was so busy that he was on tiptoe. He finally got a day off, but he didn't expect his mother to arrange a job for him. Xu Ning had just agreed to it, but then the middle-aged trio came to do another job. The more idle he was, the more things he had to do.

The matter of going to 17leng yard to pick up Guan Lei had to be delayed. Xu Ning told his mother that he would go to 17leng yard to tell Guan Lei the next day when Li Fuqiang went to the lumberyard, meaning to inform him that no matter Guan Lei agreed or not, he had to buy it. Even if Guan Lei didn't need it, he could use it as a warehouse or a breeding farm in the future. It would not be a loss no matter how he calculated it.

Originally, Liu Lizhen wanted to make some dumplings and cook them for Da Laba, Xu Ning and Wang Hu in advance so that the three of them could eat before going up the mountain. But Da Laba insisted that he was not hungry and insisted on waiting to come back to eat with Liu Daming, so Liu Lizhen did not persuade him anymore.

Da Laba is not considered an outsider now. He gets along well with Lao Jiang and Liu Daming. What kind of person is he? Xu Ning's evaluation is: He looks quite cool and pretentious at first sight, but after getting to know him for a long time, I found that he is actually a very interesting person with high emotional intelligence, willing to listen to others' suggestions, not stubborn, and bold but careful...

Apart from a slight leak in his mouth, he has almost no major shortcomings. The last time Xu Laonian was drinking a little wine, he said that if you can't see a person's shortcomings, it's best not to get along with him, because he is hiding them, playing tricks, and may stab you in the back.

Xu Ning did not argue with Xu Laonian. Everyone at the table nodded, because what he said made a lot of sense. Who of those who have contact and friendship with the Xu family is without shortcomings?

Li Fuqiang? His shortcomings were that he used to drink and talk nonsense. Although he has quit drinking now, his hard talk is also a shortcoming.

Chai Bing from the Chai family in Wangxing, Wu Haiquan from the Wu family in Wanye, Hu Zhibin from the Hu family in Taiping, and so on...

They all have visible shortcomings, so no one is perfect, let alone Xu Erning, whose shortcomings are so numerous that they cannot be counted on one hand.

Inside the house, he listened to the loudspeaker telling about how he, Lao Jiang and Liu Daming bought pork during this period.

Xu Ning felt a little surprised, because Li Feng really bought a deer at a low price. The deer was hunted by a hunter named Zhang from Qingyi Village for medicinal purposes. The price was not expensive. After buying it, Li Feng could earn 1 yuan, and the middle-aged trio could earn 3 yuan.

However, the deer has not been taken back yet. They have only paid a deposit. The middle-aged trio plans to go to Qingyi with Li Feng tomorrow to settle the payment in person...

Why did the three of them go? Li Feng didn't have enough money, and the three of them didn't want to give the money to Li Feng. Besides, if they went there and talked with the hunter named Zhang, maybe they could get long-term supply in the future.

This chat lasted all the time until Xu Feng and the others came back. Only then did Xu Ning and Wang Hu start to change their clothes. The temperature dropped at night, so they had to put on thick cotton-padded jackets, otherwise it would be very cold when they went into the mountains.

The three of them took two bundles of ropes and pulled four sleds to Tunxi, waiting at the fork in the road.

After waiting for more than half an hour, I saw a car wobbling towards me. It was already half past five.

Xu Ning was standing on the side of the road. Li Fuqiang poked his head out and shouted, "What's going on, brother?"

After Lao Lin stopped the car and turned off the engine, Xu Ning said, "My uncle and his friends shot six wild boars in Xiaoshi River and picked up a sack of fish. We really can't take them home. Brother Lin, I'm thinking of borrowing your car and driving to Erlengkanzi between Yongpingtun and Dongbeicha..."

Lao Lin jumped out of the car and said in surprise: "Oh my god, how can we beat these old pigs?"

Da Laba handed over a pack of economical cigarettes. He is now hanging out with Liu Daming and always carries a pack of economical cigarettes in his pocket. He doesn't smoke them himself, but mainly uses them for loose cigarettes.

"Brother Lin, this is what happened..."

After the loud speaker finished describing what happened, Li Fuqiang clapped his hands and said, "Oh my! Brother, if we were this lucky, we would be so damn happy!"

Xu Ning smiled and said, "Yeah, our luck is a little bad this time."

After that, he looked at Lao Lin. Lao Lin naturally had nothing to say and nodded: "What else is there to say? What's wrong with using a car? So...you guys drive by yourselves and drop me off at the south entrance of Yongfengtun later."

Xu Ning asked with a smile: "Brother Lin, why don't you go for a walk in the mountains with us?"

Lao Lin rubbed his hands and said, "If it were any other day I would definitely go with you, but today I can't because my eldest brother-in-law is here."

"Ah, that's more important, accompanying my brother-in-law! Brother Lin, let's go over there now."

"go!"

Da Laba went straight to the rear of the car and said, "Brother, Hu Zi and I will go to the back."

"it is good."

After Xu Ning responded, he walked around the front of the car, opened the door and got in. Li Fuqiang sat firmly and closed the door, and Lao Lin drove to Yongfengtun.

After a while, the car stopped at the southern entrance of Yongfengtun. Lao Lin jumped out of the car and said, "Qiangzi, don't worry about sending me a car. You can just come and pick me up tomorrow morning."

"It's OK, Brother Lin."

Li Fuqiang responded with a wave of his hand.

Xu Ning smiled and waved his hand, then stepped over the gear lever and sat in the driving seat, driving towards the path behind the mountain of Yongpingtun.

On the way, Xu Ning asked, "Brother, do you know where the old Lin family is? Have you been there?"

"I've been there. Mrs. Lin is very welcoming and her family is well off..."

Xu Ning nodded: "Then when we get back, we can go directly to his house and give him some meat and fish. We can't keep using his car like this. We have to show our appreciation."

"Well, I'll drive it when I get back."

"to make."

At this moment, the sky had fallen into darkness, and the afterglow had long since faded its colors. Xu Ning turned on the car lights and drove in the northeast direction. After about twenty minutes, he parked the car on the side of the road.

After Li Fuqiang jumped off the car, he went to the rear of the car and worked with Wang Hu and Dalabao to unload the sled.

Then they took the knife and the spear handed to them by Wang Hu, put them on their backs, and then the four of them walked towards the mountain.

There were basically no pine torches to be seen on the mountainside, and the ones that were there were carried home by the mountain people as firewood. They climbed up Erlengjian and walked along the ridge towards Xiaoshi River.

The dark mountain was unusually quiet. Half an hour later, Wang Hu finally found a pine torch, split it in half with an axe, and lit two torches, thus gaining some vision.

The four of them chatted as they walked, bragging and talking about everything. Before they knew it, they had reached the bank of the Xiaoshi River. The loudspeaker pointed upstream and the four of them continued to run quickly. Xu Ning glanced at his watch. It was exactly half past seven.

"It's in front! Did you see it? Oh, they are quite free..."

After pushing aside the tangled branches, I saw a fire in a low-lying area about 50 to 60 meters ahead, and two figures were chatting while roasting a fire.

Liu Daming and Lao Jiang also noticed the torches in their hands, stood up, waved, and shouted, "Hey! You're finally here!"

The four of them leaped up and strode to the low-lying area about ten meters ahead. Xu Ning said with a smile, "Uncle Jiang, you are not anxious, are you?"

"Why are you in such a hurry? It's only been a short while. Qiangzi is here too? Oh, you guys drove here, right?"

Xu Ning nodded: "Yeah, my brother came home at half past three, and I calculated the time and decided to drive faster, so I waited for him at the fork in the road."

"You are smart. If it were someone else, they would have to go back and forth..."

After saying this, Lao Jiang pointed to the six wild boars and a sack of fish and said, "Look, how are you doing today?"

"It's been a lot of work!"

"Haha, of course! Today we are really looking for fortunes. I thought that picking up fish was a big surprise, but I didn't expect that there would be a group of wild boars waiting for us."

Li Fuqiang asked, "Uncle, where did you see the herd of pigs?"

Liu Daming raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the back garden, and said, "Before reaching the back garden, it's just under the ridge of the mountain over there..." While chatting, Wang Hu and Da Laba had already pulled the sled to the side of the six wild boars. Wang Hu first took off the cloth bag, took out the rope from it and handed it to Da Laba, and then the two of them tied the rope to the sled.

Xu Ning, Li Fuqiang, Liu Daming and Lao Jiang also turned around and walked over. The six of them worked hard to put the six wild boars and two sacks on the sled and tied the rope.

"Let's go home. Here are three pine torches." said Lao Jiang.

Wang Hu put out the fire and nodded: "Uncle Jiang, you and my second brother can walk in front, I will hold you."

"It's okay. The two pigs on this sled are quite heavy. Let's just pull it."

There were six wild boars, except for two small yellow-haired ones weighing more than 100 pounds, the remaining four weighed more than 200 pounds each. The livestock in the mountains now have little meat. They have hardly eaten good food for a whole winter, so they naturally cannot gain weight and even lose a lot of meat. The fattest livestock are after autumn, when they are well-fed and plump. An old sow weighs more than 300 pounds.

Xu Ning led the way holding a pine torch. From time to time, he turned back and chatted with his uncle, Lao Jiang and others.

Finally, when Lao Lin's brother-in-law came over, Lao Jiang said, "Then I'll send him one later and pick up some more fish. It's embarrassing to keep asking him to drive."

"Not so good, Erning, do you know where the old Lin family is?" Liu Daming said.

"My eldest brother knows. He will drive us back later. Let's go directly there."

"Okay."

After a group of six people pulled four sleds across the Xiaoshi River, they walked along the ravine to the north. They did not need to climb too many mountains when walking along the ravine, only three relatively low mountains.

Xu Ning changed a pine torch, pointed to the low mountain ahead and said, "There are a lot of mountain celery on the mountain ahead. Come over and pick some in a few years."

"Okay, is this the nest you found?" asked Lao Jiang.

"The nest that my uncle Chang found, there is also a daylily nest over on the other side of the Xiaoshi River."

Wild vegetables in the mountains are not found everywhere. Those that grow well grow in groups. The mountain people call these wild vegetables in groups "nests". "Nest" means the fourth tone of "nest". Whether it is prickly ash, mountain celery, Acanthopanax, or various mushrooms, they all grow in groups.

But when picking wild vegetables, you must remember the saying "Don't pick what you don't recognize". What if they look alike? For example, if mountain celery and angelica leaves look alike, then angelica is poisonous. How can you tell them apart? Just remember that mountain celery has hairs, while angelica does not.

At this moment, the mountains are quiet, with only the sound of footsteps.

Suddenly, a cry came from the left side, like a baby crying, the sound was very creepy!
Wang Hu was so frightened that he trembled all over and picked up his old gun to attack. Xu Ning, Lao Jiang and others were also stunned. They also took off their guns and stretched their necks to look around...

Holding a 56-and-a-half rifle, Xu Ning handed the pine torch to Li Fuqiang, while Li Fuqiang drew out his knife with one hand and stared at the direction of the sound.

"What the hell is this?" The loud speaker was really bold. He even dared to curse out loud at this time. He really didn't take the evil things to heart.

Xu Ning frowned and said, "It sounded like the red leather guy was moving."

Lao Jiang nodded: "It should be a red-skinned creature. It's really scary when it screams."

At this time, Li Fuqiang pointed his knife at a poplar tree behind the hillside and said, "Brother, look behind that tree!"

Xu Ning squinted his eyes and through the faint light, he could vaguely see the outline of a small animal. It was squatting behind a poplar tree, staring at Xu Ning and his group with its head tilted.

"Oh my god, you scared me..." Wang Hu patted his chest and said with a smile: "Second brother, it's really a red skin. It might be the one we met last time. It followed us here because of the smell of fish."

Xu Ning took two steps forward and saw that the red-skinned fish did not run away. Instead, it stood up and took two steps towards him. He then stopped and turned back: "Hu Zi, throw two fish to it."

"Okay." Wang Hu turned around, rummaged through the sack, took out two fish and threw them over.

But the fox didn't move at all, and ignored the two fish. It just tilted its head to look at Xu Ning, and cried out twice with its eyes wide open.

"Oh my, it's quite picky about food. This is good stuff! A big carp weighing four or five pounds. Eat it quickly." The loud speaker urged.

When Liu Daming heard Dabakou talking nonsense, he immediately pulled him aside and said, "Stop talking nonsense."

Anyone would tremble if they encountered a red-skinned beast blocking the road in the dark in the mountains. Liu Daming was not afraid, he was just afraid of doing something wrong.

After all, we are all mountain runners. It is better to believe in such evil things than not to believe in them.

Xu Ning frowned when he saw that the little fox didn't eat the fish. He pointed the gun downwards, bent down and asked, "You said you don't eat fish, why are you stopping us? If you're hungry, eat it quickly. After you finish eating, there's more..."

"Cluck, cluck, cluck..." The little fox opened its long mouth and called out wildly.

The sound echoed in the silent forest, making people's hearts numb and pounding.

Xu Ning was getting a little impatient. He pointed at the little fox and said, "What on earth are you doing? I've given you food, why are you still pestering me?"

The little fox listened to him and was silent for more than three seconds, then turned and walked towards the forest, looking back every few steps...

Seeing it was about to leave, Xu Ning retracted his gaze and said, "Let's go home."

Liu Daming asked: "Erning, can we go now? We can't do anything wrong."

"It's okay. I've seen this red-skinned creature several times. Maybe it remembered it because I gave it food so often."

"Ah, let's go then."

After everyone pulled the rope forward for twenty or thirty meters, the little fox turned back and ran down the mountain, making a shrill cry.

They had no choice but to stop again. Xu Ning watched the little fox come to a stop about five or six meters in front of the group. It twisted its body to go up the mountain, but turned its head to stare at him, which made Xu Ning puzzled and puzzled.

Li Fuqiang reminded him, "Brother, is there something wrong with it?"

Lao Jiang said: "Looking at its appearance, I also think that something must be wrong."

Xu Ning glanced at the few people, then took two steps forward with the torch in hand and asked, "If you need me to do something, just take a few steps forward and come back."

The little fox called out twice, actually took two steps forward, then turned around and stared at him eagerly.

"Oh my god, there's something wrong with it!"

In fact, this scene is quite creepy. People who have experienced it will understand. For example, if a pet at home grins at you, you will feel creepy. But now, your back feels cold, your pores open, your hair stands up, and a cool breeze blows...

Xu Ning turned around and said, "Uncle, you guys rest here for a while. My brother and I will follow it and take a look."

The loud speaker said, "Brother, let's go together."

Lao Jiang said, "Yes, it's dark out here, we'd better not split up into groups, so that we can take care of things if anything happens."

"Erning, let's go over and take a look together."

Xu Ning nodded: "Then leave the sled here first, and we'll come back to get it later."

"OK."

(End of this chapter)