Rebirth of the pastoral landlady

Chapter 364

Concern is chaos.

Jin Xi returned to the main room, drank a cup of hot tea to calm down her mind, and listened to Sun Erhu's talk about the situation at that time.

"It's dark and the road is slippery. When we get there, the mountain is steep and steep. We can only use ropes to tie the big guy's waist together and slowly rub down."

"The wind gets stronger as we go down. We failed to go down to the bottom. We encountered a jackal that came out to hunt. Fortunately, everyone was holding the jackal."

"The jackal was chased away, and the big guy was worried that it would attract wolves, so he quickly folded it up. On the way back, the lantern was accidentally smashed."

"On the way back, we made an appointment with the big guys. We will continue to look for it at dawn tomorrow."

If you want to see people in life, you want to see corpses in death, no matter what, you will go down to Xuandi tomorrow to find Ah Cai, Sun Erhu secretly made up his mind.

"Earlier, my eldest brother-in-law and I made a plan. Although the villagers are eager to help, we can't waste their efforts over and over again. It's cold in the spring, and the people who will help find it tomorrow will each send a red envelope as money for their hard work." Drink and eat!" Sun Yubao said.

Jin Xi listened carefully, sometimes frowning, sometimes nodding, without saying a word, pretending to be in deep thought.

Sun and Sun Yuxia thanked other men in the village who helped to find them, and entered the house.Seeing Qin Ya sitting in the main room with Jin Xi at a glance, compared to the previous anxiety, she seems to be a quiet different person now.

Remembering Jinxi's anxious look before, Sun was secretly worried about the silence in front of her, and was about to come over to persuade her, when Jinxi, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly raised her head to Sun Erhu and Sun Yubao.

"Two uncles, it is too difficult to search aimlessly like this. The terrain of the cliff is dangerous and the area covered is also large. If you want to find someone, you will undoubtedly find a needle in a haystack."

Jin Xi pondered, especially in places where jackals and wolves exist.

"Uncle Erhu used to be good at hunting, but do you know if you can find that kind of hunting dog with a keen sense of smell?" Jin Xi asked.

Just like the well-trained dogs that are now used by the police to solve crimes.

Sun Erhu's eyes lit up, and he patted his head, "Yeah, why didn't I think of this?"

After finishing speaking, he turned his head and said to Sun Yubao: "Do you still remember Yu Orion on the opposite mountain?"

Sun Yubao was also thinking, and said: "Why don't you remember, Yu Orion is a well-known Orion in our mountains, and people in this mountain celebrate the New Year, and nine out of ten wild products, rabbits and roe deer are all bought from Yu Orion! "

"I used to go to his house to learn how to trap wild rabbits, and I saw him feed the dogs with pheasant bones." Sun Erhu stepped forward and said to Jin Xi.

"His family's dog is not our native dog. It is a wolf cub captured from the mountains and bred with a native dog. People in our mountain call that dog a wolf dog. It is very tough!"

"Yu Orhu went hunting in the mountains and never left this wolf dog by his side. I once asked him for the wolf dog cub, and he promised. Later, when we went out to do business, we gradually let this matter go."

"Since that's the case, please trouble Uncle Erhu to go to Yu Liehu's house tomorrow. If we can get him and that wolf dog to help us, we will get twice the result with half the effort!" Jin Xi said.

The wild nature of the wolfdog has not retreated, if you don't invite Yu Orion along, I'm afraid no one will be able to control it, Jin Xi thinks so.

"Uncle Yubao, you can go with Uncle Erhu. Bring good wine and cigarettes, as well as snacks for the children at home. For the Chinese New Year, there are plenty of gifts!"

"I'll go with Erhu, it's more polite!" Liang Yuzhong said, striding in.

Jin Xi nodded, and the matter was settled.

The next day was the eighth day of the first lunar month, the day when the three shops in the county and town were originally scheduled to open, and it was also the day when everyone went out of the mountain.

Because of Ah Cai's incident, Liang Yuzhong's family had to delay leaving the mountain.However, business is the foundation of life, and Sun Dahu and Sun Yuxia were still arranged by Jinxi to go out of the mountain according to the original plan.

Early in the morning, Liang Yuzhong and the others rushed to Yu Liehu's house on the opposite hill.The Sun family, Jin Xi and Qin Ya sent Sun Dahu and Sun Yuxia to the entrance of the village.

"When you pass Jinji Mountain Village, go and say hello to Mama Dong and the others, and tell them that we will delay leaving the mountain for a few more days." Mrs. Sun urged.

"When passing through the town, give this letter to Sun Ji's shopkeeper Zhang." Jin Xi said, taking out a letter from his sleeve and handing it to Sun Dahu.

The letter was written overnight last night. It was about Sun Ji's opening and Qian Lixiang's opening. Jinxi explained everything in the letter and handed it over to shopkeeper Zhang. He naturally knew what to do. Even if Jinxi was delayed for a few days, It does not hinder the business of the shop.

Sun Dahu and Sun Yuxia's ox cart disappeared after leaving the village, and Sun Shicai and Jin Xi went back to Granny Sun's house.

In the yard, the sun was just right, and the quilts and quilts were hung on the wall of the yard and spread out to dry. Qinya and Jinrou took the third and fourth children to play under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree. At the table under the sun, Mrs. Sun Sit with the spring flowers facing each other.

Chunhua lowered her head and wiped her tears. Mrs. Sun seemed to be comforting her in a low voice, with her hand still on Chunhua's other hand.

"You go over there to play with your younger brothers, and I'll go see your Aunt Chunhua." Sun said softly to Jinxi, Jinxi nodded obediently, and walked towards the sweet-scented osmanthus tree.

Over there, Mrs. Sun moved a stool and sat down next to Chunhua and Mrs. Sun, asking in a low voice.Under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, Qinya gently grabbed Jinxi's sleeve, and dragged her a few steps to the corner of the courtyard wall.

"What's going on?" Jin Xi asked in a low voice.Isn't Qinya's matter settled? Didn't Chunhua laugh yesterday, why did she cry so much that her eyes were swollen?

"My uncle is useless!" Qin Ya curled her lips and said in a low voice.

Jin Xi was taken aback, but immediately calmed down, "Why do you abolish the law?"

"Didn't he stay locked in that room for the past two days to make him think about it? My aunt sent the young man to check it out early this morning. As soon as he opened the door, the stench exploded. It turned out that his feces and urine were all in his crotch."

"He didn't even realize it, he was stupid like a pig sleeping in the corner with his butt sticking out! His face was covered with eye feces and booger. You said, if a person has become a beast, isn't that useless? ?”

Jin Xi's eyebrows twitched twice, "Hearing your description like this, it's really no different from a beast..."

Qin Ya curled her lips, compared with her aunt Chun Hua's sad description, she didn't show any displeasure on her face, on the contrary she was very happy.

"Xi'er, tell me, could it be that Ah Cai did something to my uncle that night, and my uncle is like this?" Qin Ya came closer again and asked in a low voice.

What kind of method would make a good-looking person like this?Jin Xi doesn't know.

Then he shook his head and said, "I don't dare to make a judgment until I find Ah Cai. However, no matter who did it, this is the retribution your uncle deserves. You won't feel bad, will you?"

Qin Ya spat, her nose turned red, she gritted her teeth and said, "That old beast was always trying to sell me, and I was almost buried in his hands, how could he be so kind as to love him?"

"Don't talk about saving half a dog's life, even if someone beats him to death with one fist, I won't shed a drop of tears! I still have to say thank you to that person!" Qinya said angrily.

At the table over there, Chunhua cried a little louder, Mrs. Sun stood up and patted Chunhua's back softly to comfort her.

"My aunt is also a hypocritical person who is really soft. All these years, my uncle treated her like that, beating or scolding, and dumping everything at home to my aunt. Two days ago, he threatened to kill her And sold it for money to buy wine!"

"I don't understand. Why is my aunt so sad for him? What's so sad about such a man?" Qinya held the sweet-scented osmanthus tree in both hands, looked at the spring flowers over there with resentment, and muttered in a low voice .

"One night husband and wife Bai Yeen, your aunt's heart is actually very kind." Jin Xi also looked over there and said to herself.

Birds of a feather flock together, and people are divided into groups, and a woman who can have such a heart-to-heart relationship with Sun and the others must also be a kind-hearted bun.

"Oh, my God, stop quickly, this sweet-scented osmanthus tree will die in your hands!" Jin Xi shouted, clapping Qin Ya's hand away.

Seeing her masterpiece, Qin Ya stuck out her tongue out of embarrassment, and was about to open her mouth, when there was a sudden burst of chaotic and hurried footsteps outside the yard, mixed with it, there was also a series of noisy dogs barking.

"Could it be that my father and the others are back?" Jin Xi asked, turning around and heading towards the gate of the courtyard.

At the gate of the yard, Liang Yuzhong, Sun Erhu, Sun Yubao, and Sun Dagen, surrounded by a tall and thin man in his early thirties, with a white croissant on his head, dressed as a hunter in the mountains, came over.

The man held a thick rope in his hand, and one end of the rope was tied to the neck of a big wolfhound as tall as a colt.

Behind them, followed by a group of dogs of different sizes and coat colors.It is estimated that all the dogs in the village were dispatched, following behind and dodging and barking at the big wolf dog that Yu Orion was holding in front of him.

The wolfhound was very strong, with a big head, big eyeballs, and a protruding mouth.The big scarlet tongue was exposed, and the white fangs gleamed coldly.

Along the way, he dismissed the demonstration and barking of the dogs behind him.It was murderous and majestic.Like a proud long-victorious general.In contrast, the group of local dog soldiers in Sunjiagou looked much more wretched.

"This dog is so spiritual. They all have their own concept of territory. The dogs in your Sunjia Village usually bite each other and beat you to death for a bone."

"Now that my black tiger is here, they are united to resist foreign enemies. It's a pity that my black tiger followed me over mountains and ridges, deep in the mountains and old forests, and its opponents are those jackals, tigers and leopards. You can see it, hahaha..."

Yu Orion laughed loudly, and patted Heihu's big head, quite proud of his own hound.Liang Yuzhong and Sun Erhu are also dog lovers, but how can they be in the mood to discuss these freely right now?

But because they would have to ask Heihu to help find someone later, they all nodded in agreement with a smile of approval.

The moment Jin Xi saw the black tiger, her eyes lit up a little bit, and the hope in her heart also grew a little bit.

Mrs. Sun and the others all came to meet and make tea with Yu Orhu. While Yu Orhu was drinking tea there, Jin Xi had already found a piece of A Cai's clothes from the house and handed it to Yu Orhu.

She herself didn't dare to go too far, the wolf dog in front of her was not the offspring of wolves and dogs that had been bred for generations, and the black tiger's father was a wolf!

Butcher Yu put Ah Cai's clothes in front of Heihu's nose and let him sniff it.

Yu Orion was joking, and didn't delay the serious business. Seeing the black tiger flicking its tail twice, he tore off a piece of A Cai's clothes and tied a knot on his own wrist, ready to strengthen and deepen the black tiger at any time along the way. Tiger's sense of smell.

Sun Erhu was not afraid of Heihu, he stepped forward and patted Heihu's head, and said: "Heihu, write down this smell, behave well, and I'll eat your pheasant neck later!"

Heihu seemed to be able to understand what Sun Erhu said, a flash of excitement flashed in his big yellow-brown eyes, and he jumped a few times on the spot.

Suddenly he jumped up, his sturdy body stood up, and his two front paws rested on Sun Erhu's shoulders. Good guy, he was almost on the same level as Sun Erhu.

Before Sun Erhu could react, Heihu suddenly opened his mouth towards him, baring his white fangs.

Everyone around took a breath, Sun's face turned pale with fright, Qin Ya almost cried out, Jin Xi also froze, but Heihu suddenly stuck out his tongue and clicked on Sun Erhu's face After licking it, he jumped down, happily jumping on the spot.

Yu Orion laughed, went over to pat Heihu, shouted: "Work has started!", and led Heihu towards the gate of the courtyard.

The hearts of the people around him also let go, and the men headed by Liang Yuzhong quickly picked up the guys who had been prepared a long time ago, and followed them.

The faces of Mrs. Sun and the others were still pale, and Qin Ya slapped her chest hard.

Sun Erhu was stunned for a moment, then smiled, raised his sleeves to wipe the mucus off his face, and strode after him out of the yard.

"This dog is good, understands human nature, and can think. With it, I will definitely find Ah Cai! For sure!" Jin Xi looked at the group of people going away from the gate of the yard, clenched her fists, and thought to herself.

Liang Yuzhong and the others went out this trip and did not return to the village until it was dark.The room was lit with candles, and it was brightly illuminated.

Mrs. Sun prepared meals, and invited Yu Orion and the others to eat in the main room after a tiring day.

Jin Xi is sitting in her room, surrounded by Qin Ya and Sun Shi.She seemed to be looking at the man's shoe covered in mud and eroded by wind and rain, and her fingers trembled slightly.

"That's right, these are Ah Cai's shoes, I recognize them." She said affirmatively under the lamp.

"What is the black inside the shoes?" Qin Ya leaned over and asked.

"It's blood." Sun Erhu came in through the curtain and said.

"Brother Erhu, why do you only eat so little?" Qin Ya stood up and said.

"When you're full, come and have a look." Sun Erhu said, his eyes fell on the shoe in Jin Xi's hand.

"It was Heihu who went down to find the shoe and pulled it out. We found the shoe closer there. We searched for half a day, but we couldn't find Ah Cai."

Sun Erhu sat on the stool that Qinya brought over, and told Jinxi about the scene at that time.

"I didn't find Ah Cai, did you see any signs of the beast eating in the vicinity?" Jin Xi asked.

I really don't want to ask this question...

"If the shoes are dropped there, people won't disappear, right?" Qin Ya said.

"Could it be that he was bitten by a wild animal and passed out, so he took it back to the cave to eat?" Qinya guessed in horror.

Sun Erhu's expression froze, and he shook his head resolutely, "We had the same intention, and we searched closely, but we didn't find it."

"If there is blood, it will definitely be washed away by the light rain these two days. However, if it is really eaten by wild animals, it will leave some indelible marks on the ground and closer." Jin Xi pondered road.

"Have you searched further away? Many of the beasts in the deep mountains and old forests have never been heard of before, so weird!" Qin Ya said, patting her chest.

"Don't mix things up if you don't understand. Do you think it's a storage nest for squirrels holding pine nuts?" Sun Erhu glared at Qin Ya with a little dissatisfaction, and then gestured to Jin Xi who was frowning and silent. Suddenly, he quickly raised his hand to cover his mouth and didn't say a word.

"I was thinking that being attacked by wild animals should be ruled out." Jin Xi said in a deep voice, pinching her chin with her fingers, her mind spinning rapidly.

"Cai lost his shoes and didn't care to pick them up. It should have happened when he lost consciousness. The body won't disappear out of thin air. Could it be that he was hunted up the mountain or met by a woodcutter? , was taken away for treatment?"

Jin Xi looked up at Sun Erhu.

"After it rained, if someone really rescued them, the footprints would definitely be wiped away by the rain. Well, Uncle Erhu, do you know that there are other villages under the cliff that we don't know about?"

Sun Erhu was stunned for a while, thought carefully, shook his head, and said, "I don't know about that. I only know that our area is full of mountains, mountains and mountains, and there is no end."

"As for the other villages in this deep mountain and old forest, I don't know."

"I know someone knows this!" Sun Yubao's voice sounded at the door of the house, and then he stepped in.

Xu was because of drinking two cups of wine with Yu Liehu, his handsome face was stained with a layer of red, and his eyes were very lively.

"I drank a few more cups of wine with Orion Yu, and my cheeks are a little dry, girl Qin, quickly pour me a cup of tea!" Sun Yubao smiled at Qin girl.

Qinya hurried to go.

"Uncle, do you mean that there are hidden villages that we don't know about in those deep mountains and old forests?"

Jin Xi took over what he said earlier and asked.

"En." Sun Yubao took the tea, took a sip to moisten his throat, and said.

"Impossible. We grew up together. Where is the village that you have been to but I haven't? If you can name it, so can I!" Sun Erhu objected.

Sun Yubao raised his eyes and said with a smile: "Why are you so dissatisfied? I didn't say that I knew it. What I said was that I know someone who knows the villages hidden in the deep mountains and old forests!"

Both Sun Erhu and Qin Ya were stunned, feeling that Sun Yubao's words were like tongue twisters, difficult to understand for a while.

However, Jin Xi didn't have time to try to understand the tongue twister, so she just looked closely at Sun Yubao, said with a hint of haste in her voice, "Uncle, what time is it, don't be fooled. Who knows the mountains around us so well?" The location of the village?"

"Wending." Sun Yubao said.

……

It was very late when I sent Yu Liehu away, and more than half of the Sunjiagou villagers in the [-] or so households had already washed and gone to bed.

After Jin Xi scalded her feet with hot water, she was urged by Sun to get into bed, and as soon as her face touched the bed, she fell asleep unconsciously.

Mrs. Sun minimized the candlelight in the lantern to keep the dim light in the room, and then quietly exited the room.

Liang Yuzhong waited outside, "Have you all fallen asleep?" He glanced at the door of the room, lowered his voice to a minimum, and asked.

Mrs. Sun nodded, and led him into the main room.

"Where are Mother and Yubao?" Sun asked.

"Mother-in-law coaxed the third and fourth children to sleep, and the lights in Yubao's room were still on, and they were studying books!" Liang Yuzhong said.

"I'll go and finish the jujube soup for him, so as not to shake my hands while reading and writing at night."

"Okay, I'll accompany you to the stove."

The couple went under the stove, and after a while, they sat down with red jujube soup and sent it to Sun Yubao.He turned back and sat in the warm tub to talk, discussing Ah Cai's affairs in a low voice.

"Xi'er and the others said that Brother Cai might have been injured, passed out, and was rescued by a woodcutter or hunter passing by."

"Oh? If that's the case, it would be great!" Sun said in a low voice with an unbelievable surprise flashing across her face.

"Big guys seldom go to the deep mountains and old forests under the cliff. Even with the experience of Yu Liehu, he can't guarantee that he can find the hidden village inside." Liang Yuzhong said with a frown, full of worries.

Surprise flashed across Sun's face, thinking of the mountains and forests in the area where Ah Cai disappeared, his brows and eyes collapsed.

"Isn't it? The people in this mountain rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, and turn the mountain into a treasure. That also has a certain territorial limit."

"In some mountain gadas, not to mention outsiders like Ah Cai, even old mountain people like us dare not set foot on it easily."

Low sighs followed one after another...

I don't know how long it has passed, but Sun Yubao has almost finished studying, and walked out of the room with his arms outstretched, and saw the couple still sitting in the HVAC, worrying.

"Big sister, big brother-in-law, why don't you rest at night? Go to bed first if you have something to do, or you won't have the energy to do things tomorrow!"

Sun Yubao said in surprise.

The couple came back to their senses, Liang Yuzhong wiped his face with his hand, and said, "Go to sleep now."

"Yubao, why did you come out?" Mrs. Sun asked.

Sun Yubao smiled embarrassedly, and said, "I drank two more cups at night, my mouth is dry and thirsty, so I got up to drink some tea."

"I'll pour it for you!" Mrs. Sun said, lifting a leg out of the warm bucket and stepping on the ground.

"Elder sister, how can I bother you, I will do it myself..."

"You study hard, sister..."

The siblings were tugging, when suddenly there were several barking sounds of dogs at different distances from outside the house.At night, the clear sound of wheels rolling over the ground slowly came from a distance.

"Did you hear that? It sounds like a wheel?" Sun pricked up her ears.

"It seems that they are still coming towards us." Liang Yuzhong said.

"It's late at night, which one could it be? Could it be Dahu and Yuxia who turned back again? Mrs. Sun made a worried guess and jumped out of the HVAC.

"I'll go out and have a look!" Sun Yubao said, turning around and rushing towards the door of the main room.

"Father Xi'er, hurry up and follow!" Sun said, without her calling, Liang Yuzhong had already strode after him, and picked up a pole leaning against the door and dragged it in his hand.

(End of this chapter)