The next morning, the sky was blue and the clouds were white. The rising sun sheds thousands of golden lights on Le Jinghui's house.
After Zhang Shaofei and Le Jinghui's family had breakfast, they stretched their waists and said, "When you're full, let's go up the mountain to collect herbs!"
Le Zhicheng put down his bowls and chopsticks, looked at Zhang Shaofei standing next to him and said, "A Fei, A Mei, I'll go with you."
"Second brother, today is the Tiangang Pingwei period. Didn't you and Dad make an appointment with the merchants outside the mountain to exchange goods? Brother A Fei and I will go. Don't worry, we will take care of each other." Le Zhi Dan reminded.
Le Zhicheng touched his head and said in a naive manner, "Oh, if you didn't tell me, I would have forgotten about it."
Zhang Shaofei looked at Le Zhicheng and said, "Let's go together next time."
"Okay, I'll have to wait until next time." Le Zhicheng said with a naive smile.
Le Zhidan brought a small bamboo basket and a small hoe from the old house, and was about to say to Zhang Shaofei, "Let's go."
Unexpectedly, the eldest sister Le Zhihua came over and took the small basket and hoe, and said in the tone of a big sister: "Third sister, you were chased by a tiger on the mountain yesterday and you haven't recovered yet. Please stay at home with me today." Mom, Sister Shanlu is more familiar with you, so it would be more appropriate for me to accompany A Fei up the mountain to collect mountain herbs."
When Le Zhidan saw that Le Zhihua wanted her to stay at home with her mother, of course she was very reluctant. But because Le Zhihua was the elder sister, she had no choice but to plead with her father: "Dad, we agreed yesterday that our elder sister should stay at home with grandma."
Unexpectedly, Le Jinghui said: "What the elder sister just said makes sense, you should stay at home and rest your mind."
Le Zhidan had no choice but to say, "Okay then."
"A Fei, sister, you must be careful when going up the mountain to collect herbs or climbing rocks and down ravines." Le Jinghui and Shi Jinying warned them repeatedly.
"Don't worry, we will pay attention to safety and come back safely." Zhang Shaofei said as he took the small hoe from the elder sister's hand and carried it.
Le Zhihua carried the bamboo basket and whispered: "A Fei, let's go."
Along the road, there were beautiful trees like forests, mountain flowers like the sea, and flowing water. Zhang Shaofei walked a few steps closely and walked side by side with Le Zhihua.
Zhang Shaofei made a face, coughed dryly, and looked at Le Zhihua: "Sister, what did you... just call me?"
Le Zhihua said coquettishly: "Ah Fei!"
"Then should I change my name and call you Ah Hua?" Zhang Shaofei said with a smile.
"Okay! Aren't you afraid that your little girl, Xiaolan, will hear it and be cool?" Le Zhihua deliberately touched Zhang Shaofei with his arm and ran away like a gust of wind.
"Ahua, wait for me! Don't lose me..." Zhang Shaofei's deep male voice aroused deep echoes in the mountains and ravines in the early morning.
After these few days of contact and interaction, Le Zhihua, a woman known as an aloof and "cold beauty" in the village, seemed to be secretly attracted by Zhang Shaofei's handsome appearance and overflowing talent. The excessive intimacy with Zhang Shaofei last night made her feel a trace of love for no reason. She was so excited that she couldn't sleep all night. She got up early in the morning and dressed up carefully, as if she was going on a date with her first love.
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Zhang Shaofei was about to step forward to hold Le Zhihua's hand when suddenly he heard bursts of wailing coming from the tea forest not far ahead.
"Hey, Ah Hua, what's this sound?" Zhang Shaofei listened carefully.
"It's Ma Liuzi's cry of injury." Le Zhihua often followed her father and brother on hunting trips to the mountains. She had dealt with many kinds of prey, so she knew it by ear.
Zhang Shaofei and Le Zhihua followed the direction of the cry and came to the depths of the tea forest.
Sunlight passes through the dense canopy of trees, casting swaying spots of light on the ground.
Under a big tea tree with pimpled bark, two brown-furred horses put their hands into a wooden box and screamed "Ouch, Ouch".
When the two horses saw one holding a small hoe and the other carrying a small bamboo basket, they thought they were hunters who came to catch them. They stamped their feet and screamed in fear. They wanted to struggle to escape but could not remove their hands from the wood. Pull it out of the box.
On the pale red faces of the two horses, the round eyes were streaming with tears, looking at Zhang Shaofei and Le Zhihua, full of fear and pleading.
"What's going on?" Zhang Shaofei came to the big tea tree not far from Ma Liuzai. After taking a look, he realized that the two Ma Liuzai were caught by the trap set by the hunter.
It turned out that there were many monkeys in the dense forests of the mountains. The hunters in the mountains knew that monkeys loved to eat fruits, so they dug a small hole in the wooden box. The size of the hole was just right for the monkeys' hands. Into it.
The hunter placed Ma Liuzai's favorite fruit in the wooden box. The greedy Ma Liuzai had a good sense of smell. When he came to the wooden box and found the fruit in the small hole, he would reach into the hole to steal it.
It was easy for Ma Liuzai to stretch his free hand straight into the hole, but the hand holding the fruit turned into a fist shape, making it difficult to retract straight back.
Ma Liuzai is smart all his life, but he can also be confused for a while in the face of greed.
They don't want to put down the fruit in their hands, so the harder they pull out, the tighter the hand becomes stuck in the hole and cannot break free.
Hunters often set up such traps to catch Ma Liuzai.
After Zhang Shaofei understood this method of "catching monkeys" through careful inspection, he felt pity. Seeing the frightened state of the two horses trapped in the trap and unable to extricate themselves, Zhang Shaofei walked forward gently, showed a smile, and did He gestured and said calmly to Ma Liuzai: "Don't panic, I won't harm you."
Although the two horses couldn't understand human speech, they were extremely intelligent creatures. From Zhang Shaofei's friendly expression, he knew that this visitor had no ill intentions, and his hand was stuck in the wooden box and could not be pulled out. Unable to run away, we had to let it go.
Zhang Shaofei held his chin and stared at the small wooden box and the trapped Ma Liuzai, thinking, how to rescue them?
After a while, I had an idea in my mind. I took a small hoe and slammed it on the top of the two wooden boxes. With two "pop, pop" sounds, the wooden boxes were smashed open.
When Le Zhihua saw this, it was too late to step forward and stop him.
Zhang Shaofei saw that Ma Liuzai's hand was still holding a sand pear greedily and tightly, and said with a smile: "These two gluttons, no wonder they are doing it to themselves." Then he pulled Ma Liuzai's hand that was tightly holding a sand pear away, and then He slowly dragged his hand out of the small hole and rescued the two monkeys.
Zhang Shaofei pointed to the depths of the jungle and said to the two horses: "Be careful in the future. Don't be harmed by greed. Let's go."
Strangely enough, the two horses didn't leave immediately, but they came forward and pulled Zhang Shaofei's trousers in a friendly manner. This time, their "ouch, ouch" cries were no longer frightened, but an expression of their gratitude.
