Looking further into the distance, the scenery is blurry and cannot be clearly seen. As for the village of Hetou where he was born and raised, it is only as big as a fingernail and cannot be seen clearly at all.
Just when he was sighing that he would be at the top of the mountain and see all the small mountains, Lidong suddenly pointed towards the distance and said, "Look, there seems to be someone there."
Looking in the direction of Lidong's finger, there were a few small black spots behind a pile of rocks in the distance.
Seeing this scene, Chen Xiaobei's heart skipped a beat.
I was just walking on the mountain, but I didn't expect to bring these people to the top of the mountain.
If those people were Sun Jian and the others, then this would be great. Taking them to the top of the mountain would lose the value of their use.
It would be fine if Sun Jian just broke off with him and stopped contacting him. He was just afraid that Sun Jian would have other ideas.
Thinking of this, he touched the serial crossbow in his bag again.
"Xiao Bei, let's wait here. We can go down after they leave."
Regarding Lidong's proposal, Chen Xiaobei shook his head, "Have you ever thought about it, there are so many forked roads in Qingniu Mountain, what does it mean that they can appear at the foot of the mountain?"
"You mean they followed us up the mountain." Lidong suddenly realized.
"Yes, they probably followed us all the way here, so their goal is also the top of the mountain. They are hiding there waiting for us to go down the mountain."
"Then what are you waiting for? Let's leave quickly." Lidong was anxious.
Chen Xiaobei unpacked his bag, took out the serial crossbow, and put it in his arms.
The two of them pretended to be nonchalant and walked slowly away from Sun Jian and the others.
Seeing the two of them walking away, Sun Jian breathed a long sigh of relief.
Sun Gui couldn't wait to stand up and rush to the top of the mountain.
Chen Xiaobei and Lidong both took the opportunity to look back several times. They could clearly see a dozen black figures climbing to the top of the mountain. Lidong said with a hint of luck, "You are right, they really want to go up." Mountain top.”
"Yes, if that's the case, those people should be Sun Jian. We have to be careful when we see them in the future." Chen Xiaobei looked worried.
While talking, the two of them arrived at the dogwood forest. I have to say that Sun Jian was still very careful in his work. Even in such a wilderness, most of the traces of their stay were cleaned up.
Chen Xiaobei pointed deep into the dogwood, "There are several big snakes and ginseng right here."
As he spoke, he took out the snake medicine from his arms.
Lidong didn't hesitate and reached out to grab it. "It's up to me to spread the medicine. You are responsible for digging the ginseng."
Chen Xiaobei didn't argue with him. After all, Lidong had served as a soldier, and his skills were many times more agile than his own.
Lidong took a branch and walked in while tapping it. Soon he also saw the bright red cluster.
Seeing this red color, Chen Xiaobei felt relieved.
Lidong took another step forward, and soon, two snake heads as big as palms stood up in the grass.
Lidong did not retreat, but took another step forward, and deliberately stretched the pole in front of a snake provocatively.
The snake twisted its body and ran forward for more than two feet. Suddenly, it jumped towards Lidong.
Lidong was not in a hurry to take action, but instead quickly took two steps back.
In the flash of lightning, the snake, which was more than a foot long, had landed where he was standing just now.
Lidong raised his hand and a handful of white smoke instantly enveloped the snake.
Seeing this scene, Chen Xiaobei was in admiration for Lidong. If it were him, he might have taken action as soon as the snake pounced on him.
Now calm down and think about it, if that is the case, the snake will break through the white smoke of the snake medicine in an instant, and the efficacy of the medicine will be compromised. But now the snake has just landed and cannot continue to attack in a short time. It will only take action at the beginning of winter. The snake Only then will the effect of the medicine be maximized.
The effect of the snake medicine is indeed amazing.
After a dozen finger snaps, the tongue slowly fell to the ground and gradually became motionless.
Having taken down a big snake so easily, Lidong felt confident and continued to move forward.
Chen Xiaobei took out the string that he had prepared long ago, wrapped the snake's mouth tightly, then rolled the snake's body into a ball, and then tied it with the string. This way, even if the snake wakes up, it will be difficult for it to wake up. Break free.
With the help of snake medicine, Lidong quickly took care of four big snakes, and he patted them around the grass again.
After making sure there was no snake, Lidong took a long breath and made a face at Chen Xiaobei.
At this time, Chen Xiaobei had already tied up the four big snakes. Without further ado, Chen Xiaobei hurried away towards the bright red cluster.
What a big ginseng.
This is larger than any ginseng tree I have seen in Calabash Valley. Based on this calculation, the ginseng must be more than a hundred years old.
What made Chen Xiaobei even more delighted was that around the large ginseng, there were clusters of small ginseng, although most of them seemed to be only as thick as a little finger. But it’s a lot, a big piece.
Great, if you can take all these back and transplant them into pots, the value they will produce in the future will be immeasurable.
But these are things for later. Today I can only take four large ginseng plants with me, because if Sun Jian and others stand on the top of the mountain, they can clearly see their every move and cannot stay here for too long.
The two of them each carried two ginseng trees.
At the beginning of winter, he cut another branch six or seven feet long, threaded four big snakes through it, and two people carried it away.
Lidong was still more cautious in his thoughts. The branches were very long so that they were still some distance away. Even if the snake suddenly woke up or even broke away suddenly, people would have enough time to react.
Before noon, they crossed the canyon. In Chen Xiaobei's opinion, if everything went smoothly, he would be able to return home before the sun set.
As they walked, they turned a corner and Lidong suddenly stopped. He slowly bent down and put the snake on the ground, and then took out the crossbow from his arms.
Lidong was in front and Chen Xiaobei was behind, so Chen Xiaobei couldn't see what was happening in front of him, but he could feel that Lidong was nervous from Lidong's movements.
After standing for a while, Lidong began to retreat slowly. Upon seeing this, Chen Xiaobei quickly followed suit.
Lidong took a step back, Chen Xiaobei took a step back, and unknowingly took a step back more than two feet. At this time, Chen Xiaobei suddenly saw clearly.
At the turn ahead, three gray shadows appeared.
Wolf.
It's a wolf.
Three wolves.
Seeing these three wolves, Chen Xiaobei's mind suddenly flashed back to the night when he and Da Laohei went into the mountains. There were three wolves surrounding them in the middle of the night.
Could it be the three wolves that night?
Chen Xiaobei recalled what Yang Chun said at that time.
These three wolves must have no companions, otherwise they would not leave so easily.
Thinking of this, Chen Xiaobei said, "Kill them."
After saying that, he immediately pulled the trigger, puff puff, puff puff puff.
The serial crossbow could hold ten arrows when fully loaded, and Chen Xiaobei shot them all in one breath.
The wolves obviously did not expect that Chen Xiaobei behind Lidong would suddenly attack.
