Yang Qingyu's figure seemed a little thin, even a little rickety. However, the competition in the neighborhood has become more and more intense recently. He also knows deeply that although Yangjia Village can maintain peace for a while with Yang Shengfeng, Yang Shengfeng is not from their village after all. He may leave one day. By then, I'm afraid, For Yangjiacun, it is really cruel. Obviously, Yang Shengfeng took the children out to hunt this time as a plan to leave in the future. Yang Qingyu also knew that Yangjiacun could not keep Yang Shengfeng and his son, and he did not dare to ask for more, even though he took them in in the first place. Moreover, Yang Qingyu has never asked Yang Shengfeng in this way.
"Uncle Qingyu, we have to face what we have to face after all. We are just trying our best to protect these children. But the world of the jungle will never change. Only if you work harder and stronger can you have meat to eat, otherwise it will be the mouth of others. The meat inside." Yang Shengfeng said very seriously, with hatred and a hint of despair in his eyes, but Yang Qingyu didn't notice it when he looked at the children leaving.
"Shengfeng, you should go and take a rest. After all, you haven't been idle all morning." Yang Qingyu finally suppressed his feelings. After all, the children also need to grow up. It was precisely because of his own incompetence that this happened. His son died tragically. The old man will never forget that hunt. That hunt happened 89 years ago. Yang Qingyu led more than 50 young adults in the village to hunt. It was a mighty hunt. More than 50 people traveled nearly a hundred miles away from the village and came to the hunting site of the Qushan tribe. At that time, Yang Qingyu was in his prime, and the hunting team in the village was even stronger than ever. He still remembered those words from his son still in his ears, "Dad, our team is unprecedented this time, why don't we go to Qushan We will go poaching to the tribe, and if we succeed, we can return home with a full harvest." I remember that I was very proud, because under my leadership, Yangjia Village became unprecedentedly prosperous. It was also his own pride that blinded him. He just had a grandson, and he was even more excited. But unexpectedly, he fell into the plot of the Qushan tribe. Although the Qushan tribe is not very powerful, they were unexpectedly detected that time and fell into an ambush by the Qushan tribe. As a result, less than 20 people from the final team of more than 50 people ran out, and more than 20 people were killed. He was injured to varying degrees, and his son sacrificed himself in order to protect himself and the villagers from retreating. It was his son's sacrifice that gave them a way to survive. Otherwise, I am afraid that the more than fifty people he brought with him that time The whole army will be destroyed. It was his arrogance this time that caused Yangjia Village to plummet. After that time, many people in the village chose to leave, and now there are only about twenty or less than thirty families left. Most of these people are old, weak, sick, and disabled. Since then, Yang Qingyu has been unable to recover. He has lived in deep self-blame these years, making Yang Qingyu grow older in a few years. The arrival of Yang Shengfeng gave Yang Qingyu a glimmer of hope. Yang Shengfeng even proposed the idea of training children more than a year ago, which gave Yang Qingyu a little bit of hope. This is why Yang Qingyu heard that Yang Shengfeng was going to take the children to hunt and wander. Uncertain reasons.
Yang Qingyu has suffered a lot in his heart over the years. Every time he sees Yang Pi, Yang Qingyu becomes even more sad. Fortunately, the harmony between his neighbors in recent years has eased his torment.
"Uncle Qingyu, I'm going to take a rest first. Don't worry. We're just going to catch ferocious beasts nearby. We can't go far." Yang Shengfeng also had a general understanding of Yangjia Village in the past few years, and he still remembered When he said a year ago that he would do something for the village and train children, Mr. Yang Qingyu was excited. Since that incident, Yangjiacun has paid compensation to the Qushan tribe, making Yangjiacun's livelihood difficult. In recent years, it has been threatened by several small neighboring villages, making Yangjiacun's livelihood even more difficult.
Old man Yang Qingyu nodded and entered the adobe house. Yang Qingyu's home looked not much different from the house where Yang Shengfeng lived, and was even more shabby.
Yang Shengfeng watched the old man enter the house with a very weak expression on his face. Maybe he hadn't fully understood the cruelty of this world. Yang Shengfeng shook his head, as if to wave away the unpleasant mood, and finally sighed helplessly and left.
"I hope the children will go well, otherwise how will I go to see the people under Jiuquan..." Yang Qingyu entered the room and murmured to himself between the windows.
Time always passes unconsciously, and you don't even notice it.
"Children, this afternoon, you will see the cruelty of flesh-and-blood struggle. Are you afraid then?" Yang Shengfeng felt that it was necessary to instill in the children the cruel world and the cruel competition for survival.
"Don't be afraid." The voice was not loud, but there was a sense of fearless courage for those who don't know. Yang Shengfeng looked at the children standing in a row, no less than seventeen in number.
"I don't ask for your outstanding performance. I just want to show you the world outside Yangjiacun today." Yang Shengfeng's face looked very solemn under the sun. Yang Qingyu handed over seventeen children to him, and he also deeply understood his responsibility. "Okay, you must obey the command when the time comes and don't run around. If I'm not here, then you will listen to Yang Pi. Do you understand?" Yang Shengfeng knew that accidents happen from time to time. Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the unexpected.
"Yes." The voices even seemed childish, and they responded in unison.
"Okay, let's go." Yang Shengfeng gave the order, and a group of seventeen children, plus fifteen young adults, walked towards the road out of the village.
Standing in the small square were villagers, mostly women, and a dozen disabled people. These dozen disabled people were the ones who survived that year. The eyes of these dozen people stared at the retreating hunting team, with mixed feelings in their hearts. Once upon a time, we also had to make a living. I hope the children can come back safely. They also knew what Yang Shengfeng was capable of, but they still couldn't let go of the worry in their hearts. After all, the child was too young. However, they also understood the results of Yang Shengfeng's training. For example, Yang Zhen was only eight years old, but his strength was only slightly smaller than that of the young people in the village, while Yang Pi's strength was even greater than that of the strong men in the village. This is also the fundamental reason why the villagers asked Yang Shengfeng to take them out hunting.
The hunting team left, and people in the square shouted the names of their children, "Zhen'er, you are the best..." "Huixuan, don't embarrass your father..." "Take care of Sanwazi." Own……"
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There were faint tears on some women's faces. After all, the children had never traveled far since they made a sound. At most, they had been to the fields. But this time, in order to train and become stronger, they had to go hunting again. In the past eight years, since that incident, the village has rarely gone out for hunting. A year ago, for training, Yangjia Village started hunting again, but it was just casual hunting of wild game, wild boars, etc., but this time it was more protected day and night. children. This makes them pay special attention to this hunt. Each hunt usually takes three or five days. Yangjiacun went to the Qushan tribe eight years ago to get closer. Otherwise, they would have to walk two hundred miles to the Qingsong Mountains to hunt.
The Qingsong Mountains are a huge mountain system that runs through Liuyun Kingdom, and small tribes like Yangjiacun used to only fight ferocious beasts on the periphery. It is rumored that there are spiritual beasts appearing deep in the Qingsong Mountains. But to the people of Yangjiacun, these are even more myths.
