Goudan led Xu Yin to his secret base for collecting firewood: "Look, Auntie, the firewood here has dried up in the sun. You don't need to dry it when you pick it up, it can be burned directly."
Xu Yin praised him a few words, but she was mainly looking for castor beans and hemp seeds today, so she was not in a hurry to collect firewood.
She was about to continue walking in, but Goudan grabbed her sleeve:
"Auntie Lobby, there is no danger in this mountain, but if you go further in, you will reach a deep mountain. There are man-eating insects and wolves there, so you can't go there!"
Xu Yin nodded. Even if she wanted to go, she planned to go alone and would not take risks with her three children.
"I'll just look around here, not in the mountains."
The three children searched with her, muttering: "Where are the small cones with spiny shells...?"
Tie Wa sighed: "It would be better if it were bigger! I know the big thorn ball. There is a chestnut tree outside the mountains. The fallen chestnuts look like this before the thorn shells are knocked off."
When it comes to chestnuts, the little guy is greedy. He talks about how in the autumn of previous years, he roasted the chestnuts picked up by the fire. After roasting, he peeled the shells and ate them. It was so delicious.
"Roasting chestnuts is nothing!" Huzi said, "During the Chinese New Year, my mother peeled the chestnut shells and stewed them with the meat. That's how delicious they are!"
Tie Wa and Goudan glanced at each other with resentment: Can it be stewed with meat without making it smell delicious? you win!
Xu Yin listened happily and suggested: "Then you take me to thresh chestnuts this autumn, and I'll treat you to chestnut stewed chicken."
Chicken stew with chestnuts?
The three children swallowed their saliva, thinking about it, it tasted delicious!
From this day on, they look forward to the arrival of autumn every day!
The first thing I do when I get up every morning is ask my family:
"Mom, has autumn come?"
"Dad, I feel so cold! Is autumn coming?"
"Milk, it's so cold today, is it autumn?"
"..."
The elders of the three families were speechless: "What autumn? Summer has just arrived, and the crops in the fields are still green!"
But at this time, they had not thought that far, and they were very happy. It was great to go out and play with Aunt Yinyin! In autumn, I beat chestnuts and eat chicken!
Hey, wait——
"Auntie, I remember you don't raise chickens at home!"
Xu Yin: "..."
Well, her chickens are lying in the system warehouse.
"I plan to go to town in a few days, catch some chickens and raise them. Can we eat them until the Chinese New Year?"
"Are there any chicks to catch now?"
"have!"
Even if you don’t have it, conjure it up!
The group chatted while looking for castor beans.
The three children are responsible for looking for castor beans with distinctive features. In addition to castor beans, she is also looking for hemp seeds.
Compared with the appearance of castor bean thorn shell, hemp seeds are not so easy to identify, but she remembers that chickens like hemp seeds very much, with a smell of oil, and the pheasants in the mountains should be the same.
So, she not only looked for plants, but also for traces of pheasants.
Hemp may be found near pheasants nesting or haunting.
When looking for pheasants, look first for footprints and second for droppings.
After paying attention, I didn't find the pheasant's nest, but I found a wild boar's nest. Eight wild boars, two large and six small, were gnawing yam eggs beside the nest. Seeing humans, the big boar turned around and was about to attack them.
"!!!"
The three children were so frightened that their faces turned pale and their legs trembled.
"Aunt Yinyin, let's run! The wild boar's tusks are so sharp that they can push out a person's intestines!"
"It's too late!" Xu Yin hugged the three of them up the tree one by one. "You hide in the tree and be sure to hug the trunk tightly. I didn't say not to get off the tree."
"Lobby Aunt, what about you?"
"I'll take care of them!"
Xu Yin threw away her backpack, pushed up her sleeves, and moved her wrists and ankles. When the snorting big wild boar rushed to her, she raised her foot and kicked it hard, sending the wild boar flying. Then there was a "bang", and four of the six wild boar cubs were killed in an instant...
The female wild boar went crazy, scratching the ground with her hind paws, and charged towards Xu Yin fiercely, as if she would not stop until she was killed.
Xu Yin spun around, went around its back, and kicked its butt.
The big sow was kicked so hard that she staggered a few times. She had no time to brake and hit the big tree trunk in front of her. She was knocked unconscious on the spot.
Xu Yin found out the hemp rope and tied up the two wild boar cubs that were still alive, and then tied up the knocked-out female wild boar.
Only then did the three children get off the tree.
Goudan and the other three were stunned while holding the tree trunk. It wasn't until Xu Yin called them that they came back to their senses.
They trembled and got down from the tree, staring at each other, thinking: Uncle Meng Jin's wife is really, really amazing! He actually kicked the wild boar to death! It's even more powerful than the legendary killing of a wild boar with a slap on its butt!
"Meng Jin's wife——"
"Goudan——"
"Tiewa——"
"Hu Zi——"
From the entrance to the mountain came the calls of the parents of the three children.
The three children ran over excitedly to greet:
"We are here!"
"Dad, Mom, why are you all here?"
"Nai, why are you here too? Do you know we have hunted wild boars?"
"What wild boar?"
A group of parents who came up to the mountain were confused after hearing this, and then nervously pulled them over to check:
"Did you encounter a wild boar? Were you not hurt by the wild boar?"
"Where is Meng Jin's wife?"
"Dad, nothing happened to us! Aunt Yinyin carried us to the tree and hid."
"The lobby aunt is fine too, she's so powerful! She kicked the wild boar to death with just one kick!"
"Yes! One big wild boar was killed with just one kick! It also killed several small wild boars!"
Everyone: "???"
It wasn't until I came to the scene and saw the dead, faint, or tied up wild boar that kept barking that I really believed that Meng Jin's wife had killed an entire litter of wild boars, two large and six small.
"!!!"
Everyone was so shocked that they lost their voices. It took a while to find their voices:
"D-Did Meng Jin's wife deal with these wild boars by herself?"
"Meng Jin's wife, are you not injured?"
"Daughter-in-law Meng Jin, you are too strong!"
The men in the village all took a step back, and a thought flashed through their minds: Don't offend anyone in the future, but don't offend Meng Jin's wife! Such a big wild boar could be kicked to death by her. If it were a human, it wouldn't be kicked to pieces.
Especially the few widowers in the village who had lost their wives and the second-rate men who were hanging around and couldn't get a wife. How could they not be jealous when they saw Meng Jin's wife being separated to live alone in the old house at the foot of the mountain? After today, when these people see Xu Yin, they will probably hide as far away as possible with their legs crossed. They are so tough! More ferocious than a tigress. It’s not like there are no widows in the village, so why bother with your own life!
Xu Yin was surrounded by women, who asked her with concern whether she was injured or why she was so powerful;
After the men were shocked, they used the branches and rattan on site to make two stretchers and helped carry the two large wild boars down the mountain. The small wild boars were easier to deal with. They just tied them upside down to wooden sticks and carried them along.
(End of chapter)
