When Ye Yutong heard that there was someone there, he immediately stopped where he was.
Li Yunze protected her behind him, holding a knife and looking at the black figure in the distance.
Ye Yutong stuck his head out from behind him and took a look, "Ping An, what is that black shadow? It doesn't look like a human being."
"The movement looks a bit like a wolf, but if you look closely, it doesn't look like a wolf. Just wait here and I'll go over and take a look."
"Let's go together!" Ye Yutong held the short knife in his hand and walked behind him.
But before the two of them could get closer, the black figure ran away.
Now the two of them could see clearly that it was not a wolf or animal, but a person, and a small child at that.
But he didn't walk, he crawled using both hands and feet. And the climbing speed is very fast, a jumping person is far away from them.
Ye Yutong said in surprise: "Ping An, am I right? That was a child just now."
"It's indeed a child, but he shouldn't be too young. He should be around ten years old."
"But how could he..."
"It must have been abandoned by others. It has been living in the mountains since childhood, so it became like this."
Li Yunze pulled her and said, "Let's go, let's send the water back first, and then go for a walk in the nearby mountains."
Ye Yutong looked back at the place where the child disappeared and sighed slightly.
I wonder if there is anything to eat on the mountain now? What does the child do for a living?
The two carried the water back. Lin Jiang, Ye Mingxuan and Song Yichen were waiting there. The remaining brothers had already fallen asleep.
Li Yunze said: "Lin Jiang, you should go and rest too! We will be on duty tonight."
"Master, how about I stay up until midnight?"
How could they sleep and let their master keep vigil? If the hall master finds out, he and these brothers will definitely be punished.
Li Yunze waved his hand to him, "No, we can sleep on the carriage during the day. Go and rest quickly, we have to travel early tomorrow morning."
"Yes, Master."
Ye Mingxuan asked Song Yichen to go to bed too. But this kid is stubborn and will keep vigil no matter what.
He couldn't help with anything else, but he could help look at things and let Brother Li and Brother Ye sleep more.
The three of them couldn't resist, so they had no choice but to let him go.
Li Yunze winked at Ye Mingxuan, "Brother, Yichen, you two can watch from here. Tongtong and I will go for a walk in the nearby mountains to see if we can hunt some prey for everyone to eat?"
Ye Mingxuan understood that the two of them wanted to enter the space, so he smiled and nodded, "Then you come back early and don't run too far."
Song Yichen disagreed a little, "Brother Li, why don't you go? How dangerous is it to go into the mountains at night?"
"It's okay. The mountains are bare now. There must be no large prey. Let's see if we can encounter a rabbit or pheasant or something?"
Ye Yutong also smiled and said: "hunting is secondary. The main thing is that I have been sitting in the carriage for a day and want to go out for a walk."
Only then did Song Yichen realize that although they were young, they were already married.
Now I want to go out and talk, but he is still here to stop me, which is really unwise.
Seeing his face turn red, Ye Yutong knew that he had misunderstood what he just said. But she didn't explain, and she went up the mountain with Li Yunze while holding back her laughter.
The two of them didn't go up, but walked around in a circle. Ye Yutong took out the rabbit that his second brother had packed away.
Ever since she saw the child just now, she was not ready to enter the space.
No one dared to take things out until Ping An observed them.
The two of them talked on the mountain for almost half an hour before they were ready to go back.
At this time, Li Yunze pulled her and whispered: "That child is here again."
"Where is he? Let him come over and let's give him some food."
Ye Yutong has been thinking about it ever since he saw the child just now.
The drought here is so severe that even the people at the inn have left. As a child, he had nowhere to go and could only wait to die here.
Li Yunze nodded and prepared to bring the child over.
But the child was very defensive and jumped to a hillside not far away before he could reach him. He even "snarled" at him twice.
The voice was not human at all, but sounded like a wolf.
Li Yunze took two skinned rabbits and threw them to him. The child caught it with both hands, yelled at them twice and ran up the mountain.
Ye Yutong heard it and should have thanked them.
I originally wanted to get him some food, but the kid ran too fast and didn't even have time.
Li Yunze smiled and said, "It's getting late, let's get down!"
Ye Yutong took another look at the mountain, took a bag of Wotou from the space, and hung it on a branch.
He shouted up the mountain: "Child, we have put some food here for you. Come and get it."
The two waited here for a while, but they didn't see the child coming, and there was no movement nearby.
Just as the two of them were preparing to go down the mountain, the child appeared again and threw something towards them.
Li Yunze took it and it was a ginseng.
The child "yelled" at the two of them again, took the bag of Wowotou and prepared to run away again.
Li Yunze shouted, "Wait a minute."
The child paused and turned around to look at them both warily.
"There's nothing to eat on this mountain. Do you want to come with us?"
Li Yunze looked at him carefully. The child was very thin.
The hands and feet are on the ground, and the walking posture is exactly the same as that of animals. There was a beast-like light in those dark eyes.
"If you follow us, we will give you enough to eat every day, and we won't restrict you from doing anything."
Seeing that he still didn't let down his guard, Ye Yutong showed a soft smile,
"You think about it tonight, we will leave early tomorrow morning. If you are willing, you can find us at the foot of the mountain."
After saying that, the two of them went down the mountain.
The child stared at their backs for a while, then ran to the top of the mountain on both hands and feet.
Li Yunze gave the ginseng in his hand to Ye Yutong, "Put it away."
Ye Yutong looked at the ginseng plant in the moonlight. It was very big, probably hundreds of years old.
Unfortunately, this ginseng has no beards and must have been damaged during digging.
She sighed: "We gave him some food, but he only gave him such a big ginseng. After all, we took advantage.
If he doesn't come with us tomorrow, leave more food for him and put some pheasants and rabbits on the mountain. At least let him survive this famine year. "
"good."
The next day, before dawn, Ye Yutong had already cooked a large pot of rabbit soup. The wooden barrel next to it contains corn.
Everyone got up, had a quick meal, and then packed up and got ready to go.
The child never showed up.
Ye Yutong was a little disappointed and was about to go to the mountain to put some food for him.
I saw him dragging an animal skin bag down. The bag was not sewn with needlework but tied with straw.
