Chapter 676 Yi People in the Mountains
The new rain in the empty mountains, the heat was exhausted, and a ball of white clouds like cotton candy made Liang Hongying and the other two feel as if they had reached the fairyland on the mountain. They took a breath of fresh air that seemed to have a sweet taste, which made people feel refreshed suddenly. The decadence of several consecutive days was swept away. A red sun passed over the high mountains, and suddenly sprinkled with golden yellow in the misty valley. Some tiny creatures who were unwilling to be lonely in the valley covered with pine needles and leaves have begun to show their glory.
"Yingniang, see what I found?"
Wu Ruolan had some extra small mushrooms with crystal water droplets in her hand, and her eyes were extremely excited. Before Liang Hongying could stop her, Wu Ruolan divided the small mushrooms in her hand into two in the middle and threw them into the iron pot that had been boiled with white air. Not long after, a special fragrance came from the entire cave, which seemed to be mixed with the long aroma of chicken. Wu Xiaodao, who was originally leaning on the bed, jumped around and sat around the boiling iron pot with sleepy eyes like a little monkey, and kept asking her sister and Yingniang what the delicacy in front of her seemed to smell good.
"You little greedy cat, you don't see you when you work, but you are the most active when you eat."
"I will massage my sister and Yingniang's back and legs."
Wu Xiaodao clenched his fist seriously and gently beat Liang Hongying's shoulder blades, but his eyes never left the iron wok that was being erected.
"Like your father, I know how to use sweet words to coax people, but this pot is not your share."
"Why?" Wu Xiaodao probably had the intention to jump into the river.
"This is not for people to eat. With this thing, Ying Niang will stew a pot of pheasant and stew mushrooms for you tonight."
With a slightly sad and pityful expression of Wu Ruolan and Wu Xiaodao, Liang Hongying put the originally pasty and fragrant stuff in the iron pot into a characteristic bamboo tube. Next, Liang Hongying searched for some edible mushrooms around, and after cooking, the three people who had been hungry all night had a full stomach. As for the pheasant stewed mushrooms that Liang Hongying promised, except for the mushrooms that were all over the mountains after the rain cleared, there was no trace of the pheasant running around. This made Wu Ruolan, who was originally excited, reveal a certain feeling of loss on Wu Xiaodao's face.
"This catching pheasant is not something that ordinary people can do, but it's not a problem for you, Ying Mom."
In Wu Ruolan and Wu Xiaodao's eager eyes, Liang Hongying had an extra silk thread in his hand. What was most puzzled was that there was a strange thing like a snail shell strung inside the silk thread, and the other end of the silk thread was incredibly connected to an iron lump the size of a bean.
"Ying Niang, can this thing really catch a pheasant?" Wu Ruolan and Wu Xiaodao were skeptical.
"When did Ying Niang deceive you? With this thing, the pheasant can never escape my Wufing Mountain."
"Ying Niang is as smart as her father."
It would be fine if I didn't mention it. When I mentioned it, my heart was originally tense, I suddenly felt uneasy, and a ripples of sadness appeared in my heart, which made Liang Hongying, who was swaying, couldn't help but feel sad. Her eyes were red in an instant. Looking at his two children, I couldn't help but feel comforted. After going through a lot of hardships, I finally gave him an explanation to him who knew him.
Like most hunters who catch prey, Liang Hongying began to set up traps at places where pheasants might appear. Some messy plum blossom footprints on the ground cheered up the three of them, but Liang Hongying's trap was not to dig a hole with a shovel, or use bamboo or branches to create a door that can only enter but not exit. Some of her actions made the young Wu Ruolan and Wu Xiaodao naturally unable to understand.
There was nothing in the huge open space. The weeds were still weeds, and the stones were still stones. However, Liang Hongying quickly mixed the previously cooked paste with some wild vegetables and pinched them into small clay balls, and then sprinkled these fragrant clay balls into the surrounding corners like a scattered flower goddess. After doing all this, the silk thread that Liang Hongying had prepared was also wrapped in a layer of clay balls and was thrown into the open space in his sight. The three of them crawled behind a large stone and waited quietly.
It was noon at the sun, and the sun was warm at the beginning, but after staying in the sun for a long time, I knew that the taste was not good. After all, I was already in a daze. Just when Wu Ruolan and Wu Xiaodao had gradually lost their curiosity. When he was patient, something unexpected happened. A red shadow popped up in the forest. It first kept looking around carefully. After it seemed to find something to eat in the grass, two short "cuckoo" sounds made in his mouth, which made Wu Ruolan, who was extremely nervous, almost shouted out. Their prey came to the door quietly. As for whether it could eventually become the "pheasant stewed mushrooms" that they had been muttering for a long time on their mouths, they naturally were not sure.
The increasingly vicious sun above the head had already made the three of them have sweat beads on their foreheads. Although this was not the first time Liang Hongying had taken this chicken, she was so nervous that her palms were sweating and her body was shaking slightly. In order to prevent all her previous efforts from being wasted and her efforts were in vain, it was undoubtedly the safest way to stay quiet at this moment. In order to prevent the furious birds from hitting, Liang Hongying was patient and did not stretch out her head to observe the movement of the prey.
Just as life was like the New Year, Liang Hongying's hand tightened the thread that was originally dragging in her hand. The iron bean seemed to be swallowed by the panic-wracking red shadow at this moment. The thread was pulled straight. Liang Hongying suddenly showed her head and pushed the hollow snail shell in front forward. The snail shell was like a waterfall, and went down the line and headed straight to the pheasant's mouth that was about to spit out the iron beans in her belly. In the flash, it was exactly the same as the pheasant's mouth that was still struggling. The three of them were so excited that they were almost at the throat. Wu Xiaodao even wrapped the other end of the thread on his little arm, for fear that the prey he got would fly like this.
"Don't worry, if you get into my trap, it won't be able to escape. The more the pheasant struggles, the tighter the thread."
"Ying Niang, why is this?" Wu Xiaodao asked with his little head tilted.
"The iron bean is stuck in the pheasant's mouth at this moment, and the snail shell is placed outside the snail bead. The two force just fold the chicken's mouth firmly. Moreover, the snail shell is stuck in the snail shell and cannot open it, and it can't scream. It's so painful that it can't say."
The three of them made a cheerful and happy laugh at the same time, but the joyful atmosphere had not lasted for too long. There was a circle of strangers who were darkened by the sun around them. These people used sheepskin and other things to cover their shame, holding weapons made of bamboo in their hands. The eyes of these people fell on the red prey in Wu Xiaodao's arms at the moment. There were a few curious guys who picked up the small mud balls that Liang Hongying threw out in their hands at some point, put them in the palm of their hands, and carefully observed them, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. It seemed that these people did not have much malice. As for the silk thread used to catch pheasants, several guys were so excited that they danced in their hands.
"We've hit this pheasant." Wu Xiaodao still refused to resist these black-faced monsters with bad intentions. He stretched out his hand and pushed it at a small child who was close to him who was a few years older than him, and looked like he was scattering his teeth and claws to eat people. The child was frightened by him and rushed towards his own people. A burst of laughter came from around him.
‘Adu, duh,’ the black guys finally spoke. Except for judging from gender that most of these people are women, Liang Hongying and the other two could no longer obtain other useful information. The two groups of people were not right and they negotiated for a long time, but the final problem still fell on the red running pheasant that Liang Hongying caught with silk thread.
"You said that this pheasant was fed by you yourself?" Liang Hongying naturally did not forget to use that awkward body language for a while until the other party understood the true meaning of her words. It seemed that she was performing alone from beginning to end.
Those guys danced excitedly, and finally nodded to answer.
"But what evidence do you have?"
A guy squeezed out of the crowd, tied it into a circle with his hands, and placed it around his stomach, as if he wanted to explain that there was a special mark on the pheasant's belly. However, when Liang Hongying turned the pheasant in his hand, there was no so-called mark that people gestured. This made Liang Hongying suddenly feel bitter when he encountered a local snake.
The man who suddenly negotiated with Liang Hongying smiled coldly and snatched the pheasant from Wu Xiaodao's hand. Before the three of them could react, the violent guy used his freed hand to pull off the white hair from the pheasant's belly. There was indeed a red circle there, as if it was painted with red paint. By this time, Liang Hongying was no longer embarrassed to try to get the pheasant back according to reason. These guys with black pheasant were the owners of this pheasant.
Wu Xiaodao was so aggrieved that he almost cried. Liang Hongying had to tell the truth about it, otherwise this kid might have nightmares because of it at night.
"This is what these guys painted when the pheasant changed their hair in spring."
"Really?" Wu Xiaodao asked skeptically.
"My bait seems to have attracted a bunch of uninvited guests. If we eat their pheasants now, I think these people are likely to turn us into their dinner. I heard that those older people like your little arms and legs, such as those pigs who have only been born for a few months, are their favorites."
Wu Xiaodao suddenly turned pale with fear, and asked cautiously, "Ying Madam, will they really eat us?"
"We may have the possibility of escaping. As for you, they will definitely be left behind."
Just at this moment, a guy stared at Wu Xiaodao with malicious intentions, and stretched out his blood-red tongue to lick the bamboo knife with dark light in her hand that was originally hanging in front of her. Wu Xiaodao immediately shrank his hand because of guilt. The pheasant took the opportunity to leap forward with the force and landed steadily on the shoulder of the black child who had just come to Wu Xiaodao to grab the pheasant. He raised his neck and shouted several times, as if he was a rebellious attitude of a winner.
The other party had no time to experience the excitement of returning this object to the original owner. A powerful stone shot directly at the red flame that had just made both sides unhappy. The pheasant's neck suddenly broke from the middle, causing the originally happy group of people to explode. The black-faced people felt that they were ambushed. The feelings were not good, and they didn't have time to retrieve the red flames from the soul flying outside the sky, and they began to flee around, running around like mice seeing a cat. These people might be familiar with the surrounding terrain and landforms, and they all disappeared in an instant, including Liang Hongying, who escaped with two children in the chaos.
In fact, only Tang Yu was hiding in the dark. He never expected that the stone he shot out was so powerful. In the blink of an eye, dozens of fully armed guys disappeared. However, he also lost the graceful figure that he had been searching for these days, which made him feel unwilling to meet the King of Hell.
Tang Yu was actually clear about the identities of those black women just now. These Yi people have lived a paradise-like life without any dispute over the years. The cattle, sheep and horses in the mountains are almost all free-range. It will take a few months, especially at the turn of spring and summer. When they see their cattle and sheep again, the team will grow stronger. This year's good days have not continued. I heard that the male Yi people in a radius of dozens of miles were caught by some fierce monks and went to the mountains to cut down trees. Their horses were even recruited to the mountains to drag trees. Those disobedient people were immediately cut off their heads. These female Yi people who survived the disaster escaped to this fierce area around Longhu Mountain.
He hid in the forest and was with all kinds of insects, snakes and beasts all day long. As for how they survived, Tang Yu naturally couldn't understand. However, one thing Tang Yu knew very well that these female Yi people hated Han people and their hatred. They found many terrifying corpses along the way. As for the bites of wild beasts or shot by Yi people, it was no longer so important. Tang Yu believed that his current ability was not the ability to go into the tiger's den alone. Although he saw the things in his bag that were about to be fleeing under his nose, he really had no better way. Only when he was waiting for his own people to search behind his butt to meet up with him, he dared to continue to follow.
This small storm caused Liang Hongying and the other two to lose all the tools for survival in the wild, including the extremely precious small iron pot. Without that thing, they even had great problems with drinking water. The puddles with water in the mountains may have deposited some kind of rotten corpses of animals. After drinking such water, they may suffer from diarrhea and dysentery. From then on, the high fever will not subside and they will die. The most serious situation at the moment is that Liang Hongying was completely lost in the forest this time, taking Wu Ruolan and Wu Xiaodao around, but they could not get out. All the forests looked the same in their eyes, and the miasma around them became stronger and stronger with the night. Seeing that the hope of going out became more and more confused, Liang Hongying found a big tree nearby with lush branches and leaves enough to hide their tracks, and passed Wu Ruolan and Wu Xiaodao through the only rope left on their body.
After she stopped breathing, the surroundings were so dark that they could not see their fingers, but they became a paradise for some creatures. Some sturdy predators tried their best under them, and could only stare at Liang Hongying and the other two looking for plum blossoms to quench their thirst. There was a black, bloated guy who relied on his majestic body to hit the three of them with their bodies to live in the tree.
Unfortunately, the tree that Liang Hongying chose was too thick. The guy almost shook the big tree when he hit it. The trunk that several people hugged did not move at all under its impact, standing like a mountain. The naughty Wu Xiaodao even angered it with a piece of dead branches. The other party opened his teeth and claws and made an indescribable temper under the tree. Finally, he lay calmly at the bottom of the tree and began to sleep soundly, which made Liang Hongying even more worried.
A flash of lightning streaked across the sky, accompanied by the deafening thunder, Liang Hongying, who was hiding in the tree, became more and more anxious. Before she could think of a countermeasure, the rain came soon. With the lightning that appeared and disappeared, Liang Hongying saw the situation around her. There were quite a few big guys waiting for the rabbit below. At this time, they showed their movements, spreading their teeth and claws, and confronted them there with their fierceness. This made Liang Hongying even more frightened. At some point, this place became an imminent battlefield.
The mountain rain came and fell as soon as possible. The tight rain quickly left the three of them with no more dry space. Liang Hongying had to squeeze Wu Xiaodao, who was the youngest and had not fully recovered, and used his body to help the little guy keep warm. I don’t know how long it took, but in a daze, he could only hear the trembling and knocking of the three of them, making the surroundings even more strange.
"Ying Madam, I want to pee." Wu Xiaodao didn't say this, but Liang Hongying, who was standing beside her, couldn't help but shivered. It seemed that she was holding it in a hurry.
"Holding urine can preserve the heat in the body. No matter what, you must endure it."
"What should I do if I can't hold it in?"
"Use this thing." Liang Hongying threw a piece of thin rope to Wu Xiaodao that seemed to tie the three of them firmly to the thread of the rope on the trunk of the tree. At the same time, he blushed and made a tying action. Wu Ruolan, who was standing beside him, looked at the expressionless and almost cruel Yingniang, and she unconsciously tightened her hips. She didn't dare to make such a report. It was hard to guarantee that Yingniang would make any crazy new suggestions. Looking at Wu Xiaodao whose eyebrows were almost twisted into a flower, Wu Ruolan smiled bitterly at him, and there was only deep sympathy in her eyes.
Just as the three of them were squeezing their necks at the same time, a huge monster fell down in the sight of the three of them with a loud bang. Several embarrassed people who were also soaked in the dark appeared in the dark. Liang Hongying, Wu Ruolan, and Wu Xiaodao quickly recognized the people from the fact that they had tied their hair and had their crowns and had their long swords on their faces. They were the Taoist people of Longhuguan who had been chasing them in the mountains for several days.
"Good guy, this thing is probably more than 200 kilograms. This black blind man is more than enough to make me have a full meal."
After one person finished speaking, the others were so excited that they were making noise. Compared with Liang Hongying and the other two who were desperate in the tree, these unexpected situations of encountering Taoist people can be said to be in heaven and the other on earth.
A rustling sound of hands and feet was soon heard in the darkness, and a pungent smell of blood came. The Taoists quickly cleared a fire-proof space around them and raised a warm bonfire with fire. A fragrance that made Liang Hongying and the other two swallow their saliva soon came from the air. Wu Xiaodao finally revealed his own movements, and his stomach was not strong enough to scream twice.
"Who, who is hiding in the tree?" This voice almost scared the people around him.
"You have a fucking brain disease? In this ghost weather, who is fucking hiding from the trees to play?" The man was instantly slapped in the brain by the people around him.
"You said it was so fragrant, would it attract the beasts around you?"
"You crow's mouth"
The man felt his body suddenly numb, and there was a feather-like thing on the seat of his abdomen. He looked at his own people around him and was already lying on the ground with saliva flowing.
The black shadows holding blow drums quickly surrounded the prey in the middle. A small man looked at the big tree where Liang Hongying and the other two were. His eyes as bright as gems seemed to have found something. Before the three of them understood, the little man bit something in his mouth and quickly climbed up like a monkey. When the little man got closer, the familiar smell of sheep made the three people in their belly almost smelled. Isn’t this the group of Yi people I met not long ago?
The little man winked at the three of them, and looked at the three of them with blue mouths. He quickly handed over the piece of meat in his mouth. After the three of them finished eating, the small Yi people waved to them under the tree, as if they wanted to borrow a lot of bear meat left to treat them well.
There was just a little bit of the bottom in her stomach, so she could not resist the temptation of food. Even Liang Hongying, who was usually cautious and slightly reserved, had no regard for her appearance at this moment. Not everyone could bear the taste of a starving ghost. The three of them rushed towards the big meat and meat bones that had already been roasted and dried up like hungry tigers. The Yi people around them laughed awkwardly, but soon they realized something was wrong, and they joined the action of grabbing food. This meal seemed to make everyone quite satisfied. After eating and drinking, the tired Liang Hongying and the other two could no longer open their eyes. In a daze, they felt warm around them. That night, the three of them had a long dream at the same time. Of course, the same person appeared in the dream. He smiled brightly at them, as if celebrating that they had finally passed the difficulties without any danger.
Chapter completed!