The second brother pulled up the eldest brother, and the eldest brother didn't care about his sore butt and sprained foot. The two of them hugged their heads and ran down the mountain in a panic.

The third brother did not call Ni'er at first, for fear that she would hear the sound and fall on the path. He thought that if he called her when they reached the mountain, such a problem would not occur.

Ni'er had been following behind her uncle and second uncle. She saw the right opportunity and fiddled with the bushes, trying to scare them.

I didn't expect that two grown men would be so frightened and so timid. I guess it's because they have done a lot of bad things, otherwise they wouldn't run so fast.

He put talismans on the doorstep, came to ask for money and things even after the family split up, made tainted soy milk and almost sent his father to jail, and his grandma poured black dog blood on the door.

Things like this happen one after another. It's really easy for them to just pull up the grass and scare people.

I could faintly hear a voice, "Nier~"

I didn't think I heard it wrongly. It sounded like someone was calling my name. Could it be the sound of the wind or the birds singing? I stood there and listened carefully for a while.

"Nell~"

It was my father's voice, with an expression of joy that was hard to conceal. He stretched out his arms and swung them there, which should help him find himself faster. "I'm here."

The third brother followed the sound and determined the direction. He vaguely saw a slender arm raised there, jumping up and down, trying hard to make himself look more conspicuous.

The third brother walked over there holding a torch.

When Nier saw the light coming from the torches in the dark night, her heart felt very warm.

The fire was occasionally blocked by trees or grass, and it was this flickering, vague, and approaching feeling that was particularly moving.

The third child was worried that his daughter would get stuck in the mud if she walked this way. "Nier, don't move. I'll go over there."

"You can't see the road clearly, don't come over here."

"Oh, I see."

Standing there waiting for my father to pick me up, it has been a long time since I last had such a moment.

When I was a child, I always went up and down the mountain with Jinshui and Xiuli. I never saw my uncle and second uncle come to pick me up. Even in thunderstorms like today, they never came.

They would wait for their father to finish farm work and come to pick them up when he had time. At that time, their father would carry them on his back and hold one of their hands in each.

Without torches, we could only walk home in the dark, one step deep and one step shallow. Even though my father twisted his foot, he didn't fall off his back. That scene is still vivid in my mind.

The third brother pulled aside the grass and saw Ni'er still holding up her arms vigorously. He quickly stepped forward, took his daughter's hand, squatted down, touched her head, and put his hand next to her arm. Surprisingly, her head and clothes were not wet. If they were wet, they would have been dried up by her body temperature, which would have caused her to get sick.

Go back and make some ginger soup to drive away the cold for the whole family.

I felt a little distressed and my eyes were slightly red. Ni'er was too sensible. In fact, buying vegetables in town was not much more expensive and the money she had now was enough.

Just to save a little money, she ran so far to carry wild vegetables back home. It was thundering and raining. I don't know how scared she must have been as a little girl in such a pitch-black environment.

Not wanting Ni'er to see, he turned around and squatted down, "Come on, get on Daddy's back, let's go home."

Nier thought that she was not a child anymore, and it would be too heavy for her father to carry her on his back. She was already tired enough from doing so much work every day. There was no need for him to carry her on his back, and she could walk by herself.

Then he took his father's hand and said, "Let's walk back together. I won't carry you on my back anymore."

The third brother hasn't carried Ni'er on his back for a long time. Today is a good opportunity. Besides, the ground is muddy and the road is difficult to walk on.

My daughter is small, and there are trees and half-human-high grass blocking the way, so it would be faster if I carry her on my back.

If Yan Zi gets home earlier, she will have less to worry about. Besides, girls like to be clean, so shoes and pants are easier to wash if they are less muddy.

The third brother was ready to carry someone on his back. He placed his arms on both sides of his body, bent his hands forward, turned his head and looked at Ni'er with a smile, "Come up quickly."

This time there was no refusal. Nie'er held the torch, and the third brother carried his daughter steadily and walked home.

The eldest and the second oldest kept running down the mountain, but because they were in such a hurry, they didn't see the road clearly and fell numerous times.

The two men looked like they had been fished out of the mud. They didn't look like human beings. If there were people around, they would be scared to death seeing them like this. They looked no different from the legendary savages.

The eldest brother raised his sleeves and tried to wipe his face clean, but the more he wiped, the dirtier it became. The second brother couldn't stand it any longer, "Don't do it anymore. Go back and wash it properly."

He was applying the medicine there enthusiastically, but he stopped when he heard this.

He was still a little frightened, but now that he was down the mountain, he was no longer as scared as before. "Second brother, was there something in the grass just now? Did you see it clearly?"

The second brother suppressed the urge to wipe his face, and looking at his eldest brother's expression, he realized that it would be better not to wipe his face, so he just endured it and waited until he got home.

Thinking carefully, I didn't see anything there. It was too dark and I was scared by my brother, so I ran away. I didn't have the time to look carefully.

I am quite curious about what it is and what it has to do with the fire.

I could only shake my head and say, "No, I didn't see anything."

"Let's go, don't stay here, I'm a little cold."

As he said this, he tried to grab his eldest brother's arm to keep him warm.

The eldest brother held the second brother's hand and looked him up and down carefully. What he just said was consistent with his usual tone, so there should be no problem. After confirming, he released the hand that was holding his arm.

I was both scared and curious. What on earth could that be? I wondered if it was a small animal or something. That would be so embarrassing.

"Do you want to come back and watch it again tomorrow? Aren't you curious?"

Even if I'm curious, I don't want to do it again. I might as well lie down at home instead of doing this.

Who knows what might have frightened him and caused him to fall seriously ill. We must not let him go up the mountain again recently.

We have to think of a way to persuade him that he absolutely cannot go up the mountain. The old lady is very good at getting information. If my mother knows that she can go up the mountain but she is not allowed to sit on a chair, she will have a hard time living in peace.

"I'm not curious. Besides, if you go there tomorrow, the thing might not be there, and you won't be able to see anything."

"But we can talk to mom. The weather has been bad recently. Not only did we encounter strange things when we went up the mountain, but we almost lost our life. I don't think she will want that broken chair anymore."

The eldest brother thought what his second brother said was absolutely right. He was so happy that he didn’t have to make chairs anymore. This was the first good news he heard since he came down the mountain.

But I still want to come over tomorrow and try my luck to see if I can find some clues and figure out what it is.

Seeing that the eldest brother had not completely given up the idea, the second brother had to use his trump card.

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