Siheyuan: The Temptation of the Mountains

Lin Ze nodded repeatedly, took a shower by the well in the yard, and returned to the bedroom.

He turned up the mat under the bed, threw himself on the bed, and quickly fell asleep.

A good dream at night will bring a good dawn the next day.

Lin Wen and Lin Wu were waiting at Lin Ze's door early.

After Lin Ze went out, he stretched and yawned, "Why did you two come so early?"

"Brother Ze, we were afraid that you had already gone up the mountain." Lin Wu said with a silly smile.

"How can you go up the mountain so early? Have you two eaten?"

When Lin Ze asked this, the two little ones nodded.

Lin Ze walked straight into the kitchen. His grandmother had left him steamed buns and mushroom soup.

Lin Ze quickly filled his five internal organs and said hello to his grandfather who was fanning himself with a palm-leaf fan under the pear tree, "Grandpa, we are going up the mountain."

"Go, go." As time went by, the old man gradually felt more at ease with Lin Ze.

Lin Ze led the two little ones and ran slowly towards Dongshan.

Lin Ze brought Lin Wen and Lin Wu to the foot of Dongshan Mountain and trotted up the mountain, passing by Wang Erni and others who were picking wild vegetables.

Lin Wen and Lin Wu didn't say hello to their mother. They followed Lin Ze and took a long detour to the top of Dongshan Mountain, ready to start today's hunting trip.

They moved slowly along the mountain road towards Nanshan, observing the movements around them along the way.

Suddenly, Lin Ze heard a slight sound. He immediately stopped and signaled Lin Wen and Lin Wu to keep quiet.

The three quietly approached the source of the sound and found a fawn looking at them warily.

Lin Ze carefully raised his pistol and aimed at the deer.

Just as he was about to launch the arrow, the deer sensed the danger and quickly ran away.

Lin Ze sighed regretfully, but he was not discouraged and continued to lead his brothers to search for other prey in the mountains and forests.

Lin Ze was traveling through the mountains and forests with his brother when he suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the front.

They crept closer and found that it was a wild boar, huge in size and with sharp tusks, sniffing around.

Lin Ze signaled his brothers to climb up the tree and hide, while he slowly approached the wild boar. He held the pistol tightly, his eyes focused, waiting for the best time to shoot.

However, just as Lin Ze was about to shoot, the wild boar seemed to sense the danger and suddenly turned around and rushed towards Lin Ze.

Lin Ze had no time to dodge. Seeing that the wild boar was about to hit him, he quickly dodged to the side and fired a bullet from the pistol in his hand.

The bullet hit the wild boar's leg. The wild boar howled in pain and pounced on Lin Ze even more frantically.

Lin Ze was not afraid, he dodged the wild boar's attack flexibly, constantly looking for opportunities to counterattack. Finally, he successfully avoided the wild boar's charge and shot it again.

The wild boar fell to the ground and Lin Ze breathed a sigh of relief. He went forward to check the wild boar's injuries and make sure it was dead.

"Brother Ze is so awesome!" Lin Wen and Lin Wu ran over excitedly.

Lin Ze looked at them with a smile, his heart filled with a sense of accomplishment.

This time, Lin Ze did not carry the wild boar down the mountain with Lin Wen and Lin Wu. Instead, he took two people and carried the wild boar into the trap he had dug on the East Mountain.

"Brother Ze, aren't we going to take the prey home?" Lin Wen said reluctantly.

"Not yet. We have to wait until tonight."

Lin Ze looked down the mountain and saw the villagers busy irrigating their fields. "It's not a good thing for us to kill wild boars one after another and carry them down the mountain for the villagers to see."

"Brother Ze, I know." Lin Wu raised his head and said, "If we don't share the meat with them, they will feel uncomfortable and will crave meat."

Lin Ze nodded, "That's right. Just hide it from them, and they won't be greedy."

Lin Ze put the wild boar into the trap, covered the trap with wild grass, and then walked down the mountain with Lin Wen and Lin Wu.

When we reached halfway up the mountain, we met several middle-aged women who were digging wild vegetables, and Wang Erni was among them.

"Aren't those your two children?"

A woman nudged Wang Erni with her elbow and said, "It seems that we didn't catch any prey today after following Uncle Ze."

"What do you mean my two children?" Wang Erni straightened her back. "My two children are your two uncles. Don't call them that."

"Wang Erni, you have changed. You actually want to be the elder!" The middle-aged woman who spoke widened her eyes.

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Lin Ze and the other two did not hear the conversation between the two. They walked away from the women digging wild vegetables and went down the mountain.

They returned to Lin Changgui's house, Lin Ze took out his fishing rod from the bedroom, and the three of them went to the lake together.

"Brother Ze, I want to eat crabs." Lin Wen said.

Lin Wu also nodded in response, "The crabs caught by Brother Ze are so delicious that the villagers dare not go into the water, and no one can catch them."

Lin Ze himself also likes to eat crabs. He threw the fishing hook into the lake and his mind followed the fishing line into the lake.

Soon we found the first big, fat crab.

The fishing line stretched out and the hook was set as if with divine help, quickly and accurately hooking the big crab.

Lin Ze didn't rush to bring it ashore. Instead, he used a fishing line to put the crab directly into the large basin on the second floor of the space.

Afterwards, he continued to walk back and forth around the lake. He walked very slowly, and the green earthworms on the fishhook also had a certain attraction to the crabs.

Soon, the large basin on the second floor of the space was filled with crabs.

"Brother Ze, are there no crabs in this lake?" Lin Wen was a little anxious. He looked around and wished that he was the one fishing for crabs.

Lin Ze smiled and consoled her: "Don't worry, there are plenty of crabs in this lake."

As he said this, he threw out the fishing hook again.

This time, there was movement soon after the fish hook entered the water.

Lin Ze was delighted and quickly reeled in the line. However, this time it was not a crab that was caught, but a big fish. Lin Ze pulled hard and the fishing rod was almost broken.

"What a big fish!" Lin Wen and Lin Wu exclaimed.

Lin Ze started a tug-of-war with the big fish, and after some struggle, he finally subdued the big fish.

He brought the big fish ashore, then caught a dozen crabs and put them in the net bag. Then he said to Lin Wen and Lin Wu, "We have a good catch today. It's enough for us to have several meals. Let's go home."

The three of them returned home with a great harvest. When Lin Changgui saw so many crabs and big fish, he couldn't stop smiling.

At night, the family sat together, enjoying delicious crabs and fresh fish. Laughter echoed in the courtyard, and everyone was happy.

After dinner, Lin Ze saw the night was getting dark and hurriedly told Lin Musheng about the wild boar in the trap.

The wild boar he hunted today weighed more than 150 kilograms. It was impossible for him, Lin Wen and Lin Wu to carry it down the mountain.

"A wild boar weighing one hundred and fifty kilograms?"

Lin Musheng became serious, "Xiao Ze, maybe you miscalculated, how could there be such a heavy wild boar in Dongshan?"