Adopt an old man

Everyone is vigilant and vigilant in their hearts, so this year's grain harvest is very fast. During the severe drought in summer, the village head and Mu Mu led the men in the village to draw down the spring water from the mountain to resist the dry season.

The crops moistened by the spring water are in very good condition, the ears of wheat are swollen and swollen, and the grains are full. For the convenience of management, these crops are put away in the yard of the village chief’s house. After some simple treatment and drying, You can move most of the things that need to be stored to the storage room.

The storage room is underground. It used to be stored on the ground, but later people found that the underground storage effect is good, and it is easy to preserve most of them under the attack of bandits, so they moved the storage room underground.

The village head has always been dignified, and he said what he said, but he didn't order Shitou to return to the vegetable field during the whole grain harvest season.Every day before sunrise, the stones go to the ground or to the storage room to clean, and after sunset, they follow the wood up the mountain to harvest fruits for storage and branches for heating.The two brothers sometimes come back only at the beginning of the moon, and Erniang often leaves meals for them.Occasionally, I go up the mountain with Shuisheng, monkey, pheasant and others, and I will come back very early.

Under this kind of busyness, the stone grows very quickly, and it is still a thin bamboo pole, but now it is a long bamboo pole that is still being raised.

On this day, Stone and Wood went up the mountain together with five or six other people. When they arrived in the forest, they divided into two groups to work, Wood and Aquatic in a group, Stone in a group with monkeys, and pheasants in a group with mosquitoes.

Stones and monkeys are mainly for picking fruits, monkeys are responsible for picking up trees, and stones are responsible for loading on the ground.

Monkeys take great care of the relatively thin stones. They walk slowly, but they climb trees quickly and smoothly. They basically don’t come down from the trees. As the name suggests, people climb up and down the trees constantly, and monkeys usually stay between the trees. Jump back and forth, throw the fruits suitable for storage at the foot of the stone, and the stone or bend down or squat down and put those fruits into a big cloth bag.

The monkey climbed up a banana tree, looked at the long and round bananas, shook his head, and was about to jump to another tree next to it, when the stone stopped him, "Brother Monkey, help me pick some bananas."

When the monkey heard the sound, it stopped and prepared to jump. Holding the tree trunk with one hand, it lowered its head to look at the stone, with a smile on its lips, "Why do you want to eat bananas? How much do you want, Brother Monkey will pick it for you!"

"Three..." The stone stopped suddenly, as if thinking of something, he changed his mind and said, "Brother Monkey, just pick a bunch for me. Come down first after you pick it up, don't just throw it away." After a while, he added, "The bag It’s almost full, and it’s getting late, so it’s time to go back.”

"Okay, come down after picking." The monkey looked up and down, and saw a bunch of very large ones hanging on the upper branch. He climbed to the branch with both hands and feet, and stepped on the branch , squatting down / body carefully, and slowly leaning forward with the upper body, holding a twig that fell on the ground in the right hand, and the twig stretched towards the banana bunch.

Although the large bunches of bananas tended to fall down, the thin branches were probably dead for a long time and were very brittle. Instead of getting the bananas off, they broke themselves.

The banana tree where the monkey is located is the tallest in the forest. He is now on the top of the trunk, as high as four adults from the ground. The sound of the branch breaking made the monkey panic, and he took his hand back to his side. He lowered his head and looked at the ground. The ground was far away, and the branch he was on was relatively slender. He was afraid that he would fall off this branch if he didn't pay attention.

Seeing that he didn't move, Shitou recalled the story about the monkey's legs that was circulated in the village before, so he called him loudly, "Brother Monkey, if it doesn't work, don't pick that one, pick a lower branch instead."

The monkey also answered him loudly, as if trying to cover up his fear with his voice, "No, you don't know about the stone. The taller the branch, the bigger and sweeter the bananas will be. Just wait a little longer, Brother Monkey will be able to pick them right away."

After speaking, I looked up at the distance, trying to divert my attention. The trees not far away were taller and thicker than this banana tree. Under one of the giant trees, there was an eight-eyed head rubbing its body against the trunk. Scratching an itch, two figures walked towards us in the distance, each carrying a bundle of firewood.In a blink of an eye, they got closer again, and they were the two brothers Mu Mu and Shui Sheng.

Shui Sheng first spotted Bamei rubbing against the tree trunk and scratching it, and said excitedly, "Brother, look quickly, Bamei is so big. If you catch it back, there will be a lot/meat to eat in winter."

Mu Mu looked in the direction Shui Sheng was looking at, and found that the big eight eyebrows in Shui Sheng's mouth were rocks.Since the first time Shitou and Shitou came to feed Shanshi, he often visited Shanshi with Shitou and prepared food for Shanshi, but Shanshi always ignored him and often showed him his ass, so Wood I am very familiar with the back of the mountain rock.

He opened his mouth and said dryly, "It's too old, the meat doesn't taste good."

"It's also meat, brother. Look at its hind legs. It's strong and strong. The muscle meat is very tender. There is no distinction between old and young pigs. Let's catch it back and starve it for a few days. Feed it Wake up, even if you don’t eat it, it’s not bad to use it for breeding,” he said, Shui Sheng swallowed his saliva, “There will be a bunch of little eight eyebrows in the coming year, hahahaha~”

Mu Mu frowned, "You also said that he is strong, so do you think the two of us can catch/hold him?"

"No," Shui Sheng was still very excited, "but if we call Monkey Pheasant and the others, the six of us will surely catch him!" As he spoke, he looked back and forth, seeing the rocks under the banana tree with sharp eyes, and was even more excited. shouted, "Look, there the stone is!"

Xu Shi was so excited that he heard the sound not only of the wood, but also of the stones, monkeys, and the rocks rubbing against trees.

It’s just that Shanshi didn’t run away. He heard Shishi’s name, but because he didn’t hear it from the previous conversation, he didn’t know whether the person brought by Shishi this time was good intentions or...

The two groups met soon, and the stone helped to put down the wood and the fagots on Shui Sheng's shoulders. At this time, the monkey also successfully picked the bananas.

Shuisheng rubbed his sore shoulders, shook his arms up and down, and continued to discuss Bamei excitedly, "This kind of wild Bamei has been in the mountains since he was a child. He has a strong physique and high adaptability. He should be caught and raised. It can definitely grow bigger than in the wild. It didn’t freeze to death in such a cold winter last year, which proves that its skin is very thick and strong in cold resistance. When the time comes, it will be peeled to make clothes, and it will not be cold when standing guard in winter ..."

The monkey interrupted him, "As far as we can catch it back, it's better to go back and ask the adults to come." When the young monkey and other children came to the mountains to practice hunting skills, they once met a eight-browed pig.

He observed carefully for a while, and the eight eyebrows looked very old, the eight eyebrows on the head were wrinkled, and the skin and flesh on the face drooped down. Although they had grown up, their movements were slow.With a move in his heart, he picked up the fork and rushed forward.

Although the eight eyebrows were getting old, but relying on their huge size, they put a lot of pressure on the monkey. After a moment of fighting with each other, the monkey backed up again and again due to exhaustion, until its back hit a tree. Mei ran over at a not-so-fast speed, and punched him hard with her head. He was injured and unable to resist.

When the adults arrived, one of the monkey's legs was broken, and the old hunter in the village put the bone back on for him later, but the monkey's leg was still useless since then, and it was hard to be a good hunter even if it walked like a dog. .

The able-bodied families in the village can only distribute more food every year, and the working-aged who cannot hunt or stand guard receive less food, and it is difficult to have enough ability to feed their families.

Fortunately, the monkey practiced his climbing ability and bow and arrow diligently later, and now he is also a first-class archer in the village, and the distribution of food is also quite a lot.

It's just that what happened back then is an eternal scar for him, and unless it is necessary, he will never bring it up, let alone think about it.

Shui Sheng suddenly said that the Ye Bamei he saw just now was like his young self, blindly and confidently wanting to meet this prey for a while.

The monkey remembered that he saw the eight eyebrows on the tree just now. His limbs were thick and strong, his body was solid and tall, and he was blatantly moving around the edge of the forest. It can be seen that he is not afraid of people at all. There are only four people here, and there is a stone. My child, how can I capture such a huge monster alive?

Shi Shi pursed his lips and looked in the direction of the tree, and suddenly walked towards it without saying anything, Mu Mu and others hurriedly followed, and after running past, the monkey suddenly found that Bamei was running towards the depths of the forest. The Bamei pig, who is not afraid of anything, is scared away by three adults and one child, and he hasn't done anything yet!

Seeing that the rocks had run away, Mu Mu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and walked under the banana tree where the firewood had been placed just now, "Call the pheasants and mosquitoes, we should go back."

Several people returned to the banana tree one after another, looking at the firewood and food on the ground, while calling the names of pheasants and mosquitoes.For a long time, I only heard their echoes but not the responses from the pheasants and mosquitoes.

This kept calling and there was no response, everyone felt a little anxious. The footprints left by wild boars and people appeared in front of monkeys and Shuisheng a few days ago. The more anxious and flustered, Shuisheng stopped talking about catching Bamei. I just kept talking about pheasants and mosquitoes.

The stone stopped first, tugged at the corner of the monkey's clothes, and motioned him to go up the tree to have a look. The monkey clicked, and quickly climbed up a big tree as tall as seven adults, and carefully checked the positions of the pheasants and mosquitoes in the forest. , but never found it.At the end of his eyes, he suddenly saw the wild eight eyebrows that Shui Sheng was discussing excitedly just now, running quickly in this direction...

The author has something to say:

Cough cough ~ The description of the banana tree here is all made up, maybe in ancient times there were strange banana trees that grew in the mountains and forests to let the rocks eat bananas~