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Pingping sat by Zhong Chongtang's legs, waved his arms twice and couldn't catch Chu Wu, so he turned over and crawled towards the entrance of the cave. Zhong Chongtang grabbed him with one hand and brought him back. As soon as I sat down, I burst into tears.

"Why are you crying? Do you want the fifth day? I can't call you back..."

Zhong Chongtang looked at Pingping with a sad face and didn't know how to coax him. He also worried that on the fifth day of the fifth day when he ran away alone, he would not be able to calm down even after adjusting his breath and meditating, and he didn't know when the snake's venom would disappear.

Pingping is a little baby who doesn’t care what he says, just crying for himself, the more he cries, the louder it is, the resounding reverberates through the walls of the cave, and it feels like the top of the mountain echoes, if he cries, all the beasts and pedestrians will be shocked , But the trip to the fifth day of the lunar new year was wasted.

Zhong Chongtang patted him with his big hands and asked, "Why are you crying? Are you hungry?"

Pingping was still crying, Zhong Chongtang assumed that he was hungry, he hadn’t eaten for most of the day, and couldn’t find anything to eat when he turned around, so he wobbled in his arms and walked to a Dishuiyan Rock, stretched out his hand Feeling the water seeping down from the rock wall, catching it little by little in the palm of his hand and feeding it to him.

Pingping stopped crying for a while, took a few sips of water, and started crying again without any delay.

Zhong Chongtang wanted to cry with him, and scolded: "You, you, have you heard what Chu Wu said, you are not good!"

Helpless, I had to hold him and search for food. I looked up and saw a faint light on the high place. There were trees blocking the light from outside. I tried my best to climb up, and it was brighter when I got closer. I could see that it was a defect. The rock crevices that are as wide as one person are narrowed up and down, and the middle one is slightly wider to lead to the outside of the mountain. The rocks are also jagged like canine teeth.

Zhong Chongtang carefully protected Pingping by his side with one hand, and squeezed sideways out of the rock crevice. This passage was still very difficult for him, and he spent a lot of effort bumping and bumping to finally reach the exit at the other end of the rock crevice.Fortunately, the plain crying beside him gradually slowed down, maybe he thought he was leading him out of the cave.

Going out of the hole is going out of the hole. As the fifth day of the lunar new year said, when you get to a long and narrow slope in the middle of the mountain, there are knife-cut rock faces on the top and bottom, and the mountain above you is still sloping down.

Zhong Chongtang carried Pingping to him and shook him. Before he opened his mouth and began to cry, he quickly pointed to the fruit tree beside him and shouted: "Eat! Eat! Don't cry! There is food!"

There are a few fruit trees growing upside down in the mid-mountain open space, as if someone planted them specially. It was the end of spring, and the trees were full of red fruits. Zhong Chongtang remembered that they were edible sweet fruits, slightly sour.He stretched out his hand to grab a few, removed the core, and stuffed only the pulp into Pingping's mouth. He muttered and chewed twice with a few small teeth.

After feeding a handful of red fruits one after another, Pingping was really tired from crying all day, and fell asleep in Zhong Chongtang's arms.

Only then did Zhong Chongtang have the time to look at the slope he was on. Except for a few fruit trees covering the cracks in the rock, the slope was full of long grass growing randomly. There is no title or identity on the tombstone, only three words: Zhongluqing.

It seems that it is also a member of the Zhong family. For some reason, it was not buried in the ancestral graveyard, but ended up in such a cliff where the sky does not touch the ground.

Zhong Chongtang walked to the grave with Pingping in his arms, paid homage to the elder who died alone, and sat down leaning against the rock wall in front of the grave.Covering his flat belly with one hand and covering his head with the other, he looked up to the outside of the mountain with the warm little lump in his arms, and there was still a mountain beyond the mountain.

It was already evening, and the sky was gradually getting darker. Layers of mist rose on the mountainside with a moist coolness. Looking out, the clouds covered the fog, the mountains were stacked, and there was no sign of anyone.

I don't know what happened to the fifth day.

On the fifth day of the lunar new year, grabbing the grass in the crevice of the rock, he struggled to climb up the cliff. Before reaching the top of the cliff, he heard bursts of crying from the entrance of the cave below.

While cursing, he climbed even tighter, turned over to the top of the cliff, stood up and ran forward without stopping.

There were shouts and shouts heard in the distance in the mountains. It seemed that there were people echoing each other on several hilltops near and far. A person, someone in charge shouted: "Search slowly! Search carefully! Don't be afraid of being late, we can't let him escape!"

"Is there a child crying? Has anyone heard the cry?" Someone shouted again.

"I'm afraid I have climbed over the mountain long ago!"

"On the other side of the mountain, there is Chongyi leading people around to guard it. Don't worry about it. If you search for you, don't lose an inch!" The voice of the person in charge came from a distance through the forest, which was a bit distorted, but it still sounded familiar.

On the fifth day of the lunar new year, I ran forward with my head buried, I'm afraid I was a little scared, but the situation was urgent and I didn't care about being afraid.He rushed all the way back to the precipitous stone step road where he planned to climb the mountain, rushed up a few stone steps, stood on the big rock, took a few breaths to calm down the heaving of his chest, and then shouted loudly: "Chongtang Sir! Wait for me!"

He opened his ears and listened, but there seemed to be no movement in the forest, so he shouted again at the top of his voice: "Mr. Chongtang—"

A few moments later, several figures jumped up from different directions in the forest almost at the same time, and the leader was the most annoying Zhong Chongyan, holding a knife, and rushed out fiercely.

Chuwu was taken aback, turned around and jumped off the boulder, and climbed up the steps with all his strength, crying intermittently while climbing: "Mr. Chongtang, wait for me!"

"Where is Zhong Chongtang?" Zhong Chongyan shouted angrily while rushing up the stone steps.

Chu Wu climbed to a high place, turned around and rubbed his nose with him, saying: "I won't tell you! You are a bad thing!" "You won't know what is bad until I catch you!" Zhong Chongyan laughed viciously, and took a step forward. Step up two steps.

On the fifth day of the lunar new year, he was not good at screaming, and running for his life was more important than scolding him, so he concentrated on climbing the mountain.

After climbing a few feet, I arrived at a turning point of the mountain road. Looking up, I looked up and saw that there were almost straight up and down stone steps with a slight slope. After all, I was small and weak on the fifth day of the lunar new year.Just after going up a few steps, he felt his heels sinking, looked down, Zhong Chongyan reached out and grabbed his foot, and shouted: "Come down!"

Zhong Chongyan was about to tear him off with all his strength, but Chu Wu was quick-witted, and kicked off his shoe and kicked him in the face. At the second level, when he stretched out his hand again, he held a knife and slashed horizontally. He had to break his leg first.

Chu Wu watched in horror, and blurted out: "Snake! There are snakes!"

Zhong Chongyan had only seen the overwhelming crowd of snakes half a day ago, and he still had lingering fears in his heart. Hearing his yell, he knew it was a fraud, so he couldn't help but look down, wanting to jump away to avoid it.Chu Wu spotted him bowing his head for a moment, gathered all his strength, and kicked him on top of his head.

Zhong Chongyan, the boss, was kicked down by himself, rolling many steps and almost knocking over the people who were chasing after him.

On the fifth day of the lunar new year, although there was no time to rejoice in a small victory, he still climbed up desperately, panting to the top of the steep stone steps, poked his head out to look at the Zhong family members who were climbing up one after another, and smashed the broken pieces beside him. Spikes of rocks, weeds, and a few piles of excrement from unknown animals were all thrown down. After hearing a few screams, they continued to push a few big rocks down, even if they couldn't kill people, they stopped for a moment.

Going up the mountain road is much more relaxed, and there is another dense forest.

Chu Wu walked around in the forest, and sometimes they couldn't find him hiding behind the trees, so he had to jump out by himself.

As more and more people climbed up the hill to chase him, the forest was full of human voices in all directions, and the net was getting tighter and tighter. The more he ran, the more he had nowhere to go, and he saw one turning around and saw another.

In front of the forest, there are already stone steps up the mountain, leading to the other side of the mountain in a zigzag way, but it is impossible to run through.

Chu Wu jumped out from the middle of the two people who were blocking the front and back, panicked, and ran to the dense forest on the right. Zhong Chongyan's vicious curses sounded like urging his life behind him: "Chu Wu! Chu Wu, you little bastard! You son of a bitch! I don't know who A bastard that came out of the cracks in the ground! Wait until I catch you! See if I don’t peel your skin and cramps and break your bones inch by inch!”

Chu Wu shuddered when he heard it, and turned around to curse: "Old bastard! If you dare to come here, I'll give you another shoe sole!"

Looking back, I found that I had run to the edge of the forest. A slope went straight down in front of me, and there was another deep dense forest below, and I couldn't see how steep it was at the moment.Chu Wu stood still in front of the slope, looked left and right, and was about to turn around to find the way again, when Zhong Chongyan suddenly caught up behind him, put his hand on his shoulder, smiled sinisterly, and said, "Chu Wu..."

Chu Wu hugged his arm and jumped down the steep slope.

Standing on the slope, Zhong Chongyan couldn't get his footing firmly, but he jumped down with all his might, rolled down the slope together with him, turned several times in a row and fell heavily on a tree, he was dizzy and his internal organs seemed to be displaced. .Holding his head up, Chuwu was small, but he rolled down from among the trees. He heard the sound of screaming and falling all the way down into the dark dense forest below, and he didn't know where he rolled.

"The fifth day—" Zhong Chongyan regained his breath, and his voice of hatred echoed through the mountains.

On the fifth day of the new year, I was so dizzy that I couldn't hear him calling him or scolding. I didn't know how many bumps I bumped along the way. A piece of skin was scraped off my head. Finally, I fell off the dirt slope about Zhang Xu high and fell to the ground. ground.Fortunately, it was a piece of wet land and not a rock, so I didn't fall to my death immediately, but I fell so badly that I couldn't get up for a long time.

There is a soil slope in front of me, and there is a sound of running water behind me, like a mountain stream.

On the fifth day of the lunar new year, my ears were pressed to the ground, and I heard something else, two clicks.Originally, he was afraid that the Zhong family would roll down and chase him, but now he was about to cry when he heard such a movement, and he didn't know which one was worse, the owner of the movement or the Zhong family.

A mule slowly walked up to him and lowered its head to lick his back. Chuwu's back hurt so badly, and being licked by it was even more painful and itchy. It made him jump up, half kneel, half sit, and then backed up. Going down to the bottom of the slope, sticking his back up, blinking, looking pitifully at a mule and a person in front of him.

Tan Zhonglu held the mule with one hand, and raised it with the other. His crimson and purple palms were turning over for him to see, and then he looked over with a blank expression on his face.