tall and rhubarb

Gao Changqiang resisted the desire to get under the covers and meditated until midnight, and then heard some commotion in the yard. Just when he was hesitating whether to go out and have a look, the door of their house was knocked.

"Gao Chang! Gao Chang! I am Aunt Ah Shan! Gao Chang, get up and open the door!"

This time Gao Chang didn't hesitate anymore, he got out of bed and opened the door. Aunt Ah Shan outside the door had red eyes and a bad face. Gao Chang guessed that her son Zheng Guoxi probably went up the mountain tonight.

"Gao Chang! Guo, Guoxi, he had an accident on the mountain! Gao Chang, help Aunt Ashan, bring rhubarb and go up the mountain with your uncle Ashan, is it okay? Your uncle said he wants to go by himself What can he do alone? If he can't save his son, he will have to pay for it..." Aunt Ah Shan grasped Gao Chang's hand tightly, as if grasping the last straw, with so much strength that she couldn't help herself. Even the big man Gao Chang felt a little pain.

"Do you know where it is?"

Regardless of others, Gao Chang really had to help Aunt Ah Shan's family.Gao Chang remembered that when he was young, Grandma Gao would stay at home all day making lanterns and seldom go out. When Aunt Ashan went shopping, she would often bring them for their family. Sometimes when she saw cheap dried seafood, she would It is up to the master to buy some for Grandma Gao, and if the family kills a chicken, they will give Gao Chang a few pieces of chicken to eat.

Uncle Ashan is short, and he never makes a sound when he is working, and he doesn't talk much at ordinary times, but in the past, he was too young to help. Uncle has helped them a lot. It is not easy for an old lady to raise a grandson alone. All these years are thanks to the help of Uncle Ashan, his family and other people in the village.

After Grandma Gao passed away, the villagers helped arrange his funeral. The couple next door were even more busy inside and out, and they never wanted to take credit for it.In the first few years, Aunt Ah Shan took good care of Gao Chang, feeling sorry for him as a teenage child who was helpless. Later, because of some gossip in the village, she gradually walked away.

Aunt Ashan is good-looking, and there are a few men in the village who covet her, and the women are jealous, so they are easy to gossip, and their family has no foundation in the village. Uncle Ashan is honest and does not know how to make money, and he is also short. Even if they fight with others, they can't fight, so the couple has been swallowing their anger and living their lives, and usually even if they suffer a little bit, they don't blush with others.

"I know, I know, Zheng Guolin and Zheng Guochao have all come back. There are still a few people on the mountain at the moment. I heard they ran into a wild boar!"

"I'll get Rhubarb." Gao Chang went back to the house and pulled Rhubarb off the bed. This guy sleeps all day long except for eating. It's only halfway through this winter, and it has grown fat for itself. Gao Chang I think it is likely to be a fat man after it takes shape.

Taking the reluctant rhubarb out of the yard, Uncle Ashan had a chopping knife and straw rope pinned to his waist, holding a stick in one hand and a torch in the other, as if he had been waiting for a while.Gao Chang glanced in the yard and saw Zheng Guochao pretending to be dead by the fire. Zheng Guolin, who ran back with him, probably hid in the house and saw no one at the moment.

Gao Chang walked to the edge of the fire and smashed the machete beside Zheng Guochao with a "clang" sound: "Get up and lead the way!"

This is not the machete used by the villagers to chop firewood, but the machete specially used by the heroes on TV. Gao Chang ordered several before, because it looks scary, and this winter is not really difficult. To what extent, it has never been used.

"Aiya...Aiya..." Zheng Guochao didn't know whether he was tired and scared or just pretending, he lay on the ground with his body bent and moaned: "You can see it after walking for an hour along the Turtle Ridge on the back of our mountain. Don't lead the way."

"Keng! Keng!" Gao Chang hit it twice with the machete. "Stop talking nonsense! Get up and lead the way!" After all, they don't know the exact location. If they don't meet them by then, where will they go to find someone at night?Since Zheng Guochao ran back because of an accident, he must know the exact location. If he doesn't lead the way at this time, who will lead the way?

At this time, everyone in the yard was there. Everyone didn't agree with Zheng Guochao and Zheng Guolin's approach of running back first. After a short period of noise, the yard was much quieter than usual, and now it was so quiet that cockroaches could be heard.

Maybe it was because everyone was ashamed and flustered, or because Gao Chang's machete was really a deterrent, Zheng Guochao finally got up from the ground.The three of them left the yard quickly. The mountain road at night was very difficult to walk. The mountain road that used to be paved with stones was now full of weeds and vines. They held torches and sticks and beat all the way up the mountain. Afraid of stepping on a snake or something.

Uncle Ashan was worried about his son, so he just walked with his head buried along the way, Gao Chang walked at the end, and from time to time urged Zheng Guochao, who was walking in front of him, so that the two of them would not fall too far behind Uncle Ashan.

This big mountain has long been covered by grass and trees. In the past, the trees on the mountain stopped growing in winter, and the grass leaves were all withered, but now, both the trees and the grass are very lush.Last year during the Qingming Festival, the tea trees that were only as tall as his thighs had grown to the top of his head now, and the Fupanzi, which should have waited until spring to ripen, was now hanging bright red fruits on the branches, stepping on it. On the steps covered with vines and weeds, you can also see petunias blooming quietly by the roadside.If it weren't for the cruelty of the blue sunlight, this could really be regarded as a vibrant beauty.

After walking for about 10 to [-] minutes, there seemed to be commotion not far ahead, and Uncle Ashan immediately hurried over.

"It's there, you go, I can't do it." Zheng Guochao pointed to a hillside ahead, and then refused to move any more. Gao Chang didn't have time to argue with him, so he just passed by and rushed to the place where the accident happened. past.

"Be careful, it's a big guy." Da Huang whispered to Gao Chang when there was no one around.

"Can you beat it?"

"uncertain."

"Then hide yourself."

In a blink of an eye, he arrived at the hillside where the accident happened. Gao Chang first saw the village chiefs Zheng Guobang and Zheng Guohong hiding on a big rock, but these two people obviously hadn't seen him yet, and they were shouting in one direction.

"Come back! Come back! There's a ditch over there! Dangerous!"

"Climb the tree quickly! Guoxi is hopeless!"

On the other side of the slope, the young man who lived in Zheng Guoxi's house ran around for a few steps, and then climbed up a small rock. Under the rock, a big black wild boar was pushing its nose hard. Just use the top of the head without moving, the strength of this wild boar is surprisingly great, the grass and trees all over the hillside were trampled to pieces by him.

The man squatted on the stone, but he obviously didn't want to let the wild boar go. He kept waving his stick and hitting its head. leave.

"What's wrong with my son?" Uncle Ashan also climbed up the big rock where Zheng Guobang and the others were. These two people just said that his son is hopeless?

"How do you know you're coming up the mountain? Those three bastards ran back to the village?"

"What's wrong with my son?" Uncle Ashan jumped anxiously.

"I was bitten by a pine root snake just now, and I was bitten by a wild boar a few more times. I haven't moved for a while." Zheng Guohong pointed to a big tree on the other side of the hillside. There was a black shadow under the tree, probably It was Zheng Guoxi.

As soon as Uncle Ashan heard that, he ran under the big tree. Fortunately, the wild boar didn't pay attention to this side at the moment, and still circled around the stone, bumping it twice from time to time. The stone was as tall as a person. The boulder soon became a little loose.

This wild boar weighed more than 400 catties at least. If it was in the past, it would not be very scary in the eyes of the villagers, and a few people could deal with it together. But this pig is obviously a bit different. Not only is it manic, but it is also very strong.

Gao Chang has not yet made up his mind whether to confront this thing, it is obviously very difficult to deal with, and it is impossible to kill him without paying a price.But the opponent did not give Gao Chang the right to choose. The wild boar stopped suddenly after circling around under the stone, looked up at Gao Chang and the others, and then threw off its hoof and rushed over. I could smell the scent of Rhubarb, and this thing has a very sharp nose.

The wild boar ran closer and closer, and Rhubarb rushed over at the right time. The sharp teeth left a long gash on the wild boar's neck, but this was not enough. The injured wild boar attacked Rhubarb even more frantically, and Rhubarb jumped I jumped onto a nearby pine tree, probably because of my heavy weight, the pine tree shook it a few times, and almost didn't shake it off the tree.

Gao Chang didn't hesitate, and rushed over with the machete. The knife slashed obliquely on the wild boar's stomach. The belly is the sensitive part of the wild boar, and the target is easy to hit, but wild boars like to grind The skin on both sides of the belly had a thick layer of calluses. This protective layer was very tough. Gao Chang's knife made another bloody gash on it, but he failed to pull the belly away.

This time he failed, the wild boar counterattacked quickly, so Gao Chang had no choice but to climb up the pine tree where Rhubarb was. One building was torn down immediately.

One person and one dog rolled to the ground. The wild boar ran out for a short distance due to inertia when it hit the tree. At this moment, it was still some distance from Gao Chang and the others, but now it turned back quickly.As far as it just hit the tree, a person would probably be cut in two. Dahuang has good legs and feet, and he can dodge it with a light jump. Gao Chang is not so good at it.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!" There were five sounds in total, and the accuracy was very good. All the bullets fired were buried in the body of the wild boar. Taking half a step back, he kept running towards Gao Chang, until he was shot into the eye socket when he was less than three meters away from Gao Chang, and then fell to the ground.

Gao Chang leaned against the tree branch behind him and took a few breaths. It seemed that the village was not much easier than the city. At least there were no such things as wild boars in the city.He bought this pistol from the black market a few years ago and spent a lot of money. He still has it at home, not just this one.Originally, I didn't plan to use it so early. After all, this world is chaotic, and it's not a good thing to be too ostentatious.

"You hide pretty fast!" Gao Chang wiped the sweat from his forehead, and smiled at Da Huang who was beside him.

"Didn't you tell me to hide?" Da Huang straightened his lowered body, and limped towards Gao Chang. "You can't hit it head-on, you can only hit it from the side."

"What happened to the hind legs?"

"He kicked his hoof just now." The hoof of this pig is not usually hard.

"Let me take a look." Gao Chang pulled Rhubarb over, let him lie on his lap, and checked its injured hind leg. It didn't seem to be broken. I don't know if it was cracked or not.

Gao Chang carried the rhubarb on his shoulder and went to Zheng Guoxi to check the situation.

"How is he?"

"I'm still alive." Uncle Ashan responded, and quickly did the work with his hands, making a simple stretcher with the straw rope and long sticks he brought.The young man who lives in Zheng Guoxi's house has also come down from the rock just now, and is helping Uncle Ashan.

At this time, Zheng Guohong and Zheng Guobang also came over. Both of them suffered injuries to varying degrees. Zheng Guohong seemed to have a problem with his arm. When he was walking, his left arm did not move. Zheng Guobang was limping, but he was still able to walk. question.

"My arm was injured and I couldn't lift anyone. I just saw lobelia in the ditch on the roadside. I went to pick some back first." Seeing that Zheng Guoxi was still alive, Zheng Guobang went ahead to gather herbs by himself. Use lobelia to detoxify snakes.

"You go with your Uncle Guohong." Uncle Ashan turned to the young man beside him and said, this man's coat is gone, he was wearing a shirt in winter, and his arms were covered by something Something was scratched, and there was a long bloody gash, which dyed the white shirt red.

The two people in front left, and only Gao Chang, the village chief, and Uncle Ashan and his son were left. Uncle Ashan moved his son onto the stretcher. He was just about to raise his head to ask Gao Chang to help when he saw a slap on his shoulder. Carrying rhubarb, after the fight just now, this person and dog are also very embarrassed.

"I'll come." Zheng Guobang, the village head, said that he was going to carry the stretcher.

"How's your leg?" It looks like it's not badly hurt.

"It can be done, it can be done." The village head is also covered in mud at the moment, and now the vegetation on the mountain is thick, and it is basically difficult to see bare soil, but this wild boar is really powerful, and the entire hillside has been covered. It digs out pits one by one.

Seeing him like this, Gao Chang reached out and patted Rhubarb's back, then put it on the ground. Dogs are different from humans. They have four legs, and they can still walk without one. "Let me do it." The mountain road is steep, Zheng Guobang is limping, if he stumbles, he will be in trouble.

"Young man, if you have the strength, carry that pig back. Those kids in our yard are all hungry." Zheng Guobang waved his hand and lifted up one end of the stretcher first, so Uncle Ashan had no choice but to lift the other end too. .Gao Chang turned his head to look at the wild boar on the ground, and carried it on his shoulder resignedly. The village hadn't eaten meat for a long time, and it was really a bit reluctant to lose these hundreds of catties of pork for nothing.