only in this mountain

Chapter 4 Suffering

As a descendant of an excellent watchdog, the growth of the second idiot has fully demonstrated that even if there are genes, it is possible to grow crooked, tear up the book, urinate and bite people... Extremely arrogant, Jiang He reflected on whether he, as its master, should be more serious If there is some deterrence, the second idiot will make trouble again.

Different from the past at home, this time the second idiot expanded the scope of the murder to outside the door.

Jiang He only dug a few pots of soil from the door, and scattered some seeds indiscriminately before the flower bed was filled, but his neighbors started to grow vegetables at the door in a decent manner.Although he was just observing secretly, Jiang He did see how Xiong Xiong dug up eight small square vegetable fields with a hoe, and he also watered them every day, and within a week, green shoots appeared.Then Xiong Xiong went to cut a few thorny branches and surrounded the vegetable field. Huangshan got dozens of chicks from nowhere, and every day he saw him walking around the chicks with a rippling smile on his face.

They are doing this, but it is a bit of a cover-up.

Jiang He felt something was wrong, so Zhang Yunde asked Zhang Huai, and Zhang Huai said that the two were indeed from Huangjiang Village, and that the residents here were indeed their relatives.Now that Zhang Huai had said that, Jiang He couldn't doubt it anymore, but he still avoided those two intentionally or unintentionally.

The courtyard door of Jiang He's house was usually open. One day Er Fool took a dead bird from outside and crawled to the sofa to bite, leaving dirty things all over the place. It, it hummed and ran away from home.Usually it would go out to play alone for a while, Jiang He didn't care, but after ten minutes or so, the second idiot ran into the yard in desperation.

Jiang He laughed at it softly: "Spineless stupid dog."

The second idiot seemed to understand, and sobbed with his ears drooping, and he didn't know if he was still angry or protesting.Jiang He was posting on the drafting platform, so he didn't have time to answer it for the time being.

After a few minutes, someone suddenly shouted outside the yard: "Is anyone at home?" The voice was that weasel spirit.Jiang He didn't dare to vent his anger immediately, trying to make the other party think that there was no one at home.

Huang Shan didn't continue to ask, but walked in slowly. Seeing Jiang He's face as if he was facing an enemy, he smiled and said, "So you're at home."

Jiang He didn't know what the other party wanted to do, so he didn't say anything for a while, only to see Huang Shirt stretched out his right hand, holding a fluffy and shivering little chicken in his palm, Jiang He obviously felt the second idiot behind him tremble.

The yellow shirt said slowly: "My little chicken is walking at the door in a good manner, and your dog runs to chase after it. The poor little chicken has never seen such a scene before. It is so scared that it hides and runs away. This is not enough. Your family The little guy was going to eat them, and I just happened to see him swallow this chick in his mouth as I was going out."

Jiang He glanced at the little chicken, and then at the second idiot who was huddled in a corner and desperately lowered his sense of existence. Although he knew in his heart that what the other party said was true, he still asked his doubts like ordinary parents protecting their children. : "The second idiot is just a puppy, how can it swallow a chicken?"

The yellow shirt took a step forward, and the second idiot suddenly yelled loudly to let him go away, but a bunch of yellow fluff fell out of its mouth when it opened its mouth.Jiang He didn't know what happened at that moment, but the second idiot suddenly let out a scream like someone was going to kill him: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh——"

In order not to continue to listen to the meaningless cry of the second idiot, he hurriedly asked: "Then what do you want? Can I pay you a chicken?"

But Huangshan shook his head and said: "After all, it's not your fault. The chicken is not dead, but its leg is broken. If you put it back to my place, you will have to push and push with a large group of chickens. Why don't you put it here for recuperation first?" Wait, I'll take it back when I'm done."

The price of a small chicken is at most a few yuan. If you raise a chicken, you may eat a lot. He has no experience in raising chickens. If he dies, he still has to pay for a chicken, which is a waste. His energy for raising chicks.It's not a good deal.Jiang He frowned a little unwillingly.

Huangshan said again: "My chicken is not an ordinary breed. It is a golden pheasant. It doesn't eat weeds and only eats traditional Chinese medicine. One can sell for thousands of yuan. If it dies, you will pay me a chicken. If the chicken is raised well, it will be fine. your."

"Isn't there a third option not to raise?" Jiang He seemed to have foreseen that the other party would definitely stick out a few fingers and ask him to take the money, so he wisely stopped arguing.

As soon as the weasel spirit left, Jiang He began to poke the chicken's cheek: "Tell me, did that stupid dog bite you?" The chicken was still trembling, and did not make a sound that Jiang He could understand.Jiang He teased him for a long time and finally got no results, so he could only resign himself to his fate and started to search the Internet for what kind of chicken the flame-winged pheasant is. After a search, he found out that the golden pheasant is a second-class protected animal in the country. Although there are artificial breeding, the price varies. , and some do cost thousands.He didn't find the flame-winged golden pheasant, he didn't know whether the yellow shirt was lying to him or it was actually another name of the ordinary golden pheasant, so he patted Er Fool's little butt with some headaches, then grabbed its ear and said: "You This silly dog ​​is lazy and stupid, and keeps causing trouble, can I get the dog back?"

The second idiot dog is stupid but has a glass heart. I don’t know if he was scared before or hurt by Jiang He’s words now. He lay motionless in the nest. , the miserable cry of the second idiot woke up Jiang He, Jiang got up and saw that the second idiot seemed to be limping suddenly, and his hind legs could not stand up at all.

Zhang Yunde accompanied his sister to go shopping in the city, but Jiang He couldn't find anyone to help him. Finally, he remembered Zhang Huai. He asked several people for directions, and finally found the village chief's house.

The village chief's home is at the westernmost part of the village. Zhang Yunyuan is squatting at the door shaking a dustpan. In the dustpan are separated soybeans and pods. Not far from him is a pile of half-dried peanuts.Jiang He watched from a distance, a little afraid to approach, he was quite afraid of this unsmiling man.The little black dog in his arms was still trembling, how pitiful it would be if it couldn't stand up anymore, Jiang He decided to fight it after thinking about it.

"Hello..." Jiang He boldly asked, "Excuse me, is Zhang Huai at home?"

Zhang Yunyuan has never seen a man hugging a dog for nothing, and thought he was neurotic. He had seen him all the way, and it took him a long time to see him coming. He felt that he was procrastinating, and his impression was not very good, so he shook his head. Shaking his head and ignoring him.

"Look for Zhang Huai. He went to the field this morning. It's time to come back for breakfast. You can come in and wait." The voice of a very energetic old man came from the door at the right time. After saving Jiang He who was in extreme distress, Jiang He heard a vague idea and knew that he was being let into the house, so he went in with the dog in his arms.

"You look unfamiliar, whose relative is Zhang Huai's friend? Why are you still hugging the dog? Isn't it hot?" A basket was picking leeks there, and when he saw Jiang He coming in, he smiled and handed him a small bench.Like most old people in the village, he spoke with a heavier accent and was more vague and incomprehensible. Jiang He nodded ambiguously, and after sitting down, he explained his identity and purpose of coming.

The two chatted for a while, and most of the time, Jiang He didn't understand, so he smirked and dealt with it, while looking at the layout of the house.

Different from the structure where he lives now, where the yard is immediately after entering the gate, several log pillars divide the front hall where they live and the yard into two areas. The front hall is spacious and airy, and there is a bamboo The bed seemed to be for the elderly to take a nap, and there was an old cattail fan on it.The inner yard is not too big. Firewood is stacked in the small hall on the left, and a well is on the right. It is worth seeing that there are different kinds of flowers planted on both sides of each door, and there are actually hydrangeas, which are pink and blue Especially eye-catching in the early morning light.

Picking one secretly while leaving should not be discovered...

"Dad, you should have breakfast first." Zhang Yunyuan went in and packed the cleaned soybeans into a cardboard box. He glanced at Jiang He and saw that he was picking the yellow leaves on the leeks that looked like embroidered flowers. He couldn't hold back. Just shook his hand, and the beans were all scattered on the ground.Mr. Zhang said something disgusting, which made Zhang Yunyuan, who had already disliked Jiang He, frowned even deeper. He didn't know why he came to see his son, and he just wanted him to leave early.

But old man Zhang turned around and asked Jiang He: "Have you had breakfast? Do you want to have breakfast here?"

"Flowers..." Jiang He was still thinking about why he picked off the hydrangea and carried it back in his pocket without knowing it. He accidentally said something wrong. Mr. Zhang chuckled, "Want flowers? I'll cut them for you after dinner." Take a basket back."

Jiang He blushed and waved his hands again and again: "No need, flowers grow best in the soil."

"Anyway, there are not many people watching there, and it's not bad to coax a little girl, but it's good to coax such a young man." Jiang He couldn't catch the last two sentences, and then he was dragged to the kitchen by Grandpa Zhang.

Zhang Yunyuan's face turned black and white, and when Zhang Huai came home, he saw his father smoking at the door with an empty bowl and sulking.

Zhang Huai had been busy in the field all morning, and brought back a basket of vegetables and a pumpkin. In addition to eggplant, beans, peppers, and several half-sized sweet potatoes, Zhang Huai brought back a basket.Jiang He's eyes lit up when he saw sweet potatoes. When he was a child, he loved roasted sweet potatoes, but his mother stopped growing them when he grew up. You can buy roasted sweet potatoes in the city, but he always felt that they didn't taste that way when he ate them.But it's useless to be greedy, he didn't come to Zhang Huai to ask for alms, so he swallowed the saliva in his mouth and explained to Zhang Huai why he came.

Zhang Huai took the second idiot and looked at it: "It's a bit calcium deficient, but it's not entirely because of this, it may be a problem with the lumbar spine." I don't know what he did, I only heard the second idiot screaming and it hurts so badly .

Zhang Huai's grandfather said on the side: "This dog is more delicate than other dogs, is it because it is often hugged?"

Jiang He blushed and denied, "Yeah... I don't hug him very often." The second idiot not only screamed but also escaped from Zhang Huai's clutches, but he couldn't stand up on his hind legs, not to mention how wronged he was.Jiang He asked again: "Then what should we do?"

"I'll prescribe some medicine for it first, and you can give it a massage when you go back. If the condition doesn't improve, then give it an injection." Zhang Huai took a few boxes of medicine, and told Jiang He how to feed the two idiots, and finally said: "For the time being Don't let him exercise too much, but make sure to get more sun."

When he finally left, Grandpa Zhang asked Zhang Huai to cut a bouquet of flowers. Although Jiang He was full of embarrassment, he put the flowers in the vase he bought for decoration when he got home, and took several beautiful photos. The picture was posted on Weibo.

A week passed, and Er Fool's legs didn't improve at all, so Jiang He went to Zhang Huai's house again. Zhang Huai gave Er Fool an injection and massaged his lumbar spine himself. The next day, Er Fool's condition improved a little. It got better, and he was able to move his nest to eat the dog food that was pushed out of the bowl by him, and he could walk tremblingly by himself early the next morning.

In the next few days, Zhang Huai personally went to Jiang He's house to give the second idiot an injection, medicine, and massage. The second idiot gradually recovered, and he returned to his nature of urinating, biting, and misbehaving. .

Because I saw that the second idiot only ate dog food and calcium tablets in the past few days, Zhang Huai would occasionally bring some egg custard with rice when he came over, so that the second idiot who felt that he had been abused began to have a tendency to join the enemy. The sound of footsteps ran to the door like Sahuan.

This time Zhang Huai did not come empty-handed either, he carried the familiar basket of Jiang He, and not only brought a large bowl of dried fish that was fried golden and crisp, but also two bottles of pickled leeks and beans.

"My grandfather did it. He said that you helped me last time. He likes you very much." Zhang Huai's speech was always concise and not oblique.

Jiang He didn't remember what kind of help he had done, so he said some polite words and saw that Zhang Huai had no intention of taking back the basket, so he took the basket and thanked him repeatedly, but he didn't know how to repay Grandpa Zhang Huai's kindness. The folding fan painted in S city but the buyer put pigeons on it, said a little embarrassedly: "Your grandpa's fan is rotten, you can take this back to him."

Summer was almost over, giving someone a fan was really a bit speechless, but Zhang Huai didn't refuse, and actually brought Jiang He a basket of flowers and sweet potatoes the next day.

Originally, Zhang Huai confiscated much money from the second idiot for medical treatment, but Jiang He also took so many things from him, especially when he looked at the flowers that had obviously been carefully selected, he was inexplicably afraid to see Zhang Huai again.Fortunately, Zhang Huai was also busy, and there were not many opportunities to see him.

After the faint and indescribable emotions in his heart dissipated, Jiang He began to plan to burn sweet potatoes.Because there is no range hood installed, there is no open fire in his kitchen, and the stove has been modified, and there is no place to add firewood. After much deliberation, he can only go to the door to burn.I picked up a small bundle of dry branches, chose a leeward place, built a simple stove with a few stones, and waved a small fan.

——Isn’t it just a barbecue in the wild? He asked Zhang Yunde to help buy a few bags of frozen chicken tenderloin skewers in the town in advance, and prepared eggplant, potato, corn on the cob, and so on.

It's a pity that Zhang Yunde couldn't come due to urgent matters, so he was a little deserted by himself.

Jiang He picked a breezy evening, and after the dusk began to sink, there were only birds chirping all around, listening to them discussing how to grab a bite out of Jiang He's hand, and Jiang He picked up a few stones to scare them all first gone.There was a sound from the wall against which he was leaning, and when he looked up, he saw two ghostly eyes staring at him, scaring him almost to stamp out the bonfire.

"Hmph." The weasel snorted disdainfully, then jumped off the wall, and swaggered to Jiang He's side. Jiang He used a fan to keep him from approaching. On the grill, there is a bunch of crispy chicken bones that are almost grilled.

Jiang He: "..."

The weasel didn't show any intention of harming him, so Jiang He decided to let it go. However, after a while, the big black bear poked its head out from the door, saw no one was around, and rushed to the place with one stride. In front of the fire, he snatched the ham that Jiang He had just taken out of the bag.

Jiang He looked at these two uninvited and undisguised robbers, and wanted to roll his eyes, but his eyes were so smoked by the fireworks that he had no energy left. The two idiots had shrunk under Jiang He's legs when the weasel appeared on the wall. Even worse, Jiang He had to worry about its condition.

"It would be even better if I had two more bottles of wine." The weasel opened and closed his mouth and sighed at the half-rising moon.

Jiang He thought in his heart, you don't even look at what you are, you still want to drink.

These days, because of the illness of the second idiot, Zhang Huai temporarily became a frequent visitor to Jiang He's house. Jiang He didn't pay much attention to whether there were any missing things in the house, so he almost forgot that he still had these two non-human neighbors. They were pretending before , This time, it actually appeared in such a grandiose manner in its original form. Could it be that something happened?Out of consideration for his own safety, Jiang He quietly moved a few steps to the side.

The weasel also seemed to see Jiang He's discomfort, and as if he had suddenly realized it, he changed into a human form in a blink of an eye, and patted the head of the big black bear who only knew how to eat raw meat.

"Sorry, I forgot to transform into a human form for a while."

The big black bear's mouth was full of meat, and after turning into a human form, it still kept the black bear's head.Jiang He was about to laugh out loud, but he still maintained his calm attitude.

"If you don't eat your sweet potatoes, they will be burned to charcoal."

Weasel "kindly" reminded, Jiang He hurriedly pulled out the sweet potatoes from the fire. Although they were a bit burnt, but after peeling off the black skin on the outside, the sweet potatoes inside were soft and delicious, just like the sweet potatoes in his memory. that taste.

It was originally a feast for one person, but those two monsters were inexplicably added. No matter how delicious the delicacy was in front of him, he still felt a little overwhelmed. He handed the potatoes to him, and looked up, the big black bear had turned into a human for some reason, smiling flatteringly at him.

"You all ate up all the meat..." Jiang He was extremely wronged, he had managed to spend a little time extravagantly, but he didn't even taste the minced meat.

"At worst, I'll raise all my chickens for you." Huang Shan grinned, patted Jiang He on the shoulder and said, "You can also pick whatever vegetables Xiong Xiong grows."

"Why?" He asked not only the question of picking vegetables, but also why the two of them were following him.

"I know you didn't faint at all that day, so I also told you on purpose, the situation is exactly what you heard. More specifically, there is a mountain god who died, but his spirit condensed into a stone, Therefore, it has infinite power. It is said that the stone is still pregnant with the next generation of mountain gods. Whoever gets the mountain god stone can dominate the mountain and control the fate of all the creatures on the mountain. Overnight, all the mountain spirits and monsters with a radius of hundreds of miles came out. They fought for the mountain god stone one after another. The pheasant spirit was the first to get the mountain god stone, but it spent too much energy defending the mountain god stone. In the end, it was snatched away by a big snake monster. Xiong Xiong and I were going to wait for it When the two were fighting to the death, an oriole came behind, but I didn't expect the pheasant spirit to give you the mountain god stone. The pheasant spirit may think that you are a mortal and won't care about the mountain god stone, and put a blood curse on you, unless you die Otherwise, no one will be able to take out the mountain god stone from you, and the lifespan of a mortal is always short, and you will probably die of old age after it recovers from its injuries. So Xiong Xiong and I made up our minds to follow you and make sure you die We can get the Mountain God Stone as soon as possible."

Blink your eyes, why is this plot so familiar?

"Have you ever been forced to write your name on a piece of paper by a high school girl?"

Huang Shan and Xiong Xiong stared at each other for a while, then shook their heads.

Jiang He couldn't help feeling amused, and continued, "I'm not from here. I'm leaving in two years."

Huang Shan covered his mouth and smiled calmly, Xiong Xiong said: "It depends on whether you can go or not. The fact that the mountain god stone is on your body will be known to other mountain spirits and monsters sooner or later. Just because we don't kill lives doesn't mean that other monsters are the same. There is no way that pheasant essence will let you leave alive."

Jiang He didn't know which thread in his mind was wrong, so he blurted out: "For the power of the mountain god stone, and to become an unparalleled monster, you will definitely protect me, right?"

Huang Shirt was still grinning, but he bowed his hands together: "Thank you for the hospitality tonight, it's getting late, Xiong Xiong and I will go back to rest first."

In fact, Jiang He wanted to ask them another question, that is, whether his ability to understand the speech of animals was also related to the mountain god stone, but seeing that they had changed back to their original form, he immediately dismissed the idea.

When cleaning up the mess, Jiang He suddenly realized: "Isn't eating meat counted as killing! You hypocritical stinking monster!"

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