On the Importance of Chinese Characters

From that day on, although the sun rose as usual, the black mist covering the sun became thicker and thicker, the light falling on the ground became less and less, and the temperature changed day by day.

Many warm vegetation began to wither and wither gradually.After five days of rapid march, the advance team finally saw the gate of Pengyi Village again.

Bright torches were burning on the watchtowers on both sides of the gate, and because of the light, they were not seen by the gatekeepers until they came very close.Uncle Mao yelled at the top, and the door opened quickly.

"Uncle Mao, you guys are back." A young man in his twenties opened the door. While talking to Uncle Mao, he raised his head and looked behind him. When he saw one of the middle-aged men, his eyes lit up, and his expression was visible to the naked eye. Relaxed.

"Have the rest of the advance team returned?" Uncle Mao asked.

"Uncle Qi and the others arrived two days ago."

"Okay." Uncle Mao rubbed his head vigorously: "Go, go back and tell your mother first that your father is back safely, and he will go home later."

The young man scratched his hair in embarrassment, let out an 'ah', closed the door again, and ran away like the wind.

"This kid..." The big man laughed and cursed affectionately, and a group of people walked in talking and laughing.

It took almost a month to go out, and the tense nerves were finally relaxed. Almost everyone went home and fell asleep, and they couldn't even wake them up for dinner.

Uncle Mao was not in a hurry to go home. He walked to the center of the village and knocked on the door of the village chief's house.

In the early morning of the second day, a big bell in the village was knocked up forcefully, and the Qingyue sound woke up the villagers of Pengyi Village.

"Axiu, wake up, the bell is ringing, get up quickly." Awang pushed his wife next to him, his tone was a little hurried, "Ayun and Azhou next door just came to the village, I'll go and call them together."

This is the bell that summons the whole village for important events in the village. Once it rings, everyone must rush to the square in the village as soon as possible.When the Awang couple, Zhuang Yunzhou, and Fang Qiling arrived, there were already many people standing in the square, chatting in twos and threes, asking each other why the village chief summoned everyone.

Brother Fan and the team following Uncle Mao are well aware of the reason why the village head summoned everyone, but whenever someone asks, they deliberately put on an unfathomable look and said indifferently: "You will know in a while .”

That way made others itchy when they saw the inexplicable fist.

Brother Fan and the others didn't care, secretly imagining the expressions of other people after seeing the storage bag, and their hearts were full of secret happiness and anticipation.

After about one stick of incense, the village chief and Uncle Mao came.There was a small high platform at the front of the square, and a wooden stake was counted on the high platform. Uncle Mao shook a small bell hanging on the wooden stake, and everyone gradually became quiet.

When everyone's eyes were on the square, the village head nodded to Uncle Mao, who took a step forward: "I'm in a hurry to come today, there are two things in total."

"The first thing, this time the advance team went out and hunted a total of 79 exotic beasts. After that, each family will receive 50 catties of meat according to the head of the household, and the advance team will receive an additional 100 catties. If there are any dead in the advance team, this year's Dark Moon The rations are provided by the village.”

This first incident caused everyone to explode. Everyone couldn't believe their ears. In the past, when the advance team went out, they never brought back anything because they were afraid of the bloody smell that would attract strange beasts and it was difficult to carry. The prey comes.But this time, Uncle Mao actually said that he brought back 79 alien beasts!

79 heads!Not 79 catties!A large alien beast weighs several tons, and a small one weighs at least a few kilograms. How is it possible that there are so many alien beasts? !Besides, when the advance team returned to the village one after another, they didn't see them bring anything back? !

"Did Uncle Mao lose his mind and go crazy?" The advance team member next to Brother Fan poked his arm and asked in a low voice, "Our team didn't bring anything back except the wounded."

"You just lost your mind and went crazy!" Brother Fan glared at him, "Shut up if you don't understand."

The man was stunned by the scolding. Seeing that Brother Fan believed in Uncle Mao's words, he silently moved away from him, stood with his team, and whispered: "Why do I think, The team led by Uncle Mao seemed to be out of their minds when they came back. Have you noticed that many people in their team even lost their weapons and bags when they came back."

The man also nodded approvingly: "I don't know what the village head thinks, such a fake thing, and let Uncle Mao summon everyone."

Uncle Mao stood on the stage, his excellent hearing ability allowed him to listen to the voices of many people talking, and when he heard the doubts that his brain was flooded, he twitched the corner of his mouth and took out the storage bag from his waist , with a wave of his hand, the two-meter-high beast lying on its head fell to the ground with a bang, stirring up a cloud of dust.

In an instant, there was no sound in the square.Everyone stared at the strange beast that appeared out of nowhere, like a duck with its neck strangled, and couldn't say a word.

Uncle Mao smiled very satisfied with this effect, and then he waved his hand several times, each time a strange beast fell to the ground.

'boom'! 'boom'! 'boom'!

The heavy pounding sound directly hit the hearts of every villager in Pengyi Village, and people's eyes lit up bit by bit.

79 strange beasts piled up next to the square to form a huge mountain of meat, and the unpleasant smell of blood permeated the whole square, but everyone didn't care at all, they were all suppressed by his miraculous means.

"Uncle Mao is quite good at acting." Fang Qiling looked at the unshaven uncle on the stage who could release all the beasts at once, but insisted on letting the beasts fall from the air one by one, and moved to Zhuang Yunzhou's ear speechlessly. said softly.

Zhuang Yunzhou smiled lightly, and looked around: "Isn't this very good?"

Fang Qiling looked at the people around him, everyone no longer worried about the arrival of the dark moon in their eyes, and all stared at Uncle Mao on the stage with piercing eyes.

The cheers suddenly exploded in the ears, Fang Qiling's face turned red when he saw many people screaming, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

For a while, the square was filled with excited discussions. The village head and Uncle Mao knew that everyone was in a hurry, so they were not in a hurry to maintain order. When the excitement gradually faded, the voices in the square gradually became quieter.

At this moment, a voice crossed the crowd and asked loudly: "Uncle Mao, the village of the dead in the advance team is responsible for the rations in the dark moon. What about the wounded?"

Everyone looked at the speaker, and when they saw who it was, sympathy flashed in their eyes.

It was the first time for that woman to be watched by so many people, so she pulled the hem of her skirt awkwardly, but she still insisted on looking at Uncle Mao.

His man joined the advance team in order to borrow more food, but unfortunately he came back seriously injured.The two children in the family are young, and there is a blind old woman. The only pillar of the family has fallen, and it will take at least several months to recuperate. The man will not be able to work even after the dark moon is over. In addition to the borrowed food, it was a heavy burden.

Therefore, even if she had the guts to ask, she still had to ask.

"There will be no wounded!" Uncle Mao looked at him and said firmly, "Sister Ah Cai, don't worry, there is a way to heal Zhuzi's injury quickly in the village."

"All traumatized people can be cured!"

As soon as he said this, everyone fell into an unbelievable silence again. The village chief made a comparison with the two young men. The two young men ran quickly knowingly, and lifted the most seriously injured advance team member. come over.

This person is named Xiao Fei, about 30 years old.During a battle, he was grabbed by a giant clawed beast, and fell more than ten meters violently. A little half of his bones were broken, and he was able to survive only by the secret medicine handed down from the village.

Uncle Mao's expression was solemn for a moment, and then he took out the source treasure of the word "medicine" given by Zhuang Yunzhou from the storage bag, and a ray of light fell on Xiao Fei's body. In the surprised expressions of everyone, the wound on Xiao Fei's body healed visibly with the naked eye up.

"Hmm..." Xiao Fei let out a groan from his throat, opened his eyes, and faced the dozen or so heads around him, so frightened that he sat up suddenly.

"It's done! Oh, it's really done!" Everyone exclaimed.

Even Xiao Fei raised his arms and legs in disbelief. After a long time, he shouted with tears in his eyes: "I'm cured! I'm cured!" Uncle knelt down on one knee and bowed deeply: "Thank you Uncle Mao!"

Uncle Mao waved his hands again and again, he can't claim this merit: "It's not me you want to thank. These treasures..." He held up the storage bag and Yuanbao, "They are all bestowed by Venerable Azhou."

According to Uncle Mao's thinking, at the moment of accepting everyone's admiration, he wanted to ask His Holiness to announce it in person, but the other party was very indifferent to fame and wealth and refused to agree.But even so, Uncle Mao felt that everyone should know who gifted all of this.

Venerable Azhou!Azhou? !

'唰'——!The villagers beside Zhuang Yunzhou gave up their positions in an instant, and the two stood in the open space, attracting everyone's attention.

The village head first bowed down: "Thank you for the treasure!"

The villagers also bowed down and said in unison: "Thank you for the treasure!"

Countless respects and thanks poured out to Zhuang Yunzhou, and he couldn't help being agitated in his heart. He helped Awang and his wife and said, "Everyone, please, Azhou is also a member of Pengyi Village, so there is no need to be like this."

The village head just stood up.

Uncle Mao glanced at the village chief, and said, "The second thing is to organize the manpower, and tomorrow everyone will go grab the grain!"

"Grabbing food?"

"But, the food is not ripe yet?"

Uncle Mao took out another Yuanbao from his bosom, and said affirmatively, "The food will be cooked tomorrow."

The tone was exactly the same as that of treating Xiao Fei just now. After seeing so many miracles today, the villagers have learned not to question the treasure in Uncle Mao's hands. After Uncle Mao finished speaking, there was another burst of excited cheers.

Taking advantage of this momentum, Uncle Mao began to arrange for everyone to deal with the strange beasts, and everyone in Pengyi Village had hopeful smiles on their faces.

Zhuang Yunzhou and Fang Qiling found the village head again.