Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

The two wild boars weighed more than 500 kilograms in total, and if divided among each person, it would weigh at least 100 kilograms. Lin Geng could carry a wild boar, but four villagers could not carry a wild boar no matter what. Even if they let four people make a rack and carry a wild boar, it would be very difficult to walk on such a mountain road.

So on the way back, Lin Geng carried a wild boar weighing about 200 pounds on his back, and the four villagers cut some branches, made a rack, put the remaining big wild boar on the rack, and dragged it together.

By the time the group of five returned to the village, it was already completely dark. By the time they got back to the village, Village Chief Zhao had already anxiously called all the strong men in the village to the village committee and prepared torches. Everyone took up spears, hunting forks and other weapons, ready to go into the mountains to look for people.

Just as Village Chief Zhao was calling on all the men in the village to go into the mountains to look for someone, the young boy who was guarding outside the village suddenly shouted, "They're back, they're back, my third uncle and the others are back!"

Village chief Zhao, who was already extremely nervous, relaxed instantly after hearing the cry of the boy who was guarding the mountain road outside the village. However, he still cursed in a low voice and hurriedly led his men to the outside of the village to meet them.

When the villagers came out of the village with torches lit to illuminate the entrance to the mountain, they saw Lin Geng leading the way, carrying a wild boar, and leading four other villagers into the mountain, dragging a rack made of branches, walking out of the darkness and returning to the village.

The village was extremely lively that night. It was the first time they had seen someone go into the mountains and kill two such big wild boars in one day. Especially when the villagers heard from the four villagers who had gone into the mountains that both wild boars were shot by Lin Geng alone, they looked at Lin Geng with even greater respect.

Although Lin Geng had demonstrated his archery skills and the power of his bow to them before, they still didn't quite believe that a young man from the city like Lin Geng could go into the mountains and hunt wild boars.

They were mountain people who had lived in the mountains all their lives and often went into the mountains to hunt, but it was very difficult to hunt wild boars. Just because Lin Geng, a young man and a city dweller, wanted to go into the mountains to hunt wild boars, in their view, Lin Geng was just a newborn calf who was not afraid of a tiger and his imagination was pure.

Even Village Chief Zhao himself agreed to send someone to take Lin Geng into the mountains. It was because he thought that Lin Geng was very kind to their Zhao Village and he didn't want to disappoint Lin Geng. He just wanted him to go into the mountains to experience the difficulty of hunting. In fact, he didn't expect that Lin Geng would be able to hunt a wild boar by going into the mountains.

He was waiting for Lin Geng to go into the mountains by himself but got nothing. After returning disappointed, he advised Lin Geng to go back to the city as soon as possible and stop having such unrealistic dreams in the future. Hunting was really not as simple as he thought. He should just run around the countryside and collect some mountain products to report back.

But no one expected that Lin Geng actually killed two big wild boars in one day when he went into the mountains for the first time. Judging from the wounds on the wild boars, they were really shot by Lin Geng with a bow and arrow.

One wild boar was fatally injured by an arrow shot through its body by Lin Geng. Another wild boar was shot in the buttocks by Lin Geng. The arrow was deeply embedded in the wild boar's hind legs, causing serious injuries to the wild boar. It was bleeding continuously and one of its hind legs could not move. Finally, Lin Geng caught up with it and killed it with a single knife.

Seeing these two wild boars, the villagers were both happy and envious. They were not jealous or hateful, but just pure envy. Many people were drooling because these were two big piles of meat! Even though they guarded the forest and could occasionally hunt some small prey, they were reluctant to eat the pheasants, rabbits and other prey they hunted.

Basically, the living ones were temporarily raised by them, and most of the dead ones were made into cured meat, waiting to be carried out of the mountains to exchange for urgently needed daily necessities or money.

So even though the villagers live in the mountains every day, it is difficult for them to eat meat. They usually don’t have enough to eat, and they don’t have any surplus food to raise chickens and pigs. Although they can raise sheep, there are ferocious beasts in the mountains. If they raise sheep, it is easy to attract leopards or bears from the mountains to come out and wreak havoc on the village.

Even if they wanted to raise sheep, they couldn't afford to buy lambs, so the villagers couldn't eat meat on a regular basis. It was only when Lin Geng came yesterday that Village Chief Zhao, in order to entertain Lin Geng, made up his mind and asked his wife to stew a cured pheasant for Lin Geng, as he himself was reluctant to eat these cured meats all year round.

Now there are two big wild boars in front of them, but they were hunted by Lin Geng, a purchaser from the city. It is impossible for the villagers not to be greedy for so much meat that they can only look at it but not eat it, especially the children in the village, who are drooling with greed and staring at the two wild boars in a daze.

Village Chief Zhao praised Lin Geng and seemed to be hesitant to speak. Lin Geng saw through his thoughts and laughed, "Uncle Zhao, I won't call you village chief anymore! I'll just call you Uncle Zhao from now on! I was lucky today to kill these two wild boars, but if it weren't for the help of Third Uncle and the others, I wouldn't be able to get these two wild boars out of the mountain!

So I couldn’t let my third uncle and the others work for me for nothing, following me into the mountains for a whole day and being so tired!

Here are these two wild boars. I will take the big one back to complete the task, and leave the small one to the village. You can divide it among the villagers! What do you think of this solution?"

When Village Chief Zhao heard this, he immediately refused to do it and waved his hands repeatedly, saying, "Look at what you are saying! Although our Zhaojia Village is poor, we can't take advantage of you!

By the way, although the third brother and the others accompanied you into the mountains, showed you the way, and helped you drag the wild boar out, they did contribute a lot, but we can't take a wild boar from you!

I know you are a good child. You see that we are poor and want to subsidize us, but that’s not the way to do it!

In my opinion, these two wild boars will be killed in the village tonight. If you like, you can leave the offal for us!

I'll leave my heart and liver to the three of them, and use the rest to make a pig-killing feast in the village tonight so that the young and old in the village can have a good meal!

Take the pork back and hand in the task. We can’t take advantage of you!

If you have pity on us, you can come every three or five days every month, take away our mountain products, and bring us some salt, cotton cloth, etc., so that we don’t have to go far to the supply and marketing cooperative in the village to exchange them, and we might get ripped off! "

When Lin Geng heard this, he was deeply moved and secretly felt that Village Chief Zhao was indeed a loyal and honest person.

In fact, when he brought back two wild boars today, he was secretly thinking that money can make people excited. When these people in the village saw him kill two wild boars alone, he didn't know if they would have any bad intentions.

Although he had dealt with Village Chief Zhao yesterday, he felt that this Village Chief Zhao was a loyal and honest man, not a bad person, and he was indeed very nice to him.

However, human nature is something that, when the benefits are small, people may be able to remain calm, but once the benefits are huge, no one can guess whether people will change their minds.

That's why he took the initiative to offer to take a wild boar back with him and leave a smaller wild boar in the village, so that these villagers would not abandon their loyalty for the sake of profit and have evil intentions towards him at night.

Even if he was not afraid of these villagers attacking him, he was facing a whole village of people. Even if he could protect himself, he could not kill these villagers.

He was not a murderer. He did not go into the mountains and massacre an entire village just for two wild boars. Even if he killed all the villagers who had evil intentions towards him in order to protect himself, this matter would cause a stir in the future.

Even if the government knew that the villagers had bad intentions towards him and he killed people to protect himself, I guess they would not tolerate him considering that he had killed so many people.

That's why he took the initiative to show goodwill and expressed his willingness to give a wild boar to the village and take only one wild boar away. In this way, he wanted to test whether Village Chief Zhao and the villagers of Zhaojia Village would have any bad intentions towards him because of the two wild boars.

Who would have thought that Village Chief Zhao flatly rejected his proposal, and even suggested somewhat embarrassedly that as long as two sets of the two wild boars were put into the water, it would not only be enough to pay the wages of the four men who brought him into the mountains, but also he would have to do him a favor and let the villagers have a good meal.

After hearing this, Lin Geng couldn't help but sigh in his heart, thinking that the ordinary people of this era are still simple! Such benefits are placed in front of them, and they have no intention of taking advantage of them. Compared with those beasts in the yard, they are really two extremes.