tall and rhubarb

That evening Gao Chang and the others were just about to set up camp on a hill, when a gust of cold wind blew, Rhubarb sniffled, and climbed up a nearby pine tree. After a minute, he said: "There are people living on the other side of the mountain. While cooking, I can smell the aroma of rice."

So this group of people followed the smell of rice and walked the mountain road in the dark for nearly two hours. Sure enough, they found a village smoothly, but the wall outside the village was so high that it would take a little effort to climb over.When Gao Chang and Da Huang were feeling the height of the fence, the wolf walking in front stepped on something, only heard a crisp sound of "click", and then swished, it was caught in the net and hung on a branch .

"Tsk, this can be caught? It's really embarrassing to our canine family." Rhubarb circled around the bottom of the net bag twice, and soon understood this simple and flexible mechanism, and laughed mercilessly at the caught one. A stupid wolf in a trap.

"Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"There is a kind of try next time you go ahead!The wolf probably didn't notice that since he met this unreliable descendant of the dog god, his temper has become a lot more violent, and he has lost his kingship on the grassland.

Along the way, Gao Chang had long been used to the endless bickering between Rhubarb and the wolf. At this moment, he heard movement on the wall, like the sound of a gun being shot, even if it wasn't a gun or a crossbow or something. Come on now, the wolf caught in the net will definitely either die or be injured.So he quickly pulled out the small knife he was carrying with him, and with a flick of the straw rope on the net bag, he unloaded the wolf. Rhubarb turned over, pulled out the knife stuck on the tree trunk, and grabbed it like a dog's leg. Tall and long front.

"Don't use your mouth next time." Gao Chang couldn't bear to dampen his enthusiasm, so he touched the top of his head to express his encouragement.

There was a sporadic sound from inside the wall, worried that they were organizing a second attack, Gao Chang hurriedly raised his voice, expressing his friendliness: "Brother, we are just passing by, not bad people, nor beasts."

"...It's a living person." Several people outside the wall, who were human and not, heard the people inside the wall say so.

Soon, a soft ladder was lowered from the top of the wall. This time the wolf didn't dare to go up directly, but turned to look at Gao Chang and waited for instructions.Gao Chang waved his hand to let Rhubarb go up first, then Lin Bo, the doll climbed onto the wall with two or three strokes of hands and feet, as agile as a monkey, and finally Gao Chang and the wolf.The wolf's hesitation is still necessary, otherwise if the person inside looks like a wolf, he might have to give it a head-on.

After reaching the top of the wall, with the help of the not-so-bright firelight inside the wall, Gao Chang could see clearly that the brothers in this village were all a bit old, with an average age of over 50 years old, most of them were old men Well, the young man only has two or three kittens, and they are all guarded by the old men, probably because he doesn't want them to take any risk.

"Hey, well, my name is Gao Chang. I'm from the east. This is Sawyer and his son Sobo." Being stared at by a group of silent old men with sharp suspicious eyes, Gao Chang felt a little Embarrassed, he gave a dry cough and reported the names of those people.

"Is this a wolf?" An old man pointed at the wolf with a wooden stick in his hand and asked. When he pointed at the wolf, as if his dignity had been violated, he lowered his body and let out a series of low growls from the bottom of his throat. .

When Gao Chang saw it, he quickly pulled Lin Bo over to let him stroke its back to express comfort, then he laughed a few times and said nonsense: "It's called Simba, and it grew up with Sobo, don't worry about it." It seems that his temper is not very good, but he is actually very obedient and never causes trouble."

The old men observed these guests carefully for a long time, and muttered in private for a long time, and finally felt that Gao Chang and Da Huang didn't look like bad guys, so they led them through the small fields , into the only courtyard in the village.

Two bonfires were lit in the courtyard of the quadrangle, surrounded by a group of old women, occasionally a few young women, and children of all sizes, less than ten in total.When Gao Chang and the others entered, they were working and talking around the campfire, and when they saw outsiders coming, they immediately gathered around to watch the excitement.The women's vigilance is much lower than that of the men. When they saw Gao Chang and the others, it was as if they were seeing their own sons. They were serving food and water. How kind, how kind.

"Your name is Suobo, right? Come on, drink this bowl of honey water. This is the honey bee raised by grandma. Now that the sun is shining, the bees will produce honey much faster than before..." an old woman gave the honey from the house. Lin Bo brought out a bowl of honey water and talked to him for a long time, but the child didn't respond at all. Although Gao Chang told him and changed his name to Suobo, subconsciously, he still regarded himself as Lin Bo , I didn't respond at this time.

"Thank you." Gao Chang hurriedly took the honey water, and fed Lin Bo to drink it one mouthful at a time. Speaking of which, the child hadn't gotten used to things like bowls and chopsticks. "The first two years were chaotic, the child was frightened, and he is not doing well now." Gao Chang, this guy, lied as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Oh, poor baby." Grandma heard Gao Chang say this, as if she had been brought up by something sad, she patted Lin Bo's head one after another, just like her own heart.

"Young boy, where are you going?" When Gao Chang and the others entered the yard just now, several old men followed them in, and the others remained outside, probably to stay overnight.The old man who is asking the question now is holding a hookah pipe in his hand and smoking it. If you observe carefully, you will find that there are a lot of tobacco planted in the corners of the yard like the corners and eaves.

"Go to the west." After Gao Chang finished his meal, he took another roasted sweet potato handed to him by his mother-in-law and gnawed it with relish. After eating too much wild fruit barbecue outside, he was already tired of it.

"You can't go there, young man, what are you doing there? It's a place where people can die!" As soon as they heard that Gao Chang and the others were going west, the people in the yard immediately started arguing.

"What's wrong over there?" Gao Chang asked.It was hard for them to get here after crossing mountains and ridges. Seeing that they are about to reach their destination, if they return without success like this, they are really not reconciled.But Gao Chang thought, if there is a nuclear leak or something that can kill people over there, he will not go, just save his life and go back home.

"We also heard about those fleeing people before. If you go west from here and go west, you will enter Province Y, you know? It's in K City in Province Y. I heard that those officials are near K City On a hilltop, they set up some kind of experimental base, and secretly arrested many people in it. Oh, the people who were arrested were miserable. Those who could die were fortune-telling. People are not like humans and ghosts are not like ghosts, not to mention how pitiful..."

"Later, something happened. I heard that there was chaos inside. They smashed the experimental base and broke the high-voltage power grid, and they all came out. At that time, K City was miserable! , killing people everywhere, many people escaped from there, some of them passed by us, when they mentioned K City, their faces were so pale, they looked like dead people."

"Then do you know what's going on over there now?" After all, this was all two years ago.

"It's been almost a year since I saw anyone coming from there. Who knows what's going on there now, and I don't know if there is anyone alive. Young man, what are you going there for?"

"Go to She Mie Men, there are too many poisonous snakes in our hometown." Since there is no nuclear leak, Gao Chang thinks it is still possible to go to the west.

"There are a lot of poisonous snakes, and we also have a lot here. Ten years ago, there were snakes in our land, but then there were fewer and fewer wild animals on the mountain, and there were not many poisonous snakes. Gradually, everyone stopped planting them." Oh, oh, now these poisonous snakes are back, but we don’t have any snakes to kill our family, talk about the world.”

"This poisonous snake can't be guarded against. If there is a fierce beast or something, we can still withstand it if we risk our lives. There is nothing we can do with these poisonous snakes. If there are snakes here, hey, just let us This yard, how can it be so deserted as it is now, it must still be as lively as before..."

After filling my stomach, I talked to the old ladies in the village for a while, and Gao Chang and the others went to bed. Although everyone is not used to sleeping at night, Gao Chang and the others have been in the wild for a long time , I couldn't take a good rest, now that I entered their village, it's normal to want to sleep.

"Tell me, can they really find She Mie Men?" As soon as Gao Chang and the others left, the old people in the yard started discussing with each other.

"I think it's okay, look at those two young men, how energetic they are!"

"Don't be blind if you don't understand." The smoking old man snorted disapprovingly.

"You understand? Tell me."

"Yes, old Wei, just tell us."

"Cough cough." Under the repeated urging and four requests from the women, Old Wei finally opened his voice: "Have you seen that wolf just now?"

"Isn't that the wolf dog raised at home? The guy told us just now that his name is Simba. Hey, do you remember that Xiaohong had a puppy named Simba in the past? Oh, that's so fat , my stomach is almost touching the ground..."

"If you say you are ignorant, you are ignorant. My old Wei has been hunting all his life. Can a wolf and a dog still be indistinguishable? Just now, did you see if its tail is hanging down or up?"

"From what you said, it seems to be hanging down, between the hind legs, and I didn't see it move." After saying this, the women's expressions immediately changed. There are no women in the village who are not afraid of wolves, especially the wolf. It's a bit older. When they were young, they always heard that someone's child was taken away by wolves.

"This is not an ordinary wolf. If you ask me, it might be a wolf king."

"Wolf King! My mother, if it howls, we will suffer!"

"It's okay, didn't you realize that it listened to those people? This wolf king has been tamed."

"Hey, this is the first time I've heard that the wolf king can also be tamed..." The old ladies sighed uncontrollably, feeling that they had grown up and learned a lot today.

Phew, I haven't been tamed yet!The wolf who had just been named Simba couldn't help but raised his head and howled: "Wow..."

"Oh! Howling, howling!" The old ladies in the yard became nervous.

"Did you hear that? Isn't it far from what we heard when we were young?" Old Wei was very proud, feeling that he really had sharp eyes.

"It sounds different. How can it howl so loudly?"

"Hey, you are so precious, can you not make a loud noise just upstairs in your house?"

"Listen to this momentum, it is definitely not an ordinary wolf."

"It seems that those two people are really unusual."

"I just said that they look more energetic than ordinary people, especially the tall one. Don't look at him and don't talk. The old lady, I can tell at a glance that this is definitely a dragon and phoenix among people. If it weren't for such a person, a wolf could be tamed." King?" The toothless grandma said that she had already seen it.

The few guests upstairs, except for the child named Suobo, the rest, one person, one dog and one wolf, were not asleep. They listened to the old men and women talking with their ears open. When they heard the above passage, Rhubarb Proud, sure enough, the brilliance of the descendants of Inugami is unstoppable.

"What are you grinning about? Go to sleep." Gao Chang listened for a long time, but he didn't hear them praise himself. He thought that these old men and women really didn't know much. The real key figures are often ordinary-looking and low-key.

In the evening of the next day, Gao Chang left some salt for the people in the village. He regarded it as a thank you gift for entertaining him, and when he was about to climb up the rope ladder and turn out of the village, he saw the wolf suddenly coming from nowhere. He rushed out, ran up the wall in twos and twos, and ran away.

"Little bastard, you dare to break ground on Tai Sui's head before all your hair grows!" After a while, everyone saw Old Wei chasing him aggressively with a shotgun in his head. The extraordinary wolf he was talking about yesterday Wang, now he has become a little bastard too.

"What's the matter?" Gao Chang could also see that the wolf probably caused him some trouble.

"This bastard stole my chicken."

"I came to your house to steal a chicken?" No wonder Gao Cai felt that the wolf seemed to have something in its mouth just now. It turned out to be a chicken. Old Wei's family, didn't the old man talk about it yesterday, he has been hunting all his life.

"Tell me, what should we do? Anyway, you brought the wolf in. What you said last night, and you said that you have a bad temper. In fact, you are very good and never cause trouble. Don't we believe you? Otherwise, we will A wolf enters Zhuangzi?" Old Wei pointed his head at his long nose, insisting that he be responsible.

"Yes, yes, that bastard is really outrageous. I will definitely deal with him when I turn back, but I don't think I can find this chicken. Even if I come back early, I won't be able to survive. Otherwise, I will I will pay you some salt, what do you think?" Gao Chang regretted, why did he have a relationship with such an unreliable guy.

"You think it's great to have salt? I don't care, you have to give me an explanation for today's matter!" Old Wei was aggressive.

The old lady next to me couldn't stand it anymore, saying that you are a dead old man, aren't you just a chicken? As for you, people say that they will pay you for salt, isn't salt worth more than chicken?It's a pity that no matter what others say, old Weitou just refuses to give in, and has to ask Gao Chang to give an explanation.

What else can I say, Gao Chang's heart is like a bright mirror, this old man, he has been blackmailed: "Otherwise, when I find the snake to destroy the door, I will get more seeds and bring some back for you. Will it work?"

"That's what you said." Old Wei was obviously waiting for Gao Chang to say so.

"That's right." To be honest, without the old Wei tou mentioning it, he planned to find the snake and return it the same way, and he would definitely give them some seeds at that time, but now that he is being forced by the old Wei tou, he won't You have to come back when you come, otherwise you will be dishonest.

"You have to keep your word. We are all at this age. It won't be long before we should report to Lord Yan. If you dare to lie to me, old man, even if I don't reincarnate, I will haunt you to death." .” This threat is definitely powerful enough, especially when there are a large group of old men and women behind him.

In the end, the old Wei didn't ask for Gao Chang's salt. The old man was indeed poisonous enough, so he had to be owed it.As soon as Gao Chang and the others left the village, they heard the people inside unanimously condemning Old Wei for being too unkind.

"Honest? Then do you want to be kind, or do you want your Ah Xing to live a few more years?" Old Wei Tou didn't take their accusations very seriously, he laughed twice, and he didn't look angry at all. "Hey, that little wolf cub, you really think I can't do anything with it. Being my old Wei head has been hunting all my life for nothing."

Gao Chang sighed outside the wall, this dead old man deliberately let the wolf go, and then chased him to pay for it. If he doesn't want chickens, wolves, or salt, he will kill the door with snakes.

Not long after Gao Chang and the others walked to the west, they saw the wolf lying on a rock waiting for them. What can I say to these two lacks, but in the end I shook my head and gave up.

Lin Bo had a stern face, obviously thinking that it did something wrong. The old women in the village were so kind, they gave him food and sweet potatoes, and even brought him honey water to drink.

"Are you out of your mind? You can't think about it so much, and you actually went to poach other people's chickens." Rhubarb asked gloatingly.

"Hmph." The wolf tilted his head and licked his paw and said, "That old guy is talking nonsense, even saying that I have been tamed."