Seventy Little Heads

Goudan looked at the short cousin in front of him, a little speechless.This is his fifth uncle's youngest daughter, who looks like three or four years old. Someday she knows that Goudan is her cousin, and she likes to get close to him.Wearing a pair of shorts, shirtless, barefoot, her mother shaved her head.If it is not known that she is a cousin, Goudanjue will believe that she is a cousin.

"It's dark enough."

Goudan took out a piece of candy and handed it over while disgusted. The little girl immediately grinned happily, said "brother", then took it, skillfully peeled off the candy wrapper, stuffed it in her mouth, and sucked it profusely.

Basically, none of the cousins ​​would like to play with Goudan, and the cousins ​​would avoid Goudan when they saw Goudan, as if Goudan would beat them up.Only the one in front of me, I don't know whether to call her stupid or bold.

"My child, you gave me a candy before and remembered that you were my elder brother. Every time I saw you, I called someone to come over."

"Yeah, it's the same as big and small." Goudan also thought it was funny, patted her bald head and said, "Go and play, don't follow us."

The little girl stopped, touched her bald head, watched the two of them walk out of the village, turned around and ran to a group of friends to play house together.She spread her hands and said vaguely, "No, it's gone."

The little friends swallowed and stared at her bulging cheeks.

Goudan hasn't paid attention to the people in Li's old house for a long time. A few years are enough to give birth to a group of children, and this little cousin is also like a kid when she can run and dance.The family is free-range, so I don’t care much about it. There are too many children, and I can’t take care of them.

Once, Goudan and Da Zhuang were talking together, and several children around them fought, including this little cousin, a small person, who was quite energetic.Goudan asked at the time: Whose kid is this?

Da Zhuang and the others laughed: This is the daughter of your fifth uncle's family. It seems to be called Xiangxiang.Look, isn't it as dark as Goudan when he was a child?

Goudan also laughed, he was very dark and thin since he was a child, this Xiangxiang little girl was not only dark, but also shaved her head and wore shorts, he thought she was a kid.

Da Zhuang and the others said: The children in the family were like this when they were young, so they don't get lice and are easy to take care of.

Goudan accidentally gave a hard candy to Xiangxiang, who was freed from the herd, and then he knew that there was a brother (cousin) like Goudan.Well, every time she sees Goudan, she will run over and follow behind.

Goudan has candy on him, and since he has money, he always puts a few hard candies in his pocket when he buys candy from the supply and marketing cooperative, which doesn't cost a few cents at all.Occasionally, I will stuff it in my mouth, and I can eat one for a long time. It may be an obsession since I was a child. Goudan thinks that candy is the sweetest thing in the world.

In summer, the vegetation is luxuriant. In fact, it is the most uncomfortable time to enter the mountains. It is hot and humid, and there are many mosquitoes.After the summer vacation, I didn't have time to come out until today.In the past few years, Xikan Village and the surrounding villages have gradually reclaimed the surrounding mountains. The places where they used to catch squirrels and pheasants have become fields.

Only the mountains in the distance are too steep to be reclaimed and planted, so the mountains in the distance are still lush and green, and the small animals have gone to the deep mountains.

When I was young, I didn't dare to go in, and there was no need to go in. The periphery is enough for them to move around.Now that the outskirts of the mountain have become fields, Goudan can only try to push into the deep mountains, and now he is not afraid to explore the deep mountains.

"The path we cut last time is gone again. These branches grow so fast."

"Let's find other trails. There are also hunters nearby, so they should go there often."

Roughly clean up the branches, grass and vines that block the view along the way with a knife. The mountains are the most beautiful from a distance. Once you get close, it is very difficult to go up the mountain.In addition to the big trees, there are old vines, small shrubs, thorns, etc. interspersed among the big trees, entangled together, and there is no way to go.

At first people followed the wild beasts out of the trails, but it was also dangerous.Beasts have their own scents, and to a certain extent, they will follow the path they have opened up to a certain extent. If they are not careful, the two will meet. It is conceivable that it is difficult for human beings to fight against wild beasts that live in the mountains.

Wang Xuan picked a thin grass leaf from the side of the road and pounded it in a small bowl.Dark green juice with a pungent smell. "Apply it to bare areas, otherwise mosquito bites will be troublesome. It can also cover our body odor."

"It's really hot. You can tell that it's all trees and grass, but it's no cooler than the crooked neck tree in front of our house."

"Because it's too dense here, the mountain wind can't penetrate it. If it's on the top of the tree, it will be cool when the mountain wind blows." Wang Xuan saw that the dog's egg was sweating layer after layer. Pull his arm to paint it finely.

"Oh, the mosquitoes here are really poisonous." Biting people is very painful. It's not like the mosquitoes at home. People may not notice it when they are full of blood.

Goudan opened the way ahead, and Wang Xuan saw that if there were any herbs he could use, he would pick them off and throw them into the basket.

"Wang Xuan, do you think this is a trap?" Goudan asked, pointing to the ground that looked a little strange.

"It's a trap. It looks like it might be a big trap."

There are dangers in the mountains. Apart from preventing poisonous insects and beasts, these are the most feared things. "These people really don't pay attention to them. If ordinary people enter the mountains, they will not be trapped to death."

The big clamp is very dangerous, and the clamping force is very strong. Once it is clamped suddenly, let alone a wild animal, even a human calf may be directly clamped off. Small iron clamps can hunt small things such as hares, and large ones can hunt wild animals, etc. Big wild things.Some people are selfish and don't think about the consequences at all. Few people enter this mountain, but it's not uncommon. Some people come in to choose wood for building houses and cabinets. This is not what people on the kang are.

If you have no experience or accidentally step on it and break your leg, how do you think it will end?

"Tear it down."

"Just take it away, isn't he powerful? Just take it away and see what else they have."

This kind of big trap is to catch big beasts, for wild beasts like boars, "you don't mark anything, it's well hidden, if I'm not sharp, I'll load it." This is a default rule, when you set In case of dangerous traps, in order to prevent people from stepping on them, it is necessary to engrave obvious marks with a knife or something in a conspicuous place around them.Let passers-by know that you can't wade through here, it's dangerous!

Goudan found a stone, and pushed hard towards the center of the trap. With a "clang", the big clamp buried under the thin camouflaged soil suddenly closed, sandwiching the stone in the middle, and the sharp iron teeth bit together, and under the impact, more than half of the stone was directly crushed.

"It's really dangerous. If it's a human body, what's wrong with it." It takes two people to cooperate to open these clips, and you can see how amazing their bite force is.

In order to prevent the wild beast caught by the clip from running away without the clip, an iron chain is often attached to the clip, and one end of the chain is tied to a nearby big tree, so that the wild animal cannot escape with the clip.

In other words, the most ruthless is still human beings.

But because of this, if a person goes up the mountain and unfortunately steps on it, it is called a state of no response every day, because an injured person has no strength to open the clip alone, just move a little, and the meat will be caught. The iron teeth inside will mess up the tendons, who can stand it?The chain is tied to the big tree, making you delusional even if you want to climb down the mountain. You can only wait to be discovered by someone, or you will lose too much blood and die.

This kind of thing has happened before, so no one is allowed to play such a dangerous trap on the market. Even if you secretly find someone to play it, you must mark the danger mark when setting the trap.

This has long been agreed upon.

Goudan stepped on one side carefully, with a strong force, the teeth of the clamp separated, the stone fell out, and then let it close by itself with a "clang", pulled out a chain, took out the black ax from the baby, and the chain was chopped off broken.

Throw the whole thing together with the chain into your treasure, anyway, your treasure is full of such dangerous things.

"Restore it to its original state, so that they can't notice it for a while, thinking that no wild beast has passed by, and it's okay to not touch it."

"It may be the village on the north side of the mountain. There is no one in our village who knows how to hunt. Generally, they don't come into this mountain unless they need to collect wood."

"Don't care about him, what kind of hunter is an unruly hunter."

Goudan and Wang Xuan broke several such traps.

"I didn't expect these people to be so bold. Just one or two, or several."

"Let them bleed profusely this time."

Big iron clips are not cheap, good steel, and you have to find a master craftsman who will meet in private, the price is not affordable for everyone.Now that it is impossible to rape people, people have become more courageous, hunting wild animals and secretly selling them.

"Just here." Wang Xuan looked up at the sun above his head, starting in the morning, it's almost noon now.

This is considered a deep mountain, but not the hinterland of the mountain. What kind of dog doesn't want to go in there, so be careful.

"There are streams, and small animals come out to drink water, so there are also wild animals that target small animals for food, and they are not too dangerous. It's pretty good." Wang Xuan analyzed.

Goudan climbed up a big tree, and Wang Xuan shouted from below, "Be careful." He was worried that there were snakes or something dangerous on the tree.

"understood."

Goudan carefully cleaned the big tree, the branches were dense, and there were no poisonous insects or snakes.The purpose is to make a hut on it. This tree is tall and has branches, and the branches are thick. A row of wooden rafts can be made between two juxtaposed branches, and then straws can be spread on it to lie on it. caught.At a place about one meter higher, ropes are used to tie it into a roof-like shape, and straw is still laid, which is a small roof, which can be used even in rainy and scorching sun.

"Didn't you say you can't stay under a tree when it's raining?"

Goudan thought for a while, "It seems so, anyway, it can protect against the scorching sun. If someone can't get out of the mountain temporarily in the future, spending a night on the mountain is safer than sleeping on the ground."

"That's true, but if others live in it, you are willing."

"We don't live often. It's luck if we can come across this deep mountain and wild forest. There's nothing we can't let people live in. Besides, we can't see it. What's the layout below you?"

"almost."

In addition to setting simple traps under the tree to prevent real beasts from attacking, Wang Xuan also scattered medicinal powder around the big tree to ensure that poisonous insects and beasts would not like to come here.Each has its own method and ability, anyway, this is how we cooperate and do what we are good at.