12dz Chapter 302
Chapter 302
A wooden tablet stood high on the hillside, with a few large characters engraved on it: "Out hunting, no one is home, please come back later."
Behind the wooden stele is a dilapidated wooden house. The house is very small, with only about two rooms. The wooden door, which has been eroded by wind and rain, now looks a bit worn. The breeze penetrates into the room through the holes. Even if you don't go in, you can see the scenery inside from outside the door.
The evening light fell from the mountains. At the foot of the slope, a pretty girl with a ponytail came skipping towards the wooden house.
She was holding a cloth bag in her arms and humming a song, looking in a very good mood. After walking up the slope, the girl looked at the upright wooden tablet and her face suddenly fell.
She grumbled a little unhappily, "He hasn't come back yet, it's been so long."
The girl stood in front of the tombstone, the dusk light shining on her back, stretching her shadow extremely long. This was her third time coming here during this period. Normally, the owner of the cabin should have returned from hunting at this time.
The girl turned around in a slightly depressed mood, feeling a little frustrated at the thought of returning empty-handed again. When she was about to go back along the slope, a familiar voice came from the other direction.
The man shouted hoarsely, "Hey, Xiaohe, why are you here?"
"Come help! It's so heavy."
The man who shouted was tall and strong. His upper body was naked, revealing his taut muscles. His shirt was tied around his waist. He was half bent over, carrying a huge deer on his back. As he crossed the stream, he raised his head and shouted to the girl on the hillside.
The girl named Xiaohe's mouth twitched helplessly. She put down the cloth bag in her arms and trotted towards the man along the slope.
The girl came close to the man, lifted up her palms, and the huge deer flew into the air. The man carrying the deer was able to breathe a sigh of relief.
He straightened up, patted his waist, and sighed as he walked.
"That's great. I need you, Xiaohe. Otherwise, I would be exhausted to death."
The girl named Xiaohe rolled her eyes helplessly. She turned her head, looked at the giant deer the man was hunting, and nodded.
"What a great harvest! Such a big deer."
"Did you carry it all the way back by yourself?"
"Why don't you split it up and bring some back?"
Hearing this, the man chuckled and raised his arms to show off his muscles.
"Of course I carried it back myself. It's rare to see a deer this big."
"I might catch the leader of the deer in the forest."
"How can I only bring back a portion of such good stuff? It would be such a waste to let those wild beasts eat the rest!"
Looking at the man's boasting, Xiao He curled her lips and said, "Okay, okay, I know how powerful you are."
"You couldn't hold a weapon while carrying such a large deer. I don't know how you managed to walk back."
"Seeing it, even life is not so precious."
The man walked up the slope and pulled up the wooden tablet he had erected from the ground. He scratched his head and smiled without responding.
"Xiao He, please put it at the door. It's too big to fit in my room."
While greeting Xiaohe, the man walked to the door and pushed it gently. The old wooden door creaked open. The girl looking at the wooden door twitched her mouth.
"No, the door wasn't locked after all this time."
A moment later, a man walked out of the dim room with a machete. With his sturdy body and the white cloth covering his waist, he looked like a butcher.
Although he had seen it many times, the man's eyes lit up when he saw the giant deer again. He smiled and approached it with a machete.
The man squatted down, and the machete fell from the air. A dull sound was heard, and the huge deer was cut into pieces by the man's machete.
The busy man did not forget to say to Xiao He: "Xiao He, wait a minute, this is a bit big. After I finish cleaning, I will cut some meat for you and you can take it home and cook it yourself."
As he was speaking, the man's hand suddenly paused. He suddenly thought of why Xiaohe, who was far away on the other side of the town, came to him. He turned his head and looked at the girl with a puzzled look.
"By the way, Xiaohe, what are you doing here?"
Xiao He, who was left there, rolled her eyes speechlessly. She squatted down, picked up the cloth bag on the ground, and shook it in front of the man.
"Brother Yu, you're stupid. Didn't you go to my father a while ago to ask for herbs, saying you wanted to use them to make bait so you could go hunting in the mountains? I came here to give you this."
"Who knew you'd leave the next day? This is my third time here!"
After hearing Xiaohe's answer, the man suddenly understood.
He slapped his forehead and said, "That's what happened."
"Oh, I thought of this idea right away. I didn't expect that Uncle Kong could actually do it. It really opened my eyes."
Xiaohe looked at Yu with a twitching mouth. At this moment, she even wanted to hit him.
"So, I just said it casually, but my father took it seriously and made me run for three consecutive days to deliver the things."
Xiaohe clenched his fists and suppressed the anger in his heart.
She raised her hand, letting Yu see her clenched fist, and snorted angrily, "If you keep doing this kind of thing, I'll beat you up."
Looking at the girl's gestures, Yu laughed.
He pretended to be hit, turned sideways and covered his head, "Wrong, wrong! I won't dare to do it again!"
After figuring out the reason why Xiaohe came, Yu returned to the topic. He raised his hand and continued to disassemble the giant deer.
Twenty minutes later, with Yu's skillful hands, a huge deer was cut into countless pieces. After the work was completed, the man stood up, breathed a sigh of relief, then picked up the white cloth hanging around his waist and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"Phew~ It's finally over."
Looking at the masterpiece in front of him, the man nodded with satisfaction, "Great!"
Xiao He, who was squatting beside him, held her cheeks with her hands and looked at him boredly.
"Brother Yu, are you done? It's getting dark. If you don't go back now, you'll have to accompany me."
Yu was startled by the crisp sound and his whole body trembled as if he was frightened.
He turned his head and said in disbelief, "You're still here."
After waiting for twenty minutes, Xiaohe suddenly got angry. She approached Yu and kicked him on the butt in front of him.
She muttered in an unhappy tone, "What the hell, I've been waiting for you here."
"You're the one who made me wait, and now you're doing this again."
Yu, who was kicked, scratched his head in embarrassment. He was so focused on dissecting the meat that he forgot about time and the girl waiting behind him. Yu picked up a piece of white cloth that had been prepared long ago and picked out a few pieces of meat that were of particularly good quality from the pile of meat on the ground and wrapped them up.