After handling the three wild geese, Wang Manyin saw that it was getting late and was ready to wash up and go to bed.

There was no way, now was no better than in later generations, there was no entertainment at night... As for the books he bought for Lanhua, he couldn't read them at all.

After experiencing the storm of online novels in later generations, Wang Manyin always felt that the novels of this era did not meet his reading habits.

In addition, reading in front of a kerosene lamp at night is not as comfortable as lying on the kang with my mother-in-law in my arms.

In this era, there are many broken-down children in various houses. One of the important reasons is that there are no entertainment activities at night. Apart from sleeping, I really don’t know what else to do.

Before Wang Manyin put his feet in the basin, he heard the village dog barking.

Following that, Dahuang barked endlessly.

"Man Yin, go and have a look. Isn't there another wolf attack?" Lanhua shouted quickly.

Since two wolves broke out in the village, she is now much more vigilant.

When spring leaves fail, not only do people have nothing to eat, but there is also a lack of food in the mountains. It is the time when wild wolves come down from the mountains.

Wang Manyin put on his shoes and walked out of the cave in a panic. He saw many people's lights on in the direction of the village, and vaguely heard noisy discussions.

Across the ditch, Wang Qiusheng also stood by the side of the field and looked around.

"Brother Qiu Sheng, can you hear what is being shouted?" Wang Manyin shouted at the top of his lungs.

"I can't hear you clearly, it seems I'm looking for Uncle Fu Chang Jia Junxiang!"

Wang Junxiang is the eldest son of Wang Fu's family and is of the same generation as Wang Manyin. He is in his twenties and already has two children at home.

"What's wrong with Brother Junxiang? Let's go and take a look." Wang Manyin told Lanhua and walked towards the village with Wang Qiusheng.

Not far away, I met a man rushing towards me with a kerosene lamp. It was Junxiang's second father, Wang Shouchang.

"Uncle Shouchang, what's wrong? Junxiang can't be found?" Wang Qiusheng asked.

"Forget it, this coward didn't have much firewood at home, so he didn't go to the production team to earn work points in the afternoon, so he went to the mountains to collect firewood. He hasn't come back yet." Wang Shouchang explained, and then asked anxiously: "You don't either

See someone?”

The two shook their heads repeatedly.

Wang Manyin said in confusion: "His mother-in-law didn't see anyone at dinner tonight, why didn't she look for him?"

"Didn't our team share wild goose meat tonight? Several families got together to fight for the tie. Her mother-in-law thought that Junxiang was just following him and stuttered, so she didn't care. Seeing that the man didn't come home in the middle of the night, she started to panic.

Come out and look for it.”

"When we were dividing the meat, I didn't seem to see Junxiang." Wang Manyin recalled it carefully and answered hesitantly.

There were too many people at the time and the scene was noisy, so he was not sure.

"Where do you think this coward would go at night?" Wang Shouchang said worriedly. He had just asked more than a dozen households, but they all said they didn't see anyone.

While they were talking, they saw Wang Fuchang and others rushing over.

"Brother, what's going on? Have you found anyone?"

"Second dad, after we asked the people in the first and second teams, they all said that Junxiang hasn't been seen since the afternoon... He won't be collecting firewood in the mountains and something will happen, right?" Wang Junxiang's mother-in-law screamed when she mentioned her man.

Start crying.

Hearing this, several people's expressions changed.

If there is no one in the village, there is a high probability of encountering an accident in the mountains.

The firewood in the nearby mountains has long been cut down, so we can only collect firewood from the cliffs in the mountains farther away.

In these places, good firewood that is resistant to burning often grows. Therefore, many people break their legs while collecting firewood every year. Last time, if Wang Manyin had not caught the roots of the wild jujube tree in time, he would have probably fallen half to death.

What's more, there are wolves in the mountains.

"Stop crying, it's important to find someone, what's the point of crying now,"

Wang Fuchangdao is a decisive person. Although he is very anxious, he does not mess up the plan: "There are two children at home. You go back and greet them first. I will go to the captain, and Shouchang will go to Yanqiang. Let's have a few more people in the second team.

Go into the mountains and help find..."

"My dog ​​can also come in handy." Wang Manyin hurriedly interjected.

"Yes, yes, Man Yin, bring your rhubarb with you." Wang Shouchang nodded repeatedly.

Last time I tracked wild wolves on a snowy night, the rhubarb left a deep impression on the villagers.

There was another round of dogs barking and people shouting, and soon many people in the village were called over.

Wang Fuchang's family, Ding Wang, has three sons in total. The eldest, Wang Junxiang, and the second and third are twins, named Junhai and Junchuan.

His cave dwelling is also the largest in Guan Village, with a total of five holes.

During the dividend payment at the end of last year, Wang Fuchang contacted two half-year-old boys and shared more than 100 yuan, which made the villagers jealous.

As for the eldest son Wang Junxiang, after getting married, the family was nominally separated, but in reality he still lived with his parents.

When Wang Manyin arrived with Dahuang, Wang Junxiang's mother-in-law immediately took out a piece of tattered clothes.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the guy smelled it, looked around in the courtyard, and quickly ran straight out of the courtyard.

"Follow..." Wang Yanqiang immediately commanded.

More than twenty people carrying angry lanterns and shovels followed one after another.

Rhubarb kept sniffing on the dirt road, and soon entered the dirt road behind the village.

"Junxiang really went to the back mountain..." Someone whispered, but did not dare to say any unlucky words.

Unexpectedly, Dahuang led everyone in a circle around the back mountain, and then ran along the dirt road towards the front of the village.

"Man Yin, you are not looking in the wrong direction, are you?" Wang Yanqiang felt more and more uncomfortable as he walked and couldn't help but ask questions.

This dirt road leads directly to Shigejie Commune. How could one go here to cut firewood?

"I don't know either," Wang Manyin was also a little confused.

Logically speaking, Wang Junxiang will indeed not go in this direction.

But the home-made rhubarb didn't seem to have lost its smell. It hardly stopped along the way and seemed to have a clear purpose.

"How about this? How about you take a few people and follow them to the south, and I will lead the rest of the people to shout in the mountains?" Wang Yanqiang thought for a while and asked.

"That's okay," Wang Manyin didn't dare to insist.

In this way, he took Wang Shouchang, Wang Qiusheng and Wang Shuhai and followed Dahuang forward.

Just as the four people guessed, Dahuang Rao did not stop at the entrance of the village at all and continued running towards the Shige Festival.

After walking another four or five miles, Wang Shouchang couldn't help asking again: "Man Yin, why do I feel that Dahuang is unreliable this time? Even if Junxiang gets lost, he can't run to Shige Festival, right? How about we go back and let Dahuang go again?"

Smell it."

They have now arrived at the boundary of Shigejie Village. If they walk a few miles, they can go directly to the commune to go to the market. No matter how stupid Wang Junxiang is, there is no way he can go to the commune to collect firewood.

"We've all come this far, let's look forward!"

In fact, Wang Manyin is also worried about Jigu, but now everyone has no goal, so they can only place their hopes on Dahuang for the time being.

"That's okay," Wang Shouchang nodded helplessly.

As a result, as soon as they climbed over a high slope, Rhubarb barked a few times, as if he had been stimulated by something, and rushed towards the darkness like crazy.

"Ah... Wori, your ancestors, where did this wild dog come from? Get out of here!!" Then, a panicked voice was heard from the darkness.

"Junxiang, it's Junxiang's voice." Wang Shouchang shouted excitedly, and then shouted at the top of his voice: "Is it Junxiang? I am your second father."

"Second dad, why are you here?"

Wang Manyin rushed forward and shouted: "Dahuang, come back!"

When several people approached, they saw Wang Junxiang holding a wooden stick in his hand and a hatchet in his waist.

"What the hell is going on with you, a coward? You really went to the Stone Ge Festival to chop wood..." When Wang Shouchang saw his nephew, he immediately scolded him.

"I...I...thought I was bored collecting firewood, so I went for a walk around the commune." Wang Junxiang replied with a guilty conscience.

"What's going on? Honestly, don't fool me. You went to the commune and didn't come back until now? Half the village came out to look for you." Wang Shouchang naturally didn't believe the other party's lies.

"What, why are you making such a big fuss?" Wang Junxiang was startled.

Under the coercion of his second father, he hesitantly said: "I was just... bored. I went to Shigejie Village to play with some magic tricks. I accidentally forgot the time and I just came back now!"

"You coward, you are getting more and more courageous, and you dare to gamble!" Wang Shouchang didn't say anything, and slapped him across the face.

The so-called "knocking off Mingbao" is a way of gambling here on the Loess Plateau. Mingbao consists of a treasure shell and a treasure heart. The treasure shell is usually made of wood and is shaped like a square small bowl, which in turn holds the treasure heart.

The gameplay is not complicated, and is very similar to the dice shakers of later generations. Someone acts as the dealer and is responsible for the treasures, and the bettors press the money according to their own judgment.

After the bet is placed, the bettor is asked to uncover the treasure shell, and the winning or losing is calculated based on the different positions of the bet.
Chapter completed!