Chapter 10 Harvesting Prey

Author: Xianfeng Yingxiu

Chapter 10 Harvesting Prey

The Junling Railway is not far from Gaojia Village, only about five miles away. When Gaomingcheng was meditating, people in the village who were interested in working as temporary workers on the railway started walking towards the Junling Railway.

When building railways, a group of temporary workers are often recruited locally. Most of these temporary workers do physical work, such as carrying stones, carrying sleepers, mixing cement, etc. Those regular workers will do some work with a certain technical content. At the end of the day,

The wages are more than temporary workers, and they are not as tiring as temporary workers.

On the railway, all kinds of materials are piled all over the ground, and hundreds of young men are waiting here, waiting for orders.

In addition to regular workers on the railway, these people are all from several nearby villages. Some of them are familiar to everyone, and some of them are strangers to them.

Among this group of people, there was a thin old man with a goatee and a new tunic suit. His temperament was completely different from the rough guys around him. He looked like a teacher.

So someone asked him: "You also come to work? Are you old? I'm afraid you can't carry the stone anymore, so you should go home to avoid being bent down by the stone."

"That's right! This bag of stones weighs at least a hundred kilograms!"

The people around him echoed, and everyone looked towards the old man.

The old man seemed a little embarrassed. He stared at the sleepers and gravel, as if he was wondering whether he could lift them.

Finally, he looked helpless and said: "Forget it, I'd better go."

After saying that, he bent down slightly and left here.

No one paid much attention to this little episode. At most, some people chatted with an acquaintance: "This guy is unfamiliar, and he doesn't look like the people in the nearby villages."

"Probably someone from further away." The acquaintance replied casually.

By this time, the old man had already left the railway construction site and followed the path down the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, two young men were waiting under the shade of a tree.

"Dad, how's the situation?" Seeing the old man coming down, a man immediately asked.

The old man did not speak in a hurry, but pulled off the beard on his mouth. It turned out that the goat's beard was not a real beard, but a sticker.

His back was straight, and after losing his beard, he looked much younger.

"I went to see it, and most of the young people in Gaojia Village are here."

After receiving this affirmation, both young men smiled with satisfaction.

They got the news that there was a Song Dynasty tomb in the mountains near Gaojia Village, but they had not found out which mountain it was specifically, because usually the village was full of familiar faces. Once a new face entered the village, it would cause a stir.

great attention.

For people like them, this is something they don't want to receive attention from.

Fortunately, they have ruled out some places, leaving only Niuweiling and Xiaoyuan Mountain as the most likely places.

It is said that during the Ming Dynasty, a Jinshi came from this area. This Jinshi also passed the Xiao Sanyuan exam. After his death, the mountain where he was buried was called Xiaoyuan Mountain by the locals.

Because of this legend, the father and son decided to explore Xiaoyuan Mountain first.

Xiaoyuan Mountain is located between Gaojia Village and Dongjia Village. However, when entering the mountain from Dongjia Village, the terrain is steep and difficult to walk. On the Gaojia Village side, the terrain is gentler. After climbing over a hill, you will reach Xiaoyuan Mountain.

At the end of August, the weather was hot and there was not much work in the fields. In addition, the men had all gone to Junling and there were not many people left in the village. The father and son avoided the villagers and quietly went to Xiaoyuan Mountain.

If Gao Mingcheng saw these three people, he would definitely be very familiar with them.

Because in his previous life, he had dealt with these three people, father and son.

However, at this time, Gao Mingcheng was checking the trap he set yesterday and did not meet these three people.

There are two types of traps arranged by Gao Mingcheng. One is to dig a hole in a suitable place and cover the hole with twigs and grass. If the prey passes by, it will step on the air and fall into the hole.

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There is also a slipknot made of vines, which is similar to a set made of steel wire, and both serve to trap prey.

Gao Mingcheng searched all the way and found that some traps had not been destroyed, indicating that no prey had passed by. Then some traps were destroyed, but there were no prey left, indicating that although the prey touched the traps, they escaped alertly.

Seeing this, he was not angry and continued to search.

Finally, he found movement in the grass!

There were large areas of trampled marks on the grass, and something seemed to be struggling in the deepest part.

Gao Mingcheng bent down and reached out to pull the grass away. After the lush grass was pulled away, something hidden inside was immediately revealed.

It was a gray-brown hare. Its body was tightly entangled with several vines. One of the vines was tied to a nearby tree. Therefore, although the hare struggled to escape, it never succeeded.

Finally, with a harvest, Gao Mingcheng couldn't hide his joy. He picked up the hare with a grin, and then started to tear off the vines wrapped around the hare.

After tying the hare's feet with pliable grass, Gao Mingcheng carried the hare and continued to walk forward. There was a trap arranged in front of him.

Perhaps the god of luck has come. At first, Gao Mingcheng had no harvest, but after finding the hare, he actually gained something in the last trap!

From a distance, he saw that the branches above the pit were damaged. Gao Mingcheng felt a sense of expectation in his heart. He walked forward quickly and saw that there was indeed a pheasant in the pit!

The pit is dug small and deep, so it is difficult for the pheasant to fly up after it sinks in. If the pit is dug wider, the pheasant can use its strength to fly up.

Gao Mingcheng didn't kill the pheasant, he just caught it. He held the pheasant in one hand and the hare in the other. He lowered his head and thought for a moment, and finally decided to sell them for money.

Eating meat is fun, but not having money in your pocket makes it uncomfortable. You can eat meat later, so it’s better to get some money first.

When the group of tomb robbers came, he had to take a bus to the county seat to find Uncle Gao Guobing.

If he really has no money, he can also borrow from Gao Zhuang, but it is best not to borrow.

On 1st, 4th, and 7th, there is an old market in Junling, and 2, 6, and 8 are the markets in the county town. Today is the 30th, so I haven’t caught up with any of the markets, but if I want to sell these prey, for

For Gao Mingcheng, it is not difficult.

He carried the prey and walked to a house in the village.

This family is considered to be the second generation in Gaojia Village, but the family is prosperous and their life is one of the best in the village.

Today, most of the men in the village went to work on the Junling Railway, but this family did not go. The husband and wife stayed at home.

There was no heavy work in the fields at this time of year. The man was lying on a wicker chair under the shade of a tree, listening to the radio leisurely, while his wife was making clothes next to him, and the sound of the sewing machine sounded from time to time.

"Uncle, I'm free!" Gao Mingcheng greeted with a smile after entering the door.

Hearing this, the male host immediately opened his eyes and saw it was Gao Mingcheng. A smile appeared on his face and he greeted cordially: "It's Mingcheng, come in and sit down! Feixia, give Mingcheng a bowl of tea!"

The male host is about forty years old, the same age as Gao Mingcheng's father, but his attitude towards Gao Mingcheng is even more enthusiastic than that of his own father.
Chapter completed!