At dusk, smoke rises from the villages under the green mountains.
In front of the village, a group of half-grown children stood guard here, constantly looking forward.
They were waiting for the return of the elders from the village who went hunting in the mountains.
"Back, Abba and the others are back!"
When the sun was about to set over the mountain, a hunting team finally appeared in the distance.
There are dozens of people in this group, all of them are wearing animal skins, their thick arms are full of strength, everyone is returning with prey on their shoulders, and no one is empty-handed.
With a whoop, the children rushed forward with cheers to greet the elders in their families.
“I’ve killed so many prey again, I’ll have enough to eat for a while!”
The white-haired old village chief looked at the prey carried back by these men and smiled from ear to ear.
Hunting is dangerous, but if there is enough food, you don't have to go into the mountains frequently, which is a good thing for the whole village.
"Haha, ever since Ah-Dai came to our village, he has come back with a full harvest every time he goes hunting."
"Yes, although this kid is stupid, I don't know what he grew up on. He looks as thin as a chicken, but with such brute strength, no matter how big the beast in the mountain is, he will be able to walk around him!"
A group of men laughed, and everyone's eyes fell on the Dumb they were talking about.
He was a young man in his early twenties. Standing among these strong men, he seemed a little out of place. He did not have the muscles of those men, and he was not taller than them. However, every time he hunted, the total number of people was
Can't compare to him.
Seeing everyone looking at him, the young man scratched his head and looked a little dazed.
"Brother Dumb, did you hunt all these prey?"
"Brother Dumb, you are so awesome, can you teach me?"
When a group of children heard this, their faces were filled with admiration. They immediately left their elders and all gathered around the young man.
"These bastards!" the men laughed and scolded, and then amidst the bursts of noise, each took their prey and their children and went home.
"Ah-Dai, are you okay?" The old village chief stepped forward and looked up and down to see if Ah-Dai was injured.
"Village Chief, I'm fine." Ah-Dai shook his head.
"It's okay, let's go home!" The old village chief felt relieved, smiled again, and led the young man home.
The two walked back slowly, and people in the village greeted them warmly when they saw them.
One of these two people is the head of the village, and the young man, Dumb, has helped the village hunt a lot of prey in the past few years, and the villagers respect him no less than the village head.
Back at the old village chief's house, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl was making a fire to cook. When she saw her grandfather and Ah-Dai returning, she smiled and said, "Grandpa, Brother Ah-Dai, please sit down for a while. Dinner will be ready soon."
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She is the granddaughter of the old village chief, and her name is Jiang Li.
"Village Chief, let me take a rest first." Dui put the giant tiger weighing over a thousand kilograms on his shoulders in front of the door and smiled at Jiang Li again.
Then, he walked to a stone in front of the house and sat down, holding his chin, looking at the setting sun, motionless, as if he had turned into a piece of wood.
"Brother Dumb is in a daze again!" The girl Jiang Li covered her mouth and smiled. It was because he often stared at the sun in the sky in a daze that the villagers named him Dumb.
"He has been in our village for three years. He stares at the sun every day. Let him go." The old village chief was already used to this. He shook his head and smiled and ignored him.
Dumb sat on the stone and stared blankly at the sun in the sky.
He felt that the sun in the sky seemed very familiar.
Although people in the world can see the sun every day, he has a more wonderful feeling, as if the sun has a unique connection with him.
So he often looked at the sun in a daze, trying to remember the past through this familiar feeling.
It has been three years since he came to this village.
The old village chief said that three years ago, a flash flood washed him down the mountain. He was unconscious at the time, and it was the old village chief who took him home.
And when he woke up, he didn't remember anything.
He couldn't remember who he was, where he came from, or why he was on the mountain or why he was washed here by a flash flood.
He has even forgotten his own name.
People in the village saw that he often sat in a daze, and because he couldn't remember anything, he inevitably looked a little stupid on weekdays, so they just called him Dumb.
But although he was dumb, he still possessed brute strength. After waking up, he often went hunting in the mountains with the men in the village.
Every time he hunts, he can catch the most prey.
In the past, when men in the village went into the mountains, most of the time they could not gain anything, and sometimes they would return injured.
But since he arrived, every time he went into the mountains, he caught enough prey to be shared equally by the whole village, and no man in the village was injured.
Because of this, the villagers all loved him very much.
But three years later, he still can't remember anything from the past, so to this day, he still stares at the sun in a daze every day.
Only at this time could that familiar feeling make him feel that he had a past.
"Are you in a daze again?"
A big man came to the door, he was the captain of the village hunting team. Seeing that the young man was in a daze again, he just smiled and went straight to find the village chief without disturbing him.
"Da Shan, what's wrong?" The old village chief asked him to sit down in the house and asked why he came.
"Village Chief, we discovered something when we entered the mountain this time." After Dashan sat down, his face became a little solemn and he said, "Village Chief, have you seen the fierce tiger that Dumb brought back?"
"What happened to that fierce tiger?" the village chief frowned.
Dashan said: "Although that fierce tiger was killed by Ah-Dai, when we found it, it already had injuries on its body, and judging from the wounds, it didn't look like it was caused by fighting with other ferocious beasts, but rather man-made."
"You mean..." The village chief's expression changed slightly.
Dashan nodded and said: "Our Muyun Village is surrounded by hundreds of thousands of mountains. For many years, few people have come here. Now we find human traces, and they can hurt fierce tigers, not ordinary people. I am worried that if they find the village, it may be in danger."
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The old village chief pondered for a moment and said: "We still don't know who those people are, and they may not have any malicious intentions, so there is no need to worry too much. Don't tell others about this for the time being, so as not to scare them."
Dashan nodded when he heard this, then stopped staying, said hello and left.
"Brother Dumb, it's time to eat!"
After the girl Jiang Li finished cooking, she saw that the sun had set, but the young man was still in a daze, so she had to go out and call.
"Okay." Seeing that the sun had disappeared, Dumb jumped off the stone and returned to the house.
On the dinner table, the aroma is overflowing, and the cooking skills of the girl Ali are very extraordinary.
She served the young man a bowl of pheasant stew, and tore off a chicken leg and put it in the young man's bowl. She said with a smile: "Brother Dumb, you are tired from hunting, I will give you the chicken leg."
"Thank you Ali." The young man smiled happily.
"Girl, what about me?" The old village chief glared deliberately and said, "You have never put chicken legs for grandpa when you are so old. Dumb has only been in our house for three years, and you are better to him than grandpa!"
Jiang Li blinked her eyes, innocently and playfully, and also gave the old village chief a bowl of soup, and also put a piece of it into the old village chief's bowl, and said playfully: "Grandpa, you are old and have bad teeth, this is fine.
Bones, you eat this!"
The old village chief looked into the bowl and his face darkened, but he saw that the piece of meat had no bones, because it was a chicken butt.