My 1995 Small Farm.

Chapter 484 Monokuma

After eating and drinking to our hearts' content, we spent the night on the mountain.

I fell asleep to the sound of the rain at night. In the morning, when the rain stopped, I slowly walked down the mountain along the boardwalk and admired the Xisha River below the cliff, where the water had swelled up after the rain.

It's also a nice kind of enjoyment.

Rui Rui had never seen such a spectacular sight before. He kept looking at it when he came up the mountain yesterday, and he kept looking down with his big, dark eyes all the way down today.

He was so engrossed in watching that he started shouting and drooling.

It wasn't until we reached the bottom of the mountain and encountered a group of people chasing away wild boars that we snapped out of our daze and were drawn to them.

Fortunately, the two wild boars have been subdued by nearby villagers.

Otherwise, it would be quite difficult to deal with Chen Ling and his group bringing along the baby.

The two wild boars were one big and one small.

They were all female wild boars.

I asked when I passed by, and they said they broke into someone's house during the heavy rain last night.

Nothing much happened all night.

The villagers discovered the stalker when they got up to cook breakfast, and they immediately called for help to drive it away, and shot and wounded it.

Chen Ling and his group glanced at it and then asked the villagers with great interest if they were selling it.

Meat from an old sow that has been raised for a long time is not tasty.

If I sell it cheaply, I'll take it back and feed it to the dogs.

Before they could even exchange two words, his brother-in-law pulled him away.

"Why did you buy that? It doesn't even taste good."

Wang Qingwen glanced at Chen Ling and continued to explain, "This year there are so many wild boars here, it's like a swarm of birds. If you want some, I can have Qingzhong find someone to hunt a couple for you. The price is very cheap."

"Oh? Are there a lot of wild boars around here this year?"

Chen Ling's expression shifted, thinking: 'Could it be that all the wild animals in the mountains have moved towards our area, causing a decrease in the number of natural predators of wild boars? Are they starting to overpopulate?'

"Yes, there have been a sudden increase this year."

Wang Qingwen nodded: "Back in your sister-in-law's hometown, they hunt wild boars every day during the three months of spring. In the villages around here, hunters used to catch and raise snakes, but this year they've all started catching pigs, and they've made quite a bit of money from it."

There's nothing we can do, there are just too many wild boars this year.

As summer arrives, people in the mountains eat less because they eat more.

Upon hearing his brother-in-law's words, Chen Ling became somewhat certain of his guess.

Wild animals are sensitive.

In addition, there is the natural tendency to seek advantage and avoid harm, and an innate strong desire to possess good things.

They instinctively migrate to places with better living environments.

This resulted in a large number of wild animals gathering in the area.

In other places, wild animals are nowhere to be seen, and the wild creatures in the mountains lack natural predators, so their populations will gradually grow.

This is especially evident in wild boars, which can reproduce in large litters, producing more than ten or twenty offspring at a time.

While other things in the mountains were still unknown and unseen by others.

In a very short period of time, the number of wild boars seemed to have increased dramatically.

However, the situation is quite the opposite near Wuyun Mountain in Chenwangzhuang.

Due to the gathering of various wild animals, the number of wild boars has decreased dramatically this year.

"By the way, brother, you mentioned wild boars... This year, the deer herds have also started to come out and about. Several villages have seen them, and they all say that our Deer Head Mountain finally lives up to its name. Before, we rarely saw a single deer. What kind of Deer Head Mountain is this?"

Wang Qingzhong said with a smile as he led the packhorse.

"Oh right, I heard that deer have been seen jumping around. In the spring, someone in Tianshui Village even caught an old deer and sold it at the market."

Wang Qingwen responded and said to Chen Ling, "I heard from my father that all sorts of things have been popping up in your mountain area these past two years, it's much more lively than here."

"Yes, last year they even brought big yellow muntjacs. They would make soft barking sounds like dogs, and the meat was pretty good. This year, they've brought mountain donkeys too."

Chen Ling chuckled, the little baby in his arms wearing a cartoon white hat and thick clothes, whimpering as he reached for the packhorse behind Wang Qingzhong.

"Good lad, now that we're off the plank road, he's begging to ride a horse."

Wang Qingzhong reached out and picked up his little nephew, placed him on the horse's back, and carefully supported him by holding the back of his clothes with one hand, slowly moving forward.

"Gee, gee, gee~"

Once the little one was on the horse, he didn't care about anything else. He grabbed the horse's mane with his little hands and started shaking his legs and shouting.

The key is that he often rides on Heiwa's back and runs around everywhere. He's so young, but he already knows how to use his strength skillfully.

He sat comfortably on the horse's back, looking quite respectable.

His two uncles were full of praise for him.

“In the past, a child like Rui Rui would definitely be the kind of child in operas who is both scholarly and martial.”

"That's right, our nephew is definitely a top-notch candidate for both the civil and military examinations."

And so, accompanied by the clatter of hooves, they hurried towards Fenglei Town.

After crossing the Xigou River and passing through several small villages under the plank road, Fenglei Town came into view.

But after arriving here, we hadn't gone very far.

Rui Rui's packhorse suddenly became restless and hesitated to go forward.

Wang Qingzhong instinctively pulled forward a little.

The packhorses simply stopped and remained motionless.

"Huh? What's going on? We're so close to town!"

Wang Qingzhong frowned, and at the same time stretched out his arm, quickly and steadily picked up Rui Rui and handed her to Chen Ling.

"Is there some wild creature nearby?"

"I didn't react this strongly when I encountered a wild boar earlier."

The Wang brothers looked around nervously.

Chen Ling, with his sharp eyes, had already spotted the problem.

Not far away, at the foot of the mountain, a lush patch of grass was gently swaying, right next to the steps of the bluestone path.

"Big brother, second brother, look over there!"

"Huh? What's that?" "It's not a wolf or something, is it?"

"not sure."

The three of them, suspicious, slowly approached the spot, stamping their feet and shouting as they went, trying to disturb what was in the grass.

Do this.

The results were surprisingly good.

The creature seemed rather timid; when threatened, it immediately scurried out of the grass.

Then a fat, clumsy figure with black and white stripes slowly climbed up the steps of the bluestone path, glanced in this direction with its two dark-circled, good-natured eyes, and then wiggled its chubby bottom and scurried away along the foot of the mountain.

"Good heavens, a giant panda!"

Chen Ling was stunned; he hadn't expected to encounter a national treasure here.

Wang Qingwen and his brother also exclaimed, "My goodness, it's a spotted bear!"

"No wonder the packhorses were too scared to go any further."

Upon hearing this, Chen Ling recalled the situation from earlier and asked with some confusion, "Uh, this panda has that much power? It can even scare a horse?"

"That's right. Don't just look at this thing. It looks clumsy and walks slowly. It's quite cute, but it's really strong. It's not much weaker than a regular bear. It's not an ordinary creature."

Wang Qingzhong solemnly warned.

“Dad isn’t here, otherwise I’d let him tell you about it. He’s encountered this spotted bear before when he was collecting herbs. Wolves and leopards don’t mess with it, and even the livestock in the mountains are afraid of it. Can you believe how fierce it is?”

Have you ever hurt anyone?

"I've never heard of it hurting people, just don't mess with it."

Upon hearing that it hadn't hurt anyone, Chen Ling realized that although the image of this giant panda in the deep mountains was quite different from what he had previously known, the fact that it hadn't hurt anyone meant that it must be relatively gentle and not aggressive towards people.

"Big brother, you know about pandas, right?"

"Yeah. I know."

Wang Qingwen knew what his brother-in-law meant by asking this question: "In the old days, we often encountered bears in the mountains. Later, we also encountered giant pandas. People started to confuse them with bears, considering them as a type of bear, just with a different color. They called them 'spotted bears'."

"Oh, I see."

Chen Ling nodded, indicating that he understood.

This must be a giant panda from the Qinling Mountains. Like bears, it doesn't often appear in public.

It was probably because of the heavy rain last night that it unexpectedly appeared in front of us.

……

However, they soon arrived at Fenglei Town.

They forgot all about the wild boars and giant pandas they encountered along the way.

Everyone is busy with their own things.

Wang Qingzhong was busy transporting the substandard clothing and fabrics up the mountain for resale, as well as making cultural T-shirts, commemorative backpacks, and other similar items.

Otherwise, it's not a solution to keep occupying empty classrooms at school.

In addition, Wang Qingwen and his wife were going home with Chen Ling.

They're on summer vacation and have nothing to do.

There's no need to worry too much about Wang Qingzhong for now.

Su Ligai thought she should go and help take care of Wang Susu first, and Wang Qingwen could also help Chen Ling with some household chores.

After descending the mountain, we first helped Wang Qingzhong load things onto the packhorses, and then waited for Su Ligai.

She is still taking care of the children on the mountain.

Otherwise, if Tongtong finds out they went to his uncle's house without him, he'll definitely throw a tantrum.

After all, their uncle's house is the place they long for most right now.

So Su Ligai had to wait until Wang Cunye took them all out to play before she could quietly go down the mountain.

When she arrived in town, Chen Ling and the others had just finished packing.

Then Wang Qingzhong went up the mountain, and Chen Ling, along with his brother-in-law and his wife, drove a tractor, winding its way out of the town, and began their journey home.

On the way home, someone was watching over Rui Rui in the back of the truck.

Chen Ling then sped up a bit.

We arrived at the village before 2 p.m.

Upon arriving in the village, I found it bustling with activity.

On the threshing floor, the rural postman who delivers newspapers is surrounded by people, holding a newspaper and reciting something with great emotion.

When the villagers saw Chen Ling driving his tractor over, they immediately called him to get off.

Some sharp-eyed people spotted Wang Qingwen, came over to offer him cigarettes, and chatted with him.

"Haha, Fugui, you should quickly show this to your brother-in-law. Our village is in the newspaper again."

"Oh? It's in the newspaper? What happened this time?"

"It's alright, it's great! It's a famous writer's article about our village that's been published in the newspaper. There are several of them! You're literate, come and take a look!"

A group of people pulled Chen Ling and made him read the newspaper.

The rural postman laughed and said, "Fugui is back! Come and see for yourself. It's not just in the newspapers you subscribe to, but in all the provincial and municipal newspapers. It's in every issue, and there are more than a dozen articles about it."

Upon hearing this, Chen Ling raised an eyebrow: "More than ten articles? Goodness, Uncle Zhao is even more capable than the donkey in the production team."

He immediately went to look through the newspaper.

Upon closer inspection, there were indeed more than a dozen pieces, mostly essays.

From "The Treasure of the Vinegar Jar" and "The Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals of the Reed Marsh," to "The Mountain Donkey Gives Birth in the Sky," "The Water Tower That Freezes in Summer," "Fun in the Wheat Field," and "Catching Cicada Monkeys," and more recently "No Pesticides Needed to Repel Insects—The Wisdom of the Mountain People"...

Zhao Yubao wrote about all sorts of things in articles of varying lengths, which were then published in newspapers of all types.

I have no idea when this old man, who always seems so irresponsible and only cares about having fun, started writing so many excellent articles.

Local anecdotes and folk customs are interwoven throughout, making it a captivating read.

It has both high quality and high output.

Chen Ling couldn't help but exclaim in admiration: "A great writer is indeed a great writer. This guy, when inspiration strikes, he's as prolific as a sow!"

(End of this chapter)