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Chapter 669: Lao Nian reveals the lie! Go into the mountains to find the little bastard!

After hearing Xu Ning's words, Li Feng felt extremely regretful. He recalled his own decision and became furious!
He gnashed his teeth and said with a hint of regret: "When I heard no more gunshots or tiger roars in the mountains, I thought the tigers had killed the two brothers. I was a little unsure and didn't think about turning back, but they are still my brothers-in-law after all. If I went home alone and my wife asked where the two brothers had gone, what would I say?"

"Then I walked back. If the two brothers were killed by the tiger, I could still help collect the bodies. Although they ran away without looking back, I couldn't just ignore them... I didn't expect that before I got close, I suddenly saw the tiger lying on the top of the mountain licking its fur, and then it pounced on me."

Li Fuqiang said to him with his back to him, "You are kindhearted. Why do you still care about them in this situation? It would be better if you go back to the village and ask them to accompany you into the mountains. Wouldn't it be safer than going alone?"

Guan Lei nodded: "That's not a big deal. They didn't even say goodbye to you when they ran away. Besides, if they really died, couldn't they collect the bodies at any time?"

Li Feng sighed heavily: "I didn't think much about it at the time."

Xu Ning held two bundles of branches, pointed at Wang Hu who was running in front of him, and said, "Just fix the sled here. Brother Feng, don't get angry. We can talk about it when we get home."

"I will definitely go find them when I get home! Damn it, I have to pull all the animals by myself these past two days, and I am pulling two pigs by myself! This guy has exhausted me and is treating me like a farmhand."

"Hahaha, Feng, I'm not making fun of you, I'm just listening to you chattering and making you laugh."

Li Fuqiang put him down, and when Li Feng sat on the snow, he turned around and said, "You know very well what kind of people the Chang brothers are, but you still can't get away with the small favors they gave you. Don't you deserve it? It's such a big mountain, you're lucky to meet us, otherwise what would you do?"

Li Feng was weak all over. He looked at the 10-centimeter-long wound on his calf that had been bandaged by Xu Ning. He said dejectedly, "He must be dead. I'm still a little scared. The tiger was less than a palm away from me at the time! I saw the blood on its fangs. It shouted at me twice, and the sound almost shattered my eardrums. Do you know what made me vomit the most?"

"What?"

"The smell in its mouth! Oh my god, it smells so fishy. It blew its breath at me and I almost vomited out the corn stubble I ate yesterday!"

"Hahaha……"

Li Feng has experienced many disasters. Last year, he encountered a big brown bear in Heishitang and almost lost his life. This year, he was almost eaten by a giant pig king when he went to visit a grave. Now, he encountered a big cat in Liushugou and almost lost his life.

After going through so many things, we can only say that he is very lucky, so he adjusted his mentality quite quickly and can even make jokes now.

At this time, Wang Hu rushed forward, saw Li Feng's miserable state, and exclaimed: "Oh my god, what happened to Brother Feng?"

Li Feng smiled helplessly and said, "I was almost killed by a tiger just now..."

Then, he reviewed the whole thing again. After Wang Hu understood the general situation, he cursed: "Second brother, these Chang brothers are really bad guys. They don't even care about their own brother-in-law!"

Xu Ning said, "They are not good people to begin with. Brother Feng is helping them because of their relationship. Otherwise, who in the whole village would be willing to care about them?"

Wang Hu nodded, then suddenly raised his head and asked, "Brother Feng! Have the two brothers returned to the village?"

"I don't know whether he is dead or ran away... Whatever happens, it would be better if he died in the mountains."

Wang Hu clapped his hands and said, "That won't do! Think about it yourself. If the two brothers were alive, they would have returned to the village first, right? Then everyone in the village would be shouting, and all they would say would be excuses..."

Xu Ning was making a sled just now and didn't think about it carefully. After hearing this, he turned around and said, "That's exactly what happened. They are very happy to confuse right and wrong. If they enter the village, they will say that they wanted to lure away the tiger and give you a chance to escape... Hey, Brother Feng, how many gunshots did you hear in the mountains?"

"I was so confused at the time, how could I remember it? Anyway, it rang several times."

Guan Lei said, "Brother, when the three of us were running on the road, I seemed to hear five gunshots."

Li Fuqiang said: "I only heard the tiger roaring and didn't notice the gunshot at all."

When the three of them were running towards Liushugou, they were running against the wind. The cold wind blew directly into their mouths, nostrils, eyes and eardrums. They didn't pay attention to how many gunshots were fired. They could only tell from which direction the gunshots came.

Wang Hu took the rope from him and continued to make the sled. He only heard Xu Ning say, "There are two possibilities. One is that the two brothers are dead. The other is that they are alive and have returned to the village. Let's assume the worst. If the two brothers return to the village, they will definitely shout to the whole village that they encountered a tiger in the mountains. Moreover, they fired guns, which means they encountered a tiger and must have injuries on their bodies, so what they say will be more believable."

Li Feng also understood what was going on and asked anxiously, "What should we do then?"

"What else can we do? Let's go back to the village!"

At this time, Guan Lei said, "Brother, the sled is ready."

"Help Brother Feng onto the sled..."

Li Feng smiled bitterly and said, "You really need to hold me up. I can't use any strength in my whole body right now."

"Can you use your strength after losing so much blood?"

After helping him onto the sled, Li Fuqiang stretched out his hand and said, "Huzi, give me the sack and the cloth bag."

Li Feng glanced at the outline of the sack and asked, "What's in the sack?"

"Old Leopard."

"What the hell? Old Leopard! What did you guys just do?"

Li Fuqiang laughed and said, "It wasn't shot, I just picked it up on the way. I don't expect it to be killed by a tiger..."

They walked north and chatted, recounting the story of tracking a bear and picking up a leopard.

Wang Hu and Guan Lei pulled the sled without much effort. After all, it was easy to pull a 200-pound wild boar, let alone a person weighing more than 100 pounds.

"If I hadn't been there, you would have chased the big cat, right?"

"must!"

Xu Ning said with a smile: "Even if I caught him, I wouldn't dare to fight him. But now if I see him, I can definitely fight him."

"..."

Li Feng pointed at two wild boars on the hillside ahead and said, "Just like the tiger we encountered here, after it pounced on us, the two brothers ran down the mountain."

"Go take a look down the mountain, and go home if you don't see anyone."

"Why are we still looking for them? If they are not dead yet, we still have to help them. Have you forgotten what happened in Shetanggou last time?"

Xu Ning waved his hand: "Let's not talk about the past. Even if I run into them this time, I can't help them."

Li Feng gnashed his teeth and said, "Then let them freeze to death! Damn it, you really think I don't know how to count!"

Arriving at the battlefield where the Chang brothers had fought the big cat, Xu Ning looked at the mess on the ground and dug out a bullet shell from the snow. He pointed in the direction of the footprints and said, "They really went north."

"Neither of them stopped." Li Feng also noticed them and shook his head and sighed.

When they walked three miles forward, Xu Ning pointed to the paused footprints and said, "These footprints are a bit messy, and they took two steps back. They must have heard the tiger roar again."

Li Feng was a little confused, and nodded: "I understand what they mean."

Xu Ning didn't say much when he saw this, he just said: "Hurry up, they are injured and can't walk fast."

"Okay, we have to get back to the village before them, otherwise they will definitely talk nonsense."

At this moment, at the foot of the west peak of Ximaduozi, four people were squatting next to an old Dongfeng car. They were Xu Laonian, Liu Daming, Wang Erli and Lao Jiang.

They looked worried and sad, with cigarette butts scattered all over the floor. Wang Erli stamped out the cigarette butt and said, "Why don't we just go into the mountains!"

Xu Laonian rubbed his face and looked up when he heard it, saying: "Going into the mountains will only cause trouble! Stop wasting time, I'm a father too, how can I not be anxious if you're anxious? Besides, isn't that little jerk known as Little Xu Pao, he shouldn't be in any trouble..."

Wang Erli argued, "Then the four of them have never killed a tiger!" "No, but we have seen it several times! Didn't the little bastard say that Wangxing saw three tigers, and Wanye saw another one? Have you ever seen a tiger? Don't make trouble. It's such a big mountain, can you find it if you go in?"

Lao Jiang nodded: "Big brother is right, this is the calmest way. Second brother, don't worry, maybe the big cat has already left."

Liu Daming said, "If you ask me, you should stop imagining things. We didn't see Erning and his men being injured by the tiger. Besides, they were hunting livestock in Laoniugou, and the tiger's roar came from Liushugou. The two places are quite far apart."

"That's not bad. Daming is right. Besides, Erning is a safe person when running in the mountains..."

Xu Laonian was immediately shocked when he heard this. He glared and said, "Steady? He's stable? What the hell! How could I not know his little tricks? From the beginning of spring to the beginning of autumn, he was busy building a house and getting married. He never had time to go hiking in the mountains. He was absent-minded during those days. He only came to his senses after he went into the mountains and killed a brown bear."

Xu Laonian snorted coldly: "Humph, how could I not understand him? If he hears a tiger roar, he will definitely rush towards the tiger!"

I have to say that sometimes Xu Laonian understands Xu Ning quite well, and what he said is basically consistent with what Xu Ning did.

"Oh, what should I do... I feel really scared. When I was in the mountains and heard the tiger roar, my head was buzzing."

"It's over, is your head still buzzing? At most, my heart is pounding..."

Liu Daming said with a smile: "Brother-in-law, second brother, you two are the same."

"Get lost! Who just pulled me and said my legs were weak?"

Liu Daming blushed and said, "Isn't that abnormal? Who wouldn't tremble when hearing a tiger roar?"

"Hey, do you think those two guys are the Chang brothers?"

Hearing this, four pairs of eyes looked up the hillside at the same time. They were more than 70 meters apart and could only see the outline through the branches. The branches were like a mosaic, tearing the naked eye's vision into squares.

Xu Laonian frowned and said, "Really...why didn't you look at Li Feng?"

"I don't know, big brother. Look at how red these two brothers are. They must have run into a tiger in the mountains."

"Oh my god, it's not good, half of my body is covered in blood!"

Lao Jiang shouted, "Are they the two brothers from the Chang family?"

On the hillside, the Chang brothers had already seen Lao Dongfeng and the four others at the foot of the mountain.

"What should we do? Xu Ning's father..."

"What else can I do? Just tell the truth."

The two brothers did not dare to respond loudly, because if they moved their lips, it would cause unbearable pain in their wounds.

When they reached the foot of the mountain and were only ten meters away from them, Xu Laonian and others also saw the miserable appearance of the two brothers.

"Oh my god, what happened?"

Chang Xifeng's face was swollen on one side. He didn't dare to move his lips. He squeezed out a sound from his throat and said, "I ran into a big cat in the mountains."

Liu Daming asked in surprise: "Did the big cat kill you two? Otherwise, how could you two come out alive?"

Chang Xifeng pulled the corner of his mouth, feeling a pain on his face like a needle prick, and said: "I shot it twice and scared it away, so we got out alive. Are you guys listening to the tiger's roar?"

Liu Daming shook his head: "No, we were listening near Heishitang, and then we hurried down the mountain. If we had run into a tiger in the mountains and caused you two to be in such a mess, what would we do..."

Xu Laonian pushed Liu Daming and said, "Can you chat? Get lost! You two encountered a tiger and were able to walk out of the mountain alive, which shows that you are lucky. Then why didn't Li Feng come out with you two? Didn't he run into the mountain with you two?"

Chang Beifeng glanced at Chang Xifeng, and heard him say: "At that time, the three of us ran into the big cat head-on. The two of us saw that Li Feng was so scared that he dared not move, so we went down the mountain, mainly to attract the big cat's attention, because we had guns in our hands, and Li Feng had nothing..."

Chang Xifeng continued, "It was just as we thought. As soon as we ran down the mountain, the big cat ran towards us, and then we had a fight with the big cat. After the big cat was scared away, we went back to look for Li Feng and found that he had walked deeper into the Willow Valley."

Chang Beifeng said, "But we are both covered in blood. Look at my brother's shoulder, which was bitten by a tiger, and look at my face and chest. If we don't go home, we will have to stay in the mountains. Li Feng is agile, so he should be fine."

Xu Laonian and the others frowned when they heard this. "Nothing wrong?" Are you two seeing that he is okay?

Lao Jiang was somewhat dissatisfied and said, "Why didn't you two chase after Li Feng's footprints? Li Feng doesn't go into the mountains often. What if he goes to the mountain?"

"We can hardly walk anymore, how can we chase him into the mountains? If Li Feng makes a big detour, he will run out of the mountain. If we don't treat our wounds in time, we will definitely pass out from excessive bleeding and freeze to death in the middle of the night..."

Xu Laonian asked, "Where did you encounter the big cat?"

"The third hill in the willow ditch shrub forest."

Wang Erli said, "Brother, shall we go into the mountains? Didn't you say that Erning would definitely run towards the tiger? Then maybe we can run into Erning and the others if we go into the mountains."

Xu Laonian frowned and muttered, "We didn't know which mountain the tiger was active on before, but now we know. We must go to meet it. These four kids are really a worry for us."

Lao Jiang nodded: "Let's go, it's a good opportunity to go into the mountains to look for Li Feng."

Liu Daming pointed at the two brothers and said, "You two are still brothers-in-law, but you didn't even bother to look for your brother-in-law when he got lost in the mountains?"

The Chang brothers were a little confused when they heard this. Shouldn't they say that? We both helped Li Feng lead the tiger away, so why are you blaming us?

Xu Laonian looked at the two of them and said, "You two should hurry home and pack up. I don't think you two will die."

Wang Erli smiled and said, "I'm sure he won't die. The stories we just told seemed like they were pre-planned. You and I were talking at the same time."

Xu Laonian waved his hand and led the way to the top of West Peak. Lao Jiang followed behind and said, "Brother, let's go directly to Liushugou?"

"Just go ahead, these two brothers are full of lies, how can they lie so well?"

Wang Erli said: "Isn't it normal for them to lie? What I fear most is that they will deceive us."

"You mean the low bushes in Willow Valley? No, that should be the truth."

"..."

At the foot of the mountain, the Chang brothers were a little dazed, and they looked at each other in confusion.

Why did the four of them easily expose their lies? How did they know they were lying?

Chang Xifeng said with a gloomy face: "I told you not to interrupt! Either I speak or you speak..."

"Didn't I see you stuttering?"

"Stop talking nonsense. You can't even lie clearly. You're fucked!"

"You're the one who's finished!"

Chang Xifeng pushed him away and said, "Stay away from me. We are really screwed this time. The Xu family has many relatives and friends in the village. If they spread the news that we left Li Feng behind, how can we show up in the village?"

"Then just don't show up. I'll just stay at home all day..."

(End of this chapter)