Fisherman Fubao made his fortune by fishing

Li Yuer took off his cotton jacket and covered Shanzai'er with it. The injured were most afraid of low temperatures, so he hoped that the village chief and his men could come as soon as possible.

"Yu Baoer, use my cotton-padded jacket. I'm a boy, I'm not afraid of the cold."

Naonao took off his cotton coat and handed it to Li Yuer.

Li Yuer took it and covered Shanzai'er directly. Even with two cotton coats, they were not very warm in the open air in the twelfth lunar month.

Li Yuer explained: "The injured are most afraid of low temperatures. An extra coat is an extra layer of protection."

After a while, the village chief came with a group of people.

"Who beat my son?" The man walking in front was tall, almost two meters tall, with a full beard and spoke in a muffled voice.

From a distance, it really looks like a blind bear in the forests of Northeast China.

Naonao and Erdan were a little scared for a moment, but Li Yuer was not afraid. However, she would not confront such a person head-on.

She pulled Naonao and Erdan behind her and signaled them not to talk for the time being.

A group of people came hurriedly under the big willow tree and saw the mountain boy lying on the ground unconscious, covered with a cotton coat.

"Mountain boy, what's wrong with you? Which bastard did this? Stand up to me!"

When the hunter Ma Daqiang saw his son half-dead, he was as angry as a mad black bear. His fists as big as vinegar jars were clenched and made crackling sounds. His eyes were red and he glanced around coldly.

When he saw Li Yuer, he paused for a moment and quickly looked away.

In his eyes, Li Yuer was just a weakling who could never hit anyone.

"Hurry! Check what happened to the person?" said the village chief, pushing a young man beside him.

The young man felt a little uneasy, as the boy looked like he was dead.

He carefully felt the boy's breath, heaved a long sigh of relief, and shouted, "He's not dead! He's still breathing!"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Ma Daqiang was no longer so crazy in an instant. He walked clumsily to Shanzai'er and called his name softly, but Shanzai'er did not respond at all.

"Da Qiang, stop shouting. The person must be unconscious after losing so much blood. Let's find a way to save him quickly!" the village chief advised.

The village chief was in a state of anxiety along the way. His little granddaughter could not speak clearly and started crying when she saw him. When she said in bits and pieces that the mountain boy had been beaten to death, he was so shocked that he almost fell off his chair.

Since he took over Fushui Village, there hasn't been such a serious incident of beating someone to death for a long time. If someone really got beaten to death, Fushui Village's reputation would be ruined, the boys and girls in the village would not be able to get married, and the students would not be able to take the imperial examinations.

After receiving the letter, he immediately sent someone to inform Shanzai'er's father Ma Daqiang.

Ma Daqiang is a hunter with a burly build and a hot temper.

He married three wives in succession, and only the last one gave birth to a son for him. The first two wives died suddenly of illness without leaving a single word.

The village chief asked someone to notify the village elders while leading people to rescue them.

Seeing that Ma Daqiang was useless, the village chief had to personally command the villagers to rescue people.

"Quick! Put it on the door!"

"Be careful, don't fall, carry it back first."

A villager saw the cotton-padded jacket covering Shanzai's body and asked, "Whose cotton-padded jacket is this?"

Another villager saw that Shanzai's head was still bandaged with cloth, so he asked, "Who bandaged the wound?"

"Of course. We have to thank him afterwards. Look at the blood all over the floor. If someone hadn't bandaged him, he would have died long ago."

"I've never heard of anyone in our village who knows medical skills!"

Li Yuer stepped forward and said, "The cotton-padded jacket is mine. Use it to cover Shanzai first. My grandmother once said that injured people must not be left to freeze."

She didn't mention Nao Nao because she was afraid that Ma Daqiang would go crazy.

Some villagers thought Li Yuer looked unfamiliar and asked, "Whose child are you? Why have I never seen you before?"

"I came to Fushui Village to visit relatives. Cai Youwei is my uncle!"

The village chief looked at Li Yu'er curiously and had already guessed who she was. Now was not the time to talk, so he shouted to Nao Nao behind Li Yu'er: "What are you doing standing there? Where's your cotton coat? How come you are covered in dust?"

Halfway through his words, the village chief realized that his son's cotton coat was also on Shanzai'er, so he stopped talking.

"Go! Go quickly! Go home, I will come back to settle the score with you later!" The village chief glared at Nao Nao and had a bad feeling in his heart. Could this matter be related to his son?

After walking a few steps, the village chief remembered to ask someone to go to the town to invite a doctor.

Li Yuer said: "Erdan has gone to the Jishitang in town to ask for a doctor."

A villager said, "What's the point of Erdan going? He's just a kid, who would believe him? Besides, he has no money, and the doctor won't come."

"That's right, Daqiang, you should go to the town by yourself. Shanzi has a forehead injury, and it's a big deal, so we can't delay it!"

Ma Daqiang panicked when he heard this and immediately ran home, saying as he ran: "Please help me take care of Shan Cub. I will go home to get money and go to the town."

Ma Daqiang is over 30 years old and has only one child. If anything happens to him, his Ma family will be extinct.

Li Yuer spread his hands towards Naonao and said, "Let them do whatever they want. If they want to go, they can go. You can go home too."

After saying that, Li Yuer picked up the fire tongs and began to search along the watermarks on the snow.

"Yubaoer, what are you looking for?" Naonao asked.

"Looking for the escaped Iron General!"

Naonao was a little confused. It was already such a late hour and why was she still in the mood to look for Tiejiangjiang?

"Hey, Yu Baoer, you must be cold without your cotton-padded jacket. Why don't we go home first and go to the beach to catch the chicken drumsticks another day? Don't worry, I'll help you catch them. I don't want your chicken drumsticks."

Li Yu'er didn't take it seriously and picked out four or five crabs from a small hole under the roots of the willow tree.

"It's okay, I'll finish catching them in a while, you can go back first."

Naonao didn't leave. He watched Li Yuer catch the escaped crabs one by one and put them into the bucket.

"Yu Baoer, aren't you afraid?"

Li Yuer knew what he was talking about. "Is it useful to be afraid? Besides, we didn't beat him up, so we have a clear conscience! The one who beat him ran away, and we saved him. I even spent a few taels of silver to hire a doctor for him. Why should good people feel guilty for bad people who do evil things?"

When they come to Fushui Village to visit relatives, they are not afraid even if they are framed. At worst they can just leave and not settle down in Fushui Village in the future.

But her uncle's family is still in Fushui Village, and this matter is somewhat related to Naonao and Nannan, otherwise she would not care.

Having said that, having been educated in modern ideas, she really couldn't bear to watch a living being die in front of her eyes.

"This... you are right."

After thinking it through, Nao Nao felt much better.

He helped Li Yuer catch most of the escaped crabs.

Li Yuer grabbed the eel from one bucket and put it into his own bucket, then walked home carrying it.

Thinking of something, she stopped again and said, "Naonao, are you going to the town to sell seafood tomorrow?"

"I..." Nao Nao subconsciously wanted to say that he couldn't go. After what happened, he shouldn't go to the town. But thinking of what Li Yu'er said just now, Nao Nao changed his mind and said, "Go."

"Then come to my house at noon. My third uncle's brothers are going to town, and you can just follow their car."

"Well, thank you, Yu Baoer."

Li Yuer waved at him and left with the bucket.

Naonao returned the wood ash barrel to a nearby household. The situation was urgent just now, so he just knocked on the door of a nearby household and said that he wanted wood ash. The other party recognized him as the youngest son of the village chief and gave it to him.

After returning the wooden barrel, Naonao gathered the buckets of Erdan, Nannan, and Biaozi together, found a wooden stick from the roadside, and carried them on both ends as he walked home.

The villagers carried the mountain boy into Ma Daqiang's yard. The gate was wide open, but Ma Daqiang's wife did not come out.

The wife that Ma Daqiang married later was stronger than Ma Daqiang, and the two of them didn't have a wedding, they just lived together.

Back then, Lu He had been married to the Ma family for a long time, and the villagers didn’t know that Ma Daqiang had married a third wife.

Ma Daqiang's family lives at the foot of the mountain, and there are no neighbors nearby. Ma Daqiang said that the reason he lives at the foot of the mountain is to make it convenient for him to go into the mountains to hunt.

When the villagers found out that Ma Daqiang had remarried, his wife Luhe's belly was already five or six months pregnant.

Once, Ma Daqiang went into the mountains and didn't come back for ten days or half a month. There was really nothing to eat at home, so Lu He went out with her big belly to buy things from the villagers.

Only then did the villagers know that Ma Daqiang had married again.

Lu He is very beautiful, fair-skinned and has a good figure. You can tell at first glance that she is not a girl from the countryside who does farm work. But I don't know how such a girl could fall in love with a rough man like Ma Daqiang, and this is her third marriage.

Lu He rarely goes out, and most villagers have never seen her. They just know that there is such a person.

But today her son was in trouble and the villagers had all entered the yard. It would be unreasonable for Lu He not to come out.

"Mountain boy's mother, are you home?" a woman shouted into the house.

No one answered.

"Mountain cub's mother?"

The other woman raised her voice and shouted again, but still no one answered.

"What should we do? Where should we put the people?"

"Why not just carry it into the house?" a villager suggested.

"It's not a good idea to go in directly, right?" said a villager worriedly for fear of causing trouble.

They only came to help out of the village chief's favor, so as not to get themselves involved. They are not familiar with Ma Daqiang.

The village chief frowned and said, "Aunt Qiu'e, please go inside and take a look. It's not convenient for us men to go in."

Aunt Qiu E didn't think much about it and went in. After all, Shanzi had a head injury, and it was not a good idea for him to stay outside all the time.

"what!"

A scream with a changed tone was heard from the house, and Aunt Qiu'e crawled out of the house using her hands and feet.

He was so scared that his face turned pale and his mouth was swollen.