Farming and reading family

The pigs are downstairs and Peng Can is going to spend the night there. Gao E is worried that if there is a group of monkeys tonight, it will be harmful to Peng Can.

"Okay." Peng Can went to drive the pigs without saying a word.

Gao E looked around the yard. The wall could not stop the monkeys. She could only think that there would be a perpetrator for every grievance, and if the monkeys really came, they would not be able to find their home.

Afterwards, the Chen family moved all the things in the yard into the cave, even driving the two sheep into the cave.

If there was room left in the cave, Gao E would have stuffed both the horse and the pig into it.

Although all preparations had been made, the Chen family still felt uneasy, so they simply asked all the young and strong men in the family to keep watch at night and catch up on sleep tomorrow.

Chen Qing and the others sat around the fire and chatted while keeping watch.

"Peng Can, you asked me to catch monkeys before, luckily I didn't listen to you." Chen Jie complained.

"I thought they were catching monkeys for fun." Peng Can thought he almost did something bad.

"Then why are we catching monkeys?" Chen Qing felt that the hostility in that group of people was much greater than that of ordinary hunters.

"Have you heard of monkey brain?" Peng Can kept the question in suspense.

"You said someone who runs away has no brains." Chen Jie said unhappily.

"But do you know about eating monkey brains alive?" Peng Can said exaggeratedly, "They fix the monkey on a table with a hole in the middle, leaving only the head exposed, and then they open the skull in front of the diners..."

"Hiss..." Chen Jie felt a chill. "Isn't that monkey still alive?"

"Yes! It's still alive, with its white and tender monkey brain exposed, and then a spoonful of hot oil is poured on it..." Peng Can didn't say anything else.

Everyone fell silent.

They also eat monkeys, whatever they catch when they go hunting in the mountains.

But they won't kill like this.

"At that time, someone from Qinzhou City came to buy it and gave me four taels for each one." Peng Can gestured.

"So you said two or three taels?" Chen Jie remembered something like this.

"Then I have to make a profit from the difference. Besides, you delivered it to me, but the monkey died before the buyer came. I won't compensate you," Peng Can explained.

"Then you are too cruel..." Chen Jie and Peng Can started arguing.

The two of them were talking back and forth with no sign of stopping.

"These people..." Chen Qing didn't know what to say.

He knew the extravagance of rich people, but killing monkeys just for the sake of satisfying their appetite was too much.

All things have spirits, and this year's abnormal behavior of monkeys may be due to this reason.

Luo Dagang fiddled with the fire without saying a word. These things were not something they could control.

Gao E originally wanted to buy the monkeys and release them, but after thinking about it, she gave up.

It is precisely because of the trade that these people use all means to catch monkeys. If she really bought those monkeys, she would also become a member of the trade.

Those people will just find it profitable to catch more monkeys.

Now that monkeys are no longer protected, they have no right to stop these people from catching monkeys.

Time passed by bit by bit, and the coolness flowed like running water. Chen Jie and Peng Can lost interest in joking. Lu Hao's head was shaking, and he might fall asleep at any time.

Suddenly, the sound of a gong was heard outside, and several people woke up instantly.

Luo Dagang and Peng Can rushed out with their things.

"We have to protect our home." Chen Qing reminded hurriedly.

Everyone calmed down instantly and looked around the yard, alert for any monkeys coming in.

Outside, the sounds of people chasing away monkeys came one after another, as well as the screams of injured people, which were extremely shrill in the cold night.

Amidst this jumble of sounds, there were also voices coming from far away.

Pan Yifang and his group were excited at first, as they didn't expect monkeys to come to their door. However, as more and more monkeys came, they began to feel fear in their hearts.

In their eyes, they were just a group of beasts, but it was these beasts that caused them to be injured repeatedly.

The monkeys in the village seemed to have received instructions and left quickly. The villagers breathed a sigh of relief, but they did not dare to let their guard down.

The screams coming from afar became more and more shrill, but they had no intention of going to provide support.

"What a sin." Old man Feng murmured in a low voice.

He thought this was the revenge of the monkeys, and he didn't know how many monkeys these people had killed in the mountains. After all, catching a living monkey was much more difficult than beating it to death.

Pan Yifang and his men were forced to flee towards where the people of Baotou Village gathered. Fortunately, the monkeys did not catch up with them when they fled there.

When they ran to the cave, Zheng Fengan and the young and strong men in the village looked at Pan Yifang and the others vigilantly with farm tools and bamboo poles.

"Fellow villager, we were attacked by a group of monkeys. Please help us." Huang Xiaolou bowed.

"It's inconvenient." Zheng Yicheng refused directly. "This is all your fault for going into the mountains and catching live monkeys."

Pan Yifang looked at the villagers who had been cowardly and timid before, and suddenly he had the courage to confront them.

"Don't eat crucian carp in March, as they have thousands of fish in their belly. Don't shoot birds in spring, as their chicks are waiting in their nests for their mother to return." Zheng Fengan looked at the group of people. "You are catching live monkeys at this time, and you are destroying your family lineage."

Pan Yifang was about to mock Huang Xiaolou when he pulled him back, indicating that they needed these villagers now.

Zheng Fengan wasn't stupid, so how could he not see such an obvious move? "I advise you to leave quickly. Bandits won't gain anything from our village."

Seeing Zheng Fengan's determination, Pan Yifang and the others did not dare to continue speaking, but did not leave. Instead, they found a place to settle down.

It was not until dawn that Chen Qing went to the cave to check the situation and make sure that everyone in the village was fine.

"Today's disaster must have been caused by that group of people." Zheng Fengan guessed, "I think they haven't left yet."

Chen Qing's face was solemn: "Then I'll take a few people down to take a look."

Zheng Fengan nodded.

Chen Qing called Luo Dagang and took a few young and strong men from the village with him, and then they went down together.

Several people in Pan Yifang's group were scratched and now had high fevers, and there was nothing the group of men could do.

"Fellow countryman." Huang Xiaolou greeted Chen Qing hurriedly when he saw him.

Chen Qing looked at Huang Xiaolou indifferently.

"My last name is Huang Xiaolou. What's your name, big brother?" Huang Xiaolou tried to get closer.

"Just say what you want to say." Chen Qing didn't want to pay attention to him.

"Several of my brothers have a fever. Is there a doctor in the village?" Huang Xiaolou was anxious.

They were about to take the captured monkeys back home, as they earned more this trip than they had in the previous year. However, when they discovered there were more monkeys here, they chased after them. Who knew that those beasts went crazy?

"Does a midwife count?" Chen Qing asked directly.

Huang Xiaolou's face turned very ugly, and he immediately took out ten copper coins and said, "Brother, please help me and ask someone to go to the city to find a doctor."

Chen Qing glanced at the neatly arranged row of ten copper coins. Someone who didn't know would have mistaken them for ten taels of silver. "It's inconvenient. My second brother was attacked by a pack of monkeys when he came back from the city yesterday. Now no one in the village dares to go to the city."

Huang Xiaolou turned pale when he heard this and hurriedly took out some change: "Brother, please be kind and ask a few more people to go with us. They are just a few monkeys, it's okay."