Fisherman

"Finally able to have a full meal!"

At this time, the people in the cave gathered around the pot on the simple stove, watching the chestnuts rolling up and down inside, and couldn't help swallowing.

The village head was a little surprised: "You moved so fast, picked so many chestnuts, and peeled them?"

"Village chief, this is us..." The stunned young man wanted to say loudly that he snatched it from the next door, but Xue Yao grabbed his wrist privately, dragged it aside, and wiped it clean with the corner of his clothes. To the village chief, he explained: "The villagers gave it to us when we went to the cave next door."

"They went out to pick fruit yesterday, and they piled up a lot in the cave. If they couldn't finish eating, they shared some."

The village chief nodded when he heard the words: "Then don't keep taking theirs, go out and look for food after eating."

"Okay, okay." Xue Yao nodded and bowed in agreement, and the villagers who went to grab things all looked away in a timely manner.

Mrs. Zhou stood up and said haha: "Village Chief, let's eat together. If you eat, you can go out early to find something for dinner."

These words hit the heart, and the silent villagers immediately boiled up, took bowls and scooped food next to each other, and amidst the harmonious sound of waiting for food, a voice slid into everyone's ears in the opposite direction.

"Zhao Qian, why are you here?"

It was Cao Fang's old lady who said this, with a pair of peach blossom eyes that still had some charm, and a contemptuous tone, staring at the tall man standing against the light at the entrance of the cave.

Hearing this, Xue Yao, who couldn't wait to scoop up chestnuts with a spoon, gave a hand, and everyone turned their heads to look at Zhao Qian.

There was no fierce look on Zhao Qian's face, but there was absolutely no smile on his face. Even so, everyone always felt a chill down their backs, and felt that Zhao Qian had a gloomy aura today.

Xue Yao panicked in his heart, but he didn't do it alone. In front of everyone, what could Zhao Qian do to him? Even if he wanted to fight, so many villagers in the cave would help him. The loss is also Zhao Qian's loss.

"Zhao!" He was about to walk out with his chest upright, but Zhao Qian came over a few steps and grabbed his neck with one hand. He wanted to ask Zhao Qian what he was doing here, but he only uttered the word Zhao, and the rest was choked It was broken in the throat, and with a whimper, the bowl fell to the ground with a bang and broke into several pieces, and was carried out of the cave.

Zhao Qian threw the tumbling man like an eel to the ground.

Xue Yao breathed a sigh of relief, he touched his neck that he couldn't breathe with both hands, and cursed: "Zhao Qian, what the hell are you trying to do!"

Zhao Qian moved her nose, clenched her fists and greeted him directly in the face, making a dull muffled sound.

"How dare you!"

Another punch.

Then Xue Yao, who was lying on the ground, stared straight at Zhao Qian's ferocious beast-like eyes, and felt fear in his heart. He didn't dare to shout any more, but hugged his head instead, and kept dropping dense fists.

"Help, help! Zhao Qian is crazy!"

The villagers holding the bowls in their hands were stunned by the sudden change. Hearing his son's screams and the shocking sound of his fists hitting his flesh, old man Xue jumped up first and shouted: "You guys! What are you doing in a daze! Hurry up and help!"

The villagers responded again and again, rustling to go out to persuade the fight, but they were stopped by Zhao Qian's huff: "Whoever you step forward today, don't blame me for being rude!"

Zhao Qian, who was like a mad lion, really frightened everyone, no one dared to go up to catch that fist.

Seeing this, old man Xue cried and cursed: "You bunch of white-eyed wolves, my family Ayao didn't snatch the things by himself, why should my family Ayao be beaten alone!"

As he spoke, he rushed towards his son.

The village chief Wu opened his old eyes wide and asked the villagers beside him, "You guys are going to grab this? Didn't you say it was given to you?"

The villagers bowed their heads in guilty conscience when they were questioned.

"What a crime!" The village chief sighed sadly.

Old man Xue went to pull Zhao Qian who was stepping on Xue Yao, but he didn't pull away, but was kicked to the ground by Zhao Qian.Both of them are there, neither of them is a good thing, he keeps his word, and neither of them let go.

Seeing the two sons of the Xue family rolling on the ground, Xue Yao's face was red, and the village head quickly called out: "Zhao Qian, stop beating, I will let them return the things to you!"

Zhao Qian turned a deaf ear, stepped on Xue Yao who was on the ground, and said, "I have tolerated you for a long time, you think you are a bastard, don't you? You were still in the mother's womb when I was a bastard!"

He increased the strength on his feet, and kicked Xue Yao's thighs a few times, making his ankles rattle: "Shaoyu's legs and feet are inconvenient, so you can do it. You have good hands and feet and don't know where to use them." , what's the point of keeping it?"

Xue Yao let out a scream, and felt as if his feet had been trampled off for a moment.

At this time, Hu San'er came running with the people in the cave. Seeing the tragic scene, he couldn't help being shocked. Seeing the people on the ground rolling around with their heads in their arms, if they didn't stop, he was afraid that they would be killed. go up.

"Zhao Qian, that's enough! People will die!"

But Zhao Qian didn't move at all, Hu San'er hurriedly said again: "Brother Zhou will be worried about you if you are like this, he hurt his foot, and Lingling can't hold back if he wants to come to you."

Sure enough, after Zhou Geer was moved out, Zhao Qian stopped, and he reprimanded in a cold voice: "Everyone is a fellow countryman, save your dog's life, if you dare to touch Shaoyu's finger again, I will cut off your dog's head!"

Xue Yao breathed a few breaths as if he had been reborn, and he completely lost the previous brash appearance.

"Go and take all our things back." Zhao Qian shook off the blood on his hand, left a word, and turned to go to his cave.

Hu San'er heaved a sigh of relief, looked at the people on the ground without any sympathy, thought to himself that Zhao Qian had done a good job, and then, regardless of everyone's face, he led the people from the cave beside him to get their food.

The village chief shook his head and sighed.

Hu San'er said: "Village chief, don't say that we don't care about the feelings of the whole village. Everyone has hands and feet, and there are more people in your cave. The mountain is so big, where can't you pick some?" Wild fruit, if you work hard these two days, you won’t starve to death, but you want to go to our cave to grab it. We picked it in the heavy rain yesterday, and they took advantage of our men’s absence to grab it and beat Brother Zhou. Son, thank God Zhao Qian didn't beat Xue Yao to death today."

The village chief's face was ashen, and he had no words to refute.

"From now on, keep an eye on the people in the cave! Everyone can see Zhao Qian's fierceness. In the future, if anyone gets beaten for doing something, I won't come to try to persuade them!" Hu San'er glanced at Zhou Wang's intentionally or unintentionally. glance.

Zhou Wang felt a gust of cool wind blowing over her, couldn't help shivering, and quickly turned her head away. This was not the first time she had experienced Zhao Qian's ruthlessness.

After Hu San'er and the people in the cave left, the hungry stomach made everyone recover from Zhao Qian's intimidation. Cao Fang's mother, Cao Zhong, sighed long and hard. She couldn't help complaining: "Village chief, Hu San'er and the others are too bullying, they didn't leave anything behind, even the pot was taken away by us."

The village chief was furious: "You have the nerve to say that you are not ashamed to steal other people's things. Those who were beaten deserved to be beaten!"

Cao Zhong shrank his neck and muttered: "Our family doesn't steal anything from others."

The village head was full of anger, but he didn't know who to teach him. If he scolded the old man on the ground, he would be a little bit worse, so he could only be depressed, and stared at the man in the cave with hatred: " What are you still doing here! Go out and find something to eat."

As soon as the words fell, the weather outside became dark again at some point, and the pattering rain came again.

"It's raining!"

"Why don't you go find something to eat when it's raining? Do you drink boiled water at night?" The village head cursed angrily, and took the lead out of the cave.

When Zhao Qian went back, Brother Zhou struggled to go out, Hu Lingling wrinkled her face and pulled him, the two of them were pulling.

"Brother Zhao, you are back, brother Shaoyu is clamoring to go out."

Zhao Qian hurried over to help Brother Zhou, and smiled at Hu Lingling: "I'm sorry to trouble you."

Lingling saw that when Zhao Qian came out of the cave earlier, she seemed to be a different person, she froze for a moment, shook her head with a smile, and went aside wisely.

"It's okay." Zhao Qian said in Zhou Ge'er's hurried eyes.

He sat down with his arms around him, Brother Zhou heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the man came back safely, and asked worriedly, "What about our things?"

"I've asked Hu San'er and the others to bring it over, don't worry."

It's impossible for Brother Zhou not to be worried at all. When he went out, he looked scary. He had never seen such an expression before, so he couldn't help asking again: "Brother Zhao, are you really all right?"

"I said I'm fine." Zhao Qian's expression was calm, not at all like hitting someone just now.

Brother Zhou lowered his eyes: "Then the blood on your hand..."

Zhao Qian glanced at it suddenly, raised his hand, there was indeed a layer of dried blood on the joints, he said indifferently: "It's not mine."

"Xue Yao's?"

The worried look in Brother Zhou's eyes flashed past.

Zhao Qian didn't answer him directly, but looked straight into his eyes: "I said I would protect you, and I meant it."

Hearing such firm words, Brother Zhou felt a little sour for some reason. He nodded slightly, his nose sore: "I know Brother Zhao is serious."

No, you don't know, you don't know that I want to protect you because I like you, and you don't know that seeing you hurt, your habit of not caring about yourself will make my heart hurt.Looking at his appearance, Zhao Qian felt soft and bitter, and stroked his hair, feeling blocked.

But he couldn't say these words, so he laughed: "Don't worry, even if he didn't bully you, I will teach him a lesson. You don't have to blame yourself, Xue Yao is too arrogant."

Brother Zhou lowered his head and agreed.

Seeing this, Zhao Qian stood up: "I'll go out and wash my hands."

It was raining heavily outside, and he stood at the entrance of the cave, raising his hand to let the rain hit his hand, washing away the blood stains on his hand, maybe it was the reason why the rain splashed the dried blood, he smelled the smell of blood on his hand, and his heart I couldn't help but feel a little worried, and I don't know if this made Shao Yu afraid.

He turned his head to look at the person sitting on the ground, Brother Zhou also looked at him at the same time, he opened his mouth, and was about to say something when Hu Saner and the others came back.

He turned to Hu San'er and said, "You brought their pot too?"

Hu San'er jumped into the cave, shaking the rainwater off his body: "They boiled everything, so it would be better for them not to take the pot away."

"That's right." Zhao Qian turned around and said to everyone: "Since everyone has cooked it for us, let's just eat it and return the pot after eating."

The people in the cave cheered: "Good!"