Chapter Twelve The Jackal
Lin Junxuan just returned to the hotel and Li Yufan called:
"Jun Xuan, I just called. After a while, your aunt's grandson will come to pick you up. Where are you in Yushan now, I will tell him to pick you up."
Lin Junxuan told Li Yufan the name of the hotel, and the short call ended. In less than a few minutes, Li Ruoyao's phone ringing rang again.
"Hey, it's yours again!" Du Ruoyao looked at the number, not familiar with him, so she handed over the phone again. Lin Junxuan took the phone, listened for a while, then hung up after saying a few words.
As soon as the phone rang out, Lin Junxuan said to Du Ruoyao: "It's my aunt's grandson. He will drive to pick us up later. Let's pack his luggage. He will arrive in more than ten minutes."
"Ah! So fast!" Du Ruoyao said in surprise. The two of them arrived in Yushan in the morning and didn't stay in the hotel for long, and there was nothing to prepare. After about ten minutes, the two of them left the room, walked out of the hotel with their backpacks and carrying suitcases, and a silver-white van parked downstairs.
"Lin Junxuan?" A young man walked out of the van and said in confusion.
"Yeah!" Lin Junxuan nodded, and the young man immediately said in surprise: "Cousin!" On the phone, Lin Junxuan described his own dress. Such a long dress was rare in this county town, and the young man recognized it at a glance. This young man was the grandson of Lin Junxuan's aunt.
The two of them made a noise, then went straight to the topic. Put their luggage in the trunk, then got into the car and headed straight to Caoshui Village. Sitting in the car, Du Ruoyao asked questions all the way, and in a short while he took out the boy's foundation.
When Li Yufan called, the young man's parents were doing business in other places. They were almost halfway through Yushan for thirty days a month. When they received a call from Li Yufan, they were overjoyed. Knowing that the only son of the Lin couple came to Yushan, the couple simply sent their children over. After all, people of similar age can always talk more than those with age gaps.
Because the couple usually have few children and the boy's life is very casual, his father bought the car for him. When he received a call from his father, he heard that a distant cousin who was doing big business was coming, and it happened to be Saturday, so he came here.
More than ten minutes later, the van had already left the county town, the roads were getting more and more rugged, and the soil was flying behind the tires. Yushan is a hilly area, and the car spends most of the time relaxing on the mountain. The mountains and mountains are paddy fields.
Caoshui Village is deep in the mountains. More than two hours later, the boy pointed to a mountain in the distance and told the two that it was where my aunt lived. "At this time, just get off here. Go down, the car can enter, but it will be difficult to get out," the boy stopped the car and looked at a dilapidated house in front of the forest. He frowned. He could see that like other ordinary peers, he did not like the places where these ancestors lived. This generation of young people have been educated and have seen some worlds. The fathers are better, but as for the ancestors, they are synonymous with ignorance in their eyes. They disdain the legacy of their ancestors. The boy did not understand very much. Why did this cousin who lives in a big city and has a good life come to this backward place? It was just that he did not ask.
When she opened the car door, Miss Du walked out of the car and looked around slowly. Her eyes were wide open. She had always lived in Shenzhen market, and she had never seen such a place before. The various weeds growing on the hillside were different from Du Ruoyao's curiosity. Lin Junxuan almost fell in love with this place when he got out of the car. He took a deep breath and the fresh smell of plants and trees came from the air.
"There is grandma's home in front of me," the boy pointed ahead and said.
"Let's go," Lin Junxuan said as he looked ahead. It was quiet here, and everything around him made Lin Junxuan feel a strong sense of familiarity.
"Squeak!" Following the road down the road, at the turn, a row of yellow figures screamed and rushed forward from the front of the three. Du Ruoyao's eyes lit up and rushed over quickly, but the small figure rushed among the fir trees and disappeared without a trace.
"What kind of animal is that?" Du Ruoyao stopped a little unwillingly.
"That should be a weasel. Have you seen it before Ruochen?" Lin Junxuan asked.
"Ah!" Du Ruoyao's face changed. She had heard that weasels would fart. The little love in her heart disappeared without a trace.
The boy glanced at him in surprise, then nodded and said, "That's a weasel, who likes to steal chickens and eat them."
As he said that, Li Ruochen talked about a strange thing: "It's strange to say that although I live in the county town, it's something I have only moved there in recent years. My grandmother and I have lived here for more than ten years and have never seen weasels before. Not to mention here, I have never heard of this animal even in the nearby villages, but I suddenly came out of many of them. Last time I came back, I heard that Uncle Li's family found a nest of weasel cubs in the woods. In addition to weasels, there are also some small animals that I have never seen before. It's really strange, and I don't know where to get it!"
Lin Junxuan's heart moved and asked, "You've never seen it before?"
"Well," Li Ruochen nodded with certainty: "I heard from my grandma that there were many here in front of the *. In the past, there were many turtles in the paddy fields. When I harvested rice, I could catch many turtles every time. However, at that time, people in the mountains did not eat turtles. In addition to turtles, there were also deer and thorns, and by the way, jackals."
"Jackal?" Du Ruoyao was startled.
"Well," Li Ruochen seemed a little excited and gestured: "You don't know that the jackal is very interesting. My mother has seen a jackal. I heard from my mother that if a jackal pounces on her, she can be one person taller than a weasel. My mother said that in the past, people in the village raised chickens, but when they were raised, they carried them to the market to sell them. The jackal would smell it from several mountains and would come over immediately."
"The most interesting thing is that the jackal does not go to eat chicken when it is hungry. Sometimes when it is full, it will find a chance. It pounces on its body, bites the chicken to death, and takes it away directly with its mouth. If the jackal steals the chicken, there will naturally be someone chasing it. But in a blink of an eye, the chicken in the jackal's mouth disappears."
"Swallowed?" Du Ruoyao asked.
"Of course not. The jackal dug a hole with its claws, buried the chicken, then covered the soil and stepped on it. It was impossible to see the appearance. The chasing man saw that there was no chicken on the mouth of the jackal, and the jackal howled, could call the jackal several miles away, so he stopped chasing him. When the man left, after a while, the jackal was hungry, and then he pulled out the soil and dug out the chicken from the ground to eat. But humans were smarter than animals after all, and after more times, they could see the clues. When the village saw that the jackal was wandering, they would search the nearby soil and dig out the dead ones - the chickens were not long after they died, and people could still eat them."
"Haha, these guys are so smart!" Du Ruoyao said with a smile.
"But the jackals have disappeared now, but unfortunately I didn't see it," Li Ruochen said with a sigh.
In just a moment, the three of them had already arrived outside a dilapidated house at the bottom of the slope. Two old bamboo doors at the gate were open and the room was a little dark.
"Grandma, I'm back!" Li Ruochen shouted before entering the door. After a while, a squeak of the door shaft turning came from the inside, and a white-haired and kind-looking old man walked out of the room. Her face was full of traces of time, but she was very energetic. She also had the agility that the elderly of this age did not have during her walking.
"Ruochen is back?" The old man looked at his grandson with a smile. Li Ruochen strode forward, hugged his grandmother with a smile, then turned his head and pointed behind him, "Grandma, guess who is coming to see you!"
The old man actually saw Lin Junxuan and Du Ruoyao as soon as he walked out of the house. Her eyes fell on Lin Junxuan from the beginning, and a look of confusion appeared on her face.
"You are..., are you Xinyu's child?" the old man said with some uncertainty.
"Yes, I am Junxuan, good aunt," Lin Junxuan's mother is Li Xinyu.
"Haha, good boy," the old man walked forward happily, touched Lin Junxuan's head, gestured, and smiled: "You were so old when you came here before, but now you have grown so big... Who is this little girl? Is it your girlfriend?"
"Hello, aunt!" Du Ruoyao, who was beside her, also shouted obediently.
"Ah, okay, all are fine... Jun Xuan is your girlfriend, right? She is quite handsome." The old man smiled.
"No, this is my friend!" Lin Junxuan said.
Du Ruoyao's face turned red, but she didn't deny it. The old man on the side just looked at it and smiled.
"Come in and sit."
Chapter completed!