PFC Chapter 174 Frightened
Chapter 174 Frightened
"thump."
"thump."
The two noises startled everyone.
Li Lanzhen felt nervous, fearing that the two children had returned.
She ran a few quick steps and came to the bottom of the mountain wall leading to the small platform above.
Xue Bao and Zhang Songshu were seen lying on the ground with their arms and legs spread out, grimacing and crying in pain.
Both men were covered in blood, and no one knew where they were injured.
Mrs. Wu quickly ran over to check on the two men's injuries.
Tell everyone after the inspection.
"It's nothing serious. It's just bruises and scrapes. Probably caused when you fell."
Li Lanzhen brought two bowls of spiritual spring water and handed them to Li Sanya who was holding Zhang Songshu, and Xue Nizi who was holding Xue Bao.
"Come and give them both this bowl of water."
After drinking more than half a bowl of water, both of them felt better and stopped crying out in pain.
After seeing everyone, they turned over and sat up.
Xue Bao wanted to tell Li Lanzhen something.
Li Lanzhen waved her hand to stop them from talking.
"Let's not talk about it for now. Let's eat first."
Li Sanya and Xue Nizi brought the bowls of rice and handed them to them.
Xue Bao took the bowl of hot meat and vegetable soup handed to him by his sister.
He took a sip of hot soup, calmed down, and said to Li Lanzhen.
"Aunt Lanzhen, we can't get into that cave for a while!"
Li Lanzhen frowned and asked him.
"Why? What happened?"
The reason why Li Lanzhen asked this was because she felt that there must be someone in that cave stopping them.
Maybe there was some ferocious beast? Or maybe the cave collapsed, blocking the entrance to the canyon.
"Aunt Lanzhen, there is actually a big snake guarding the entrance of the cave!
The strange thing was that the snake didn't bite us. It just used its big tail to wrap us up and threw us over. If we tried to rush over, it would wrap its tail up again and throw us over.
So the injuries on our bodies were caused by it throwing us against the cliffs and scratching us."
Zhang Songshu drank half a bowl of broth in big gulps and added.
"Aunt Lanzhen, that snake was very strange. The two of us used shovels and sticks to hit it, but we couldn't hit it once.
So they struck it, but it did not hurt us, nor did it bite us with its fangs.
It just used its tail to wrap up the two of us and kept throwing us against the cliff and out of the cave.
We were dizzy and covered in blood.”
Xue Lao Hu asked.
“There should be some rare treasures near that cave.
This snake should be a guard. You are lucky today. I don’t know why the big snake didn’t eat you.”
Li Lanzhen asked Xue Bao and the other person again.
"Didn't you notice anything strange at the time?"
Xue Bao said, "The two of us dug the cave higher and bigger from left to right and up to down.
Just as we were digging the north wall.
As soon as Brother Songshu dug the hole with his hoe, a big hole appeared on the northern wall.
Then, we smelled a refreshing fragrance, which should be medicinal herbs. My mother often picked herbs in the mountains, and that was the smell of medicine.
The two of us were about to go in to take a look, and then a huge snake head popped out from inside.
We were both startled and quickly stepped back, readying our weapons.
The snake swam out of the hole slowly and calmly. It didn't attack us and we didn't dare to move. The stalemate lasted for a while.
We thought we had to destroy it, otherwise it would be a hidden danger if it stayed in this cave!
We have to leave the mountain eventually, or it will run into the canyon and bite the elderly and children, which will be very troublesome."
The two of them gulped down a few big mouthfuls of the broth and continued talking.
"Brother Songshu and I attacked it from the front and back, trying to kill it.
Unexpectedly, I couldn't even hit the snake with a stick.
Instead, it used its tail to roll us both up and threw us hard against the cliff again and again.
The sharp rocks on the mountain wall scratched both of us all over.
We saw that it didn't seem to want to eat us, so we surrounded it and attacked it, but we never managed to kill it.
Finally it forced the two of us out of the cave, chased us, and we both fell off the mountain.”
Everyone understood as soon as they heard it, this big snake must be in charge of the medicinal herbs.
In that case, the herb must be very valuable.
Li Lanzhen immediately thought of precious medicinal herbs such as ginseng and ganoderma lucidum.
She thought about it and decided that even though the snake didn't bite people, it still had to be killed, otherwise people would be terrified when entering and leaving here.
You never know when it will go crazy and eat people.
Li Lanzhen decided to go up and take a look.
"Xue Bao, you two should have a good rest.
Everyone else should take good care of the elderly and children, take precautions, and remain vigilant.
I'll go up and take a look."
As soon as she finished speaking, she immediately attracted a chorus of opposition.
All the children stood up and shouted, not letting her go!
Han Minghai and several others also tried to stop her.
But Li Lanzhen had made up her mind and must catch the snake at night, as there would be many inconveniences during the day.
Li Lanzhen decided to go to the meeting alone and collect the snake.
At this time, Xue Lao Hu came over with his bow and arrow basket on his back and said.
"My dear, I will go with you. I have some kerosene arrows among these bows and arrows. If necessary, I can use the kerosene arrows to burn the snake."
Then he turned to Han Mingjiang and said.
"Come with me, second brother."
Li Lanzhen thought about it and decided, "Okay, take two people with you as helpers, catch the snake and see how precious the medicinal herbs guarded by this big snake are."
Perhaps there are other ferocious beasts guarding these precious medicinal herbs.
While she was thinking about these things, she heard Han Minghai shouting.
"Mom, I want to go with you too. I'm very strong, now..."
Li Lanzhen waved her hand to stop him from continuing.
"You don't want to go! You stay here and protect your wife and children. This matter is more important!"
Then she looked up at the top of the hill, which was more than ten meters high, leading to the mountain top.
Look at all these people and things.
When they came down from above, they hung down by holding on to vines and ropes.
It’s not easy to go up now.
Just tell Han Shunde and a few others.
"My dear relatives, you still have to think of a way. When it gets light, how are we going to get up from below?
Everyone, use your brains and think, don't worry about us, sleep when it's time to sleep, and keep watch when it's time to keep watch."
After saying that, the three of them grabbed the vines and slowly climbed up.
After the three people disappeared into the night.
No one downstairs could sleep, and even the children were staring up, worried about the safety of Li Lanzhen and the others.
Only Shan Xing was looking at the dark mountain top, seeming to be lost in thought.
She suddenly remembered that every time her grandfather brought her here, he would stay here for a few days, but he never brought her to this cave.
There were a few times when I woke up at night and found that grandpa was not around.
However, she was very sensible at that time and thought that her grandfather might have gone to relieve himself, or to find food for her, or to collect medicinal herbs.
Then I fell asleep obediently.
Because grandpa said that this valley is very safe, so all I need to do is sleep in the shack and not run around.
Could it be that grandpa found another cave for growing herbs inside that cave?