Chapter 895
The reaction ability of animals is, in many cases, faster than that of humans.
The green snake dodged Yang Ting’s attack, then seemed to be enraged and attacked directly towards Duan Tong, who had already dodged away.
This kind of active and grateful animal is more frightening than when it is not moving.
When I saw that it was about to bite Duan Tong, I grabbed the branch I had just seen on the ground and thrust the sharpest end at the snake’s body.
It hit the snake right on the spot, stabbing it in the waist and keeping it under control.
Seeing its head and tail, it still continued to wiggle about.
Duan Tong calmed down after being shocked, her anger and fright blended into one.
She picked up the stone that Yang Ting had just thrown out and smashed it down at the snake.
When she was hit on the head, the snake seemed to faint for a moment, and taking advantage of the fainting moment, Duan Tong used the stone to smash the snake’s head to pieces with almost no room for error.
Blood splattered everywhere, and it was only after a while that she stopped moving her hands.
When she looked at the snake again, its head was already a pile of flesh.
The other girls looked pale, and Ouyang Nuo gulped and said, “Let’s go, it’s getting late, let’s keep going.”
The only good thing about this deep forest is that everything is a gift from nature.
Occasionally we came across rivers and springs where we could eat and drink, so it was good that we could not die of hunger.
After half a day’s walk, I saw a red fruit growing on a rocky hill that had some resemblance to a lychee.
“Is that a lychee?” Ouyang Nuo spoke up, her face was flushed and sweaty from the long rush.
Yang Ting climbed up and picked a few and threw them down saying, “Wild ones, not really sweet but edible, we’ll pick all these later and take them with us on the way.”
This was a good idea, Duan Tong was chanting Buddhist sutras, perhaps because he had eaten a lot of mushrooms on the way and his stomach was full.
So naturally, he didn’t want to climb up and down to pick these fruits, so he just sat on the side and meditated on the sutra.
Shi Rui was a bit clumsy, short and fat, so naturally she couldn’t climb up there.
After a few attempts, she gave up and waited on the rocks, picking up the fruit we picked.
Ouyang Nuo is a foodie and was eating them as she picked them, happy as can be.
Yang Ting kindly reminded, “Pay attention to your eyes, worry about encountering green snakes again.”
“Ah!” Ouyang Nuo squealed, looked around, stuffed a wild lychee in her mouth and spoke, “Scared me to death, eat a lychee to keep me down.”
Yang Ting was speechless and threw the picked juice down for Shi Rui to pick up, looking at the ground as Shi Rui picked up the fruit somewhat clumsily.
Duan Tong sat aside to meditate, Ouyang Nuo speechless, “How did this woman live until now? Full of Buddha’s scriptures, when she smashed the snake, I didn’t see her being merciful at all!”
Yang Ting shrugged her shoulders, “So it is said that in troubled times no Buddha is seen, and in prosperous times temples are filled with incense, I don’t know if this is talking about Buddha or people.”
“What are you guys talking about? Hurry up and pick, hurry up afterwards!” I spoke up, interrupting them both.
Buddha is the true Buddha, but it is people who believe in Buddha, how can people be compared to Buddha!
It was just a distorted concept.
In order to have enough food, we picked almost all the fruits on the trees, even the ones that were not yet ripe, and took them with us on our way.
Luckily, we only saw one aggressive snake along the way and the road behind us, although bumpy, was good for not encountering any more danger.
With water and fruit on the way and some raw mushrooms, we were lucky.
Chapter 896
I don’t know how many hills we’ve gone over, the sky is getting dark, not finding a suitable resting point, Ouyang Nuo is a bit worried, “It’s better to keep going, this section of the road down, I found quite a few artificial paths, which means there are villagers around here, walk completely again, as long as we find someone, we’ll be able to call for help.”
Right now, that seemed to be the only way to go, and when the other girls heard this, they came to their hearts and minds and were more motivated for a while.
Then we all said, “Then let’s cheer up and walk a little further, and when we find the villagers, we can all go home.”
The pace of their feet quickened as they were happy, and when they crossed the hill, they did see the lights.
Yang Ting said as she walked, “When we get home I must go for a meal at the bottom of the sea, a seafood buffet, and I have to take home the cosmetics I’ve been thinking about for a long time.”
Shi Rui also laughed, “Then I’ll treat everyone to afternoon tea, it’s very generous in Guangdong.”
“Then I have to go for steak, I think I could eat a whole cow right now.” Ouyang Nuo stuffed the rest of the wild lychee she had eaten during the day into her mouth, she was a pretty girl, especially when she smiled.
Duan Tong, as usual, stopped her mouth from chanting and said, “It’s all thanks to Buddha’s blessing that you are all alive now, from now on it’s better to give up meat and fresh food and eat more vegetarian dishes!”
This was a bit of a spoiler, and several people gave her a look, and did not intend to continue to take her words.
Ouyang Nuo looked at me and said, “Shen Shu, if we could go home this time, what would you most like to do?”
What would you most like to do?
I couldn’t help but be a little distracted, what would I want to do most?
After a pause I said, “To meet the person I want to see most, to hug him, and to say sorry!”
She looked at me with a gossipy face and said, “It’s not someone you love, is it?”
I pursed my lips and smiled lightly, not saying much more.
When we arrived at the mountain village, it was already completely dark. In the remote mountains, probably because of the inconvenient traffic and roads, there were not many people living here.
Looking at the lights, there were only a few dozen families, too, and it was extraordinarily sparse.
“Let’s find an occupant to hitch a ride!” Ouyang Nuo spoke, and followed the long steps into a farmhouse.
“Woof woof ……” The farmer had dogs in the yard and our sudden appearance caused the dogs that were guarding the yard to bark wildly.
For a moment, several of us were also frightened and huddled together, but it was good that the dog was on a leash.
Hearing the commotion, someone came out of the farmer’s house, a middle-aged man whose dark skin looked a little naive in the light.
He spoke a few words, none of which several of us understood, and Yang Ting, who was from the south-western part of the country, spoke as an afterthought, “Maybe we’ve crossed the border to Burma.”
For a moment several people froze, all we had gone over the mountains and instead of going home, we had crossed the border.
Everyone panicked because they couldn’t understand each other’s language, and the man thought we were bad people and held a hoe at us, telling us to hurry.
Luckily, another little girl of about ten years old ran out of his house and tugged on the middle-aged man’s sleeve.
After the little girl said something, the man loosened up.
He looked at us and at one point made a few gestures with his hands, none of which we quite understood, and Yang Ting tried a few.
It was not worth communicating whether it opened up or not, and finally the middle-aged man did let us in.