After dealing with the three geese, Wang Manyin saw that it was late and was ready to wash and sleep.
I can't help it. Now is no better than later generations. There is no entertainment at night... As for the books he bought for Orchid, he can't read them at all.
Having experienced the network novel storm of later generations, Wang Manyin always felt that the novels of this era did not conform to his reading habits.
In addition, reading in front of the kerosene lamp at night is more eye-catching than lying on the kang with your aunt and husband.
In this era, there are many broken children from different families. One of the important reasons is that there are no entertainment activities at night. I don't know what to do except sleep.
Before Wang Manyin put his feet in the basin, he heard the barking of the dog in the village.
Then the rhubarb barked.
"Man Yin, go and have a look. It can't be another wolf!" Orchid shouted quickly.
Since the village has been attacked by wolves twice, she is now on the alert.
Not only did people have nothing to eat, but also the mountain was short of food. It was the time for the wild wolf to go down the mountain.
Wang Manyin put on his shoes and hurried out of the cave. I saw many people in the direction of the village light up, but also vaguely heard the noisy voices.
Opposite the deep ditch, Wang Qiusheng also stood beside the scene and looked around.
"Brother Qiu Sheng, can you hear what you are shouting?" Wang Manyin shouted at the top of his voice.
"I can't hear you very clearly. It seems that I'm looking for Uncle Fu's Junxiang!"
Wang Junxiang, the eldest of Wang Fu's family, is the same generation as Wang Manyin. He is in his twenties and already has two broken children in his family.
"What's wrong with Brother Junxiang? Let's go and have a look." Wang Manyin explained to Orchid and walked towards the village with Wang Qiusheng.
Not far away, I came across a man rushing up with a kerosene lamp. It was Wang Shouchang, the handsome second father.
"Uncle Shou, what's wrong? Junxiang can't find it?" Wang Qiusheng asked after the conversation.
"Don't mention it, there is not much firewood in the house for this donkey day's shopping. I didn't go to the production team to earn work points in the afternoon and went to the mountains to collect firewood. I haven't come back yet." Wang Shouchang explained and asked anxiously, "You haven't seen anyone, either?"
They shook their heads.
Wang Manyin said unintelligibly, "His mother-in-law and aunt didn't see anyone when they had dinner at night. Why didn't they look for him?"
"Tonight, our team was divided into wild goose meat. Several families gathered together to fight with each other. Her mother-in-law thought Junxiang was stuttering with her, but she didn't care. Seeing that no man came home in the middle of the night, she hurried out to find him."
"When I divided the meat, it seemed that I didn't see Junxiang." Wang Manyin recalled it carefully and replied hesitantly.
There were too many people and the scene was chaotic. He was not sure.
"Where will you go in the evening?" Wang Shouchang said anxiously. He asked a dozen households just now and said that he had not seen anyone.
Just as they were talking, Wang Fuchang and others rushed over.
"Brother, what's the matter? Have you found anyone?"
"Second dad, after we asked about the families of Team One and Team Two, we all said that Junxiang had not seen him since the afternoon... He can't gather firewood. What happened in the mountains?" When talking about his own man, Aunt Wang Junxiang howled and cried.
Hearing the words, several people's faces changed.
If no one is seen in the village, he may encounter an accident in the mountain.
The firewood on the nearby mountain has been cut down for a long time, so I can only go to the cliff bank in the farther mountain to gather firewood.
These places often grow good firewood that can withstand burning. Therefore, many people break their legs every year. Last time, if Wang Manyin didn't catch the root of the wild jujube tree in time, he probably fell half dead.
What's more, there are wolves in the mountains.
"Don't cry. It's important to find someone. It's no use crying now."
Wang Fuchang said that he had his own ideas. Although he was worried, he didn't mess with the rules: "There are two children at home. Go back and greet them first. I'll go to the captain, and Shouchang will go to Yanqiang. Let's send some more people from the second team into the mountain to help find..."
"My dog can also be of use," Wang Manyin hurriedly interrupted.
"Yes, yes, full of silver, take your rhubarb with you." Wang Shouchang nodded repeatedly.
Last time, the villagers were deeply impressed by rhubarb after tracking wild wolves on a snowy night.
Another burst of dog barking, and soon many people in the village were called.
Ding Wang, Wang Fu's family, has three sons in all. The eldest Wang Junxiang, the second and third are twins, whose names are Junhai and Junchuan.
His cave is also the largest in the Jar Village, with five holes.
At the end of last year, Wang Fuchang shared more than 100 yuan with two half sized boys, which made the villagers jealous.
As for the eldest son, Wang Junxiang, who split up in name after marriage, still lived with his parents in fact.
When Wang Manyin arrived with rhubarb, Wang Junxiang's mother-in-law and aunt immediately took out a rag.
Under the eyes of everyone, the guy smelled it, searched around the yard, and quickly ran out of the yard.
"Keep up..." Wang Yanqiang immediately commanded.
More than twenty people came up one after another with shovels, carrying the wind lamp of death of anger.
Rhubarb kept sniffing on the dirt road and soon entered the dirt road behind the village.
"Junxiang really went to the back mountain..." Someone whispered, but didn't dare to say anything unlucky.
Unexpectedly, Dahuang led the crowd around the back hill and ran towards the village along the dirt road.
"Full of silver, can't you find the wrong direction?" Wang Yanqiang went more and more wrong, and couldn't help asking questions.
This dirt road leads directly to Shigejie Commune. How can I cut firewood here.
"I don't know," Wang Manyin was also confused.
According to the truth, Wang Junxiang will not go in this direction.
However, our rhubarb doesn't seem to lose its smell. It almost never stops all the way. It seems to have a clear purpose.
"Why don't you take some people with you to look south, and I'll take the rest of them to the mountains to shout?" Wang Yanqiang thought for a while.
"It's OK," Wang Manyin didn't dare to insist.
In this way, he took Wang Shouchang, Wang Qiusheng, and Wang Shuhai to follow rhubarb.
As the four guessed, Dahuang Rao did not stop at the entrance of the village and continued to run towards the Stone Gejie Festival.
After another four or five miles, Wang Shouchang couldn't help asking again, "Man Yin, how do I feel that rhubarb is not reliable this time? Even if Junxiang gets lost, he can't go to the Shige Festival, can he? Or let's go back and let rhubarb smell it again."
Now they have reached the boundary of Shigejie Village. After a few miles, they can go directly to the commune to go to the market. No matter how foolish Wang Junxiang is, he can't go to the commune to gather firewood.
"You have already come here, and then look forward!"
In fact, Wang Manyin also kept whispering, but now people have no goal, so they can only rely on rhubarb for the time being.
"Yes," Wang Shouchang nodded helplessly.
As a result, just after climbing a high slope, rhubarb suddenly barked and rushed into the darkness like being stimulated by something.
"Ah... Your ancestors, Wori, where did you come from? Go away!!" Then a panic sound was heard from the darkness.
"Junxiang, it's Junxiang's voice." Wang Shouchang shouted excitedly, and then shouted, "Is it Junxiang? I'm your second father."
"Second dad, why are you here?"
Wang Manyin rushed to the front and shouted, "Come back, rhubarb!"
When several people approached, Wang Junxiang was holding a stick in his hand, with a firewood knife pinned to his waist.
"What's the matter with you? You really went to Shigejie to cut firewood..." When Wang Shouchang saw his nephew, he immediately scolded him.
"I...... I...... Thought it would be boring to gather firewood, so I went around the commune." Wang Junxiang replied with a guilty heart.
"What's the matter? To be honest, don't fool me. Go to the commune and come back until now? Half the village people come out to find you." Wang Shouchang naturally doesn't believe the other party's lies.
"What, why so much noise?" Wang Junxiang was startled.
Under the pressure of the second father, he hesitated: "I just... bored, went to Shigejie Village to play some tricks, accidentally forgot the time, and now I'm back!"
"You are becoming more and more daring. You dare to gamble!" Wang Shouchang slapped directly.
The so-called "deduction of Mingbao" is a way of gambling on the Loess Plateau. Mingbao is composed of a treasure shell and a treasure heart. The treasure shell is usually made of wood in the shape of a small square bowl, which in turn clasps the treasure heart.
The playing method is not complicated, and it is very similar to the color shaker of later generations. Someone is the banker who is responsible for delivering the treasure, and the gambler presses the money according to his own judgment.
The buyer must leave the hand, and then let the buckler open the shell of the treasure, and calculate the win or loss according to the different directions of the bet.
In addition to "Kou Ming Bao", there are "old cards", "dice", "Tui Pai Gow" and other tricks on the Loess Plateau, which are often played by rural people.