"The wild boar fell into the trap and is now struggling inside, on the verge of death," Lin Feng told Fu Wenwen.
"Then let's quickly pick the loquats and take them down the mountain to inform the village chief!" Fu Wenwen said with a smile. Catching such a big creature on the mountain was impossible to hide, so it was better to openly let the village chief organize people to kill the pig and let everyone have a good time!
Of course, her space could hold such a large wild boar, but with Lin Feng around, she couldn't expose her powers.
"You really are..." Lin Feng didn't know what to say about Fu Wenwen. Should he call her brave? She was incredibly daring!
Lin Feng sighed heavily in resignation and, following Fu Wenwen's lead, first picked the loquats. He then shouldered the basket and prepared to descend the mountain.
Before leaving, Fu Wenwen specifically left a trace of her power for the loquat tree, allowing the remaining fruits to continue growing.
The two returned to the village as if nothing had happened and went directly to the village chief's house with the fruit.
The village chief looked at the loquats in the basket, tasted one, and found it to be indeed very sweet and fragrant. He nodded with satisfaction and was about to ask his son to go to town with him when he heard Lin Feng's words.
"Village chief, we encountered a wild boar in the back mountain. It's about four hundred catties, currently in the old trap in the back mountain! It should be dying soon," Lin Feng said calmly.
The village chief was so shocked that his most prized water pipe fell to the ground. It took him a while to process what Lin Feng had just said.
"You... what did you just say? What... a wild boar??" the village chief exclaimed in shock.
"Where?! Where is the wild boar?" Zhu Di, who had just come out of the room, also heard Lin Feng's partial statement and was so scared that he immediately went to find a hoe.
"In the old trap in the back mountain!" Lin Feng told the two of them.
"Village chief, you should call people! Let's all go and bring down the wild boar," Fu Wenwen waved her hand in front of the village chief. Seeing that the village chief had recovered, she said to him.
"Yes... yes, yes!" The village chief looked at Fu Wenwen and then seemed to come to his senses.
"Gou Dan, quickly call Tie Dan and go call people to the mountain!" the village chief called out to his eldest son.
"Oh... oh!!" Zhu Di hadn't fully recovered yet. Hearing the village chief call him by his childhood nickname, he quickly rushed into the room, pulled out his second brother Zhu Qi, and the two of them rushed out.
"Everyone grab your tools! There's a wild boar in the back mountain!!" Zhu Di shouted to the village as soon as he walked out.
In those days, if a wild boar appeared and ravaged the crops, the entire year's harvest could be lost. So, as soon as they heard about a wild boar, the men in the village immediately grabbed their tools and ran out. Some had sticks, some had hoes, some had shovels, and they swarmed over.
"Wild boar, wild boar, where is it!" The men, holding their respective 'weapons,' asked nervously.
"Dizi, hurry up and tell us!"
"Where, where! We can't let it ruin our land!"
"..."
The villagers asked one after another. Zhu Di quickly explained to everyone, "Lin Feng and Fu Wenwen just encountered a wild boar in the back mountain. Lin Feng drove the wild boar into the old trap in the back mountain. The wild boar is now on its last legs, and we're going to bring it down!"
"Heavens! Is it true?"
"Lin Feng, that kid, is indeed amazing!"
"He dealt with the wild boar all by himself?"
"That's what soldiers are like!"
"Phew, you scared me to death..."
"..."
The men had expressions of admiration, lingering fear, and pleasant surprise. Hearing that the wild boar could no longer pose a threat, most of them felt a sense of relief.
"Young and strong ones, follow me. The older generation can go back and rest!" Zhu Qi said to everyone with a smile. "Remember to bring ropes, it's a four-hundred-pound monster!"
"Okay!" The men immediately dispersed, each going home to get their things and also to spread the good news to the women in their families.
Brothers Zhu Di led a group of young and strong villagers excitedly towards the back mountain.
Fu Wenwen and Lin Feng were kept by the village chief to explain the incident. When he heard that Lin Feng had faced it alone, the village chief angrily slapped Lin Feng's shoulder. "How can you be so reckless! This is a wild boar, not an ordinary pig! You thought you could deal with it by yourself!"
"I used to praise you for being intelligent, but now it seems you have no brains at all! That trap hasn't been maintained in years, how could it possibly restrain that wild boar!" The village chief became more and more agitated, almost pointing at Lin Feng's nose and calling him a pig's brain.
Lin Feng appeared to be sincerely accepting his reprimand and admitting his mistakes, while Fu Wenwen was laughing heartily beside him.
"What are you laughing at, and you too! I just praised you today, how could you also do something so foolish! Huh? When the wild boar charged at Lin Feng, you dared to get off the tree? What if there was another wild boar? Huh? How could you be so careless and dare to come down to pick loquats! Are loquats more important than your life? You two kids are trying to anger me to death!" The village chief slapped the table, pointing at Fu Wenwen, who was snickering beside him.
Fu Wenwen quickly stopped smiling and lowered her head as if admitting her mistake, her whole being conveying "I was wrong," but the village chief was still not satisfied.
Lin Feng looked at Fu Wenwen, a hint of a smile flashing in his eyes. Fu Wenwen looked up and saw the smile in his eyes, and glared at him.
"You gloating fellow."
"Hmph."
"You dare to glare at him, you too..." The village chief glared at them, they were even exchanging glances.
The two of them quickly lowered their heads to admit their mistakes and were scolded by the village chief for more than half an hour until the wild boar was carried down from the back mountain by the villagers, only then did he let them off.
"Hmph!" The village chief snorted heavily at them before leaving, and Fu Wenwen flinched.
After the village chief left, Fu Wenwen breathed a sigh of relief.
"The village chief is just worried about us!" Lin Feng saw Fu Wenwen's relieved expression and explained, fearing she would be angry.
"Do you think I don't know that?" Fu Wenwen glared at Lin Feng. How could she not know? Concern breeds anger. The village chief was so angry because he cared about them.
This was Fu Wenwen's first experience of being scolded so severely by a family elder. She truly understood what it meant to have pressure from an elder.
But she also felt the concern and anxious care from the elder generation. This kind of scolding was more out of their worry, and her heart felt warm...
Being thought of felt quite good.
"Mm!" Lin Feng chuckled, leading Fu Wenwen towards the small square. They saw a throng of people, all staring at the four-hundred-catty wild boar with its large tusks in the middle.
"Heavens! This is indeed a wild boar. The last time I saw such a big one was when I was a teenager! That was thirty years ago..."
"Lin Feng actually took down such a big wild boar all by himself? That's amazing..."
"A four-hundred-catty wild boar, we should get quite a bit of meat, right..."
The villagers were all excited, anticipating their share of the pork. When someone looked back and spotted Lin Feng and Fu Wenwen, they shouted, "Oh, here come the heroes who took down the wild boar!"