Chapter 3:

  Daqing Mountain stretched for hundreds of miles and was the remnant of the Anling Mountains. Their Majia Vilge was on the outskirts of Qingshan Mountain. In front of them was a rge pin, which was transformed into paddy fields after liberation. Behind them was Daqing Mountain. People in the vilge only hunted and chopped wood within a few miles of the outskirts. Few people go further in. There were bears, tigers, wild boars, and wolves in this mountain. It was absolutely pristine.

  In order to keep the Daniu away from the crowd, Ma Desheng took her into the mountains, where they walked for three days to a pce where few people went and only the most experienced hunters dared to enter.

  There was a hut built by hunters in the early years.

  The old man and the girl began to live there, and the daniu was indeed much better. Everything seemed peaceful in the dark forest. Things took a turn for the better three months after they entered the mountains. In addition to the food they brought from home, the old man and the girl also had more game that the old man hunted in the mountains. At that time, there were many wild animals in the mountains, such as boar, pheasants, and rabbits, and there was a harvest every day.

  The old man found that the girl was doing well in the forest, and from time to time he took her around to look for some mountain products, such as wood ear mushrooms, blueberries, etc.

  That day, the grandpa went out and didn't come back until it was dark, and Daniu felt something was wrong because her grandfather would never stay out all night since she was in the mountains.

  The next morning, her grandpa still didn't return, so Daniu took some dry food and water and went out to look for him. Daniu was still confident in her ability to find him. She used her sense of smell to find the path, her hearing to guard against danger, and her eyes to see fresh traces in the forest. As expected, she found her grandpa at noon.

  The old man fell into a cave and sprained his foot. When he saw her coming, he got angry and asked how a six- or seven-year-old girl could walk in such a deep forest.

  Daniu didn't pay any attention to the old man's muttering. She wrapped the rope around the tree and slowly climbed down.

  "Grandpa, how are you? Can you climb up by yourself?"

  They were deep in the mountains, and it was impossible to find help.

  "Have you brought any dry food? Let me regain a bit of strength, and I will climb up. I can climb up a hundred-meter-high rocky peak. How can I be afraid of such a small cave?"

  Daniu smiled, handed the dry food to the old man, and also handed him a small bottle of wine.

  "My eldest granddaughter knows me best."

  The old man took the wine and drank a bottle.

  "Look what grandpa got for you!"

  The old man said as he took out a bag from behind him.

  Daniu opened it and took a look. "Silver Fox, Grandpa, how did you catch it?"

  There were foxes in the mountains and forests here, but they were generally red foxes. Silver foxes were rare. Foxes are cunning and difficult to catch. In addition, people in that era were still somewhat superstitious, and many people even worshipped the fox god, so no one went out of their way to look for them.

  "Yesterday, when I was about to go back, I saw it running in front of me. It happened that there was some snow yesterday, so the footprints were clear, so I followed the footprints. At that time, I was thinking of making a scarf or hat for you, so I shot its eyes without hurting the fur, but I didn't expect to fall into a trap. It was also dark, and I couldn't see clearly, so I fell down with the fox."

  Daniu looked around and said, "Is this its nest?"

  She saw a small hole next to him.

  "It's hard to say. After I shot it, it ran here. I didn't notice it, and when I was about to pick it up, I fell down. Look at this pce; it was originally a hole with dead grass and branches on top to block it, which could withstand the weight of the fox. And this hole should be a foxhole. I don't know how it was dug through."

  "Grandpa, Is it possible that this fox did it?"

  "Otherwise, why do people say that foxes can become spirits?"

  The old man couldn't help but sigh, "I have hunted this number of prey in my life, not small ones but bears in my life."

  He gestured with a number two. "But I failed because of this fox."

  Twenty or more, she believed it. There were a lot of blind bears in their forest. She remembered that when she was just born, her grandpa took a few nephews to the forest and brought back four blind bears. There was also a big brown bear skin at home. It was a trophy of her grandpa's, and he kept it over the years and was reluctant to sell it.

  "Grandpa, Should I go and see what's in it?." Daniu thought she could probably crawl in through the hole.

  Ma Desheng thought about it, and he hadn't heard any noise since st night. "Tie the rope around your waist before going; be careful."

  He tied the rope he brought with him to Daniu, gave her a fshlight, and told her to be careful and come out if something went wrong. Although the old man was very curious, he knew that his granddaughter was steady and organized, and except for a little problem in her head, she was quite reassuring.

  Daniu tied the rope around her waist, took her knife, and held the fshlight in her other hand.

  The entrance of the cave was so narrow that Daniu could barely crawl in. If she wanted to get out, she had to move backward. After crawling for a distance, the front suddenly became wider. The girl shone a fshlight and was suddenly stunned. This pce was actually dug by humans. Could it be the so-called "robber's cave"?

  Going further forward, she entered a wider passage, in which she could walk in with her current height.

  She continued forward, and after walking more than ten meters, a cave suddenly appeared in front of her. I used a fshlight to shine half a meter into the cave before jumping down and finding that the ground was a stone sb. shining the fshlight, it was indeed a tomb passage.

  Daniu matched the direction of the path and the terrain outside. According to the direction just now, this should be a rge hill.

  After thinking about it, she realized it would be difficult to enter since it was a tomb.

  Climbing up to the original cave entrance and going back, there was another road halfway. This road led to another direction. Daniu thought that further ahead should be the direction of the fox's den, so she thought about it and walked over there.

  At the beginning, it still seemed to have been dug by humans. Suddenly, a bck shadow appeared in front of her. She shone the fshlight over there, and her heart started pounding. She pressed her chest with her hand before looking carefully only to find that it was a skeleton. It must have been dead for a long time. There were purple-bck marks on the teeth and eye sockets; probably died from poisoning.

  There was a shovel next to the corpse. This person should be a tomb robber. He might have wanted to get out but got lost. Thinking of the hole she came in from, he only had to dig a few meters forward to get out.

  Passing by the corpse, the entrance of the cave in front became narrow again. It should have been dug by the fox. Looking at the entrance in front, reason told her to turn back, but there seemed to be something attracting her in front.

  She frowned, closed her eyes, and felt it. It was a smell, it attracting her.　Fresh with a slight fragrance and even a sweet taste.　The further she crawled, the stronger the fragrant smell became. As she crawled, Daniu's eyes lit up, and she became extremely excited.

  After an unknown period of time, the rope on her body suddenly tightened. Daniu subconsciously untied the rope and continued to crawl forward. After crawling for a while, she finally came to an exit: a natural cave. When she shone the fshlight over, a cave of a hundred square meters appeared. The girl y down and looked in the direction of the fragrance. She saw a puddle as big as a washbasin in the middle of the cave. In the puddle, there was actually a human-sized ginseng lying. The ginseng had leaves and nine seeds in the middle of the leaves. The red seeds looked like red gems.

  The girl walked over and smelled that the fragrance was coming from the red gem.　After swallowing her saliva, Daniu carefully reached out to hold the ginseng. The ginseng roots were densely packed, almost occupying half of the puddle. However, these roots were soaked in water and did not take root in the ground. The fragrance was even stronger, and Daniu couldn't help but pick a seed and eat it.

  The seed was not hard, and a sweet juice with a slight spiciness spread in her mouth. After the sweet juice entered the body, Aniu felt a heat rising, and then the heat flowed through the body. The heat flow also entered her head, and she felt her mind becoming clear.

  Since her memory problem, she has been unable to control her thoughts and memories. Her brain was like a computer, constantly fshing various information in the hard drive. At this time, her brain became clear, and she seemed to be able to control these memories, just like a hard drive sorting her memories and pcing them in folders, but the control was still weak. The girl couldn't help but eat another one, two, three, five, eight, nine, and all the seeds were eaten by her.

  "Hehe——" Daniu couldn't help ughing. It was the first time she felt rexed since her brain goot out of control two years ago. Her memories were organized and her mind was clear. She could call up any memory with just a thought. It was simply amazing.

  She looked at the ginseng with shining eyes, pulled out the small clothes inside, and picked up the ginseng. "Huh—" Daniu found a white stone between the roots of the ginseng. She stretched out her little hand and took the stone out. The stone was round and smooth a little wet and seemed getting smaller and smaller in her palm. Daniu blinked her eyes, and sure enough, the small stone disappeared in her palm.

  At the same time, the ginseng, which was originally very tender and looked like a small carrot, dried up at a speed visible to the naked eye. Daniu quickly wrapped the ginseng carefully. After wrapping the ginseng, she looked at the small puddle, poured out the water in the kettle she brought, and then filled the small hole with waterrom the puddle. Seeing that there was still a lot of water left in the hole, Daniu thought that the water soaked with ginseng must be very nutritious, and it would be a pity to throw it away, so she just leaned down and drank it. She drank the water until she was full and burped at the end.

  Seeing the remaining water, she felt that it was a pity, but she didn’t dare to stay any longer for fear of worrying her grandfather, so she crawled back along the same path.

  Old Man Ma was very worried at this time. When he saw the rope suddenly tighten and then loosen, he knew that the child had untied the rope.

  He didn't know what was inside, so he could only worry since he didn't have anything useful in his hands and couldn't break open the hole.

  At this moment, he saw the rope move, and then he saw his granddaughter crawling out of the hole.

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