Hearing the fat man say this, Old Hu immediately raised his hand in agreement, indicating that he would confiscate the gold beans.
The broken bowl and gold beans did have a strange smell, which was probably the stench of a corpse. It was probably a funerary object from some tomb.
Old Hu was not afraid of things, and with the fat man's explanation, he was not going to give up his spoils. Previously, the fat man didn't say anything, but when he heard that the weasel might have harmed people, he immediately decided to fight the weasel to the death.
Xu Lang smiled and said, "Although we shouldn't talk about justice with a weasel, it's clear from its demeanor that it understands human nature. As the saying goes, 'Even gods and ghosts fear evil men', which is what you two are like."
"Of course, even if the weasel understands human nature, it's not a good thing. They have indeed stolen a lot of chickens from the village."
"As for whether they have harmed people, we certainly don't know."
The law of the jungle.
Even among humans, it is like this, let alone towards a weasel.
After Xu Lang finished speaking, he found a place to rest. He didn't dare occupy the place where Hua Mei usually lived. Although he was still young, he wasn't really only eleven years old, and he still had some face in certain situations.
Hua Mei wanted Xu Lang to rest on the kang, but he refused.
In the end, Xu Lang couldn't resist Hua Mei's persistence, so he could only agree and sleep in Hua Mei's place. It was warm and comfortable.
Hua Mei's generosity and her love for the elderly and the young was moving, Xu Lang could only accept her arrangement.
By the middle of the night, Xu Lang was already sleepy. Tonight he planned to give himself a break and not cultivate his techniques to accumulate mana.
As for who would go to the other room, it wasn't something Xu Lang, a child, should worry about. The benefits of being young are obvious.
Sleep early and rise late, develop your body.
He slept until dawn when a sudden noisy commotion woke Xu Lang.
无奈, Xu Lang could only get up, rub his sleepy eyes, and turn to look out of the window of the forest farm.
A gust of cold wind blew past, making Xu Lang shiver involuntarily, instantly waking him up.
The weasel in the room was gone, and Xu Lang looked in the adjacent room, but there was no weasel there either. Moreover, Hua Mei was lying on the kang, her face very pale with a tinge of yellow, and Yanzi was taking care of her.
Hua Mei's complexion was worse than that of a woman who had just given birth.
Xu Lang asked, and Yanzi sighed before explaining.
It turned out that they had taken the weasel to the next room the night before. The four of them had agreed to take turns keeping watch, each person patrolling for about an hour and a half.
The night passed peacefully. The last person on watch was Hua Mei. Old Hu went to the bathroom in the middle of the night and heard a noise. He went out and found that something was wrong.
Despite Hua Mei's valiant appearance, she had suffered from epilepsy since she was a child. When Old Hu found her in the early morning, she had already fainted outside the room. She woke up delirious, struggled for a while, and then fainted again.
Knocking Mountain Old Man returned from patrolling the mountains and discovered his granddaughter Hua Mei's condition. Early in the morning, he went into the mountains to hunt a man-bear.
Old Hu and the fat man were worried, so they followed Knocking Mountain Old Man to hunt the man-bear, leaving Yanzi to take care of Hua Mei. They couldn't leave Xu Lang alone, a half-grown boy staying at the forest farm wouldn't do.
Hua Mei's illness required "Eastern Gallbladder" for medicine, which is the gallbladder of a man-bear.
Xu Lang didn't know medicine, he only knew that the man-bear gallbladder was a medicinal herb, and it seemed to be more valuable than the gallbladder of an ordinary bear.
A few months ago, Xu Lang and the others went into the mountains to look for Tian Xiao Meng and accidentally killed that man-bear. Its gallbladder was exchanged by Knocking Mountain Old Man from Yanzi's father, and it should have been eaten by Hua Mei.
Yanzi wanted to go with them, but the forest farm couldn't be left unattended.
Wang Juan and the other two intellectuals had not yet arrived at the forest farm, and even if they were to leave, they would have to wait for them to come.
The weasel had no idea how it escaped, or even when it disappeared, but now no one was in the mood to care about the weasel.
After getting to the bottom of the matter, Xu Lang said, "Sister Yanzi, you said that Hua Mei woke up and was still struggling, and she didn't even recognize anyone. It felt like she was possessed by a demon."
"When Wang Juan and the other two intellectuals arrive, if you want to go into the mountains to help, I'll go with you."
"They brought everything they needed, so there shouldn't be any danger. They're going to go into the mountains to find the bear's den, and it shouldn't be difficult for us to follow their tracks."
Xu Lang didn't expect that he had only slept for a few hours, but so many things had happened in a short time. If he didn't go and have a look, wouldn't he miss a lot of interesting things?
Xu Lang didn't want to miss such an exciting opportunity to hunt a man-bear. He also wanted to help Hua Mei.
Last time, they were suddenly attacked by the man-bear, and they were very embarrassed. This time, it was completely different. They were prepared.
In the cold winter, man-bears usually stay in their tree hollows and don't come out. Old Hu and the others brought a lot of sticky bean buns to catch the man-bear.
Xu Lang didn't know if this ancient hunting method was effective, but Knocking Mountain Old Man had prepared so much, and he had hunted man-bears before, so it should be effective.
If it wasn't, Knocking Mountain Old Man would have already been devoured by the bear.
Not only that, knowing that the man-bear gallbladder was useful for Hua Mei's illness, Knocking Mountain Old Man had already recorded some of the man-bear's tracks. Xu Lang even suspected that he knew the exact location of the man-bear, leaving it alive only to take its fresh gallbladder.
He had set up his traps in advance, just waiting to hunt it when needed.
Since he had transmigrated to this world, Xu Lang had consciously improved his courage and martial arts skills. He would go to explore more mysterious and dangerous places in the future. How could he grow without experiencing some dangers?
Since he had come to this world, Xu Lang wouldn't allow himself to live a bland life of only a few decades.
So he would rather go hunting than farm later.
Xu Lang had not paid any attention to Tian Xiao Meng's matter before, because it was not worth it, and how could a weasel compare to ghosts and spirits?
In Xu Lang's understanding, weasels were not comparable to ghosts and spirits.
Hua Mei was still asleep, and Xu Lang was bored, so he went to the kitchen to cook. When he came, he brought some cured meat, which was supposed to be a treat for Hua Mei and Knocking Mountain Old Man. He had planned to cook today, but so many things had happened.
Since he had nothing else to do, Xu Lang decided to reward himself first, after all, he was still growing.
Moreover, Yanzi also needed to eat, and if Hua Mei woke up, she would also need to eat.
About an hour later, Xu Lang carried two plates of steaming dumplings and called Yanzi to eat together.
Wang Juan and the others had not yet arrived at the forest farm, and who knows when they would arrive. This made Xu Lang and Yanzi feel anxious, missing such an exciting opportunity to hunt a man-bear would be too bad.
The mountain mushroom and cured meat dumplings tasted unique and were too fragrant!
After finishing the dumplings, Yanzi held the empty plate and said, "Little brother, you watch Hua Mei for now, I'll go wrap some more dumplings. When they come back, they can have some hot food. When Wang Juan and the others arrive, we'll follow their tracks and see. The Old Branch Secretary told me to keep an eye on them. This is a task given to me by the Old Branch Secretary."