Chapter 301: In the forest, what is dangerous is always people, not beasts

Continuing to sleep, the wolf howling didn't ring out again, maybe it was also worried about being heard by Li Long.

Early in the morning, Li Long climbed up before the sun rose. Although the wolf howling in the middle of the night interrupted his sleep, it didn't affect its quality. This was the place where Li Long had always been relatively happy since his rebirth.

In the ten years toward the end of his previous life, sleeping was always a big problem. He could fall asleep, but before sleeping, he always wanted to swipe his phone again, and after falling asleep, he was also particularly easy to wake up, and after waking up, it wasn't easy to fall asleep again.

In short, the sleep quality was particularly poor.

But after rebirth, one of the best benefits was that the sleep quality was particularly good, without disturbance, and he could sleep until dawn. Even if he woke up in the middle, like hearing wolf howling, or went to take a pee, he would still sleep very soundly when he came back.

Li Long guessed it might be because the external sound, light, and electricity pollution weren't as serious as in later generations, and the information he could contact wasn't that much. Of course, the most important thing was, he was young.

Rubbing his face, going out, everything was quiet outside. At this time of year, even birds were few.

Li Long got some breakfast, ate it, locked the door, carried his gun, and took his tools to walk toward the mountain gully.

If there is codonopsis on the edges of those openings washed out by floods in summer, and gullies brought out by things like small debris flows, it is the easiest to dig. Li Long went to these gullies, just wanting to find such a place—almost without digging, he could pull out big codonopsis just by pulling.

Of course, it also depends on the opportunity. So when he arrived at the gully entrance and saw a quite thick pole standing there, Li Long put down his things and started digging.

This is the codonopsis pole. Although the leaves have fallen off, Li Long can recognize it.

Digging twice with an iron shovel, Li Long threw this shovel to the side, and then began to dig with the tool like a grab hook bought from Shicheng.

It wasn't as easy to dig as the codonopsis by the wooden house. Under the soil, there were grass roots, tree roots, and stones. If he wanted to dig out the codonopsis completely, the time spent would be very long.

However, since he was digging, Li Long didn't think about leaving halfway. He patiently cut off the grass roots and tree roots one by one, dug out the stones, and seeing the hole above wasn't big enough, he had to expand the hole before digging.

Finally, a codonopsis nearly one meter long was dug out, and Li Long let out a long breath. The time to dig this codonopsis was the time of three codonopsis yesterday.

Sure enough, the rice in the mountains isn't that easy to eat.

Looking up, there were many codonopsis poles on the mountain slopes on both sides of the gully, visible everywhere, thick and thin.

The resources were very rich, it was just that it was relatively troublesome to dig.

However, since he was here, then dig.

When Li Long dug out the fourth codonopsis and saw it was morning, he planned to go down the mountain to cook, when there was movement at the mountain gully entrance.

Three people carrying bags, holding various tools, walked toward here. When they saw Li Long, the leader was stunned for a moment.

Li Long was sitting on the edge of a stone resting, holding the codonopsis he had just dug out, and his tools were placed on the side. The leader whispered something to the people behind him.

Then the three of them walked toward Li Long here together.

"What are you guys doing?" Li Long shouted. He could see that the intentions of these three people weren't simple.

"Digging medicinal herbs. Buddy, are you digging codonopsis? How much have you dug? We'll buy it."

Li Long was amused listening to this. Wasn't this the work he often did before? Was someone grabbing business or what?

"I'm digging in this gully, you guys change places." Li Long didn't want to deal with these people. The three people didn't greet him when they appeared, and now that he opened his mouth, they were looking for reasons. In Li Long's view, they weren't good goods.

"Don't be afraid, we aren't bad people either, we really just came to collect things." A middle-aged man who was a bit shorter behind said, and the three of them continued to walk toward Li Long here.

Li Long saw it; these three people were determined to eat him up.

"Whether bad or not, I have nothing to say to you guys, don't come over." Li Long shouted, "Don't blame me for being impolite if you come over again."

"Impolite? What do you have to be impolite with?" Another thin young man's eyes were glowing, "I see the codonopsis in your hand is not bad. You've dug quite a lot today, right? Sell it to us, one yuan a root, it's cheap for you..."

One yuan?

Sure enough, they wanted to rob.

Li Long thought to himself, I've already given you guys a chance.

Before he reached out his hand, the leader shook his head while walking, and the tool in his hand was also held in his hand:

"One yuan? Too expensive, right? Fifty cents at most... this is full of mountains, fifty cents is already quite a lot!"

The three people walked toward Li Long from three directions at a distance of ten or twenty meters from Li Long, vaguely meaning to surround Li Long.

Then Li Long picked up the gun from behind the stone and calmly opened the safety. The bullet had long been in the chamber.

"You you... you you..."

The leader's mouth was stuttering, unable to speak clearly, pointing at Li Long and wanting to continue, suddenly he put his hand down. He remembered that in this area, pointing at people with fingers was a very impolite behavior.

He was afraid Li Long would shoot because of this.

The thin one reacted the fastest, turned around and wanted to run. Li Long raised his gun and "bang" shot into the grass beside him.

"Run again, the next shot will hit your back."

That young man lay on the ground all of a sudden, not knowing if it was tripped or scared. Hearing Li Long's words, he hurriedly turned over to face Li Long.

As if Li Long wouldn't hit his back this way.

The middle-aged man should be the head of the three. At this time, facing Li Long's gun, he explained with a dry laugh:

"Brother, buddy, misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding..."

"Whether it's a misunderstanding or not, it's not for you to decide." Li Long stood up, and the codonopsis was also thrown to the side, "Okay, throw the bags over. Honestly, what are you guys doing? Robbers? From the interior? Which province? What crime did you commit?"

Listening to Li Long putting hat after hat on them, the middle-aged man hurriedly argued: "No, no, we are just honest and dutiful people. We couldn't get enough to eat in our hometown, couldn't earn money, so we ran over to see if there was any way to make money. Originally, we planned to rely on relatives, but the relatives died of illness, so we had no choice but to come into the mountains to get some medicinal herbs. We used to dig medicinal herbs in our hometown—didn't expect to bump into you."

"Yeah, yeah!" The person standing at the very front hurriedly added, "We were just hungry, thinking about getting something to eat. We really aren't people who committed crimes. There are only a few old clothes in this bag..."

"Throw it over." Li Long didn't quite believe these people's words. The situation pressed people, and they naturally lowered their posture. If he didn't have a gun in his hand just now, they would probably have surrounded and beaten him, right?

However, looking at the tools in the three people's hands, narrow and long shovels, it looked like they were specially used for digging medicinal herbs. I don't know if they were specially made by them or robbed from others.

"Don't talk nonsense, throw the bags over!" Li Long raised the muzzle of the gun, "Do you want to test my marksmanship?"

"No, no..." Knowing there were bullets in the gun, who would dare to risk their lives?

In this era, killing someone in the mountains, just finding a place to hide it, really couldn't be found. After all, it wasn't decades later, with such developed information and technology—so, these few people really didn't dare to test the gun.

One bag after another was thrown over. That thin little guy also played a trick, throwing the bag at a distance of five or six meters from Li Long, tilted to one side.

Li Long saw through his thoughts at a glance, pointed at that bag and said:

"Give you one more chance, throw the bag well, otherwise, if my hand shakes..."

The thin little guy had no choice but to crawl over to pick up the bag. When he turned around, he found that Li Long had retreated a few steps and was even further away from him.

!.

The thought of rushing over for close-quarters combat was suppressed.

He had no choice but to throw the bag not far in front of Li Long.

Li Long waved his gun:

"Get lost, I'll leave you with your skin."

The other party had the intention of robbing him, so he wouldn't show mercy either.

"Don't, brother..." The middle-aged man was anxious, "We only have these few clothes, if we don't have anything to wear at night, we will freeze—you do a good deed, spare us this time, we were also greedy for a moment..."

"You also know it's greed." Li Long smiled, "If I didn't have a gun, how would you guys deal with me?" He took a step forward and kicked one of the bags and said:

"The original owner of this bag isn't you guys, right? The color on this bag isn't dyed, right? How did you get so much blood out of people... don't need me to say it, right? I'm not a policeman, otherwise, you guys would be waiting to go into the bureau now! Don't talk nonsense, otherwise, if my gun can't hold steady later, then I'll have to let out a few bullets!"

The three people had no choice but to carry their tools and leave.

Li Long didn't go to look at that bag either, just packed up his own things.

He wasn't greedy for these things, it wasn't necessary, he just felt he needed to give these few people a lesson.

It's chaotic in the mountains. Li Long bumped into good people, and also bumped into people who committed crimes. Now these three people obviously belonged to those who bully the weak and fear the strong. Maybe they hadn't committed crimes, but their moral concepts at the bottom were relatively low, and they needed a lesson.

Li Long packed his things here, put the three people's bags in a pile, and then sat on a stone, starting to gnaw on the air-dried meat he brought.

He was betting.

Half an hour later, a group of people came to the gully entrance. Besides those three people being driven in front, there were three people riding horses behind. After seeing Li Long, the thin little guy among the three shouted something, and then they all came over together and stopped twenty or thirty meters away.

"What are you doing?" Two of the three people on horseback held guns aimed at Li Long, and another asked Li Long, his tone strict.

"Digging codonopsis." Li Long smiled and stood up.

"They said you robbed their things, why? Put down the gun and come with us!"

"What are you guys doing?" Li Long asked back.

"Patrol team of the Forestry Team." That person said impatiently, "You'd better be honest, otherwise our gun muzzles won't recognize people!"

"Oh, colleagues, I'm also from the Forestry Team." Li Long smiled, "Didn't you guys ask carefully? These three people actually wanted to rob my codonopsis, and then were scared by my gun—that's all..."

"You say you're from the Forestry Team? What do you do?" That person saw Li Long was so calm, and his tone immediately wasn't so strict, "Do you have proof?"

"Yes." Li Long carried the gun, took out the proof from his jacket pocket and handed it over, "Take a look."

These three people were riding horses and carrying guns, basically it was impossible for them to be accomplices of those three people.

The leader flipped through Li Long's proof and asked again:

"Li Long?"

"It's me."

"Okay, our own people."

"These are the three people's bags, I didn't touch them." Li Long said, "I see there is blood on them, don't know if it was what they did before. Just now I fired a shot, just thinking you guys would be nearby."

"Smart. It's autumn, afraid of someone setting fire in the mountains, causing a fire disaster." The leader's tone completely softened, "Here, your proof. Well done!"

Next, it was the interrogation of those three people, and the bags were opened in front of Li Long.

What made Li Long a bit dumbfounded was that the blood was the blood of a wild mountain goat. They set a trap and caught one, and when killing the goat, the blood got stained on it.

They had robbed someone digging medicinal herbs, but didn't hurt the person's life, just robbed the things. These three people came from the interior, but didn't commit a crime, just wanted to earn money.

Still okay, not any big evil people.

Finally, the three people were taken away with their things to be dealt with. Since they committed a crime in someone's hands, don't think about leaving easily. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 302 =====