Chapter 638: Unexpected Discovery of a Sign

On the way, the silent Wang Li suddenly said to Wang An:

"Fourth Brother, my dad and mom said that before we came back, they introduced a partner for me, and I came back, so they were thinking of having us meet in these two days."

After Wang Li finished speaking, Wang An was not surprised. After all, getting married early in this era, getting engaged at sixteen or seventeen or seventeen or eighteen, was an extremely normal thing.

After hearing this, Wang An said with a smile: "Isn't this a good thing? Then just meet. If you think it's suitable, then set it; if you don't think it's suitable, then forget it. Why are you still looking so sad?"

From the time Wang Li arrived at Wang An's house early in the morning, Wang An discovered that Wang Li was always frowning and full of worries.

Wang An thought Wang Li was worried about his face, so he didn't pay much attention. After all, many things had to be adjusted by himself.

And many times, many annoying things were like this, which was that the more others said, the more comforting words, actually became a disturbance and trouble for the person involved.

Because this was no different from tearing open the person's wound repeatedly and rubbing salt on it, making the person deepen the pain of this matter again and again.

The most correct way was to downplay this matter, not mention it, not discuss it, and just pretend it didn't happen, which was the best.

So Wang Li, all morning, although he was always silent, neither Wang An nor Wang An's family had ever comforted or enlightened Wang Li.

Hearing Wang An's question, Wang Li said: "If it were before, it would indeed be a good thing, but in my current state, I just think, I'm a bit unworthy of others, that is, I don't really want to find a partner."

Wang An's heart instantly "thumped" upon hearing this. This brother of his was obviously because of the problem of his appearance, and he started to feel inferior! The main thing was that once "inferiority" was formed, it would be like a curse, making people unable to lift their spirits. If it was too serious, it was possible to suffer from the strange disease of depression.

At this time, Wang An was truly a bit worried.

If he couldn't let Wang Li regain his confidence as soon as possible, then Wang Li, this excellent young man, might always be afraid and always escape in terms of finding a partner and getting married.

Pondering for a long time, Wang An didn't think of a way to make Wang Li cheer up, so he had to say: "Try it first. Anyway, it's already like this. Maybe you care about your face, but others don't care at all. Besides, you haven't even met yet, and there's no shadow yet. Even if you succeed, living together in the future is just like that. If you get along well, live well; if you don't get along, then break up early. Who can die after leaving whom?"

People in this era still had relatively conservative thoughts, so Wang An's words sounded a bit avant-garde.

Wang Li thought for a while and whispered:

"Then... then if... if we break up later, isn't it... isn't it delaying others?"

Wang An laughed upon hearing this and asked Wang Li back: "Do you know why your face was disfigured?"

Wang Li looked at Wang An and shook his head in confusion:

"Didn't they just want to know where those gold pieces were put? Is there any other reason?"

Wang An laughed:

"This matter, from the root, is that you are too kind. What does other people's business have to do with you? She doesn't want to live with you anymore, and you are still saying you are delaying others? What are you thinking? Then you delay her, and she also delays you."

After a pause, Wang An continued:

"Besides, you haven't even met yet, and there's no shadow yet. You are good, you are pondering whether you are worthy or not. You remember, a good man doesn't rely on his face. Who is unworthy of whom is not certain yet, damn!"

Wang An's words, although sounding very reasonable and quite powerful, didn't seem to work for Wang Li, the person involved.

Because after Wang An finished speaking, Wang Li didn't have any reaction, didn't speak, frowned, and fell into deep thought again. After Wang An found that his words didn't work, he looked at Wang Li and directly shut his mouth. The main thing was that when a person drills into a dead end, he can only wait for himself to actively drill out. Otherwise, you truly have no move.

After a while, Wang An greeted Wang Li:

"Come, if you can't think it through, then don't think about it. Let's let the horses run two steps, and try to get back as soon as possible."

After Wang An finished speaking, he didn't wait for Wang Li to react, clamped his legs tightly on the horse's belly, and shouted "giddy-up" and "giddy-up" twice. Immediately after, the horse heard the instruction and ran forward.

And the reacting Wang Li hurriedly whipped his horse to chase.

Under the fast running of the two horses, Wang An and Wang Li, the brothers, soon arrived near the rocky mountain Wang Dazhu mentioned.

After quickly turning around the rocky mountain to determine the approximate location of the golden eagle nest, the brothers dismounted and tied the horse reins to the trees.

Because there were no adult golden eagles flying in the sky nearby, and there were no piles of bird droppings under the mountain wall, Wang An couldn't determine whether there was a golden eagle nest on the mountain wall.

Wang An, who couldn't determine it, subconsciously asked Wang Li: "Fifth, you said if there is a golden eagle nest on this mountain, where should it be?"

Perhaps because of entering the mountains, or perhaps because of Wang An's words earlier, at this time Wang Li didn't have the sadness before. After hearing Wang An's question, Wang Li said:

"I just think there is no golden eagle on this mountain. Looking at it, it doesn't look like it has one."

Wang An subconsciously said:

"Damn, we won't have run for nothing today, right?"

Wang Li kept looking at the top of the mountain but didn't speak.

Immediately after, the brothers strolled around near this rocky mountain.

Just when Wang An was observing where there were bird droppings on the mountain wall and watching if there were golden eagles flying in the sky, Wang Li suddenly said:

"Fourth Brother, look, someone must have been here before. There are marks on this tree. You said, was that golden eagle nest raided by them two years ago? And the big golden eagle was killed or scared away?"

Wang An looked in the direction of the sound, but felt that what Wang Li said was wrong, because the marks on this tree looked like a "sign" mark.

And "sign," actually, was a mark left by someone who had dug ginseng here, and then cut on the tree.

The method of cutting this mark was also very simple, which was to choose a red pine, and at the position of one person's height on this red pine, peel off a piece of bark.

Then on the smooth trunk where the bark was peeled off, use a "sharp axe" (actually a small axe used for digging ginseng) to cut horizontal marks.

The number of horizontal marks on the left side represents how many people were in the original ginseng-digging group, and the number of horizontal marks on the right side represents the grade of the ginseng leaves they dug up.

Finally, to prevent this piece of bark from growing back, it was also necessary to burn the surrounding pine oil with fire.

And this red pine with a "sign" in front of Wang An and Wang Li was obviously unknown how many years old!

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