"Yes, yes!" The hunter who claimed to be a little side waved his hand and shouted at the other people: "What are you doing when you are still standing there? Let Master Jiu down quickly!"

Several people were in a hurry, untied the rope and put me down from the tree.

Xiao Fang shouted from the side: "Slow down! Slow down! Alas—"

Bang!

With a dull sound, I rolled around in the air, sitting on the ground, falling from the sand, making my butt smoke.

"What are you doing? What should I do if Master Jiu breaks it?"

Xiao Fang ran to me while shouting and asked with concern: "Master Jiu, is it okay?Master Jiu?"

I covered my butt with my hands, stood up with pain, and pretended to be fine and patted the dirt on my trouser legs: "It's okay! What can I do?"

To be honest, I was so embarrassed just now. Not only was it said that I was hung on a tree like a wild boar, but I also fell so big. Where did I put my face on Jiu Ye?

I saw the other hunters, and they all held back their laughter. They were all laughing at my landing position just now.

I took a deep breath and stuck my right index finger into my butt, so that I could feel more comfortable.

"Laugh! Why are you laughing?" Xiao Fang walked over and kicked the guys on the butts: "I don't know anything at all, call Master Jiu!"

"Justice Jiu!" Several other hunters bowed to me and shouted crisply.

Xiao Fang helped me to sit under the trunk of the tree: "Master Jiu, you have a rest first!"

I rolled up my trouser legs and took off the rope from my ankle. I saw a large piece of bruise on my ankle, leaving a clearly visible mark on my rope.

I rubbed my ankles and felt so depressed. Damn, Master Jiu, it’s so embarrassing to be caught in such a mechanism!

"Master Jiu, you... why are you here?" Xiao Fang looked at me strangely.

"I don't know why I'm like this!" I said angrily. Thinking of the past two days, I felt like I had a nightmare.

"Two days ago, didn't you go to the grave mountain and catch zombies?" Xiao Fang asked me in a low voice.

I smiled awkwardly: "Yes, I did go to catch zombies, but some accidents happened!"

"What accident?" Xiao Fang asked me.

"Hey!" I sighed depressedly: "It's a long story. After I have time after I go back, I will tell you slowly! What are you doing? Are you going to hunt?"

"Yes!" Xiao Fang nodded and said, "Don't we have to celebrate the New Year now? We are thinking about getting some wild game and treating it as New Year's goods! We are from the mountains, buying New Year's goods is just going to hunt. Whether we can have a good New Year depends on whether we are lucky! Master Jiu, don't interfere, they... they treated you as wild boars just now..."

"Is this far from the Gaoshan Village?" I asked.

Xiao Fang said: "It's not too far, nor too far, nor too close. When we come here, we will have more than a day of traveling!"

I nodded, glad that I was lucky. It would be easier to meet Xiao Fang and the others here, with them leading the way.

Bang! Bang!

Two muffled sounds suddenly came from behind, and the two hunters fell to the ground with their heads in their arms. Liu Hongyi's figure jumped out of the bushes.

"Who is it?" Xiao Fang drew out his hunting knife.

"Hongyi, stop!" I shouted, and Liu Hongyi stopped in front of the small side.

Xiao Fang was stunned for a moment, rubbed his eyes, and quickly put away his hunting knife: "It turns out it's Miss Liu, I'm so respectful!"

Liu Hongyi looked at Xiao Fang with a strange look on her face: "You...you are not the ones who carried the coffin at Lao Zhao's house..."

"It's me! Yes, it's me! These are all from the same village. We come here to hunt and buy New Year's goods!" Xiao Fang said as he helped up his partner who was lying on the ground.

Liu Hongyi clasped her fists and apologized: "Oh, sorry, I misunderstood you, I apologize to everyone!"

Liu Hongyi walked up to me: "I saw you haven't come back for a long time and I was worried that something had happened to you, so I came to see you. As a result, I saw so many people surrounding you, and I thought you had encountered a bandit, haha!"

I followed and smiled: "Everyone is my own, and I am my own!"

Liu Hongyi frowned and pointed at my ankle and asked, "How did it happen?"

"Oh, Miss Liu, this is definitely a misunderstanding!" Xiao Fang quickly stood up and described the situation to Liu Hongyi just now. When he heard that I was mistakenly thought to be a wild boar by them, Liu Hongyi covered her mouth and laughed. The laughter made me want to find a crack in the ground to drill down.

"Stop laughing, would you please give me some face?" I said with a pout.

"Okay, don't laugh, don't laugh anymore!" Liu Hongyi waved her hand and looked at me with a joke: "The dignified Master Xiangxi is actually regarded as the wild boar king and almost killed by someone. This is really...incredible!"

"I'm tired, I'm going to rest!"

I stood up depressedly and walked towards the campsite.

"Hurry up, you can take a look at Master Jiu so that he won't go in the condom again!" Liu Hongyi said with a smile from behind.

When I returned to the campsite, the bonfire was burning very vigorously and warmly, and I sat down next to the fire.

This trip was so annoying. The mountain rat was not caught, and now he has an empty stomach. He was almost treated as a wild boar and became a New Year's goods at other people's homes.

"Is the rabbit caught it?" Liu Hongyi sat down next to me.

"Where are rabbits? Look at me like this, can there be rabbits? Let's go to bed early, and you won't feel hungry when you fall asleep!" I knocked on my head and prepared to go to bed, but my stomach rumbling and rumbling.

Xiao Fang was a smart young man. When he heard my stomach screaming, he immediately came up to me and asked, "Master Jiu, are you hungry?"

"Nonsense!" I patted my flat belly, which was like a deflated ball, without any elasticity.

"Hey, do you have something to eat?" I asked.

"Yes!" Xiao Fang patted the tall man next to him: "Take out the dry food, cured meat, and soy sauce in the backpack for Master Jiu!"

The tall man responded and soon put out dry food, cured meat, and soju in front of the fire.

Although these are very ordinary farm food, for Liu Hongyi and I, they are definitely first-class food in the world. We swallowed and said, and said with a hurry: "Then... we are not polite!"

"You're welcome! You're welcome! Even though we eat, there's still something in our bag!" Xiao Fang said with a smile.

I grabbed a piece of dry food, ate it voraciously into my stomach, then took a bite of the cured meat, and drank a sip of soju, and felt a sense of happiness and satisfaction in my heart.

A pot of shochu quickly got a stomachache and my whole body became warm.

Everyone chatted for a few moments, and the topic returned to the zombies.

"Jiu Ye... I heard that zombies appeared on the grave of Gaoshan Village... Is this true?" the tall man asked carefully.

"Really!" I nodded: "Miss Liu and I have seen that zombie with ourselves, and we have fought with that zombie!"

Xiao Fang and others exclaimed in surprise, showing fearful eyes. Zombies are indeed a terrible thing for ordinary people.

"What does that zombie look like? Do they have green faces, fangs, and can suck human blood?" The fat man with a round face came up curiously.

I didn't tell them more, especially the mastermind behind the manipulating zombies, which was like a thorn that lies in my heart. I wish I could pull out this thorn, but I didn't know where the thorn is now.

Xiao Fang used dead branches to twig the fire, frowned and said, "It's impossible. Since ancient times to the present, no zombies have appeared in Gaoshan Village, nor have any evil things have appeared. Could it be... Didn't Mr. Zhou bless our Gaoshan Village?"

The speaker is unintentional, and the listener is intentional.

I raised my eyebrows slightly: "Who is Mr. Zhou? Why does Mr. Zhou bless Gaoshan Village?"

"Oh, that's right!" Xiao Fang explained to me: "Mr. Zhou is the most knowledgeable person in our Gaoshan Village, and he is also a person who has served as a high-ranking official. It is said that during the reign of Emperor Xianfeng, Mr. Zhou was promoted to the fourth rank!"

The tall man asked foolishly: "Is the fourth-rank official a large position?"

"Of course!" Xiao Fang said.

"How old is it?" asked the tall man.

Xiao Fang scratched his head. For him, he didn't know how old the fourth-rank official was, so he casually said: "Well, probably... he is about the same as the current mayor!"

In Xiao Fang's mind, the current mayor is already an amazing official.

A fourth-rank official of the Qing Dynasty?!

I was slightly stunned and looked at Liu Hongyi.

Liu Hongyi also happened to look at me, and she looked as surprised as me: "It's not such a coincidence, right?"

I remember the Qing Dynasty zombie I met in the grave mountain woods before. Isn’t it wearing a fourth-rank official uniform? It just matches Xiao Fang’s narrative just now.

However, the old man Zhou mentioned by Xiao Fang, the people in Gaoshan Village regard him as a guardian, not a zombie?

"Do you know what Mr. Zhou looks like? Are you thin?" I immediately asked Xiao Fang for confirmation.

Xiao Fang shook his head: "Jiu Master, Mr. Zhou is a person from the time of Emperor Xianfeng. How could I know what he looks like? I can't even see him!"

After pausing, Xiao Fang said again: "Oh, by the way, I remember that there seemed to be an ancient painting at the old village chief's house. I heard that the ancient painting was like a portrait of Mr. Zhou! Every village chief must properly keep and worship that portrait. This is an unexplained rule by previous village chiefs in Gaoshan Village!"

I patted Xiao Fang on the shoulder: "Okay, when you return to Gaoshan Village, you will take me to meet the old village chief. I want to see that portrait!"

"Do you want to see the portrait of Mr. Zhou?" Xiao Fang looked at me strangely.

I smiled and made up an excuse casually: "Yes! Mr. Zhou is the guardian of your village. Since I am lucky enough to come to Gaoshan Village, I also worship Mr. Zhou. This is a kind of etiquette! You know, those who do our business pay the most attention to these etiquettes. I don't want to lose my etiquette!"
Chapter completed!