“HA HA HA…. More than just a few! Back in
the days when grandpa was on the field, him and his master general – two mean
and two swords – fought over 100 enemy soldier and killed some of them while
the others scurried away…” Gu Xiao started tooting his own horn when it came to
telling stories of his past. No only did his stories attracted Gu Ming’s
buddies, even the villagers that were helping with the rebuilding of the houses
were drawn in by them.
The grandfather was definitely Gu Ming’s
newest hero. He had made up his mind that he’d put in a lot of hard work to
learn Kungfu from his grandfather and become a hero on the field just like him!
Gu Ye had to hurry to make up some
excuses, “I didn’t know what happened either. This thing dashed out in front of
me out of nowhere and ran into a tree and knocked itself out. Well, I wasn’t
startled in vain as I got lucky with it.” Gu Ye gave her most innocent smile
under Gu Xiao’s scrutinizing look.
Gu Ming bought her story right away.
Gauging the weight of the deer in his hand, Gu Ming smiled and said, “It’s
around 100 lbs in weight! Mei mei is so lucky. You always catch
something when you go into the mountains!”
Gu Ye sweated profusely: all those little
animals inside the traps had nothing to do with her. She, too, was curious
which nice guy had been doing such good deeds! As for where this deer come
from, she was the only one who knew the truth.
“Exactly! I am so lucky to have such a
wonderful brother!” said Gu Ye fawning over her brother to butter him up,
trying to muddle the matters at hand.
Sure enough, Gu Ming was so happy he
busted out laughing after hearing her words. When Gu Xiao saw that, he was
minorly envious and cleared his throat on purpose to get the attention of his
granddaughter.
Surely Gu Ye did not disappoint him.
Quickly she added, “It was lucky for Gu Ye to meet grandpa too! The heaven must
be trying to make up for me for all the hardships that I had to go through and
blessed me with such luck and letting me run into such lucky events one after
another!”
Gu Xiao had learned all about the little
girl. Her words made him sad and he said to her, “My nice little granddaughter,
you have had a few bad years. Don’t worry, you have grandpa now and nobody can
pick on you from now on. If you want, you can walk side way in the village!”1
“Grandpa, only the crab walk sideways!”
Gu Ye covered up her mouth and smiled. The grandfather and grandson Gu Xiao and
Gu Ming also laughed out loud with her.
“Gu Ming! Gu ming!” It was Li Hao’s voice
from afar, “My sister and I walked passed your trap on our way back from
collecting firewood and saw two pheasants inside. We had brought them back to
you since it was on our way.”
“Wonderful! We will be completely the
beams and treating everyone to dinner tomorrow. This will be another good
additional to dinner!!” Gu Xiao accepted the two fatty pheasants and his eyes
were a straight line from his smile. His grandson and granddaughter were truly
lucky and were so good at picking the right locations for their traps, hunting
all these pheasants and rabbits all the time. He had only been back for 20 or
so days and have already feasted on these in over 10 of those days!
Getting excited, Gu Xiao said to his
grandson and granddaughter, “Let’s go! Grandpa will take you to a special spot
where they had wild hogs from time to time. We will go dig a big trap and see
if we can get a wild hog live!”
Ninth Uncle, who was over to help
immediately shot down his idea and said, “Fifth Uncle, those wild hogs are
vicious! They can take down an adult in no time. It’s too dangerous with two
kids in tow. I don’t think you should go. Deer and pheasants are good enough.
It’s not worth the risk!”
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Notes:
1.
“walking sideways”
means generally acting in an unreasonable way
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