Chapter 33: Down from the Mountain

  Jin Hu silently walked out of the village, Lv Cheng looked at Jin Hu and asked: "Tiger brother! What's wrong?" Upon hearing this question from Lv Cheng, the other three who were riding on horseback also looked at Jin Hu.

  Looking at these four concerned faces, Jin Hu smiled and thought to himself: This is the only power I can trust now. Thinking of this, he suddenly felt a surge of boldness: "Nothing, follow me down the mountain and fight our way out of the sea of flames to wealth and glory!"

  "That's for sure, otherwise Tiger Brother, where are you taking us?" Dan Bao said to Jin Hu.

  "Brother Tiger, my dad told me to listen to you. Whatever you say is fine with us," said Lu Yuanmao, whose words were met with approval from Yang Benlin: "Maizi's words are well said."

  "Haha!" Jin Hu laughed twice: "Alright, let's hurry back. We'll set off early tomorrow morning." After finishing speaking, he urged his horse to move forward and shouted: "Go!" As he walked along the small mountain path ahead, hearing the few shouts of "go" behind him, Jin Hu knew that the four had caught up and would continue to follow him.

  The five of them returned to the village, it was already almost 10 o'clock at night. Jin Hu threw the reins to Lü Cheng and walked towards his home.

  "Father! Mother! I'm back!"

  Zuo Cui pushed open the door and came out of the house, looking at her son standing in the yard with a puzzled expression, asking: "Why didn't your uncle ask you to stay overnight?"

  Jin Hu smiled at his mother: "I'm leaving tomorrow, isn't it that I'll be back late tonight? I'll just hurry back." As he spoke, he walked towards the house.

  Zuo Cui followed her son into the house and asked Jin Hu, "I thought you were going to come over with your uncle tomorrow?"

  "Maybe Uncle will not make it this time," Jin Hu said, looking at his old man.

  Zuo Cui was taken aback: "Then why? It's impossible, your uncle has long wanted your father to take on more responsibility and sit in the position of head of the household, maybe tonight he'll even drink a few more cups!"

  Jin Hu looked at Jin Guangfu, and Jin Guangfu said to Jin Hu: "This is your mother, what's wrong with our family talking behind closed doors?"

  "Uncle won't be coming this time," he said, and then told his parents everything he had heard.

  She hadn't even finished speaking when Zuo Cui sat down on the stool, wiping away tears and saying nonstop: "Has it come to this? This matter hasn't even reached that point yet, but my sister-in-law is already thinking of getting rid of me completely. You can say something reasonable, can I let Left Shang and Left Qi follow along?" As she spoke, she stood up from the stool: "I'll go ask my brother and sister-in-law tomorrow, who was it that my son's great-grandfather rescued when he led twelve villages to storm the county town and behead the officials? Just for this one thing, if my son wants him to follow along and lose his head, which of these ten or eight village heads can say anything against it? Now it's good, now they can't even exchange a word with me."

  "Just stop bothering and let's handle our own family matters!" Jin Guangfu said to Zuo Cui.

  Zuo Cui wiped away tears and said: "I'm heartbroken, I heard that in the village, it's said that within a blink of an eye, ten children were taken away to follow Hu Er down the mountain, no one else knows, just their family is clever!"

  Jin Guangfu listened and said to Zuo Cui: "What do you understand? This is not the same! This is called Jinjia Village." After finishing, he turned his head to Jin Hu and said: "You also remember, the village is your foundation. The lives of ten or a hundred people outside are not as precious as one child in our village! They risk their lives for you, not for money, they sell their lives to the village."

  "I understand." Jin Hu nodded after hearing it.

  "Understood? Then go to sleep! We'll leave early tomorrow morning!" Jin Guangfu said to Jin Hu.

  Jin Hu nodded and turned back into the house. Lying on the bed, he heard his old mother's murmuring complaints and his father's silent puffing on a cigarette.

  Jin Hu slept until the sky was bright, and then his mother called him to get up. She took him to the ancestral graves on the mountain slope, where she had placed offerings of pastries in front of more than a dozen tombs. Holding Jin Hu's hand, she kowtowed before a large tomb: "Ancestors, please protect us. Our family only has this one child left. If anything happens to him, our ancestral line will be cut off and you won't have any descendants to offer sacrifices for much longer." After that, she took Jin Hu to each of the tombs, where they kowtowed together.

  Back home, the sky was already bright. After eating something, Jin Hu thought of carrying the package, but it was already slung over his father Jin Guangfu's shoulder. The three of them left the yard and walked towards the village gate. Every household opened their doors, with old and young standing at the entrance. The whole village saw them off to the gate. Jin Hu and Shan Bao, Lv Cheng, four people led the mountain horses, bowed to the villagers with a fist, then mounted their horses and rode out of the mountains.

  With the horse's speed, they arrived at Tupingzi in front of Menzishan Pass in two hours. Several children were playing with a cart nearby. After tying up the horse, Jintiger opened the car door and knew that as soon as he left, Shanguazi would close the door and put all the gifts behind him. The four boys had already rushed in impatiently.

  Just as things were settled, someone called out to him: "Tiger Brother!". Jin Hu turned his head and saw that the second grandson of Pole Grandfather, Ma Yào, was running towards him. He asked in surprise: "How did you end up here?".

  "I ran out of the house, and my grandfather told me to wait for half a year. Half a year from now, the yellow flowers will have wilted." As he spoke, he tossed the small net bag in his hand onto the car: "Move over! Give me some space, Ben Lin, your butt is huge!" After finishing speaking, he tried to climb onto the car but was pulled down by Jin Hu.

  "Grandpa Stick didn't agree, I couldn't take you out," Jin Hu said, looking at Ma Yeo.

  Ma Yeo looked at Jin Hu and blinked his eyes: "Tiger brother, your strength is really impressive, I think this move of yours is even more impressive than my grandfather's".

  Jin Hu looked at him and smiled, saying: "Don't drag me into this, hurry back!"

  "I won't!" Ma Yiao looked at Jin Hu and said, "If you don't take me with you, I'll follow the car and run away. In any case, I'm not going back!" After finishing speaking, he directly squatted down on the ground.

  Jin Hu shook his head, feeling helpless. Don't think he's just trying to scare you, he really can do this. Thinking that the warehouse is not very dangerous at the moment, he said: "Alright! You listen obediently." Seeing the little guy jump up from the ground and climb towards the car, Jin Hu smiled and took out his phone.

  Here's the signal, first make a phone call to Wang Jun, after getting through, Jin Hu said: "Brother Jun, I'm Hu Zi, I want to tell you something" and then told him everything about his situation, without beating around the bush, directly asking Wang Jun to come over and help train these mountain rascals.

  "What's good about this?" Wang Jun heard and became happy: "Then I'm willing to do it!"

  It's refreshing to talk to straightforward people. Jin Hu brought up the matter of renting a warehouse again, wanting to find a suitable place. Jin Hu planned to take someone to Zhang Yifan's place first to deal with it for a day or two and sell off the gold bars in hand, then drive to the coastal area of the province to rent a warehouse. Coincidentally, during this period, Wang Jun also wanted to settle his current real estate matters.

  After discussing on the phone, Jin Hu hung up and told Gua Wazi's father that someone would come to pick up the horse tomorrow, then got in the car.

  Fortunately, Jinhu's vehicle was an off-road car, and the four little ones squeezed in behind him could still fit. He rolled down the window slightly and drove the car along the road towards the outside.

  After about ten minutes, a distant drumbeat seemed to be heard. Jin Hu turned off the engine and listened to the beat. Four drums and three cymbals were the signal of the Jin family village, but this drumbeat was not from the Jin family village itself, it was a message transmitted by another village. After four drums and three cymbals, there were nine loud drumbeats, followed by another round of drumming and cymbal-clashing. Shan Bao counted while listening: "Jin Family Village, friends from all over the world, in three days, the master's ascension ceremony".

  After listening to the drumbeat, Jin Hu silently restarted the car. Along the way, the five kids were lively and noisy, playing and joking around, not knowing what was going on. Jin Hu shook his head at the sight.

  Jin Hu couldn't have imagined that these five rowdy mountain kids would later become known as the Five Tigers under his command, with a reputation for being fierce and fearless in battle, like crabs charging forward without hesitation.

  The youngest, Ma Yiao, looked at his comrades who had just broken through the defense line of a famous European mercenary army. He turned to a blonde reporter beside him and said, "Is this what they call strong?" After finishing speaking, he spat on the ground, and the photo was plastered on the front page of countless newspapers.

  There were many brick houses that looked down on the five people, saying they had an equipment advantage and a style like a rapist, directly taking off their pants and going up, without any foreplay, not taking care of the opponent's mood at all. Without knightly demeanor, it can't be considered a general, and being defeated by brainless fools is really shameful. Brick houses would not face these five people head-on, facing them would either result in being raped or gang-raped, depending on whether you encountered one or several of them. Later on, as the number of people who were raped or gang-raped increased, the pressure on brick houses grew. Those who were defeated by fools were even worse than idiots, and they began to tout the benefits of the five people. Losing to a formidable opponent should at least have some dignity. It's just that it's not our army being incompetent, but the enemy being too cunning.

  We didn't stop to eat on the way. The little mountain eggs were out for a long time for the first time, and their excited stomachs were always full. After playing, they stretched their heads through the car window to look at the roadsides, and even when they saw a train, they would shout.

  Driving from outside the city, they arrived at Zhang Yifan's courtyard gate. Hearing the sound of the car outside, Zhang Yifan laughed and welcomed them out.

  "Trouble you for two days, once we find a place, we'll move," Jin Hu said to Zhang Yi Fan.

  Zhang Yifan looked at his five little sons and said, "A group of sturdy young men, come in quickly." After finishing speaking, he led Jin Hu and several others into the house.

  Entering the house, Jin Hu saw that several folding beds had already been set up in one of the rooms, and the bedding was all laid out.

  There's already a golden house in the book, scanning will bring even more surprises. Open WeChat immediately, scan the QR code or search for the public account "Starting Point", add attention and take it down easily!