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"I know, all the mountains nearby are small; there won't be any fierce beasts, and I'm not going toward Mian Mountain anyway,"

Zhou Xi paused when he reached this point. Mian Mountain was the mountain in the direction of the county town, after they left the village. That area was a chain of mountains connected to each other. They weren't particularly tall, but he remembered that when they were kids, they would often go up there to look for wild fruits, wild chickens, rabbits, and such. There were more of those there than in other mountains.

There were even wild boars, deer, and wolves.

But the young men of Qili Village were brave. They weren't discouraged from going to Mian Mountain. With friends calling out to one another, as long as there were many of them, they dared to cross Mian Mountain all the way to another county.