Chapter 293
In the village, most of the houses were made of mud and wood . Some women and children were moving around, but none of them were young and strong .
Seeing this, Liu Ming showed a thoughtful expression and continued to stay on the tree .
He stayed there for half a day . When the sky was about to turn dark, a group of muscular villagers came out from the forest in the other direction of the village . Each of them carried a crossbow in their hands, and on their bodies were some small game like rabbits and birds .
Seeing this, a large group of women and children came out of the village and welcomed their family . The laughter and joy in the crowd became louder .
Liu Ming’s expression changed as he stared at a young girl in a patched up dress who appeared to be no more than fourteen or fifteen years old .
The young girl was pulling a thirty-seven or thirty-eight year old man while chattering something . From time to time, she would use her hand to pull the prey on the burly man’s back with a happy and joyful expression .
However, in Liu Ming’s eyes, other than the young girl being slightly younger and having slightly darker skin, her facial features were similar to Zhang Xiuniang’s .
So he almost didn’t even think before confirming that this woman was Zhang Xiuniang who was addicted to the illusory world .
Liu Ming stood motionlessly on the tree and watched as the woman followed the burly man and another middle-aged woman back into the village with a face full of smiles . After she entered a slightly larger house in the middle of the village, Liu Ming couldn’t help but wrinkle his eyebrows .
Judging from Zhang’s current situation, it was obvious that this was the worst situation that everyone had expected . She was completely immersed in an illusory world .
To awaken Zhang Xiuniang was an extremely difficult thing to do .
And according to Martial Uncle Yan and the others, common methods cannot awaken Zhang Xiu Niang in such a situation .
He had to combine multiple methods .
Liu Ming thought like this and his eyes flashed a few times, but he still decided to make contact with her before he thought of a plan .
With a movement of his body, he jumped down from the large tree . After a few flashes, he disappeared into the nearby forest .
The next morning, a youth wearing a shabby leather robe with a slightly pale complexion suddenly appeared at the road entrance outside the village .
When the villagers saw this stranger, they naturally stopped him and brought him to the village elders to interrogate him .
This seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man claimed that he had lost his memory . He simply didn’t remember his name or background, and didn’t know why he was here .
The young man’s reply naturally made the people in the village not believe him at all . They also called the village’s only doctor to inspect him .
The old doctor easily discovered a large black and purple blister on the back of the youth’s head . So, this youth’s head might have been severely injured, and there was indeed a high chance of him losing his memory .
As a result, the elders in the village couldn’t help but be dumbfounded .
The villagers were a little dumbfounded . After some discussion, they decided to allocate an abandoned house and let the young man stay in the village for the time being .
Fortunately, apart from his head injuries, the young man was healthy . He should be able to support himself and not be a burden to the village .
So the nameless young man stayed in the village and like the other young villagers, he went hunting during the day .
After a few days, the villagers were surprised to discover that this nameless young man was actually a good hunter . Not only was he surprisingly strong, but the self-made hunting bow in his hand was extremely accurate . Almost every day, he returned with a bountiful harvest that even the best hunters in the village could not match .
As for the nameless young man, after leaving behind enough prey for himself to eat, the rest of the food was distributed to the other people in the village .
Under these circumstances, even though the young man had yet to regain his memory, the rest of the villagers couldn’t help but treat him kindly . After another month or so, the village completely accepted the young man .
Zhang Ya was originally the best hunter in the village, Zhang Xiong’s only daughter . It was said that her mother was the village’s number one beauty back then, and her father spent three days and three nights hunting a huge, 300-pound wild boar as a betrothal gift before he married her back to his family .
Zhang Xiong and his wife doted on their only child and as she grew older, she became even more beautiful than her mother .
Since two years ago, many families had sent matchmakers to the Zhang Family to discuss the marriage, even including a large family in a town hundreds of miles away .
But Zhang Xiong and his wife were reluctant to let their beloved daughter get married so early, so they all tactfully refused .
Thus, after another two years, Zhang Ya was already fifteen years old . If she did not get married, she would become an old lady, so Zhang Xiong and his wife would no longer dare to delay their daughter’s marriage .
However, as the head of the family, Zhang Xiong proposed a condition . One had to take out prey like the huge wild boar as a betrothal gift in order to marry his daughter .
Such conditions disheartened many of the young people who thought they were brave and strong .
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