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Chapter 36 Eviscerating the Bear Bile
  The Black Blind Man moves cautiously and slowly. If he notices something suspicious, he will stop, stand on his hind legs, and look around.

Once it detects danger, it will immediately flee into the dense forest.

Usually, it has a docile temperament, is not good at fighting, and never actively harms people or livestock.

However, sometimes they become extremely ferocious to protect their cubs, in self-defense, or for food.

Especially when forced by danger or injured, they will fight back crazily!

The black blind man in front of him was so violent because he was threatened and forced.

It launched a fierce counterattack towards Xu Ning, who was behind the scenes, but its rough skin and thick flesh could not withstand the power of a No. 16 single-head bomb.

When this blind black man pounced on Xu Ning, because he was on all fours and the V-shaped white stripes were parallel to the slope, Xu Ning could only hit him on the protruding head.

This single-headed bullet accurately hit the black blind man's small eye, spraying out a large amount of minced flesh and blood from the back of its head, all of which scattered onto its back.

Pfft!
  The heavy body of the black blind man suddenly fell to the ground, and he died immediately.

When Xu Ning turned around and took a look, he hurriedly stopped.

However, he still did not look forward in a panic. Instead, he remained alert and slowly moved towards a position on the slope with a clear view.

At the foot of the mountain, Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu heard the gunfire and saw the blind man fall to the ground with a "pop".

Both of them were stunned for a moment, then felt happy inside.

But taking a lesson from the past, they did not scream loudly.

Instead, he shouted towards Xu Ning: "Brother, are you hit?"

Xu Ning was about to move up the slope to observe the situation of the blind man.

He frowned and said, "I don't know!"

Li Fuqiang frowned and took the invasion knife from Wang Hu's hand, and ran towards the mountain.

"Don't move yet, let me take a look!"

Li Fuqiang grabbed the ash willow pole like a general charging into battle. He didn't care about life and death, but he also wanted to help his brother find out whether the black blind man was dead or alive!

Wang Hu quickly followed his footsteps and climbed the mountain.

The two of them were walking very fast. When Xu Ning had just moved more than ten meters, he was less than thirty meters away from the blind man.

Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu rushed to the side of Heixiazi. They had a good sight at this point and saw a big scar on the back of Heixiazi's head at a glance.

"Fuck!"

"Damn it! Brother, this black blind man was shot in the head by you. The melons on the back of the head were all blown away, and all the brains fell on it."

Wang Hu said in shock: "Second brother, you are pissing!!"

Li Fuqiang laughed twice, "What's the point? My brother's shooting skills can kill it with his eyes closed."

When Xu Ning heard this, he ran over quickly.

The three people gathered around the blind man and saw its miserable appearance.

Xu Ning grinned and said: "Pick it up quickly and let's get the bear bile!"

掫 (zhōu), also known as fan, means to lift a heavy object from one side or one end.

"Okay!" Wang Hu responded.

Li Fuqiang said: "Brother, you don't have to do anything, Hu Zi and I will just grab it."

"Okay, second brother, sit down and have a rest."

Xu Ning said with a smile: "I'm not tired so I can take a rest. After Sha Leng has taken the courage, let's make a sledge and drag it home."

Say it.

Xu Ning took out the bullet from the gun and stood under the root of the tree with the gun empty.

Immediately, the three of them joined hands and grabbed the blind man over.

This black blind man is not light, weighing more than 400 kilograms. To describe it in Northeastern dialect, it is dead and heavy. The three of them turned the dead black blind man over with great effort, and then they saw a V-shaped white stripe on its chest, and the whole body was still radiating warmth.

Wang Hu and Li Fuqiang stood on both sides, turning to look at Xu Ning standing in the middle.

"Second brother, how do you disembowel the blind man?"

Xu Ning said: "Remember what I told you? For big animals, you need to cut hard, and for small animals, you need to be steady."

"Brother, give me the knife."

Li Fuqiang grabbed the invasion knife, took off the ash wood pole connecting the invasion knife, handed the knife to Xu Ning with the blade facing inward and the handle facing outward.

Xu Ning took the knife and said: "Brother Huzi, you two should learn from this. I will disembowel you when you go up the mountain."

"Yeah, I know you dislike Mi Tai."

Li Fuqiang smiled and said: "Why don't you bury Tai? What your second brother means is that he wants us to have a sense of participation."

He said it very euphemistically, but what Xu Ning actually meant was that both of them had to work, and when the time came to divide the money, there wouldn't be so much to worry about.

According to the rules of the mountain, Xu Ning is the leader of the three-person gang and the cannon, so he should be divided into two groups. Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu are the coolies, so they should each have one group.

But regardless of past life or present life, the two of them were his brothers, so he didn't want to follow the mountain rules and simply divided the money equally.

After all, Li Fuqiang helped Xu Ning a lot when he returned home in a previous life, and he was truly sincere to him.

Lao Wang's family is not bad either. Wang Erli helps in various ways, and Wang Hu and Wang Biao also buy him things.

At this moment, Xu Ning squatted beside Heixiazi, used the knife to cut open Heixiazi's abdomen, separated the fat, and saw the lantern hanging in the abdomen.

He first took off the lantern hanger and handed it to Wang Hu, who then threw the lantern hanger onto the branch.

Then Xu Ning said to Li Fuqiang: "Brother, please take out my pocket. There is a cloth pocket inside."

Li Fuqiang stepped forward and took out a cloth bag from his pocket, his eyes lit up.

"Brother, when did you do this?"

This cloth bag is nothing more than a bag specially used to store bear bile.

The weather in the Northeast is cold, and the bear bile that has just been taken out can easily freeze if not protected.

Xu Ning's work continued, and he used the knife to remove the bear's gallbladder, and said with a smile: "My mother sewed it last night."

"Ah? Did you think about it last night?" Li Fuqiang asked in surprise.

This is a series of tips for the Chang brothers.

"That's not true. I think that sooner or later, I'll have to meet a black blind man anyway. If I don't have the guts, I'll have to kick him in my arms. Then I'll die..."

As Xu Ning spoke, he took out the bear bile from Heixiazi's belly and weighed it in his hand. It weighed less than a kilogram. After dipping it in water and drying it in the shade, he estimated that there would be five or six taels left.

"Grass gall!" Wang Hu's eyes lit up.

Xu Ning nodded and said with a smile: "Yeah, this must be almost a pound."

"The green ones are grass gallbladders, and the yellow ones are copper gallbladders? Isn't this worth the old nose's money?" Li Fuqiang asked.

Xu Ning said: "In the northeast, grass gallbladders and copper gallbladders are distinguished by the color of bear bile freshly harvested. In the south, grass gallbladders and copper gallbladders are distinguished by the color of bear bile dried in the shade. The inner gallbladders are golden powder and are called copper gallbladders, while the gray and black gallbladders are called copper gallbladders. Iron gall, green gall is called grass gall. If the copper gall is worth old nose money, our grass gall can also be worth 1,800 yuan."

"Fuck, is it worth all this money?"

"Yeah, the supply and marketing cooperative or drug store in the street collects bear bile. The price of grass bile is about 2200 yuan per pound."

Wang Hu patted his legs, "Why don't you let it go?"

It did happen, and it’s now 1983.

For example, Xu Long works in the security department of a forest farm and can earn 32 yuan per month. Xu Chunlin, who works as an accountant and has more service experience, can earn 52 yuan per month.

But a bear's gallbladder is equivalent to a year's salary for two people plus one pile!
  Moreover, the prices of bear bile and other medicinal materials have not yet been raised.

In two years' time, a pound of grass gall will be worth 3600, and if it's copper gall, it'll cost another five to six hundred per pound.

(End of this chapter)