The Beginning of a Courtyard House: Sixty Years of Internal Strength

Li Jianguo recounted everything he had overheard to Yao Yao.

"Brother Jianguo, I didn't expect the fight to be so minor. It was just a mediation session. I was really worried they would call the police."

"They weren't seriously injured. The hospital check-up showed only minor injuries. At most, they'll get some compensation. Don't worry."

"Let's go to sleep. There probably won't be any good shows coming down."

After saying that, Li Jianguo pulled Yao Yao to bed.

After leaving the old lady's house, Li Cuilan hurriedly returned home, closed the door, and bolted it.

"Old Yi, the old lady has quite a few good things in her hands. She gave me two small yellow croakers directly." Li Cuilan clicked her tongue and took out the gold bars from her bosom.

"It's just two small yellow croakers. For the old lady's family, it's nothing."

Yi Zhonghai took the small yellow croaker, took a bite, nodded in satisfaction, and gently stroked it twice. "Go and keep this safe, don't lose it."

Li Cuilan quickly wrapped it in several layers before hiding it.

Yi Zhonghai then spoke.

"Cuilan, I've been thinking, although we can't hire a killer, we can't just do nothing."

Starting tomorrow, you will spread rumors that Li Jianguo disrespects the elderly and beats up his neighbors.

First, ruin his reputation. If I do nothing, the hospital staff will think I'm afraid of him.

"Yeah, that works too, Lao Yi. No reaction at all, that's very unusual for him."

Yi Zhonghai then lay down, groaning.

The next day, after breakfast, Li Jianguo told Yao Yao about the plan.

"Yaoyao, I'll go to the factory to get a task first. Let's pretend to go back to our hometown. Let's pretend to hide for a while."

I want to go to the mountains, hunt a tiger or something, and then make tiger bone wine and tiger penis wine to nourish myself.

Yao Yao blushed as soon as she heard that.

"No need, Brother Jianguo, you're already strong enough. I can't even handle it anymore, why would you need to supplement it?"

Li Jianguo laughed and said, "I mainly want to avoid trouble. After all, we offended almost everyone in the compound yesterday. I'm worried that you might get bullied if you stay at home."

You're just an ordinary girl now. They beat you up. Even if I come back to get revenge, you'll still have gotten a beating.

Yao Yao thought about it and nodded quickly. "That's right." The two of them finished off the steamed buns in a few bites and then went out.

After leaving the house, Li Jianguo remembered the silk shop, but he had to take care of business first.

He led Yao Yao into an alley. "Yao Yao, you go into the space first. I've gone to the factory to pick up a mission."

"Let's go straight into the mountains. There are no tigers near Beijing. We need to go deep into the Taihang Mountains, which is over 200 kilometers away."

"Okay, Brother Jianguo."

Li Jianguo found a corner, put Yao Yao into his spatial storage, went to receive his mission, and then strolled towards the outskirts of Beijing. Once he reached a secluded spot, he boarded a donkey cart.

I didn't expect there to be so many people nearby. I had originally planned to walk for four or five hours to get to the vicinity of Xishan.

Entering the forest from here, you can follow the mountain range to the Taihang Mountains. However, there are quite a few people here, many of whom are hunting in the mountains. Li Jianguo had no choice but to find a corner to return to his space.

"Brother Jianguo, why are you back so soon? Have you arrived yet?"

"Ugh, don't even mention it, it's crowded everywhere. There are too many people in the Western Hills area, and quite a few hunters wandering around in the mountains too. I think I'll wait until tonight to set off."

In the afternoon, Li Jianguo spent the whole day with Yao Yao in the space. In the evening, he took out his night clothes, put them on, leaving only his eyes showing, and observed his surroundings before leaving the space.

He then used the Lingbo Weibu technique to plunge into the mountains and forests. After all, it was more than 200 kilometers away. If he used other methods, he would probably run out of internal energy before he even reached his destination. Although internal energy cannot be restored in this world, the Lingbo Weibu technique consumes less energy.

Once he reached the depths, he leaped onto the treetops and began sprinting into the heart of the mountains at an astonishing speed, probably around 60 km/h.

Crossing mountains and valleys takes too much time. If it were on flat ground, it would only take five or six hours to get there, but now it would probably take ten or more hours.

As he walked, he got lost. There were trees and mountains everywhere, and he could no longer tell where he was; he only knew the general direction.

It was night again, so I could only look at the North Star to find my way and ran wildly according to my approximate location.

By the middle of the night, he was completely lost, surrounded by forests. He had no choice but to return to his spatial dimension, thinking to himself that he should have bought a compass; what a mistake.

Back in the space, Yao Yao was already asleep, and Li Jianguo crawled into bed and fell asleep as well.

When Yao Yao woke up the next morning, she asked curiously, "Brother Jianguo, how did it go? Did you get to the deep mountains? Did you find the tiger?"

"Oh, Yao Yao, don't even mention it. We're lost, and I don't even know where we are. I'll go out and look for it later. If we find a tiger, we'll shoot one down, and then we'll head back in the general direction."

"Okay, Jianguo, be careful. It's all wooded. What if there are poisonous snakes or something?"

"Don't worry, I understand. With my skills, even a poisonous snake can't bite me."

Li Jianguo left the space again and began searching everywhere.

Tiger tracks are too hard to find, after all, we don't know which mountain they are in.

He ran for half a day in the direction of the depths of the Taihang Mountains. Five or six hours later, he heard a tiger roar. He became excited and quickly ran towards the direction of the sound.

They actually found an adult Siberian tiger. Li Jianguo didn't dare to approach it; after all, the ferocity of tigers was no joke.

He concentrated his energy and killed the tiger with two blows. Looking at his hands, he realized he had underestimated his own strength; the tiger had died with just two blows.

After storing the spoils in his spatial storage, he wasn't in a hurry to go back. He was already here, and it was only the second day. He decided to keep searching and maybe he could catch another one. So he crossed several more mountains to continue his search.

Instead of finding a tiger, they found a herd of sika deer – that's a real treasure!

Before the deer herd could disperse, he flew up and grabbed a few alive, storing them directly into his spatial storage. This way, he would never lack deer antlers and venison again.

He then continued his search for tigers. After several hours, he finally found one, killed it with two slaps, and stored it in his spatial storage.

When I got back to the space, it was almost dark. I'll play for another day tomorrow.

Yao Yao saw that there were two tigers and a group of deer in the space.

"Brother Jianguo, did you just arrest these people?"

"That's right, now we'll have venison and deer antlers to use. Let's hunt for another day tomorrow, then head back. We're already here, who knows, we might find something good tomorrow."

On the third day, Li Jianguo searched carefully again, not only looking for tigers, but also finding some pheasants.

In this day and age, it should be called "Flying Dragon" in Northeastern cuisine, and stewed Flying Dragon with mushrooms is also quite good.

He searched around and caught a few more, finally finding a Siberian tiger. After storing it in his spatial storage, he began his return journey.

Although he was still lost, he could only roughly run back in the direction he came from, but the more he felt something was wrong, it seemed that he had gone quite a distance off course.