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There are two routes to Linjiadang. One is a mountain road, which takes more than three hours to walk.

The other option is to take a bus to the county and then transfer there, which only takes half an hour.

However, the journey takes quite a while. Nowadays, buses aren't always on time, and it's common to wait for an hour or two if you're unlucky. In the end, you might not even be able to walk as fast as you would have.

The final decision was to walk. Lin Chuan was strong, so he carried everything, while his mother and Lin Feng walked empty-handed. Walking was no big deal these days.

We were planning to stay for one night, so my mom went to Zhang Jinmei's place that evening to ask her to help feed the pigs, chickens, cats, and dogs.

The next day, before dawn, his mother got up to cook. After breakfast, Lin Chuan picked up two baskets and set off.

The basket contained the gifts that had been bought; at Lin Chuan's suggestion, only cigarettes, alcohol, and some fruit were purchased.

My mom always says, "I can't bear to look, I can't bear to look," but now that she has money, she wants to buy more things.

Then Lin Chuan waved his hand and added two typhoon fans. The old man and the others were definitely reluctant to buy fans, which made Mom feel a little heartbroken.

In the end, it was decided that one basket was filled with fans, cigarettes, alcohol, and fruit, and the other basket had Lin Xue sitting in it.

Lin Chuan gave her this ride. Knowing that there was a "private car," the little girl was so happy that she hugged Lin Chuan and kissed him several times.

After laughing and joking for more than two hours, when they reached a stone forest, Lin Chuan spoke up:

"Wait a minute."

"What's wrong? Are you tired? Xiaoxue, come down. You're such a big girl, and you still need someone to carry you. Isn't that embarrassing?"

"Mom, it's alright, Xiaoxue isn't heavy, I can carry her quite easily." Lin Chuan took out his bow and arrows.

"You guys take a break, I'll go wander around the neighborhood and see if I can get something to eat, so you won't say I didn't buy any meat."

"Oh well, if you didn't buy it, you didn't buy it. Where are you going to find anything in these mountains?"

"It's okay, Mom. I was just wandering around and came back when I didn't see it."

As Lin Chuan spoke, he gave Lin Feng a wink, signaling him to keep an eye on things.

This was a rocky area, and they had already reached the middle, so they weren't worried about wild boars.

Without wild boars, there's not much danger on the mountain. Just keep an eye on Lin Xue and make sure she doesn't wander off.

After giving a few instructions, Lin Chuan took his bow and headed west. He remembered that there was a wild boar's den a few miles ahead.

Lin Chuan planned to go and see if he could find any, and if so, he would take them as a gift. If he couldn't find any, then there was nothing he could do.

We were lucky; there really were wild boars in the burrow—two big and three small ones—sleeping inside.

Lin Chuan picked out a boar weighing a little over 100 pounds and aimed at it, as this kind of wild boar tastes better.

"call out."

With such a fixed target, Lin Chuan was naturally unlikely to miss.

If he wanted to, not a single wild boar could escape, but since he couldn't, Lin Chuan let them go.

Lin Chuan pierced several holes with arrows to bleed the wild boar, then carried it back quickly with one hand, running all the way.

The round trip took less than half an hour, and a wild boar was caught.

"You actually managed to kill one? Are wild boars that easy to hunt?"

"Mom, wild boars are not easy to hunt, otherwise why would no one come to hunt them? It's because my brother is good at it."

As a supporter of Lin Chuan, Lin Feng was the first to speak out against his mother.

Lin Chuan smiled slightly: "Mom, is this gift enough? It'll make you look good."

"Yes, yes, Xiaochuan, you're amazing."

The group chatted happily for a few minutes before continuing their journey. The mother wanted Lin Xue to get off the bus and put the wild boar in the basket, but Lin Chuan said it wasn't necessary.

Putting them in the basket made it dirty, since there were several people's clothes inside.

He carried a basket, tied a rope to the wild boar's hind legs, and dragged the boar forward as if nothing had happened.

Only the Lin family lived in Linjiadang; there were no other people there. This kind of one-family-living-in-one-place situation is quite common in mountainous areas.

Most of them moved during the turmoil of the past. Lin Chuan hadn't asked about the past. He only knew that in the early 2000s, his uncle moved to the county with his grandparents.

The two elderly people, who were in good health in the mountains, couldn't get used to living in the county and kept catching colds and getting sick. They insisted on going back to the mountains.

After returning to the mountain, their health improved, and the two elderly people lived to be over eighty years old. Lin Chuan only sent them off a few years before his rebirth.

Walking into the fields near the Lin family's house, I saw a figure working in the fields from afar. It was Lin Chuan's grandfather, Lin Tian.

My mother quickened her pace and called out from a distance, her voice trembling with excitement:

"Dad, I brought Xiaochuan and the others to see you, Dad."

"Xiuxia, ha, Xiaochuan, Xiaofeng, Xiaoxue, what brings you here?"

Lin Tian turned around and saw them. He threw down his hoe and rushed over, his voice tinged with excitement.

Linjiadang and Qiaotouwan are not far apart, but Lin Xue was still young a few years ago and her family was busy, so her mother only came up twice in recent years.

Lin Tian and his uncle Lin He, on the other hand, would go down the mountain several times a year to deliver things to Lin Chuan and the others.

Most of the gifts were sent by Lin He, and the old man hadn't seen them for over a year.

Upon seeing him again, the old man was overjoyed:

"Haha, you've come at the right time! Your grandma is cooking. Come back with me."

"Dad, how are you and Mom feeling?"

"Okay, okay. Why is Xiaoxue still being carried by Xiaochuan? Is she tired? Come here, let Grandpa carry her."

Although she didn't remember him, Lin Xue had heard her mother talk about him before coming, so she knew who he was. She sweetly called out, "Grandpa~"

"Hey, sweetie," the old man opened his arms, ready to pick up Lin Xue, when he suddenly noticed the wild boar dragging on the ground:

"Ha, you guys even hunted a wild boar on the way? Those things are not easy to catch."

The old man, who had come over, noticed something in another basket:

"Fan? What are you guys bringing this thing for?"

The wild boar could explain that he had encountered a taxi on the road, but the fan instantly made him realize that it was specially brought for him.

"Dad, it's hot now, having a fan will help you cool off."

"Nonsense, what would we need this for? Take it with you when you leave in a couple of days, we'll return it. This thing is expensive and uses a lot of electricity."

"Dad, we bought this fan a long time ago and can't return it. We have money now, so don't worry. Xiao Chuan can hunt wild boars and made a lot of money from them."

"Xiao Chuan, wanna hunt wild boar?"

Lin Tian looked over suspiciously, and then noticed that there was indeed a bow hanging on the basket.

Before Lin Tian could take a closer look, Lin Xue wrapped her arms around his neck and sweetly spoke:

"Grandpa, my brother is so amazing! He hunted so many wild boars and he makes Xiaoxue eat meat every day, but Xiaoxue can't eat anymore."

"real?"

Lin Tian's doubts lessened slightly; as everyone knows, children don't lie.

After her mother said a few more words and saw the watches in each of their watches, Lin Tian finally believed that their family's life had improved.

"Good, good. Jiang Zi (Lin's father) passed away early, and you've suffered these past few years. I haven't been able to help much. Fortunately, Xiao Chuan is all grown up now, that's good."

"Dad, you're saying this? If it weren't for your help these past few years, I don't know how I would have survived. I..."

Seeing that the situation was about to escalate into a melodramatic scene, Lin Chuan quickly interrupted:

"Grandpa, let's go back first, I'm hungry."