Reborn at 80: From Village Scoundrel to Billionaire

It was already four in the morning when they dragged the black bear down the mountain.

At this moment, Fan Shuanzhu and the four villagers who had come to help were so exhausted that they collapsed on the ground, panting heavily.

Liu Bei pulled out four ten-yuan bills from his pocket.

"Thank you for your hard work. Please take this money."

"Um?"

The four men stared wide-eyed at the ten yuan in their palms.

Ten yuan is enough for a strong laborer to work in the production team for more than half a month.

I earned this money after carrying heavy loads for several hours tonight.

"Is this money really... really for us?"

"Yes." Liu Bei shoved the last card into the hand of a man who was still in a daze. "But there's one condition. I expect all four of you to keep what happened tonight to yourselves. If anyone goes around gossiping, they can forget about ever coming up the mountain with me again."

"Will I go up the mountain with you sometime?"

Upon hearing this, the four people's eyes lit up.

They're not stupid.

I understand what Liu Bei means.

As long as they keep quiet, they can still get a share of the money if they go up the mountain with Liu Bei in the future.

The four of them nodded in agreement.

"Xiao Bei, you can rest assured. We absolutely won't say anything wrong!"

"Um!"

After seeing the four people off, Liu Bei turned to look at Li Dazhuang.

"Dazhuang, go to your second uncle's house and borrow the tractor."

"At this hour?" Li Dazhuang looked at the sky.

"Right now. We have to leave before dawn."

"OK!"

Li Dazhuang nodded and immediately ran towards his second uncle's house.

Twenty minutes later, a hand-held tractor chugped and sputtered to the foot of the mountain.

Liu Bei and his men lifted the black bear and wild boar onto the truck bed and then covered them with two layers of burlap.

Liu Bei sat in the passenger seat, while Fan Ha'er and Tan Si squatted in the truck bed guarding the prey. Li Dazhuang drove the tractor, bumping along the way, straight to the county town.

When we arrived in the county town, it was already around eight o'clock in the morning.

The purple dot reappeared in Liu Bei's line of sight.

One place had the darkest purple dot, a place Liu Bei knew from his previous life—a black market in the county town that specialized in underground transactions.

Liu Bei asked Li Dazhuang to stop the tractor at the alley entrance, and he lifted the burlap sack to reveal half of the black bear's head.

Then, following the depth of the purple dot in their line of sight, they arrived in front of a middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man, surnamed Ma, was in his early fifties and wore reading glasses.

He leaned closer to take a look at the black bear, and his reading glasses almost slipped off his nose.

"This...this big?"

Boss Ma circled the truck bed twice, first touching the bear's paws, then prying open its mouth to examine the teeth, then checking the location of the bear's gallbladder, and finally making his decision:

"This bear...it looks like it weighs at least 500 pounds?"

"Yes."

"The bear gallbladder area is undamaged; it should be intact!"

"Yes, it's complete."

"Four bear paws... well, they're all intact, not one is missing!"

"Yes, they're all here!"

Boss Ma took a deep breath and held up two fingers.

"I want this black bear. Bear gall, bear paws, bear skin, bear meat—I'll pay two thousand for it all, young man. If you agree, we can trade right away! How about it?"

"Hiss~"

Upon hearing this, Li Dazhuang and the others took a deep breath.

Two thousand yuan?

My goodness, this is the highest price they've ever paid since they started hanging out with Liu Bei.

It's out!

This is a huge windfall!

"Okay! Deal." Liu Bei agreed.

"readily!"

Boss Ma counted out two thousand yuan from under the counter and neatly stacked them on the table.

"Young man, why don't you order?"

"No need. Let me think about Boss Ma!" Liu Bei said, putting away the money.

Seeing this, Fan Ha'er grabbed Liu Bei's arm tightly, extremely excited.

"Brother Bei, do you know what? I love you to death. I really love you to death!"

"roll!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Bei got goosebumps all over and quickly kicked him away.

"Brother Bei, I really love you!" Fan Ha'er pouted and said.

"If you keep talking nonsense, I'll sew your mouth shut!"

"..." Fan Ha'er obediently shut his mouth.

"Pfft~" Li Dazhuang burst out laughing.

Tan Si couldn't hold back any longer and laughed as he leaned against the tractor.

Liu Bei counted out one thousand yuan. "As usual, I'll keep one thousand, and the rest you three can split equally!"

While speaking, Liu Bei distributed 330 yuan to Li Dazhuang and the other two.

"Brother Bei, there's still 10 yuan left, how should we split it?" Li Dazhuang asked Liu Bei.

"Give it to Ha'er," Liu Bei said, looking at Fan Ha'er. "Consider it a reward for shooting the lychee!"

"Okay! I have no objection!"

"I agree!"

Li Dazhuang and Tan Si nodded in unison.

Liu Bei immediately stuffed the last ten yuan into Fan Ha'er's hand.

Looking at the thick wad of money in their hands, the three of them exchanged glances and smiled. This trip up the mountain had been worthwhile once again.

Following Liu Bei really does bring you benefits!

"Um?"

At this moment, Boss Ma noticed there was still one wild boar left in the truck bed. "Young man, would you like to sell that boar?"

"Not for sale."

"Not for sale? Why?"

"I'll keep it for other purposes."

"Okay, sure. Next time you have wild game, be sure to come find me! My prices are absolutely fair!"

"Definitely! Goodbye, Boss Ma!"

Take care!

Liu Bei jumped onto the tractor and patted Li Dazhuang on the shoulder.

"Let's go to Linjia Village!"

"Okay!"

……

Linjia Village is located 20 miles east of Daliu Town, nestled on a flat area between two low mountains.

The village has about a hundred households, all living in mud-brick houses, making it even poorer than Fanjiacun.

It was already noon when the tractor drove into the village.

Upon hearing the sound of the tractor, many villagers looked over curiously.

Li Dazhuang parked the tractor in the threshing ground in the middle of the village.

Fan Ha'er jumped off the truck bed, lifted the burlap sack, and revealed the two-hundred-pound sow.

"Fresh wild boar meat for sale! Slaughtered and sold on the spot! One yuan per pound!"

Tan Si immediately started shouting.

Upon hearing this, the villagers swarmed around.

"It really is a wild boar! It's huge! It must weigh at least 200 pounds!"

"That's so cheap, only one yuan per pound?"

"I heard that pork in town costs 7 cents a pound, and wild boar meat sells for 8 yuan. They're selling it for 1 yuan, that's really cheap!"

……

Soon, more and more villagers gathered to watch.

Suddenly, a short, plump woman in the crowd frowned, stared at Liu Bei for a few moments, and then abruptly slapped her large breasts.

"Hey? Isn't that Lin Nanping's nephew-in-law? The one who married that loser Wanqiu!"

"Huh? It really is him! I heard he divorced Wanqiu."

"Yes. I heard that Wanqiu is still staying at his house even though she's divorced from him. I really don't know what she's thinking?"

"That's not all! I also heard that he married three wives, and divorced all three. After the divorces, just like Wanqiu, they still live under the same roof! What a scoundrel!"

"Tsk tsk tsk, it's a wonder Wanqiu can put up with a man like that."

"What's wrong with her? She's just unlucky. She lost her father at three and her mother at seven, and a perfectly good girl married a gambler. If it were me, I would have run away long ago. Why would I still be hanging around there? She's really getting worse with age..."

The villagers chimed in with their own words, each one more offensive than the last, causing Fan Ha'er to frown.

However, Liu Bei acted as if he hadn't heard anything and didn't care at all.

Instead, he jumped off the tractor and joined Tan Si in shouting.

"Folks! Fresh wild boar meat! Selling for a mere one yuan per pound! This is a limited-time offer, so hurry and buy if you want!"

Li Dazhuang: "..."

Tan Si: "..."

I'm truly impressed by Brother Bei's mentality.

The two of them gave each other a thumbs up.

Soon, the news reached Lin Weiguo's home in the east of the village.

At this moment, Lin Weiguo is still in detention.

His father, Lin Nanping, was sitting in the main room smoking a pipe when he heard that Liu Bei had come to sell wild boar meat. He slammed his pipe on the table.

"This is outrageous!"

Lin Weiguo's younger brother, Lin Weijun, was taking a nap in the yard when he heard that Liu Bei had come to Linjia Village to sell wild boar meat. He jumped up, grabbed a stick from behind the door, and rushed out.

"Wei Jun, where are you going?"

"I'm going to teach that bastard Liu Bei a lesson!"

……

A grain drying ground.

"Where's Liu Bei? Get the hell out here!!!"

Upon hearing this, the crowd automatically parted to make way.

Lin Weijun rushed over, stick in hand, and roared at Liu Bei.

"So you've got some nerve! You beat up my older brother in town, causing him to be detained by the police! And now you dare to come to my Lin Family Village in broad daylight to sell wild boar meat? Do you think the Lin Family has no one left?"

"Oh, it's Wei Jun. If you're here to buy wild boar meat, you're welcome. If not, please move aside and don't block my business!"

"Sell your mother's wild boar meat! You're clearly here to cause trouble!" Lin Weijun raised his stick and took two steps forward.

"You dare!!!"

Fan Ha'er stood in front of Liu Bei.

"Damn it! You're asking for it!" Lin Weijun raised a wooden stick and smashed it down on Fan Ha'er's head.

Just then, Liu Bei drew a hunting rifle from his waist and aimed it at Lin Weijun's face.

"You try messing with my brother!!!"

"..."

Lin Weijun was stunned for a moment, then quickly raised his hands, forcing an ugly expression.

"You...you mustn't do anything rash...we're all relatives...let's talk this out..."

Liu Bei stepped forward and snatched the stick from Lin Weijun's hand.

"Bang!"

The next moment, Liu Bei struck Lin Weijun on the shin with a stick.

"Ah~"

Lin Weijun's face changed drastically from the pain.

"Did everyone see that? That guy surnamed Liu, an outsider, came to our Linjia Village to beat me up? I'm surnamed Lin! Tell me, does he even respect our Linjia Village? He beat me up today, he'll dare beat you up tomorrow! If we don't drive this kind of person out, where will our Linjia Village put its face?"

Upon hearing this, the faces of the villagers watching all turned cold.

A dozen hostile gazes simultaneously turned to Liu Bei.