Hunting 81: Gathering Goods in the Mountains, I Spoil My Ex-Wife to the Extreme

The next day, before dawn, Li Yunshan got up.

He used a knife to cut the wild boar meat into pieces, then put them into a wicker basket. He then used a carrying pole to pass between the two baskets, lifted them up, and placed them on the back seat of his bicycle.

With over 300 pounds of wild boar meat placed on it, the bicycle seemed somewhat overburdened.

"Li Yunshan, you're here really early."

Just then, Gao Hongmei appeared at the gate of the courtyard.

Seeing Li Yunshan carrying two full baskets of wild boar meat onto his bicycle all by himself, she quickly ran over to help him.

Taking advantage of Gao Hongmei's help, Li Yunshan quickly tied the two wicker baskets together with hemp rope.

"Xiulan, Hongmei and I went to the county town to sell wild boar meat."

Li Yunshan walked into the room and saw that Lin Xiulan had just woken up and was opening her sleepy eyes. He greeted Lin Xiulan.

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiulan's sleepiness vanished by half: "I know, the roads are slippery in the snow, so you and your older sister should be careful on the road."

"Okay, take good care of DouDou at home. We might not be back very early, so don't wait for me for dinner."

Li Yunshan said something, then went to the yard, held the handlebars of the bicycle with both hands, kicked the kickstand away, and then climbed on.

However, the two full baskets of wild boar meat were too heavy. As soon as he stepped onto them, his own weight, combined with the weight of the wild boar meat, immediately caused both the front and rear tires of the bicycle to deflate by half.

As soon as he stepped on the pedal, the bicycle started to slip.

"This is difficult."

Li Yunshan had no choice but to get out of the car and put his foot back up.

If it weren't for the snow, and the dirt road wasn't covered in snowflakes, you could still ride a bicycle even if both tires were half flat.

But the roads are slippery in snowy weather. Both tires of my bicycle are half flat. I can ride the bicycle, but I never know when I'll be unlucky and slip on the road. If I slip and fall, it will be difficult to deal with.

Besides, Gao Hongmei was going to the county town with them.

"I'll go to the village office and see if that tractor there is still there."

After scratching his head and thinking for a while, Li Yunshan suddenly thought of the village office.

The village office has a tractor, which is frequently used to transport fertilizer and local specialties between Xiangyang Commune and the village during the busy farming season.

It's freezing cold now, and it's not the busy farming season, so the tractor at the village office is probably not used by anyone right now.

If no one else is using it, Li Yunshan would like to borrow it for a while.

Without hesitation, Li Yunshan arrived at the village office.

When he arrived at the village office, the village officials had just started working there. They heard that Li Yunshan wanted to borrow the village's tractor to transport wild boar meat to the county town to sell. Considering the contributions Li Yunshan had made to the village recently—killing a bear and donating money to rebuild the village primary school and add desks and chairs—the village officials couldn't refuse and gave Li Yunshan the tractor's hand crank key.

However, the village officials didn't believe that Li Yunshan could drive a tractor.

Faced with the village officials' doubts, Li Yunshan didn't say a word. He took the tractor's hand crank key, skillfully inserted the crank handle into the engine's starter hole, turned off the pressure relief valve, then gripped the crank handle tightly with his five fingers together, and turned it rhythmically from bottom to top.

Soon, the tractor emitted a plume of black smoke and began to sputter and sputter.

"Yunshan, you seem to know him quite well."

The village officials couldn't help but be surprised.

"When I was just messing around, I learned a little bit of everything, and I never thought it would come in handy now."

Li Yunshan explained casually with a smile.

"You'd better be careful when you drive."

The village officials gave their instructions.

"Uncle Chen, don't worry, I can drive a tractor."

Li Yunshan patted his chest and gave his assurance.

In his past life, after turning over a new leaf, he bought a secondhand tractor and ran a transport business for a while. He was very skilled at driving tractors.

"Rat-a-tat-tat..."

"Rat-a-tat-tat..."

Soon, Li Yunshan drove the village office's tractor and parked it in front of his own yard.

"You actually borrowed the village office's tractor!"

Gao Hongmei was surprised to see the tractor making a "putt-putt" sound.

The village committee treats this tractor like a treasure and rarely lends it out.

Village officials would only drive tractors to help transport seriously ill villagers to the commune health center or the county hospital when there was an urgent need to do so.

Normally, not many people can borrow a tractor from the village office, but Li Yunshan is one of them.

"You don't even see how much I've contributed to the village lately."

Li Yunshan smiled smugly, jumped off the tractor, and loaded the two full baskets of wild boar meat into the back of the tractor.

He also took two planks from the woodshed to use as cutting boards for selling wild boar meat.

"Get on the bus."

After gathering all the necessary items, Li Yunshan jumped onto the tractor, leaned against the handlebars, and waved to Gao Hongmei.

"How do you know how to drive a tractor?"

After Gao Hongmei sat on the tractor, she couldn't help but ask Li Yunshan.

She noticed that Li Yunshan had changed a lot during this period. What could Li Yunshan do before besides loafing around?

Besides beating his wife and scaring the children, Gao Hongmei couldn't think of anything else he did.

But now, Li Yunshan not only knows how to hunt, but also how to drive a tractor, which makes Gao Hongmei very curious. Could this bastard really be a genius or something?

"I learned this when I was just messing around, I never thought it would come in handy now."

Li Yunshan gave the same explanation, regardless of whether Gao Hongmei believed him or not, and drove the tractor "putt-putt-putt" toward Xiangyang Commune. When he reached the village entrance, he even picked up a few villagers from the village.

Upon arriving at Xiangyang Commune, he dropped off several villagers on the vehicle, and then the tractor turned a corner and drove onto the main road leading to the county town.

Although the road from Xiangyang Commune to the county town is called a main road, it is actually a dirt road, only wider than a rural dirt road, and it is not paved with asphalt.

The road is usually busy with people, exposed to wind and rain, and full of potholes.

Now, the road surface is covered with a layer of snow, and after being trampled by pedestrians and vehicles, this dirt road leading to the county town is even more muddy.

Fortunately, Li Yunshan borrowed a tractor from the village office, and the journey was smooth and stable. If he had really tried to transport so much wild boar meat to the county town by bicycle, he would have suffered a lot.

Along the way, Li Yunshan saw two people who were transporting goods to the county town on bicycles. Halfway there, their wheels slipped, and they fell on the road with their goods.

Even Gao Hongmei couldn't help but pat her chest and secretly rejoice that Li Yunshan had a quick mind and ran to the village office to borrow a tractor after seeing someone fall off their bicycle. Otherwise, she might have fallen like the others.

"Rat-a-tat-tat..."

The tractor, puffing out a cloud of white smoke, sped merrily towards the county town like a young colt with its legs spread wide.

About half an hour later, Li Yunshan finally drove his tractor to the county's farmers' market.

It was just 9:30 a.m., and the farmers' market in the county town was already bustling with people. Shouts, hawking, and bargaining filled the air, and the level of economic activity was incomparable to the market days in Xiangyang Commune.

"Goodness, this is even more lively than the busy days of the commune."

Seeing so many people in the farmers' market, Gao Hongmei couldn't help but gasp in amazement.

"The commune was only lively on market days, but the county town's farmers' market was lively every day."

"Think about it, a county town with hundreds of thousands of people needs a huge amount of grain, meat, poultry and vegetables to feed. Most of them are sold or wholesaled from this farmers' market. How can it not be bustling?"

Li Yunshan carefully drove the tractor to find a spot while explaining to Gao Hongmei.

"That's way too exaggerated."

Gao Hongmei's mouth dropped open.

Growing up, Gao Hongmei rarely went to the county town due to the limited transportation of that era. Even if Li Yunshan explained it to her, she still couldn't understand what it meant to feed and drink hundreds of thousands of people, requiring massive amounts of grain, meat, and poultry.

But as soon as Li Yunshan found a spot, parked the tractor, laid out the two planks he had brought from home, and arranged the pieces of wild boar meat, Gao Hongmei immediately understood what Li Yunshan meant.

"Young man, is this wild boar meat?"

As soon as a few pieces of wild boar meat were placed on the table, before Li Yunshan could even start calling out, people immediately came over to ask questions.

"Yes, sir, this is a wild boar that my wife and I hunted in the mountains yesterday afternoon. We cleaned and dried it overnight and brought it to our farmers' market early this morning."

"Look at this meat, it's over 200 pounds of wild boar meat from the mountains, and it's very fresh."

Li Yunshan greeted him with a smile.

Hearing Li Yunshan's words, Gao Hongmei couldn't help but feel annoyed. She leaned close to his ear and glared at him, saying irritably, "Li Yunshan, who are you calling your wife?"

"I was just saying it casually, and you're getting angry? Fine, how about your ex-wife then?"

Li Yunshan replied to her in a low voice, then quickly asked the old man, "Sir, which piece of meat have you taken a fancy to?"

"How much is your wild boar meat per pound?"

"Nine cents, no ration coupons required."

Li Yunshan gave a number.

Just now, while looking for a spot, he noticed that someone else was selling wild boar meat in this farmers' market. They were also selling it for 90 cents a pound, and no meat coupons were required.

So he quoted the same price.

"I want the fattier part of this wild boar meat. Cut off three pounds for me so my wife can stew it and have a taste."

The old man pointed to a piece of meat laid out on the wooden board and said.

"Okay, sir, please wait a moment."

As Li Yunshan spoke, he picked up a knife and began to cut the meat. Then he weighed it and said, "It's three jin and eight qian in total. I'll just give you three jin, sir. That'll be two yuan and seven qian."

The old man took out some money from his pocket, counted out two one-yuan bills, one fifty-cent bill, and one two-cent bill, and handed them to Gao Hongmei.

"Hongmei, use straw stalks to help the old man skewer the meat."

Li Yunshan handed the sliced ​​pork to Gao Hongmei.

"oh."

Gao Hongmei responded and quickly skewered the wild boar meat with straw, handing it to the old man: "Grandpa, here's your meat, please take it."

After the old man left with the meat, she still felt like she was dreaming. The wild boar meat hadn't even been put on the table yet, and three pounds had already been sold, earning her two yuan and seventy cents.

This is a good sign.

Gao Hongmei thought to herself.