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

"roar……"

Once its limbs and mouth were freed, the half-grown bear cub immediately displayed the characteristics of a wild beast in the mountains, restlessly letting out low growls in the small iron cage, its dark eyes staring menacingly at the forestry workers who were watching it.

At first, the forestry workers were indeed startled by the grumpy, half-grown bear cub.

But with the iron cage in place, everyone quickly lost their fear and instead gathered around the cage, curiously examining the bear cubs inside.

Meanwhile, wolves were also being hung up. Several experienced skinners from the forest farm, along with Li Yunshi and Li Yunshan, each held a sharp knife and began skinning the wolves.

The sharp knife gently made a cut on the wolf's belly, and then slowly cut away the wolf skin and the wolf meat.

Because the wolf carcass had been frozen overnight in the snowy mountains, it was already completely cold and even somewhat hard. Therefore, when skinning the wolf, one had to be extra careful to avoid making a crooked cut and ruining the appearance of the wolf skin.

Therefore, it took a lot of effort for Li Yunshan and his team to finally skin a wolf.

"Director Zhou, have the canteen staff come over and take these skinned wolves to the kitchen so we can improve the meals for our forestry workers."

Li Yunshan went to Director Zhou, who was watching the commotion, and whispered something in his ear.

The only valuable part of this wolf is its pelt. The rest of the wolf meat wouldn't fetch a good price, so Li Yunshan hadn't considered selling it. Besides, his older brother also worked at the forest farm, so he decided to do Director Zhou a favor and ask him to ask the canteen cooks to come over.

"Okay."

Upon hearing this, Director Zhou beamed with joy.

These days, it's not easy to get meat, especially since their farm is located deep in the mountains where supplies are scarce. If they want to eat meat, they can only buy it from nearby communes, or they can only wait until the pigs in the forest farm's pigsty are fattened up before they can improve their meals.

Now, Li Yunshan told him to take these wolves to the farm's canteen to be processed. There would be at least two or three hundred pounds of meat, enough for the forest farm workers to have a good meal today.

Although wolf meat is rather dry and doesn't have much fat, it's still a bite of meat, and it's better than having nothing to eat at all.

"Xiao Li, you see, the conditions at the forest farm are quite harsh. I think we should save the remaining wolf meat for the forest farm workers to treat them to something more substantial and improve their meals. What do you think?"

At this moment, Old Liang, who had been watching the wolf skinning with great interest with his hands behind his back, suddenly spoke up.

"Sure, I have no problem with that. I'll do as you say, Mr. Liang. We'll leave the rest of the wolf meat for our forestry workers to improve their meals."

Li Yunshan naturally had no objection. Wolf meat has coarse muscle fibers, is tough, and is difficult to chew, so he didn't really like it. It didn't sell for much money either. So when Old Liang spoke up, he went along with it and nodded in agreement.

Soon, two people came from the forest farm's canteen and dragged the skinned wolf to the canteen.

Li Yunshan continued skinning the wolves, working for over an hour before finally getting all the pelts off.

Then, Li Yunshan and the others worked together to skin the bear.

Skinning the bear was much easier because the bear had just been killed and its body was not yet frozen stiff, so Li Yunshan and his men could cut more steadily and cleanly when skinning it.

With the help of several people, the thick bear skin was completely peeled off in less than an hour.

Then, they continued their efforts, gutting the bear, removing and processing its internal organs, and then cutting off twenty or thirty pounds of bear meat. After the forestry workers had their first meal, the remaining bear meat was carefully stored away.

Old Liang also used the farm's phone to call his old friend who was a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, as well as the director of the zoo in the provincial capital.

"Xiao Li, my old friend and the director of the provincial zoo they know will send people over to discuss the bear cub with you. You can decide what to do then."

After finishing the call, Mr. Liang spoke to Li Yunshan.

"Okay, thank you so much, Mr. Liang. You're truly grateful."

Li Yunshan quickly thanked him, and then used the forest farm's phone to call the Chengxi Pharmacy in the county town.

The person who answered the phone was Manager Liu of the pharmacy. Upon hearing that Li Yunshan now had a half-grown bear, Manager Liu immediately became interested. Coincidentally, the owner of the pharmacy, Tang Zhengfeng, was also there, so Manager Liu handed the phone to Tang Zhengfeng.

"Hey, Brother Li, I heard from Manager Liu that you have a half-grown bear cub. Is that true?"

Upon answering the phone, Tang Zhengfeng didn't beat around the bush and went straight to the point.

Although he wasn't a hunter, he was in the business of Chinese herbal medicine, so he naturally knew how difficult it was to capture a half-grown bear cub.

"Yes, there is a half-grown bear cub and an adult bear. The bear skin has already been removed. If you are interested, Mr. Tang, you can come and take a look at the Red Star Forest Farm."

Li Yunshan also smiled and spoke the truth.

"An adult bear? Looks like you've opened another business, bro."

Upon hearing that there was also an adult bear, Tang Zhengfeng couldn't help but feel happy.

Last time, Li Yunshan sold him the tiger skin and the bear skin, which made him a lot of money. Now, Li Yunshan not only said that he had captured a half-grown live bear cub, but also killed a bear. This surprised Tang Zhengfeng, and he felt that Li Yunshan was simply his god of wealth.

If we buy the bear skin that Li Yunshan has now, and then take the bear he captured, how much of a profit can we make?

It will definitely be higher than last time.

"Okay, Hongxing Forest Farm, right? I'll go there first thing tomorrow morning."

After finishing his business, Tang Zhengfeng chatted with Li Yunshan for a few more minutes, then instructed Manager Liu to prepare a sum of cash.

"Okay, boss, I'll get it ready right away."

Manager Liu quickly said so, and then went to prepare cash for Tang Zhengfeng.

At Hongxing Forest Farm, Li Yunshan breathed a sigh of relief after making a phone call to the Chengxi Pharmacy.

Only then did he have time to pick up the Mosin-Nagant rifle and check how many bullets he had left.

This inspection was quite surprising. He hadn't expected that the trip he had agreed to take Old Liang into the mountains to hunt, as promised to Director Zhou, would have used up nearly twenty bullets.

Now, this Mosin-Nagant rifle doesn't even have twenty rounds left.

"While we're at the forest farm, let's go find Director Zhou to help us solve the bullet problem."

As the saying goes, there's no time like the present, Li Yunshan muttered.

After saying that, he went to the office to find Director Zhou.

"Brother Yunshan, you've worked hard these past two days. Why don't you take a rest?"

"Seeing Li Yunshan walk in, Director Zhou said."

Yesterday, Li Yunshan took Liang Lao into the mountains for most of the day. Today, they hunted bears, caught bear cubs, and even carried a huge bear cub back from the mountains.

Back at the farm headquarters, Li Yunshan didn't rest; he immediately began skinning the wolves and bears.

Director Zhou was also worried that he would get tired.

"It's not hard work, I just have something I'd like to trouble you with, Brother Zhou."

Li Yunshan chuckled and placed the Mosin-Nagant rifle in his hand on Director Zhou's desk: "Brother Zhou, we've gone through quite a few bullets these past few days. I'll have to trouble you again to get me some more."

"Need some more bullets for you? How many do you have left?"

Upon hearing Li Yunshan say that there weren't enough bullets, Director Zhou couldn't help but scratch his head.

Last time, he was able to get so many bullets for Li Yunshan, but it took a lot of effort to get that many.

"Less than fifteen."

Li Yunshan spoke the truth.

To be precise, there are only fourteen left.

"Fourteen, that's quite a lot. Give me some time, and I'll ask someone to help you look for more."

Director Zhou felt that Li Yunshan had a lot of bullets in stock, but Li Yunshan himself felt that he didn't have enough.

Ammunition for weapons like the Mosin-Nagant is already hard to come by, and it will be even harder once the government tightens its policies.

Li Yunshan was also worried that if gun control policies were tightened in the future, it would be difficult to obtain bullets. Once the stockpile of bullets was used up, the gun passed down from his father would really become scrap metal and a fire poker.

But since Director Zhou had agreed to help him find bullets, he felt relieved.

However, this reminded Li Yunshan of something else: he still had a Tiger Head brand hunting rifle at home.

A while ago, Gao Hongmei kept pestering him to learn how to hunt, and she used up quite a few of his hunting rifle bullets. He also had to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to replenish the ammunition for his Tiger Head brand hunting rifle whenever he had time.

"Alright, then I'll trouble you, Brother Zhou."

Li Yunshan said happily and then left Director Zhou's office.

Back in his temporary lodgings, with his hands behind his head and lying on the simple wooden bed, Li Yunshan couldn't help but think of home.

I've been away from home for three days now, and I wonder how Lin Xiulan and Dou Dou are doing at home.

Where are Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua?

Lost in thought, he somehow drifted off to sleep.

"Hey, third brother, get up, it's time to eat."

When Li Yunshan woke up, it was already dark outside. It was his elder brother, Li Yunshi, who woke him up.

"Oh, dinner's ready!"

Li Yunshan sat up, rubbed his still sleepy eyes, and then walked out of the house with Li Yunshi.

However, as soon as he stepped out of the house, he smelled a fragrance in the air.

When he arrived at the forest farm canteen, it was already packed with more than three hundred people.

It was rare to have meat today. Although it was wolf meat, which is tough, the chef in the canteen stewed it until it was tender and fragrant. Everyone ate steamed buns and meat at the same time, and they all looked very satisfied.