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

The flickering candlelight illuminated the main room, where a man and three women sat around an eight-immortal table, intently counting the money in their hands.

"Five cents... eighty cents... seven dollars and eighty cents... seventeen dollars... I have a total of thirty-one dollars and fifty cents."

"This is twenty-nine dollars and sixty cents. This is the first time I've ever counted so much money. I'm not sure if I've counted it correctly. Should I count it again?"

"I counted it as thirty-seven dollars and eighty-nine cents."

"Twenty-eight yuan and fifty cents."

After careful counting, the money obtained from selling the wild boar was finally tallied up to a total of one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-seven cents.

If some villagers hadn't bartered with items like roosters, rice, potatoes, and dried wild mushrooms, the amount would likely have been much greater.

"I only earned a little over a hundred yuan from that one wild boar. Lihua and I don't even earn that much in a year combined!"

When Gao Hongmei learned the exact number, she couldn't help but be surprised, and even the usually aloof Su Lihua was somewhat moved.

Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua were like this, not to mention Lin Xiulan. She had come to the village as a refugee from famine, and the largest sum of money she had ever seen in her life was not even a fraction of the money she received from selling wild boar meat.

"Li Yunshan, how do you plan to spend such a large sum of money? Are you already planning where to gamble again?"

Gao Hongmei is outspoken and straightforward, and speaks her mind without hesitation.

"Hongmei, I've told you, I won't gamble anymore, so you don't need to test me like this."

Li Yunshan was also quite helpless, but he knew that Gao Hongmei was just like that, and that she was the first woman he had wronged in his previous life, so Gao Hongmei must have a lot of resentment towards him.

"You? You don't need to be tested, you're just a gambling addict."

Su Lihua scoffed.

Li Yunshan pretended to be deaf again, ignoring Su Lihua's sarcasm. He picked up the money on the table, counted out sixty yuan, divided it into three parts, and handed one part to Gao Hongmei: "Hongmei, I know you have a lot of resentment towards me, but don't worry, I will be a good person in the future, work hard to earn money, and try to make up for the mistakes I made before. This twenty yuan is my compensation to you."

"Ha, only twenty yuan? You think you can compensate me for my lost youth? Do you think I'm a beggar?"

Seeing the twenty yuan Li Yunshan handed her, Gao Hongmei didn't take it. She just remembered when she married Li Yunshan, that bastard had solemnly sworn to the heavens that he would treat her well for the rest of his life.

She believed him at the time, but when she advised him to stop hanging out with those street thugs like Yu Ergou all day, that bastard Li Yunshan actually wanted to divorce her.

Now, this bastard speaks with such sincerity, and having made money, he realizes he has let her down.

However, she married him at nineteen and was divorced by Li Yunshan at twenty.

Now, she is almost twenty-six years old.

Can her precious youth be made up for with just twenty dollars?

Thinking of this, even though Gao Hongmei is usually very easygoing, she couldn't help but have tears well up in her eyes and her nose sting.

She turned her face away and sobbed softly.

Li Yunshan felt a chill run down his spine. He already felt guilty towards Gao Hongmei and wanted to make amends, but the usually carefree Gao Hongmei was now in tears, making him look like a heartless man. It was a double blow.

Li Yunshan had no choice but to look to Su Lihua for help.

Normally, Su Lihua and Gao Hongmei are almost inseparable, and their sisterly bond is very strong. Su Lihua should be able to mediate between them without any problem.

However, Su Lihua also glared at him coldly: "So what if you have money? Does having money mean you can fall in love with every girl you meet and then abandon them? Take your filthy paws away, who cares about your stinking money?"

In fact, Su Lihua and Gao Hongmei had basically the same thoughts. In fact, because Su Lihua was deceived by Li Yunshan's sweet words and was drunk and lost her virginity to him, Su Lihua's resentment towards Li Yunshan was even greater than Gao Hongmei's.

Twenty yuan is indeed a lot of money these days; it would take them three or four months of work points to earn that amount.

But can their precious youth, even after losing their virginity to Li Yunshan, be measured by a mere twenty dollars?

"This...I..."

Li Yunshan was stunned for a moment. He didn't know how to comfort Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua, nor did he know how to explain.

"Eldest sister, second sister, I know you're suffering, but if you don't take the money, what if he goes astray again and squanders it on drinking, gambling, and whoring? What if someone else benefits from it?"

“The three of us sisters have suffered so much for him over the years. This twenty yuan is the interest he owes us and has failed us. If you don’t take it, I won’t take it either. Are you going to let him take this money and go out to eat, drink, gamble, and whore, letting those street urchins and prostitutes benefit for nothing? This money is what he owes us, and we not only have to take it, but we have to take it rightfully.”

At this moment, Lin Xiulan, who was usually gentle and hadn't said much, suddenly spoke up.

As she spoke, she couldn't help but feel a lump in her throat, her eyes reddening, and tears welling up in her eyes.

After saying that, she took a portion of the money that Li Yunshan had counted out.

Hearing Lin Xiulan's words, Li Yunshan looked embarrassed. He gave a dry laugh and thought to himself that although Lin Xiulan was gentle and easy to bully, the resentment she harbored towards him was no less than that of Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua.

But upon closer reflection, it's perfectly normal that Lin Xiulan harbored the most resentment towards him.

Because Lin Xiulan was the woman who married him and lived with him the longest, and she also gave birth to his daughter.

Moreover, the woman he tormented the longest was Lin Xiulan.

Moreover, even after his divorce, because she had come here as a refugee, Lin Xiulan had nowhere to go and could only continue to live with him, enduring his torment.

It's no wonder Lin Xiulan harbored resentment.

At this moment, Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua fell silent. They looked at each other, biting their lips slightly, as if they were making a decision in their hearts.

Five minutes later, Gao Hongmei finally reached out and took the twenty yuan that Li Yunshan handed her.

"Xiulan is right. This money is what you owe us. We have a clear conscience if we take it. If we don't take it, it will benefit others. Rather than benefit others, we might as well benefit ourselves."

Seeing this, Su Lihua also took the money that Li Yunshan handed over.

Although she didn't say anything, it was clear that she meant the same thing as Gao Hongmei.

Seeing that his three ex-wives had all taken the money, Li Yunshan finally breathed a sigh of relief. He took out the remaining money, seven yuan and forty-seven cents: "I'll keep this money close to my body."

After saying that, he handed the remaining sixty yuan to Xiulan: "Keep this sixty yuan safe, Xiulan. I'll go hunting in the mountains tomorrow and see if I can catch some more game to sell. Once I've saved enough money, I want to buy a hunting rifle so that I'll have more security when I go hunting in the mountains again."