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

Upon seeing Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua appear on the rural dirt road not far away, Li Jianren immediately perked up.

His gaze was fixed intently on Gao Hongmei.

"Damn it, Gao Hongmei, you've gone against me time and time again. Don't blame me for being ruthless this time."

Li Jianren touched his still slightly sore cheek, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.

Previously, when Su Lihua first arrived in Guapigou Village as an educated youth, Li Jianren took a liking to her. However, before he could launch an offensive against Su Lihua, Li Yunshan beat him to it.

After Su Lihua and Li Yunshan got married, Li Jianren lost his appetite and couldn't eat or drink for a long time.

However, their happiness was short-lived. Su Lihua and Li Yunshan divorced after only six months of marriage, which gave Li Jianren hope.

After the divorce, Su Lihua moved back to the village's former educated youth settlement.

At that time, he often went to the educated youth settlement to fawn over Su Lihua. Although Su Lihua ignored him, he was still happy to do so. Later, as the policy of educated youth returning to the city was implemented, the educated youth in the settlement returned to the city one after another, leaving only Su Lihua behind. He thought his opportunity had come.

Unexpectedly, the educated youth settlement collapsed, and Su Lihua moved directly to Gao Hongmei's house, where she stayed for two or three years.

During this time, he shamelessly went to Gao Hongmei's house to curry favor with Su Lihua, but Gao Hongmei repeatedly interfered, forcing him to leave in a sorry state.

Today, he left home intending to go out and have some fun with his friends, but instead he saw Su Lihua standing alone at the village entrance, looking into the village as if she were waiting for someone.

So Li Jianren went over to Su Lihua and tried to curry favor with her.

Su Lihua remained cold and unresponsive to him.

Seeing that the woman he had longed for all these years was still so cold to him, Li Jianren became anxious and moved closer to Su Lihua.

Unexpectedly, Gao Hongmei suddenly appeared and launched a tirade against him.

Thinking of how Gao Hongmei had repeatedly ruined his plans and now slapped him across the face, Li Jianren's hatred reached its peak.

Because they all lived in the same village, Li Jianren knew that Gao Hongmei had gone hunting in the mountains a while ago and had caught a wild boar and a red deer, which she had reportedly taken to the county town to sell.

Li Jianren thought to himself that Gao Hongmei must have made a lot of money from selling the wild boar and deer she had hunted.

Moreover, he recognized today that Gao Hongmei was holding a deerskin.

Based on the fact that Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua went to Xiangyang Commune together, Li Jianren also guessed that Gao Hongmei was taking deerskin to sell in Xiangyang Commune.

So, after Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua left the village and went to Xiangyang Commune, Li Jianren went to find some of his cronies and planned to teach Gao Hongmei a lesson.

Beat her up, rob her of her money, and see if she dares to meddle again, see if she dares to interfere again.

As for Su Lihua...

Hehe, you've always been so aloof and indifferent to me, so I'll... hehe, I'll ruthlessly destroy you.

After we're done, we'll throw her naked at the village entrance and see how she'll ever have the face to stay in the village again, or how she'll ever pretend to be aloof.

Thinking of this, Li Jianren's lips curled into a cold smile.

"Oh, those two bitches actually showed up."

"Where is it? Let me see."

"I heard Gao Hongmei has a fiery personality. I'll tame this wild horse of hers later, hehe."

The other street thugs, some of them craning their necks to look in the direction of Yang Commune, searching for Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua, while others had already spotted them and a lewd smile appeared on their faces.

"Brother Li, we agreed that I'd go first for Gao Hongmei!"

A street hustler with a donkey-like face said impatiently.

"Fine, you go first then. That bitch has been going against me time and time again over the years. If it weren't for her, I would have executed Su Lihua long ago, and I wouldn't have to stay here in this cold weather for most of the day." Li Jianren glanced in the direction of Xiangyang Commune and saw Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua walking towards them. He said angrily.

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"Lihua, how high-ranking is your father in the city?"

"My dad never talks about work at home. I don't really know how high-ranking he was. Besides, when my dad was wrongly criticized, I was already a sent-down youth in our Guapigou Village."

On the way back to the village from Xiangyang Commune, Gao Hongmei learned that Su Lihua might be returning to the provincial capital soon, and couldn't help but ask her about it out of curiosity.

Because Su Lihua has always rarely revealed her family information to outsiders, even after the village's educated youth settlement collapsed and she moved to Gao Hongmei's house for two or three years, she rarely mentioned her family and parents to Gao Hongmei and Gao Zhankui.

After all, her parents were wrongly criticized and sent to labor farms in the south.

If she were to reveal the truth about her parents and family, given the circumstances of their criticism and exile, she feared that if malicious individuals found out, she too would be affected in Guapigou Village.

Therefore, Su Lihua kept it a secret.

Until a month ago, I received a letter from the provincial capital.

The letter was written by her father. The contents of the letter were relatively simple. First, he asked her how she had been doing in the rural area where she had been sent down to the countryside. Second, he told Su Lihua that he and Su Lihua's mother had returned to the provincial capital and were waiting for the higher authorities to assign them jobs.

Besides the letters, the envelopes also contained some money, food coupons, and meat coupons.

But that's not the most important thing. What's important is that after losing contact with her parents for several years, Su Lihua finally learned that her parents were still alive.

Previously, Gao Hongmei only knew that Su Lihua was an educated youth sent to the countryside from the provincial capital. Now, she suddenly learned that Su Lihua's parents were cadres who had been exonerated. She was surprised, but she also understood that Su Lihua's concealment was actually a means of protecting herself.

But what she was more curious about was what kind of cadres Su Lihua's parents were.

However, Su Lihua didn't have much of an impression of it either.

But then Gao Hongmei thought again, Su Lihua's parents were cadres who could be exonerated, which meant they were good cadres.

But her curiosity went far beyond just how high-ranking officials Su Lihua's parents were.

As a rural woman who grew up in the countryside and whose farthest travels had been to the county town, Gao Hongmei had so many things to wonder about the outside world.

However, when she raised her question, Su Lihua didn't know where to begin, because she had come to Guapigou Village as an educated youth from the provincial capital when she was eighteen, and she had been away from the provincial capital for several years.

"Then I'll come to the provincial capital to find you after you've settled down there."

"Okay, no..."

Su Lihua had just nodded and was about to say "no problem" when several people wearing cotton-padded coats and with their faces covered by cloth suddenly jumped out from the side of the country road.

These masked men who suddenly appeared were carrying machetes, short axes, and ropes.

Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua were both startled by the masked men who suddenly jumped out.

"Hey, two young ladies, where did you come from, and where are you going back to?"

A masked man let out a flippant "yo," his lecherous eyes sweeping over Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua.

Although it was freezing cold, Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua were wearing thick, bulky cotton-padded trousers and coats that covered their graceful figures, but their pretty faces were not hidden at all, and the other masked men laughed frivolously.

"Hehe, of course it comes from where it came from, and goes into the arms of its brothers."

"Ladies, it's freezing cold outside. Come with us, we'll take you to a warm, sheltered place."

"He looks quite handsome, I wonder what he tastes like."

"..."

Several masked men, uttering obscenities, took a few steps closer to Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua.

Gao Hongmei pulled Su Lihua back a few steps, looking at the masked men in front of her with both vigilance and some fear.

Judging from the attire of these masked men, they were clearly highway robbers who specialized in robbing people on the road.

From their words, Gao Hongmei could tell that these masked men probably wanted more than just to rob her; they also wanted to sexually assault her.

Thinking about this, Gao Hongmei felt a little flustered.

But then she noticed that she was still holding the hunting rifle she had just bought.

She covered the hunting rifle with the cloth that Su Lihua had bought, so the masked men probably didn't even notice.

Thinking of this, Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua retreated cautiously while she quietly took out two bullets from her pocket and reached into the cloth covering the shotgun.

Then, concealed by the fabric, she released the safety on her shotgun.

Although Gao Hongmei was a little flustered when loading the bullets, she managed to put two bullets into the barrel.

"Hey, little sister, what are you holding in your hand? Let me see it."

At this moment, a masked man noticed that Gao Hongmei was holding a long object covered with a cloth, so he couldn't see what was inside. But he was curious, so he pointed to the object in Gao Hongmei's hand and said...

"It must be something valuable, otherwise why would it be covered with such bright fabric? Hehe, little sister, bring it to me."

As the other masked man spoke, he reached out and snatched the hunting rifle from Gao Hongmei's hand.

However, Gao Hongmei reacted quickly, taking a step back. The masked man didn't grab the barrel of her shotgun; instead, he tore off the cloth covering the shotgun.

However, when the fabric was torn open, the masked man who reached out to snatch it immediately widened his eyes and his face changed.

Because he saw two dark gun barrels pointing at his forehead.

"Gurgle!"

The masked man who reached for the hunting rifle in Gao Hongmei's hand swallowed hard.

The other masked men's expressions changed drastically when they saw that Gao Hongmei was holding a hunting rifle.

"Hey sis...sis, does this gun...have bullets?"

The masked man, with a gun pointed at his forehead by Gao Hongmei, stammered a question.

However, Gao Hongmei did not directly answer his question. Instead, she pressed the gun barrel down and gently tapped it with her finger.

With a loud "bang," followed by a scream.

"what!"

The masked man in front of Gao Hongmei was immediately hit in the thigh by a shotgun bullet, and blood splattered everywhere, even splashing several drops onto Gao Hongmei's face.