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

"If you truly care about Xiulan and Doudou, then stop going hunting in the mountains. You just got lucky and caught a wild boar. Do you really think you know how to hunt?"

Perhaps because she had received money from Li Yunshan, Gao Hongmei's tone softened considerably, but her words still betrayed her doubts about Li Yunshan's hunting skills.

"I'm really good at hunting!"

Li Yunshan cried out in his heart, but he knew that Gao Hongmei and the others would not believe him, so he could only remain silent and wait to prove himself with his prey later.

However, Li Yunshan achieved his goal through tonight's dinner. Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua both accepted the money he gave them, which was a good start and slightly eased Li Yunshan's guilt towards them.

After dinner, Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua sat for a while before leaving.

"Xiulan, let me clean up."

Inside the main room, seeing Lin Xiulan with red eyes tidying up the dishes, Li Yunshan spoke.

"I'll wash them. You wipe DouDou's face clean and let her go to bed." Lin Xiulan rubbed her reddened eyes, tidied up the dishes, and took them to the kitchen.

"DouDou, shall Daddy wash your face?"

Li Yunshan fetched a basin of hot water, soaked a towel in it, and wrung out the excess water.

"Okay, Father, let's wash."

Dou Dou tilted her little face up and obediently let Li Yunshan wipe her oily face clean. Then she obediently went into the house, climbed onto the kang (a heated brick bed), covered herself with the quilt, and went to sleep.

Li Yunshan poured out the hot water from the basin and took it into the kitchen. He saw Lin Xiulan washing the dishes and couldn't help but hug her from behind, resting his chin on her shoulder: "Xiulan..."

Li Yunshan's bold move startled Lin Xiulan, who twisted her waist in protest, saying, "Hey, don't touch me, I'm busy."

"Xiulan, stop busy, Doudou is asleep in the pit, we..." Li Yunshan's hand slid down Lin Xiulan's waist.

"Ugh, aren't you annoying? Weren't you done yesterday? What kind of person do you take me for?"

When Li Yunshan's hand slid inappropriately to her buttocks, Lin Xiulan resisted and broke free from his embrace.

"Xiulan, I...I just wanted to be intimate with you."

Li Yunshan scratched the back of his head, looking pitiful.

"Didn't you say you'd work hard at hunting, save money to buy a hunting rifle, and give DouDou and me a good life? I'm not in the mood today. You've been busy all day too, so go to bed and get some sleep."

Lin Xiulan showed instinctive resistance to Li Yunshan's attempt to be intimate with her, not because she didn't want to, but because Li Yunshan had given her a very bad experience.

Furthermore, since she and Li Yunshan are divorced, she has no obligation to meet Li Yunshan's needs.

"Oh well."

After being rejected by Lin Xiulan, Li Yunshan couldn't do anything about it. He couldn't very well force her, could he?

In his past life, he had broken Lin Xiulan's heart and let her down; after being reborn, he had just managed to improve Lin Xiulan's impression of him, and he didn't want to ruin the little good impression he had left in her heart.

However, his attempt to get intimate with Xiulan failed, which left Li Yunshan somewhat disheartened.

"Yunshan, didn't you say you wanted to save money to buy a hunting rifle and give my son and me a better life? When you actually do it, I'll... I'll give it to you then, okay?"

Seeing Li Yunshan walk out listlessly, Lin Xiulan's heart softened in the end.

"Really? That's great, Xiulan. Don't worry, I can definitely do it. Trust me, give me three months, no, not three months, just one month..."

Li Yunshan jumped for joy, feeling full of energy.

……

The next day, just as dawn was breaking, Li Yunshan, full of energy, ate breakfast, shouldered his gun, and plunged into the vast forest.

In his previous life, Li Yunshan's biggest regret was divorcing his beautiful wife. After being reborn, he often thought about how to make amends to them and make up for the mistakes he had made.

Now, Lin Xiulan, who has a gentle and mild-mannered personality, has changed her impression of him and even said that she would remarry him as long as he reforms and lets her and her daughter live a normal life.

Li Yunshan thought about it for half the night and decided to first use Lin Xiulan as a breakthrough point, and then slowly look for opportunities to reconcile with Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua.

Now that he has the hunting experience he accumulated in his previous life, and he also has a gun, he can definitely hunt in the mountains more efficiently than others, thanks to the night vision and thermal imaging abilities he gained after his rebirth.

Therefore, Li Yunshan plans to venture into the deep mountains and forests again today to see if he can find any high-value prey.

Although there were hidden dangers in the deep mountains and forests, Li Yunshan was not afraid because he had a gun and thermal imaging capabilities.

However, Li Yunshan did not head towards Xiongxiazigou today, but instead headed towards Donkey Skin Mountain in another direction.

Yesterday, while selling wild boar meat at the village entrance, Li Yunshan heard from the villagers that wild animals roamed around Donkey Hide Mountain, and he decided to try his luck.

If he could hunt one or two valuable animals, he would be one step closer to his plan to save money to buy a hunting rifle.

He carried his gun, taking steady steps as he carefully searched the vast forest. Every now and then, red dots of wild animals would appear in his sight: pheasants, rabbits, and roe deer.

When he encountered the silly roe deer, Li Yunshan remained calm and did not shoot.

Ultimately, it was Li Yunshan who looked down on the Siberian roe deer. After all, an adult Siberian roe deer only weighs about 40 kilograms, and it's considered good if you can get 60% meat after removing the internal organs.

7.62 caliber bullets are becoming increasingly rare, so good steel should be used where it counts. Bullets should be used to hunt large prey, such as adult wild boars, bears, and red deer.

However, after searching the mountains for a long time, Li Yunshan still couldn't find any prey that satisfied him.

As noon approached, his stomach began to rumble, so he pulled out a few roasted potatoes from his pocket and wolfed them down.

However, just as he finished eating the roasted potato, he heard a wolf howling not far away.

Li Yunshan instantly raised his gun alertly and chambered a bullet.

He looked around but didn't see any wolves. After confirming that there was no danger, he quickly ran towards the direction from which the wolf howls came.

As he got closer to the howling of wolves, he slowed down and crept closer. He finally saw three wolves hunting a mature red deer a hundred meters away!

Li Yunshan was instantly excited.

Red deer, it was actually a red deer! Deer meat and deer blood are highly nutritious!

If we could hunt down this adult red deer, it would be very valuable.

Deer blood can be used to make wine, deer antlers can be used in medicine, and venison is even more valuable than wild boar meat.

Thinking of this, Li Yunshan immediately held his breath, his body like a taut bowstring, while the bullet in the gun barrel was already poised to fire.

His gaze was fixed on the deer a hundred meters away.