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

A hundred meters away from Li Yunshan, a huge red deer was surrounded by three wolves in a triangular formation.

Li Yunshan stared at the red deer from afar. He saw that the red deer had two huge antlers on its head and was also very large in size.

This is a male adult red deer, weighing at least 400 pounds.

Three wolves circled the deer, leaping and bounding about, trying to prevent it from breaking through, and occasionally letting out eerie howls.

The red deer, on the other hand, used their large size to gain strength, as well as their antlers and hind hooves, to launch a counterattack against the wolves.

The three wolves suffered greatly from the red deer's counterattack, but they continued to harass the deer relentlessly, trying to exhaust its strength in order to achieve their hunting objective.

Clearly, these three wolves were starving, otherwise they wouldn't have gone out of their way to provoke such a huge creature.

"You need to get closer to increase your chances of hitting the deer."

Because three wolves were harassing the deer, and the deer was constantly moving, Li Yunshan wasn't confident he could hit the deer with a single shot from a hundred meters away. So he quietly lay down on the snow and crawled towards his target.

At this moment, the three starving wolves were still harassing the deer, completely unaware that the mantis was stalking the cicada, while the oriole was lurking behind.

A few minutes later, Li Yunshan crawled forward until he was only forty or fifty meters away from the deer before stopping. Then he set up his gun and aimed at the deer.

"Bang!"

Having achieved a perfect score in shooting the deer, Li Yunshan pulled the trigger. With a crisp gunshot, a burst of blood suddenly erupted from the head of the once lively deer, and it fell straight to the ground, motionless.

The loud gunshot startled the three wolves, who quickly looked around and finally spotted Li Yunshan lying prone in the snow.

The moment they saw Li Yunshan, the three wolves bared their teeth and howled at him, their bodies poised to pounce, as they launched an attack.

Seeing the three wolves charging towards him, Li Yunshan stood up. He wasn't flustered at all; on the contrary, he became very excited.

Li Yunshan knew that it was adrenaline at work.

He raised his gun, aimed at the wolf charging at the front, and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

Another crisp gunshot rang out, and the wolf at the front of the pack had a bloody hole in its head. It fell to the snow, kicked its legs a couple of times, and then lay still.

After their companion was shot and fell to the ground, the other two wolves seemed to sense the danger emanating from the dark muzzle of the gun in the human's hand, and immediately turned and ran.

"It seems that even wild wolves, when they are starving, can be brought back to their senses and rationality with just one shot, so they know who they can mess with and who they can't."

Although the remaining two hungry wolves turned and ran, Li Yunshan had no intention of letting them go.

Although wolf meat is tough, in the early 1980s, when resources were scarce and people often couldn't even get enough to eat, meat was a rare delicacy.

Furthermore, the true value of a wolf lies not in its meat, but in its fur.

Because wolf skins are used as raw materials for making high-end leather, and wolf skin products can earn foreign exchange for the country, which shows that wolf skins have a high economic value.

If Li Yunshan's memory serves him correctly, a high-quality wolf pelt could fetch tens of yuan, or even over a hundred yuan, at the supply and marketing cooperative.

In addition, wolf teeth and wolf bones also have some economic value, but their prices are much lower than those of wolf pelts.

So, the instant the two wolves turned and ran, Li Yunshan immediately loaded a bullet, raised his gun, and aimed at one of the wolves.

"Bang!"

Another crisp gunshot rang out, and the second wolf fell to the ground shortly after running away.

Seeing its companions die one after another at Li Yunshan's gun, the remaining wolf was terrified and ran wildly into the deep mountains on all fours.

However, no matter how fast a wolf runs, it can't outrun a bullet.

After a gunshot, the bullet pierced the wolf's hindquarters, and the wolf let out a scream as its body plowed a furrow in the snow.

Because the bullet pierced the wolf's rump, it didn't kill the wolf immediately, but it rendered its hind legs useless, forcing it to rely on its will to escape to paw at the ground with its front paws and move with difficulty in the snow.

Li Yunshan did not fire another shot at the wolf.

He slung the gun over his shoulder, gripped the wild boar spear tightly in both hands, and walked toward the crippled wolf.

When the wolf saw him approaching, it let out a whimpering howl, as if begging Li Yunshan to spare its life.

But Li Yunshan showed no mercy. He plunged the sharp boar spear into the wolf's belly, and hot wolf blood instantly flowed onto the ground, melting the surrounding snow.

However, after killing the wolf, Li Yunshan looked around and was at a loss.

A huge red deer weighing at least 400 pounds, and three adult wolves, which together probably weighed close to 200 pounds. Even though his strength had increased after his rebirth, Li Yunshan was not confident that he could bring all four prey home at once.

What should we do?

……

On the other side of Donkey Skin Mountain, Li Yunshan, carrying a gun, walked through the snow-covered forest, his face full of vigilance.

The day before yesterday, when Li Yunshan actually killed a big wild boar, his wife Wang Xiaolian became envious.

Especially after hearing the villagers talking about how Li Yunshan's wild boar had sold for a lot of money yesterday, Wang Xiaolian urged Li Yunshi to go hunting in the mountains as well.

In the dead of winter, the mountains are covered in snow, and wild animals may be lurking, waiting for their chance to strike. Danger lurks everywhere.

Li Yunshi didn't want to go hunting in the mountains, but he couldn't stand his wife's sarcastic remarks, saying he was a coward. On a whim, he grabbed his hunting rifle and went up Donkey Skin Mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, they met two hunters from the same village, so they traveled together to look after each other.

They searched Donkey Hide Mountain for a long time but found nothing worth hunting.

"Oh dear, it's freezing cold. I've searched for ages and haven't even seen a single roe deer. I should have just stayed in the mountains."

The leader of the hunters, dressed in a fur coat and holding a musket, couldn't help but sigh.

"I didn't want to either, but my husband said that even Li Yunshan could hunt a big wild boar, so there was no reason why I, an old hunter, couldn't. So he urged me to come up the mountain early this morning."

Another hunter, wearing a cotton-padded coat, couldn't help but say something too.

"Me too."

Li Yunshi scratched the back of his head and chuckled. He was curious. When the mountains were snowbound, the hunters in the village rarely went into the mountains to hunt. But today he encountered two of them traveling together. It turned out that it was all his younger brother's fault.

The fact that the usually idle younger brother was able to hunt a wild boar is bound to make the village hunters envious; they're all probably thinking of going into the mountains to try their luck.

Just then, a crisp gunshot rang out in the forest, and Li Yunshi and the other two fell silent instantly.

"Who fired the gun in the mountains?"

"The gunshots rang out on Donkey Hide Mountain, so they shouldn't be far from us."

"Let's go, let's go over there and see who fired the shot."

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

But just as they were rushing toward the direction from which the gunshots rang out, three more crisp gunshots rang out a dozen seconds later.

"Let's go, let's go quickly, someone must have run into a big truck, otherwise they wouldn't have fired so many shots in a row."

Li Yunshi and his two companions grabbed their hunting rifles and shotguns, and hurried through the snow in the mountains toward the direction from which the gunshots rang out.

"Old Li, this way."

"Go that way, I can hear it clearly, the gunshots are coming from that direction."

After walking for a while, the two hunters got into an argument.

"Stop arguing, look."

Li Yunshi pointed to his junior classmate not far away, where there were two footprints extending up the mountain.

"Let's go, let's follow the footprints and see who shot the prey."

The hunter, dressed in a fur coat, said decisively.

Li Yunshi and the other hunter in the cotton-padded coat had no objections, and the three of them quickly followed the footprints left on the snow and headed up the mountain.

However, when they arrived at the place where the gunshots had rang out, they were stunned to see a fully grown male elk, three wolves, and a figure scratching his head and looking worried in the snow-covered ground.

"Yunshi, this... isn't this your third son?"

The hunter, wearing a fur coat, pointed to a man not far away who was looking worried and said...

"Yes, he's our third child."

Li Yunshi looked closely and recognized the worried man all too well; it was none other than his own younger brother, Li Yunshan.

So, that deer and those three wolves were both killed by our third son?

Li Yunshi suddenly realized it, but he couldn't believe it.

Because, in his impression, Li Yunshan had always been an idle and lazy person who didn't do any proper work. He hadn't even learned a little bit of his father's hunting skills, so how could he have possibly hunted these four animals?

The red deer is alright, since they eat grass, but those three wolves are carnivores.

In the dead of winter, wolves are much fiercer and more cunning than usual. With Li Yunshan's courage, would he dare to fire a gun at such a fierce and cunning wild wolf?

Although they couldn't believe it, the snow-covered Donkey Skin Mountain was cold and desolate, and besides the three of them who had come to the mountain together, there was only the third brother, Li Yunshan.

So, it's highly likely that the third brother killed the deer and the wolf. But how did he have the audacity to venture into the deep mountains and forests on his own and kill three wolves?

"Oh dear, brother, I was just wondering how to get these four newborns back home, and here you are."

At this moment, Li Yunshan, who had just been frowning, saw his elder brother Li Yunshi and the other two suddenly appear, and his worries vanished. He slapped his thigh and walked towards the three of them.

"Third brother, did you kill all these beasts?"

Li Yunshi pointed to the prey in the snow.

"I shot it. How about it, brother? My hunting skills aren't bad, are they?"

Li Yunshan laughed smugly.