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

That day, Li Yunshan's house was bustling with activity.

There is meat and wine.

The meat was dry-pot mutton, and the aroma was irresistible; the bowl was full. The liquor was bulk baijiu, also known as "bulk baijiu," but there was plenty of it.

Enjoying dry-pot mutton and drinking strong liquor, the hunters in the village were completely satisfied.

That day, Uncle Zhou and his accomplices got completely drunk.

The sun gradually set, and night began to fall.

The air inside Li Yunshan's house reeked of alcohol.

On a hill near the village, a tiger lay prone, licking the wound on its rump. Its eyes, gleaming with golden light in the darkness, were fixed on a farmhouse in the village where the lights were still on.

Li Yunshan was right; he did indeed hit the tiger's rump. However, because of the distance, the bullet's lethality was greatly reduced after traveling a certain distance.

Even so, the bullet still embedded itself deeply in the tiger's rump.

At that time, the tiger was far away from Li Yunshan and his group, and the tiger could see that Li Yunshan and his group had a large and powerful force.

The key point is that Li Yunshan and his men all had guns.

In the tiger's animalistic mind, even from such a distance, that human could hit it with a single shot. In addition, the other humans were all holding the same guns as the one who hit it. So after being shot in the rump, the tiger chose to temporarily avoid the attack.

But tigers are the masters of the mountains and forests, the kings of beasts. To be shot by a mere human with a gun is an utter disgrace for a tiger that is used to ruling the deep forests.

The mountain king's dignity cannot be challenged; it will retaliate and reclaim the dignity of the king of beasts from humans.

But the tiger also understood that the kind of weapon the human held posed a great threat to it.

Therefore, it is waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to take revenge on those humans.

As a predatory beast, the tiger understands the importance of patience in hunting. In the icy and snowy winter of Northeast China, it can lie motionless on the ice and snow, waiting for the best opportunity to hunt its prey.

However, Ji Laohu thought it would take a long time to find the best opportunity for revenge, but he never expected that the best time to hunt his prey would come so quickly.

During the day, it followed the group of people to the vicinity of the village, witnessed firsthand the incident, and remembered the human who shot it.

Night has fallen, and it's time to hunt.

The mountain wind was blowing fiercely. The tiger had a keen sense of smell and could even smell blood from three to five kilometers away.

At that moment, the tiger smelled a meaty aroma and a pungent, strong odor in the air from the mountain breeze.

Although he didn't know what the strong smell was, when he saw that even the lights in the room, which had been on, were now off, the tiger knew that his chance had come.

Out of caution, the tiger chose to lie in the snow and wait quietly for nearly an hour before standing up and taking nimble steps, silently crouching down the hillside towards the village.

……

"Baa..."

A plump goat was tied with a rope around its neck to the bare tree in the yard.

The pitch-black night filled the goats with fear and unease, causing them to bleat out every now and then.

"Hey, Ninth Brother, do you think the tiger will come this late?"

in the dark.

Cai Er and Wang Lao Jiu were hiding in Li Yunshan's woodshed at the moment, their eyes fixed nervously and anxiously on the goat outside the woodshed through the small window.

"How would I know?" Old Wang rolled his eyes, then said seriously, "Whether the tiger comes or not, we have to stay here and guard it. If this tiger isn't killed, the people in our village won't have a peaceful day, don't you think?"

After thinking about it, Cai Er also felt that what Wang Lao Jiu said made some sense.

If the villagers hadn't taken the tiger's first appearance in the village seriously and had continued with their usual routines, then this morning's tiger entry would have truly been a case of a tiger entering a flock of sheep, and countless villagers would have suffered.

However, although Li Yunshan hit the tiger with one shot, according to him, it did not cause the tiger much harm.

But tigers are very vengeful animals. If you fail to kill it, it will definitely find a chance to retaliate.

This is a well-known and widely accepted principle among experienced hunters.

"Hey, stop talking so much. Cheer up. Once we kill the tiger, we can finally get a good night's sleep."

Wang Laojiu nudged Cai Er with his elbow.

"That's true."

……

"This wine smells so good, I really want to try some."

In Li Yunshan's house, the main room was pitch black.

Smelling the strong aroma of high-proof liquor emanating from the room, Zhang Sange couldn't help but take a deep breath.

"I'm craving it too. If it weren't for important business, I'd love to have a couple of bites," Zhao Shuanzhu said in a low voice.

In those days, resources were scarce, and it wasn't easy to drink alcohol and eat meat.

They ate mutton today, but didn't drink any alcohol, and they felt a little strange about it.

But Zhang Sange and Zhao Shuanzhu also understood that now was not the time to drink.

If you want to drink, you'll have to wait until that tiger is killed. Uncle Zhou said we can drink as much as we want.

"What time is it now?"

In the darkness, Uncle Zhou extinguished the cigarette in his hand and asked Li Yunshan.

Li Yunshan glanced at the watch on his wrist and said, "It's almost nine o'clock."

Nowadays, in the dead of winter, it usually gets dark here around 5:30 pm.

Nine o'clock is considered quite late for people in this era who work at sunrise and rest at sunset.

At this time, most of the villagers had already turned off their lights and gone to bed.

If it weren't for the fact that he was keeping watch over that tiger, Li Yunshan would probably be asleep by now.

"Nine o'clock? No rush."

Uncle Zhou said on Friday.

For a hunter, the most important thing when hunting is patience.

When they go hunting in the mountains, sometimes they go for several days in a row without catching anything decent, and sometimes they even return empty-handed.

Now, they are hunting tigers, known as the king of beasts and the "mountain king," so they need to be even more patient.

In fact, everyone was prepared to continue their stakeout tomorrow night if they didn't spot the tiger tonight.

"Everyone, stay alert and keep a close eye on things."

Uncle Zhou spoke up on Friday to offer a reminder.

"Don't worry, Uncle Zhou, even if my eyelids are drooping, I'll use two sticks to prop them open," Peng Youlian joked in a low voice.

This remark made everyone chuckle quietly.

After the initial amusement, everyone became serious, gripping their hunting rifles tightly and staring intently out the window.

Time passed by, second by second.

I don't know how much time had passed, but someone started yawning.

When Li Baotian asked about the time, he heard that it was almost 10 p.m. and he couldn't help but feel sleepy, yawning several times.

Not only Li Baotian, but also Peng Youlian and others were very sleepy at the moment.

Li Yunshan stared into the darkness outside the window for a long time, his eyes also becoming extremely sleepy.

He rubbed his tired eyes, about to yawn, when he suddenly noticed a heat source appearing more than a hundred meters away from his house... It was his thermal imaging ability that detected the presence of the heat source.

At this moment, in Li Yunshan's perception, the heat source that appeared in the darkness was slowly moving towards his house.

"The tiger is coming."

Li Yunshan reminded him in a low voice.

Uncle Zhou, Li Baotian, Zhao Shuanzhu and others were feeling sleepy, but when they heard Li Yunshan say that the tiger was coming, they immediately perked up.

They didn't ask where the tiger was, because as hunters, they all knew that tigers were vengeful creatures, and its appearance in the dead of night meant it was definitely after Li Yunshan.

Sure enough, a moment later, a lithe figure leaped over the wall and landed in the courtyard.

"Meow...meow..."

In the darkness, perhaps sensing the presence of a wild beast in the air, the goat bound by ropes suddenly let out a fearful cry, and its two legs trembled like leaves.

"Sizzle..."

Suddenly, in the darkness, the goat was so frightened that its bladder tightened, and it urinated a stream of urine that smelled strongly of goat.

The tiger, having just leaped over the wall and into the yard, glanced at the goat upon hearing its fearful bleating, and then pounced straight at it.

"Click..."

Just as the tiger pounced on the goat, the moment its feet touched the ground, the tiger felt a sharp pain in one of its paws and immediately let out a deafening, chilling roar.

"Aww..."

The moment the tiger's roar rang out, several lights suddenly shone in the previously dark courtyard.

"Bang……"

"Bang...bang..."

"Bang...bang...bang..."

The instant the lights came on, deafening gunshots rang out. The people lying in ambush inside the house raised their hunting rifles, shotguns, and rifles and unleashed a barrage of fire at the tiger illuminated by the lights.

In an instant, at least ten bullets were fired at close range at the tiger whose leg was caught in a trap.

"Aww... Aww..."

The bullet landed on the tiger, penetrating its majestic body. The tiger only had time to let out a few brutal and terrifying roars before a bullet struck its massive head, instantly robbing it of its vibrant life force.

With a "thud," the enormous tiger's body swayed a few times after losing its life force, and then collapsed to the ground.

"Uncle Yasuda, is this... a tiger killed?"

Inside the room, Wu Shenghong turned his head and asked Li Baotian beside him incredulously. The bright headlamp made Li Baotian quickly shield his eyes with his hand.

Peng Youlian, Zhao Shuanzhu, and the others didn't dare to breathe loudly. Even though the tiger had already fallen, they hurriedly loaded bullets into their guns and cautiously stared through the window at the tiger lying in the yard outside.

"They should... have killed him."

Li Baotian wasn't entirely sure either.

"Creak..."

Only after the door to the main room was opened and Li Yunshan stepped out with his gun in hand did Li Baotian and the others exchange glances before cautiously following behind him.

Seeing Li Yunshan and the others come out of the woodshed, Cai Er and Wang Laojiu removed the wooden sticks that were blocking the door and opened it to come out.

The lights overhead were now all focused on the tiger lying on the ground.

By the light, one could see several bullet holes embedded in the tiger's body, from which blood was flowing out. The most fatal bullet wound, however, came from the tiger's head.

However, even though it was riddled with bullets, the tiger's captivating eyes remained wide open.

"hiss……"

Seeing the tiger's still ferocious face even after death, the young hunters in the village couldn't help but gasp.

This was also the first time in all their years as hunters that they had come so close to a tiger.

"Finally, we've killed this tiger. Now I can finally get a good night's sleep."

Uncle Zhou also breathed a sigh of relief.

As the tiger was killed, people's fear of it gradually diminished, replaced by genuine joy.

After all, the tiger has been killed. If we sell it, we can definitely make a lot of money. Then, if we split it equally, everyone can probably get a few hundred yuan...

"hehe……"

"hehe……"

Several hunters couldn't help but grin when they saw the tiger lying on the ground.