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

"Oh dear, let go of me, I can't breathe!"

Held in Li Yunshan's arms, with her pretty face pressed tightly against his chest, Lin Xiulan felt like she could hardly breathe.

She quickly braced herself against Li Yunshan's chest, creating some distance between them, and gave him a disgruntled look: "Look how happy you are."

"Hehe, Xiulan, I... I'm just happy. Don't worry, I will definitely treat you well, for the rest of my life."

Ultimately, it was all his own fault for being a womanizer in his past life. He married Gao Hongmei, divorced her in less than six months, and then married Su Lihua, and the same thing happened.

In the end, Lin Xiulan had to pay the debts he owed.

Thinking about the terrible things he did in his past life, and now expecting Lin Xiulan to compromise and fulfill his wishes, Li Yunshan felt that he was a terrible person.

Therefore, for a moment, Li Yunshan felt a deep sense of guilt towards Lin Xiulan.

And he could only repay her for her kindness and tolerance by treating Lin Xiulan well, cherishing her, and loving her in the days to come.

"Yunshan, Yunshan, are you awake?"

Just then, shouts and the sound of a tractor came from outside.

Upon hearing this shout, Li Yunshan reluctantly parted ways with Lin Xiulan.

"Uncle Yasuda is calling you. Go quickly and be careful on the road."

Lin Xiulan tidied a few stray strands of hair at her temples, lowered her head slightly, turned her pretty face to one side, and said shyly.

"Okay, I got it. Don't do any heavy work at home."

Li Yunshan nodded and also gave Lin Xiulan a word of advice.

"It's cold outside, so put on your cotton-padded coat and hat."

Lin Xiulan took down the cotton-padded coat hanging on the wall and put it on Li Yunshan, then put a cotton hat on him, which immediately made Li Yunshan feel warm inside.

"Xiulan, I'm leaving."

Li Yunshan gently kissed Lin Xiulan on the forehead and said.

"Okay, let's go."

Lin Xiulan nodded.

But just as Li Yunshan stepped out, Lin Xiulan gritted her teeth and suddenly called out, "Yunshan, wait a minute, I have something to ask you."

Li Yunshan stopped in his tracks and turned to look at Lin Xiulan: "Xiulan, just ask me what's on your mind."

"Yunshan, tell me, if this child I'm carrying is born a girl, will you...?"

Lin Xiulan gently stroked her still-flat belly. She was less than three months pregnant, and her belly wasn't showing yet, but she could already feel a new life growing inside her.

Although Li Yunshan now dotes on Dou Dou, she still can't help but worry after what happened before. What if the second child she's pregnant with is another girl? Will Li Yunshan dislike the second child the same way he disliked Dou Dou before?

However, before Lin Xiulan could finish speaking, Li Yunshan covered her mouth and said, "Xiulan, don't worry, not only will I not despise her, but I will also treat my daughter as the apple of my eye. I will never despise my daughter like before."

Having been reborn and having experienced his previous life, Li Yunshan has become indifferent to the matter of having a son to carry on the family line, and he is content with whatever comes his way.

Hearing Li Yunshan say this, Lin Xiulan's eyes also welled up with tears.

"Xiulan, don't worry, I won't do those awful things again."

Li Yunshan gently wiped away the tears from Lin Xiulan's eyes.

"Yes, I believe you."

Lin Xiulan nodded.

"Well... I'm leaving."

"Um."

Lin Xiulan nodded.

Li Baotian had been waiting outside for a while, and it would be bad if Li Yunshan didn't come out soon.

Soon, Li Yunshan opened the door to the main room and went out.

Outside the courtyard gate, the tractor had been turned off, and Li Baotian, Peng Youlian, Zhao Shuanzhu, and Zhang Sange were the four people inside.

"Uncle Baotian, Youlian, Shuanzhu, Brother Zhang, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."

"We thought you were too tired these past few days and hadn't gotten up yet."

"If you had opened the door any later, we would have left."

Peng Youlian said with a smile.

"Hehe, hurry up and go inside to move your things."

Li Yunshan said.

Yesterday, the dismembered tiger meat, tiger bones, and tiger gallbladders were all kept at his house. Uncle Zhou and Li Baotian went home after getting drunk yesterday.

"Come on, let's go inside and move our things. We need to get to the county town as soon as possible."

Li Baotian said.

Soon, Li Baotian and his men entered the house and carried all the tiger meat and bones onto the tractor's trailer, covering them with a cloth.

After everything was loaded, Li Baotian took the crank key and restarted the tractor.

Li Baotian held the tractor handlebars, Peng Youlian and Zhang Sange sat on the tractor's trailer, Zhao Shuanzhu rode his father's rusty old bicycle, and Li Yunshan rode his bicycle. The group of five set off for the village entrance, where they met up with Uncle Zhou and others who were waiting there. They then headed towards Xiangyang Commune.

Upon arriving at Xiangyang Commune, they turned a corner and headed towards the county town.

Since it was a trip to the county town, which was over twenty kilometers long, in addition to Zhao Shuanzhu and Li Yunshan riding bicycles, Wu Shenghong also rode a bicycle.

There was a person sitting on the back of each bicycle.

Li Yunshan carried Uncle Zhou, Wu Shenghong carried Wang Laojiu, and Zhao Shuanzhu carried Cai Er. They pedaled their bicycles at breakneck speed, and the icy wind whistled across their faces, but none of them felt cold. On the contrary, as they got closer to the county town, their hearts grew warmer.

If they sell the tiger meat, bones, skin, and gallbladders, they can get a sum of money they never dared to dream of before, and use that money to improve the lives of their wives, children, and elderly parents.

With money, you feel more confident and have more hope for the future.

"Have you all brought your eating utensils?"

Halfway there, Uncle Zhou asked with a smile.

Thinking that he could sell the tiger meat, tiger bones, and tiger skin to make money when he got to the county town, Uncle Zhou's face was full of smiles.

However, since Li Yunshan had encountered highway robbers twice before, and their trip to the county town involved a huge amount of money, Uncle Zhou had told everyone to bring their eating utensils today while they were drinking yesterday.

It's better to be safe than sorry.

"Uncle Zhou, don't worry, I brought them all."

"Which highway robber gang dares to mess with us? I'll make sure they never leave here alive."

"They're all in the tractor's trailer, wrapped in tarpaulin."

Zhao Shuanzhu, Cai Er, and the others all laughed as they spoke.

As they got closer to the county seat, their hearts warmed more and more.

They arrived in the county town very quickly.

"When was the last time I went to the county town? I think it was about half a year ago."

Zhao Shuanzhu asked Cai Er.

"Back in May this year, at the beginning of the month, we got lucky and caught a roe deer, which we brought to the county town to sell."

Cai Er said with a smile.

"I haven't been to the county town for more than half a year."

Wu Shenghong said.

"It's a rare opportunity to come to the county town. Once we've sold all this meat, bones, and tiger skin, we should take a good stroll around the town if we have time," Wang Laojiu said, his eyes shining with excitement.

In this day and age, transportation is still very inconvenient. Most people rely on their own two legs to get around. Only a minority of people own bicycles, let alone motorcycles or cars. These are things that the vast majority of people in this era would not even dare to dream of.

Furthermore, due to inconvenient transportation and the lack of decent work opportunities, many people had never even been to a county town after the turn of the millennium.

In the eyes of rural people, county towns are synonymous with prosperity, material abundance, and large population.

Therefore, whenever Wang Laojiu and his friends talked about visiting the county town, they had an eager longing to do so.

"Actually, if you're selling meat, three or four people are enough. It's fine for the others to just wander around the area."

Li Yunshan said, "I'll stay and sell meat."

Uncle Zhou and Li Baotian also said that they were too old to visit the county town and wanted to stay and help Li Yunshan sell meat.

Zhang Sange also said he wanted to stay and help out.

"Let's wait until all the tiger meat is sold out before we go to explore the county town."

Cai Er said.

Although Cai Er's desire to explore the county town was obvious, he also understood that things had priorities.

Right now, nothing is more important than selling the tiger meat and turning the tiger into cash.

"Cai Er is right. We should wait until we sell this tiger before we go to the county town."

"Tiger meat is a rare sight, and I'm sure a lot of people will crowd around later, so we need to maintain order."

Zhao Shuanzhu also said.

"Let's sell the tiger first. If we have time, we can explore the county town. If not, we can stay at the county guesthouse for the night and explore more tomorrow. What do you all think?"

Uncle Zhou said on Friday.

"no problem."

"That's a good idea."

Soon, they arrived at the county town's farmers' market.

The tractor, chugging and puffing smoke, drove into the farmers' market, circled around for a bit, and finally found a spot.

After the tractor was parked, Li Yunshan, Wu Shenghong, and Zhao Shuanzhu parked their bicycles as well, and the group gathered around the tractor.

Immediately afterwards, Uncle Zhou and Li Yunshan placed the two door panels that were on the tractor onto the truck bed, and then put a pine wood chopping board, a meat cleaver, and a bone cleaver on the chopping board.

Zhang Sange and Cai Er worked together to lift a basket of meat onto the cutting board.

"Hey buddy, what are you selling here? Why are you making such a big fuss?"

A vendor nearby, seeing Zhao Shuanzhu, Peng Youlian, and the others gathered around the tractor like door gods, couldn't help but ask Uncle Zhou about it out of curiosity.

"Selling tiger meat and tiger bones, haha."

Uncle Zhou replied with a chuckle, picking up his gleaming cleaver: "Fellow villager, want to try a couple of pounds?"

"Huh? Tiger meat?"

The vendor was immediately stunned.

He couldn't resist peeking into the wicker basket, where he saw it was piled high with pieces of meat.

Although he couldn't tell what kind of meat it was, the smell of the meat emanating from the wicker basket told him that it was definitely not wild boar or deer meat.

"It really is tiger meat?"

The vendor asked again.

"Uncle, this really is tiger meat."

Li Yunshan smiled and said, "Tigers were frequently entering our village recently. Our village hunters staked out the area for days and nights, using bait and traps. It took a lot of effort to finally kill the tiger. This meat is genuine tiger meat."

"Look at this tiger bone. You can smell it. This is not something that ordinary wild animals can smell. The smell of bears, deer, and wild boars is completely different from the smell of tiger meat and tiger bones."

"Really?"

The vendor was still somewhat incredulous at Li Yunshan's words.

He leaned closer, took a few deep breaths, and sniffed. He found that the smell was quite different from the venison and wild boar meat he usually saw in the farmers' market.

Although unsure if it was tiger meat, the vendor still asked, "How much is your tiger meat per pound?"

"Hehe, no bargaining, three yuan a pound."

Li Yunshan smiled and held up three fingers.

"Three yuan a pound? Why don't you just rob someone?"

The vendor was startled when he heard that.

Li Yunshan was not annoyed.

In business, some people can accept the price while others cannot; that's normal.

"Uncle Zhou, should we show you the tiger skin?"

Zhang Sange asked from the side.

"Let's show the tiger skin, hang it up high."

Uncle Zhou said.

It seems the vendor really didn't believe they were selling tiger meat, so they had no choice but to show him the tiger skin.