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

The urgent knocking on the door woke DouDou, who had just fallen asleep, and then, as if she had been frightened, she burst into tears.

Lin Xiulan quickly picked up Dou Dou and comforted her, "Dou Dou, don't cry, Dou Dou, don't cry. It's your uncle coming to our house. Don't cry, Dou Dou!"

"It's so late, what brings you here, brother? What serious incident has occurred?"

Li Yunshan was also puzzled, but he still turned on the flashlight, got dressed, went down into the pit, and went to open the door for his older brother.

The door to the main room creaked open, and before the door was fully opened, Li Yunshi had already squeezed in.

"Big brother, what serious incident has occurred?"

Seeing his elder brother Li Yunshi rush in from outside, Li Yunshan knew that something serious must have happened. Otherwise, given his brother's steady nature, he wouldn't be in such a hurry.

"Yunlan... Yunlan is in the hospital. There was someone on duty at the village office tonight. They received a call from a neighboring county. The caller said they were Yunlan's neighbor and told us that Yunlan was in the hospital and asked us to come over immediately."

Perhaps because he had been running all the way, Li Yunshi was still a little out of breath.

"Yunlan is hospitalized? What happened?"

Li Yunshan was also stunned. Could it be that he had some serious illness?

If she had a serious illness, it shouldn't have been her neighbor who called to inform her family. It should have been her brother-in-law, Wang Yuanchao, or her brother-in-law's wife, Feng Cuilan, who called to inform her family. Why did the neighbor call on her behalf?

Li Yunshan suddenly had a bad feeling.

"According to the village cadre who came to inform us, Yunlan was beaten by her mother-in-law and Yuanchao. She was seriously injured and has been sent to the commune health center in their area."

As Li Yunshi spoke, a glint of fire flashed in his eyes.

"What? She got beaten up by her mother-in-law and Wang Yuanchao? Damn it, do you think the Li family is so easy to bully?"

Upon hearing this, Li Yunshan was also instantly enraged.

In their previous life, the fourth sister, Li Yunlan, and Wang Yuanchao ended up divorcing. This was because the fourth sister had given birth to three daughters for Wang Yuanchao, and Wang Yuanchao's mother, Feng Cuilan, caused trouble. In addition, Wang Yuanchao was a person who favored sons over daughters, so the two eventually divorced.

But that will have to wait several years.

During this period, he had never heard of his fourth sister being abused by Wang Yuanchao.

But then I thought about it again. My fourth sister, Li Yunlan, married a man from a neighboring county over a hundred miles away. Given the communication and transportation conditions of that era, it would be a long and arduous journey for her to go back to her parents' home. Not everyone had a mobile phone to make a call. Perhaps, before my fourth sister and Wang Yuanchao divorced, she had been subjected to domestic violence, but given the communication conditions of that time, it was normal that they didn't know.

Back then, her mother didn't allow her to marry so far away, and even found a suitable partner for her. Unfortunately, Fourth Sister was love-struck at the time and insisted on marrying Wang Yuanchao. Moreover, Wang Yuanchao's family was well-off, so she married into a neighboring county.

"Big brother, shall we set off now?"

Li Yunshan asked.

"Mother means we should leave now. I've already asked the village officials we notified to bring the tractor from the village office."

"Is Mother going too?"

"How could a mother not go when her own daughter was beaten to the point of hospitalization? Yunmei will go with her so she can take care of her on the way."

"Then I'll take my hunting rifle. It's a hundred miles of night road from here to Yunlan. I'm worried about encountering wild animals along the way. If I don't have a weapon, things will get complicated."

"OK."

Soon, Li Yunshan returned to his room.

"Yunlan got beaten by Yuanchao?"

As soon as Li Yunshan entered the house, Lin Xiulan asked him with concern.

"Yes, Yuanchao and his mother beat him up. They said he's been admitted to the commune clinic. My older brother, my mother, my second sister, and I are going to the neighboring county tonight. You take good care of DouDou at home. If anything happens, go to your sister-in-law, or ask Uncle Zhou and Brother Zhang for help. They'll lend a hand."

Li Yunshan nodded in agreement, put on his cotton-padded trousers and coat, stuffed some money into his pocket, put on his cotton hat, picked up his hunting rifle and a box of bullets, and hurriedly left with Li Yunshi.

When they rushed back, they found Huang Zhifang sitting in the main room wiping away tears.

"Mother, don't cry. Since Yunlan is being bullied by the Wang family, let's make her divorce Wang Yuanchao and go bring her back."

Li Yunmei frowned and gently comforted her from the side.

"Oh, my poor daughter..."

Huang Zhifang sighed deeply, then choked up again.

Guapigou Village is so far from Wang Yuanchao's home in the neighboring county. They don't even know how badly Li Yunlan was beaten. Huang Zhifang wished he could sprout wings and fly over there immediately.

"Mother, I'm here."

Li Yunshan entered the main room.

"Your older brother already told you, right?"

Huang Zhifang raised her head.

"I've already told you, I know the situation." Li Yunshan nodded.

"Yunlan was bullied and beaten so badly that she had to be hospitalized. What are your thoughts on this? Tell us so we can make some arrangements."

"What else is there to say? My sister isn't so easy to bully. Wang Yuanchao and his mother think that Yunlan is easy to manipulate and bully because she married far away from her family. Well, I'll show them how many people are backing my sister up."

Li Yunshi gritted his teeth and said.

"Big brother, what do you mean...?"

"I'll go and call Zhang Sange, Cai Er, Peng Youlian... all the young hunters in our village. Let's go to the neighboring county and see if Wang Yuanchao and his mother dare to bully my sister."

Li Yunshi said.

"Okay, I have no objection."

Li Yunshan nodded.

If it were him personally, he wouldn't have such a strong appeal to get all the young hunters in the village to come out together.

But his older brother, Li Yunshi, was different. Before he went to work at the Hongxing Forest Farm, Li Yunshi spent his years with the hunters in the village. During the busy farming season, they would work in the fields to earn work points, and during the off-season, they would go hunting in the mountains together. They had long since developed a deep friendship.

In addition, the hunters are hereditary, with the bonds of their fathers and the unity between them. So, it's just a matter of the eldest brother asking Zhang Sange and his men to make a trip to the neighboring county.

"This...it's too late, and it's cold. Isn't this inappropriate?"

Huang Zhifang hesitated.

"Mom, it's nothing. In the past, when we went hunting in the mountains in winter, we would sometimes dig snow nests in the freezing cold and spend the night there. Now, although it's cold, it hasn't snowed, so everyone is wearing thick clothes. This little bit of cold is nothing to us."

As Li Yunshi spoke, he shone a flashlight into the village to inform Zhang Sange and the others.

"Put-put-put."

Not long after Li Yunshi left, the village officials arrived in the village office's tractor.

"Yunshan, the tractor is yours now."

The village official turned off the engine, jumped off the tractor, and handed the crank handle to Li Yunshan.

"Uncle Shen, thank you so much. If you hadn't been on duty tonight, we wouldn't have known that Yunlan had an accident in the neighboring county."

Li Yunshan handed out two cigarettes to the village officials.

"I just happened to have some work to finish, so I was working on some materials at the village office late into the night when I received a call from the neighboring county. Don't be shy with me, haha. It's dark and cold, so please be careful on your way."

"Oh, by the way, here's a letter of introduction for you. Take it; you might need it on the road."

Village cadre Uncle Shen chuckled as he accepted the cigarette, then handed Li Yunshan a letter of introduction stamped with the village's official seal. It read, "This is to introduce Comrade Li Yunshi and others from our village to your place." The number of people was left blank, and could be filled in according to the actual number.

"Uncle Shen, thank you so much."

Li Yunshan thanked him.

Although a letter of introduction might not be necessary for going to the neighboring county, it's always good to be prepared and carry it with you. It's also rare that the village officials were so thoughtful as to have even written a letter of introduction for going to the neighboring county.

"No need to thank me, I still need to go back to the village office to continue writing reports, I'll be going now."

After finishing his speech, village official Uncle Shen left with his flashlight.

After a while, Li Yunshi returned.

Accompanying him were Zhang Sange, Wu Shenghong, Cai Er, Peng Youlian, Zhao Shuanzhu, and Wang Laojiu.

"Mother, Uncle Zhou and Uncle Baotian are getting old, so I didn't want to trouble them."

Li Yunshi walked up to Huang Zhifang and said.

"Don't trouble them, you young people are enough."

Huang Zhifang wiped away the tears from her eyes.

Seeing that Brother Zhang and Brother Cai were willing to come and help, Li Yunshan felt a warmth in his heart.

It seems that the hunters in the village are still very united.

"Zhang San, Cai Er, and Sheng Hong... It's so late, and we're really sorry to trouble you to make this trip to the neighboring county with us."

Huang Zhifang said apologetically.

"Auntie, Yunshi has told us everything."

"Auntie, don't say anything more. The hunters in our village are united, so there's no need for formalities."

"Yes, ma'am, why are you being so polite with us? We're the ones who escorted Yunlan to the neighboring county to get married. Now that she's being bullied there, we have to stand up for her."

"I want to see if Wang Yuanchao has gotten himself into a bad mood and dares to bully the married daughters of our Guapigou Village."

"..."

Zhang Sange, Cai Er, and others spoke up.

These words brought tears to Huang Zhifang's eyes.

At this moment, Li Yunmei brought out two quilts from the house: "Put this quilt on the tractor's trailer so it's soft for Mom to sit on, and this quilt can be used to wrap Mom's body and keep her warm."

The journey from Guapigou Village to Wang Yuanchao's home in the neighboring county is over 100 li (approximately 50 kilometers).

In spring, summer, or autumn, when the weather is relatively warm, there is no need to put blankets on the tractor's trailer, let alone prepare a blanket for Huang Zhifang to keep warm.

But now it's freezing cold, the temperature is low, and we're traveling a long way. Plus, Huang Zhifang is getting old, already sixty years old, so Li Yunmei has to consider everything carefully.

Seeing this, Li Yunshan and Li Yunmei laid out a quilt on the tractor's trailer and placed another quilt on the trailer to keep Huang Zhifang warm.

Having done all this, Li Yunshan started the engine with the tractor's crank handle. Peng Youlian and the others rode bicycles if they had them, and those without rode bicycles sat together on the tractor's trailer. The group of ten then drove away from Guapigou Village under the cover of night.