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

After dinner, having filled his stomach, Li Yunshan didn't rest. He picked up a sharp knife from the kitchen and began to deal with the two wolves in the yard.

Lin Xiulan moved a small stool and sat a little inside the doorway of the main room, quietly watching Li Yunshan deal with the wolf, watching how he skinned it and how he gutted it.

The somewhat bloody scene would have made her nauseous in the past, but now the more she looked at it, the more at ease she felt.

With a sense of security and stability in his life, Li Yunshan also became more grounded.

Just like him now, diligently skinning wolves, gutting them, and processing their meat.

After the wolf's internal organs were removed, Li Yunshan raised his knife and chopped the wolf's meat into pieces weighing several kilograms each, then put them into a large vat.

Nowadays, the weather is freezing cold, with temperatures below zero. After throwing the wolf meat into a large vat, covering it, and freezing it overnight, it will freeze into hard, solid blocks of ice the next day.

It can be said that in Northeast China, as long as winter comes and the temperature drops below zero, almost every household has its own large refrigerator.

Of course, this won't work when the weather warms up in spring. If you leave the meat in a large vat overnight, it will spoil.

After all the wolf meat was prepared, Lin Xiulan took a spoon, scooped up a spoonful of warm water, and poured it over Li Yunshan's hands to wash away the bloody smell.

After washing his hands with warm water and then lathering them with soap, the bloody smell on Li Yunshan's hands faded.

"Xiulan, why don't you go back to your room and get some sleep?"

After washing his hands, Li Yunshan said.

"Okay, you should also go to the bathroom and take a shower to relax. The hot water is boiling in the pot."

As Lin Xiulan spoke, she couldn't help but chuckle sleepily.

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"Yunshan, Li Yunshan, go to the village office to answer a phone call."

The next day, Li Yunshan was still asleep when he suddenly heard someone calling him from outside.

He groggily opened his eyes, loosened his grip on Lin Xiulan's body, turned over, lay flat on his back, and then lifted a corner of the blanket to crawl out of the warm bed.

After putting on his military overcoat and cotton shoes, Li Yunshan walked out of the house and opened the door to the main room. He saw Uncle Shen, the village cadre, standing on tiptoe and peering into his yard.

"Uncle Shen, what's up? I need to go to the village office to answer a phone call."

Li Yunshan walked over, opened the courtyard gate, and first handed Uncle Shen a Zhonghua cigarette.

"They said it was the Xinghuo Commune Neighborhood Committee from the neighboring county calling, wanting to talk to you about something."

Uncle Shen took the Zhonghua cigarettes that Li Yunshan offered him, and his eyes lit up.

Zhonghua cigarettes are a good brand, and most people can't even buy them. Today, he's in for a treat.

Therefore, he always speaks with a smile.

Li Yunshan struck a match, lit Uncle Shen's cigarette, and then lit one for himself.

Hearing that the call was from the Xinghuo Commune Neighborhood Committee, he narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking that he had thought it was the Xinghuo Commune Police Station calling, after all, he had knocked Wang Yuanchao unconscious last night and also stole his money.

If we're talking about who's most likely to target Wang Yuanchao, then they're the prime suspects.

As Li Yunlan's maternal relatives, they went to Xinghuo Commune to deal with the Wang family and their fourth sister Li Yunlan, and became sworn enemies with Wang Yuanchao and Feng Cuilan.

Not only did they slap Feng Cuilan across the face, they also threw her into the latrine.

Moreover, relying on their superior numbers, they forced Wang Yuanchao to divorce his fourth sister, Li Yunlan.

He originally intended to beat up Wang Yuanchao to get revenge for bullying his fourth sister, but the bastard got drunk, so he had no choice but to knock Wang Yuanchao unconscious and steal his money.

Of course, the little money she stole from Wang Yuanchao was less than what Fourth Sister had earned from odd jobs over the years.

Most of the money that Fourth Sister earned from odd jobs went into the Wang family's hole.

Therefore, Li Yunshan did not expect that it was the Xinghuo Commune Neighborhood Committee that called him.

However, looking at it from another angle, if Wang Yuanchao suspected it was him and went to the police station, it wouldn't be the neighborhood committee of Xinghuo Commune calling them, but the police from the local police station coming to their door to question him.

However, if that were the case, Li Yunshan wouldn't be afraid.

In this day and age, there are no cameras or surveillance cameras. When he knocked Wang Yuanchao unconscious yesterday, it was late at night, and there wasn't a single witness around. Even if the police from Xinghuo Commune Police Station came looking for him, he could just stick to his story and there was nothing to be afraid of.

Moreover, he had already spoken with his older brother and the others before turning back to take action.

But what puzzled Li Yunshan was why the Xinghuo Commune Neighborhood Committee was calling him.

After thinking for a moment, he and Uncle Shen walked towards the village office while smoking cigarettes.

When I arrived at the village office, the call from Xinghuo Commune had already ended.

Li Yunshan waited at the village office for a while, then offered cigarettes to everyone there. Soon after, his elder brother Li Yunshi and his fourth sister Li Yunlan arrived.

Li Yunshan was somewhat surprised to see his eldest brother and fourth sister arrive.

A phone call from the Xinghuo Commune neighborhood committee actually asked my eldest brother and fourth sister to come over. What's going on?

Li Yunshan was momentarily confused, as were Li Yunshi and Li Yunlan.

Since Li Yunlan has already divorced Wang Yuanchao and returned to her parents' home, why is Xinghuo Commune calling at this time?

"Fourth Sister, are you feeling better?"

Seeing that Li Yunlan's head was still wrapped in gauze, Li Yunshan asked.

After all, Li Yunlan had traveled a long way from Xinghuo Commune yesterday, and the weather was cold, so Li Yunshan was worried that she might have a headache or fever.

However, although Li Yunlan's head was still wrapped in gauze, it had been replaced with a new one.

Now, with new gauze wrapped around his head, the bloodstains are barely visible.

The village officials in the village office looked at Li Yunlan with a mixture of surprise and sympathy.

The village tractor had been missing for the past two days. Everyone knew it had been taken by a hunter from the village and gone to a neighboring county. They also learned that Li Yunshan and Li Yunshi's sister had an accident at her husband's family home.

"Third Brother, I'm fine."

Li Yunlan smiled. She knew that her third brother, Li Yunshan, had turned back halfway after leaving Xinghuo Commune yesterday, saying he wanted to go back and teach Wang Yuanchao a lesson.

However, at the village office, in front of so many outsiders, she didn't ask.

But the phone call from Xinghuo Commune made her worry. Had her third brother's attempt to teach Wang Yuanchao a lesson been exposed?

"It's good that you're alright."

Li Yunshan nodded and said to Li Yunshi, "Brother, I'll answer the phone later, okay?"

"Okay, you can answer it."

Li Yunshi nodded.

Knowing that the call was from Xinghuo Commune, Li Yunshi was just as worried as Li Yunlan. He also knew that he wasn't as eloquent as Li Yunshan, so he agreed to let Li Yunshan answer the phone.

"Uncle Shen, village chief, have a smoke, have a smoke."

At this moment, seeing that the people in the village office had almost finished smoking, Li Yunshan took out a pack of Daqianmen cigarettes and distributed them to several village cadres.

"Hehe, Yunshan is still the most magnificent."

The village official happily accepted the cigarette and then lit another one for him.

Li Yunshan offered Li Yunshi another cigarette, then lit one for himself. The two brothers chatted idly with the village officials at the village office.

After chatting for about twenty minutes, the village office's landline rang.

The village chief took the phone, spoke a few words with the caller, and then gestured for Li Yunshan to go and take the call.

"Hello, this is Li Yunshan."

Li Yunshan took the telephone receiver from the village office, put one hand on his hip, and held the receiver to his ear.

"Hello, are you Comrade Li Yunshan?"

A woman's voice came through the telephone receiver.

"Yes, that's me. Is there anything I can help you with?"

"Comrade Li Yunshan, it's like this, there are some things I'd like to discuss with your sister, Comrade Li Yunlan. Would it be convenient for Comrade Li Yunlan to take the call?"

"It's inconvenient. Just say what you need to say quickly, stop dawdling. I have to pay the village office to answer a phone call. Do you think my family owns a bank or has so much money we don't need?"

Upon hearing what the other party said, Li Yunshan rejected their request without even consulting Li Yunlan. However, he was also worried. Could it be that he had gone too far last night and that Wang Yuanchao, that bastard, had frozen to death in the alley?

"Well... alright then, I'll make it short. Comrade Li Yunlan's mother-in-law..."

"What mother-in-law? That's her ex-mother-in-law. My sister and Wang Yuanchao are divorced now, and she's no longer in a mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship with Feng Cuilan. Please show some respect."

Upon hearing that the call was about that old hag Feng Cuilan, Li Yunshan's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, immediately settled down.

However, he also seized upon the loopholes in the other party's words.

"Mother-in-law? My sister has already divorced Wang Yuanchao, okay? What mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship does she have with Feng Cuilan anymore?"

The other party probably didn't expect Li Yunshan to have such a temper; the voice on the phone paused for several seconds before continuing, "Yes, yes, Comrade Li Yunshan, I say to you..."

"Just tell me why you called my sister, stop beating around the bush, or I'm hanging up."

Li Yunshan said impatiently.

Since Wang Yuanchao didn't freeze to death, then there's nothing to worry about.

Perhaps sensing Li Yunshan's bad temper and impatient tone, the other party quickly cut to the chase and explained why they were calling to find Li Yunlan.

Li Yunshan listened attentively as well.

According to the other party, Wang Yuanchao was knocked unconscious by robbers yesterday, who then stole all his belongings before calling the police.

When the police from Xinghuo Commune followed Wang Yuanchao to Kuanshi Lane, they heard Feng Cuilan shouting at home.

So Wang Yuanchao and the police officers from the local police station went into the house.

However, she found that Feng Cuilan had fallen to the cold ground and was howling like a ghost. When she saw Wang Yuanchao, she immediately picked up a stone that she had used to prop up the table leg and smashed it on Wang Yuanchao's head, causing him to bleed profusely.

Of course, Feng Cuilan didn't fare any better. She already had a herniated lumbar disc, and after all that trouble, it became even more severe, and she was admitted to the Xinghuo Commune Health Center.