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

As for why Feng Cuilan was wailing and even hit Wang Yuanchao with a stepping stone, it was because Wang Yuanchao asked Feng Cuilan for money to compensate for the losses of the grocery store, but Feng Cuilan wouldn't give him even a penny more. Feeling resentful, he took advantage of the time while pouring water for Feng Cuilan to crush a sleeping pill into powder, mix it into the water, and make Feng Cuilan drink it.

Once the sleeping pills took effect and Feng Cuilan fell asleep, Wang Yuanchao secretly took Feng Cuilan's money.

As a result, when Feng Cuilan woke up, she felt something was wrong. Ignoring her herniated lumbar disc, she went to check where she hid her money and found that more than a hundred yuan was missing. She was thunderstruck.

After hitting Wang Yuanchao with a stepping stone, the intervertebral disc in her lumbar spine could not withstand the strain, and her condition worsened, leading to hospitalization.

Wang Yuanchao was used as a stepping stone by Feng Cuilan, and he also had to get several stitches in his head.

The Xinghuo Commune neighborhood committee called this time because Wang Yuanchao and Feng Cuilan were both hospitalized, and the mother and son hoped that Li Yunlan could return to Xinghuo Commune to take care of them for a while, out of consideration for their past as family.

Hearing the words coming through the microphone, Li Yunshan couldn't help but sneer: "Comrade, are you kidding me? My sister was bullied so badly by Wang Yuanchao and Feng Cuilan and her son, and you want my sister to go back and take care of them? Your Xinghuo Commune neighborhood committee is really crooked, isn't it?"

After saying that, Li Yunshan hung up the phone before the other party could continue speaking.

"Uncle Shen, Village Chief, thank you."

Li Yunshan thanked them and then left the village office with Li Yunshi and Li Yunlan.

"Third brother, what's the matter with the call from Xinghuo Commune?"

Not long after leaving the village office, Li Yunshi couldn't help but ask.

Just now, although they were nearby listening to Li Yunshan's call with Xinghuo Commune, they only heard what Li Yunshan said and didn't know the details.

Therefore, both Li Yunshi and Li Yunlan were curious.

Li Yunshan glanced around to make sure there was no one else nearby before smiling and whispering, "To be more specific, Wang Yuanchao caused trouble at the grocery store yesterday. He needed money to compensate the store for its losses. So he went home to ask Feng Cuilan for money, but she refused to give him a single penny. Wang Yuanchao then hatched a scheme. He put sleeping pills in Feng Cuilan's water and took some of her retirement savings."

"Of course, all the money that Wang Yuanchao got ended up benefiting me."

As Li Yunshan spoke, he took out the money he had taken from Wang Yuanchao from his pocket and handed it to his fourth sister, Li Yunlan: "Fourth sister, this money is what I took from Wang Yuanchao. You take it."

"Third Brother, did you get this money from Wang Yuanchao? You didn't do anything to him, did you?"

Li Yunlan asked.

"He was drunk, so I didn't dare to hit him, afraid of causing a death. I knocked him unconscious, dragged him to a sheltered place, and took the money from him."

You've been married to him for years, doing all the laundry, cooking, serving tea and water, and even doing odd jobs to support the family. The Wang family owes you all of this; take it and don't feel embarrassed."

Seeing that Li Yunlan didn't take it, Li Yunshan directly stuffed the money into her hand.

Now, Feng Cuilan's lumbar disc herniation has worsened, and she's lying in a ward at the Xinghuo Commune Health Center. Wang Yuanchao has a head injury and reportedly needed several stitches; he's also lying in a ward at the Xinghuo Commune Health Center. The mother and son want you to go back and take care of them for a few days, out of consideration for our past family relationship.

Li Yunshan said.

"Damn, how did they even come up with that?"

Now Li Yunshi understood the whole story of the phone call Li Yunshan had received, and after listening, he couldn't help but swear.

Even Li Yunlan was almost dumbfounded.

But after a while, she couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh.

Before the divorce, Wang Yuanchao and Feng Cuilan treated her like family. They treated her like a tool for procreation and like a maid who did their laundry, cooked, and served them tea and water.

At the Wang family home, she not only had to do laundry, cook, serve tea and water, and take care of Wang Yuanchao and Feng Cuilan, but also had to do odd jobs to earn money.

If she doesn't do odd jobs to earn money, she won't have any to spend.

I remember once Qianqian had a fever and her forehead was burning hot. She didn't have any money in her pocket, so she went to Feng Cuilan to ask for a few yuan, thinking that she could take Qianqian to the commune clinic to get some medicine. But Feng Cuilan said that Qianqian was a money-loser and didn't need money for medical treatment. She said she would die from the fever.

She asked Wang Yuanchao for money, but he said he didn't have any money himself and told her to figure it out herself.

Later, she had to go door to door asking her neighbors in Kuanshi Lane for money, borrowing a dime here and a dime there, until she finally managed to borrow two yuan and fifty cents, which she used to take Qianqian to the commune clinic.

The doctor took the child's temperature, which was 43 degrees Celsius. The child was delirious with fever at that moment.

After taking the medicine, Qianqian's fever subsided, but the doctor also said that with such a high temperature, if she had been brought in half an hour later, her brain would probably have been damaged, and she would have become mentally challenged.

Later, she had to work odd jobs for several days to save up enough money to pay back her neighbor.

Wang Yuanchao and Feng Cuilan, however, ignored the child completely, as if Qianqian didn't exist in their home.

Furthermore, not long ago, Wang Yuanchao and Feng Cuilan committed domestic violence against her twice, beating her until her skin was bruised and her head was bleeding. Why didn't they treat her like family at that time?

Now that the mother and son have moved into the Xinghuo Commune Health Center and need someone to take care of them, I remembered that she and they used to be a family, and I wanted her to take care of them.

"Yunlan, I'm telling you this very seriously, you absolutely must not go back. Although Wang Yuanchao is Qianqian's father, he has absolutely nothing to do with you now. If you go back, you might just fall into a fire pit again."

Li Yunshi said with a stern face.

"Big brother, don't worry, I won't go back. My good days have just begun. I have my eldest brother, third brother, second sister, and mother who loves me. I'm not stupid. Why would I go and take care of two people who have nothing to do with me?"

As Li Yunlan spoke, even her brows relaxed.

"It's good that you think this way. Living a good life is more important than anything else."

Li Yunshi laughed.

"Hehe, let Wang Yuanchao and that old hag Feng Cuilan suffer by themselves."

Li Yunshan also smiled.

However, he quickly remembered something: the hunters in the village, Zhang Sange, Cai Er, and others, had followed them to Xinghuo Commune in the neighboring county, and he should thank them properly.

"The day after tomorrow is the eve of the Lunar New Year. Before that, let's invite Uncle Zhou, Uncle Baotian, Brother Zhang, and Cai Er to our house for a meal."

When Li Yunshan brought up this matter, Li Yunshi thought for a moment and said, "Take a rest today, and tomorrow go to the nearby mountains to see what kind of prey we can catch."

"When I was traveling back home at night last night, I encountered a few wolves on the way. I killed two of them, and the wolf meat is in the big vat at home where I store frozen meat."

Li Yunshan said.

"Did you encounter a wolf when you came back last night?"

"Well, it's a pity that before I could reload and fire a second time, the remaining wolves tucked their tails between their legs and ran away."

Li Yunshan said with a smile.

Actually, the main reason was that he was using a hunting rifle, which only had a range of about 60 meters. If he had been using a Mosin-Nagant rifle, which has a range of several hundred meters, those wolves would have had no chance of escaping.

When Li Yunlan heard from Li Yunshan that he had encountered wolves on his way back last night, she was also startled.

Fortunately, her third brother was standing beside her unharmed. She would have felt terrible if something had happened to him.

"Wolf meat alone won't do; it's too tough."

"Here's what we'll do: tomorrow morning, you come with me to the nearby mountains and see if we can hunt any rabbits or pheasants. Since we're treating them to a meal as a thank you, let's prepare a lot of dishes. Hehe, we're not as poor as we used to be, and life isn't as difficult as it used to be."

"Okay, big brother, no problem. I'll come to see you first thing tomorrow morning."

Li Yunshan nodded in agreement.

After parting ways with Li Yunshi and Li Yunlan, he headed home.

He stayed up late last night dealing with those two wolves, and he's still a bit sleepy. He needs to go home and catch up on some sleep.

However, Li Yunshan had barely taken a nap after returning home when Gao Hongmei arrived.

"Xiulan, where is Li Yunshan? Where did he go?"

Gao Hongmei was still as energetic as ever. After arriving at Li Yunshan's house, she saw Lin Xiulan sitting in the main room, holding Dou Dou and telling her stories from a picture book. She then asked a question.

"He's taking a nap inside."

Lin Xiulan asked with a smile, "Big sister, what do you want with Yunshan?"

"Lihua went back to the city after the Lunar New Year's Eve, so I came to let him know," Gao Hongmei said.

"Oh, I understand. I'll tell him when he wakes up."

Lin Xiulan nodded in agreement, but instead of waking Li Yunshan, she said to Gao Hongmei, "He didn't get home until late last night. He went to the village office again after only a short time, and just got back and went to bed. Sister, please don't wake him up. Let him sleep a little longer."

"Okay, I won't bother him."

"However, I heard that Aunt Huang and the others returned yesterday. Why did Li Yunshan not get home until late at night?"

The news of Li Yunlan being bullied by her husband's family has already spread throughout the village in the past two days.

The young hunters in the village all followed the brothers Li Yunshan and Li Yunshi to support Li Yunlan, and many people in the village knew this.

When Gao Hongmei asked, Lin Xiulan had no choice but to tell Gao Hongmei everything that Li Yunshan had done.

Gao Hongmei was surprised when she heard this: "I didn't expect Li Yunshan to be so bold. He's not afraid of actually causing someone's death."

Knocking someone out is nothing in itself.

But now it's freezing cold, and if you're unconscious for too long, you could freeze to death outside.

"He should be fine. He went to the village office and got a call from the Xinghuo Commune Neighborhood Committee. They said that Wang Yuanchao and his mother were both hospitalized and wanted Yunlan to take care of them out of consideration for their past as family. Doesn't that mean everything is alright?"

Lin Xiulan said casually.