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

"Your father...he wants to see me?"

Li Yunshan found it unbelievable.

In his past life, after he divorced Gao Hongmei, Gao Zhankui always disliked him and hated him to the core.

On several occasions, when Gao Zhankui saw him in the village, he would immediately pick up a stick and chase after him to beat him.

After being beaten by Gao Zhankui several times, he became terrified and would avoid Gao Zhankui whenever he saw him from afar.

Moreover, not long ago, Gao Zhankui even tried to drive him away when he saw him.

Now that Gao Zhankui wanted to see him, Li Yunshan felt a chill run down his spine. Could this old man be planning to beat him up?

"Yes, he heard you speak and told me to call you in."

"Okay, I'll go in."

Li Yunshan thought for a moment. No matter how Gao Zhankui treated him after he went in, whether he beat or scolded him, he would accept it. He couldn't possibly make things difficult for an old man who had just undergone fracture surgery.

Besides, Gao Zhankui's anger towards him is a result of the foolish things he did in his past life.

If you're wrong, admit it; if you're going to get punished, stand up straight.

With that thought in mind, Li Yunshan walked into the ward.

"Uncle, I'm here."

When Li Yunshan entered the ward, he saw Gao Zhankui lying on the bed covered with a quilt.

Because he had just undergone surgery, Gao Zhankui still had an IV drip in his wrist, and he was somewhat listless and looked sickly.

Looking at this old man who once chased him all over the village with a stick, Li Yunshan didn't know what to say for a moment.

Gao Zhankui stared at Li Yunshan for a long time, and when he saw that Li Yunshan didn't speak, he pointed to the stool next to him: "Sit down."

"Why."

Li Yunshan finally breathed a sigh of relief, pulled over a stool, and sat down.

"I read in the newspaper that you killed a tiger?"

"Yes, Uncle."

Li Yunshan responded, and the atmosphere in the ward turned cold again.

Li Yunshan didn't know what to say, and neither did Gao Zhankui.

"I used to beat you like that, and you didn't resent me. You even risked your life to fight a tiger to raise money for my surgery. Thank you so much."

After a long while, Gao Zhankui sighed first before slowly speaking.

Li Yunshan's eyes lit up. "Thank me?"

In his past life, ever since his divorce from Gao Hongmei, Gao Zhankui had never given him a kind look, and would always chase him away with a stick whenever he saw him.

You can forget about him saying anything polite.

"Uncle, it's my fault for what I did before. I messed up a perfectly good marriage and made Hongmei waste her precious youth. It's only natural that you're protective of your child and that you resent and hate me. It's all my fault. If you beat me, I deserve it. I'm sorry to Hongmei and to you."

After hearing Gao Zhankui's words, Li Yunshan recalled the past and couldn't help but feel ashamed.

Gao Zhankui glanced at him, and after a long while, he finally spoke: "Alright, now that you know you were wrong before, behave yourself properly from now on and stop fooling around. Hongmei, she...she...sigh...if I'm not here one day, you..."

Gao Zhankui hesitated, but in the end, he still couldn't bring himself to say it.

But Li Yunshan understood the meaning behind his words.

"Uncle, I understand what you mean."

……

When they left the hospital, it was already dark outside. Li Yunshan took Lin Xiulan and Dou Dou to a restaurant.

They ate hot pot, and Lin Xiulan was delighted when the rich sesame sauce coated the freshly cooked mutton. Dou Dou ate with grease all over her face.

After leaving the restaurant, Li Yunshan took Lin Xiulan for a stroll around the streets.

"The county town is really bustling, much more lively than the commune."

At night, although many shops in the county town were closed, quite a few were still open, making it much more lively than the commune.

Because the streets of the commune were deserted at night.

Lin Xiulan's eyes dazzled as her gaze swept over the shops that were still open on both sides of the street.

"That's why I said if I have the chance, I should buy a house in the county town. Look at our village, if we want to eat meat, we have to go to the commune to buy it. If we live in the county town, we can just walk a few steps to the market if we want to eat meat."

"The shops on the commune street close as soon as it gets dark, but some shops in the county town stay open very late."

"Similarly, education in the county town is definitely better than that in the village schools, and better than that in the central primary school of the commune."

"If we have the opportunity to buy a house in the county town, we will buy a storefront facing the street. We can open a business on the first floor and live on the second floor. It's better than toiling in the fields in the countryside."

Li Yunshan shared his thoughts with Lin Xiulan.

"You're thinking too far ahead."

Lin Xiulan pursed her lips. Although she understood what Li Yunshan was saying, she felt a little reluctant to spend the money she had worked so hard to earn if she really bought a house in the future.

However, she also knew that Li Yunshan's intentions were good; if they had the opportunity to buy a house in the city, Dou Dou could receive a better education.

As for what Li Yunshan meant by doing business, that was still a very vague concept for her.

"A person who does not plan for the future will have trouble in the present. I am also thinking about DouDou and hope that she will be successful in the future."

"It's enough that you have this intention. We won't force DouDou to live her life. As long as she is healthy and safe, that's enough."

As Lin Xiulan spoke, her eyes welled up with tears.

Thinking back to how Li Yunshan used to think of Dou Dou as a little girl and looked down on her, but now treats her like a precious jewel, she felt like she was dreaming.

In this day and age, the idea of ​​valuing sons over daughters is still very serious. For many families, everyone wants to have sons, the more the better, so that they can have many children and carry on the family line.

Daughters, on the other hand, were seen as water spilled out after marriage, a financial burden.

"That's all I can do. I've paved the way for her, but how she walks in the future is up to her. As parents, we can only help her from the sidelines to make her walk more steadily."

After strolling around the streets, Li Yunshan and Lin Xiulan took Dou Dou to the guesthouse and booked a room.

The next day, after having breakfast at a roadside stall, Li Yunshan first went to the hospital with Lin Xiulan, leaving Lin Xiulan and Gao Hongmei to stay there, before wandering around the county town by himself.

He rode his bicycle around the county town a few times and found quite a few houses for sale, but after looking at them, most of them didn't suit his taste.

Either the location is too remote, or the building is too old, or the house is irregularly shaped.

In short, finding a storefront that you like is not an easy task for one person.

Therefore, Li Yunshan essentially spent three days searching in vain while riding his bicycle around the county town.

"Yunshan, if you can't find it, don't bother looking anymore, or you can take your time looking."

"On the way home," Lin Xiulan said.

"Nothing can be accomplished overnight, I understand that principle," Li Yunshan replied.

However, no sooner had they gotten home than someone showed up at their door.

Hearing someone calling outside the courtyard, Li Yunshan went out to see what was going on. It turned out to be Wang Dayong, the elder brother of his sister-in-law Wang Xiaolian.

Wang Dayong is in his thirties, with a chubby face and a perpetually smiling expression, but his eyes reveal a shrewdness.

"Hey, Brother Yunshan, you're finally home! I've been to your house several times, but I've never seen anyone there. I asked the neighbors, but they didn't know where you were either."

Upon seeing Li Yunshan appear, Wang Dayong immediately acted as if they were old friends.

However, Li Yunshan had little interaction with Wang Dayong in his previous life. At most, he would greet Wang Dayong and exchange a few polite words with him when he ran into him at the market because Wang Xiaolian was his sister-in-law.

He never expected that Wang Dayong would actually come knocking on his door.

"Brother Dayong, what brings you here?"

It's said that no one visits a temple without a reason, so Wang Dayong, whom he had only ever nodding acquaintances with, must have come to see him for some reason.

Although Li Yunshan had a guess in his mind, he was not very sure.

"Brother Yunshan, my sister is your sister-in-law. We're relatives, so I won't stand on ceremony with you." Wang Dayong said with a smile, "I recently found a way to run a transportation business with someone, but I'm short of some money and wanted to borrow some from you."

"really."

Li Yunshan thought to himself that it was just as he had imagined; Wang Dayong had come to him to borrow money.

"Brother Dayong, how much do you want to borrow?"

"Borrow two thousand."

Li Yunshan looked at him without saying a word.

Feeling embarrassed by his gaze, Wang Dayong quickly explained, "Brother Yunshan, I won't lend you the money for nothing. You borrowed a thousand from me, and I'll calculate the interest for you. How about I give you six percent interest? I'll pay you back when I make some money from my transportation business."

"Brother Dayong, my money doesn't come from thin air. You asked for a thousand right off the bat, and I don't have that much money to lend you."

Li Yunshan said in a cold tone.

Six percent interest? Do you think I'm a three-year-old?

If he actually lends out the money, he probably won't even get back the interest, let alone the principal of two thousand.

Wang Dayong's smile instantly froze on his face: "Brother Yunshan, we're relatives after all. Now that you have money, what's wrong with helping your older brother out?"

"Even if it were my own brother asking me for a loan, I would still keep clear accounts between brothers. Besides, you are just my sister-in-law's brother from her maternal family, not my own brother." Li Yunshan looked at him, his tone hard.

Wang Dayong's fat twitched; it was obvious that Li Yunshan didn't want to lend him money.

"Brother Yunshan, I..."

"Brother Dayong, let's leave it at that. I won't lend you this money. You should borrow from someone else, or maybe my sister-in-law," Li Yunshan interrupted Wang Dayong.

Wang Dayong looked rather grim. Was he going to borrow from his sister, Wang Xiaolian?

He had already tried, but Wang Xiaolian didn't have much money to lend him.

Later, while strolling around the commune, he saw a newspaper that said a tiger-fighting hero named Li Yunshan had emerged from Guapigou Village.

He immediately recognized the name, and upon further inquiry, he discovered it was his brother-in-law's younger brother, who had reportedly received a reward of 1,000 yuan from the Hongxing Forestry Farm.

So, Wang Dayong shamelessly went to Li Yunshan's door to borrow money.