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

"Hey, Li Yunshi, you've caught a wild boar!"

"This wild boar is so big, it must weigh at least 100 or 200 pounds."

"Li Laosan..."

When Li Yunshi passed through the village, many people were surprised to see the wild boar he was carrying on his shoulder, and some even looked on with envy.

Some people also greeted Li Yunshan.

"Hehe, this wild boar was hunted by my third son, and I just helped him carry it back."

"Yes, there should be about a hundred pounds of meat..."

When people are happy, they are in high spirits. Li Yunshi always has a smile on his face and praises Li Yunshan to everyone he meets, which makes Li Yunshan blush a little.

"Xiulan, I'm back."

Upon returning home, Li Yunshan called out as soon as he stepped into the courtyard.

"Yes," Lin Xiulan replied from inside the main room, and soon ran out of the room.

"Oh dear, we've caught another wild boar!"

Lin Xiulan was slightly surprised to see the wild boar on Li Yunshi's shoulder. She thought to herself, "Weren't Ji Yunshan and Li Yunshi going to Hongxing Forest Farm? Li Yunshan was going to give up his job at the forest farm to Li Yunshi. How come they still have time to hunt?"

"Well, my brother and I ran into it on our way home after finishing our business. It was like wild boar meat being offered to us, so I just shot it without thinking," Li Yunshan explained.

"Hehe, Xiulan, you don't know, Lao San's marksmanship is incredibly accurate now, even better than mine. Two hundred meters away, that wild boar was still running incredibly fast, and Lao San took it down with one shot."

Recalling Li Yunshan's superb marksmanship on the way home, Li Yunshi couldn't help but praise him.

"Big brother, don't praise him too much, or he'll get all cocky," Lin Xiulan couldn't help but tease, then said, "You guys go inside and rest for a bit, I'll go boil some water."

After saying that, Lin Xiulan went to the kitchen.

"DouDou, what are you doing?"

When Li Yunshan entered the main room, he saw Dou Dou holding a pencil, lying on the table, drawing something on a pale yellow notebook.

He hung the gun on the wall, then leaned closer to take a look and saw that DouDou had drawn three little figures in her notebook.

"Father, I'm drawing me, Mother, and you too."

DouDou didn't even look up, and said in a childish voice.

"Which one is Dad, which one is Mom, and which one is DouDou?" Li Yunshan leaned closer and asked, pointing to the little figures in the notebook.

"The one carrying the gun is Daddy. The one with the long braid is Mommy. And this little one is me. We are a happy family." DouDou pointed them out to Li Yunshan one by one.

Looking at Dou Dou's still childish appearance, Li Yunshan suddenly felt a warm current welling up in his heart.

"DouDou, where is your uncle?" Li Yunshi also came over and asked with a smile.

"Uncle, I don't know how to draw so many people yet," DouDou said seriously after thinking for a moment.

"Haha." Li Yunshan couldn't help but laugh.

"You silly girl, is your uncle that hard to draw?" Li Yunshi said.

"Yunshan, are you home?"

Just then, someone shouted from outside the courtyard.

"I'm here."

Hearing the noise, Lin Xiulan went out of the kitchen and saw that it was her neighbor, an elderly woman.

"Aunt Mo, please come in. What do you want with Yunshan?" Lin Xiulan asked.

"Xiulan, I heard your family hunted another wild boar in Yunshan? Are you going to sell it?"

Aunt Mo pushed open the courtyard gate and walked in, asking with a smile.

"I don't know, you'll have to ask Yunshan," Lin Xiulan said.

"Alright, I'll go in and ask him." Aunt Mo walked into the main room with a smile and saw Li Yunshan leaning close to Dou Dou, watching her draw.

"Yunshan, what are you looking at?" Aunt Mo asked with a smile.

She looked Li Yunshan up and down, thinking to herself that he really had changed.

In the past, Li Yunshan was idle and did not do any proper work, and he didn't even like his own daughter.

But now, in a short period of time, earth-shattering changes have taken place. He is not only doing serious work, but also making money. Most importantly, he has changed his previous attitude of disdain towards his wife and daughters.

"Xiulan has finally made it through," Aunt Mo thought to herself.

As a neighbor, she felt sorry for Lin Xiulan when Li Yunshan abused her.

"Look at my daughter drawing," Li Yunshan replied, then said, "Aunt Mo, are you looking to buy some wild boar meat?"

He had overheard Lin Xiulan and Aunt Mo's conversation outside the house.

"Yes, yes, our family hasn't eaten meat for a while. It's far from the village to the commune, so it's inconvenient to buy meat. My rascal said he saw you bring back a wild boar, so I came right away."

"Big brother, are you selling?"

When they hunted the wild boar, he and his older brother Li Yunshi agreed to keep it for themselves and split it in half.

"Since the old lady wants to buy, then let's sell it. We're all neighbors."

Li Yunshi smiled and said indifferently.

Anyway, they have hunting rifles and hunting skills, so it's easier for them to get meat than for the villagers who don't know how to hunt.

Besides, since Aunt Mo has come all this way, who would have the heart to refuse her?

"Oh, thank you so much!" Aunt Mo slapped her thigh, her face immediately beaming with joy.

"We're all neighbors, no need to thank me," Li Yunshan said.

After Lin Xiulan boiled the water, Li Yunshan and Li Yunshi began to burn the pig hair and remove it from the bluestone slabs in the yard.

About half an hour later, all the hair on the wild boar, which weighed about 100 pounds, was removed, revealing its white skin.

"Yunshan, the same as always, seven cents a pound, right?"

Looking at the wild boar that had lost its hair, Aunt Mo asked a question.

"Yes, the same old price, seven cents a pound." Li Yunshan nodded.

Of course, this price is only available in the village. If it were sold in the commune, Li Yunshan would have to sell it for 80 cents a pound.

"That's great! Cut me seven or eight pounds, just the belly meat from here. The meat here is marbled with fat and lean, and we can render oil from it," Aunt Mo said, pointing to different parts of the wild boar.

Just then, another villager walked into the courtyard: "Hey, Yunshan, selling wild boar meat."

"How much is this meat?"

The villager walked to the side, bent down, and carefully examined the wild boar on the bluestone slab.

"Seven cents a pound." Li Yunshan picked up his cleaver and first cut off a large piece of wild boar meat from the part that Aunt Mo pointed to.

Li Yunshi weighed it: "Six jin and eight liang, that's four yuan and seventy-six fen in total. Let's make it four yuan and seventy fen."

"Okay, four yuan and seventy cents it is." Aunt Mo didn't haggle. She took out a wad of crumpled money from her pocket, counted out four one-yuan bills, a five-cent bill and a two-cent bill, and handed them to Li Yunshi.

"Give me four or five pounds too." The villager who came in later could only settle for second best after seeing that Aunt Mo had bought the best cuts.

"Okay, wait a moment." Li Yunshan cut off a piece of meat and handed it to Li Yunshi to weigh.

The meat was weighed, the other party paid and left.

Later, several more villagers came to Li Yunshan's house, all of them to buy wild boar meat.

Although wild boar meat doesn't have as much fat as domestic pig meat, it's cheap and doesn't require meat coupons.

In addition, Guapigou Village was far from the commune, and it was getting dark, so people who wanted to eat meat naturally went to Li Yunshan's house to buy meat.

By the time it was completely dark, more than half of the wild boar, which weighed over 100 pounds, had already been sold.

Li Yunshan split the money from selling the meat in half, with Li Yunshi each taking half.

Li Yunshan didn't want to take the money, but Li Yunshan forced it into his pocket.

"Third brother, I'm going back now."

After selling the meat, Li Yunshan divided the remaining wild boar meat into portions, and Li Yunshi took his share and went home.

"Brother, why don't you eat first before going back?"

"No, my mother is still waiting at home. She'll worry if I don't go back so late," Li Yunshi said, and then left Li Yunshan's house.

But Li Yunshan stood there, stunned.

After a long while, he sighed and took his portion of wild boar meat into the house.

"Yunshan, dinner's ready."

At this moment, Lin Xiulan also brought dinner to the table.

"DouDou, dinner's ready. Go wash your hands."

"Yes, Father."

DouDou put down her pencil and notebook and ran to wash her hands.

During the meal, Li Yunshan handed the money from selling the tiger meat to Lin Xiulan.

Lin Xiulan glanced at the money, but she didn't take it.

"Why are you giving me so much money? I'm not taking it," Lin Xiulan frowned.

"Xiulan, I was foolish before and didn't have money to give you. Now I've learned my lesson and made something of myself. This money is what I should give you. Take it. Having money in your pocket will give you confidence. You can buy whatever you want and eat whatever you want."

"This... but I've never managed so much money before, I'm afraid I won't be able to manage it well." Lin Xiulan hesitated.

"Take it if I give it to you. This money isn't for you to manage, it's for you to spend." Li Yunshan forced the money into Lin Xiulan's hand.

Seeing the money Li Yunshan forced into her hand, Lin Xiulan couldn't help but shed tears.

"Hey, Xiulan, why are you crying?" Li Yunshan's heart skipped a beat.

"No, I'm just happy. I'm happy that you're good to me." Lin Xiulan wiped away her tears and said, "Let's eat quickly, or the food will get cold."

……

After returning from Hongxing Forest Farm, Li Yunshi started making arrangements. Taking advantage of the commune's market day, he bought himself two new outfits and a bicycle.

Although Hongxing Forest Farm is not far from Guapigou Village, only five or six miles away, Li Yunshi gritted his teeth and bought a bicycle because his elderly mother was at home.

With a bicycle, he can go to work early and return late, so he can both go to the forest farm and take care of his family.

When he rode his bicycle back to the village, many villagers looked at him in surprise, as did his brand-new bicycle.

"Hey Li, you bought a bicycle?"

"Yeah, I'm going to work at Hongxing Forest Farm. I'll buy a bicycle to make it easier to get around," Li Yunshan replied casually.

"What? You're going to work at the Hongxing Forestry Farm? Your brother gave you his job?"

"Okay." Li Yunshi nodded and rode his bicycle home.

"Why...why did you buy a bicycle?"

When Li Yunshi returned home, Wang Xiaolian frowned as soon as she saw the brand-new bicycle.