1940s: I supported my wife and sister-in-law by hunting.

"Qiuyan, do you like things that are energetic? Then I'll give you something exciting."

Qiu Yanzi clung tightly to his neck, afraid of falling.

"I haven't been with a man for over a month, and I'm feeling really down. Let me cheer your sister-in-law up, Brother Gaoshan."

About an hour later, Sister Qiuyan picked up the clothes from the ground, shook them out, and handed them to Brother Gaoshan. She then gently fastened his belt and buttons.

The muddy road was indeed a bit slippery after the heavy rain.

"Sister-in-law, this is the first time in all these years that I've eaten so much."

"I've made up my mind. I'll agree to what Aunt Wang Er mentioned to me. It'll be a way for me to have someone to rely on. Brother Gaoshan, do you think Sha Qiangzi can compare to you? The old women in the village all say he has a donkey-like thing. I don't know if he's all looks and no substance."

This Sister Qiuyan, she's got such a strong addiction!

Chen Gaoshan reached out and removed the weeds from her head, then kissed her on the lips.

"There aren't many who can compare to me, maybe half of them, otherwise Widow Li would keep sending Sha Qiangzi to her house to eat steamed buns."

She sighed, "I've had good food before, I'm afraid I won't be able to eat it anymore."

"Even if I go to Old Wang's house, if you want to come find me in the future, just come over. I'll leave the door open for you in the middle of the night."

Even if she remarried and moved to Da Sha Qiang's house with her two daughters, in other people's eyes, they would still be an unshakeable burden.

If the Wang family can make sure that the mother and her two children are only half full at every meal, then the Wang family is considered to have a good conscience and are not mistreating them.

Thinking of her two daughters who were at the age of growing up, Qiu Yanzi felt a pang of heartache.

"Brother Gaoshan, you're a capable man in the village, with excellent hunting skills, able to bring home wild game. If you have leftover game or meat, my daughters, Da Ni and Er Ni, are at the age where they're growing..."

Having said that, she was too embarrassed to continue. After all, asking for help was something no one would be comfortable with, so she could only lower her head and wait for Chen Gaoshan's reply.

Chen Gaoshan was a shrewd man and understood what it meant. If someone invites you to eat seafood, you should give their daughter a couple of bites of meat. It's a fair exchange.

Without hesitation, he nodded and agreed.

Upon seeing this, Qiu Yanzi immediately showed gratitude and quickly pointed out the way to him, saying that if they went a little further into the deep mountains, there would be plenty of wild chives growing in the crevices of the rocks in the sheltered areas.

The two parted ways at the entrance to the mountain road. Chen Gaoshan, carrying a basket on his back, followed the direction Qiu Yanzi pointed and groped his way forward.

He wasn't in a hurry, and after about twenty minutes, he saw a patch of lush green leaves crowded into the cracks in the rocks ahead.

He strode forward, bent down, and casually plucked a stalk. He saw that the wild leek's stem was purple, and when he brought it to his nose, he smelled a strong leek aroma. The leaves were wider than those of the leeks grown at home, so it was a wild leek.

Chen Gaoshan bent down and picked a large handful, just enough to hold in one hand.

Since he had nothing better to do, he squatted down and stripped the old roots and withered leaves off the wild chives, saving his family the trouble of cleaning them up when he got home.

After picking the fruit, he stood up and casually patted the mud off his trousers. His eyes glanced casually at the woods next to him, and he immediately spotted a large, dark creature with its head down in the grass not far away, digging for something.

Chen Gaoshan's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously cursed.

Damn it, we just saw Sister Qiuyan off, and now we've run into Widow Li, who loves to go to the mountains.

But upon closer listening, the occasional humming sounds were definitely not a woman's voice.

He dared not be careless in the slightest. He took out a Type 38 rifle from his storage space, held the bullets in his fingers, and loaded them into the magazine one by one.

After loading the bullets, he picked up the gun, lowered his body, and slowly approached the dark figure.

When they were less than ten meters apart, their eyes met, and Chen Gaoshan felt a chill run down his spine.

There's a wild boar on the other side!

Wild boars generally live in a matriarchal society, with each herd consisting of a female with her piglets. In early spring, when the female wild boars give birth, she is always followed by a litter of hungry piglets whenever she leaves the mountains.

Most of those that act alone are solitary boars.

Its body was covered in coarse, stiff black fur, which stood on end in alertness. Two sharp fangs were visible on either side of its mouth as it lowered its head and smacked its lips.

In the blink of an eye, the wild boar, which had been burying its head in the ground, sensed the presence of a stranger not far away. Its ears perked up, its eyes fixed on him, and with a push of its limbs, it immediately turned to run into the forest.

Chen Gaoshan was prepared; he had already aimed his Type 38 rifle at the target and pulled the trigger.

boom!

The bullet struck the wild boar precisely on its hind leg as it charged forward.

The immense momentum of its run was too great to stop. The wounded wild boar was in so much pain that it instantly lost its balance, tumbling several times down the hillside before crashing to the ground.

But this beast was still very wild. Even though it was injured, it struggled to get up and try to escape again.

Chen Gaoshan wasn't about to give it a chance. He ran after it, locked onto the wild boar again, and fired another shot decisively. The loud bang rang out once more.

With that shot, the already staggering wild boar fell flat on its face.

But after a few struggles, he stood up again.

Neither shot hit a vital spot, which enraged the ferocious male boar, causing it to unleash its full wild instincts.

Its eyes were bloodshot, and it emitted a muffled humming sound from its nasal cavity, exhaling air from its nostrils.

Damn, this beast's hide is really tough. It can still stand after being shot twice. Its vitality is terrifying!

There's an old saying that wild boars wear armor. Wild boars in the mountains usually gnaw on pine bark and repeatedly coat themselves with pine resin. Then they roll in mud pits, letting the mud mix with pine resin and stick firmly to their fur, just like armor.

The homemade gunpowder gun in the hands of an ordinary hunter, if fired at its side, would probably not even penetrate the skin, and would not cause a fatal wound at all.

The old hunters in the mountains all say that wild boars with calves and wild boars in heat are the most ferocious and will attack people on their own initiative. If you encounter one, you should climb up a tree as soon as possible and not confront it head-on.

But Chen Gaoshan wasn't afraid; he was armed with a Type 38 rifle, capable of penetrating a target with a single shot.

The wild boar lowered its head, bared its tusks, and charged at him savagely like a madman.

Chen Gaoshan locked the wild boar's forehead tightly; that was its only fatal weakness.

With only three steps between the man and the beast, and the wild boar's tusks almost touching him, Chen Gaoshan decisively pulled the trigger, and the bullet pierced the wild boar's forehead!

The instant the gun fired, he instinctively took a step back to avoid the impact.

The wild boar, which had been so ferocious just moments before, suddenly stopped moving, its head drooped, its two front legs went weak, and it knelt down in front of Chen Gaoshan with a thud. It lunged forward and fell hard on its knees, then crashed to the ground, making a pig-face-feeing mess.

Its limbs twitched uncontrollably, and blood kept gushing out from the bullet hole in its forehead.

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