This incident caused quite a stir at the time, partly because hunting in the mountains was strictly prohibited in the village.

Another person who was trampled in the chest by a wild boar also did not survive. At the time, the village chief said that out of respect for Huang Eryuan, he would not report the incident to the brigade.

However, the deceased young people themselves need to comfort their families, whether it's through compensation or other means, they need to negotiate and agree on their own.

Unfortunately, the person who died was the only male in his family, and his family kept saying that Huang Jiancai and his associates should pay with their lives.

Finally, after repeated mediation, the family changed their tune and demanded that each of the two men pay them 3,000 yuan in compensation, or they would call the police and have them go to jail!

Huang Dayuan's family didn't have that much money, so in the end they called Huang Eryuan's family back as well and asked them for help.

Back then, Huang Eryuan and Chen Zhaodi were able to get into the steel factory only because their families had emptied their savings, scraping together over eighty yuan, and they also borrowed several dozen yuan from the village.

They were asked to smooth things over. Huang Dayuan had found out about this information, but he felt that as the eldest son, he should stay at home to take care of his parents.

This opportunity was given to Huang Eryuan and his wife. In the end, they successfully entered the steel plant by pulling strings.

So now that Huang Dayuan and his friends are in trouble, they definitely have to help them. But three thousand yuan is really too much.

They would send five yuan home each month and then live in the city, where even water cost money, and their three children were still in school. Although they had saved some money, it wasn't enough.

Huang Dayuan and his family took out all the money in their house, and they only had a little over two hundred yuan. This was thanks to Huang Eryuan and his family, who brought money back every month.

Huang Eryuan and his friends had saved a little over 1,300 yuan at the time, but the total amount saved was less than 1,600 yuan.

At that time, Grandpa Huang and Grandma Huang begged and pleaded, borrowing money from all their relatives and friends, but they could only borrow a little over a hundred yuan. They were so worried that they couldn't sleep at night. When Huang Jiancai's girlfriend found out about this, she persuaded her parents to take out the fifty-eight yuan dowry to tide them over.

But this was still far from three thousand yuan. Huang Jiancai originally felt very guilty. Although he hadn't asked them to come up the mountain, they were still alive, so he was willing to accept the compensation.

Seeing everyone humbly raising money for him, he suddenly couldn't hold back anymore. With red eyes, he shouted, "I won't give you the money! I'd rather give my life for it!"

When Jiang Cuihua heard him say that, she grabbed Huang Jiancai's clothes and slapped his back desperately.

While hitting her, she cried out, "You say you'll pay with your life! Have you considered us?! Ah!"

"I gave you my life, so if anyone has to pay compensation, it should be to me first! How have we raised you since you were a child! Now that you're facing a problem, instead of finding a solution, you're telling me you want to pay with your life!"

Huang Dayuan and Huang Eryuan forcefully separated them. Huang Dayuan blocked Jiang Cuihua, while Huang Eryuan pulled Huang Jiancai away.

Jiang Cuihua collapsed and sobbed in Huang Dayuan's arms; she was heartbroken!

She had her first child after several years of marriage, then two more, and finally raised them all to adulthood. Now her eldest son is about to get married. And then this terrible thing happens. She even wonders if she did something terribly wrong in her past life!

Huang Dayuan patted her shoulder to comfort her, glanced at Huang Jiancai, then at Jiang Cuihua, unsure of what to say, and sighed deeply. He helped Jiang Cuihua sit down.

“Jiancai, how could you have such a thought? You need to understand that money can be earned back if it's gone. But if you lose a person, then you really have nothing left.”

Huang Eryuan knew he must feel guilty, but he didn't do it on purpose. Who could have imagined encountering wild boars? Natural disasters and man-made calamities are unavoidable.

"Although we're still short a lot, we'll go back to the factory later and ask if we can get an advance on our wages, and borrow some from our colleagues. There's always a way, so don't blame yourself too much."

He patted him on the shoulder to comfort him.

Later, Huang Eryuan and his family went back to the factory to borrow money, while Grandpa Huang and Grandma Huang wanted to talk to that family again to see if they could give less or pay in installments over several years.

However, before they even arrived, they heard that the other survivor's family had announced that they wouldn't pay any compensation, so they went to their house with knives.

In the final argument, someone was slashed. The result was that the survivor was adopted by them as their son, and he also signed a letter severing ties with his parents, meaning he would no longer need to support his biological parents, but only his adoptive parents.

After hearing this, Grandpa Huang and the others didn't dare to mention visiting again and had no choice but to honestly try to raise money from all over the place.

In the end, the entire family went through a very difficult few years in order to repay this debt.

Huang Jianguo and Huang Jianjun, who could have continued to high school, did not continue their studies after finishing junior high school.

Huang Qinqin originally planned to stop studying after junior high school, but Huang Jianguo and Huang Jianjun, because they only graduated from junior high school and didn't know anyone, couldn't find jobs after graduation.

In addition, the family had already paid off their debts in the previous two years, so they let her continue her studies. However, she was unlucky; just as she was about to graduate from high school, the university was discontinued.

However, it was precisely because Huang Qinqin graduated from high school that she was able to take advantage of the steel factory's two recruitment drives this year. The requirement for taking the exam was a high school diploma, but once you passed the exam, you could give the job to someone else without any further educational requirements.

It was because of this that Huang Jianguo and Huang Jianjun both became workers at the steel plant.

However, those two recruitment drives only brought in fewer than ten people, and there haven't been any recruitment drives since, so Huang Qinqin is currently unemployed.

When Xu Weiguo asked this question, Huang Eryuan remembered what had happened before. He was momentarily distracted, and when he came to his senses, he realized that they were already discussing when to go to the supply and marketing cooperative.

He asked Chen Zhaodi, who was standing next to him, puzzled, "Why did you suddenly say you were going to the supply and marketing cooperative? I was daydreaming and didn't hear what you were talking about?"

Chen Zhaodi was having a pleasant conversation when Huang Eryuan interrupted her.

"My in-laws said the city is planning to open a department store, on that big open space between several factories. Now a three-story building has been erected."

"That building is the department store. My in-laws said they received inside information that they will be recruiting a few employees from within the supply and marketing cooperative in the next couple of days. They can then go directly to work at the department store!"

"That's why we immediately thought of Qinqin! So we discussed when to go to the supply and marketing cooperative together."

Huang Eryuan was overjoyed, feeling that his family was really lucky to have met such a good in-law.

They decided that since it was still early, they would go to the supply and marketing cooperative first, and then come back to cook.