Chapter 554 Eldest Sister 11

He walked over and put all the deer into his divine palace. Once a living creature enters the divine palace, it will remain still. When it is taken out, it will be in the same state as before it entered the divine palace and will not die.

Seeing that it was already noon, Ning Yan hurried back. It was already time to get off work in the morning, and she was afraid that Guang Sheng would be anxious if he didn't see her.

The two had made an appointment. She marked the spot on the mountain, and the man, worried that she wouldn't be able to carry the grass, told her to wait for him on the mountain, and he would come to find her after he finished work.

She had just returned to where she had put her basket when Guang Sheng appeared in the woods.

Ning Yan waved to him, "Brother Sheng, I'm here."

Guang Sheng smiled. "Yes, I'm here."

The couple went down the mountain together. Ning Yan carried a small half-full basket, while Guang Sheng carried a full basket.

After descending the mountain and handing in the task, Ning Yan received her three work points.

...

Two days later, in the afternoon, Guang Sheng finished work and, as usual, went up the mountain to pick up people.

But when he saw the male deer weighing one or two hundred pounds next to his wife's basket, his eyes widened.

"Don't just stand there. This silly deer ran away as soon as it saw me. I really didn't intend to chase it, but it stupidly crashed into a tree and passed out on the spot. So I tied it up, and it's still alive. What should I do?"

Guang Sheng looked at the large deer that his wife had tied up tightly, and he already had a plan in mind. "You stay here and watch over it. I'll go down the mountain right away, carry the grass to the pig farm to hand in the task, and then go find Nie Wenyuan."

"This deer is still alive, and it's quite valuable."

Guang Sheng is honest, but not stupid. He doesn't have the kind of selfless virtue that some people possess. His wife was lucky enough to find a deer, so naturally he wanted to turn the deer into money and not let the villagers benefit from it.

"Does he have a sales channel?"

Guang Sheng whispered, "Yeah, that kid looks carefree, but he's actually quite shrewd and has a wide network of connections."

"He wouldn't be so greedy as to betray his principles, would he?"

"Don't worry, I wouldn't have contacted him if I wasn't sure."

"Okay, then you go ahead, I'll wait for you."

Ning Yan is very trusting; she believed Guang Sheng when he said Nie Wenyuan was innocent. But if Nie Wenyuan were to double-cross her, well, that would be a different story.

Guang Sheng left with his basket, and Ning Yan stayed by the deer's side. When the deer woke up, she would let it sleep a little longer.

After waiting for about an hour, people finally arrived.

It's really dark now.

Nie Wenyuan was two years younger than Guang Sheng and was also a bachelor. The young man had his hair neatly styled and his clothes had only two or three patches that could be seen. He looked very shrewd.

The first thing he does when he sees someone is to greet them as "Sister-in-law".

Ning Yan nodded without saying anything.

Fortunately, Nie Wenyuan saw Lu Xinxi and didn't care about Ning Yan's reaction. "Brother Sheng, let's go. Let's carry this thing down the mountain first."

Before they arrived, Guang Sheng had already brought the team's oxcart over. The two men lifted the tightly bound deer onto the oxcart, covered it completely with a felt blanket, spread grass on top, and then immediately set off.

After the two men drove away, Ning Yan went home by herself. Her elderly parents already knew that she had caught a deer, but neither of them said a word or even discussed it.

Wang Cuiyun kept urging Ning Yan to eat quickly, "Mother specially bought tofu, try it and see if it's good. I've saved some from Guang Sheng, eat more."

"Mom, you and Dad eat too, don't just focus on me."

The brigade leader sipped his liquor and ate a bite of tofu. Although the liquor was just some cheap, diluted liquor sold in the village store, he still enjoyed it immensely.

After dinner, Ning Yan went back to her room. She was so worried that she couldn't sleep, so she just lay on the kang (a heated brick bed) with her eyes open, waiting.

Around 10 o'clock, there was finally some movement in the yard.

The door was pushed open, and the man walked in, throwing a handkerchief onto the kang (a heated brick bed). "Put this away, I'm going to take a shower."

Ning Yan opened the handkerchief and looked inside. It contained not only money but also tickets, all kinds of tickets.

I counted it; there was 210 in cash.

A whole deer weighs about 170 jin (approximately 85 kg). On the black market, meat is expensive; venison might only sell for 1.1 or 1.2 yuan per jin at most.

How exactly did Guang Sheng sell them? How did they make so much money and still have so many tickets left?

Soon, the man entered the house. He was soaking wet, and the only piece of clothing he wore clung tightly to his body, making his outline extremely clear.

Ning Yan quickly tore off a towel and threw it at him, saying, "Aren't you afraid of catching a cold?"

"I ran back after returning the carriage; it was still hot."

"How did it sell for so much money?"

“Nie Wenyuan’s brother saw that the deer was alive and planned to take it as a gift. He gave me a fixed price of three hundred yuan. I thought you might need something to buy, so I asked for some vouchers.”

Ning Yan praised, "Brother Sheng, you're really amazing. Anyone else would only sell it for a hundred and fifty or sixty yuan at most."

Guang Sheng paused in his wiping motion, his wife's words of praise tickling him like a cat's scratch.

He threw down the half-wet towel, walked over to the woman, picked her up, and pressed her onto the kang (a heated brick bed).

"Oh dear, you're not completely clean yet... um..."

"At least take off your wet underwear, you've gotten me all soaked."

The man let out a pleased laugh, followed quickly by a splattering sound—the sound of white cotton underwear being thrown onto a stool—and then the kerosene lamp was blown out…

The next morning, Guang Sheng got up quietly, washed up, and told his parents about selling the deer. He was a man of few words, but when he praised his wife, he had a whole repertoire of things to say. "Dad, I think my wife is very lucky."

Look how badly her parents treated her; what good has that family gotten?

She went back to her parents' house and had all their chickens eaten.

Our family treats her well. She only went out once and brought back several hundred yuan. I'm not exaggerating; I just think she's really lucky.

Wang Cuiyun and her husband already liked their daughter-in-law, and after being persuaded by their son, they treated Ning Yan even better.

For the next few days, Ning Yan slept until she naturally woke up, then went up the mountain to cut grass. She would cut enough grass for the whole day in half a day, and then she could stay at home in the afternoon without having to do anything.

As for her in-laws, they were already satisfied with their daughter-in-law, but their son's words made their satisfaction even more extreme. They were happy to see Ning Yan doing nothing, let alone the fact that she had done half a day's work. Naturally, they wouldn't say anything.

...

Another half month of leisurely life passed, and August was just around the corner when five new educated youths arrived at the team.

These five people include Mu Xiaoxiao and Lian Mingcheng.

On the day the educated youth arrived at the team, Ning Yan pulled Guang Sheng aside and gave him a serious warning: "If you see any female educated youth, stay far away from them."

Guang Sheng answered "okay" without asking any questions.

He then followed his wife's advice to the letter. He avoided any woman other than his own mother, let alone female educated youth.

Anyway, he was a bit quiet by nature, so he didn't attract anyone's attention.

However, some people just won't listen.

Half a month after the educated youth went to the countryside, Mu Xiaoxiao got close to Guang Sheng while working in the fields.

(End of this chapter)