Su Yan's words immediately ignited the gossipy old women!

"I was just saying it casually, why are you taking it so seriously, little girl?"

"Yes, we were just joking. We're all from the same village, and your mother came back after her divorce. Su Yan, don't offend all the aunties."

"That's right. If something happens in the future, it won't be easy for you to ask the men in the village for help."

...

Is this a threat against her?

Su Yan couldn't help but find it a little funny. "According to you, does that mean all the uncles and aunts in the village have to listen to you?"

Before the women could speak, Lin Xiuli said in a deep voice, "If you don't want it, go home! I'm telling you right now, if it weren't for Su's generosity, she could have kept it all for herself, but she didn't. She always thinks of the village when she has something good. If anyone doesn't want these few pounds of meat, leave now. Don't take someone else's meat and then complain behind their back."

The pig-slaughtering platform fell silent after hearing this.

The brigade leader frowned and calmly said, "In Lijiaping, we don't have the saying 'a married daughter is like water spilled from a bowl.' Regardless of whether Su Yan's mother is divorced or not, Lijiaping is still her maternal home. If I ever hear anyone talking behind Li Juan's back about her and her two children again, don't blame me for not giving them a chance."

"Moreover, Su Yan was admitted to Southern Medical University in this year's college entrance examination. This is a prestigious university. She is now a part of Lijiaping and has brought honor to Lijiaping. We should be proud of her and unite as one, instead of targeting her." Lin Xiuli continued to do ideological work with everyone.

Lijiaping is great in every way, except for the fact that there are too many gossipy women. Fights between women happen almost every day. I really don't know what's wrong with the feng shui.

Su Yan looked at the brigade leader and his wife with "gratitude," then raised her voice and said, "Thank you, uncles and aunts, for speaking up for my family. If we hadn't been forced into this situation, my mother wouldn't have chosen to divorce, taking both my brother and me with her. These days, divorce is a bad thing for women, but my mother did it for the children. If the Su family hadn't exploited her so much, she wouldn't be in this situation. I hope you uncles and aunts can understand. Of course, if anyone still harbors resentment, they can leave now; I won't force them."

After saying that, she said to the brigade leader, "Brigade leader, I'm too tired after wandering around in the mountains all day. I'll go back and rest first. Just distribute the meat fairly and don't treat me specially. Can I have my grandfather go to you to get the meat tomorrow?"

"No problem," the captain said. "You should go back now."

Su Yan nodded and left the pig-slaughtering platform.

The words spoken by the brigade leader and his wife in front of everyone today should deter anyone from bothering her family again. Having achieved her goal, she won't waste any more time here; there's still a wild boar on the mountain waiting to be dealt with.

After the people had gone far away, the brigade leader shouted: "This wild boar weighs 459 jin in total. There are 85 households in our village. Each household will get 5.4 jin of meat. Each family should send a representative to line up and collect the meat."

The crowd erupted in uproar!

There were a whopping 5.4 pounds of meat!

That's quite a lot! It would cost several dollars to buy that! And it will last a long time.

Most of the people present felt grateful to Su Yan, and after taking the meat home, they reminded their families that they should help Su Yan if she needed anything in the future.

...

Once Su Yan got home, she took a kitchen knife and went up the mountain through the back door with Li Juan.

"Ayan, what are you up to so late at night?" Li Juan looked around at her surroundings with some fear.

The mountains were pitch black, with only a faint light shining from the village, which was quite eerie.

Su Yan dragged the hidden wild boar out from behind the tree before explaining, "Mom, I found two wild boars. We'll give the bigger one to the village and eat the other one ourselves."

"Give me the knife, and I'll cut the meat into pieces. When you carry the meat back later, remember to use the back door and don't let anyone find out."

Li Juan stared in disbelief at the enormous wild boar before her, and asked, "Yan, did you really find this?"

She was a little doubtful of her own eyes.

When did wild boars become so easy to find? Her daughter is amazing!

Su Yan made up a reason without changing her expression: "Today I went into the deep mountains to collect herbs and found these two dead wild boars. I got lost while dragging them down the mountain. Mother, don't ask anymore, come and help me, I'm exhausted."

She didn't give Li Juan a chance to think things through, and showed an expression that looked exhausted.

Li Juan was heartbroken and, as expected, didn't have time to think too much. She immediately squatted down to help.

Who cares where it came from! Anyway, it was her daughter who discovered it and painstakingly brought it down, so leaving a little bit of it is not unreasonable.

After processing the 200-pound wild boar, Su Yan descended the mountain when the village was already pitch black. She felt physically exhausted, but mentally fulfilled.

After doing so much work all day, she felt she was one step closer to her dream.

She missed the right opportunity in her past life, so she has to work hard in this one to become the richest person in the country!

Back home, Li Juan followed Su Yan's instructions, keeping forty catties of meat and ten ribs, and marinating the rest to make smoked bacon.

"Yan, go take a shower quickly. After you shower, Mom will put some Tiger Balm on you. Look at all the injuries on your body," Li Juan urged, her heart aching.

If she hadn't been so useless, would her daughter have suffered so much?

How dangerous are those deep mountains? In the past, some villagers went into the deep mountains in search of meat and never came back. That's risking your life!

Su Yan nodded, then, as if remembering something, added, "Mother, could you wash twenty catties of meat and blanch it for me? I'll make something to eat."

Li Juan was taken aback. "So much? Ten pounds should be enough, right? It would be a waste if we couldn't finish it."

Su Yan walked over and said in a low voice with an air of seriousness, "These twenty catties of meat are what I'm going to take into the mountains for worship tomorrow. You don't know, I encountered a lot of dangers in the mountains today, but I managed to escape unscathed. I suspect it was the mountain god who helped me."

There was nothing she could do; she simply didn't have the energy to come up with a more perfect excuse. If her mother had known that the mountain god was actually a tiger, she definitely wouldn't have allowed her to go into the mountains.

Fortunately, there is a saying that there is a mountain god in Lijiaping. Li Juan did not find it hard to accept. After confirming it repeatedly, she said, "Then we have to worship him, lest the mountain god be unhappy and stop protecting us. I will go with you tomorrow and burn some incense."

"No need, Mother. You have to go to work tomorrow. I'll come back right after I finish the ancestral worship. This situation will definitely not happen again."

Only after Su Yan repeatedly assured her did Li Juan agree not to go with her.

She was just worried. Heaven knows how agonizing it was for her to come home from get off work and find out her daughter hadn't returned all day!

So before Su Yan went to take a bath, she solemnly instructed her, "From now on, you must tell your family where you go, or your mother will really not forgive you!"

Seeing her mother still in a daze, as if she hadn't recovered, Su Yan felt a lump in her throat.

She needs to remember that she will no longer be alone!