Chapter 119 The Matter is Over

In the afternoon, Wang Jiachuan arranged for someone to use a motorcycle from the field to deliver the bear's head to the police station.

The Sun and Du families were originally plotting something bad, wanting to cause trouble for the forest farm.

They might even go so far as to drag a few others down with them, so they can keep their son company on his journey to the underworld.

Unexpectedly, there was a capable person in the forest farm who easily killed the bear and sent its head to the police station.

The original plan was to let them kill Black Bear as revenge. Now that the forest farm has done it, what can the Sun and Du families say?

We have to swallow our pride and bear the loss; we have to accept it whether we want to or not.

The bureau leaders had nothing to say this time, so they just called the forest farm and said some polite words, reminding Wang Jiachuan to pay more attention to the lives of educated youth in the future.

This time, Wang Jiachuan didn't get angry or lose his temper. He just hummed and hawed in agreement to whatever his superiors said.

After hanging up the phone, I couldn't help but vent my anger by swearing a few times.

In the afternoon, Sheng Xiping and the others went to the field headquarters to return the guns and ammunition, and while they were at it, they went to the finance department to collect their rewards.

This reward is an extra bonus. Once the black bear gall bladder is dried and sold, everyone can share the profits.

The two costs together will probably be at least forty or fifty yuan, which is equivalent to a month's wages for an average worker.

Not to mention, each family also received a considerable amount of meat; those who followed Sheng Xiping up the mountain were overjoyed.

"Xiping, if you need to go hunting in the mountains and you're short of bullets or anything, just tell me."

I may not be able to make anything else, but I have plenty of bullets.

"A semi-automatic gun. As long as you don't lose or damage it, and the numbers match when the higher-ups come to check, you can use it however you like."

Li Zhenggang, the head of the security department, was extremely polite to Sheng Xiping, putting his arm around Sheng Xiping's shoulder and treating him like a brother.

"Then thank you, Brother Li. I'll definitely need your help in the future, and I won't stand on ceremony then."

Sheng Xiping never expected that leading the security personnel into the mountains would bring such benefits.

Bullets are relatively easy to find, but guns are hard to come by.

He does have a size 16 rifle, a single-shot one, which requires reloading after each shot, unlike a semi-automatic rifle which can fire in bursts.

"That's right, we're brothers, aren't we?"

"When things calm down in the field, the two of us brothers will go hunting in the mountains together. I'll just join in the fun and learn a thing or two."

Li Zhenggang is a good shot, but he doesn't have much hunting experience.

His job isn't too busy, so he takes some time to go up the mountain to gather things. Even if it means having more food at home, it's still good.

"Okay, then let's go up the mountain together whenever Brother Li has time."

Sheng Xiping didn't refuse and agreed with a smile.

Thus, the incident of the black bear injuring people has come to a conclusion.

Of the dozen or so educated youth from Songjianghe, Sun Yunpeng and Du Jiabin died from their injuries despite all efforts to save them.

Lin Qingli was attacked by a black bear, but fortunately, no vital organs were injured. After being rescued by the Forestry Bureau Hospital, he regained consciousness.

The other injured people also received treatment and are slowly recovering.

After this incident, Qianchuan Forestry Farm made it clear that it would no longer accept educated youth assigned by the bureau.

As for the few female educated youths who stayed in the forest farm, their wishes were fully respected.

Those who want to stay can stay; those who don't want to stay can have their families find ways to arrange for them to go elsewhere.

Some families, seeing this, would use their connections to transfer their daughters away.

Some also believed that conditions elsewhere were not as good as those at Qianchuan Forest Farm. The female educated youth, not wanting to cause trouble, should just stay put and live peacefully.

Zhou Qinglan was in love with Sheng Xiping, so naturally she refused to leave and remained in Qianchuan Forest Farm.

The agricultural team's work has ended, and the winter logging in the forest farm will begin around the end of October, leaving about twenty days of downtime in between.

They say they have free time, but in reality, they're never idle.

At this time of year, there are plenty of wild fruits and nuts in the mountains, such as hickory nuts, pine cones, hazelnuts, all kinds of mushrooms, and more. You can pick them up however you like.

Who doesn't take advantage of the good season to rush to the mountains and bring back some mountain produce?

Gao Haining and Tang Fengying chose to get married during this period, on October 20th.

Both families were quite busy with the wedding preparations, so naturally they didn't have time to go into the mountains.

The Sheng family is fine. The major work on the new house is all done, and the odds and ends were taken care of in the morning and evening.

With nothing much to worry about at home, Sheng Xiping certainly wouldn't miss such an opportunity.

So he went up the mountain with Wang Jianshe, Chen Weiguo and a few others to climb trees and collect pine cones.

The forest farm's purchasing station buys pine nuts for three cents a pound.

When Sheng Xiping went to Songjianghe last time, he saw on the blackboard at the purchasing station that the price for pine nuts there was high, 35 cents.

A large pine cone can yield about two ounces of pine nuts, meaning that four or five pine cones can yield one pound of pine nuts, which can be sold for a little over three mao (0.3 yuan).

Since we can't do business right now, the only way to make money, besides wages and work points, is to do some side jobs.

Sheng Xiping doesn't mind that his side hustle pays little; he just tries to make money whenever he can, accumulating it little by little.

What boy who grew up in the mountains doesn't know how to climb trees? Who didn't climb trees to raid bird nests and collect bird eggs from a young age?

If you get into trouble outside, your mom will beat you when you get home, so climbing a tree to hide is the usual thing to do.

They climbed trees so thick that it took one person to hug them, without using any foot pedals; they were incredibly nimble.

Of course, climbing trees to collect pine cones is quite dangerous.

To ensure their personal safety, Sheng Xiping still required Wang Jianshe and the others to wear foot clamps when climbing the trees.

In addition to the foot roller, Sheng Xiping also prepared a special tool for breaking towers, which was a wooden pole with a hook at the end.

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