Chapter 125 Ji Xuening Steps In to Help Wang Shuo

Wang Shuo roared furiously, "What the hell am I doing? This son of a bitch is spouting nonsense, turning black into white, he deserves a beating!"

He Guangliang asked sternly, "Is what Comrade Liu said true?"

Wang Shuo was stunned for a moment, then the veins on his forehead bulged and his eyes widened: "Director, what do you mean by that? I explained it very clearly, didn't you understand? You believed this shameless bastard's nonsense? Does he have the ability to kill a wild boar? When I saw him, he was so scared that he cried for his parents."

He angrily shouted, "Are you two in cahoots?"

He Guangliang frowned and scolded, "Wang Shuo! You're supposed to be a junior, so show some respect when you speak to your elder. You're being incredibly disrespectful!"

Wang Shuo scoffed, "Respect you? You're only in your fifties, why are you acting like a senile old man?"

The old Party Secretary took a hearty drag on his cigarette, chuckling softly.

Everyone was confused. What did this mean? Who was telling the truth and who was lying? However, most people were still willing to believe Wang Shuo.

Liu Huo covered his bruised and swollen face and said, "Wang Shuo, even though I've exposed you, you can't get so angry that you're even cursing the director, can you? Didn't I tell you? This isn't shameful, no one will laugh at you..."

He added, "If you insist that you got this wild boar, then you can have it. I don't want it. I'll just go back up the mountain and get another one."

Wang Shuo was not good at arguing. He pointed at Liu Huo and roared, "You son of a bitch, you're really good with your mouth! I was the one who shot the wild boar to death, and I was the one who saved you. You still refuse to admit it and instead bite me."

He got angrier and angrier. No, he had to rush up and beat him into submission!

As a result, He Guangliang immediately ordered a large number of militiamen to stop him, his face dark: "You're really something else, don't you take me and the old Party Secretary seriously?"

The old Party Secretary hurriedly said, "Don't drag me into this. I think he takes me quite seriously."

Wang Shuo struggled: "This bastard is talking nonsense, and you actually believed him? You're just as brainless as him! Let go of me, or I'll knock all his teeth out."

He Guangliang was so angry that he had a long face.

The old Party Secretary said, "I think I believe Comrade Wang Shuo. He's not that kind of person. He's an upright and honest person."

People around them were also talking about it.

Watching this scene, Wang Yuqing sighed. This is the downside of not having cameras or cell phones in this era—you can't leave any evidence. When you encounter someone as shameless as Liu Huo, you can't even reason with him.

However, Liu Huo's words were full of loopholes. Just as she was about to step forward to help Wang Shuo, Ji Xuening stepped forward first, his voice cold and deep: "I am also willing to believe Comrade Wang Shuo."

The crowd made way for him.

Wang Shuo's eyes reddened with gratitude, and he thought to himself, "I'm determined to be his brother! I must become sworn brothers with him."

He said, "Yes, yes, Ji Xuening can testify for me!"

Liu Huo wasn't intimidated. He sneered, "What can he testify to? Did he personally witness me carrying the wild boar you killed and running away? Or did he personally witness me climbing a tree and being attacked by the wild boar?"

Wang Shuo thought to himself, "It seems that Ji Xuening didn't see it with his own eyes?"

He appreciates the brotherly affection, but, brother, we can't argue with this bastard.

Ji Xuening walked over to Wang Shuo and Liu Huo, calmly looking at Liu Huo's smug face, and asked, "You said you killed this wild boar with one bullet, so there should be another bullet in your gun, right?"

Zhou Shan quickly picked up Liu Huo's gun next to him, opened it to check, and found that there were no bullets inside.

He asked, "Company Commander Liu, didn't you say you easily killed this wild boar with just one bullet? Where's the other bullet?"

The old Party Secretary added, "That Liu fellow has never been honest since he was a child!"

Liu Huo looked panicked. He paused for a moment and then said, "When I came down the mountain, I think I saw a wild boar. I fired a shot, but I missed, and I never got the bullet back."

Ji Xuening then asked, "Approximately how many meters away were you from when you fired at the wild boar?"

Liu was taken aback by the question, but he figured he had some common sense, and the farther he said, the more impressive he seemed. So he snorted and replied, "It's only about seventy or eighty meters away."

Wang Shuo couldn't help but curse angrily: "You're talking nonsense! I could have shot you to death from ten meters away at most."

Liu Huo scoffed: "Is that all the skill you have? Why don't you just shoot the wild boar right next to it?"

Ji Xuening picked up the rifle from Zhou Shan's hand and said calmly, "This rifle has a range of only about 150 meters, so it's not very effective. To take down a wild boar that weighs 80 or 90 pounds, you need to be within 30 meters. Even if you hit it at 70 or 80 meters, it won't die."

Liu Huo's heart jumped into his throat; he was very flustered.

Ji Xuening raised her voice: "Besides, everyone knows that the trees on the back mountain are thick and lush, and there are many vines around, which greatly affects visibility. You can't even see a wild boar seventy or eighty meters away. How did you shoot it?"

Zhou Shan agreed: "That's right, there are trees everywhere behind us. Take those three wild boars for example, you can see them one second and then they're blocked out the next. You can't see anything at all. Company Commander Liu, how did you manage to see the wild boars clearly from 70 or 80 meters away? And how did you shoot them so accurately?"

Niu Er said, "These guns are outdated and not very effective. Ji Xuening is right; they can't kill a wild boar at a range of seventy or eighty meters."

Upon hearing this, Liu Huo froze, his breathing quickened, and he realized he hadn't considered the consequences of his boasting. He secretly cursed himself for being a pig! He'd been caught red-handed.

Wang Shuo chuckled: "Just bragging, huh? Don't you even use your brain when you're bragging? Seventy or eighty meters away? Seventy or eighty meters away on the back mountain, you can't even see a wild boar's butt? What, do you have a third eye?"

After hearing this, He Guangliang remained silent.

The old Party Secretary deliberately spoke up: "Director, listen to this. This Liu fellow has been dishonest since he was a child. He served in the army and came back, but he still speaks so convolutedly. You were just helping him, and now he's slapping you in the face."

He Guangliang: "..."

Ji Xuening continued, "Liu Huo, you said you shot the wild boar to death. Where did you shoot it? Location? We've been going to the back mountain since we were kids, you know it well. Where did you shoot the wild boar to death?"

Liu Huo randomly picked a spot near where Wang Shuo appeared: "It's a pine forest... pretty much there, a place to collect pine needles."

Since Wang Shuo came from nearby, he must be from the vicinity.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Upon hearing this, Wang Shuo laughed heartily. After laughing, he pointed at Liu Huo and cursed, "Look at you, you don't even bother to think before you start bragging. I didn't kill the wild boar in the pine forest. I killed it on the land near the kiln. If you don't believe me, go and see. There are many traces of wild boars running on the ground. Oh, and there's blood too."

He exclaimed, "Oh dear, thank goodness the weather is nice today, it didn't rain, otherwise all the blood would have been washed away, and someone would have started making excuses again."

Liu Huo, feeling guilty, broke out in a cold sweat. He stammered and tried to justify himself: "Anyway, it was somewhere between the brick kiln and the pine forest, roughly..."

Wang Yuqing stepped forward and said, "How come someone killed a wild boar but doesn't know where they killed it? And why is someone covered in sweat?"