Yang Cai looked at Wang the matchmaker's angry expression, smirked a few times, and then said, "Cousin, while I'm being easygoing, give me the money quickly. Otherwise, I don't know what I'll do."
Yang Cai glanced at Matchmaker Wang nonchalantly, then said in an ambiguous tone, "Cousin, your daughter Mei Lan is pretty, too!"
Liu Meilan is the youngest daughter of Wang the Matchmaker. She is only fourteen years old this year. After graduating from elementary school, she failed to get into junior high school, so she followed Wang the Matchmaker and his wife to work in the village.
When matchmaker Wang heard this, her fingers trembled with anger as she said, "You beast, if you dare to touch even one finger of Mei Lan, I will kill you!"
Yang Cai was not afraid of Wang the matchmaker's threats at all. He said with disdain: "Anyway, I have only one life left. I will die under the peony flowers and live a romantic life even as a ghost."
Matchmaker Wang was so angry that her whole body was shaking. She knew that if she didn't give Yang Cai some money today, she would not be able to get through this.
After Wang the matchmaker calmed down, she sat down on the ground, took off her shoes, pulled out the insoles, poured out a handful of change from the insoles, and handed it all to Yang Cai, saying, "I only have this much money on me. If your uncle finds out that you went home to get the money, you won't be able to leave Liujia Village today. My boss is a stubborn and righteous man. He's not afraid of you."
Also, Yang Cai, I've been a matchmaker for so many years, I have acquaintances in every village in our commune. If you dare bring your cronies to harass my Mei Lan and Liu Xiu families, you'll never get married again. I'll also make your affair with your widowed cousin-in-law known to everyone."
Yang Cai didn't care whether Wang the matchmaker had smelly feet or not. He took the money, put his fingers in his mouth to wet his saliva, and began to count the money. It was a total of four yuan, eighty cents, five cents and two cents. Yang Cai didn't expect to get ten yuan back. He was already very satisfied to get so much.
If his parents hadn't recently discovered his affair with his cousin's wife and stopped giving him money, he wouldn't have taken the risk of threatening Matchmaker Wang. After all, Matchmaker Wang's husband was a stubborn and strong man, and he was no match for his beatings.
Now that he had these four dollars, he could go to his cousin's wife's house to sleep with her a few more times, and he could also play cards with his brothers. As for Shengnan from the Liu family and Meilan from Wang's matchmaker family, he looked down on them. They were both skinny, with small butts and small breasts, and he didn't care for them much. He still preferred his cousin's wife's big butt and big breasts.
Yang Cai counted the money several times with his saliva-stained fingers before putting it away in his arms. Then, with a bright and thick face, he looked at Matchmaker Wang and said, "Cousin, I have accepted your money and will definitely not cause trouble again. I will also help you with my parents' affairs! Cousin, don't send me off. I'm going back first!"
Matchmaker Wang looked at Yang Cai's arrogant and conceited back, spat on the ground, and cursed, "You little bastard, I don't think you can live well for many days!"
After scolding her, Matchmaker Wang hurried home, thinking that she had been fooled this time. Just to earn an extra ten yuan, she had gotten herself into trouble, and had gotten herself into trouble with such a bad guy. As expected, one should never do things that are against one's conscience. She had to go home and tell the head of the family about this matter, even if the head of the family scolded her. She had to work with the head of the family to find a way to deal with Yang Cai, but she couldn't let Mei Lan get hurt. Oh, and she also had to tell Mei Lan's two brothers to be more careful and not leave Mei Lan alone.
After Yang Cai returned to Yangshu Village, he did not even go back home. He ran to a thatched hut on the hillside of a mountain behind. This thatched mud house had only two rooms, one was a kitchen and the other was a bedroom. It was the home of an old hunter in the village. Later, the old hunter was taken to the city by his son. Because this thatched house was too far away from where the villagers lived, and there was only this house within a radius of five or six miles, no one occupied it, and it has been left there ever since.
Now the thatched roof of the kitchen has fallen off. Although the thatched roof of the bedroom has not fallen off, one side has started to leak. When it rains heavily outside, it starts to rain on the other side of the room.
The fact that half of the roof is well preserved is largely thanks to the few people in the village who go up the mountain to hunt secretly. They usually come back to repair and reinforce the roof when they have time. Yang Wanlin is also a good secret hunter among them.
Yangjia Village has few farmlands and many steep mountains. Consequently, Yangshu Village has always had a smaller population than other villages. Even after resettling some refugees from famine, Yangshu Village still has the smallest population of any village in Danru Commune. Since private hunting was banned, its work points have also become the lowest among all villages.
Before liberation, except for a few rich farmers who had land, the rest of the people in Yangshu Village relied on the mountains for their livelihood. They reclaimed wasteland in the mountains every day for a bite to eat. However, there were many wild animals in the mountains, such as wolves and wild boars, and most people did not dare to approach them. Most people only dared to reclaim wasteland halfway up the mountain, and did not dare to go any higher.
Even so, growing crops in the mountains is not only difficult to irrigate, but also requires people to carry water over mountains and hills to water the crops. What is even more difficult is that people also have to guard against wild animals stealing food. Sometimes a corn field is eaten by wild boars as soon as it matures.
Therefore, some people in Yangshu Village gradually became hunters in the process of dealing with wild animals, making a living by hunting.
Yang Wanlin's grandfather, Yang Gong, was also a hunter. When his grandfather was alive, although there were many children in the family, the family lived a good life thanks to the subsidies from his grandfather's hunting. During the three-year natural disaster, the family was safe and sound thanks to his grandfather's hunting.
However, Yang Gong's health was also hollowed out by the three years of natural disasters, and he died in the spring of 1962, when Yang Wanlin was not yet 12 years old. Yang Wanlin was the second child in the family. Because he was only a little over a year older than the eldest, Yang Wansen, and the third, Yang Wanmu, he did not receive much attention from his parents since childhood.
It can be said that since Yang Wanlin turned one year old, he has been raised by his grandfather Yang Gong. He follows him to the mountains, eats, and sleeps every day, and he has also learned a lot of hunting skills.
After Mr. Yang died, no one went to sell the wild products to give Yang Wanlin some money, and his family did not give him money. In fact, he could go hunting in the mountains by himself at that time. Although he did not get a harvest every time, he could still earn back his tuition by going a few more times. However, even if Yang Wanlin had money, his family would not allow him to go to school.
Yang Wanlin's father, Yang Wen, did not inherit his grandfather Yang Gong's hunting skills, because Yang Gong and his wife only had this one son and they thought hunting was dangerous. In addition, Yang Wen had no interest in hunting since he was a child, so Yang Wen never went hunting in the mountains with Yang Gong. After his wife passed away, Yang Gong even forbade Yang Wen to participate in hunting. He only wanted him to learn how to grow crops from the old hands in the village.
After Yang Wen got married, the couple gave birth to three boys in five years. The couple treated the eldest and the third son better, but because Yang Wanlin was not much older than them, they did not have the energy to take care of him, so they always ignored him. Eventually, it became a habit, and Yang Wanlin became the least valued son in the family.
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