Liu Zhijun stammered as he explained, "I came to take a look."
"What are you looking at?" the two asked in unison again.
Liu Zhijun...
Before he could speak, Yun Ningyan slammed the door shut.
Feeling rebuffed, Liu Zhijun stormed back to his room.
The two went back to their room for dinner. Huo Junshan put all the good meat into her bowl, and Yun Ningyan ate with satisfaction. Huo Junshan finished the rest of the rice for her as well.
Huo Junshan washed the dishes after the meal.
When Huo Junshan returned home, only his mother and father were there, and they both looked unwell. He asked in confusion, "Father, Mother, what's wrong?"
Li Xiangyun sighed, "After you left, your eldest brother scolded Wang Cuihong. She went back to her parents' home crying, saying that our family bullied her. Your eldest brother and the second, fourth, and fifth brothers all went to find her. It's getting dark now, I hope nothing bad happens."
Huo Junshan's eyes flickered, but he didn't say anything and waited for the others in the courtyard.
Before long, all the brothers returned.
However, not seeing Wang Cuihong, Li Xiangyun was startled and hurriedly asked, "Have you found her yet?"
Huo Jianguo shook his head. "Mom, she went back to her parents' home and said she'll be back tomorrow."
Li Xiangyun felt relieved. "Since she's gone back to her parents' home, go and bring her back tomorrow. You can coax her a little."
Huo Jianguo nodded.
His mother-in-law's house isn't far, it's in the next village, he can just go pick her up tomorrow morning.
Huo Junshan had drunk spiritual spring water several times in the past few days and always felt that he had inexhaustible strength. When it got dark, he took Dahei into the mountains. He wondered if there were any prey in the traps he had dug last time.
As soon as Dahei got into the mountains, it took off running wildly. Huo Junshan didn't care; he figured it would find its way back on its own.
Before they even reached the trap, they saw a wild boar, weighing about 300 pounds, lying asleep under a large tree.
Hearing the noise, the wild boar raised its head and saw Huo Junshan. It stood up and ran wildly towards Huo Junshan.
Huo Junshan smiled. He hadn't gone up the mountain to hunt wild boars since the autumn harvest, but tonight a wild boar had come to him, and it was even a lone one. What good luck!
He gripped the axe tightly, and the moment the wild boar charged, he sidestepped and swung the axe fiercely at the boar's neck.
With one swing of the axe, blood gushed from the wild boar's neck, but it did not die immediately. Enraged, the wild boar roared and charged at Huo Junshan.
Huo Junshan swung his axe again, this time aiming straight for the wild boar's head.
The wild boar's head burst open, and it collapsed to the ground.
Fearing the smell of blood would attract wild animals, he whistled, and Big Black ran back and stood guard not far away.
He quickly processed the wild boar meat, then, with Big Black carrying the meat, headed towards the commune.
He knocked on the door of a house in a remote part of the commune and said in a low voice, "Yang Dasheng, open the door quickly."
He met Yang Dasheng by chance a year ago. He had connections and sales channels in the black market, and Huo Junshan would give him the mountain products he hunted in his spare time, splitting the profits 30/70 between them.
He is seven, Yang Dasheng is three.
Yang Dasheng is a man in his early twenties, a street thug with some family connections, but he is very loyal.
"Brother Shan, what brings you here today? Didn't you say you weren't coming for a while?"
"Stop talking nonsense, I need to go back to the village. You need to process this pork tomorrow."
Huo Junshan carried the pork into the yard, went to the kitchen, picked up a cleaver, chopped off a large piece of pork belly and ribs, put it in a cloth bag, and left.
He didn't plan to take the meat home; he went straight to the educated youth settlement after entering the village.
He knocked on Yun Ningyan's door and whispered, "It's me."
Yun Ningyan opened her eyes abruptly, carefully listened to the sound twice, and realized it was him.
She opened the door and welcomed the person into the room, lit a candle, and was shocked to see that the person was covered in blood. Was he injured?
She was wide awake and reached out to pull off his clothes. "What happened to you? Are you hurt?"
Seeing how much the girl cared about him, he wanted to hug her, but he was too dirty.
He quickly explained, "It's not mine, it's wild boar blood."
Yun Ningyan then noticed the cloth bag on the ground. She exclaimed in surprise, "You went up the mountain in the middle of the night? That's too dangerous!"
"It's alright, these are pork belly and ribs. I kept them because I saw you liked them."
Clouds and mist...
In the middle of the night, sweet nothings just come out of nowhere?
Only the ribs and pork belly were left. It goes without saying that the remaining meat had been sold, but he didn't say anything, and she pretended not to know.
She poured him a glass of water, which she had actually smuggled out of her spatial dimension. Yun Ningyan handed it to him, looking at his blood-covered appearance, which was quite frightening. "Why don't you wash up?"
Huo Junshan took the water and drank it all in one gulp. His body, which had been running around all night, was not so tired anymore. He shook his head and said, "No, I'll just go wash in the river. You close the door."
After Huo Junshan left, Yun Ningyan couldn't sleep at all. It seemed that this guy cared about her, bringing her meat in the middle of the night.
Why!
She rolled over, and she herself felt a little tempted, but she had no intention of dating!
Oh well, let nature take its course!
When Huo Junshan returned from bathing in the river, the sky was already beginning to lighten with the first light of dawn; it would be time for the roosters to crow in a little while.
The next day, Huo Jianguo went to his father-in-law's house at daybreak to bring his wife back.
But as soon as he set off, he was scolded by his mother-in-law. Wang Cuihong went back and complained to her mother that the Huo family wouldn't let her eat meat and gave the good things to outsiders.
The mother-in-law was furious when she heard this.
Huo Jianguo explained for a long time before his mother-in-law finally believed him. Wang Cuihong felt heartbroken when she saw her mother about to hit her husband. She immediately came out of the house, grabbed her mother, and said to Huo Jianguo, "Jianguo, you go back first. My father hasn't been feeling well these past few days, so he'll stay here and help out for a few days!"
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