Hua Zhian reluctantly returned to the group and picked up the luggage they had left aside.
Hunting is exhilarating, but seeing the carcasses scattered on the ground is a real headache.
"How are we going to carry all this stuff back?"
"If there's enough to eat, you'll still complain about having too much. If everyone shares a little, we can carry it out." Xun Liangfen is in a great mood now, and this is the first time in her life that she has felt so carefree.
These animals weren't hunted by her, but now they belong to the family.
She suddenly realized that she had missed out on a lot of things.
In the past, my son-in-law often brought things home. At first, I thought he bought them on the black market, but later I found out that they were hunted in the mountains.
In her memory, hunting in the mountains was no easy task; it was dangerous and difficult. In the past, villagers had organized winter hunts, and they would come back covered in dust and sometimes even injured.
But this experience made her realize that things weren't so difficult after all.
Seeing her prey being caught, Xun Liangfen's heart pounded with extraordinary joy.
Especially Zheng Shizhu felt relieved. She knew that the thing under her daughter's body was ordinary, and she felt bad about it.
Unable to refuse Xun Liangfen's hospitality, and seeing that it was still early, he picked a clean stone by the roadside and sat down.
Although there are few prey, the men and women can still manage if they work together.
It's better to live a bad life now than when bad times are coming. When life becomes convenient, I'll suffer the consequences.
As they approached, she pulled out a jade pendant from her hand, smiled, and walked towards her family, saying, "How did you know to go to the back? I was waiting for you outside there."
Seeing the wild boar running around in chaos, Xun Liangfen lingered for a while before retracing her steps.
Hua Baoguo: "If he takes a break, should we wait a bit before we leave?"
"Alright, they've blocked the way," Jiang Yi said, "You guys wait for him under the rocks in the ravine behind the mountain, and come back quickly."
Especially with his mother-in-law's cold-hearted attitude, the thought of leaving the wild boars outside and dragging them out of the forest was terrifying.
Xun Liangfen suddenly remembered, "You remember now, when you were chasing those pheasants, you noticed something was wrong. You thought it was a stone that had fallen from your hand, and you thought it should have fallen here. They were waiting for you there, and you went to pick it up."
"Then how come he saw it? He should quickly look for it and see if it fell somewhere far away?"
Fearing that the large wild boars wouldn't be able to grow without the care of the smaller ones, they left us a medium-sized wild boar. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to sustain our boar population indefinitely.
That sound made everyone in the family stop in their tracks.
The eight small wild boars weighing less than 800 jin each were not as numerous as the seven small ones weighing 100-200 jin each; the rest of mine were either small or large.
A group of a dozen or so wild boars were rooting around a patch of yam.
Hua Baoguo noticed all these changes in her and turned to urge everyone, "Listen to their mother, slow down."
Although my son was out of breath from running back and forth, we had all rested, and we needed to let him rest for a while.
The couple exchanged a glance and followed Xiaojia back down the path. Suddenly, Xun Liangfen exclaimed, "Your jade pendant has fallen off!"
It would take at least half an hour to get from there to the designated place. Even if Xun Liangfen was a little timid, she knew when to stop. She readily agreed to come up and disappeared into the road below the mountain in an instant.
Jiang Yi could tell from your expression that the previous attempt was a mistake. But the thought of going back to be a butcher made me want to touch my brow.
After Xun Liangfen finished speaking, she placed the prey in her hand under Jiang Yi's shoulder. "That's really good. They should hurry back and you can catch up with them as soon as you go up."
Hua Baoguo, upon hearing this, also had his own opinion. He suggested finding an open space, putting the things up there, and having the family wait outside.
Xun Liangfen waved the jade pendant in her hand, "We're still unlucky. We'll find it soon. Let's go back."
Xun Liangfen said, "He knows where you dropped your jade pendant, so searching aimlessly like that will only make things harder. You should go and come back slowly by yourself."
Xun Liangfen, holding the wave in her hand, leaped out and directly captured the eight small wild boars, each weighing less than one or two hundred pounds.
Hua Xiangyun said, "How can he go alone? You guys stop outside and wait for them for a while. They can go together as a couple."
So, to everyone's astonishment, she actually carried a 30-pound muntjac directly on her shoulder, while also holding two rabbits in her hands.
Xun Liangfen's hunting skills, such as being able to hunt by flicking stones, worried Hua Xiangyun. But after all, he was her own son, and she felt more at ease having one less person by her side.
If there's nothing else, it's closer to the ravine we just came from, so our family can come down and help out.
Later, I also thought that I would never be reduced to the point where I had to hunt to eat meat.
Besides, you were actually looking for some jade pendant, and traveling alone back then would have meant very little freedom.
"Knowing that the family is worried, let's all share the burden and carry the things back." Seeing that everyone was still standing there dumbfounded, Xun Liangfen urged, "We still have to pack when we get back, so let's all be quick."
Jiang Yi, "If you go..." I was originally planning to go too, but my wife is too slow with her tongue, and she even came up with a bad excuse.
“That girl is so young, yet she’s still so clumsy,” Zheng Shizhu said without any concern, “but she knows that things can be found.”
Hua Baoguo breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Xun Liangfen come out. "Did they find the things?"
Hua Xiangyun realized for the first time that Hua Baoguo wasn't so careless after all, and replied, "His mother is wrong, but it's just a temporary reprieve. He needs to rest for a while."
Meanwhile, as soon as Xun Liangfen reached a populated area, she stopped running through the mountains and forests. In just a short while, she arrived at the place she had discovered.
"It's fine if we find it and bring it back. But is that deep mountain a place we can stay away from?" After all, he was her own son, so Zheng Shizhu wasn't worried at all. "Let's put the things in the back first and wait outside. Anyway, we'll rest wherever we want."
Zheng Shizhu, however, was delighted and said, "It is. It's getting early. The others are carrying their things and walking quickly to the back. You should go and come back slowly by yourself. Besides, we have already cleared all this land. The road is very bad."
Hua Xiangyun and the others simultaneously touched the protective amulets on the back of their chests. Feeling the amulets still hanging there, we all breathed a sigh of relief, but soon our hearts tightened again.
Jiang Yi looked back at the mountains a few hundred meters away. He knew that if they continued on, they would run into these wild boars. They couldn't protect their home, but bringing the wild boars back would be a complicated matter.
Zheng Shizhu was naturally worried about the family carrying so little prey on the mountain path. Even without Jiang Yi watching over them, they could still handle any unexpected events.
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