Chapter 66 You call it decent?
"Liu Lan, I heard that Lin Heng learned archery in the city.
I have caught a lot of prey recently, even a badger, is this true?"
In Tongshugou, a beautiful woman in a denim jacket asked curiously while looking for mushrooms.
This beautiful woman's name is Tang Qing. She is tall and pretty. She wears a red hairpin on her head and a ladies' watch on her hand.
She is the wife of the village chief Zhao Xiancheng. Most of the other people pick mushrooms to sell them, but she does it simply to eat them. Her family doesn't need this little money at all.
When Liu Lan heard this, the expression on Ma Zi's face became complicated: "Of course it's true, my husband Lao Liu saw it with his own eyes when he helped them build the house.
Lin Heng's archery skills are amazing, he hit the target with one arrow from more than 30 meters away."
After a pause, Liu Lan continued, "The Lin family has become rich. I heard that the reason they were able to build a house was because they dug up wild ginseng.
Now Lin Heng goes hunting every day. I often smell the smell of fried meat when I pass by his house recently. "
Although they were reluctant to admit it, the Lin family had indeed become visibly wealthy.
Liu Lan's family doesn't even have meat to eat once a month. She's so envious that she drools every time she smells the aroma of fried meat.
Because of this, she had several quarrels with her husband in the past few days. That useless guy only knew how to farm and his life was so difficult.
Hearing Liu Lan's words, Tang Qing nodded and smiled: "When Lin Heng and my son Zhao Hu came to our house before, I didn't realize that he had this ability."
There was envy in her words. She was not envious of the Lin family's wealth, but she was envious of Lin Heng's turning over a new leaf and living a stable life.
Her son has gone to the city to hang out again these days, and she doesn't know when he will be able to settle down.
"But you can't make much money from hunting. You can't make as much from hunting for a month as your store in town can in ten days."
Liu Lan smiled and flattered him, and was extremely envious of Tang Qing.
"That's not the case." Tang Qing smiled and shook her head. She was being polite, but she really thought so in her heart.
“If you ask me, even if Lin Heng knows how to hunt, his family won’t become rich.
As soon as they have a little money, they buy this and that, and lose it faster than they earn it. They will suffer in the future."
In the distance, Li Caifeng came back and said with dissatisfaction that she had deep resentment towards Lin Heng.
She still remembers the time when she was slapped in the face for showing off her clothes, and this is more than the first or second time people have been talking about her as a spendthrift behind her back.
Seeing a family that was originally poorer than hers suddenly build a new house and buy new clothes, and the smell of fried meat wafting into her house every day, she felt even more uncomfortable than if she had lost money herself.
Hearing this, Liu Lan added with a smile, "Lin Heng is indeed extravagant. Yesterday he actually spent three cents to buy a bunch of rotten beehives. I don't know what's wrong with him."
“That’s what nouveau riche do.”
Li Caifeng sneered, “I think he relies on luck when hunting. You see, when his luck runs out and he can’t hunt anymore, he will be poor.
He's still bragging about a prodigal son returning home, but by then he might just become a second-rate person again."
“Woof woof!!”
Tang Qing was about to speak when a dog barking suddenly sounded from the hillside.
"The dog is barking. It looks like someone is hunting here. Do you know who it is?"
Tang Qing asked curiously.
"I don't know, I haven't heard of it." Liu Lan shook her head.
"Who cares who he is? We can just go over and take a look and we'll know. It can't be Lin Heng."
Li Caifeng spread her hands and said, then she walked towards the direction of the barking sound.
After a few steps, they heard the crisp sound of leaves underfoot, and then a man and a woman walked out of the dense forest in the distance.
“Lin Heng!!”
Li Caifeng widened her eyes, wondering why she looked like a crow.
“It’s really Lin Heng!”
Liu Lan and Tang Qing were also stunned. They were just talking about him, but they didn't expect to see the real person when they turned around.
"Liu Lan, Li Caifeng, Aunt Qing, are you picking mushrooms?"
Lin Heng didn't expect to meet them. He thought they were hunters.
"Auntie Qing, why did you run so far to pick mushrooms?"
Xiulan also said hello.
Li Caifeng and Liu Lan are from the same generation as them, while Tang Qing is from the same generation as Lin's mother.
"There's nothing nearby, so I came here to take a look. You guys went hunting, did you catch anything?" Tang Qing asked with a smile.
Because they were far away, they didn't see the muntjac in Lin Heng's backpack.
"You didn't go up the hill yesterday afternoon and didn't come back at night?" Liu Lan looked at the two people's postures and felt a little confused.
Li Caifeng couldn't help but laugh when she saw Lin Heng holding a tree: "Lin Heng, hunting isn't easy, right? Sometimes it's normal to not catch anything after a few days."
Lin Heng glanced at Li Caifeng. This woman was indeed petty and obviously still holding a grudge. However, it was clearly she who bullied Xiulan first.
Lin Heng immediately smiled and said, "It's not easy to hunt. We set out yesterday at noon, and we have only hunted one decent prey so far."
"What is it?"
When they heard that he was beaten, Li Caifeng and Liu Lan felt a little jealous and looked unhappy. They thought that the smaller the better.
"See for yourself."
Lin Heng spread his hands, and when he got closer, he turned slightly and revealed his muntjac. It was impossible to hide such a big thing.
The three women were dumbfounded when they saw the muntjac that couldn't even fit in Lin Heng's backpack.
"You call this decent prey?"
Tang Qing's voice changed.
"Did you really hit this deer?" Li Caifeng's face turned black.
How is this possible? Where did Lin Heng get such bad luck? It’s ok to catch a wild boar, but how could he catch such a big muntjac?
Li Caifeng's mind was twisted. Seeing her enemy reap a good harvest was more painful than killing her.
Liu Lan stared at Lin Heng with her eyes full of tears: "Lin Heng, you are so capable. Did you really learn hunting skills?"
Liu Lan's voice became soft. How she wished that the person standing next to Lin Heng was her instead of Chen Xiulan.
She used to look down on Lin Heng, but now she is drooling with envy.
How long will it take to eat? The suede must cost more than a hundred yuan.
My God, she can only make about a hundred yuan a year selling mushrooms and herbs.
Lin Heng nodded seriously: "Of course I hunted it. Compared with the prey I hunted before, it is indeed quite good."
Li Caifeng wanted to go up and slap Lin Heng in the face. This guy was too pretentious.
"You are quite capable. There is another great hunter in the village."
Tang Qing shook his head and asked with a smile: "Where did you catch it? This deer is quite big."
"It's on the mountain behind. I can't tell you exactly where it is."
Lin Heng smiled and said that he would not say it was Baishigou, as he did not want too many people to go there.
"No more talking. We're leaving first. We still have to go back and deal with the muntjac."
After chatting for a while, Lin Heng left with the muntjac on his back under the gaze of the three people.
"A piece of suede can be sold for hundreds of dollars." Liu Lan sighed. Her tone and eyes could no longer express envy. She wanted to eat Lin Heng.
Li Caifeng was so upset that she couldn't speak. How could her luck be so good? She stomped her feet hard and smashed a mushroom she had picked into pieces.
She had only seen a muntjac, which was obscured by the things in Xiulan's backpack. If she had seen the Ganoderma lucidum and the old turtle, she would probably have gone crazy with jealousy.
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