Back to 1984: Hunting in the Mountains

Chapter 1 The Wronged Child
Summer 1984, Rongcheng.

"My head hurts."

Yu Qiutang opened his eyes and saw his nephew Yu Xiaowei kneeling on the ground with his neck held high and being beaten, his back covered in blood.

The man who beat him was in his fifties, shirtless, wearing black coarse cloth shorts. One foot was wearing a black velvet Thousand-layer sole, the other was barefoot on the ground, holding a water-soaked hemp rope in his hand, his eyes wide open like copper bells.

"You don't want to learn good things, but you choose to learn to steal. I provide you with food and clothing, just to let you do this kind of thing... Why are you glaring at me? Why are you still glaring at me?!"

The man whipped the whip again.

A thin girl suddenly rushed over, lying on Yu Xiaowei's back, shaking her head and crying: "Grandpa, please don't hit my brother, it's all my fault. I told my brother that I was hungry, so he took me to dig red taro..."

She is Yu Xiaowei’s sister, Yu Xiaoyun.

"I'll settle the score with you later. You're all worthless!"

The man didn't stop whipping Yu Xiaoyun. His hand trembled slightly, and he pulled her up and threw her to the side. He pointed at Yu Xiaowei and shouted, "Tell me, do you admit your mistake?!"

The sound of whipping woke Yu Qiutang up completely.

The ferocious man was his father Yu Dejin who had died many years ago. What happened at this time was a huge tragedy for the Yu family.

At that time, the two children of my brother's family were wrongly accused of stealing sweet potatoes from the production team, and my father Yu Dejin beat my nephew Yu Xiaowei severely in front of outsiders.

That night, the stubborn Yu Xiaowei couldn't get over his impatience and hanged himself at the door of Yu Dejin Kiln with the hemp rope that had been used to beat him. He was less than twelve years old at that time.

However, this incident happened at the turn of summer and autumn in 1984 and has become a thing of the past.

Yu Qiutang only remembered that he and his children were looking through an old photo album when a photo of their father fell out from the interlayer and they were back there the next moment.

What’s going on? Rebirth... He really didn’t know whether to laugh or cry for a moment.

The scolding in my ears, the crying of the children, and the rustling sound of the sycamore leaves in the wind all became distant.

He did not feel too much joy about returning to his youth. Instead, he felt it was absurd. After working hard for half his life, he finally had the chance to live a leisurely retirement life, but now after all this trouble, he had to start all over again.

He is really annoying.

The more annoyed I get, the more my head hurts, and those dusty memories quickly pop into my mind.

Yu Dejin is a famous carpenter with excellent skills. People in the surrounding area praise him and are willing to pay more money to let him do the work.

He married three wives in his life.

His first wife gave birth to three daughters for him, but none of them was male. He kept complaining about it, and in a fit of anger, his wife ran off with a peddler who roamed the streets.

Yu Qiutang's mother was Yu Dejin's second wife. She was remarried and brought a son with her. Later she gave birth to Yu Qiutang. She passed away suddenly within a few years.

Yu Qiutang's nephew Yu Xiaowei and niece Yu Xiaoyun are both children of their brother brought by their mother. Strictly speaking, they are not members of the Yu family.

My brother and sister-in-law are still alive and well, but my sister-in-law died of illness a few years ago. My brother went out to work to make money and was declared dead. The two children have no one to rely on in the Yu family.

The only relative to them was Yu Qiutang, but after his mother died, his father Yu Dejin soon remarried.

When the stepmother came, she brought a daughter with her. Later, she gave birth to a son. She was worried that the so-called "property" of the Yu family would be divided up by Yu Qiutang, so she always regarded Yu Qiutang as a thorn in her side and made things difficult for him in various ways.

Yu Qiutang's mother died early, his father was particularly arbitrary and rude, and his stepmother was weird, which made him introverted and even a little cowardly. It was difficult for him to protect himself, let alone his nephews and nieces.

The reason why he had a headache today was because he was pushed down when he tried to stop his father from beating Yu Xiaowei, and hit the leg of the stone table in the yard, breaking the back of his head.

While his soul was returning to his body, Yu Xiaowei was whipped several times again. Yu Xiaoyun was thrown away and rushed over again, and was also whipped on the face by the rope that could not be stopped, and immediately a red streak of blood appeared.

She cried in pain, but was unwilling to let go.

"Get out of the way, let him beat me to death!"

Yu Xiaowei didn't say a word when he was beaten, but he felt heartbroken when he saw his sister, who depended on him for everything, being beaten. He pulled his sister to the side and blamed her.

"Still being stubborn, huh... I told you to be stubborn, you won't repent!!"

Perhaps to show off in front of the village cadres, Yu Dejin could not tolerate the existence of someone who "rebelled" against his authority in this family, so he raised the rope again and prepared to whip him. The finger-thick hemp rope was soaked in water, and it was particularly painful to whip someone. Yu Qiutang had been whipped many times since he was a child.

In this day and age, it is normal for fathers to physically punish their children...especially their sons. But those fathers know what's going on and know that beating children is not their goal. Their goal is to hope that the saplings will not grow crooked.

But Yu Dejin is different.

He had a particularly violent nature in his bones. Once he got angry, he would pick up anything in his hand and hit someone. He once almost pulled out Yu Qiutang's teeth with pliers.

As for the rope getting soaked in water, it is a common occurrence.

When he was extremely angry, he would even hang Yu Qiutang on the beam and beat him. People who knew about it said that he was educating his son, while people who didn't thought he was interrogating a prisoner.

In his previous life, Yu Qiutang wanted to fight with his father countless times, but was dragged down by his weak character and his nephews and nieces. It was not until his nephew died that he finally exploded and left the family, taking his niece to become a ranger in the Qinling Mountains.

...

Yu Dejin's arm was tightly grasped. He struggled twice but failed to break free. He turned around and saw that it was his eldest son who was even more unpleasant. He immediately flew into a rage: "Damn it, what do you want to do? Hit your father?"

Yu Qiutang suddenly discovered that his hand strength was much greater than when he was this age in his previous life.

He had been hungry for a long time and was very weak, with thin arms and legs and no strength, otherwise he would not have been pushed down by Yu Dejin.

But at this moment, he grabbed Yu Dejin's arm with one hand, and Yu Dejin, who was furious, was unable to break free.

Is it the benefit of rebirth?

Yu Qiutang looked at his father and suddenly realized that his father was actually much shorter than him. Why did he always feel in his previous life that his father was a towering mountain standing in front of him that he could not climb over?

But now, when he meets his father again, he is no longer afraid. After experiencing the vicissitudes of life, he is no longer the timid boy of the past.

He had enough confidence to look his father in the eye.

"Da, it's almost done."

He said.

Yu Dejin struggled again and found that his arm was stuck in Yu Qiutang's hand as if by a pair of steel pliers. This son who usually didn't dare to look up at him was now looking at him indifferently.

This made him feel confused and his authority was greatly challenged.

In front of outsiders!
How could he bear it? He was going crazy! !

"Get lost, there's no good in your whole litter, you bastards..."

"Whether I am a good person or not, you know best. If you want to scold yourself, I can't stop you."

"you……"

"Damn it" is just a catchphrase among people here. Yu Dejin didn't expect his son to use it to refute him, and was left speechless for a moment.

Yu Qiutang was too lazy to say too much. While Yu Dejin was confused, he pulled the rope out of his hand. Yu Dejin reacted and wanted to grab it, but Yu Qiutang blocked it with his arm and he couldn't move forward at all.

"Xiaoyun, pull your brother up," Yu Qiutang stood between Yu Dejin and Yu Xiaowei, "A man's knees are made of gold, so don't kneel down casually."

After receiving the order, Xiaoyun hurriedly pulled her brother to get up, but Yu Xiaowei just stuck his neck out and said, "Go ahead and beat me. Beat me to death in front of the whole family. You don't consider us as your family anyway."

"Shut up, you!"

Yu Qiutang slapped him on the head in annoyance, pulled him up and made him stand up. Looking at the scars on his back, he couldn't help feeling heartbroken.

The child is only eleven years old, not even twelve yet, and he has to suffer this kind of torture. But now is not the time to feel heartbroken.

The matter has not been resolved yet.

Although my nephew will no longer be beaten, the stigma of stealing has not been eliminated. If things go wrong, he will have to bear the consequences for the rest of his life.

(End of this chapter)