Back to 1984: Hunting in the Mountains

Chapter 10 A Complete Unexpected Gain

Yu Xiaowei was very happy.

He shook the bag excitedly, and found that there were not only two yellow rats inside, but also delicious rat meat.

He hasn't eaten meat since his father died.

Even if their lives occasionally improved, it was not his and Yu Xiaoyun's turn as they were non-staff members.

"Anything else, uncle?"

In Yu Xiaowei's eyes, Yu Qiutang was already extremely powerful, and the slight doubts he had about him before had long been swept away.

Yu Qiutang pressed the hole with a shovel, lifted the bag and weighed it, then opened the bag to take a look. After thinking for a while, he said, "There should be more. These two yellow rats are not very big, and they are not old. These creatures always appear in pairs, so there should be at least two old ones in the nest."

"Then... continue?"

"Go ahead and pour all the remaining water in~"

"Okay~"

Sure enough, as Yu Xiaowei poured all the remaining water in, two fatter yellow rats came out wetly.

They were almost running side by side, and after rushing out, they ran wildly. As soon as Yu Qiutang knocked one out, the other one quickly rushed into the millet field next to him under cover.

It caught Yu Qiutang off guard.

"Running pretty fast."

Yu Qiutang smiled and didn't take it to heart. He thought that all things have spirits, and it was normal for animals to sacrifice their lives for justice.

Yu Xiaowei watched the fattest one run away, feeling very sorry.

The two men waited at the entrance of the nest for a few minutes, and when they were sure that no yellow rat had come out, Yu Qiutang turned the nest upside down completely, and after a few twists and turns, he found a pile of food prepared by the yellow rat.

There were at least two or three pounds of beans, corn, apricot kernels and the like. It seemed that they had been prepared for quite some time.

Naturally, these were also put into the bags by the two men.

A complete unexpected gain.

"Uncle, you keep looking. I'll fetch some water for us." Yu Xiaowei handed the bag to Yu Qiutang.

"Can you lift it? How about I go?"

When Yu Qiutang was patting the yellow rat just now, he found that its reaction seemed to be slightly faster than expected. If the two behind it hadn't jumped out at the same time, none of them would have escaped.

This reminded him of what happened in the morning.

At that time, I felt that his strength had increased, and now it seems that his speed and reaction are also stronger than before, which shows that he has made slight adjustments in all aspects after his rebirth.

"I can carry it. You should hurry up and find a nest. Find a few more so that Yunyun and the three little girls can have a good meal." Yu Xiaowei didn't say anything. He picked up the bucket and stepped on the soft ground, running towards the canal with one foot high and one foot low.

Yu Qiutang smiled, very satisfied with his nephew's enthusiasm.

People living under the mountains rely on the mountains for their livelihood. As long as they have some skills and are hardworking and not lazy, they can basically live a prosperous life.

Nowadays, although having a city hukou is very popular, it depends on fate.

He was born in a mountain village and had no foundation for college entrance examination, so he could only rely on his abilities and experiences from his previous life as a basis. He believed that as long as he managed well, he could live a good life.

Humming a little song happily, he continued to look for the next nest of yellow rats. Soon he found another one, which naturally won him more admiration and praise from Yu Xiaowei.

The yellow rats in this litter are still very small. The small pile looks like newborn piglets, plump and very crispy and tender when fried.

Time flies.

By the time they had dealt with the third nest of yellow rats, the sun had moved to the west. Although it was still a long time before dark, the yellow rats had basically left their nests, so there was no point in watering them again, so the two men withdrew their troops and returned to the camp.

A total of eight adult yellow rats were obtained, weighing an estimated 14 or 15 kilograms in total, as well as a litter of six youngsters, plus four or five kilograms of various grains. They were packed in a snakeskin bag, filling up half the bag.

Yu Qiutang was worried that Yu Xiaowei would get tired carrying the stuff weighing more than ten kilograms, so he asked him to carry it. However, Yu Xiaowei insisted on carrying it, saying that he could carry it even if it was twice as heavy.

As expected, he is a young man who grew up through hardships, full of energy.

The two walked out of the field and followed the canal home. On the way, they saw a few people sitting on the edge of the field to cool off. When they saw them coming, the bags on their backs were bulging. They immediately stopped them and asked, "Qiu Tang, what's in your bags?"

"It's Huang..."

"It's a good baby~"

Yu Qiutang interrupted his nephew, thinking that if these gossiping women saw the yellow rat in the bag, they would run to the fields and rummage around, which would affect their future good deeds.

Yu Xiaowei glanced at his uncle. His little brain worked quickly and he immediately understood what his uncle meant. He kept silent and let his uncle deal with everything.

"Oh, you're still so mysterious. Come, let me see you." A woman from the neighboring family stood up and came over here.

Yu Qiutang stood in front of Yu Xiaowei and said with a polite smile: "It's better not to watch it."

"See what happens, can you still lose some of your weight?" The woman was tactless and actually went around Yu Qiutang to grab the bag. Yu Qiutang was not polite and pushed her away.

"Aunt, this is really inconvenient for you to watch. Why don't you just not watch it?"

Although he still had a smile on his face, he was very cold. It was a hot summer day, and the woman actually felt a little scared. She subconsciously took two steps back before she felt a little more comfortable.

"Oh, why are you being so mysterious? If you don't want to look, then don't look." Having said that, she turned around and sat back on the hoe handle in frustration.

Yu Qiutang asked Yu Xiaowei to continue walking, but after taking a few steps, he heard the woman say to the people next to him: "Did you hear that the team leader went to their house this morning and said that he brought that Weiwei and stole something from the production team."

"Really? I just said that I heard a lot of noise in their house at noon, and I was wondering what was going on."

"That's it. The child was brought here in the first place. He is not from our village. He has no parents since he was young. He got the money but no one cared about him. So he learned bad things."

"That's right, this kid still needs to be looked after by his parents, otherwise he will definitely grow into a bad person. Look at how arrogant they were just now, they had no manners at all. After all, we are the elders, right?"

"Humph, both of them are motherless...Ah!!"

As soon as the aunt said this, a hard clod of earth hit her back, causing her to feel a sharp pain in her back and she jumped up in a hurry.

"Who hit me!"

She shouted and looked around, but she only saw Yu Qiutang and Yu Xiaowei who had already walked away.

There was no one else around, so they probably did it.

But the two men were already dozens of meters away from them, almost a hundred meters away. How could they possibly throw the clod of earth over to them?

"Did you see who hit me?" she asked angrily.

Several women shook their heads.

"Could it be the two kids from the Yu family just now?" someone speculated.

"How is that possible? They've walked so far away. How much force would it take to hit us?"

Someone immediately retorted.

Everyone thought about it and agreed. It was unlikely. If it could be thrown here from such a long distance, how could it still call for help? It must be a blind bear!

"I'm afraid others are upset by what you just said?" A man pointed to the woods not far away, "I remember that the eldest daughter-in-law of the Yu family could not enter the Yu family's tomb, so she was buried in this woods."

"Yeah, now that you put it that way, it seems to be true!"

(End of this chapter)