Back to 1984: Hunting in the Mountains

When Yu Chuntao heard what her sister-in-law said, her body swayed a few times and she grabbed the back seat of the motorcycle to avoid fainting.

He hurriedly asked, "Whose arm was bitten?"

"The youngest son of the Zhao family."

"Zhao Chuan?"

"That's right. Look at this. Isn't this harmful? Study, study. What's the point of studying so much? At least the baby will be fine if you don't study."

The sister-in-law said this and left.

Yu Qiutang squinted his eyes at the mountains ahead and gently patted the gun tied to the side of the motorcycle.

This time, he came prepared in advance and had plenty of bullets ready for his gun, just to solve this problem.

I had been planning to search for a few more days, but I didn't expect the wild boar to come to my door on its own accord. This is a perfect opportunity to get rid of it.

"Second sister, let's go and take a look."

Yu Chuntao ran forward in panic. Yu Qiutang asked her to get in the car, so she got in again and looked forward anxiously following the voices of people.

Finally, I saw a lot of people gathered at a field at an intersection ahead.

He parked his motorcycle on the side, took out his gun, and followed Yu Chuntao into the crowd.

A woman was rolling around on the ground, her worn cotton-padded jacket was worn out by the rubbing of the floor, and the cotton wool inside was scattered everywhere.

Everyone tried to persuade her to get up, but she refused to do so and kept shouting something. However, Yu Qiutang could not quite understand what she was saying because it was in dialect.

The general meaning is something like, the child is injured, how can she survive?

The people around her advised her to go to the hospital quickly and stop making a scene here. Things had already happened and there was no point in crying here any longer.

"Sister-in-law Yulan, where is Zhao Chuan?!"

Yu Chuntao didn't care about anything else and hurriedly squeezed in, trying to help the woman up with great effort.

The woman tilted her head and saw that it was Yu Chuntao. She gathered her strength and grabbed Yu Chuntao's arm, "Give me back my son's arm, give me back my son's arm!"

Yu Chuntao didn't know why for a moment, and her body was shaken by the woman, and she almost fell down several times.

At this time, someone nearby said, "Yulan, your child was bitten by a wild boar, and it has nothing to do with Teacher Yu."

"What the hell are you talking about? How can it be irrelevant? If it weren't for her and her man insisting that my child go to school, how could my child be like this?!"

"What you said doesn't make any sense," the neighbor who was trying to persuade her well became annoyed. "Today is Sunday and you don't have to go to school. Your child was playing outside and got bit by a wild boar. What does that have to do with the teacher?"

"Why is it none of their business?" The woman was not easy to dismiss. "They kept telling my child that wild boars were not scary and that we couldn't stop going to that stupid school just because of the wild boars. How could my child not avoid wild boars?
Well, now my child is in trouble, and you say it has nothing to do with them. This is too easy to say. You really have a big mouth, and you can say anything, right? "

"You are being unreasonable!"

"Who is being unreasonable? It's not your child who is hurt, but you are just making sarcastic remarks here. I don't know what you are thinking. These two must have fooled you!"

"I'm too lazy to care about you."

The neighbor was annoyed by what he said and turned around to squeeze out of the crowd.

At this time, everyone persuaded the woman not to continue making a scene here and to go to the hospital quickly.

But the woman just held Yu Chuntao and wouldn't let go.

But Yu Chuntao was worried about her child and did not resist. She was tossed around like a rag doll.

Yu Qiutang watched for a few minutes and realized that it was not that everyone didn't want to pull her, but that the woman was too shrewish and everyone was embarrassed to do it.

He walked back to the motorcycle, removed the cloth cover from the gun, and fired a shot into the air.

"Oh!"

The sound of gunfire echoed throughout the small village.

Everyone was startled and turned to look at him.

He was tall and big, holding a gun in his hand, and he was a stranger. I didn't know what he did for a moment and stared at him in a daze.

Seeing that everyone had quieted down, Yu Qiutang walked up to the two people who were arguing, pulled the woman's hand away, stared at her coldly and said, "The child is in the hospital, why don't you go to the hospital to take care of him? Is there any point in making a scene here?"

The woman was indeed a shrew. She was stunned for a moment and quickly recovered. "Who are you? What do you think of my business?"

Yu Qiutang said nothing more, pulled his sister aside, glanced at the crowd, and asked, "Who is the village chief or captain here?"

Everyone looked at a man in his fifties. He looked at Yu Qiutang's gun, swallowed his saliva, stepped forward from the crowd, and said tremblingly, "I am the village chief."

"What do you call it?"

"Zhao Dabao."

Yu Qiutang nodded and said, "I am the hunter that your teacher Yu specially hired to hunt wild boars."

"You're a hunter?!"

Zhao Dabao asked subconsciously, his face full of disbelief, and everyone else in the village had the same expression.

Because although Yu Qiutang looked tall and strong, he was carrying a gun more than one meter long, which made him look very powerful.

But his appearance showed that he was only in his teens.

In fact, because he has not experienced much wind and sun, his skin is white and clean, and he looks younger than his average age.

Yu Qiutang knew what he was suspecting, but he didn't care. He pointed at the woman on the ground and asked, "What's going on?"

"This one……"

Zhao Dabao seemed to have something to hide. He glanced at the woman on the ground and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

"To be honest, I have to know the real situation so that I can catch the wild boar faster. You don't want this to happen again, do you?"

The village chief was stunned.

At this time, everyone began to say: "Go ahead, Village Chief, there is nothing you can't say!"

"Yes."

"We can't hide it. If this kid can really get rid of those wild boars, our village will be safe in the future."

"Yeah, if you don't tell me, I'll tell you!"

Seeing everyone like this, the village chief said helplessly, "The wild boar problem in our village has actually been going on for a long time. That's..."

"Tell the important point!"

Yu Qiutang didn't want to listen to any more nagging words. His sister had already told him roughly about what happened in the village. He just wanted to know what happened today.

On the one hand, we can grasp the whereabouts of the wild boar more quickly, and on the other hand, we also need to determine whether it is really related to my sister and brother-in-law.

"Oh, let's get to the point."

The village chief then recounted the whole story, and while he was speaking, people around him kept supplementing his story.

A few minutes later, Yu Qiutang received the complete account of what happened.

Actually it's very simple.

Because it was cold, people in the village had little to do, and their main activity was playing mahjong. This woman's husband did not come back all night, so she went to look for him early in the morning.

But the children at home couldn't find their mother, so they looked everywhere for her and happened to meet a wild boar.

The child was only a little over six years old. When he encountered a wild boar, he had no ability or consciousness to escape. If he had not happened to meet a neighbor in the village who got up to empty the urine pot, the child would have died. The reason why the woman said that was because Yu Chuntao and his wife came to their home several times to persuade the child to go to school.

The woman believed that if Yu Chuntao and his wife had not said this, the child would not have gone to school, would not have been brave enough to go out alone and would have stayed at home all the time, and the wild boar would not have broken into people's homes.

Now her husband and Yu Chuntao's husband, Zhao Danian, Yu Qiutang's second brother-in-law, have taken the child to the hospital.

However, I heard from the village chief that the child's arm was bitten but not completely broken, so let's see if the hospital can find a way to reconnect it.

People around me say there is nothing wrong with the relationship. This woman is just being unreasonable. She and her husband are irresponsible. When their child was bitten by a wild boar, they still blame it on their second sister. The people here are really simple and honest.

He pulled his second sister to his side and said to everyone, "Listen, everyone, I have everything under control. If what your village chief said is correct, there should be five wild boars here, which is indeed very troublesome.

However, one should not take on a job without the necessary skills. Since I have come to your place today, I naturally have the ability to deal with the wild boar.

However, I still have some requests, and I need your cooperation."

The village chief hurriedly said, "Little brother, as long as we can get rid of those damn wild boars, we will agree to any request and cooperate. We are willing to pay. No matter how much money you want, as long as we can afford it, we will give it to you."

"That's right. We are willing to pay."

"We paid money last time, but those two people were incompetent. They failed to kill the wild boar and almost killed themselves."

Everyone also followed suit.

Just as Yu Qiutang was about to speak, he heard the woman on the ground shout again: "Do you still have any humanity, my son..."

"Yulan, please stop throwing a tantrum on the ground and go to the hospital right away. Your child is injured, and it's not our fault, and it has nothing to do with Teacher Yu and Dawei. Why are you being unreasonable?"

"That's right, you have this much time, why don't you go and see the child."

"Magnolia..."

"Okay, you guys are all bullying me, right?"

Seeing her like this, everyone felt that it was unreasonable and they were too lazy to pay attention to her and started to surround Yu Qiutang.

"Baby, how much do you want?"

Yu Qiutang asked, "How much did you say last time?"

"They said they would give them 100 yuan for each wild boar they killed, but in the end they only killed a small one and injured a man. We saw that it was not easy for him, so we gave him 150 yuan."

"Well, those two men looked respectable, but they were just empty talk. They looked good but were useless. Their guns were just like tickling a wild boar."

Someone was complaining nearby.

Yu Qiutang roughly understood the whole story and had an idea in mind.

"The price will remain the same as before. I'll charge you for each wild boar I kill. I've killed it this time, so if there are any wild boars coming back to the village, you can come to me directly and I'll help you deal with them on a long-term basis."

"Can you do that?"

Some people are still skeptical, thinking that Yu Qiutang is a little young and doesn't look like a very professional hunter.

Even Yu Chuntao gently pulled Yu Qiutang and looked at him worriedly.

Yu Chuntao had no idea that the wild boar had hurt anyone before, but now that she heard that someone was really injured, she felt that Yu Qiutang was in danger.

I wanted to stop him from agreeing, but I couldn't say it in front of so many people.

"Everyone please go home and wait... Village chief, do you have a loud speaker?"

"Yes, yes, the whole village can hear it."

"Okay, everyone go home and do one thing first," Yu Qiutang glanced at everyone, "If you have beans at home, no matter if they are soybeans, kidney beans, or cowpeas, as long as they are beans, fry them with oil until fragrant, and then wait for my notice."

“What are you doing with the fried beans?”

The villagers were puzzled.

The village chief waved his hand and said, "Why are you so long-winded? Just go back and fry when I tell you to. Do you still want to get rid of the wild boars? Disperse, go back and wait for notification!"

The village chief is still straightforward.

Everyone left then. A few kind-hearted people comforted Yulan on the ground before leaving and asked her to go to the hospital quickly.

However, Magnolia didn't appreciate the kindness and it's unclear how long she'll stop throwing a tantrum.

In the end, only two or three women of the same tribe continued to persuade.

Yu Chuntao couldn't bear it and wanted to say a few words of comfort, but Yu Qiutang pulled her away.

You can't reason with a woman like this.

Her mind was a mess, and she couldn't make any sense at all. Everyone knew that the only people to blame were them and their husbands. They didn't go to the hospital quickly and instead made a scene here. No one knew what they were thinking.

Yu Qiutang pulled the village chief aside and asked him in detail about the situation of the wild boars.

I just realized that these guys, who initially only hung around the village two or three times, have now grown to five. They like to come in the early morning or at dusk, like little bulldozers.

It sniffs around, and as soon as it smells something food, it rushes over to eat it.

Most people can't stand it and can only watch them wreak havoc.

To the point that even now, if the door is left open carelessly, they will even rush into the yard.

Everyone was frightened out of their wits.

If there is a man in the house, he can drive them away with a stick, but if it comes to the elderly, women and children, there is really no way to deal with them.

Yu Qiutang frowned as he listened.

Wild boar infestation is something that has occurred in many places in this era.

Especially after the implementation of the contract responsibility system, people no longer engage in collective planting, and everyone takes care of their own affairs. There are no militiamen patrolling the fields with guns, which leaves plenty of time for the wild boars.

Four or five heads here are considered few.

In his previous life, Yu Qiutang had helped a village deal with this problem. In total, that village hunted and killed more than fifty wild boars.

Almost all of them are brought along with them.

Although wild boars are afraid of humans, they do not consciously think that human things belong to humans.

Their intelligence is just to think that human settlements are also another kind of nature. Since it is nature, it must follow the law of the jungle, and whoever is stronger will occupy more resources.

If you are weak, you can only be driven away.

When faced with human resistance, they will simply think that this is a battle launched by humans to protect their territory.

This kind of battle is often tentative at the beginning. Once they find that the humans here have not caused any offensive damage to them for a long time, they will become more rampant.

Gradually, they will regard this place as a stable food supply.

In this case, humans originally became enemies in their eyes and were objects that needed to be driven away.

Today, harming human children is, for them, a test of new upgrades. If they are not dealt a devastating blow, they will be more arrogant the next time they come and engage in head-on confrontation with humans.

That would be troublesome.

Frankly speaking, few humans are a real match for a full grown wild boar.

Wild boars are omnivorous animals. (End of this chapter)