Back to 1984: Hunting in the Mountains

Chapter 92 Even if you are a leopard...

When he returned home in the evening, Yu Qiutang asked Yu Xiaowei about the matter of sending the magical tofu.

Before he left yesterday, he had planned to stay in the mountains for one night, and he would definitely not be able to deliver the magical tofu to the Meifen Hotel on time this morning, so he gave this task to Yu Xiaowei.

It's also a form of exercise.

Yu Xiaowei is not a good student and will most likely go into business in the future. It would be a good thing for him to get in touch with more people in advance and see how to maintain social relationships.

Even though he seems very tough behind people now, once something happens or he is in a crowded place, he immediately becomes less natural and will still subconsciously hide behind people.

This is not okay.

Isn't this the same as before?

No matter how great your abilities are, if they are not known by others and you cannot communicate with others normally, you will be of no use.

However, Yu Qiutang discovered that people in this society who only focus on pulling the cart will never live a wealthy life. If they want to live a good life, they still need someone to drive the cart.

"You must have done everything I asked you to do. How could you disappoint me?"

Yu Xiaowei is doing push-ups on the ground.

This is also what Yu Qiutang asked him to do.

At any time, no matter how advanced civilization becomes, as a man, physical fitness is very important. Even if it is a neighborhood dispute, others will subconsciously think that you are not easy to mess with when they see that you are strong, and will not easily cause trouble for you.

On the contrary, if you are too weak, I'm sorry, you will always be bullied.

There are actually very few people who really don't bully the weak.

Most people just don't have the ability to bully others. If you give them a little bit of power, you will see if they will act rashly.

This is why many people in society start to look down on the poor once they have some money. It is mainly because they feel they have turned their lives around and are better than others.

"That's good. Uncle has arranged for you and Yunyun to go to school. I will take you to register next Saturday.

Although Yunyun is older than the other students, she can still catch up, so she starts from the first grade, while you go straight to the third grade."

"Oh, I see."

"You know what? If you want to start from the third grade, you have to make up for the first and second grade content by yourself, otherwise you won't be able to learn in the third grade."

"what?!"

Yu Xiaowei rolled over and lay on the kang, panting and saying, "How can I do that, uncle? I don't know many words now, who can I learn from?"

"Well..."

Yu Qiutang hesitated, but still said, "It's almost the same. I'll teach you. If I don't know anything, I'll ask the teacher."

"You can do it?" Yu Xiaowei stared into Yu Qiutang's eyes, "How come I didn't know you could still..."

"You little brat," Yu Qiutang slapped Yu Xiaowei on the butt and said with a smile, "What are you talking about? Your uncle may not be well educated, but it won't be a problem for him to teach you some first and second grade stuff. Don't worry!"

"OK then."

Yu Xiaowei had no choice but to accept it. He looked at the dark roof and sighed, "Studying is so troublesome. Why waste so much time? I could use this time to follow my uncle to the mountains to learn how to hunt, or make tofu and sell it with my aunt. I can make a lot of money."

"Stop thinking like that. You must study until you graduate from junior high school. Don't even think about it before that."

Yu Qiutang once again gave a stern order, "Also, you are older than other students, so you need to be more sensible and hardworking. Studying well is not easier than anything else. If you fall behind, you need to work harder than others to catch up."

"I understand the truth, uncle, but I don't understand why I have to keep catching up with others. I live my own life, and it's none of other people's business."

Yu Xiaowei still found it hard to understand.

Yu Qiutang thought about it and said helplessly: "You will understand when you grow up. This is how the world is. No one can really live his life as he pleases without caring about other people's opinions.

Let me give you an example. Society is like the forest in front of us, and all resources are like the various things in the forest. So, if you were a rabbit, and you only knew how to lower your head and eat grass, could you survive? "

"Why should I be a rabbit? How do you know I must be a rabbit? Why can't I be a wolf or a leopard?"

"Okay, even if you are a lone wolf, you still have to hunt in a group with other wolves, otherwise you will starve to death or be besieged by other animals in the group, such as jackals.

Even if you are a leopard, you need more skills to survive. You need to run fast, have high explosive power, and be able to climb trees and swim. But even so, the prey you catch alone may be snatched away by jackals. How can you, a single leopard, deal with a group of jackals? "

Yu Xiaowei was stunned, thought for a moment and said, "Uncle, if you say so, doesn't that mean that all animals have their own difficulties and are in danger of dying at any time?"

"That's the truth. Comparing humans to animals is not very appropriate. After all, humans are more complicated than animals. However, some principles are the same. When you can walk out of the mountains and get in touch with the real world outside, you will find that our human world is much more complicated than the animal world in the mountains."

"Oh."

Yu Xiaowei fell into deep thought.

"Don't think about it. Go wash yourself and get ready for bed. You won't understand these principles overnight. Don't be impatient. Just remember them in your heart. When you need to understand them, you will suddenly realize them."

"okay."

Yu Xiaowei stood up from the kang with a somersault, jumped down to the ground with a "thump", and went out to wash his body.

Yu Qiutang took out the money he had earned today and put it in his wallet.

After counting, I found that, except for the money from the tofu I gave away today, I already have 410 yuan. I have basically saved half of the money for building the house, which is about 1,000 yuan, which is completely enough.

The speed of making money is not fast, but it is not slow either.

During this time, he will arrange the schooling of his two children. With guns and crossbows in hand, there are plenty of resources and wealth in the mountains waiting for him to explore. The future situation is very good.

The next morning, after Yu Qiutang finished practicing boxing, he washed up, carried the magic tofu and went straight to Yu Qiujiang's blacksmith shop.

After arriving, Yu Qiujiang was still lighting the stove, and Yu Qiutang began to look around and think.

He has already made up his mind that his "development base" will be built near Yu Qiujiang in the future.

Although this place is close to the mountain and relatively far from the village, there is flat land next to the shop. In the future, the main village road will go directly to the foot of the mountain.

At that time, we just need to pave a certain distance at the door and connect it to the main road.

There won't be any problem with transportation.

When we are financially well-off, we will definitely buy tractors, motorcycles and cars, which will not affect our transportation at all.

However, the land nearby is still barren, covered with weeds such as dandelions, artemisia annua, wormwood, and broom grass.

It is autumn now and most of the wild grasses are in bloom. From a distance, if you don’t mind the waste of land, there is still a special kind of rural beauty.

This piece of land is still collectively owned by Production Team 3. Since the land distribution began two years ago, the work has been carried out step by step. The brigade, that is, the village, divided the land into thirteen production teams according to certain boundaries.

The production team gradually distributed the land to each household based on their actual conditions.

However, there is no completely unified policy on how to distribute it.

Who will get it first and who will get it later, how much each household will get, what is the ratio between adults and children, and how the land can be divided into barren or fertile, dry or near water.

Anyway, it's a mess and it's hard to tell it apart for the time being.

In addition, those people on the team, holding a tiny bit of power, also wanted to gain some benefits from the land distribution process.

But the common people were fed up with being bullied by these people during the collective production period. Now that they have finally turned the tide and the land has been distributed to each household, they have the desire to fight against these guys. Except for some spineless ones, most people are too lazy to lick these people's asses.

And so the matter was delayed.

There are many people like Yu Daner in the team, who have bad intentions, but they can often get along well in the village, and there is no place to seek justice.

The land next to Yu Qiujiang's blacksmith shop is the worst land in the team. Because it is close to the mountain, it does not see the sun for much time every day, and the nutrients are almost completely absorbed by the nearby trees. Therefore, no matter what is planted, the harvest will not be very good.

There is another more important reason. Since this land is close to the mountains, the little guys in the mountains can get in more easily to steal food. Not to mention growing economic crops like gourds or watermelons, even if you grow wheat, there will be all kinds of rats and birds visiting.

There are more than a thousand of these things in the mountains, and it is impossible to eradicate them all with human ability. In a few days, all the wheat in an acre of land will be eaten up.

Otherwise, why would a small creature like a sparrow be treated as a pest?

These factors have resulted in the land being unable to be divided at all.

Anyone with a bit of common sense would not exchange the land allocation quota that they have worked so hard to obtain for such a shabby piece of land.

Yu Qiutang clearly remembers that in later years, because these places were so barren, the town arranged for them to be transformed into a bamboo forest to supply bamboo for the giant panda breeding base on the mountain.

It can be considered as recycling of old things.

but.

These problems may be troubles for others, but Yu Qiutang sees them as opportunities.

If no one wants it, the cost of getting it will be very small.

The possibilities become huge.

Perhaps it would only cost a small amount to acquire the land.

He has many ideas about the use of this land, and it would be great if he could get it.

Yu Qiujiang came out holding a toothbrush cup, squatted in the radish field at the door and started brushing his teeth. After brushing a few times, he spat out the water in his mouth and asked, "Why didn't you knock when you came?"

"I don't think you've gotten enough sleep."

Yu Qiutang smiled, saw Yu Chunju coming out, and greeted her.

Yu Chunju's head was wrapped tightly, making her look a bit like a girl from the Middle East, with only a pair of big, clear eyes showing.

"Cousin."

Chunju seldom takes the initiative to talk to others. Yu Qiutang remembers that he had never spoken a few words to this cousin in his previous life. And in this life, during the dozens of days she has been here, it seems that apart from him saying hello every time and her calling him "cousin", there haven't been many words between them.

Yu Qiutang was worried that if this continued, this girl might not be able to speak clearly. He was not very clear about what she became of in her previous life. He just heard that her illness had improved, but he didn't know to what extent.

"Brother Jiang, Chunju's health is so bad, we should take some time to go to a big city."

Yu Qiujiang glanced at his sister who was about to sweep the floor, nodded and said, "I plan to save some money and take her with me."

"Brother, I won't go." Yu Chunju heard the two people talking and shook her head. As a result, her movements were too violent and a corner of the cloth wrapped around her face fell off.

In a quick glance, Yu Qiutang saw a faint blush on the right side of his cousin's face near her neck. It didn't look like a skin allergy caused by contact, but more like a piece of red cloth was stuck on the skin. It was a completely raised scar.

Yu Chunju hurriedly covered the area with the cloth again.

Yu Qiutang walked over to Yu Chunju and patted the little girl's head gently. "Chunju, get well soon so you can help your brother with work. You can't go out now, so isn't it good to be able to do something?"

"I……"

Yu Qiujiang glanced at Yu Qiutang, a little unhappy with what he said.

Yu Qiutang continued to smile and said, "Nowadays, many doctors in big cities are very good. Maybe they can cure your disease in an instant. Then you can not only help your brother, but also go out and have fun. You can also find a good partner in the future. Isn't that great?"

Yu Chunju lowered her head, dragged the broom in her hand across the ground, and said nothing.

But Yu Qiutang could tell her mood from her actions.

This child actually still hopes to go outside and live freely like other children.

He then said to Yu Qiujiang: "Brother Jiang, I have just seen it. After a while, I plan to ask the team to allocate land and build a yard next to yours. Then my third sister, two children and I will move in and live here.

When the house is almost ready, we will work together to find a solution. I also want to go and see my third sister's legs. If we can't, we can go together."

Yu Qiujiang nodded and said, "You said you wanted to move here?"

"Well, that's the plan."

"No wonder you were wandering around just now, that's fine, this place is far away from people, but it's really quiet, some people in the village are annoying to see them all day long.

If you really come, that would be great, we brothers can live together and take care of each other."

"That's it."

A scene of the future emerged before Yu Qiutang's eyes.

There is a tall courtyard with red bricks and gray tiles, and various flowers are planted in front of the door. Butterflies and bees are busy collecting nectar among the flowers, and the two families and their children are running around.

It’s really laid back and reassuring.

Yu Qiutang remembered that in his previous life, the children would come home from get off work every day and lie on the sofa motionless, as if their energy had been drained away, and the only thing they would talk about was tiredness.

Or rather, “volume”.

In their own words, their lives have always been in a high-speed scroll, and everyone is like being thrown on a moving train, forced to move forward. If they slow down, they will immediately be thrown off the train and there is no way back.

Just think about it, it’s really tiring.

He stood up, brushed the dirt off his butt, and while filling the basket with roe deer meat, he said with a smile, "Then it's settled. As long as we work hard, we will have a good life in the future. I'm sure of it!"

(End of this chapter)