Chapter 102

After Niu Qun finished speaking, there was an immediate chorus of curses and complaints below!

"There are many such things in the village, and we've never seen you summon the whole village to move!"

"Isn't it just because Niu Dali is his nephew!"

"Yeah, isn't this bullshit!"

"Damn, it's the middle of the night, and we have to go into the mountains!"

"If you don't know how to hunt, don't you know how to call people together!"

"Serves him right, the consequence of enjoying mountain wealth alone!"

"What's the point of going into the mountains to hunt black bears in the middle of winter? Don't you have any sense?"

"Making it sound so high-sounding!"

"Oh damn, you even know how to use big words?"

"Get lost..."

Wang Li wanted to speak, but was pulled back by Wang An; they had to go anyway, complaining a few times was useless, it really wasn't worth it!

However, intimidated by the brigade secretary's prestige, no one dared to say these words out loud!

Only a few people from the big clans in the village dared to discuss it in such low voices!

In this era, no one dared to easily offend the brigade secretary.

And for this kind of collective action, no matter how much they complained, every family had to send at least one person.

The five Wang brothers were naturally one group; Wang An didn't call anyone else to join, mainly fearing that someone like Li Biao would be brought in, who was useless and would only add to the chaos!

Must say, the five brothers were all tall; only Wang Li, because he was only 16, was under 1.8 meters, and the rest, from eldest brother Wang Yong to fourth brother Wang An, were all over 1.8 meters.

The five brothers all went home to change into mountain gear, agreeing to gather at Wang An's house later.

In a moment, the four brothers all came, and everyone's hunting knives were mounted on long sticks.

The handles of the hunting knives were all hollow; mounting them on long tree sticks made them into spears!

Wang An remembered there was still a single-shot shotgun at home, so he went to find it in the kang cabinet, found 6 bullets for it—with this gun, taking more bullets was a waste!

Experienced hunters with good technique could change bullets faster, but unskilled people, after firing one shot in the dark, couldn't change bullets and it would be a fire poker; it was less practical than a hunting knife mounted on a wooden stick; it could be said that after one shot, it was useless!

Wang An walked outside and asked: "Brothers, who of you knows how to use the single-shot?"

Second brother Wang Shun said: "I've fired a few shots with this thing."

As soon as Wang Shun finished speaking, Wang An handed over the single-shot and the bullets; Wang Shun took them happily; no matter what gun it was, as long as it was a man, he liked it!

Wang An subsequently said: "Let's go, otherwise the old ox won't eat grass." After Wang An finished speaking, everyone laughed together.

Leaving the courtyard, the five brothers followed the large group and walked toward the mountains.

On the road, a group of people were chatting and bragging, not looking at all like they were going to save someone.

Fortunately, it was dark, otherwise, if someone saw them, they would think it was a group of people going into the mountains for fun.

Niu Dali himself had a very bad reputation, and his popularity naturally wasn't great; he had gone into the mountains alone to eat alone, and most importantly, all the men in the village had to go into the mountains in the middle of the night to find him.

This led to everyone's resentment being very great; as for whether they could find him, everyone didn't care at all.

So, they didn't act in groups as Niu Qun had ordered. Instead, they all gathered together noisily.

Chatting, laughing, and playing along the way, they finally arrived after more than three hours at the Heaven Den Li Erlengzi had mentioned, which was near that big green poplar tree.

Thanks to everyone being young and strong in the mountains and used to walking mountain roads, otherwise, this continuous three-plus hours of night mountain walking would definitely have tired a few people down.

Although the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and everyone was holding torches, in this mountain forest, besides big trees and small trees, there were bushes and tree stumps.

There were also branches or trunks broken by the wind or lightning, shadows everywhere, and you couldn't see what was what at all!

A large group of people had to split into groups to search, and there were shouts everywhere, with sporadic gunshots.

The five Wang brothers were lucky; they found a group of hazel grouse warming themselves in a snowdrift; after catching them, everyone got two or three, and the five brothers were all overjoyed!

Hazel grouse are ground birds; at night, they generally stay in low trees, and only when the night temperature is too low do they burrow into deep snowdrifts to warm themselves!

Actually, it's equivalent to the snow houses people build in the wild; the temperature inside and outside is very different!

An hour later, someone finally found Niu Dali, who looked neither human nor ghost, under a bush; he had already collapsed there in a coma, and the foot exposed outside seemed to be frozen stiff!

The whole person's appearance felt even more serious than the Ma brothers! Truly miserable!

Wang An discovered that the place where Niu Dali was staying at this time was clearly different from where he had seen him during the day!

Looking at the marks, he had crawled here, meaning Niu Dali had woken up halfway! Who knows how serious his injuries were that he couldn't even walk!

At this moment, who knows how many people present were secretly happy like Wang An: This scourge can finally settle down!

The Niu family made a simple stretcher, lifted Niu Dali onto it, and then lifted the stretcher, and a group of people walked toward the mountains in a grand procession.

They didn't do any emergency treatment for Niu Dali, mainly because they couldn't and didn't know how; his whole body had stopped bleeding, and in these mountains, as long as there's no bleeding, there's no problem!

Besides, the night temperature is so low now; the person might have been fine, but as long as they unbuttoned Niu Dali's clothes, Niu Dali would very likely freeze to death!

On the road, they took turns carrying the stretcher in pairs, except for the Niu family members who had to take turns because they were all surnamed Niu!

People with other surnames didn't come forward at all, and from time to time, laughter could be heard! Wang An and his five brothers followed at the back carrying the hazel grouse, also chatting!

Actually, Niu Qun also knew he had angered the public, because over the years, quite a few people in the village had gone missing in the mountains!

Their families had also come to him to think of ways, but he had never summoned people to enter the mountains even once!

This time, for his nephew, he had truly and concretely abused his power for personal gain!

Thinking that the land was about to be split among households, whether his position would be stable in the future was uncertain, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart!

Looking down at this nephew who had always made people worry, he didn't know what it felt like in his heart; the nephew's existence, besides causing trouble and attracting hatred for him, had never done a single good thing!

Well, this is good; he can probably save some worry in the future!

When the group returned to the village, Wang An checked his watch; it was already 2:30 in the middle of the night!

Damn, this day after day!

He handed the two still-living hazel grouse to his mother, who hadn't slept much.

Wang An returned to the west room, took off his clothes, and crawled into the quilt; in a few seconds, he entered a deep sleep state! This habit was formed in prison in his past life; must say, it's very practical!

Waking up, the sky was still dark, and he looked at the wall clock by the kerosene lamp; it was only 6 o'clock!

Youth is good; staying up late doesn't delay getting up early.

After washing up and eating, his brother-in-law Seeing Mu Xueli had already arrived with the sled.

Wang An checked his equipment, tied up the dogs, and each drove a sled with his brother-in-law toward the mountains.

On the road, naturally, they first checked the traps and set new ones; this simple and easy-to-get hunting method, whether it was Wang An or Seeing Mu Xueli, was addicted to it!

What they were mainly addicted to was the feeling of picking up hares one after another every time they checked the traps!

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