Chapter 105

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

"Things like this happen in the village all the time, and I've never seen you mobilize the whole village!"

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

"Yeah, isn't this just bullshit!"

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

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

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

"Do you have any idea why he went into the mountains to hunt a black bear in the middle of winter?"

"Making it sound so high and mighty!"

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

"Get lost..."

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

However, cowed by the brigade secretary's authority, no one dared to say these things out loud!

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

No one dared to easily offend a brigade secretary in this era.

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

The five Wang brothers were naturally one group. Wang An didn't invite anyone else to join, mainly fearing that someone like Li Biao would be brought in, who was useless and would only cause trouble!

I have to say, the five brothers were all tall. Only Wang Li, because he was only 16 years old, was under 1.8 meters; the rest, from eldest Wang Yong to fourth Wang An, were all over 1.8 meters.

The five brothers all went home to change into mountain-entering gear, agreeing to gather at Wang An's house in a while.

In a short while, the four brothers all came, and everyone's skinning knife had been attached to a long stick.

The handles of the skinning knives were all hollow; attaching a long tree stick made it a spear!

Wang An remembered there was still a hanging-tube gun at home, so he found it in the kang cabinet, found 6 bullets for the hanging-tube gun, and that was it; taking more bullets for this gun would be 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 wasn't as practical as a skinning knife attached to a wooden stick. You could say it was useless after one shot!

Wang An walked outside and asked, "Brothers, who knows how to use the hanging-tube gun?"

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

As soon as Wang Shun finished speaking, Wang An handed the hanging-tube gun and bullets to him. Wang Shun took them happily; no matter what kind of gun it was, as long as you were a man, you liked it!

Wang An then said, "Let's go, or Old Niu won't eat grass." After Wang An finished speaking, everyone laughed together.

Leaving the yard, the five brothers followed the large group and walked into the mountains.

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

Fortunately, it was dark, otherwise, if people saw them, they would think a bunch of people were going into the mountains for an outing.

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 having huge resentment, and no one cared at all whether they could find him.

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

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

Fortunately, they were all young and strong people from the mountains and were used to walking mountain roads, otherwise, they would definitely have been exhausted after three consecutive hours of walking mountain roads at night.

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 shrubs and tree stumps.

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

A large group of people had to search in groups, and there was shouting and screaming 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 incredibly happy!

Hazel grouse are ground birds and usually stay in low trees at night. Only when the temperature is too low at night do they burrow into deep snowdrifts to keep warm!

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

An hour later, someone found Niu Dali, who was neither human nor ghost, under a pile of shrubs. He had already collapsed there and was unconscious, and the foot exposed outside seemed to be frozen stiff!

The whole person looked even worse than the two Ma brothers! Truly miserable!

Wang An discovered that the place where Niu Dali was now 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! He didn't know how much injury he had suffered, to the point that he couldn't even walk!

At this moment, he didn't know how many people present were like Wang An, secretly happy in their hearts: 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 marched toward the outside of the mountains.

They didn't do any emergency treatment for Niu Dali, mainly because they couldn't and didn't know how to. His whole body had stopped bleeding, and in these mountains, as long as you weren't bleeding, it was no problem!

Besides, the night temperature was so low now; the person might have been fine, but if they unbuttoned Niu Dali's clothes, Niu Dali might very well be frozen to death!

On the road, they took turns carrying the stretcher in groups of two, except for the Niu family who took the initiative to take turns because they were all surnamed Niu!

People with other surnames didn't get close at all, and from time to time, laughter and giggles could be heard! The five Wang brothers followed at the back carrying the hazel grouse, also chatting!

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

Their families had come to him for help, but he had never mobilized people to enter the mountains 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, he didn't know if his position would be stable in the future, and he couldn't help but sigh!

Looking down at this nephew who had always made people worry, he didn't know what it felt like in his heart. The existence of this nephew, besides finding trouble and attracting hatred for him, hadn't done a single good thing!

Now it's 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 is just day after day!

He handed the two 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. He entered a deep sleep state in a few seconds! This habit was cultivated in prison in his previous life; I have to say, it's very practical!

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

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

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

Wang An checked his gear, tied up the dogs, and the two of them each drove a sled into the mountains.

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

Mainly addicted to the feeling of picking up hares one after another every time they checked the snares!

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