Chapter 109

After eating the noodles and agreeing with Wang An to head into the mountains early tomorrow, Mu Mu Xueli only hauled three dead yellow sheep before heading home!

Wang An stared at these dozen or so yellow sheep carcasses. At the thought that there would be so much more meat of all kinds tomorrow, he suddenly felt his head ache a little!

With so much meat, who the hell is he going to sell it all to?

Mainly, Wang An was still thinking about that injured big bear. Once its gunshot wound worsened a bit, wouldn't that big bear's gallbladder be something he could just reach out and take?

At this moment, Wang Wang Dazhu and his wife were setting up a fence, wanting to use it to enclose the yellow sheep.

Setting up a fence means using wooden stakes to clamp fence panels upright to make a wall, enclosing a piece of land, equivalent to a house without a roof.

Wang An had just finished eating and had nothing to do, so he went up to help.

It's really tough to set up a fence in this season, mainly because burying the wooden stakes is exhausting; the ground is frozen rock-hard, and digging holes is a big problem!

He saw Liu Liu Guilan holding the iron rod while Wang Wang Dazhu swung the sledgehammer, digging holes in the ground bit by bit like this.

Wang An stepped forward to take the sledgehammer and said to Liu Liu Guilan: "Mom, go inside. I'll finish up with Dad, and while I'm at it, I'll thaw a yellow sheep so we can stew mutton tonight."

"All you know is eating every day." Liu Liu Guilan rolled her eyes at Wang An, turned around, and dragged a dead yellow sheep into the house.

In this cold winter, the father and son were working their lives away against the ground, the "thump," "thump" sounds echoing endlessly.

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At this time, in the county hospital.

The current county hospital consisted of two rows of single-story houses, front and back. The front row was the clinic, pharmacy, and doctors' offices, while the back row was the inpatient ward and operating room.

In one of the wards in the back row, a patient with his head wrapped in gauze suddenly sat up from the hospital bed.

He threw off the quilt with both hands and felt his left leg, which no longer had a foot. He instantly panicked, shouting in a heart-rending voice: "Where is my foot? Who cut off my foot? Where did my foot go?"

The patient's shouting quickly brought the doctors and nurses, as well as a woman wearing clothes full of patches.

A male doctor scolded: "What are you howling about? It's good enough that you kept your life! Where is the patient's family? Watch him, don't let him affect other patients. If you howl again, get the hell home!"

After speaking, the male doctor turned and left in a huff, and the nurses followed. Only the woman stood by the bed, looking out the window with a blank expression, not knowing what she was thinking.

Doctors at this time wouldn't indulge patients at all, nor would they be afraid of the patient's family making a scene. Once you were mostly recovered, they'd let you go home to recuperate; they would absolutely not let you stay even one extra day!

Moreover, the principle they followed was that if one dose of medicine could cure the illness, they would absolutely not prescribe two. The medicine was sold to you wrapped in paper, just those few pills; once you finished them, that was it. Usually, after finishing the medicine, the illness was cured!

"You stinking woman, where is my foot? Speak!" After the doctor left, the patient was still emotionally agitated and cursed angrily at the woman standing by the bed.

"Niu Niu Dali, you deserve it that your foot froze off, and you deserve it even more that your two ears froze off. Why didn't you just lose your life!" The woman gritted her teeth and said to the man named Niu Niu Dali.

"You stinking woman, I'll beat you to death!" Niu Niu Dali glared and roared, wanting to get out of bed, but having suddenly lost his left foot, he didn't find his balance and sat back down on the bed.

Furthermore, his left foot had just been amputated, and the wound hadn't healed yet. The pain made Niu Niu Dali grimace and howl continuously, but he didn't stop howling, cursing and swearing while he howled!

In any case, there wasn't a single human word in his speech. The woman didn't step forward either, just watched Niu Niu Dali howling there with a blank expression.

Wang An's scheme could be called perfect, and his grasp of human nature could be called thorough!

He only said one sentence from start to finish, and Niu Niu Dali fell perfectly into the trap. At this moment, Niu Niu Dali was seriously miserable; missing a foot and two ears, he probably wouldn't be able to show off anymore even if he wanted to!

It's just that I don't know how the woman, who had always been beaten and scolded by him, will deal with him in the future! ——

It was also at this time that the sisters Fang Fang Xiuying and Fang Fang Xiue were already lying on the train heading to Bingcheng.

That's right, lying, not sitting!

Because the two of them didn't have an introduction letter, they chose to "roll the train"!

"Rolling the train" could also be considered a characteristic of the era.

In this era, it was a very difficult thing for people in the countryside to travel.

First, you needed an introduction letter. Without one, sorry, you couldn't buy a ticket!

Second, you had to have money. Train tickets weren't expensive, but there was no money to be had! Back then, if you were going away to study, the whole village would really pool money together, because there was truly no money!

Third, you had to have coupons, most importantly grain coupons. Without grain coupons, eating was a quite difficult problem to solve! And it had to be national grain coupons; grain coupons from one place were waste paper when taken to another. You had to exchange them for national grain coupons locally, and then take them to other places to use!

Finally, you had to be able to buy a ticket. Trains back then were truly quite insufficient. If you had friends or relatives in the railway, well, you were that very impressive little star!

And if you couldn't buy a ticket but still wanted to travel, what could you do?

That was to "roll the train." To put it bluntly, it was trying to evade the fare. Train stations at that time were very loose, and basically anything could be brought onto the train.

People could naturally sneak on very easily; in fact, there was no need to sneak, you could just go straight on.

Like the train station in the county, who had the spare time to check your ticket? Get on the train quickly, they were still waiting to close the doors!

After getting on, don't think about sitting; the whole train was full of people and all kinds of cargo, and animals!

That's right, animals—chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, you could see them all. If you were lucky, you could even see pigs, living pigs.

Seize the opportunity to crawl under the seats. At this time, ticket collectors didn't check under the seats because there was everything under there!

After crawling in, it was best not to come out. Even for peeing, you had to be quick. There was nothing else, it was just that the space was easily taken by others.

Always lying under the seat, no matter how you turned your body, you were pressed against the train floor, which is why it was called "rolling the train"!

And these two sisters were now lying under the seats, listening to the "clatter, clatter" sound of the train wheels against the tracks, heading toward Bingcheng!

Trains in this era burned coal, and there was no heating, but there were many people in the carriages, so it wouldn't freeze people to death. It was just that the train floor was steel plate; no matter how thick your clothes were, lying on it was cold!

But for the sake of the future and freedom, these two sisters could endure everything! It's just that I don't know what will be waiting for them after they arrive in Bingcheng.

And in Sujiatun, hundreds of miles away from the sisters, the brothers Ma Little Laizi were now able to take care of themselves. They had no choice even if they couldn't; their wives had been gone for three days and hadn't returned yet.

It's just that both brothers had their right arms hanging in front of their chests with hemp ropes, and they could only use their left hands for everything.

In just three days, Ma Jiang's house had become like a pigsty. At this moment, the brothers were eating blackened roasted potatoes!

But the brothers' mouths were still swollen, and from time to time, Ma Jiang's "ouch" screams of pain would come, and after a while, it would be Ma He's "hissing" sound of sucking in cold air!

No matter how they "ouched" or "hissed," neither of them mentioned taking revenge on Wang An; they seemed to have been truly beaten into fear!

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After two hours of "thumping," Wang Wang Dazhu and his son finally finished enclosing the yellow sheep pen with fence panels!

Then the 24 yellow sheep had a new home, no longer needing to worry about being eaten by wild beasts, only needing to pray that Wang An's family wouldn't crave mutton!

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