Chapter 17: How good it is to be alive

One person was running behind, stumbling and staggering! His right hand was clutching the side of his right leg!

Wang An quickly raised his gun to his face and fired a shot at the one riding the horse. He saw the rider sway and fall off the horse!

Because the rider was bouncing on the horse, this shot seemed to hit his left shoulder. Wang An didn't see it very clearly, but in any case, he felt it wasn't fatal at all. Regardless of where he hit, Wang An fired two more shots at the rider who had just fallen to the ground. This time, the rider stopped moving a hundred meters away!

At this moment, the one running while clutching his leg saw with his own eyes that the rider was done for! He stopped running too, sitting on the ground and groaning, perhaps knowing he couldn't outrun a bullet!

After Wang An finished off the rider, the anger in his heart had been vented for the most part. He walked up to the person sitting on the ground groaning,

and shouted loudly: "Didn't you tell me to come out? I've come out! What can you do to me?"

"Run! Why aren't you running anymore?"

"Didn't you want to clean things up and set a fire in the middle of the night? And you wanted to try that woman too?"

"You knew I had a gun and still followed me? Everyone knows that we mountain-hunters have a heavy hand, yet you still insisted on crowding up!"

"You're only in your twenties, right? How good it is to be alive! You insist on seeking death? Are you a moron?"

After saying this, without waiting for the man to even open his mouth to speak, he fired a shot into the man's head.

Wang An looked back and forth along the road; there was no one there for the moment. In fact, upon hearing such dense gunfire, anyone who valued their life would no longer crowd toward this side!

Wang An scanned the four corpses back and forth and looked again. The two horses ridden by the first two dead men were standing by the side of the road not far away. The other two horses had been severely frightened just now and he didn't know where they had run off to!

Sigh! Time to work! He walked to the remaining two horses and tied one of them to a tree by the roadside!

Then he rode the other one. To tell the truth, Wang An had only ever ridden mules, and the kind without a saddle at that! It was his first time riding a horse, and a saddled one at that. Don't mention it, it was really quite exhilarating!!

He rode to the side of the person who had been riding the horse and used the rope hanging from the saddle to tie the man's legs, dragging him directly to the side of the other three. Then, one by one, he dragged them behind the bushes by the roadside!

If someone came by in a while, that would be a huge problem!

Then he carefully cleaned up the bloodstains on the road. Cleaning up bloodstains was quite troublesome; it was everywhere, and some had even seeped into the snow, melting a small patch! In any case, it was just a matter of burying it with snow and trampling it down. At this temperature, it would be frozen solid in a while!

He led the horses into the forest. Nowadays, there were very few fat people; these four people together didn't even weigh 600 jin!

He simply tied together a sled, used the two horses to pull it, moved all the corpses onto it, and then loaded the 56-semi with bullets before leading the horses into the forest!

In some places in the forest, the trees were very dense. Walking back and forth, winding around trees and making turns—this walk was truly exhausting!

If he wasn't careful, a corpse would fall off the sled. After repeating this several times, Wang An was so angry he pulled the belts off all these people!

Then he tied them to the sled. Fortunately, people's belts nowadays were either hemp rope or strips of cloth! Otherwise, there would really be no way to manage it!

After walking for almost half an hour, he finally found a quite deep gully. Looking down from the edge of the gully, it must have been over 20 meters deep. The side walls and the bottom of the gully were all covered in one or two-meter-long scrub brush!

An excellent place!! He continued his old routine: searching pockets, stripping clothes, and unbuckling weapons from their waists!

There was quite a bit of money; the four of them together must have had four or five hundred yuan, and there were many ration coupons too, a whole pile! There were also six letters of introduction! He didn't have time to look at them in detail. He stuffed them all into his own pockets!

There were four knives, all of the privately forged kind. The handles were wrapped in deerskin; they were very beautiful and also very sharp!

There were only two guns, both short guns, two Type 54s! There weren't many bullets either, about 30-something! These bullets weren't interchangeable with the 56-semi; they were round-nosed!

Even with this equipment, they dared to do bandit work! And the ones they wanted to deal with were armed hunters! Wang An really wanted to know what these four morons were thinking! He should have asked before killing them!!

They were all finished off without firing a single shot!! They weren't even as good as those three beasts!

He stripped them all naked and threw them into the gully, gathering their clothes, pants, hats, and shoes to burn them all! These four were all wearing cotton-padded coats, and they were covered in blood; they had no recycling value at all!

He dismantled the sled on the spot. The hemp rope wasn't his to take either, so he burned it all!!

After burning everything, he used his knife to scoop up large chunks of snow from under the trees where the snow was thick to extinguish the fire! This snow, which hadn't been stepped on by anyone, was also quite hard! After finishing everything, he rode the horse and left!

Of these two horses, one was a mare, and the other was an uncastrated stallion! Normally, horses or pack horses used for riding, if they were stallions, had to be castrated before they could be used!

He hadn't figured out what was going on either! And these two horses were also a worry! Land hadn't been divided among households yet!

In the village, apart from the two hunters Lu Deshu and Zhang Tiegang, no one kept horses privately; there were only a few mules and donkeys!

Oh my! Let it be whatever it will be! When he got home, he'd let his old man and old lady think of an excuse!! For now, he'd just say he borrowed them!

After thinking about this, Wang An thought about the few days since his rebirth. It had only been four days, and it wasn't even dark yet! He had already killed 7 people!

Although they all deserved to be killed! But why did he have to run into them all? It made him feel like he was a bit of a pervert!

Sigh! He had killed so many that he didn't feel any discomfort anymore! It shouldn't be like this!

He had been reborn to create and enjoy a happy life, not to come back and be an executioner!

This is just great! The material conditions for a happy life weren't created; they were obtained by picking the pockets of dead people!!

Wang An rode the horse, thinking as he chased after his wife and mother-in-law!

He had to say, riding a horse was indeed fast. How cool it would be if he could hunt on horseback!

If he caught prey, he could just load it onto the sled and drive the sled home! How exhilarating!

Otherwise, every time he dragged prey home, he would be as exhausted as a turtle!

He would just say the horse was bought, bought at a bargain!! No problem!!

Twenty minutes later, he arrived at Yangshu Village. From far away, he saw the mother and daughter standing by the horse-drawn cart. The cart was parked under that famous big poplar tree in Yangshu Village!

At first, the mother and daughter might not have recognized that it was Wang An, because Wang An was riding a horse now! He had also untied the mule's reins! It seemed they were about to drive the cart and run!

Mu Xueqing had even pulled that Mosin-Nagant, which hadn't been sold, out of the sack!

Damn! This woman is quite tough! It looked like if it hadn't been Wang An coming over, she really would have wanted to try it out!

When he got closer and they could see each other clearly, Mu Xueqing stuffed the Mosin-Nagant back into the sack! She pretended as if nothing had happened!

Hahaha... This was finding a treasure. This wife was beautiful and had a good figure! Her personality was good too! Judging by the fact that her hands were a bit rough, she wasn't bad at doing chores either! Now he discovered she even dared to wield guns and sticks!! Not bad, not bad, really not bad at all!

Arriving at the cart, Liu Guilan was the first to ask: "Son-in-law, have your friends all left?"

"Yeah, they've all left. They were the friends who delivered the horse to me!" Wang An replied calmly.

"Oh, then let's continue on our way!" Liu Guilan was full of questions, but she didn't continue asking.

The three of them continued on their way, Liu Guilan driving the mule cart, Wang An continuing to ride the horse. After passing Yangshu Village, Wang An suddenly felt that traveling like this would delay things!

He signaled Liu Guilan to stop, then dismounted and placed the items Mu Xueqing had already sorted onto the horse's back! He carried the basket on his own back and held the three dogs in his hand!

Then he said to Liu Guilan and her daughter: "Auntie, Xueqing, I'll ride the horse and go ahead. I'll send this pile of things home first, and then you two can wait for me by those linden trees on the west side of our village. Those are the linden trees with the magpie nests. It's highly likely I'll be waiting for you."

Liu Guilan agreed, and Mu Xueqing just looked at Wang An without saying a word! It seemed she also wanted to ask something!

Wang An smiled at Mu Xueqing, then rode the horse and led the dogs as he galloped toward home!

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