Chapter 355: Figured It Out, Going Into the Mountains to Fell Trees

When Wang An woke up, his whole head felt dizzy.

To be honest, although this sleep was long enough, Wang An knew he had been dreaming the whole time, and they were all messy dreams.

However, as for what exactly he dreamed about, Wang An couldn't remember at all now.

Putting on his clothes and shoes, and putting his hat on his head, Wang An lit a cigarette and walked toward the outhouse.

Arriving outside and being blown by the cold wind, Wang An instantly felt himself becoming very energetic.

Squatting on the outhouse pit, with his head now clear, Wang An gradually figured out and understood why Zhang Shuya chose to use cannon fire.

On one hand, the other side were all extremely vicious bandits, and every one of them was armed with a gun.

If they wanted to rescue all those women who were like walking corpses, the price to pay would truly not be ordinary.

Everyone is born to parents; regardless of which police officer or soldier was injured or even sacrificed because of this, it would not be worth it.

Moreover, those women who were already addicted would not have any thoughts of gratitude; they might not only be ungrateful but also extremely resentful.

Addicts have no humanity.

On the other hand, Zhang Shuya, as the captain of the police team, could also be considered a serious "commander of troops."

Not only must she be responsible for her subordinates, but she must also be responsible for the success or failure of the mission.

Therefore, Zhang Shuya's choice of this method, which looked inhumane but was actually extremely simple and effective, was actually very correct.

After all, as the person in charge of this bandit suppression mission, one needs to weigh the costs and needs to remain rational at all times.

As for compassion, morality, and humanity, there is simply no need for them to exist at such a time.

Having figured out these problems in his mind, coupled with the machine gun fire earlier and the cannon fire later, Wang An felt a sense of relief in his body and mind.

Finally, cleaning the cannon barrel with a secret document, the discomfort from yesterday finally completely entered the manure pit along with the feces and urine.

Even if the images from yesterday remained in his mind, they only flashed like watching a movie and would not have any impact on his mood.

After brushing his teeth, washing his face, and eating breakfast, Wang Dazhu started the chainsaw and adjusted it.

The chainsaws of this era not only looked stupid, but before use, all aspects had to be adjusted; only in this way would the chainsaw not be damaged midway and lead to an inability to work.

After Wang Dazhu finished the adjustment, he pressed the chainsaw chain against a thick log.

It was seen that a thick log that usually took two people pulling a big saw more than ten minutes to saw through was cut through by the chainsaw in just over 20 seconds.

Wang Dazhu said to Wang An, who was standing by, with a smile:

"This newly researched thing is really good; it's much more powerful than the previous kind."

After Wang An agreed with a smile, he suddenly thought of the matter of his father-in-law's family and his second uncle's family also needing to prepare wood.

He said to Wang Dazhu: "Dad, my father-in-law is thinking of preparing some wood, and my second uncle also said he wants to prepare wood."

Wang Dazhu pointed at the chainsaw indifferently and said:

"It's fine, with this thing here, the wood for building a house is nothing."

Just as the grandfather and grandson were chatting, Mu Xueli and his father Mu Hua drove their sleds over separately.

After this period of recuperation, Mu Hua's body had improved a lot; although he still couldn't do heavy physical work, driving a sled was no problem.

In fact, in the final analysis, Mu Hua's body had always been poor because of money.

He was already ill, but his medicine was taken intermittently, and most importantly, his nutrition couldn't keep up; it could be said that his whole body had always been in a state of deficiency.

After a few pleasantries, everyone walked into the house; Mu Xueqing was overjoyed to see her father, and Mu Hua was naturally happy to see his daughter.

The two families were not far apart; previously, Mu Xueqing would ride a horse with a gun and leave whenever she wanted, and she would go home after staying for a while or eating lunch.

But after Mu Xueqing became pregnant, the number of times she returned to her parents' home clearly decreased.

Just as Wang An's family was accompanying Mu Hua to chat, Wang Dashu and his son Wang Yong came over.

Immediately after, Wang Daliang and Wang Shun, and Wang Li, the grandfather and two grandsons, also drove two sleds over. After simple pleasantries, everyone drove their sleds and walked into the mountains.

Wang An's family's four horses and mules were also all harnessed to sleds.

That is to say, there were 9 people in total, driving 8 sleds.

In fact, to pull tree trunks back, there was no need for so many sleds, because apart from the people felling trees, there weren't enough people to drive the sleds back and forth.

However, Wang Dazhu's meaning was that the horses could take turns, and besides, when coming back, there were many people, so they could pull a few more tree trunks back.

What Wang Dazhu said was correct.

Soon, everyone followed the route Wang Dazhu had found in advance and arrived at the location of a large red pine forest.

In this era, although trees are state property, in the Northeast, felling trees to build houses or felling wood for firewood is not managed by anyone.

As long as it is for self-use, it can be said that one can fell as much as one wants.

But even so, apart from the forest farm side, the trees near each village did not decrease at all.

Because felling trees is very difficult, and wanting to transport them out is even more difficult.

So if it is not absolutely necessary, no one will be bored enough to go into the mountains to fell trees.

Since the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the Daxinganling and Xiaoxinganling mountains have been the main sources of wood for the interior, so over time, the mountain-felling culture was formed.

That is, before felling trees, there must be a sacrificial ceremony.

This ceremony is actually no different from mountain trekking for hunting or mountain shouting for ginseng digging.

In any case, the person being worshipped is the same person, that is, the mountain god and old leader—Sun Liang.

To talk about this kind of worship, it is actually just for psychological comfort.

It is nothing more than asking the mountain god and old leader to protect everyone to be safe and sound; if it is ginseng digging, apart from protecting safety, it is also to protect finding big ginseng.

Wang An, as a reborn person, although he doesn't believe in these, he is not against them at all; after all, this has been passed down for hundreds of years.

Existence proves that it has its meaning.

Wang Dazhu placed the wild boar head he brought from home there, lit three sticks of incense, burned a stack of folded yellow paper, and then after everyone kowtowed, this ceremony was completed.

After the ceremony was held, everyone began to fell trees.

Of course, the work of felling trees with a chainsaw was done by Wang Dazhu.

Whenever the tree was about to fall, Wang Daliang, who was next to him, would shout "Falling along the mountain" or "Falling across the mountain."

This is also called shouting the number, there are 3 sentences in total, "Falling along the mountain," "Falling across the mountain," and "Falling against the mountain."

This sentence must be shouted, because this is to remind the surrounding people to stay away from this area as soon as possible.

One must know that when a big tree falls, it is truly like a mountain collapsing and the sea overturning, with a thunderous momentum.

Any animal or person, as long as they are hit or swept by the tree branches, will definitely be in big trouble.

In fact, for felling trees, it is basically "falling along the mountain" and "falling across the mountain."

Because this is both safe and very labor-saving during transportation.

And "falling against the mountain" is actually very rare; if there is really no other way, people rarely let the tree fall up the slope.

The main reason is that the big head of the tree is facing down, and wanting to transport it away is very difficult.

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