Reborn in 80: Starting with hunting in the mountains to get rich

Chapter 412 The bomber caused trouble

The fried dough sticks that Sun Weimin made were snatched away by a fox. The red fox was very clever; it didn't bite the fried dough sticks, but just held them in its mouth and ran around. It ran to the ranch's warehouse, put the fried dough sticks down, and then turned to look at Sun Weimin.

Sun Weimin stared in disbelief, his eyes wide as he exclaimed, "Oh my god, a vixen!"

The old folks in the mountains all say that weasels and foxes are spirits, so they are very superstitious about catching weasels and fox spirits.

Now he saw a red fox carrying his toy to the granary, and he was both shocked and frightened. He shouted, "You little rascal, don't bite me! Please don't bite me!"

He was several hundred meters away; he still had to run several hundred meters to reach the warehouse. The red fox was very clever; it threw away the bomb and ran away.

Suddenly, he saw a farmhand in the distance go into the warehouse, scoop up a handful of chaff, and without even seeing if there were any brittle pellets in the chaff, he ran off to feed the pigs.

The white pigs in the ranch's pigpen were grunting and nudging their noses, heads down, searching for food in a bowl. A worker poured rice bran into the bowl to feed them. Sun Weimin's heart skipped a beat; he knew something was wrong and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Don't feed them! Don't feed them! You can't feed them!"

He was too far away, several hundred meters away, and the northwest wind was howling fiercely that day. He was also standing downwind, so the words, along with the northwest wind, were shoved right in his face. The words he had just shouted all hit his face and ran away, and the sound couldn't even get through.

Seeing the old sow start eating the pig feed, he was so frightened that he could only raise the handle of the hoe and fire a shot into the air.

Two gunshots rang out, and the ranch worker finally straightened up, looked in his direction, and shouted, "Who is it? What are you doing!"

Just as Sun Weimin was about to open his mouth, the pig took two or three bites and suddenly made a loud noise from its mouth.

Bang! A loud bang, and the sow's jaw was blown off. The ranch worker, who was standing nearby, was so startled that he stumbled and fell to the ground.

The old sow ate the fried dough, and her chin was blown to pieces. She screamed wildly, and when she ran around, her chin was still covered with a layer of skin, which looked extremely gruesome.

The pigs' pitiful squeals startled the other social workers at the ranch.

"What's going on?"

"What happened to Xiao Zhang?"

"This pig, oh my god, where did it get this bomb?"

The worker was still in shock and very frightened. He shouted, "This pig could have given birth to a litter of fifteen piglets, and it's been blown up like this!"

The social worker quickly comforted him, saying, "With his chin like that, he won't survive, but we can still kill him and eat him. We can send him to the cafeteria chef and ask the first cafeteria to give us an extra meal at noon."

The ranch workers were puzzled. Why were there so many fried bits in the pig feed? Did someone have a grudge against the ranch and deliberately do this to them?

The social worker reported the incident to his superiors, and Captain Wang of the ranch took it very seriously. He specially invited an inspection team to come and check the area to see who was secretly causing damage in the pigsty.

Sun Weimin was terrified. He shrank back, grabbed the shovel, and pulled his nephew outside, shouting, "What are you staring at? Let's run!"

His nephew called out to him, "Third Uncle, where are we going? Are we looking for Grandpa?"

"What are you looking for! Are you waiting to cause trouble? If your grandpa finds out, he'll beat me to death. Let's go back to the village."

Sun Weimin refused to accept the sheep, money, or hides, fearing the ranch would make him pay for the pigs. He hurried down the mountain as fast as he could, and didn't dare go back in for several days. When his mother and aunt came to ask, he said he wasn't feeling well.

The Sun family found this matter extremely strange. How could Sun Weimin, who had gone into the mountains, be perfectly fine, yet now appear half-dead and lifeless?

Sun's mother invited Dr. Zhao from the clinic over. Dr. Zhao pried open Sun Weimin's eyes and looked inside. Sun Weimin was still groaning and talking nonsense.

Dr. Zhao exclaimed "Oh dear!" and said with a serious expression, "This is going to be difficult."

Sun's mother became even more anxious, pressing Dr. Zhao for answers, and tearfully pleaded, "It's difficult, but we have to do it. I only have one son. What will happen if something happens to him? He'll have no one to rely on in the future."

Dr. Zhao was tired of hearing these kinds of things, so he waved her off and pointed in a direction, saying, "Either go to the big hospital in town for a checkup, or ask a Taoist priest to burn some talisman water for you to drink. Maybe you got some dirty stuff on the mountain and it got into your eyes."

Sun Weimin was extremely reluctant when he heard that his family was going to send him to the hospital again. Last time, he suffered frostbite on his ears and spent three months in the hospital treating his leg. Before that, he broke his ribs after meeting Guo Xiong and spent another three months in the hospital. If he had to go to the hospital again this time, he would probably have to spend the whole year in the hospital.

What's wrong? Did it grow in the hospital? Has it taken root?

He groaned and pretended to open one eye, saying to his mother, "Mom, Mom, I'm not going to the hospital."

Sun's mother felt sorry for her son. Seeing how weak he was, unable to speak, she hugged him and cried, wailing, "You damned father! Our son is already in such a pitiful state, and you still want to go hunting in the mountains. Your son is more important than anything else. What job could be more important than your own life?"

When Sun's mother said this, the old lady of the Sun family rushed over with her cane. When she saw her beloved eldest grandson so ill and listless, she realized that he had become a completely different person in just a few days and was too weak to recognize.

Grandma Sun threw away her cane, slapped her thigh, and started wailing.

"My dear grandson! My good grandson!"

The men of the Sun family all went into the mountains to hunt wild sheep, leaving only the women behind.

The women of the Sun family surrounded Sun Weimin, wailing and crying louder and louder than the last, like they were wailing at a funeral. Sun Weimin felt like his head was about to explode. He hadn't been feeling anything wrong before, but after lying in bed for several days, his head was starting to throb and his temples were throbbing. He was starting to feel unwell.

After Li Ju'an came down from the pasture, he was worried about Sun Weimin, so he went to Sun's house to check on him.

The first snow of winter fell, marking the start of winter in the Xing'an Mountains and the season for dog sledding. Li Ju'an was on his way back to his self-built house to retrieve his old sled, which he would have his hunting dogs pull up the mountain, making it easier to drag the sheep back. Traveling on the sled trail, especially the snow-covered one, was much faster with the dogs, saving him the trouble of leading his large livestock slowly down the mountain path.

As soon as Li Ju'an entered the Sun family's house, he heard wailing all over the place, and Dr. Zhao from the clinic shook his head dejectedly, shouting, "It's no use, it's no use."

Li Ju'an was startled and asked, "What happened? He was perfectly fine just two days ago."

Sun's mother slapped her thigh and cried and wailed with the old lady, calling for Doctor Zhao and insisting that he use his connections to invite a good Taoist priest.

"A little less talisman water, maybe just some kind of talisman to calm things down will do the trick."

Doctor Zhao actually invited several familiar Taoist priests to the Sun family.

Taoist priests now live in seclusion in the mountains, living like ordinary mountain dwellers. They spend their days chopping and carrying firewood, and running around in the mountains. They don't seem much different from ordinary mountain people.

Two teams of Taoist priests did indeed arrive, and they burned talisman water for Sun Weimin to drink. They prayed for blessings and drank the talisman water, but Sun Weimin still did not get better. He lay listlessly in bed, his face growing increasingly ashen, even turning bluish.

When the old lady of the Sun family saw it, she was startled and even more panicked, slapping her thigh and howling.

This was the scene that Li Ju'an saw as soon as he entered the Sun family's gate.

He said, "Sun Weimin?"