In 1992, a small village owner became the richest man in the village by owning a car.

Chapter 173 Are there wild boars in the woods?

"How can you be sure these footprints are from a wild boar and not a domestic pig?" Han Jingfan turned her head and looked at Yu Dawei with some doubt.

“I can’t tell from the footprints, I can tell from the size.” Yu Dawei turned around and smiled at Han Jingfan. “The wild boar’s footprints are not big, and there is more than one. They extend deep into the forest, and there is no sign of them going out. At this time of year, who would dare to let their piglets out of the house? They’d probably freeze to death.”

“Only wild boars are an exception.” Yu Dawei pointed to a series of footprints on the ground. “Look at these footprints, they are plum blossom patterns of pig hooves, but they are too small and have been there for quite some time, so they are not very clear.”

Yu Dawei stood up and looked into the depths of the forest: "Perhaps we can get some wild boar meat to try."

"Wild boar meat?"

“No, wild boars are family-oriented social animals. Since there are baby wild boar footprints nearby, it means there must be adult wild boars deep in the forest. I just don’t know if there are any males.” Yu Dawei wasn’t worried about anything else, but he was worried that if there was a male wild boar in the group of wild boars in the forest, it would definitely be difficult to deal with.

Adult boars have thick skin, and they like to rub their backs all over the place all year round, so it is very difficult to kill them with a shotgun if you are too far away.

Han Jingfan couldn't help but look worried: "Brother, we have pork at home."

Yu Dawei reached out and pinched Han Jingfan's flushed cheeks: "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. The main purpose is just to have some fun. If there's any real danger, I'll definitely drive away. And it won't be today; we can talk about it in the next couple of days."

Han Jingfan breathed a sigh of relief when she heard him say that.

The two then continued to wander around the edge of the forest, picking up about half a basket of pine cones. Han Jingfan was a meticulous person, and she would put any pine cone with one or two seeds in it into the basket.

Yu Dawei didn't have any objections. After all, the purpose of coming out was to spend time with her. As long as she was happy, that was more important than anything else.

After strolling around the pine forest for a while, Yu Dawei took Han Jingfan to the hazelnut grove. The wild hazelnut grove was even sparser than the pine forest, with some poplar and willow trees growing in between.

The two of them bent over side by side, searching through the woods, each holding a stick. The ground was covered in snow, so they could only randomly rummage through it.

At first, the two of them were very serious, but after a while they didn't get anything out of it, so Yu Dawei started to play tricks, using the branches in his hands to pry snow off Han Jingfan.

Han Jingfan initially dodged playfully, but then her Northeastern tomboyish strength awakened, and she started playing with snowflakes on Yu Dawei's body, just like him.

As they played, their bodies rolled together, and under the blue sky and above the white clouds, their lips parted...

Fortunately, the wind was quite cold and noisy today. The two joked around for a while before driving home.

On the way back, Yu Dawei's smile was even harder to suppress than AK's. After his rebirth, he found that Han Jingfan had become very good, very good, and even made him fall for her. It was as if all the women in the world combined were not even one ten-thousandth as good as her.

Think about it carefully, what does this prove?
If it were a past life, if Yu Dawei had just been a little more patient, caring, and gentle with his wife, wouldn't the future outcome have been different?

One person can change another, but unfortunately, Yu Dawei unknowingly led Han Jingfan from her previous life down a path of death.

What did Yu Dawei do for Han Jingfan in this life? He just showed her more care, always brought her gifts when he came back, chatted with her, and helped her slowly resolve her inner conflicts.

It sounds like a lot, but in married life, these are just small things that can be done easily.

In this life, Yu Dawei did something. Han Jingfan picked up books again, and the whole family discovered Han Jingfan's exceptional learning and comprehension abilities.

The old man in the family has lamented Han Jingfan more than once. If his stingy in-laws had really worked hard to support Han Jingfan's education, she could have gone to the most prestigious university in China!
When preconceived notions change, people's perspectives on things will change.

Meanwhile, Han Jingfan was constantly reading and reflecting, and she came to understand the changes in life and the theories in books. With the guidance of her father-in-law, who was also educated, her values ​​and perspectives on people and things underwent a significant change.

She will no longer contradict her husband. For example, if Dawei wanted to catch a wild boar, she would have directly retorted in the past: "Does anyone think they can catch a wild boar? A boar's tusks can kill people."

Now, she would say gently, "Brother, we have pork at home."

This is how Han Jingfan has changed. As Grandpa Yu said, even if Yu Dawei now owns a car, he is still not good enough for Han Jingfan.

With Han Jingfan's current eloquence, knowledge, and appearance, she would be more than qualified to marry into a truly wealthy family.

Yu Dawei did not refute this, but he cherished it even more from the bottom of his heart.

After returning home, Yu Dawei picked up the child, hauled some coal from the old man's house, and then went back to his front yard.

No one lived in the front yard for the past few days, and a thick layer of snow had accumulated on the ground. When the car drove in, it left two deep ruts behind it.

Yu Dawei first lit the stove in the house, then added coal to it, and then added firewood to the stove in the inner room to heat up the kang (a heated brick bed). After finishing all this, he began to clear the snow from the yard, and cooked some cornmeal and rotten potatoes in a large pot in the outer room of the kitchen for the livestock.

After the snow in the yard was cleared away, the pig feed in the big pot was almost ready. The chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, and pigs were all fed. To Yu Dawei's surprise, the rooster that had just grown up seemed to be even fiercer than in its previous life. After eating its fill, it started fighting with Gou Shengzi.

After several tufts of feathers were bitten off, the rooster slunk away into its coop, while Gou Shengzi waddled around the yard with its tail held high.

Yu Dawei found it amusing. If things had really followed the path of his previous life, Gou Shengzi's entire litter of pups would have frozen to death in the doghouse long ago, and there would have been no scene of chickens and dogs fighting each other.

"Don't bully that little rooster anymore. If you bite it a couple more times, you'll pluck all its feathers. Since you're so tough, come with me to the woods to catch rabbits tomorrow." Yu Dawei, carrying a handkerchief, shoved the grown-up Gou Shengzi into a snowdrift.

Gou Shengzi resisted at first, but his owner's grip was too strong, so he was forced to lie down in the snow and receive a moral lesson.

Han Jingfan really liked the big rooster in the yard, and even gave it a name: Wutong.

Yu Dawei said at the time that giving this name to a chicken was a waste; it would have been better to just give it a name like Big Flower or Red Hair.

But in the end, he couldn't go against his wife's wishes; after all, these livestock were raised by someone else.

After dealing with Gou Shengzi, Yu Dawei finally had the time to borrow a few bullets from a family in the village who had a gun.

We'll still go to the wilderness tomorrow, but hunting will be secondary; fun will be the main focus.

Tomorrow he plans to drive there with his eldest son and wife. His wife and son can stay warm in the car when they arrive, while he will take his dog, Shengzi, and its mother, Dabai, for a drive deep into the forest.

As for the three dogs at home, Dahei, Erbai, and Cuihua, they're a bit weak and not very spirited, so we'll just keep them at home to guard the house.

In the evening, Yu Dawei cooked dinner. There were still many mustard tubers and pickled vegetables made from ginger and leeks in the yard. After shredding them, he added some soy sauce, chili oil, and MSG, and it was ready to eat.

He also fried an egg and made some cabbage and potato strips with lard. The family of three sat on the kang (a heated brick bed) chatting and eating.

"Dawei, I heard from Dad that our village will soon have electricity. The electricians from Xinglong Village have already started connecting the power lines to the houses." Han Jingfan suddenly brought up the topic of electricity in the village.

"It's only a matter of time. Once every household has their wiring connected, we can probably use electric lights before the New Year. Why bother with candles and kerosene lamps?" Yu Dawei picked up a small piece of pickled vegetable and looked at his eldest son with a smile. "You are truly blessed to have been born in an era of bright lights."

Yu Dawei was somewhat moved and couldn't help but take the old tin gourd from the rope hanging above his head and take a small sip.

He had already finished the previous half pot of wine little by little. The pot contained newly poured wine, but it was the wine that had been left for the village elder.

Yu Dawei thought that when he had time, he would go to Yu Dajiu's house and brew another barrel of this liquor for himself.

The downside of this liquor is that it's too strong and too spicy, but it really does have many benefits for men after drinking it.

The next day, after feeding the livestock in the morning and having breakfast with his family, Yu Dawei took the two dogs and set off again into the wilderness.

The car was still parked in the same spot as yesterday. Yu Dawei left Han Jingfan a butcher knife, placing it under the foot of the back seat. He then taught her how to lock the car and turn off the engine before leaving with peace of mind.

The man and his two dogs followed the tracks left by the wild boar cub from yesterday and began to walk deeper into the woods.

The surrounding woods were sometimes sparse and sometimes dense. Apart from the sound of two dogs urinating everywhere, the only other sound in the woods was the crunching of Yu Dawei's footsteps in the snow.

Yu Dawei's actions hardly qualify as hunting, and neither do his two dogs, since they've never eaten wild boar meat since childhood, so how could they possibly smell the scent of wild boar?

Without two truly skilled hunting dogs, catching an adult wild boar is extremely difficult, but hunting a rabbit is more than enough.

As the man and his two dogs ventured deeper into the wilderness, the snow on the ground began to deepen, almost reaching Yu Dawei's calves. Further on, no footprints or traces could be seen at all.

Just as Yu Dawei was about to turn back, Gou Shengzi, who was urinating in the distance, suddenly pricked up his ears and barked in a certain direction.

Yu Dawei subconsciously grabbed his hunting rifle, crouched down, and aimed left and right. This place used to be inhabited by snow wolves, and the older generation had even seen black bears in the wilderness.

Thinking about what the older generation said still makes me nervous.

(End of this chapter)