Reborn in the 1980s: I made my fortune hunting wild game in Changbai Mountain

At 8:30 a.m., Yue Feng rode his snowmobile, carrying a lot of local specialties he brought back from Beijing, to the mountain farm.

At the farm, the gate was half open. Before even entering, we saw Master Zhao Dashan and Zhang Wenhui chopping firewood in the open space in front of the house.

"Master, Brother Zhang! You're busy so early in the morning!" Yue Feng greeted them as he got out of the car, picked up the large and small bags from the back seat, and went into the yard.

Zhang Wenhui and Zhao Dashan turned to look at Yue Feng almost at the same time. Yue Feng immediately noticed the netting wrapped around the back of Zhang Wenhui's head and the conspicuous white gauze inside.

"Xiaofeng's back? When did you get off the bus? Come inside, it's cold outside!" Zhao Dashan reached out and took the things Yue Feng was carrying, greeting him with a smile.

Zhang Wenhui glanced at Yue Feng a little guiltily: "You two chat for a while, I'll finish this work first!"

"No rush, let's go inside! My dad said you got stitches after fighting with those tenants, and you injured the back of your head?" Yue Feng asked, his brows furrowed and his tone a little agitated.

"It's nothing serious, I'm tough!" Zhang Wenhui waved her hand, pretending not to care.

Yue Feng, suppressing his anger, said, "What's with all this talk about tough bones? Who fights by shooting at the back of their head? You're just lucky! Come inside, we'll chop the firewood later..."

Seeing that Yue Feng insisted, Zhang Wenhui put down the axe in her hand and followed him into the house.

Zhao Dashan poured water from the thermos to make tea, then poured a cup for Yue Feng and another for Lao Zhang. He then turned on the stove in the middle of the room, and the room quickly warmed up.

"Sigh! It's all my fault! It would have been so much better if I had just stayed at the farm. I had to get itchy and go hunting to find some wild game to eat! I shot someone and injured someone, and Old Zhao even paid for it for me! I was already causing you enough trouble while I was recovering at the farm!" Zhang Wenhui said in a calm tone, as if she were talking about something that had nothing to do with her.

The more Zhang Wenhui said this, the angrier Yue Feng became: "They beat up people from our farm! How can we just let it go so easily!"
They even hit him on the back of the head; they're clearly trying to rob and kill him!

"I'll find out the name of the person who did it when I get back, ask around among my friends. This isn't over!"

After listening, Zhang Wenhui sighed and remained silent.

Zhao Dashan picked up his teacup, took a sip, and then said, "Wenhui said she wouldn't pursue it anymore, so let's not. His household registration and identity haven't been finalized yet! If we make a big fuss, it'll just lead to more trouble!"

Yue Feng said, "Once your head injury heals, I'll help you with your household registration paperwork! We weren't in a rush to do it before because you weren't fully recovered! This time, let's get your identity sorted out first!"
I've already asked around, and as long as the village issues a certificate of acceptance and I have the original household registration documents, registering my household shouldn't be difficult!

“I don’t have the original household registration documents!” Zhang Wenhui’s tone became a little somber upon hearing this.

“There are always more solutions than problems. It’s such a long distance from inside the pass to outside the pass, so it’s understandable that the paperwork might be lost. We can just find someone we know to ‘find a way’ to get a replacement! The village can issue the acceptance certificate. I’ll get it for you. You don’t need to ask anyone else!” Yue Feng said knowledgeably.

The phrase "find a way" carries a strong connotation, but its meaning is quite simple; those who understand, understand.

“Okay! If I could have an identity, I wouldn’t have to stay at the mountain farm all the time!” Zhang Wenhui said.

"Have you decided what you're going to do after you get down the mountain?" Yue Feng asked casually, seeing that the other person had made up their mind.

Zhang Wenhui said firmly, "Someone like me can support myself by doing any kind of work, as long as I'm fed and my whole family isn't hungry!"

With a registered residence, I'm no longer considered a vagrant! If all else fails, I can work as a temporary laborer in those small coal mines; I can at least earn a living!

When Yue Feng heard the other party say that he was going to work as a temporary worker in a small coal mine, his heart skipped a beat.

Being a temporary worker in a small coal mine in those days wasn't easy. To put it bluntly, every small mine had its share of accidents and people getting killed every year.

This is risking your life for money!

"Otherwise, I'll help you..." Yue Feng's heart softened, and he wanted to help him find a slightly more reliable job.

Before Yue Feng could finish speaking, Zhang Wenhui waved her hand and said, "I am already extremely grateful that you could help me get my household registration settled!"
If it weren't for the care and support of you, master and apprentice, a drifter like me would have died many times over!
"Once I have legal status, you don't need to worry about making a living for me. I can manage!"

They were all grown men, and Zhang was almost as old as Yue Feng's father. Zhang Wenhui had her pride and didn't take advantage of him to ask Yue Feng for help again.

"Okay! I'll take care of your household registration first when I get down the mountain, we can talk about other things later! How many days has it been since you got your stitches on your head?"

"On the fifth day, we can start pulling the thread in a few more days!" Zhang Wenhui answered truthfully.

"Okay! I understand!"

After a brief exchange of information, the room fell into a short silence.

Zhang Wenhui picked up her teacup, finished the half-full cup of tea, and stood up: "You two chat for a while, I'll go chop some firewood outside!"

After saying this, Zhang Wenhui went out of the house, put on gloves, and started working hard.

Once only Zhao Dashan and his apprentice Yue Feng remained in the room, Old Zhao slowly began to speak.

"Old Zhang is a bit scheming, but he's not a bad person! These past few days, since his injuries have improved and he's been able to leave the house, he's been helping me with chores!"
If it weren't for that fight and shooting incident, he would have been carrying my overhand gun around almost every day! Every few days he would bring back some wild game!
I can tell he wants to repay the kindness of us saving him! Even chopping wood is an example.

To settle things for him, I paid eighty yuan in medical expenses for the injured person on the other side, and he still remembers it!

From Yue Feng's perspective, he didn't actually have deep feelings for Zhang Wenhui. He only saved her out of kindness and didn't ask for anything in return.

Even before going up the mountain, Yue Feng hadn't thought about standing up for him, but after seeing the gauze on the back of his head, Yue Feng's emotions clearly became a bit volatile.

If you're going to fight, then fight. We have different stances, so let's not talk about right or wrong.

Hitting someone in the back of the head is an attempt to kill them; that's just being inconsiderate.

Yue Feng sighed: "Judging from his words, it seems he doesn't want to trouble us too much!"

"You managed to cover up the shooting incident by using your connections. If it weren't for our connections at the forest farm, he would be in jail!" Zhao Dashan said.

"Then I..." Yue Feng didn't finish speaking, his gaze turning to his master.

Zhao Dashan: "We'll help him with his identity issue, and respect his wishes for the rest! Like he said, a grown man with hands and feet can support himself! We're not related to him, so we've done enough to help him!"

"Okay, I understand!" Yue Feng nodded.

"Did everything go smoothly on your trip to Beijing? Judging by the dates, you should have been back earlier than expected, so why was it delayed?" Zhao Dashan continued to ask.

"Hehe, I ran into a little trouble. By the way, please wait a moment. The eagle I brought back from Beijing is still in the yard!" Yue Feng said as he got up and went to the snowmobile to retrieve the transfer box containing the eagle.

Soon, three transfer boxes, one large and two small, were carried into the north room.

"This grey falcon is an Altaic falcon with a very good temperament. I want to use it to breed with a second-generation gyrfalcon!"
These are two mutated albino grey-backed falcons, bred from Grandpa Liu's own eagles! They're a pair! They'll be kept at the breeding farm as breeding birds!

Zhao Dashan remained quite calm when he saw the grey falcon that looked somewhat like a saker falcon, after all, he had raised saker falcons before and the difference wasn't significant.

But when he saw the pair of pure white grey-backed falcons, the old man immediately became interested.

"Tsk tsk tsk, pure white stacks! What a rare find! Are they a pair?"

"Yes, one male and one female, but they're from the same litter! I don't know if they can pair up and reproduce. The offspring might be born with defects!"
"Do you still have any empty cages in our breeding farm? These three eagles all need your care and management!" Yue Feng said truthfully.

"There are still empty cages. The room where we made cages for the Iron-backed Red Eagles in the summer is empty. Xiao Tao and the others took them down the mountain. With the addition of the empty room, the existing cages are just enough to house these three eagles!"

However, when the temperature warms up next year to build cages for the eagles, the enclosures will be a bit cramped, and we'll need to add extensions!

"It's alright, we'll expand the cages next year after the thaw! Otherwise, when the third brood of black eagles hatches in the summer, there won't be any place to raise them!" Yue Feng said confidently.

"Alright! Besides food and water, what other requirements do these three eagles have?"

"There aren't any big requirements. Just let it out to exercise as much as possible every day. This Altai falcon is a female, so it would be best to find a male gyrfalcon to live next to its cage so it can get used to the environment beforehand!"

"Okay, this is easy. We can keep these two little ones indoors whenever we want! These little rascals are so adorable!"

As Zhao Dashan spoke, he reached out and took the white hat off his hand.

The two eagles were born with a double mark and were not afraid of people at all.

The old man took off the eagle's hat, and the little guy quickly became covered in fluffy feathers, squatting on his hand and looking around. A clever glint shone in his dark, inky eyes.

For the next hour or so, the father and son fiddled with the hawk in the house. Yue Feng explained the situation of the gray falcon to the old man in detail, making sure that the normal training and maintenance would not be neglected. Only then did he feel relieved, greet the guests, and get up.

Having been in Beijing for so long, Yue Feng hadn't even had a chance to visit the restaurants and other places in his hometown after returning home. He said goodbye to the old man and rode his snowmobile down the mountain and left.

Even as Yue Feng started his motorcycle to leave, Zhang Wenhui was still chopping firewood in the yard. The chopped wood was neatly stacked against the corner of the wall, and before she knew it, it had almost filled half a wall.

Over the next few days, Yue Feng made a round of visits. He showed up at a restaurant in the city to settle the interim profits and check the store's accounts. Then, carrying the local specialties he brought back from Beijing, he visited several leaders he knew.

During this process, the issue of settling Zhang Wenhui in the city was also put on the agenda.

A familiar leader helped connect me with a section chief in charge of household registration procedures. He managed to get the relocation documents and introduction letter completed, and also issued the acceptance documents for Xing'an Village. The whole process was completed in just a few days.

Although the information hasn't been immediately shared with Zhang Wenhui, he's already considered a legal person once the formalities are completed and the records are filed.

In the blink of an eye, a week has passed since I returned.

Zhang Wenhui's head injury has healed after the stitches were removed. When Yue Feng went up the mountain to deliver supplies, he brought him the processed documents.

The blue household registration booklet, plus a letter of introduction from Yue Feng, the village secretary, personally issued to Xing'an Village residents.

During this time, Zhang Wenhui continued to work on the mountain, chopping wood whenever she had free time. The places around the brick and tile houses on the mountain, suitable for storing firewood, were almost full.

"Brother Zhang, I've taken care of your household registration paperwork! Here, take a look!" Yue Feng took the paperwork out of his pocket and placed it in front of Zhang Wenhui.

Zhang Wenhui, male, Han ethnicity, age...

The household registration book only has one lonely name on it; he himself is the head of the household, which looks rather meager.

"The household registration procedures were completed so quickly!"

Zhang Wenhui took the identification document and immediately began to tremble.

Only those who have personally experienced escape, survival, and the constant fear of death can truly understand how important this thin piece of paperwork is in this day and age.

Having it is equivalent to having a legal identity and the foundation for survival.

They can go out and about without fear of being questioned by anyone, and legally earn income without being suppressed because of their identity issues.

"The procedures are complete, but because you registered your household late, all the land in the village has been allocated, and there is no land for you! We'll have to wait until the next land allocation season to figure out a solution!"
"If you want to settle down in the village, you can also try to get approval for the land for building a house. If you need any of these things, just ask me and I can help you with them!" Yue Feng said with a sigh.

"You've already gone to so much trouble! I'm all alone and penniless, and I still owe Brother Zhao money! We can talk about the land approval and building the house later when I have the money! Thank you so much!!" Zhang Wenhui thanked him repeatedly.

"Last time, you mentioned you were planning to go to the city to look for opportunities to make money?"

"Yes! I have to leave once my injuries have fully healed! I've already caused you a lot of trouble by staying on the mountain for so long!"

"Don't worry, I, Zhang Wenhui, am not an ungrateful person. I will always remember your kindness to me!" Zhang Wenhui said solemnly.

Yue Feng nodded: "Okay, if you need anything, just tell my master. When you're out in the world, you can't go empty-handed. You need at least some start-up capital. Consider this a loan from my master and me. You can pay us back when you make money in the future!"

"Okay! Sure! I'll definitely ask if you need anything!" Zhang Wenhui nodded repeatedly.

……

The day after obtaining her identity documents, Zhang Wenhui took the initiative to say goodbye to Zhao Dashan.

When he arrived, he was all alone, with nothing but an old gun that had only a few bullets left.

The old man gave him his old cotton-padded coat and ten yuan for travel expenses.

After breakfast, Zhang Wenhui took the small bag the old man had packed for him and went down the mountain, disappearing into the wood-lined road outside the farm. (End of Chapter)