The sky collapsed, and in the blink of an eye, I found myself transported to Nanluoguxiang.

Third Grandfather looked down at the audience and saw that no one had any objections.

Then he looked at Li Wang and softened his tone: "Alright, let's just let this go this time. Go back to your line and stand in line."

"Thank you, thank you, village chief." Li Wang felt as if he had been granted a pardon, and quickly ducked back into the crowd with his head down.

Li Kaixin, who was sitting in the audience, was focused on the stage and had no idea that Li Qiang and Li Yong's group of four had come to his side.

Li Qiang chuckled and patted him on the shoulder: "Kaixin, you're so engrossed in watching!"

Li Kaixin looked away, turned around and saw Li Qiang, and immediately smiled: "Uncle Qiang, when did you get here? I didn't even notice."

"Just arrived!"

As Li Qiang spoke, he took out the medicine bottle from his pocket and handed it to him: "Kaixin, this medicine of yours is really effective. I applied some, and the wound has already scabbed over."

"Uncle Qiang, since you think it's useful, you should keep it!" Li Kaixin didn't reach out to take it.

Li Qiang looked a little embarrassed: "This...this is too much trouble. I haven't even had a chance to thank you for saving my life today, how can I accept your things again?"

"Uncle Qiang, given our relationship, isn't it a bit too formal to be so polite?"

As for why he said that, in Li Kaixin's memory, it was before he moved to the city with his parents.

During the off-season, Li Qiang often took him and Li Yong to the outskirts of the back mountain to hunt birds and to the river to catch fish and shrimp.

It can be said that, apart from his own family, Li Qiang is his closest elder.

"Kaixin, since you've said so, I'll shamelessly accept it." Li Qiang smiled as he carefully put the medicine bottle back into his pocket.

He really wanted the medicine.

Given the current situation, going into the mountains will likely be a regular occurrence in the future. If I get injured again, this medicine might be the life-saving measure in a critical moment.

Seeing that Uncle Qiang accepted the gift, Li Kaixin turned his gaze to the four people following behind him, including Li Yong, his smile unchanged:

"Brother Yong, Brother Shun, Brother Wei, Brother Da Niu, what brings you all here...?"

Li Yong stepped forward and grabbed Li Kaixin's arm:

"Shunzi and I came here to discuss with you the matter of dividing the prey."

"Didn't we agree that half would be handed over to the village, and the remaining half would be split equally among the five of us?"

Li Kaixin looked at Li Yong with some confusion.

Li Shun, unable to contain his excitement, chimed in, "Great news! This time, we don't have to hand over the game we hunted!"

"Then let's just split it equally as before, what else is there to discuss?" Li Kaixin was even more puzzled.

Upon hearing this, the four looked at each other and laughed.

Li Yong leaned closer, his tone slightly conciliatory:

"Happy, we just discussed it and decided that the sika deer is yours, and the rest we'll split equally among the four of us."

"No, no!"

Li Kaixin immediately waved her hand in refusal: "If I take the sika deer away, isn't that the same as taking almost half of it?"

"Kaixin, you can't say that."

Li Yong's expression turned serious:

"You led us to find and hunt all this game. If we had gone up the mountain on our own, we might not have had this much."

"Besides, if we really split it equally, we brothers will be too embarrassed to follow you when you come back to the village and up the mountain next time."

"That's right! Since you're happy, just listen to Brother Yong and accept it!"

Li Shun, Li Wei, and Li Tieniu nodded repeatedly, their faces beaming with sincere smiles.

Seeing that their expressions didn't seem to be fake, Li Kaixin finally nodded.

"Kaixin, where are the sika deer you hunted? I can't see them!"

My third uncle walked briskly over from beside my grandparents, his face beaming with excitement.

He had been watching Li Kaixin's movements and, upon hearing that they had hunted a sika deer, his interest was piqued.

Upon hearing the voice, Li Yong and his three companions looked over and saw that it was Li Kaixin's third uncle, Li Mingtian, who quickly greeted him.

Li Kaixin shook his head: "Third Uncle, I don't know either. It was Brother Shun and the others who brought the prey down."

"Uncle Mingtian, we've put it there."

Before Li Kaixin's third uncle could look at him, Li Shun pointed to a corner on the edge of the drying ground.

Apart from the few people around Li Kaixin, everyone on the drying ground looked at him with curiosity, wondering why the village chief had called him up.

Li Kaixin walked up to her third grandfather and stood down.

Third Grandfather nodded to him with a smile, then turned to the crowd below the stage: "Today, there is something else I need to clarify in front of everyone."

Then, he reached out and patted Li Kaixin on the shoulder: "Wang Qiang and the others were able to come back alive today thanks to Kaixin's help."

Upon hearing this, the audience below the stage showed expressions of doubt and skepticism.

"Village chief, you've gone too far with this joke! Those are more than a dozen wild boars!" A young man of seventeen or eighteen couldn't help but question.

Seeing this, his parents quickly reached out to pull him back and tell him to stop talking.

This only fueled the young man's stubbornness; he retorted, "Father, Mother, don't stop me!"

Uncle San looked in the direction he pointed and indeed saw the shadows of sika deer and the rest of their prey. He was about to praise them.

At this moment, the third grandfather on the stage waved to them and said in a loud voice, "Kaixin, come up here for a moment."

When Li Kaixin heard his third grandfather call him, he responded and immediately walked towards the stage.

As she spoke, she turned her head towards the stage and raised her voice slightly: "Village chief, are you deliberately trying to flatter Li Kaixin just because he's your grand-nephew?"

As soon as he finished speaking, his father, Li Deshun, immediately covered his son's mouth, his face plastered with a fawning smile:

"Village chief, the child is young and doesn't know how to keep his mouth shut, please don't take it to heart."

"De Shun, don't cover the child."

The third grandfather remained calm and waved to the middle-aged man below the stage who was holding his son: "I'm overjoyed that he stepped forward to ask!"

Seeing that the village chief was indeed not angry, Li Deshun slowly released his grip.

Li Kaixin also looked curiously at the young man who had spoken, and saw that he still had a defiant look on his face.

He wasn't angry at the questioning; instead, he admired the young man's courage to speak out in front of so many people.

Then, the third grandfather looked at Li Deshun's son with a smile:

"Xinglong, if there's anything else you want to say, just say it all at once."

"I...I just don't quite believe that Li Kaixin is that capable." Li Xinglong's tone softened under the village chief's gaze.

"Great! That's a very good question."

Third Grandfather nodded, then looked at the others in the audience:

"I know you're all probably wondering about this. You might as well go and see how many of those wild boars have been shot in the eyes."

Hearing the village chief's words, the people below the stage were all intrigued and walked toward the wild boar carcasses piled on both sides.

The most enthusiastic among them was Li Xinglong, who had just raised his questions.