Rebirth 78: Hunting for Treasure in the Mountains, Spoiling My Wife and Daughter to the Heavens

"Oh, Xiulian, isn't that your Weiguo? Here to help out? The sun hasn't risen in the west yet!"

"Xiulian, I've recently heard that Weiguo is planning to sell your daughter. The rumors might be true. You'd better stop picking up corn kernels here and go back to keep an eye on things."

"Hey, what are you doing getting involved with him, you're just a high school student? You should just divorce Lu Weiguo and go back to the county town to find a job, that would be so much better."

That's a beast! No one who gets involved in gambling is any good! You'd need a weasel to possess him to expect him to change!"

Li Xiulian blushed with embarrassment after being teased by the aunties who were with her.

As he stood up with his basket on his back, he saw Lu Weiguo rushing over.

Under the morning sun, Li Xiulian's increasingly rough face glowed with golden light, while her large, black gem-like eyes revealed her weariness.

However, upon closer inspection, her alluring red lips and the beauty mark at the corner of her mouth still reveal that she was originally a beauty.

Although she was wearing the same floral patchwork dress as her aunt, her refined and elegant demeanor surpassed that of many others.

"daughter in law!"

Lu Weiguo finally saw the woman he had been longing for day and night, and stood there dumbfounded, not daring to go forward.

"What are you doing here! You haven't been to the fields in ages, you don't need to pretend like this!"

As soon as Li Xiulian finished speaking, she seemed to remember something, quickly ran two steps to Lu Weiguo, and put on a warning look: "Let me tell you, that's all the food we have at home."

These are all reserved for family and friends. If you're hungry, go find your bunch of cronies! Don't ruin the house anymore!

"Honey, I'm sorry, I won't gamble anymore, and I won't associate with those people anymore."

Lu Weiguo held back for a long time. Even though he felt extremely guilty, he knew that no matter what he said, he would feel incredibly awkward at this moment.

"Ancestor, I beg you, don't you feel disgusted saying that? What is it that you've got your eye on now? There's really nothing left in the house."

Li Xiulian gave a bitter smile, then remembered what her aunts had just said.

"You! Did you sell Jia Huan out! Lu Weiguo! Let me tell you, if you lay a finger on Jia Huan, I'll never forgive you for the rest of my life!"

I'll haunt you even as a ghost!

As Li Xiulian said this, her body began to tremble. She punched Lu Weiguo hard and then hurriedly ran home!

This. . . .

Lu Weiguo felt increasingly guilty.

Ultimately, it was because he had caused Li Xiulian too much harm that an apology alone was not enough to make her trust him again.

However, actions speak louder than words. He believes that as long as he works hard enough, even the hardest ice will eventually melt and the hardest stone will eventually be warmed up.

As long as he can provide a good life for his wife and children, he will eventually be able to wait until Li Xiulian forgives him.

The aunties who were still toiling in the fields gathered together, pointing and gossiping about him.

Seeing this, Lu Weiguo shook his head helplessly, guessing that after today, he would be labeled as a beast who sold children.

Even tigers don't eat their cubs, yet he himself had the thought of selling his child in his past life. Thinking of this, he wished he could slap himself across the face!

He didn't care about the gossip of his aunts at the moment.

Having lived two lives, he had seen far too many situations like this; explaining and defending himself would only fuel the rumors.

As long as it doesn't harm his family, he's willing to sit down and spread rumors with them. If they get along well, he might even put on an act for a while.

Compared to these rumors, the biggest problem right now is how to feed my wife and children.

How did they manage to scavenge grain in the harvested fields alongside the villagers?

Lu Weiguo immediately abandoned the idea; after two years of natural disasters, the grain in the fields was extremely precious.

During the autumn harvest, the production team leader would even rummage through the villagers' clothes.

There were at most some leftover corn kernels and unharvested potato shoots in the field.

With the autumn harvest over, the villagers had nothing to do, so they came to the brigade's fields to pick up some scraps, which was better than nothing, and better than staying at home doing nothing.

But Lu Weiguo wanted to turn his life around and even lead his wife to a better life.

We should still rely on the mountains for sustenance and the water for livelihood!

Hunting! Fishing! And... gathering wild game!

Yes!

Lu Weiguo finally figured out what was suitable for him to do now.

If you want to get rich, hunting and fishing are actually the fastest ways.

In his previous life, he left home and traveled all over China. He learned hunting in the Xingan Mountains, ginseng cultivation in the Changbai Mountains, and business in the south.

He has a lot of skills.

But he has no equipment right now. He doesn't even have a machete or any other metal tool, let alone a hunting rifle.

Therefore, collecting wild produce is the fastest and least costly way to solve the current predicament.

It was mid-September when the supply and marketing cooperative was collecting hazel mushrooms from the mountains.

Hazel mushrooms are one of the most common types of mushrooms. They can be used to stew chicken or to make MSG and other household products.

However, Lu Weiguo, who had memories of his previous life, recognized more than just this one type of mushroom.

People in this era have too low a cost of trial and error, so they dare not eat many mushrooms and only pick a few known types.

Even matsutake mushrooms, which would later cost thousands of dollars per kilogram, were called "rotten egg mushrooms" at this time, and nobody ate them!

Heart is worse than action.

Thinking of this, Lu Weiguo didn't even have time to go home to change his clothes. He picked up the basket his wife had left behind, found the right direction, and headed towards the back mountain.

As the saying goes, "One autumn rain brings a new batch of mushrooms." Picking mushrooms is not a matter of luck, but rather a matter of accumulated experience.

Many people who go to the mountains to pick mushrooms have their own old spots.

According to his memory, it hadn't rained in the last few days, so the only way to pick mushrooms was to go to places that the rest of the people couldn't go.

For example, below the cliff behind the foot of the mountain.

It was a dense thicket of mixed trees, and because of the terrain, it only received one hour of sunlight during the day.

This is the perfect environment for mushrooms to grow.

However, due to its extreme steepness, many people have broken their legs there, and over time, few people have gone there anymore.

In his previous life, Lu Weiguo once had to pick Dada Xiang, a type of rhododendron, for his wife.

The azalea mentioned in ancient poems and songs refers to this kind of flower.

We unexpectedly discovered a small path that leads down the hillside.

As he climbed down the hillside covered in mud, following his memory, a gray rabbit with a broken leg was looking at him in fear!

"A great start? Did they find a piece of jade on the cliff?"

Lu Weiguo was stunned for a moment, then pounced on the rabbit, stretched out one hand, and grabbed the rabbit by the neck.

In an instant, the rabbit fell into an exceptionally peaceful sleep.

Soft-heartedness, Yu Yu syndrome?

Don't be ridiculous, even in this day and age, there are still two babies crying for food at home.

Who cares whether wild rabbits are cute or not!

Lu Weiguo was full of energy after catching a plump wild rabbit.

Seeing the mushrooms covering the hillsides, I quickly bent down and got to work.

Besides the hazel mushrooms that grow in large patches.

He also picked many mushrooms that people of this era did not recognize.

The mushrooms growing on rotten wood have a smooth, soft interior, and taste like fatty meat.

He also harvested two monkey head mushrooms that grow on oak trees, each weighing more than a pound!

Hericium erinaceus is extremely nutritious, making it an excellent choice for nourishing the body of your wife and children.

By the time the sun was high in the sky and the sunlight was shining directly into the cliff, Lu Weiguo had already picked a whole basket of mushrooms.

Anyway, the mushrooms here can't become sentient or run away, so we can come back to pick them in the afternoon.

It's more important to rush home and cook for my wife and kids.