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

These days, when people have nothing to eat, when visiting the graves of elders, people will take the food offered as sacrifices back to the younger generation.

However, there were also quite a few scattered cake crumbs.

Lu Weiguo only passed by four or five tombstones before finding a small handful of crumbs from an old-fashioned peach shortbread.

Judging by its freshness, it was clear that the person had just come to pay their respects within the last two days.

If you want to catch a fox, you need to catch the kind that can "breathe fire".

First, we need to catch more mountain rats.

These things are easy to catch; they're practically everywhere in mass graves.

Put the collected peach crisp crumbs together.

It was surrounded by branches to form a tight fence.

Leave only four openings, and attach loops made of wire at the openings.

After finishing everything, Lu Weiguo did not choose to pick mushrooms, but instead went to the riverbank at the foot of the mountain to pick mugwort.

He remembered that in his previous life, there was a method of using mugwort smoke to regulate a woman's body.

Lu Weiguo didn't know whether that method was effective or just a scam to fools.

Soaking feet in a decoction of boiled mugwort leaves can indeed help alleviate cold hands and feet in women caused by exposure to cold.

My daughter-in-law, Li Xiulian, has had to work in the fields every day for the past year, and she didn't have a proper postpartum period. She has already been infected with typhoid fever.

Lu Weiguo saw it all and felt deeply pained.

Anyway, there aren't many mushrooms in the cemetery, so it's better to get more mugwort for my wife and soak her feet all winter to drive away the cold!

It was only a little over an hour later.

Lu Weiguo picked a whole basket full of mugwort.

When they returned to the rat trap, they saw four fat rats, each nearly 30 or 40 centimeters long, with red eyes, baring their teeth, and extremely fierce, their limbs constantly digging into the ground.

This person clearly eats too much rotten meat!

If you get bitten, you probably won't even have to wait to get down the mountain before you can be reborn.

"Damn it, there's hardly anyone to eat, yet you guys seem to be getting quite fat!"

Lu Weiguo took a deep breath, his eyes showing a hint of caution, and tentatively stepped forward.

Then he stepped on a rat, and pulled the six-inch-long scimitar out from his trouser leg.

Just as the rat was about to turn around and bite, the sharp tip of the dagger pierced through the rat's mouth.

A knife goes in, a knife comes out!

Seeing this horrifying scene, the other mountain rats became even more ferocious.

Even when blood was drawn from the wire around his neck, he didn't stop.

Four mountain rats were slaughtered in succession.

With a quick-cure knife in hand, skinning becomes much smoother.

The skills I didn't forget in my past life can be honed using mountain rats.

The knife tip sliced ​​along the rat's neck to the dermatitis area.

The skin splits open, but the flesh doesn't tear!

The rat meat was not damaged in the slightest.

Grabbing the rat by the tail, Lu Weiguo pulled hard and tore off a perfectly intact rat skin.

If a hunter saw this, he would definitely exclaim that it was genius!

It takes decades of craftsmanship to make something this perfect.

After all, this kind of craft depends on only one thing—"nothing more than practice makes perfect."

With the bait in hand, Lu Weiguo circled around the chaotic graveyard.

After finding several fox dens.

They chose a location that was roughly the same distance from each cave.

Then he let out a few wheezing sounds!

"Whoosh~~ Whoosh~~"

When working in the mountains, we don't call people by name, we can only shout out work chants!

"Huff... huff huff..."

Lu Baojia heard the sound and was already waiting at the usual spot.

In just one morning, Lu Baojia had filled half a basket with mushrooms.

It's important to know that this is not Lu Weiguo's secret base.

To find so many mushrooms, Lu Baojia would have to travel to at least several mountains!

"Fourth brother! Why did you gather so much grass! It's late autumn already, and mugwort leaves are no longer edible."

The moment Lu Baojia saw Lu Weiguo, he frowned, looking disappointed in him.

I never imagined Lu Weiguo could be so lazy!

In spring, the leaves of mugwort are tender and green, and after blanching, they can be eaten as a fresh vegetable.

However, the leaves of mugwort in autumn have a peculiar smell and can only be burned to repel mosquitoes.

"Brother, I'm preparing this to boil water for my wife to soak her feet. Your sister-in-law has a lot of coldness in her body, and ginger is expensive, so mugwort is more suitable."

"You!" Lu Baojia finally calmed down upon hearing this, patting Lu Weiguo on the shoulder: "It's good that you know how to cherish your wife. It wasn't easy for Li Xiulian to marry into our family."

"She's a high school student, her hands are very precious, you have to treat her well."

"Don't worry, brother! I'll definitely take good care of Xiulian," Lu Weiguo assured him, patting his chest.

"Look what this is!" Lu Baojia was about to take out some cornbread to have for lunch.

Lu Weiguo grabbed the tails of four mice and started showing off.

"Oh my god, isn't that a mountain rat! Fourth brother, you should have said so earlier if you had one. Why are you still eating cornbread? I'll make a fire, and we'll roast it and eat meat!"

The natural disasters of 1968 and 1969, and the widespread cooling across the country in 1976 and 1977, resulted in a reduction of more than 60 percent in grain production.

We've all been through tough times; who hasn't eaten a few mice?

Seeing that Lu Baojia's eyes lit up, Lu Weiguo quickly hid the mountain rat behind his back.

"What? You still can't bear to part with it?" Lu Baojia's face immediately darkened.

"Brother, what's there to be reluctant about these rats? But these can't be eaten; they all grew up eating human flesh and are poisonous."

I'm catching them tonight for fox hunting!

"At night? Here?" Lu Baojia felt that Lu Weiguo seemed to have gone mad.

This is a notorious, chaotic graveyard for miles around.

A grave every ten meters—that's no exaggeration.

If I hadn't been thinking about getting more mushrooms, I might have been lucky enough to find a dead fox.

They don't want to come during the day.

Now you're telling me I have to keep watch here tonight?

My parents aren't dead yet!

Who are you keeping watch for?

"Yes, foxes only come out to hunt at night. Since Mrs. Chang said that fox fur can cure our father, let's get some for her!"

"Our dad's getting on in years; if he can't get his back injury treated properly, he'll suffer even more as he gets older!"

If Lu Baojia were also reborn, he would definitely be able to see that this is the legendary "moral blackmail".

But people these days just buy into that.

As soon as Lu Weiguo finished speaking, Lu Baojia slapped his thigh!

"Let's do it! Damn it, for our dad's sake, we'll go to his grave, even the underworld!"

No wonder your parents love you so much; you're definitely the most filial child.

very nice.

People in this era are still the most simple and honest.

Lu Weiguo smiled very happily, having experienced the scheming and intrigue of his previous life.

I have absolutely no resistance to this kind of simple and unpretentious interpersonal relationship.

I shared a steamed bun with Lu Baojia.

It tastes incredibly sweet.

It tastes even better than the delicacies I ate in my previous life.

After lunch, the two did not rest and had a clear division of labor.

Lu Baojia continued picking mushrooms.

Lu Weiguo, on the other hand, was thinking about how to catch the fox.

However, when Lu Weiguo rounded a hill and prepared to catch another rabbit as bait...

"Ugh! Aww~~"

A childish yet incredibly fierce cry caught Lu Weiguo's attention.

Lu Weiguo looked back and saw it nestled among a pile of rocks.

Two small, purplish-brown creatures were baring their teeth fiercely at Lu Weiguo.

It has a long head, a pointed face, a rounded snout, and large, round, pure black eyes.

The upright double-layered triangular ears make this little guy even cuter.

"mink?"

Lu Weiguo's eyes lit up.

When Lu Weiguo saw the distinctive purplish-orange throat markings...

His surprise turned into excitement!

This is no ordinary mink!

Instead, it's the sable, also known as "soft gold" in fur!

In later generations, a sable pelt of good quality would fetch a price starting with tens of thousands.

In this day and age, if only we could sell them in Harbin!

It will cost at least two or three thousand yuan!

Two or three thousand yuan is enough to live on, let alone get a wife and kids to live in the county town!