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

"Wow, it smells so good! Who's cooking meat?"

Before Lu Weiguo could even step out of the house, a sleazy voice came from outside the courtyard.

Then, Zhao Yangyang's scream was heard.

"You gambled all night last night, and now you're here to play with your lover in the middle of the day? So horny, need me to help you relieve your itch?"

While Zhao Yangyang was drooling and staring at him, Wu Jian, a man wearing a colorful Dacron shirt, patted her butt.

"You slut, don't touch me! Watch your mouth!"

Although many young people know that Lu Weiguo's gambling is related to Zhao Yangyang.

But she still had to continue pretending to be Li Xiulian's childhood friend; only in this way could she gain great satisfaction from seeing Li Xiulian's miserable life.

"How could I be as cheap as you? You even looked down on me for being an educated youth back then? How about it, regretting it now?"

"But it's not too late now. If you come with me and become my mistress, I can give your family a few more centimeters."

Zhao Yangyang's parents were all from Fendou Village, and she was the first high school student from the village to leave.

Although Wu Jian was a sent-down youth from the city, he was greedy and had a bad appetite, and his hometown in the city was so poor that people urinated blood.

After most of the educated youth returned to the city, he had no one to take him in, so he had no choice but to marry a local woman and stay.

He pursued Zhao Yangyang for half a year, but Zhao Yangyang didn't like him, which made his reputation worse and worse. In the end, he chose a widow with a child so that he could settle down in the local area.

"Get lost, stay away from me! I'd rather have my eye on a dog than you!"

As Zhao Yangyang spoke, he backed away.

They bumped right into Lu Weiguo, who had just opened the courtyard gate.

"Oh, what a pair of scoundrels! Isn't this the dog you've got your eye on? A stinking gambling addict at that!"

"Get out! Don't ever come to my house again, and I never want to see you again!"

Before Lu Weiguo could even acknowledge Wu Jian, he pushed Zhao Yangyang away from his embrace.

Having lived two lives, he knew one thing well: he wasn't afraid of openly wicked people, but he was most afraid of having a ghostly friend by his side.

Zhao Yangyang was clearly the accomplice surrounding him and Li Xiulian.

"You!" Zhao Yangyang was pushed and tumbled by Lu Weiguo, still in front of Wu Jian, the one who had insulted her.

For some reason, she wasn't angry at all; instead, she felt wronged. If only Lu Weiguo could say a word or two in her defense at this moment.

Human thoughts can be so conflicted sometimes; what we can't have always seems the best.

"Lu Weiguo, you just wait, I'll make you regret this!"

Lu Weiguo was speechless upon hearing this, his eyes practically rolling to the sky.

When Wu Jian saw this, his mouth almost twisted to his ears.

"Oh dear, you're being rejected by your own lover. It's okay, I don't mind. Come to my place tonight."

You don't even need to shower; I love your pungent smell. Just have your sister-in-law and the kids wait outside.

After Wu Jian said that, Zhao Yangyang was too ashamed to stay there.

Without even shaking off the dust on his backside, he ran out of the village without looking back.

Seeing this, Lu Weiguo felt no pity whatsoever and disgustedly wiped his hand that had touched Zhao Yangyang.

He looked up at Wu Jian and asked, "Accountant Wu, is something the matter?"

"You married a goddess and even flirted with the village beauty. You're just a gambler. So what if you're handsome?"

Wu Jian, with a smug look on his face, tilted his head and looked through the crack in the door at Li Xiulian, who was eating with Jia Huan in her arms.

He would glance at Lu Weiguo's house every time he passed by.

If they see Li Xiulian breastfeeding her child, wouldn't they be getting the better deal?

"How so? That's still better than someone who's short, has crooked eyes and a mouth, and a face full of hemorrhoids."

Lu Weiguo closed the courtyard gate, stepped forward, and used his strong chest to block Wu Jian's view.

Although he wasted a year, his physical condition, honed by over a decade of farm work, was still far superior to that of the former educated youth who had been sent to the countryside in the city.

"What the hell, did you take the wrong medicine today?"

Wu Jian was so frightened that he took several steps back and only stopped when he felt he was at a safe distance.

He had always been a bully who preyed on the weak, and this was the first time he had ever felt such intense hostility from the people of Fendou Village.

It was as if they were about to devour him at any moment.

"Spit it out, and don't loiter around my neighborhood."

Having just been reborn, Lu Weiguo's only thought was to ensure his wife and children were well-fed and clothed.

I don't have time to waste on such petty people.

"Fine! You're so tough! You're just a stinking gambler, pretending to be something you're not! I'm here to inform you that your family of four needs to prepare ten pounds of potatoes for seed next year. If you're short even an ounce, I'll deduct ten centimeters from your family's salary."

After Wu Jian finished speaking, he glared at Aunt Wang, who had been watching the commotion.

"Look, look, all you do is look! And your family, eight people in your family, you have to hand over twenty catties of potatoes, not a catty less!"

Aunt Wang was engrossed in watching the commotion when Wu Jian said that.

He smiled awkwardly at Lu Weiguo.

After Wu Jian jogged away, he turned to Lu Weiguo and said, "I wonder which high-ranking leader gave this order."

It's obvious this land has never been cultivated before. Potatoes have a high yield, but after less than two years, the soil becomes unsuitable, and nothing else can grow.

"But it's all public land, so plant whatever you want."

Just then, Li Xiulian went to the yard to fetch water. Hearing this, she paused for a moment, then subconsciously asked, "Aunt Wang, do you want us to hand over potatoes?"

"Yeah, yours weighs ten jin, mine weighs twenty jin, time to go to the fields to forage for food again."

Lu Weiguo walked back to the courtyard and looked at his wife, who had become flustered after hearing about the task.

He stepped forward to comfort her, saying, "Wife, it's alright. Don't listen to him. We don't need to dig up the potatoes; we definitely won't be able to grow potatoes next year anyway."

In his past life, Lu Weiguo remembered this incident; he had sold all the potatoes distributed by the brigade to use as gambling funds.

Upon hearing that she would have to hand over the money, Li Xiulian knew she couldn't rely on Lu Weiguo, so she secretly left Lu Jiahuan behind and took Lu Jiacheng with her.

Even though it's snowing, they're still rummaging through the fields looking for potatoes that others have overlooked.

In the heavy snow and freezing winter, their bodies were covered in bruises, and even the two children had frostbite.

However, as Aunt Wang said, potatoes may yield a high harvest in the first year, but if the land is not given sufficient fertilizer, it will become barren in less than two years.

In his memory, Fendou Village was located in a remote area, and by the time the notification to implement the household responsibility system was given, the potatoes had already taken root and sprouted.

Digging it up isn't an option, and continuing to plant it means we can't afford fertilizer.

As a result, the land in the entire Fendou Village suffered poor harvests for several consecutive years.

It became one of the poorest villages in the entire Northeast.

This is also why Lu Weiguo said he couldn't grow potatoes.

Now that he's back, things have to change.

"Lu Weiguo, you're just using this as an excuse because you think digging potatoes is tiring! If you hadn't sold the potatoes to gamble, we wouldn't have needed to dig the ground!"

As expected, a leopard can't change its spots; you couldn't even keep up the act for a day!

Li Xiulian glared at Lu Weiguo and said coldly.

She was unaware of Lu Weiguo's thoughts and simply assumed it was an excuse he made to avoid hardship.

"Oh dear, this..."

Upon hearing this, Lu Weiguo sighed; the relationship between the two had just begun to loosen slightly.

This whole mess has happened again.

Seeing Li Xiulian's tightly closed door, Lu Weiguo knew he wouldn't be able to get into the house again today.

Go to the shed, take out a few rusty wires, thread the hazel mushrooms onto them, and hang them under the eaves.

Store the monkey head mushrooms in a cool, shady place.

In these times, people have no food, and rats and weasels have even less to eat.

Hanging hazel mushrooms up makes them less susceptible to damage from mice, and they dry faster in the sun.

After everything was done, Lu Weiguo noticed that the sunlight was no longer so intense.

It was around 2 p.m.

Only then did he shoulder the basket, take a few pieces of wire, and head back towards the back of the mountain.

Where there are many mushrooms, there are also many small animals.

While picking mushrooms in the afternoon, he planned to set a few traps as well.

We'll catch whatever we can.

Even if you catch a squirrel, you can still make soup, right?

Even a small squirrel is still meat!

He ruined what used to be a good life; he would even pick up and eat shredded meat that fell on the ground!