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

A virtuous wife is worth more than ten thousand taels of gold.

Lu Weiguo and the other man wiped their bodies with warm water several times in the courtyard until they felt the faint, menacing aura completely disappear.

Even though he was naked, he felt cold and shivered as he went inside.

Perhaps those who have killed people know this.

The previous murders were completely different from seeing people die on television.

The stimulation of the spurting blood will make your blood flow faster.

It might even feel like the blood is gushing out, just like your own blood.

You will feel no cold for several hours, your whole body will tremble, and you will feel a little excited and thrilled.

In ancient times, people called this "evil energy residing in the body".

Later experts explained that this was caused by a warlike gene unique to people of East Asian descent.

Although Lu Weiguo understood these scientific principles.

But since there are children in the family, precautions still need to be taken.

After the two finished washing up, Li Xiulian had already prepared the meal.

White rice, bear heart and potato soup, braised deer heart, stir-fried bear kidney, and leftover venison and sauerkraut hot pot from yesterday.

Lu Weiguo didn't keep the dried bear meat for himself; he gave it to Lu Jiacheng as a snack.

This kid has been eating these highly nutritious foods since he was a child.

They will definitely be exceptionally gifted when they grow up!

"Husband, what's wrong? Why are you taking a bath outside in the yard today?" Li Xiulian, who was in charge of the household, began to follow what Old Mrs. Chang had said and stopped asking about Lu Weiguo's situation outside.

But Lu Weiguo is behaving very strangely today.

Normally when I go up the mountain, I only sweep myself with a broom.

But today, I won't go back inside until I've scraped my skin raw.

You have to understand that it's winter now, and the boiling water will cool down as soon as you take it outside.

Women shouldn't pry into men's affairs.

Lu Weiguo replied with a smile.

"Ouch, are you asking for a beating?!"

Li Xiulian was no lady from a respectable family. Seeing that Lu Weiguo dared to speak like that, her delicate little hands had already climbed onto Lu Weiguo's thigh.

"Hehe, stop it, stop it, there are so many people here. If you want, we can do it tonight..."

He continued his tantrum and incoherent talk, attempting to distract Li Xiulian!

"Hmph, if you don't want to talk about it, then don't!" Li Xiulian wasn't stupid; she knew Lu Weiguo didn't want to lie to her: "Weiguo, our life is already very good."

You have a wife and children, so we need to settle down and have a stable relationship.

Lu Weiguo tore off a piece of bear jerky and mumbled, "Don't worry, honey. We'll not only live a peaceful life, but I'll also let you see all the wonders of the world: the cherry blossoms of our everyday life, the magnificent Fifth Avenue, the volcanoes of Iceland, the kangaroos of Australia... You and the baby deserve all the good things in the world."

Li Xiulian was stunned.

Liu Dazhuang continued eating.

The three girls in the Liu family felt inexplicably happy.

After finishing his meal, Lu Weiguo took out a jar of canned yellow peaches from the cupboard.

Coming back to her senses from the emotion she had just experienced, Li Xiulian asked with concern, "Did you catch a cold from taking a bath outside?"

Canned peaches can cure colds; everyone in Northeast China knows that!

"No, who says you can't eat canned food if you don't have a cold? Distribute these to everyone, and we'll make badger oil tonight so you can touch your face tomorrow."

"With so many empty bottles at home, I think you're just craving them." Li Xiulian tapped Lu Weiguo's head.

Ever since I heard Lu Weiguo describe the beauty of the world.

Li Xiulian has made up her mind that she will support Lu Weiguo no matter what he does!

In fact, Li Xiulian was a cultured person after all. In her heart, this kind of beautiful confession, as beautiful as poetry, was more effective than Lu Weiguo making a thousand promises.

Inside the house, Li Xiulian was enjoying delicious canned peaches with a group of children.

Lu Weiguo and Liu Dazhuang opened the door and, using the warmth inside, began skinning the badger.

Badgers are particularly easy to skin at the beginning of winter because they need to store up fat to survive the winter.

So the bulging bellies of badgers today are all fat.

With a quick slash like that.

Her belly was like a burst balloon, splitting open to both sides in an instant!

No need to peel it, the smooth, white fat stretches the belly skin open.

As the older generation says, "Nine out of ten pounds of badger meat are oil," which refers to this time of year.

If it is late autumn, the badger has plenty of food in its belly that has not yet been converted into fat.

If you wait any longer, the fat will start to be burned off, and there won't be as much oil left.

"Hey, Weiguo, one can of food isn't enough. I saw you have two more cans in your cupboard... Let's eat them together, and then we can use them to store badger oil."

Liu Dazhuang looked simple-minded, with drool dripping from his mouth.

"Get lost! I think you just want some canned food. Go ask your sister-in-law Huifang for some; she has so many empty bottles at home. Do you think I'm as stupid as you?"

Li Xiulian laughed along with a room full of children, but the happy Xiulian was much more generous than Lu Weiguo.

Seeing that the Liu family's young ladies hadn't had enough, they opened another one for everyone.

It was certainly lively with a large group, but they ate way too much.

Li Xiulian was lost in thought.

. . . . . . . .

The next day at daybreak, Lu Weiguo and his companion pulled the oxcart that had just returned to the county town.

First stop!

I went to the warehouse with Yuan Mengjie.

When she saw the complete bear skin, she was completely stunned.

In the 1970s and 80s, many Russian hunters would secretly come over and exchange their worthless bear pelts for daily necessities.

Of course, the most common item exchanged was the liquor brewed by the farmhouse itself.

So, ever since Yuan Mengjie started following her relatives from the south to rob and sell furs to the supply and marketing cooperative...

I've also seen a few bear skins.

But the quality and the mature technique are nowhere near as good as Lu Weiguo's!

If this were sold in Shanghai, it would definitely fetch an astronomical price.

A bear pelt and a mink pelt, in such good condition, would definitely be coveted by those young ladies.

"Little brother, what happened to you? How did you manage to fold it so perfectly? Did you go and fight a bear?"

Yuan Mengjie looked at the bear skin as if it were a treasure, gently stroking the bear's fur with her hand.

Before coming, Lu Weiguo had specially treated his skin with badger oil.

It not only masks the smell of bear fur, but also has a sweet and cloying fragrance.

"Sis, you're my own sister, you know me well enough. I'm capable of catching it off guard and giving it a good whack!"

That's how you do business—using a mix of truth and deception.

They act like brothers, but speak like enemies!

"It basically doesn't need much processing to be worn, which is great. I'd like to keep it for myself."

We're all women, and what woman doesn't like beautiful things?

"Hey sis, here you go. Find someone skilled to fix it for you."

Lu Weiguo waved his hand very generously.

"Give it to me? You mean it!"

Yuan Mengjie jumped up excitedly.

"Really? We're family, why are we talking like two different people?"

He thought they were siblings, but Yuan Mengjie was completely captivated by such an expensive gift.

"We're family...you really miss me that much? It's not like I can't..."