Reborn in the 60s, I hunt to support my family and even seduce the village beauty.

"Li Xiaoxia, what are you doing here?"

When Cheng Min ran into Li Xiaxia in the park last time, she noticed that Li Xiaxia was dressed better than her. Even though Chang Kun's gaze didn't linger on her, Cheng Min was still a little jealous.

Why is Li Xiaoxia here again? She must be looking for Chang Kun.

Could it be that the two have some other connection?!

Thinking of this, alarm bells rang in her mind.

Li Xiaxia didn't take Cheng Min's tone seriously. She only admired Chang Kun and had no romantic feelings for him whatsoever.

"I've come to see Chang Kun. I have something to discuss with him." She spoke confidently and without any hesitation. Anyway, Grandpa Cheng already knew, and he would tell Cheng Min later.

"Oh? What do you want with him? I also need to talk to Chang Kun."

Li Xiaxia smiled slightly, wanting to tease Cheng Min: "Why don't you go first? I've already asked him several times."

Frowning, Cheng Min gritted her teeth: "I made a pair of pants for Chang Kun, and I wanted to let him try them on to see if they fit."

Hmph, the two of them are almost engaged, and she can even make him pants. You, Li Xiaxia, shouldn't even dream about it.

Upon hearing this, Li Xiaoxia understood the relationship between the two and stopped joking.

"Well, Chang Kun hasn't collected his payment for his work for the literary journal yet. I came to tell him, and mainly to ask if he has any new compositions. I heard him mention it last time, but I haven't heard back since."

Hearing Li Xiaxia say this, Cheng Min secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Then I thought again, last time? They met last time!

Just as he was about to ask again, he heard Cheng Rongjiang cough lightly: "This girl also came to the research institute to see Chang Kun once before, I heard it was about some new piece of music."

Seeing his daughter's wide eyes and the hostility she showed towards Li Xiaxia, he quickly spoke up.

When Li Xiaoxia came to see Chang Kun last time, he was afraid that his daughter would overthink it, so he didn't tell her about it.

"Oh, oh..." Cheng Min was speechless. Since that's the case, the two of them meeting in front of her father would be fine.

"How about this, I'll go find Chang Kun's mother and tell her about the royalties and the new song, so you won't have to make the trip again." After thinking for a moment, she decided to go see Chang Kun herself, so that Li Xiaxia wouldn't have to go to him again.

Li Xiaoxia smiled and thought to herself, "This Cheng Min is still asserting her dominance at this time. She's guarding against me."

"Alright, I hope to hear the new song soon."

Since the father and daughter didn't seem to welcome her, she didn't want to say anything more and simply turned and left.

……

On his first day at work, Chang Kun unremarkably caught nine thieves.

When it was time to leave work, a sack containing several pairs of shoes was tied to the back of a bicycle; this was the loot the thieves had taken.

My new workplace is a bit far from home, so I have to take a different route, passing through my uncle's village first, before I can get back to my own village.

Leaving the city, riding on the bumpy road, Chang Kun sensed the prey on the surrounding mountains.

Pheasants, rabbits, snakes, squirrels, and even honey pots—the prey is even more abundant along this route.

Chang Kun stopped the car, thought for a moment, and decided to hunt some squirrels to take home and roast. In the mountains and forests here, squirrel meat is considered one of the most delicious.

*Clap clap clap!*

Reaching the tree, he struck with deadly precision, quickly catching ten squirrels.

Looking up at the large hole in the tree, I thought about it and decided to forget about it.

Planting can now be accelerated in the space, and I'm all alone, too lazy to climb trees to dig up squirrel holes.

However, you can look for wild peach or apricot trees around and move them into the space, so you won't lack fruit to eat in the future.

Before it got dark, Chang Kun wandered around the mountain and found a wild apricot tree. All the apricots had fallen, leaving only green leaves on the tree.

Using the space to move the soil under the tree and move the entire tree into the space, it will take another year for the apricots to grow again. According to the space's accelerated time calculation, it will take more than a month.

We walked another two miles into the deep mountains and, luckily, found another wild peach tree.

The branches were laden with peaches, small, only the size of quail eggs, and a vibrant green with no red at all. I picked one and took a bite.

"Ptooey!"

It's sour and astringent; this is a wild peach that only ripens in autumn, and it will take another month to fully mature.

However, it's perfect to put it in the space; with the acceleration of time, it can be eaten in just three or four days.

Chang Kun continued digging and moving the wild peach tree into the space. He looked with delight at the various crops growing on the black soil in the space.

The cabbage and radish will be ready to eat soon, and the potatoes, corn, and wheat will be ripe in another three or four days. Then we can make flour and prepare donkey meat sandwiches. Just thinking about it makes me happy!

On the way down the mountain, I caught two pheasants and collected a dozen or so wild eggs to have with me when I got home.

When passing through his uncle's village, Chang Kun remembered the shoes in his spatial storage. Everyone in his family was wearing the new shoes that Cheng Min had bought for them. He thought it would be better to send these stolen shoes to his uncle's house.

When my uncle visited the supply and marketing cooperative last time, my mother bought him a pair of shoes. My aunt still wears straw sandals at home, so I suppose she wouldn't mind that the shoes had been worn by a thief, nor would she mind that the shoes were too big.

In winter, farmers would make straw sandals bigger and stuff them with straw to keep them warm because they were afraid of the cold.

When we arrived at my uncle's house, my aunt, Fan Erxiao, was squatting in front of the stove, cooking porridge.

"Xiao Kun is here?" Auntie saw Chang Kun enter the door and, without even bothering to light the fire, quickly stood up.

"Auntie, has my uncle come back yet?"

"Come in quickly, Dad, stop smoking your old pipe, Xiao Kun is here!" Auntie nagged, "You little uncle, all you do when you come back is smoke your pipe."

Chang Kun put the sack on the ground and walked to the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed): "Uncle, you should smoke less. I heard you coughing last time."

He remembered that in his previous life, his uncle died of lung disease. The two of them didn't have much contact until after his uncle died, when he came to mourn him.

In this life, let him take better care of his health; at least he can live a few more years.

"That's right, he won't listen to anything I say, I have to have my nephew do it!" Fan Erxiao rolled his eyes at his uncle.

"Nephew, come up on the kang and have a couple of drinks with me." The uncle, who had been half-lying on the kang humming Peking Opera, heard Chang Kun's voice and quickly got up.

Fan Erxiao slapped his thigh: "Right, right, the donkey meat your mother brought over the day before yesterday is still sitting in the water vat and we haven't finished it yet. You two can have a drink here and wait, I'll go get it."

"Auntie, Uncle, stop what you're doing. It's not dark yet, I have to go home." Chang Kun quickly pulled his aunt aside.

"I came over to get a few pairs of shoes, two greyhounds, and a pheasant."

"Oh dear! You child, why are you bringing things here again! Buying shoes too!" The uncle hurriedly walked down to the ground.

"Take it back quickly. We don't need anything at home. Last time you sent us roe deer, and later we had pork. This time you sent some donkey meat. Didn't you see? Your aunt and I have gotten quite chubby."

Auntie quickly chimed in, "Yes, yes, you don't need to worry about us. Xiao Shui is still eating and drinking for free at your house. I'm thinking of going to call her back tomorrow."

"Uncle, Aunt, I didn't buy these shoes. I changed jobs at the railway police station. These shoes were confiscated from thieves I caught. I hope you don't mind."

"What? You became a police officer? And on the railway?"

My uncle has been working in the city for several days and already knows how rare it is to work for the railway company.

Auntie didn't know anything about the Iron and Steel Corporation; she just heard there was a thief and quickly grabbed Chang Kun's hand, saying, "Oh, Xiao Kun, is it dangerous to catch a thief?"