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

Chang Kun then chatted with Sun Xiaohong and Chang Mei for a while before saying goodbye and going home.

When they arrived home, several young girls were picking and washing wild vegetables in the yard.

Their mouths were practically dripping with saliva as they looked longingly into the main room.

Chang Kun smelled a wonderful aroma in the courtyard; lard was being rendered in a pot.

Liu Meifang chased the young maids out of the main room, forbidding them from approaching the oil fryer.

A small fire was burning in the stove, and water and lard were slowly simmering in the pot. After the water evaporated, the lard had changed color, and Liu Meifen was scooping out the cracklings.

Seeing the fried pork cracklings, Chang Kun also felt a little tempted.

For ordinary people in those days, pork cracklings were the ultimate delicacy, bar none.

He filled a bowl with a dozen or so pieces of fried pork cracklings, let them cool, and then took them to the yard. The three little girls wagged their tails and clung to their eldest brother.

As soon as the bowl was taken out, Xiao Changxiu smacked her lips and looked at her older brother with longing.

"Ah!" Xiao Changxiu made a sound as her older brother fed her, drool dripping from the corner of her mouth.

Chang Kun smiled, stuffed a piece of crispy buttery bits into Xiao Changxiu's mouth, and then handed the bowl to Chang Qing.

The three little girls took turns taking bites, like little pigs, snorting and squealing, their mouths full of crisp and delicious flavor.

When Liu Meifen finished her work and came out, the little girls had already finished eating the fried pork cracklings and were licking their lips, wanting to eat more, but Chang Kun ruthlessly suppressed them.

If you don't eat much oily food regularly, you'll likely get diarrhea if you suddenly eat too much fatty food.

Liu Meifen proudly showed Chang Kun the jar of lard, which was almost full. The family would never run out of oil for a year!

Previously, we only had two meals a day, breakfast and dinner.

Now that we have more food at home, including squirrel meat, a lot of field mouse meat, and plenty of soybeans and corn, we'll let the little ones have lunch.

Using the leftover oil from the frying pan, Liu Meifen stir-fried a few ground squid meats with the wild vegetables the girls had picked and washed that morning. After a few stirs, it looked delicious.

After Chang Dashan finished work and returned home, the group sat around the octagonal table, eating and chatting about their eldest sister and her newborn baby.

Upon learning that Chang Mei was doing well, Chang Dashan and Liu Meifen were relieved.

The little girls had no resistance to the chewy field mouse meat and ate it with their mouths full of oil.

In just a few days, Chang Xiu, whose complexion was originally sallow, has become rosy.

……

At that moment, Qin Meiru was at home arguing with her mother.

She looked dejected and told Shi Zhenxiang about Chang Kun saying she had no hair, questioning Shi Zhenxiang whether she had told Chang Kun about it.

Shi Zhenxiang cried out that she was wronged. How could she tell anyone such a thing, especially since that person was her future son-in-law?

Shi Zhenxiang turned to her daughter and began to suspect her again: "Xiaoru, you...you didn't do *that* with Chang Kun, did he see it?"

Qin Meiru: ? ? ?

She genuinely didn't understand, looking completely bewildered: "What?"

"It's about doing that! You're capable of doing it, why are you asking me?"

In Shi Zhenxiang's eyes, only Qin Meiru and she knew about that matter, and since she didn't say anything, it was Qin Meiru who leaked the secret.

Qin Meiru wouldn't tell anyone about such a private matter; only Chang Kun could witness it.

Hurrah!

That bastard took advantage of my daughter and still dared to beat and scold me!

We can't let him get away with this so easily!

Growing increasingly angry, Shi Zhenxiang stood up:

"Come on, girl, let's go to his family and demand an explanation. We can't let him take advantage of you so easily. We have to increase the bride price! I think that wild boar deserves at least half of ours!"

Even at this point, Shi Zhenxiang hadn't forgotten to take advantage of the situation.

Qin Meiru was even more confused: "Mother, what do you mean by taking advantage of me? Why are you talking about betrothal gifts again?"

"Pah! You two, did you sneak into the cornfield? I'm trying to save face for you, and you expect me to explain myself?"

Shi Zhenxiang lowered her voice and cursed angrily, feeling a bit disappointed in her daughter. How could she be so impatient and let that brat get away with it so easily!

Qin Meiru finally understood when her mother mentioned going into the cornfield; rural women always talked about these kinds of things.

Her face flushed red instantly, and she was furious: "What did you say! Who went into the cornfield! You let someone know you weren't careful, and now you're blaming me?!"

Poor Qin Meiru didn't even let Chang Kun hold her hand.

Shi Zhenxiang, however, thought that the two of them had slept together.

"Hey! You dare talk back? You're so capable, but you don't even dare to talk back to me!"

"Who did it? I bet it's your long mouth!"

If you hadn't asked for more money in betrothal gifts, nothing would have happened, and I might even be eating pork by now!

"Pah! Increasing the bride price, isn't it all just for..."

"For whom? For my underlings? Certainly not for me!"

The mother and daughter argued back and forth, their voices growing louder and louder.

When Qin Jianren returned home, he found the mother and daughter with disheveled hair, sitting on the ground kicking their legs and cursing, their words filled with vulgarities.

He was dumbfounded...

What's wrong?

……

Chang Kun ate a few bites of field mouse meat, rested on the west kang (heated brick bed) for a while, and then got up to go back to the mountains to take another look.

Although the wild boars won't return to Wild Boar Ridge for a while after hearing the gunshots, what if they do?

Hearing the noise, Chang Qing, who was lying on the west kang (heated brick bed), peeked at Chang Kun and said, "Brother, ground squirrels are so delicious! Let's go catch some more!"

Chang Mu was also awake, and got up to look at Chang Kun expectantly.

"You two, you dare to run around after eating? Quietly lie down on the kang (heated brick bed)."

Liu Meifen tapped Chang Qing on the head, "You're the most dishonest one."

At this time, people eat and then lie still to absorb the nutrients properly.

If you say something like "taking a hundred steps after a meal" for health, people just think you're crazy!

Chang Qing was suppressed by his mother's force, and he pursed his lips, not daring to speak.

"Mother, I'm going to take a look at the foot of the mountain." Chang Kun said goodbye to his mother and walked out.

"Son, your skin is peeling from the sun outside. You should go out later."

"No need, Mother. Go early and come back early. I'll wear a burlap sack."

Chang Kun picked up his tools, went to Zhang Quhun's house, and called him to come along.

"Cricket, what did you eat today?"

"Hehe, I ate pig liver, pig lungs, and even pork cracklings."

"Sure, your dad's willing?"

"They gave half to my older brother's family, and the rest was supposed to be given to me to eat a little of each day, along with some wild vegetable porridge. I wasn't having it, though, because I'd almost finished it all, haha."

Chang Kun laughed along. He noticed that Zhang Quhun became much more talkative when he was with him, but remained as taciturn as he was with others.

As the two passed the village entrance, some people were sitting under a big tree there, enjoying the cool shade.

"Little Kun, going up the mountain?"

"That wild boar yesterday was really big. Are we going to hunt wild boar again?"

Chang Kun gave a few perfunctory words and left in a hurry.

The villagers behind them were talking amongst themselves.

"That Chang family lad has really gotten quite capable!"

"I think it was just pure luck."

"People have been going up the mountain every day for years, how come they've never had any luck?"

"Just you wait, he'll definitely come back empty-handed this time." This is the kind of person who's driven mad by jealousy.

"No one who goes up the mountain can guarantee anything. If they can get the goods down once out of three attempts, that's good enough."

"Do you think he'll be able to catch another wild boar this time? I think he has a rifle in his sack."

Everyone shook their heads. "How about we hunt another wild boar?"

I never even dared to think of such a thing.

Chang Kun had already led Zhang Quhun far away. When they got close to the foot of the mountain, he sensed that there were many wild rabbits in the area, all resting and cooling off in their burrows.

I glanced back casually and saw someone following me towards the foot of the mountain in the distance, but I couldn't make out who it was.

With such a bright sun, are they also heading into the mountains?

Chang Kun was puzzled for a moment.