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

At this moment, Liu Meifen and Chang Dashan rushed over upon hearing the commotion.

"Xiao Kun, what's wrong with this girl?"

Chang Kun touched his nose, feeling a little embarrassed.

He didn't expect Qin Meiru to be so easily frightened that she fainted and even peed herself!

But this is good too. This woman always tries to come looking for me. If I scare her this time, I can have some peace and quiet for a long time.

Liu Meifen was a little flustered. She only heard a scream, and when she ran out, she saw Qin Meiru lying on the ground. She thought her son had done something bad.

Chang Dashan stared at Chang Kun with wide eyes. His son had been doing well lately. Had he succumbed to temptation and made another mistake?

"Father, Mother, this Qin Meiru has fainted from being frightened by a snake..." Chang Kun looked innocent and didn't say that he had deliberately scared Qin Meiru.

Liu Meifen breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, then glanced at Qin Meiru on the ground, and said with a smirk:

"This girl doesn't seem like the type to settle down. She's even afraid of a snake, tsk tsk tsk..."

She's right. As a country person, even if you're scared and uncomfortable when you see a snake, I've never heard of anyone fainting from a snake.

She stepped forward and pinched Qin Meiru's philtrum twice.

Qin Meiru slowly woke up and saw Chang Kun and his family of three surrounding her. She remembered how she had been so frightened by the snake in her hand that she had fainted, and she still felt a little scared.

After getting up, I noticed that my pants were a little damp and cold, and I knew something was wrong.

Fearing that her future husband and in-laws would discover that she had wet herself, she said goodbye to them and hurriedly ran away.

Chang Kun exchanged a few glances with his parents and then burst out laughing.

Liu Meifen opened the sack, looked at the snakes inside, praised her son a few more times, picked up two snakes and went out. She planned to give one to Uncle Chang Wu's family and the other to Captain Liu Tiezhu's family.

These two families are usually quite close. Now that their son has caught so many snakes, and they can't sell them for a good price, they might as well give them away as a favor.

Chang Dashan was skinning snakes in the courtyard, while Chang Kun went to the east kang (heated brick bed) to tell several young girls stories from picture books. The family was enjoying a harmonious time together.

For dinner, we had snake soup and meat buns. The whole family ate to their hearts' content, their mouths greasy with oil.

Liu Meifen held the meat bun and sighed, "Who would have thought that I'd find this meat bun a bit too greasy? It's just..."

That's right! These days, saying you're tired of eating meat buns feels like a crime!

For several days in a row, Chang Kun would bring back a big bag of meat buns every time he went to the city. His family used to eat very little oily food, so they were tired of eating so many of them!

Chang Dashan took a bite of snake and a sip of wine, thoroughly enjoying himself.

"You know what, this snake meat tastes really good. When I came back to the village entrance just now, that old Xu wanted to ask me for a snake, but I couldn't be bothered with him. He used to say a lot of bad things about Xiao Kun."

Liu Meifen continued, "These past few days I've been digging for wild vegetables, and those women who used to never talk to us have all come to me trying to get close to me. I guess they want to learn some skills from Xiao Kun."

"Those people are used to praising the powerful and belittling the weak. They can be dealt with easily." Chang Dashan snorted, recalling the rumors when Chang Kun lost his job, and then thinking about the changes in his own family now, with everyone praising him, he felt really happy.

"Xiao Kun, you're going to the mountains with your dad again tomorrow morning. I won't feel at ease until you've caught something big. Work won't wait!"

Before she had even finished her meal, Liu Meifen started nagging again.

Chang Kun and Chang Dashan could only agree to go into the mountains again early the next morning. Chang Dashan put aside all the work for the team.

After finishing their meal, the girls collapsed on the east kang (a heated brick bed) and didn't want to move; they were too full.

Chang Kun sat beside them, telling them stories while weaving a wolf tooth necklace.

After listening for a while, Xiao Changxiu ran into Chang Kun's arms and stared blankly at her older brother.

She remembered that a few days ago, when she went to dig for wild vegetables with her mother, she heard her friend Yingzi say that her brother had stolen her food.

She nuzzled her head against her older brother's arm, feeling that her older brother was just too good to be true.

Chang Dashan and Liu Meifen skinned the remaining snakes in the courtyard by the moonlight.

Just as they were thinking about what to eat for breakfast, two people approached from outside the courtyard. They were Liu Tiezhu and Song Shulan, the women's director.

Liu Tiezhu also ate snake soup tonight. At home, his wife, Li Erniang, praised Chang Kun for his kindness and generosity, saying that he had given their family such a large snake.

Just as they were finishing their meal, Song Shulan, the women's director, arrived home and asked Liu Tiezhu to help her pull a string.

Liu Tiezhu and Song Shulan were cousins, so of course they had no objections to this matter.

Upon arriving at the Chang family's house, Liu Tiezhu and Song Shulan praised Chang Kun in the courtyard, saying how capable he was and how much the young people in the village envied him.

After a while, Liu Tiezhu explained his purpose: he wanted to introduce Song Xiaoyu, the daughter of the women's director, to Chang Kun and ask what the Chang family elders thought.

Song Xiaoyu had just visited the Chang family that morning. She felt that Chang Kun wouldn't even be interested in someone as beautiful as Qin Meiru, let alone herself, so she gave up on the idea.

But her mother, Song Shulan, refused. Seeing that the Chang family was becoming more and more prosperous, she thought that if her daughter could marry into the Chang family, she would live a life of plenty and comfort.

Chang Dashan and Liu Meifen gave a few perfunctory replies, telling the young people to talk it over themselves, without saying whether they agreed or not.

They were truly at a loss and had no idea what their son was thinking.

Chang Kun was talking about breaking off the marriage alliance with the Qin family while teasing Qin Meiru, leaving them completely confused.

In Liu Meifen's view, the priority now is to get the work settled; everything else can wait.

After chatting for a while, Liu Tiezhu and Song Shulan said goodbye and left.

Chang Kun returned to the west kang and checked the system notification.

[Ding! Snake captured 10/10, reward: Universal Serum*1]

[The current host can sense prey weighing less than 260 jin (approximately 860 kg) within a range of 700 meters.]

"Another useless thing," Chang Kun muttered, casually tossing the reward into the system space.

Before dawn the next day, Chang Kun and Chang Dashan were woken up by Liu Meifen.

Breakfast has been prepared for them, the same snake soup and meat buns from last night.

As long as she didn't catch a big prey or meet her work targets, Liu Meifen was constantly worried about losing them.

After breakfast, Liu Meifen brought some mung bean cakes for the father and son. She had also prepared sacks, guns, and small hand axes for them.

The father and son arrived at the foot of the mountain and encountered several groups of villagers. They chatted for a while as they went into the mountains together. They all said that there were no more prey in the nearby mountains, and if they wanted to hunt big ones, they would have to go to the deeper mountains further away.

Chang Kun and Chang Dashan exchanged a glance. Yesterday, they had gone to a remote mountain and encountered a black bear.

Fortunately, Chang Kun woke up in time and retreated. Otherwise, if he had run into a black bear in the forest, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Chang Dashan offered a few words of advice, but seeing that the villagers remained unmoved, he stopped trying to persuade them.

If you talk too much, people might think you're stopping them from making money.

And what they said makes sense. If you want to take down a big guy but aren't willing to take risks, there's no such thing as a free lunch.