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

"I have nothing to say to you, get lost!" Chang Kun said coldly, not wanting to say anything more to her.

Qin Meiru had never been treated like this before; her chest heaved with anger.

Seeing that he couldn't even get the head of a grass turtle, he snorted coldly, turned around, stomped his foot hard, and walked away, quickly disappearing from Chang Kun's sight.

Liu Meifen peeked out from the threshold of the main room and, seeing that Qin Meiru had already walked away, quickly walked up to Chang Kun and asked:

"Son, what did she say to you?"

Liu Meifen was not in favor of the marriage from the beginning.

She always felt that Qin Meiru didn't look like someone who could settle down and live a stable life, but she couldn't resist her son's lust for beauty, so she could only reluctantly agree.

"He left without saying anything. I guess he wanted to talk to me about the bride price, but I chased him away."

Chang Kun laughed as he spoke.

If he were to kill Qin Meiru with a single blow, he would have to pay with his own life.

Since I've been reborn, I might as well take it slow!

"This family, none of them are good people!"

Liu Meifen glared at Qin Meiru as she walked away. They weren't even officially mother-in-law and daughter-in-law yet, and she was already starting to dislike her.

"Hey, Xiao Kun, where did you catch that pheasant and that huge turtle?"

Liu Meifen was so preoccupied with finding out about her son and Qin Meiru that she only noticed the prey in her son's hand.

"Xiao Qing, pour water for your brother."

As Liu Meifen took the things from her son's hands, she shouted into the house.

She carried the pheasant and the turtle to the shed and looked for rope to tie them up.

They're all still alive; if we don't tie them up, they might run away.

Chang Qing and Chang Mu heard the noise and ran to the courtyard.

Seeing that his elder brother was slightly sweating, Chang Qing went to pour him some cool water, and Chang Mu used her small hands to fan him.

The two of them caught and ate cicadas with their older brother last night, and now they are very close to him.

Chang Kun happily enjoyed his two younger sisters' attentiveness, and after a while, he asked:

"Xiao Qing, Xiao Mu, which of you wants to eat meat?"

"I think!"

"I think!"

The two said in unison.

Xiao Changxiu, with her short legs, finally ran into the yard and came to her older brother's side.

He said, drooling, "Big pot, I want to eat too."

Chang Kun pinched Chang Xiu's little face and said with a smile, "Then your big brother will give you meat to eat."

Hearing the voices of the group, Chang Dashan put out his pipe and got off the kang (heated brick bed) in the east room.

Thinking to myself, "Did Xiao Kun go to catch seasonal birds again? We haven't finished eating the ones from last night."

Chang Kun didn't keep everyone waiting long. He pulled a dead wild rabbit out of the sack and placed it in front of his sister.

"My goodness, this wild rabbit is so fat!"

"Where did you catch him? He was just beaten to death, wasn't he, his father?"

Liu Meifen, disregarding the pheasant and turtle she was tying up, widened her eyes, walked over, and reached out to touch the wild rabbit.

Chang Dashan glanced at the blood on the rabbit's head; it was clearly blood from when it had just been killed.

He touched the rabbit's soft belly and nodded:

"The wild rabbits are at their fattest now; look at the soft, plump flesh on their bellies!"

"Son, where did you catch this?" Chang Dashan asked, somewhat surprised.

He's a man who spends his days running around in the mountains; he can only catch rabbits with a shotgun. His son has always been good for nothing, so when did he suddenly become so skilled?

"Oh~ oh~ We get rabbit meat to eat!"

Chang Qing was very excited, jumping and shouting around Chang Kun, and then gave his older brother a quick kiss on the face.

Xiao Changxiu followed her older brother and asked for a kiss too.

"What are you eating! Keep them to sell for money!" Liu Meifen glared at the girls.

If this rabbit were sold at the city's supply and marketing cooperative, it could fetch more than five yuan, enough to buy so much oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, needles, and thread!

How could I possibly let that little girl eat it!

Chang Kun shook his head, pulled another wild rabbit out of the sack, and held it up.

"Mother, there's one more."

Liu Meifen opened her mouth, her eyes darting back and forth between the two rabbits, looking somewhat incredulous.

Chang Dashan, having experience in mountaineering, flipped the rabbit over its belly and asked, "Is this a whole litter?"

Chang Kun nodded. "One male and one female."

Liu Meifen stood up, holding a wild rabbit in each hand, weighed it in her hands, and burst out laughing:

"Good son, how are you so amazing? Hahaha..."

Chang Dashan was about to say something when Liu Meifen interrupted him:

"Much better than your father. Your father has never caught two wild rabbits at once."

Chang Dashan: ...

That's right. Chang Dashan usually goes hiking in the mountains and uses a shotgun to hunt wild rabbits. The rabbits he catches are covered in iron pellets, so they can't be sold for a good price.

Look at my son catching these two wild rabbits. He pulled them out of their burrow. They only had some wounds on their heads, because they were beaten to death with a stick.

Chang Qing looked at his mother cautiously: "Mom, there are two wild rabbits, let's eat one."

Chang Mu and Chang Xiu stood around their mother, touching the wild rabbit with their hands and looking at her ingratiatingly—they also wanted to eat meat.

Liu Meifen looked troubled. "This..."

Seeing her little ones getting thinner and thinner, how could a mother not feel heartbroken!

There wasn't even enough food to eat, let alone meat.

One pound of meat can be exchanged for five pounds of coarse grains. If you mix it with wild vegetables and eat it sparingly, it can last a long time. In critical moments, this is a life-saving food!

She thought for a moment, then steeled herself and said, "I'll give you meat next time I catch you."

Chang Dashan twitched the corner of his mouth. He knew it would be like this. Every time he caught something on the mountain, he would sell it for money.

But it is precisely because Liu Meifen is so frugal that she has been able to raise so many children in her family.

The three little girls, Chang Qing, Chang Mu, and Chang Xiu, all pouted, but dared not say anything more.

Liu Meifen was delighted to put the rabbit into a sack, intending to sell it to the supply and marketing cooperative after Chang Dashan finished work.

Chang Kun stopped his mother, waving his hand, "Mom, what about the pheasant and the turtle?"

"A pheasant? A grass turtle?" the younger sisters said almost in unison.

"Oh dear, I almost forgot." Liu Meifen hurriedly turned around.

The grass turtle was trapped under a broken porcelain basin and couldn't escape.

She had only tied the pheasant's feet; she hadn't even had time to tie its wings before she rushed over to check on the rabbit.

When Liu Meifen looked back, the pheasant was flapping its wings, about to take flight, but its feet were tied, so it couldn't flap very high and just scurried around the yard.

In an instant, pheasants darted east and west, their feathers flying everywhere.

Several little girls screamed.

"Hey pheasant! Don't run away!"

"Wow! It's over here!"

"Arrest them quickly!"

When the pheasant, in its panic, ran into the main room and was captured by the group, the family looked at each other and burst into laughter.

I haven't been this happy in a long time!

In 58, the team ran out of collective grain, and the communal dining system became a mere formality, with people having to eat at their own homes.

From that time on, smiles were rarely seen on the faces of the Chang family.

Most of the time, the family was struggling to fill their stomachs, and they couldn't even have a proper meal during the Lunar New Year.

This morning, my son Chang Kun went to Beishangen and returned with two wild rabbits, a pheasant, and a grass turtle in just two or three hours.

It's like the first rays of dawn; though it doesn't offer much light yet, it gives the Chang family hope for a better life.

"Son, go, kill the grass turtle and eat its meat!" Liu Meifen waved her hand, looking heroic.

In fact, she knew that grass turtles didn't have much meat and couldn't fetch much money these days.

"Understood!" Chang Kun clasped his hands in acceptance of the order.

At this moment, the Chang family felt extremely relaxed.

Chang Qing, Chang Mu, and Chang Xiu knew there was meat to eat, and they all cried out and jumped around in the yard.

After a moment of excitement, Chang Qing calmed down and fawned over the stove.

"Mother, let me help you start the fire."

When Chang Mu looked at her older brother, her eyes sparkled; she felt that her older brother had changed a lot.

Her older brother used to work in the city, but he never brought her or her parents any good food.

A few days ago, her older brother was fired from his job in the city. He stays at home all day with a gloomy face, and she doesn't dare to talk to him.

She feels that her current older brother is so great, so incredibly great!