Flip the table and divide the family property! Take his wife and daughter into the mountains and eat

The steps instantly transformed into a cruel hell.

Blood splattered on the pristine white snow, a horrifying sight.

The crisp sound of iron breaking bones, the piercing screams, and the incomprehensible curses in the local dialect mingled together in the howling white blizzard.

People kept falling, their heads bleeding profusely, and pools of glaring blood were quickly trampled into the muddy snow.

Wang Jianye and Li Yuejin, who were standing next to the jeep behind, were completely dumbfounded.

Watching this group of reckless country folk and his own workers bleed each other to death like wild beasts, Li Yuejin's legs trembled like leaves.

His face was deathly pale as he gripped Wang Jianye's sleeve tightly: "Old Wang! Didn't you say no one would get hurt?! This is going to turn into a massive mass bloodshed!"

Wang Jianye, standing next to him, was also trembling with fear. His previously composed demeanor had been shattered by the hellish scene before him.

He huddled behind the car door, his eyes darting around, his voice trembling like a cracked gong: "I... I had no idea this would happen! What do we do, Lao Li? We're going to be arrested, we're definitely going to be arrested... Quick, quick, think of something!"

Wang Jianye stammered as he hid behind the jeep, then suddenly shouted as if grasping at a straw: "That's right, the gun! Didn't you take the security guard's gun when you left? Fire a warning shot! Shoot!"

"Gun...!"

Li Yuejin hurriedly lifted his military overcoat, trembling as he pulled out his Type 54 pistol, raised it to the night sky, closed his eyes, and pulled the trigger sharply.

"Bang!"

The piercing gunshots exploded in the wind and snow, making people's eardrums ache.

"What are you all doing! Stop it all!" Li Yuejin roared hoarsely, his voice distorted.

The hand-to-hand combat on the steps paused briefly.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to look in the direction of the jeep.

In an eerily silent stillness, accompanied by a crisp metallic clang, a dozen or so scarred old hunters expressionlessly tore open their tattered cotton-padded coats and expertly pulled out long-barreled double-barreled shotguns and homemade guns filled with iron shot.

More than a dozen dark gun barrels were pointed at Li Yuejin, who was holding a pistol.

"Who the hell are you brandishing a gun at? You're acting like nobody else has one!"

The second brother, who was in charge, spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with ice shards, staring at him as if he were a dead man: "We didn't dare to take out this firearm in front of Boss Zhao's door just now because we knew Zhao Shanhe was a truly ruthless man who had seen blood. We respected him, but we were also afraid of him. As for you..."

The second brother pointed at Li Yuejin with the gleaming barrel of his gun, his face full of disdain: "You bunch of old fogies, half-buried in the ground, who are you trying to fool with this piece of junk?"

Li Yuejin gasped in shock, his hand holding the gun freezing in mid-air.

Wang Jianye coughed twice, forcing out a smile that looked more like a grimace, and forcefully pressed Li Yuejin's gun-wielding hand down: "Cough cough! Old Li was just joking with everyone. How could we shoot at our fellow workers and peasants? We're all comrades!"

"Fuck you, comrade!"

The second brother pressed the homemade gun forward and cursed, "We've been queuing here all night, almost freezing to death, just to sell our goods and earn a living! You bunch of bastards come running over like big shots, taking away our livelihoods and driving us away without a word! Who says we're comrades?!"

Wang Jianye's eyes darted around, and he slapped his thigh forcefully, shouting, "Fellow villagers, I'm just worried you'll get ripped off! You're selling the top-quality hides you've hunted to Zhao Shanhe at a low price, and he's going to make a fortune off you. He's leeching off you! I'm stopping you to protect you from being fooled!"

The old hunters exchanged glances and sized up Wang Jianye.

Looking at his neatly tailored military overcoat and shiny black leather shoes, these shrewd people who had spent years in the old forest immediately realized that this old man was a high-ranking official with money to be made.

"Oh? You're afraid we'll get taken advantage of?"

The second brother sneered, "So you're a big shot now. Fine, since you won't let Boss Zhao buy it, then you buy it! As long as you can offer a higher price than Boss Zhao, we'll sell all the goods we have to you!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Jianye felt a surge of joy.

He was originally worried about how to get his hands on this batch of goods, but he didn't expect that these people would actually fall into his trap.

"Okay! I'll take it!"

Wang Jianye waved his hand with great magnanimity: "Whatever price Zhao Shanhe offers, I'll definitely beat him! I'll buy all your goods today!"

The second brother exchanged a glance with several old hunters around him, a sly glint in his eyes.

The fat sheep has been delivered to our door.

The second brother squinted and slowly announced a number: "Boss Zhao buys our top-quality gray squirrel pelts for five yuan and fifty cents a piece."

In the wind and snow, the boldness on Wang Jianye's face froze instantly.

Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, the muscles in his face twitched violently, his eyes nearly bulging out of their sockets. He immediately lost his composure and roared, "Bullshit! Don't give me that nonsense! It's clearly fifty cents! Zhao Shanhe is just a black market dealer, how could he possibly offer such an exorbitant price as five yuan and fifty cents!"

"Five cents? That's from an ancient almanac!"

A young hunter in the crowd raised his voice, stirring things up: "That was the price a few days ago! Now, the top Soviet leader on the other side of the strait specifically wants this shipment! Boss Zhao has increased the price many times over to get it—it's five yuan and fifty cents! Otherwise, why do you think we'd brave minus thirty degrees to deliver this goods? Are we crazy?!"

"Exactly! We won't sell it for even a penny less!"

"If you can't afford it, get out of here! Don't delay our business with Boss Zhao!"

Hearing the commotion below, Wang Jianye's mind went blank.

Soviet leader? You could make a profit even buying him for five yuan and fifty cents. Just how much money did that little bastard Zhao Shanhe make?!

The lustful fire of greed instantly consumed all of Wang Jianye's reason. As long as he could keep this line in his grasp, this little bit of capital was nothing!

He abruptly pulled Li Yuejin to the back of the jeep, lowered his voice, and said with gleaming eyes, "Old Li, five yuan and fifty cents, we'll take it!"

Li Yuejin was startled: "Old Wang, are you crazy! The factory's accounts are completely empty. What are we going to use to cover the shortfall?"

"Use something from under your bed to put as a mat!"

Wang Jianye stared intently at him, gritting his teeth as he revealed his true intentions: "Do you think I don't know how much profit you've made by rigging approvals at the fertilizer plant over the years? I'll also bring out all the public funds I've embezzled over the years! As long as we intercept all of Zhao Shanhe's goods today, and once we get in touch with those Russians across the strait, we can make back this money tenfold, a hundredfold!"

Upon hearing about the potential for tenfold profits, Li Yuejin's Adam's apple bobbed, and a gambler's madness finally surfaced in his eyes.

Wang Jianye took a deep breath, turned around and strode towards the steps, waving heavily at the hunter.

"Okay! Five dollars and fifty cents, I'll take all the goods you have! Cash on delivery!"

Before the hunters could cheer, Wang Jianye's face darkened. Pointing to the tightly closed, large, black lacquered wooden door, he laid out his conditions: "But I have one condition. If you take my money, you have to join my workers and storm in to smash Zhao Shanhe's hideout! If you cut off his supply lines today, I'll take care of all your goods from now on!"

There was a moment of silence on the steps.

Immediately afterwards, the more than one hundred hunters, looking at the bloodstains on the ground and thinking of the huge sum of money that was about to be theirs, burst into a deafening, frenzied shout.