I have been farming since I crossed over.

"Huff, huff, huff..." Soon, the heavy breathing of the wild boars could be heard. Everyone stood in a state of alert, ready to perform well. After the three young wild boars slowly passed the first ambush site, Yang Mingyu and Zheng Huairen slowly lowered their noose and waited quietly.

After a while, two strong wild boars with fat bodies swung into the noose of Yang Mingyu and Zheng Huairen. Just as they were about to pull the rope, they heard the suppressed calls of wild boars coming from the bottom of the trail. Without hesitation, they pulled the rope hard.

Just as the two strong wild boars were about to run forward to see what had happened to their children, they were hung up high and began to make whining sounds.

All five wild boars were hoisted up. Yang Mingxi decided to stop here today. If there were too many, there would be no way to carry them back. He called back Yang Mingyong and Yang Mingtao, and they tied up the wild boars and carried them to the river.

After six trips back and forth, they finally managed to carry all the wild boars and roe deer to the river. Looking at the pile of prey, they began to worry. How could they transport it back? The distance from the trail to the river was short, and after six trips back and forth, they were almost exhausted.

To get from here to Changshan Village, you have to cross Changhu Mountain, so it is not possible with just a few people.

Yang Mingxi suggested that everyone eat something and take a rest first, and then go to the mountains to cut trees, cut trees as thick as arms, tie several trees together to make a simple raft, and then put the wild boar and roe deer on the raft, paddle along the stream to Changhu Lake, and then carry them down from Changhu Lake, which would be much more convenient.

After eating, they left two pheasants for Yang Mingchao and Yang Minghao, who were gathering herbs on Changhu Mountain, and then went to cut small trees to make rafts. Each raft consisted of 12 small trees, making four rafts in total, with two prey and two people on each raft. Yang Mingxi and Zheng Huairen were on the first raft, which had two wild boars on it. Yang Mingyu was alone on a raft, with a wild boar and a roe deer on it. The following rafts were led by Yang Mingyong and Yang Mingbo, and then by Yang Mingtao and Yang Mingyang. Yang Mingzhou went down Changhu Mountain to find the two young ones and brought them back with him.

When Zheng Huairen was very young, he went hunting with his father. Once, they also used a raft to transport prey. He vaguely remembered that the entire river had no cliffs and was always very flat. Yang Mingxi and Zheng Huairen led the way. Because they were following the current, they soon arrived at Changhu Lake. After paddling half a circle around Changhu Lake, they arrived at the lakeside above the reclaimed land. Yang Mingxi planned to go up the lake from here and carry it directly down.

A group of people carried a wild boar down. Yang Mingxi watched the prey by the lake. After a while, the men who helped to clear the wasteland came up to help carry the wild boar. Everyone was very excited to see so many prey.

After carrying the prey to the roadside below Zheng Huairen's house, Yang Mingxi, Yang Mingyu and Zheng Huairen drove an ox cart carrying two wild boars to the county and headed straight for the restaurant.

Arriving at the restaurant, the waiter quickly went up to call for Shopkeeper Liu to come down. When Shopkeeper Liu saw the two large wild boars on the ox cart, his heart finally settled. With these two large wild boars, tomorrow's banquet for the distinguished guests would be no problem. Smiling, he approached the ox cart and said with a bow, "You are so young! I thank you all. From now on, I will take all the prey you hunt!"

Yang Mingxi stepped forward and said with a smile, "Uncle Liu, we hunted five wild boars and three roe deer today. We plan to hunt before spring comes. Can you really consume so much prey?"

Upon hearing this, Shopkeeper Liu's slightly worried expression immediately vanished, replaced by a broad smile. "We can consume it, we can consume it, especially living creatures like you. We can send it to other branches. Look at our Zuixianlou. We have over 20 branches in Nanling Country, and only a few of them receive game regularly. We always need it."

Yang Mingxi looked up and saw that it was Zuixianlou. I heard that it was opened by a wealthy family in the capital. It has branches all over the Jingzhou Continent and its specialty is game.

Yang Mingxi smiled after hearing this and said, "I'll trouble Uncle Liu to take care of me from now on."

Shopkeeper Liu smiled sincerely and said, "There's no such thing as taking care of me. You guys helped me. From now on, it's just cooperation. Happy cooperation!"

Yang Mingxi followed up, "It's a pleasure to work with you."

Shopkeeper Liu called his son over to weigh the two wild boars. He said, "Write that down for now, we'll calculate it together later." He then asked the shop boy to drive a mule cart with Yang Mingxi and the others back to retrieve the prey.

The middle-aged man on the second floor finally relaxed his frown as he looked at the two wild boars that had been delivered. His master was incredibly strange, coming all alone to such a remote place to serve as a seventh-rank county magistrate, and even asking him to brazenly buy wild boars from his friend's Zuixianlou restaurant to host a banquet for all the officials in Qingshui County tomorrow. It was truly bizarre.

The three wild boars brought in later weighed 1286 jin, which was calculated as 1290 jin. Together with the previous 920 jin, the total was 2210 jin, 20 wen per jin, a total of wen; the three silly roe deer weighed 503 jin, which was calculated as 500 jin, and was collected at 10 wen per jin, which was two wen more per jin than the previous 8 wen, a total of 5000 wen, plus the 10 taels of silver reward before, a total of 59 taels plus 200 copper coins.

After Yang Mingxi received the money, he counted out 200 copper coins and gave them to the two waiters who helped pull the wild boar, saying, "These copper coins are for tea. Thank you for your help." The two waiters were delighted and thanked him with a smile. This was five or six days' wages for them.

After collecting the silver and money, Yang Mingxi, Yang Mingyu and Zheng Huairen drove the old cow back home. Yang Mingxi, who had wanted to go and see how her elder sister was doing, thought that it was already late, and since it was their first day hunting together, it would be better to go back early and divide the money to make everyone happy, so she did not mention going to see Yang Mingyun.

The three of them returned to Changshan Village. The people who had reclaimed the wasteland had already gone back. Yang Mingxi invited Zheng Huairen to their house for dinner, but Zheng Huairen refused. Zheng Huairen approached Yang Mingxi and said with a smile, "You've been away from home for a day, and I'm worried about you. Go back and have dinner first. I'll come to your house after dinner and divide the money. Then come to my house to give acupuncture to the third and fourth children, and then I'll take you back."

Yang Mingxi was confused by him and didn't think too much about it. She nodded in agreement and went back to the Yang family's house with her third brother in the ox cart.

When they got home, everyone was serving food and preparing to eat. Yang Mingxi told them about sharing the money after dinner and then went home to eat. Yang Mingxi looked at the food that was served, which was the same as last night. She frowned and asked Wu, "Mom, why is the food like this every day? What did you eat for lunch?"

Mrs. Wu smiled and said, "It's always like this. What's wrong? The food is good. Everyone is full."

Yang Mingxi looked at the others, who seemed to be enjoying themselves, and said nothing more. After the meal, Yang Mingxi was dragged to the backyard by Yang Mingyu and said, "Xi'er, the food in our house is already pretty good, because grandpa and grandma arranged it well, and the uncles and aunts are also hardworking. We have a lot of land, and we don't sell any grain except for paying taxes, so we can barely eat enough. But in years of disaster, we still starve." After thinking for a while, he said, "For money, we sell pigs and eggs and do odd jobs. There are many people in our family, and the clothes and fabrics are all paid by our third uncle at the purchase price all year round, so it seems that we can barely get by. Many families in the village still don't have enough to eat."

Yang Mingxi nodded and said, "I understand, Third Brother. Let's take out some of the money we will divide later and give it to Grandpa and Grandma. Let them have some money in their hands so that they can feel at ease."

Yang Mingyu nodded and returned to the main hall. A short while later, Zheng Huairen arrived. It was his first time at Yang Mingxi's house, so he was a little reserved. When it came to dividing the money, he didn't say much, always deferring to Yang Mingxi. And the look he gave Yang Mingxi, seen by Wu and Yang Laowu, was incredibly fiery.

The total income for today is 59 taels of silver. Each person will receive 7 taels first, and the remaining taels will be saved for tomorrow's distribution. The general idea is to divide the money in round numbers as much as possible to make it easier to calculate.

Everyone was excited when they received the silver, eager to try and hunt more prey tomorrow. Yang Mingxi poured cold water on them, saying, "From tomorrow on, the price of wild boar will be 12 wen per catty, and other prey will be 10 wen per catty. It's definitely not as much as today. There's also a 10 tael reward today, so there's more to share."

Everyone wanted to count the bounty separately, but Yang Mingxi refused. Yang Mingxi asked everyone to go to bed early and continue to go up the mountain tomorrow. It was only a few days before the Chinese New Year, and after the Chinese New Year it would be spring, so hunting would be a thing of the past. Everyone went back to bed.

Yang Mingyu took the five taels of silver given by Yang Mingxi to the main room and found that the other four boys were also there. They all had the same purpose, which was to give money to their grandparents.

Old Man and Old Lady Yang sternly refused, saying, "We made it clear on the day we divided the family. Now all the money each of you earns belongs to you. Starting next year, each family will just give us 200 coins as a tribute each year."