Reborn in 80: Starting with hunting in the mountains to get rich

Li Guaizi sat on the steps with his legs apart, smoking his pipe, and looked at Li Ju'an with a smile: "Look how you've driven Lao Qin to such a state, his eyes are practically red with envy."

Li Ju'an disagreed and ruffled Da Hu's hair, saying, "Did I force him? With that arrogant attitude of his, Da Hu wouldn't care about him either, right? Da Hu only cares about me, and he's always been so good to me."

Big Tiger turned its head away and looked elsewhere, ignoring him with a very aloof attitude, but its tail wagged slightly twice.

Old Tao saw through Da Hu's subtle details clearly, and his expression relaxed.

He then thought of Old Qin and sneered, "Just you wait and see, that wolf surnamed Qin will bring him a lot of trouble. Regardless of whether the wolf cub changes its nature or not, even if it sometimes drags back a badger, a roe deer, or a deer, so what? The wolf cub can also drag back a chicken, a goose, or a sheep. In that case, will Old Qin have to pay compensation or kill the wolf?"

Old Qin was desperate for a alpha dog. If he couldn't get one, he'd train a wolf to be his alpha. Even if it was fierce and wild, if trained well, it might be even more formidable than the best alpha dog in the Xing'an Mountains.

Li Guaizi made a good point, and Li Ju'an remembered it: "You have to be wary of Lao Qin. A madman raises a mad dog. Be careful that wolf cub fights with the tiger. No matter how fierce the dog is, it can't beat the wolf."

Li Ju'an went into the Tao family's old house to warm himself by the fire.

The Tao family's old house is seven meters long and three meters wide. It was built with wood, straw, and mud. There was a saying back then: "Four pillars, one beam, one kang (heated brick bed), two windows, and braided straw forming a large wall." The wood-burning stove was burning, and the widow of the Chen family went to the back of the house to start a fire with bean stalks to cook.

He listened as Li Guaizi and Lao Tao argued heatedly about borrowing the dog, while Chen's widow rambled on about the past.

“When we were young, we lived in a mountain valley. My husband was still alive then. He didn’t have a gun, and tigers would come and scratch at the door at night. Everyone was afraid of tigers. Guess what happened? I took a pair of red-hot tongs, stuck them out through the crack in the door, and scalded the tiger’s testicles. That scared the tiger away.”

“Every time Lao Tao hears me talk about this, he praises me as a heroine, saying that even if you're a man, not many people would be willing to get close and fight a tiger without a gun.”

As Widow Chen recounted her past, her face flushed with excitement and emotion. Li Ju'an suddenly understood why Widow Chen was able to be with Old Tao; her courage alone was enough to make her undeniably worthy of praise.

He then asked the widow of the Chen family where the half-blooded spotted dog came from.

The widow of the Chen family sighed and said, "Old Tao didn't want to either, but he couldn't stop the mother dog from running away on her own. When she came back, her belly was big, and she gave birth to puppies a few months later. You can tell she was just like that."

The female dog went out for a while and came back with puppies in her belly, and they were wolf pups.

Li Ju'an joked with a smile, "Brother Tao has struck it rich! This is a good prospective wolfhound."

"That's what we tried to persuade Lao Tao back then, but he wouldn't listen. He kept saying that a wolf is a wolf and a dog is a dog. If I hadn't stopped him, he would have killed those three wolf cubs."

The dogs that Li Guaizi borrowed from Lao Tao were these three half-grown wolfhound mixes.

Old Tao, the dog commander, loved dogs dearly, but he particularly disliked these three mixed-breed dogs. He wanted to kill them, but his wife stopped him. So, while the wolf-breeds were still young, he simply lent them out to hunters to use as hunting dogs in the mountains. He wouldn't be heartbroken if they were killed by wild boars.

Li Guaizi was still haggling with Lao Tao when Li Ju'an added, "I'll raise the price. I'll borrow the female dog too."

"No loan."

Old Tao was adamant: he could borrow a mixed-breed wolf, but he absolutely could not lend his beloved Qingchuan dog. Li Ju'an pleaded and begged, but even he got annoyed and waved his hand, shouting, "This female dog is called Iron Hammer. She's a slippery dog. You'll know once you take her for a walk up the mountain. It's not worth it."

A slippery dog ​​is a dog that doesn't work when it goes up the mountain, only cares about playing, and won't easily bite its prey.

This kind of dog is also called a freeloader, always trying to get by and freeload. Even the most capable leader can't carry it. Just recently, this slippery dog ​​wandered off to the hillside and went looking for a wolf to get pregnant.

Seeing Lao Tao sighing, Li Ju'an patted his chest and said, "Brother Tao, look at him. Tiechui is big and strong, and he's quite perceptive. With Dahu around, he's sure to make a name for himself. Only if Tiechui is careful to protect his life will he have a chance to deliver a fatal blow."

He praised the female dog to the skies, but Old Tao wasn't buying it. He sneered, "You look down on small prey, but you rely on the boss for big prey. And Iron Hammer has a bad temper; he loves to fight with other dogs."

Li Ju'an laughed even harder: "Fighting is good! Fighting is a sign of affection, scolding is a sign of love. A woman three years older than you is a golden brick, and she's a little firecracker. Iron Hammer should be flirting with our Big Tiger. When the next litter of Qingchuan dogs comes, send me one over, okay?"

Old Tao glared: "You son of a bitch, you want to give it away for free? How many times have you tried to outsmart me?"

Li Ju'an smiled close to him: "You have to call Da Hu 'Dad' at least once. You raised Da Hu right under your nose. It would be such a pity if such good Qingchuan bloodline died out. We can't let some wild wolf from out of town take advantage of you."

Old Tao was so angry that he stomped his feet and cursed, thinking to himself that this kid was cunning. Not only did he extort Da Hu, but he also wanted to extort a female dog named Tie Chui from him for free. In addition, he also planned to extort a purebred Xiao Qing Chuan.

"Get out of here, take those three bastards into the mountains, and just make sure they don't die a horrible death."

Li Guaizi stared in astonishment: "You didn't ask him for money? I offered such a high price, and you wouldn't lend it to me. He just asked and you're already lending it to me? And you don't even want the money?"

Li Ju'an patted him on the shoulder and laughed, "We're not even in-laws yet, why are we talking about money? That's so vulgar."

Old Tao raised his foot to kick: "Get lost, I lose money every time you come here."

The two men laughed and led their five dogs away from the Tao family's old house, heading towards Niubei Village.