Reborn in the Great Northern Wilderness in 1982, I farmed and hunted to support my whole family.

Li Mu chuckled and coaxed Old Master Gao into taking the whip back, then tried to persuade the old man to go back inside.

To everyone's surprise, the woman who had just been whipped behind him started cursing again.

However, this time it wasn't aimed at Old Master Gao, but at Li Mu.

"You little beast, how dare you curse me! I'll tear your mouth apart!"

As she spoke, she got up and lunged at Li Mu.

Before he even reached Li Mu, Tian Xiaohu quickly walked up to him and stood in front of him like an iron tower.

“I, Tian Xiaohu, don’t hit women, but if you dare to touch my brother Mu, believe me, I’ll twist your head off.”

Despite his honest appearance, Tian Xiaohu can be quite intimidating when he puts on a fierce face. With his two sword-like eyebrows raised and his tiger-like eyes glaring, he can really scare people.

In addition, the fat woman was inherently alluring but inwardly fierce.

Startled by Tian Xiaohu's shout, he trembled involuntarily and hurriedly exclaimed, "Good! Good, old man, you've brought help. Since he's willing to pay, let him be the sucker!"

"Anyway, I'm too lazy to care."

“Ah…Pah!”

The fat woman cursed angrily, then turned and left the yard like a rabbit.

Li Mu smiled coldly upon seeing this.

Others may not know, but he knows perfectly well.

Brother Gao has sent a lot of money home to support his family during his years in the army, but all that money ended up in that fat woman's mouth.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have gotten so fat.

These were all things that Brother Gao himself told him when he came to their village with Brother Gao in his previous life to help Brother Gao's family move their graves, and when that fat woman brought people to cause trouble for Brother Gao.

But now that Brother Gao is sick, this fat woman not only refuses to contribute a single penny, but also utters vile words.

Thinking this, Li Mu watched the departing fat figure, his eyes growing colder.

Brother Gao had both shown him great kindness and saved his life.

Since they dared to bully his elder brother's family, they were bullying his family.

Li Mu's eyes turned cold, and his aura changed accordingly.

“Young man, don’t take that beast’s words to heart. It’s not worth causing any trouble over something like that.”

Old Master Gao had sharp eyes and noticed Li Mu's change at a glance, so he quickly spoke up to persuade him.

"Don't worry, sir, I definitely won't do anything reckless," Li Mu replied, then helped the old man into the house.

After following the old man into the house, they saw that Aunt Gao, with blood on her forehead and a deathly pale face, was lying on the mine with her eyes closed. The boy named Hutou was sitting next to her, wiping away tears sadly.

"Grandpa, this is the money from your net of fish. Please take it to pay for your wife's medical treatment, but I still have some here."

As Li Mu spoke, he took out a hundred yuan from his shirt pocket and stuffed it into Old Master Gao's hand.

"No, I can't accept this. Kid, if you really want to help me, just lend me twenty or thirty yuan."

Old Master Gao had no idea that the money would actually come from selling his fishing net.

Since he started fishing to supplement his family's income, he has only ever made a maximum of thirty-eight yuan.

Even if there are a lot of fish caught in the net today, it's impossible to sell them all!

"Grandpa, please take it. This is really the money you got from selling your fish." Tian Xiaohu quickly chimed in when he saw Grandpa Gao refusing.

He then took the opportunity to explain everything about selling fish in one go.

Grandpa Gao was shocked when he heard this. He really didn't expect that he could get a hundred yuan for free when he wasn't collecting it by the river.

"That won't do either. You're the ones who caught the fish. I want half of this money, and the other half is yours." Old Master Gao frowned slightly and quickly pushed the money Li Mu handed over back.

Li Mu immediately replied, "Don't worry, Xiao Hu and I have already stayed. You shouldn't refuse anymore; taking your aunt to see a doctor is the most important thing."

With Li Mu's words, and seeing his wife still lying on the kang (a heated brick bed), Old Master Gao could no longer refuse.

"Okay! Then consider this money a loan from me."

Li Mu did not refute what Old Master Gao said.

After helping the old man carry the still unconscious aunt onto the carriage outside the courtyard, Li Mu turned to look at Hu Tou, whose eyes were still red and swollen.

"Tiger Head, right? Your grandparents need to go to the hospital, how about you stay at your uncle's house for a few days?"

"No, I want to go to the hospital too," Tiger Head said reluctantly.

But before he could finish speaking, Master Gao reprimanded him with a stern face.

“Where are you going! You stay home. Your older brother said he’ll be home in the next few days. What if he crashes into the door?”

These words hit Tiger Head's weak spot.

He wasn't afraid of anyone in the family except his second uncle.

Seeing Li Mu nod obediently, Li Mu immediately took Hu Tou's hand and said to Grandpa Gao, "Grandpa, you can rest assured and take Grandma to the hospital. I will take care of her here, so everything will be fine."

Grandpa Gao now completely trusts Li Mu, so he nodded in response and immediately drove off.

Li Mu stayed behind to keep Hu Zi company, and took the opportunity to ask Tian Hu Zi to go home first and tell his family about the situation.

So that he doesn't stay away from home and cause his family to worry about him.

Li Mu stayed with Hu Zi and talked to him for a long time, which finally calmed the child down and made him look a little better.

On the other side, Tian Xiaohu went quickly and returned quickly as well.

They almost bumped into Li Jianjun along the way. Tian Xiaohu remembered a conversation Li Mu had made: they would have to push him a little in the future.

So Tian Xiaohu deliberately took a long detour to get back to Grandpa Gao's house.

That evening, Li Mu cooked a fish stew and also made a ring of flatbread using the cornmeal that Tian Xiaohu had brought over.

The three of them ate until they were completely stuffed.

She seemed fine at first, but then she started crying in her sleep that night.

He was clearly frightened by what happened during the day. Although Li Mu had never had a child, he had at least seen pigs run, even if he had never eaten pork.

He immediately held Hu Tou in his arms and comforted him for a long time before finally escaping the fate of being a male nanny.

The next morning, Li Mu also got up early.

Tian Xiaohu, who had also woken up, saw him getting dressed and getting off the kang (a heated brick bed), and hurriedly tried to get up as well.

Li Mu quickly stopped him, saying, "Don't follow me. Stay here and keep Tiger Head company! I'll go up the mountain to check the traps and I'll be right back."

“Then I’ll go,” Tian Xiaohu said immediately.

Li Mu waved his hand and said, "I'll go see if we've caught any foxes. Their fur is the most valuable thing. We need to skin them while they're still dead, otherwise even if we tan them, the fur will easily fall off."

As he spoke, Li Mu put on his tattered overcoat, turned around, and left the house.

It was even colder today than a few days ago. Li Mu shivered, his hands tucked into his sleeves, and he walked towards the mountains with his neck hunched.

Little did he know, no sooner had he left than someone followed him.