Reborn in 72, I hunt to support my family and spoil my younger sister rotten.

"Li Xiangyang, Li Xiangyang, what are you daydreaming about?"

A crisp sound came from beside his ear, and Li Xiangyang was momentarily dazed.

Then it felt like someone slapped him on the face. When he opened his eyes again, he saw a beautiful, flawless face with a rosy glow, and half-naked, snow-white skin. Li Xiangyang almost had a nosebleed from the sight.

The two were in a stack of corn stalks covered in snow.

The surroundings were completely quiet.

The two bodies were very close together in the cold, cramped space, and the white breath from each other's mouths and noses could be clearly seen.

"Su Yan!"

Li Xiangyang was startled.

Didn't I just die in my hospital bed?

With these questions in mind, Li Xiangyang looked down at his body and then shuddered.

The dense needle marks on his hands were gone, and his skin showed signs of frostbite, but beneath his wheat-colored skin lay the strength of his youth.

He was suddenly transported back to the winter of 72, to his hometown of Xiaoliang Village, which he had left half his life!

That era that caused me a lifetime of pain and lifelong regret!

It was in this year that he met Su Yan, an educated youth who had been sent down from the city.

Li Xiangyang is 19 years old, and Su Yan is 18 years old.

He was immediately captivated by the beautiful Su Yan and began a relentless pursuit of her.

In the summer, to help Su Yan get a good night's sleep, he climbed the back mountain to pick mugwort to repel mosquitoes outside her house. He also prepared all sorts of food for her and gave her his monthly rations.

In order to improve Su Yan's diet, who couldn't get meat, he actually used the food rations saved by his mother and sister to go hunting in the mountains as bait, and all the game he worked so hard to catch ended up in Su Yan and Wang Ming's stomachs.

In an era when everyone's food rations were fixed, Su Yan not only didn't suffer from malnutrition, but actually gained weight because she could eat meat that Li Xiangyang brought back from hunting every now and then.

In contrast, Li Xiangyang's mother and sister grew thinner day by day.

Until her previous life, her mother and sister suffered from edema due to long-term malnutrition, and eventually collapsed at home, closing their eyes forever.

He then realized how foolish he had been.

The instigator, Su Yan, swindled Li Xiangyang out of all his savings and ran off with another educated youth named Wang Ming the night before their wedding.

From then on, Li Xiangyang was disheartened and simply left his hometown to make a living by hunting abroad. He died from his injuries and never returned.

......

"Li Xiangyang, are you stupid? I've called you so many times and you're acting like you didn't hear me?"

Su Yan looked at Li Xiangyang with dissatisfaction. Since Wang Ming and she hadn't had sex, she secretly called Li Xiangyang to the corn stack to ask.

In reality, many female educated youths in that era engaged in transactions to ensure they had enough to eat, but these transactions were all conducted in private.

Although Su Yan was Li Xiangyang's girlfriend in name, the closest contact between the two was actually just holding hands in private.

She was unwilling to take things any further, since the man she liked was Wang Ming, who had been sent to the countryside at the same time as her.

"It's too cold, I haven't been able to catch anything yet. I'll go out and check tomorrow."

But Li Xiangyang, now reborn, wouldn't be so foolish as to believe Su Yan again, and casually brushed her off.

Even when he traveled the world in his previous life and honed his hunting skills to the highest level, he was never as excited as he was now when he hunted a lion alone.

Because he was reborn, he now has the chance to make up for all his regrets!

Su Yan's expression immediately turned cold, and she left with the words, "Talk to me again after you've gotten what you wanted."

He then left in a hurry.

Su Yan was the same way in her previous life. As long as Li Xiangyang failed to catch his prey, her attitude would completely change, and she would not talk to him at all.

Li Xiangyang peeked out from the cornstalk stack, watching Su Yan walk away in the moonlight, and sneered inwardly.

I've been reborn, why should I still indulge you?

If you want to eat meat, you'll have to wait.

He then hurried home.

Li Xiangyang's house is located in the north of Xiaoliang Village. The courtyard is not large, and his two uncles' houses are on both sides.

He opened the courtyard gate and, by the light of the moon and candlelight, looked at the two familiar mud-brick houses, the stone mill, the wooden fork, and the various farm tools piled up in the corner. He took a deep breath.

The biting cold air filled his lungs, making him more alert.

I wasn't dreaming; he really came back.

The Li family's courtyard was not large. Li's father died in an accident when he was eight years old.

Later, his uncle took away a portion of the family property under various pretexts, so the family of three is now living in extreme poverty.

Li Xiangyang's mother raised him and his sister Li Xiaohua alone, enduring countless hardships.

It was already seven o'clock in the evening, and the yellow candlelight was faintly shining through the paper-covered windows of the main room.

Xiaoliang Village is located on the edge of the Xingan Mountains, where winter temperatures can drop to below -30°C.

To keep the cold air out of the house, my mother would put a layer of kraft paper on the outside of the window at night and roll it up again during the day.

"Little Flower, is that you?"

Hearing the noise in the courtyard and hearing his mother's voice coming from the side room, Li Xiangyang's eyes instantly welled up with tears.

When Li's mother came out, she saw Li Xiangyang standing in the yard wiping away tears, and a trace of panic instantly appeared on his pale face.

"what happened?"

Li Xiangyang was fine when he went out at noon, so why did he come back crying?

"It's nothing, Mom, I just miss you so much."

Li Xiangyang sniffed, his voice hoarse.

In his previous life, he regretted countless times that if he had cared more for his mother and sister, they wouldn't have starved to death from malnutrition.

This greeting carried with it decades of regret.

"Why are you crying for no reason? Come inside, Mom has heated the kang (heated brick bed) nice and warm today."

Li's mother quickly stepped forward and used her chapped hands to wipe away Li Xiangyang's tears.

"mom!"

Just then, the courtyard gate opened again, and the younger sister, Li Xiaohua, rubbed her hands together, walked into the courtyard angrily, and shouted:

"Mom! Second Uncle said that our family owes a lot of grain and he won't lend us any more. Second Aunt also disagreed, so we'll have to drink mixed grain porridge again tonight."

In my memory, Li Xiaohua was six years younger than Li Xiangyang, and she was already helping her mother with housework when she was twelve years old.

Compared to my previous life, when I only knew how to secretly take food from home, I am more like an adult now.

"Little Flower, your brother misses you too."

Seeing his younger sister's pale but still energetic appearance, Li Xiangyang breathed a sigh of relief.

"Why are you back? You usually eat at the educated youth's place, there's no food left at home!"

Li Xiaohua looked at this strange older brother with wary eyes.

Upon seeing this, Li Xiangyang felt a sharp pain in his heart. From his sister's words, he could see how much of a bastard he had been.

That's right. A while ago, Li Xiangyang took all the grain allocated to him by the brigade to the educated youth for Su Yan's sake.

I eat with them every day.

The mother and sister didn't get many work points for their labor, so naturally they didn't get much food.

They had always relied on borrowing food from various places to barely make ends meet.

At dinner time

On the table was only a bowl of watery mixed grain porridge and a few pieces of pickled vegetables.

"I want to go into the mountains tomorrow."

After drinking a bowl of thin porridge, Li Xiangyang wiped his mouth and said to his mother.

“Go into the mountains? Son, it’s too dangerous. I’ll go borrow some food for you to take to Jiang Zhiqing. Don’t go into the mountains.”

Li's mother quickly put down her bowl and tried to dissuade her.

After all, the Xingan Mountains are definitely not low in danger during winter, not only because of tigers and leopards, but also because of various extreme weather conditions.

Every year, people who go into the mountains to make a living freeze to death there.

So she assumed that Su Yan was saying that because she didn't have enough food, she forced Li Xiangyang to go hunting in the mountains.

“Oh, son, I know you like that Jiang Zhiqing. You don’t need to worry about things at home.”

Li's mother hoped that Li Xiangyang could settle down and start a family, so that he could have children and continue the Li family line. That way, she wouldn't have let her husband down.

but

Li Xiangyang knew about his family's situation.

The last time his family ate meat was during the Chinese New Year, when the production brigade specially allocated two ounces of fatty meat to his family.

For the next year, my mother and sister barely ate any meat.

That's why he passed away from edema on the third day of the Lunar New Year.

Now reborn, Li Xiangyang will never let such a thing happen again.

After a meager dinner, Li Xiangyang began rummaging through the side room.

The box of hunting tools that my father left behind had long been taken by my uncles, and even the dog-skin leg warmers that could keep me warm were taken away.

In the end, all he found was a rusty woodcutter's knife.

After grinding it down, it was still barely usable. Then I found a bundle of rope and some wire that my father had left behind, which I could use to set traps in the mountains.

Then his mother found him several old coats that his father had worn to keep him warm.