Reborn at 60: I Helped My Sister Get Rich Starting from Hunting

"How much? How much did you say?"

"Eighty-eight yuan? Are you crazy?"

"Wang Jie, have you never seen money before?"

The villagers, filled with righteous indignation, began to curse.

Wang Jie, however, was determined. He clutched his stomach and wailed pitifully.

“My mother always treats Zhang Yan so well, she always gives her the best food! She even gave her the fabric for my sister’s clothes first. And what did she do?”

"She's like a rich landlord's daughter! She can't stand the slightest grievance and runs back to her parents' home at the drop of a hat!"

"Where will our Wang family's reputation be?"

"Moreover, my mother and my sister Zhaodi came specifically to take her back, but instead of being ungrateful, she beat them so badly that they were seriously injured!"

"If this gets out, will you, the people of Zhangjiatun, ever be able to hold your heads high again!"

"For the past three years, my mother has raised Zhang Yan with great care and hardship, treating her like her own daughter. In the end, she took her child and went back to her parents' home without a second thought. What did our Wang family do wrong? Should we have raised someone else's daughter for free for the past three years?"

Wang Jie dominated the entire stage, and his performance was absolutely terrible.

"Your Zhang family is truly shameless. You raise your daughter only to send her to other families to cheat them out of their grain!"

"No wonder you treat such a money-losing machine like a treasure! It turns out there's a bigger plan in the works."

As soon as Zhang Yang heard those three words, he felt as if his eardrums were being pricked by needles!

He rushed forward, ready to grab Wang Jie and tear his foul mouth apart!

But this time, he was stopped by the villagers.

"Yangzi! This arguing won't solve anything! These Wang family members are just scoundrels, they're only after your money."

"Yeah, yeah! If you throw two more punches, they'll ask for even more! Then things will get even more complicated."

Zhang Yang didn't want to get entangled with them either, but after hearing their advice, he immediately calmed down.

That's true. Even if we want to teach this scoundrel a lesson, we should wait until he divorces my sister!

His eyes were filled with a cold light, and it was as if knives could fly out of his deep eyes.

"You want money, right? Fine! Eighty-eight it is! As long as you obediently divorce my sister, you won't lose a single penny of this eighty-eight yuan from your Wang family."

The old woman standing next to him was startled and slapped Zhang Yang hard on the back.

"Are you crazy, kid! The Wang family is clearly asking for an exorbitant number! You can offer them the money, but you can't agree to that number!"

"Farmers grow a little grain each year, hand it over to the commune, and earn enough work points to be considered lucky. Where do they get the money? Earning ten yuan is a headache, let alone eighty-eight!"

Zhang Yang smiled confidently.

"This number is fine! Only when we give them enough will these dead rats who grew up in the gutter shut up."

At this moment, Wang Jie remembered to seize the opportunity to be a good person.

“Zhang Yang, don’t try to be a hero! I know your Zhang family is struggling to make ends meet! You’ll have to beg and plead everywhere to scrape together eighty-eight yuan, right? No problem, I can give you a month! If you can’t raise the money after a month, you, Zhang Yang, will politely send your sister back to the Wang family. Otherwise, you know the consequences!”

Zhang Yang said confidently, "You can go back and wait!"

"Okay! Okay!"

The Wang family was overjoyed to receive a satisfactory answer and immediately carried Wang Jie away.

As he walked, he sang to everyone he met: "Our Wang Jie and Zhang Yan from your village are getting a divorce! The Zhang family has agreed to settle this with a settlement of eighty-eight yuan! Everyone come and be a witness!"

"It's eighty-eight yuan, not a penny less! Everyone heard that!"

Everyone in the village looked down on the Wang family, but at the same time, they were also astonished by Zhang Yang's promise.

"This kid is too reckless! He dares to agree now, but where is he going to get the money?"

Zhang Yang did not reveal his plan to anyone.

He returned home and silently gutted the remaining roe deer.

Then, the meat was cut into several small pieces and delivered to the families who had just come out to help.

When the villagers saw him, they all felt sorry for him.

“We watched you and Yan’er grow up. Your father passed away early, and you are the only pillar of this family now.”

“We know you just want to stand up for your sister, but the Wang family doesn’t want eight yuan, they want eighty-eight yuan.”

"Yang, I'm an old widower with nothing, just some savings for my funeral... a total of sixty-four-two cents. Not much! Don't mind it! Take it to tide you over."

Once someone started it, the other villagers couldn't sit still either.

Everyone chipped in, some giving five cents, others eight cents, and in the short time they were talking, they had already scraped together four dollars.

Zhang Yang didn't accept a single penny.

Looking at his kind-hearted fellow villagers, he found himself with tears welling up in his eyes without realizing it.

With great difficulty, Zhang Yang suppressed the surging emotions in his heart and pointed to the roe deer meat he had brought out.

"I'm here to express my gratitude, not to borrow money from you all! Thank you so much for your timely help, uncles and aunts. I, Zhang Yangquan, will always remember this kindness!"

"Here's some wild game. If you don't mind, please accept it! As for the money, I have my own way. I'll come back to bother you again when I'm really desperate."

The older women became anxious, "Why are you arguing with us, child?"

It was an uncle named Zhao Antai who noticed something amiss and quickly restrained the group of kind-hearted villagers.

"Since Yangzi says he has his own plans, let him give it a try first!"

Zhao Antai turned his head and whispered to the others, "Zhang's son is strong-willed. We must not hurt his pride with our good intentions."

Zhao Antai is a down-to-earth and hardworking farmer. He has raised his three children well, so he carries a lot of weight among the villagers.

After hearing what he said, everyone stopped trying to stuff money into their hands and, with trepidation, accepted the meat that Zhang Yang had brought.

……

When Zhang Yang returned home, he saw Li Huifang and Zhang Yan sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed) as soon as he opened the door. Both of them had red eyes, obviously because they had just been crying.

"Wang Jie is a real scoundrel!" Zhang Yan became angrier the more she thought about it, and stomped hard on the quilt next to her feet.

"Brother, don't listen to him. Once I'm feeling better, I'm going back to the Wang family! I refuse to believe they can torture a grown man to death!"

Upon hearing Zhang Yan's words, Zhang Yang didn't get angry but laughed instead.

"What are you laughing at? Are you out of your mind?" Li Huifang asked, flustered.

Zhang Yang calmly shook his head and explained with a smile, "Mom, I'm not in a hurry, I'm happy! Seeing my sister like this makes me feel relieved. Her spirit has finally returned!"

As the old saying goes, a tree lives by its bark, and a person lives by their breath.

Since marrying into the Wang family, Zhang Yan had suffered countless hardships. When Zhang Yang brought her back, her eyes had lost all their light.

But it's different now.

She not only gets angry, but she also has the energy to swear!

"This is a joyous occasion, an even greater joyous occasion than catching a roe deer!"

"But don't worry, we're not giving this money away for nothing. Only after we get divorced can I really get my hands on him!"

Zhang Yang patiently comforted his mother and sister, and only after confirming that they were calm did he pick up his hunting rifle, cut off a large piece of roe deer meat weighing about ten pounds, and go out again.

This time, he went straight to Zhang Minde's house.