Reborn 73 years later, he takes his mother-in-law hunting in the mountains.

Silent all night.

Lu Xiaoqian ate so much that she got diarrhea again.

He dragged Lu Yao out to squat and defecate three times in the middle of the night.

The brother and sister piled up snow here and there.

They were chatting while taking a dump.

Years later, Lu Yao would often think back to the time when he was a child and would get up in the middle of the night with his younger sister to poop together when he went to the bathroom.

In the morning, before Lu Xiaoqian and Jiang Guizhi had gotten up, Lu Yao got up and went out.

He didn't wait for Ding Mei, nor did he greet Tie Zhu and the others.

I spoke with Gou Shengzi last night and told them to go see Lao Teng today.

He gave Tiezhu fifty yuan and told him to go to town to buy horsehair and cow tendons, and also to go to the blacksmith's shop to order two hundred arrowheads.

Because of the large number of hunters, bows and arrows were also sold in the town.

However, there were no composite bows at that time, only simple bows and arrows made of bamboo.

Lu Yao felt that those were all just for show, with little real impact.

It's better to make your own strong bow.

He gave them the task and then went into the mountains to hunt.

I don't want to bring Ding Mei with me anymore.

Although this girl is quite stubborn, she walks too slowly.

It affects my performance.

Besides, if you really encounter danger, it's easier to get away on your own, but it's difficult to bring a girl along.

If something bad happens to me, who will give me a wife in the future?

But Lu Yao had just reached the back slope.

He couldn't help but secretly groan.

Beyond the old locust grove, a pretty girl in a red cotton-padded jacket stood in the wind, smiling at me.

On her back, she also carried a bow, slung across her body with a beast-shaped crossbow, and had a dozen or so bamboo arrows inserted inside.

It was Ding Mei.

"Hmph, Lu Yao, did you go into the mountains alone without me?"

Lu Yao sighed and said, "Why are you following me? Can't I just give you some of the food I bought? It's so cold and tiring!"

Ding Mei frowned, pouted, and swayed her hips:

"No way! I prefer hunting myself. I didn't dare take the wild boar leg you gave me yesterday; I buried it in the snow in the backyard. Look, I stole the bow and arrows my dad made for my brother."

As he spoke, he drew his bow and nocked an arrow:

"I practice this all the time in my backyard!"

"Whoosh"

"Snap"

The arrow flew out and hit a small tree.

The accuracy is okay, but the power is lacking.

If the bow cannot be drawn to its full extent, the arrow cannot travel far and is not very effective against large animals.

But Ding Mei still seemed quite satisfied:

"Go get the gun, I'm not going to fight you for it."

Lu Yao was helpless.

He had no choice but to go into the woods himself and retrieve the carbine from the old locust tree.

The two went into the mountains together again.

Practice makes perfect, and today, as they went into the mountains again, Ding Mei felt much more familiar with Lu Yao.

We no longer walk one in front of the other; we walk shoulder to shoulder.

"You country bumpkin, aren't you afraid Director Yang will cause you trouble?"

Lu Yao brandished his gun: "What are you afraid of? If they really push me too far, I'll just shoot them all. At worst, I'll just go abroad and make a living!"

"You look so impressive, you country bumpkin!"

Seeing Lu Yao holding the gun without fear, Ding Mei couldn't help but exclaim in praise.

He immediately looked embarrassed and glanced to the side.

This shy demeanor made Lu Yao's soul flutter.

This girl is so beautiful!

In her previous life in the village, Ding Mei also looked down on her, and they often argued.

But in his previous life, he was incompetent and eventually killed someone and ran away, ending his connection with Ding Mei.

The villagers were unaware that the ferryman's disappearance was related to them.

Twenty years later, when they met again, he had fallen in love with Zheng Shuang and was about to get married.

When she met her parents, she never expected that they would be Ding Mei, a widow.

Ding Mei then began her mode of making things difficult for those who objected.

Even after she pulled out her oxygen tube, she never showed such a shy expression in front of him.

Ding Mei.

"Um?"

What do you think of me?

"That's good. Despite being poor, he has high aspirations and can support himself. He's much better than other kids."

That's such a high evaluation!

If she could have treated me like that even once in my previous life, I would have been content.

"If you have a daughter, will she be my wife?"

"Are you crazy?!"

Ding Mei was so angry that she punched him twice.

However, she wasn't angry; instead, she asked Lu Yao with great curiosity:

"You don't lack maternal love, so why do you keep wanting to be my son-in-law? Why do you always say such unfounded things!"

Lu Yao smiled but did not answer.

I just wanted to give you a heads-up, so you won't be unhappy when Zheng Shuang grows up.

After walking for a while, Ding Mei suddenly took out a roasted sweet potato from her handkerchief:

"Here, have some. I used it to warm my hands earlier, it's warm now, here you go."

Lu Yao took it, and saw Ding Mei looking away again.

I couldn't help but chuckle to myself:

They're obsessed with saving face.

They brought me food and said it was for warming my hands.

Thanks.

Lu Yao ate as he walked.

If you choke, you can cut through the snow and scoop out some clean snow to drink like water.

Once you've hunted a wild boar, you don't want to hunt any other small animals.

We crossed Rabbit Ridge directly.

We arrived at the Wild Boar Forest again.

As they were walking, Lu Yao suddenly tumbled, and the two of them tumbled and fell into a snow pit on the side.

"What are you doing, you country bumpkin?"

"I feel like someone is watching us from the 11 o'clock position on our left!"

"You saw it?"

"Based on intuition."

Ding Mei was quite surprised.

I quickly asked which way it was at 11 o'clock, then poked my head out of the snow and looked into the distance.

It was pitch black over there in the woods, and I couldn't see anything.

"We saw footprints yesterday, and there are still people today, which means this person might have been following us!"

Lu Yao stuck the gun out and stared at the woods for a long time.

"They must have escaped. I'm worried they might shoot us in the back. Let's go, into the woods!"

Walking in the open field like this makes you too conspicuous.

The two crawled forward, concealing their bodies with the thick snow.

He stood up only when he got close to the woods.

"Bang"

A gunshot rang out from the woods.

Lu Yao listened intently:

"It's a shotgun. Probably a Russian-style upright double-barreled shotgun. Follow me!"

Lu Yao quickly ran towards the direction of the gunshot.

The enemy's weapon is quite lethal within ten meters, but it is basically ineffective beyond fifty meters.

So there's nothing to be afraid of.

Lu Yao wanted to capture the person who was secretly watching him.

Let's see who it is!

Ding Mei followed him five meters behind, but got further and further away.

She couldn't keep up with Lu Yao's pace at all.

One minute later, Ding Mei was already twenty meters away.

Lu Yao had arrived at the place where he had previously felt there were people.

I walked through the woods by myself.

The other party won't notice.

Moreover, since the other party fired a shot, it means they either encountered prey or were in danger from an enemy.

So they won't be staring at you.

Lu Yao slowed down, holding his gun and walking forward with complete concentration.

Suddenly, there was a noise in the grass nearby.

He used the barrel of his gun to push aside the bushes.

A gray wolf with half its mouth blown off lay there, barely breathing.

"Bang!"

A gunshot rang out again, several dozen meters away.

At this moment, Ding Mei caught up:

"Wow, you killed a wolf?"

"No, it was that person who hit him."

"Then why didn't you take it?"

Lu Yao stared intently in the direction of the gunshot:

"This person wasn't hunting; he was being chased by wolves. Otherwise, he wouldn't have abandoned his prey and run away."

"Having a gun and still getting chased by wolves?"

"Maybe it's a pack of wolves!"

"Should we pursue Lu Yao?"

"We don't know the number of wolves, and the tall grass in the forest makes them excellent at hiding and ambushing; it would be too dangerous to go there rashly!"

"Could it be my dad or the others?"

"No, your dad's gun is a five-round burst, it doesn't make that sound!"

As Lu Yao spoke, he used his bayonet to cut the wolf's neck.

"This can be considered our spoils of war."

Seeing Ding Mei's distracted appearance, Lu Yao asked, "What's wrong?"

"Isn't that person being chased by wolves in danger? You have a gun, why don't you go check it out?"

"Okay, but you have to stay behind me and be a good girl!"

Lu Yao was both highly skilled and daring.

With a carbine in hand, he wasn't afraid of even a pack of a dozen wolves.

They found a large natural pit.

It was filled with snow inside.

Lu Yao threw the wolf in and then covered it with snow.

I made a mark with a twig, so I could come back and get it later.

The two of them chased after the spot where the second gunshot had rang out.