Reborn in the 60s, I hunt to support my family and even seduce the village beauty.

"Give me two more pounds of white sugar, six pounds of peach shortbread, one pound of sugar balls, a little bit of oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar, a cleaver, and ten pounds of loose liquor, divided into five jars."

Chang Kun couldn't think of anything else for the moment; his mother, Liu Meifen, had always been in charge of managing the household.

Seeing that Chang Kun didn't speak again, Wang Cuiqin thought for a moment, then turned to look at Xiao Yao:

"Did a batch of fabrics arrive in the warehouse today? Those fabrics don't require coupons. Let my brother pick some out."

A short while later, Xiao Yao returned with several bolts of cloth.

Chang Kun opened a roll of blue fabric, but couldn't see any flaws. In the end, he chose half a bolt of blue fabric and half a bolt of gray fabric.

I didn't need any receipts for the things I bought. After settling the bill, I still had 550 yuan left over from selling the wild boar.

Chang Kun looked at the large handful of black ten-dollar bills in his hand, smiled bitterly, and wondered what to buy with so much money left. He decided to go back and ask his mother again.

If you want to buy sorghum flour or corn flour but don't have the necessary coupons, you can only go to the black market.

Chang Kun thought for a moment and decided to keep the money for now, in case the supply and marketing cooperative had work quotas and he couldn't hunt any prey for a while, the money could be used for emergencies.

The job at the supply and marketing cooperative was prepared for my mother; it's an easy job that doesn't require much physical exertion.

When they go shopping again, Chang Kun plans to bring his mother to familiarize herself with the environment of the supply and marketing cooperative, so that she won't be intimidated by working in the city.

Xiao Yao and Lao Liu busied themselves helping Chang Kun pack his things and tie them to the oxcart. They were in a great mood because they would be eating wild boar meat tonight.

As he was leaving, Wang Cuiqin chased after him and forced two packs of Daqianmen cigarettes onto Chang Kun's hand, saying she wanted to give them to Grandpa Chang Dashan to smoke.

Chang Kun nodded. Relatives in this era are true relatives.

Next time we hunt wild rabbits or squirrels, we'll bring some over for the people at the supply and marketing cooperative to try.

As for the relationship, it will definitely get closer and closer as they get to know each other.

Chang Kun brought such a big wild boar today, which is a great honor for Wang Cuiqin as a relative. She'll probably get a raise soon.

Liu Meilin waved goodbye to Xiao Yao with a cheerful smile at the entrance of the supply and marketing cooperative.

He didn't go into the supply and marketing cooperative today; he stayed outside guarding the wild boars and the oxcart.

But they ate quite a bit. Xiao Yao took out the peach crisps from the box, wrapped the remaining crumbs in paper, making two large bags, and gave them all to Liu Meilin.

Worried that he might eat too dry food, I also poured him two glasses of melted ice cream water.

These things were considered special benefits of the supply and marketing cooperative.

Liu Meilin was so satisfied with the meal that she kept burping on the way back.

In the supply and marketing cooperative's office, Director Song instructed Lao Liu to give each person ten jin of wild boar meat, and he would keep the rest for gifts.

……

Just as Chang Kun was riding home in an oxcart, a woman's scream came from afar.

"Hey, thief! There's a thief!"

A skinny, short man came running over like the wind. Seeing Liu Meilin blocking the road with his oxcart, he shouted angrily.

"Are you blind? Get out of here!"

The skinny, short man had a shifty look on his face, and Chang Kun could tell at a glance that he was a thief.

Seeing him charging straight at him without any sign of stopping or giving way, Chang Kun swung his spear over his shoulder and held it in his hand. "What's up, buddy?"

Facing the dark muzzle of a gun, the skinny, short man's legs went weak, and he knelt down on the ground, stammering, "Brother, it can't be that bad! I just stole a bag, it doesn't warrant being shot!"

Her voice was choked with sobs as she spoke.

In fact, Chang Kun's insurance was not even opened.

A series of hurried footsteps sounded, and before the person even got close, a clear female voice rang out.

"Thanks, bro! That thief ran pretty fast!"

Chang Kun looked up and was taken aback when he saw who it was.

The person who came was a young girl, who looked to be about the same age as me.

Wearing a light blue dress and blue canvas shoes with white socks that reached mid-calf, she looked lively and neat.

The girl in front of him looked familiar. Chang Kun thought for a moment and then remembered.

In his previous life, this girl was his nephew's teacher. After his older sister's family moved to the city, they became neighbors with this girl, and the two families had a very good relationship. He had met her several times at his older sister's house.

I heard that the girl later married a wealthy businessman, but then a storm came and she suffered a lot.

"You filthy thief, try and run again!"

The girl kicked the thief in the lower back, her angry shout interrupting Chang Kun's reverie.

Chang Kun: ...

Liu Meilin: ...

Who would have thought that such a girl, who seems like the girl next door, would utter such words?

"Thank you so much! The thief almost got away!"

The girl turned to Chang Kun with a smile, snatched the cloth bag from the thief's hand, pulled out a long rope, and quickly tied the thief's wrists together with practiced ease.

Chang Kun's lips twitched. She had rope in her bag and was so skilled at tying people up; anyone who didn't know better would think she was a robber.

"It's nothing." Chang Kun waved his hand and watched as the girl tied up the thief before walking around their oxcart.

After walking a dozen steps, I suddenly heard a system notification.

[Ding! Thief captured 1/1, reward: Advanced Lockpicking Skill.]

[The current host can sense prey weighing less than 60 jin (approximately 860 kg) within a range of 200 meters.]

Chang Kun was stunned. Catching a thief counts as a capture?

And what they give you is a skill!

He turned to look at the girl and the thief again. The girl was physically attacking the thief, her toes and fists slamming into his head.

The thief's location was also detected by the system.

This system doesn't seem as useless as I thought!

Even villains can figure out their prey, that's impressive!

……

Liu Meifen spent the whole afternoon cleaning up the pig intestines and stomach, talking non-stop, praising her son all the time.

She originally thought that her son was already very capable for hunting wild rabbits and greyhounds.

I never expected that my son would actually be able to hunt a wild boar today.

Many families in the village couldn't even get enough to eat with wild vegetable porridge, let alone pork—that was something they wouldn't even dare to dream of!

The little girls were watching the fat cut from the wild boar in the yard, their mouths watering.

Chang Qing vaguely remembered eating fried pork cracklings when he was a child; these were made from this stuff.

Those deep-fried foods are crispy and incredibly fragrant; they feel like the best food in the world.

They were really looking forward to their eldest brother coming home. Their mother said that the lard had to be divided up when their eldest brother came home, and then it had to be fried before they could eat the cracklings.

Chang Dashan puffed on his pipe, his mind still on the wild boar, wondering if his son's attempt to sell it had gone smoothly.

If he had hunted the wild boar himself, everyone in the village would have praised him.

Chang Kun and Liu Meilin had just driven the oxcart outside the courtyard when the little girls spotted them and surrounded them.

"Big brother is back! Big brother is back!" The little ones chattered incessantly, giving everyone a headache.

Chang Kun took out three candy balls from his pocket and gave one to each of them.

"Oh! Thank you, big brother!"

Mine is yellow.

"Mine is green."

"It's so sweet."

"I ate this during Chinese New Year when I was five years old. It's called a sugar ball," Chang Qing boasted, showing off her knowledge.

Chang Mu was too young then to remember. She had a candy ball in her mouth and her eyes were squinted like a kitten.

As soon as Chang Kun and Liu Meilin entered the courtyard, they were surrounded by Liu Meifen.

Liu Meifen saw that Chang Kun was carrying a large sack, and knew that it was what he got in exchange for selling the wild boar. She chuckled.

Before, her family had no money or food, and she had to carefully calculate what she ate and drank every day to make ends meet. It was really tough.

Now that we've hunted such a big wild boar, we'll never lack food again. My son has been like a completely different person these past two days.

Chang Qing, Chang Mu, and Chang Xiu followed their eldest brother like three little tails, helping him lift the sacks.

Chang Kun gently put down the sack, glanced around, and noticed that Zhang Qu was absent-minded. He immediately asked, "Mother, did the cricket go home?"

"I hadn't been gone long when I saw that we had finished cleaning up, so I cut off half of the pig's liver and lungs for him to take back and stew. The rest of the liver, lungs and heart are stewed in our pot."

"Okay, I told him when we were hunting wild boars that I'd give him some meat if I needed it."

There's something in the sack; take it back and put it away. I'm going to deliver a piece of fatty meat to Ququ's house.

……

At this moment, Zhang Quhun returned home with half a pig liver and half a pig lung.

"Such a big wild boar, and you only got this little bit of stuff?" Zhang Pianxin's finger was almost poking Zhang Quhun's forehead.

He had heard that the wild boar weighed at least two or three hundred pounds, and this was all they gave him? Was this some kind of food to appease a beggar?

Zhang Qu, who had been happily returning home, was stunned.

He originally thought his father would praise him for bringing pig liver and lungs, but instead he was met with a barrage of criticism.

His face darkened, and he retorted to his father, "What's wrong? You think this is too little? No matter who I bring, Brother Kun can hunt wild boars. It's already a good thing that he's willing to bring me along!"

Besides, I only helped drag the wild boar away. How much do you want?

"You two went into the mountains together, and you only got this little bit of stuff? You're so stupid!!"

Zhang Pianxin had originally heard that Chang Kun had hunted a large wild boar, which would at least allow his family to share some meat so his eldest grandson could gain some weight. Now…

"I'm stupid, but even though I'm stupid, people are still willing to take me along and give me food! And you, you just send the things I bring back to my older brother's house, I don't get a single bite, what's the point of bringing them back?!"

When Zhang Quhun saw that the squirrel meat and soybeans he had brought back yesterday were gone, he knew without a doubt that his father had sent them to his older brother's house again.

He could no longer hold back and vented his pent-up frustration.

Zhang Pianxin was stunned for a moment. He hadn't expected his usually obedient son to talk back to him. He was touched on a sore spot and became angry and embarrassed.

"You dare talk back? I'll teach you to say it! I'll teach you to say it!"

One slap after another landed on Zhang Quhun's forehead.

"Just because you're surnamed Zhang doesn't mean you have to listen to me! You're really going to rebel! If you're so capable, don't be surnamed Zhang, go live with someone else! All you ever think about is eating this and that!"

Zhang Quhun's neck stiffened and his face flushed red. He never expected his father to say such a thing.

Just then, a voice came from outside the courtyard: "Uncle Zhang, are you home?"

When Zhang Pianxin went outside, he saw that it was Chang Kun, who was carrying a piece of fatty meat. He was a little flustered.

They were just talking badly about someone, and now they're outside the door...