Reborn in 1985: Starting from Contracting a Ranch

Chapter 29 Stone Pavilion

Shan Yaowen didn't know this person either, so he carried him directly to the village secretary's house to see if the secretary recognized him.

Li Baoguo has been living quite comfortably lately. Since the beginning of winter, he has had nothing to do except shovel snow for his family every day.

No one in the village goes out; everyone stays home to hibernate. Apart from the trouble caused by Zhao Laosan's gambling gang not long ago, everyone is much calmer now, and there are far fewer people playing cards.

After Shan Yaowen exposed Zhao Laosan's cheating methods, the villagers all thought everyone was cheating when they played cards.

"Uncle, come help!"

Li Baoguo had just finished shoveling the snow off the road in his alley and was about to go for a walk around the village to see who hadn't shoveled snow in front of their house when he heard a familiar voice calling out.

"Hmm? Yaowen? Xiaohao? And Nianya?" Li Baoguo looked at the two figures approaching from afar with a puzzled expression. "What's wrong?"

At first, he wondered why the three children were in such a hurry, but when he saw the person that Shan Yaowen was carrying on his back, he realized that something was wrong.

"Shi Tingyue? What happened? Why did you two bring this? Where's his son?"

After seeing the person on Shan Yaowen's back, Li Baoguo asked a question and offered to help catch the person, saying, "Don't put him down, take him to my house first."

Shan Yaowen was already exhausted and was about to hand the man over to the Party Secretary, but upon hearing this, he could only grit his teeth and continue carrying him.

"Hey, Xiao Hao, go to the Fifth Team and ask about Shi Tingyue's family. Then have one of his family members come to my house."

Lin Hao, panting heavily, wanted to say something, but upon hearing this, he shoved everything in his hands into his sister's hands and then ran towards the fifth team without stopping.

Xinma Ranch Village is very large, not because of the large population, but mainly because the ranch area is vast. The village is divided into many production teams, each with about a dozen or twenty households, and the distance between the teams is quite far.

Shan Yaowen and Gou Dan's families are both from Team Two, so it's normal that they don't know the people from Team Five, since they don't play together often.

It's alright now. After all, in the past, most production teams were united because of the collective system. But later, when every household contracted a ranch and built new houses on the ranch, apart from the city, the nearest neighbors on the rural ranch were several kilometers apart.

After handing the person over to the Party Secretary, it was the Party Secretary and Aunt Huang's turn to get busy, while Shan Yaowen slumped to the side drinking water.

He carefully carried several hundred pounds of people down the mountain and then carried them non-stop to the village secretary's house, which really exhausted him.

Lin Nian was the same. Originally, her physical strength couldn't keep up with the two of them. She didn't dare to relax on the way down the mountain, for fear that she would fall or have an accident and cause burden to Shan Yaowen. Now that everything was fine, as soon as she relaxed, that feeling of fatigue instantly surged into her body.

"I sent someone to fetch a doctor. He's fine and has woken up. How did you find him?" After dealing with the matters inside the house, Li Baoguo came out and looked curiously at Shan Yaowen in front of him.

"I went hunting in the mountains and found him in a crevice in the mountains," Shan Yaowen briefly recounted the events.

After listening, Li Baoguo clicked his tongue and sighed with lingering fear, "Luckily we met you guys, otherwise Old Shi would probably be doomed this time."

"Uncle, we'll head back now that everything's alright here." After resting, Shan Yaowen didn't want to bother the Party Secretary's house any longer. After all, they had already sent someone over to the Party Secretary, and it would be too much trouble for him if they stayed.

"It's nothing. Besides, the Shi family hasn't arrived yet. They'll definitely thank you."

"No need for thanks, I was just doing it on the spur of the moment. I would have definitely helped if I had encountered it." As Shan Yaowen picked up his things and was about to leave, a hurried voice came from outside the door.

Of course, it wasn't called "him," it was called "the Party Secretary."

After the others came in, Shan Yaowen saw Lin Hao who came with him and knew that the two people who came in were probably Shi Tingyue's family.

"How is it?" Lin Hao came over and plopped down in front of Shan Yaowen.

He knew what Gou Dan was asking and immediately nodded. "It's nothing serious. He's woken up. The Party Secretary said he'll have to call a doctor."

After talking for a while, and once Gou Dan had rested, the three of them prepared to go back. Suddenly, a person ran over, knelt down in front of them, and started kowtowing.

This startled the three of them, and they only realized what had happened after the man kowtowed twice.

"No, friend, get up, get up!" Shan Yaowen and Lin Hao, one on each side, used a lot of effort to help him up.

"What are you doing?"

"Thank you, thank you." The man didn't speak, but after standing up, he continued to bow and thank the three of them.

"This is Shi Zhang, the son of Shi Tingyue whom you rescued. And these are Shan Yaowen, Lin Hao, and Lin Nian from the second team," the Party Secretary said, pushing open the door and introducing the group.

"It's nothing, just something I could do. Even if it wasn't me, someone else would have helped out if they saw it."

"It's different. You saved my dad. Otherwise, I really don't dare to think about it..." Shi Zhang shook his head frantically.

God knows how scared he was when he found out his dad had an accident; his heart almost stopped beating. And when he went inside, he heard his dad say a lot. If these three people hadn't carried his dad out, he would have frozen to death any later.

"Alright, we need to get back to work. Uncle Shi still needs treatment, so let's not thank him here. Let's take him to get treatment first."

Shi Zhang nodded. "My mother went to drive the carriage, and we'll be going to the town clinic in a bit."

He talked with Shi Zhang for a while longer before leaving when the carriage arrived.

After the Shi family left, Shan Yaowen and his two companions went back.

"Alright, we can't go hunting today." After going outside, Shan Yaowen stretched as he looked at the setting sun.

In winter, the days are already short here, so I'm afraid we'll all have to go out with flashlights in a little while.

It's no longer realistic to go hunting in the mountains now.

Dog Egg rubbed his calves. "It doesn't matter. We hunted wild boar this morning and rescued people this afternoon. Not bad. But you still need to go collect the lassos, right?"

"You're going to do that too?"

"I was just keeping you company, don't be so heartless."

After saying that, Gou Dan looked at Lin Nian and said, "Well, Nian Nian, you should go back first."

Although she was very unhappy that her older brother had left her behind, she was indeed exhausted at the moment, and besides, there was still work to be done at home, so she didn't go with him this time.

"It's alright, go back and rest now, we can go collect it after we finish eating."

After saying this, the two simply went back to their own homes and found their own mothers.

He was utterly exhausted and didn't want to move at all; he just wanted to go home and lie down.

"Erguo~"

Pushing open the door and hearing the familiar voice, Shan Yaowen immediately squatted down to prepare to hug her. Three seconds later, the little girl bumped into his arms precisely, along with three puppies that ran out with her.

"Woof woof woof~"

The three puppies originally lived at the ranch, but occasionally when my older brother or family members went there and no one was there, they would bring them back.

Otherwise, these three sheep would not only be unable to guard the pasture, but they themselves could easily be stolen by passersby.

"Gah~"

Upon arriving home, the silly bird descended from the sky, where a pergola had been prepared specifically for it.

"You didn't catch any prey this afternoon?" Shan's mother came out after hearing the commotion and looked at Shan Yaowen, who was empty-handed.

"No, I saved someone."

Shan Yaowen told his family about his experience of rescuing people that afternoon. His father and his family were also frightened and almost forbade Shan Yaowen from going hunting in the mountains again.

It took Shan Yaowen a lot of persuasion to put his parents at ease.

After finishing his meal, Shan Yaowen was about to go collect the lasso when some neighbors came over for a visit and chatted with him for a while.

By the afternoon, news of Shi Tingyue from Team Five nearly dying on the mountain had already spread far and wide. As one of the main figures in the rescue, Shan Yaowen inevitably received a lot of questions.

By the time Shan Yaowen arrived at the ranch, it was already dark.

He originally thought that Gou Dan hadn't arrived yet and wouldn't come, but when he arrived, Gou Dan was already there.

"You little brat, you've been bragging at home, haven't you?" As soon as Gou Dan saw Shan Yaowen, he glanced at him sideways, as if he had known all along.

"Go away, go away, that's just praising my heroic deeds. Besides, you've probably bragged about it a lot yourself." Shan Yaowen looked at him irritably and shrugged. "Are you still going tonight?"

"Go ahead, besides, I brought a flashlight."

Dog Egg turned on his flashlight and shone it at him: "By the way, where's that silly bird?"

"Brother, that silly bird is a steppe eagle, a diurnal bird of prey."

What is a diurnal raptor?

"It's very intense during the day, but you can't see it at night; it's sleeping at home."

After the two met up, they strolled towards the place where the lasso had been lowered.

When they arrived at the place where the lasso was collected, the two only saw a strange thing gnawing on something.

"No, what is that?"

Because they were talking, and the flashlight beam was interfering with their view, the two of them only saw a blurry shadow that flashed by.

By the time they realized what was happening, there was only a wild rabbit on the ground that had been mostly eaten.