Reborn in 1985: Starting from Contracting a Ranch

Chapter 33 Revenge on the Grasslands

Upon hearing the silly bird's call, everyone around was startled and began to look around.

"Where did that duck quacking come from?"

"No, that sound is from the sky."

Upon hearing the silly bird's call, Shan Yaowen quickly spurred his horse, saying, "That's my bird calling; it must have discovered something."

Upon hearing Shan Yaowen's words, the surrounding ranchers all called their dogs away. However, the lynx was already dead. One of the ranchers dismounted, picked it up, and immediately urged his dog to catch up with the group.

They sped along at breakneck speed. At first, the dogs didn't understand what was going on and just followed around the group. After running for a while, the dogs seemed to have found their target and started running wildly in one direction.

"Woof woof woof~"

A series of urgent barks came from the distance, and before Shan Yaowen and his group could catch up, a wolf howl echoed in the distance.

"Aww~"

Upon hearing the voice, Captain Xu's spirits lifted. "Damn, we finally found it!"

The people around them also unbuckled their gun straps with murderous intent and then walked after the barking dog.

After walking uphill for a while, the barking of the dogs became more and more urgent.

The wolf pack was cornered in a ravine by the dogs. Shan Yaowen found a high vantage point and had a clear view of the situation below.

In various parts of the mountain valley, wolves were rushing out frantically, and there were some bones underneath. Shan Yaowen recognized them as dog skulls.

"Damn it!"

It wasn't just Shan Yaowen who saw the dog bones; others saw them too.

For herders, dogs are companions, friends who can be buried next to their owners when they die.

"Surround this area and then fire freely. Don't let a single one escape." Captain Xu spat fiercely on the ground, then looked at Shan Yaowen:

"Brother Dan, please have your eagle keep an eye on the ground, and don't let even the cubs escape."

Shan Yaowen accepted the task, whistled at the silly bird in the sky, and pointed to the wolf pack below.

"Gah~"

Having received a reply from the silly bird, Shan Yaowen focused his attention on the mountain valley.

At this moment, in the mountain valley, dogs blocked the entrance and barked wildly, while the wolf pack huddled inside.

"Bang!"

The first shot was not fired by Captain Xu, nor by Shan Yaowen, but by a silent man.

Everyone around him tacitly agreed to let him take revenge first.

His family suffered the most from the wolf attack; half of their sheep were killed, all their dogs were killed, and even their newborn puppies were all gone. The mother dog was even ripped open, and her intestines were spilled all over the ground.

The wolves didn't eat; they just slaughtered them.

He shot a slightly larger alpha wolf, and then began a merciless slaughter.

The wolf king was not spared either, and basically fell into a pool of blood during the first round of shooting.

"stop!"

"Let the dogs do it!"

After one round of fighting, there were only a few wolves left standing.

Next comes the time for these dogs to avenge their companions.

As for the wolves that burrowed into the hole, they were tacitly handed over to the dogs.

Upon hearing the command, the dogs that had been blocking the way outside charged towards the wolf pack in the ravine like arrows released from a bow.

On the mountains surrounding the valley, all the people who came this time were armed and guarded all the road entrances, silently watching the situation inside the valley.

The pack of dogs charged into the pack of wolves, and a large blue dog immediately bit the largest wolf on the scene. The large blue dog did not tear at the wolf, but instead held it firmly, pressing down with its entire body weight.

The wolf was bitten on the neck and tried to struggle, but after kicking its hind legs a few times, it stopped moving completely.

The remaining wolves were instantly scattered by the pack of dogs. Having already been shot once, the remaining wolves were basically powerless to fight and ran back into their dens.

"Gah~"

Just as Shan Yaowen was engrossed in watching, he heard the chirping of a silly bird overhead.

Upon seeing the location where the silly bird was circling, Shan Yaowen immediately picked up his gun and aimed it in that direction.

"boom--"

Gunshots echoed around, and a wolf trying to escape fell to the ground.

The wolf pack completely scattered. Except for those that scurried back into their dens, the rest fled in all directions and were killed one by one by the people around them.

Hurry and kill!

This is the attitude of the group of people in the ravine right now.

They weren't targeting all wolf packs, just this one.

Whether it's the loss of the ranch or the anger in their hearts, they need these wolves to vent their frustrations.

"How's it going?" Captain Xu saw that the remaining wolves had all hidden in the cave, and Gouzi was still pulling out after he went in. He came over and gave Shan Yaowen a cigarette.

"It didn't run away, but there's something strange over there." Shan Yaowen pointed to the spot where the silly bird was circling.

The silly bird didn't make a sound, so there shouldn't be any wolves or other wild animals below.

Following the direction Shan Yaowen pointed, Captain Xu squinted and thought for a moment before shouting to the other side, "Third brother, go check the south side. The rest of you, take your horses and call Gouzi back."

"Captain, are we just going to leave the wolf carcasses below?"

"Go pick them up if you want them, but the pelts probably won't be of any good quality."

Having been shot and torn apart by dogs for so long, there probably aren't many left intact.

As soon as Shan Yaowen went down the mountain to lead his horse, he saw one or two people on horseback coming from the south.

"Who are you? What are you fighting about here?"

The rider didn't approach, but instead shouted in this direction from a distance.

"Friend, we've come to hunt down a pack of wolves."

"A pack of wolves?"

After some conversation, the two men relaxed considerably and rode their horses up to Shan Yaowen and his companions.

"Where are you from?"

"I am the manager of Xinma Ranch, hello."

Seeing that someone from a state-owned enterprise had intervened, the two men breathed a sigh of relief. "Why kill the wolf?"

After hearing what had happened, the two men nodded. "This kind of thing deserves death, but this is Lantian County. Do you have anything else to say?"

"That's all. We're planning to head back after we've finished dealing with that."

"Alright then."

Shan Yaowen did not appear during the negotiations. He came only to resolve the wolf problem and prevent his ranch from being slaughtered by wolves.

As for other things, those were not his concern.

What puzzled him was that if the wolves' main camp was here, why did they run so far to the village next door?

Unfortunately, he couldn't communicate with animals, and the pack of wolves had all been killed, so even if he could communicate, he wouldn't get any information out of them.

After dealing with the wolf pack, the group headed back.

"Brother Shan, thank you very much this time. If you ever come to Shitou'ao, please come to my house for a visit." When they parted, Captain Xu and the others politely thanked Shan Yaowen.

"Definitely, my sister-in-law is from Shitou'ao, she might go." Shan Yaowen nodded to them.

"Then it's settled."

Watching the departing group, Shan Yaowen also headed towards his ranch.

Today I went to the town and then to another county, and the sheep pen hasn't even been cleaned up yet.

When he arrived at the ranch, he found that his mother and sister-in-law were already helping to tidy up.

"Erguo!"

Upon seeing Shan Yaowen, the little sister ran over immediately, along with three puppies wagging their tails and following behind.

"Why are you here?" After dismounting, Shan Yaowen let the horse graze on its own. He patted his younger sister's head and looked at his sister-in-law. "Sister-in-law, you're pregnant and still working. What if my brother causes me trouble?"

Shi Fang smiled and waved her hand, "It's not that pretentious. In the past, which woman didn't work in the fields while pregnant? Besides, it was mainly my mother who did the work, and I just helped out."

Since Shan Yaowen started his ranch, his older brother went to work at the state-run ranch, and his sister-in-law Shi Fang's attitude has improved a lot.

We won't target the younger brother anymore, since what's done is done, and his man has also benefited.

Most importantly, since opening the ranch, Shan Yaowen has performed exceptionally well. He does all the work in the sheep pen and often goes hunting in the mountains to supplement the family income. Most of the grain and meat the family has now is brought back by Shan Yaowen.

It can be said that Shan Yaowen brought back more things this year than his father and Yaowu brought back in previous winters.

She had no reason to continue targeting her brother-in-law; if she did, it would just be because she, as the elder sister-in-law, was jealous.