pjbooks Chapter 92 The First Shot After the New Year
Chapter 92 The First Shot After the New Year
Chapter 92 The First Shot After the New Year
After discussing family matters that evening, Shan Yaowen went back to his room and lay on the bed. He hugged his wife and buried his head in the blankets.
"Are you really splitting up the family?"
Lin Nian was still a little dazed for a moment; she hadn't expected the family to separate so soon.
She's only been married into the family for a few months?
It's only been over the New Year, and outsiders would probably think their family is in a terrible state.
"Let's split it up. Besides, it's too much trouble for me to run around the family ranch every day. Once the new house is built, it will be easier for me to go up the mountain to earn money. You can stay at home while I run around outside."
"What if I get pregnant?"
Upon hearing this, Shan Yaowen abruptly lifted his head from the soft jade, "She's pregnant?"
"I mean, if I get pregnant, how will I take care of you? You might even have to take care of me."
"Tch, I'm not a child. If you were pregnant, I would definitely take care of it myself. Besides, we can just invite Mom over. My sister-in-law is taking care of everything, so why would she forget about you?"
As he spoke, Shan Yaowen reached out and touched his wife's belly.
"Besides, your family lives nearby, so we can just invite your mother-in-law over."
"Go away, go away! What would your mom think if you asked her to take care of me?"
"That's settled then. Besides, now that we have a new home, you won't have to hold back when we do things. You can scream whenever you want."
"Are you trying to die?!"
After being punched a few times, Shan Yaowen immediately flipped over and pinned Lin Nian down.
A night of hard work.
The next morning, it was just another ordinary day.
However, in addition to building the fence, they had another task: building a new house.
Not only did Shan Yaowen start his business at the ranch, but Shan Yaowu also started his business at the old house.
Zhang Du clicked his tongue in amazement. "You guys are really efficient. I only mentioned it yesterday, and today you're already talking about building a new house and dividing the family property."
He didn't stay at the Shan family's house yesterday; he went back to check on the situation there.
He originally came to help out; he used to live here for convenience while working.
He hadn't been back for several days, so he went back for a quick look. He was surprised that his father-in-law had been so quick to finalize the division of the family property and the construction of a new house.
"There's not much to say about this anyway. Once I built a house on the ranch, the division of the family was inevitable."
Shan Yaowen stretched and said, "Brother-in-law, instead of wasting time lamenting, why don't you help me figure out what to build the house on?"
"How else can you build a house? Are you really thinking of building a small villa?"
Shan Yaowen waved his hand, "That's unrealistic."
Although he did say before that he would build a small villa for his older brother, the current conditions here are such that without heating, the villa is practically a refrigerator in winter.
Besides, given his current circumstances, he simply cannot afford to buy so many red bricks to build a house.
Although Dad said he would help his two brothers build new houses, he certainly wouldn't say it would be multi-story houses. He'll talk about that when they have heating and money.
Right now, a simple one-story courtyard is fine.
"So where do you plan to build this house?"
Without a second thought, Shan Yaowen pointed to the place where the forest and grassland met in the distance.
"Build a yard right there, so it's close to all four ranches and near a water source."
Shan Yaowen didn't even need to think about where to build the house; in his past life, the big boss had built a manor right here.
He didn't need to think about water conservancy facilities, and he even oversaw the construction of that manor, although it was already past the year 2000 when the manor was built.
"We're not using yurts anymore?"
"No need, just build a brick house directly."
Herdsmen typically move according to changes in pastures, as they are a nomadic people. However, with development, the country has been promoting projects to settle herdsmen.
Shan Yaowen will skip all that and go straight to the point. Since it's already 86 years old, he won't wait for the government to push it forward; he'll do it himself.
Having lived a settled life his entire previous life, he might find it difficult to adapt to nomadic life again.
Next, Shan Yaowen became even busier, as the fence for the spring ranch needed to be built and the new house needed to be repaired. Fortunately, his father was there to help keep an eye on things.
After the family started building a new house, my older brother would come back to visit whenever he had free time, except when he was working on the ranch.
After all, it's not just Shan Yaowen's house that needs repairing; people in his hometown also need to tear down the old houses and rebuild them.
Just as things were progressing smoothly here, a group of uninvited guests broke into Shan Yaowen's ranch.
To be honest, Shan Yaowen never imagined that one day a herd of deer would rush out of the forest and onto his ranch.
The first thing I saw wasn't Shan Yaowen, but Shi Zhang.
Shi Zhang came to help him repair his house. When he went to fetch water, he encountered a herd of deer drinking water by the river.
"Are you sure you didn't see it wrong?" Shan Yaowen didn't believe it at first when he heard the news Shi Zhang brought back.
Sika deer are notoriously timid, especially wild sika deer, which are extremely prone to stress and will never approach humans on their own initiative. Adult wild deer, when captured, may even violently charge, refuse to eat, or die from acute stress.
"Seriously, hurry up and grab the gun, take the dog and the silly bird with you, chase after them and maybe you can still shoot them."
After finishing his sentence, Shi Zhang rushed back in a hurry.
Without saying a word, Shan Yaowen told Lin Nian and his father about the work at the ranch, and then went back to get his gun.
Zhang Du couldn't help but follow.
He can work anytime, but the prey won't wait for him.
Especially the spotted deer.
There are only a small wild population of spotted deer in their area, and they prefer to hide deep in the mountains and forests, making them a rare sight.
As for Shan Yaowen, he was only interested in catching some deer to raise and didn't think about anything else.
So the two hit it off immediately, grabbed their guns, and set off.
Mr. Shan didn't think about anything else. Hunting wasn't just idleness. It was a good thing to have prey to hunt. The prey could be sold to supplement the family income, and at the very least, they could bring back some meat.
"Your gun is pretty good." After receiving the gun from Shan Yaowen, Zhang Du immediately began to play with it with great interest.
"Of course, this is a Mosin-Nagant, not a hunting rifle."
Shan Yaowen dug up two guns in total, one for himself and one for his brother-in-law.
After arriving at the stone camphor tree, the three followed the hunting dog and the silly bird into the forest.
After seeing the deer herd, Shi Zhang went back to report the news. In addition, there were still deer footprints left on the snow, so Shan Yaowen and his two companions chased after them very quickly.
They soon discovered the situation.
However, what they found was not a herd of deer, but people.
Hunters who, like them, chased deer herds.
"Something's not right. There are human footprints here." Shan Yaowen looked at the messy footprints on the ground. "And there were at least three people."
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Shi Zhang also squatted down to inspect the area. "Is someone else eyeing this herd of deer?"
"That should be true." Zhang Du recalled something from before.
"It might be those people from the next village, like I mentioned before."
Shan Yaowen also remembered that his brother-in-law had mentioned before that someone in the next village had found a herd of deer, and he had even made an order for deer blood wine and fawns from those people.
Where did all those deer come from? It's certain they're chasing the same herd.
"It looks like they're close to succeeding."
Dan Yaowen felt a little regretful. There was nothing he could do in this situation. The other party had already caught up with them first, and it would be futile for them to go after them.
"Let's go. Even if we can't hit the big guy, we might at least get some soup."
Shi Zhang stood up, brushed the snow off his hands, and urged the two to continue forward. Having come this far, it was clearly impossible to turn back empty-handed.
What they didn't expect was that after crossing the two ridges, in addition to hunters hunting, there were also people beating people.
After the three of them crossed a mountain ridge, they ran straight into a group of bandits.
Why did he immediately recognize them as bandits? Because the group was beating people with guns, and there were many deer and—people—lying haphazardly on the ground!
Did he stumble upon a robbery?
Shan Yaowen and his two companions, along with the gang of bandits, were all taken aback when they saw each other.
"Bang!"
A gunshot rang out, and the bullet flew just past the heads of the three men.
What the hell!
Who the hell is this guy? He opened fire as soon as he saw me. Is he trying to kill me?
Shan Yaowen pulled the two people next to him down to the ground.
Just as they lay down, two more shots rang out, "bang!" and "bang!" hitting the ground in front of them.
Zhang Du and Shi Zhang were truly panicked now. Although they had fired their own shots before, it was all for hunting; when had they ever shot a human? "Damn it!"
Shan Yaowen has gone all out!
He took the gun off his back, pulled the bolt, and began to return fire.
Because he couldn't even peek out to fire the first shot, he fired it randomly, but that shot still stunned the enemy.
Those people must have gone to find cover, because they didn't start shooting again for quite a while.
Taking this opportunity, Shan Yaowen looked at the two people beside him: "Brother-in-law, Shi Tou, don't fucking chicken!"
"Are you two holding fire pokers? Go ahead and fight back!"
"If you don't fight, you're doomed. Think of your families! Kill those guys!"
"Today, it's either them or us who die!"
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