“Brother Yu, you scared me to death just now!”
Seeing the family finally leave, Xiu Xiu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She hurried over to Li Yu's side, still a little shaken.
“It's alright!”
Li Yu patted her hand reassuringly.
He comforted her.
“After today, this family won't dare to come back again.”
Reborn in this life, Li Yu was clearly not going to be as weak as he was in his previous life, nor would he be as clueless as he was in his past life.
He was a hunter, often having to go up the mountain to hunt.
Most of the time, his wife and sister-in-law were at home.
If he didn't have some deterrent, wouldn't anyone be able to come to his house to bully him?
Firing a shot today was a clear message to the Li family and anyone else with ill intentions.
This guy has a gun, if you're not afraid of death, come and try it.
A warning shot to scare them.
“Alright, stop watching, everyone, go home. Da Yu was just angry and fired a shot to scare them, he wouldn't really hurt anyone. Go home, don't crowd around.”
He was, after all, the village chief.
Li Xue Wu's words stopped everyone from gossiping.
Seeing that there was nothing to watch, the crowd dispersed, each returning to their own homes.
Seeing this, Li Xue Wu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Coming to his senses, he turned and scolded Li Yu.
“You brat, you really have guts today. You even dared to fire a gun. Do you know how much trouble you could get into if you don't handle this thing properly?”
Knowing that he was concerned for him.
Li Yu naturally replied with a smile.
“Uncle, you know what kind of family they are. If I hadn't fired that shot today, even if I had fooled them, do you think they wouldn't come back every few days?”
“That's right, I think Da Yu is right. You need to use harsh measures to deal with bad people.”
Before Li Xue Wu could speak, his wife chimed in.
This really made Li Xue Wu quite angry.
“You’re just a young girl with a long hair and short wit, if everyone in the village follows Da Yu's example, I’m afraid I won't be able to be the village chief for two days.”
“So be it.”
His wife was not the least bit afraid.
“Since you became the village chief, we haven't seen our family's conditions improve, instead, we eat worse and worse. We don't even have meat for half a month.”
“You…../….”
Li Xue Wu was really embarrassed by his wife's exposing his shortcomings in front of outsiders.
“Alright, you two, stop arguing. I got something good today, just eat at my place.”
Seeing the two about to start arguing, Li Yu quickly stepped in to mediate.
“Humph, my nephew is the one with the ability. Don't ever learn from your old man, he looks so impressive, but he doesn't have a dime to his name.”
“Cough cough!”
Li Yu was really amused by this.
Seeing Li Xue Wu's face getting darker and darker.
He quickly said,
“Auntie, you should still give my Uncle some face outside. Uncle, I got a bear on the back mountain, why don’t you help me pull it down?”
“How can that be!”
Li Xue Wu couldn’t argue with his wife.
He could only take the opportunity to go down the stairs.
“That’s meat, we have to go quickly, lest it be spoiled by other animals.”
“Auntie, call Yanni later, let’s have a good meal together as a family.”
“Alright, that’s good, this little girl has been clamoring for meat.”
.....
After the two of them pulled the bear meat down together.
Looking at the bright red meat, everyone’s joy couldn't be hidden.
Today they solved the problem with the Li family.
With so many people and with the conditions.
Li Yu was planning to have a bear paw.
After all, Xiao Min had been talking about it for a long time while they were on the mountain.
Bear paw is really delicious, but it's difficult to prepare.
Especially removing the hair. The oily fur turns into black smoke when it encounters fire.
So, this arduous task was entrusted to his Uncle.
Li Yu was currently boiling a pot of water, dealing with the gall bladder.
There are different ways to process this in different places.
Some people directly tear off the fat, tie the gall bladder opening tightly.
Then hang it in a ventilated place to dry.
Others use hot water to scald it, then hang it to dry, and scald it again after a while.
This process needs to be repeated several times until it is completely dry.
Li Yu chose the second method, and he was currently dipping it in water.
His Auntie was with the three girls at the stove, cooking the bear fat.
There was another girl, his Uncle and Yanni.
Her full name was Li Yan, she was younger than his sister-in-law, not yet sixteen years old.
However, the two girls got along well.
Xiao Min was telling Yanni about Li Yu's glorious moments on the mountain.
It took a few hours to cook the bear paw.
Mainly because this thing needs to be stewed for a long time to become tender and flavorful.
Just one bear paw was obviously not enough to eat.
Xiu Xiu cut a lot of fresh bear meat and made a dish of scallion-fried bear meat.
The smell almost made Xiao Min and Yanni cry from hunger.
After everything was ready, it was almost dusk.
“Stop dawdling, let's eat!”
Li Yu and his Uncle had two tables for drinking.
With these pancakes and bear meat, plus a sip of wine.
Li Xue Wu was truly delighted.
He chatted with Li Yu about family matters.
The four women were also very capable, they picked up their chopsticks and ate like crazy.
........
“Did Uncle and the others leave?”
Li Xue Wu often drank with people from the team, his drinking capacity was naturally much better than his.
Although he was physically strong, it didn't mean he could drink.
He just digested and absorbed quickly.
He had been a little dizzy before, but now his mind was clear.
Xiu Xiu wiped his face and said.
“They went back, I also asked Auntie to take some bear meat back.”
Although she wasn’t very good at social etiquette, she was still aware of the basics.
Since Auntie had helped them so much today, their family naturally had to be generous.
“Alright, lie down and rest. I’ve taken care of everything. We gave the meat to Auntie when you guys were drinking. Auntie said that we should keep more, one hundred jin is enough.”
Li Yu nodded with a smile.
He pulled her over and kissed her.
“You are truly my good wife!”
“Humph, it's only because you’re lucky, if I hadn't come down to the countryside, our doorstep would have been trampled by matchmakers.”
Since last night, Xiu Xiu had obviously become much more relaxed.
After all, they were husband and wife now, there was no need to be all polite.
“Oh, I really did win. Come here, let me take advantage of you.”
“Oh, wait, I'll go close the door first. Don’t let Xiao Min see.”
As they say, when you talk about someone, they appear.
Xiao Min came in holding her blanket.
“Sister, the kang in that room isn’t warm, I'm a little scared, I want to sleep with you and Brother-in-law.”