Reborn in 80: Starting with hunting in the mountains to get rich

Chapter 408 Sun Weimin's Studies Are Wasted

When Qin Pao told Sun Quande about Li Ju'an buying the big hide, Sun Quande gave him a thumbs up and exclaimed, "Qin Pao is really lucky. He hit the jackpot and managed to get a big hide, and it's alive!"

Qin Pao finished speaking halfway through, mentioning that Da Pi had been bought by Li Ju'an again. Sun Weimin was astonished to hear that Li Ju'an had spent nearly 1000 yuan to buy a live sable.

"What kind of person is this? He has no sense of money when it comes to spending it, he's such a spendthrift."

Sun Weimin dismissed it with disdain, but Qin Pao continued, "Li Ju'an is probably going to use this sable to hunt down all the wild sheep in the areas assigned by the forest farm. The pelts and bones of these wild sheep will certainly not fetch as much as fox pelts. Sables are precious, but if you collect them, they can make quite a lot."

Sun Weimin counted carefully on his fingers, frowned but pretended not to care, and asked, "How much money could that be?"

He listened to Qin Pao talk about how Li Ju'an had harvested more than twenty urea woven bags of wild sheep. He carefully counted on his fingers how many wild sheep could fit in one woven bag, and then pondered the price of the hides and bones of each wild sheep. As he was calculating, he couldn't sit still any longer and shouted, "Do you have an abacus?"

His nephew laughed and said, "Uncle, you can even use an abacus? That's quite impressive. I've never seen you use one at home. What are you showing off outside?"

Sun Weimin lightly patted his nephew on the back of the head and scolded, "What do you know, kid! Go play in the mud."

He fiddled with the abacus beads for a while, but couldn't figure it out. He had no choice but to bite the bullet and ask his second uncle again, "Is there any calculation?"

The village store had calculators, and the owner and staff at the fur purchasing point each had one, but the Sun family didn't actually have the habit of carrying calculators when they went into the mountains.

Uncle Sun cursed, "What's there to calculate? I'll calculate it for you directly. Each bag weighs 12 jin. Just talking about the hides, the purchase price of a single raw hide is at least 8 yuan. More than 20 bags can bring in 1600 yuan, not even counting the price of the sheep bones."

Sun Weimin was stunned, his hands stiffened and he didn't move.

Qin Pao counted on his fingers for Li Ju'an and nodded, saying, "That makes sense, even if we're being conservative. Li Ju'an can definitely earn at least 1600 yuan for this trip to Xiaoling Village."

Looking at the large group of over twenty people from the Sun family, Sun Weimin asked, "How many people are in Li Ju'an's group?"

"Eight."

"Only eight?"

The 1600 yuan was divided among more than twenty people. The amount each person received wasn't much, but if eight people divided it, each person would get at least 200 yuan. He originally thought Li Ju'an would need a month to clear Xiaoling Village, but he didn't expect it to be finished in less than two days. If he could get 200 yuan in less than two days, why were they still struggling at the pasture?

Sun's nephew said what many people wanted to say.

My nephew is only fifteen years old, but he has already come out with his maternal grandfather to learn hunting, especially this kind of hunting that is not dangerous, which can broaden the horizons of the younger generation.

My nephew had just gone through puberty; his voice was no longer childish but rather deep. He chuckled in a low voice, "Third Uncle, I want to go hunting with Li Pao."

Sun Weimin paused for a moment. Just as Sun Quande was about to speak, Sun Weimin angrily kicked his nephew in the butt and cursed, "Get out of here! If you want to go, go ahead and make your fortune in Li Ju'an's team."

The little nephew wasn't annoyed. He chuckled and got up from the ground, saying, "Third Uncle, I was just teasing you. Let's quickly clear this land of sheep; we can earn a thousand or so yuan, right?"

The Sun family calmed down. The affected area of ​​the wild sheep in the pasture was no less than that in Xiaoling Village. But how could they persuade the wild sheep to leave the burrows with predatory small animals?

My nephew suggested, "If we can't catch a big weasel, let's catch a yellow weasel instead."

Weasels are also small predatory animals that like chickens, field mice, greyhounds, and squirrels that climb trees.

When the Sun family heard that they were to capture Huang Daxian, their expressions changed drastically, revealing complex emotions. Sun Weimin suddenly slapped his thigh, determined to go all out, and shouted, "Capture him if you want, capture him alive! For the sake of the job we took!"

The little nephew shouted, "Catch him alive! Uncle, we can't be worse than Li Pao!"

Sun Quande, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, squinted as he exhaled smoke, and grinned, a rare occurrence for him, and said, "Giving it a try isn't out of the question."

The Sun family busied themselves on the back hill and Sun Weimin actually caught two live weasels. He grinned and hurriedly wanted to see if he could use the weasels to drive away the wild sheep in the field.

"Even weasels eat moles, this time it'll definitely work."

The Sun family stood guard at the entrances of several goat burrows, confidently placing the weasels inside.

The cage door opened, and the weasel darted into the burrow. Before long, mounds of earth actually rose up on the ground. The large mounds excited the weasels, who stood at the entrances of each mound with their shovels, eager to shovel up the earth and capture the weasel alive.

The Sun family did manage to capture several wild sheep alive. However, the weasels were slow to drive them away. And since the weasels weren't good at blindfolded exploration, they quickly became too tired to run and stopped moving.

The ground sheep dug very quickly, and before it even reached the surface, it started digging deeper. The Sun family, holding shovels, found nothing.

Sun Quande tried twice more, but to no avail. Wang, the team leader of the ranch, even sent people to monitor the progress and urge him on.

He sighed and said, "This method is too slow; it would be better to smoke out the cave entrance."

Sun Weimin was also puzzled. Why couldn't it work? They were using the same method, so why did Li Ju'an succeed while he couldn't? The Sun family continued to catch wild sheep in this field, while Sun Weimin led his young nephew to try catching weasels in another field.

His little nephew praised him, saying, "Third Uncle is really capable; he never gave up. That's why Mom always praises Third Uncle for his good grades when he was a child."

Sun Weimin laughed heartily, feeling a real sense of superiority from the praise, but the result left him quite discouraged.

He saw that the old man next door had already caught several wild sheep, but he still only had two wild sheep in his hand.

Unable to bear it any longer, he opened the cloth bag, took out gunpowder, and began to prepare explosives.

"Kid, do you know how to use explosives?"

The nephew, still young, stared wide-eyed at the gunpowder with curiosity and asked, "Third Uncle, what's a 'bomb'? Is it a 'ground cannon'?"

"This thing that's not a 'ground cannon' is much more effective than a 'ground cannon,' you'll see."

Sun Weimin had a nephew who was good at comedy. He was in a great mood. He wrapped the gunpowder in a shard of porcelain bowl, tied it with hemp rope, and wrapped it up several times, making it as dense as a rice dumpling.

He coated the outermost ring with sesame oil, making it into a small bomb, about the size of a walnut.

While his nephew was watching with curiosity, Sun Weimin threw the bomb into the sheep's burrow.

Before long, some ground sheep actually caught a whiff of the aroma, which piqued their curiosity. Ground sheep have deteriorated eyesight but an extremely sensitive sense of smell, and they grabbed the small bombs and started biting them.

With that bite, the porcelain shards inside the little bomb gently rubbed together, and with a "bang," the gunpowder was detonated.

The homemade explosives were detonated, blowing the entire mound of earth up and scattering mud everywhere, covering Sun Weimin and his nephew in mud.

Sun Weimin cheered, high-fived his nephew, and laughed heartily. There were indeed four or five sheep that had been blown out of the field lying haphazardly.

"Isn't that awesome?!"

"Third Uncle is awesome! This speed is much faster than that Li Pao guy!"

"Do you worship your third uncle?"

"Absolutely! My third uncle is my idol!"

The two laughed heartily. Suddenly, Sun Quande saw the ground covered with torn and bloodied sheep, their hides unusable. Enraged, he raised his foot and kicked Sun Weimin hard in the buttocks.

"Prodigal stuff!"