bookrebus Chapter 203 Difficulty in Obtaining Urban Residency
Chapter 203 Difficulty in Obtaining Urban Residency
After Li Ju'an finished checking the traps, he went to the old work area to check the traps that had been set before.
These traps were all set in areas frequented by weasels, using a method taught by local hunter Chen Guoan that always worked. The old work area was teeming with weasels, a veritable plague. The former sites of the bee farm and the production team's chicken farm were also riddled with holes dug by weasels.
Of the nine traps he set, five caught weasels. Four were yellow, and one was a gray-black weasel. This trap had a much higher success rate, even better than a 50/50 chance, which was very satisfying.
This snare was just set; once a small animal is caught, the more it struggles, the tighter the snare becomes, and few manage to escape.
Li Ju'an carried the gray-black weasel to Song Desheng for him to see. Song Desheng looked at it with some fear: "Brother Li, you really dare to catch a weasel spirit? Aren't you afraid it will start talking?"
Li Ju'an tied the weasels together with hemp rope to prevent them from moving their necks, and said, "You're afraid of this and that, yet you still brag about starting a weasel farm. With your attitude, if you actually started a factory, you'd be crying somewhere in the middle of the night, unable to sleep for nights on end."
"Besides, I only caught them alive. If Huang Daxian really wants revenge, who cares about what I want and who will take revenge on him?"
The forestry manager wanted six yellow weasels, and he wanted them fresh. He tied the six weasels up and sent them over. If he really offended the weasel spirit, he could seek revenge by going to Leader Chen.
Song Desheng gave him a thumbs up, his eyes filled with admiration, and said, "It has to be you, Brother Li, who found the loophole. But then again, if I were a weasel, whether it was the forestry leaders or you, I would conjure up a beautiful woman's skin for you both, and you would be so captivated by her that you wouldn't know how to get back to the village."
The story of Huang Daxian using her beauty to lure hunters and then taking revenge is widely circulated among the village elders, and many believe it.
Li Ju'an threw the harvest onto the sled, dragging six tightly bound weasels, two silly half-pounders, a gray dog, and two jumping cats back to the old work area's duty room wooden hut.
He looked up and saw Qin Yao's bright, watery eyes looking at him, holding her one-year-old baby in her arms. Her pitiful expression was so endearing that any man's heart would soften.
Qin Yao's voice was soft and pleasant as she said, "Li Pao, are you leaving?"
"Okay, I'm leaving now."
Li Ju'an chatted with Chen Guo'an again. Chen Guo'an, smoking a cigarette, laughed and said that the gray-black weasel was originally a pair with the yellow one. He had killed the yellow one a few days ago, so the gray-black one went crazy and kept causing him trouble. Unexpectedly, it fell into Li Ju'an's trap.
Of the specimen-carving tasks Li Ju'an needed to submit within a month, he had to hand in one bear, three red deer, two red foxes, a large pelt, and six yellow weasels.
Now, he has the bear and the big hide, but he's still missing a red deer and a yellow weasel.
Chen Guoan patrols every two or more days, and his snares yield a variety of catches, from small animals like rabbits, pheasants, and foxes to larger animals like roe deer, sika deer, and wild boars.
Li Ju'an cut off Handahan's antlers, used the remaining Handahan body to trade with Chen Guo'an for a female deer, and traded a greyhound and a grey-black weasel for a yellow weasel.
Now both the red deer and the weasel are here.
Sun Weimin slowly woke up. As soon as he did, he saw six weasels bound tightly in front of him, their round eyes staring at him. Terrified, he screamed and turned to run out the door. But he crashed into the doorframe with a "bang," his pants soaked with sweat from the fright. Yet, he managed to find a way to save face, complaining that the wooden doorframe was too sturdy, giving him enough room to stay in the clinic for a few days.
Lu Zhiqiang joked, "We need to change the Eight Oddities of Xinganling. We also need to add Four Great Wonders: Qin Pao's snare, Li Ju'an's gun, Song Desheng's mouth, and Sun Weimin's courage."
Several people burst into laughter.
Chen Guoan and Lao Qin met, and the two ran outside to the mass grave to exchange tips on setting traps, intending to wipe out these annoying weasels in one fell swoop. Lu Zhiqiang, Song Desheng, and Sun Weimin saw that they could learn something from this, so they quickly rushed over to sneak over and learn some trap-setting techniques.
Only Li Ju'an and Qin Yao remained in the wooden house.
Li Ju'an was lying on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed) resting when the others returned to the foot of the mountain. He turned over and saw Qin Yao's face.
Qin Yao's watery eyes were misty as she looked at him sweetly, and she asked again as if she was still worried, "Will Li Pao ask for me?"
Li Ju'an, still half asleep, pulled her close and kissed her. Qin Yao flinched a couple of times, but he felt the kiss wasn't enough; he was still angry that she was using him as a tool, weighing the pros and cons. Qin Yao was bent over towards him, and he slipped his hand inside her clothes, revealing a certain arrogance.
The woman hummed softly, becoming more enthusiastic, which made Li Ju'an feel like he was being used as a tool again. She just wanted to get a city residency permit, and seeing his youth and strength, she was just using him. The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. This time, he didn't tolerate her anymore and indulged himself thoroughly.
After he took the initiative, Qin Yao begged for mercy, but fearing that her voice would be too loud and disturb the people outside, she could only suppress her emotions and plead softly, which sounded better than a symphony.
Before leaving, Li Ju'an handed the face cream from the cloth bag to Qin Yao and said, "I'll go ask. You wait here."
Qin Yao's eyes lit up when she saw the face cream. She excitedly opened the lid, took a deep breath, and smelled the pleasant scent of the face cream. Then, while there was still time, she pulled him onto the kang (a heated brick bed) again.
No woman dislikes face cream. If he hadn't gotten the city residency permit and hadn't handed her anything, she would have had a terrible night.
Li Ju'an felt refreshed and went down the mountain with the others, leaving the back mountain of Wangxing Village. Before leaving the mountain, he ran into Zhang the Madman who had been selling seals.
Zhang the Madman and his henchmen were leading a woman, intending to sell seahorses. The woman looked like a young woman who had been sent to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. It was estimated that she had been manipulated by Secretary Xiong into marrying a gambling addict in the village, and was being used as collateral for Zhang the Madman to sell.
Zhang Fengzi was still full of arrogance, lecturing Hai Mazi and slapping the woman hard across the face twice. But when he looked up, he saw his old nemesis Li Ju'an walking with Sun Weimin.
"Holy crap! It's you again?"
This time, Zhang the Madman had the upper hand, and with five or six henchmen behind him, he wasn't afraid of Li Ju'an. His henchmen grabbed sticks and were about to hit Li Ju'an in the face.
Without saying a word, Li Ju'an called over Lu Zhiqiang and a few of his brothers, and they started hitting Zhang Fengzi in the face, making him scream and call out for his own father and mother.
This time, Sun Weimin also resorted to dirty tricks, kicking Zhang Fengzi hard in the groin, making him clutch his groin and his testicles shatter, leaving him unable to face anyone.
Enraged, Zhang Fengzi pointed at Sun Weimin and shouted, "I trusted you, that's why I lent you money again. And you actually brought people to fight me? You shameless bastard, just wait and see what I do to you next time!"
Sun Weimin had repeatedly assured his father, Sun Quande, that he wouldn't borrow money from loan sharks again. However, after being rescued by Li Ju'an, he went to Wangxing Village to borrow money again and then asked Lao Qin to go into the mountains with him. He also told the people of Wangxing Village about Li Ju'an knowing the division commander's son, which Qin Yao overheard, leading to Qin Yao's visit to Li Ju'an.
Now, Li Ju'an, leading Sun Weimin, beat up Zhang the Madman and rescued the female educated youth who sold seahorses. Looking at the female educated youth who was even worse off than Qin Yao, he sighed and said, "Will she still be able to go home?"
"If I have no home, where is my home?"
"Go sit in the Women's Federation office first, and we'll think of a solution later."
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Li Ju'an carried six tightly bound weasels and dragged a heavy bear sled. Instead of going straight back to the village, he went to the forestry station office and asked Assistant Chen to find the forestry station's leader, Chen.