blogombal Chapter 35 Wolves
Chapter 35 Wolves
"What time is it?" After resting for a while, the two finally caught their breath and Yang Ming asked.
"...It's 10:30..." Zhang Yang's phone was attached to his waistband with a phone chain. He had fallen several times, and the phone had fallen out of his pocket several times, but he hadn't lost it.
"We need to go back by noon, otherwise Qingqing and Fangfang will start to worry," Yang Ming looked around. "Do you see if there's a signal here? If there is, call them first and let them know..."
"No signal, and we have no idea where we are. Have we traveled through time?"
"What the hell? There are plenty of times when there's no signal in this remote mountain village," Yang said, giving him a knowing look.
"You never know. People who travel through time end up getting lost and losing cell phone signal, right? If we traveled back to ancient times, we could have three wives and four concubines, surrounded by beauties..."
"You still dream of having three wives and four concubines, surrounded by beautiful women? Fangfang is a good woman. When we get back, I'll definitely talk to her about your earnest wish. She's quite open-minded; she might actually grant your wish..."
"No, no, it's my brother, I was wrong..." Zhang Yang wilted as soon as his wife was mentioned, and immediately clasped his hands in apology. If his wife knew that he had such philandering thoughts, she would definitely skin him alive. This godbrother is really not fair. Men are just talking nonsense among themselves, how could you tell a woman?
"Zhang Yang, hurry up and climb the tree, I'll cover you from below..." Zhang Yang was grumbling to himself when Yang Ming nudged his shoulder and whispered.
As Yang Ming spoke, he slowly moved his hands, prying open the gun barrel, pouring in gunpowder and iron shot, and then closing it.
"What's wrong?" Yang Mingyi spoke in this tone, which meant he had discovered something. He was a little scared. He really didn't understand how his godbrother's senses were so sharp. He was always the one who discovered things first.
Little did he know that ever since Yang Ming was charged with the farm space, his body cells had been stimulated by the electric current. He had also been eating the fruits and vegetables in the farm space regularly, which had improved his physical condition to an extremely healthy level. His senses were also extremely sharp, and he could always sense any disturbance immediately.
"What's with all the fuss? If you want to live, hurry up and get up there." Yang Ming's head didn't dare to move at all; he could only keep it in one position, and he didn't even dare to open his lips wide.
Without hesitation, Zhang Yang scrambled up a large tree beside him and climbed up quickly. Once seated at the treetop, Zhang Yang discovered that there were actually dozens of tiny, green lights in the dark forest.
"Wolves?" Zhang Yang blurted out.
Not only wolves, but a pack of wolves.
"Boom..." Yang Ming suddenly pulled the trigger. With a loud bang, a tongue of fire shot out from the muzzle. After firing the shot, Yang Ming turned and darted up a large tree. He sat on the treetop, panting heavily. The series of movements hadn't tired his body, but his mind was tense. The speed at which he climbed the tree had made him dizzy. It was only because of his good physical condition that he felt dizzy. If it had been before, he might have blacked out and fallen off the tree.
Yang Ming's gun fired iron pellets, which happened to be aimed directly at the wolves' eyes. With just one shot, he blinded four or five wolves. The wolves howled and rolled and struggled on the ground, their cries mournful and pitiful. They even tried to pry their heads with their front paws, trying to remove anything that was obstructing their vision, but to no avail.
For wild animals in the forest, once they go blind, they only have one path to take: death.
"Brother Qian, I don't know what to say, you saved my life..." Zhang Yang was very grateful to Yang Ming for letting him climb the tree first. Some brothers kowtow and swear brotherhood at the dinner table, drinking blood wine together. They are like brothers, but when trouble comes, they run away faster than anyone else.
"Alright, enough of this nonsense. Turn on your phone and see if you have a signal." Yang Ming sat on a tree branch, closed his eyes, and slowly regained his senses.
"It's here... Oh? It's gone again! It's intermittent..." Zhang Yang said.
"Climb up further, and you'll find a signal. Just call 119," Yang Ming said.
"I'm afraid to move. The wolves are all watching me from below. What if I fall?"
The wolves had already surrounded the tree and were circling around it, glancing up at it every now and then. Some of them were even hiding in the bushes. It seems these wolves are quite good at strategizing.
"Useless! Throw me your phone, I'm making a call!" To be honest, Yang Ming wasn't really worried. So what if he fell? He had the Grand Landlord's Farm space, what could those wolves do to him? But if he did that, his secret would be exposed to Zhang Yang. Unless absolutely necessary, in a real life-or-death situation, the secret of the Grand Landlord's Farm space must not be known to anyone else.
"Okay, okay..." Zhang Yang quickly took off his phone and threw it at Yang Ming.
To be honest, when you throw a phone with a phone chain attached, the chain will sway. But Yang Ming instinctively grabbed the chain, and with a "crack," the phone hit the tree and shattered into pieces.
"Hehe..." Yang Ming raised his arm and chuckled awkwardly.
"Trash..." Zhang Yang rolled his eyes and returned the nickname Yang Ming had given him.
"There's no other way, we can only rely on ourselves. How much gunpowder do you have?" Yang Ming asked.
"I haven't used it yet, it weighs about three or four pounds," Zhang Yang said.
"That's good. Let's kill all these wolves right here in this tree. Wolves are known for holding grudges. If we don't kill them all, we'll never be able to go into the mountains again."
"1, 2, 3, 4... 20 of them, can we kill them all?" Zhang Yang asked with some concern.
"There's no other way, let's just kill as many as we can..." Yang Ming said, his hands moving quickly, loading the gun and bullet in one go, then pointing the gun downwards and pulling the trigger towards the wolves.
That said, at a safe distance, the power of a shotgun is far greater than that of a regular gun against group animals. The iron pellets it shoots out are like shotgun pellets, with a general direction, so you can just fire directly without needing to aim.
This shot blinded four or five more wolves, and many others were bleeding profusely from their backs. Some of the more cunning wolves immediately hid behind a thick tree trunk.
Seeing Yang Ming fire, Zhang Yang didn't hesitate. After hurriedly loading ammunition and firing, he raised his hand and fired a shot. His position was perfectly matched with Yang Ming's. The wolf was hiding behind a tree, concealing itself from Yang Ming's gun, but its rear was exposed to Zhang Yang. This shot hit the wolf directly in the lower back. As the saying goes, wolves have copper heads, iron tails, and tofu waists. This shot, with its flying iron pellets, actually pierced through the wolf's lower back, knocking it down. The wolf's hind legs buckled, and it collapsed to the ground, howling pitifully.
Boom boom boom...
No matter where the wolves hid, the two brothers could hit them every time. Every shot hit at least one wolf. Although they might not be paralyzed or blinded, they would definitely make them howl in pain.
"Woof woof woof..." A dog barked, and a small, dark creature emerged from the woods, pouncing directly on a blind wolf. It bit the wolf's neck with a vicious bite, severing the wolf's trachea. The wolf kicked its legs a couple of times and then lay still.
With heavy casualties on their side, the wolf leader glared hatefully at the two people in the tree, howled, and turned to disappear into the depths of the forest. All the wolves that could move and were visible followed suit and retreated.
"It's Big Black, we can get out of here." Yang Ming breathed a sigh of relief. Big Black didn't stop, and directly killed several wild wolves that couldn't escape or were out of sight. Then, with its mouth full of blood, it ran to the tree where Yang Ming was and wagged its tail, as if it wanted to ask for credit.
"This... isn't your Big Black a bit too powerful?" Zhang Yang looked at Big Black's ferocious appearance with its mouth full of blood, and his scalp tingled. He remembered that when they first entered the forest, he had kicked this guy. He wondered if this guy would retaliate.
"Maybe? This guy's a bit strange. He eats a lot, maybe he's a mastiff..." Yang Ming said dismissively, sliding down from the tree. Actually, he didn't know this little puppy was so powerful, but considering the wonders of the farm space, he wasn't surprised.
"Nine dogs can produce one mastiff, right? You have five dogs. Besides, training mastiffs is like raising Gu poison in Miao territory, making the nine of you kill each other..." Zhang Yang also came down from the tree.
"I don't know about that. It's getting late, let's hurry back..."
"Aren't you going to raid the wolf's den?"
"How much gunpowder do you have left?"
"Enough for two more shots. How about yours?"
"We can still fire one more shot, but we're out of ammunition. What will we use to shoot then? We won't be the ones fighting the wolves anymore; the wolves will be the ones eating us..."
"What about the dead wolves? There are... six of them..." Zhang Yang counted the dead wolves and said.
"Each of these wolves weighs seventy or eighty pounds. The two of us can only carry one each at most, and we can just throw the rest away." There are many carnivorous beasts in this forest. If we can't take all these wolf carcasses with us at once, there won't even be any bones left when we come back next time.
"What a pity, such a fine wolf pelt! If you could get a fur coat from it, you'd look incredibly handsome wearing it out..."
"How about we skin them now and cut off the thickest parts of the meat to take with us..." Yang Ming had a Swiss Army knife on his keychain. Although it wasn't the real thing, it was still extremely sharp and would be very useful for skinning wolves.
"Alright! I also have a Tibetan knife here..." Zhang Yang finally felt pleased.
So the two brothers began to dismember the wolf carcass.
The wolves are molting at this time of year, so their fur isn't the best, but it's still better than wolf pelts in the middle of summer. There are six wolf pelts, and although there are some holes, the iron filings are so fine that they're not visible from the outside.
The two men then cut off the hind legs of the twelve wolves, as well as their shoulder blades and forelegs, and even removed two ribs. Of the six wolves, two were male. Zhang Yang, that kid, had his eye on their wolf penises, and with a swing of his knife, he cut them off, testicles and all. Yang Ming felt nauseous watching this and wondered to himself, "Could it be that Zhang Yang is impotent?" After all, dog penises are said to cure male impotence, and wolves and dogs share a common ancestor, plus wolves are generally stronger than dogs, so the effect might be much stronger…
Zhang Yang, who was happily cutting the wolf whip, had no idea that someone was maliciously speculating about him. Otherwise, given his personality, he would have definitely pulled down his pants in a fit of rage to prove to that person that he was absolutely a real man...
The two men carefully wrapped the cut wolf meat in bloody wolf pelts, filling two large bags in total. Each carried one bag when they left. They had both brought a cloth bag with them to carry gunpowder when they arrived. Yang Ming also packed some of the remaining wolf meat and offal; after all, he had nine enormously hungry puppies at home, and he wanted to take some back with them too.
Seeing that Yang Ming was carrying wolf entrails and other things in a cloth bag, Zhang Yang thought he should carry as much as possible. So, he used a knife to pry off the wolf teeth and cut open the remaining ribs, putting in as much as he could.
After tidying up for a while, the two finally dismembered all the wolves and packed up everything they could carry. They stood up, looked at each other, and couldn't help but laugh. In such a short time, they were both covered in blood, with Zhang Yang in even worse shape, and he even smelled of stench.
Led by Dahei, the two carried their spoils and returned to Zhengjia Village together. Before leaving, Zhang Yang even picked up his own cell phone. The phone was actually quite good quality; only the battery had come loose, and after putting it back on, it didn't affect its use at all.
After breakfast today, Wei Qingqing excitedly took Sun Fangfang and her son to see the hot spring. The water in the spring was still shallow, and from the shore, they could see the rising steam. The two of them were very excited and happy. They had heard that soaking in hot springs regularly was good for the skin, but it usually cost money to soak in hot springs. If they had their own private hot spring at home, wouldn't that be wonderful?
The two sisters, brimming with excitement, looked around. It's true what they say, women are born romantic! In their eyes, the surrounding bare hills were natural screens, perfect for hiding their secrets. They quickly found a small valley about 200 meters from the hot spring. This valley was nestled between three mountains, relatively flat inside. Roughly estimating its area, the valley was about 10000 square meters. There were three passages between the mountains, which the sisters had already planned. They would seal all three passages with iron fences. The one closest to the spring would be used to draw water from the spring, with a small gate in the fence for people to enter and exit. The other passage, closest to their home, would have a gate for entry and exit. The last one would be completely sealed off with a fence.
Inside the valley, the two sisters had already planned it out: they would dig a hot spring pool in the middle of the valley, line it with pebbles, and build a small wooden cabin next to it for resting. They would also plant some flowers and grass in the valley, since the temperature near the hot spring would definitely be high, and the flowers would bloom even in the dead of winter.
Having planned everything, the two sisters went home excitedly, ready to tell their ideas to the two men and have them put them into practice. However, when they got home, the two men were nowhere to be found. They had heard Zhang Yang shouting that he was going hunting that morning, and Wei Qingqing rushed to the west room to check. She found that two rifles were missing from the leather suitcase. Now the two sisters knew where the two men had gone.
"Those two bastards just ran off like that! It's just a hot spring pool, right? We can manage it ourselves without them!" Sun Fangfang angrily pulled out her phone and called the company, accusing them of abusing their power for personal gain. Longteng Real Estate has quite a few construction teams, many of which are idle. It wouldn't be a big deal to just grab one. Anyway, the company leaders often use company people to do their own private work. Of course, if the project is too large, they have to pay part of the cost themselves.
"Alright, alright, have a peach to calm down..." Wei Qingqing walked in carrying a plate of washed peaches. "They just love to play around. In modern society, life is quite stressful, so it's good for their health to relax a bit."
"Hmph, the construction team should arrive around 10 a.m. today." Sun Fangfang took a bite of a peach. "We still need to discuss the details."
"So fast? It takes at least three or four hours to get here from the city, and it's already nine o'clock."
"Who told you it was a construction team from the city? It's from Yunggu County. Longteng also has a branch there," Sun Fangfang said.
"Do they know this place?"
"How could I not recognize it? Isn't this Zhengjia Village? I told them to park right in front of the house at the very end."
"Okay, let's get this done together."
Around 10 o'clock, a rumbling engine sound came from outside. Looking out the window, they saw four or five tall construction vehicles parked outside the yard. Wei Qingqing and Sun Fangfang quickly went out. Sun Fangfang introduced herself to the foreman and then led them to the valley, with the construction vehicles following behind.
The foreman, surnamed Huang, was a fat man in his fifties and a local from Yunggu County. He knew Zhengjia Village and that it was all mountain valleys, so he brought only the smallest of the construction vehicles, which were enough to get through the valleys.
The hot spring pool project wasn't too large, and as for the log cabins, the construction team didn't have the necessary personnel. This trip was to build a hot spring pool under the supervision and guidance of the company leaders. The construction team had done similar projects before, so they were naturally able to handle it with ease. The laborers were also well-prepared, each wearing a pair of rain boots.
Four hours later, at 3:30 p.m., the main construction of the hot spring pool was completed. The three hot springs were separated, and the water temperature in the separated pools was rising sharply. The pools were filled with fist-sized pebbles. Even if these pebbles blocked the springs, they would not affect the flow of water. In fact, the pebbles would support the springs and reduce the possibility of the spring walls collapsing and blocking the springs.
The pool in the small valley has been dug and lined with a thick layer of pebbles. Both the inlet and outlet pipes are very well made. No valves are installed in either system, so that the water in the hot spring pool will always be running water. Only a few filters are installed in the inlet pipes to block weeds and silt.
All three passages were enclosed by iron railings, with gaps only three fingers wide between them, making it impossible for a person to squeeze through.
We'll deal with the remaining cabins, flowers, and plants later.
"How was it? Pretty fast, right?" Sun Fangfang said smugly after sending the construction team away.
"If you're rushing them like that, of course they have to hurry. Didn't you see that fat foreman? His face was covered in sweat." Wei Qingqing rolled her eyes at Sun Fangfang.
"It's just a small hot spring pool, how long can it take? They're doing the work for me, I'm only paying for the materials, not a penny for their wages. If they don't finish quickly, how long will it take? That fat foreman isn't stupid. By the way, your family has to pay for the materials..." Sun Fangfang said nonchalantly. Although she didn't pay them, Wei Qingqing still packed a basket of large peaches for the construction team before they left, weighing about fifty or sixty pounds, as a token of appreciation for their hard work.
Wei Qingqing rolled her eyes.
Sun Fangfang didn't care, took off her clothes, and then jumped naked into the hot spring pool: "Haha, this is so comfortable! Just for this hot spring, I'll come to your house every week from now on..."
"I've never seen anyone like you," Wei Qingqing rolled her eyes at Sun Fangfang and began to take off her clothes as well. "You're even neglecting your son just to soak in the hot springs?"
"Oh right, where did I put my son?" Reminded by Wei Qingqing, Sun Fangfang remembered her son.
"They locked us inside..."
"Oh no! Your big black cat is inside. Won't it scratch him?" Sun Fangfang asked worriedly.
"No, I chased Meow Meow to the outer room."
"That's good..." Sun Fangfang breathed a sigh of relief.
"Aren't you afraid he'll pee himself?"
"Boys should roll around in mud and water so they can grow into real men."
"..." Wei Qingqing was speechless.
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