Chapter 181 News from the Wild Boar King
Yue Feng had played cards with Hu Xiaoli for a period of time in his previous life, so he knew a little about his background.

This guy is a master at cheating. Every winter, all the card tables in the villages within dozens of miles around Xing’an Village become his home ground.

When he was working, the workers in the production team did not earn much money a year, but Hu Xiaoli’s wife and children were well fed and drank, and they lived a very comfortable life, all thanks to his skills at the card table.

Zhou Xiaobao, as mentioned earlier, is the youngest son of Zhou Weiguo, the second son of the Zhou family, and is currently an unemployed vagrant.

With such a lineup, an old hand, who was in charge of the bureau, called Wang Musheng, who worked as a driver in the forest farm, and also called Zhu Erhai and Zhou Xiaobao. This is interesting.

In a split second, Yue Feng figured out what was going on, but he just nodded and said nothing.

“Let them play their own games, and my mom will wait on them in the house! We can play our own games in the west room. There are sunflower seeds at home. I’ll go to the east room to get them!”

Xiaowen pulled Yuefeng to the west room and started busying himself with pouring water and so on.

“No need to rush! Come on, Xiao Tao, let’s go take a look at the east room!”

Yue Feng pulled Xiaowen, then held the eagle and stood up from the edge of the kang where he had just sat.

“Brother Feng, you want to touch it too? You can’t touch this thing!”

When Xiaowen heard that Yue Feng wanted to go to the east room, his face was slightly stunned, and he spoke in a very firm attitude.

Yue Feng grinned: “Don’t worry, I’m not interested in playing with money! I just want to say hello to Brother Mu Sheng and Brother Li!”

Yue Feng’s idea was very simple. Now that he had established himself as a powerful figure in the village with his hunting team, everyone outside knew that Xiaowen and Xiaowu were following him. So, taking care of Xiaowen’s family’s card business was naturally a disguised way of giving Yue Feng face.

If Yue Feng had not come to Xiaowen’s house today, even if he knew that Wang Musheng and Hu Xiaoli were playing cards here, he would definitely not deliberately make a detour to say hello. But now that he has entered the house and knows that they are next door, he still has to show the proper courtesy.

Having made up his mind, Yue Feng held the big eagle and lifted the curtain, then walked straight through the central hall and kitchen into the east room.

As soon as I opened the door, I was knocked down by the smoke in the house. The house was so smoky that I knew someone was playing cards. If you didn’t know, you would think the roof was on fire.

“Hey, Xiaofeng is here! I haven’t seen you for a long time. Come on, get on the bed!”

Hu Xiaoli was sitting in the east position with his back against the east wall, so he was the first person to see Yue Feng when he entered the room.

“Brother Li, Brother Musheng, I heard from Xiaowen that you guys are playing here. It’s been a while since we last met, so come over and say hello!” Yue Feng greeted them enthusiastically with a smile on his face.

“You guy, I haven’t seen you for a few days, why are you still speaking in such a flowery way? Do you want to play or not? Count you in?” Wang Musheng nodded at Yue Feng as a greeting, picked up a cigarette from the table, and was about to offer it to Yue Feng.

Yue Feng waved his hand: “I don’t know how to smoke, just have fun, don’t worry about me!”

“Oh, you are holding an eagle! What kind of eagle is this? Can it catch rabbits?” Wang Musheng put down the cigarette box and then noticed that Yue Feng was still holding an eagle in his hand.

“Yes, I can catch him, but I haven’t trained him yet. I’ll set up a trap for him when I catch him, and we’ll have some fun!”

“That’s great, you look great as an eagle! We are waiting to eat your rabbit!”

“no problem!”

While Yue Feng was talking, he took the square stool behind the door and sat down near the window instead of sitting on the edge of the kang.

There are also some rules for playing cards. If you are not the one playing, try to stay away from people under their noses as much as possible, in case you accidentally reveal your cards, it will be difficult to explain.

After briefly greeting Wang Musheng and Hu Xiaoli, Zhu Erhai and Zhou Xiaobao on the other side also looked at Yue Feng.

“Brother Xiaofeng!” Zhou Xiaobao also greeted Yue Feng.

It is true that the Zhou family and the Yue Feng family have a grudge, but although they had a quarrel last time, it was only at the level of the village office. They didn’t fight, which meant that they didn’t completely tear each other apart. Zhou Xiaobao has a high EQ, so he didn’t say that he wouldn’t talk to Yue Feng when he saw him.

“Xiaobao and Erhai are here too. How are you? How much did you win?” Yue Feng grinned as a greeting.

“It’s not bad. Our feet are still on the water! Brother Xiaoli is giving us a chance!” Xiaobao gathered the banknotes in his hand and said confidently.

The soles of my feet were touching the water, which meant I won a little and had a slight surplus.

Yue Feng nodded without saying anything, but he became more certain about his guess.

Hu Xiaoli’s usual routine is to let you win a little first, and when he feels the time is right, he will make you lose a big hand or two. Although this trick of playing with people’s hearts is simple and crude, it has been proven to work.

The card game in the east room soon returned to calm after the brief chaos caused by Yue Feng’s entry. The gamblers at the table dealt cards again and again, and then either won or lost, and after simply cashing out their gambling money, they continued to the next round.

Yue Feng stayed in the room with the eagle for about ten minutes, then came out of the east room to say hello. On the floor of the outer room, Xiaowen’s mother was already there preparing lunch.

“Xiao Feng, it’s a rare occasion that you come to my house today. I’ll prepare lunch and braised pork for you guys at noon. Please don’t leave!” Xiao Wen’s mother said to Yue Feng with gentle eyes.

“Okay! My aunt’s braised pork is absolutely amazing!” Yue Feng agreed without hesitation.

Back on the kang in the west room, Xiao Tao and Xiao Wen were sitting on the edge of the kang, eating melon seeds and reading a comic book about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

In this day and age, people stay at home during the winter and have little entertainment. Yuefeng’s family at least has a semiconductor radio. Xiaowen asked about the price last time but couldn’t bear to buy it. But Xiaowu bought a lot of picture books, which he reads when he has nothing to do, which helps to pass the time.

“Xiao Wen, those four were also playing cards at your house before?” Yue Feng asked casually.

Xiaowen: “No, Li Ge came more often, along with Ma Shuai and Xiaojun from the village. Zhu Erhai and Xiaobao are the first to come today!”

“What about Wang Musheng?” Yue Feng asked again.

“This is Mu Sheng’s second time here and his first time sitting at the table! Last time he just came for a stroll and left after staying for a while! What’s wrong, brother? Is there something wrong here?”

Xiaowen himself has a relatively stable personality, and he noticed something unusual when he heard Yue Feng asking about relevant details.

“It’s hard to say, the taste seems to be a little off! Wang Musheng shouldn’t be a gambler on weekdays! Let’s observe it for a while, as long as it’s not Gu Qiu, we’ll be fine!” Yue Feng said calmly.

“Brother, what you mean is…” Xiaowen didn’t say it clearly, but he had already expressed what he wanted to say.

Yue Feng nodded: “When they get together, they either get money or cause trouble! Brother Li always has a method in doing things, I guess they are mostly causing trouble!”

“Brother, what are you guys talking about in sign language? I don’t understand!!”

Xiao Tao looked at Yue Feng and then at Xiao Wen. He knew the meaning of each word of what they said separately, but after listening to the whole sentence, he had no idea what it meant.

Yue Feng grinned: “It has nothing to do with us! Just read your comic book peacefully!”

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While the guys were discussing in the west room, the card game in the east room was still going on. The cards on the table today were a bit weird. Wang Musheng, who was at the table for the first time, seemed to have a bit of luck. He could get big cards every now and then, such as straights, flushes, pairs, etc. His luck was quite strong.

In comparison, Hu Xiaoli, who had the best card skills, had much worse luck. He didn’t get any decent cards in dozens of consecutive games.

Similar to Hu Xiaoli is Zhu Erhai.

Zhu Erhai was very bold when playing Three Cards. In the first few rounds, he never looked at the cards and always bet on black. As a result, after he kept thinking about the cards for a long time, he never won once after he revealed them.

Just after ten o’clock in the morning, Zhu Erhai came out of the east room, knocked on the door of the west room, and then shouted in a low voice: “Xiao Wen, come out!”

Xiaowen got down from the edge of the kang and left the house. Two minutes later, he came back.

Without waiting for Yue Feng to ask, Xiao Wen said, “He asked me for ten yuan. Brother Li will cover the cost for him! I gave it to him!”

In a card room, if you are temporarily short of money, it is normal to take out ten or twenty dollars. As long as someone at the same table guarantees you, most of the time you can borrow the money.

This money is breathable. If you pay it back on the same day, acquaintances usually don’t charge interest. But if you borrow the money overnight, then interest will be charged.

In a situation like theirs where the stakes are not high, few people would refuse to pay. At best, they would go home to get the money and then return it, or bring it back the next day.

“Do less of this kind of work in the future. You only make money from setting up tables. You are not allowed to touch these things like taking a cut of the profits or placing a mark! If you do, the nature of the work will change. Do you understand?” Yue Feng reminded him.

“Well, only Brother Li spoke up, otherwise he would not be worth ten dollars in my eyes!” Xiaowen nodded.

Originally, he thought that this was the limit, but today’s card game was so mysterious that in less than an hour, Zhu Erhai lost everything again.

This time, when asking Xiaowen for money again, even with Li Ge’s guarantee, Xiaowen had no money to give. Zhu Erhai kept coaxing and begging, but Xiaowen refused to give in.

With a base of five cents, you can lose ten dollars in an hour or so. This is a bit weird.

Being forced into no other choice, Zhu Erhai pushed open the door of the west room with a flushed face.

“Brother Feng, can I exchange the information about the mountain animals for some information fees?”

“Huh? What the hell? What information?” Yue Feng was a little overwhelmed when he heard the information from the mountain beast.

“The wild boar king! The wild boar king weighs more than 800 kilograms! There is also a large group of wild boars! My dad and my uncle found them when they went up the mountain! I’ll sell some to you, and you give me some money!” Zhu Erhai said it with details.

Hearing the words “wild boar king weighing more than 800 kilograms”, Yue Feng immediately perked up.

In his previous life, he vaguely remembered that he seemed to have heard news about the Wild Boar King. It was said that a large group of hundreds of wild boars were encountered in the mountains, and they directly occupied a large area.

Later, hunters organized a hunt, but in the end, they lost a lot of dogs and failed to capture them. After that, there was no news.

“When did it happen? Is it guaranteed?”

“I guarantee it. It will take no more than a week at most!”

“60 yuan!” Yue Feng gave a quote without hesitation.

“Look, this is the Wild Boar King’s idea, it’s done…”

Without waiting for the other party to finish, Yue Feng looked up at Zhu Erhai and said, “50!”

“Okay, 60 is 60! Deal!” Zhu Erhai was afraid that Yue Feng would continue to lower the price, so he agreed decisively.

“Xiao Wen, give him the money, and I’ll give it to you later!”

“Oh!” Xiaowen immediately took out a stack of money from his arms, counted out 60 and put them on the edge of the kang.

“Tell me, where is it? What’s the situation? How did you find out? Think about it carefully. If you lie to me, you know the consequences!” Yue Feng said in a light tone with his eyes narrowed.

“After Woniu Mountain meets Heixiazi Ridge, head northwest and you’ll see the second unnamed ridge!
There was a big group of them. The big wild boar king was like a small car, leading a large group of wild boars. There were at least a hundred of them. The snow at the bottom of the ditch was trampled to pieces by the pigs!” Zhu Erhai described the location very accurately.

“How long ago was it?”

“It’s been less than a week, and today seems to be the sixth day! On the third day of the Chinese New Year, my uncle and my dad wanted to go there to collect some mountain products, but we found a herd of pigs and didn’t dare to move. I even thought about getting a gun to try it out, but my dad wouldn’t let me!
My dad said that he had never seen such a large herd of pigs in his life! The entire ditch and pond under the ridge were turned over by the pigs, and it was completely black!

After hearing the information, Yue Feng recalled the place Zhu Erhai mentioned in his mind. Woniu Mountain and Heixiaziling are not close to Xing’an Village. If you walk from home, it will take about three and a half hours.

Of course, there is a shortcut. You can take the small train in the forest farm, get off at the last stop of Forest Area No. 30, and then walk up along Chaiji Road. It will take about to minutes to get there.

“In the middle of winter, your father and uncle went to the mountain to collect mountain products? The mountain is blocked by snow, what can they collect?” Xiao Tao was afraid that Yue Feng was cheated, so he raised the suspicious points to his face.

Yue Feng nodded: “Yes, what kind of mountain products can we pick at this time?”

Being stared at by several pairs of eyes, Zhu Erhai scratched his head and explained awkwardly: “Actually, there was an old mountain dog over there who had planted a lot of condoms and wallets in the surrounding areas, and they went there to steal the condoms!”

With this explanation, it barely makes sense.

All the traps on the mountain have owners, but according to the rules of the mountain, the mountain wealth cannot be enjoyed alone.

If the hunter who sets the trap does not have time to get rid of it, he will be discovered by other mountain people in advance.

For example, if you trap a deer, roe deer, wild boar, etc., you only need to leave one leg or half of the back seat for the owner of the trap, and it is no problem to take the rest away!
The Zhu family really likes to do this kind of thing. They have nothing to do in the winter, so they like to do this kind of thing, and they call it hunting in the mountains!
“Okay, I got it! I’ll buy it now, but you’re not allowed to tell anyone else!” Yue Feng nodded, indicating that he approved of Zhu Erhai’s information. He gave the money on the edge of the kang to Zhu Erhai.

“Don’t worry about that. I know the rules! Then you guys go ahead and play. I’ll go over there!”

After getting the money, Zhu Erhai immediately went out of the west room and continued fighting at the table.

Only Xiao Tao, Xiao Wen and Yue Feng were left in the room.

“Brother, are we going to fight that 800-pound wild boar king? More than a hundred wild boars, that would be a huge scene! I think there’s a lot of fish in this!” Xiao Tao was still skeptical about this matter.

Yue Feng nodded: “Whether there are dates or not, let’s go and try it out! It’s just that the journey is a bit far. Even if you take a small train, it will take most of the day to go back and forth. You may have to spend the night in the mountains!”

“Let’s stay overnight. We are well prepared. We can just find a place to make a fire and take turns to stand guard and rest! We can get through it if we can hold out!” Xiaowen had no objection to spending the night in the mountains.

“Okay, I’ll think about it first. After dinner, meet at my house and we’ll study it!”

After a quick discussion, we decided on this matter temporarily.

Chapter 3, today’s ten thousand words are completed.

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