Chapter 281 Returning Home
Yue Feng stayed in the east room with his grandparents for a while, and the dumplings in the outer room were cooked.

My aunt called out from the stove, and everyone in the house who had not yet gotten up hurried to get up and eat the hot dumplings.

Leaving aside the various instructions given during breakfast, after the meal, the eldest uncle and the second uncle worked together in the yard to harness the carriage, and then helped their nephew load the carriage.

Speaking of which, the carriage for the trip home was quite easy to load. Most of the food and supplies that we brought with us were left at my grandmother’s house. The only things we brought back were coarse grains for the chestnut horse and dumplings for the four brothers to eat on the way.

In addition to the food that the people and the horses chewed, the most common things on the cart were cages filled with sables. Including this rare albino species, there were nine pregnant female sables, three sub-adult sables that they were reluctant to kill, and the adult sables that had been slaughtered and turned into leather tubes.

There weren’t many things, but they were of great value. Fearing that the sable would get cold on the road, my uncle took two quilts from the cabinet and spread them in the carriage, then covered them with sackcloth. This was within his means and the highest standard of treatment was given.

At 8:30 in the morning, everything was ready. Yue Feng drove his brothers, followed by Gou Zi, and they drove out of the village and started their journey home.

This time, they stayed at grandma’s house for eight days. If the two days of travel time were included, Yue Feng and his friends had been away from home for about ten days.

Honestly speaking, Yue Feng himself is relatively better. After all, he has lived two lives and is more mature mentally. But the other three brothers’ mentality has already undergone subtle changes as they have been away from home for longer periods of time.

Among the four people, especially the younger two, Xiaowu and Xiaotao, had expressed their homesickness in their words and deeds when they were chatting two days ago. Yue Feng understood it, but did not point it out directly.

Now, we are on our way home. The shiny chestnut horse, which had eaten well and recharged its batteries at grandma’s house, seemed to be homesick and had amazing strength.

We set out in the morning, and at noon that day, we did not stop to rest. We ate some dumplings in the car with hot water from a thermos we brought with us, and then continued on our way.

When it was getting dark, they found a regular hotel on the national highway. With the letter of introduction issued by the village, the four brothers booked a large bunk room that could sleep four people, watered their horses, and rested to relieve the fatigue of the journey.

The night passed peacefully and we set out again the next morning. We continued on our journey without stopping until noon. At around 4:30 in the evening, we finally returned to the familiar village.

Along the way, watching the surrounding environment change from being completely unfamiliar to eventually becoming familiar to him, Yue Feng felt a sense of absurdity in his heart that time has passed and the world has changed dramatically.

The closer you are to home, the more timid you feel. This might be Yue Feng’s mood at the moment.

The chestnut horse hadn’t entered the village yet, but a familiar figure came out of the village’s “Intelligence Department” at least seventy or eighty meters away.

“Xiao Feng!!! My son is back!!!”

Meng Yulan cried with joy. All the anxiety she had experienced in the past few days turned into tears of joy. She trotted towards her son’s carriage.

Yue Feng, who had been very calm along the way, saw his mother waiting for him at the entrance of the village. His mind suddenly emerged of the scene not long ago at his grandmother’s house when his grandmother was waiting for someone at the entrance of the village after dark.

At this moment, the mother was waiting for her son here. It was definitely not a coincidence or an accident, but she didn’t know when her son would return, so she was waiting at the village entrance day after day.

Yue Feng felt his eyes swelling up, and hot tears welled up unconsciously. The tears flowed uncontrollably from his eye sockets and soon dried into a shallow mark on his weather-frost face.

“mom!!”

Yue Feng jumped off the carriage with a little effort, then ran quickly towards his mother.

Soon, there was a firm hug. Meng Yulan touched her son’s head and limbs up and down, and asked with concern: “Is everything going well on this long trip? Is everything okay at your grandma’s house?”

“It’s fine! The four of us went out together, and we came back together! We’re all safe and sound, not even a scratch on our skin!
I had good luck at my grandma’s house. I hunted a lot of prey and caught a lot of martens! They are all in the car! Let’s go home! ! “

“I hope everything goes well! Let’s go home! Mom will make you some egg noodles with soybean paste!”

“go!”

A horse-drawn carriage rushed into the village, and several members of the hunting team got off the carriage immediately and ran home to report their safety to their families.

The carriage arrived at the door of the house. Hearing the barking of dogs in the alley, Yue Lei also came out of the house on crutches.

“dad!!”

“Hey! My second son is back! Come into the house and warm up!

You don’t know, your mother has been missing you since the sixth day after you left, and she has been running to Li Yinhua’s store every afternoon. She has been waiting for you to come back for several days, and finally you are back!”

Yue Lei looked his son up and down, then wiped the undried tears from his son’s face with his rough hands and said.

“You old fool, I went to the village to join the group because I was bored at home! What nonsense are you talking to your son about!”

Meng Yulan gave Yue Lei a look, and as soon as the carriage stopped, she quickly opened the sack and unloaded the contents from the carriage.

Under the quilts are small cages covered with cloth to block out the light. Each cage temporarily holds a sable. They are very light, so there is no pressure to unload them from the truck.

Soon, the four dogs were tied back to their respective kennels, and then Yue Feng and his mother helped unload all the things in the car. “How was the harvest this time?” Yue Lei couldn’t help because he couldn’t walk well. He could only stand at the door of the north room and watch his son and daughter-in-law busying themselves, asking with concern.

“The harvest was better than expected when we set out! We caught quite a few sables! We even caught an albino female sable!

My second uncle took us into the mountains and worked for five or six days. Guess how much the total was?”

“Are there ten?”

“Ten? Hehe, including both males and females, there are a total of 25! There are nine adult female minks with cubs in the cage! There are still three sub-adults that have not been killed for their skins.

There are 13 leather tubes that have been selected, almost all of which are top-grade male mink skins with top-grade perfect skins, and there are also two full-star gold and silver inlay skins!”

“So many!!! Did you go up the mountain to rob the sables? There are so many sables in the mountain behind your grandma’s house?”

When Yue Lei heard Yue Feng report the battle results, his eyes opened wide in disbelief.

If it were really that easy to catch, then sable wouldn’t be so expensive. The simple truth that rare things are valuable always applies.

“Hehe, there is a hot spring on the Blind Camel Mountain over there. There are caves under the snow in the valleys and ponds radiating from the hot spring. Da Huang is responsible for sniffing, and two firecrackers will blow up the nest. Big Black Hawk will be responsible for taking action. They didn’t rob the old nest, but it’s almost the same!

This is a search that was done carefully and without letting go, leaving no one alive. If I had searched more carefully, I would probably have caught a lot more. I would have saved the seeds for them to reproduce, and I would have gone back next year when it snowed!

We are the only ones who know how to catch sables this way, and this will be our private land from now on!”

As he spoke, all the cages covered with the first layer of quilts were moved down.

Yue Feng lifted the second layer of quilt again.

Wow, more than ten big round leather tubes are neatly arranged on the sack.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, the unique gloss and texture of the top-grade sable leather shines, with a full visual impact.

The feeling of just hearing a harvest number and seeing your son’s spoils in front of you are completely different.

Yue Lei and Meng Yulan were stunned for a moment when they saw the leather tube placed in the carriage.

“There are so many. How much will it cost? I heard that this intact leather is very expensive now!!”

Meng Yulan felt her breathing became much faster.

“Don’t worry about how much it costs! It’s ours anyway! Hang it in the warehouse first, and it should be dry after a few days. Then we can sell it in the city for a good price!”

“Okay! Be careful, this leather is precious, don’t damage it or it will affect its appearance!”

While giving instructions, Meng Yulan carried a few leather bags into the warehouse.

After unloading the car, Yue Feng took out the thermos from the house, filled a bucket with some warm water and added a little salt for the chestnut horse to drink.

The horse had worked hard during the two-day journey. Although it was back home now, Yue Feng couldn’t do such a thing as abandoning it. He had to take good care of it before sending it back.

After seeing the chestnut horse eat and drink its fill, Yue Feng said hello to his parents and went to the stable to return the horse.

The carriage was the collective property of the village, and both lending and returning had to be registered and recorded. Yue Feng was a man who always finished what he started. After returning the horse to the stable, he went back home.

In the house, the three brothers Xiao Tao, Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu had all returned after reporting home. The logistics director was preparing egg noodles with soybean paste in the kitchen. The smell of the stew aroused everyone’s appetite, and the few people who had been sleeping outdoors for the past two days were salivating.

A large bowl of steaming hand-rolled noodles was served on the table, paired with fragrant sauce. Several people held their bowls, picked up the hot noodles with chopsticks and mixed them with the fried sauce, then took a bite. It was so comfortable.

During this time, Meng Yulan and Yue Lei did not pick up their chopsticks. They just watched the four children eat the noodles like starving ghosts. The noodles, which were enough for at least five or six people, were eaten up by the four boys in a short while.

After finishing the noodles, I drank a bowl of noodle soup, held my stomach and burped. The happiness I felt at that moment was indescribable.

After serving the children enough food and drink, Meng Yulan asked more about her grandparents’ family.

My eldest and second uncles are extremely filial people, so there is nothing much to complain about Yue Feng’s trip to my grandmother’s house.

Apart from not telling his parents about the fight with the Qian family and the use of guns, he also told his parents about the hunt for wild boars and bears, and even about picking up a tiger cub for free before leaving the mountain.

When Meng Yulan heard her son say that except for the sable, all the spoils from this trip would be left for his second uncle as start-up capital for forming a hunting team, she glanced at her husband, and both of them had looks of relief.

(End of this chapter)