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Chapter 73 Aunt Chen gets beaten

With a loud bang, the tree, struck by the two wild boars, collapsed. Li Lan landed safely amid the two wild boars' exclamations. Then, he quickly rolled to the side, avoiding being smashed into a pulp.

Just when Li Lan was about to take a breath, the two wild boars suddenly changed direction and ran towards her.

Looking at the two wild boars running towards him, Li Lan's heart sank and he cursed: "Damn it, I was just praising you two, you ungrateful pigs. My fate with wild boars is damned.

Seeing the two wild boars so close, she estimated the distance and realized that shooting arrows would be useless. With that thought in mind, she used all her strength and ran towards a large tree nearby. At that moment, the two wild boars, as if enlightened, sniffed the scent and ran towards her.

In a flash, just when the two wild boars were three inches away from her, she quickly pushed a few steps up the tree, then used the momentum to do a beautiful backflip and landed steadily on the ground. When the two wild boars ran forward for a distance due to inertia, she quickly took out her crossbow and pulled the trigger. With two "bangs", the two wild boars fell to the ground, grunted a few times, twitched their bodies, and then fell silent.

Not far away, Zhou Liu and Li Yan, who were rushing over to rescue Li Lan, watched the two wild boars fall to the ground in fear and shock.

"Madam, you are still as ferocious as ever. My worries are unnecessary."

"The girl is really too cruel. I must remember not to provoke her in the future."

The two of them stood there in a daze, sighing with lingering fear.

"What are you two doing there? Come and help."

Li Lan, who had just recovered a moment, stepped forward and pulled out the iron arrows from the necks of the two wild boars. He wiped the blood on the grass and, while the two were stunned, quickly reclaimed the space. Then he looked back at the two people who were still stunned and raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, here it comes, ma'am."

"Here I come, girl."

Li Lan picked up a wild boar with one hand and put it on his shoulder, then walked forward with steady steps. Li Yan, who saw this scene, was shocked.

"Girl, she..."

"Once you get used to it, it's fine. This bear looks like it weighs about 300 pounds. Can the two of us lift it?"

Saturday frowned.

Li Yan looked at the black bear lying on the ground, thought for a moment, and immediately took a knife to cut some vines nearby. After a while, he had woven a large vine net.

"Wow, your craftsmanship is pretty good."

"Not bad. Come and help us. Together we can lift the black bear onto these vines and tie them up tightly. We can pull it from the front. This way, it should save a lot of effort."

"Here it comes, here it comes. Li Yan, you have a really good brain."

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Speaking of Li Lan, he was carrying two wild boars and walking slowly while waiting for them, while he also shot a few rabbits and pheasants.

When she was getting impatient and was about to speed up, she heard a noise from behind. She immediately became alert and quickly looked back. Just as she was about to put the wild boar down and take out her crossbow, she saw two people dragging a black bear out of the woods, panting with exhaustion.

Li Lan breathed a sigh of relief, then frowned, wondering, "Don't they both have internal energy? Why is he still panting after dragging one of them?" "Couldn't they be too weak?" "That won't do. I can't let them become weak just by handing them over to her. I have to give them some good nourishment when I get back."

Not far away, unaware of Li Lan's thoughts, the two men struggling to drag the black bear had been experiencing frequent nosebleeds in the mornings and hot and uncomfortable nights. As this became more frequent, the two men began to suspect they were seriously ill and hurried to see the village doctor.

When Doctor Xu finished taking their pulses and saw their indescribable expressions, they were so frightened that cold sweats broke out and their faces turned pale. In a trance, they heard Doctor Xu say, "Young man, you have a lot of internal heat, you don't need to take so much supplements. If you take too much supplements now, your energy won't be released. You need to move more."

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Half an hour later, the three of them arrived home. The people who were building the house saw the men carrying such large tools, and they immediately stopped what they were doing and walked over to take a look.

"Oh my goodness, this is the first time I've seen a blind bear."

"Really? It's my first time too. This one is really big."

"This Lan girl is really amazing."

……

"My dear uncles, when we go back today, each of us will cut down five pounds of wild boar meat and take it back. It's a deal, and you are not allowed to refuse."

After hearing her words, everyone was delighted, excited, and nodded in agreement.

"Hey, girl, are you hurt?"

At this time, Li Chunping, Wang Pozi and Zhang came over. Zhang took Li Lan and looked him up and down for a long time before she breathed a sigh of relief.

"Grandma, Dad, Mom, I'm fine. I'm fine."

He said with a smile, then turned to Zhou Liu and Li Yan, pointed at the black bear and wild boar on the ground and said, "You two take care of the black bear, then go to the village chief's house to borrow an ox cart, take the black bear and the wild boar to the Yingke Building in the county town and sell them. Sell the bear paws separately."

"Okay, girl. What about the bullock cart?"

"Village Chief Liu personally delivered the ox cart yesterday."

After saying that, several people began to busy themselves with cleaning up the black bear and wild boar.

In the evening, all the people who helped build the house returned home happily, each carrying 5 kilograms of wild boar meat.

Li Lan saw Li Hang and Li Run, who had just finished school, and asked them to take five catties of wild boar meat to their eldest uncle Li Chunlei and their third uncle Li Chunsheng, respectively. He himself took 10 catties of wild boar meat and delivered it to the village chief and the old scholar Li Guangnian.

On this side, Li Lan successfully delivered the package to the village chief's house and was heading to Li Guangnian's house. On the other side, Li Hang's delivery was not going smoothly.

As he reached Li Chunsheng's newly built house in the village, carrying the meat, he saw a number of villagers gathered outside the courtyard. From the courtyard came bursts of noise, mixed with the cries of children. Seeing this, Li Hang quickly turned around and ran back home.

At this time, in the yard, a tall and thin old woman was beating and scolding Chen, while a strong daughter-in-law standing next to her was watching the fun with a smile.

Chen was half-sitting on the ground with her head lowered. Her face was covered with slap marks, her hair was pulled into a mess, and her clothes were covered in mud.

"You damned girl, you eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks every day, and you even live in a new house. Such a good thing, and you didn't even tell us. It's a pity that I'm an old man, still eating bran and gnawing on tree bark. You heartless thing, when I gave birth to you, I should have thrown you into the cesspool and drowned you."

As the old woman spoke, she started pinching Chen again.

"Don't hit my mother anymore. It was my father who didn't let her go. If you want to hit someone, hit my father." Li He couldn't bear it anymore. He ran to Chen, pushed the mother-in-law away, and cried.

The woman didn't notice and was pushed to the ground. When she came to her senses, she immediately stood up and stretched out her hand to slap Li He. At this time, Chen, who had been bowing her head, quickly stood up and used her body to protect him. The heavy slap sounded and the pain made her cry.

At this point, the crowd outside the courtyard erupted in anger. They had initially thought this was Chen's family affair, one they shouldn't interfere with. But seeing how unreasonable Chen was, even beating the child, and remembering what Lan had said before, that outsiders shouldn't bully the people of their own village, they immediately rushed into the courtyard, pulling Chen from the ground and protecting her behind them.

Looking at the group of people who protected her behind their backs, Chen felt warm in her heart. She held Li He's little hand and couldn't help but shed tears.

"What's the matter? Do the people from your village want to bully us because we are few in number? Besides, this is our family affair, what right do you have to interfere?"

"Bah! This is your family affair. Aunt Chen, please have some shame. Your daughter is married into our Li Village and is a member of our Li Village. When will it be your turn as outsiders to beat and scold her? If you want to beat her, you should wait until Chunsheng comes back."

The old woman spat on the ground and cursed.

After hearing what Hua Pozi said, Chen Pozi felt ashamed. However, in order to get some money for her grandson to marry, she stiffened her neck and said, "Even if she gets married, she is still my daughter, who crawled out of my belly. I am almost starving to death, and she is eating and drinking well here. She has no conscience and will be struck by lightning."

At these words, Chen's eyes widened, and she trembled and took several steps back. A moment later, she stepped out from behind her sister-in-law, who was protecting her. She looked at Mrs. Chen and said, "Mother, haven't I given you enough? Every time I have something good, I've thought of you and my nephews. Even my own son, over the years, hasn't been so devoted. Now, you're trying to get some benefits from me, and I didn't give them, and you're cursing me like this. Am I really your daughter? There's no other mother like you in this world."

"Oh, Ruyi, you're really tearing at my heart when you say that. If I didn't love you, I would have let you marry Chunsheng. It was all for your own good. Now that you're living well, isn't it also filial piety for you to send some food to your parents' home?"

"Haha, fulfilling my wish. Is she fulfilling my wish? If Chunsheng hadn't given you three taels of silver as a betrothal gift, would you have agreed to let me marry you? Filial piety? If I am filial, do I have to use all my money and food to marry my nephew? Sister-in-law, you are really calculating. I am sometimes confused, but I am not stupid."

As soon as Chen finished speaking, the maids and sisters-in-law around her opened their eyes wide in shock. This old lady Chen didn't leave any way out for her daughter.

At this moment, a loud curse came from far away, which scared Mrs. Chen so much that she swallowed the words that were about to curse.