7: Messy in the wind

An entire tree's worth of walnuts, the quantity was not small.

Su Can roughly counted them as he packed, estimating about four or five hundred.

This was a heavy harvest!

Even setting aside their value as collectibles, just selling the walnuts themselves could fetch a good amount of money.

After all, wild mountain walnuts command a high price on the market!

After putting away the walnuts, Su Can finally picked up his phone and saw a pile of missed calls, making his scalp tingle.

Dozens of missed calls, from Liu Tianji, from classmates, and most importantly, from his mother.

"Goodness! So many missed calls, I'm definitely going to get an earful later."

After glancing at Liu Tianji's message, Su Can didn't reply, but instead took out his phone and called his mother first.

"Hello, Mom, I just—"

"You shut up! You little rascal, you've really grown wings, daring to disappear on me and not answer my calls!"

As soon as Yang Hui answered Su Can's call, she immediately went full throttle: "You look at the time, what time is it already?"

"I begged everyone I knew to find you a blind date, and what do you do? You fake being sick and run off."

"Come on, come on, didn't you go to the hospital? What kind of sickness? Let me see. Bring me back your medical records later. If you can't bring them back today, you just wait!"

"Mom, calm down, what era is this? Are we still doing blind dates?"

Listening to his mother's tirade, Su Can quickly interjected with a joke: "Besides, your son is handsome and charming, as graceful as a jade tree facing the wind. Is he the kind of person who can't get married?"

"You little rascal, what are you talking about!"

Yang Hui listened to his nonsensical words, both annoyed and amused, glanced at the time, and couldn't help but ask again:

"Where did you run off to all morning? It's already mealtime, have you eaten?"

"Not yet, I'm in my old home right now. Today, on a whim, I came back to take a look, and Big Yellow even caught a wild rabbit in the mountains."

As Su Can spoke, he took a picture of the wild rabbit with his camera and sent it to his mother on WeChat.

Yang Hui glanced at it, surprised, and said: "This wild rabbit isn't small, even if you sell it, it could fetch a hundred or so yuan."

"What? A hundred or so yuan? Mom, don't joke! This is a pure wild catch from the big mountains. If sold to a merchant, it would be at least three hundred!"

Having been reborn, Su Can knew the value of these things better than anyone; rich people eat for the sense of superiority.

"Really?"

Yang Hui heard Su Can's words and asked with some disbelief: "Isn't it just a rabbit? Can it be worth three hundred yuan?"

Su Can smiled at this, emphasizing: "It's a 'wild rabbit'! Farm-raised and caged rabbits aren't worth that much money."

"Alright, Mom, I won't talk to you anymore. I'm going back to our old house to stew this rabbit. I'm hungry anyway."

"Alright, alright, you go back first. The key is still hidden in the usual spot. Be careful when you start a fire and cook."

Yang Hui, hearing Su Can say he was hungry, didn't say much more, gave a quick instruction, and hung up the phone.

Su Can watched his mother hang up and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He was afraid his mother would harp on the blind date issue and make him go on another one.

He didn't want to go on any blind dates.

He had just broken up before his rebirth, and that feeling was not pleasant.

Now he just wanted to develop himself, get addicted to making money. As for women, would he lack them once he was rich and powerful?

"Let's go, Big Yellow, home!"

Su Can picked up the urea bag and walked down the mountain with high spirits.

"Woof!"

Big Yellow barked once and trotted happily behind him.

Perhaps after his enlightenment, its energy was too abundant. It kept darting around behind Su Can, occasionally barking twice.

As a result, they hadn't walked far when, with a flutter, another large pheasant was startled out of the grass by it.

"Woof woof!" Big Yellow immediately became excited and leaped out to chase.

"Pheasant!"

Su Can's eyes also lit up; he hadn't expected to encounter another wild animal right at the end.

He saw that although Big Yellow was chasing quite fast, it seemed impossible for it to catch the pheasant.

So he raised his hand, swung his arm, gripped the five-ridged walnut in his hand, and relying on his keen awareness and senses, threw it towards the pheasant that was struggling to fly.

He didn't know if it was an illusion, but Su Can always felt full of confidence when he made a move, always having a strange sense of assurance.

Facts proved that his feeling was indeed not wrong.

The moment the walnut left his hand, it cut a clear air streak, directly hitting the pheasant.

Bang!

Accompanied by a dull thud.

The walnut and the pheasant both fell from mid-air, and a plume of blood-stained feathers also drifted down from above.

Su Can was stunned for a moment, then immediately cheered happily: "I did it! Hahaha. Big Yellow, go quickly and pick up that pheasant!"

As he spoke, he also walked over and picked up the walnut from the ground.

"Woof~!"

Big Yellow barked, ran over, picked up the pheasant in its mouth, and came over, wagging its head, to claim credit.

Su Can first put away the walnut, then took the pheasant from Big Yellow's mouth. He lifted it with his hand; it weighed at least eleven or twelve pounds.

"Another big harvest, hahaha!"

Su Can knew the value of pheasants; if he found the right channel, they were even more expensive than wild rabbits.

It was so exhilarating!

Encountering such a large harvest on his first trip into the mountains, Su Can was full of confidence for the future.

After all, Qixia Mountain was so vast, and twenty years ago, the country had confiscated hunting rifles and such, so the villagers had long stopped hunting in the mountains.

It could be imagined that in the future, the entire Qixia Mountain would be his private garden; this was a huge treasure.

"Let's go, Big Yellow!"

Thinking of this, Su Can enthusiastically mixed the pheasant into the urea bag and began to walk down the mountain with large strides.

Soon, one person and one dog arrived at the village at the foot of the mountain.

It was mealtime, and many villagers were holding bowls, squatting by the roadside, eating and chatting.

Su Can's sudden appearance made them all pause.

"Isn't that Old Su's son, Su Can? When did he come back?"

"Didn't he graduate last year and go out to work? Why did he suddenly come back?"

"No, wait, looking at this situation, this kid clearly came down from the mountain? He went into the mountain?!"

Several uncles, who were laborers, all stood up with their bowls, looking suspicious.

"Uncle Wenbing, Gun Uncle, are you all eating?"

Su Can hadn't even walked over yet, but he heard their conversation clearly and greeted them from a distance.

The laborers in the village also smiled and greeted him.

"Su Can's back? Have you eaten? Gun Uncle's family made a lot of food today, come over and have some!"

"Yes, Su Can, when did you come back? And why did you come down from the mountain?"

Several uncles, laborers, asked one after another, all very friendly.

During his year outside, Su Can had experienced various vicious competitions and intrigues in the company, and it had been a long time since he had felt such a scene.

So he also responded happily:

"No need, Gun Uncle, I just went up the mountain to gather some firewood and pick some mushrooms. Big Yellow also caught an injured pheasant, so I'll make stewed pheasant with mushrooms later."

"Oh, and Uncle Wenbing, if you want to try some, feel free to come over later. I can't finish it all by myself anyway."

As he spoke, Su Can specifically took out the pheasant and showed it off.

The eyes of several people immediately lit up, and they exclaimed excitedly: "Oh, it really is a pheasant, good luck!"

"I didn't expect you, kid, to have such luck just going to gather some firewood. You're in for a treat!"

"Big Yellow is also doing great!"

Several people said, genuinely happy for Su Can.

But when Su Can left, and they saw Big Yellow's appearance following behind him, their faces noticeably froze.

"Is this still that old, skinny Big Yellow dog?"

"This… did I see things? An illusion?"

Several people paused, then suddenly exchanged glances, standing in the wind with their bowls, looking bewildered.