My Wife Is the Capitalist Heiress of the 1970s - Chapter 24

Actually, Liu Neng is happy to lend his hunting dogs to others.

After all, he doesn’t go hunting in the mountains every day, but the hunting dog needs to maintain a certain level of ferocity and hunting familiarity.

If you keep them chained up at home all the time, they’ll become useless in the long run. Besides, these hunting dogs need to eat raw meat every day, and he won’t be able to afford to feed them for long.

If you go up the mountain with them, there’s a good chance you’ll get to eat meat.

This saved him the trouble, and it also helped him keep the dog.

Liu Neng’s family has two good dogs that understand human nature, are familiar with the mountains, and are skilled in hunting.

The two dogs, one black and one yellow, wagged their tails at Zhou Yuanchao as soon as they saw him arrive, indicating that they were quite familiar with each other.

Zhou Wenshan looked at the two dogs with curiosity; they were tall and fierce.

After Liu saw the two arrive, he waved to Zhou Wenshan and said, “Wenshan, come here and pat this dog’s head so they can recognize you and stop barking at you.”

Zhou Wenshan didn’t know why, but he could sense that the two dogs weren’t hostile towards him; on the contrary, they were just curious.

Liu Neng was holding down the two dogs when Zhou Wenshan came over and reached out to pat the dogs’ heads.

The two dogs rubbed their heads against his palm, then stuck out their tongues to lick his hand, and their tails wagged immediately, looking very affectionate towards him.

Liu Neng was surprised. “Good lad, I didn’t expect that Dahei and Dahuang would accept you so easily.”

Big Black? Big Yellow?

So these two dogs are named Dahei and Dahuang. What a casual name!

Zhou Wenshan looked at the two dogs with some fondness, “Uncle Liu’s two dogs are just too intelligent.”

Liu Neng handed him the two dog leashes, saying, “The dogs are yours now. Unleash the leashes when we get to the mountain, or they’ll scare people.”

Zhou Wenshan looked at the two tigers, a large black one and a large yellow one, which were almost the same size as wolves, and nodded. “Don’t worry, Uncle Liu, leave them to me.”

Zhou Yuanchao handed Liu Neng a cigarette. “Big Liu, why don’t we go up the mountain for a bit of fun?”

Liu Neng shook his head and sighed, “I’m not going. The bone I broke on the mountain two months ago still hurts a bit. I’ll wait until it’s fully healed before going.”

Zhou Yuanchao nodded, “Okay, then we’ll take the two dogs with us and bring them back to you after we get down the mountain.”

After leaving Liu Neng’s house, Zhou Wenshan led two dogs on leashes and followed Zhou Yuan towards the mountain.

It’s about a kilometer from here to the road up the mountain, and it will take at least ten minutes to walk there.

Big Black and Big Yellow seemed to have been out for a while. As soon as they came out, they were incredibly excited and ran forward like crazy.

If it weren’t tied up, and the rope were still in Zhou Wenshan’s hands, he probably would have run far away by now.

Someone else might not have been able to hold them back. Zhou Wenshan felt the strength of the rope in his hand and gently called out, “Big Black, Big Yellow, don’t run around!”

Dahei and Dahuang let out a whimper, as if they understood, and ran to Zhou Wenshan’s side, rubbing their heads against his thighs as if they were being affectionate.

Zhou Wenshan chuckled and patted the dog’s head. “You can run around freely on the mountain later, not now.”

As if he understood what the two dogs were saying, they walked slowly beside him for the rest of the way and never ran away again.

Zhou Yuanchao, who was walking ahead, turned around and glanced at him. Even when he used to bring Dahei and Dahuang out, these two dogs had never been this obedient.

When they reached the foot of the mountain, Zhou Yuanchao asked him to untie the two dogs.

Zhou Wenshan agreed, “Okay…”

He untied the ropes from the two dogs’ necks and said, “Go have some fun.”

Like arrows released from a bow, the two dogs, Big Black and Big Yellow, excitedly ran forward, their powerful hooves leaving shallow dents in the ground before disappearing in an instant.

Zhou Wenshan asked worriedly, “Dad, won’t Dahei and Dahuang run away?”

Zhou Yuanchao shook his head, “No, I’ll be back in a bit.”

Sure enough, three minutes later, the two big black and yellow dogs ran over from a distance, ran up to Zhou Wenshan, and wagged their tails while panting with their tongues out.

Zhou Yuanchao called out to him, “Wenshan, let’s go.”

After saying that, he stubbed out his cigarette and headed up the mountain.

Zhou Wenshan followed behind Zhou Yuanchao, seeing him walking forward without stopping, and asked, “Dad, aren’t there any rabbits or pheasants around here?”

Without turning his head, Zhou Yuanchao said, “It’s too close to the foot of the mountain here. There are only pheasants and rabbits here, but they’ve all been caught long ago. If you want to hunt, you have to go deeper into the mountains.”

Zhou Wenshan suddenly realized, “So that’s how it is.”

Following Zhou Yuanchao, we walked into the mountains. The road became narrower and narrower, and eventually, he took out a machete and started chopping at the branches of trees that were blocking the way.

Zhou Wenshan looked around at the scenery with curiosity. Although he grew up in a village not far away, this was his first time here.

Normally, we only stay at the foot of the mountain. Adults don’t allow us to go any deeper, in case a tiger snatches us away.

Big Black and Big Yellow ran back and forth near the two of them, as if they were investigating something. They never strayed too far away, and when they did, they would come back to Zhou Wenshan’s side for a while.

The two hunting dogs seemed to enjoy being with Zhou Wenshan, occasionally circling around him.

Suddenly, Zhou Yuanchao, who was in front, stopped and turned around. He said to Zhou Wenshan, “Wenshan, there are some monkey head mushrooms on that tree over there. Go over and cut them down with a knife.”

Zhou Wenshan’s spirits lifted. Monkey head mushroom?

This is a real gem! It’s delicious and not cheap; a pound of monkey head mushrooms can be exchanged for a pound of fatty pork!

Where?

Zhou Yuan pointed forward, and Zhou Wenshan looked in the direction of his finger. There was a withered birch tree with seven or eight mushrooms the size of an adult’s palm growing on it. Those were monkey head mushrooms.

As one of the famous delicacies of the mountains, monkey head mushroom is very well-known, and Zhou Wenshan spotted it at a glance.

A smile appeared on his face. Although it wasn’t rabbits or pheasants, it was still a good harvest. These few monkey head mushrooms weighed about four or five pounds, and he could sell them for three or four yuan.

Take out a small knife, cut off these monkey head mushrooms, and gently place them in the basket, trying to avoid crushing them.

These past few days, the monkey head mushrooms haven’t been growing very high; Zhou Wenshan can reach them with just a simple arm raise.

Zhou Wenshan looked at the basket on his back. “Dad, it’s better to go hunting in the mountains. We’ve already earned a few dollars in just a short while!”

Zhou Yuanchao shook his head, “It’s not that simple. Do you really think hunting is easy? It also depends on luck. Many times, it’s normal to come down the mountain empty-handed after a whole day.”

Zhou Wenshan was skeptical. “Dad, aren’t there many animals on this mountain?”