Chapter 799: All Grass Gall

After Wang Li finished speaking, Wang An only smiled but didn't dare to agree.

Mainly, Wang An had a very strong intuition that the one large and one small gallbladders Mu Xueli had extracted were also unlikely to be gold gallbladders.

But that's just how these things go; they give you whatever they feel like giving, and they certainly don't follow a person's wishes.

And so, Wang An and Wang Li led their horses and the four dogs, including Big Black, walking toward the direction where Mu Xueli was.

By the time the two of them arrived, an hour had passed.

By this time, Mu Xueli had not only finished butchering both the large and small black bears, but had even started stewing the bear meat, which looked nearly done.

At this moment, Mu Xueli was skewering meat onto wooden sticks, dipping the skewers in soybean paste and chili powder, and sticking them around the campfire.

This way of eating was much tastier than dipping meat in salt; after all, the aroma of soybean paste was loved by all Northeasterners.

Especially after the meat was grilled, the scent of the soybean paste could suppress the natural gaminess of the meat, making it taste fresher and more delicious.

Actually, the reason they ate this way was mainly because the palates of Wang An and the other two had become increasingly picky; if they didn't find new ways to prepare the food, no one would be willing to eat it.

To put it bluntly, they had all been fucking spoiled.

The only inconvenience of doing this was that soybean paste wasn't easy to carry into the mountains, mainly because there were no suitable containers. They could only use canned jars, and with the slightest lack of attention, a jar would get smashed.

As soon as she saw Wang An and Wang Li, Mu Xueli asked impatiently

"Brother-in-law, what kind of gallbladder did that black bear you two killed produce?"

Extracting a bear gallbladder was somewhat similar to gambling on raw jade; the tension and excitement in one's heart were almost irresistible to everyone.

This was also why every time the three of them hunted bears, Wang An would wait until the gallbladder was extracted before going on to do other things.

If it hadn't been for the fact that the male black bear's fate was unknown after being shot, Wang An wouldn't have rushed off so frantically to chase the bear before the gallbladder was taken.

However, extracting a bear gallbladder and gambling on jade were fundamentally different. Gambling on jade was a matter of "one cut for poverty, one cut for wealth, and one cut for hemp cloth."

In other words, there was a high possibility of losing everything.

As for extracting a bear gallbladder, the worst it could be was a grass gallbladder. Although the price difference between gallbladders was vast, a grass gallbladder was still valuable.

Simply put, the failure rate of gambling on jade was too high, leaving one feeling uncertain, but extracting a bear gallbladder didn't cause panic because there was a minimum guarantee.

Upon hearing Mu Xueli's question, Wang An said with a face full of annoyance

"Don't even mention it. A five-hundred-jin big black bear, and it fucking produced a grass gallbladder. Truly fucking useless."

Immediately after, Wang An asked

"How about these two black bears? What gallbladders did they have?"

Hearing that Wang An got a grass gallbladder, Mu Xueli's expression immediately wilted, and she said listlessly

"The two I took were the same. The big one was a grass gallbladder, and the small one was also a grass gallbladder—and it wasn't even big. Once it's air-dried, I think it'll be lucky to be worth 60 yuan."

After Mu Xueli finished, Wang Li was momentarily stunned. Then, Wang Li shouted with wide eyes

"Holy shit, this is fucking unbelievable! How did we end up with a streak of grass gallbladders? Since the start of spring, we've killed five black bears in total, and look at this—four grass gallbladders! Only that small black bear last time produced an iron gallbladder, and it wasn't even big. What's going on?"

Mu Xueli said while spreading soybean paste on a meat skewer

"Who knows? Maybe it's because we didn't calculate the auspicious hour correctly before entering the mountains."

Wang Li immediately said with a face full of indignation

"Cut that out! What auspicious hour or not? With hunting, whenever you leave is the auspicious hour. If you ask me, it's because we've killed too few black bears. If we kill more, gold gallbladders will naturally appear."

It had to be admitted that Wang Li's words made a lot of sense; the quantity was simply too low.

Wang An was also utterly perplexed by the constant appearance of grass gallbladders. Four grass gallbladders out of five bears—just how unlucky did one have to be?

Wang An and Wang Li unloaded the sacks of meat from the horses' backs and sat by the fire together, eating the grilled meat.

Although Mu Xueli had been stewing and grilling meat, she hadn't had a single bite herself. Now that the meat was cooked, she took a bite, and her eyes immediately lit up

"Brother-in-law, I'm telling you, this meat grilled with soybean paste and a bit of chili powder is actually quite delicious."

Wang An said while chewing

"Of course it is. If it weren't delicious, would I go through the trouble of carrying soybean paste into the mountains?"

Mu Xueli said with a beaming smile

"Brother-in-law, I'll go home in a bit to grab a piece of meat, okay? My family hasn't eaten fresh meat in a long time; every day it's either cured meat or smoked meat, which really isn't that tasty."

Hearing this, Wang An said indifferently

"Take it, take plenty. We're heading back into the mountains in a couple of days anyway."

After a while, Mu Xueli suddenly said

"Brother-in-law, I heard from the people in our village that our village is going to distribute 'green seedlings'."

Wang An and Wang Li were both stunned. Wang Li asked with curiosity

"Distribute green seedlings? What does that mean?"

Wang An, however, knew what "distributing green seedlings" was. It was essentially taking the already planted fields and distributing them to the peasants, similar to the household responsibility system—just another form of land distribution.

Then, after the autumn harvest, the land would be redistributed again.

However, in Wang An's previous life, this "green seedling distribution" had not happened in Xing'an Township, though he had heard of it in other regions.

He didn't know what kind of butterfly effect his rebirth had caused, leading many things to change in confusing ways.

Just as Wang An was wondering how he had flapped his wings, Mu Xueli explained the matter of the "green seedling distribution."

Simply put, it meant that all already-planted crops would be redistributed based on the number of people.

After Mu Xueli finished explaining to Wang Li, she turned to Wang An

"Brother-in-law, you say this green seedling distribution is also a form of land distribution, and since it'll all be distributed by the end of the year, I'm thinking of buying a four-wheel tractor for farming. Could you help me find Brother Wu and the others?"

Wang An recovered and said

"Buying a four-wheel tractor might be a bit difficult, but buying a walk-behind tractor should be no problem. Why don't you just buy a walk-behind tractor? Just make do with it for a few years."

Although a four-wheel tractor was indeed superior to a walk-behind tractor, buying one would inevitably require Wu Dong and the others to use their connections and favors. In that case, it wasn't quite worth it.

No matter how good the relationship was, one couldn't keep consuming favors like that!

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