70s Delicate Girl: A Guide to Being a Rich Woman-Chapter 109: Unexpected Delight

The weekend came quickly, Xu Minghui only had one day off per week, Xu Mumu took a machete and a basket, and greeted her parents before heading up the mountain.

This was only after Xu Mumu had persuaded Li Caixia for a while that she agreed to let her go up the mountain, but she couldn’t run into the depths of the mountains.

This time, Xu Mumu didn’t bring a few children; after encountering a snake last time, she was scared and dared not recklessly take a few kids further up the mountain.

Ignoring the children’s longing looks, Xu Mumu took tools up the mountain, and Xu Minglei even went to Zhao Si’s house to borrow a bow and arrow again.

Xu Mumu carried tools and went up the mountain, Du Yu was a big help to her, and she planned to look for good things in the mountains. If she found any, she would send them to Du Yu and the others.

If she couldn’t find any, she’d figure out something else.

With no kids around, Xu Mumu headed a bit deeper into the mountains; many people still came to the mountain, mostly kids looking for wild vegetables, but all of them stayed at the edges.

Further in, there were fewer people, and Xu Mumu actually ran into someone she knew — Song Jiayan, along with a few villagers who had caught a rabbit in their hands.

Song Jiayan had some success, and upon seeing Xu Mumu, she gave her a disdainful look. The Old Xu Family had sold wild game several times secretly without telling other people, except for Tiedan’s house, no one knew.

Song Jiayan proudly walked up to Xu Mumu, "Hey, Mr. Xu came to the mountain to dig wild vegetables, huh? Did people finish digging up all the ones outside? It’s quite dangerous in here."

"Mumu, Song is right, it’s dangerous in here. We saw wild boar droppings earlier; you shouldn’t go over there." Among Song Jiayan’s group, a young man seriously reminded Xu Mumu.

Xu Mumu appeared delicate, even softer than Song Jiayan; if she really ran into a wild boar, what would she do?

"Thank you, Lidong, for warning me, I won’t go over there," Xu Mumu said with a smile. Zhao Lidong was Zhao Qing’s cousin and a decent guy.

The Zhao family was quite large within the brigade, almost half of the brigade shared the Zhao surname.

"Come on, we need to go catch wild chickens, hurry up," Song Jiayan said disgruntled, displeased at Zhao Lidong’s warm demeanor towards Xu Mumu.

Zhao Lidong gave Xu Mumu an apologetic smile and followed Song Jiayan and the others. They were all hired by Song Jiayan to look for wild game in the mountain; she’d paid them five yuan each, which was quite substantial.

After Song Jiayan left, Xu Mumu continued forward, indifferent to Song Jiayan’s hostility.

She was rather interested in the wild boar Zhao Lidong mentioned; if she could actually hunt one, she could send some meat to Du Yu’s house.

Once Zhao Lidong and the others had moved away, Xu Mumu went toward the direction Zhao Lidong had indicated. Xu Mumu was cautious along the way; it seemed Song Jiayan and her group had spooked the surrounding wild chickens and rabbits into hiding, as Xu Mumu hadn’t encountered any.

After walking for quite a while, Xu Mumu still hadn’t found signs of the wild boar, but she did encounter a rabbit, which was now quietly lying in her basket, pierced through the neck by her bamboo arrow.

Tired from walking, Xu Mumu stopped to rest for a moment. The sun was already high and bright; she wiped the sweat from her forehead and glanced around; she was quite deep inside now, a place rarely ventured by others.

Xu Mumu held a large leaf above her head to shield herself from the sun. Occasionally, a breeze would blow through the woods, providing a very pleasant sensation to the tired Xu Mumu.

Slightly squinting her eyes, Xu Mumu’s gaze suddenly froze — was that a ginseng seedling?

The leaves were palmately compound, with pebbled petioles, hairless, without stipules at the base, having elliptic to oblong-elliptic central leaflets, the outermost pair of lateral leaflets being ovate, tipped with a long point, with a broad wedge-shaped base tapering down, margins serrated with spiny tips.

Xu Mumu forgot her fatigue and ran toward the ginseng. Upon closer inspection, the leaves were identical to the ginseng she’d seen online — it was indeed ginseng, and Xu Mumu felt elated.

With a wooden stick, Xu Mumu carefully dug out the surrounding soil.

The ginseng Xu Mumu unearthed was about the size of her thumb, not yet fully shaped as a rootman, weighing just a few taels.

Judging by appearance, she couldn’t tell if it was over ten years old, and she won’t recognize if it wouldn’t fetch a high price.

Even though the ginseng was small, Xu Mumu still carefully wrapped it with leaves.

Even without catching the wild boar this trip, Xu Mumu felt that her gain was quite good, and she planned to sell the ginseng to the pharmacy in the afternoon.

After picking the ginseng, Xu Mumu scoured the surroundings again to ensure there were no other ginseng plants around and lost interest in hunting anymore; she prepared to pack things up and head down the mountain.

She hadn’t gone far before she saw Song Jiayan and her group running frantically toward her, followed by a big wild boar.

"Mumu, run, there’s a wild boar," Zhao Lidong’s voice came, as Zhao Lidong ran to Xu Mumu and tried to pull her along.

Xu Mumu dodged directly, half a year of apocalyptic habits made her averse to contact with others.

With her machete in hand, Xu Mumu hung her basket on a nearby tree and charged directly toward the wild boar.

She hadn’t been able to find a wild boar before, and now one had come knocking at her door.

Fortunately, it was only one wild boar; she wasn’t new to killing wild boars; it’s actually easier than killing snakes.

Seeing Xu Mumu wielding a knife charging at the wild boar, Song Jiayan and her group were stunned. Although Song Jiayan disliked Xu Mumu very much, at this moment, if Xu Mumu really got killed by the wild boar, all of them would be finished.

"Mumu, come back," Zhao Lidong shouted loudly.

The knife in Xu Mumu’s hand was very sharp, and Xu Mumu was strong, evading the wild boar’s tusks and stabbing its forehead with one strike.

The wild boar kept struggling, and Xu Mumu plunged the knife further in.

This wild boar was too dumb; it didn’t struggle much before dying out.

Song Jiayan was scared stiff, "You killed the wild boar?"

She had brought several villagers to the mountain and considered killing the wild boar when she first saw it. However, none of the people she brought were a match for the wild boar, sustaining some superficial injuries from the wild boar pursuing them.

But now, the wild boar was taken down by Xu Mumu in a single stroke. When did wild boars become so easy to kill?