70s Delicate Girl: A Guide to Being a Rich Woman-Chapter 69: Wild Mountain Goat

"No way, we have to dig in the rice paddies these days, it’s too tiring," Xu Minghui pouted.

"Dad and our grandparents have all gone," Xu Mumu felt a headache coming on.

"You’ll see, Dad will definitely take a break tomorrow, then it’s my turn," Xu Minghui said calmly. He knew his father’s personality well; these few days were just for show. Anyway, getting full work points wasn’t easy, so the regular amount suffices, and with so many people working together, it’s still easy to slack off.

"What do you guys do at work, that’s interesting?" Du Yu asked curiously.

"Just digging, weeding, and planting, all very troublesome," Xu Minghui glanced at Du Yu.

"Mumu, do you want to take a stroll up the mountain and bring back something to spice up our lives?" Xu Minghui’s eyes fell on Xu Mumu, feeling a craving for meat again, even though they just had some a couple of days ago.

"Are there a lot of wild animals on the mountain?" Du Yu’s eyes lit up.

"Yeah, there are wild chickens and rabbits. My big sister even caught a wild boar before. She’s really amazing," Xu Jiaojiao boasted proudly.

"A wild boar?!! What does a wild boar look like? Are you really that skilled?" Du Yu widened his eyes, looking at Xu Mumu. He had never seen a wild boar and didn’t know if they were really that formidable.

Xu Jiaojiao chirped on about how Xu Mumu caught the wild boar, almost turning Xu Mumu into a mythical figure, and yet, Du Yu believed it.

Xu Mumu watched from the side, her mouth twitching—one’s bold enough to tell, and the other’s bold enough to believe.

"It’s really you who wants to go, right?" Xu Mumu looked at Xu Minghui exasperatedly; lazy and greedy, that’s her brother for you.

"Yes, so are you going or not? With you, the chances of encountering danger are much reduced," Xu Minghui rubbed his chin and said, thinking that his sister could take down a wild boar with a punch. Besides those big animals deep in the mountains, nothing could really be her match.

"Du Yu, do you want to go play on the mountain?" Xu Mumu said helplessly, mainly because staying at home wasn’t fun either.

"I want to go," Du Yu said excitedly. After listening to Xu Jiaojiao’s stories, he became even more curious about everything on the mountain.

Xu Mumu put the kettle back by the cabinet and washed the bowls while Xu Minghui was already waiting at the door with tools.

"Brother, where did you find the bow and arrow?" Xu Mumu’s eyes widened upon seeing Xu Minghui with a bow and arrow on his back.

"From Uncle Zhao Si’s house. I just borrowed it. You can aim well with a slingshot, so this should be a piece of cake for you," Xu Minghui looked at Xu Mumu with a smile.

"Let me try it," Xu Mumu cast a sidelong glance at Xu Minghui. To be honest, she was quite interested in the bow and arrow he managed to get.

Xu Mumu tried out the bow and arrow in her hands. It wasn’t heavy, made of wood, and the arrows were made of bamboo.

The arrowheads were very sharp. When shot, they could easily pierce the skins of common prey like wild chickens and rabbits.

"How is it? Does it work well? If it weren’t for my good relationship with Mingzi, Uncle Zhao Si wouldn’t have lent it to me," Xu Minghui said proudly.

"It’s not bad," Xu Mumu smiled lightly.

"Wow, Mumu, you even know how to use a bow and arrow," Du Yu looked at Xu Mumu with admiration.

"A little," Xu Mumu smiled. During those six months in the apocalypse, she had handled almost every cold weapon. To survive, she had put a lot of effort into learning them.

The four of them walked toward the mountain, while Tiedan and his two friends were still happily fishing in the river, oblivious to the fact that their sister had already forgotten about them and decided to have fun on the mountain instead.

Du Yu was filled with curiosity about everything on the mountain, asking about this and that from time to time, as if he had endless energy.

The questions Du Yu asked were all answered by little Xu Jiaojiao, who had grown up in the countryside and knew the place like the back of her hand.

"We’ve come up quite late today, so let’s not go too deep, just stroll around the outskirts," Xu Mumu suggested.

"There’s nothing good on the outside," Xu Minghui said disdainfully, chewing on a blade of grass.

"Are you expecting me to fight a wild boar?" Xu Mumu just wanted to give her brother a beating.

"Of course not, if you get hurt, our grandparents would skin me alive," Xu Minghui said with a smile.

"Big sister, look, what is that?" Xu Jiaojiao shrank behind Xu Mumu and pointed at the bushes ahead.

Xu Mumu looked over and saw a wild mountain goat eating grass. It became aware of Xu Mumu and her friends and immediately prepared to run off.

Xu Mumu drew her bow and aimed at the goat’s neck. She was quite strong, and the bamboo arrow shot through the air with a whistle.

Before Xu Minghui and the others could react, the arrow had already pierced the neck of the mountain goat.

Without caring about their astonished expressions, Xu Mumu drew a second arrow. The bamboo arrow was still lodged in the goat’s neck, and it was still running, so Xu Mumu prepared to shoot again.

Finally, the mountain goat collapsed, leaving Xu Jiaojiao and Du Yu dumbfounded.

"Mumu, how are you so amazing?" Du Yu looked at the mountain goat in disbelief. The goat was quite large, probably weighing about a hundred pounds.

"Maybe I’m just naturally gifted," Xu Mumu said, rolling her eyes toward the sky.

"Big sister is the best. We can have meat again tonight," Xu Jiaojiao looked at her big sister with admiration.

"Yeah, let’s go over and take a look." With the unexpected catch of a wild goat in their short time out, Xu Mumu was in a pretty good mood, already thinking about the delicious lamb stew, salivating a bit herself.

"So this is what a goat looks like. It’s my first time seeing one," Du Yu circled the goat, examining it curiously.

The goat had already passed, no longer struggling, leaving just a pool of blood on the ground.

"Brother, you carry it back," Xu Mumu said in disdain at the dirtied goat, and given that Xu Minghui was so lazy, naturally, the physical labor was his job; after all, it was about a hundred pounds of meat.

"Alright, I’ll do it," Xu Minghui didn’t mind at all and happily took on the task.

"Are we just going to carry it back?" Xu Mumu raised an eyebrow slightly.

"What else can we do?" Xu Minghui said with a grin.

"Alright then, are we heading back now?" Xu Mumu asked.

"Yeah, unless we take it straight to the county to have it processed?" Xu Minghui looked at Xu Mumu, uncertain if Qi Feng and the others they had offended earlier would still want to buy their stuff.

"You want to sell it in the county? If you wait, I’ll go ask my dad if the factory cafeteria would take it," Du Yu also felt tempted by the lamb.

"Sure," Xu Mumu nodded. It didn’t matter who they sold it to.

"Then I’ll go back once we’re down the mountain," Du Yu said excitedly.