LGHTNOVELBOOK 10: Returning Home
What should one do when encountering a wild boar attack?
One: Stand still and pretend to be one of its kind.
Two: Run away as fast as possible.
Three: Hide in the space.
After being startled by the suddenly appearing wild boar, Gu Yu quickly calmed down. When the wild boar charged toward him, he immediately reached for the red mole at the corner of his eye, and his figure instantly disappeared from the spot.
Fortunately, Gu Yu reacted in time. Although the wild boar couldn’t be collected into the space, he himself could enter the space to hide.
So after escaping this calamity, Gu Yu looked at the prey he had collected in his space. Although each animal had been killed rather brutally with stones, Gu Yu’s tense emotions gradually calmed down, and he began calculating how much silver these animals could fetch.
There was no help for it—Gu Yu was in desperate need of money.
Even after encountering a wild boar, he couldn’t give up eating because of choking once; he couldn’t just stop coming to the mountains.
The mountains were a treasure trove!
However, although handing the prey over to other hunters to exchange for money in town would be quicker, Gu Yu felt the price would be severely suppressed.
Now, even eating a bit of meat cost quite a bit of money. Few families in the village could afford to eat meat regularly. They usually ate homegrown vegetables and corn buns, and even white rice and wheat flour were rarely seen.
Wild pheasants and rabbits together were worth only three hundred copper coins, but they weighed about twenty jin. Pork cost twenty copper coins per jin, so twenty jin could sell for four hundred copper coins.
Wild prey was more expensive than domesticated animals, so they were clearly getting cheated.
Thinking of this, Gu Yu decided to go to town himself to sell the prey. While he didn’t expect to make too much extra, he didn’t want to lose too much either.
After all, the whole family needed silver to get through winter.
After waiting in the space for a while, Gu Yu hesitantly emerged, his finger on the corner of his eye, ready to return to the space at any moment.
However, when Gu Yu came out of the space, he found that the wild boar that had tried to kill him was long gone.
This made Gu Yu breathe a sigh of relief. He didn’t linger there any longer but headed in the direction of home.
Along the way, Gu Yu discovered many more prey animals, though the farther he got from the deep mountains, the fewer animals there were.
It seemed that the deep mountains held many treasures!
Although tempted, Gu Yu knew his own limitations. He couldn’t even handle a wild boar, so if he really encountered a tiger, he might not even have time to enter his space.
Who told him that his space couldn’t be entered through thought alone, but required touching the red mole at the corner of his eye…
As for collecting items into the space, he could operate it through his consciousness, which saved a lot of trouble.
Gu Yu walked with his hands tucked in his sleeves, the farmer’s pose especially vivid. Having obtained quite a bit of prey, the worry between his brows had dissipated, making him as beautiful as an immortal from a painting, extremely alluring.
This was the scene that Gu Mengyao saw as she stood at the doorway.
She had been too worried to continue sleeping because Gu Yu hadn’t returned for so long, afraid that when she woke up, everything that had happened earlier would be just a fleeting, insubstantial dream.
Especially now, seeing Gu Yu so different from his usual self, Gu Mengyao felt extremely anxious.
In the past, whenever Gu Yu saw her, he would always glare coldly, looking at her as if she were his father’s murderer.
Forget about offering her meat at the dining table—he hadn’t even spoken a word to Gu Mengyao in normal times, only coldly snorting a few times, the disdain in his eyes very obvious.
It was because Gu Yu had married into the Gu family that he thought Gu Mengyao and her brother were no good.
If they were good people, they wouldn’t have accepted Gu Yu’s father’s proposal, and the marriage wouldn’t have happened. Then Gu Yu would still be a grandson of the Yang family, living life as before.
Whenever he thought of this, Gu Yu’s resentment would not dissipate, causing him to wish he could kill Gu Mengyao every time he saw her.
With a chronically frail body and overthinking, perhaps the original Gu Yu had ascended to heaven for these reasons.
This led to the current Gu Yu, a different person, involuntarily raising the corners of his mouth when he saw his little wife waiting at the door.