Chapter 2

Deep in the mountains.

Man and wild boar charged at each other, the outcome still uncertain.

However, not far away, Zhao Jun already knew the result. In about two seconds, he would hear Li Baoyu's scream.

Could he predict the future?

No, because he was a reborn person.

He not only knew that today, after the wild boar had knocked him and Li Baoyu down, it would break through the encirclement of two hunting dogs and escape.

He also knew that although this attempt failed, it did not dampen his enthusiasm for hunting.

Although his family was strict now, after his mother passed away and his father remarried, his stepmother treated him and his two younger sisters poorly.

His father, caught in the middle, found it difficult to handle the situation and arranged a marriage for him early on. From then on, he separated from his father, started his own household, and got married and had children.

Married life was quite comfortable, mainly because he had a good job as a timber measurer in the mountain forest, which was a desirable position at the time.

The key was that the job was not tiring and provided a lot of free time.

During his free time, he practiced shooting and trained dogs at home.

In an era where guns and hunting were not banned, as long as one had money, getting a gun was not difficult.

From then on, he often entered the mountains with his dogs to hunt.

Zhao Jun was a good shot, and his trained hunting dogs were also formidable. In less than three years, he became a well-known hunter in the area.

Such a life, if it were thirty years later, would be enviable even by the gods. But at that time, no matter how good the mountains were, they could not compare to the big cities.

He still remembered that in 1995, he went to Fengtian City on business with the forest management leadership. A local person hosted a banquet, and there was a dish of shrimp on the table.

These shrimp were different from the small shrimp he caught in the mountain streams. These were sea shrimp, and one of them was worth dozens of the mountain shrimp.

In the mountains, shrimp were either fried or stir-fried without removing the shell or head and tail, and they were eaten whole.

This was the first time Zhao Jun learned that shrimp needed to be peeled before eating.

Looking at the bright red shrimp on the plate, he was at a loss.

Because he did not know how to peel the shrimp.

When he returned home, he kept thinking about his experience in Fengtian City, and his heart gradually became restless.

The mountains, which once brought him endless joy, no longer provided any novelty.

Thirty years of rural life had gradually made him feel bored.

He wanted to move to the city and live like the city people.

But even if he moved to the city, what could he do?

He had no money and no connections. Should he give up his stable job and go to the city to work?

At this moment, a friend's visit completely changed Zhao Jun's fate.

This friend had often asked Zhao Jun to buy scattered wood from the forest and transport it back to the city to make disposable chopsticks.

Over the years, he saved a small fortune and then went to the Russian Far East to buy ginseng and sell it back to China.

Under his guidance, Zhao Jun went to Russia and initially helped this friend buy ginseng and resell it for a profit.

Later, Zhao Jun went directly into the mountains of the Russian Far East to search for and harvest ginseng.

Compared to his friend, Zhao Jun grew up in the mountains and knew where ginseng could grow and be found.

In just two years, Zhao Jun became wealthy.

By the year 2000, his net worth was nearly ten million, which was a tremendous amount of money.

It is said that when men have money, they become bad, and this is true.

With his wealth, Zhao Jun had mistresses, one after another. His wife and children were long forgotten.

After divorcing his wife, he spent more time at the gambling table.

As the old saying goes: earning money is like picking up soil with a needle, but spending money is like water washing away sand.

How much more so when it comes to squandering?

After being set up by someone, Zhao Jun suddenly found himself penniless.

Not only was he penniless, but he also owed a lot of money.

When he fell into poverty, his mistresses quickly left him for others.

He had bought apartments for these women in the city and even put their names on the deeds.

Now, when Zhao Jun tried to visit, they would not even open the door for him.

At the age of forty, he was suddenly left with nothing.

No, he still had debts.

Killing requires a life, and debt requires repayment, which is a natural law.

But what could he use to repay his debts?

He had already quit his job at the forest management, and the once wealthy man could not bear to return to such a "hard" job.

The house and land in the mountains were not worth much.

In his darkest hour, it was his older sister and two younger sisters who helped him.

When he was wealthy, his sisters did not benefit much from him.

When he fell into poverty, his sisters used all their savings to pay off his debts.

Feeling disheartened and ashamed, with no one to turn to, Zhao Jun wandered between cities, taking odd jobs.

He worked as a night watchman or carried bricks and sand on construction sites.

This did not earn him much money, and sometimes Zhao Jun struggled to even meet his basic needs.

So, after fifteen years of wandering, he was still penniless.

Finally, he borrowed 500 yuan from a coworker on a construction site and took a train back to his hometown.

When he returned to the village, everything had changed.

He had nowhere to go and became a vagrant. He lived at his older sister's house, relying on her and his sisters for support, and made it to his 55th birthday in 2021.

On this day, he was reborn.

He was reborn thirty-five years earlier, when he was only twenty years old.

When he was in poverty, he had thought countless times about what he would do if he had another chance.

But now, he knew he had only one thing to do.

He had to take down this wild boar today.

The reason was simple: half a month ago, his older sister gave birth, and his nephew was born.

His older sister's kindness needed no explanation. In the first year after he returned to the village, that winter was particularly cold, and his nephew bought him a winter coat and shoes.

This wild boar would be perfect for nourishing his older sister.

With this thought, Zhao Jun pushed himself up with his hands, kicked off the ground with his legs, and stood up.

As soon as he stood up, he saw Li Baoyu and the wild boar already engaged in a close fight.

Li Baoyu held a knife in both hands and stabbed at the wild boar's back.

That was the boar's armored area!

The sharp tip of the knife could not penetrate the boar's skin.

As Li Baoyu thrust and the boar charged forward, there was a crack, and the wooden stick broke, leaving half of it with the knife on the ground.

Li Baoyu, using too much force, stumbled forward.

At this moment, the boar lowered its head, thrust its snout between Li Baoyu's legs, and with a powerful push, lifted Li Baoyu into the air.

The nearly two-meter-tall young man flew over the boar and landed heavily on the ground.

After more than thirty years, his memory had some discrepancies.

It turned out that Li Baoyu did not scream as Zhao Jun had imagined; he did not even make a sound before fainting.

Good dog, protecting its master!

Seeing its master knocked down by the boar, Li Baoyu's yellow dog was frantic. It did not even bark but charged straight at the boar.

Although the hunting dog was brave, it was much smaller and weaker than the boar. It usually relied on speed and teamwork to hunt.

So, in the past, the hunting dog would not engage in a direct fight with the boar.

But now, with its young master's life in danger, the yellow dog could not think of anything else.

Thud.

A dull sound, and the yellow dog was cleanly slapped away by the boar.

The yellow dog landed, dazed, but quickly rolled over and charged at the boar again.

At this moment, Zhao Jun saw that the yellow dog's hind leg was not touching the ground, indicating a serious injury.

Fortunately, this boar was a sow.

If it were a boar with tusks, weighing nearly 300 pounds, its tusks would be like sharp knives, and both Li Baoyu and the yellow dog would be in serious trouble.

"Oooh..."

This time, it was the boar that screamed.

Even as the boar was charging and injuring both the man and the dog, Zhao Jun's big spotted dog had already sneaked behind the boar and bit it again.

At this moment, Zhao Jun moved...