Si Chen settled down with Yan Lixia, gave his second aunt Si Xianglan a few words of advice, and then went home.

Since there is unexpected wealth coming to your door, if you don’t make it, you won’t make it in vain!

At the entrance of Sijia Village, two miles away from the Yuanmeng County Hospital, an abandoned brick-burning and clay workshop larger than a football field is where Si Chen lives now.

The adobe kiln that originally stood in the middle of the site has now collapsed in half.

It's like an egg standing on end. After being broken, only one third of the eggshell remains, lonely and broken.

In the red adobe kiln, large areas of black traces from the original smoke and fire when the bricks were fired were left on the inner walls.

Rainfall for many days in a row dampened the black and red colors, making them look particularly oozing, as if a beast had opened its bloody mouth to devour you.

Si Chen stood in front of the three adobe houses at the entrance of the site, looking at the incomplete brick kiln, unable to take his eyes away for a long time.

His father, Si Qingsong, was killed in the collapse of that brick kiln.

That was in August last year.

At that time, Si Qingsong was still the village chief of Sijia Village, leading the whole village to burn bricks and become rich.

The blue bricks used in these ten miles and eight villages basically come from the Sijiacun Brick Factory.

There are brick-making workshops in other villages, but due to technical limitations, all they produce are red bricks.

Si Qingsong graduated from high school and is very proficient in physics and chemistry.

Therefore, he easily mastered the technology of firing blue bricks, and compared to other brick factories, his brick factory was more profitable.

Compared with red bricks, blue bricks are stronger, have good alkali resistance, and have strong durability.

Solid red bricks are fired at high temperatures and wait for the kiln and bricks to cool down naturally. After the air in the kiln circulates until there is sufficient oxygen, the iron element in the bricks is oxidized into ferric oxide, which turns red.

As for blue bricks, after the bricks are fired in an oxidizing atmosphere, they are then smouldered in a reducing atmosphere, which causes the red high-priced iron oxide in the brick to be reduced to blue-gray low-priced iron oxide.

There is a key step in firing blue bricks, which is to water the brick kiln after the bricks are burned thoroughly.

That night, Si Qingsong went up to the top of the brick kiln and held the water pipe to water the brick kiln.

Unexpectedly, the place he stepped on collapsed!

That night, no one knew what kind of pain and suffering Si Qingsong went through in the high-temperature brick kiln.

The next day, when he was discovered by workers at work, he was already burned to a terrible extent...

Si Chen took a long breath, suppressed his surging emotions, and opened the door in front of him.

There were three adobe houses. He and Yan Lixia lived in the middle one. The left side was stacked with debris and the right side was always locked.

What Si Chen just opened was the house on the right.

In fact, what is piled here are some things from the Si family's village army back then.

Back then, his grandmother was the captain of the militia.

Later, after the militia was disbanded, many things were left unattended, so Mrs. Si took good care of them.

Si Chen walked to the corner and opened a rectangular military green old wooden box——

A box of gunpowder!

These days, Yuanmeng County has not banned guns. Starting in 1996, it responded to national policy and began to completely ban guns.

Si Chen took a gun from inside and checked it carefully. It was very good and could be used.

He grew up with his grandmother, and he knew how to wield a knife, a gun, and even make his own blunderbuss.

Si Chen walked towards a large vat in the corner and pushed open the stone slab covering it. The thing sealed in the vat was suddenly——

Black powder!

He found a piece of bamboo tube that had accumulated thick dust in the corner, filled it with black powder, then covered it, hung it on his body, and covered it with a raincoat.

He also covered the gunpowder jar with a stone slab and sealed it well, otherwise, in this weather, it would be doomed if there was a tide.

In the old box next to it are steel balls.

Si Chen grabbed a bamboo tube full of steel balls, covered them, and hung them on his body.

He bent down, took a rope, put his left arm through it, and hung it on his body.

With a flick of his right arm, Si Chen picked up the gun and walked out the door.

He took the path directly from the back of the field and went up the mountain.

It was rare that the rain had subsided a little now, so Si Chen observed carefully as he walked, keeping an eye on his target.

After walking up the mountain for about an hour, Si Chen arrived at the old apricot tree where he used to pick apricots, and climbed up it in twos and twos.

The forest nearby is mostly filled with fruit trees.

Now at the end of June, it is the season for apricots, plums and early-ripening peaches.

There is an ancient peach variety in Yuanmeng County called "May Fairy", which matures in the fifth lunar month every year.

When the fruits are ripe, the especially sweet and attractive 'May Fairy' can always attract wild boars and deer in the mountains to come and look for food.

Before the 1970s, there were still tigers, leopards, and jackals in the mountains.

Later, they kept coming down the mountain, seriously threatening the lives of surrounding villagers.

Militia teams from villages and towns in Yuanmeng County, like militia teams across the country, began to go to Tianyuan Mountain to hunt and kill.

Until the ferocious carnivores were hunted to extinction.

Even in the late 1970s, they were successively listed as national protected animals.

Without the suppression of large carnivores, wild boars, deer, hares, etc. have become rampant and multiplied crazily in recent years.

In addition to wild boars, other animals have been hunted in recent years.

Wild boars are different.

Big, fast, powerful, and smart!

Pigs are not stupid. Their sense of smell, hearing, and reaction speed are quite sharp.

Hunting wild boars? If you don’t do it right, your life will be at risk.

All the villagers who go to Tianyuan Mountain and encounter wild boars will basically run for their lives like crazy. No one will seek death.

Si Chen, I am here to seek death today.

He ate leisurely in the apricot tree, and took advantage of the break to fill the gunpowder with gunpowder and steel balls.

Everything is ready, just waiting for the prey to appear.

Not long after, there was movement in the grass not far away.

Hoho, the rain has stopped, now we are out looking for food.

Si Chen quickly sat on a thick branch, leaned against the trunk, and picked up the gun.

After a while, a humming sound came, and a huge black wild boar appeared in his sight.

Si Chen made a rough estimate, at least two hundred kilograms!

Good!

However, as the wild boar cleared the way, a group of piglets suddenly jumped out like sheep dung and eggs!

Si Chen:...Made!

It turned out to be a sow, and she brought her cubs to look for food.

Since the wild boar is hunted, the purpose is to sell it to Si Jianhua, the head of Sijia Village, and to offer sacrifices to heaven.

Then, it must be a boar.

Si Chen put away his gun in frustration and continued to wait.

There were about ten piglets, which seemed to have just come out of the nest. They were not black, but had light brown fur with dark brown vertical stripes.

A group of pigs were grunting and looking for food on the ground, eating happily.

Not long after, a larger wild boar suddenly jumped out from behind the grass!

That guy, with his fangs reaching into the sky, howled and drove away the sows and piglets, intending to monopolize the fruit that fell on the ground.

The sow was so frightened that she struggled for two rounds before giving up and retreating with her cubs back three times.
Chapter completed!