Chapter 29: Sun Zhi’s Plans!

“Alright!”
Sun Laizi nodded.

“How’s the injury on your hand?”
Lu Chuan glanced at Sun Laizi and asked.

Actually, Sun Laizi wasn’t entirely unreliable. If you had to say how bad he was, he wasn’t really that bad!
As long as he didn’t provoke Lu Chuan, there was no need for Lu Chuan to bother with him.

“I saw a doctor. The doctor said you were careful. Although it’s a penetrating wound, the force was well controlled, and it didn’t hit the bone. It just hurts a bit!”
“But the wound heals slowly in winter.”
“It will probably take more than three months before I can use my hand again!”
Sun Laizi said awkwardly.

“Mm.”
Lu Chuan nodded.

“Brother Chuan, what are you doing?”
Seeing that Lu Chuan didn’t stop working, Sun Laizi became curious.

Lu Chuan smiled. “I’m building a brick kiln.”

“A brick kiln?”
Sun Laizi froze. That sounded interesting.
Nowadays, making bricks was actually a technical job.
You had to use clay, and the bricks were fired into green bricks, a process that took a long time. In most cases, just the preparation work could take about half a year!

So, ordinary families could never use such things.
Most common families usually made mud bricks, which were just yellow soil mixed with straw. They didn’t need to be fired; after drying in the sun, they were hardened and then stuck together with lime and other materials!

For a typical farmer, having a wooden straw shed was already considered very good.
The main structure consisted of mud bricks, wood, and thatch!
It was fine in the summer, but in the winter, with the strong winds, the roof could even be blown off.

“That’s right!”
Lu Chuan smiled and answered. “The house at home is a bit inadequate, and now there are more people in the family. I’m planning to tear down the old house and build a new one!”

“Ah…”
Sun Laizi instinctively nodded when he heard this.

“Brother Chuan, when you build the house, I’ll call the brothers to come and help!”
While speaking,
Sun Laizi patted his chest. “Don’t look at me as if I have bad relationships. With a single call, I can gather ten or more people, no problem!”

“…”
Lu Chuan was speechless.
He smiled and nodded in agreement.

While working,
Sun Zhi appeared in the distance.
When he saw Sun Laizi, Sun Zhi quickly took off his shoes and hopped over to him on one leg!

Then, he raised the shoes high!

“I’ll beat you, you shameless scoundrel!”
“You’ve been causing trouble in the village, and now you’ve even come to Brother Chuan’s house. Don’t you have any shame?”

Sun Zhi’s eyes burned with angry frustration!

“Don’t, don’t hit me, Uncle…”
Sun Laizi dodged while speaking fearfully. “Uncle, I’m really not here to cause trouble! I’m planning to follow Brother Chuan from now on! Brother Chuan already agreed!”

Only then did Sun Zhi glare at him fiercely.
He then looked at Lu Chuan, a bit puzzled.

Lu Chuan nodded, mixing yellow mud with the last brick and placing it on the kiln. “That’s right, he’s not causing trouble!”

Sun Zhi’s anger faded a little.
He then pulled Lu Chuan to sit down.
His expression carried a bit of joy. “Xiao Chuan, you’ve made something of yourself! You’re actually hunting in the mountains now. You’ve got this ability, but why didn’t you say anything before?”

“I didn’t know before. I originally just wanted to try hunting in the mountains!”

“But I didn’t expect that, once I got into the mountains, I actually managed to catch some game!”
Lu Chuan said humbly.

“That’s right!”
Sun Zhi paused for a moment. “From yesterday to today, quite a few people wanted to find you. But, knowing that life hasn’t been easy for you, I stopped them all!”

Seeing Sun Zhi hesitate,
Lu Chuan couldn’t help but smile.
So that’s why no one was causing him trouble—Sun Zhi had stopped them.

However, Sun Zhi wasn’t really related to him. Though he was a scholar, he wasn’t the type to do such things.
A person wouldn’t be unusually nice to you without a reason.
Unless, of course, he wanted to gain something from you.

“Village Chief, if you have something to say, just say it…”
Lu Chuan laughed. “Hiding it like this isn’t really your style!”

Sun Zhi, realizing he had been exposed, blushed and awkwardly cleared his throat.

“Actually, it’s not a big deal.”
As he spoke, Sun Zhi gently rubbed his head and sighed, looking serious.
“You know the situation in the village—times are tough for everyone!”
“Money is hard to earn, and life is hard to live!”
Sun Zhi smiled bitterly. “We all work in the fields, but life just keeps getting harder. If it goes on like this, someone might die for sure!”

“So, I’ve been thinking…”
“Since you have this ability, Xiao Chuan, why not start a hunting team in our village? In the off-season, you can take the villagers to hunt in the mountains. It will help the villagers earn some extra money for their families!”

“What do you think?”
Sun Zhi’s eyes sparkled with a hint of excitement.

“And!”
Before Lu Chuan could respond, Sun Zhi continued, “Now that you’ve fallen out with the people from Zhao Family Village, going up the mountain alone isn’t safe. If the villagers go with you, if any conflict arises, we won’t be afraid of them!”

Hearing this,
Lu Chuan couldn’t help but smile helplessly.
He didn’t think much of the idea.
What a joke!
In Shuangshui Village, there were hardly any young men left.
Entering the mountains wasn’t something to take lightly.
Hunting also came with risks.

Going into the mountains alone was manageable, as he usually wouldn’t run into trouble. But if he took a group, forget about the potential trouble!
His space would definitely be unusable!

However, since Sun Zhi had already presented the proposal, it wouldn’t be right to reject him outright.

“I know this is a bit difficult for you,”
Sun Zhi quickly added, “So, for all the game you catch, you can take 50%, and the remaining 50% will be split among the other hunters’ families.”

Lu Chuan gave Sun Zhi a speechless look.

“Village Chief, I know you want the villagers to have a better life, but you can’t just depend on me!”
“You know my situation!”
Lu Chuan sighed.

“It’s not that I’m unwilling to help. As long as you can find 10 or 20 men, aged between 20 to 30, in the village, I can agree to your proposal!”
Sun Zhi was momentarily speechless.
He awkwardly laughed. “Although some of the men in the village may be a bit older, they are experienced farmers and still have plenty of strength!”

“They’ll definitely not slow you down!”

Sun Zhi sighed, gritted his teeth, and said, “Alright, then. For all the game caught, you can take 60%!”