After transmigrating to the Greater Khingan Range in 1958, he was in hell-level difficulty from the start: his father had gone into the mountains and been missing for a month, his mother was gravely ill and near death, his little sister was freezing and barely alive, and the original owner was a top-grade lazybones who'd lain flat and waited to die.
When Gu Cheng opened his eyes, his blood was almost frozen.
Fortunately, the Mountain Foraging System activated. The beginner's gift pack gave him a bear-hide quilt and ten jin of cornmeal. He cooked porridge, heated the kang, and saved his mother and sister. The skills he'd honed as a top mercenary in his previous life were all lifesaving assets in this icy wilderness.
He went into the mountains to chop firewood and ran into a weasel spirit catching a pheasant. Gu Cheng snatched the bird and shouted, "I'll pay you back next time!"
The next day, the weasel spirit was being chased by a red fox and leaped straight onto his shoulder. It patted his face with its paws, urging him to beat the fox!
After Gu Cheng killed the red fox with one swing of his sickle, the weasel spirit refused to leave. It entered the house and bowed to Su Fengying, then became the Gu family's "spirit guardian." By day, it burrowed into the bedding. At night, it brought back rabbits to pay its keep.
A lottery draw gave him a superhuman physique, five times stronger, letting him sprint across the snow. Another gave him the ability to hit any target from a hundred paces. With a strong bow in hand, he shot a roe deer's neck clean through. Then he drew expert trap-setting skills and set snares all over the mountains, bringing in an endless stream of game.
He sold fox pelts, made hunting knives, got his hunting license, and delivered meat to his second uncle, the village doctor, and the brigade leader. The grain jar at home was full, and the smell of meat drifted through the village. Everyone wondered, "How did that good-for-nothing from the Gu family suddenly become a different person?"
