The only able-bodied man at the educated youth settlement in Zhangzigou, Changbai Mountain.
Gu Changshan worked himself to the bone, hauling water, chopping wood, and carrying coal for ten beautiful female educated youths to get them through the winter. Yet when he sprained his ankle, they complained that he ate too much and took advantage of them.
On the eve of a blizzard that would seal off the mountain, they cruelly split the cooking arrangements and kicked him out of the compound!
The classical dance goddess from the capital found his sweaty smell disgusting. The grain administrator's daughter vowed to see how he would freeze to death in a snowdrift that night, while the hypocritical female team leader schemed to withhold his food ration, hoping to force him to keep working like an ox for two bowls of watery dishwater porridge!
Gu Changshan grabbed his hunting knife, moved into a half-underground horse shed on the north slope, and activated the Changbai Mountain Divine Hunting Ground!
Tiger-bone liquor cleansed and strengthened his body, his all-things appraisal skill let him find mountain delicacies everywhere, and three mu of black soil yielded tender, juicy cabbages and soybean sprouts in the dead of winter!
The heavy snow sealed off the mountains. On the first night without Gu Changshan, smoke billowed through the entire educated youth compound, and they couldn't even boil a pot of hot water.
The next day, the water vat cracked, wet wood wouldn't split, and the pampered young ladies, who had never lifted a finger, suffered frostbitten feet and raging fevers!
The third day, the fourth day...
Gu Changshan watched as the female educated youths took turns carrying empty basins up the mountain to borrow fire, beg for water, and ask for medicine.
Sitting by the warm kang and drinking fresh meat soup, Gu Changshan sneered:
"Want some hot soup? Want to warm yourselves by the fire? No credit!
"Either trade your stash of fine grain, or take off your shoes and come inside. You can wash the dishes, do the laundry, and massage my shoulders to pay off your debt!"
In those days, practicing boxing could really lead to starvation, and not everyone in the countryside was a good person.