The whole mountain is my hunting ground

When Zhao Jun and Zhao Youcai arrived home, it was already past seven-thirty, almost eight o'clock.

There are elderly people and children at home. The key is that we don’t know when the two men will get home. So Wang Meilan didn't let everyone wait for them to eat. When Zhao Jun and Zhao Youcai arrived home, everyone else had already finished eating and went back to their homes.

Seeing the two men coming back, Zhao Chun hurriedly heated up the rice and vegetables.

The kelp from the forest farm was cut into shreds, stewed with frozen tofu, put in a basin and topped with chili oil, along with purple garlic and sticky bean buns. Zhao Jun and Zhao Youcai ate it with gusto.

After eating eight sticky bean buns in a row, he felt like his stomach was full, so Zhao Youcai started drinking.

"Mom." Zhao Jun used his chopsticks to pick out the slices of meat from the vegetable basin and said to Wang Meilan while eating, "You don't put too much meat in your cooking."

Zhao Jun only needs to poke his chopsticks into the basin to poke out the meat slices.

"Ah..." Wang Meilan said with a smile: "I didn't put much aside. They didn't even eat any of it, they just picked out the vegetables."

In the past few months, the food of these families has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to before. Until now, eating meat is a bit overwhelming.

"Then don't let it go from now on." Zhao Youcai continued: "What kind of family do you eat like this every day?"

Wang Meilan rolled her eyes at him and did not answer. Instead, she looked at Zhao Jun and said, "Son, your Aunt Zhou called me this afternoon."

"Huh?" After hearing Wang Meilan talk about Zhou Shujuan, Zhao Jun and Zhao Youcai stopped their chopsticks in unison.

Yesterday morning, Zhao Jun called Zhou Shujuan to discuss the issue of the Siberian tiger. Zhou Shujuan had to discuss this matter with her father-in-law, so she asked Zhao Jun to call her again today.

When Zhao Jun drove out of the village in the morning, he made a special call to the village, but the person who answered the phone said that Zhou Shujuan was on a medical visit, so Zhao Jun put down the phone.

"What did she say, Mom?" Zhao Jun asked, and then heard Wang Meilan say: "Your Aunt Zhou said, if it works, you can be caught by those big paws. When you are done, call her, and they will come from Ji Province. people."

After saying this, Wang Meilan added: "Your Aunt Zhou said that they want to live, not to death."

"Ah..." Zhao Jun nodded slightly when he heard this.

At this time, Wang Meilan said: "Son, how are you doing today?"

"Don't mention it!" Zhao Jun glanced at Zhao Youcai before replying: "Silly bitch, wait for the old man to wait all afternoon, and you'll have to drink it from the cold."

Wang Meilan saw Zhao Jun's little move, and immediately turned to Zhao Youcai and asked, "What's going on?"

"What's going on?" Zhao Youcai said unhappily: "You can't rely on me for that thing..."

When he said this, Zhao Youcai felt somewhat unsure. When he blocked the Siberian tiger before, he wanted to teach his son a lesson, but he didn't expect that he wasn't blocked.

But what Zhao Youcai didn't know was that his guesses and predictions were all right, but the Siberian tiger was so scared of him that it could be said to have fled away.

"Then you are still going tomorrow?" Wang Meilan asked.

"Then you have to go!" Zhao Youcai said, "We can't let it run away!"

"Let me tell you!" Wang Meilan waved her hand and said, "Why don't we go to all the trouble, just report the whole thing to the top, and then you and I will be beaten to death by it!"

"Huh?" Upon hearing that he could kill a tiger, Zhao Youcai became interested and immediately asked, "What do you mean?"

Wang Meilan got up from the bench, walked to the edge of the kang, sat down sideways, and said to Zhao Jun and Zhao Youcai: "If this big paw is going to cause trouble again, our forest farm is not allowed to take care of it?"

"That's for sure." Zhao Youcai said: "The previous one delayed production for several days, but... this big paw will go to the old mountain farm, and it is not a logging area."

"Tsk! Look..." Wang Meilan rolled her eyes at Zhao Youcai and said, "Don't you two want to be driven back by it?"

"Ah..." Zhao Youcai clicked his eyes twice, then shook his head and said: "This big claw really doesn't cause trouble. It's different from the first one. That one only attacked the big horse because its leg was broken. Otherwise, it Even if I put it on the old ghost mountain, it won't come down."

"That's easy." Wang Meilan smiled faintly and said, "Let's lead our donkey to that old devil's head at Lingxia. If our donkey dies in that direction, we will say that it was the big paw that did it. After that, let Uncle Zhou go there. The last report, Dingdong, just give it a tap and that’s it.”

Hearing Wang Meilan's words, Zhao Jun, Zhao Youcai and Zhao Chun, who was holding the child, were all stunned.

Zhao Jun looked at the smiling Wang Meilan and couldn't help but lament that his mother had learned a lesson badly.

Seeing that they didn't say anything, Wang Meilan hurriedly said: "This is actually quite economical. If I hadn't thought of hiring someone to knock it before, we would have paid two thousand yuan at least. In this case, it would be over if we just join the donkey. Besides, donkey It’s not in vain, when the time comes, we’ll put the meat in the car and bring it back.”

After hearing her words, Zhao Jun and Zhao Youcai looked at each other, and the father and son ate their heads in silence. Zhao Chun frowned and looked at Wang Meilan and said, "Mom, why do you always miss our donkey?"

Wang Meilan, whose thoughts were exposed by the eldest daughter, coughed lightly and said: "My daughter, this is not about the donkey. It killed several of our dogs. My big fat dog is so nice."

"Mom, let my father and brother figure this out. We have to grind bread and beans tomorrow." Zhao Chun advised Wang Meilan: "How good is our donkey? Don't blind it before working. Eyes, it doesn’t steal food either.”

The donkeys in Lamo are blindfolded, firstly to prevent them from fainting, and secondly, to prevent the donkeys from stealing food.

But the Zhao family's donkey was not used. In the morning, they were led to it and put on a set of millstones. The donkey worked like a chicken blood until the end of the work. No cheating, no cheating, no stealing food.

Everyone said that such a donkey was rare, but Wang Meilan dismissed it.

"Huh?" Wang Meilan suddenly asked Zhao Youcai, "Aren't you going to work tomorrow?"

"Ah." Zhao Youcai said, "I will take my son there for another day tomorrow."

"How many days off have you taken this month?" Wang Meilan asked, "Didn't Zhang Guoqing talk about you?"

"He dares?" Zhao Youcai said, "I'm thinking that after New Year's Day, I can take half a month off."

"What?" Wang Meilan was stunned and asked hurriedly: "What do you want to do?"

"I'll go up the mountain, and I'll drag the dog." Zhao Youcai said, "For the siege."

With that said, Zhao Youcai gestured to Zhao Jun, and then said to Wang Meilan: "I am like our son, fighting siege to earn money for you to spend."

Zhao Youcai thought that Wang Meilan loved money and he could persuade her by saying this.

"OK!"

But what Zhao Youcai didn't expect was that Wang Meilan would agree to him so happily. Zhao Youcai's eyes lit up and he said happily: "Lan, I knew you could support me."

"Then what else are you talking about?" Under the puzzled eyes of her son and daughter, Wang Meilan smiled at Zhao Youcai and said, "I've also thought about it. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't be able to eat beef. As for eating donkeys, 80% I have to count on you too. If you go out one day and get knocked by someone's donkey, I'll be happy to pay you."

"Hahahaha..." Zhao Youcai's face gradually turned blue, but Zhao Jun and Zhao Chun burst into laughter.

…

Early the next morning, December 3, 1987.

Zhao Jun, who was still sleeping, was woken up by Zhao Youcai.

"What's wrong, Dad?" Zhao Jun asked with his sleepy eyes squinting.

"Our bitch is missing." Zhao Youcai called Zhao Jun and said, "Get up quickly and follow me out to find him."

"Oh my God!" Zhao Jun got up from the bed, put on his clothes and shoes, and followed Zhao Youcai out of the house.

Sure enough, Hua Niuniu was gone in front of the kennel under the window, and there was only a chain thrown on the ground.

"This is unscrupulous!" Zhao Jun muttered and ran out following Zhao Youcai.

At around five o'clock in the winter, it was still dark. Each man held a flashlight and searched separately in the village.

"Niuniu!"

"Niuniu!"

"Zhao Jun!"

This is not Zhao Jun that Hua Niuniu responded to, but Ma Ling.

Zhao Jun came near Ma Ling's house. Ma Ling, who had gotten up early and returned from buying soybeans, heard Zhao Jun's voice and came out of the courtyard to block him.

"Ling'er!" Zhao Jun held a flashlight, trotted over to meet her, and asked, "Why are you out so early in the morning?"

Ma Ling tilted her head, looked at Zhao Jun, and asked, "Who is Niuniu?"

"Ah!" Zhao Jun was startled, and then said with a wry smile: "I bought a new little bitch from Wynn, and my name is Niu Niu."

"Ah..." Ma Ling heard this and said quickly: "Is it lost? Then wait for me to put the tofu back, and I will find it with you."

"You go home quickly." At five or six o'clock in the morning, it was the coldest time of the day in winter. Zhao Jun was not willing to let Ma Ling come out to suffer. After driving Ma Ling back, he continued to look for Hua Niuniu.

Outside the camp, Zhao Jun and Zhao Youcai met up. Without asking, he knew that the other party had not been found. Zhao Jun waved to Zhao Youcai and said, "Dad, let's go back first. I have a move."

Zhao Youcai didn't ask any questions and followed Zhao Jun home. He saw Zhao Jun calling out Qinglong in front of the kennel.

Zhao Jun squatted down, untied the chain around Qinglong's neck, then gently stroked Qinglong's neck and back, pointed to the doghouse under the window, and said to Qinglong: "Qinglong, take me to find that little bitch. .”

When Qinglong heard this, he twitched his head, escaped from Zhao Jun's arms, jumped to the empty kennel, circled half a circle, and ran straight out of the courtyard.

Zhao Jun and Zhao Youcai quickly followed. They followed Qinglong all the way, and soon they came outside the courtyard of a house.

"Woof! Woof!" Dogs barked in the yard, and geese squawked chaotically next door. Zhao Youcai frowned and asked Zhao Jun, "Is that right?"

This is no one else’s house, but Zhang Yuanmin’s house.

It was almost six o'clock at this time, it was still dark, and the lights in the outhouse of Zhang Yuanmin's house were already on.

Zhao Jun walked in from the tent door, flashed his flashlight forward, and saw only one dog left in front of the kennel under the east wall.

"Dad, look!" Zhao Jun pointed over there and said to Zhao Youcai: "Brother Zhang bought two dogs, and only one is left."

After saying that, Zhao Jun turned his flashlight to look for Qinglong, only to see Qinglong sniffing with his head down in front of the Zhang family's warehouse.

Zhao Jun passed by, Qinglong flashed aside. Zhao Jun opened the door and flashed his flashlight inside, and saw a black dog riding on Hua Niuniu.

When the door opened, the two dogs who had done bad things were startled and looked at Zhao Jun in horror.

"Fuck it!" Zhao Youcai shouted angrily and went over to grab the black dog by the back of his neck.

The dazed black dog came to his senses and turned to bite Zhao Youcai, but Zhao Youcai slapped the dog in the face with a big mouth.

"Ouch! Ouch!" Hua Niuniu jumped up and called out twice to Zhao Youcai. The next second the little bitch saw Qinglong sticking her head in from Zhao Jun's side, Hua Niuniu's eyes instantly widened.

Zhang Yuanmin was not at home, leaving Yang Yufeng to live by herself with the little bell. Wang Meilan took care of the two of them and gave them plenty of food.

No, after steaming the sticky bean buns yesterday, Wang Meilan took a pocket for Yang Yufeng.

After Yang Yufeng got home, she locked most of the sticky bean buns in the warehouse cabinet and left ten of them in the house.

When she got up this morning, Yang Yufeng put the sticky bean buns on the cutting board, flattened them with the back of a kitchen knife, and then put them into the pot and fried them.

Eating it this way is similar to fried cakes. Women and children like to eat it.

But in the first few years, given the conditions of the Zhang family, it was impossible to do this. So while eating, the two women were still talking about Zhao Jun's good deeds.

As for the dogs barking twice outside just now, Yang Yufeng didn't pay attention. If it is a stranger, the dog will keep barking. Like calling twice, it's either an acquaintance or someone passing by.

This morning, Yang Yufeng didn't wonder who would come so early, she just thought it was someone passing by.

Suddenly, the door of the outhouse was knocked loudly from outside. Yang Yufeng hurriedly put down her chopsticks, and then she heard someone say at the door: "Sister-in-law, what are you doing?"

"Brother!" Yang Yufeng responded as she walked out: "Lingdang and I are having dinner, come in!"

"I'm not going in, sister-in-law." Zhao Jun said, "I'm thinking to tell you, your dog's leash is off, and it's a fool, so I tied it up. When daybreak comes, you can tie it up yourself."

"Hey, okay, brother!" Yang Yufeng said, "Then slow down!"

"Uncle Zhao!" Suddenly, the sound of a small bell rang from the house, and the little girl put down her bowl and chopsticks and ran after him.

"Hey! What are you doing out here?" When Zhao Jun saw the little bell coming out, he quickly turned around and pushed the little bell back, and said: "It's cold outside, hurry up and get inside!"

"Uncle!" Xiao Lingdang looked at Zhao Jun and said sincerely: "I dreamed about my dad falling into the ditch for three days in a row."

"Falled into the trench?" Zhao Jun frowned and saw Little Bell nodding and said, "It's the big trench in front of the poplar forest at the east end of our village."

When Zhao Jun heard this, he couldn't help but cast his eyes to the shed in the yard next door. The millstone was brought out of the trench. Could it be that this Qinglong really didn't stop when he got home?

Thinking of this, Zhao Jun didn't say anything. After saying goodbye to Yang Yufeng and Xiao Lingdang, he came out of Zhang's house and took Qinglong to the west.

Zhao Youcai had already arrived home with Hua Niuniu, so Zhao Jun took Qinglong all the way to Ma's house.

Asking Qinglong to wait for him at the door, Zhao Jun knocked on the door and entered the house. He was warmly welcomed by the Ma family.

After the ceremony between the two families, even the in-laws were settled, and they had to change their names to dad and mom. When Wang Cuihua and Ma Dafu looked at Zhao Jun, they really looked at their own son-in-law.

After a few words of greeting, Zhao Jun asked Ma Ling about Qinglong and Baihu, but Ma Ling said it was okay, and there was no need to send Namo out as long as he was not idle.

As for Xiao Lingdang's dream, Ma Ling said to Zhao Jun seriously: "Did something happen to Brother Zhang on the mountain?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Jun closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

Each chapter is restored to 4,000 words. It’s around six o’clock in the evening, and there is another chapter around seven o’clock.