The whole mountain is my hunting ground

This night is destined to be restless.

The heavy snow continued, and Li Baoyu tossed and turned on the kang. He was thinking about Zhang Yuanmin. When he thought that Zhao Jun and Jie Chen were guarding Zhang Yuanmin in the hospital, and he was the only one at home, Li Baoyu couldn't sleep even more.

"Alas!" Li Baoyu sighed softly.

"Ha!" Li Ruhai sneered.

"What the hell..." Li Baoyu's head left the pillow in an instant. When he stared at Li Ruhai, he wanted to curse, but when he thought that his mother was his mother, he swallowed back the rest of the curse.

But even without swearing, Li Baoyu's tone was not very good, and he stretched out his feet from the bed, kicked Li Ruhai's legs, and said, "I'm telling you, I'm upset today, so don't yell at me!"

Of course Li Ruhai knew why Li Baoyu was upset. In fact, he was also thinking about Zhang Yuanmin, but at this time he said in a strange way: "Oh, my brother is being treated like a mother, and you didn't even say you feel sorry for him." , feel sorry for me."

"I feel sorry for you? You deserve it!" Li Baoyu glanced aside and said, "I didn't slap you loudly, so you can just have fun."

"Yes!" Li Ruhai said, "You didn't hit me, but you helped dad hold me down."

A few words of bickering made Li Baoyu feel a little better, and after a while, the two brothers fell asleep.

I don’t know how long I had slept, but suddenly there was a roar outside the house, waking up the five members of the Li family.

Li Dayong reached out to pull the light, but it didn't light up.

There's a power outage at home!

"Dayong, give you the electric baton." At this time, Jin Xiaomei, who was hugging Li Xiaoqiao, handed over the flashlight. Li Dayong put on his clothes and pants by the flashlight and went out to the outhouse.

The sound came from outside, and Li Dayong wanted to go out and take a look, but he held the handle and pushed the door, but the door did not move at all.

"It's broken!" Li Dayong knew what happened and quickly turned his body to one side so that his shoulder and head were against the door.

The door still didn't open. Just then, Li Baoyu came out of the west room. The two men pushed the door together, but it still didn't work.

This heavy snow started from the afternoon of the previous day and has not stopped till now.

There is a layer of snow about 70 to 80 centimeters thick in the yard. If Zhang Yuanmin came and walked, the snow would hit his crotch.

The door was closed due to heavy snow, so Zhao Youcai got up at 3:30, and it took a lot of effort to get out of the house. Fortunately, people in the mountains go to bed early and get up early. If we had not waited until six or seven o'clock, we might not even be able to open the door.

Although it was still dark outside, Zhao Youcai hung up a lantern in the yard and used a big shovel to clear the snow on the dog kennel.

The snow is still falling, but the snow is too thick. We cannot wait for the snow to stop before clearing the snow, otherwise the dog kennel and the donkey shed behind it may not be able to hold it.

The snow was so heavy that it was difficult to walk in the yard. Zhao Youcai had to push the snow with a shovel, at least to create a path first.

Zhao Youcai didn't work for a while. Wang Meilan, Hu Sanmei, and Zhao Chun all came out to help. The snow was so heavy that Zhao Jun wasn't home yet, so Zhao Youcai couldn't finish the work until dawn.

"His dad!" Wang Meilan said to Zhao Youcai, leaning on a spade, "Hurry up. This is enough work for our family. When you're done, go to help other people's homes. Don't let his big goose shed collapse."

"Ouch, that's not good!" After hearing Wang Meilan's words, Zhao Youcai remembered that Zhang Yuanmin's goose shed was covered with two layers of plastic sheeting, which had limited pressure resistance.

As soon as Zhao Youcai finished speaking, he heard a faint sound in front of the Li family's house next door. Zhao Youcai took a flashlight to the wall and went to the yard next door. He saw that the door of the Li family's room was almost buried in snow.

Zhao Youcai raised his flashlight and looked up, and saw a thick layer of snow accumulated on the eaves. Due to the downward slope along the eaves, the snow layer slid up, protruded, and hung down from the eaves, almost reaching the upper edge of the windows.

Only the area above the door was empty. It turned out that there should be snow there, but a large amount of snow fell and piled up at the door of the room, making it impossible to open the door of Li's house from the inside.

Zhao Youcai threw the shovel towards the wall, placed the flashlight across the top of the wall, and then climbed over the wall.

With a "crack" sound, Zhao Youcai's legs sank into the snow, and the snow in Li's courtyard was up to his knees.

Zhao Youcai reached out and grabbed the shovel, cleared a path to the Li family's door, and helped the Li family open the door.

"Oh my god! Big brother, it's your fault!" Coming out of the house, Li Dayong said: "I have lived for so many years, but the snow in 1976 was so heavy."

"It's not good!" Zhao Youcai said: "Get busy, brother. When you're done, you two go to the old lady and help them tidy up."

Not only is Zhao Jun not at home, but Jie Chen is also not at home. The old lady has no young and strong labor force. If the Li family encounters a situation like this, they will not be able to get out at all.

Li Dayong agreed, hung up lanterns with Li Baoyu and Jin Xiaomei, and cleared the snow in front of and behind the house.

At night, the snow in the distance reflected by the faint light seems to be covered with a layer of silver gauze. The snowflakes are falling from the sky, and there is a special sense of beauty under the light.

"Mom, this looks pretty good." Zhao Chun, who was pushing snow to the front yard, said to Hu Sanmei with a smile.

"What a silly girl!" Hu Sanmei smiled upon hearing this, then raised her head to Zhao Chun and said, "Chun'er, why don't you go back? It's quite cold outside."

"No need, Mom." Zhao Chun said, "I'm wearing a lot of clothes, it's not cold."

It was really not cold on a snowy day. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law pushed the snow from the backyard to the front yard, while Zhao Youcai and Wang Meilan pushed the snow from the front yard to the outside.

"Lan Na!" Zhao Youcai suddenly stopped what he was doing, came up to Wang Meilan, courted her, and asked, "Is it cold?"

"It's not cold." Wang Meilan replied and saw Zhao Youcai coming over.

Wang Meilan glanced at Zhao Youcai and asked, "Are you okay?"

"Lan Na." Zhao Youcai held the spade in front of him, rubbed his hands together, and asked Wang Meilan at the same time: "Did you see the triangular bag I got back yesterday?"

"Looking at it." Wang Meilan nodded and asked, "Why don't you just throw it in the house?"

Yesterday, Zhao Youcai came back with a bag of money, hoping to get a chance to confess to Wang Meilan and get leniency. But as soon as he entered the house, Wang Meilan started to prepare dinner. There were too many people in the house at that time, and Zhao Youcai had no chance to tell Wang Meilan.

Wang Meilan also saw Zhao Youcai holding a bag. She asked, and Zhao Youcai said it was not food, so Wang Meilan didn't ask in detail.

Although the diners left later, there were still little bells at home yesterday, so Zhao Youcai had no chance to confess.

At this time, by clearing the snow, Zhao Youcai said to Wang Meilan: "Lan Na, that pocket is full of money."

"What the hell?" Wang Meilan smiled. She glanced at Zhao Youcai and said with a smile, "You can pull it down. If that pocket is full of money, how much will it cost?"

"More than 12,000, less than 13,000!" Zhao Youcai didn't play tricks this time. It was originally 16,000, but Zhang Yuanmin got 800 for seeing a doctor, another 800 for buying a gun, and then he gave about 200 to his family. , plus the repayment of the debt and the thousand distributed to Li Dayong, there are still 12,080 in hand.

After hearing that Zhao Youcai wanted to hand over the money to buy the leather, Li Dayong said that he would return the one thousand yuan to Zhao Youcai, but Zhao Youcai did not agree with anything he said.

"Oh my God!" Wang Meilan was startled by Zhao Youcai's words. She looked at Zhao Youcai in surprise and asked, "Where did you get the money? What did you do?"

"Lan Na, listen to what I'm telling you." Zhao Youcai smiled, raised his hand and said, "That day I went up to the mountain and shot a local leopard, and then I sold the skin..."

"Sold the leather?" Wang Meilan looked at Zhao Youcai with a strange look in her eyes and asked, "Is that you, Zhao Erdong?"

"I..." Zhao Youcai was confused. He didn't know that after Hu Sanmei arrived here yesterday, she told Wang Meilan everything she saw and heard at Qi Shengli's house that morning. At first, when Wang Meilan heard the name Zhao Erdong, she thought of Zhao Youcai, but later she heard that Zhao Erdong's son was called Zhao Youcai, so she no longer doubted her own Zhao Youcai.

Seeing Zhao Youcai's expression at this time, Wang Meilan twitched the corner of her mouth and asked, "Didn't that leather sell for 16,000? Why did you get back 13,000?"

"Sixteen thousand..." Zhao Youcai was even more confused. This number was explained by Zheng Xuekun at Qi Shengli's house yesterday. After hearing what Hu Sanmei said, Wang Meilan once imagined that her leopard skin would cost more than 20,000.

Seeing that Zhao Youcai was silent, Wang Meilan put her hand on Zhao Youcai's arm and said, "Okay, what do you want to do with so much money? Why don't you take out another two thousand and leave one thousand for you?"

"I..." Zhao Youcai's head was buzzing. How could he still have a thousand in his pocket? What he originally thought was that if he handed over these ten thousand and three, Wang Meilan would reward him with one thousand and eight when he was happy, but he didn't expect that it would be like this.

Zhao Youcai definitely couldn't take back the one thousand he gave to Li Dayong, and it was even more impossible to get the eight hundred he paid for the gun with Zhou Chengguo. Now he can only get back the 800 yuan he spent to treat Zhang Yuanmin, but Zhao Youcai can no longer get the 2,000 yuan.

"Okay, okay." Seeing that Zhao Youcai didn't say a word, Wang Meilan thought he was unwilling, so she immediately waved her hand and said, "Hurry up and work first, and bring the money back to me in the evening."

"No..." Zhao Youcai was about to settle the score with Wang Meilan when he heard someone from behind the house shouting: "Dad! Mom! Come and take a look at this donkey shed!"

When Wang Meilan heard this, she hurriedly ran to the back of the house, and Zhao Youcai hurriedly followed her.

The family worked for more than two hours, clearing away the snow from the shed, the kennel and the thick areas on the ground.

But as they were busy working, there was no more snow on the ground.

Zhao Youcai and Wang Meilan went into the house to warm up for a while, and then the couple rushed to Zhang Yuanmin's house with shovels on their shoulders; Li Dayong, Jin Xiaomei, and Li Baoyu went to the old lady's house.

Hu Sanmei and Zhao Chun were cooking and taking care of the children at home, while Li Ruhai was recuperating at home and avoided working.

At this time, it was almost half past six in the morning.

Zhao Jun, Yang Yufeng, and Jie Chen sat in the ward and stared at each other.

The three of them were sleepy and tired, but they couldn't sleep because they were all worried about Zhang Yuanmin.

At the beginning of yesterday, when Pei Yonglin and the doctors said that Zhang Yuanmin would not be in danger of his life, Zhao Jun and the others were quite happy and felt at ease.

But that night, Zhang Yuanmin didn't stop at all, dancing and gesticulating.

Li Guoqiang and the three doctors took turns to see him, but they didn't know what happened to Zhang Yuanmin.

Suddenly, the door of the ward opened, and Xie Zhong, Liu Hanshan, and Gu Yang came in from the door. Xie Zhong was still carrying three lunch boxes in his hand.

"Brother and sister." As soon as Xie Zhong entered the room, he whispered to Yang Yufeng, who was nearest him, "How is my brother?"

"Brother Xie." Yang Yufeng choked and said, "It's not good."

Hearing what Yang Yufeng said, Xie Zhong's expression darkened. He carried a lunch box and walked to Zhang Yuanmin's bed. Looking at Zhang Yuanmin, whose brows were furrowed and his face was full of pain, he asked Zhao Jun with great distress: "Is he in pain?"

"No way..." Zhao Jun looked up at the intravenous drip bottle and said, "The doctor later added two more doses of painkillers. He said it was enough and he couldn't add any more."

"Alas!" Jie Zhong thought that Zhang Yuanmin's condition was not good, so he sighed heavily. After giving the lunch box to Xie Chen, he walked next to Zhao Jun and sat down, looking at Zhang Yuanmin silently.

At this time, Zhang Yuanmin was killing bears and seizing territory in his dream.

After warming the wine and killing the black bear, Zhang Yuanmin followed the Zhao army to fight in Yongfu, Yongsheng, and Yongli.

In the dream, Zhang Yuanmin once escorted Ma Ling across five mountains to kill six bears. He also once killed more than fifty brown and black bears in front of that small cement bridge, holding a knife in one hand and a large hand-wheeled mirror ax in the other.

Later, Zhang Yuanmin dreamed that Zhao Jun contracted a Dalengchang and handed it over to his management.

Zhang Yuanmin, who had acquired the land, was even more uncontrollable. He transported wood with a set that did not fall down, and specialized in hunting down black bears. On the wooden stake tent in Lengchang, each wooden stake carries a bear's head.

But the good times didn't last long. His subordinate Gu Yang betrayed him and led dozens of black bears to dress up as giant cotton monkeys and pretend to be adults to sneak attack Lengchang.

Zhang Yuanmin fell into a trap and was attacked by a group of bears. However, with his bravery, he still fought his way out of the encirclement with one sword.

At this time, Zhang Yuanmin in the dream was on his way to Yong'an Tun, but there were black bears all over the mountains and plains ahead.

Who is Zhang Yuanmin in the dream? He immediately swung his knife to kill the bears, but what he didn't expect was that the crotch of his pants was too big, and he couldn't move his legs. He tripped and plunged into the snow.

Then, he was completely overwhelmed by the black bears.

Zhang Yuanmin roared unwillingly in his dream.

"Well... uh..." Zhang Yuanmin was awakened by the nightmare and looked at Pei Yonglin in front of him with wide eyes.

It was already past eight o'clock in the morning when I finished this dream.

Doctors go to work early these days, so Pei Yonglin came here early. After hearing what Li Guoqiang and Lin Zhixin said about Zhang Yuanmin's condition, Pei Yonglin came here specially to take a look.

What people didn't expect was that Zhang Yuanmin woke up as soon as Pei Yonglin came in front of Zhang Yuanmin.

"Family members can come and take a look." After Pei Yonglin looked at Zhang Yuanmin, he greeted Yang Yufeng, but also warned: "It's okay to take a look, but don't make him too excited."

Seeing that Zhang Yuanmin was awake, a group of people gathered around him involuntarily. Yang Yufeng squeezed Xie Zhong and Jie Chen away and went to Zhang Yuanmin's bedside and called out "Lao Zhang."

But at this time, Zhang Yuanmin was still immersed in self-blame and regret for losing Lengchang. He turned his eyes with difficulty and finally saw Zhao Jun.

Everyone followed Zhang Yuanmin's gaze and made room for Zhao Jun.

"Brother!"

"Brother..."

Zhao Jun and Zhang Yuanmin called "brother" in unison. Zhang Yuanmin called Zhao Jun "brother" because he was confused in his dream.

"Oh my god!" Hearing Zhang Yuanmin call him eldest brother, Zhao Jun quickly looked at Pei Yonglin and said, "Dean Pei, is my eldest brother knocking his head and making himself stupid?"

After hearing what he said, Yang Yufeng burst into tears.

"Hurry!" Pei Yonglin turned around, waved to Li Guoqiang and Lin Zhixin and said, "Push the patient away."

Several doctors stepped forward, pushed Zhang Yuanmin out, and headed straight to the emergency room.

After entering the emergency room, Zhang Yuanmin came back to his senses from his sleep.

Zhang Yuanmin was too weak to speak, but he secretly said in his heart: "Oh my god, I was confused in my dream. That's my brother."