The whole mountain is my hunting ground

December 12, 1987.

Li Ruhai got up early, put on his cool outfit, and polished his military hook leather shoes.

When Li Ruhai came out of the house, he saw Jin Xiaomei coming in with a big basin in her arms.

The big basin contained two wild boar ribs, two wild boar knuckles, and two wild boar tenderloins.

Tomorrow is the day when Lao Li's family and Lao Liu's family celebrate. The dishes will be cooked tomorrow, but the meat and other things have to be brought into the house in advance today to let the frozen meat thaw naturally.

Jin Xiaomei held the big basin with both hands and pressed one side of it against the outer wall. She freed one hand to open the door, then blocked the door with her legs, and then came in with the basin.

Jin Xiaomei and Li Ruhai, mother and son, looked at each other. Jin Xiaomei was about to scold Li Ruhai for not knowing how to help, but she saw Li Ruhai shook his head slightly and sighed softly: "Oh, how pitiful the hearts of parents in the world are."

Jin Xiaomei: "..."

Li Ruhai's words made Jin Xiaomei choke back all the words she wanted to criticize and blame him for.

At this time, the door was opened from the outside again. Li Baoyu came in first with an iron bucket in his right hand, and then he picked up another bucket outside the door with his left hand.

The bucket was filled with clean water, which Li Baoyu had just pressed out from the Zhao family next door.

"Mom, you have to take such a big basin by yourself." Li Baoyu complained, but he actually cared about Jin Xiaomei and said, "You put it there and I can hold it."

"Oh!" Jin Xiaomei put the big basin on the stove, stood up and smiled at Li Baoyu: "Your mother is not in her seventies or eighty. Are you afraid that your mother will be tired after holding such a thing?"

Li Baoyu smiled when he heard this and walked inside with the bucket. Li Ruhai helped him open the cylinder lid with great discernment.

"Wow..." A bucket of water was poured into the big vat. When Li Baoyu went to pick up another bucket of water, he heard Li Ruhai say from the side: "Brother, tomorrow is a good day for you."

When thinking about tomorrow, Li Baoyu felt a little hopeful and a little happy. Hearing what Li Ruhai said, Li Baoyu smiled innocently.

But Li Ruhai then said: "After you get married this time, you will be an adult."

"Huh?" Li Baoyu was stunned. Many people had said similar or even the same words to him, but those people were all elders without exception.

Li Ruhai continued: "From now on, you must be filial to our parents and love and protect your younger brothers and sisters."

Li Baoyu clicked his eyes twice, and finally reacted. He held the empty iron bucket in one hand, flicked it at Li Ruhai with the other hand, and shouted: "Get out of here!"

"Stop making noises there!" Jin Xiaomei pointed at Li Ruhai angrily and said, "Your brother will carry a bucket on your shoulders in a while."

Li Ruhai took two steps back after hearing this. Just as he was about to slip away, he heard Li Baoyu calling him, "You're not coming back tonight, are you?"

Li Ruhai is on duty today, and he is supposed to get off work tomorrow morning. Then he needs to stay at the forest farm for the whole day, and then he can follow the commuter car home at night.

But tomorrow is Sunday, and the forest farm has a day off. If Li Ruhai had to work the night shift at the forest farm today, he wouldn't be able to come back tomorrow night.

Li Baoyu wished that this boy would not come back. Tomorrow was a big day for the Li and Liu families to celebrate. The Li family and the Liu family would gather together. Li Baoyu was afraid that this boy would talk too much. That's why Li Baoyu is happy if Li Ruhai doesn't come back tonight.

"Come back." What Li Baoyu didn't expect was that Li Ruhai said with a smile: "Tonight, I will come back with you all."

"Ah?" Li Baoyu and Jin Xiaomei were both startled. Li Baoyu asked anxiously: "Aren't you off duty at night? Why are you coming back? When you come back, won't the boss take care of you?"

As Li Baoyu threw three questions in succession, Li Ruhai's face sank. At this time, he finally understood that his brother did not want him to come back and attend the banquet.

"The venue is closed tomorrow, what am I looking at there?" Li Ruhai rolled his eyes at Li Baoyu and said, "Brother-in-law Zhou told me to let me have a rest tomorrow. What's wrong? You won't let me?"

Li Ruhai spat out his words, and Li Baoyu was so angry that he fell silent.

"Hmph!" Li Ruhai pinched Li Baoyu with his eyelids again, then snorted coldly, put his hands on his back and was about to walk out.

"Stand there!" Jin Xiaomei suddenly shouted loudly, raised her head and touched Li Ruhai with her chin, and asked, "What are you going to do?"

Since that matchmaking, Li Ruhai has been banned from home.

"Go up to the latrine." Li Ruhai replied and continued walking out. Jin Xiaomei shouted from behind: "Come back as soon as you are done!"

It took Li Ruhai half an hour to come back. When he came back, Li Baoyu was chatting with Zhao Jun across the wall.

Seeing Li Ruhai enter the hospital, Li Baoyu raised her hand and pointed at him and shouted: "Did you poop? Have you been here for so long?"

Li Ruhai rolled his eyes at Li Baoyu. Of course he would not say that he had slipped out to chat with others.

Li Baoyu scolded Li Ruhai, ignored him, turned to Zhao Jun and said, "Brother, I want to go too."

"You go to work, how do you get there?" Zhao Jun said with a smile: "You have a lot of work at work these days, don't you still have to get out of the car?"

"Alas!" Li Baoyu sighed and said, "Aren't you avenging Brother Zhang? I think all our brothers can go."

"Then if you can't go, then don't go." Zhao Jun said with a smile: "Me, my dad, our uncle, and my minister, the four of us will take care of these dogs and be back in less than noon."

Zhao Jun was very confident. The four of them had four guns, including two semi-automatic guns. Together with these dogs, they were definitely the number one hunting gang in Lingxi in terms of combat effectiveness.

"Let's go back to Dongdagou to prepare the fish." Zhao Jun smiled at Li Baoyu and said, "Tomorrow we can prepare three or four more hard vegetables."

Hearing Zhao Jun mention tomorrow, Li Baoyu couldn't help but laugh silly. At this time, Zhao Jun saw Li Ruhai on the side, and he also asked casually: "Can't Ruhai stay home tomorrow?"

As soon as Zhao Jun said these words, Li Baoyu's face fell instantly, and the smile disappeared from his face. Li Ruhai took two steps forward, held his hands on the wall, smiled at Zhao Jun, and said, "Brother, I will be back tonight."

"Ah..." Zhao Jun glanced at Li Baoyu, secretly worried about Li Baoyu. Li Ruhai is not a fuel-efficient guy, and he is also crazy. In other words, the more people there are, the more embarrassed he will be.

In fact, many children have this problem. So these days, when a visitor (qiě) comes to the house, adults often say these two sentences. The first is: We have a visitor at home, don’t expect to be beaten; the second is: Wait until the visitor leaves, and I won’t take your skin off.

And Li Ruhai, the kid, is the kind who is the best at showing off his face and making jokes.

"Oh, it's like the sea." Zhao Jun took a deep look at Li Ruhai and kindly warned him: "Let's talk less tomorrow. Look at that Ma Yang. Is he as big as you? Come to our house that day, sir. Who doesn't want to talk?" Ask him and he won’t say a word.”

"He doesn't say a word." Li Ruhai smiled disapprovingly: "He just knows how to eat."

Zhao Jun twitched the corner of his mouth, thinking that this child was hopeless. If the Li family sent the guests away tomorrow, Li Dayong would have to beat him when he returned home.

It was hard to persuade him with good words, and Zhao Jun couldn't say much, so he immediately planned to go back to the house.

But at this moment, Li Ruhai suddenly asked: "Brother, eldest brother, you two will get married next year. Do you two know what it is like to get married?"

"Huh?" Zhao Jun was startled when he heard this, feeling that there was something wrong with Li Ruhai's question.

"What else can it taste like?" Li Baoyu said with a smile, "It's beautiful!"

Immediately afterwards, the straightforward Li Baoyu explained: "How beautiful is it to get married? Everyone is happy to get married."

"That's not what I'm asking." Li Ruhai shook his head slightly, stretched out his hand to strike at the two of them, then clasped his hands together, and pressed the pads of his two thumbs together twice in a row and quickly, lowering his voice and speaking mysteriously. He said quietly: "I met Brother Dalong just now. He told me that the young couple was entering the bridal chamber. He kicked his little legs and his little head buzzed."

Zhao Jun: "..."

"What is this?" Li Baoyu couldn't understand this. He stared at Li Ruhai curiously and asked, "Why were you looking at Wang Dalong before?"

"What I was watching just now." Li Ruhai said, "The two of them came back last night, didn't you know?"

"How did I know?" Li Baoyu said, looking at Zhao Jun and asked: "Brother, he is back. Can Uncle Tao kill the three dogs he gave us?"

When Wang Dalong was caught in the Immortal Jump in the Yongxing Brigade, he gave three dogs to Li Mingxiang. Later, the Tao family came forward to get the three dogs down and handed them over to Zhao Jun.

Without Zhao Jun, Tao Dabao and Tao Erbao would not care at all whether it was the Immortal Jump or any other jump. But these three dogs used to belong to Wang Dalong, and Wang Dalong was related to the Zhao family. It was Zhao Youcai who took him to Yongxing that time. It's hard to say.

But at this time, Zhao Jun's mind was not on the three dogs at all. He glanced at Li Baoyu strangely, and then he remembered that his brother was very simple. He had never experienced that kind of thing and had no idea what Li Ruhai was talking about.

Maybe Li Ruhai didn't understand what he was talking about. This kid just talked too much. And the most hateful thing is that Wang Dalong, who is quite a big man, talks like a tiger and a wolf to a child.

But what Zhao Jun is more afraid of is that if Li Ruhai suddenly says this in front of relatives and friends of the Li and Liu families tomorrow, the excitement will be huge.

On the day when the young people of the two families were celebrating, the future brother-in-law was full of sarcastic remarks. At that time, even if Jin Xiaomei gives a gift of 10,000 yuan, the Liu family will have to regret it.

If the Liu family regrets their marriage because of this kind of thing, Li Dayong will have to drink medicine and Jin Xiaomei will have to hang herself.

Thinking of this, Zhao Jun took a deep look at Li Ruhai, then turned around and walked back to his house.

"Huh? Brother!" Seeing that Zhao Jun was about to leave, Li Baoyu was busy calling him from behind.

Zhao Jun didn't look back, he just raised his arm and shook it back.

Zhao Jun opened the door and entered the house. When he arrived in the west room, he saw Zhao Youcai holding a small child all over the floor. He stepped forward and reached out to hug the child.

"Let me hold him for a while!" Zhao Youcai was quite unhappy and said angrily: "Let me care about my grandson."

"Stop being so jealous." Zhao Jun walked to the door with the child in his arms and called Zhao Chun. After handing the child to Zhao Chun, Zhao Jun returned to Zhao Youcai and whispered a few words in his ear.

After hearing a few words from Zhao Jun, Zhao Youcai's small eyes widened and he looked straight at Zhao Jun.

Zhao Youcai looked incredulous, and Zhao Jun nodded slightly.

Zhao Youcai took a deep breath, stood up and walked out.

"What are you going to do?" Wang Meilan, who was taking the food out of the pot, saw that Zhao Youcai was about to go out, and hurriedly called to him: "We're going to eat soon."

"Go up to the latrine." Zhao Youcai said something, opened the door and left the house.

After coming out of the house, Zhao Youcai didn't go to the latrine at all, but climbed over the wall to Li's house.

Zhao Youcai came to Li Jiadong's window in a few steps, raised his hand and clicked twice on the plastic sheet outside the window.

At this time, the Li family was also preparing to eat. What they were eating was roe deer bones and meat stewed with pickled vegetables.

After Wang Meilan's birthday party yesterday, there was a lot of food left over. Wang Meilan gave a share of meat and other items to several families. Jin Xiaomei cooked such a dish this morning.

While the stew is cooking, place the fried sticky bean buns on top. The staple food and vegetables were served in one pot. At this time, Jin Xiaomei, Li Baoyu, and Li Ruhai had just put the table on the table. They heard someone knocking on the plastic sheet outside, and the whole family looked out the window.

"Dad, my uncle!" Li Xiaoqiao saw that it was Zhao Youcai and called out to Li Dayong. Children like this all know that when Zhao Youcai comes looking for him, he must be looking for Li Dayong. And if Zhao Jun comes looking for him, he must be looking for Li Baoyu.

"Ouch!" Li Dayong quickly got off the kang, pulled on his shoes and walked out without even having time to lift the heels.

After pushing the door open, Li Dayong greeted Zhao Youcai and said, "Brother, why don't you come in? Have you eaten yet? Can you eat at home?"

"What do you want to eat?" Zhao Youcai grabbed Li Dayong, glanced around, and then spoke in Li Dayong's ear.

As for what Zhao Jun relayed to Li Ruhai, Zhao Youcai was already so old. When he told his best brother, Zhao Youcai felt his face getting hot.

At this time, the four people in the room looked at the two old brothers mumbling outside the window. Jin Xiaomei handed the chopsticks to Li Ruhai opposite and said: "Let's eat first. If your uncle doesn't come into the room, we can't eat it here." .”

Li Ruhai took the chopsticks, glanced at the two old brothers outside the window, and said with a smile: "My uncle is going to fight with my elder brother and the others today."

"Ah?" Jin Xiaomei was a little curious when she heard this, and asked: "What are you hunting again? There have been no shortage of wild boars and roe deer in the past two days."

As soon as Jin Xiaomei finished speaking, she heard Li Baoyu say: "Today our three armies of the Zhao family are dispatched to avenge my brother Zhang!"

"Haha." Hearing Li Baoyu's words, Li Ruhai smiled and said, "Brother, when you say this, it sounds like you are launching an army to attack Wu to avenge your brother."

"Huh?" Li Baoyu frowned, pointed the chopsticks at Li Ruhai's nose, and shouted, "Don't be so cunning!"

Li Baoyu has read books, so he naturally knows about the disaster that happened after Guan Gong left Maicheng and Liu Bei launched an army to attack Wu.

"I'm just telling you." Li Ruhai was startled. When he turned to put food in his bowl, he muttered in a low voice: "You look at me like a black eye."

Black-eyed Erfeng is a Northeastern dialect and means enemy.

"You can't bully my little brother all the time!" At this moment, Li Xiaoqiao dropped the dishes, hugged Li Ruhai and said, "My little brother is the best."

Seeing the affection between the little girl and Li Ruhai, Li Baoyu and Jin Xiaomei both curled their lips. This little girl, ever since her brother gave her a schoolbag, her brother briefly became the best person in the world.

Li Ruhai laughed, hugged Li Xiaoqiao and said, "Little sister, when I make money, I will buy you good things."

Just when Li Ruhai was drawing a cake for Li Xiaoqiao, his door was pulled open forcefully.

"Hey? Big brother is looking for you..." Jin Xiaomei saw Li Dayong coming back and was about to ask him why Zhao Youcai came to see him, but she saw that Li Dayong had a bad look on his face.

Li Dayong jumped to the kang in two steps, grabbed Li Ruhai by the collar of his Chinese tunic suit, and pulled him up directly from the kang.

"Hey? Hey! What are you doing?" Jin Xiaomei was shocked when she saw this. She quickly got up and held down Li Dayong's arm grabbing Li Ruhai, while Li Baoyu got up and grabbed Li Dayong's other arm. Only Li Xiaoqiao showed a side of the wall at a young age and hid in the kang as soon as she jumped.