The whole mountain is my hunting ground

After dinner, the Zhao family crowded in the east room to watch TV until ten o'clock, and then they went back to their own homes with reluctance.

This was because the Li family had something to do tomorrow and needed the help of these families, otherwise the TV would have to be snowy.

After the diners left, Wang Meilan, Zhao Chun, Hu Sanmei, Zhao Hong, Zhao Na, and Xiao Lingdang continued to watch TV in the quilt.

They all lay down, Zhao Jun and Zhao Youcai could not stay for long, so the father and son went back to the west room to sleep.

It was late at night and people were still not quiet.

After leaving the Zhao family and returning to the next door, the Li family did not lie down when they got home. Jin Xiaomei prepared clothes for the family of four for tomorrow, while Li Dayong and Li Baoyu were boiling water in the outer room.

Tomorrow is Li Baoyu's big day, and the Li family is a little excited and a little nervous. But fortunately, Li Ruhai, the only one who might cause trouble, did not have the opportunity to participate in tomorrow's activities, and the Li family still expected more.

With those families helping to organize the banquet, the Li family did not worry about food and drink. They were only prepared to welcome the arrival of the Liu family tomorrow with the best spirit.

The clothes were ready, and the four people were ready to take care of their personal hygiene. Bathing and washing hair were troublesome these days. Li Dayong and Li Baoyu both had short hair, so it was better. Jin Xiaomei and Li Xiaoqiao both had long hair, which was difficult. Especially Jin Xiaomei, she was hanging out with Wang Meilan, and it was like a big feast every day, so it was inevitable that there was a smell of oil smoke in her hair.

There were no hair dryers these days, and Jin Xiaomei was afraid that her hair would not dry if she washed it tomorrow morning. So she washed it tonight, wrapped it with a towel, lay on the kang, and slept overnight, and her hair was dry.

There were four people in the family, and Li Xiaoqiao washed first. After she used the shampoo bought by Zhao Jun to grasp and rub her hair, the little girl was held aside by Li Baoyu with her waist bent, and he rinsed Li Xiaoqiao's head with warm water.

"Oh!" As warm water was poured over Li Xiaoqiao's hair, Li Baoyu couldn't help but exclaimed: "This thing works so well, it's clean after one rinse."

Shampoo is of course much better than smelly rice water and white frost in the pickled cabbage jar. Once this thing is washed with warm water, the hair will smell fragrant.

Jin Xiaomei, who was about to wash her hair, came over to take a look, and her eyes lit up immediately.

"Boss!" At this time, Li Dayong told Li Baoyu: "Wipe your sister's hair, and wrap it up with a towel after you're done!"

"Hey!" Li Baoyu responded, and after rinsing off the shampoo foam on Li Xiaoqiao's hair, he took a towel and wiped Li Xiaoqiao's head patiently, trying to dry the water as much as possible.

When Li Xiaoqiao's hair stopped dripping, Li Baoyu changed a dry towel to wrap Li Xiaoqiao, and then took his sister into the east room.

After entering the house, Li Xiaoqiao stood in front of the mirror, looked at her own look and couldn't help complaining: "My dad and mom work in the fields like this."

"Hahaha." Li Baoyu laughed when he heard it, and teased his sister: "Sister, you should go to the fields with your parents in the spring."

"I won't go." Li Xiaoqiao shook her head and said, "It's so tiring."

"Learn to do it since you are young." Li Baoyu smiled and said, "When you grow up and get married, can you not go to the fields?"

"I will find someone who has no land..." Li Xiaoqiao denied what she said just now when she was halfway through her words, and shook her head and said, "That won't work either. If you don't have land, how poor will you be?"

"Hahaha..." When Li Xiaoqiao said this, not only Li Baoyu laughed, but also Jin Xiaomei who was washing hair in the outer room and Li Dayong who was serving his wife laughed.

At this time, Li Xiaoqiao was in a dilemma. If the person she married in the future had land at home, she would have to work in the fields; if the person didn't have land at home, he would be a hooligan.

When she was in trouble, Li Xiaoqiao suddenly thought of her brother. Before Li Ruhai started working, he took care of her more. Li Ruhai's mouth was not idle either. No matter how childish the little girl said, Li Ruhai would not let the words fall to the ground.

At this moment, Li Xiaoqiao missed Li Ruhai a little.

"Brother!" Li Xiaoqiao asked Li Baoyu beside her, "Tomorrow you will have a gift with your sister-in-law, will my brother really not come back?"

When Li Xiaoqiao mentioned Li Ruhai, the smile on Li Baoyu's face froze. Although Li Baoyu is tall and strong, he really doesn't know anything about that. Until now, Li Baoyu doesn't know what Li Ruhai did wrong, why didn't his parents let him come back?

Although the two brothers always fight and quarrel, they are brothers after all. Li Baoyu felt a little uncomfortable that Li Ruhai couldn't participate in his big day.

At this time, Li Dayong and Jin Xiaomei, who were outside the house, were no longer smiling. They also wanted the family to be neat and tidy, but Li Ruhai was really not a good person. With such a big scene tomorrow, he couldn't be as honest as Ma Yang. If that mouth really said something nonsense, the family would be too ashamed to face people.

So Jin Xiaomei also agreed with Li Dayong's decision. The couple wanted to let Li Baoyu marry his wife peacefully. After the family was divided, they would educate Li Ruhai.

After Jin Xiaomei washed her hair, it was already past eleven o'clock, and the family hurriedly went to bed.

But as the saying goes, the night is late and people are not quiet.

It was so late, and the lights in the mail room of Yong'an Forest Farm had not been turned off, and the firewood in the furnace in the room was crackling.

Li Ruhai sat at the table in a neat dress, with his back to the stove, letting the temperature of the stove burn his back.

At this time, Li Ruhai was writing furiously at his desk. He filled two pages of manuscript paper with 400 words per page.

After finishing writing, Li Ruhai put the pen cap on with satisfaction, then pinned the pen to his chest pocket, and then picked up the manuscript paper and turned back to the previous page.

On the top line of this page, the title was written with five words: Yong'an Bai Li Kui.

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December 13, 1987, the twenty-third day of the tenth lunar month, Sunday.

Today is the day for Li Baoyu and Liu Mei to celebrate. The lights in Zhao and Li's houses were lit early.

The four members of the Li family were cleaning up the house at home, and the Zhao family's father and son went to help and transported all the dogs from the two families to Zhang Yuanmin's villa for temporary storage. It took a while for someone to come, but the dog barked endlessly, and the words and chatter could not be heard clearly.

Zhao Chun and Hu Sanmei cooked at home, and after the meal was ready, the four members of the Li family came over to eat, so that the Li family did not have to open the fire.

Wang Meilan, on the other hand, was combing her hair and dressing up in the mirror. Today she was on Liu Tiezui's errand to bring the Liu family over first, and then preside over the ceremony between the two families.

Just after six o'clock, Zhao Chun and Hu Sanmei put the food on the table. The food was the leftovers from last night that were reheated. When Wang Meilan made it, she said that she would eat it as soon as it was reheated in the morning, which was convenient and trouble-free.

When the four members of the Li family came over for dinner, Jin Xiaomei asked Zhao Jun: "Jun, my aunt asked them to keep the tofu and dried tofu yesterday. I've already given the money. You can go get it later." "

"Okay, Auntie." Zhao Jun smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about that. Just focus on entertaining guests today."

After dinner, the four members of the Li family went home to make final preparations. Zhao Jun put on his cotton-padded jacket and went out. As soon as he left the house, Zhao Chun followed him out. But Zhao Chun didn't go with him, Zhao Chun wanted to go to the latrine.

The two siblings came out of the courtyard and were about to walk east, when a person walked from a distance from the opposite side, twenty or thirty meters apart.

It's almost the winter solstice now, and the days are getting shorter and shorter. It's not yet seven o'clock, and the sky is not yet bright. The big lantern that was lit last night went out again. Zhao Jun frowned slightly when he saw the visitor, and said to Zhao Chun beside him: "Sister, is that my brother-in-law?"

"Huh?" Zhao Chun squinted her eyes and looked. She also felt that the person's appearance, walking posture, and feeling to her were all very similar to Zhou Jianjun, but Zhao Chun did not think that Zhou Jianjun would come at this time.

"No!" Zhao Chun waved to Zhao Jun, preparing to go to the latrine, and said: "Brother, go and come back quickly."

As soon as Zhao Chun finished speaking, he heard someone shouting over there: "Chun'er!"

"Huh?" Zhao Chun was startled, raised his hand and patted Zhao Jun on the arm, saying: "It's really your brother-in-law!"

With that said, Zhao Chun ran towards Zhou Jianjun.

The first thing Zhao Chun said when he came to Zhou Jianjun was: "Why are you here?"

Zhao Chun didn't dislike Zhou Jianjun, but because he came so early, Zhao Chun thought there was something wrong at home.

"Huh?" Zhou Jianjun was startled and said, "I'll come to pick you up."

Speaking of this, Zhou Jianjun hurriedly picked up the things he was carrying and said, "There's nothing to buy here, just buy some food."

The last two times he came empty-handed made Zhao Chun unhappy. Just now Zhou Jianjun went to Wang Fu's small store to buy something.

But Zhao Chun was still not very happy. She laughed dryly and said, "Then why are you here so early?"

"Oh! Don't mention it!" Zhou Jianjun shook his head and said, "Dad called me at three o'clock in the morning and asked me to pick you up."

"Ah..." Upon hearing that it was his father-in-law who had spoken, Zhao Chun rolled his eyes and said nothing more.

Zhou Chunming is the head of the family, and he usually looks like an elder. Zhao Chun respects him. At this time, when Zhou Jianjun said that Zhou Chunming asked them to go back, Zhao Chun knew that he might not be able to stay at his parents' house anymore.

"Brother-in-law!" Zhao Jun originally wanted to leave room for his sister and brother-in-law to talk, but looking at the conversation between the two, his sister seemed unhappy, so he came over.

"Jun! What are you doing?" Zhou Jianjun asked.

"I'm going to get the tofu and dried tofu." Zhao Jun replied, "Today Baoyu and Liu Mei are celebrating. Aunt Li left the things ordered by the tofu shop and asked me to pick them up."

"Then go ahead!" Zhou Jianjun waved his hand at him and said, "Your sister and I will go into the house first."

"I'm not going into the house." Zhao Chun shook his head and said, "I'm going to the latrine."

Zhou Jianjun: "..."

The brother and sister divided their forces into two groups, and Zhou Jianjun carried his things to Zhao's house.

Entering the yard, Zhou Jianjun felt that something was missing. After thinking about it for a while, he realized that all the dogs in the Zhao family's yard were gone. Thinking of the day when Zhao Jun and Ma Ling celebrated, Zhou Jianjun knew that these people were going to do something grand again.

When Zhou Jianjun came in, Hu Sanmei was washing dishes in the outer room. But after she finished washing a bowl, she took a step to the left and went to the east room to watch the TV show.

The TV in the Zhao family was turned on early in the morning. No one is picky, they just look at whatever is available. The weather forecast is also eye-catching from the capital to the northeast. Even if they are not reported in Yongan, adults and children still watch it with gusto.

Suddenly, the door of the room was pulled open from the outside. Hu Sanmei, who was watching TV in the room, asked without turning her head: "How come my daughter is back so soon?"

She mistook Zhou Jianjun for Zhao Chun who went to the latrine.

"Mom!" Zhou Jianjun called Hu Sanmei. Hu Sanmei's eyes widened and she turned her head in surprise. She asked in disbelief: "Why are you here?"

Well, when his mother and his wife saw him for the first time, they all asked the same question.

"I'm picking you up." When Zhou Jianjun said this, Wang Meilan, who was tying her hair in the room, heard the sound and hurriedly came out to greet him.

"Jianjun!" Wang Meilan asked, "Why did you come here so early?"

"Ah... haha." In front of Wang Meilan, Zhou Jianjun didn't say anything about his father waking him up at three o'clock in the morning. He just smiled and said: "My father asked me to pick up my mother and the others."

With that said, Zhou Jianjun passed the things in his hand forward and said, "Mom, I'll buy you some food."

"Hey! What are you spending this money on?" When Wang Meilan took the things, she was thinking that when her son-in-law and his family returned, she would dig out a wild boar buried behind the house and bring it back to them.

"Jianjun!" At this time, Zhao Youcai, who had changed his clothes, also came out. Seeing Zhao Youcai wearing the oily and twisted cotton jacket he usually wore to work, Zhou Jianjun hurriedly asked: "Dad, why are you wearing this?"

"Isn't this Baoyu's?" Zhao Youcai raised his hand and waved it out, saying: "I'm cooking today."

"Jianjun!" Hu Sanmei called Zhou Jianjun, and then instructed her son: "Go, go to the warehouse with your father-in-law, get the pot and other things out, and put them all on the stove after that."

As a son-in-law, Zhou Jianjun is very competent, and he is not a lazy man, and at this time it is his own mother who is instructing him.

But at this time, Zhou Jianjun refused with a bitter face: "Mom, I haven't eaten yet. I came here hungry. Give me a full meal first."

"Why don't you eat?" Hu Sanmei asked.

Hu Sanmei came here to swear at Zhou Jianjun, but there were frozen dumplings and noodles at home. In Hu Sanmei's opinion, those things can be boiled in a pot of water? Isn't this possible?

Zhou Jianjun: "..."

"Oh!" Seeing her son-in-law starving, Wang Meilan was not happy. She pulled Zhao Youcai back and said, "Go quickly and bring in the dumplings outside. Hold the bag in the south end tank tightly. Our Jianjun likes to eat steamed dumplings. There are big steamed dumplings with roe deer stuffing."

"Hey!" Zhao Youcai was grateful for his son-in-law's kindness to him, and agreed without hesitation, and walked out.

"Jianjun." Wang Meilan asked Zhou Jianjun to come in and said, "Come in and wait for a while. Let's have a bite first. Your dad will make you something delicious at noon."

As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, Zhao Chun, who had gone to the toilet, came back. She came in and asked Wang Meilan, "Mom, what did my dad look for in the jar?"

"What else did he look for?" Wang Meilan said, "Jianjun hasn't eaten yet?"

"Huh?" Zhao Chun looked at her man and asked the same question as her mother-in-law, "Why don't you eat?"

Zhou Jianjun pulled his mouth and looked at Zhao Chun deeply. He didn't answer her, but said to Wang Meilan, "Mom, I'll go in first."

After that, Zhou Jianjun walked into the east room. With Zhao Hong and Zhao Na calling him "brother-in-law" and Xiao Lingdang calling him "uncle", Zhou Jianjun sat on the kang and watched TV with the three little girls.

As the old saying goes, the son-in-law is a distinguished guest in front of the door. As a distinguished guest who has not eaten, the Zhao family doesn't need Zhou Jianjun to work.

But when Zhao Jun and Jie Chen each came back with a large basin, Hu Sanmei, who had entered the room to pick up the bowl, said to Zhou Jianjun, who had just put down his chopsticks: "Xiaojun and Jie Xiaoer are going to play online today, you can go with them."

Zhou Jianjun looked at his mother and didn't say a word for a long time.

There are still three days left in this month, and one chapter will be added every day.