The whole mountain is my hunting ground

"It's dark, be careful when you go up the mountain!"

"You have to be careful on the walkways!"

Outside the Zhao family courtyard, the men got into the car, and the women kept giving instructions under the car.

The car started, and Wang Meilan looked at the rear of the car disappearing in the darkness, and couldn't help sighing.

"Sister! I'll take the children back first." After returning to the house, Zhao Ling took Wang Tian and Wang Xue to say goodbye to Wang Meilan. It was already past eight o'clock, and Wang Qiang might not come back at any time. Zhao Ling could wait, but the children couldn't.

"Go back." Wang Meilan reached out and pulled her nephew over. Wang Meilan bent down to button up Wang Tian's cotton jacket, saying, "It's night time, and you're still wearing your arms."

"Let's say goodbye to my aunt." At this time, Zhao Ling gently embraced little Wang Xue and taught her little girl to speak, saying, "Tell my aunt that we'll come again tomorrow."

After Zhao Ling left, Xu Chunyan also left with her child, followed by the old lady, Jie Sunshi and Liu Lanying.

As they all left, only Wang Meilan, Zhao Hong, Zhao Na and Xiao Lingdang were left in the Zhao family.

Usually, she didn't feel anything, but today her husband and son were not at home, and Wang Meilan suddenly felt a little empty in her heart.

"Mom." When Wang Meilan sat on the edge of the kang, Zhao Na hugged her from behind, and the little girl timidly asked Wang Meilan, "What did my brother do again?"

"Your brother went to find your father." When Wang Meilan mentioned Zhao Youcai, she gritted her teeth in hatred, and she couldn't help but speak to her little girl in a weird tone.

"Mom." At this time, Zhao Hong also came over, holding Wang Meilan's arm with her little hands, and asked, "Is my dad not coming back?"

"What?" Wang Meilan was stunned, then glared at Zhao Hong and said unhappily, "What did you say? What do you mean he won't come back?"

Although children's words are innocent, this sounded unlucky. Wang Meilan was already worried about Zhao Youcai, and she felt uncomfortable when she heard this.

Zhao Hong felt that Wang Meilan's expression and tone were not right, but the little girl was really concerned about Zhao Youcai. When she turned back, she grabbed Wang Meilan's cotton jacket sleeve with one hand and pointed at Xiao Lingdang with the other hand, saying, "Didn't Lingdang's father go up the mountain and never come back?"

Xiao Lingdang: "..."

"What are you talking about?" Wang Meilan stretched out her hand and gently pushed Zhao Hong on the back, shouting, "What nonsense are you talking about? Your brother Zhang is fine, he is in the hospital!"

Speaking of this, Wang Meilan paused for a moment, and then added, "Your father is not in trouble either."

After that, Wang Meilan got up from the edge of the kang, turned around and took off her cotton shoes by stepping on her heels, and while getting on the kang, she said, "Hurry up and warm the quilt, you three go to sleep."

In the mountains and forests, the fire burning branches crackled.

Zhao Youcai sat on the tree leg, holding a branch skewer in his hand, eating roasted roe deer meat.

The Zhao family's dog gang hunted another roe deer. This 70-pound male roe deer fed the gang and left Zhao Youcai a lot of meat.

Zhao Youcai was not full either, so he didn't mind the leftovers. After filling his stomach with roasted roe deer meat, Zhao Youcai smoked two Shilin cigarettes in a row, and then he perked up.

He was tired all day, and felt tired after eating, but Zhao Youcai didn't want to find a place to stay in the mountains.

After smoking, Zhao Youcai pulled out the semi-automatic gun that was inserted beside him, and then stood up and put the gun on his back. After blowing a whistle, Zhao Youcai threw his hand to the south and said, "Let's go home!"

At Zhao Youcai's command, the hunting dogs followed him. It's not that Zhao Youcai is so prestigious, but the hunting dogs also want to go home.

This is because they are too far away from home, and the black tiger and the black dragon can't find their home, otherwise they would have run away long ago.

Zhao Youcai held a torch and led his dog gang down the ridge, then walked up the south mountain on the slanting hill.

He was going to dig through the mountain, but as he walked, Zhao Youcai felt something was wrong.

Zhao Youcai stopped and looked up at the surroundings. At this time, the hunting dogs surrounded Zhao Youcai and looked up at him one by one.

Zhao Youcai frowned and looked at the mountain opposite.

"That's Eryazi Mountain." Zhao Youcai looked at the opposite mountain and judged his geographical location.

He knew this mountain, but Zhao Youcai was stunned at this moment. He also knew that his home was east of Eryazi Mountain, but at this moment he just wanted to go west!

Sometimes people have such a strong energy, they understand everything, but the choice is not right.

This state is only experienced in mountain runners. Just like Zhao Youcai now, even in the dark, he can distinguish the surrounding mountains by moonlight and starlight. He also knows that his home is east of Erya Mountain, but he wants to go west.

Zhao Jun and his group left home at 8 o'clock and drove for more than 40 minutes. When the car stopped at a place, Zhao Jun looked out in surprise, and then asked Wang Qiang: "Uncle, where is this?"

Everyone looked out of the car, and Chen Dalai was the first to speak: "Brother, this seems to be 94."

"Not bad!" As soon as Chen Dalai finished speaking, Wang Qiang took over and said: "We just passed Erya Mountain."

"Why did it stop here?" When Zhao Jun was wondering, he heard the sound of the car door opening. Zhao Jun looked out of the car and saw Li Dayong, who was fully armed, standing under the car with a flashlight.

"Come on, get off!" Li Dayong waved and shouted at the car.

"Uncle!" Zhao Jun said: "My dad was lost in 90..."

"What was lost?" Li Dayong interrupted Zhao Jun unhappily and corrected him: "Your dad chased the big pig god."

Zhao Jun's mouth twitched, thinking: "The person is lost, and you are still protecting him."

"Uncle Li!" At this time, Lin Xiangshun asked Li Dayong in the car: "My second uncle... after chasing the pig god, didn't he have to come out from the big ditch that Xiaojun said?"

Lin Xiangshun gave Li Dayong a way out, but Li Dayong turned back and pointed, then raised his hand to Erya Mountain and said: "When it gets dark, my eldest brother will definitely follow the current. He should come out from here and go home that way after he's done."

It should be said that Li Dayong really knows Zhao Youcai. If the Zhao family dog ​​gang didn't chase the roe deer for the second time, Zhao Youcai would really come out from here and go to the road, and then go west to go home from Erya Mountain.

If so, Zhao Jun and his men would have met Zhao Youcai all the way here.

Hearing what Li Dayong said, Zhao Jun looked at Wang Qiang.

At this time, Li Dayong was anxious and shouted again: "Everyone, come down, listen to my instructions!"

"Go down." Facing Zhao Jun's inquiring eyes, Wang Qiang nodded and said, "Listen to your uncle."

Everyone got off the car and went up the mountain when they encountered a long stream. Not long after walking, Li Dayong, who was leading the way, exclaimed, and everyone hurried forward.

On the snow, human and dog footprints changed their course to the west.

"Shunzi!" Li Dayong ordered, "Check how many dogs there are?"

Lin Xiangshun took a flashlight, bent over and searched in the snow, then stood up and said to Li Dayong, "Uncle Li, seven dogs."

"Oh my god!" Huang Gui pulled Zhao Jun in surprise, then raised his hand and pointed at Lin Xiangshun, asking Zhao Jun, "How did he find out?"

"We don't know." Zhao Jun shook his head and said, "This is a unique skill."

Just as Zhao Jun was speaking, Li Dayong's voice drowned him out, and he only heard Li Dayong shouting, "The shoe print is No. 41, it's my eldest brother, let's go!"

After that, Li Dayong took the lead and walked in front, and he didn't even need Li Baoyu to lead the way.

An hour and a half later, everyone arrived at the place where Zhao Youcai made a fire for the second time to roast roe deer meat. The flashlight swept through the mess, and Li Dayong finally smiled. He said to Li Baoyu: "Your uncle is grilling here."

"Yeah!" Li Baoyu looked at the remains of the roe deer hanging on the tree and said: "It's eaten cleanly."

Li Dayong ignored Li Baoyu and said to himself: "He has food in his stomach, so I won't worry about him."

"Dad, let's go back?" Li Baoyu asked.

"You are a f*cking tiger?" Li Baoyu was hit by Li Dayong as soon as he finished speaking. Li Dayong shouted: "What the f*ck did you come out for? Are you going back?"

Li Baoyu didn't dare to say anything, and at this time Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang, Jie Chen, Lin Xiangshun, Jiang Weifeng, Chen Dalai and the Zheng brothers caught up.

Fourteen people, some walked fast and some walked slowly. Li Dayong and Li Baoyu led the way, Zhao Jun and his group were the second echelon, and the last group was Zhou Jianjun, Huang Gui and the Chen brothers.

When Zhao Jun got here, he knew that Zhao Youcai had eaten, and he was also relieved.

Everyone followed Zhao Youcai's footprints and the dog's footprints until they saw Erya Mountain.

"Hey, Dad?" Li Baoyu called Li Dayong and said, "My uncle went out from here, right?"

"No!" Li Dayong's eyes widened and he shook his head and said, "If your uncle went out from here, we could have met him before we came!"

At this point, Li Dayong turned around, but it was dark and he couldn't see Zhao Jun and others.

Li Dayong turned around and said, "Your uncle went to Mata Mountain!"

"Brother Yong, what's wrong?" At this time, Wang Qiang's voice came from behind, and he and Zhao Jun and others chased after him.

"My elder brother seems to have gone to Mount Mata." Li Dayong looked around and said to Wang Qiang, "It's a pity, he ran to the west."

"Did he go to Mount Mata?" Li Dayong said, and then he heard Wang Qiang say in a sarcastic tone, "He must have chased the big pig god."

Wang Qiang's sarcastic tone was not directed at Zhao Youcai, but at Li Dayong. Because Zhao Jun said that Zhao Youcai was lost before, Li Dayong did not admit it, and tried to put powder on Zhao Youcai's face, saying that he chased the big pig god.

"Go to the side!" Li Dayong could of course hear the sarcasm in Wang Qiang's tone. He raised his hand and pointed at Wang Qiang who was laughing and said, "Wang Er boy, you are always saying that my elder brother is bullying you."

"Hahaha..." Wang Qiang laughed even more when he said this. But he didn't dare to say anything else, thinking that when Zhang Zhanshan was alive, he talked about Li Dayong with Xu Meihua at home and called him Li Dahu B. Li Dayong was good at swinging a big axe a while ago. When he was young, he liked to use his fists and feet, and it hurt a lot when he hit people.

Let's take a break here and wait for Zhou Jianjun, Huang Gui and others to catch up.

At this time, it was already past twelve o'clock.

At this time, Zhao Youcai was still on his way.

Otherwise, Zhao Baotou's physical fitness was really good. He walked slowly all the way, just like strolling on the mountain, not in a hurry or fast but never stopping.

After passing a fork and entering the opposite logging area, Zhao Youcai suddenly reacted when he looked at the small boundary marker in front.

"Oh my god!" Zhao Youcai widened his eyes and said, "I took a wrong turn!"

As he said that, Zhao Youcai turned around suddenly, looked at the mountain he had just climbed behind him, clapped his hands hard, and said in annoyance: "Isn't this the wrong way?"

At this time, Zhao Youcai was completely sober.

Zhao Youcai immediately made a decision and continued to move forward. But after passing through the small horn, there was a fork in the road, and Zhao Youcai turned his direction along the fork and headed northwest.

After walking for more than two miles, Zhao Youcai changed his route again along the Gangtuizi and headed east to continue crossing the mountains and ridges.

At this time, the Zhao army had split into two groups, Xie Chen and Zhou Jianjun went down the mountain, and the two drove west along the firewood transportation road.

Zhou Jianjun was familiar with the mountain area, but he couldn't drive. So Li Dayong asked them to drive to the 82nd forest squad, and then when he got there, he would use the sound of gunfire to guide them on the mountain.

After one gunshot, they continued to move forward, and after two gunshots, they changed their route to the north.

In this way, everyone chased Zhao Youcai to the place where he came to his senses. Seeing Zhao Youcai change his route, Li Dayong once again judged Zhao Youcai's direction of travel.

Under his leadership, everyone went down the mountain and drove straight to Erya Mountain. Li Dayong concluded that Zhao Youcai had gone around a big circle and finally passed by Erya Mountain. Now they took a car to the foot of Erya Mountain. When they arrived, Zhao Youcai would probably be almost there.

This inference was based on the experience of hunting and touching Zhao Youcai's footprints, judging that Zhao Youcai had been there for more than two hours, nearly three hours.

At this time, Zhao Youcai was standing on a poplar tree. He stood in the middle of the fork, holding the trunk with his hand and listening attentively.

It was now 2:40 in the morning, and Zhao Youcai had been wandering in the mountains for half a night.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch..."

The faint crowing of a rooster reached Zhao Youcai's ears.

"That's Kaoshan Village." Zhao Youcai judged the direction by the crowing of the rooster, then came down from the tree, muttering, "I'm going the right way."

Then, Zhao Youcai whistled, waved his hand forward, and said, "Let's go home!"

The seven hunting dogs got up weakly. After a day and a half of tossing, the dogs were tired. The dogs didn't know that Zhao Youcai had taken the wrong road. They couldn't understand why the way home was so long.

Zhao Youcai walked down the mountain on the ridge, and the hunting dogs followed him. As long as he went down this ridge, he would reach the firewood transportation road. Walking forward along the road, he would reach the foot of Erya Mountain.

Then walk eastward, and another twenty miles will reach Yong'an Village.

At this point, Zhao Youcai was sleepy and tired. He felt his calves jumping, but there was no way, so he insisted on walking home.

But on the way down the mountain, Zhao Youcai was tripped by something and fell forward, rolling down the hillside.

He was rolling on the snow at a slow speed, and when Zhao Youcai's back hit a tree, he stopped.

But as his back hit the tree, Zhao Youcai's upper body thrust back, and his head hit the tree leg.

Zhao Youcai's eyes were straight, and then he closed his eyes and fainted.

At this time, seven dogs came down the slope to Zhao Youcai.

"Woof woof woof..."

"Ao ao ao..."

The hunting dogs felt that Zhao Youcai was not right, and they barked in unison, trying to wake Zhao Youcai up.

Erhei was even more anxious to lick Zhao Youcai's face with his tongue, and at this time Zhao Youcai heard the dogs barking around him in a daze. He wanted to open his eyes but felt that his eyelids were very heavy.