The whole mountain is my hunting ground

Today, the Zhao family's little donkey achieved another success, grinding 100 kilograms of yellow rice with its own strength.

Compared with its previous two times of grinding 60 kilograms and 70 kilograms a day, it has indeed been significantly improved.

The old lady has lived for a long time and has seen a lot. She couldn't help but praise Wang Meilan, saying that their family is blessed. They have dogs, and dogs can work hard for the family; they have donkeys, and donkeys can also work hard to pull the mill.

This is true. After the little donkey followed Wang Meilan to the Zhang family's courtyard in the morning, it put on the mill and started working. And the work efficiency is very high. Sometimes, if the rice is pulled into the mill slowly, it can't be fed.

According to Liu Lanying and Xu Chunyan, who are on duty, the little donkey only pulls the mill slowly when Wang Meilan goes to the Zhang family's old house next door to heat the kang. When everyone thought the little donkey was exhausted, Wang Meilan came out from next door, and the little donkey was instantly revived.

The 100 jin of ground flour was divided into four bags, and then tied together in two bags and placed on the back of the donkey.

In this way, the donkey carried 100 jin of rhubarb flour and followed Wang Meilan on the way home.

After arriving home, Wang Meilan led the donkey to the backyard, and Jin Xiaomei and others went into the house to prepare to cook and knead the flour.

Tonight, knead the flour overnight, and tomorrow the women will watch TV and make sticky bean buns at Zhao's house.

Coming in from outside, seeing that the door of the west room was closed, the old lady said to everyone: "Er'er is sleeping, let's keep the noise down."

The women nodded one after another. There is a difference between men and women. Wang Meilan and Zhao Jun are not in the house, and none of them can push the door of the west room to see Zhao Youcai.

"Hey?" But after arriving at the east room, Jin Xiaomei looked at Zhao Hong and Zhao Na in surprise and asked, "Where is Xiaoqiao?"

"Aunt." Zhao Hong pointed to the west, which was the direction of Li's house, and then said, "Xiaoqiao went home to show off."

"What?" Jin Xiaomei was startled, and then she heard the sound of the door opening in the outer room, and then she heard Wang Meilan shouting, "Sister-in-law, come and have a look, hahaha..."

As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, she had pushed Li Xiaoqiao into the west room. When everyone saw Li Xiaoqiao's appearance, they burst into laughter.

Everyone laughed, and Li Xiaoqiao also laughed. Jin Xiaomei grabbed her daughter and raised her hand to wipe Li Xiaoqiao's eyebrows, but the little girl dodged.

"What are you doing at home?" Jin Xiaomei said unhappily, "Hun'er painted it, like a demon."

Everyone laughed, Jin Xiaomei forced Li Xiaoqiao to go to the outer room to clean up, and Wang Meilan arranged work for others, some to cook, some to knead dough.

At this moment, the dog outside the house started barking again, this time more fiercely.

Soon, the Liberation car stopped outside the Zhao family courtyard.

Jie Chen, Wang Qiang, and Huang Gui got out of the car and took the sacks handed over by Jiang Weifeng, Chen Jinjun, and Chen Jinyong.

Today, six people went up the mountain to hunt, and they killed two deer by chasing and blocking. A female deer weighing more than 400 kilograms, and a bull of nearly 300 kilograms.

The six people were not vague, and they directly stripped the two deer on the mountain. The 300 kilograms of good meat were filled with three large sacks, and another sack was a mess of scraps.

Hearing the sound of the car, Wang Meilan went out to greet it as usual, and when she came out, she realized that the big lantern was not lit today.

"Sister!" Wang Qiang could vaguely see that it was Wang Meilan, and he said to her happily: "Let's eat two deer today!"

"Deer..." Wang Meilan paused. Deer meat is not as good as roe deer meat, especially big deer, which is smelly and dry. Wang Meilan is used to eating good food and can't eat this.

"There is a bull." Wang Qiang knew his sister too well. Seeing that Wang Meilan was not in a good mood, he hurriedly said: "It weighs 300 kilograms. I saw that the meat is very tender."

"Hurry up and clean the house!" Wang Meilan was happy to hear this, and waved her hand to the yard, saying: "Chop the ribs, put big radish and soybean sprouts to stew."

For meat with a strong smell of venison, badger meat, and raccoon meat, big radish and soybeans are usually added when stewing. Chili peppers and mountain pepper can also remove the smell of mutton, but children don't like to eat them.

As Wang Qiang and others were carrying sacks to the yard, Wang Meilan said to Jie Chen, "Xiaochen, I'll get you two candles, so you can light the lanterns."

"Sister." Jie Chen didn't dare to say anything, but Wang Qiang whispered, "You can't light lanterns every day."

As soon as Wang Qiang finished speaking, the light in the yard dimmed. It turned out that the light from the house was gone.

The power outage!

"Look!" Wang Meilan raised her hand and gestured to the house, and said to Wang Qiang, "Is it better to light the lanterns early? I'm grinding flour today and I don't have time to pour it out."

As she said that, Wang Meilan ran to the front of the house quickly. At this time, someone in the house turned on the flashlight.

"Sister." Zhao Ling, who came out of the east room, saw Wang Meilan coming in with the faint light and asked her, "Where are the candles?"

"In the drawer under the TV." As soon as Wang Meilan said this, Jin Xiaomei, who was in the house, took out half a pack of candles from the drawer specified by Wang Meilan.

Everyone spread out the candles and lit them one by one.

At this time, with the return of Wang Qiang and the other six men, the east room and the outer room of the Zhao family were no longer able to accommodate them.

Wang Meilan took a burning candle, placed it horizontally and dripped a few drops of wax into a small dish, and then sat the candle on the wax. As the wax solidified, the candle was fixed in the small dish.

Wang Meilan held the small dish in one hand and pushed the door of the west room with the other. The moment the door opened, the little lynx jumped out of the room.

Then, Wang Meilan heard Jie Chen yelling: "What's wrong with the kitten's mouth?"

"Drink water?" Huang Gui said, but picked up the little lynx's little bell and said: "Why is it howling so fishy?"

Wang Meilan ignored the little lynx, she went into the west room and wanted to touch Zhao Youcai at the head of the kang.

But as Wang Meilan entered the room, she saw Zhao Youcai lying on the kang in the dim candlelight, with a plate on each side of his pillow.

The plates were one large and one small, with a chicken on the large plate and four apples on the small plate.

This scene looked creepy in the dim candlelight, and Wang Meilan was suddenly startled.

"Oh my!" Wang Meilan was shocked and couldn't help screaming. She staggered to the side and knocked the small plate on the table.

"Sister..."

"Sister-in-law..."

"Aunt..."

People outside heard the sound and hurried to the west room, but anyone who came in would be silent after taking a look.

Coincidentally, the lights came on at this time. There was a problem with the circuit in the village just now, but it was solved by Zhu Jiang, an electrician.

As the lights came on, Zhao Youcai woke up.

But he was woken up by the noise. He didn't sleep well last night and coughed all day today. Zhao Youcai really suffered.

After finally falling asleep after taking the medicine, Zhao Youcai was woken up again. He frowned and opened his eyes slightly, and saw the chicken butt sticking up in front of him.

Zhao Youcai: "..."

Zhao Youcai stood up suddenly, leaned on the kang with both hands, and turned to look at the two plates of tribute beside his pillow.

A plate of frozen white-striped chicken, which had melted; a piece of Guoguang apple, one of which was covered with teeth marks.

Zhao Youcai looked up at Wang Meilan and others, but saw that everyone was staring at him blankly.

"Who did this?" Zhao Youcai asked Wang Meilan loudly.

At this time, Zhao Hong led Zhao Na and squeezed in from the crowd. The little girl held her younger sister with one hand and raised her other hand and shouted: "Dad, my sister and I have offered you food!"

Zhao Youcai: "..."

Wang Meilan: "..."

Everyone: "..."

"Dad!" Little Zhao Na shouted: "You are happy to eat it."

Zhao Youcai: "..."

Wang Meilan: "..."

Everyone: "..."

"Pa!" Wang Meilan slapped Zhao Na on the back, and Zhao Na cried with a "wow".

Then, Wang Meilan grabbed Zhao Hong's collar by the back of her neck, pressed her to the edge of the kang, and slapped Zhao Hong's butt three times in a row.

"Ah..." Zhao Hong cried loudly, but Wang Meilan didn't stop. Zhao Hong was several years older than Zhao Na, who else could she beat?

Seeing Zhao Hong being beaten, everyone looked at each other.

If the child was beaten because of mischief, everyone would definitely stop it. But the behavior of these two children, most people didn't dare to say anything.

Finally, it was the child's uncle who had to blame. Wang Qiang stepped forward to hug Zhao Hong, blocked Wang Meilan's slap with his shoulder, and said, "Sister, the child is ignorant, just slap him twice!"

Wang Qiang was right, the child was indeed ignorant, watching TV for two days, and they learned whatever was shown on TV.

"Uh uh uh..." Zhao Hong turned her head with tears in her eyes, and the little girl's tearful eyes met the eyes of the big rooster that were unwilling to close.

At this time, the old lady pushed Jin Xiaomei, and then she stepped forward to pick up the plate with apples. Jin Xiaomei saw the old lady's behavior and reacted, and hurried over to take away the big rooster.

At the same time, the jeep stopped outside the Ma family yard.

Zhao Jun and Ma Ling got off the car. Ma Ling said to Zhao Jun, "You go in and wait for a while. I'll get you some mountain mushroom seedlings."

"Okay." Zhao Jun took a bag of green vegetables from the car. Seeing this, Ma Ling waved her hand and said, "Don't want that..."

"Let's eat at home." Zhao Jun interrupted Ma Ling and said, "I bought so much."

After that, Zhao Jun accompanied Ma Ling into the house.

"You're back!" Hearing the sound of the door opening, Wang Cuihua, who was cooking, looked up and widened her eyes and said in surprise, "Oh my God!"

She saw that her daughter was wearing a brand new outfit, and the level was catching up with Li Ruhai.

"You asked Zhao Jun to spend money on you again!" When Wang Cuihua scolded her, Ma Ling stood timidly beside Zhao Jun and dared not say a word. Seeing this, Zhao Jun hurriedly persuaded her: "Auntie, I want to buy it for Ling."

"But I can't always let you spend money." Wang Cuihua waved her hand and said: "How much is this dress? Auntie will give it to you."

"What is that for, Auntie?" Zhao Jun smiled and said: "We are not strangers."

As he said, Zhao Jun handed the green vegetables in his hand to Wang Cuihua.

"Oh! What is this?" Wang Cuihua is not unfamiliar with garlic sprouts, let alone cucumbers, she just hasn't seen a plastic bag.

At this time, Ma Yang came out from the west room. He went home after school to do his homework, and fell asleep after writing two strokes. He woke up when he heard the noise just now, and remembered the hairpin he asked Zhao Jun to buy, so Ma Yang hurried out.

When he saw Zhao Jun handing his mother a strange bag, Ma Yang rushed over and reached out to take the plastic bag.

"Get out of the way!" Wang Cuihua snatched the plastic bag, slapped Ma Yang in the face, and shouted, "Are you so rude?"

Ma Yang, who was slapped, looked at Zhao Jun, and he was relieved when he saw Zhao Jun shaking his head at him.

"It's okay, Auntie." Zhao Jun smiled and said, "I didn't buy anything in the city today, so I just bought some fresh vegetables."

"There are cucumbers before?" Wang Cuihua looked at the vegetables in the plastic bag in surprise, and murmured, "Are these all from the south?"

Then, Wang Cuihua lifted the plastic bag and said, "This bag is very good."

"Mom! Mom!" At this time, Ma Ling called Wang Cuihua and said, "Go to the warehouse and find a handful of mountain mushroom seedlings."

It's not that the girl is arrogant and dares to order her mother. It's that Ma Ling is wearing this slippery outfit, so she can't go to the warehouse to look for things. If she wants to change clothes and pants now, Zhao Jun will have to wait.

"What's the matter?" Wang Cuihua asked Ma Ling, "What are you doing with that thing?"

"Um..." Ma Ling raised her hand and gestured to Zhao Jun and said, "My uncle Zhao has a cold and a cough. I'm thinking of bringing him some boiling water."

"Ouch!" Upon hearing this, Wang Cuihua expressed her concern to Zhao Jun and asked, "How is your dad?"

"It's okay, aunt." Zhao Jun responded: "I'm just coughing now."

"Okay, don't worry." Wang Cuihua reached out and grabbed Zhao Jun's arm sleeve and said, "The child will eat at home tonight, and I will get it for you before leaving."

"No, aunt." Zhao Jun quickly refused and said, "I have to go home quickly. There are still vegetables in the car, or they should freeze."

After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Wang Cuihua no longer entertained guests, but said, "Okay, I'll go out and get it for you."

After Wang Cuihua finished speaking, she walked out. Zhao Jun opened his shoulder bag, took out Ma Ling's cotton-padded jacket and handed it to her, and then said to Ma Ling, "I'm going back."

"Yeah." Ma Ling nodded and said, "Drive slower."

Zhao Jun smiled and nodded, then winked at Ma Yang.

Ma Yang, who had been waiting for a long time, understood and said quickly: "Brother Jun, I'll see you off!"

"Huh?" Ma Ling was startled when she heard this and looked at Ma Yang in surprise. She was frightened by her brother's sudden sensibility.

When Zhao Jun and Ma Yang came out of the house, Wang Cuihua came out of the warehouse holding a bundle of mushroom seedlings as thick as her wrist.

At this time, the door of Ma's house opened, and Ma Ling chased out and warned: "Put the whole seedling in and cook it, and give the mushroom lady and the mushroom lady the skin."

"Hey." Zhao Jun responded with a smile: "I know."

"Here you go, kid." When Wang Cuihua handed the mountain mushroom seedling to Zhao Jun, she looked at Ma Yang with the same surprise.

Seeing Wang Cuihua looking at him, Ma Yang smiled and raised his hand to point outside the courtyard and said, "I'll see my brother off."

Wang Cuihua heard this and looked at Ma Ling subconsciously. In the dark, the two women looked at each other, feeling a little incredible.

"Mom, sister, you go back." Ma Yang, a child who has never experienced anything, sometimes goes too far. At this time, he waved his hand to Wang Cuihua and Ma Ling and said, "It's very cold outside, I'll just send my brother off." "

Zhao Jun chuckled, said goodbye to Wang Cuihua and Ma Ling, and walked out of the hospital with Ma Yang.

Wang Cuihua and Ma Ling did not go to see off Zhao Jun, but when the couple stood in front of the house, Wang Cuihua said to Ma Ling: "That little calf must have not held in his fart well."

"Mom." Ma Ling pulled Wang Cuihua and whispered, "No, my brother bought me something."

"What?" Wang Cuihua was startled, then Ma Ling continued: "Don't I celebrate my birthday at the end of the month? My brother asked Zhao Jun to buy me a hairpin."

"Really?" Wang Cuihua said in surprise: "Is this child sensible?"

Outside Ma's courtyard, Ma Yang held Zhao Jun's arm with both hands, looked back at the couple whispering in the yard, and then said to Zhao Jun: "Brother Jun, have you bought anything?"

"I bought it." As Zhao Jun nodded, Ma Yang said hurriedly: "Don't give it to me yet, let it go in your hands first."

After explaining Zhao Jun, Ma Yang asked again: "Brother Jun, how much did it cost?"

"Sixty-five cents." Zhao Jun didn't ask for more, and he didn't give the child zero. After hearing the price, Ma Yang said, "Brother Jun, I'll go to your house to see you tomorrow morning, and I'll get you the money when it's over."

After saying that, Ma Yang let go of Zhao Jun's arm, took a step back, then waved high and said: "Let's go, Brother Jun!"

"Haha." Zhao Jun smiled, waved his hand to Ma Yang, got in the car and drove home.

After arriving home, Zhao Jun got out of the car with a sack and a bag on his shoulder.

Before entering the hospital, Zhao Jun looked up at the big red lantern hanging above and muttered: "Why didn't my mother come out to pick me up today?"

As soon as Zhao Jun entered the house, he felt that the atmosphere at home was strange.

Yesterday, I was short of 2,000 words. I will update a chapter of 4,000 words at noon tomorrow.