The whole mountain is my hunting ground

Amid the snoring, the Zhao family's guests arrived earlier than usual.

And in order to celebrate Wang Meilan's promotion to the director of women's affairs tonight, Xie Sunshi, Lin Xiangshun and others, like Wang Qiang, all came with food.

Xie Sunshi was determined to kill the big goose. She had a goose in her left hand and a goose in her right hand.

The ten male geese she bought for the dinner party were all eaten by everyone. Today, Xie Sunshi was determined to celebrate Wang Meilan, and she didn't hesitate to catch all the female geese.

"Sister." Seeing this, Wang Meilan hurriedly stopped her and said, "It's still kept for laying eggs in the spring. It's so hard to feed it until now. It's a waste to kill it."

"Oh! It won't be in vain if we all eat it." Xie Sunshi pinched the goose's head with her wrist and twisted its beak. The goose flapped its wings and kicked its legs, but it couldn't make a sound.

Xie Sun said with a smile: "Sister, you will be a leader from now on. We must prepare some hard dishes tonight. Let's have fun together."

"What leader?" Wang Meilan smiled and waved her hand, saying: "Just a women's director."

"That's also a cadre." Liu Lanying came over with a thin hemp rope, tied the wings and claws of the goose, and then said to Xie Sun: "Mom, I'll throw the goose down the house first, and we'll kill it when we come back."

Today, the election of cadres in Yong'an Village has nothing to do with them, but Xie Sun and Liu Lanying are going to cheer for Wang Meilan, commonly known as: watching the fun.

Seeing that the two geese are bound to die today, Wang Meilan can't help but think of her own donkey. This is not just an obsession, the key is that someone stops her when she wants to kill the donkey. The more she can't kill it, the more Wang Meilan wants to kill it.

But just when Wang Meilan was thinking about the donkey, Lin Xiangshun and Xu Chunyan came to the door with donkey meat.

Lin Xiangshun pulled out a whole donkey rib from the sack, and Xu Chunyan pulled out a donkey thigh. The meat was deep red and lean.

"Second aunt." Lin Xiangshun smiled at Wang Meilan, "Yesterday, I was delivering things to the upper section, and I heard that there was a donkey in their area. It was pushed up the sled and ran down the slope, and it was broken by the dry leg stick. They wanted to kill the donkey, and I was in a hurry to leave, so I asked them to leave the meat for me."

"Second aunt." Xu Chunyan held the big donkey leg in both hands and smiled, "Let's cut the leg meat off and chop it up to make dumplings. After that, we'll stew the ribs and celebrate in the evening."

Her words were similar to what Xie Sun said.

"Hahaha..." Wang Meilan was happy, and at this time, the march of the general meeting sounded from the loudspeakers in the village.

Then, Zhao Guofeng's voice came from the loudspeakers, and he summoned all the people in the village to the village headquarters for a meeting.

"Let's go!" Wang Meilan smiled and waved to the outside of the house, saying, "Let's go to the meeting and come back to prepare dinner."

Men, women, old and young responded and filed out. Except for Zhao Youcai, Zhao Weipeng and the children, everyone else went to the village headquarters for a meeting.

At the same time, a motorcycle with a sidecar drove into Yong'an Village.

The one driving the motorcycle was Zhou Dagui, and the one sitting in the sidecar was Li Ruhai.

On such a cold day, riding a motorcycle down the mountain, people were so cold that they had to drink. Li Ruhai and Zhou Dagui's faces were red and their noses were running.

"Stop, stop." Li Ruhai was so cold that he couldn't stand it and had no choice but to go down the mountain. As soon as he entered the village, Li Ruhai hurriedly stopped Zhou Dagui.

Zhou Dagui stopped the motorcycle, sniffed a few times, and then asked Li Ruhai, "Can I take you there?"

"I can walk these two steps by myself." Li Ruhai rejected Zhou Dagui's kindness and moved his legs out of the sidecar.

When his army-hooked leather shoes landed on the ground, Li Ruhai looked at the familiar mountain village and sighed: "I, Li Ruhai, finally returned to my hometown."

"You kid!" As soon as Li Ruhai finished speaking, he heard Zhou Dagui complaining: "You didn't come back with the commuter bus last night, and you had to bother me to send you back again."

Li Ruhai smiled faintly and said nothing. He didn't come back last night because he was afraid that his family would ask him to canvass votes for Wang Meilan.

If he didn't come back, then no one would have told him that Wang Meilan was going to run for the Women's Director.

Ignorance is not a crime. Li Ruhai won the position of Women's Director under such circumstances, and no one could blame him.

"Uncle Sun, are you going home?" Although Li Ruhai had a good relationship with Zhou Dagui, he was more familiar with Zhou Dagui's wife Sun Yongrong, so he didn't care that Zhou Dagui called him uncle, but from Sun Yongrong's side, he called Zhou Dagui uncle.

"Ah, I'll go home and rest for a while." Zhou Dagui said, "I'll go back to the forest farm in the afternoon. Can you come with me?"

"I won't go back." Li Ruhai responded with a smile. Only Su Jinbao, the director of the trade union, knew that he was running for the position of women's director in the entire Yong'an Forest District.

But even if there was no collusion, Li Ruhai was confident that he would win the position of women's director. Once elected, he would have to get back to work as soon as possible.

With confidence and longing, Li Ruhai sneaked around the village.

Wherever there was a corner, he walked, for fear that people would see him coming back.

When Li Ruhai sneaked under the gable of a house, he heard someone say at the corner: "They all went to the meeting, let's..."

"Hmm?" Li Ruhai paused, and he recognized that the voice was Wang Dalong.

Li Ruhai looked up and his eyes lit up immediately.

The family's surname was Sun, but Sun Daxia died of illness two years ago, leaving behind the pretty widow Jiang Xiaolan with a son. Thanks to Wang Dalong's help in the past few years, otherwise the mother and daughter would not have a good life.

Then, a woman said, "Stop making a fuss. The child is at home."

At this time, Wang Dalong was squatting on the side of the firewood pile of the Sun family, and Jiang Xiaolan was standing in front of the firewood pile, looking around.

"Oh, I forgot." Wang Dalong said angrily: "Today is Sunday."

Having said that, Wang Dalong reached out, pulled Jiang Xiaolan's hand, and held it in his palm.

"I was too hurried yesterday." Wang Dalong said with a sly smile: "I was in high spirits, and I left in a hurry."

"Yes." Jiang Xiaolan pulled her hand back, acted shy, and whispered: "The sudden rain can't water the ground thoroughly."

There is an old saying: The weather in July and August is like a child's face, changing at any time.

Sometimes a cloud comes over, and it rains heavily, but the rain stops in a few minutes.

Although this sudden rain is heavy, the ground is not wet when the rain stops and the sky clears.

Hearing Jiang Xiaolan say this, Wang Dalong chuckled twice, but saw Jiang Xiaolan running back to the yard.

Wang Dalong crouched and moved behind the big willow tree before getting up. Seeing that there was no one around, he pretended to leave as if nothing had happened.

Just as Wang Dalong left, Li Ruhai walked out from the corner of the room. The child murmured, "Can't the sudden rain irrigate the land thoroughly? It doesn't rain in the middle of winter. What is Jiang Xiaolan talking about?"

...

In the cheerful march of the meeting, men, women, old and young in Yong'an Village gathered in the courtyard of the village in the cold wind.

Although the conditions were difficult, there were still benches.

At this time, the meeting had not yet started, and men and women gathered together to chat.

Wang Meilan was not in a hurry to sit down. She was taking Zhao Jun around to get close to him.

"Mom." Suddenly, Zhao Jun gently pulled Wang Meilan and said, "My uncle Ma and his family are here."

"Oh!" Wang Meilan turned her head and saw that Ma Dafu's family had come together.

"My dear in-laws! My dear mother in-laws!" Wang Meilan greeted them with a smile. After greeting Ma Dafu, Wang Meilan and Wang Cuihua held hands tightly.

"My dear mother in-laws." Wang Meilan leaned close to Wang Cuihua's ear and whispered, "Before the election of the women's director, you have to vote for me."

"My dear mother, what you said is redundant." Wang Cuihua smiled and said, "Who are we? Not only will I vote for you, but my daughter and daughter-in-law will also vote for you."

Six people from the Ma family came at this time, and Ma Ling's elder brother and sister-in-law also came. The election of the women's director is different from the election of the director of public security. The election of the director of public security is a vote by the whole village. As for the women's director, only women participated in the voting.

Wang Cuihua, Ma Ling, plus Xu Xiaoqing, that is, Wang Meilan has three more votes.

Wang Meilan held Ma Ling with her left hand and Wang Cuihua with her right hand, and they found a bench to sit down.

As soon as they sat down, Jin Xiaomei appeared behind Wang Meilan, leaned over and whispered in Wang Meilan's ear: "Sister-in-law, I told Sister-in-law Liu that she and her daughter will definitely vote for you."

The Sister-in-law Liu mentioned by Jin Xiaomei is her mother-in-law Han Qiuyan, and the daughter is Li Baoyu's fiancée Liu Mei.

When Wang Meilan heard this, a hint of joy flashed in her eyes, and she simply calculated in her mind. She voted for herself, and then Jin Xiaomei, Zhao Ling, Xu Chunyan, the old lady, Wang Cuihua, Ma Ling, Xu Xiaoqing, Han Qiuyan, and Liu Mei, that's nine votes.

Although there are more than a hundred women in Yong'an Village, it is estimated that only 70 or 80 people came to vote. Most of them have a good relationship with the Zhao family, such as the wives of Wei Jin, Wei Tie, Chen Dalai, Lin Xiangshun's sister-in-law, etc.

Wang Meilan calculated according to her usual popularity, and she could get at least 40 or 50 votes.

This is not Wang Meilan's brainstorm. In Zhao Jun's previous life, when Wang Meilan left, all the men, women and children in the village except Zhang Zhanshan's family were present. Even Zhang Zhanhe and Xu Guohua followed her up the mountain. What kind of popularity is that?

Just when Wang Meilan was confident and thinking about what to eat and drink tonight, a "squeak" sound came from the loudspeaker, and the march of the meeting came to an abrupt end.

The village held a meeting, but there was no stage. Just an ordinary table served as the rostrum, and an enamel basin was placed on the table as a voting box.

Behind the table, Zhao Guofeng, the village head and director of public security, was on the left, Han Qiuyan, the director of women's affairs, was on the right, and in the middle was Su Jinbao, the chairman of the Yong'an Forest Farm Trade Union.

After Su Jinbao's simple opening remarks, the Yong'an election began. First, the director of public security was elected. Su Jinbao took the list and smiled faintly, saying, "Guofeng is the only one who has signed up for the director of public security in our village. If we all have no objection, Guofeng will be re-elected!"

Su Jinbao's voice fell, and applause broke out from the audience. Zhao Guofeng is really a good person. No matter who has problems in the village, he will do his best to help.

Zhao Guofeng clasped his fists to the crowd, then took a step to the left and bowed slightly, and the applause from the audience became even more enthusiastic.

After the applause fell, Su Jinbao smiled and said, "Then let's elect the director of women's affairs next."

Su Jinbao glanced at the list, his mouth slightly twitched, and then he looked up and smiled, "There are many comrades who are running for the director of women's affairs, including Wang Meilan, Sun Yongrong, Wu Dongxia, Song Guizhen..."

Reading this, Su Jinbao paused, he looked up and said, "Li Ruhai."

"What?"

"Who?"

The audience was in chaos, and Zhao Guofeng and Han Qiuyan on the stage were also confused.

"Ruhai!"

"Ruhai is back!"

At this time, the voices of several women stood out. Everyone looked back and saw Li Ruhai wearing a marmot hat, a black cotton jacket, his shirt open to reveal a matching Zhongshan suit, and a pair of military leather shoes. He was standing there waving at everyone.

"No?" Someone in the crowd shouted, "Why is Li Ruhai interfering in the election of the women's director?"

As soon as the man finished speaking, a woman responded to Li Ruhai's doubts, saying, "Why the hell do you care? We women vote, what's your business?"

The women in the mountains are tough, and men dare not easily provoke them unless it's a big deal.

The man who raised the doubt just now shrank his neck slightly, and the woman next to him pulled him and said, "No one said anything, why are you making a fuss? Does it make you stand out?"

In the astonished eyes of the crowd, Li Ruhai clasped his fists and smiled, and slowly walked into the crowd.

"Brother Su." In the crowd, Aunt Qi Wu Dongxia stood up and shouted, "Can I withdraw?"

"Huh?" Su Jinbao was slightly startled, looked at Wu Dongxia and asked, "You don't want to run?"

"No." Wu Dongxia said, "Just cross me out."

As soon as Wu Dongxia finished speaking, Sun Yongrong stood up and shouted, "I'm withdrawing too."

"And me." Then came Song Guizhen.

There were five candidates in total. With the arrival of the last person, Li Ruhai, three withdrew and only two were left to run.

"There are only two of us left." Su Jinbao said, "Wang Meilan and Li Ruhai, let's put it this way, you have a rich daughter-in-law, you stand up and say a few words first."

"That..." Wang Meilan was a little confused. She was either thinking about eating and drinking, or thinking about spending money, and then worrying about her own troublesome Ergudong. She didn't prepare to speak.

In a hurry, Wang Meilan didn't let down the chain too much. She slowly stood up and looked around, and said nervously: "That... I won't say anything. Anyway, if you all trust me, you sisters, aunts, etc., just vote for me."

After speaking, Wang Meilan nodded slightly, and then sat down quickly.

As Wang Meilan sat down, Wang Cuihua and Ma Ling beside her, Zhao Ling, Xu Chunyan and others behind her applauded.

"Li Ruhai." Su Jinbao called Li Ruhai and said, "You can say something too."

After Su Jinbao finished speaking, Li Ruhai stood up under the angry gazes of Li Dayong, Jin Xiaomei, and Li Baoyu. He had just deliberately found a position far away from the Zhao family camp.

As Li Ruhai cleared his throat, an urgent look appeared on his face. He lowered his head slightly, raised his left hand, and waved it in the air, saying, "Comrades! Women comrades! There are bad people among our people! I just came back this morning and saw a couple of dogs and men flirting with each other."

At this point, Li Ruhai straightened his back, spread his hands out, shook his hands and asked, "What is this called? What is this called? This is called having an affair! This is harming women and destroying families!"

As he spoke, Li Ruhai raised one hand to the sky and shouted, "This is something we cannot tolerate!"

"It's too outrageous!"

"Who the hell is this?"

Everyone was talking about it. They didn't care about any harm or destruction. They just wanted to see something exciting. In the Northeast dialect, everyone's head was sharpened like a point, just waiting to see the excitement.

"Comrades women!" Li Ruhai waved his hand and said, "We can't tolerate it, we can't turn a blind eye. If we can't unite today, it's her whose family is destroyed today, and it may be our turn tomorrow."

As he spoke, Li Ruhai looked compassionate and said, "I have been in our village for so many years, and I have heard a lot of such things in the surrounding villages. The old man is having an affair outside, what can the old woman do?

I have heard of some people who swallow their anger, but do they hold their anger? I also saw some people who went back to their mother's house. Let's say that their parents are so old, and we can live our own lives. Can we always let our parents worry about us?"

After Li Ruhai said this, everyone talked about it again. Some women even had red eyes.

At this time, Li Ruhai struck while the iron was hot and said, "There are even more stupid ones. The old woman drank medicine and hanged herself when she was angry. I say, isn't this a tiger? Isn't this just giving others a nest for nothing?"

After hearing Li Ruhai's words, the women were filled with righteous indignation, gnashing their teeth, and cursing.

"Women comrades!" Li Ruhai raised his arms and called out, "We must unite to protect ourselves and the majority of women comrades!"

"Good!" Wu Dongxia and Sun Yongrong, the two sworn enemies, stood up almost at the same time and clapped their hands desperately to cheer for Li Ruhai.

Then, the applause was thunderous.

Amid the applause, Li Ruhai clasped his fists around him. When he faced the Zhao family camp, he saw his father, mother, and eldest brother glaring at him, and Zhao Jun and others looked at him coldly. Li Ruhai quickly turned his head and sat down.

After the applause fell, Su Jinbao came out and said a few polite words, and then asked Zhao Guofeng and Han Qiuyan to issue tickets to the women sitting there.

The ticket was cut into small pieces of manuscript paper, and then three pencil heads were passed around. Since many women were illiterate, Su Jinbao stipulated that those who wanted to vote for Wang Meilan should tick it, and those who wanted to vote for Li Ruhai should circle it.

Jin Xiaomei gritted her teeth and ticked her own paper, and then showed her results to the old lady and Zhao Ling next to her.

They all saw Jin Xiaomei's helplessness, but there was no way to comfort her, so they could only smile at her.

After all the ballots were collected, Su Jinbao called out the votes and Han Qiuyan monitored the voting. Su Jinbao picked up a ballot, took a look at it, and handed it to Han Qiuyan, saying, "It's checked, Wang Meilan's."

Han Qiuyan took it and took a look, then said, "One vote for Wang Meilan."

As he said that, Han Qiuyan drew a horizontal line under the three words Wang Meilan on the small blackboard with chalk.

At this time, Su Jinbao had picked up the second ballot, took a look at it, and handed it to Han Qiuyan, saying, "It's still checked, still Wang Meilan's."

Han Qiuyan took it, looked at it, and said, "One vote for Wang Meilan."

After saying that, Han Qiuyan drew a vertical line under the horizontal line.

The next three votes were all ticked, all for Wang Meilan. Soon, there was a "正" character under Wang Meilan's name on the small blackboard. There was nothing under Li Ruhai's name.

This time, the people in the Zhao camp all smiled. Jin Xiaomei was even more happy to hold Wang Meilan's shoulders in front of her with both hands and gently shook her twice.

But three minutes later, Jin Xiaomei stared at Li Ruhai with eyes like knives, while Wang Meilan clenched her hands and her face was livid.

On the small blackboard, there were two "正" characters under Wang Meilan's name, which means ten votes.

And Li Ruhai's name had twelve "正" characters.