The whole mountain is my hunting ground

After leaving Xu Changlin's house, Zhao Jun ran back home.

Turning to the right, he saw that the second house was his house. A man suddenly jumped out from behind the pile of firewood next to him, startling Zhao Jun unexpectedly.

"Ouch... my mother!" Zhao Jun breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it was Wang Meilan and asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Waiting for you!" Wang Meilan quickly walked to Zhao Jun's side, held Zhao Jun's arms with both hands, and pushed Zhao Jun forward while asking: "What did Old Xu Pao say?"

"He didn't say anything." Zhao Jun said, "I went there to say a few words, but I felt like he might not know."

This is true. Just now at Lao Xu's house, when the old man mentioned borrowing knives, it was Mrs. Xu who spoke to him.

"Then what should we do?" Wang Meilan's face suddenly collapsed. She felt that the little goldfish, the big goldfish, the gold barbell, and the gold bracelet were moving away from her.

"Mom, it's okay." Zhao Jun leaned into Wang Meilan's ear and whispered, "Old Xu Pao can provide a clue."

"Huh?" When Wang Meilan heard this, her slumped face lifted up instantly. At the same time, her eyes lit up, and she felt that the little goldfish, the big goldfish, the gold bullion, and the gold bracelet were back again!

"I'll go up the mountain in a moment." Zhao Jun said, "I'll go to Lengchang, my eldest brother, to find the third uncle. He knows the old man."

"Ah!" Wang Meilan's eyes brightened even more. Although she had never met Xing San, she knew that the old man was not an outsider.

It's easier to do things if you're on your own.

When the two of them were talking, they arrived at the door of the house. Wang Meilan patted Zhao Jun and said, "Son, mom steamed the buns this morning. You can take them to the old man."

After saying that, Wang Meilan started to run into the house.

Zhao Jun saw this and smiled lightly.

But at this moment, Wang Meilan paused and stopped abruptly. Then, Wang Meilan turned back to Zhao Jun and said, "Son, Mom wants to tell you something."

Seeing Wang Meilan's serious face, Zhao Jun couldn't help but be startled, and then asked: "What's wrong, Mom?"

"Um...your dad." Wang Meilan said: "Your dad has a lot of things that he needs to take care of."

Wang Meilan wanted to tell Zhao Jun about helping Zhao Youcai catch wild boars early in the morning, but when she was making buns in the morning, Zhao Jun asked her about lending money to the old man.

Since gold and treasure were involved, Wang Meilan forgot about Zhao Youcai.

When she said this, Zhao Jun subconsciously asked: "What else did he beat?"

In other words, these are two mothers. When Zhao Youcai told Wang Meilan last night, Wang Meilan had the same reaction.

"No, no." Seeing that Zhao Jun had misunderstood, Wang Meilan waved her hands and said, "Can you still beat other people's animals?"

After saying this, Wang Meilan clicked her eyes. The last time Zhao Youcai slaughtered a cow was on November 12th. Just over a month had passed, and he killed another old cow the second time.

"Ah, what's the matter with my dad?" Zhao Jun asked, and Wang Meilan replied: "He promised to catch wild boars for others, isn't this a series of incidents? Your dad said that he will never go up the mountain again, but on the other side I’m waiting for a wild boar as a gift, this…”

Zhao Jun twitched his lips when he heard this and couldn't help but said: "He might as well kill someone else's cow. This is more troublesome than paying someone else money."

Zhao Jun didn't even need to ask, he knew that the gift must be given before New Year's Day. But today is the 23rd, and it’s almost the Gregorian New Year. He already owed Xu Baoshan Wild Boar, so he had to help Zhao Youcai with the task.

"Son." Wang Meilan pulled Zhao Jun and said, "This is not about losing money, this is about making money."

With that said, Wang Meilan pointed to the mountains in the distance and continued to say to Zhao Jun: "That wild boar... isn't it on the mountain? Just catch it."

Zhao Jun was speechless, but at this moment, he heard someone shouting: "Sister! Great nephew."

"Hey! Qiangzi!" Seeing that her brother was coming, Wang Meilan hurriedly waved to call Wang Qiang over.

"Uncle." Zhao Jun also said hello to Wang Qiang. At this time, Wang Qiang was carrying a gun and came to Zhao Jun and the others to go up the mountain.

"Sister." Seeing Wang Meilan's mysterious look, Wang Qiang asked with a smile, "What are you two doing?"

"Qiangzi, let me tell you, our father..." Just as Wang Meilan was about to speak, she heard Zhao Jun say intentionally or unintentionally: "The minister is here!"

Wang Meilan looked to the east and saw Chen Chen running over.

Jie Chen came to greet the three of them, but Wang Meilan swallowed her words.

After entering the house and packing up, Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang, Jie Chen, and Zhao Weipeng walked out of the house and prepared to go up the mountain to fight the siege.

Seeing that all four of them were carrying guns, the dogs in Zhao's courtyard immediately became a mess, each one pulling on the chain and howling.

"Young minister, let the dogs go!" Zhao Jun waved to Jie Chen, and then Li Baoyu walked out from the next door. He shouted at the top of his lungs: "Brother, Xiaohua and Niuniu, I will let you go."

"Let go." Zhao Jun said: "You let those three dogs go, too. I will lead them all!"

"Those three dogs?" Li Baoyu was stunned when he heard this. He knew that Zhao Jun was talking about the three dogs sent back by Yongxing Brigade.

Li Baoyu took a look at the row of dog kennels under the east wall of his house, and saw three dogs, one black and two white, standing outside the kennels. They are also hunting dogs, and they are all howling at this moment and want to go up the mountain.

But Li Baoyu did not let the dogs go, but climbed over the wall, walked to Zhao Jun, and asked in a low voice: "Brother, aren't those three dogs my uncle's dogs?"

"It's ours." Zhao Jun smiled, waved his hand and said, "Hurry up and release the dog for me."

Zhao Youcai said it himself that he would never hunt again.

Moreover, Zhao Jun is now helping him. Catching wild boars is impossible without dogs. After the four dogs, Dahuang and Big Fat, were missing, the Zhao family dogs helped Que force the dogs to find prey.

"Got it!" Li Baoyu heard what Zhao Jun said, and happily climbed over the wall and went back, releasing the five dogs in the front and back yards of his house.

Then, the newly untied dogs ran around in the yards of Zhao and Li, chasing, fighting, and peeing everywhere.

Hearing the noise outside the house, Zhao Youcai, who was sitting on the kang, looked out the window and sighed: "Alas!"

Zhao Youcai felt very tired. Seeing Zhao Jun and his men taking the dogs up the mountain, Zhao Youcai felt a little uncomfortable, but he didn't want to go up the mountain from the bottom of his heart.

After all the hunting dogs were loaded onto the car, Xie Chen drove the car, and Zhao Weipeng, who was generous and fat, sat in the passenger seat. Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang accompanied the dogs in the trunk, and the uncle and nephew had a chance to talk.

The car left Zhao's house, but did not rush out of the village, but went to Zhang Yuanmin's house first.

After arriving at Zhang Yuanmin's house, Zhao Jun got off the car alone, opened the door with the key he got from Wang Meilan, and went directly into the east room of Zhang's house.

There are two corners in the kang, and many families will nail two wooden boards diagonally in the corners to make a simple quilt rack.

Every day when they get up, they fold the quilts and put them on the rack, and then pull up the curtain to prevent the quilts from getting dusty.

Zhang Yuanmin's family is different from other families. Other families have a quilt rack in each room, but Zhang Yuanmin's family has two corners of the kang in the east room, one quilt rack on each side, and they are all curtained.

Zhao Jun climbed onto the kang and first pulled open the curtain in the southeast corner. Seeing that the quilt rack was stacked with quilts, Zhao Jun pulled the curtain again.

Then, Zhao Jun went to the southwest corner and pulled open the curtain on this side. He saw a long black cloth bag standing diagonally on the quilt rack.

This long black cloth bag is longer than the quilt rack, so one end is diagonally against the wall.

If you don't know, you might think that the Zhang family is offering some treasure.

Zhao Jun reached out and grabbed the long black cloth bag, and his hand sank. According to Xiao Lingdang, this is the pig-binding hook that Zhang Yuanmin intends to pass on to his descendants.

Zhao Jun dragged the long black cloth bag to the edge of the kang and opened it. Touching the cold steel hook, Zhao Jun sighed and murmured to himself: "I really miss my elder brother a little bit."

After a brief moment of nostalgia, Zhao Jun went out with the pig hook.

Seeing Zhao Jun coming out with a big iron hook, Zhao Weipeng, who was sitting in the co-pilot, called Jie Chen and said: "Xiao Chen, what did your brother Jun take?"

Jie Chen, who recently started watching "The Investiture of the Gods", smiled and replied: "That is the Zhang family's secret treasure, the pig hook."

"What is it?" Zhao Weipeng graduated from junior high school and had a certain level of education, but he could not understand Jie Chen's words.

After Zhao Jun took the treasure from the Zhang family, the car went straight into the mountain field from Yong'antun.

After more than 40 minutes, the car stopped outside the small 43leng field. Zhao Jun asked Wang Qiang to watch the dog in the car, and he got off with the things for Xing San.

Xie Chen and Zhao Weipeng also got off the car. Xie Chen wanted to see Xie Zhong, while Zhao Weipeng was just curious and wanted to see what the field looked like.

"Uncle, are you in the house?" When Zhao Jun pushed the door and entered the shack, Xing San was sitting on the edge of the kang, smoking and twisting the condom.

Hearing the noise, Xing San was stunned, and a rare smile appeared on his old face.

"Why are you here?" Xing San threw the condom in his hand to the corner of the wall and called Zhao Jun, "Hurry up and get on the kang."

While speaking, Xing San saw Zhao Jun carrying two triangular bags, and couldn't help frowning and said, "What are you taking again?"

"I'll get you some food." As he said that, Zhao Jun went to the edge, put the two bags on the kang, and then took out the things one by one.

"Uncle, these are buns." Zhao Jun took out two large butter paper bags and said, "My mother steamed them this morning, with beef filling."

"Oh!" Hearing what Zhao Jun said, Xing San threw the cigarette butt on the ground and reached out to open a paper bag impatiently.

Since he entered the mountains to be a mountain dog, Xing San has not eaten anything good. He has not eaten dumplings for more than ten years. It was not until this year that Zhao Jun brought him bags of dumplings, and he finally ate enough.

This time, he brought buns again, and Xing San was very happy.

"Hey? Hey! Uncle San!" Seeing that Xing San was about to put a bun in his mouth, Zhao Jun quickly took the bun away and said, "It's all frozen, you can't eat it like that!"

It's okay for the old man not to wash his hands, but the key is that the buns are not frozen solid, but in a half-frozen state after walking all the way. Eating them directly like this is very hurtful to the stomach.

Zhao Jun put the buns on the butter paper, then took two steps to the rack next to the door, took down the small stew pot, opened the lid and said to Xing San: "If you want to eat, let's fry it first."

Although the buns didn't get into his mouth, Xing San felt warm in his heart. He waved to Zhao Jun and said, "Don't fry it, put it on the stove cover and bake it."

As he said that, Xing San took the buns and put them on the stove cover.

"You old man." Zhao Jun put down the stew pot and walked back to the kang, taking things out of his pocket and said, "Don't bring disaster to yourself."

"Yeah!" Xing San responded, and turned around to see Zhao Jun taking out two bottles of canned peaches from his pocket and putting them on the kang table. The old man couldn't help but frowned and said, "What are you doing with this stuff?"

"Just eat two pieces for nothing." Zhao Jun smiled and said, "Light mouth or something."

As he said that, Zhao Jun took out two pain-relieving tablets and two packs of Jinhulu cigarettes from his pocket.

Since smoking the cigarettes Zhao Jun brought him, Xing San also found that this cigarette is indeed better than leaf tobacco. This time, without saying a word, he happily accepted the things Zhao Jun brought him.

"Uncle, are you still going up the mountain these days?" Zhao Jun asked.

"Not often." Xing San pointed at the condom on the ground and said, "I go there every now and then."

After saying this, Xing San smiled and said, "I sell all the meat to Jie Dazi."

"Okay." Zhao Jun nodded and said, "You can eat it yourself, don't just sell it."

"Yeah, I'm not short of food." Xing San smiled at Zhao Jun, then asked: "What are you doing here today? Going up the mountain to hunt again?"

"Yeah." Zhao Jun didn't bother with Xing San, and said directly: "I went hunting, and brought you here to see you. After that, I want to ask you something."

"Go ahead." While Xing San was speaking, he picked up the buns on the stove cover and turned them over.

"Uncle, do you know a man who sells knives on credit?" Zhao Jun asked: "Song, what's Song An?"

"Song Anfu, Song Anlu." What Zhao Jun didn't expect was that Xing San actually reported two names at once.

"Huh?" Zhao Jun was stunned and asked: "Two people?"

"Ah!" Xing San nodded and said: "Brothers, both sell knives on credit."

"Which of them knows Lao Xu Pao?" Zhao Jun asked again, and Xing San replied: "That's Song Anlu."

"Is he Hu Zi?" Zhao Jun asked again

"Yeah!" Xing San nodded and felt something was wrong, so he asked Zhao Jun, "Boy, why are you asking about him? He's not been around for many years."

"Ah... He's a relative from my mother's side..." Before Zhao Jun could finish his question, he heard Xing San say, "Yes, your mother's father is Wang Daba Zhang, and Wang Daba Zhang's wife's surname is Song."

"What?" Zhao Jun was surprised and said, "Uncle San, you still know my grandmother and her family?"

"Yes! How could I not know them?" Xing San smiled and said, "I even carried a big bag for his family."

"Really?" Zhao Jun squinted his eyes, recalling the content of his previous chat with Xing San. His eyes suddenly lit up and he asked, "Uncle San, your family is from Weiguang?"

Weiguang Village is located in the southwest of Yong'an Village, and the distance between the village and the village is 35 miles.

This morning at Old Xu's house, Xu Changlin once said that Song Anlu was originally from Weiguang Village.

"Yeah! My family used to be great." Xing San didn't need Zhao Jun to ask, and said: "You ask that Song Anlu, there used to be three houses between our two families."

"Uncle San, I heard that he moved later, right?" Zhao Jun asked, Xing San nodded and said: "Yes, he moved to Hebei."

"What?" Zhao Jun was surprised to hear this and asked: "Moved to Hebei?"

"Ah..." Xing San smiled when Zhao Jun asked this, he pointed to the door and said: "North of Xiaohong River."

Zhao Jun: "..."

Zhao Jun was speechless for two seconds, sighed softly and said : "North of Xiaohong River, isn't that Yongsheng?"

"Yongsheng is further north." Xing San frowned slightly and thought: "What is the name of that village?"

"Xinmin." Zhao Jun answered for him, and Xing San nodded repeatedly, saying: "Yes, yes, it's Xinmin."

For some reason, Zhao Jun asked Xing San another question, saying: "Uncle, this Song Anlu, does he know Blind Pang?"

Recently, Zhao Jun always thought that he had also gone to the old man on the mountain opposite to the door frame of Widow Wang. It was indeed a good ginseng land, and he made a lot of money. But Blind Pang led the Ginseng Gang. If he made a fortune by selling ginseng, it would be impossible not to leak the news.

So, Zhao Jun thought of the gold that his grandfather supported to the Anti-Japanese United Army. Just now, Xing San said that Song Anlu was not far from Yongsheng Village after moving, and the Pang family was in Yongsheng Village.

After Zhao Jun asked, he saw Xing San staring at him, and asked in astonishment: "What did you hear?"

"Nothing." Zhao Jun was a little confused by Xing San's question, and just said: "What's the matter, Third Uncle?"

Xing San said: "Then Song Anlu is the father of Blind Pang."

"What?" Xing San's words shocked Zhao Jun so much that he jumped up from the edge of the kang and said: "How is that possible?"