The whole mountain is my hunting ground

In the Zhao family's warehouse, Zhao Jun plucked a piece of bear gall from the beam, stuffed it into a small cloth bag, handed it to Zhao Chun and said, "Sister, please put this away."

"Don't worry." Zhao Chun took the bear bile and carefully stuffed it into the pocket of her cotton-padded jacket. She glanced outside and saw Zhou Jianjun pushing the bicycle out of the courtyard. She turned to Zhao Jun and whispered to Zhao Jun: "Brother, I'm at work. We are adults now, so we need to adjust."

Zhao Jun felt warm in his heart and nodded: "Sister, don't worry."

At this time, Zhao Youcai and Wang Meilan dug out a bear paw and four wild boar tenderloins from the snow, and hung them on the handlebars and beams of the car for Zhou Jianjun.

"That sister has gone back. If anything happens here, just ask your brother-in-law."

"Okay." Zhao Jun and Zhao Chun walked out together and said to Zhou Jianjun: "Brother-in-law, ride slower."

After watching Zhao Chun and his wife leave, the five members of the Zhao family returned to the house and simply arranged the house. Wang Meilan asked Zhao Youcai, "Do we have to discuss with the Dayong family to make dumplings with wild boar meat tomorrow night?" Or venison?”

"Everything is covered!" Zhao Youcai waved his hand proudly and said, "This year, if you try your best, we will be lucky enough to have two kinds of things covered."

Wang Meilan smiled and said: "My son, I have been with you for so many years, and I have never eaten two kinds of dumplings during the Chinese New Year."

Zhao Youcai curled his lips and said, "When I bring down that big pig that weighs more than a thousand kilograms for you after the new year, we can make dumplings out of that meat!"

"You can pull it down, you can't even chew the meat." Wang Meilan threw aside the rag she had just wiped the Kang table and said: "I've been getting calluses from listening to your ink these two days. You won't stop it anymore. , go up the mountain to find the pig during the Chinese New Year."

…

On New Year's Eve, Zhao Jun was awakened by the sound of firecrackers early in the morning.

Before he could get out of bed, the door was pushed open.

Zhao Hong and Zhao Na ran in, grabbed Zhao Jun's arm and pulled him out, "Brother, take us to set off firecrackers."

Zhao Jun was pulled up by them in a daze, put on his cotton-padded jacket and trousers, put on his shoes and left the house.

On the day she went to the market, Wang Meilan bought five firecrackers with one hundred rings, one set off on the 30th day of the new year, one set off on the first day of the lunar month, one set off on the fifth day of the lunar month and one set off on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

There is also a hanging, which is broken down into small firecrackers for the two little girls to play with.

As soon as Zhao Jun left the house, he saw Li Ruhai and Li Xiaoqiao picking up small firecrackers at the door. There were several children around who wanted to come forward, but Li Ruhai shouted them back several times.

There are always some firecrackers that have not exploded. As long as they still have some twists, they can be picked up and set aside. Li Ruhai and Li Xiaoqiao are now looking for them among the piles of red confetti and discarded firecrackers.

The children around them probably wanted to follow them, but the hanging whip just now was set by the Li family. How could Li Ruhai let them take advantage of it?

Seeing Zhao Jun coming out with a whole set of firecrackers, Li Ruhai came over instantly. Zhao Jun gave him the firecrackers and told him to take Zhao Hong and Zhao Na to play with him.

Li Ruhai agreed immediately. Even though this guy was loose-mouthed, he was still very reliable in his work, especially since he also regarded Zhao Hong and Zhao Na as his sisters. Zhao Jun could rest assured that the little girl was left to him to look after.

Li Ruhai hung the firecrackers on the door of Zhao Jun's house, took one end of the charred wooden stick, and blew it. The charred area instantly turned red, revealing a dark fire.

Li Ruhai lit the firecrackers, while Zhao Hong, Zhao Na, and Li Xiaoqiao covered their ears and watched.

The hundred bangs quickly disappeared. The three little girls leaned over to dig through the unexploded firecrackers, while Li Ruhai stood by to intimidate a group of children who wanted to take advantage.

Zhao Jun found it funny when he saw it, shook his head and walked towards Li's courtyard.

Entering Li's house, Zhao Jun saw Li Baoyu squatting in front of the stove, not burning something.

"Brother, you are here."

Zhao Jun patted him on the shoulder, walked to the back room, wished Li Dayong and Jin Xiaomei a happy new year, and then came out to see Li Baoyu.

"Where's the burning Galaha?"

"Yeah." Li Baoyu said, "Today is the Chinese New Year, so I'll give it to our girls to play with."

Galaha is the turning bone, the joint bone that connects the thigh and calf of animals.

This crutch bone is only found on the hind legs, and can be found on the hind legs of sheep, pigs, roe deer, and deer.

They all say that the Galaha of sheep is good, square and not big enough that even a child can catch it.

But the Galaha of sheep is really rare. In comparison, the Galaha of pigs is relatively common.

These animals in the mountains, wild boar, roe deer and deer, all come out of Galaha.

Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong have been hunting for many years and once saved a bagful of Galaha.

What's even more valuable is that the Galaha are all from roe deer, no worse than the Galaha of sheep.

Zhao Jun remembered that when he and Li Baoyu were young, Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei took them to play Galaha together.

Sometimes Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong get off work early and play with them.

Later, the Dougalaha became Zhao Hong and Li Xiaoqiao's toy.

Until last summer, two relatives came to Li Dayong's family. An old lady took a little boy and stayed at Li's house for half a month.

During this period, this little boy had galaha with the little girls every day.

When it was time to leave, he cried and fussed, insisting on taking away the bag of Galaha left at Li's house.

What to do?

If you don't give me a bag of Galaha, after the old lady goes back, all the relatives of the Li family will know that Li Dayong and Jin Xiaomei treat their relatives poorly.

There was no other way, so Li Xiaoqiao watched with tears in her eyes as the bag of Galaha was taken away.

In recent months, Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu have been paddling a lot in the mountains, hunting wild boars and roe deer, and they have also accumulated more than ten Galaha.

Although this is not enough for a pocket, not even half a pocket, it is enough for three little girls to play with.

Looking at the cooked Galaha next to him, Zhao Jun took one in his hand, picked up the knife on the stove, and gently scraped the surface of the Galaha.

At this time, Jin Xiaomei came out with a bunch of dried red peppers, put them on the stove and said to Li Baoyu: "Boss, we will burn the peppers in a while. Mom will make some chili oil. Let's dip the dumplings to eat at night."

"Okay!" Li Baoyu agreed immediately.

That night, the two families got together. Zhao Youcai, Wang Meilan, Li Dayong, and Jin Xiaomei played mahjong, and the three little girls played Galaha on the kang.

Li Baoyu, on the other hand, encouraged Zhao Jun to watch small cards with him and Li Ruhai.

Seeing Li Ruhai's eagerness to give it a try, Zhao Jun secretly shook his head and thought: "Silly boy, your brother is just waiting to steal the more than thirty yuan in your pocket."

In the end, Li Baoyu's conspiracy failed because Zhao Jun did not play with them. Without Zhao Jun, the two brothers could not get together.

Zhao Jun's non-participation was not because he felt sorry for Li Ruhai, but because he secretly vowed after his rebirth that he would never touch cards again in his life, regardless of whether he won money or not.

The two families spent the next few days like this, eating, drinking, playing mahjong, playing Galaha, and watching small cards.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Li Baoyu, Li Ruhai and Jin Xiaomei watched three rounds of cards, and finally ended with Li Baoyu losing fifteen yuan and Li Ruhai losing twenty.

From then on, Li Baoyu became honest.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the Li family went to Jin Xiaomei's natal home to visit relatives and friends, while Zhao Jun's family had a meal with Wang Qiang's family.

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Li Baoyu came back from Shanggou Township. He immediately found Zhao Jun who was wandering in the village and said to him: "Brother, my dad went to Shanggou this time and asked my grandpa what kind of condom can catch a thousand-jin giant." pig."

It seems that Zhao Youcai is not the only one who is possessed by the devil.

"Take off the wire rope?" Zhao Jun shook his head and said, "A pig as big as a pig can't be caught by a wire rope as thick as a finger, and it will break if you pull it."

"My grandpa said the same thing." Li Baoyu said, "It seems that this big pig is not easy to deal with."

Just as Zhao Jun was about to speak, he heard a familiar voice shouting over there: "Brother!"

"Brother." Zhao Jun turned around and saw Zhang Yuanmin running over with a smile.

"Brother Zhang."

"Baoyu."

Zhang Yuanmin and Li Baoyu also greeted each other. When Zhang Yuanmin approached Zhao Jun, he said: "Brother, I have good news for you."

Before Zhang Yuanmin could say anything, Zhao Jun asked first, "Is this a dog-related thing?"

"How smart!" Zhang Yuanmin smiled and patted Zhao Jun's arm, and said, "I went back to my parents' house with your sister-in-law in the third year of junior high school, and I came here to find you right after I came back. The bitches in the house are really trying to find their babies. After ten The baby will be born on February 2nd. If you are fine, we will go after February 2nd."

The puppy has just been born, so it needs to be fed for half a month before it can be picked up. Otherwise, its eyes haven't opened yet, so it won't be possible to feed it when it is brought back.

Hearing this, Zhao Jun looked troubled and said, "Brother, not after February 2nd. I have to report to the forest farm on February 3rd."

"Are you going to work?" Zhang Yuanmin was happy, and he was sincerely happy for Zhao Jun.

"Well," Zhao Jun responded, "Brother, can we go two days in advance?"

"Okay." Zhang Yuanmin immediately agreed without even thinking about it: "Brother, you decide. We will go on the day you say."

"Then go on the first day of February?"

"Okay."

…

In a blink of an eye, it’s the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

These days, small shops in the countryside still sell Yuanxiao, but there is only one kind of filling, which is red bean paste filling.

And it's not packed in bags, it's sold in bulk and weighed.

On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu came to the small shop and each bought two kilograms of Yuanxiao. They cooked it at home tonight. The family even wiped out the Yuanxiao and soup.

At this time, the living conditions of the people in the mountainous areas were difficult, and they could not rest for a few days throughout the year. Especially the workers who returned to the forest farm and pulled the traps were doing strenuous work all year round.

Therefore, during the Chinese New Year, the forest farm gives workers a long annual leave, which lasts from the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month to the end of the Lantern Festival.

But even so, from the Lantern Festival to February 2, only the administrative staff and logistics staff of the forest farm went to work early. The workers still had holidays as usual and had to wait until the first lunar month before they could go to work in a down-to-earth manner.

It stands to reason that as long as there are people working in the forest farm, the first canteen must be opened.

But as the master chef of the canteen, Zhao Youcai, as long as the leader does not ask him specifically, no one can control him in the canteen.

Therefore, as early as the day when the pigs were slaughtered for dinner, Zhao Youcai made an agreement with Han Dachun and asked Han Dachun to keep an eye on him in the cafeteria these days. I figured that with this good friend here, nothing would go wrong.

As for what Zhao Youcai was going to do, there was no doubt that he was going to hunt in the mountains.

Zhao Youcai couldn't stand it anymore when he saw the big wild boar's footprints on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month.

During these New Year's Day days, he was suffocating and scratching his head. He had been dreaming for several days. Zhao Youcai dreamed that he could shoot a headshot and kill the thousand-pound wild boar in the vast white snow-capped mountains.

The wait finally passed on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhao Youcai got up early and took the rare opportunity to cook breakfast himself. He stewed frozen tofu in a large pot of cabbage and vermicelli, and also cut a lot of pork belly into it.

And while the vegetables were stewing, a curtain was placed on top of the dishes, and a curtain of sticky bean buns was steamed.

Zhao Jun got up early today and smelled the aroma of the food. When he passed the east room, he saw Wang Meilan eating with two little girls.

Zhao Youcai had already finished eating and was sitting aside putting leggings on his calves.

When Zhao Jun saw this, he shook his head inwardly and said to himself: "They are all addicted to hooking up."

Zhao Youcai raised his eyes and looked at Zhao Jun, and asked in a very calm tone: "What are you doing up so early?"

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "The big wallet I bought years ago has to go away today."

"Hmph." Zhao Youcai snorted coldly, got down from the kang, stamped his feet, picked up the teapot next to him and took a sip of water.

At this time, the door of Zhao Jun's house was opened from the outside, and Li Dayong walked in with a breath of cool air.

"Uncle Li."

Li Dayong responded casually, stepped into the back room, and greeted Wang Meilan: "Where are you eating, sister-in-law?"

"Ah, where is Dayong eating? If you haven't eaten, then..."

Wang Meilan originally wanted to be polite to Li Dayong and asked him to sit down and eat together if he didn't eat.

But Li Dayong didn't hear what Wang Meilan said at all. He came directly in front of Zhao Youcai and asked, "Brother, are you leaving?"

Zhao Youcai clicked the lid of the lunch box next to him and handed it to Li Dayong. This aluminum lunch box contains a lunch box full of sticky bean buns.

After Li Dayong put the aluminum lunch box into the bag in front of him, Zhao Youcai stood up, walked past Li Dayong, came to the door of the house, and said to Zhao Jun who was standing at the door: "Get up and go."

Zhao Jun hurriedly stepped aside and saw Zhao Youcai closing the door and taking off a semi-automatic rifle from the wall behind the door.

He held the gun in one hand, then took off another one and handed them to Li Dayong one by one.

After Li Dayong put the two guns on his shoulders, Zhao Youcai had already put the last gun on his shoulders.

After slinging the gun, Zhao Youcai took out four packs of bullets from the canvas pocket hanging on the wall, handed two packs directly to Li Dayong, and put the other two packs in his pockets and trouser pockets.

Wang Meilan put down her chopsticks, looked at Zhao Youcai and said, "Be careful!"

Zhao Youcai didn't answer, opened the door and walked out, followed closely by Li Dayong.

Seeing that Zhao Youcai was silent, Wang Meilan seemed to remember something and couldn't help laughing out loud. She said to Zhao Jun: "Son, come and eat quickly. Don't worry about him. This is what happens when your father wants to hunt."

"Yeah." Zhao Jun sat down by the kang, took the bowls and chopsticks and started eating.

But before he had a few bites, the door to his house was opened again.

"elder brother!"

When hearing this title, no need to ask, it must be Li Baoyu.

Zhao Jun sighed, put down his chopsticks, and said, "Take a big wallet, why are you going so early?"

Li Baoyu came a few steps to the Kang, said hello to Wang Meilan, and then said to Zhao Jun: "My father and my uncle went up the mountain to fuck the pig god, why don't we go?"

"No." Zhao Jun took out a piece of wild boar meat from the vegetable pot and stuffed it into his mouth. While chewing, he said: "We will finish sneaking the clip in a while, and then change the hill to feed it. We can earn some money during this time." What a great money.”

"It's not good." Wang Meilan said from the side: "Baoyu, don't follow your uncle's example. What can you do with the eggs from the cannon? You can't bite the meat, and you can't sell the skin. What are you doing with it?"

At this point, Wang Meilan remembered and asked, "Hey, Baoyu, have you eaten yet?"

"Mom, I've finished eating." Li Baoyu seemed a little unwilling, and said to Zhao Jun: "Why don't we go and see the excitement? I have never seen such a battle since I was a child. It's more than a hundred heads." Pig."

Zhao Jun shook his head and said: "Let's go, we have to walk a long way, we won't be too tired."

"Why are you tired?" Li Baoyu said, "Let's go in the car with them."

"What?"

"Brother, you don't know." Li Baoyu said, "Brother Shunzi drove, and they went there by car."

"Oh my god!" These days, what kind of configuration is this for driving into the mountains for hunting? Zhao Jun suddenly felt that the frozen tofu dipped in chili oil in his mouth was no longer fragrant.

Wang Meilan was also surprised when she heard this and said: "This is quite nonsense!"