The whole mountain is my hunting ground

Zhang Yuanmin's home in Yong'an Village.

When Yang Yufeng asked where the beef bones came from, the room fell into silence, and even Zhao Hong, Zhao Na and other children stared at the adults with wide eyes.

"Ahem!" Zhao Jun coughed lightly, winked at Yang Yufeng, and said: "Sister-in-law, what... Let's go back first. When the food is ready, I'll bring it to you."

"Don't bother, brother." Yang Yufeng hurriedly said: "I'll taste it myself at home."

"No, Feng'er, you don't have to worry about it." Wang Meilan said: "Your brother will drive in a while..."

Wang Meilan paused in the middle of her words, and she suddenly remembered that Xie Chen's car broke down on the way here.

Wang Meilan didn't say anything, and Xie Sunshi took over and said: "It's been a day since I fixed that broken car! It breaks down wherever I go!"

After the voice fell, Xie Sunshi "bang" hit Xie Chen on the back with a stick.

"I..." Xie Chen was hit by the sudden blow, and he almost swore, but fortunately he held it back in time. At this time, Liu Lanying hurriedly grabbed Xie Sunshi.

"Sister Sun." Wang Qiang smiled at Xie Sunshi: "Did you not get enough of beating Xu Meihua?"

"Hahaha..." Amid the laughter of the crowd, Xie Sunshi slightly raised her head. Wang Meilan smiled and patted Xie Sunshi's arm, saying: "You can't beat your son if you don't get enough."

Xie Sunshi smiled, and Zhao Weipeng walked out and said to Zhao Jun: "Nephew, if you need a car, don't we stop at the door?"

He and Zhao Jun came to join the battle just now, and these few steps were not on the mountain road, so Zhao Weipeng was not left behind.

After arriving here, the battle was over, but the conversation and chatter of these people were very interesting, and Zhao Weipeng's big mouth was almost grinning to the roots of his ears.

Before at Zhao Jun's house, Yang Yufeng had seen Zhao Weipeng, but Zhang Yuanmin had never seen this fat man.

"Hey? Uncle." Zhang Yuanmin called Wang Qiang, who was closest to him, and asked, "Who is this?"

"Come here, Brother Zhao!" Wang Qiang heard this and hurriedly called Zhao Weipeng and said, "Let me introduce you, introduce you. Don't you always ask who invented the pig hook?"

"Oh!" Zhao Weipeng walked to the edge of the kang and saw Zhang Yuanmin holding out his hand to him and said, "I have to call this uncle, right?"

"Yes!" Wang Qiang said, "This is your Uncle Zhao, the big boss from the city."

Zhao Weipeng smiled and heard Wang Qiang say, "This is Lingdang's father, Zhang Yuanmin, and he is good brothers with Xiaojun and Xiaochen."

"Uncle Zhao, nice to meet you!" Zhang Yuanmin shook Zhao Weipeng's hand, and Zhao Weipeng said, "I've heard a lot about you!"

The two got along very well when they first met.

At this time, a train whistle sounded from outside. Wang Meilan looked up at the clock on the wall and said, "Let's go, let's go back first. After that, the meal will be ready and brought to you!"

Zhang Yuanmin couldn't get up, so Yang Yufeng took the little bell and sent everyone out.

When they went out, Zhao Jun told Yang Yufeng, "Sister-in-law, Xu Meihua and the others should not come again. But if she wants to bring someone, tell her that if it doesn't work, we'll fight tomorrow."

In theory, Xu Meihua would not bring people to fight again, but Zhao Jun was just in case.

After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Wang Meilan grabbed Yang Yufeng's hand and said, "Feng'er, you won't be at home for a while. I let your two dogs go to the west yard to look after the goose shed behind. You can bring the dogs back later. There is a dog at home..."

"What's the use of a dog?" Xie Sun suddenly interrupted Wang Meilan, and then Xie Sun grabbed Yang Yufeng and said heroically, "If she dares to come over again, tell her. Just tell her what I said. If she keeps showing off, her legs will be broken by her mother and her mother!"

"Woo..."

The sound of the whistle was clearly heard by everyone. Wang Meilan hurriedly said goodbye to Yang Yufeng and left with the diners and the thugs.

At the same time, the train stopped outside Yong'antun, and a group of people led by Zhao Youcai got off the train and walked home.

Turn south from the main road in the village into the small alley, and when you reach the fork in the road, turn west and you will reach home.

At this time, with the faint light coming from the courtyard of Old Sun's house behind him, Zhao Youcai vaguely saw a group of people coming from the east.

"Dad!" As the flashlight flashed, a familiar voice came.

Zhao Youcai frowned slightly, and just as he was about to answer, his shoulder was hit hard from behind.

"Brother!" Li Baoyu walked over quickly, and then exclaimed: "Mom, Auntie, what are you doing?"

While Li Baoyu was talking, Zhao Jun, Wang Meilan and others came over. Zhao Youcai frowned and looked at Wang Meilan and said: "What time is it? You didn't cook, what did you do?"

As soon as Zhao Youcai said this, a cold wind blew in the winter night, making the surrounding tree branches rustle.

Apart from this, there was silence all around, and there was no sound between heaven and earth.

In fact, this is a very normal sentence. The old man went to work all day, and the old woman didn't cook at home. Isn't it okay to ask?

But no one could remember when Zhao Youcai had spoken to Wang Meilan like this last time.

"Ah..." Wang Meilan gestured to the east and said, "We're at Yuanmin's house. The couple is back!"

"Huh?" Zhao Youcai was startled, while Li Baoyu shouted in surprise, "My brother Zhang is back?"

As Li Baoyu spoke, Li Dayong tapped his waist with a finger. Li Baoyu turned around and met Li Dayong's unfriendly gaze.

The smile on Li Baoyu's face disappeared instantly, and he quickly retreated behind Li Dayong.

"Then let's go and take a look." Zhao Youcai turned around and looked at Li Dayong, Li Baoyu and Lin Xiangshun, and said, "Let's go and see Yuanmin?"

"Let's go, big brother." Li Dayong replied, "Let's eat after we come back."

"Then let's go!" Zhao Youcai said, and he was about to leave with his people. At this time, Wang Meilan thought about it and said, "What?"

Zhao Youcai looked at Wang Meilan and heard her say, "Don't go empty-handed when you go."

"Ah?" Zhao Youcai was stunned and said, "Are you going empty-handed?"

"No..." Wang Meilan said, "Before they came back, they had a few words with Zhang Shaoji... no, with Zhang Laibao. After that, Xu Meihua whined and we left."

It's really not that Wang Meilan wanted to make things difficult for Zhao Youcai. Zhang Yuanmin was still lying on the kang. If you go to see Zhang Yuanmin, you have to buy two cans of food. It was an accident for Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan to go, but Zhao Youcai and his friends can't go empty-handed next time.

"Okay, I know." Zhao Youcai said, and left with Li Dayong and the other two.

When they arrived at the store, the four people and three families each bought two bottles of canned peaches and two packs of snacks for Zhang Yuanmin.

After the four of them came back from visiting Zhang Yuanmin, the Zhao family dinner officially began.

As soon as they sat down at the table, everyone started talking, and Zhao Youcai realized that so many things had happened today.

Zhang Yuanmin returned to the village, Jie Sun challenged the mother and son of the Zhang family, and the father and son of the Zheng family went into the mountains.

While drinking, the men talked about the relationship between the father and son of the Zheng family and Yang Huaguier.

Chatting and chatting, they talked about the captures made by Zhao Jun and others in the mountains today. After learning that Zhao Jun had caught a total of three wild boars, Zhao Youcai said to Zhao Jun: "Son, sell the wild boar to Zhang Guoqing...one for your uncle Zhang."

"Ah?" Zhao Jun was stunned, and when he opened his mouth in surprise, the rib meat in his mouth fell into the bowl.

This morning, Wang Meilan and Zhao Jun said that they needed to help Zhao Youcai clean up his ass and complete the live wild boar he promised to Liu Renshan and Wu Feng.

Today, Zhao Jun led his men to catch three wild boars. In addition to the two that must be given to Xu Baoshan, the remaining one was intended for Liu Renshan first. It happened that Liu Renshan lived in Yongshengtun. When he went to Yongshengtun, he could also visit his elder sister and nephew.

What Zhao Jun didn't expect was that the previous famine had not been paid off, and Zhao Youcai, the old boy, was in debt again.

But there were so many people at the dinner table, Zhao Jun couldn't say anything, just said: "Okay, then Dad... send roe deer and wild boar to our team leader tomorrow, and then send the pig to my uncle Zhang?"

"Yeah!" Seeing that his son was so sensible, Zhao Youcai responded lightly and said, "Okay, you decide."

Zhao Jun pulled the corner of his mouth and secretly rolled his eyes at Zhao Youcai.

After eating and drinking, the diners went back to their homes, and the lights in the east and west rooms of the Zhao family were turned off one after another.

Zhao Youcai had just fallen asleep in a daze when he heard a long sigh in his ear.

"Ah!"

"Hmm?" Zhao Youcai opened his eyes blankly, he was in a daze.

"It's not me?" Zhao Youcai blinked his eyes twice. He sighed "Ah, ah" for the first two nights, and today he thought he was in a trance.

Zhao Youcai turned over, from lying flat to lying on his side, facing Wang Meilan.

But just as Zhao Youcai was about to fall asleep, he heard another sigh.

"Ah!"

Zhao Youcai opened his eyes instantly, he heard clearly this time, it was Wang Meilan.

"What are you doing?" Since the two girls were asleep, Zhao Youcai tried to keep his voice down and asked, "Why are you always sighing?"

"His father." Wang Meilan moved closer to Zhao Youcai and whispered, "Our family is going to get rich."

"What is that?" Wang Meilan's voice was also low, and Zhao Youcai didn't hear clearly in his daze, so he just said, "What are you talking about with me about making dough?"

"It's not making dough." Wang Meilan said, "It's our family is going to get rich!"

"Get rich?" Zhao Youcai frowned slightly, and then seemed to have figured something out, so he said, "How much money can you make from collecting fungus and mushrooms? You're getting rich? Go to sleep and see what you think!"

"No!" Wang Meilan said, "It's not that, it's The treasures left by our father..."

"The treasures left by our father?" Zhao Youcai interrupted Wang Meilan before she finished speaking, "Aren't they just those two broken boxes?"

"No! Not your father!" Wang Meilan was a little anxious, and suppressed her anger, saying, "It's my father."

"Didn't the things your father left behind be confiscated during the house raid?" Zhao Youcai said, "I stole a package and gave it to Qiangzi, so what? Didn't the rest be handed over to the boss?"

"No! Have you forgotten?" Wang Meilan said, "We asked Widow Wang to carry firewood and take those away."

"Widow Wang?" When Zhao Youcai heard these three words, the first thing he thought of was not the former Hu Touzi, but the Widow Wang mentioned by the Zheng family father and son.

But then, Zhao Youcai figured out what was going on, and immediately asked Wang Meilan, "What's the matter? Have you found those things?"

"Not yet, but soon." When Wang Meilan said this, Zhao Youcai's mouth twitched, and he said, "Go to bed quickly, it's almost there? If you know where it is, you and your brother will not be able to sleep at night."

"What are you talking about?" Wang Meilan stretched out her hand from the quilt, gently patted Zhao Youcai on the forehead, and said, "That day, my son..."

After listening to Wang Meilan's direction and clues of Zhao Jun's investigation in recent days, Zhao Youcai slowly closed his eyes and did not speak.

"Hey? Hey?" Wang Meilan repeatedly pulled Zhao Youcai and said, "Don't fall asleep, I'm talking to you, did you hear me?"

"I heard it." Zhao Youcai said unhappily, "What's the use of me hearing it? Such a big mountain, where can I find it? Besides, it's been so many years, and you just remembered to look for it, maybe you have been teased by others!"

"I can't..." Wang Meilan suddenly remembered what her son said about a big reward, so she said to Zhao Youcai: "Well... after the solar year is over, you can take a few days off."

"What are you doing?" Zhao Youcai refused directly: "I won't go with them."

"Are you stupid? You won't go?" Wang Meilan said, "Then if you find it, it's all our money."

Zhao Youcai curled his lips and asked, "What if I can't find it?"

"It's impossible not to find it." Wang Meilan said categorically: "With so many gold things, how can you just say they're gone? It must be like what Old Brother Xing said, that Widow Wang hid them all in his cellar."

"Don't you love me? I have to go to bed!" Zhao Youcai said, turning his body so that his back was to Wang Meilan.

"Huh?" Wang Meilan stretched out her hand to grab Zhao Youcai's shoulder and tried to push him back. At the same time, she said: "You can ask for leave. After that, you go with your son and I'll give you two money and that's it."

"No!" What Wang Meilan didn't expect was that Zhao Youcai actually refused.

Wang Meilan was stunned, and the hand holding Zhao Youcai's shoulder slowly slipped away.

…

After one night, the next day was December 24, 1987.

Wang Meilan got up at 4:30. When she carried a small basin out of the house to the tofu shop, the tofu had not been made yet.

Just when Wang Meilan changed a basin of tofu and returned home, Zhao Youcai had also gotten up and was inserting dog food in the outhouse.

"Are you going to change the tofu noodles?" Zhao Youcai asked casually, and then Wang Meilan said: "Yeah, I'll make noodles with noodles later, and bake pancakes after that."

"Yes." Zhao Youcai responded simply, but Wang Meilan came over.

"Have you thought about what I told you last night?" Wang Meilan asked Zhao Youcai, "Are you going with your son?"

Wang Meilan thought that Zhao Youcai rejected her kindness last night out of desperation, so she mentioned the matter again.

"I won't go." Zhao Youcai said calmly: "Didn't I tell you? I will never go up the mountain again."

"Oh!" Wang Meilan sighed softly and frowned: "This is not a siege, this is looking for a treasure. This is your own family matter, so you can go ahead."

"I'm not going!" Zhao Youcai answered very simply, and Wang Meilan raised her right hand, raised her index and middle fingers and said, "I won't argue with you two. Two hundred yuan, do you want to go?"

As soon as Wang Meilan said this, Zhao Youcai, who was eating the potatoes in the pot with a spoon, was shaken and slowly turned his head to look at Wang Meilan.

Wang Meilan's eyes lit up, her raised hand trembled slightly, and she confirmed again: "Two hundred!"

But Wang Meilan, who was full of confidence, received a blank look from Zhao Youcai this time.

"Don't go!"

Wang Meilan: "..."

In the book, before the New Year, find the treasure first so that the Zhao family can have a prosperous New Year.