The whole mountain is my hunting ground

In traditional Chinese culture, there is a saying that you should not kill birds in spring and eat fish in April. There are also aphorisms such as "I advise you not to kill birds on branches, for the son is in the nest looking forward to his mother's return."

In the field of hunting, there was also a rule not to go into the mountains in spring.

But since those difficult years, I no longer abide by this rule. At that time, grain crops were not good either. Corn sticks were only five to six centimeters long and as long as an index finger, but they had to be collected and given to the so-called Big Brother to alleviate the famine.

That little ration for a month can support the family's labor force first, then the children, then the elderly, and finally the women.

According to Ms. Xie Sun, she was so hungry that she ran out in the middle of the night to roll money out of elm trees to eat.

But when she said this, Jie Chen's teeth almost went to the back of his head.

This happened indeed, but it did not happen to Jie Sun, but to their neighbor.

Xiangyang Village is not close to mountains and belongs to the countryside. The situation is worse than in the city, but not as good as in the forest area.

You rely on the mountains to eat the mountains. There are mountain products and livestock in the mountains. Or why do hooligans go to the mountains when they go to the Northeast?

And it was the situation that year that broke the rule of not going into the mountains in spring. After all, people are too hungry to survive, so who can take care of that?

Later, with the opening up of wasteland in the Northeast, people basically had enough to eat. However, the production of nature is not like that of crop fields. The mountains and forests have always had a small harvest every three years and a big harvest every five years.

When the mountain animals don't have enough to eat, they will come out of the mountains in droves and rush to the farmland cultivated and sown by the mountain people.

The people who came from the hard days depended on food as their livelihood. Although the conditions are better, the food that has been planted so hard has been destroyed by wild animals before it can be harvested. So who can do it?

In those days, guns were not allowed, and those who did not have guns at home could find help from those who did.

This is called protecting farmers.

Yong'an Tun is a family area of ​​the forest farm, and the surrounding farmland is wasteland reclaimed by itself, so the forest farm doesn't care about it. When it comes to protecting farmers, it’s up to the person who owns the land to figure it out.

As for communes and production teams, they will form specialized farming teams and hunting teams.

But there are so many livestock in the mountains these days, and the livestock steal food at night. How hard is it for the mountain people to work during the day and keep watch at night?

Hence, spring hunting.

This spring of spring hunting is not the spring of warm spring and blooming flowers, but the spring after the beginning of spring.

At this time, except for the bears who had given birth to their cubs in the tree barn, others such as wild boars and roe deer had not given birth but were already pregnant. Spring hunting at this time is to reduce the number of mountain livestock from the source.

You can't say that the mountain people are not kind, it's just that times have changed.

But that's all you can't see. If, as Zhao Jun said, the bloody little piglet would fall down with a crackle after being disemboweled, it would be uncomfortable for anyone watching.

"Ah..." After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Zhou Chunming clicked his eyes and said, "Who gave birth to the wild boar?"

"Yeah, Uncle Zhou." Zhao Jun said: "It is different from domestic pigs. It is born in a circle in the snow, and it can only be born after the Qingming Festival."

"Ouch!" Zhou Chunming calculated in his mind and then said: "It takes five or six months for a wild boar to carry a nest?"

Domestic pigs don't live that many days, usually more than three to less than four months.

In other words, there are specialties in the art industry. Although Zhou Chunming has been in the forest area for many years, he has never understood the birth of a female wild boar.

"Yeah." Zhao Jun nodded and said: "We want to decide before and after the Qingming Festival, and it just happens to happen, then..."

At this point, Zhao Jun smiled bitterly, and then continued: "Uncle Zhou, what should I say? At that time, those who understand can't do it. Those who don't understand will stop doing it once."

"Tsk!" Zhou Chunming thought about it for a moment. If he encountered that situation and saw the scene described by Zhao Jun...

Thinking of this, thinking of such a scene, Zhou Chunming was excited.

"It's not possible to push it back, right?" Zhou Chunming asked: "At the end of April and May, the leaves are closing the door, right?"

"Yeah." Zhao Jun nodded and said, "That will affect shooting."

Hearing what Zhao Jun said, Zhou Chunming felt a little confused. But he is not a grinder. He knows that if he wants to do something, he has to rush early, just like the Yongxing Brigade.

"Okay, Xiaojun." Zhou Chunming sighed softly and said, "I know, sir. I'll call Bureau Chu later and we will discuss it again."

"That's okay, uncle." Zhao Jun stood up and said to Zhou Chunming, "Then you are busy, I'm leaving."

After Zhao Jun said goodbye to Zhou Chunming, he and Zhou Jianjun came out of the office together. Zhou Jianjun pulled Zhao Jun out. Zhao Jun couldn't help but ask: "Brother-in-law, where are we going?"

You don't tell me what to do, but you have to tell me where to go?

"Xiaojun, let's go quickly." Zhou Jianjun gestured outward and said, "Let's catch the Forest Railway train."

"No, brother-in-law?" Zhao Jun grabbed Zhou Jianjun and asked, "Aren't you going to work?"

"I've made all the arrangements." Zhou Jianjun said, "Let's go early and come back early."

"What are you doing, brother-in-law?" Zhao Jun asked, "What's the matter?"

"Oh! Just leave!" Zhou Jianjun said nothing and dragged Zhao Jun out of the office building.

Zhao Jun followed Zhou Jianjun in confusion. The two of them went around from the front to the back of the building, taking a shortcut and heading straight to the forest farm gate.

While walking, walking, a dark shadow suddenly jumped out of the men's toilet not far away, startling Zhao Jun unexpectedly.

The man came out of the latrine and ran towards the door. Zhou Jianjun subconsciously exclaimed.

During working hours, this guy sneaks out of the forest farm. How can we not make people suspicious?

The man ran a few steps, and stopped when he heard Zhou Jianjun's call. Then he turned around to greet Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun, saying, "Brother! Brother-in-law!"

"Ruhai!" Seeing that it was Li Ruhai, Zhou Jianjun breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What are you doing, sneaky?"

"I..." Li Ruhai lowered his head and looked at his clothes. The cotton jacket and forestry work clothes were almost new, but Li Ruhai always felt like he was not suitable to be seen in public.

Zhou Jianjun did not dwell on this issue, and immediately asked Li Ruhai, "Ruhai, how is that arranged?"

"Don't worry, brother-in-law." Li Ruhai said, "The students will come tomorrow morning, and the rehearsal will be over in a short time."

"Ah..." Zhou Jianjun frowned slightly and said, "Can't let it go?"

"No." Li Ruhai smiled and said, "We basically did nothing in the first month of school. We had activities every few days, and we sang those songs by heart."

"What's wrong, brother-in-law?" At this time, Zhao Jun asked curiously. He came back from hunting the day before yesterday, and when he got home, he heard that Li Ruhai went out to do something for Zhou Jianjun. But when he asked Li Ruhai in the evening, Li Ruhai didn't say what he did.

"Ah, it's not that..." Zhou Jianjun just opened his mouth, but saw Li Ruhai winking at him.

Zhou Jianjun was stunned, and Zhao Jun, who saw this scene, questioned Li Ruhai on the spot, saying: "What's wrong, Ruhai? What can't you tell me?"

"What's wrong, Ruhai?" Zhou Jianjun also asked Li Ruhai, he didn't think it was something that needed to be kept secret.

"You can tell." Facing Zhao Jun's questioning, Li Ruhai said to Zhou Jianjun: "Brother-in-law, tell him, my brother is still reliable."

"What are you talking about?" Zhao Jun pulled the corner of his mouth, and roughly pushed Li Ruhai away, saying: "Okay, okay, I won't ask anymore."

"Brother!" Li Ruhai shouted urgently, and Zhao Jun pulled Zhou Jianjun out.

At the same time, Yong'an Middle School, Class 2, Grade 2.

The head teacher Xiao Nan, who was teaching, was called to the door by the principal and said a few words. Then Xiao Nan returned to the class and said to the students below: "Whoever I call, go to the cafeteria."

Yong'an Middle School has a cafeteria, but this cafeteria has no back kitchen and is generally used as an auditorium.

Then, Xiao Nan started to call the roll in rows. She didn't call everyone, she only picked out the points of good learning. As the class monitor, Hu Lina was not only called by name, but Xiao Nan also asked her to organize discipline. Because some students from Class 1 of Grade 2 and Class 1 of Junior High School also went with her.

Looking at the empty seat next to him, Ma Yang felt empty in his heart. When Xiao Nan turned around to write on the blackboard, Ma Yang couldn't help raising his hand and said, "Teacher."

"Ah?" Xiao Nan didn't raise the chalk in his hand, and continued to write on the blackboard, and said without looking back: "Go to the toilet."

At the end of the semester, all the courses for this semester have been completed and are in the review stage.

At this moment, some students in the class were called away, and Xiao Nan stopped reviewing. He wrote the knowledge points summarized this semester on the blackboard and asked the students who stayed to copy them. And those students who were called away were all studying hard. When they came back, they borrowed and copied from the students who stayed.

Anyway, there was no lecture, and students had to go to the toilet, so Xiao Nan didn't want to make it difficult for them.

"No, teacher." Ma Yang said, "Hu... well, what did they do?"

"We went to sing." Xiao Nan used the last bit of chalk to write two more letters on the blackboard, then turned around and took the chalk from the chalk box and said, "The forest farm will hold a party tomorrow, and ask our second and first grade students to arrange some programs."

This is the trick Li Ruhai gave Zhou Jianjun. The old men in the forest farm are tone-deaf, and the chorus is really not good. It's better to find some junior high school students to sing a small chorus.

When he said this, Zhou Jianjun remembered that the principal of Yong'an Middle School had reported to the forest farm the day before yesterday, wanting to apply for a sum of money to set up a drum band.

Zhou Jianjun didn't submit this report for the time being, just to see if these middle school students can put on a program. If the program is decent, the money can be negotiated. If the program is not good, then forget it.

Hearing Xiao Nan say this, Ma Yang stood up, raised his arm, and said, "Teacher, I want to go too."

Xiao Nan, who was about to turn around and continue writing, was startled, raised his hand and pointed at Ma Yang, saying, "Stop squinting."

After saying that, Xiao Nan rolled his eyes at Ma Yang and said, "The ones I called are all good students. Don't you know what your grades are? You should review well, don't get the last place in the exam again."

After being scolded by Xiao Nan, Ma Yang sat down unhappily.

It's not the teacher's fault for hurting the students' self-esteem. Teacher Xiao has only been here for a year and a half, and her self-esteem has been hurt by these students.

In the first semester of her class, Xiao Nan was full of confidence, but she didn't expect that the first midterm exam would make Xiao Nan depressed.

The last and second to last students in the whole grade were both in her class, and Li Ruhai, the last one, got it without any suspense and was far ahead, which pulled down the average score of the class.

In the following final exams, midterms and final exams of the first semester of junior high school, the last and second place students were still in their class, and they were still the same two.

Xiao Nan gritted her teeth and managed to hold on for two semesters in a year. It seemed that she could not hold on any longer, as the two students started working one after another this semester!

But just when Xiao Nan was full of hope again, the last place student of the whole school year appeared in their class again.

Ma Yang, although this kid's academic performance was not very good before, he was not the last place in the whole grade.

Before, Xiao Nan and the Ma family said that the reason why Ma Yang ranked last was because Zhang Laifa and Li Ruhai had joined the workforce, but in fact, Ma Yang was not that bad before.

The reason was that after Li Ruhai left, a position was vacant. After Xiao Nan moved Ma Yang to sit at the same table with Hu Lina, Ma Yang's grades began to decline slightly.

Although the decline was not much, he had not even climbed the second rib of the mountain before, and this decline was directly into the ditch.

…

"Ah? The students will come tomorrow, and we still have to arrange meals?" Zhao Jun asked Zhou Jianjun on the Sentie train.

"Of course not." Zhou Jianjun said: "Let them bring lunch boxes and go to the cafeteria to get food tomorrow. Pork stewed with vermicelli, dried tofu slices stewed with potato slices, isn't this food good?"

"This food is great." Zhao Jun nodded slightly, and at the same time thought of his brother-in-law, thinking that when the boy comes tomorrow, he will look for him all over the place. It's a pity that he has to go to find those gold treasures after attending the commendation meeting tomorrow. However, Zhao Youcai was in the cafeteria, and he would definitely not let Ma Yang down if he saw him.

The train stopped at the town station, and after Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun got off, they walked out of the station and headed north.

"Brother-in-law, what are we going to do?" Zhao Jun couldn't help asking again, but Zhou Jianjun still kept it a secret and said, "Let's go, you'll know when we get there."

The two walked about two miles north, turned east and arrived at the freight yard of the station not far away.

Zhou Jianjun took Zhao Jun to register at the guard and put his work permit at the guard.

Coming out of the guard room, Zhou Jianjun took Zhao Jun inside. Although he had never been there, Zhao Jun looked at the building in front and knew that it was going to the grain depot.

Sure enough, when they arrived at the grain depot, Zhou Jianjun led Zhao Jun to the small room to watch the grain depot. There was a man there, and when he saw Zhou Jianjun coming, the man greeted them enthusiastically.

After Zhou Jianjun's introduction, Zhao Jun knew that the man was Xu Wenqi.

Xu Wenqi led Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun out of the cargo yard and walked for more than an hour in one breath. They stopped after walking for more than ten miles.

There was a large courtyard in the south. Zhao Jun had passed by that gate in his previous life and knew that it was the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute. The locals called it the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute, but it actually did not research anything. It was just a government office.

The three of them went directly into a Muslim restaurant. Xu Wenqi greeted someone as soon as he entered the house.

The four of them sat down at the same table. After getting to know each other, Zhao Jun realized that the man was Xu Wenqi's uncle, Xu Wenliang.

The four of them drank mutton soup and ate pies. After finishing their meal, Zhou Jianjun got up to pay the bill. Then, Xu Wenliang asked the three of them to follow him home.

Zhao Jun didn't understand what this routine was, but with outsiders around, he couldn't ask more questions. He followed and walked towards Xu Wenliang's house.

Xu Wenliang worked at the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute. His home was nearby. The four of them walked for seven or eight minutes and arrived.

After Xu Wenliang opened the door and led the three people into the yard, he did not invite them into the house, but took them directly into the warehouse.

Just now, I heard a "coo" sound outside the warehouse door. I came in and saw that Xu Wenliang's warehouse raised pigeons.

These days, not many people raise pigeons. After all, people have only had enough food for a few years?

But Xu Wenqi is in the cargo yard to look after the grain warehouse. Can Xu Wenliang lack people to feed the pigeons?

Pigeons are not afraid of people after they are raised. When they see people coming in, they just flutter in or walk in on the beams.

There is a large piece standing near the door of the warehouse, but it is covered with a tarpaulin. There is pigeon droppings on the tarpaulin, but not much. It seems that this large piece should not have been moved in for a long time.

When Xu Wenqi and Xu Wenliang lifted the tarpaulin, even the wealthy Zhao Jun couldn't help but stare wide-eyed.