The whole mountain is my hunting ground

These days, most families don’t have scales. Only a few businesses in the village, such as small shops, pancake shops, and tofu shops, have scales.

The Zhao family’s scale was Wang Meilan’s dowry.

When Zhao Youcai and Wang Meilan got married, the Wang family didn’t have anything decent, but Zhao Jun’s grandmother and Wang Qiang gave Wang Meilan everything they had.

All 34 small goldfish were placed on the plate. Wang Meilan moved the weight, and the three of them came over to count.

The total weight of these 34 small goldfish was 2.1 jin. This is the small goldfish of the Republic of China, each weighing about 30g.

Then there were 40 small gold ingots, with a total weight of 2.2 jin, and each one was lighter than the small goldfish.

And the 48 gold brocades, excluding the one given to Zhao Youcai, the other 47 together weighed more than 3 jin, less than 3.1 jin.

None of these gold brocades are light, and the smallest ones are bigger than the ones Wang Meilan bought.

And the total value of all the gold in front of us is about 200,000 according to the current gold price.

"Mom." At this time, Zhao Jun suggested to Wang Meilan, "Why don't you wait for my uncle to come tomorrow, and you two sisters will discuss it, and then we can talk about how to divide these things."

Zhao Jun's idea is that family affection should not be hurt because of money, and Zhao Jun didn't care about these two dollars.

"Okay, son." Wang Meilan smiled and said, "Mom listens to you."

After that, Wang Meilan looked at Zhao Youcai again.

Zhao Youcai pulled his lips and said unhappily: "You and your mother have already settled down, why are you still looking at me?"

Hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan smiled at each other. Wang Meilan gestured to Zhao Youcai and said: "Son, you will follow your father, benevolent and righteous!"

"Hmm?" Wang Meilan said nice things, but Zhao Youcai felt awkward listening to it, as if she was scolding him.

Zhao Jun smiled faintly, and at this time Wang Meilan remembered something and said to Zhao Jun: "Son, Mom has something to tell you."

"Go ahead, Mom." Zhao Jun asked: "What's the matter?"

"Someone came to my house today." Wang Meilan said: "A father and a son came from Lingnan, saying that they are relatives of Huang Gui's family, and they came to ask you to go to their place to fight big claws."

"Ah, what did you say?" Zhao Jun asked, and Wang Meilan told the truth: "Mom lied, Mom said you didn't stay at home, so... Mom didn't want you to go."

"Then don't go." Zhao Jun was slightly startled, and then smiled: "Mom, what else am I thinking about? I don't really want to go, so I won't go."

"Yeah!" Hearing Zhao Jun say this, Wang Meilan smiled and nodded heavily.

At this time, Zhao Jun asked, "Mom, are they going back just like that?"

"I invited them to dinner." Wang Meilan said apologetically, "I feel bad for making them go for nothing. I'll spend ten yuan to buy them two yingchun and four pounds of dry food."

After saying this, Wang Meilan asked Zhao Jun, "Is it okay for mom to do this?"

"That's great, mom!" Zhao Jun coaxed and praised Wang Meilan, saying, "My mom is generous."

As he said this, Zhao Jun looked at Zhao Youcai and asked, "Is it okay, dad?"

"Yes, yes!" Zhao Youcai, who was dragged into the water, nodded repeatedly. Seeing Wang Meilan looking at him, Zhao Youcai reached out and took off the big gold plate that Wang Meilan gave him, and then put it on the kang table.

"Huh?" Wang Meilan looked at Zhao Youcai in surprise and asked, "What are you doing? Here you go."

"I don't want it." Zhao Youcai smiled and said, "I just have the one you bought for me."

When Zhao Youcai said this, Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan looked at him with strange eyes.

Zhao Youcai is a strange person. He can steal wild boars shot by others, and he can also lend money to others for medical treatment; he can haggle over two or three cents, and he can also be generous to his brothers. Otherwise, Li Dayong and Zhang Lifu would not listen to him like that.

But Zhao Youcai's current behavior does not match his character. According to Zhao Jun's understanding of him, if Zhao Youcai really didn't want it, he would throw the gold brocade on the table and say "I don't want this J8 thing" which is normal.

And when he looks harmless, then this old guy is going to make trouble.

Zhao Jun knows everything, and Wang Meilan knows it even more. Seeing the mother and daughter looking at him, Zhao Youcai waved his hand and said, "You two clean up here, you've been tired all day, go to sleep."

"Ah..." Hearing this, Wang Meilan hurriedly took the leather bag that had previously contained the gold brocade and put the gold brocade here again.

As for the silver dollars, small goldfish, gold ingots, etc., they were put in separate cloth bags.

After cleaning up, Wang Meilan carried two triangular bags back to the east room. Zhao Jun poured water to scald his feet, and before getting into bed, he glanced at the pine wood box on the ground.

He was suddenly stunned.

Zhao Jun roughly calculated in his mind that although the things he picked up today were valuable, the old Pang family might not be able to use this to buy a whole building.

Zhao Jun turned off the lights and lay down, still thinking in his heart: "Could it be that the two hat boxes are valuable?"

The gold price is there, and the gold is just like that. So the only thing Zhao Jun could think of was the two hat boxes.

Zhao Jun knew nothing about antiques, but in his previous life he had heard people say that some bottles and jars were worth hundreds of millions.

Just as Zhao Jun was daydreaming, the couple in the east room were lying on the kang and chatting quietly.

"Hey?" Wang Meilan said to Zhao Youcai, "You guys shot those three roe deer very well, otherwise everyone would ask you what you did all day."

"Really?" Zhao Youcai smiled and said, "I shot all three of them."

"You shot all of them?" Wang Meilan didn't think much about it. Zhao Youcai could shoot down eleven wild boars in one go, so what were three roe deer?

But Zhao Youcai immediately said, "I just shot one shot."

"Ah?" Although Wang Meilan didn't hunt, she had shot a gun, or in that era when everyone was a soldier, women had participated in militia shooting.

Wang Meilan felt that it was impossible to shoot three roe deer with one shot, but the affirmation in Zhao Youcai's tone made Wang Meilan believe it a little.

Even if you don't believe it, Wang Meilan also said with admiration that Zhao Youcai had made a contribution today: "My old man is still amazing, none of them can do it!"

"Ah!" Unexpectedly, Zhao Youcai, who was praised, sighed and said: "You old man is frustrated!"

"Frustrated?" Wang Meilan was stunned, and patted Zhao Youcai on the back and said: "How can you still be frustrated?"

As she said that, Wang Meilan suddenly thought of something, and said to Zhao Youcai: "If you spend money again this month, I will leave you 20 yuan, okay? Don't be frustrated!"

"That... that's fine." Zhao Youcai agreed to increase the pocket money first, but he immediately said: "But... oh!"

Wang Meilan is a straightforward person and can't stand this kind of unspoken Then he stopped, so he asked: "Don't sigh, ah, what's wrong with you, just tell me."

"Lan, haven't you heard?" Zhao Youcai said with grievance: "Now everyone in the village sneers at me and calls me a butcher."

Hearing Zhao Youcai talking about this, Wang Meilan twitched her lips and said: "What can I do? It was you who killed the old cow."

When Wang Meilan said this, Zhao Youcai was speechless. He was silent for about three or four seconds before saying: "I want to find an opportunity to get my face back."

Wang Meilan frowned and said: "What do you mean?"

"I want to go to Lingnan." Zhao Youcai said: "I want to knock that big claw."

Hearing this, Wang Meilan was silent.

Zhao Youcai knew this was his only chance, so he said, "Lan, this day has been so frustrating. How could your old man have lost such a big person?"

What Zhao Youcai said was true, but Wang Meilan said, "Then you say, I won't let our son go, you..."

"Our son hasn't lost such a big person either." Zhao Youcai muttered, "That little calf is good at everything, I can't even catch up with a child."

This is the second time Zhao Youcai showed his vulnerable side in front of Wang Meilan. The last time was when he asked Wang Meilan for money to compensate the big blue bull.

In the past, even when the small treasury was confiscated and the cotton jacket and cotton pants were taken apart, Zhao Youcai was silent and stubborn.

Seeing him like this, Wang Meilan felt distressed, smacked her lips, and then said, "Then I'll let my son go with you."

After saying this, Wang Meilan regretted it. Today, Wang Meilan lied to send the Song family father and son away, just because she didn't want Zhao Jun to get involved in this muddy water. As a result, the father and son went together this time.

What Wang Meilan didn't expect was that Zhao Youcai actually refused.

"Lan, don't let your son go with me." Zhao Youcai said: "My shooting is much better than his, so I don't need him."

"That's not about whether your shooting is good or not." Wang Meilan said: "You two go together, can't you take care of each other?"

Wang Meilan didn't know that her old man called himself Zhao Erdong in front of the father and son of the Song family. If Zhao Jun went, how would Zhao Youcai be so nervous? If Zhao Jun cooperated with him, Zhao Youcai felt that he had lost face in front of his son.

At this time, Zhao Youcai asked Wang Meilan: "Can I take Qiangzi with me?"

Although Wang Qiang always criticized Zhao Youcai, he listened to Zhao Youcai more than Zhao Jun.

"Oh!" Wang Meilan sighed and said, "Let's go. I'll feel relieved if the three of you go."

"Let our son go to work." Zhao Youcai said, "How long has he been hanging around at home? The specimens have been taken. If he doesn't go to work, won't his colleagues at work be dissatisfied?"

"That's true." Wang Meilan nodded slightly, and then said, "Then let my son call Lingnan tomorrow. If you want to go, you have to communicate in advance, right? After that, you have to arrange it there, and then you and Qiangzi can go."

There must be someone to receive you in Lingnan, and food and accommodation must be arranged. So Wang Meilan said that she would go after everything was arranged.

But what if it wasn't arranged?

Wang Meilan has made up her mind, no one will let anyone go! Her family has plenty of money, why bother?

"Oh, Lan!" Zhao Youcai seemed very surprised to hear Wang Meilan say that. He stretched out his arm from the quilt, hugged Wang Meilan, and said, "You agreed, right?"

"Ah!" Seeing Zhao Youcai so happy, Wang Meilan smiled and said, "Agree, okay? Go to sleep quickly, you still have to go to work tomorrow."

"Yeah!" Zhao Youcai responded, and the couple fell asleep in less than two minutes.

At this time, Zhao Jun was in a state of half-sleep. He recalled what happened that day in his head. When he was about to fall asleep in a daze, a fragment suddenly flashed in his mind.

Xing San pointed to the pine wood box in the treasure cellar and said, "With such a big stone pressing on it, why didn't it sink (chèn)?"

The old man's words were like in his ears, and Zhao Jun suddenly woke up.

"Then there can't be anything else underneath?" Zhao Jun thought so, and the more he thought about it, the more likely it was.

And this thought made Zhao Jun unable to sleep.

…

The next day, January 2, 1988.

Zhao Jun, who had no sleep last night, didn't get up until almost six o'clock.

When he came out of the back room, Wang Meilan was filling the pot with buns.

The stuffing I chopped yesterday, and the buns Wang Meilan made this morning.

"Mom." Zhao Jun came out of the house and asked Wang Meilan, "Where is my dad?"

"Your dad is feeding the dogs outside." Wang Meilan had some food in hand and only glanced out the window. Then he smiled and said: "This day has been very positive."

Immediately afterwards, Wang Meilan called Zhao Jun to her side, told Zhao Jun that Zhao Youcai was going to Lingnan to hunt tigers, and asked Zhao Jun to stop it.

Zhao Jun agreed without thinking. He felt that Zhao Youcai had been in decline recently, so it was better not to bother.

"Mom." At this time, Zhao Jun asked Wang Meilan: "Did we kill all those three roe deer yesterday?"

"No." Wang Meilan said, "Leave one of the two for Baoyu. Don't give Baoyu to his family as well. We can't eat just these two."

Speaking of this, Wang Meilan seemed to have noticed something, so she asked Zhao Jun: "What, son, do you want the whole roe deer?"

"Yeah." Zhao Jun said, "I want to ask our team leader for a few more days off. I'll think about it for a while and give him a roe deer."

"Then give it to Baoyu's family." Wang Meilan smiled and said, "I'll give it to them someday after it's finished."

"Okay." Zhao Jun responded and walked out of the house. As soon as he went out, he saw the green tiger standing upright in front of its kennel.

All the other dogs were eating silently, but this old dog kept looking to the west.

Zhao Jun followed his gaze to the west and saw Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong, who were muttering across the wall.

"I'll go to work and ask for leave later, and I'll leave." Zhao Youcai said, "Anyway, your sister-in-law agreed."

Zhao Youcai knew that Zhao Jun was on Wang Meilan's side, so it was probably impossible for him to get Zhao Jun to help him get to Lingnan.

But Wang Meilan and Zhao Jun didn't know that Zhao Youcai was already on the line with Song Xiangchen, and there would be someone to receive him when he went there.

"Brother, I'm asking for leave. I'll go with you." Li Dayong said, "Big Claw is not like others. I'm not worried if you go by yourself."

Hearing Li Dayong's words, Zhao Youcai looked at him deeply. To be honest, Zhao Youcai also wanted to take Li Dayong there.

Of course, with Zhao's confidence in his marksmanship, he didn't think the big claws could hurt him, but he needed a companion.

But Zhao Youcai also knew that Li Dayong was too busy at work, and if he wanted to take time off, it would probably affect his work.

So, Zhao Youcai shook his head and said: "Brother, no need, you go to work when you need to, I'm fine too."

With that said, Zhao Youcai raised his hand and pointed at Li's house and said, "When you're done, go back to the house and secretly take out the barrel-mounted gun for me."