The whole mountain is my hunting ground

People in the Northeast sleep on a heated kang, with their heads facing the edge and their feet facing inward.

Today, six pillows were placed on the edge of the kang in the west room of the Li family.

Zhao Jun, Zhou Jianjun, and Jie Chen will all sleep at the Li family tonight.

Li Baoyu was very happy and took care of everyone enthusiastically.

Li Ruhai was very happy and kept talking, while Li Dazhi talked to Li Ruhai.

Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun were mainly to blame for this situation.

When Zhao Jun was washing his feet just now, he accidentally mentioned that today's sweet potatoes were good.

Li Baoyu and Jie Chen nodded in agreement, and Li Dazhi couldn't help but curl his lips.

Sweet potatoes are called this way, which is actually sweet potatoes with candied silk.

No matter how good this thing is, can it be as good as braised bear paws and iron pot goose?

It's just that the Zhao family is overwhelmed by eating fish and meat every day, and they feel fresh after eating sweet potatoes with candied pulp once.

At that time, Li Ruhai was eager to try, but he had not found a starting point for the topic.

But then, Zhou Jianjun asked casually: "Where did you get the sweet potatoes? We don't have any this year, right?"

"Brother-in-law, I bought them back!" Li Ruhai suddenly raised his right hand, with his forearm and upper arm at a standard 90-degree angle, and answered Zhou Jianjun's question happily.

"Ah... ha..." Seeing Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu, and Jie Chen winking at him, Zhou Jianjun also felt bad.

But in the Northeast, when chatting, it is important to "not drop words on the ground."

Li Ruhai called him brother-in-law, so Zhou Jianjun had to say: "Ruhai, you are really amazing, our purchases can't catch up with you."

This sentence is really bad!

As soon as Zhou Jianjun finished speaking, Li Ruhai stood up from the bench, stepped in front of Zhou Jianjun, and said: "Brother-in-law, how about I do purchasing for you?"

"Ah?" Zhou Jianjun was stunned. He was in charge of purchasing in the venue, but it seemed that it was not right for a 14-year-old child to do purchasing.

"Brother-in-law, I am not bragging to you..." Li Ruhai's chatterbox could not be closed from here.

He talked endlessly and eloquently, telling Zhao Jun and others about his history of making a fortune by sewing.

"Stop wasting time!" Li Baoyu tried to stop him, but he couldn't stop him at all.

If only Zhao Jun and Jie Chen came, Li Baoyu would have attacked Li Ruhai a long time ago. But Zhou Jianjun was there today, and Li Baoyu was afraid that if he did it, Zhou Jianjun would think too much.

Because beating a child in front of guests would make guests feel embarrassed, and some would misunderstand that the host did not welcome them.

Seeing that Li Ruhai couldn't hold back any longer, Zhao Jun immediately wiped his feet, got on the kang and got into the quilt.

Twenty minutes later.

"Ah... ha!" Zhao Jun, who was sleeping in the innermost, pretended to yawn, and then turned over.

With this turn, he faced the west wall and his back was facing east.

Zhou Jianjun saw this and yawned after 30 seconds, then turned over and faced Zhao Jun's back.

Next was Xie Chen, and then Li Baoyu.

From Zhao Jun to Li Baoyu, it took no more than two minutes in total.

Zhao Jun, Zhou Jianjun, Xie Chen, and Li Baoyu all lay on their sides facing west and their backs facing east.

The two people lying on the west side of the kang were Li Dazhi and Li Ruhai.

At this time, Li Dazhi couldn't stand it anymore, pretended to yawn, and then turned his back to Li Ruhai.

There were six people on the kang, and five of them were facing west.

Li Ruhai smacked his lips with relish, then turned around and slept facing the east wall.

…

At this time, the snoring in the west room of the Zhao family was deafening.

Four drunken old men could not wake each other up.

As the host, Zhao Youcai slept on the kang. Although the kang was not as warm as the head of the kang, the warm head of the kang was not as warm as the applause in Zhao Youcai's dream.

The audience was crowded, and near the stand, there was a video recorder, where female reporter Su Xianglian was waiting for an interview.

On the stage, Zhao Youcai had a big red flower on his chest, and three Siberian tigers lay in front of him.

Among them, one black, two yellow, two big and one small.

At this time, a voice seemed to come from the sky: "Everyone below congratulates our tiger-fighting hero Zhao Youcai with warm applause!"

"Wow..." The applause was like the tide of Qiantang River.

"Hahaha..." Zhao Youcai on the stage laughed up to the sky.

The applause stopped with Zhao Youcai's laughter, and then the voice sounded again.

"Comrade Zhao Youcai went to the mountains at the age of nine, and has been through ups and downs for thirty-four years. At the age of forty-three, he set a brilliant record of killing eleven wild boars with ten shots, and since then he has become famous.

After that, Comrade Zhao Youcai was even more determined to help the weak and eliminate the tiger plague. Now he has killed three tigers with two shots, and he is feared by Lingnan and Lingxi. The mountaineers in the two ridges call him a hero, and his old friends give him a nickname..."

After the voice fell, there was silence all around.

Zhao Youcai thought in his dream: "What is my nickname? Dayong hasn't thought of one for me yet."

...

The next day, which was January 10, 1988.

Wang Meilan got up at four o'clock. There were guests at home today, and they were VIPs.

According to local customs, stuffing must be wrapped to show respect.

There were too many dishes yesterday, so Li Ruhai didn't eat much of the roe deer he bought.

In the afternoon, when the men were still drinking, Wang Meilan told Zhao Ling and Xu Chunyan to chop the roe deer leg meat and waist meat cut off in the morning into meat stuffing.

After spending a long time with Wang Meilan, Zhao Ling and Xu Chunyan have figured out her ways.

The minced meat cannot be used directly as seasoning or side dish. It needs to be washed with clean water first to wash away the blood in the meat.

Then use a strainer to scoop out the meat filling, squeeze it dry and then mix it with the filling.

This is time-consuming and laborious. In the entire Yong'an Forest District, only Wang Meilan knows how to do this.

But it must be said that the meat filling prepared in this way does not have a trace of bloody smell. Then add chopped green onion and season it with appropriate seasoning.

The dough was fermented last night. Steamed dumplings here are boiled dough. Fermented dough is either steamed buns or pancakes.

Wang Meilan chose to have both, anyway, it is not difficult to change buns into pancakes.

First wrap the buns, then hold the bottom of the buns with one hand, and gently lift the bun folds with the other hand, and then roll them into pancakes.

The purpose of lifting it is to make the dead dough at the folds thinner, so that there are no thick pieces of dead dough in the pancakes.

The filling and noodles are prepared in advance, and the work will not make too much noise.

But there are guests in the west room, and Wang Meilan herself is too busy, so she went to the next room with a basin.

At this time, Jin Xiaomei and Li Dayong both got up.

When Wang Meilan arrived, the couple had already exchanged soy milk, tofu pudding, large tofu, and dried tofu from the tofu shop.

Then, Jin Xiaomei and Wang Meilan started making dumplings, while Li Dayong went out and climbed over the wall to Zhao's house, carrying firewood to light the big stove and boil water to prepare steamed dumplings.

As the big, plump buns were placed in a circle on the sorghum beam, Jin Xiaomei and Wang Meilan whispered, "Sister-in-law, you have to organize us to make a batch of these curtains in a few days, otherwise it won't be enough."

"Not enough?" Wang Meilan said while pinching the folds of the buns, "Before the New Year of the Gregorian calendar, we will make twenty."

"What will that be enough for, sister-in-law?" Jin Xiaomei said, "I heard from Baoyu that after the New Year holiday, the brothers will go up the mountain.

When they bring back more wild boars, roe deer, etc., won't they have to use curtains to hold the frozen meat outside?"

This was directed at Wang Meilan. Other people just threw the frozen meat into the snow, let it freeze for two or three hours, and then go out to pick up the frozen meat from the snow into the jar.

But Wang Meilan didn't do that. The cut meat must be stacked on the curtains, and then taken out to freeze one curtain after another.

Sometimes, the frozen meat sticks to the curtain, and you have to use the back of a knife to lift it. If you don't lift it well, the curtain will be broken.

"I don't want them to catch wild boars." Wang Meilan put the wrapped buns on the curtain and said, "The wild boars before the New Year are old and thin, and they are not delicious!"

Between late autumn and the first snow, the wild boars that have just been fattened are the fattest and the meat is the most fragrant.

The closer it is to the New Year in winter, the thinner the wild meat is and the less delicious it is.

"Sister-in-law, what do you mean?" Jin Xiaomei said, "Let's buy two pigs?"

"Oh, let's see when the time comes." Wang Meilan said, "I'll let Xiaojun and the others try their best to catch Huangmaozi and Tsien Nianchen."

Jin Xiaomei glanced at Wang Meilan and thought to herself that your Xiaojun can listen to you, and this group of people can listen to you, so how can Huangmaozi and Tsien Nianchen listen to you? Can hunting dogs listen to you?

She thought so in her heart, but she didn't dare to say such rebellious words.

"Sister-in-law." Jin Xiaomei said, "When the time comes, let my Ruhai do the catching of pigs."

The catching of pigs that Jin Xiaomei said was different from Zhao Jun and his men going up the mountain to catch wild boars, but going to the pig farmers to catch them.

"Oh!" Wang Meilan was busy with her hands, so she raised her chin and said, "Forget it, your family doesn't have to spend money!"

Yesterday, Jin Xiaomei paid for roe deer and other things. Wang Meilan wanted to give her money, but Jin Xiaomei said she didn't want anything.

"It's okay, sister-in-law." Jin Xiaomei said, "But I can't eat your food every day."

When Jin Xiaomei said this, her heart was full of bitterness. Yesterday, Li Ruhai suggested buying a watch for Zhao Jun.

Jin Xiaomei felt that this plan was very good, and she thought about Li Dayong coming back and telling Li Dayong the good news.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Jun came back first. And when Zhao Jun came back, there was an extra watch on his wrist.

Jin Xiaomei asked around and found out that it was Zhang Yuanmin and his wife who bought it for Zhao Jun.

And not only Zhao Jun had one, even Ma Ling had one.

Another road was blocked, which worried Li Dayong and his wife.

There were seven families eating, drinking and having fun together.

The Zhao family didn't count, because his family was accepting gifts. The old lady didn't count either, because she even gave the coffin money to Zhao Jun.

In this way, among the other five families, Wang, Lin, Zhang, and Jie all bought things for the Zhao family, leaving only their old Li family.

Such a situation was unacceptable to the Li family. Especially Li Dayong and Li Baoyu, one of them thought that Zhao Youcai was his own brother, and the other thought that Zhao Jun was his own brother.

…

When it was close to six o'clock, the guests in the west room of the Zhao family got up one after another.

After the winter solstice, the days were getting longer and longer, and the dawn was earlier than before.

But at this time, it was still dark.

Zhou Chunming opened the curtains and saw the fire in the stove outside.

By the light of the fire, several people saw two large pots with white steam coming out.

The buns are steaming!

Everyone went out of the house to wash and go to the toilet, waiting for them to finish cleaning.

The buns are out of the pot!

The big curtain that one person could hug was filled with steaming buns. Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu, and Jie Chen, three people, six hands, held the curtain with six chopsticks and worked together to bring the buns in the curtain into the house.

The curtain was placed directly on the table next to the side.

The buns were not very white, but slightly yellow.

But this was not because of the high alkali, but because the wheat flour ground by farmers was not particularly white.

At this time, Li Dayong, Jin Xiaomei, and Zhao Chun each came in with a basin, each containing porridge, tofu brain, and soy milk.

The porridge was freshly cooked, and the soy milk was heated.

Then, Li Ruhai brought two more side dishes, including scallion tofu and red oil dried tofu shreds.

Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu put down the buns and climbed over the wall to the next door. Zhao Jun brought the cut luncheon meat, ham sausage platter, and fried peanuts, and Li Baoyu brought a stack of pies.

"This..." Chu Anmin and Tao Dabao looked at each other, and they understood why Zhao Weipeng said that the scene of Zhao Jun's family eating was grand.

You really don't know until you see it!

Chu Anmin and Tao Dabao are both people with a certain social status, especially Chu Anmin, who not only lives in the city, but also goes on business trips to study every year.

But Chu Anmin has traveled all over the country and has never seen anyone eat like this.

"That..." Chu Anmin looked at Zhao Jun who was serving the dishes and said, "Zhao Jun, tell your mother not to cook anything. Can we eat so much?"

"It's okay, they will be here soon." As soon as Zhao Jun finished speaking, the old lady, Xie Sunshi and Su Xianglian came.

However, women don't eat at the same table with men. They set up a separate table in the east room.

"Come, come, eat while it's hot!" Zhao Youcai handed big bowls to everyone one by one. This is for serving liquid food, such as tofu brain, soy milk, and porridge. You can serve whatever you want.

Chu Anmin and others sat down one after another. At this time, Li Ruhai brought the tofu brain stew that had just come out of the pot.

This tofu brain stew is made with shredded carrots, shredded fungus, and shredded red mushrooms, and it tastes delicious.

Chu Anmin took a big bun. At this time, the bun skin was not so hot.

He broke the bun, the skin broke, and a stream of hot air rose from the meat and egg filling.

"Master Li!" Chu Anmin liked to tease Li Ruhai. Seeing that Li Ruhai was about to go out, he shouted, "You sit down and eat too!"

"I won't eat yet." Li Ruhai said with a smile, "Director Chu, I'll take a break later."

"Haha..." Tao Dabao laughed when he heard this, "This kid is really interesting. He's still taking a break. Are you sitting down?"

Just as Li Ruhai was about to speak, he was met with Li Dayong's sharp eyes. Li Ruhai was startled and swallowed a lot of words that were on the tip of his tongue.

These days, banquets in the forest areas and rural areas of Northeast China are all held at home. If there are not enough tables, chairs, benches, pots and pans, they will borrow from neighbors.

But there are many people coming, and with a gift, the whole family, men, women, old and young, will come to eat.

With so many people, it is difficult for them to sit down at once, so they have to eat in batches.

People in Northeast China call the number of groups for banquets "a few breaks".

The Zhao family set up tables in the east and west rooms at the same time. The guests and those who went up the mountain to hunt today ate in the west room. The old lady and Xie Sun accompanied Su Xianglian to eat in the east room of the Zhao family.

The reason why Wang Meilan and others and the children did not sit at the table was not because there was no place, but because they were waiting for the second pot of buns and the second pot of pies.

After Wang Meilan and the children finished eating, the five people who lived in the forest farm guesthouse came down.

There was food in the canteen in the morning, and in order to entertain them, sorghum rice and big tofu were specially stewed.

But the five people who were hungover could not eat.

But after arriving at Zhao Jun's house, Wang Meilan, who picked up the table, invited them to eat buns and drink tofu brain.

The five people did not say that they could not eat, and sat down around the table without any appointment.

So, the Zhao family had a long breakfast.

I went out to do something today, and I couldn't find the express I bought online. I went to their business point, so the update was late.

I will be early tomorrow, and I will add a joke tomorrow, and try to finish writing the video and Youcai's escape.