The whole mountain is my hunting ground

After eating and drinking, Zhao Jun rode a big motorcycle and drove home with Wang Qiang and Jie Chen.

When they were almost home, the mountain wind blew clear snow, which stuck to the brim of Zhao Jun's hat.

It's snowing!

Zhao Jun slammed the gas pedal, increased the speed and ran home.

After a while, the sky and the earth became white.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch..."

"Woof woof woof..."

The Zhao family's dog gang stood outside the den in the wind and snow, looking up to the sky and barking, and puffs of white air spewed out of the dogs' mouths.

Amidst the barking of dogs, the motorcycle drove all the way into the yard and stopped next to two earthen stoves.

Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang, and Jie Chen got out of the car one after another. Zhao Jun waved his hands and shouted at Black Tiger, Huang Long, and Qinglong: "Go back to the nest!"

It was good that he didn't shout. When Zhao Jun shouted, the hunting dogs became even more excited, and they jumped up and down in front of the den one by one.

On a snowy day, Zhao Jun could not get close to them, so he could only follow Wang Qiang and Jie Chen into the house.

As the door closed, the hounds fell silent for an instant. Each of them stopped wagging their tails and looked at the closed door with some disappointment.

"mom."

"sister!"

"Auntie."

When the three of them entered, Wang Meilan came out with a kang broom and swept the snow off the three of them.

"Hurry up and take off the cotton-padded jackets. Get on the kang to keep warm." Wang Meilan urged the three of them. They came back on motorcycles. The outside of the cotton-padded jackets and cotton-padded monkeys were freezing cold.

Zhao Jun took off his hat and patted the snow on his pants with it. After entering the house, Zhao Jun took off the cotton monkey and his outer trousers and hung them up. Then he lay down on the hot Kang wearing a cloth shirt and cotton trousers.

At this time, Jin Xiaomei came in with a thermos bottle and said to the three of them: "Stop drinking for a while, otherwise your teeth will explode."

Wang Meilan then entered the room and looked carefully at the faces of Wang Qiang and Jie Chen. Their faces were flushed red by the wind, and it was impossible to tell that they had been drinking.

"Qiangzi, did you drink at noon?" Wang Meilan asked, and Wang Qiang responded with a smile: "Yeah, sister, I drank half a catty less with Chen Liangyou."

"But I drank a lot." Wang Meilan asked again: "Brother Li and the others come back tonight, do you still have to drink?"

"Haha." Wang Qiang said with a smile: "If you don't want to drink, I won't drink. I have so many people coming to my house these days that they give me too much to drink."

Wang Meilan smiled when she heard this, sat sideways next to Zhao Jun, raised her hand to gesture to the east room, and said: "They all said that they have been eating meat for the past few days, and they all made a noise about eating gā and da soup at night."

"Okay!" Wang Qiang said: "I can't eat meat anymore. I've been too busy these days."

"Stop talking about us." Jie Chen secretly glanced into the east room, smiled and whispered, "I'm sorry for my mother."

"Hahaha……"

After the laughter subsided, Wang Meilan stood up and said: "Then I will prepare it in a moment. At noon, Feng'er brought her the bean sprouts. Let's fry some bean sprouts, mix them with rock sugar radish, and make a few small pickles. You can drink if you like. "

After Wang Meilan finished speaking, she walked to the outhouse. When she reached the door, she suddenly remembered something. She hurriedly turned back to the edge of the kang and said to Zhao Jun: "Son, your dad called today."

"Ah?" Zhao Jun sat up from the kang in a flash. His first reaction when he heard the news was the same as Wang Meilan's in the morning. He was wondering if Zhao Youcai had gotten into trouble again?

"Your father told you that..." Wang Meilan blinked and recalled, and then said: "I asked you to take out the bluestone from our side to the Yongxing bluestone roof. There are three hangings there. sheep."

"Three hanging sheep?" Zhao Jun's eyes lit up and he asked: "Mom, what else did my dad say?"

"I didn't say anything else." Wang Meilan said, "Your father just told you to go quickly."

"Okay, Mom, I understand." Zhao Jun understood as soon as he heard it. The information provided by Zhao Youcai was obviously not well-founded.

After hearing Zhao Jun's agreement, Wang Meilan turned around and left. She didn't care about hunting at all. She only dealt with the prey.

"Little brother." Zhao Jun asked Jie Chen, "Are you leaving tomorrow?"

"Yeah, my mother!" Jie Chen pointed to the door with some embarrassment and said, "She insists on going back to find all the people in the village to come to my house and watch us on TV."

"Then you go back." Zhao Jun smiled, turned to Wang Qiang and said, "Uncle, it's up to us to knock down these three hanging sheep."

"What are you doing, nephew?" Wang Qiang said: "That thing can't be shot with a gun, and you can't stop it by grabbing its feet."

Not to mention Zhao Jun's simple trap, even the old-fashioned stupid trap couldn't keep the hanging sheep.

"Uncle, I've thought about it." Zhao Jun said: "Let's put a double-stranded condom on it, catch the outside of its feet and put a foot clip on it. It will step on the foot and lift the leg up, and then put the clip on it. ”

"Ah!" Wang Qiang understood as soon as he heard it. Although the foot trap was alive, the foot trap of the second trap must be connected to a tree or a stick.

"Brother Jun." Jie Chen also understood, but he asked with some confusion: "Then why do you need to use foot clamps? Can't you just use foot clamps?"

The foot traps they call are the most common kind of mouth traps.

"No!" Zhao Jun shook his head and explained to Jie Chen: "The hanging sheep has a strong temper, and the leg clamps are used to treat the bleeding. If it gets anxious, it will easily break its own legs with the stick."

"Isn't that right?" Zhao Jun said this, and Jie Chen didn't understand it even more. He asked: "Brother Jun, can you fix that foot clamp without causing it to bleed?"

"I'll go to the blacksmith's furnace tomorrow and I'll ask the old Hong boss to make two for me right away." Zhao Jun smiled and said, "Don't tighten the two clamps so tightly. After they are buckled together, leave a gap in the middle. Don't tighten them tightly. As long as the legs can block the claws."

After Zhao Jun said this, Xie Chen understood. But Wang Qiang felt something was wrong and said to Zhao Jun: "Nephew, cans don't seem to work. They are too fragile."

"Yeah." Zhao Jun nodded first, then raised his chin to the window and said: "I sent my sister off yesterday and brought back four milk powder cans. After that, we have a few malted milk cans in our warehouse. I will use those tomorrow."

"That's fine!" Wang Qiang felt that this was reliable and smiled: "I wonder what the hanging mutton tastes like?"

"They said it smells very muttony." Zhao Jun said: "Let's catch it and kill it to try the meat."

...

The days are short in winter, and it will be dark outside before four o'clock if it is cloudy and snowy.

Under the snow-capped mountains, the lights in every house in the small village are dim and smoke is coming out of the chimney.

In the forest area, burning firewood is free. Just looking at the smoke coming out of the chimney, you can know what the family's conditions are.

Like Zhao Jun's family, they burn the scraps left by the forest team's small trumpet for pruning and timber making.

Even so, the Zhao family had to pick the best ones and bring them back home to burn hard miscellaneous woods such as pine and ash. Therefore, the Zhao family chimney emits white smoke.

The hooligans in Xishan Village go up the mountain to pick up rotten wood and wind-broken branches to burn firewood.

These things are brought home to burn, and the chimney emits smoke of various colors.

Pulling the door open, Wu Dalin quickly jumped into his outer room, turned around and closed the door tightly, fearing that the heat in the house would escape.

"His father." Wu Dalin's wife Lin Wenqin asked Wu Dalin in Shandong dialect, "How did you do this afternoon?"

Wu Dalin's face was red from the wind, but he gestured excitedly and said, "Uncle Zhang led us to mend the big net. We will stop for a day after the snow tomorrow, and we will start working in the forest the day after tomorrow!"

After saying this, Wu Dalin squatted in front of the stove, put his hands forward to warm the fire, then tilted his head towards Lin Wenqin and whispered, "I put four traps in the poplar forest in the afternoon."

"Can it work, his father?" Lin Wenqin said worriedly, "Don't the old people say that if you can't catch the fox, you will get dirty. Don't sell it for money. Not only will you work in vain, but the fox will harm our chickens again."

"Wife, don't worry." Wu Dalin said, "Do you know what kind of person he is? In the past, he was a rich man in our Guanli! You know that when we go today, he What cigarettes did they give us? "

After saying this, Wu Dalin answered his own question without waiting for Lin Wenqin to ask, saying: "Grapes! Grape cigarettes at 25 cents a pack, they were given to us to smoke."

Lin Wenqin squinted twice, then frowned and asked: "Dad, what's the main thing? Ten yuan for a fox skin, that's too scary."

Hearing Lin Wenqin's words, Wu Dalin was stunned, then shook his head and said: "I feel that Master Zhao and Grandma Zhao can keep their word!"

"That would be great if it counted." Lin Wenqin said: "We don't need much, you can get 20 yuan for two fox skins."

"Fuck!" Wu Dalin slapped his knees, stood up and pointed in the direction of the desolate land, saying: "If it really works, I will fight them!"

...

The next day, Zhao Jun got up early, and with the help of Li Dayong, Li Dazhi and Li Baoyu, he cleared the snow in the front yard, back yard and the corridor outside the yard.

Then the four of them split up into two groups. Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu went to the old lady's house, while Li Dayong and Li Dazhi went to Zhang Yuanmin's house. Zhang Yuanmin was lying on the kang to recuperate, and Yang Yufeng and Xiao Lingdang could not clear the snow in the two yards at all.

When Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu arrived at the Jiang and Xie families, Xie Chen and Xie Sun had already cleared half of the snow.

"Mother Jie." Zhao Jun went over and said to Mrs. Jie Sun: "Come in quickly. The remaining work will be done by the three of us brothers."

"Then I don't care. I'm going to get some dog food." Mrs. Jie Sun gestured to her yard, and then said to Zhao Jun: "Xiaojun, I won't be home for the next two days. You take good care of those injured dogs."

"Ah?" Zhao Jun was stunned, then smiled: "Okay, Mother Jie. I'll drive the car over after dinner. My father left the yellow-haired dog, and I'll give it to you. I'll give you some bear paws after that."

"No, no!" Mrs. Jie Sun waved her hands repeatedly and said: "My sister saved the bear paws for your wedding banquet."

"Not until then." Zhao Jun smiled: "I'll be civilized before my wedding. My mother said she'll give you four."

"Alas!" Mrs. Jie Sun sighed and said: "My sister is still the one who helps me!"

After that, Mrs. Jie Sun shook her head and walked into the house.

Xie Chen glanced at his mother's back, curled his lips and whispered to Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu: "I can't bear to go back. I cried last night."

"Ah?" Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu were stunned. Li Baoyu said: "Didn't you say you would stay at home for two days and then come back?"

"Who knows." Xie Chen said: "I don't know what she and Jiang Nai talked about last night. They both cried."

People have feelings. Xie Sun and the old lady have been together for these days, and the two have a deep relationship.

After clearing the snow from the Jiang and Xie families, Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu carried shovels and pickaxes and walked home. On the way, Zhao Jun said to Li Baoyu: "Baoyu, go to the unit today and take a look. If you are not busy tomorrow, you can go up the mountain with my uncle and me."

The Zhao family gang is now facing a shortage of manpower. Zhang Yuanmin is still recovering from his injuries, and Xie Chen has to go home again. Fortunately, Wang Qiang abandoned the dark and joined the light, otherwise Zhao Jun would be left alone.

"Brother." Li Baoyu sighed and said, "I want to work with you in forest protection."

"Hmm?" Zhao Jun was startled when he heard this, and said, "That's really good. Why don't you go back and discuss it with my uncle and my aunt. If they agree, doesn't our sixth uncle have another quota?

After you come here, your position will still be there. After that, we brothers will go up the mountain to hunt or something, and I will give you some money. Isn't it much more than working?"

Hearing Zhao Jun's words, Li Baoyu said happily: "Brother, I really don't care about money. I see you and Xiaochen, you go up the mountain and I can't go, I'm upset."

"Haha..." Zhao Jun laughed, he knew that working as a forestry guard had a better future than being a driver in the forest farm. In a few years, the forest area will stop production, and the number of forest farm workers will be almost the same as laid-off workers.

"Brother." At this time, Li Baoyu said again: "Yesterday after we went to work, my aunt gathered my mother and others together to discuss investing money to collect mountain products. My mother invested all her money. After that, my money, my mother let me do it myself."

After Li Baoyu got married, he would separate from Li Dayong and Jin Xiaomei. Since he started working, he kept five yuan of his monthly salary for himself and gave the rest to Jin Xiaomei.

These wages were used to honor his parents, and Li Dayong and Jin Xiaomei gave Li Baoyu the money he earned from hunting, so that he could take it away after getting married.

"You join in too!" Zhao Jun said to Li Baoyu, "If you believe me, I guarantee you won't lose anything."

"I believe it!" Li Baoyu said firmly, "My mother and the others believe it, and they have discussed it very well. They said that we will build another row of sheds in the backyard of our new house.

We will have a wedding banquet, and we will set up tables in the sheds for guests. After we are done, the sheds will be converted into warehouses."

"Oh my God!" Zhao Jun laughed, "How many sheds will we need to build in our big yard?"

"That would require at least 17 or 18 sheds." Li Baoyu said, "I heard that they will all be built with wooden lattices, with doors opening from north to south and skylights."

"This is really going to be a big deal." Zhao Jun not only did not object, but also supported Wang Meilan's decision.

When the two brothers got home, Wang Meilan was carrying a bag of noodles out of the warehouse. The bag of noodles contained frozen dumplings, and she was going to have a simple breakfast today.

"You two little brothers are back?" Wang Meilan greeted Li Baoyu and said, "Baoyu, why don't you eat here?"

"Oh, Auntie, my mother should have prepared the meal." Li Baoyu said that he would not eat at Zhao's house, but walked into Zhao's yard. When he walked to Wang Meilan, he said to Wang Meilan, "Auntie, my money is also invested in our business. I'll ask my mother to bring you a lot."

"Okay." Wang Meilan smiled and said, "Wait until Sunday, Xiaochen will be back. You are not working yet, let's sit together and have a meeting. We can figure out how many shares each family has."

"Yes, Auntie." Li Baoyu nodded heavily and said, "If it were in the past, we would be the Chamber of Commerce, and you would be the president of our Chamber of Commerce!"

Zhao Jun glanced at Li Baoyu and thought that this kid was good at coaxing people. How could his mother's vanity be praised by him like this?

Sure enough, Wang Meilan's eyes lit up instantly when she heard the words.