The whole mountain is my hunting ground

As Zhao Jun solved the problem of the backlog of air guns, the preparatory meeting for the first shareholders' meeting of the Zhaojia Chamber of Commerce was successfully concluded. More than half of the delegates at the meeting turned into cooks and began to prepare for today's dinner under the leadership of Wang Meilan.

There are many people eating, and many dumplings need to be made. So, two people mix the dough and two people chop the stuffing.

Jin Xiaomei and Zhao Ling mix and knead the dough, Yang Yufeng and Xu Chunyan chop the meat stuffing, and Wang Meilan puts the roe deer bones that have been removed into the pot and adds water to boil the soup.

When the soup is cooked, it will be added to the dumpling stuffing, so that the dumplings made out of it will have a soup in addition to meat and eggs in the skin.

After mixing the dough and stuffing, Wang Meilan divided a part of the dough and stuffing and gave it to Yang Yufeng and Xiao Lingdang to take home. Zhang Yuanmin still needs someone to take care of him, and the mother and daughter can't leave him alone at home.

When the dough rises, Wang Meilan takes the women to start making dumplings. There is strength in numbers, and the dumplings were sent out one curtain after another.

When Zhao Jun came back from outside, the dumplings were almost wrapped. He had just gone out to the blacksmith's furnace and asked two old blacksmiths to order ten traps.

"Uncle." Zhao Jun parked his motorcycle at the door of the warehouse. When he got off the car, he saw Xing San and Wang Qiang playing with the fat dog under the eaves.

Seeing Zhao Jun coming back, Xing San threw half a biscuit to Hei Hu. Hei Hu held it in his mouth, raised his neck, chewed it and swallowed it.

"Boy, look at how fat you are." Xing San touched Hei Hu's back and said to Zhao Jun with a smile: "How much good food does it have to eat?"

Zhao Jun smiled when he heard this, and hurriedly made up for Hei Hu, saying: "It's fat. If it doesn't eat for two days, it will fall off the scale."

"Haha." Xing San smiled and went into the house with Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang.

"Brother, go upstairs and wait for a while." Seeing Xing San coming in, Wang Meilan smiled and said, "We'll make dumplings when we hear the sound of the train."

As she spoke, Wang Meilan used a colander to fish the marinated roe deer thigh meat out of the pot.

The large piece of meat fell on the chopping board, steaming hot.

Jin Xiaomei picked up a kitchen knife and cut the meat into thin slices while it was still hot. Wang Meilan served the marinated meat soup, then cleaned the pot and fried peanuts and sweet potato cubes.

When Li Dayong, Li Dazhi, Li Baoyu, Li Ruhai, and Lin Xiangshun arrived home, marinated roe deer meat, fried peanuts, sweet potatoes, canned meat platter, stir-fried cabbage with black fungus, and roe deer ribs stewed with sauerkraut were all on the table.

As the five of them entered the house, Wang Meilan took the steaming dumplings out of the pot and put them in an enamel plate to the east room first, and then put the second pot in.

"Brother Xing is here!" Li Dayong came into the room and saw Xing San coming. He hurried forward to greet him. Li Baoyu, Li Ruhai and Lin Xiangshun followed closely.

At this time, the sharp-eyed Zhao Jun found that Li Dazhi seemed to hide after seeing Xing San.

"Sixth brother!" But at this time, Li Dayong waved to Li Dazhi and said, "Come, I'll introduce you, introduce you."

Li Baoyu and Li Ruhai separated to the sides, and the exposed Li Dazhi bowed slightly to Xing San.

"Haha." Li Dazhi laughed dryly. Before he could say anything else, Xing San narrowed his eyes, stared at Li Dazhi and said, "I think I've seen you before."

"No, no...no." The eloquent Li Dazhi stuttered a little. He looked at Li Dayong and asked, "Brother, should we call this old man uncle?"

"Oh!" Li Dayong was honest. He patted Li Dazhi on the shoulder and said, "This old man is related to Hu Mantang. Let's just follow my eldest brother and call him brother or third brother."

"Ah, haha." Li Dazhi smiled and called Xing San "brother".

Xing San responded, then looked at Li Dazhi and said, "What's your name? Who are you from? I must have seen you before."

"Hehehe..." Li Dazhi smiled and said, "Brother, we are both wanderers in the world, so why should we know each other when we meet?"

Li Dazhi's words were very good, but Xing San didn't understand them at all. The old man squinted at him and frowned as he searched in his memory.

"Brother, can you admit your mistake?" At this time, Li Dayong said to Xing San beside him, "My six brothers haven't been back for more than ten years."

"Or I said I had seen you before." Xing San said with certainty, "I have that ability. I can remember the eyebrows and eyes of people I have dealt with."

As he said that, Xing San raised his hand to block half of Li Dazhi's face in his sight, and then his eyes widened and asked Li Dazhi, "Is your father Li Dabi (ting)?"

"Ah..." Li Dazhi smiled awkwardly, but his embarrassment was not because of his father's nickname.

Rural people all have nicknames, and most of them are not positive. Just look at the Sun Auntie mentioned by Jin Xiaomei today. That's an old man, but he speaks like a woman, so he got that nickname.

Li Dayong glanced at Li Dazhi. He felt something was wrong at this moment, as if his sixth brother had offended this old man.

"Brother, Li Dabishi is my uncle." Li Dayong took over the conversation. They are all family members, and it is better to resolve the enemy than to make enemies.

"Come! Come!" At this time, Wang Meilan came in with two plates of steaming dumplings and greeted everyone, saying, "Hurry up and eat while it's hot. Son, pour wine for your third uncle and others."

Zhao Jun hurriedly followed suit when he saw this. Seeing this, Xing San didn't say anything.

Zhao Youcai was not here today. Zhao Jun was a junior and didn't know how to drink, so Wang Qiang sat with Xing San on the edge of the kang.

Zhao Jun poured the hot Xifeng wine into the wine cup for Xing San, and Wang Qiang took the chopsticks he had never used and enthusiastically picked up food for Xing San.

"Huh..." Xing San took a bite of the dumpling. The dumplings were very hot just out of the pot, but hot dumplings tasted best.

At this time, everyone sat down, and Zhao Jun looked at Li Baoyu and Lin Xiangshun.

Without Zhao Jun speaking, Li Baoyu blinked his eyes knowingly, indicating that the matter was done.

When Lin Xiangshun saw Zhao Jun looking at him, he smiled and said: "The matter is done, I just want your brother-in-law to complain."

"Huh?" Zhao Jun was startled and saw Li Baoyu laughing out loud. Zhao Jun knew that Lin Xiangshun was joking.

Sure enough, Lin Xiangshun said with a smile: "You are talking about transferring posts, what should I say to the personnel department? There are no more recruitments, I will look for Jianjun. When I went to the logistics and told Jianjun, Jianjun said, it is not easy to train a driver ”

"Haha..." Zhao Jun laughed when he heard this. Just as Wang Meilan came in with minced garlic and chili oil, Lin Xiangshun said to Wang Meilan: "Second aunt, your uncle is just watching people order dishes. Dudu said to me for a long time, and I said it It was his brother-in-law who arranged it, so he kept silent."

"Hahaha..." Lin Xiangshun's words made everyone laugh.

After the laughter subsided, Li Baoyu said to Zhao Jun: "Brother, I will go up the mountain with you tomorrow."

"What... Baoyu." Zhao Jun said to Li Baoyu: "Tomorrow morning, you and your uncle will go to Yongfu and take the commuter bus to the third section to go to the road maintenance worker. After arriving at the third section, you two wait for me for a while. The third uncle and I will go to a few shacks."

Tomorrow the four of us will go up the mountain, and we will ride on a mountain road. It is not safe for four people. Therefore, Zhao Jun asked Wang Qiang and Li Baoyu to take the commuting trolley to the third construction section.

And he and Xing San visited a few old mountain dogs along the way and talked with them about collecting leather goods.

After explaining tomorrow's transportation, Zhao Jun suddenly asked Lin Xiangshun, "Second brother, can your convoy arrange trucks for us forest guards?"

"What?" Lin Xiangshun was stunned.

Li Baoyu looked at Zhao Jun, then looked at Lin Xiangshun and said, "Brother Shunzi, we also need it for work."

"Get out of here." Lin Xiangshun scolded with a smile: "You just got transferred, and you are still thinking about leaving the convoy to pull the car out."

"Haha." Li Baoyu chuckled and saw Lin Xiangshun saying to Zhao Jun: "It's useless for you to tell me. You have to tell the dispatcher and your leader."

"Huh?" Li Dayong and Li Dazhi, who were eating dumplings, were stunned. One of them was the deputy team leader of dispatching, and the other was the leader of Zhao Jun.

What people didn't expect was that Li Dayong put down his chopsticks and said: "It can't be done now, the production tasks are so tight now. We have to wait until the tractors given to us by Zhao Weipeng arrive, and when there is time during the Great Liberation, we will think about this matter Son."

"No, brother?" Li Dazhi looked at Li Dayong and said, "What do you really have in the field and what do you have at home? You should also think about this."

Everyone laughed, and after a few dumplings were eaten, the people at work felt their stomachs rested, and Wang Qiang raised his glass to start drinking.

Dumplings are like wine, and the more you eat, the better.

Everyone ate and drank, and Zhao Jun and Li Ruhai also drank orange soda.

"Brother!" Li Ruhai held the soda bottle in one hand and held the bottom with the other, and touched Zhao Jun's soda bottle through Li Baoyu.

"What are you going to do?" Zhao Jun felt that this kid didn't hold it in well.

Sure enough, Li Ruhai smiled and said: "Brother, I will be fifteen after the Chinese New Year. After that, I will also join the Zhao Family Gang, and I will go up the mountain with you."

"Pull him down." Zhao Jun said, "You don't need to join the Zhao Family Gang. Your aunt's Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce has already recruited you."

"Ah?" When he heard that it was Wang Meilan's Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce, Li Ruhai did not dare to talk nonsense, but pretended to be flattered and said, "I still have a place in the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce?"

"That's great!" Wang Qiang gestured to Li Ruhai, then gestured to the side and said, "You and your third uncle are responsible for external relations."

"Ah?" Li Ruhai was startled, thinking that the old man and I... are you sure we are responsible for not arming ourselves?

At this time, Zhao Jun pulled Li Ruhai across Li Baoyu and said, "The third uncle is in charge of those mountain dogs. You are in charge of the mountaineers in Shiliba Village and let them sell their mountain wealth to us."

"Ah..." After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Li Ruhai understood. This has some overlap with my previous business, but I am doing it in a small way.

The Zhao Chamber of Commerce has abundant financial resources and can purchase mountain goods and then transport them to other places for sale.

Seeing that Li Ruhai remained silent, Zhao Jun added: "Aren't you willing to be an official? I told you at the meeting today that I will give you an official position."

"Ah?" Li Ruhai felt that Zhao Jun's words were a bit strange, and then he heard Zhao Jun say: "Our third uncle is the leader of the external relations team, and you are the external relations officer."

"A director again?" Hearing this, Li Ruhai couldn't help but feel a little discouraged and said, "I used to be a trade union officer and a security officer, and now I have multiple external relations officers, so I'm working with the officer."

…

After having enough wine and food, the women helped Wang Meilan put away the dishes and leftovers, and the diners took their leave as a family unit.

When Zhao Jun and Xing San were sitting on the edge of the kang, heating their feet, Zhao Jun suddenly remembered something and asked Xing San, "Third uncle, did you know Uncle Li Liu before?"

When Xing San heard this, he smiled lightly and said, "I met him once."

Seeing Xing San's expression, Zhao Jun hurriedly asked: "Did you hit him?"

"Huh?" Xing Sanyi was startled, looked at Zhao Jun in surprise and asked, "How do you know?"

Zhao Jun couldn't say that he could tell by looking at your expression, he just asked: "Why are you shouting?"

"That kid is not a good person." Xing San said: "That year, when I was walking on the south road towards Xiaohong River, he suddenly jumped down from the tree and asked me to go back, saying he was maintaining the road ahead."

"Then you beat him?" Zhao Jun asked, and Xing San said: "Your third uncle is not the one who shouts to kill and wants to beat him. I came up from the bottom of the slope, and he can look at me from the tree.

You said if you don't let me go, just call me and I won't come back like this. I was already here before he drove me back. "

"Then it's over?" Zhao Jun asked again with a smile, and Xing San said: "I grabbed them and gave them a big mouth. When it was over, Xu Changlin came over and said that this was Li Da's son, and that was all. ”

While Zhao Jun and Xing San were chatting, almost every household in Xishantun had light.

This is abnormal. After all, hooligans are not in good condition. They usually go to sleep on the kang after dinner after dark.

But today, every household either lights a kerosene lamp or lights wax. Moreover, every family has a smile on their face.

After Zhao Jun arrived in the morning, men, women, old and young rushed to the desolate place.

Even if the ground is frozen in winter, the pickaxe will dig out fox holes one by one. As the fox ran away, the women and children hit the fox with sticks and shovels.

This battle lasted until dark, and the Xishan Tun soldiers, who had won a complete victory, withdrew their troops and returned.

When they get home, they skin the fox and stew the meat. The men sit on the kang and drink wine quietly, while the women and children happily eat the fox meat.

Fox meat is not delicious, even except for the smelly glands, it is slutty and smelly, but no one is picking on it, and everyone eats it with their mouths full of oil.

Normally, even if these hooligans have meat, they will not eat so much at one time. They will save the meat and keep it flowing.

But the families who caught foxes today opened their doors to eat because they felt hope.

And hope is on those fox skins.

Wu Dalin's family.

Wu Dalin took a sip of wine, then threw the empty enamel jar on the table and said, "eldest son, pour me some wine!"

"Don't drink it." Lin Wenqin, who was arranging the fox skin, advised him. Wu Dalin rolled his eyes and shouted: "Pour it down!"

"Son!" Lin Wenqin hurriedly winked at the eldest son of her family, while fourteen-year-old Wu Xiaoshan hurriedly carried a wine bucket and poured a jar of wine for Wu Dalin.

The wine is purple in color and is made from mountain grapes picked by Lin Wenqin herself.

Wu Dalin took two swigs of wine and then said to Lin Wenqin: "With these one hundred yuan, we can buy two more rooms next year, and it will be enough for the eldest son and the second son to get wives."

…

Zhang Xinglong's family.

Everyone else had left the table, but Mr. Zhang was the only one who stayed at the table and refused to put down his glass of wine.

"You've almost got it!" Ms. Zhang Liu urged Zhang Xinglong: "We have two fox skins in total, and they only cost 20 yuan. How can you drink it like this?"

"You know nothing!" Zhang Xinglong said: "We villagers can make money, why don't they have to pay for me to lead them to that old Zhao's house? Don't they have to thank me?"

Mrs. Zhang Liu curled her lips, gave her old man a rollicking look, and casually grabbed the pipe and pot.

At this time, Zhang Xinglong said with drunken eyes: "Next year, Yushu Township will be designated as a regular village for us. Can't they choose me as the village chief?"

"Ha!" Mrs. Zhang Liu sneered and said, "Why should they choose you?"

"I'll take them to Yong'an!" Zhang Xinglong patted the table and said, "I told that boy Zhao when I got there, that kid is so good, and every uncle calls me."

"Dad! Dad!" As soon as Zhang Xinglong finished speaking, the door of the outhouse was pulled open. A man in his thirties ran into the house and shouted to Zhang Xinglong: "No, the fox has entered the village!"