The whole mountain is my hunting ground

Chapter 1406 Golden Eagle Lock and Wang Family Seal (Book Friends 202…873 Alliance Leader 15)

On the ash tree, a sharp weapon scratched three vertical lines, and then a horizontal line passed through it, which looked like the character "卅" from a distance.

It is normal to have marks on trees in the deep mountains and old forests. In addition to the gang members who leave signs, those who run down the mountain to set traps and traps will also leave marks under nearby trees. Otherwise, the traps you set up will be lost when you come back next time.

The mark on the tree over there looks like the one left by running up the mountain. But Wang Qiang took a look and thought it was a lying "王" character.

If you ask Wang Qiang why he thinks so, the answer is two words: intuition.

Wang Qiang forced himself to retract his gaze and then winked at Xing San.

Xing San, who understood what he meant, glanced around and said, "There's nowhere to look for it."

"Then what are you looking for?" Wang Qiang said, "Just lose it."

"Aren't those your sister's gifts?" Xing San found an excuse and said that the bronzes were Wang Meilan's dowry.

"That's no use." Wang Qiang pretended to be joking and said, "My brother-in-law lost it. Let my sister deal with him when we get back."

The two of them talked about it and got over it, and then asked Chen Jinmin to go down the mountain and return.

Back in Yong'an, Wang Qiang took Xing San into the village, hid the three bronzes at his house first, and then carried Xing San to Zhao's house.

When they arrived at Zhao's house, it was already noon. Wang Qiang and Wang Meilan exchanged glances and decided to eat and drink.

At nearly 1:30 in the afternoon, Zhao Jun and his three men took a Jiefang car and came to Jie's house in Xiangyang Village.

Liu Lanying, who had been notified two days ago, prepared a sumptuous meal.

Chicken stewed with mushrooms, pork stewed with vermicelli, mustard greens stewed with tofu, pickled cabbage and blood sausage, white meat, and four stir-fried dishes, exactly eight dishes.

Even so, Liu Lanying still expressed her apologies to Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu, saying some things like the light wine and vegetarian dishes, and the poor hospitality.

Xie Yingming, who was standing by, didn't take it seriously when he heard his mother's polite words. Ever since his mother came back from Yong'an, she kept complaining about how many plates and bowls Zhao Jun's family had for dinner.

Xie Yingming, who came from the city, was really worldly-wise. His second uncle was even the manager of the supply and marketing cooperative, but Xie Yingming had never seen anyone eat and drink like that.

In Xie Yingming's view, his mother, his grandmother, and his uncle praised the Zhao family so much, just to find a reason for themselves not to go home.

Logically speaking, Xie Zhong was not at home, and Xie Yingming was underage, so Liu Lanying should have asked a few relatives to come over to accompany the guests.

But Liu Lanying knew that Zhao Jun didn't drink, and the three of them had to leave today, even Jie Chen and Li Baoyu couldn't drink too much.

So, Liu Lanying simply didn't call anyone, and the mother and daughter accompanied Zhao Jun and the other two to eat.

At the dinner table, Liu Lanying asked about the recent situation of the families one by one, from men to women, from the elderly to children.

Jie Yingming secretly glared at his mother a few times. From the conversation, Jie Yingming could hear Liu Lanying's yearning for life in Yong'an.

Jie Yingming was very opposed to moving to Yong'an Village. Although he went to school in the city, he didn't go back to Xiangyang Village for a long time every year. But Xiangyang Village was where he grew up, and there were his childhood friends and his childhood friends here.

No one cared about what the child was thinking. After Liu Lanying finished eating, she went to the outer room to roll noodles.

Dumplings on the horse, noodles on the horse. Liu Lanying made hand-rolled noodles specially, and made meat sauce.

After Zhao Jun and his two friends had eaten and drunk their fill, they went to sleep on the kang in the west room.

No one slept well last night, and they fell asleep after lying on the kang for a short while.

Xie Yingming was watching TV in the east room. Last time, Xie Chen and Xie Sun brought the TV back, but they failed to take it away.

Xie Yingming turned down the volume of the TV to avoid disturbing the three people sleeping in the west room. Liu Lanying was afraid that many people would come to disturb Zhao Jun and his rest, so she took the money Xie Chen gave her and went out to deliver the wages of the households door to door.

When Liu Lanying came back from outside, it was already dark.

Liu Lanying went into the house, took off her headscarf, moved the panel to the east room, and prepared to make dumplings for Zhao Jun and his two friends.

"Son, go to the bowl rack and bring a bowl of noodles for mom." Liu Lanying instructed her son to do it, and also reminded him: "Be quiet, don't wake up your uncle Zhao and the others."

Xie Yingming was obedient and quickly brought the bowl of noodles back from the outer room, but after placing the bowl on the panel, Xie Yingming shook his hand when he pulled it out.

Liu Lanying was familiar with this action, which was inherited from the old woman. Obviously, her son was not happy.

Xie Yingming was a very good child, otherwise he would not have gone to high school in the town, but this child learned a lot of "things" from Xie Sun since he was a child, and he was always able to act up when he got angry.

But the difference was that Xie Sun was of a higher generation, so she acted openly, and everyone had to coax her. Xie Yingming was of a lower generation, and it was easy to get beaten if he acted openly, so he acted in a low-key manner.

But as Xie Yingming grew up, Xie Zhong and Liu Lanying spoiled him more and more.

Seeing her son in a bad mood, Liu Lanying coaxed him: "Son, I'll make dumplings for you later. Look how good the beef filling is."

"Yeah." Xie Yingming stared at the TV screen and replied: "How can you make dumplings for me? I'll just take advantage of it and eat two."

Liu Lanying's mouth twitched. Her son's picky behavior was exactly the same as his grandmother's, but her old lady seemed to have changed recently.

No wonder everyone said that the Zhao family was a melting pot, and those who played with money and made trouble could be melted and remade.

Thinking of this, Liu Lanying suddenly had an idea.

"Hey, Mom?" Just as Liu Lanying was thinking about it, Xie Yingming interrupted her and asked, "That Uncle Zhao, you all say his family has good food, and his family can make beef dumplings?"

"Ah?" Liu Lanying was stunned by Xie Yingming's question. She didn't know how to answer her son's question.

There is no beef in Xiangyangtun. There must be cattle raising to pull sleds here, but since it is not a forest area, it is difficult for old cattle to be injured in normal pulling.

The piece of beef in the Xie family was brought back from the city by Xie Chen's second sister a few days ago.

"Son." Liu Lanying said to Xie Yingming earnestly, "Mom should really take you out for a walk."

"What?" Xie Yingming felt something was wrong when he heard his mother's words. Xie Yingming, who had studied in the city for a few years, wanted to ask Liu Lanying, who of us mothers has never seen the world?

Liu Lanying, who was making dumplings at this time, tapped the edge of the bowl of meat filling with a flat spoon and said, "Do you think they are us? They always eat beef?"

"Always?" Xie Yingming looked at Liu Lanying in surprise and asked, "Why do they kill cattle?"

There are some things that Liu Lanying couldn't tell Xie Yingming. She only said, "Just like your uncle Wu and his family, who work with your father on the mountain with cattle and horses. The old cattle pull sleds and logs, and many of them run down the slope and break the legs of the cattle and horses. Don't they have to be killed? Son, you don't know..."

Xie Yingming curled his lips slightly. He really didn't know what his mother was going to say next. But he knew that every time his mother said "you don't know", she couldn't stop talking.

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The clock on the wall passed six o'clock, and Liu Lanying had already made all the dumplings. Zhao Jun and the other two had also gotten up.

Liu Lanying was steaming dumplings in the outer room, and Zhao Jun and the other two were tinkering with things in the house.

Xie Chen took out his box of heirlooms again. In this respect, his family is comparable to Zhang Yuanmin's.

It was because of his visit to Xie's house that Zhang Yuanmin realized his family's shortcomings. After returning home, he studied hard and finally made a pig hook.

Zhao Jun was not interested in the three-piece set for catching deer, but studied the golden eagle lock.

Birds of prey like golden eagles only live in high-altitude mountains. Not only Xie Chen's family doesn't have one, but even Zhao Jun's family doesn't have one.

Zhao Jun has never seen Xie Chen's father, but it is said that the old man is also a traveler. He went to Dahailin that year, and this set of golden eagle locks was left by him when he caught golden eagles with others in Dahailin.

Xie Chen once said that his family used to have a golden eagle claw with a tendon on it. When the tendon was pulled, the claw would shrink, and when it was loosened, the claw would open.

Zhao Jun wanted to take the golden eagle lock, but he didn't want to catch golden eagles. The thing was not valuable, not tasty, and there was no golden eagle near his home. What kind of illness did he have to go all the way to catch it?

Zhao Jun wanted the golden eagle lock because he wanted to modify it and use it to catch hanging sheep and musk deer.

Since it was caught, it must be alive. If it can be realized, the Zhao family will raise hanging sheep and musk deer, and the blood and musk of the hanging sheep can bring huge profits to them.

Zhao Jun told Jie Chen about his idea. Jie Chen not only let Zhao Jun take the golden eagle lock, but also pinned the Mongolian pick on his waist.

Then, Jie Chen knocked on the flower ash box and said with a smile: "These two things are left, give them to my elder brother."

Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu smiled when they heard it. The two things left, a small pickaxe for digging deer pits and a pair of scissors for cutting fire bulges, were really useless to them.

Suddenly, someone knocked on the door of the west room, and then a voice sounded outside: "Uncle, the meal is ready."

"Let's go, Jun Ge, Li Ge, let's eat." Xie Chen called Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu to eat. When the three of them went out, Xie Yingming was already setting the table.

Zhao Jun and the other two ate the steaming beef dumplings, filled the thermos they brought from home with hot water, and then prepared to set off.

They had to drive overnight and try to arrive in Fengtian before noon tomorrow.

Before the three got on the car, Liu Lanying stuffed four boiled eggs into each of them. Then, together with Xie Yingming, they watched the Liberation car go away.

At the same time, the diners of the Zhao family also dispersed. But Wang Qiang, who returned home, came to the Zhao family again with a bag of things.

Wang Meilan coaxed the two little girls to sleep in the east room, while Zhao Youcai, Wang Qiang, and Xing San smoked and chatted in the west room, waiting for Wang Meilan to come over to discuss matters.

In fact, Zhao Youcai didn't want to get involved with them at all. According to Zhao Youcai's idea, you went up the mountain without taking me, so why should I discuss with you?

After coaxing Zhao Hong and Zhao Na to sleep, Wang Meilan came from the east room. As soon as she entered the room, she asked Wang Qiang, "Qiangzi, you and brother, how are you today?"

Wang Meilan had been holding back this sentence for an entire afternoon and night. When Wang Qiang came back at noon, he winked at her, and Wang Meilan knew that her brother did not return empty-handed.

"Sister, what do you think that is?" Wang Qiang pointed to a bag on the ground, and seeing the bulging bag, Wang Meilan's eyes lit up instantly.

"Qiangzi, did you find something?" When Wang Meilan spoke, she had already arrived in front of the bag and untied the rope that tied the bag very quickly.

"Brother-in-law." Wang Qiang knew what was in the bag, but he didn't look at it. Instead, he said to Zhao Youcai, "Why don't you take a look? What we found today are all good things."

"Ah..." Although he was listening to Wang Qiang, Zhao Youcai looked over to give Xing San face.

Since a series of events, Zhao Youcai no longer cares about money. As for the treasures of the old Wang family, Zhao Youcai is even more disdainful.

Seeing Wang Meilan take out the hot water bottle, candlestick, and copper box from her pocket one by one, Zhao Youcai curled his lips imperceptibly.

In Zhao Youcai's eyes, they were all broken copperware, but they almost made Wang Meilan cry.

"These are all my family's things." Wang Meilan touched the three objects one by one, recalling the years she lived with her parents.

"Lan, don't prick your hands." Seeing Wang Meilan touching the candlestick, Zhao Youcai reminded her.

"Yes!" Wang Qiang echoed, saying, "That rascal Chen was also stabbed by the candlestick."

"Huh?" Wang Meilan was startled when she heard this, and looked at Wang Qiang and asked, "Why is he involved here?"

Wang Qiang told Wang Meilan what happened today. When Wang Qiang mentioned the mark on the elm tree, Xing San frowned and asked, "Qiangzi, why do I feel that the mark you mentioned is like a trap?"

Traps must be set in noisy places.

The ditch and pond are very noisy, and there is clear-cutting on the top of the south slope. That area is indeed a good mountain for setting traps to catch roe deer.

After hearing what Xing San said, Wang Qiang wanted to say that he made a judgment based on his intuition, but he was afraid that the three people would not believe it.

But at this moment, Zhao Youcai put out the cigarette in his hand, then raised his head and took over Xing San's words and said: "Brother, that was drawn by my father-in-law."

"Ah?" Wang Meilan, Wang Qiang, and Xing San were all stunned. Wang Meilan blurted out: "How do you know?"

"My father told me." Zhao Youcai said this with pride, as if he was trusted by the rich man Wang.

"What did my father say the other day?" Wang Meilan asked: "What did he say?"

"What did he say the other day?" Zhao Youcai frowned and thought: "That year... I helped my family to pack that thing, and I stole it from the brigade headquarters... After I took it out. I went over there at night and secretly gave the thing to the old man."

At this point, Zhao Youcai drew a square with both hands outward, and said: "The cloth used to wrap the thing was also ours, and there was a mark embroidered on it with that yellow thread. After that, my father told me that it was his mark."

"Pah!" Hearing this, Wang Meilan clenched her left fist and moved it to her right hand He slammed his palm and said, "That's it!"

"It must be!" Zhao Youcai echoed, saying, "Our father must have buried something under the tree."

Hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Wang Qiang asked, "Brother-in-law, can it be like the treasure omen, or an anti-omen or something?"

"No!" Zhao Youcai shook his head firmly and said, "It's under the tree."

"How did you know it?" Wang Meilan asked, Zhao Youcai said, "Our father told me."

Zhao Youcai said this very confidently and naturally, but it almost made Wang Meilan's nose crooked.

Thanks to the book friend 20200330195803873 for the leader reward. According to my habit, five more chapters will be added. This brother's name is too long, and the title cannot be typed, so an ellipsis is used in the middle instead.