The whole mountain is my hunting ground

After dinner, Wang Meilan, Lin Xue and Yang Yufeng cleaned up the dishes and leftovers in the outer room. Zhao Chun held the child and chatted with the old lady and Li Tongyun on the kang.

It is rare for a daughter who returns to her parents' home like this to work in forest areas and rural areas.

There were few people today and there were not many bowls and chopsticks. Wang Meilan and the other three quickly finished packing and entered the east room.

Seeing Wang Meilan come in, the old lady quickly took out two dollars from her pocket and stuffed it directly into Xiao Zhou's cotton jacket.

This year, the old lady gave Zhao Jun only twenty yuan and other children, she gave two yuan.

"Jiang Mian, what are you doing?" When Zhao Chun held the money in his hand and tried to push it out, the old lady held down his hand.

"It's the Chinese New Year, give your child some money to pay for it." The old lady said, letting go of Zhao Chun's hand, and then gently touched her thoughtful fat face.

At this time, Li Dazhi winked at Lin Xue. Seeing this, Lin Xue hurriedly took out five dollars from her pocket. After tying with Zhao Chun for a while, he finally stuffed it into his thoughtful arms.

Although the old lady and Lin Xue don’t give much, the old lady is so old that she will never be able to receive gifts in her life. So, she gives me any wish.

As for Li Dazhi and Lin Xue, I have paid money this time. Because here, a girl as big as their Li Tongyun belongs to the adults.

So this year, Lin Xue gave all children five yuan in New Year's money.

Zhang Yuanmin and Yang Yufeng did not give me the money because their little bell was there. Zhou Jianjun had to come back on the spot as much thoughtful as they gave them. Instead of making trouble, it is better not to make trouble.

Seeing that it was dark, Zhou Jianjun was about to leave. No one kept them for the New Year.

A group of people sent their family of three out, but Zhao Jun drove them home.

When we arrived in Yongshengtun, the car stopped at the door of Zhou's house. It was different from the morning, and Zhao Jun did not honk the horn. But the moment the car stopped, Hu Sanmei, who was lying on the window in the room, saw it.

"Sister!" Zhao Jun took out twenty dollars from his pocket and stuffed them to Zhao Chun, saying, "This is what our father and mother gave to their eldest grandson."

When they were in the Zhao family, Zhao Youcai and Wang Meilan did not give the money because the couple gave it too much.

While Zhao Chun was chasing Zhao Jun, Hu Sanmei came out.

At this time, Zhou Jianjun had already got out of the car. Seeing that he was carrying a triangle bag, Hu Sanmei asked, "Why did you get something back?"

Everyone says that a married daughter will be a guest when she returns to her parents' home.

But in fact, usually, when a daughter returns to her parents' home, she has to work for her parents' home. Now, Zhao Jun’s family has a washing machine in the entire Yong'an Village. Most of the families who do not have a washing machine have a quilt and mattress sheet waiting for their daughter to come back to wash.

"My mother-in-law has a sausage." Zhou Jianjun smiled and said, "I have to bring us a few to taste."

When Hu Sanmei heard this, she looked into the car. Seeing Zhao Jun and Zhao Chun pulling and pulling, Hu Sanmei muttered in a low voice: "What are these two sisters doing?"

They are two elder sisters, so naturally there will be no mess, and Hu Sanmei is just puzzled.

"That..." Zhou Jianjun smiled and said, "My father-in-law and mother-in-law give the child twenty yuan. Let's fight these two sisters."

"Oh." Hu Sanmei sighed softly and said, "My in-laws and mother-in-law!"

Just as the mother and the other two were talking, Zhao Jun in the car said to Zhao Chun, "Okay, sister, don't fight with me, I, Aunt Zhou, are putting it outside."

"Ah?" Zhao Chun turned around and looked out the window. When she saw Hu Sanmei, she quickly pushed open the car door.

"Slow down, Chun'er." Hu Sanmei reached out to take Zhou Zhi next time, and Zhao Jun also came down from there.

Zhao Jun greeted Hu Sanmei and got into the car. This is etiquette, and it cannot be troublesome.

Looking at the jeep leaving, Hu Sanmei said to Zhao Chun, "Chun'er, come into the house."

"Well, mom." Zhao Chun responded, then opened his clenched hand and said to Hu Sanmei: "This child is his grandmother, give the child twenty yuan during the New Year."

"Then you can keep it for my eldest grandson." Hu Sanmei walked in with her child in her arms, and said, "After the New Year, Xiaojun got married, our family will come forward. After this gift, you don't have to worry about it. , Mom will return it back then."

...

Zhao Jun, who came out of Yongshengtun, did not rush to go home, but went to Hongxing Village more than 30 miles away.

Zhao Ling's mother's home is in this village. In the morning, Zhao Jun sent it to them and came here to pick it up again in the evening.

When Zhao Jun entered the yard, the little yellow dog in the house barked constantly.

When Zhao Jun arrived at the door, the door was pushed open from inside, and it was Zhao Ling who opened the door.

"Jun, come into the house quickly." Zhao Ling greeted Zhao Jun and said, "Your uncle is drunk too much."

Needless to say, Zhao Jun heard his uncle talking to someone in the room at the top of his voice as soon as the door opened.

Zhao Jun entered the outer room and first greeted the old lady of the Zhao family, Zhao Ling's sister-in-law and sister.

When Zhao Jun arrived at the door of the east house, he saw that the room was covered in smoke.

This is a smoking cigarette!

The room was burning quite hot. When Zhao Jun walked into the east room, he saw Wang Qiang wearing a hurdle vest, pinching a cigarette with one hand and making gestures with the other.

Zhao Jun heard this and felt that Wang Qiang's words should be the ones he hunted the 900-pound wild boar king last year.

"Oh!" Seeing Zhao Jun come in, Wang Qiang suddenly changed his voice and smiled, "My eldest nephew is here to pick me up!"

After saying this, Wang Qiang said to his father-in-law, brother-in-law, and brother-in-law who was at the same table: "My eldest nephew is... the best."

In Wang Qiang's heart, his nephew is more worthy of boasting than his killing of the 900-jin wild boar king.

At this time, the old man and uncle of the Zhao family insisted on calling Zhao Jun to the table.

At this time, everyone at the table had finished eating, and all that was left was drinking and chatting.

Zhao Jun couldn't refuse, so he had to sit down next to Wang Qiang.

Zhao Ling brought Zhao Jun a bowl and chopsticks. Zhao Jun ate a few peanuts and a piece of chicken that the old man of the Zhao family picked for him, and then put down his chopsticks and said he didn't want to eat anything.

At this time, Wang Qiang had finished talking. He was really drunk and had no intention of leaving.

Zhao Jun wanted to leave, but he couldn't make arrangements. Fortunately, at this time, Zhao Ling's voice came from the outer room, calling Wang Tian and Wang Xue to put on their clothes.

Then Zhao Ling came in, walked to Wang Qiang's side, and said, "Put on your clothes, let's pack up, pack up."

Wang Qiang heard this, his eyes widened, and asked, "What are you going to do?"

This is because he drank too much and forgot to go home.

"Go home, don't you?" Zhao Ling asked. Wang Qiang waved his hand and said, "You haven't finished the wine yet, why go home?"

Zhao Ling glanced at the table and saw that there was only a little wine left in Wang Qiang's glass. Zhao Ling was about to speak when she saw Wang Qiang drink the wine in one gulp.

Zhao Ling thought that the wine in the glass would be fine after it was finished, but Wang Qiang threw the glass on the table and shouted, "Brother, where's the wine?"

"Okay!" Zhao Ling saw this and hurriedly pulled Wang Qiang's arm and said, "Don't drink, Xiaojun is here to pick you up!"

"Ah?" Wang Qiang turned around and saw Zhao Jun, but he had a surprised expression and said, "Nephew, why did you come here?"

After asking this, Wang Qiang didn't wait for Zhao Jun to reply, and turned around and said to the people at the table, "My nephew is fine..."

Fifteen minutes later, Zhao Jun and Zhao Ling's nephew struggled to put Wang Qiang in the co-pilot of the jeep.

Wang Qiang held the car door with his hand and said goodbye to everyone in a mess.

"Third brother-in-law." At this time, Zhao Ling's second brother-in-law came over and said to Wang Qiang: "Don't forget, I told you that we would fight the black bear after the New Year!"

"Oh, what's the big black bear?" Wang Qiang waved his hand nonchalantly and said: "We have fought so many big claws."

The key to his words is the word "men".

"Okay, don't talk nonsense." Zhao Ling, who got in the car with her two children, pushed him, then turned around and said goodbye to her sister and sister-in-law.

...

Back to Yong'antun, Zhao Jun first sent Wang Qiang and others home, and then went back to his own home.

When Zhao Jun got home, the lights were on at the Li family next door.

Zhao Jun entered his own house and found that Li Dazhi's family and Zhang Yuanmin's family had already left.

"Son, are you sending your uncle home?" Wang Meilan came out and asked. Zhao Jun said, "Yeah, my uncle is drunk."

After Zhao Jun finished speaking, he went into the west room and chatted with the old lady. The old lady stayed at Zhao's house during the New Year holidays.

This was the first New Year after Mr. Jiang passed away, but judging from the old lady's condition, she was in good condition.

When Zhao Jun returned to the west room, he saw that Zhao Youcai and Xing San had already lain down. But the lights in this room were not turned off, and the two of them were not sleeping either. They were lying in bed, smoking and chatting.

Zhao Jun took off his clothes, washed his feet, and got into bed. Only then did he realize that the two people were not sleeping because they were waiting for him.

……

February 19, 1988, the third day of the New Year.

A little after six in the morning, Zhao Youcai and Xing San went out to feed the pigs and dogs as usual.

Seeing that it was getting light outside, Wang Meilan in the house went to call the two little girls to get up, while Zhao Jun replaced Wang Meilan to make dumplings in front of the stove.

During the New Year, dumplings are eaten in the morning. But the difference is that the dumplings for the New Year's Eve dinner and the morning of the fifth day of the first lunar month must be made fresh, while the other days can be eaten frozen dumplings.

After breakfast, Zhao Jun began to feed the "pets" at home.

The little black bear and the little black fat eat porridge mixed with leftovers, one bowl and one bowl are placed on the kang, with the big head in the bowl and the small head in the bowl, eating without looking up.

Zhao Jun held the little lynx in his arms and put the cut roe deer meat strips into its mouth.

The little lynx didn't seem to want to eat too much, and was still missing the oil shuttle that day.

But the oil shuttle must not be fed. Seeing that the little lynx refused to eat, Zhao Jun did not indulge it. He threw the little lynx on the kang, picked up the small bowl of meat and went to the Li family next door.

On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, only two of the four minks caught from the mountain were left. The two that died died of starvation.

Wild animals are wild and have strong tempers. Sparrows and pheasants refused to eat even when they were at home, and starved to death.

Compared with these little things, big red deer and roe deer are relatively better. They are strong and have not waited to die after fasting for a few days, but they can't hold back their appetite.

It's a pity for the two minks to die, but their fur is not damaged, so it's not a loss. The two that survived gradually accepted the reality.

What made Zhao Jun feel relieved was that the albino sable survived. At this time, a piece of roe deer meat was stuffed in, and the albino sable held it down with its front paws, and its sharp teeth quickly tore and chewed the roe deer meat.

"The little thing is quite interesting." Li Dayong praised, and Li Baoyu smiled and said, "Dad, this little thing is a cash cow."

"Yeah!" Li Ruhai smiled and said, "These two are like sparks that can start a prairie fire! In the future, the big ones will give birth to the small ones, and the small ones will give birth to the young ones, and there will be endless descendants."

Uneducated people like to interrupt.

Zhao Jun, who listened to Li Ruhai's words and stuffed another piece of meat into the cage, smiled and said, "It's not a loss, it won't be a loss anyway."

When Zhao Jun said this, the three Li family fathers and sons looked at each other, but no one spoke.

After feeding the mink, Zhao Jun prepared to go back to the next door. When he left, he invited the Li family to join him.

Just as Li Dayong, Li Baoyu, Li Ruhai and Li Xiaoqiao were putting on their cotton-padded jackets, Jin Xiaomei said, "You go first, I'll cut the garlic sprouts."

On the windowsill of the east room of the Li family, there were two deep-bottomed plates with hydroponic garlic sprouts in them.

There were seventy or eighty cloves of garlic in the two plates, which could produce two handfuls of garlic sprouts.

There were small animals in Zhao Jun's house, so his family didn't grow garlic sprouts.

However, Li Dayong, Li Dazhi, Wang Qiang, Lin Xiangshun, Zhang Yuanmin, and the old lady's families all grew garlic sprouts. The garlic sprouts cut by the six families together were not small.

Today is the third day of the New Year. According to custom, we have to eat boxes, which means harmony and beauty.

Speaking of boxes, the most popular one is definitely the chive box.

But these days, greenhouses have not yet become popular. In the northeast, there are really no green vegetables in winter. Even the big stores at the foot of the mountain sell what comes from the south.

Before the New Year, Zhao Jun went to the city to buy garlic sprouts, cucumbers and celery, which was pretty good.

Without leeks, these families planted garlic sprouts. The hydroponic garlic sprouts are tender and fresh. They are chopped and mixed with fried and cooled eggs. No seasoning is needed except salt, and the baked boxes are very fresh.

Big fish and meat are good, but no one can stand eating them every day.

Especially the Zhao family, who have been eating and drinking a lot in the past six months, and their stomachs are not short of oil and water. Although they all like to eat meat, a few bites of meat are enough.

Today, Wang Meilan also prepared eight dishes for the leek box.

Sliced ​​sausages, fried peanuts, fried knife fish, braised spareribs, stir-fried cabbage with black fungus, shredded radish with rock sugar, celery powder and stir-fried meat with garlic sprouts.

Zhao Jun didn't touch any of these dishes, and finished eight garlic sprout boxes as big as his palm in one breath.

……

Xie's family in Xiangyang Village.

A family of five ate around the kang table. There were chicken, fish, meat, and dumplings on the table.

Xie's dumplings were filled with vegetarian stuffing. The so-called vegetarian stuffing here is home-grown mung bean sprouts with vermicelli, fried eggs, or fried tofu.

Liu Lanying took a bite of the dumpling, looked up at Xie Sunshi and said, "Mom, this stuffing is okay."

"Yeah." Xie Sunshi nodded, smacked her lips, and said, "It would be even better if it had garlic sprouts and eggs."

"I didn't expect that, Mom." Liu Lanying said, "It would be nice to plant some garlic sprouts."

"Okay." Liu Lanying finished speaking, and heard Xie Zhong say, "Don't we eat this every year? Isn't this good?"

"Alas." Suddenly, Xie Sunshi sighed and said, "I'm planting the garlic sprouts over there. It should be ready to harvest."

"Then go, grandma." Xie Yingming looked at his grandma and said, "Go and harvest them, and we'll have another meal."

Xie Sunshi: "..."