The whole mountain is my hunting ground

Early the next morning, Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu packed their bags, led five dogs and left home, heading all the way to the Yongxing team. We walked until it was almost noon, and when we saw the Yongxing Brigade ahead, we heard someone shouting from behind: "Brother Zhao Jun, Brother Baoyu!"

The two looked back and saw Huang Gui walking towards them with a gun on his back.

"Brother Huang, are you here too?" Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu went up to greet Huang Gui.

"Yeah." Huang Gui pointed forward and said with a smile: "I know the secretary of their second team. He called our village the day before yesterday and told me to come today."

Having said this, Huang Gui paused, looked at Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu, and then asked: "Which team are you two going to?"

"Team one." Zhao Jun asked with a smile, "Are we still on the way?"

"Yeah." Huang Gui raised his arm forward and said, "Team 1 and 2, please go ahead."

While talking, the three of them walked forward together. When passing the second team, someone picked up Huang Gui at the roadside. Huang Gui separated from Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu and went to the east village with his friends.

Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu walked forward for more than two miles, and after asking the old man coming out of his hut on the roadside, they found out that the village next to them was the Yongxing team.

Seeing the two of them meet each other, the old man asked: "Young man, who are you looking for when you come to our team?"

"It was Director Tao Dabao who asked us to come here."

"Ah." The old man looked at the dogs led by Zhao Jun and others, and suddenly realized: "Director Tao, are you looking for these guys to hunt?"

"Yes." Zhao Jun nodded and said, "Isn't this your spring hunt? Director Tao asked us to come over and participate for a while."

"Then you go directly to his house?" the old man asked again.

"Um..." Zhao Jun hesitated and asked, "Isn't Director Tao very busy?"

"That's not good!" The old man tilted his head and said, "No matter how many things he does in a day, he doesn't even care about his family."

"Ah." Zhao Jun thought for a moment and then asked: "Then Mr. Tao, shouldn't he also stay at his house?"

"That's not true." The old man shook his head and said, "That old guy lives with his old son."

Hearing that the old man was called Old Tao, it seemed that the relationship between the two was quite good. Zhao Jun smiled and asked him: "Then let me go see Mr. Tao first."

Upon hearing what Zhao Jun said, the old man was a little surprised and asked, "What's going on? Boy, do you still know Mr. Tao?"

In the old man's opinion, Zhao Jun was a generation apart from Tao Fulin at his age, so it didn't seem like they could know each other.

"Yeah." But Zhao Jun said: "I met him on the mountain a while ago."

"Oh, don't say that." Hearing this, the old man slapped his thigh and said to Zhao Jun: "That old guy doesn't let the family worry at all. He carries a broken gun every day and searches for something. Going up the mountain, his second daughter-in-law is very worried."

Zhao Jun just smiled when he heard this.

In the Northeast, there are many old men and women like this. They don't mean it, but they don't think they are old. Many things that are difficult for them are regarded as a piece of cake.

Therefore, there will be some behaviors similar to showing off. Many times, it is inevitable to cause trouble for children. This is the so-called old child. Of course, when their children are young, parents will tolerate some immature behaviors of their children.

When the old man gets older and becomes a child, the children around him will have to go back and tolerate the immature behavior of the old man.

But I have to say that at Tao Fulin's age, having to hunt every day is really too much.

Seeing that Zhao Jun seemed to be disapproving, the old man suddenly became very excited and continued: "His second daughter-in-law is such a nice person. She works hard every day at home and outside. After that, she still has to worry about this old thing. "

"That... old man." Seeing that the old man was not finished talking, Zhao Jun stopped him and asked, "How are you related to his second daughter-in-law?"

"Ah!" the old man responded, "That's my niece."

Zhao Jun nodded and asked, "Where is your niece's house?"

The old man reached out and gestured to Zhao Jun, and Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu took the dog there. When passing by the small store, Zhao Jun asked Li Baoyu to look at the dog, while he went in and bought two cans and put them in his shoulder bag. inside.

Then he continued walking not far, and saw an old man fighting with a big white goose in a fenced yard in front of him, with his hands behind his back and his legs constantly raised alternately.

When Zhao Jun looked towards him, the old man also happened to look towards him. The moment their eyes touched, the old man's face instantly overflowed with a smile.

"Boy Zhao!" The old man abandoned the big white goose and went straight to the entrance of the courtyard, but the big white goose chased the old man two steps away.

The old man came out and trotted to greet Zhao Jun. As he ran, he said, "Boy Zhao, I have been waiting for you in the courtyard every day. You are finally here."

"Slow down, slow down." Zhao Jun hurriedly stepped forward to support the old man, but was afraid that he would bump into him.

"It's okay, my body is strong." Old Tao pushed Zhao Jun's hand away, although he said something dissatisfied with the old man. But although he was speaking to Zhao Jun, he turned his attention to Li Baoyu.

At this time, he also stopped, turned his head and glanced at Zhao Jun, then turned back and looked Li Baoyu up and down, murmuring: "Isn't this the person who beat the black blind man that day?"

"Why not, it's him." Zhao Jun knew who the old man was talking about, but he just ignored Old Tao. In fact, when they took the dog out this morning, they saw Zhang Yuanmin going out to empty the potty.

But a few days ago, he finally managed to get this hero back home, and Zhao Jun didn't dare to take him out again.

"Don't fool me." Tao Fulin pointed at Li Baoyu and said to Zhao Jun: "The man last time was not half as tall as this young man."

"Haha..." When Li Baoyu heard this, he laughed instantly.

Zhao Jun also laughed and said to Old Tao Tou: "Old man, what you said is too weird."

People, when they see a very tall person, they tend to describe it in an exaggerated way. Li Baoyu's height of 1.9 meters is very rare these days.

"Let's go into the courtyard!" At this moment, Old Taotou suddenly remembered that he couldn't chat outside the courtyard, and hurriedly greeted the two of them into the courtyard.

It was easy for the three of them to enter the yard, but as soon as the five dogs entered the yard, the big white goose in the yard immediately became obedient, folded its wings and ran towards the backyard.

At this time, Old Tao Tou didn't care about the big white goose anymore. He pointed at the low sheds along the west wall and said to the two of them: "Boys, tie the dogs to that shed over there. There are sacks over there and lay them on that board."

After saying that, the old man left the two of them behind and ran towards the house. When he got to the door, he opened the door and shouted inside: "My dear, hurry up, we're home."

"Who's here?" As soon as he finished speaking, a tall and stout Northeastern woman came out in a hurry.

She is Li Yunxiang, the old man's second daughter-in-law.

Tao Fulin waved his hand to Li Yunxiang, then pointed at Zhao Jun, walked in front of Zhao Jun, and said, "This is the hunting boy I told you about."

"Oops!" Li Yunxiang heard this and quickly wiped his hands on his apron twice, then quickly walked up to Zhao Jun, took Zhao Jun's hand and said, "Young man, I have to thank you. !”

"Auntie, no need..."

"No need!" Li Yunxiang said, "You don't even know how worried we were that day. If you hadn't rescued my dad, I would have hanged myself."

"No, no." Seeing this, Zhao Jun quickly changed the subject, pointed at Li Baoyu beside him, and said to Li Yunxiang: "Aunt, this is my brother Baoyu, Li Baoyu."

"Auntie." Li Baoyu stepped forward, nodded and called Li Yunxiang.

"Hey..." Li Yunxiang just agreed, and when he looked up at Li Baoyu, he couldn't help but exclaimed: "How did this child grow so tall?"

"Eighty percent of it is because the food at home is good." Old Taotou muttered from the side.

"Okay, stop talking outside, come in, come in." Li Yunxiang turned sideways, stretched out his arms, and called Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu to come into the house.

As soon as he entered the house, Zhao Jun took out two bottles of canned yellow peaches from his shoulder bag, put them on the Kang table, and said to Tao Fulin: "Old man, I didn't bring you anything this time, so I just bought you two. Bottles and cans. They say peaches nourish people, so stay at home and don't run away to the mountains all the time."

Tao Fulin was very impressed by Zhao Jun's previous words and had a smile on his face. But later, when he heard that he was not allowed to run away from the mountain, Old Tao immediately straightened his face and said, "That's not possible..."

What Old Tao Tou didn't like to hear, Li Yunxiang liked to hear it too much. She stepped forward, interrupted Tao Fulin, and said to Zhao Jun: "What this kid said is really good. When you come back next time, don't spend money on this." We have something. You two brothers will rest in the house for a while, and Auntie will get you something to eat."

After saying that, Li Yunxiang went out, carrying water to make tea, washing apples, getting melon seeds, and also took out two yellow paper bags and placed them on the Kang table.

Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu were guests. Li Yunxiang was afraid that they would be embarrassed and not know how to do it themselves, so he opened the butter paper bag himself and exposed the stove fruits and Changbai cakes inside.

Stove fruit is common, but long white cake is something that few people can handle.

"Child, you two need to prepare some food first." Li Yunxiang took a step back, pointed at the food and drink on the table, and said to Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu, "Auntie will cook for you right now."

"Daughter." At this time, Mr. Tao said: "It's almost noon. Can you give the two children something to eat?"

"Ah?" Li Yunxiang was stunned, not understanding what Tao Fulin said.

Tao Fulin looked at Li Yunxiang and said, "When a child comes to our house and brings a rice bowl for the first time, you have to give him some hard food."

"That's necessary." Li Yunxiang smiled and said, "Can you kill the goose, Dad?"

Li Yunxiang asked Mr. Tao, then raised his arm and pointed outward, saying, "Kill the remaining goose, okay?"

"Okay!" Old Tao said firmly, "It was fighting with me just now."

Women in Northeast China are also very quick to do things. Li Yunxiang will kill whenever he wants, and Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu can't stop him.

I saw Li Yunxiang gathering firewood and lighting a fire to boil water, and then walked out of the house aggressively. After a while, I heard the big geese in the yard scream "ah" and "ah".

I saw Li Yunxiang holding the goose's neck with her left hand, and tightly grasping the goose's arms with her right hand, and forced the seven or eight kilogram goose into the house.

As soon as he entered the house, Li Yunxiang's hand on the goose's neck was not loosened. He grabbed the goose's arms with his right hand and pushed it to the ground.

Then, Li Yunxiang's right hand was free, he took the cutting board from the stove and threw it on the ground.

At this time, the big goose seemed to understand something, and opened its mouth to make a final cry.

Li Yunxiang was upset when he heard the cry, and was afraid that it would disturb Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu, so he moved his hand up the goose's neck, grabbed the goose's head, pinched the goose's beak, and pushed it onto the cutting board.

Then he pulled the kitchen knife off the stove, raised the knife with his hand, and heard a click, and the goose head fell to the ground.

At this time, although the goose was dead, its body was still struggling, but Li Yunxiang grabbed and stepped on it without letting go, and quickly took a small basin from the stove and poured the goose's blood.

When the goose's blood dries up, the water in the cauldron boils.

Goose feathers can be scalded, but boiling water cannot be used.

Li Yunxiang just scooped out the boiling water. After scooping it into a bucket, the water was no longer boiling.

Li Yunxiang pushed the goose into the water, took the stove hook from the side, reached into the bucket and stirred the goose.

After two rounds of stirring, Li Yunxiang took out the goose and deflated the goose's feathers skillfully and quickly.

The goose feathers are hard to fade. They not only have feathers and feathers, but also a layer of small down on the skin.

After the hair was shed, Li Yunxiang opened up the goose, pulled out the intestines by the lantern hanger, pinched off the goose pearls, and threw away the intestines. Then he took the goose gall from the liver and threw it away.

Then, chop the big goose into small pieces, wash it twice with clean water, without blanch it, heat the oil in a hot pan, stir-fry the goose meat until the goose skin is slightly dry, then add soy sauce and stir-fry.

After the soy sauce color hung on the goose meat, Li Yunxiang poured water into the pot again, covered the pot lid, and added two handfuls of firewood. Then Li Yunxiang turned around and took off a small net bag from the south wall. After returning to the stove, he He grabbed two handfuls of dried potatoes from the net bag and put them into a small basin.

Then, she took a thermos bottle and poured boiling water into the basin.

In the Northeast, chickens have to be stewed with mushrooms, and gooses have to be stewed with dried potatoes. Otherwise, if you add other things, even fresh potatoes, the goose meat will be fishy.

The goose was put into the pot and waiting for the water to boil. Li Yunxiang placed a drawer curtain above the stewed goose and placed a basin of steamed rice on the drawer curtain.

When Li Yunxiang put the lid back on the pot, the door to her house was opened from the outside, and a voice came into the house.

"Mom, why is there a dog in our yard? Why is our big goose gone? We don't let the dog...ah? I asked you to stew it."

"Son! Come quickly!" Li Yunxiang saw the person coming, dragged him into the house, and introduced them: "This is my son Tao Fei."

After saying that, Li Yunxiang said to Tao Fei: "Son, these are your Brother Zhao and your Brother Li."

Tao Fei is eighteen years old this year, and Li Baoyu has just turned nineteen and is still one year older than him, so he has to call Li Baoyu brother.

Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu stood up politely, shook hands with Tao Fei one by one, and the three of them got on the kang to eat and drink with Old Tao.

During the conversation, talking about tomorrow's spring hunting, Tao Fei smiled and said: "Brother Zhao, Brother Li, you two came at the perfect time. My uncle asked people to pull out the cannon today."

When he heard that there was a cannon, Li Baoyu's eyes lit up, and he just said to Zhao Jun: "If we use the cannon, the big claws will also be shot down."

"This kid..." Old Tao Tou said with a smile: "How old is this kid? How can he still have big claws?"

"Why not?" Tao Fei turned around, looked at Tao Fulin, and said, "There is a Shilizi behind Xiaoxi Mountain. Didn't you say there was a Shihuzi two days ago?"