The whole mountain is my hunting ground

As soon as Zhao Youcai entered the house, he heard the laughter of several young people coming from Zhao Jun's room.

Zhao Youcai rushed in and reached out to push Zhang Yuanmin and the minister aside. Zhao Jun looked back and saw that it was Zhao Youcai, so he stood up and greeted him: "Dad, you're back."

As Zhao Jun's voice sounded, the second black's chirping voice came out. At this time, Zhao Youcai could not see Erhei, but Erhei could see Zhao Youcai.

And when it saw Zhao Youcai, it even squeaked and waggled its tail.

Because Erhei remembered that it was this man who saved its life two days ago, and also washed and bandaged its wounds.

Zhao Youcai ignored Zhao Jun, just pushed him aside, and then squatted down in front of Erhei.

Seeing Zhao Youcai, the dog snarled again, and then rubbed its muzzle against Zhao Youcai's leg.

This is a good dog!

Zhao Youcai couldn't help but sigh. He touched Erhei's head and didn't say anything for a while. He was analyzing how to deal with this unexpected situation.

At this time, there was a "bah" sound coming from the outer room. Wang Meilan heated up the oil in the pot and started cooking.

Tonight, all Zhao Jun's family eats are stir-fried vegetables, including cabbage, fungus, and celery vermicelli. Both hot dishes contain meat. It was the small tenderloin that Zhao Jun left behind when he unloaded the cannon egg meat at noon today.

In addition to the two hot dishes, there are also two cold dishes, a tiger dish and a tomato with sugar.

Because there were so many people dining tonight that there was no room for one kang table, Wang Meilan took Zhao Hong and Zhao Na to eat in the east room, while Zhao Youcai and the others opened another table in the west room.

During the meal, Zhao Youcai was always preoccupied, but he did not delay his drinking at all. Zhang Yuanmin and others toasted to him, and Zhao Youcai accepted everyone who came, but he hardly spoke.

Because the two little girls had small appetites, the table in the east room was removed after a while. Wang Meilan asked the two little girls to play on the kang after dinner. After picking up the table, she rushed to the west room.

She had finished eating at this time, but she just wanted to talk, chat, and join in the fun with Zhao Jun and the others.

Seeing Wang Meilan coming, Zhao Youcai stopped talking. But Zhao Jun said to him: "Dad, I, the third uncle of the Xing family, asked me to bring you a good son."

"Huh?" Zhao Youcai was startled when he heard this. He was old and unfaithful. He had only seen him two days ago. What should he bring?

Zhao Youcai suddenly realized that the old man was probably reminding him not to forget the sorghum he had promised to him.

For a moment, Zhao Youcai almost laughed out of anger at Xing San. In order to deal with this second gangster, he, Zhao Youcai, had gone to great lengths to help him. In that day alone, I bought eight kilograms of dry food for Xing San, which cost more than one yuan.

As a result, the old man turned around and gave the dog to the little calf.

Seeing the uncertainty on Zhao Youcai's face, Zhao Jun seemed to understand something. He happened to be sitting on the left side of Zhao Youcai, so he moved closer to Zhao Youcai and said, "Dad, did you promise that old man something?"

"No, it's nothing."

The more Zhao Youcai said this, the more worried Zhao Jun became, so he hurriedly said: "Dad, that old man is a very kind man. He brought us a pheasant today. If you promised him anything, I will go and deliver it to him if you don't have time to go." .”

At this point, seeing that Zhao Youcai was still unmoved, Zhao Jun had no choice but to say: "I came back late today. My mother wanted to stew the pheasant, so she didn't want to go there, but I heard that this pheasant meat is not as good as pheasant meat." The duck is fat."

"Wild duck..." Upon hearing this, Zhao Youcai put down his wine glass and said calmly: "Nothing, I just told him last time that I will get him some sorghum rice next time I go."

Zhao Youcai had already thought about it. If he went to Xing San's place again, he would really carry a bag of sorghum rice for Xing San. But the key point is that Erhei is no longer with Xing San, and Zhao Youcai doesn't plan to go again!

But Zhao Youcai couldn't say that in front of so many juniors. He looked around the crowd and asked: "Just a little sorghum, is it still a big deal for me?"

Hearing what he said, Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan, mother and son, looked at each other but said nothing. But Li Baoyu, Zhang Yuanmin and his ministers all agreed.

To others, sorghum rice is just food, and they may not be able to buy it even with money. But for him, Zhao Youcai, it was really not a big deal. He doesn't have to spend any money. He only needs to secretly take out a handful of fine grain every time he runs a small stove. After saving it for ten and a half days, he can exchange it several times for sorghum rice.

"Sorghum rice? Don't we have it at home?" At this time, Wang Meilan said directly to Zhao Jun: "Son, when you go back next time, take the sorghum rice to others. The old man himself is in the mountains, so he won't easy."

"Ahem!" Zhao Youcai coughed lightly and stopped Wang Meilan from continuing. Then he looked at Zhao Jun and said, "Just take it to him. I will take it back when we are gone."

Compared with this family of three, Zhang Zhanshan's family seems to be much more harmonious. At the dinner table, Xu Meihua took a white porcelain spoon and poured the vegetables in the basin into the bowls of the father and son.

Tonight, Zhang Zhanshan's family ate cabbage vermicelli. This was the only dish. There was no meat in it, but there was some oily spinach.

In the past, this kind of dish was nothing to the Zhang family. But now, brothers Zhang Laibao and Zhang Laifa are devouring their food like little pigs.

There's nothing I can do about it, things are different now.

After eating two bowls of sorghum rice, Zhang Laibao put down the bowl and said to Zhang Zhanshan and Xu Meihua: "Mom, Dad, I have decided that I am going to steal Zhao Jun's dog!"

Today, Zhang Laibao still has two dogs and two bears at home, but without a dog lead, it is useless to go up the mountain.

But after listening to what Xue Limin said today, Zhang Laibao felt that there was probably no head dog that could compare to the big black cripple that Xue Limin called him.

That's called working alone on a 400-pound wild boar!

If I could steal it and match it with my two dogs and two bears, wouldn't it be invincible?

Regarding Zhang Laibao's proposal, Zhang Zhanshan said nothing else after hearing it. He just asked Zhang Laibao, "How do you want to steal it?"

Stealing is also a technical job. In the early years, you had to learn skills from a teacher.

Zhang Laibao didn't say anything. He just had this idea, but it seemed difficult to implement it.

Because there are people at Zhao Jun's house almost every day, and on rare occasions when no one is around, there are people at the Li family next door.

"Brother." Seeing that Zhang Laibao didn't speak, Zhang Laifa also asked: "His yard is full of dogs, which one do you want to steal?"

Zhang Laibao could answer this question and said directly: "I will steal that big black cripple from his house!"

"Big black cripple?" Zhang Laifa put down his chopsticks and said, "Brother, what do you mean, is he a black dog?"

"What nonsense?" Zhang Laibao said angrily: "If he's not a black dog, how can he be called a big black cripple?"

Zhang Laifa was startled, and then said: "Brother, you can't go to Zhao Jun's house and steal this dog!"

"Aren't you still talking nonsense?" Zhang Laibao frowned and said, "I want to steal Zhao Jun's dog. If I don't go to his house to steal it, how about I go to your house to steal it?"

What he said was so truthful and upright!

"Oh!" Zhang Laifa sighed after hearing this: "Brother, are you a tiger? There are so many dogs in his house, why did you steal them? It's not good, you didn't steal the dogs, why did you have to let them go? The dog will bite you to death!"

As soon as Zhang Lai said this, Zhang Laibao fell silent. He suddenly felt that his brother was right. Zhao Jun's family had a yard full of dogs, some of which weighed 180 pounds. In addition, there were two free-range puppies. One of them was accidentally bitten to death or beaten to death.

Especially since I can't run fast.

Seeing that Zhang Laibao stopped talking, Zhang Lai laughed and said, "Brother, I have a good trick."

"What's the trick?" Hearing what he said, not only Zhang Laibao, but also Zhang Zhanshan and Xu Meihua became interested.

Zhang Laifa laughed and said, "You may not know this, but I have seen Zhao Jun's big, lame black dog stealing chickens."

"Have you seen it before?" Xu Meihua was quick to speak. As soon as Zhang Laifa said something, she immediately interjected.

Zhang Laifa replied: "One morning, the big black dog from Zhao Jun's house stole a chicken. Zhao Jun wanted to beat it, but it ran out of Zhao Jun's house. He ran to the back room of our house and was stopped by the big crotch couple. At that time, I happened to go to the latrine and saw it."

"Ah!" After hearing Zhang Laifa's words, Zhang Laibao immediately asked Xu Meihua: "Mom, our family still has money?"

Hearing this, Xu Meihua looked at the vegetable soup left in the white porcelain basin. Oily flowers were floating on the vegetable soup. That's it, I don't want to feed it to the dog now, I have to save it for dipping in steamed buns to eat tomorrow morning.

"Yes!" But at this time, Xu Meihua still gritted her teeth. When she looked up again, she said to Zhang Laibao: "Son, after dinner, you stay at home and wash the dishes. I'll go to your uncle's house and borrow money for you! Lend me some money. It’s over, let’s buy chickens!”

As expected of mother and son, as soon as Zhang Laibao mentioned the money, Xu Meihua knew what he wanted to do.

"Okay!" Zhang Laibao also knew that the family was in trouble, so he immediately expressed his stance and said, "Mom, I will go into the mountains tomorrow and arrange for Big Bear and Er Xiong to stay at Second Uncle Lao Jiang's farm."

At this time, the winter sports have not yet started, and except for Xinrangchang, the tenants in other Lengchang have not yet gone up the mountain.

This morning, Zhang Laibao and Jiang Ershuan went up the mountain to take a look, and found a ditch behind Jiang Ershuan's No. 42 Lengchang. There were many jujube vines growing in the ditch, and there were also many jujubes.

So Zhang Laibao wanted to take his two bears up to the mountain to stay for a few days, so that they could eat jujubes and lighten the family's burden.

Upon hearing that Zhang Laibao was going to take the bears into the mountains, Xu Meihua was happy at first, and then asked with some worry: "Son, you can take them into the mountains, but what should I do if I meet a big black blind man?"

Zhang Laibao said confidently: "I will carry the gun on my back. After walking for a hundred or so meters, I will hold the gun in my arms. If the blind bear hears any noise from far away, it will have to run away first."

Zhang Laibao's words are true. As long as he doesn't shoot at the black blind man's head, the black blind man will not hold the gun against him.

On the contrary, if a black bear hears a gunshot from a distance, it will leave on its own initiative.

This is also the reason why, more than ten or twenty years later, when those mountain collectors went into the mountains, they would bring a pair of rattles and two kickers. After entering the mountains, they would put one on every other, so that black bears and wild boars would avoid them from a distance.

"Boss." At this moment, Zhang Zhanshan suddenly spoke. He looked at Zhang Laibao and asked, "You went up the mountain, who went to Ergudong's house to steal the dog?"

In the past, when Zhang Zhanshan was able to walk and flirt, he wouldn't have bothered others with this matter. But now, if no one helps him, he can't even get off the kang.

Zhang Laibao didn't say anything when he heard this. He just turned to look at Zhang Laifa.

Seeing this, Zhang Laifa raised his head slightly and said, "Brother, just look at me!"

Sometimes, many things are caused by a mistake in one's mind.

For example, Zhang Laibao at this time, Zhao Youcai at this time.

Maybe it's because he drank a little wine, which makes him timid. At this time, Zhao Youcai was clamoring to take Erhei to the east room and let him take care of him.

But in the east room, their family of four lived. The two little girls still have to play in the house during the day, and it will inevitably be a little inconvenient to put the injured dog in the house.

Wang Meilan didn't fight with him at first, and then she caught up with Zhang Yuanmin and Li Baoyu and wanted to go home. When Zhao Jun and Jiechen went out to see them off, Wang Meilan took the opportunity to give Zhao Youcai a pestle, and Zhao Youcai immediately went back to the east room to sleep. .

Early the next morning, Zhao Youcai got up to cook. He made big ballast porridge. When the porridge was about to be cooked, he put the washed eggs in the skin and put them into the porridge to cook.

It takes a lot of time to cook this porridge. During the process of cooking the porridge, Zhao Youcai put a drawer on top of the porridge and steamed a pot of cake. Then, potatoes and eggplants were served.

When the porridge was ready, he mashed the potatoes and mixed the miso. When the potatoes are ripe, steam will come out as soon as they are smashed.

At this time, mix in the farmhouse sauce, the heat will stimulate the aroma of the sauce, then chop the green onion and coriander, and the mountain village version of mashed potatoes is served.

As for the cooked eggplant, tear it into strips and add chopped green onion and coriander, but instead of mixing it with soybean paste, mix it with soy sauce and garlic paste.

This is the food of normal people in a northeastern mountain village. Zhao Jun's family usually has many dishes of fish and meat, which ordinary people may not be able to eat during the holidays.

In the big pot, there were small bubbles in the porridge. Zhao Youcai took out the boiled eggs and put them on a plate aside to dry. Then use a big spoon to scoop out the top layer of rice soup from the big ballast porridge.

On top of this layer of rice soup, there is a golden layer, which Northeastern people call rice oil. It comes out when the corn crumbs are boiled.

According to the old people, this is the essence of Dazai porridge.

But today, all these essences are fed to the dogs.

This was not a curse, but Zhao Youcai poured this layer of rice soup into a washed dog food bowl, then sent it to the west room and placed it in front of Erhei.

Whenever he saw Zhao Youcai, Erhei would wag his tail at him, which made Zhao Youcai both happy and sad.

The freshly cooked rice porridge was very fragrant. The six people sat around the Kang table and drank the porridge.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to serve porridge to Zhao Jun, Wang Meilan asked: "Son, are you still going out today?"

"Go out." Zhao Jun said: "I went to hunt for feet today, and then wandered around the mountain to see if I could catch a wild boar. I haven't caught any of the wild boars I promised my brother-in-law."

As soon as Zhao Jun finished speaking, he heard two roosters crowing "Oooh" outside, but compared to before, these two roosters crowed sadly.

Hearing this voice, Zhao Youcai, Wang Meilan, and Zhao Jun were all stunned, and only one thought flashed through their minds: "It's broken!"

Zhao Jun hurriedly dropped the bowl and ran outside. Although Jiechen, who had just arrived, did not understand what happened, he also hurriedly followed out. Then there was Wang Meilan. As she ran, she said angrily: "I forgot yesterday. It was like tying a tiger to a tiger, so I tied it together."

"Alas." Zhao Youcai sighed, shook his head and said, "Whoever raises a dog has to tie it up several times every day. It's like a lot of dogs."

After saying that, Zhao Youcai took a skinned egg, knocked the big end of the egg on the table, and then said to little Zhao Na: "Old girl, daddy, please pick an egg for you, or you won't be able to eat it in the future."