The whole mountain is my hunting ground

As expected of a couple, Wang Meilan wanted to treat them today, and Zhao Youcai also wanted to treat them.

As expected of a father and son, Zhao Jun wanted to wait until winter to hunt more lynxes, and Zhao Youcai thought the same way.

Therefore, Zhao Youcai wanted to invite Li Dayong and Lin Xiangshun to his home with the help of the good food he brought back from the canteen, and even drink and discuss the siege.

As soon as the train arrived at the station, Li Ruhai got off the train first with the crowd and trotted towards the village.

He was going to tell the folks in Yong'an Village the story of the young guard who bravely fought against the imp.

As soon as Li Ruhai ran away, Zhang Laifa followed him closely, but wherever Zhang Laifa went, the crowd dispersed.

This boy smelled like urine. He had been so hard for a day, and the smell became stronger and stronger.

Li Ruhai entered the village and went straight to the canteen. But before he ran very far, he met a woman who was quite familiar with him.

This woman's surname is Chen, and her name is Chen Xiaohong. When Li Ruhai was a child, Jin Xiaomei took Li Ruhai, who was only four years old, to the fields when she was working in the fields. When Chen Xiaohong saw Li Ruhai, she gave him sorghum poles to eat.

As for Chen Xiaohong, her husband's surname was Sun, so Li Ruhai called her Aunt Sun.

"Aunt Sun!" Li Ruhai ran to Chen Xiaohong and said, "I have something to tell you."

This Chen Xiaohong is also a camel dealer from six countries. When she saw Li Ruhai coming, she also said excitedly: "Ruhai, I also have something to tell you!"

To use an inappropriate analogy, gossip to Li Ruhai is like a daughter-in-law, her own is always not as fresh as others'.

Therefore, when he had gossip and Chen Xiaohong also had gossip, Li Ruhai said decisively: "Aunt Sun, you speak first!"

As soon as Li Ruhai finished speaking, Chen Xiaohong said: "Ruhai, Zhang Laibao is back!"

"Ouch!" When Li Ruhai heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up and he said, "Is he ready now?"

"It's not easy." Chen Xiaohong curled her lips and shook her head, saying, "The hospital car was pulled back by him, and his uncle carried him in. I think he can't even get off the ground."

"I have to go take a look!" After hearing this, Li Ruhai was going to Zhang Laibao's house. Such a big thing happened in the village, and I only found out about it now. Compared with this incident, the incident of Zhang Laifa being splashed with urine was nothing like it?

"Ruhai!" At this time, Chen Xiaohong called out to Li Ruhai loudly. Li Ruhai turned around and asked Chen Xiaohong in surprise: "Aunt Sun, is there anything new?"

"Yes!" Chen Xiaohong nodded and said, "Today, Zhao Jun and Big Crotch brought back a whole wild boar from the mountains."

"Oh, that's it?" Li Ruhai shook his head after hearing this and said with a smile, "My eldest brother catches pigs and beats bears. Isn't that commonplace?"

"No." Chen Xiaohong said, "They both came back alive today!"

"Alive?" When Li Ruhai heard this, he stopped in surprise and asked Chen Xiaohong: "How big is the wild boar? Is it still alive?"

"But it's not small." Chen Xiaohong said: "I heard it weighed about two hundred kilograms. They killed the pig when they came back and put it in the big pot set up in the courtyard of Lao Zhao's house. They killed the pig and cooked it."

"Pork-killing vegetables?" Li Ruhai asked in shock, "Is there a banquet at my uncle's house?"

"Yeah." Chen Xiaohong nodded and said, "There are several families here, your mother and your sister are all there."

"Oh, Aunt Sun, I'm going home first!" Upon hearing that there was such a big event at home, Li Ruhai hurried home. What kind of piss-popping kid? What kind of roast chicken comes home? Does that count as a ball?

At this time, Zhao Youcai and the others had parted ways, and Lin Xiangshun went to his house. Xunsi told Xu Chunyan that he was going to his second uncle's house for dinner in the evening.

But when Lin Xiangshun was about to arrive home, Li Yuan saw that his home was dark.

This startled Lin Xiangshun, and he ran home in a hurry. He walked into the courtyard and stood in front of the house. He opened the door and turned on the light.

When the light came on, Lin Xiangshun saw a note on the kang table with a few words written on it: "I took Dabao to my second uncle's house to eat pig meat."

Lin Xiangshun was a little confused after reading it. He only had one second uncle, Zhao Youcai. But Zhao Youcai had just asked him to eat braised pork belly with cabbage and vermicelli. Why was he eating butchered vegetables again?

With doubts in his mind, Lin Xiangshun put the note down on the table and hurried out.

But at this time, Lin Xiangshun tried to catch up with Zhao Youcai, but he couldn't catch up. Zhao Youcai, Li Dayong and Li Baoyu were almost home.

At this time, in the courtyard of Zhao Jun's house, Wang Qiang was carrying a large iron basin, and Zhao Jun used a large ladle to fill the basin with vegetables.

The aroma of sauerkraut, blood sausage, pork belly, and liver slices filled the yard and gradually spread.

This big pot of food is filled with a big pot.

How big is this big basin?

Wang Qiang opened his arms just enough to hug it.

Zhao Jun went to the house and opened the door for Wang Qiang. Wang Qiang quickly entered the house carrying a basin.

At this time, the braised pork cooked by the old lady in Zhao Jun's house was also out of the pot.

This old lady is really good at making the braised pork, which is both delicious and delicious. The jujube-red meat is alluring to look at.

After the braised pork came out of the pot, Yang Yufeng started cooking. At the same time, Jin Xiaomei handed over a bowl of beans and rice from the partition wall of the courtyard, and Zhao Ling took it and carried it into the house.

This bean rice is not steamed in a drawer, but braised directly in a large pot. This requires that there is a layer of burnt rice underneath the rice, and a large piece of it is buckled on the bean rice.

When this was placed on the kang table, a group of children gathered around.

The old lady smiled and broke open the rice cakes and gave them to the children. These children chewed the rice cakes, which had a different taste compared to the meatballs.

"Madam, you eat too." Among these children, Xiao Lingdang is the oldest and the most sensible. When she saw the old lady smiling and watching the children eating the rice cakes, she handed the rice cakes in her hand to the old lady.

The old lady was stunned for a moment, then smiled and shook her head, and said kindly: "You can eat the bell, my wife can't bite this."

After hearing this, Xiao Lingdang put the rice cake in her mouth and took a bite. The rice cake was delicious and fragrant, and the more she chewed, the more delicious it became.

After the braised sauerkraut and braised pork are served, several other side dishes will come soon.

Zhao Youcai, Li Dayong and Li Baoyu, who had not arrived home at this time, all smelled the smell of sauerkraut in the air.

Zhao Youcai sniffed and said to Li Dayong in disbelief: "Dayong, whose family is making sauerkraut?"

Li Dayong heard this and said with a smile: "Can't someone kill the pig?"

Zhao Youcai laughed and said, "Who can kill a pig at this time..."

Before Zhao Youcai finished speaking, the three of them were outside Zhao's courtyard. Through the light coming from the house, Zhao Youcai vaguely saw something standing in his yard.

Zhao Youcai hurriedly entered the hospital, followed closely by Li Dayong and Li Baoyu.

The pig-killing door panel has been removed, and the remaining pig heads, pig hooves, pig tails and skins have also been put into the warehouse.

But the earthen stove standing against the wall was still there, and with the strong smell of sauerkraut stew, a thought flashed through Zhao Youcai's mind: "What the hell are these two doing at home?"

At this moment, the door of the Li family room in the next courtyard opened, and Jin Xiaomei came out with two plates of food.

Wang Meilan had calculated before that there were five members of her family, five members of the Li family, three members of Zhang Yuanmin's family, four members of Wang Qiang's family, three members of Lin Xiangshun's family, plus an old lady, making a total of twenty-one people.

There were six women and seven children here, excluding Li Ruhai.

The eight men sat at one table, and here the women and children crowded together on the same table. Anyway, the children were probably full after eating meatballs and so on, and they wouldn’t be able to take more than a few bites before it was served.

Since there are two tables, all dishes must be served in two portions. At this time, what Jin Xiaomei brought out were two plates of shredded wild boar meat stir-fried with bracken.

Jin Xiaomei originally planned to call someone out to bring the dishes, but when she saw Zhao Youcai and the others were back, she immediately greeted Zhao Youcai with a smile, and then called Li Baoyu: "Son, come and bring the dishes in."

"Ah." Li Baoyu responded in confusion, while Zhao Youcai pointed to the earthen stove and asked Jin Xiaomei: "Brothers and sisters, what are you doing?"

"Are you going to kill the pig and cook it?" Jin Xiaomei pointed to the Zhao family's house with a smile and said, "Brother, hurry in and the food will be ready soon."

Zhao Youcai: "..."

He clenched the mesh bag in his hand, pursed his lips and said nothing.

At this moment, the door of his house was pushed open from inside. Wang Qiang came out and saw that Zhao Youcai and the others were back, and Li Baoyu was still holding dishes in his hand. Wang Qiang held the open door with his hand and said to Zhao Youcai: "Brother-in-law, what else are you looking at? Come in quickly."

Listening to the laughter of children coming from his own home, Zhao Youcai entered the house carrying a lunch box.

As soon as they stepped into the door, all kinds of aromas hit their nostrils. Xu Chunyan, who was in front of the big pot, cooking lungs in a spoon, greeted Zhao Youcai and the others: "Second Uncle, Uncle Li, Baoyu."

"Sister-in-law." Li Baoyu nodded and then handed the plate in his hand to Zhao Jun and Zhang Yuanmin.

When he saw Xu Chunyan, Zhao Youcai squinted his eyes. He thought of Lin Xiangshun who came home to report the news, and he didn't know what to say.

Li Baoyu was sincere. He smiled at Xu Chunyan and said, "Sister-in-law, my uncle asked my Shunzi brother to come home for dinner. My Shunzi brother has to go home and tell you."

"Huh?" Hearing this, Xu Chunyan glanced at Zhao Youcai in surprise and asked, "Second uncle, do you know that pigs will be killed today?"

Zhao Youcai blinked, not knowing what to say. Could it be that he came back with good food and planned to ask Lin Xiang to come over for dinner?

If this is the case, Xu Chunyan will have to think about what you are doing and let my Shunzi eat it by himself. Look at my second aunt and my brother, they killed a wild boar and let our family eat the slaughtered pig vegetables. What is the difference?

Just as Wang Meilan came out of the back room, Zhao Youcai hurried over, handed the lunch box to Wang Meilan, and said, "Lan, there are eggs here. Do you want to fry one?"

At this time, Zhao Youcai didn't mention his piece of front meat at all. He just found a way to get off the stairs. Wang Meilan didn't know what he was thinking, but she said: "Let's not deal with this, we are old enough to have more things to do."

As he spoke, the unique aroma of fried lung came out. Although pig lungs are not a precious ingredient, they have a unique flavor when fried until dry.

Still dividing it into two plates, Xu Chunyan took out the stir-fried lungs with dried chili peppers and put them on the plate, then quickly scooped out water to wash the pot. Then heat the oil in the pan again. When the oil is hot, add the shredded pork and stir-fry. Add the celeriac and stir-fry quickly.

At this time, Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong entered the back room and looked at a group of children and the old lady sitting among the children, smiling from ear to ear. Zhao Youcai quickly said to the old lady, "Aunt Jiang."

Li Dayong, on the other hand, called the old lady aunt.

The old lady smiled and nodded to Li Dayong, then waved to Zhao Youcai and said with a smile: "Second, come and see how Auntie's braised pork is doing?"

Zhao Youcai is the second in the family, and the old lady is his elder, so calling him "second" is not a curse.

Zhao Youcai stepped forward to take a look, gave the old lady a thumbs up, and said, "It looks good. I'll eat two more pieces later."

As soon as Zhao Youcai finished speaking, Yang Yufeng came in with another plate of eggplant and dry-roasted pork belly.

At this time, the table was already covered with braised sauerkraut, braised pork, fried bracken pork, fried pork with shredded beans, dried roast pork with eggplant, fried lung with dried peppers, and a plate of cubed pork slices, blood sausage, pork belly, and pig heart. The last four items are eaten with garlic paste.

Immediately afterwards, the shredded pork and stir-fried celery were served. This completes the eleven dishes.

At this time, Wang Meilan was heard shouting that dinner was ready in the outer room. Zhao Youcai raised his hand to signal to the old lady, and then walked towards the west room.

There were thirteen women and children, and the east room was larger, so it was given to them.

As soon as Zhao Youcai came out of the room, he saw Zhao Jun carrying a plate of dried radish to the west room, and Wang Meilan carrying a plate of dried radish to the east room.

This dried radish is made from large carrots and is usually dried in bunches. When eaten, it is blanched and dipped in miso to give it a chewy texture.

It can be said that this is the only dish on the table today that is vegan!

There are twelve dishes in total, let alone this forest area. In the town down the mountain, how many people can eat like this during the Chinese New Year?

Zhao Youcai entered the west room. As soon as he sat down, Lin Xiangshun came back with Li Ruhai.

At this time, I heard Wang Meilan shouting in the west room: "We are all here. Today we are preparing these twelve dishes at home. There are exactly twelve months in a year. We are all going smoothly this year. Next year It's the same! We are not outsiders, so we just eat well and we are full!"

Having said this, Wang Meilan grabbed her hand forward in the air and said, "Let's start building!"

After saying that, she sat down, picked up a piece of braised pork with her chopsticks and put it into the bowl of the old lady beside her.

Seeing Wang Meilan using her chopsticks, Jin Xiaomei, Zhao Ling, Yang Yufeng and Xu Chunyan greeted the children to eat together. These children can basically eat by themselves, but some dishes are far away from them, so adults have to help pick them up.

These children are not interested in lungs or bellies, but they like to eat the braised pork cooked by the old lady. Seeing this scene, the old lady was even happier.

At her age, the old lady is really not picky about her food. With such a large group of people accompanying her to eat, the old lady is happy to eat braised vegetables, let alone such a table of delicious dishes.

In the west room, Li Baoyu had poured the wine in circles for Zhao Youcai, Li Dayong, Wang Qiang, Zhang Yuanmin, Lin Xiangshun and himself.

"Come!" Zhao Youcai, as the host, raised his glass and said to everyone, "Let's take a sip first."

As soon as Zhao Youcai said this, Li Dayong and the others raised their glasses in response, while Zhao Jun and Li Ruhai, who did not drink, watched.

After putting down the wine glasses, everyone started to move their chopsticks. The delicious dishes on the table made people confused about what to eat.

Zhao Youcai ate deliciously, but he didn't know why, but he just wasn't as happy as he imagined.

After three drinks, Zhang Yuanmin's sudden words made Zhao Youcai prick up his ears.

Zhang Yuanmin said this to Li Baoyu beside him. He just heard him say: "Baoyu, tell me, your brother and I are thinking about training the red dog this afternoon. Unexpectedly, when we catch a pig, it will I’ll be busy with it this afternoon.”