The whole mountain is my hunting ground

At this time, Li Dayong and Li Baoyu had already gone to work, and Li Xiaoqiao was playing with the kittens at Zhao Jun's house with Zhao Hong and Zhao Na.

Seeing the little bell coming, Wang Meilan hurriedly got up and headed to the west room, preparing to call the three little girls out.

But Zhao Youcai suddenly stood up and stopped Wang Meilan.

"Lan, you leave the house and clean up while I go." Zhao Youcai said and started walking to the west room. As he walked, he greeted the three little girls.

Zhao Hong, Zhao Na, and Li Xiaoqiao ran out of the house one after another, with Zhao Youcai following behind.

"Bell!" Zhao Hong shouted and rushed towards the little bell as soon as she left the house.

Xiao Lingdang smiled and hugged Zhao Hong, who rushed over. Then Zhao Na and Li Xiaoqiao also rushed over, and the four little girls hugged each other.

Suddenly, Xiao Lingdang saw Zhao Youcai walking behind, and hurriedly said hello: "Master Zhao."

Zhao Youcai smiled and waved to Xiao Lingdang, then followed the four little girls as if he was going to send them to school.

The four little girls were chatting, laughing, and skipping forward. Zhao Youcai followed behind with his hands behind his back, worried.

After walking to the small shop, Zhao Youcai entered the house. The Wang and Fu couple were eating in front of the counter. When they saw Zhao Youcai coming, they hurriedly greeted him: "Second brother is here!"

"Hey!" Zhao Youcai responded and said politely: "Are you eating?"

"Yeah." Wang Fu said with a smile: "Second brother, what do you want to get?"

Zhao Youcai raised his hand and gestured: "Weigh two kilograms of bald pancakes for me."

"Hey, okay!" Liu Xue, the proprietress, understood as soon as she heard it. Two two catties are two two catties, which makes a total of four catties of bald cakes.

While Liu Xue was loading dry food, Zhao Youcai came to Wang Fu and asked, "What are you busy with these days?"

"What can I do?" Wang Fu said with a smile, "I'm just busy all day long."

After saying that, Wang Fu turned around and took half a box of Golden Gourd cigarettes from the shelf, turned around and took out one and handed it to Zhao Youcai.

These days, the better smoke is Shilin. This smoke in the forest area at this time is equivalent to Huazi twenty years later. It is usually used as gifts.

Next is a box of 280 cents to welcome the spring, and a box of 240 cents to receive grapes. Further down, there is a 15-cent box of handshakes. The golden gourd is the cheapest, costing eight cents a box.

Although Wang Fu opened a shop, he usually rolled leaf cigarettes and smoked them most of the time. This golden gourd had to come to someone, and it was not an ordinary person, so Wang Fu handed him one.

Zhao Youcai took the cigarette, lit it on the fire Wang Fu lit, took a puff and exhaled the smoke, and then asked Wang Fu, "Have you not trimmed any mushrooms or fungus recently?"

"No, there is a lot of work at home these days." Wang Fu frowned and said with a wry smile, "I just drive the old cow up the mountain every now and then to collect some firewood."

Zhao Youcai nodded, leaned sideways on the counter, blew out smoke and asked, "When you were picking up firewood, did you see any traces of pigs?"

"Pig traces..." Wang Fu pondered for two seconds, and then said to Zhao Youcai: "Second brother, I didn't look at it. But yesterday they were playing chess here, Lao Zhang said, he was watching one in the mountains. Help the pigs.”

"A bunch of pigs?" When Zhao Youcai heard this, he immediately became energetic. Before the light snow solar term, when the wild boars are not in heat, eggs will not enter the pig herd.

So today's pig helpers are all old sows leading the piglets. And what Zhao Youcai wants to catch is the female wild boar.

So, Zhao Youcai hurriedly asked Wang Fu: "Did they say where to put it?"

When Wang Fu heard this, he turned to Liu Xue and asked, "Daughter-in-law, did you listen yesterday?"

"He didn't say anything either." Liu Xue replied with a smile, and then asked Zhao Youcai, "Second brother, what's going on? Do you still want to fight?"

"Ah!" Zhao Youcai responded simply, and then said to Wang Fu: "Brother, please help me pay more attention this time to see if there are any traces of wild boars."

"Second brother!" As soon as Zhao Youcai finished speaking, Liu Xue interjected: "If you want to beat those pigs, you should find your brother-in-law."

Zhao Youcai was startled and said, "Qiangzi?"

"Ah!" Liu Xue nodded and said, "I think after the three cripples finished speaking yesterday, Wang Qiang took one of his children away."

After saying that, she held up the rope buckle and handed the two butter paper packets to Zhao Youcai.

Zhao Youcai didn't take it, but said, "I'll leave it here for now. I'll come and get it later."

After saying that, Zhao Youcai waved his hand to Wang Fu again and said, "Let's go!"

Wang Fu hurriedly walked out from behind the counter, took two steps toward the door, and said, "Second brother, slow down."

Zhao Youcai came out of the small store and walked quickly to Wang Qiang's house. In fact, even if Wang and his wife did not provide this information, Zhao Youcai planned to find Wang Qiang.

After all, Li Dayong and Lin Xiangshun both went to work. If Zhao Youcai went up the mountain by himself, he would have to pick up more than ten dogs, which he would not be able to take care of himself. Secondly, to catch the wild boar, someone must carry it with him. Therefore, Zhao Youcai wanted to find Wang Qiang.

And now I see that Wang Qiang also knows the news about helping Zhu, isn't that just right?

Coincidentally, when Zhao Youcai came outside Wang Qiang's courtyard, Wang Qiang was walking out with his casing gun on his back.

"Ouch!" When he saw Zhao Youcai, Wang Qiang asked in surprise: "Brother-in-law, why didn't you go to work?"

"Ah!" Zhao Youcai replied: "Today your sister and Xiaojun are going to the city...to sell leather, while I stay at home and look after the house."

When Wang Qiang heard this, he nodded and said, "Okay, then you wait while I hunt the wild boar, and I'll give you the meat."

After saying that, Wang Qiang took a step to leave.

"Hey, hey!" Upon hearing this, Zhao Youcai grabbed Wang Qiang's arm. Wang Qiang looked at Zhao Youcai in surprise and asked, "What's going on? Brother-in-law, are you okay?"

"Wait a moment!" Zhao Youcai whispered, then glanced left and right.

Seeing this, Wang Qiang reached into his trouser pocket, took out a handful of dimes, and said to Zhao Youcai, "Brother-in-law, how much do you want?"

Zhao Youcai glanced at Wang Qiang's hand, and then said: "Just some money here, pick it up quickly. Since when has your brother-in-law been short of money? Last night, I gave your sister ten yuan directly and asked her to buy something today. .”

Wang Qiang, expressionless, put the money in his pocket and said, "Then you are really filial."

"That's..." Zhao Youcai suddenly realized something was wrong, reached out and pushed Wang Qiang's shoulder, and said, "Are you looking for a cut?"

Wang Qiang didn't take Zhao Youcai's cruel words to heart, and just asked: "Brother-in-law, what are you going to do? If you want something to happen, just tell me quickly; if you want to be okay, I'll leave. They were lying in the mountains yesterday watching a Help the pig, I’m going to take a stroll today.”

"That's why I'm here!" Zhao Youcai grabbed Wang Qiang's arm with one hand and supported Wang Qiang's back with the other. He carried his brother-in-law to the willow tree next to him and whispered: "Wait for me at the entrance of the village first. I'll find him later. you go!"

"Ah?" Wang Qiang was stunned when he heard Zhao Youcai's words, frowned and asked, "What are you doing with me?"

"Let's make a siege!" Zhao Youcai said to Wang Qiang: "Yesterday I took on a big job. It was an old sow weighing about 200 kilograms. It was weighed directly without bleeding and weighed 65 cents per kilogram."

"No bloodletting?" Wang Qiang asked in surprise: "Then it won't stink?"

Zhao Youcai looked sideways and said, "Catch them alive!"

"Caught alive?" Wang Qiang looked Zhao Youcai up and down, nodded and said, "I understand what you mean, then if you don't stay at home, what will my nieces eat when they come back at noon? How about you let them come to my house to eat?"

"Then when she comes home, she says that she ate at your house for lunch. Doesn't your sister know about it?" Zhao Youcai said: "After his mother and I leave, I will cook. The dry food will not cool even if it is left in the pot. Come back at noon, They took it and ate it themselves.”

Wang Qiang was confused and asked: "Then don't you know that my sister is back?"

"What do you know?" Zhao Youcai said, "I just said I was visiting."

Hearing Zhao Youcai's words, Wang Qiang blinked his eyes and curled his lips and said, "You said you even lied to my sister and stole my nephew's dog."

"Who stole it!" Zhao Youcai said angrily: "He is my son, isn't what's his mine?"

Wang Qiang said: "I heard people say that what belongs to the father belongs to the son."

"Get out of here!" Zhao Youcai cursed, and then asked Wang Qiang, "Where are they watching the Pig Gang?"

"76." Wang Qiang said: "The top class of 76, go to the north and south hills where we dug out the warehouse back then."

"Ah!" Wang Qiang said this, and Zhao Youcai suddenly felt something. He had been living in this mountain farm since he was a child, and he knew the terrain of this mountain very well.

Suddenly, Zhao Youcai thought of something.

That 76-leng field was very close to the 77-leng field where his son was measuring rulers. Moreover, the leader of 77 Lengchang seems to have given many gifts to his son. Not to mention the unusable electric prods at home, they are so fat that it seems to be the one who gave the head away.

Zhao Youcai had an idea and thought that when he caught the wild boar, he could go directly to 77 Lengchang to find someone. Let the head give out the sledge, help him transport the wild boar to the forest farm, and exchange money directly with Liu Renshan.

Thinking of this, four words came to Zhao Youcai's mind: God help me!

So, Zhao Youcai said to Wang Qiang: "Now go to Lao Wang's store and take the bald pancakes I bought. When you are done, go to Tundongtou and wait for me!"

When Wang Qiang heard this, he took half a step back, looked at Zhao Youcai and said, "If you didn't tell me that time, wouldn't you stop fighting with us in the future?"

The last time they failed to hunt the wild boar king, Zhao Youcai complained about Wang Qiang when he came back, and the two of them broke up after a few words.

But they were all real relatives, and they were forgotten the next day. It didn’t affect walking around or drinking.

Wang Qiang mentioned this matter at this time to tease Zhao Youcai. But Zhao Youcai was in high spirits. When he heard Wang Qiang's disappointing words, he immediately cursed Wang Qiang, "Go away!"

Wang Qiang was not angry and ran away with a gun on his back.

"Lao Wang's family doesn't have any good cakes!" Zhao Youcai muttered and walked home with his hands behind his back. At this time, Zhao Youcai felt that everything was ready.

When Zhao Youcai arrived home, he happened to see Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan coming out of the house.

Zhao Youcai hurriedly walked up to meet him. Wang Meilan frowned and asked, "What have you been doing?"

"Take a walk around the village." Zhao Youcai responded, and then said to Zhao Jun: "Go out and take care of your mother!"

"Hey! Got it." Zhao Jun said, "Dad, let's go then."

"Let's go." Zhao Youcai turned around and sent Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan out. Before the two women could go far, Zhao Youcai hurriedly ran to the house.

As soon as he entered the house, Zhao Youcai quickly came to the dish rack, opened the door of the dish rack and took out a large basin.

Zhao Youcai held a large basin in one hand, and with the other he picked out a few potatoes and carrots from the sack under the window and threw them into the basin.

He carried the basin aside, pulled out a small bench and sat down, using a kitchen knife to quickly peel potatoes and carrots.

After peeling, Zhao Youcai washed the potatoes and carrots with water, then sliced ​​them into pieces, and then fished out a piece of wild boar meat from the nearby basin and sliced ​​it.

In order to rush for time, Zhao Youcai didn't even cut the cabbage, but directly heated the oil in the pot, put the meat slices, potato slices, and carrots into the pot and fried them until cooked.

When the dishes were ready to be put on the plate, Zhao Youcai added water to the large pot, placed a curtain drawer on top and placed eight steamed buns in a circle.

Zhao Youcai covered the pot, then hurried to the east room, opened the kang cabinet and took out a black cloth bag, took out his mountain clothes from it, and quickly put them on.

After dressing up, Zhao Youcai came out of the house and climbed over the wall to Li's house.

The door of Li's house was unlocked, so Zhao Youcai entered the house directly. His good brother Li Dayong prepared a gun and bullets for him before leaving.

Zhao Youcai put the bullet in his pocket, slung the gun over his shoulder, and then went out. The eight o'clock sunshine shone on his face, making Zhao Youcai look slightly heroic.

At this time, Dahuang suddenly became excited when he saw Zhao Youcai's attire clearly. It was the dog that Zhao Youcai brought out with Hua Xiaoer. It used to be three siblings, Dahuang, Erhuang and Sanhuang.

Unfortunately, the second and third yellows were killed in the battle, leaving only Dahuang and Hua Xiaoer. Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong raised one as a family.

Seeing the old master carrying a shotgun, Dahuang was especially convinced. But Zhao Youcai didn't care about rhubarb and hurriedly climbed over the wall and went back to the house to look at the pot.

The big pot was already steaming. Zhao Youcai used a stick to stir the firewood in the pit, then opened the lid, put the vegetables he had fried into the pot, and sat among the eight steamed buns.

The fire in the pit was extinguished in less than half an hour, but the rice in the pot could stay hot for a long time. When the three little girls came back, the food would still be hot.

Zhao Youcai closed the lid of the pot, turned around and pushed the door open.

Seeing him standing at the door, Little Bear and Erhei in the yard were also very excited at this time.

Zhao Youcai walked along and untied the dogs one by one, leaving only Hualong and the dog at home.

The hunting dogs of the Zhao family ran outside the courtyard one after another, and Zhao Youcai went to the next door to release Dahuang and the others. However, the Li family and his son locked the courtyard door before going to work. Zhao Youcai went over to open the door, and Dahuang, Tabby Cat, Hualang and Xiaohua ran out of the courtyard one after another.

Zhao Youcai barricaded the doors of the two houses and walked toward the village entrance with a gun on his back, whistling all the way to invite the dog gang to follow him.

To go to the east end of Tuen, you have to pass Zhang Yuanmin's house. Zhao Youcai wanted to take a detour, but the dogs were used to following Zhao Jun, so they headed to Zhang Yuanmin's house without any noise.

It was a coincidence that Yang Yufeng was not at home today either. At this time, Zhang Yuanmin was at home, pulling some corn leaves and feeding the geese.

Suddenly, the goose froze, dropped the corn leaves, turned around and flew away with its wings.

Zhang Yuanmin was stunned. When he heard the movement, he turned his head and saw the black tiger coming in like a gust of wind!

Happy Lantern Festival