The whole mountain is my hunting ground

When the car approached Zhao Jun's house, he saw a puff of black smoke rising in the wind, accompanied by the smell of burnt hair.

Then the car turned a corner, and not far ahead was Zhao Jun's house.

At this time, in front of Zhao's house, Wang Qiang and Zhang Yuanmin were chatting with Wang Meilan, Yang Yufeng and Xie Zhong.

Last time, Jie Zhong came in a hurry and did not interact with Wang Qiang and Zhang Yuanmin. Today, Jie Zhong, who was in front of Zhao Jun's house, happened to meet Wang Qiang and Zhang Yuanmin who were returning from fishing for shrimps. The three of them had a good chat after being introduced by Wang Meilan.

Hearing the sound of a car, the five people followed the sound and saw a Jiefang car slowly approaching. At the same time, the laughter of women and children could be heard from the back compartment.

The car stopped in front of Zhao's house. Some of the children in the car called mom, some called aunt...

"Take a look!" Wang Meilan reached out and took Li Xiaoqiao first, turned to Yang Yufeng next to her and said with a smile, "How about it? I'll just tell you, I'll bring the whole car back!"

As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, she heard a rush of footsteps. She looked towards the direction of the car and saw a person jumping out from the west path. It was Li Ruhai who had disappeared after lunch.

"What's wrong with Ruhai?" Seeing this, Wang Meilan hurriedly took two steps towards Li Ruhai and asked, "Who kicked you out?"

This Li Ruhai is just like his own child. His parents are not at home today. If someone bullies him, Wang Meilan will definitely not agree.

"Aha...Aha..." Li Ruhai took a few breaths, waved to Wang Meilan and said, "No, aunt, I'm coming back to see what's going on at home?"

"It's okay." Wang Qiang said with a smile: "Everything is fine at home, just prepare to sit down."

At Zhao Jun's house, eating at a banquet is called sitting at a banquet. Wang Meilan heard this and patted Wang Qiang on the shoulder.

"Daughter." At this time, Mrs. Lao Jiang, supported by Zhang Yuanmin, reached out to Wang Meilan as she got out of the car.

"Hey!" Wang Meilan put little Zhao Na on the ground, hurriedly went over to hold the old lady's hand stretched out to her, and said, "Auntie."

"Haha." The old lady held Wang Meilan's hand, smiled, and asked Wang Meilan: "What delicious food is our family doing? You even asked the child to pick me up."

"Today we will eat fish and meat." Wang Meilan helped the old lady walk into the courtyard, and said with a smile as she walked: "In a while, I will bake a big pancake for you."

When the old lady heard this, she couldn't help but pursed her lips, and her eyes almost disappeared from the smile.

Outside the hospital, a group of children got out of the car. Not one of them discovered the shrimp caught by Wang Qiang and Zhang Yuanmin first. The other children gathered around the shrimp feeder and looked at the green river shrimp inside. Wang Tian He shouted to be arrested.

Upon seeing this, Zhao Jun grabbed Wang Tian and said to the children: "It's very smokey outside. Come into the hospital quickly and go back to the house to arrest him."

With that said, Zhao Jun held Wang Tian in one hand and carried the shrimp-packing feed Luo in the other, and trotted toward the courtyard. Behind him, a group of children chased him happily.

Such a huge battle was so startling that the dogs in the yard barked.

Zhao Jun came to the house and brought Feedlot into the house. There are pots and fires set up inside and outside the courtyard. Children cannot be allowed to play outside.

The children all came in and crowded into Zhao Jun's room. Wang Tian and Wang Xue heard from Zhao Hong that another cat had been picked up in her house and they needed to be petted.

They squeezed in like a swarm, and hurriedly opened the blanket covering the pine box. The little lynx, who was sleeping in a daze and warm, looked up at the box and saw people surrounding it. A circle of little heads.

"Ouch! Ouch!" As soon as the little lynx screamed twice, Zhao Hong took it out of the box. As soon as she held the little lynx in her arms, a group of children gathered around, touching this one and stroking that one. A handful.

The little lynx didn't dare to say anything and could only accept it.

Soon, these children felt that touching them was not enough, and they kept clamoring for hugs.

Zhao Hong first handed the little lynx to her cousin Wang Xue, and the little girl held the little lynx in her arms very rarely.

At that moment, Zhao Hong caught sight of the enamel basin sandwiched between the table and the south wall. She ran over and pulled the basin out, carrying it out to the outhouse. She saw Zhao Ling pouring water into the big pot. Zhao Hong hurriedly asked her aunt to pour water into the pot. Give her a scoop so she can catch some shrimps and raise them.

"Xiao Hong!" Zhao Ling stared at the basin in Zhao Hong's hand with wide eyes, and asked, "Is this the basin where your brother washes his feet?"

"Ah?" Zhao Hong glanced at the basin and then at Zhao Ling, only to hear Zhao Ling say: "You put it in for shrimps, what does your brother use to wash his feet at night?"

After saying that, Zhao Ling gently turned Zhao Hong back and said: "Quickly, send me to the house. If you want to catch shrimps, I will find something for you."

At this time, the old lady who heard the commotion came out of the east room, looked at Zhao Ling and asked, "What's going on?"

"Aunt!" Zhao Ling was afraid that the old man wouldn't hear, so she put her head over and said to her, "Why don't you go up to that room and keep an eye on them? I'm afraid that these kids will cause harm to others."

"Okay!" Upon hearing this, the old lady happily went to the west room. Zhao Ling went to the dish rack, took out a porcelain basin, filled it with a little water, and sent it to the west room to raise shrimps for the children.

As soon as they saw that they could catch shrimps, several children went over again and scrambled to catch shrimps from the feeder.

Amidst the noise of the children, the old lady's voice came out: "Don't kick that away!"

…

It’s lively inside, and it’s not bad outside either.

With help, Wang Meilan felt heroic. She ordered Zhao Jun to chop wood, Xie Chen to fetch water, and Li Ruhai to gather fire.

Then, Wang Meilan personally led the remaining people to cut up the black bear meat and remove all the bones that needed to be removed.

Separate the fat and lean meat, cut the fat meat into pieces and put them on one side, and cut the thin meat into pieces and put them on the other side.

Then, before the water in the big pot boiled, Wang Qiang put the chopped bear thigh meat into the pot.

After putting the lid on the pot, Jie Chen carried two more buckets of water to the stove, while Jie Zhong was also shouting outside the courtyard that the bear's paw was healed.

Zhang Yuanmin went out with a big basin, and he and Jie Zhong used sticks to push the burnt bear paws into the basin.

Jie Zhong carried the basin with the bear's paw into the courtyard. Zhang Yuanmin poured water into the basin. Wang Meilan handed them a brush. Zhang Yuanmin and Xie Zhong each dipped their brushes in water and scrubbed the big bear's paw.

On the other side, Yang Yufeng peeled potatoes and Xu Chunyan peeled radish. Next to them, there were seven or eight green onions and two heads of garlic that needed to be peeled.

After the bear's paws were cleaned, they were taken into the house and boiled in the large pot outside Zhao Jun's house.

There was no way, the big pot outside was cooking more than 30 kilograms of bear meat, and there was no room for another bear paw.

As for the thirty kilograms of bear meat, in addition to the twenty kilograms of bear leg meat that Wang Meilan asked Yang Yufeng to pick off, there are about ten kilograms of lean meat picked from the bear.

Although these are all lean meat, during the fattening season, the shredded meat is filled with oil. When cooked in a large pot, a layer of oil will appear on the surface of the water.

Wang Meilan went into the house, put the bear's paws into the big pot, and Zhao Ling was in charge of blanch the water.

As Zhao Jun said, whether it is bear paws or bear meat, it must be blanched four or five times.

"Jie Chen!" Suddenly, Wang Meilan pushed the door open and shouted outside.

"Aunt!" Just as Jie Chen responded, Wang Meilan said: "Get a bucket of water into the house!"

After saying that, Wang Meilan went to the dish rack, opened it, and walked out with a basswood cutting board in one hand.

Each of these large basswood cutting boards weighed more than ten kilograms. Zhao Jun saw Wang Meilan holding one in each hand and struggling to come out of the room. He hurriedly went over to catch the big cutting board and asked Wang Meilan: "Mom, what are you doing?" Why did you take this out?"

At this time, Wang Meilan clamped the cutting board to her side with her right hand, waved her left hand to the side, and said, "We'll need your Uncle Li's cooking soon, so let's just leave it outside and cut the fat!"

After saying that, Wang Meilan looked around and shouted: "It's like the sea!"

Li Ruhai, who was acting dumbly next to him, heard the sound and hurriedly ran in front of Wang Meilan. He cupped his fists and bent down and said, "Auntie!"

Seeing Li Ruhai's appearance, Wang Meilan laughed and said, "Go back to your house and light the stove."

"It's your order..." Li Ruhai screamed strangely, jumped up to the partition wall, climbed over the wall nimbly, rushed straight to the firewood pile, picked up a pile of dry branches, pulled two birch barks and carried them into his house. run.

Once dried, birch bark is like paper and burns easily, making it the best fire starter.

With a little bit of birch bark, the fire surged forward, and the dry branches as thick as chopsticks burned instantly and crackled.

As soon as the fire burned below, the big pot on the stove made a squeaking sound. Li Ruhai opened the door and shouted: "Auntie, it's on fire... No, the fire is on!"

"Ah!" Wang Meilan shouted back: "Put less water in the pot, don't let it burn!"

Li Ruhai retracted his head, went to his water tank, opened the curtain tied with sorghum poles, used the gourd and gourd to scoop out half of the water, poured only a little into the pot, and then threw the rest of the water back into the tank together with the gourd and gourd. middle.

Then he casually clicked the lid curtain on the mouth of the tank, and Li Ruhai pushed the door open and ran outside. When he got to the wall, he looked into the courtyard next door and saw Wang Meilan and Zhao Ling cutting fat meat; Yang Yufeng and Xu Chunyan grilling garlic and onions; Xie Zhong and Jie Chen washing the peeled potatoes and radishes; Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang, and Zhang Yuanmin were all chopping firewood.

What a lively "labor" scene!

At this time, Wang Meilan and Zhao Ling pushed a pile of compost meat into a large pot. Then, Wang Meilan carried the basin to the wall, and Li Ruhai hurriedly reached out to take it over.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Meilan climbed over the wall and entered Li's house to add oil to the pot. The water that Li Ruhai had just poured into the pot had already boiled. It was about two bowls of water. Wang Meilan saw that it was just right. While adding pieces of fat meat into the pot, she told Li Ruhai: "Go, Ruhai, get some firewood."

Li Ruhai agreed and ran out to the firewood pile. Different from before, now Li Ruhai picked up the chopped wood and hugged him before running back into the house.

"Don't add more!" Seeing Li Ruhai come back with firewood, Wang Meilan hurriedly warned, when adding oil, the fire should not be too fast, but must be slow.

Li Ruhai was adding firewood, while Wang Meilan was looking at the pot. Green smoke was blowing up in the wind from the three chimneys of both houses.

Both the bear paws in the house and the bear meat outside the house have been blanched five times.

At this time, Wang Meilan had also prepared the bear oil. The remaining oil was too mushy. Wang Meilan had no intention of feeding it to her children. She just found a small basin to put it in and put it away when she mixes it with the dog's food tomorrow. , which can be regarded as oil and water.

The dishes were not cooked yet, and Wang Meilan was not in a hurry to make pancakes or fry fish. She came out of the house and asked Zhao Ling to hand over the blanched bear paws.

In this way, Wang Meilan and Zhao Ling were eating bear paws in the Li family, and Yang Yufeng and Xu Chunyan were eating bear meat in the Zhao family courtyard.

As for Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang, Zhang Yuanmin, Xie Zhong, Jie Chen, and Li Ruhai, they were chatting and drinking water in the west room of Zhao Jun's house.

It was nearly six o'clock, it was already dark outside, and the bear meat and bear paws were almost cooked.

The men helped set the tables. Although Jin Xiaomei was missing today, they knew Zhong and Jiechen better, so two tables were indispensable.

Here, Yang Yufeng and Xu Chunyan cut the cooked bear meat into pieces as big as braised pork. They put more than half of it into the pot and stewed it, and the other half took it to the yard to stew large radish.

Then, the two started cutting shredded potatoes, which they would later prepare for the burritos. Therefore, the shredded potatoes cannot be cut too finely.

At the same time, Wang Meilan heated a frying pan, sautéed onions and ginger until fragrant, poured in water and soy sauce, and after the water boiled, put the nine-rare bear paws into the pan.

As soon as the lid of the pot was closed, Wang Meilan came out of the house and went to the wall to ask someone to bring them some noodles.

The bear paws will be cooked immediately. As soon as the braised bear paws come out of the pan, Wang Meilan will bake the pancakes!

Hearing Wang Meilan shouting, Wang Qiang took out a basin first, put it on the wall and said to Wang Meilan: "Sister, this is noodles."

Wang Meilan responded, took the basin and walked towards the house. Wang Qiang returned to the house and brought out another basin.

After putting the basin on the wall first, Wang Qiang climbed over the wall and came to Li's house. The three of them did not enter the back room, but just sat in front of the stove and chatted.

Wang Meilan pointed at Wang Qiang and boasted to Zhao Ling: "Ask Qiangzi, he has been willing to eat the cakes baked by me since he was a child, even the cakes baked by our mother."

Hearing this, Zhao Ling raised her eyes and looked at Wang Qiang. At this time, Wang Qiang said with a smile: "My sister is willing to put oil in the pancakes. It looks like deep-fried pancakes. How can it not be delicious?"

As soon as these words came out, Wang Meilan and Zhao Ling laughed.

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"Hahaha……"

On the small train from Yong'an Forest Farm to Yong'an Tun, Zhao Youcai, Li Dayong, Li Baoyu, and Lin Xiangshun also laughed in unison.

Zhao Youcai had a pile of lunch boxes in his net pocket, three in total.

At this time, Zhao Youcai touched Lin Xiangshun with his elbow and said, "Shunzi, come with me later."

"What are you doing, second uncle?" Lin Xiangshun smiled and said, "Are you still drinking?"

"Drink." Zhao Youcai said, "What are you doing here?"

As he said that, Zhao Youcai took a picture of the lunch box and said: "I will cook for them at noon today. I will leave two pieces of silver carp aside. I will put them in the canteen and finish the oil. When I get home, I will fry them again. There are also some shrimps. , I’ve finished blanching it, and asked your aunt to put it in the pot while we drink.”

When Lin Xiangshun heard that they were indeed dishes to go with wine, he agreed without thinking.

At this time, Zhao Youcai took the lunch box again and said to Li Dayong: "I still have some shortbread here. Let's drink it here and let your sister-in-law bake us some shortbread over there."

At this point, before Li Dayong could answer, Zhao Youcai suddenly smacked his lips and said, "Oh! I don't have any sugar at home. Let's go to Lao Wang's house to buy some later."

"No need?" Li Dayong said hesitantly: "I seem to have sugar at home."

He hesitated, not because he was reluctant to part with sugar, but because he never cooked and didn't know how much sugar he still had at home.

"Buy some!" Zhao Youcai said: "What if your home is gone? When we come out, we might as well just go back and buy it. It doesn't cost much."

Hearing Zhao Youcai's words, Li Dayong, Li Baoyu and Lin Xiangshun all felt a little surprised. The Zhao Youcai they knew could take things from the canteen to home, but he would never buy anything from home.