The whole mountain is my hunting ground

Tonight, six families gathered together for dinner at Zhao Jun's house. In the west room, the men exchanged cups, while in the east room, the women and children made rolls and ate meat.

Li Ruhai didn't come over for dinner in the evening. Zhao Jun was the only non-drinker at the table in the west room, so he sat down on the stool near the door.

At this time, Zhao Youcai took a green onion and dipped it in the sauce bowl, then brought it to his mouth and took two bites.

Zhao Youcai clicked his lips, raised his hand to gesture to Zhao Jun, and said: "Son, go get some garlic for dad."

"Huh?" Zhao Jun was startled when he heard this, and said hurriedly: "Dad, you are eating onions, but you are also eating garlic?"

"What am I afraid of?" Zhao Youcai rolled his eyes and said, "Get it for me quickly."

In those years, many Shandong people traveled to Guandong and came to live in the Northeast. While they integrated into the Northeast, they also brought over some customs from Shandong.

Just like the problem of eating onions and garlic together, Shandong people say this: If you eat onions and garlic, your parents will not see each other until they die.

But Zhao Jun's father and grandma are long gone, and Zhao Youcai doesn't care about that anymore.

Zhao Jun put down the big cake, got up and went out to get some garlic for Zhao Youcai. The garlic braid was hanging on the north wall of the outer room.

The north wall is a shady side, so garlic can be stored longer if hung here.

Zhao Jun pulled off a head of garlic from above and took a look into the east room before returning to the west room.

In this room on the east side, there were so many children who didn't say a word. They all held the rolled pancakes in their hands and put them into their mouths with great effort.

Zhao Jun saw Xiao Lingdang take a big bite of the pie. As her mouth separated from the pie, a piece of coriander came out of the pie.

Little Lingdang withdrew a little hand, grabbed the coriander and stuffed it into her mouth, then closed her mouth and puffed out her cheeks to chew.

The little cousin Wang Tian over there had red soup all over his lips as he ate. But the boy didn't care. He held chopsticks in one hand and fried tuna in the other and put it into his mouth.

Zhao Jun had a smile on his face, and he felt very satisfied to see this scene.

But at this moment, the door of Zhao Jun's house was pulled open from the outside, and Li Ruhai, with red cheeks, appeared at the door.

Zhao Jun couldn't help being stunned when he saw Li Ruhai's appearance. He hurriedly walked over and held Li Ruhai's shoulders and asked, "Ruhai, who gave you this fight? Are you fighting Zhang Laifa again?"

When Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong entered the house just now, the dishes were ready and the cakes were cooked, so Wang Meilan rushed to eat.

As for why Li Ruhai didn't come, no one asked. After all, this kid ran around every day and chatted endlessly with anyone he caught. Everyone thought that this kid was out chatting with people again.

Hearing Zhao Jun talking outside, Wang Meilan put down her chopsticks and went to the outer room. Jie Zhong and Jie Chen from the west room also heard it. The two brothers were stopped by Li Baoyu just as they were about to come out.

As soon as Li Baoyu came out, he saw Wang Meilan dragging Li Ruhai and asked: "Ruhai, who beat me? Tell the aunt, she will go find him!"

In normal times, Wang Meilan would definitely not care if Li Ruhai was fighting with Zhang Laifa or others.

But today Jin Xiaomei is not here, and Wang Meilan is afraid that the child will be wronged.

"Auntie." Li Baoyu hurriedly stepped forward and whispered to Wang Meilan and Zhao Jun, "My dad beat me."

"Huh?" Wang Meilan was startled, glanced into the west room, casually touched Li Ruhai's little head, and said: "What are you doing? Give your child such a beating? Come on, Ruhai, go have dinner with aunt, she will give you a roll A piece of cake."

"Mom!" Zhao Jun heard this and advised: "Let Ruhai eat with me, your house is full of children."

Wang Meilan understood what Zhao Jun meant as soon as she heard it. They said that children's words are unbridled. Those children are not sensible yet. Seeing Li Ruhai's face turned red, why don't you have to ask?

Can Li Ruhai keep up with this question?

Wang Meilan nodded, and Zhao Jun hugged Li Ruhai and headed to the west room. As soon as they entered the west room, Jie Zhong and Jie Chen were stunned for a moment, but when they saw Zhao Jun winking at them, the two brothers said nothing or asked anything.

Instead, Xie Zhong turned his head and raised his glass, signaling to Zhao Youcai, Li Dayong, Wang Qiang, Lin Xiangshun, and Zhang Yuanmin. The five Xie Zhong raised their glasses and Li Baoyu hurried back to his seat upon seeing this. Zhao Jun took Li Ruhai and sat next to the minister.

There was good wine and good food, and all the men, women, old and young were well fed and the ditches were full. Everyone went back to their homes and slept on the kang.

Zhao Jun personally sent the old lady home, carrying a piece of bear leg meat in one hand and two lunch boxes in the other. The old lady held a small jar in her hand, which contained the bear oil that Wang Meilan gave her.

"You're young." The old lady said to Zhao Jun as she walked away, "I'm going to eat two cakes tonight."

"Oh my god!" Zhao Jun was startled and hurriedly said to the old lady: "Jiang Nai, don't go to bed immediately when you get back. It will take a while to digest."

At such an old age, Zhao Jun was afraid that she would not be able to digest it and would feel uncomfortable after eating so much at night.

"Yeah." The old lady responded and said with a grin, "I've been eating a lot of good things with you these days."

Zhao Jun also laughed. There was no one in his family who had food for him. It had only been a few days since he had killed the pig, and I had to treat him like this again.

When they arrived at Jiang's house, Zhao Jun first sent the old lady into the house, and then hurriedly went out to get firewood to burn the kang.

In this late autumn, the room is not much warmer than outside, and the pit is either burning or cooling.

The old lady pursed her clothes, sat on the stool, and said to Zhao Jun who took off his gloves: "Little one, go back."

Zhao Jun stretched out his hand and touched the fire wall. Still feeling no warmth, he said to the old lady: "Mr. Jiang, you can light a fire by yourself tomorrow morning and let the cake warm before eating."

"Hey..." the old lady responded in a long voice, and said with a smile: "I know, go back quickly and have a good sleep."

"Then I'm leaving!" Zhao Jun waved his hand to the old lady and walked out of the house.

When Zhao Jun came out of the old lady's house, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening. The night in the forest was cold and windy, and the wind kept getting into his collar.

Zhao Jun ran and bumped all the way back home. When he got to the door of his house and was about to enter the yard, he saw a person flashing out from behind the big tree next to him.

"I..." Zhao Jun was suddenly startled. Just as he was about to take precautions, he saw that it was a person, and he was not that big.

Zhao Jun squinted his eyes and saw Li Ruhai, who was weak and helpless with his arms and neck hunched over in the faint moonlight.

"Brother!" Li Ruhai's voice was filled with tears, and he stood there miserably.

"What are you doing?" Zhao Jun frowned and asked, "Why don't you come into the house?"

Li Ruhai said: "My dad didn't drink much today."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Jun raised his head and glanced into the Li family courtyard. I saw the east and west rooms of the Li family. The house where Li Baoyu and Li Ruhai lived was completely dark without lights. But the lights in Li Dayong's house were still on.

Seeing this, Zhao Jun quickly stepped forward and hugged Li Ruhai and walked into his courtyard. After entering the courtyard, Zhao Jun turned around and locked the door, then pushed Li Ruhai toward the house. As he walked, he asked him: "You ran away from home?" from?"

Zhao Jun remembered that after drinking, Li Ruhai followed Li Dayong and Li Baoyu over the wall and returned to their home.

"Yeah!" Li Ruhai nodded and choked: "As soon as I got home, my dad looked for a triangle belt... to whip me."

Zhao Jun frowned and asked, "Then how did you escape?"

Li Ruhai said weakly: "While he was looking for the triangle belt, I jumped out of the back window and ran away."

Zhao Jun: "..."

When the two of them were talking, they had already arrived at the door of Zhao Jun's house. When Zhao Jun reached out to pull the door open, Li Ruhai leaned back as if resisting.

"What happened?" Zhao Jun frowned and said, "What are you afraid of when you come to my house? My uncle can't come over and beat you. You will go to work early tomorrow morning. If you hide for two days and then come back, won't everything be fine?"

"Brother!" Li Ruhai raised his little face and whispered to Zhao Jun with an embarrassed eyebrow: "I'm going to your house, but my uncle is not allowed to tell my father."

"What?" Zhao Jun was stunned when he heard this. He blinked and glanced at the west room of his house. Seeing that the lights in the west room had gone out, he said to Li Ruhai: "It's okay, your uncle is probably lying down. You tonight Stay on the same bed with us, and we’ll talk about it tomorrow morning if you need anything.”

"Yeah." Li Ruhai nodded a little, raised his hand and wiped his nose with the back of his hand. The wind blew outside for a long time, and the child had a big nose from the cold.

As soon as Zhao Jun entered the room, Wang Meilan came out of the west room when she heard the noise. Before Zhao Ling and Yang Yufeng left, they helped Wang Meilan clear away the dishes, so as soon as the big guys left, Wang Meilan arranged for the three little girls to go to bed first.

And she was waiting for Zhao Jun to come back, together with Zhao Youcai, who was also sitting in that room with his back against the kang cabinet, wondering what he was waiting for.

When Zhao Jun saw Wang Meilan, he raised his right hand and put his index finger in front of his mouth, signaling Wang Meilan not to speak.

Although Wang Meilan didn't quite understand, she listened to her son. Watching Zhao Jun take Li Ruhai back to the room, she turned and entered the east room.

At this time, the three little girls had fallen asleep and the lights in the room were turned off. But as soon as Wang Meilan came in, a beam of light hit her face directly, but it was Zhao Youcai who pushed the flashlight away.

It's definitely not possible to shake your face. Zhao Youcai quickly moved his flashlight to the side and illuminated it for Wang Meilan. After Wang Meilan got on the bed, Zhao Youcai asked: "Is your son back?"

"Yeah." Wang Meilan responded: "I'm back."

Zhao Youcai asked again: "Is it just him?"

"Yeah." Wang Meilan replied calmly: "Who else can it be?"

As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, she saw Zhao Youcai reaching out and grabbing the cotton-padded jacket at the soles of his feet. He leaned forward and put the cotton-padded jacket on his body.

Seeing Zhao Youcai stretching his sleeves into his cotton-padded jacket, Wang Meilan hurriedly asked: "What are you going to do?"

"That kid like Ruhai ran away." Zhao Youcai said, "It's already here. Whose house can he go to? I'll go out and look for him."

It doesn't matter if the child makes a mistake and deserves to be beaten, scolded, or how to deal with it, but it will be below zero in the second half of the night, and if something goes wrong due to the cold, it will be a lifetime thing.

When Wang Meilan heard this, she immediately reached out and grabbed the sleeve of Zhao Youcai's cotton-padded jacket and said, "Don't go, my son has been brought back by Ruhai."

When Zhao Youcai heard this, he twitched the corner of his mouth and said angrily: "You bitch, why don't you tell me the truth?"

"Oh!" Wang Meilan waved her hand at him, smiled and changed the subject: "That kid Ruhai didn't do anything today? Why did Dayong want to beat him?"

"What haven't you done yet?" Zhao Youcai sneered and told Wang Meilan everything about Li Ruhai buying leather shoes and a marmot hat.

After Wang Meilan listened, Kaba blinked twice and said nothing for a while. When Zhao Youcai saw that Wang Meilan was silent and wanted to get down on the kang, he said, "This matter depends on you two."

"Ah?" Zhao Youcai's words made Wang Meilan panic. Wang Meilan asked, "How can you still rely on me?"

Zhao Youcai made a move, and without getting off the bed, he broke off the conversation with Wang Meilan and said, "If your son didn't give him money, how could Ru Hai be so arrogant? If you didn't leave so much money in your son's hands, how could he give Ru Hai so much money? Haiqian?”

Hearing Zhao Youcai's words, Wang Meilan stopped talking. Seeing this, Zhao Youcai hurriedly struck while the iron was hot: "Let me tell you, if you give him three to five yuan a month, it's fine. You said you, but also gave him his salary Give it all to him..."

"Okay, okay!" Wang Meilan raised her hand to stop Zhao Youcai's chatter. She said, "Go to bed quickly. I've been tired all day. Please let me rest for a while."

"When it comes to your son, you won't be happy!" Zhao Youcai got into the mood of arguing. He pulled up the cotton-padded jacket and threw it at his feet. He got into the bed angrily, turned his face to that side, and ignored Wang Meilan. .

But he still whispered in his mouth: "You just need to get used to it in one day, it won't do anything good."

"What are you talking about?" Wang Meilan became anxious upon hearing this.

What Zhao Youcai said was true. Wang Meilan would not be happy when anyone talked about her son.

Seeing that Zhao Youcai's back was turned to her, Wang Meilan reached out and pushed Zhao Youcai's back, and then said: "Our son makes a lot of money every month, so let him spend his little salary."

"I still earn a lot!" When Zhao Youcai heard this, he became even more angry and said angrily: "How many cents do you only give me a month?"

Wang Meilan was startled by what Zhao Youcai said, then she smiled casually and said, "I won't give you money, I'll just buy you things."

"Hmph!" Zhao Youcai snorted coldly and said, "How much does it cost to buy me that tea..."

Before Zhao Youcai finished speaking, he was slapped on the back of the head by Wang Meilan. Before he could get angry, Wang Meilan said, "Stop the quarrel. My son and I went to the city yesterday and bought you a gold smith." "

"What?" As soon as Wang Meilan said this, how could Zhao Youcai be angry?

He stood up directly, turned to look at Wang Meilan, and asked: "You just said, what did you buy for me?"

"Keep your voice down!" Wang Meilan turned around and took a look. When she saw that the three little girls had not been woken up, she turned back to Zhao Youcai and said, "Put the big gold coin in the cupboard door behind you."

"Then why don't you give it to me?" Zhao Youcai said, turned around and opened the kang cabinet. Using the faint light from the flashlight behind him, Zhao Youcai saw a small red cloth bag lying on his blue cotton monkey. .

Zhao Youcai grabbed the cloth bag and opened it, and a large gold bullion with the word "cai" engraved on it appeared in front of him.

Zhao Youcai held the gold plate in his hand, turned around suddenly, looked at Wang Meilan in disbelief and asked, "Is this for me?"

Seeing Wang Meilan nod, Zhao Youcai hurriedly put the ring on his finger.

Wang Meilan stretched out her hand, smiled and patted Zhao Youcai twice on the face, and then said to the pleased Zhao Youcai: "I didn't stop when I came back yesterday. There was so much work in and out of the house today that I even forgot to give it to you."

"Lan Na!" Zhao Youcai raised his head, looked at Wang Meilan with surprise, and said, "Tomorrow morning you sleep until six o'clock, and I'll get up and cook for you!"

"You're just making trouble!" Wang Meilan said with a smile: "We have guests at home, so what's the point of me sleeping until six o'clock?"

"Then you don't need to cook!" Zhao Youcai waved his hand and said, "I'll do it!"

"Okay." Wang Meilan agreed "reluctantly". Seeing Zhao Youcai raising the hand with the ring in front of his eyes to look at it, Wang Meilan said with a smile: "Go to sleep, I'll put the gold ring around the red thread tomorrow."

Wang Meilan spoke, but Zhao Youcai didn't seem to hear him and still looked at the ring on his hand happily.

At the same time, in the east room of Lao Li's family next door.

Jin Xiaomei was not at home, so the two of them were lazy and burned a kang, planning to sleep in the east room tonight.

At this time, Li Dayong and Li Baoyu were sitting cross-legged on the kang, drinking the tea given by Wang Meilan yesterday.

Maojian is considered a good tea these days, but at this time, neither father nor son of the Li family cared about tasting tea, and they both had solemn expressions on their faces while sitting on the kang.

The solemn reason was that Li Ruhai didn't come back.

"Dad." Li Baoyu asked Li Dayong worriedly, "Can Ruhai come to my uncle's house? How about I go over and take a look?"

"No need." Li Dayong waved his hand and said, "If he wants to come to your uncle's house, your uncle has to come and tell me."

Li Baoyu was right, but it was now, where could Li Ruhai go?

If it were before dinner, this kid might stay at someone else's house for the night. But in forest areas and rural areas, people usually go to bed at seven or eight o'clock. Who else can Li Ruhai go to at this time?

In this way, the Li family and his son waited until twelve o'clock...