The whole mountain is my hunting ground

On the village road, Zhao Youcai looked westward and saw two middle-aged women walking along carrying earthen baskets. The slightly fatter woman on the left is none other than Aunt Qi Wu Dongxia, a fellow villager of Zhao Youcai and Li Ruhai's best friend for many years.

"My nephew's wife is giving birth to a baby. I'll come over and breastfeed her." Wu Dongxia walked up to Zhao Youcai, pointed at the woman next to her and said, "My natal family is from this side. This is my third sister."

"Ah!" Zhao Youcai and her third sister Wu Qiuxia nodded. At this time, Qinglong and Heilong circled around Lao Qi and the two sisters. Wu Dongxia looked at the dog and asked Zhao Youcai: "Why are you running here? Are you here to fight?"

"They came to me, so I brought the dog." As soon as Zhao Youcai answered, Wu Dongxia jumped in and asked: "Who came to you? What did you hunt for when you went up the mountain? Can you give my nephew-in-law some big bones?" ah?"

They both lived in the same village, and Zhao Youcai and Qi Dahai were childhood sweethearts. Wu Dongxia replied, how could Zhao Youcai not agree?

But just when Zhao Youcai was about to agree, he heard someone shouting in the distance: "Uncle Zhao! Uncle Zhao!"

"Huh?" The three people's eyes were attracted. When the Wu sisters saw it, they couldn't help but frown.

But Zhao Youcai shouted at Li Mingxiang, who was running towards him, "What's going on?"

"Uncle Zhao!" Li Mingxiang stopped, waved his arm at Zhao Youcai and said, "My brother Wang has a black dog in his house. It was left on the street and ate the rats to death! My brother Wang is letting you go!"

"Oh my god!" Hearing what Li Mingxiang said, Zhao Youcai couldn't help but cursed. Then he looked at Wu Dongxia, but pointed at Li Mingxiang over there and said, "Do you know him? I'll ask him to give you a gift later. Go to the bones!”

"No!" Before Wu Dongxia could say anything, her sister Wu Qiuxia waved her hand and said, "Brother, we sisters thank you, but we don't want those big bones."

"Ah?" Zhao Youcai was startled when he heard this, thinking what was going on?

At this time, Wu Dongxia glanced at Li Mozi, lowered her voice and said to Zhao Youcai: "Youcai, if you can't do it, just go home and stop fighting with this kid."

"Ah!" Zhao Youcai understood immediately upon hearing this that Wu Dongxia was reminding him to stay away from Li Mingxiang.

Although Zhao Youcai didn't know who Li Mingxiang was, he knew that Wu Dongxia would not lie to him. It was just that Zhao Youcai and Li Mingxiang were not familiar with each other. Besides, he didn't come here for Li Mingxiang.

But now Zhao Youcai didn't have time to explain too much to Wu Dongxia. Just after listening to Li Mingxiang's words, Wang Dalong's hunting dog picked up dead mice on the road and ate them.

They say dogs are nosy when it comes to catching mice, but dogs raised in rural areas really catch mice, and they even love to eat them!

But the dead rats around the villages usually died after taking rat poison. If a dog eats such a dead rat, it will inevitably be poisoned. Such a dog is basically impossible to save.

But since Li Mingxiang came to shout, Zhao Youcai had to go and take a look. So he left a few words to Wu Dongxia, then called the four dogs and left with Li Mingxiang.

Looking at Zhao Youcai's hurried away figure, Wu Qiuxia asked her sister, "Who is this man? Is he from your village?"

"Yeah." Wu Dongxia responded, and with the back of her right hand, she touched her sister's elbow and said, "Let Chun'er come to your brigade and help you catch the kid with the big paw. This is His father!"

"Ah, ouch!" Upon hearing this, Wu Qiuxia hurriedly raised her head and glanced at Zhao Youcai who was walking away. After she looked back, she said to her sister: "I heard that the child is doing well!"

"Then what else are you talking about!" Wu Dongxia said without thinking, "That child is so benevolent and righteous!"

"I heard you might be able to make money?" Wu Qiuxia interjected again. Wu Dongxia nodded and said, "Then what are you thinking about? You're bringing a big fucking gold bar with you..."

As she said that, Wu Dongxia patted her left wrist with her right hand and said, "The big gold bracelet is rattling. Having a child like this is a blessing for parents!"

"How old are you? Did you mention your wife?" Wu Qiuxia asked again hurriedly.

"I told you earlier." Wu Dongxia could usually chat with Li Ruhai, and Duoduo was also the camel dealer from the Six Nations. When she heard this, she immediately started chatting and said, "That girl is also from our village, and this guy is the only one who Mom said she wanted to give a gift of one thousand yuan..."

"How much?" Wu Qiuxia exclaimed. At this time, her eyes widened and she couldn't believe her ears.

"One thousand!" Wu Dongxia repeated it again, and said: "It's not more than one thousand, but I also want to give that girl a set of silver jewelry."

…

When Zhao Youcai followed Li Mingxiang to the crossing of Team 9, he did not see Wang Dalong. Only Qin Bei and three dogs from Wang Dalong's family were guarding the wild boar.

"Uncle Zhao!" Seeing Zhao Youcai coming, Qin Bei called him.

Zhao Youcai understood it as soon as he saw it, and immediately asked: "Is the dog gone?"

"Yeah!" Qin Bei pursed his lips and nodded, and said, "After two strokes, he started frothing. Brother Wang hugged the dog and said he wanted to find a place to bury it, so that no one would have to eat the meat."

Zhao Youcai smacked his lips, glanced at the three dogs that were messing with Little Bear and the others, and muttered: "You're blind!"

"Uncle Zhao." Qin Bei said to Zhao Youcai again: "Brother Wang wants you to take these three dogs back. After that, we will wait for him here."

"Okay!" Zhao Youcai responded and said, "Then I will take the dog back and you will come to the guest house later?"

"Um..." Qin Bei hesitated and said, "It's too far to get to the guest house. Why don't we put my house ahead? We'll drag the wild boar to my house later. Uncle Zhao, do you think that's okay?"

After hearing what Qin Bei said, Zhao Youcai didn't think much about it and just thought he was thinking about those wild boar bones.

Zhao Youcai was not a fussy person, so he nodded without thinking and said, "Okay, then take a knife and remove my thigh."

"Hey!" Upon hearing this, Qin Bei quickly pulled out the knife from his waist, cut off a wild boar's hind thigh according to Zhao Youcai's instructions, and handed it to Zhao Youcai.

Zhao Youcai took the pig leg, said hello to Qin Bei and Li Mingxiang, and then whistled to signal the seven dogs to follow him.

If Wang Dalong was here, his three dogs would definitely not follow Zhao Youcai. But Wang Dalong was not there, and the three dogs recognized Zhao Youcai who came to Yongxing with them.

At this time, the whistle sounded, and Little Bear, Xiaohua, Qinglong, and Black Dragon followed Zhao Youcai, and the three dogs of Wang Dalong's family followed automatically.

Looking at the seven dogs surrounding him, Zhao Youcai sighed softly. The loss of a good hunting dog made him feel sad.

All the way back to the guest house, when Zhao Youcai was settling down the dog gang in the yard, Li Wencai came out of the house and wanted to help Zhao Youcai.

"Uncle Li!" When Zhao Youcai saw Li Wencai coming over, he pointed at the wild boar leg standing under the shed and said, "You can take it inside the house to rest for a while, then cut it off and stir-fry some sauerkraut, and let the three of us have a sip at night."

"Oh!" Li Wencai sighed after hearing this and said, "You have money, you didn't eat the pig leg that day when you took it. I put a big snow shell on it and it froze. Why did you go and get it? ?”

"Uncle Li." Zhao Youcai closed a shed, turned around and said to Li Wencai: "Pour some water on it and freeze it, then keep it and eat it slowly."

Li Wencai knew that this was Zhao Youcai's good intention, and immediately sighed and said: "Oh, come here, your boy, leave me the older meat, and the blind bear. I can't eat the meat alone. Just let me sell them all, and all the money will be put into my pocket. Now that you are here, why are you so embarrassed if you give me the meat?"

"We men have nothing to say." After locking Wang Dalong's three dogs in another shed, Zhao Youcai walked into the house with Li Wencai. As he walked, he said: "We will have to come to you next time. !”

"Come!" Li Wencai said categorically: "Next time you and I want to come over, we won't go to anyone else's house, so we'll just come to my uncle's place!"

After the two of them entered the house, they stood the frozen wild boar legs next to the fire wall. After the outer layer of the pig legs thawed slightly, Li Wencai cut off a small pot of wild boar slices, then poured water on the pig legs and placed them in the snow outside the house to freeze. superior.

This is called hanging wax in the Northeast. Freezing the meat in this way can ensure that the moisture in the meat is not lost. In the local dialect, it is called not air-dried.

After Li Wencai returned to the house, he took out the sauerkraut from the big vat, cut the sauerkraut with a thin cross blade, and then cut it into thin strips. Then heat the oil in a pan, stir-fry the chopped green onion and wait for the meat to change color, then add the pickled cabbage and stir-fry.

After the dishes were out of the pot and served, Li Wen added water to the pot and sat on the iron curtain to soak up the remaining dry food from the morning.

The pot slowly started to heat up, and Zhao Youcai and Li Wencai sat down on the kang. At this time, in the middle of the Kang table is a small helmet for serving vegetables, surrounded by three bowls, three pairs of chopsticks and three wine glasses.

Although Wang Dalong has not returned yet, Zhao Youcai and Li Wencai have prepared his tableware.

Li Wencai glanced out the window and asked Zhao Youcai, "Youcai, how big is the pig? Why hasn't he come back yet?"

"Should be back!" Zhao Youcai, who had just poured wine into three tea jars, twisted the lid of the wine barrel and looked out.

They came back from the mountains and walked together for three hours. The wild boar must have been frozen, and skinning it would definitely be impossible now. Therefore, as long as Wang Dalong helps drag the wild boar to Qin Bei's house, he can come back for dinner.

Logically speaking, he should be back by now.

"Come!" Zhao Youcai held the teapot and gestured to Li Wencai: "Uncle Li, let's drink and wait!"

"Come!" Without saying a word, Li Wencai brought the teapot and bumped into Zhao Youcai.

The stir-fried meat with sauerkraut is full of flavor and is very refreshing when paired with wine.

Zhao Youcai and Li Wencai ate, drank and chatted, and an hour passed unknowingly.

At this time, Wang Dalong has not returned yet. But Zhao Youcai thought that Qin Bei was much better than his elder brother Qin Dong, so he might have left Wang Dalong to eat.

But what Zhao Youcai never expected was that Wang Dalong was indeed left to eat, but at Li Mingxiang's house.

At that time, Qin Bei and Zhao Youcai said that when Wang Dalong came back from burying the dog, they would drag the wild boar to his house together. But when Wang Dalong came back, Qin Bei stopped saying that.

Qin Bei asked Wang Dalong if he could drag the wild boar to Li Mingxiang's house. He also said that Li Mingxiang's family was in a difficult situation. He dragged the wild boar to Li Mingxiang's house and left the remaining bones after removing the meat.

Wang Dalong agreed without even thinking about it. Not to mention that he didn't care about the wild boar bones at all, but the key was that the pretty little girl that day was Li Mingxiang's wife, wasn't she?

At this time, on the kang in the west room of Li Mingxiang's house, Li Mingxiang, as the owner, was sitting inside facing south and facing north. On his right was Qin Bei and on his left was Wang Dalong.

There is also a plate of wild boar fried with sauerkraut on the table. In addition, there are also canned luncheon meat and canned fish that are standard for guests in the forest.

The three of them were drinking when Li Mingxiang's Qiao Xiaoli came in from the outer room carrying a plate.

The woman went to the edge of the kang, pushed the plate of luncheon meat on the table with one hand, and placed the scrambled eggs on the table with the other hand.

Then the woman turned aside and sat on the edge of the kang. The person on her right was Wang Dalong. And her man, Li Mingxiang, is still on Wang Dalong's right.

Just listen to Qiao Xiaoli say: "Brother, my sister-in-law doesn't have much to eat. Anyway, it's your first time to come back to my sister-in-law's house to bring rice bowls, so you should eat more."

With this sentence, her move to sit next to Wang Dalong became reasonable.

"Hey, hey." Wang Dalong responded with a smile. He gestured to the table with chopsticks in his right hand and said, "Sister-in-law, you can have some with us too."

"Sister-in-law doesn't want to eat." Qiao Xiaoli said with a smile, "I'll go to the room and eat with the kids later."

Under the dim yellow light, Qiao Xiaoli's smile directly entered Wang Dalong's heart.

At this moment, Qin Bei, who was sitting opposite Wang Dalong, asked him: "Brother, how old are you?"

"Ah..." Wang Dalong came to his senses and replied: "I am twenty-six, and it is the twenty-seventh day of the Chinese New Year."

"Oops!" Qin Bei looked at Li Mingxiang and said, "Our brother is two years younger than you, is he older than Xiaoli?"

"Yeah!" Li Ming said loudly, "Xiaoli is a rabbit and is two years younger than our brothers."

"Haha." As soon as Li Mingxiang finished speaking, Qiao Xiaoli said with a sweet smile: "This brother is older than me, and he still calls me sister-in-law. Doesn't he call me old?"

As soon as Qiao Xiaoli said this, the three men laughed and laughed. Wang Dalong said with a smile: "Then I won't call you sister-in-law."

Having said this, Wang Dalong paused and then said, "Can I call you sister-in-law?"

The four of them laughed again. Qiao Xiaoli stood up from the edge of the Kang and smiled at Wang Dalong: "Then my sister-in-law will help you weigh two more dishes."

"Don't bother, sister-in-law." Wang Dalong waved his hand to Qiao Xiaoli and shook his head: "The food is enough. Sit down and let's chat for a while!"

…

"If you have money, I'll give you dry food." At this time, in the guest house of Yongxing Brigade, Li Wencai came in with a plate of five two-faced steamed buns, and took one from the top and handed it to Zhao Youcai.

Zhao Youcai took the steamed bun, split it into two, handed the majority of it to Li Wencai, and said, "Uncle Li, one is enough for us."

At this time, a helmet of wild boar was stir-fried with sauerkraut and only some vegetable soup was left. Zhao Youcai and Li Wencai broke off the steamed buns and dipped them in the vegetable soup to finish the meal.

Then, Zhao Youcai was not lazy and helped Li Wencai put away the dishes. After adding enough firewood to the stove, the two of them got on the kang and spread out the bedding.

Before getting into bed, Zhao Youcai took off his cotton-padded jacket and said to Li Wencai: "Uncle Li, we won't wait for Dalong. I guess he'll be left at Qin Bei's place to drink with your eldest nephew and the others."

After hearing what Zhao Youcai said about Wang Dalong's stay at Qin Bei's house, Li Wencai felt a little more at ease, but he also let out a long sigh.

Zhao Youcai smiled when he saw this, turned around and asked Li Wencai, "What's wrong, uncle? Why do you sigh when you mention your eldest nephew?"

It wasn't that Zhao Youcai was overly concerned. Ever since he arrived here the day before yesterday, he felt that there was something wrong with Li Wencai's attitude towards the Qin brothers. Logically speaking, they are related and should not be like this.

When Wang Dalong mentioned Li Mozi's wife, although Li Wencai said that Li Mozi was his nephew, from his tone, Zhao Youcai could sense that the old man was very dissatisfied with his nephew.

"Oh!" When Zhao Youcai asked, Li Wencai sighed heavily. When Zhao Youcai was confused, Li Wencai sat on the bed, shook his head and said: "Youcai, you have to stay here in our brigade for a long time. You can also know. So, your Uncle Li won’t hide it from you anymore.”

"Huh?" Zhao Youcai was stunned, and then he saw a sad look on Li Wencai's face, and said, "That Li Mingxiang and I are so old!"

Hearing what Li Wencai said, Zhao Youcai frowned and asked softly: "What's wrong, Uncle Li?"

Li Wencai took a deep breath and said with difficulty and angrily: "He is just a meat-headed turtle!"

When Zhao Youcai heard this, his heart suddenly trembled. The meat-headed turtle cover, isn’t that a tortoise?