The whole mountain is my hunting ground

When Wang Qiang came yesterday, he brought a fan of wild boar ribs and a hind thigh to Zhao Jun's family.

I stewed pork ribs last night, and I'm going to eat pork ribs tonight.

Add only Sichuan peppercorns and a little salt to the water, blanch the elbows until they are deboned, take them out and slice them while they are still hot.

Pieces of elbow meat are placed on the plate and eaten with garlic paste.

In addition, there is a sauerkraut stewed potato chips soup. Although there were only two dishes, the advantage was that the dishes were large. Zhao Jun's family of five, Xie Chen, Xie Sun, and the old lady, chatted and laughed while eating.

Zhao Youcai and Xie Chen took a sip of wine. After putting down the glass, he said to Zhao Jun: "Qin Laosan was stabbed today. He went to the forest farm clinic to find Dr. Dong to sew it up."

"hehe."

As soon as Zhao Youcai finished speaking, he heard Zhao Jun and Jie Chen laughing. Zhao Jun even asked: "Dad, who do you think is obsessed with him?"

"Who is it?" Wang Meilan asked curiously. She knew that her son had a sense of propriety. Even if he conflicted with others, he would only use fists and kicks at most, and would never use a knife or a gun.

"Uncle Xing San." After Zhao Jun said this, Zhao Youcai reacted immediately, while Wang Meilan clicked her eyes twice, looking a little confused.

She heard her son mention this person, but she had never seen the old man.

"The second brother-in-law who came here last year." Zhao Jun said to Wang Meilan, "Let Baoyu and I lead the dogs to fight the black blind man."

"Ah, ah!" Wang Meilan reacted and said, "They are uncle and nephew."

As soon as Zhao Jun nodded, the old lady asked: "My dear, is the old man you are talking about the one who puts his head in the shack under Qiuziling?"

"Yes, yes." This time it was Zhao Jun's turn to be curious, and he hurriedly asked: "Nai Jiang, do you still know him?"

"I heard what Mr. Jiang said." The old lady said, "That damn old man is no longer a creature. He has snatched your fried eggs from Mr. Jiang several times."

Zhao Jun: "..."

"I live in the mountains by myself, and the longer I live, the more stubborn I become." At this time, Zhao Youcai interjected: "I looked at the old second girl of the Hu family before she married Xing Zhiyong. She could still say a few words at that time. It's over. This year I picked up Erhei Qian'er. When I met him and I talked to him, he ignored me."

"Huh?" After hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Wang Meilan asked, "He didn't even talk to you, so why did you let the dog into his shack later?"

"Ah..." Zhao Youcai was stunned by Wang Meilan's question. He couldn't answer the question. You can't say that he just ignored me when I mentioned my son, right?

"Well..." Zhao Youcai said, "We'll get used to it after just a few words."

"That's not bad." The old lady took over the conversation and curled her lips and said: "He is a unique person and has a small face. He will attack whatever he says that is wrong. Ah..."

Speaking of this, the old lady turned to Zhao Jun and said: "You used to always mention the third uncle and the third uncle. Who else am I thinking about? Is it him after thinking about it for a long time?"

"Haha." Zhao Jun chuckled and explained to the old lady: "We also met my old uncle Hu through his second uncle."

"Huh?" Wang Meilan heard the excitement of several people and joined in forcefully, asking: "Is this person from here? Why haven't I heard of him before?"

"How long has it been since he was beaten?" The old lady said, "How many years has it been? His wife and child died, and he went up the mountain."

After saying this, the old lady added: "There is a bully on the other side of Qiuziling. He is really evil."

As she said that, the old lady lifted her chopsticks and said, "In what year did we go to collect mountains and watch old Xu Pao being beaten, my daughter, can you remember?"

"Ah! Ah!" Wang Meilan clicked her eyes, suddenly remembered something, nodded quickly and said: "I have an impression, that year my old woman and I, as well as you and Lao Qi's sister-in-law, a group of us went up the mountain to chew Schisandra chinensis. Before we came back I met old Xu Pao, and I remember clearly that both sides of his face were so pale."

Schisandra chinensis is a delicious medicinal material that has the effect of nourishing the kidneys and calming the heart. Take a dozen capsules each time and soak them in water to cure insomnia and hair loss.

The women in the forest rely on the mountains to eat. They pick wild vegetables in the spring, mushrooms and pear harvesting in the autumn...

There is a risk of encountering blind bears when mining mountains, so mountain collectors need to go together. Along the way, everyone talked, laughed, and shouted, which could scare away the mountain animals in advance.

As for Wang Meilan's statement that Xu Changlin's face was bruised, it was actually swollen. Moreover, there are slap marks on both sides of the face, which makes people slap at a glance.

"Yes, just that time!" the old lady said: "I asked the old man to beat him. I heard what those mountain dogs said when they came down the mountain. The two of them got into trouble because of a roe deer and asked Xing Laosan to beat Lao Xu. The artillery cavalry has a big mouth."

"Ah..." After listening to the old lady talking about the past, Zhao Jun finally figured out something.

When he and Xu Changlin went hunting for lynx, they needed to find a place to stay in the mountains. Before going, Xu Changlin said that he would stay at Xing San's place. But friends, who doesn’t bring something?

Especially since Xing San lives in the mountains and there is nothing in the shack, it would be good if he could get some freeze-dried tofu and frozen soybean tofu.

But Xu Changlin didn't take anything. Later, Zhao Jun went to Old Xu's house and learned from Old Mrs. Xu that before Xu Changlin set off, she had given Xu Changlin money and asked Xu Changlin to buy things for Xing San.

But even so, Xu Changlin didn't get anything for Xing San. Even after meeting Xing San on the road, Xu Changlin relied on the relationship between Zhao Jun and Xing Zhiyong to stay in Xing San's cellar for two days.

Zhao Jun couldn't understand it at the time, but now he could understand it after hearing what the old lady said.

"Then what's their reason today?" At this time, Wang Meilan finally asked a key question, "Why did they use the knife?"

Zhao Youcai looked at Zhao Jun, he was also curious about this question.

When Zhao Jun explained the whole story, Xie Sun was the first to comment: "This old man is really powerful."

After hearing this, everyone looked at her one after another. It seems that Xing San's actions are not worthy of praise, right?

At this time, she sincerely admired Xing San for Xie Sun. In daily life, Mr. Xie Sun is also a domineering person. But her dominance relies on fists and kicks outside, and poison at home.

Xie Sun also knew that his fists and feet could only deal with some women, or people like Zhang Laibao. She usually runs rampant in the countryside, mainly because Jie Zhong is so powerful.

As for rat poison, let alone that, it all depends on the filial piety of the children.

Looking at Xing San again, a dry little old man faced an old man and a young man, and actually stabbed one away and scared away three.

Hearing that Xing San and Qin Qiang were fighting for land, Zhao Youcai thought for a while and said, "The mountain farm at Lao Lintou'er is really good."

"Dad, do you know that?" Zhao Jun asked. In his last life, he was a siege fighter, but he is a junior and is not in the same path as these people.

"Hmm!" Zhao Youcai picked up the wine glass and said, "He has a big skin in the winter, and a yellow mud hill in the spring that can be used to treat deer. It's pretty good."

To go to Yanwozi medicinal deer, you must first choose a place within the activity range of red deer, and secondly, it must be in Huangnigangzi.

In this way, that mountain farm is really a good place to make a fortune. But in the spring of next year, Zhao Jun no longer plans to medicine deer.

This year it was for Wang Meilan that I tried to get the blood of a deer. Now that Wang Meilan is in good health, Zhao Jun has no idea.

It's not that Zhao Jun is soft-hearted, it's just that there is no difference between medicinal deer, especially late April and early May are still the pregnancy seasons for doe deer. Others choose to take medicine deer at that time, male deer have their antler cut off, and female deer have their fetuses shaved. They took out the deer fetuses, soaked them in wine, and then boiled them into paste and sold them for money.

This is more cruel. It used to be for Wang Meilan, but Zhao Jun doesn't plan to do it in the future.

"Son!" At this time, Wang Meilan suddenly remembered something and said to Zhao Jun: "You are going down the mountain tomorrow and want to buy two bags of dry food."

At this point, Wang Meilan added: "Ask them to wrap it in flowery paper."

"Huh?" Zhao Jun was startled when he heard this and asked, "Mom, what do you want that for?"

The dry food Wang Meilan mentioned is actually snacks, such as trough cakes and Changbai cakes.

The paper-wrapped ones are actually the same as the loose ones. Adding a layer of wrapping paper costs 30 cents more.

"Today is Thursday. Your father and the others have a day off on Sunday. Can't we pay homage to the old Ma family?" Wang Meilan said, "You buy back the dry food tomorrow. I'll go see your Aunt Liu the day after tomorrow. I have to trouble her to run around." It’s a trip.”

The Zhao and Ma families are having a ceremony this Sunday, and everyone in the two families knows about it. But it can't be as simple as Zhao Youcai and Wang Meilan going over and inviting people to come to their house for dinner.

According to the old rules, the matchmaker must go to Lao Ma's house in advance to inform him. The matchmaker will go to pick up the Zhao family the next day and bring the Ma family with him.

Before, Xie Sun offended Liu Tiezui, which almost caused Liu Tiezui's career to end prematurely.

Although it was Xie Sun who caused the trouble, she was a guest of Zhao Jun's family after all, and no one could guarantee whether Liu Tiezui would hold a grudge.

Otherwise, we can't offend the matchmaker these days, so Zhao Jun is married and has two younger sisters. And most people can't imagine what the future will be like. Wang Meilan even pointed at Liu Tiezui to introduce a partner to her eldest grandson.

"Ah!" Zhao Jun reacted and said hurriedly: "Okay, Mom, I will buy two packs tomorrow..."

"What should I buy?" Before Zhao Jun could finish his words, he was interrupted by the old lady. She said to Zhao Jun: "Xiao, there's no need to buy. I'll go to her house tomorrow and tell her."

"Nothing else, Auntie." Upon hearing this, Wang Meilan quickly comforted the old lady and said, "It doesn't cost much, so we won't bother her Aunt Liu too much."

"Nothing less troublesome." The old lady said, "She has eaten all kinds of meat. Why does she dare to take some?"

"Auntie!" No one expected that Jie Sun, who was sitting next to the old lady, stopped her. Then she said to Jie Chen: "Xiao Er'er, you go with your brother tomorrow. You can get pastries and other things." Spend money on it.”

"Huh? Ah!" Jie Chen was stunned by what his mother said. He was not a stingy person. The key was that his mother said such a sudden sentence, which made Jie Chen a little shocked.

"No need!" Wang Meilan said anxiously: "What do you want me to spend?"

"Let him spend it." Mrs. Jie Sun chuckled and said to Wang Meilan: "Sister, after you have settled the matter with the matchmaker about our Zhao Jun, you can mention our second son again."

She offended Quanren at first, but now Xie Sun regrets it.

Wang Meilan did not dare to agree immediately, but looked at the old lady and asked: "Auntie, Aunt Liu can't be still angry, right?"

"No." The old lady said, "I went to talk about Baoyu that day. I think she was very happy."

"That's fine." After hearing what the old lady said, Wang Meilan felt confident.

…

The next day, Friday, November 20, 1987.

Wang Meilan got up early in the morning and sat in the outhouse with a notebook, using Zhao Na's unwanted pencil tip to write something in the notebook.

Until Zhao Youcai came out of the east room, walked to Wang Meilan, tilted his head and looked at it, and said, "Is this such a big deal?"

"Why not?" Wang Meilan closed the notebook, put it in her pocket, looked at the flames dancing in the stove, and said, "I am just a son. If I don't use my energy now, why should I keep it?" ?”

After saying that, Wang Meilan turned to glare at Zhao Youcai.

"Then do it quickly." Zhao Youcai was so stunned by Wang Meilan's glare that he hurriedly opened the door and went to the latrine.

By the time Zhao Jun and Jie Chen got up, it was almost five o'clock. After the two finished cleaning up, Wang Meilan had already picked up the pot and went out to pick up dry food.

This morning, Zhao Jun’s family ate pickled cabbage baskets.

The cornmeal is filled with sauerkraut stuffing, and there is no meat at all, but as long as it is stuffed, it is a poor man's delight in the forest areas of this era.

But Wang Meilan steamed this just because she wanted to eat it. Although there was no meat in the sauerkraut basket she steamed, there was a lot of meat oil in it. After picking up the steaming baskets of pickled vegetables one after another into the curtain, Wang Meilan called to Zhao Jun and said, "Son, give this pot to your wife and the two of you."

"I'll go, Auntie." Jie Chen hurried over and said, "I just wanted to ask my mother if I need to bring her anything."

"That's okay." Wang Meilan took a curtain tied with sorghum poles, covered the mouth of the basin, and then said to Jie Chen: "Little minister, run quickly, or it won't get cold."

Jie Chen agreed with a smile, hugged the basin and ran out. After he left, Wang Meilan began to steam a pot of pickled cabbage baskets.

After putting the dry food into the pot, Wang Meilan wiped her hands and went into the house to find Zhao Jun.

At this time, Zhao Jun and Zhao Youcai were feeding bears and teasing lynxes on the kang in the west room. When Wang Meilan came in, she took out a small book from her pocket, opened the page with the pencil tip, and casually tore off her writing paper and handed it to Zhao Jun.

"Oh my god!" Zhao Jun took a look and couldn't help but look at Wang Meilan and said, "Why buy so many things?"

"Ah!" Wang Meilan reached out and touched the paper and said, "Son, just buy what mom wrote, more, no less."

"Ah, okay." Zhao Jun glanced at the paper again and suddenly felt a little overwhelmed. Men of their generation are not good at shopping. As soon as I buy something, I feel scared.

Therefore, Zhao Jun smiled bitterly at Wang Meilan and said, "Mom, how about you and I go there."

"I can't go." Wang Meilan took a step back, holding her hands in front of her, and said, "There are so many things at home, how can I leave?"

"Oops!" Zhao Jun sighed softly and said, "That's okay!"

As soon as Zhao Jun finished speaking, there was a sound of opening the door in the east room. The three of them stretched their necks in shock and looked towards the outer room.

"Brother! Brother!" Zhao Hong ran all the way to the west room. The little girl got up and came over without even wearing her own clothes or suspenders on her cotton pants.

"What are you doing?" Wang Meilan, who was closest to the door, picked up Zhao Hong, put it on the kang, pulled up the pockets in front of her cotton trousers and the straps on her waist, and said, "What are you doing up so early? ?”

Zhao Hong ignored Wang Meilan, but stretched out her little hand to Zhao Jun and shouted: "Brother..."

"Oh!" Zhao Jun stretched out his hand, held his big hand and asked his sister, "Sister, what do you want to do?"

"Brother!" Zhao Hong looked at Zhao Jun and said, "Don't forget to buy me a ribbon to smash!"

"Ah...hehe." Zhao Jun was stunned for a moment, then he laughed and said, "Don't worry, I won't forget it."

"This child!" Wang Meilan stopped wearing Zhao Hong's sling and asked, "Are you going to sleep yet?"

"I won't sleep anymore!" Zhao Hong pointed to the door and said, "My little sister is up too."

"Oh my God!" Wang Meilan pushed Zhao Hong into Zhao Youcai's arms and said, "Tie the strap on for her."

With that said, Wang Meilan hurriedly walked to the east room.

Zhao Youcai clumsily tied Zhao Hong's suspender belt and said, "Second daughter, the only one who ties up her hair, how can we not sleep?"

"Dad, that one looks great!" Zhao Hong gestured to Zhao Youcai and said, "I'll use it to tie my little sister's hair."

"Ah!" Hearing this, Zhao Youcai turned to Zhao Jun and said, "Did you hear that? I have to buy it back today!"

Zhao Jun: "..."

Seeing Zhao Jun rolling his eyes at him, Zhao Youcai, who had recently made a fortune, hesitated for a moment before asking, "How much does that thing cost?"

"That's not expensive." Zhao Jun said, "A roll is only eighty cents."

Zhao Jun didn't know how much that thing cost, but he thought it wouldn't be too expensive.

"Ah..." Zhao Youcai leaned to the side, reached into his trouser pocket and took out money, took out a two-yuan note and threw it to Zhao Jun, and said grandly: "Buy two papers and give them to these girls. "

As soon as Zhao Youcai finished speaking, he saw Zhao Jun take the money and put it in his pocket.

Zhao Youcai's face fell, and he turned around and smiled at Zhao Hong: "It's okay, second daughter, if dad is rich, dad will buy it for you."

"Dad, you are so kind!" Zhao Hong put her arms around Zhao Youcai's neck, and Zhao Youcai was so happy that he couldn't help but smile and said, "She is my second daughter, she is good with her father."

Zhao Youcai didn't say nice things, but Zhao Jun still found it interesting.

The next second, Zhao Hong let go of Zhao Youcai's neck and said, "Dad, you said last time that you made money, so you bought dolls for me and my little sister."

Zhao Youcai: "..."

Brothers, that’s it for today. I’m saving autumn vegetables and pounding potatoes today. I haven’t cooked dinner yet.