The whole mountain is my hunting ground

The door of Zhao's house opened. As the nominal head of the family, Zhao Youcai took the lead and was the first to walk out of the house.

Next came Wang Meilan, then Wang Qiang, Zhao Ling, Zhao Chun, Zhou Jianjun, and finally Zhao Jun.

Everyone walked quickly, as if they were welcoming distinguished guests. When there were still more than ten steps away from the door, Zhao Youcai, who was walking in the front, jogged for four or five steps, and then changed to a brisk walk. He smiled and smiled at Liu Tiezui. He stretched out his hands and said with a big smile: "Oh, girls, you are here!"

Liu Tiezui took a deep breath, struggled to hold the big cloth bundle with one hand, stretched out his free right hand to Zhao Youcai, and said with a smile: "Brother, are you anxious to wait at home?"

"It's not bad!" Zhao Youcai held Liu Tiezui's right hand with both hands, pressed it down gently, and after a response, he quickly let go and reached out to Ma Dafu, smiling and calling: "Brother Ma!"

"Second brothers!" Ma Dafu also had a smile on his face, stretched out his hands to hold with Zhao Youcai, and the two of them kept shaking their hands up and down.

"Sister-in-law." Wang Meilan and Wang Cuihua also held hands and shook each other, with smiles on their faces.

"Oh, Brother Zhao!" At this time, Liu Tiezui was holding the baggage with both hands and called Zhao Youcai: "Are you happy to have a visitor at home?"

"No!" With Liu Tiezui's words, the four people shaking hands stopped shaking. Zhao Youcai raised his head and looked at the people behind him.

"Second brothers!" Ma Dafu stretched out his hand and said to Zhao Youcai, "You know all of these, right?"

"Can you not recognize me?" Zhao Youcai responded with a smile, then extended his hand to the man in his fifties and said, "Brother Wang!"

This man's name is Wang Zhongjie, and he is Ma Ling's uncle. The woman next to him is Ma Ling's aunt. Then there were seven other people, except for Ma Yang, Ma Sheng, and Xu Xiaoqing, the other four were Ma Ling's aunt, uncle, third aunt, and third uncle.

Wang Cuihua is the second among the sisters in the family. There are four sisters in total, and an older sister has married to Hebei.

Because Ma Dafu only had a younger brother who died young, all those who came today were Wang Cuihua’s natal family. As for the Wang family, Wang Meilan and Wang Meilan were the same grandfather, and they all lived in this area before, so Zhao Youcai naturally knew them.

As for Wang Meilan and Wang Qiang, let alone them.

After the two elders met each other, Liu Tiezui suggested from the side: "Let's go inside, it's very cold outside!"

"Hey!" Zhao Youcai heard this and hurriedly raised his hand to guide him into the courtyard. At this time, the Zhao family members leaned to the side and called the Ma family members to enter the hospital.

Zhao Youcai, Ma Dafu, and Wang Zhongjie walked in front. They walked slowly, talking and laughing along the way.

Later, Wang Meilan and Wang Cuihua hugged Liu Tiezui, who was holding the baggage. They were also talking and laughing.

After that, Wang Qiang accompanied Ma Ling's two uncles, and Zhao Ling accompanied the Wang sisters and Wang Zhongjie's daughter-in-law.

Then there are Zhou Jianjun and Ma Sheng. One of them is Zhao Jun's brother-in-law, and the other is Zhao Jun's future uncle. They both work in the forest farm and know each other very well.

But today Zhou Jianjun is the host and Ma Sheng is the guest. Zhou Jianjun is extremely enthusiastic towards Ma Sheng for his brother-in-law.

Afterwards, Zhao Chun held Ma Ling with one hand and Xu Xiaoqing with the other, and the three of them walked in smiling.

Finally, it was Zhao Jun and Ma Yang. Seeing that Ma Yang's face still had the slap mark from the day before, Zhao Jun chuckled and Ma Yang rolled his eyes at him in anger.

Zhao Jun smiled and put his arms around Ma Yang's shoulders. Ma Yang squinted and rolled his eyes at Zhao Jun. When he looked away, Ma Yang also smiled.

Zhao Jun carried Ma Yang and walked in, but as soon as he took a step, he glanced at the large snowdrift beside the road from the corner of his eye, and saw a head emerging from behind the snowdrift.

Zhao Jun was startled, turned his head and looked carefully, and happened to meet Li Ruhai's eyes.

Zhao Jun glared at Li Ruhai, but Li Ruhai smiled at Zhao Jun.

At this time, six people, Zhao Youcai, Ma Dafu, Wang Zhongjie, Wang Meilan, Wang Cuihua, and Liu Tiezui, who were walking in front, had entered the east room of the Zhao family, while Wang Qiang and Zhao Ling were accompanying Ma Ling's aunt, two aunts, and two uncles outside.

There is no way, there are too many people here today.

"Sister, slow down!" No one else in the east room got on the kang. Wang Meilan and Wang Cuihua helped Liu Tiezui up first.

Liu Tiezui didn't take off his shoes. With the help of two people, he stepped on the edge of the kang with a big red cloth bundle in his arms.

Standing on the Kang mat, Liu Tiezui put the big red cloth bundle on the Kang table and walked in by herself.

Both houses of the Zhao family have southern Kang tables, so Liu Tiezui moved to the center of the Kang table and sat facing north with his back to south.

After sitting down, Liu Tiezui took off the big bundle and placed it on his right hand side behind him.

"Brother Ma, Brother Lao Wang, let's get on the kang too!" Zhao Youcai greeted. After the three of them got on the kang, Ma Dafu was on the east side, sitting on the right side of Liu Tiezui, and below him was Wang Zhongjie.

Zhao Youcai was sitting at the end of the door, on Liu Tiezui's left side. Then Wang Meilan and Wang Cuihua sat on the edge of the Kang, Wang Meilan sat next to Zhao Youcai, and Wang Cuihua sat next to her eldest brother.

The mother's uncle is the eldest, and Wang Zhongjie is not only the woman's uncle, but he is also a guest.

As for the other uncle, Wang Qiang, he was the master. At this time, he called Ma Ling's two uncles into the house, and the three of them got on the kang and sat under the window. It's just that Wang Qiang is on Zhao Youcai's side, while Ma Ling's eldest uncle and third uncle are closer to Ma Dafu.

Then, Zhao Ling and Ma Ling's aunt Wang Cuilan, third aunt Wang Cuiyu, and aunt Gao Shuyun all sat on the edge of the kang, and they were also members of their own family next to each other.

The kang in Zhao Jun's house was not small. There were twelve people sitting on the kang at this time, and they were separated with Liu Tiezui as the center. The Ma family is on the east side, and the Zhao family is on the west side near the door.

At this time, Zhou Jianjun, Ma Sheng, Zhao Chun, Xu Xiaoqing, Ma Ling, Zhao Jun, and Ma Yang entered the room one after another.

Zhou Jianjun led Ma Sheng, Xu Xiaoqing, and Ma Ling to the east. Under the row of large wardrobes made of old elm wood, there were two long benches.

Xu Xiaoqing sat next to Gao Shuyun first, followed by Ma Sheng, Ma Yang and Zhou Jianjun.

As for Ma Ling, when she came in, she was pulled by Wang Cuilan. Wang Cuilan moved her butt towards Wang Cuiyu and said, "Ling'er, sit here with me."

As a result, Ma Ling sat next to Wang Cuihua.

At this time, only Zhao Jun and Zhao Chun were still standing in the room. Wang Meilan raised her head to Zhao Chun, tilted her chin toward her, and said, "My dearest daughter, make some tea for your uncle and the others."

"Hey!" Zhao Chun agreed, smiled at Ma Dafu, Wang Zhongjie, and Wang Cuihua, turned around and left the house.

The tea has already been brewed. These days, it is important to put more tea leaves to drink strong tea. Otherwise, if you don’t put enough tea leaves, people will say you are picky.

At this time, there was a new aluminum kettle on the stove in the outer room, with less than half a pot of tea in it. The tea was brewed in the morning and had already cooled down. Zhao Chun took a thermos bottle and poured hot water into it.

As soon as the hot water is stirred, the aroma of tea comes out immediately, and the tea is neither cold nor hot, just warm.

Such a good Maojian, so soaked in it, it’s all in vain. But no one is here to drink tea today, and this is planned in advance.

The tea was ready and the teacups were in the room, but Zhao Chun did not go in at this time.

In the east room, there is a rectangular elm table under the west wall next to the door, with four large enamel plates placed on the table. Two of them were filled with mixed melon seeds, peanuts and sugar cubes, while the other two were filled with glasses.

In addition, there is a white porcelain plate, which is covered with red paper, and cigarettes are stacked on the red paper.

Zhao Jun walked to the kang table with the plate containing cigarettes. He nodded and smiled at Wang Zhongjie and said, "Uncle, smoke."

This is not only because my mother-in-law is older, but mainly because of the people in the house, Wang Zhongjie is the oldest.

"Hey, good boy." Wang Zhongjie smiled and reached for a cigarette. Zhao Jun moved the plate to Ma Dafu and said, "Uncle."

Ma Dafu said nothing at this time, only smiled and took a cigarette. When Zhao Jun sent the cigarette to Liu Tiezui, Zhao Youcai smiled and said to Liu Tiezui: "The matchmaker has to smoke one. This will cause trouble to my sister."

"What's the trouble?" When Liu Tiezui spoke, he stretched out his left hand to catch the plate handed over by Zhao Jun. When she put the plate on the table, Liu Tiezui raised his right hand and pointed at Zhao Jun, with his face facing the direction of the Ma family. He smiled and said, "This kid is so good!"

After being praised by Liu Tiezui, Zhao Jun smiled and nodded to her, then took two steps back and sat on the four-legged and eight-pointed stool in front of Chuyu's table.

"Ouch!" At this time, Wang Zhongjie held the cigarette in his hand, pointed towards Zhao Jun, and responded to Liu Tiezui: "In this situation, who wouldn't say that this kid is benevolent and righteous?"

Wang Zhongjie used to be a forest farm employee, but he retired early five years ago and let his younger son take over. Moreover, their family lived in Yongsheng, close to Zhou Chengguo, and often heard Zhou Chengguo praise Zhao Jun.

"Come! Brother!" As soon as Wang Zhongjie finished speaking, Zhao Youcai, who was sitting diagonally across from him, handed over the struck matches and lit cigarettes for Wang Zhongjie, Ma Dafu, and Liu Tiezui in succession.

Then Zhao Youcai took a cigarette by himself and gave the plate of cigarettes to Wang Qiang, who then took care of Ma Ling's two uncles.

Wang Zhongjie took a puff of his cigarette, looked at Wang Meilan with a smile, and said, "Sister, you and Cuihua are related to each other, so we will kiss each other!"

"Who says it's not the case!" Wang Meilan said with a smile: "Brother, how many years have passed and our children are all married."

"That's not good!" Wang Zhongjie said with a smile: "Then you think we can still be the youngest?"

Everyone had smiles on their faces, but Ma Ling's aunt and third aunt both smoked. Zhou Jianjun lit cigarettes for them and Ma Sheng.

At this time, Wang Meilan stretched out her hand towards Wang Cuihua across the kang table. When she held Wang Cuihua's hand with her right hand, Wang Meilan gestured to Wang Cuilan, Wang Cuiyu and Gao Shuyun with her left hand and said: "Sister, sister-in-law, I go to the market from time to time to return I can watch. Third sister, I haven’t seen you for many years.”

Wang Cuiyu smiled when she heard this and said: "It's not good, we sisters haven't seen each other for more than ten years."

"Huh?" At this time, Wang Cuilan touched Wang Cuihua lightly and said, "Big brother also said that we are all old, but I don't think Meilan looks old."

On today's occasion, Wang Meilan didn't wear her gold jewelry, but this year, Wang Meilan's whole temperament was completely different from this time last year.

Among these rural women, Wang Meilan feels like she stands out from the crowd.

"Haha..." Wang Meilan smiled faintly and said, "Sister, why don't you age? Haha..."

"You really don't look old!" Wang Cuihua answered, and then smiled at Wang Meilan: "Sister, when we sit here today, what do you think I remembered?"

"What do you remember?" Wang Meilan asked casually, and Wang Cuihua smiled and said: "I think of that year, the three of us came to your house to find you, and then we went to the sorghum field to cut sweet stalks to eat!"

Sweet stalk is sorghum stalk. It is called sweet stalk because it looks like sugar cane. You can chew the inner part by peeling off the skin.

It is not as sweet as sugar cane, but it has a special fragrance and is very watery, making it sweet and delicious to chew.

October is the season for harvesting sorghum rice, and it is also the time when sweet stalks are at their sweetest and most delicious.

But in the past, every family had difficulties, especially because the yield of sorghum was not high. If most families here were self-sufficient, they would often choose to grow corn. So the sweet pole is also a great thing for children.

If you don’t grow sorghum, you will definitely not have sweet stalks. But Wang Meilan’s family is rich and she has everything. So at that time, Wang Cuihua and her sisters often went to Wang Meilan to play and eat two sweet poles with their heads.

"Oh, don't mention it!" Wang Meilan raised her hand with a smile, pinched the pad of her index finger with her left thumb, and said, "You made a cut on my hand that year, and it was bleeding!"

The skin of the sweet stick is thin and sharp, and it is easy to hurt your hands if you are not careful when peeling the skin. Some children use their mouths to tear it off, which can easily damage their lips.

"Oh!" Recalling the past, the Wang sisters spoke one after another. Wang Cuiyu smiled and pointed at Wang Meilan and said: "I remember, I went to see Meilan that year, and Meilan was staying at home to wash her hair. It took almost an hour. .”

At this point, Wang Cuiyu slapped her thigh, laughed and said to Gao Shuyun beside her: "We'll wait for her for an hour when she's done."

There was no shampoo to wash my hair before, and even the old Wang family was so rich that they didn’t have it. For example, some people in need don’t wash their hair several times during the winter, so they get lice on their clothes and in their hair.

Only during the Chinese New Year, they might scoop some sauerkraut water from the sauerkraut vat and use it as shampoo to wash their hair.

The Wang family was wealthy, so when Wang Meilan was a child, her family always kept rice water in cans. After the rice water has fermented, use this to wash Wang Meilan's hair.

This product is better than all subsequent shampoos, and my long hair is smooth and slippery after washing. It's just that the rice water has a peculiar smell after fermentation, so it must be washed with clean water more than ten times.

That's why Wang Cuiyu said that she waited for Wang Meilan for an hour!

"Oh!" At this time, Wang Zhongjie put out the cigarette butt, glanced at his three sisters, and said with a smile: "You still said that the four of you sisters are going to celebrate the New Year that year, so you can look back on the 29th..."

With that said, Wang Zhongjie turned to Liu Tiezui and Zhao Youcai and said, "Washing for a day!"

"Hahaha……"

Everyone followed and had fun. In those days, the four girls had to wash their hair, and it took a serious day to wash their hair.

The laughter subsided and he finished smoking a cigarette. Liu Tiezui looked at Ma Dafu, then at Zhao Youcai and Wang Meilan and said: "Brother Zhao, Sister-in-law Zhao, Brother Ma and his family are all here today, are we all here for the sake of the children? "

"Yes!" Zhao Youcai lowered his head and looked at Ma Dafu with a smile. Ma Dafu also smiled in response.

Liu Tiezui smiled when he saw this, and continued: "Our children's affairs have been decided, and you will be your in-laws from now on!"

In fact, this matter has been decided for a long time, but it is a major matter and must be explained clearly in person.

After Liu Tiezui said this, the steps for both families were paved. Zhao Youcai leaned forward, smiled and stretched out his hand, and called Ma Dafu: "Brother Ma, in-laws!"

"Hey! In-laws!" Ma Dafu grabbed Zhao Youcai's hand, and the two shook their hands up and down, laughing.

I'll add an update tomorrow to see if I can finish writing the gifts. This day, in the book, passed quite slowly, but quite fulfillingly. There is still a tiger over there that I haven’t beaten yet...