After learning the cause and effect from Wang Meilan, Zhao Jun squinted his eyes, pursed his lips, and suppressed a smile.
Then Zhao Jun keenly noticed the problem and asked Wang Meilan: "Mom, is there anything neat here?"
In Wang Meilan's account, Li Xiaoqiao was not the one who offered sacrifices to her father, but when Zhao Jun came back, Li Xiaoqiao's eyes were obviously red.
When Zhao Jun asked, Wang Meilan remembered Li Xiaoqiao's incident and immediately told Zhao Jun about Li Xiaoqiao's behavior as a demon.
After Zhao Jun heard this, he couldn't help but shake his head secretly. There was no idle person in the old Li family. Li Baoyu was relatively "mediocre". When he grew up, Li Xiaoqiao was not as capable as Li Ruhai, but he was not far behind.
But this is talking about the Li brothers and sisters in Zhao Jun's previous life, and Li Ruhai has received "better growth" in this life. And as the family's conditions improve, Zhao Jun doesn't know what Li Xiaoqiao will eventually become.
There was nothing to say all night, and the next day was Thursday, December 17, 1987.
When Zhao Jun got up, Zhao Youcai had already woken up. Commander Zhao seemed to be in better condition today than yesterday. Although he looked a little weak and coughed from time to time, he was generally fine.
"Son." Zhao Youcai called Zhao Jun in a hoarse voice. Zhao Jun was slightly startled, then looked back at Zhao Youcai who got up from the bed and said, "Dad, it's cold in the room. Don't get up yet."
After a night, the kang was not as hot as it was just after burning, and the room was not too warm either. Zhao Jun was afraid that Zhao Youcai would catch cold again.
"It's okay, son." Zhao Youcai shouted one after another. Zhao Jun knew that his father was up to no good, so he grabbed Zhao Youcai's cotton-padded jacket and trousers and said, "Dad, if you want to get up, put them on quickly.
.”
After saying that, Zhao Jun stood up and went to the door, turned his back to Zhao Youcai and took out a wad of money from Cotton Monkey's pocket.
Zhao Jun thought for a while and took out two big unity sheets. When he turned around, he saw Zhao Youcai kicking off his cotton trousers. Zhao Jun went over to help Zhao Youcai stretch his trousers, and then stuffed twenty yuan into Zhao Youcai's open cotton-padded jacket.
"This..." Zhao Youcai looked at Zhao Jun in surprise, but heard Zhao Jun say: "Dad, Uncle Zhang and I have given you a week's leave. You can just stay at home and take care of yourself these days. Okay."
Wandering, just strolling in the village, strolling, that...these twenty dollars are my son's filial piety to you, you can spend them as you wish."
"I..." Zhao Youcai looked at the two big unity cards in his arms, and whatever he wanted to say was blocked by Zhao Jun. By the time he picked up the money, Zhao Jun had already escaped.
Taking a few pieces of toilet paper and holding it in his hand, Zhao Jun went out to go to the latrine.
When Zhao Jun finished lifting his pants, he heard a dog barking from the direction of his home.
"Who came here so early in the morning?" Zhao Jun frowned slightly, walked out of the hut and walked home, only to see Ma Yang poking his head at the door of his house.
As soon as he saw the door of Zhao's house opened and Wang Meilan walking out, Ma Yang turned around and was about to run away.
"Stand there!" Zhao Jun called Ma Yang and looked at Ma Yang who ran in front of him. Zhao Jun twitched the corner of his mouth.
Before Zhao Jun could say anything, Ma Yang took out a handful of change from his pocket.
There wasn't even a fifty-cent piece of money in this handful, the biggest thing was a two-cent note.
"Brother Jun, this is sixty-five cents." Ma Yang put the money in Zhao Jun's hand and said, "Check it out."
"What are you checking?" Zhao Jun waved his hand at him and said, "Let's go into the house with me."
"I'm not going in, Brother Jun." Ma Yang took a step back, waved his hand and said, "Don't tell my uncle or aunt about this."
"Okay, then you can wait outside for me." Zhao Jun nodded to Ma Yang, then turned and walked into the courtyard. But after taking just two steps, Zhao Jun turned back to Ma Yang and said, "There are black ones and blue ones.
There is a red one, which color do you want?"
"Red." Ma Yang chuckled. Zhao Jun took two steps back, tapped Ma Yang lightly with his elbow, and asked, "Who did you buy it for?"
"I...what am I..." Ma Yang said with a sigh: "I bought it for my mother."
"Can my aunt bring a red one?" Zhao Jun said, "I can get her a black one."
"No, no!" Ma Yang shook his head like a rattle and said to Zhao Jun, "She likes red."
"Haha..." Zhao Jun chuckled, took a deep look at Ma Yang, and then quickly returned to his house.
Zhao Jun took out the pile of hairpins he bought yesterday from his shoulder pocket, took out a black one and stuffed it into the drawer. This one was reserved for Wang Cuihua. His old mother-in-law was a very old-fashioned person. She cut off her long hair as soon as she turned fifty in her previous life.
It's short, and I never wear clothes that are too fresh in color.
Then, Zhao Jun picked out two hairpins, one red and one blue. The red one was bought by Ma Yang, and the blue one was his wish to fulfill Ma Yang's wish.
In this way, Ma Yang will not be cheated and Ma Ling will not be disappointed.
"Mom." Zhao Jun came out with two cards in one hand and other cards in the other. He went to the outhouse and handed a bunch of cards to Wang Meilan and said, "This is the card I bought for you. Are you following my uncle?"
Let’s divide it.”
After saying that, Zhao Jun took two hairpins and walked out of the house to see Ma Yang.
"Brother Jun!" Ma Yang looked at the hairpin in Zhao Jun's hand in surprise and asked, "What are these two?"
"Give that to your sister." As soon as Zhao Jun said this, Ma Yang took the hairpin, separated the two hairpins with both hands, looked at the red hairpin with a happy face, and said to Zhao Jun: "Okay, I
I'll take it to my sister for you."
"No." Zhao Jun raised his hand and pushed Ma Yang, pointed at the blue hairpin in Ma Ling's hand and said, "This... just say you bought it for your sister."
"What are you doing?" Ma Yang looked at Zhao Jun with a puzzled look. Zhao Jun twitched the corner of his mouth and said angrily: "Your sister is having her birthday."
"What day?" Ma Yang asked again. Zhao Jun took a deep breath and said, "The tenth day of the winter lunar month."
"When is the tenth day of the winter month?" Ma Yang was still young and he didn't remember the lunar calendar.
"The 30th!" Zhao Jun said: "The 30th of this month."
After saying that, Zhao Jun pointed to the blue hairpin and told Ma Yang: "Just say, you bought this for your sister with money to make her happy! Don't you understand?"
Speaking of this, Zhao Jun couldn't help but get a little angry when he saw Ma Yang licking the dog, so he said angrily: "You bought it for your mother, why don't you buy one for your sister? You forgot about you.
When you give birth to a baby, your sister will hug you..."
"How could I remember it when I was born?" Ma Yang muttered in a low voice. Seeing Zhao Jun glare, Ma Yang shrank his neck in fear.
"Go back!" Of course Zhao Jun couldn't hit his brother-in-law, he was just angry that this boy had no future.
But Ma Yang didn't leave at this time, so he took out a handful of change from his pocket.
This handful of change had even less change, not even a dime, the largest one was a five-cent coin.
"What are you doing?" Zhao Jun asked, but Ma Yang handed him the change and said, "Brother Jun, I bought this card for my sister. It's 37 cents, and I still owe you 38 cents..."
"
"Twenty-eight cents!" Zhao Jun interrupted Ma Yang loudly. The child's first sentence was quite sensible, which made Zhao Jun's anger disappear instantly.
But then Ma Yang's arithmetic made Zhao Jun helpless. He pushed Ma Yang's hand holding the change away and asked: "Throw out 37 cents from 65 cents, is it 38 cents?"
"Twenty-eight cents, two cents and eighty." Ma Yang said with a smile: "Brother, why are you so impatient? Then why don't I give you an extra cent?"
"I..." Zhao Jun sighed helplessly and said, "I don't need your money. You have to study hard."
As he said that, Zhao Jun remembered what Ma Ling told him, so he said, "Didn't you say you wanted to take the high school entrance examination?"
"I won't take the exam, Brother Jun." Ma Yang naturally took back his original rhetoric. Zhao Jun had no choice. He was not his own brother, and even his brother-in-law, Zhao Jun couldn't say too harsh words.
"Okay, okay." Zhao Jun waved his hand to Ma Yang and said, "Go home quickly, it's very cold outside."
"Hey, Brother Jun, I'm back." Ma Yang waved to Zhao Jun and said, "It's your turn, sixty-five cents. I'll pay you back after I sell the rabbit."
Zhao Jun curled his lips, what this boy said was just like the people in the village who always say "I'll pay you back after I sell the grain" when they go to a small shop to get something on credit.
Looking at Ma Yang's back as he trotted away, Zhao Jun shook his head helplessly, turned around and walked back into the courtyard.
As soon as he entered his yard, he heard Li Baoyu's voice coming from the west yard: "Brother, come here!"
Zhao Jun looked up and saw Li Baoyu and Li Dayong in the yard. At this time, Li Baoyu was waving to Zhao Jun.
"Uncle." Zhao Jun climbed over the wall to the west courtyard and said hello to Li Dayong. He saw Li Dayong smiling and saying: "Let's go, Jun."
With that said, Li Dayong turned around and walked towards the backyard.
"Huh?" Zhao Jun was slightly startled, looked at Li Baoyu and asked, "What's going on, Baoyu?"
"Come here and you will know." Li Baoyu smiled and hugged Zhao Jun, and the two brothers followed Li Dayong to the backyard.
Since the Zhao family has more and more dogs, and there is no room for them in the yard at home, they have been raised by the Li family.
Now Li's family has four dogs in the front yard, a Hua Niuniu in the backyard, and three jackals.
When Zhao Jun was in the backyard, he couldn't help but be startled, and for a while he couldn't believe his eyes.
The three jackals he captured were now big. Before winter, Zhang Yuanmin personally built a large iron cage three meters long, two meters wide and two meters high.
The cage was covered with straw, and three hollow tree barrels picked up from the mountains were stuffed into the cage. This could allow jackals to get in and keep out the cold.
At this time, Zhao Jun only saw two jackals. Judging from their size, they should be the two males. The female jackal should still be resting in the tree barrel.
When Zhao Jun came over, two jackals were licking the iron cage on the west side of the cage.
Their behavior is the same as licking iron railings outside in the winter. If you don't lick well, your tongue will easily stick to it.
But these two jackals obviously didn't lick just now. They had already licked the iron bars of the cage until a circle of ice hung on them. If they licked like this again, their tongues would no longer stick to them.
"What are you doing?" Zhao Jun walked forward to see what was going on.
Seeing Zhao Jun approaching, the two jackals turned around suddenly, arched their backs, their back hairs stood up, and bared their teeth in a protest cry at Zhao Jun.
Zhao Jun ignored them, but looked at Hua Niuniu lying on the other side of the cage.
"Niuniu." Zhao Jun called out, and Hua Niuniu stood up and wagged her tail at him.
Zhao Jun walked up to Hua Niuniu and looked at the little bitch's right shoulder. The hair on her right crotch was wet and tangled.
