Chapter 42. The snow stops and the dry weather begins
Since the death of his wife, Qin Dajiang has gone into the mountains to press the shack, putting on the sleeves, clips, and rackets.
After living in the mountains for seven or eight years, Qin Dajiang can definitely be called an old mountain dog.
These days, mountain runners all abide by the rules. An old mountain dog like Qin Dajiang has a fixed territory in the mountain field, and other mountain runners will not easily come to his territory to set traps.
But because of that conflict, Qin Dajiang moved away from his hometown where he had been operating for many years. This was considered as leaving his hometown.
After leaving his hometown, Qin Dajiang could no longer find such a good place after leaving his original shack.
Although the forest area is large, with more than a hundred forest groups, if you want to set up traps, you have to find the old forest groups that have been selectively felled.
Selective felling is different from clear-cutting. Clear-cutting means knocking down all the trees on a hillside. Selective felling is selective, and you choose the ones that are thick enough to cut down.
After selective felling, the tree stumps are replaced by tree branches, which are the main source of food for the roe deer in winter.
The remaining pine trees and pine trees that have been selectively cut down can still lose their fruits in autumn, and wild boars and squirrels are still active here.
In this way, there will be plenty of prey.
The key is that after selective felling, the tree stumps will produce tree branches in the spring and fill the forest where the selective felling has been carried out, making it easier to set traps.
A good place like this has already been occupied by people.
Qin Dajiang had no choice but to run to Lin Class 95 and guard the riverside, which was the water source.
Then, every day, find a place with shallow and frozen water and put a clamp to clamp the yellow leaves.
But in front of us, we were logging every day, with the sound of chainsaws and horns every day, and the trees falling and smashing here and there. It was shocking that there was very little in the area, not many weasels.
From the time I hit Qin Dajiang to here, there were only two yellow leaves sandwiched between them.
Two yellow leaves, one male and one female, could be sold for more than sixty yuan, but this was not enough to treat his son Qin Qiang's injury.
The more Qin Dajiang talked, the more he felt aggrieved, and the more he felt aggrieved, the more he wanted to say it. Once the chat box was opened, it could not be closed.
After all, Li Chunming and the others are not from the mountains. After hearing what Qin Dajiang said, Zhang Dongzhi's eyes widened and he said: "Who are these people? Aren't they bandits? Uncle, where is the old man?"
"Oh!" Seeing this, Zhao Youcai hurriedly stopped the conversation and said to Qin Dajiang: "Brother, why didn't you tell me about this earlier? Your eldest nephew is working as a security guard in my house, or in the forest.
Security, forest patrols, etc. are all under his control. Just ask him to resolve your matter for you!"
How could Zhao Youcai not know who the old man was who "bullied" the Qin family's father and son?
He said this to prevent Li Chunming and others from interfering, otherwise the matter would be troublesome.
"Oh, two brothers!" Qin Dajiang heard this and took Zhao Youcai's hand with surprise on his face, saying, "Is my eldest nephew so promising now?"
"Hey, that kid is good. He knows how to make progress." No matter how the two men get along in private, when Zhao Jun is mentioned outside, Zhao Youcai smiles all over his face, and he can't hide his pride.
"That's troublesome for my eldest nephew!" Qin Dajiang shook Zhao Youcai's hand.
At this time, Li Chunming interrupted and said to Zhao Youcai: "Master Zhao, if you are thinking about this, you have to tell your Zhao Jun."
"That's right!" Qin Zhusong agreed: "How many years have we been since liberation? Are there still beards in the mountains?"
"No, haha." Zhao Youcai smiled and waved his hands, "What's the beard?"
As he said that, Zhao Youcai gestured towards Qin Dajiang and then continued: "Brother Qin is trying to grab territory with others. If there is a quarrel, the old man will take action if he has a bad temper."
"Second brothers..." Qin Dajiang seemed to want to say something more, but was stopped by Zhao Youcai.
"Brother!" Zhao Youcai said to Qin Dajiang: "Hurry up and give us some whole mouthfuls to eat. We are all hungry."
"You haven't eaten yet?" Qin Dajiang asked with his eyes widened. Zhao Youcai waved his hand and said, "It's not good. You're holding your stomach. What do you have? Hurry up and give us a bite."
"Hurry up then." Qin Dajiang said as he went down to the ground, moved the tree pillar leaning against the door, opened the door and braved the wind and snow to untie the hanging sacks.
After a while, Qin Dajiang came back and took a remaining noodle bag and an aluminum lunch box.
"I'll give you some muddy porridge, it's hot." Qin Dajiang said, but Li Chunming and the other two looked at each other in shock.
Although they went hunting in the mountains, they did so for fun and no one had ever really lived in the mountains.
They thought that even if Qin Dajiang couldn't stir-fry two vegetables, he could still cook hot noodles and cook some poached eggs.
"Okay, brother." Zhao Youcai said, standing up and taking the small stew pot next to the stove.
Zhao Youcai opened the stew pot, picked up the water bottle beside him and poured water into the stew pot.
At this time, Li Chunming and the others had not said anything. They thought Zhao Youcai was pouring water to clean the stew pot.
But what they didn't expect was that Zhao Youcai directly sat the stew pot on the stove lid.
Li Chunming and the other four looked at each other in shock. They saw with their own eyes that there was gaba on the inner wall of the stew pot. It was obvious that Qin Dajiang had not cleaned the pot after finishing his last meal.
Li Chunming and the four of them are not usually very clean. They are gentlemen and they are all very carefree, but nothing like this!
"Master Zhao." Zhang Dongzhi called Zhao Youcai softly and asked tentatively: "You don't want to wash the pot?"
"Clean the pot?" Zhao Youcai smiled, raised his hand and pointed to the door, and said, "Go get some water."
Zhang Dongzhi shut up. They were more than a mile away from the riverside. They came along there and slipped all the way.
"Haha, this is what an errand boy's shack looks like." Qin Dajiang said with a smile, then he held the flour bag with one hand, grabbed the corn noodles from the bag with the other, and threw it into the pot.
Seeing this scene, Li Chunming and the other four people's eyes widened, but no one said anything.
Qin Dajiang's hands were dark, the nails were very long, and they were still filled with mud!
Qin Dajiang threw two handfuls of corn flour into the pot, but was stopped by Zhao Youcai.
"Brother, you can keep the rest." Zhao Youcai said, "Brother, I'm busy right now. When I finish my work, I'll carry twenty kilograms for you."
Seeing this scene, Li Chunming and the others were dumbfounded.
Hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Qin Dajiang took a look into his pocket, then pricked the mouth of the bag, and smiled at Zhao Youcai: "Okay, second brother, look at the pot and stop throwing it."
When cooking muddy porridge, if the lid of the pot is covered, the pot will jump when the pot is boiled.
"Hey." Zhao Youcai responded. Qin Dajiang pointed to the aluminum lunch box he placed on the edge of the kang and said, "There are pancakes there. Put them on the pot and heat them up later."
After saying that, Qin Dajiang carried the flour bag and went out. There might be mice hidden somewhere in his shack, and food could not be put into the house.
After Qin Dajiang left, Zhang Dongzhi opened the lid of the lunch box and saw large pancakes stacked inside.
Pancakes as big as the palm of your hand, stacked upright, can hold twelve or three in a lunch box.
"Master Zhao." Zhang Dongzhi looked at Zhao Youcai and said, "Shall we eat this?"
"Then what do you want to eat?" Zhao Youcai smiled and said: "It's good to be able to eat this. Let's just take a bite and smash that big paw to death tomorrow. Let's go back to the place and eat something good!"
The muddy porridge was cooked as soon as it was boiled. He moved the stew pot to the ground, and Zhao Youcai placed the pancakes one by one on the dark stove lid.
The four of them, Li Chunming, are all retired soldiers and can endure hardships, but they have not done so for several years.
Today, I rested my belly in this shack. Water was not convenient in this shack, so the four of them didn't even bother to wash themselves, so they lay down on the kang covered with cotton-padded jackets.
The whistling wind in the outer room could be clearly heard in the shack.
At this time, the Zhao family in Yong'an Village was filled with joy and peace.
Today, except for the Zhang and Jiang families, all the other families bought color TV sets. Plus, they eat and drink well every day, and everyone feels that their lives are becoming more and more energetic.
As soon as it was past nine o'clock, every family took their children and left one after another.
"My great nephew." Before going out, Wang Qiang asked Zhao Jun, "What about seven o'clock tomorrow morning?"
"Huh?" Zhao Jun clicked his eyes and said, "Uncle, come early tomorrow. If it doesn't snow, you and I will be here at half past six."
"Okay." Wang Qiang responded, and Xie Chen also said: "Okay, Brother Jun!"
After all the diners left, Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan were left with the two little girls.
Wang Meilan was making bed in the room. Zhao Jun took a towel, tucked it in Zhao Na's collar, and then washed the little sister's face.
After washing Zhao Na, wash Zhao Hong again.
The two little girls were very happy today. They pulled Zhao Jun and kept talking with their little mouths.
Zhao Jun washed the feet of the two sisters again before putting them into bed.
"Okay, you two go to sleep!" Zhao Jun rubbed their little heads one by one, and then said to Wang Meilan: "Mom, don't worry about it anymore. Didn't you also listen to what my second brother said? Where is my dad going?
The old mountain dog has gone to his den."
Zhao Jun comforted Wang Meilan in this way, and he felt very uneasy. He knew better than Wang Meilan that there was a strong wind and heavy snow outside, and Zhao Youcai would get lost if he couldn't handle it.
But there was no way, Zhao Jun did not dare to tell Wang Meilan this.
"Go to sleep, son, don't worry about him!" Wang Meilan said very harshly, but Zhao Jun knew his mother. When Miss Wang used foul language, she must have been very anxious inside.
Although Zhao Jun was not very good at persuading others, he still tried to comfort Wang Meilan.
But there is such a person missing from the family. This person is now in the mountains, where it is windy and snowy.
At this time, Wang Meilan was worried that Zhao Jun could not comfort. Zhao Jun was driven back to the West Room by Wang Meilan without saying a few words.
Zhao Jun was also tired for the whole day. He lay on the kang and soon fell asleep.
He fell asleep, Zhao Hong and Zhao Na in the east room also fell asleep, but Wang Meilan couldn't sleep.
"Er Gudong, you lack of virtue, just play the zither!" Wang Meilan cursed and worried about Zhao Youcai.
"Sneeze!" In the shack, on the earthen bed, Zhao Youcai suddenly sneezed.
After lying down for half an hour, Zhao Youcai still hasn't fallen asleep, and Li Chunming, Qin Zhusong, Zhao Jicheng and Zhang Dongzhi haven't fallen asleep either.
The conditions were so difficult that Qin Dajiang only had one set of quilts and he had to cover them himself. Zhao Youcai and the others did not take off their cotton trousers and cotton shoes, and were covered with cotton monkeys and cotton jackets.
After trekking in the mountains for a day, my feet were swollen, but there was nothing I could do. I took off my shoes and my feet were frozen.
The fire on the wood-burning stove was almost ready in more than half an hour. Now the whole shack was so hot that Li Chunming felt like the tip of his nose was freezing.
Also awake, there is one ear!
Its fur was so cold that it lay under the roots of a linden tree.
There is a hole here, but it cannot fit all of one ear in.
Therefore, the back half of one ear is in the hole, and the front half is outside the hole.
Where wild beasts den, they must have the wind at their back.
But one ear was lying on the ground, and snowflakes kept falling on it.
At this time, one ear and a pair of amber tiger eyes were shining brightly in the dark night. Snowflakes fell on its nose, and one ear's eyes did not even blink.
Near one ear and within a radius of five miles, there is not a single mountain bird or wild beast.
As long as he doesn't meet Zhao Youcai or the black tiger, One Ear will still be the king of beasts.
It was almost three o'clock in the morning when I squinted one ear and closed my eyes.
At this time, Wang Meilan sat up from the bed.
The sound of wind and snow outside made Wang Meilan, who was worried, upset.
Wang Meilan simply got up, went to the outhouse to burn the kang, and kneaded the buns.
The leftover donkey meat stuffing from yesterday was made into dough at night, so Wang Meilan got up this morning and made big buns with donkey meat stuffing.
Under the dim light, Wang Meilan rolled out the dough, filled it with fillings, and sat each big bun on the panel.
Wang Meilan's movements were very gentle, trying not to wake up her son.
But at four o'clock, Zhao Jun was awakened by the little lynx parkour. He grabbed the little lynx that jumped on it, opened the quilt and stuffed it into the bed.
At this time, Zhao Jun saw the light coming from the crack in the door. He raised his head off the pillow and listened. Wang Meilan moved slightly, and Zhao Jun didn't hear a sound, so he took the flashlight, pushed away the light and shook it towards the wall.
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When I saw that it was only four o'clock, Zhao Jun got off the bed and put on his cotton-padded jacket and left the house.
Zhao Jun went to the outhouse and saw Wang Meilan placing buns in the pot.
"Mom, why did you get up so early?" Zhao Jun asked, and Wang Meilan said: "Steam a pot first, and when it's finished, Jiang Nai and the others will deliver it to you."
After hearing what Wang Meilan said, Zhao Jun asked again: "Mom, are you worried about my dad?"
"This old kid!" Wang Meilan opened her mouth and scolded: "You waited for him to come back."
Zhao Jun pursed his lips slightly and said nothing more. At this time, Wang Meilan asked him: "Son, the wind has stopped outside and the snow seems to have stopped. Are you still going today?"
"Let's go as soon as the snow stops." Zhao Jun glanced out the dark window. At this time, he could no longer hear the sound of wind or the sound of snow.
Zhao Youcai was not at home, and Zhao Jun was not sleeping either. He lit a lantern and hung it outside, and then began to sweep the snow.
Wang Meilan steamed four pots of steamed buns and gave one pot to the old lady, Jie Chen and the others, and another pot to the Li family next door.
The Zhao family steams buns in this pot, and the Li family puts dog food in the pot.
After working until almost six o'clock, Zhao Jun went home for dinner, and Li Dayong and Li Baoyu helped him feed the dog.
After Zhao Jun finished eating, the dogs were also full.
It stopped snowing outside, but the wind picked up again.
The strong wind blew the sky full of snow. Zhao Jun sat on the edge of the kang and tied up his leggings.
When he got up, the dog outside the house barked twice.
Jie Chen and Wang Qiang are here.
When Jie Chen came, he brought White Dragon and Black Dragon with him. The two dogs originally suffered superficial wounds and did not need stitches. In the past two days, the wounds had closed.
Seeing Zhao Jun put on mountain clothes and carrying a gun and coming out of the house, the dogs in the yard jumped for joy.
Zhao Jun went to the warehouse and took out the repaired armor and put them on the white dragon and the black dragon.
As the dogs got into the car one after another, the Zhao family set off into the mountains.
Normal mountain animals don't even get up in the morning after a heavy snowfall, and only get up in the afternoon to look for food.
So Zhao Jun, who was originally going to go to Laogui Touziling to plug one ear, changed his mind and went to plug its bed.
Almost at the same time, Zhao Youcai and five others, who had eaten sorghum rice and pickle sticks in the Qin Dajiang shack, also left the shack with guns on their backs.