Chapter 65. The First Banquet in Yongan, Our Zhao Family Gang
No wonder Zhao Guofeng came to ask, he went to Tunbu early this morning and saw black smoke rising from the direction of Zhao's house.
But Zhao Guofeng didn't take it seriously, because the Zhao family often did this recently, and sometimes they even set off cannons.
But normally, there would be a burst of black smoke.
But today, the black smoke is getting thicker and thicker.
Zhao Guofeng was afraid of causing a fire. After all, there were piles of firewood outside the yard of every household.
Not only that, some people’s houses are made of wood. In addition, in the winter in the Northeast, it is very dry outside.
If the fire breaks out and the wind blows up, it will be troublesome to set up a fire camp.
So, Chief Zhao came in a hurry.
When I came here, I saw that Zhao Youcai was burning the hooves of a wild boar.
People these days are not fond of pig hooves, and domestic pig hooves are not popular, let alone wild boar hooves.
Furthermore, the Zhao family usually has a dozen or twenty people to eat, and four hooves are not enough to hunt a wild boar.
Therefore, Wang Meilan saved up all the wild boar hooves.
Over the past half winter, the Zhao family had collected four large baskets of wild boar hooves.
The so-called big basket is a big basket made of bark that is half a person tall and an adult can sit in it.
Burning pig trotters is to burn the pig hair and remove the toenails.
Once this is burned, it smells terrible.
But in order to get Wang Meilan to let him go to Lingnan, Zhao Youcai worked hard.
"I won't come, I have something to do over there." Faced with Zhao Youcai's invitation, Zhao Guofeng actually refused.
"What can happen to you in one day?" Zhao Youcai rolled his eyes at Zhao Guofeng, but Zhao Guofeng said, "How can I be fine?"
Zhao Guofeng and Zhao Youcai are good friends. Last year, the Zhao family entertained guests, but they invited all of Zhao Guofeng's family.
But that time, Zhao Youcai told Zhao Guofeng about the treat several days in advance.
This is how you treat guests. If you ask for a treat in advance, it means you pay attention.
If someone were to come here now, it would be a waste of time.
At this time, Zhao Youcai stood up, took out Shilin cigarettes from his pocket, and gave one to Zhao Guofeng.
After the two of them lit their cigarettes, Zhao Youcai said to them, "You are here. If you don't come, will I still have to go home to find you?"
"What are you doing with me?" Zhao Guofeng asked, and Zhao Youcai said: "Today we have an impromptu dinner, Zhao Jun asked you to come over, let's have a lot of fun together."
"I can't come, you can eat." Zhao Guofeng still refused, Zhao Youcai raised his hand and patted him on the arm, saying: "Silly old boy, the director of the Forestry Bureau is here today. You are here, let's have a drink together.
Don’t we know each other now?”
In the forest area, there is such an unwritten saying.
That is: if we drink at the same table, we are considered friends.
"Really?" Zhao Guofeng said in surprise: "What does the director want to eat at your house?"
"Isn't that right? The TV station is here for an interview." Zhao Youcai said, "The director will also come when it's over, and so will my in-laws."
When Zhao Guofeng heard this, he blurted out and asked: "Is it because Zhao Jun grabbed the big paw again?"
Zhao Youcai twitched the corner of his mouth and said vaguely: "Isn't that just the case?"
After saying this, Zhao Youcai didn't want to talk more about this issue, so he directly changed the topic and said: "You can come over in a while."
"Okay!" Zhao Guofeng nodded quickly. He seemed to want to say something more, but he heard the sound of horse hooves and the sound of bells coming from far away.
Zhao Youcai and Zhao Guofeng followed the sound and saw Wang Fu rushing towards here with his horse and sledge.
"Huh..." Arriving at the foot of the Zhao family tent, Wang Fu tightened the reins and Li Ruhai got off the sledge.
"Uncle, Uncle Zhao!" Li Ruhai greeted Zhao Youcai and Zhao Guofeng.
"Ruhai, where did this come from?" Zhao Youcai looked in surprise at the roe deer on the sledge with its legs tied up and its mouth entangled, as well as sacks and baskets.
"Uncle, my mother asked me to buy this at the Old Youth Store." Li Ruhai said with a smile, "Our family is hosting a treat today, and my mother asked me to add some dishes."
"Tsk!" Zhao Youcai lowered his eyebrows and said, "Then how can you get your mother to spend money? How much money will it cost? I'll let your aunt give it to you later."
"Uncle, it doesn't matter whether you have money or not." Li Ruhai said, pulling the sack on the sledge and saying: "This is fifty kilograms of sweet potatoes, let's hang them all in pulp."
"Ah..." Zhao Youcai couldn't help but curl his lips, wouldn't this give him a job?
Immediately afterwards, Li Ruhai pulled the basket from the sledge and said to Zhao Youcai: "Uncle, these are carp and crucian carp seeds."
The fish just pulled out of the ice hole are still alive. But it is too cold outside, and each fish is covered with ice.
Zhao Youcai glanced at the fish in the basket, then took out the stone forest smoke from his pocket and gave it to Wang Fu, saying: "Brother, thank you for your hard work!"
"What's the hard work, second brother." Wang Fu chuckled, he took Li Ruhai 50 cents for this trip.
"Come over for lunch." Zhao Youcai greeted Wang Fu and said, "Let's have some drinks."
Zhao Youcai invited Zhao Guofeng and Wang Fu, both of whom were the same inviters, using two different techniques.
It's not that Zhao Youcai looked down on Wang Fu, but he didn't want to call him at all. It was just a polite word. After all, Li Ruhai just said that there was a banquet at home at noon.
Wang Fu naturally understood and immediately refused: "Second brother, I can't come. Your brother and sister will go back to their parents' home soon. When she leaves, I have to look after the house. You can't close the door, otherwise you won't hurt the guests (qiě)
What?"
Those who are open for business cannot always close their doors. Otherwise, those who come to buy goods will have a wasted trip, and some people will be angry.
In the trading world, this is called hurting the customer.
"Okay, I'll have a chance next time." Zhao Youcai put this aside and picked up the basket.
Seeing this, Wang Fu picked up the sack containing fifty kilograms of sweet potatoes and followed Zhao Youcai into the yard.
Li Ruhai took a stick and inserted it between the four tied legs of the roe deer, and together with Zhao Guofeng, he carried the roe deer into Zhao's yard.
After delivering the sweet potatoes, Wang Fu hurriedly left. Zhao Guofeng stayed behind, helping Zhao Youcai hang the roe deer upside down in Zhao's backyard.
The little donkey who was eating in the backyard stopped chewing and looked at the scene in horror.
A piece of corn leaf, half is in the donkey's mouth, and the other half is still outside the donkey's mouth.
Zhao Youcai took a rope and looped the rope around the roe deer's neck.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Zhao Youcai pulled one end of the rope, and Zhao Guofeng pulled the other end. The two of them pulled hard together, trying to strangle the roe deer to death.
The roe deer's limbs were tied up and its mouth was wrapped. It couldn't struggle or scream.
But at this moment, when the little donkey saw this scene, he pulled his neck and screamed.
"Uh-huh! Uh-huh..."
"What are you two doing?" Suddenly, a voice came.
Zhao Youcai and Zhao Guofeng stopped, and the braying of the little donkey also stopped abruptly.
Wang Meilan is here!
As the two men loosened the rope, the roe deer exerted force on its waist and abdomen, twisting violently in mid-air.
"How cruel!" Wang Meilan waved her hand at Zhao Youcai and said, "If you want to kill him, you have to give him a good time!"
"Then what should we do?" Zhao Guofeng asked with a smile: "Sister-in-law, what do you mean by having fun? Can you still shoot me with a gun?"
"Haha." Wang Meilan smiled faintly, her eyes unconsciously scanning the eight-pound sledgehammer standing at the base of the wall.
This hammer was rarely used in the past and was always kept in the warehouse.
"Why did Guofeng come here?" Wang Meilan didn't say much about killing the roe deer. She only said to Zhao Guofeng: "I told your brother Qianer that he would come find you later."
With that said, Wang Meilan waved her hand in the direction of the front yard and said: "Guofeng, you can go inside the house and warm yourself up. You don't need to stretch your hands to do this."
"It's okay, sister-in-law." Zhao Guofeng said, "Our two brothers were killed by this roe deer."
"No, I can't let you do this job." Wang Meilan smiled and said: "How can such a big village leader let you do this?"
As soon as Wang Meilan said this, Zhao Guofeng laughed, while Li Ruhai who was standing aside secretly cursed: "I am such a big family director, and I still have to do shopping for you."
"Sister-in-law, if you don't want me, I'll go back first." Zhao Guofeng waved his hand and gestured in the direction of the Tunbu, and said: "Everyone in the Tunbu can't do it."
"Then let your brother see you off." Wang Meilan gestured to Zhao Youcai, and then said: "dinner is served at noon, I will ask him to invite you."
This is truly inviting someone to a meal. Otherwise, why would they have the nerve to come by themselves?
"Okay, okay, sister-in-law, I'm leaving then!"
"Guofeng, then I won't send you off!" Wang Meilan gave Zhao Youcai a wink, and Zhao Youcai accompanied Zhao Guofeng to the front yard.
The moment the two people disappeared around the corner, the corners of Wang Meilan's grin sank, and then she turned around and ran towards the eight-pound sledgehammer.
At this time, the little donkey has a pair of ears drooping to the sides of its head, which is somewhat similar to the first time it saw one ear.
Wang Meilan held the hammer in both hands, turned around and ran towards the roe deer again.
"Auntie!" Li Ruhai saw this and said hurriedly: "I'll help you stretch the rope, or I won't worry about you flashing your waist!"
If the hammer is empty, it will easily flicker.
"No need!" Wang Meilan finished speaking and swept out the sledgehammer.
"Woo!" The hammer head swept across, and there was a short sound of breaking through the air.
"Poof!" There was a muffled sound, and the hammer head touched the roe deer's Tianling Cap.
"Pah!" The roe deer jumped up violently, as if it was electrocuted.
But the next second, the roe deer's body froze, his eyes rolled back, his mouth and nose bled, and he died.
The hammer head fell to the ground. Wang Meilan held the handle of the hammer in her hand and murmured to herself: "We can't let it suffer, how cruel it is!"
Li Ruhai and the little donkey who were watching did not dare to breathe.
"Ruhai, go into the house and help the aunt get out the basin, bleed it, and skin it." After Wang Meilan finished speaking, she turned around and dragged the sledgehammer away, preparing to put it back to its place.
"Auntie!"
"Huh?" Wang Meilan turned back to look at Li Ruhai and heard Li Ruhai say: "I was wrong."
"What happened, Ruhai?" Wang Meilan said in surprise: "What bad thing did you do again?"
"No, aunt, I just remembered the mistakes I made before." Li Ruhai said: "I shouldn't have followed the election of the family director! What...Aunt, when the election is held again, I will go out to canvass votes for you, and I guarantee that you will be elected.
You choose."
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Putting on a white coat and carrying a shotgun, he is the leader of Zhao who roams the mountains and forests.
After taking off his white coat, Zhao Youcai was still wearing the tattered cotton-padded jacket that frightened one ear, but he was still just Chef Zhao.
"Hey..."
A finished crucian carp is put into the pan and fried in hot oil until the skin twitches.
Immediately afterwards, Zhao Youcai lowered the crucian carp into the pot one after another.
And on the large plate held by the four-legged and eight-pointed stool next to it, there were four fried carp.
The smell of fried fish was so strong that the dogs in the yard stared at Zhao Youcai intently.
That's right, Zhao Youcai is cooking outdoors.
This big pot is fried fish, and the big pot next to it is full of wild boar knuckles and wild boar trotters.
The Li family's chimney was also smoking, and there were bear paws in the big pot in the house.
In Zhao's house, beef is stewed in the pot.
At the same time, Yang Yufeng was cooking donkey meat at home, Xu Chunyan was cooking horse meat at home, Zhao Ling was stewing chicken with mushrooms at home, the old lady was braised goose in an iron pot at home, and next door Mr. Xie Sun was braised with potatoes and duck.
The women took these meat dishes home one by one, and Zhao Youcai came to cook them one by one.
After Zhao Youcai left, the women watched the fire at home.
In the outer room of the Zhao family, Wang Meilan was cutting pickled vegetables and Zhao Chun was peeling green onions.
"Mom!" Zhao Chun said to Wang Meilan with a smile: "Our family has never been so lively during the Chinese New Year before!"
"What were the conditions of our family at that time, and what are the conditions of our family now?" Wang Meilan said with emotion: "If nothing else, just before you get married, if our family has these conditions, look at what mom will do for you!"
"Haha." Zhao Chun chuckled, thinking: "If you do this to me, how dare my husband's family marry me?"
"Daughter!" Suddenly, Wang Meilan stared at Zhao Chun and said, "I seem to have seen you wearing a gold plate?"
"Ah, there's a pocket, Mom." Zhao Chun said with a smile: "When I'm picking onions, can I still wear a gold plate?"
"What's wrong with that?" Wang Meilan raised her hand, showed her eldest daughter the gold ring she was wearing, and said, "You can't always take this thing off."
"I can't wear it normally." Zhao Chun said: "Well, my thoughtful family will lick it if I see it on my hand."
"Hey!" Wang Meilan smiled when she heard this and said, "My eldest grandson follows our family."
"Haha..." Zhao Chun was amused by Wang Meilan, and then Wang Meilan said: "My eldest grandson likes it, and his little grandma will give him another one."
"Ah?" Zhao Chun was startled, then shook his head and said: "Mom, this can't be done! If you give me this, won't it also be his in the future?"
Wang Meilan smiled faintly and did not talk about the topic again. Instead, she asked Zhao Chun: "How many days can my daughter stay at home when she comes back this time?"
"I haven't decided yet, Mom." When Zhao Chun came, he really wanted to stay for two days and then go back, but the atmosphere here was so good.
"Then stay for two more days." Wang Meilan said with a smile: "We can live at home, and mom can cook whatever you want."
"I'm afraid my mother-in-law won't be happy." Zhao Chun whispered, "I came out today under the guise of appearing on TV."
When the seven families were preparing for the big banquet, Zhao Jun and his entourage had already arrived at the dustpan Weizi where one of the ears had been captured alive that day.
Here is a brief photo shoot, and then a random interview with the security guard who accompanied Zhao Jun to capture the tiger that day.
Since it's random, it's all about following Su Xianglian's will.
The first person she interviewed was Jie Chen.
There is no other reason for this, the main reason is that Jie Chen has been helping them get things.
"This security guard, what is your surname?" Su Xianglian asked, and Jie Chen said, "I don't want to give you your surname. My name is Jie Chen."
When he said this, Jie Chen's body trembled slightly with excitement. If this is going to be broadcast, don't everyone know that there are people like Jie Chen?
"Lift guard, can you tell me what you saw when you arrived here that day?"
"When I got here that day, I saw the hunting dogs of our Zhao family gang..."
"Stop!" Su Xianglian's expression changed and she quickly stopped.
Liu Guiquan knew the secret, but Jie Chen was confused.
"Jie Chen." Su Xianglian asked Jie Chen, "What kind of organization is the Zhao Gang you just mentioned?"
