"What are you calling?" Zhao Jun, who was riding into Xishantun, was suddenly startled by the howling of the fox.
Zhao Jun pulled over and stopped his motorcycle. He had never been to Xishantun and didn't know who to buy live roe deer from.
But this is not difficult for Zhao Jun. Just ask someone to find out.
At this moment, Zhao Jun saw three people coming from the south in a hurry.
Among these three people, Zhao Jun knew two of them, namely Qin Guangquan and Qin Hongzhi's uncle and nephew.
"Ouch!" Seeing Zhao Jun from a distance, Qin Guangquan, Qin Hongzhi, and Liu Chengdong trotted over. They bowed slightly to Zhao Jun and nodded, saying: "Leader Zhao."
"Master Qin." Zhao Jun got off the motorcycle, smiled kindly at Qin Guangquan, and said, "You don't have to be so polite. I'm not much of a leader. Just call me Zhao Jun."
"That's not possible." Qin Guangquan shook his head, and then asked Zhao Jun: "Boss Zhao, you didn't go to work today? Why do you have time to come to our place?"
"We have a visitor today." Zhao Jun said, "My mother asked me to come over and buy a live roe deer."
"Live roe deer..." Qin Guangquan said: "Who should I look for? Tong Youfeng."
"Where is his home, Master Qin?" Zhao Jun asked. Qin Guangquan raised his hand and pointed to the north and said: "He didn't leave his home, he went to Wu Dalin's home."
"Ah..." Zhao Jun clicked his eyes and said, "Then where is Wu Dalin's family?"
"Let's go, Leader Zhao." Qin Guangquan said, "I'll take you there."
"Then it's too troublesome, Master Qin." Zhao Jun thanked Qin Guangquan, but Qin Guangquan shook his head and said, "What's the trouble? Otherwise we have to go to his house."
"Is his family doing business?" Zhao Jun asked again, and Qin Guangquan said: "No, Wu Dalin sneaked two traps under the poplar forest yesterday..."
While Qin Guangquan was talking, another fox howl came from the west. Qin Guangquan pointed to the direction of the sound and said: "We all had a good discussion. We will all go this afternoon. Some will dig out the fox's den and some will get a net.
Surrounding him or something. He acted on his own and didn’t obey orders!"
When Qin Guangquan spoke, Zhao Jun was preparing to push the motorcycle. When he heard Qin Guangquan's last words, Zhao Jun smiled.
This gang of hooligans is quite interesting. Most of the people have withdrawn as a group, but they have begun to divide work and cooperate.
"Leader Zhao, let me help you push." Qin Hongzhi was very discerning and gave Liu Chengdong a tug. Then he went over to hold the handlebar while Liu Chengdong pushed from behind.
Zhao Jun thanked the two of them and chatted with Qin Guangquan while walking. After walking for a few minutes, he arrived at Wu Dalin's house.
At this time, Wu Dalin and his wife were being lectured by Zhang Xinglong, Tong Youfeng and a bunch of people until they could not hold their heads up.
The villages these days are different from those 20 or 30 years ago. In the future, people could live their own lives behind closed doors, but not now.
Being outnumbered, Wu Dalin and Lin Wenqin had to keep apologizing, admitting their mistakes, and making amends to others.
Suddenly, the door of his house was pulled open from the outside, and Qin Guangquan said at the door: "Uncle Zhang, Brother Tong, Leader Zhao is here!"
"Ah?" Everyone looked towards the door. Many of these men had been to Zhao's house yesterday and had seen Zhao Jun.
"Leader Zhao!" Tong Youfeng squeezed through the crowd and came to Zhao Jun and asked, "Are you here for something?"
When Tong Youfeng asked this, the others couldn't help but become nervous. They were afraid that Zhao Jun would regret it and not accept their fox skin.
"There's something wrong, Master Tong." Zhao Jun said, "Do you have any live roe deer? I want to buy one."
"Ah..." Hearing that it was a good thing, Tong Youfeng breathed a sigh of relief and said hurriedly: "Yes, um... Leader Zhao, do you want a male or a female?"
"Master Tong, you are quite good at it." Zhao Jun smiled and said, "I eat it at home, just ask for a male one."
As soon as Zhao Jun finished speaking, Zhang Xinglong squeezed over and said to him: "Xiao, have you eaten yet? Why don't you go to the uncle's house for a meal?"
It's not even ten o'clock yet. Who can go to his house for dinner at this time? Zhang Xinglong asked this to show that he had a good relationship with Zhao Jun, which was somewhat of a fake and powerful thing.
"No need, Uncle Zhang." Zhao Jun said with a smile: "We have a visitor, I have to go back as soon as I finish buying the roe deer."
As soon as Zhao Jun finished speaking, he vaguely heard the howling of foxes outside the house.
At this time, Zhang Xinglong raised his hand and pointed outward, and said to Zhao Jun: "Originally, I made arrangements for them to dig out all the foxes' nests this afternoon. I didn't expect them to mess around, and they killed all the foxes."
The cub howled again."
Tong Youfeng, who was next to him, gave Zhang Xinglong a fierce look. He clearly arranged the plan to encircle and suppress the foxes, but the old man boasted about it in front of Zhao Jun.
Zhao Jun smiled faintly and did not answer Zhang Xinglong's words. Instead, he asked Tong Youfeng: "Master Tong, how much does the male roe deer cost?"
"Well..." Tong Youfeng said with a sad face: "Ruhai gave us one hundred yuan the day before yesterday. He said that if you sell it, you still sell it for one hundred yuan."
When Zhao Jun heard this, he knew what Tong Youfeng meant. Yesterday when he was at Zhao's house, Wang Meilan made an agreement with these gangsters that all mountain products in Xishantun would be sold at Li Ruhai's previous price.
Tong Youfeng thought that one hundred yuan was too little, but he did not dare to deceive Zhao Jun.
Zhao Jun took out the money from his pocket, and in full view of the crowd, he counted out twelve big unity cards and handed them to Tong Youfeng, saying: "It's not easy for you to raise the roe deer. I'll give it to you at a rate of one hundred and one. After that, I'll get an extra ten yuan, which is
I’ll supply it to you for Ruhai.”
"Ouch!" Tong Youfeng did not accept the money immediately. Instead, Zhao Jun clasped his fists excitedly and said, "Thank you, Leader Zhao, thank you, Leader Zhao."
"Oops." Zhao Jun couldn't bear to see someone like this. He pushed the money in front of Tong Youfeng and said, "Master Tong, take it."
Tong Youfeng took the money and asked Zhao Jun: "Leader Zhao, are you coming with me?"
"Master Tong, can I not go?" Zhao Jun asked, "Can you tie up the roe deer and send it over to me?"
"Okay, okay!" Tong Youfeng turned around and greeted everyone: "Lao San, Lao Wu, you two go home, join your sister-in-law, and tie up the biggest roe deer!"
"Hey!" Someone agreed, and then they saw two people walking through the crowd, passing by Zhao Jun and pushing the door open.
At this time, Tong Youfeng smiled and said to Zhao Jun: "Leader Zhao, we have a big green millet that weighs more than 90 kilograms. I will give that to you."
"Then thank you, Master Tong." Zhao Jun thanked Tong Youfeng, and then changed the subject and asked, "I heard that among our villagers, who trapped the fox?"
Zhao Jun didn't go with Tong Youfeng, not because he was paid to instigate others, but because he wanted to stay and look at the fox pelts.
Didn’t you say that this family trapped a fox?
"Ah... that..." Tong Youfeng called back to Wu Dalin and said, "Dalin, bring you the fox skin."
"Hey, hey!" Wu Dalin responded twice, and then called Lin Wenqin beside him: "Daughter-in-law, go get it here and there!"
Lin Wenqin hurriedly walked into the house, went to the north window of the east room, and took off the two hanging fox skins.
Lin Wenqin came out quickly and handed all the fox skins to Wu Dalin. Wu Dalin walked through the crowd and delivered the fox skins to Zhao Jun.
"Yeah!" Zhao Jun couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw two fox skins. One was white and the other was yellow.
Zhao Jun took the yellow fox fur and held it with both hands to inspect it. The quality of winter fur is good, the fox fur is thick and soft, and it feels warm to the touch.
"Master, what's your surname?" Zhao Jun asked Wu Dalin under the gaze of everyone.
"My surname is Wu, and my name is Wu Dalin." After Wu Dalin finished speaking, Zhao Jun lifted the fox skin up and asked again: "Master Wu, can you sell these two fox skins?"
"Sell! Sell!" Wu Dalin suppressed the excitement in his heart. He went out to make money in the cold weather, not just to make money.
At this time, not only Wu Dalin was excited, but everyone else was also looking at Zhao Jun excitedly. They were waiting for Zhao Jun to fulfill his promise.
"Yesterday I told everyone that a fox skin costs ten yuan, but these two are special." As soon as Zhao Jun said this, everyone's hearts were aroused. They were afraid that Zhao Jun would find excuses not to pay or to pay less.
money.
But Zhao Jun said: "The ten-yuan one is the gray one, which is the most common among us. The white one and the yellow one are both less than the gray one, so the price is higher."
"Ah?" Wu Dalin was shocked, and so were all the gangsters. They felt that ten yuan was enough, but they did not expect that Zhao Jun would take the initiative to give them more money.
"Leader Zhao!" Lin Wenqin, Wu Dalin's daughter-in-law, squeezed through the crowd and came to Zhao Jun and asked: "How much can you give for those two pieces of leather?"
"Sister-in-law." Zhao Jun greeted Lin Wenqin with a friendly smile, then looked at the others and said: "My home is in Yong'an Village. We are not far away from each other. We are all fellow villagers. We don't need Leader Zhao. Leader Zhao
If the ground is screaming, just call me Zhao Jun."
"Ah, ah!" Lin Wenqin nodded repeatedly. At this time, she couldn't listen to anything else Zhao Jun said. She was just waiting for Zhao Jun to give him a quotation.
"I'll give you fifteen for this yellow one." Zhao Jun said and handed the yellow fox in his hand to Lin Wenqin. Lin Wenqin's eyes widened and she took the fox skin into her hand in a daze.
Then Zhao Jun pointed at the white fox skin in Wu Dalin's hand and said, "Twenty for white."
As soon as Zhao Jun said this, Wu Dalin's small eyes widened, and the gangsters next to him started talking about it.
"Twenty? We have a lot of white foxes here!"
"Why did he pay for this?"
Zhao Jun took the money out of his pocket and said, "Whoever wants the red one, I'll give you fifty. This is the top price."
"How many?"
"Fifty? Oh my god!"
"Fifty? My family can't make that kind of money in a year!"
While the hooligans were talking about it, Zhao Jun counted out thirty-five yuan and handed it to Wu Dalin, and said with a smile: "Master Wu, this is thirty-five yuan, check it out."
"No need to check, no need to check." Wu Dalin shook his head repeatedly, then seemed to remember something, held the money in both hands and bowed to Zhao Jun, saying: "Thank you, Mr. Zhao! Thank you, Mr. Zhao!"
"Ah?" Zhao Jun was a little confused. You are not allowed to call him Leader Zhao, so you can't call him that way either.
At this time, Zhao Jun also recognized Wu Dalin. When he was at his home yesterday, he was the one who took the lead in calling his mother Zhao Auntie.
"Thank you, Young Master Zhao! Thank you, Young Master Zhao!" Lin Wenqin next to her was even more exaggerated, giving Zhao Jun a ninety-degree bow.
It’s not surprising that the couple was exaggerating. Before Zhao Jun gave them the money, their family had a total deposit of more than five yuan.
There is no other way. Even if they live in the forest and have no worries about food and drink, they still have some necessary expenses. They have no stable income and their lives are difficult.
No matter how well you say it, it's not as good as what you do.
When everyone saw thirty-five yuan in Wu Dalin's hand, no one could remain calm.
They don't envy Tong Youfeng for making money. Catching roe deer alive is not something ordinary people can do.
Tong Youfeng and a group of seven people climbed on the ice and slept in the snow for a month before catching four roe deer, three males and one female.
A roe deer sells for a hundred and one, but it is divided among seven people.
Trapping and hunting foxes is much easier than catching live roe deer. One person can trap a fox and earn more!
Zhao Jun took the fox skin from the hands of Wu Dalin and his wife, and then said to everyone: "We, old and young, are all here. I held a meeting for all the forest rangers at the third section yesterday. I told them, who will do it again?"
Those bullies who want to take cards...any of you should go home.
If we all go up the mountain or something, a ranger will bully you. Remember what he looks like, and come home to me when you're done."
At this point, Zhao Jun waved his hand and said: "I will do what I say, and I will definitely take care of it!"
Hearing this, the gangsters became excited again. They were all afraid of being bullied by the forest rangers, and were frightened every time they went up the mountain. It was because their families were in too difficult a situation and they had no other choice, so they had to bite the bullet and go into the mountain.
I don’t know who took the lead. Everyone thanked Zhao Jun one after another and shouted in unison: “Thank you, Mr. Zhao!”
"What are you doing?" Zhao Jun was also speechless. He grabbed Zhang Xinglong next to him and said, "Uncle Zhang, I am a junior, how can you do this?"
"You are the only one who recognizes me as the uncle." Zhang Xinglong excitedly held Zhao Jun's hand and said, "None of those young people in the family area of the forest farm will take us hooligans seriously."
Hearing what Zhang Xinglong said, many gangsters nodded in agreement. Tong Youfeng, who was standing by, touched the one hundred and twenty yuan in his pocket and wondered if he had been negligent just now.
At this time, the people sent by Tong Youfeng to fetch the roe deer came back. The two people came in and said to Tong Youfeng: "Brother Tong, the roe deer is outside."
Tong Youfeng looked at Zhao Jun, who said: "Then I'll go back."
With that said, Zhao Jun walked out, and more than ten people followed him, shouting and coming out of the house.
A roe deer, with its four hooves tied and its mouth bound, was lying behind a motorcycle. When it saw people coming out, it turned its ears in horror.
Upon seeing this, Tong Youfeng tied the roe deer to the back of the motorcycle with Zhao Jun's permission.
"Thank you, Master Tong." Zhao Jun thanked him, but Tong Youfeng said, "Thank you, Master Zhao."
After saying this, Tong Youfeng felt much more at ease.
"Huh?" Zhao Jun was confused by him. Zhao Jun thought to himself that he had to leave quickly because he couldn't stay here for too long.
So, with everyone watching, Zhao Jun left Wu Dalin's house on his motorcycle.
Watching Zhao Jun's motorcycle disappear, Zhang Xinglong turned around and said to everyone: "Let's all go home now. Let the one at home hurry up and cook. We will be full. We will gather in front of my house at twelve o'clock."
After Zhang Xinglong finished speaking, a gust of cold wind blew by, and there was silence all around.
Before Zhang Xinglong felt embarrassed, Tong Youfeng smiled and pulled him, saying: "Mr. Zhang, you usually can't even pick up a yellow leaf. Just do whatever you need to do."
Speaking of this, Tong Youfeng whispered to everyone: "Let's all go home and have dinner. After dinner, take your things and go to my house. Let's go play fox in the afternoon!"
What Tong Youfeng didn't expect was that after he said these words, no one responded.
Just when Tong Youfeng was stunned, everyone scattered.
Immediately afterwards, Wu Dalin was carrying a pickaxe, Lin Wenqin was carrying a spade, and two boys from their family, one holding a stove hook and the other carrying a wire rope, hurriedly came out of the yard.
"Hey?" Tong Youfeng raised his hand in greeting and said: "Dalin, what are you two doing with the children? If we don't agree, can the whole village go together with them? No, what are you doing with the children?
?”
After Tong Youfeng finished speaking, there was only a fox howl from Xishan in response.