As Zhao Jun solved the problem of the backlog of air guns, the preparatory meeting for the first general meeting of shareholders of the Zhao Chamber of Commerce came to a successful conclusion. More than half of the participating representatives transformed into cooks and began to prepare for today's dinner under the leadership of Wang Meilan.
There are many people eating, and there are many dumplings to make. So, two people are required to make the noodles and chop the fillings for two people.
Jin Xiaomei and Zhao Ling made and kneaded the dough, Yang Yufeng and Xu Chunyan chopped the meat filling, and Wang Meilan put the roe deer bones into the pot and added water to make soup.
When the soup is cooked, it is added to the dumpling filling. In this way, the dumplings will have a soup in addition to the meat and eggs in the skin.
After the noodles and stuffing were reconciled, Wang Meilan divided out a portion of the noodles and stuffing and gave them to Yang Yufeng and the little bell to take home. Zhang Yuanmin still needed someone to take care of him, so the couple couldn't leave him alone at home.
When the dough woke up, Wang Meilan took the women and started making dumplings. With more people and more strength, the dumplings were delivered outside the curtain.
When Zhao Jun came back from outside, the dumplings were almost ready. He had just gone out to the blacksmith's furnace and ordered ten animal traps from two old blacksmiths.
"Third uncle." Zhao Jun parked his motorcycle at the door of the warehouse. When he got off the motorcycle, he saw Xing San and Wang Qiang playing with the big fat dog under the eaves.
Seeing Zhao Jun come back, Xing San threw half a biscuit to Black Tiger. Black Tiger took it in his mouth, raised his neck, chewed it and swallowed the biscuit.
"Boy, look at you, you're such a fat dog." Xing San touched the black tiger's back and said to Zhao Jun with a smile: "How much good food do you need to eat?"
Zhao Jun smiled when he heard this, and hurriedly looked for supplements for the black tiger, saying: "It is water fat. If it doesn't eat for two days, it will have to be wiped off the scale."
"Haha." Xing San smiled and entered the house with Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang.
"Brother, go up to the house and wait for a while." Seeing Xing San come in, Wang Meilan said with a smile: "We'll make dumplings after listening to the train in a while."
As she said that, Wang Meilan used the fence to take the meat of the roe deer thigh out of the pot.
The large piece of meat fell on the chopping board and kept steaming.
Jin Xiaomei picked up a kitchen knife and cut the meat into thin slices while it was still hot. Wang Meilan took out the sauce broth, then fried the peanuts and sweet potato pieces in a pan.
By the time Li Dayong, Li Dazhi, Li Baoyu, Li Ruhai, and Lin Xiangshun arrived home, sauced roe deer meat, fried peanuts, sweet potatoes, canned meat platter, stir-fried fungus with cabbage, and roe deer ribs stewed with sauerkraut were all on the table.
As the five of them entered the room, Wang Meilan's steaming dumplings were taken out of the pot, placed on enamel plates, and sent to the east room first, followed by the second pot.
"Brother Xing is here!" Li Dayong entered the house and saw Xing San coming, and hurriedly stepped forward to say hello, followed closely by Li Baoyu, Li Ruhai, and Lin Xiangshun.
At this time, the sharp-eyed Zhao Jun discovered that Li Dazhi seemed to be hiding behind him when he saw Xing Sanhou.
"Old Six!" But at this moment, Li Dayong waved to Li Dazhi and said: "Come here, I will introduce you, introduce you."
Li Baoyu and Li Ruhai separated to both sides, and Li Dazhi, who was exposed, bowed slightly to Xing San.
"Haha." Li Dazhi laughed dryly. Before he could say anything else, Xing San squinted his eyes and stared at Li Dazhi and said, "I think I've seen you before."
"No, no... no." Li Dazhi, who was sharp-tongued, spoke a little stutteringly. He looked at Li Dayong and asked: "Brother, should we call this old man uncle?"
"Oh!" Li Dayong was also sincere. He patted Li Dazhi on the shoulder and said, "This old man is related to Hu Mantang. Let's just follow my eldest brother's call. You can call me brother or third brother."
"Ah, haha." Li Dazhi smiled when he heard this and called "Brother" to Xing San.
Xing San responded, then looked at Li Dazhi and said, "What's your name? Whose family do you belong to? I must have seen you before."
"Hehehe..." Li Dazhi smiled and said: "Brother, we are both from the end of the world, so why should we have known each other before when we meet."
Li Dazhi's lyrics were very good, but Xing San couldn't understand them at all. The old man squinted at him, frowning and searching in his memory.
"Brother, can you admit your mistake?" At this time, Li Dayong said to Xing San from the side: "My six brothers have not been back for more than ten years."
"Either I said that I have seen them before."
As he spoke, Xing San raised his hand to block half of Li Dazhi's face from his sight. Then his eyes widened and he asked Li Dazhi: "Is your father Li Dazhi?"
"Ah..." Li Dazhi smiled awkwardly, but he was not embarrassed because of his father's nickname.
Rural people all have nicknames, and most of them are not positive. Take the lady Sun mentioned by Jin Xiaomei today. She is an old man. He talks like a woman and moves like a woman, which is why he got such a nickname.
Li Dayong glanced at Li Dazhi. He felt something was wrong at this moment, as if his sixth brother had offended the old man.
"Brother, Li Dayong is my uncle." Li Dayong took over the conversation. They are all from his own family. It is better to dissolve enemies than to make enemies.
"Come! Come!" At this time, Wang Meilan came in with two plates of steaming dumplings and greeted everyone: "Hurry up and eat them while they are hot. Son, I will pour wine for your third uncle and the others."
Upon seeing this, Zhao Jun hurriedly followed Zhang Luo. Seeing this, Xing San said nothing.
Zhao Youcai is not here today, and Zhao Jun is a junior and doesn't know how to drink, so Wang Qiang and Xing San sit on the edge of the kang.
Zhao Jun poured the hot Xifeng wine into the wine cup for Xing San. Wang Qiang took the unused chopsticks and enthusiastically served Xing San food.
"Huh..." Xing San took a bite of the dumpling. The dumplings just came out of the pot were very hot, but hot dumplings only taste better.
At this time, everyone sat down, and Zhao Jun looked at Li Baoyu and Lin Xiangshun.
Without Zhao Jun saying anything, Li Baoyu blinked his eyes knowingly, indicating that the matter was done.
When Lin Xiangshun saw Zhao Jun looking at him, he smiled and said: "The matter is done, I just want your brother-in-law to complain."
"Ah?" Zhao Jun was startled and saw Li Baoyu laughing out loud. Zhao Jun knew that Lin Xiangshun was joking.
Sure enough, Lin Xiangshun said with a smile: "You are talking about transferring posts, what should I say to the personnel department? There are no more recruitments, I will look for Jianjun. When I went to the logistics and told Jianjun, Jianjun said, it is not easy to train a driver
, it’s over and you still don’t do your job properly.”
"Haha..." Zhao Jun laughed when he heard this. Just as Wang Meilan came in with minced garlic and chili oil, Lin Xiangshun said to Wang Meilan: "Second aunt, your uncle is just watching people order dishes. Dudu said to me for a long time, and I said it
It was his brother-in-law who arranged it, so he kept silent."
"Hahaha..." Lin Xiangshun's words made everyone laugh.
After the laughter subsided, Li Baoyu said to Zhao Jun: "Brother, I will go up the mountain with you tomorrow."
"Then... Baoyu." Zhao Jun said to Li Baoyu: "Tomorrow morning, you and your uncle will go to Yongfu and take the commuter bus to the third section to get to the road maintenance worker. After arriving at the third section, you two will wait for me for a while.
The third uncle and I will go to a few shacks."
Tomorrow, four people will go up the mountain, and it will be a mountainous ride. It is not safe for four people to ride. Therefore, Zhao Jun asked Wang Qiang and Li Baoyu to take the commuting trolley to the third construction section.
And he and Xing San visited a few old mountain dogs along the way and talked with them about collecting leather goods.
After explaining tomorrow's transportation, Zhao Jun suddenly asked Lin Xiangshun: "Second brother, can your convoy arrange trucks for us forest guards?"
"What?" Lin Xiangshun was stunned.
Li Baoyu looked at Zhao Jun, then looked at Lin Xiangshun and said, "Brother Shunzi, we also need it for work."
"Get out of here." Lin Xiangshun scolded with a smile: "You just got transferred, and you still want to leave the convoy and pull the car out."
"Haha." Li Baoyu chuckled and saw Lin Xiangshun saying to Zhao Jun: "It's useless for you to tell me. You have to tell the dispatcher and your leader."
"Huh?" Li Dayong and Li Dazhi were eating dumplings, and they were stunned. One of them was the deputy team leader of dispatching, and the other was the leader of Zhao Jun.
What people didn't expect was that Li Dayong put down his chopsticks and said: "It can't be done now, the production tasks are so tight now. We have to wait until the tractors given to us by Zhao Weipeng arrive, and when the Great Liberation has time, we will think about this matter.
Son."
"No, brother?" Li Dazhi looked at Li Dayong and said, "What do you really have in the field and what do you have at home? You should also think about this."
Everyone laughed loudly, and after a few dumplings were eaten, the people at work felt their stomachs rested, and Wang Qiang raised his glass to start drinking.
Dumplings are like wine, and the more you eat, the better.
Everyone ate and drank, and Zhao Jun and Li Ruhai also drank orange soda.
"Brother!" Li Ruhai held the soda bottle in one hand and held the bottom with the other, and touched Zhao Jun's soda bottle through Li Baoyu.
"What are you going to do?" Zhao Jun felt that this kid didn't hold it in well.
Sure enough, Li Ruhai smiled and said: "Brother, I will be fifteen after the Chinese New Year. After that, I will also join the Zhao Family Gang, and I will go up the mountain with you."
"Pull him down." Zhao Jun said, "You don't need to join the Zhao Family Gang. Your aunt's Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce has already recruited you."
"Ah?" When he heard that it was Wang Meilan's Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce, Li Ruhai did not dare to talk nonsense, but pretended to be flattered and said, "Is there still a place for me in the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce?"
"That's great!" Wang Qiang motioned to Li Ruhai, then gestured to the side and said, "You and your third uncle are responsible for external relations."
"Ah?" Li Ruhai was startled, thinking that the old man and I... are you sure we are responsible for not engaging in external armed forces?
At this time, Zhao Jun pulled Li Ruhai across Li Baoyu and said: "The third uncle is in charge of those mountain dogs. You are in charge of the mountaineers in Shiliba Village and let them sell the mountain wealth to us."
"Ah..." After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Li Ruhai understood. This overlapped with his previous business, but he was just patching it together, doing it in a small way.
The Zhao Chamber of Commerce has abundant financial resources and can purchase mountain goods and then transport them to other places for sale.
Seeing that Li Ruhai remained silent, Zhao Jun added: "Aren't you willing to be an official? I told you at the meeting today that I will give you an official position."
"Ah?" Li Ruhai felt that Zhao Jun's words were a bit strange, and then he heard Zhao Jun say: "Our third uncle is the leader of the external relations team, and you are the external relations officer."
"A director again?" Li Ruhai couldn't help but feel a little discouraged when he heard this, and said: "I used to be a trade union officer and a security officer, and now I have multiple external relations officers, so I'm working with the officer."
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After they were full of wine and food, the women helped Wang Meilan put away the dishes and leftovers, and the diners took their leave as a family unit.
When Zhao Jun and Xing San were sitting on the edge of the kang, heating their feet, Zhao Jun suddenly remembered something and asked Xing San: "Third uncle, did you know Uncle Li Liu before?"
When Xing San heard this, he smiled lightly and said, "I met him once."
Seeing Xing San's expression, Zhao Jun quickly asked: "Did you hit him?"
"Huh?" Xing Sanyi was startled, looked at Zhao Jun in surprise and asked, "How do you know?"
Zhao Jun couldn't say that he could tell by looking at your expression, he just asked: "What are you cheering for?"
"That kid is not a good person." Xing San said: "That year, when I was walking on the south road towards the Xiaohong River, he suddenly jumped down from the tree and asked me to go back, saying he was maintaining the road ahead."
"Then you beat him?" Zhao Jun asked, and Xing San said: "Your third uncle is not the one who shouts to kill and wants to beat him. I came up from the bottom of the slope, and he can look at me from the tree.
You said that if you don't let me go, just call me and I won't come back like this. I was already here before he drove me back."
"Then it's over?" Zhao Jun asked again with a smile, and Xing San said: "I grabbed them and gave them a big mouth. At this time, Xu Changlin came over and said that this was Li Da's son, and that was all.
."
While Zhao Jun and Xing San were chatting, almost every household in Xishantun had light.
This is very abnormal. After all, hooligans are not in good condition. They usually go to sleep on the kang after dinner after dark.
But today, every household either lights a kerosene lamp or lights wax. Moreover, every household has a smile on their face.
After Zhao Jun arrived in the morning, men, women, old and young rushed to the desolate place.
Even if the ground is frozen in winter, the pickaxe will dig out fox holes one by one. As the fox runs away, women and children hit the fox with sticks and shovels.
This battle lasted until dark, and the Xishan Tun soldiers, who had won a complete victory, withdrew their troops and returned.
When they get home, they skin the fox and stew the meat. The men sit on the kang and drink wine quietly, while the women and children happily eat the fox meat.
Fox meat is not delicious, even except for the smelly glands, it is very smelly and smelly, but no one is picking on it, and everyone eats it with their mouths full of oil.
Normally, even if these hooligans have meat, they will not eat so much at one time. They will save the meat for a long time.
But the families who caught foxes today opened their mouths to eat because they felt hope.
And hope is on those fox skins.
Wu Dalin's family.
Wu Dalin took a sip of wine, then threw the empty enamel jar on the table and said, "eldest son, pour me some wine!"
"Don't drink it." Lin Wenqin, who was arranging the fox skin, advised him. Wu Dalin rolled his eyes and shouted: "Pour it down!"
"Son!" Lin Wenqin hurriedly winked at the eldest son of her family, and fourteen-year-old Wu Xiaoshan hurriedly carried a wine bucket and poured a jar of wine for Wu Dalin.
The wine is purple in color and is made from mountain grapes picked by Lin Wenqin herself.
Wu Dalin took two swigs of wine and then said to Lin Wenqin: "With these one hundred yuan, we will buy two more rooms next year. It will be enough for the eldest and the second to get a wife."
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Zhang Xinglong's family.
Everyone else had left the table, but Mr. Zhang was the only one who stayed at the table and refused to put down his wine cup.
"You've almost got it!" Mrs. Zhang Liu urged Zhang Xinglong: "We have two fox skins in total, and they only cost 20 yuan. How can you drink it like this?"
"You know nothing!" Zhang Xinglong said: "We villagers can make money, why don't they have to pay for it because I led them to that old Zhao's house? Don't they have to thank me?"
Ms. Zhang Liu curled her lips, gave her old man a rollicking look, and casually grabbed the pipe and pot.
At this time, Zhang Xinglong said with drunken eyes: "Next year Yushu Township will be designated as a regular village for us. Can't they choose me as the village chief?"
"Ha!" Mrs. Zhang Liu sneered and said, "Why should they choose you?"
"I'll take them to Yong'an!" Zhang Xinglong patted the table and said, "I told that boy Zhao when I got there, that kid is so good, and he calls me every time."
"Dad! Dad!" As soon as Zhang Xinglong finished speaking, the door of the outhouse was pulled open. A man in his thirties ran into the house and shouted to Zhang Xinglong: "No, the fox has entered the village!"