Chapter 100. The Zhao family and his son went to Lingnan together
Without saying anything, Wang Qiang's actions attracted the attention of Zhao Jun and Xing San.
Wang Qiang held the gun to his face and only said two words: "Southern."
When Zhao Jun heard this, he knew that the thing was heading south. He turned to wink at Li Baoyu, and Li Baoyu nodded to express his understanding.
Zhao Youcai went to Yongxing as a guest and took away a semi-automatic gun. As a result, after giving the barrel-mounted gun to Xing San, Li Baoyu had no gun to use.
But this is temporary. The security report has been sent in, and the Ministry of Armed Forces will soon allocate seven semi-automatic rifles and 1,000 rounds of ammunition to Zhao Jun.
Li Baoyu raised his feet high, stepped lightly, and led the way.
There is knee-deep snow here, and people's feet step into the snow, making walking difficult but making almost no sound.
Snow of this thickness is not suitable for hunting dogs, but it is suitable for hunting and tracking.
Li Baoyu was in front, followed closely by Zhao Jun, who outflanked them to the left. Wang Qiang and Xing San continued to march along the same path, and two teams of four formed an encirclement.
As soon as he entered the forest, Li Baoyu stopped and waited for Zhao Jun to catch up. When he saw Li Baoyu pointing at the hoof prints in front of him, Zhao Jun's eyes lit up.
The hoof prints were very similar to those of goats. Based on experience, Zhao Jun judged that the sheep that left these footprints would not be too big and should weigh about forty kilograms.
Wild boars, roe deer, deer and other animals walk and run on the snow, and their hooves will plow through the snow, which means the hoof prints left behind have scratches like tails. People in the area call this "Lagou".
With such thick snow here, the hoof marks hardly make any grooves, which shows that the animals that left the hoof marks are extremely capable of jumping, even better than the roe deer, which is known as "flying on snow".
In this mountain forest, Zhao Jun has seen only three big cats and deer that can do this, and even jackals can't do it.
But the footprints were obviously not left by a feline beast or a fragrant deer, which reminded Zhao Jun of the hanging sheep.
Legend has it that no matter what kind of cliff it is, as long as there is a place for the hanging sheep to step on its hoof, it can use its strength to walk away.
These footprints were most likely left by Hanging Sheep, which meant that the Zhao family's gang found traces of their target as soon as they arrived here.
But the bad news is that by looking at the direction of the footprints, Hanging Yang should have escaped from the encirclement of the Zhao family gang.
Zhao Jun was not discouraged, because they were here to trap the hanging sheep today. Even if they surrounded the hanging sheep, they could not shoot them with guns.
Zhao Jun took off his gloves, clasped his hands in front of his mouth, and blew out three bird calls.
What Zhao Jun learned was very similar to the chirping of a tit, which could almost be mistaken for the real one. But he learned three chirps in a row, the first was short, the second was long, and the third was short again.
In this way, Wang Qiang and Xing San will know that this is a signal from Zhao Jun.
After learning the tit call, Zhao Jun gave Li Baoyu a look, and Li Baoyu followed slowly along the hanging sheep's footprints.
Zhao Jun followed Li Baoyu leisurely, but the two brothers walked slowly. Soon, Wang Qiang and Xing San followed.
The four of them gathered together, then fought separately, splitting into four directions to search forward.
What Zhao Jia Gang wants to do today is to circle the prey. The so-called circle tracking, as the name suggests, is to circle all the traces of the prey's normal activities.
Moreover, the scope determined by human trapping must include the prey’s usual activity traces.
The workload was quite large, and Zhao Jun and the four of them were busy until about two o'clock in the afternoon before heading back.
After a busy day, Zhao Jun and the others were able to confirm that the hoof marks were left by hanging sheep, and the information provided by Zhao Youcai was correct. There were indeed three hanging sheep living nearby.
However, hanging sheep have a large range of activities, including several nearby mountains.
Fortunately, Zhao Jun and the others were not trying to escape, and they did not need to find the hanging sheep before killing it.
The four of them found the tree where the hanging sheep hung their horns, and centered on that tree, they looked for the hanging sheep's feeding spots nearby.
In winter forest areas, food sources for vegetarian wild animals are scarce. However, various animals have their own fixed diets. For example, red deer like to eat the bark of poplar trees, and roe deer eat the branches of the second crop of forests.
As for hanging sheep, they only like to eat locust grass covered with snow.
This mountain farm is not the boundary of Yong'an. Zhao Jun and the others are not very familiar with this place. They don't know which side is the wormwood pond and which side is the wormwood top. They can only follow the footprints of the hanging sheep to find it slowly.
Hanging sheep have lived here for a long time, which shows that even in winter, there is relatively sufficient food nearby, and there are many places where a large number of weeds grow.
After working for more than four hours, the four of them determined two locations. Using the hanging horn tree as a reference, one was at the bottom of the ditch and pond on the west slope, and the other was on the top of the hill on the opposite side.
These two pieces of land were enough. The four Zhao soldiers went back home and came back tomorrow with clips to catch their feet.
On the way back, Wang Qiang, Xing San, and Li Baoyu walked to the third construction section and took the road maintenance worker's commuter car. Zhao Jun rode his motorcycle to pick up Kong Wengfen.
When he arrived at the shack, Kong Fanfu had packed everything. He dressed himself like a rice dumpling and wrapped his injured foot. First, he wrapped it with hay, then with cloth, and finally with a badger skin.
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"Uncle, I will carry you." Zhao Jun went to the edge of the kang and pulled Kong Fusheng onto him. The old man reached out and took a triangular bag next to him.
The triangular pocket was quite full, and Zhao Jun guessed that it must be filled with skins.
But Zhao Jun didn't ask anything. The old man was already suspicious by nature. At this time, Zhao Jun sent him home. If he told Kong Fusheng that he wanted to take advantage of him, the old man would think too much.
Zhao Jun did not cause any trouble, and did not miss his two pieces of leather, so he carried Kong Fanfu out of the shack. After placing Kong Fanfu on the motorcycle, Zhao Jun went back to use a thick wooden stick to block the shack door.
After doing this, Zhao Jun rode his motorcycle down the mountain. Fuqiang Village was about twenty miles away from Yong'an Tun. When Zhao Jun came back from the village, he heard the whistle of a small train in the distance.
The commuter buses are all back, it's half past five.
Zhao Jun was riding his motorcycle home when he suddenly heard someone calling him from behind: "Zhao Jun! Zhao Jun!"
Zhao Jun recognized the voice of Zhao Guofeng and hurriedly stopped the car.
Seeing Zhao Jun stop, Zhao Guofeng did not move forward. Instead, he stopped and shouted to Zhao Jun: "Zhao Jun went to the Tunbu, I have your phone number!"
"Okay, Uncle Zhao." Zhao Jun responded and turned around on his motorcycle.
Zhao Guofeng was walking from the garrison to Zhao Jun's house and met Zhao Jun halfway. When Zhao Jun passed by him, he stopped his motorcycle and asked Zhao Guofeng to come up.
When Zhao Guofeng got into the car, Zhao Jun asked him: "Uncle Zhao, who called me?"
"Fan Zhisheng." Zhao Guofeng said, "I don't know what he wants from you?"
Zhao Guofeng knew this former forest camp director, but he couldn't understand why he still called Zhao Jun when he had been transferred.
As soon as he heard the call was from Fan Zhisheng, Zhao Jun knew what was going on.
When he arrived at Tunbu, Zhao Jun answered the phone and said "hello", and then heard Fan Zhisheng's voice coming from over there.
"It's Zhao Jun, I'm your Uncle Fan." Fan Zhisheng tried to make connections from the very beginning, which made Zhao Jun smile.
"Ah, Uncle Fan." Everyone said that, and Zhao Jun could only continue.
"Zhao Jun, I want to ask you a favor." Fan Zhisheng said it very politely. After all, Zhao Jun was not under his control.
"Haha..." Zhao Jun smiled bitterly upon hearing this. He was not very good at rejecting people, especially when Fan Zhisheng was so polite.
"Oh!" Seeing that Zhao Jun didn't say anything, Fan Zhisheng sighed and said, "Uncle Fan wouldn't be able to come to you again and again if he hadn't run out of recruits. I just got here a few days ago, and I haven't been able to do anything about work.
I couldn't get it right, so the mountain field technician came to me to ask for help. I really, really had nothing to do."
"Uncle Fan, they don't have any gunners there?" Zhao Jun asked, and Fan Zhisheng said: "Yes, but the handle doesn't work, how can they chase you away!"
Fan Zhisheng gave Zhao Jun a top hat with his backhand, and then said: "The terrain in their area is quite complex, and it is said to be a big trap. As soon as the people passed by, the tiger looked at the people before anyone looked at the tiger."
"Uncle Fan, then it's not safe for me to go." Zhao Jun said so. Fan Zhisheng quickly said: "Zhao Jun, it's not that you, Uncle Fan, don't care about your safety. I told them so. But people say you are a general who will subdue the tiger."
, you must have a special trick."
"What tricks can I have?" Zhao Jun was speechless for a while, but then he heard Fan Zhisheng say: "Zhao Jun, do you think this is okay? You came here for a walk, come here. Take a look there, and you can fight if you can.
Beat him or pull him down if he can't beat him. When you're done, come over to my uncle's place. He'll treat you well and treat you well."
"That's not necessary, Uncle Fan." Zhao Jun probably understood what Fan Zhisheng meant. It was just that as long as he made this trip, Fan Zhisheng would be able to save his face in front of his men.
There is a sketch between Huang Hong and Song Dandan, in which Huang Hong has a line: "Isn't it just for the sake of face that people live?"
At that time, Song Dandan refuted Huang Hong, and her words sounded very positive. But who doesn’t want to lose face?
Especially in rural areas and forested areas these days, face has fallen to the ground, and people can’t even hold their heads up. This is especially true for leaders.
"Then can you come?" So when Fan Zhisheng asked Zhao Jun again, Zhao Jun sighed softly and said: "Uncle Fan, you have already said this, how can I not go?"
Zhao Jun's words showed enough favor.
"Haha... that's great, Zhao Jun." As soon as Zhao Jun said this, Fan Zhisheng burst into laughter, and then said: "Well... if you don't... don't want to fight, you can go to his place and fight.
Just transfer it. When you're done, come to me and see what uncle arranges and you're done."
"Okay, Uncle Fan." Zhao Jun said, "Isn't it Han Song Baozi? Then I'll leave tomorrow and arrive the day after tomorrow."
"Ah?" Fan Zhisheng was startled when he heard this and asked: "Then what are you going to do tomorrow? Are you still sleeping in the mountains?"
"If you don't want to stay overnight, I'll go over to the other side of the mountain to see a friend tomorrow." Zhao Jun said this because he wanted to see Huang Gui.
It turned out that Huang Gui was seriously injured. Although he had sent his subordinates, since they had to cross the ridge, Zhao Jun wanted to take a look at Huang Gui to see how badly he was injured and whether he could be of any help.
Another thing, Zhao Jun wanted to ask about the situation in Huganggou so that he could deal with it.
"Okay, after that, if you have something to do, call my uncle." Fan Zhisheng said, "When you get to Napuzi, you can find their brigade secretary Guo Zheng. If Guo Zheng is not here, ask his father... what is his name?"
Fan Zhisheng couldn't remember the old man's name for a moment. Zhao Jun smiled and said: "It's okay, Uncle Fan. I'll ask about the brigade secretary's house when I get there."
"Yes, yes, that's it." Fan Zhisheng said with a smile: "Zhao Jun, this time my uncle has caused you trouble. In the future, you will see how your uncle treats you."
Fan Zhisheng said this, which meant that he remembered the favor.
Zhao Jun said a few polite words to him and hung up the phone. Then Zhao Jun came out of the camp and rode his motorcycle home.
After he got home, when he mentioned that he was going to Lingnan tomorrow, Li Baoyu shouted that he would go with Zhao Jun.
"Baoyu, don't go." Zhao Jun said to Li Baoyu: "Tomorrow morning, you, my uncle, and the third uncle will go up the mountain to catch someone's feet or something. After that, you and your uncle will have to sneak up every day."
To catch the hanging sheep, you have to keep them alive, so you have to go there every day, otherwise the hanging sheep will freeze hard over time.
"My nephew, I'm not going either?" After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Wang Qiang asked anxiously: "Can you go by yourself?"
"Boy, why don't I go with you!" Xing San said when he was chewing pancakes at noon in the mountains today. After setting the trap tomorrow, he would go back to Lengchang in that direction.
But at this time, he heard that Zhao Jun was going to Lingnan to hunt tigers alone. Xing San was afraid that he would not be safe alone, so he decided to go with Zhao Jun.
"No need, Third Master." Zhao Jun said: "I'm going, I'm just doing it to save face. I'll go there and see if I can use any tricks, I'll let their people from the fort come up. If it doesn't work, I'll ride a motorcycle.
It’s too late.”
This is Zhao Jun's true thoughts. He is not prepared to take any risks on this trip, and he does not even bring a dog with him.
After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Xing San didn't say anything else. He was old, and if it weren't for Zhao Jun, he wouldn't have wanted to run outside.
"Uncle!" Zhao Jun asked Wang Qiang, "Tomorrow you and my uncle will bring the children over. Your family of four will live in my house."
Zhao Jun asked Wang Qiang's family to come over to keep Wang Meilan company. Although there were dogs in the yard, Wang Meilan was not comfortable raising two children by herself.
It was not convenient for others to come, so Wang Qiang and his family could only come.
While Zhao Jun was making arrangements at home, Mrs. Xie Sun was sitting on the kang in the west room of the Yongxing Brigade Guest House, eating melon seeds out of boredom.
On the Kang in the east room, Zhao Youcai, Jie Chen and Li Wencai were snoring loudly.
Today Li Wencai killed a pig to entertain guests, Zhao Youcai, and Xie Chen said they were leaving today, but once they drank the wine, how could they leave?
After drinking, the three of them had too much, so they went back to the house and fell on the kang to sleep. It was Jie Sun who had cleaned up the mess outside.
But the next day, Zhao Youcai woke up very early, around three o'clock.
When he woke up, Li Wencai had already gotten up. The old man woke up at around three o'clock every day.
Upon seeing this, Zhao Youcai woke up Xie Chen, and then urged Xie Chen to wake up Xie Sun.
After everyone got up, they simply ate hot noodles with hot soup. Zhao Youcai, Jie Chen, and Jie Sun walked out in the dark.
Zhao Youcai held an intravenous drip bottle filled with hot water and loaded the gun into the trunk of the car.
There was no way, he could neither compete with Xie Sun for the co-pilot, nor could he compete with Xie Sun for the co-pilot, so he had to sit in the back of the car.
"Wealth!" At this time, Li Wencai and his ministers carried half of the pig to the trunk. After throwing the pork into the trunk, Li Wencai said to Zhao Youcai: "If you don't go home, this pork will be given to their mother."
Let’s take two. When we’re done waiting for the Chinese New Year, I’ll see who kills the pig, and I’ll trim the meat and let them take it to you.”
"Put it down, Uncle Li." Zhao Youcai said: "Our family is not short of meat, you know this. You don't have to do anything, just take good care of your health, and I will come to see you when I have time!"
"Hey, that's good." Li Wencai, Zhao Youcai, and Xie Chen said hello and goodbye one by one, and finally said hello to Sun.
Mr. Xie Sun didn't pay much attention to him and just nodded lightly. As the car started, Li Wencai, who was waving from behind the car, heard Zhao Youcai shout: "Uncle Li, I'll put the twenty yuan under the quilt.
You keep drinking by yourself!"
"Oh, what are you doing?" Li Wencai wanted to chase Zhao Youcai at this time, but he could no longer catch up.
In the carriage, Jie Chen, who was driving, smiled and said, "Look at how I, Uncle Zhao, am very particular about how I do things."
"Ha!" Mr. Jie Sun snorted coldly and said angrily: "If he doesn't want to cause trouble again, what time is it? Just leave!"
Jie Chen twitched his lips. It was just after five o'clock when he came out of the guest house, which was indeed a bit early.
The car drove along the road prepared for war in the early years, and after crossing the bridge, it arrived in Ji Province.
Under the bridge is Qiaotou Village, where Huang Gui's family is located.
Zhao Youcai got out of the trunk and lit the pine torch that had been prepared.
"Uncle Zhao, I said I would deliver it to his door for you." Jie Chen, who was on the side, was a little worried. It was just after six o'clock and it was still dark.
"No need." Zhao Youcai waved his hand and said, "On these few steps, it will take me less than half an hour to get there."
After saying this, Zhao Youcai explained to Jie Chen: "If you go, you still have to bow to him."
"Then..." Jie Chen was startled, thinking that my brother Jun had prepared four cans for me.
But then I thought about it, when they arrived at Huang Gui's house, Huang Gui and his wife might not let them go. They were almost home, and Jie Chen and Jie Sun were both a little homesick and wanted to go back quickly.
"Then...Uncle Zhao, let's go then." Jie Chen got in the car and left. Zhao Youcai watched the car disappear before holding a torch and walking along the road in the same direction as the liberation vehicle.
It's around six o'clock in the morning in winter, which is the coldest time of the day, known as "Ghost Qiya".
The cold wind made the flames bend, but Zhao Youcai pushed forward against the cold wind.
At eight o'clock in the morning, when Zhao Youcai faintly heard the crow of roosters, Zhao Jun, wearing a small cotton-padded jacket and a large cotton-padded jacket, got on his motorcycle and rushed to Lingnan.