When Zhao Jun came out of his home, Guan Wang Meilan asked for 100,000 yuan. He wanted to collect big hides and bear bile from the Yongxing brigade and the small redwood forest farm.
As a result, he didn't spend the 50,000 yuan. For the business in Yongxing, the brigade advanced the money. At the small redwood forest farm, he only spent a total of 3,000 yuan.
After calculating this, out of the 100,000 yuan I brought out, I still have 97,000 yuan left.
With such a large amount of money left, the Zhao Chamber of Commerce's financial problems were alleviated, and Zhao Jun wanted to spend money again.
As soon as Zhao Jun told him what he was thinking, Li Baoyu immediately responded: "Then let's catch two of them."
Here, buying live pigs is called catching pigs.
Because when you go to a farmer's house to buy pigs, you have to catch the pigs, tie them up, and then carry them home.
As soon as Li Baoyu finished speaking, Jie Chen echoed: "Brother Jun, let's buy it."
"Brother, brother." Compared to the three young men, Zhang Yuanmin knew how to live a better life, and immediately said: "Can't we go up the mountain and catch him?"
"That pig on the mountain is too thin." Zhao Jun said: "I'm thinking about celebrating the New Year. Isn't it delicious if we eat fat ones?"
At this season, the wild boar is not as thin as usual. All the fat accumulated in the autumn has been used up, and the meat is indeed not delicious.
Zhang Yuanmin also knew this, but before he followed Zhao Jun, his family could only get two kilograms of wild boar meat during the Chinese New Year, so they had to make plans to eat it.
But now that he heard what Zhao Jun said, Zhang Yuanmin echoed: "That counts as my family's share."
What Zhang Yuanmin means is that when seven or eight families eat together, the Zhao family cannot always spend money.
But at this time, Zhao Jun asked him: "Brother, can't you kill a pig in your family?"
"Huh?" Zhang Yuanmin was startled, then Zhao Jun continued: "Can't we treat you?"
Normally, as soon as the twelfth lunar month enters, it is called the twelfth lunar month, and at this time the countryside has to prepare for the New Year.
Those who needed to make dumplings made dumplings, those who needed to make bean buns made bean buns, and the chickens and geese that needed to be killed were also killed.
There is also the matter of killing pigs to entertain guests.
This pig is called the New Year Pig. When it is killed, all the relatives and friends are invited to their home and they eat it freely. The remaining pork is kept by the family to celebrate the New Year.
But Yong'an Village is not an ordinary rural area, it is a forest farm family area. Women can do things like making dumplings and killing chickens, but it's okay. But when killing New Year pigs to entertain guests, men have to be at home to make arrangements.
Therefore, the New Year pig killings here in Yong'an Village are concentrated after the small New Year and before the Chinese New Year. At that time, the forest farm is on New Year's holiday and all the men are at home.
When Zhao Jun asked him if he wanted to kill a pig to entertain guests, Zhang Yuanmin was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Then I'll catch one, and then we'll all have a good meal."
"Brother, that's not what I meant." Zhao Jun heard this and said hurriedly: "My family has to kill a pig to entertain guests (qiě). After that..."
Zhao Jun said and looked at Li Baoyu.
"My family also has to entertain." Li Baoyu echoed, saying: "My father said that this year we have to invite my second uncle, my eldest uncle, and my second uncle to come."
After Li Baoyu finished speaking, Zhao Jun continued to say to Zhang Yuanmin: "Brother, your old neighbor, and my sister-in-law's relatives..."
"Then pull him down." Zhang Yuanmin shook his head, took the cigarette from Wang Qiang, then curled his lips and said: "They kill pigs every year without calling me, why should I pay any attention to them."
"Can't I wait to invite you this year?" Wang Qiang said with a smile, Zhang Yuanmin cursed and said: "Fuck, I'm invited this year, and I won't go yet."
Everyone laughed when they heard this, and Zhao Jun said: "Then my family will catch two of them, one will be eaten as a treat, and one will be eaten during the Chinese New Year."
A normal family would kill a pig, dig it up to entertain guests, and eat the rest for the first month of the year. But the Zhao family is not an ordinary family. They have killed dozens of wild boars this year.
"It's mine to eat during the Chinese New Year!" Zhang Yuanmin waved his hand and threw out these words. When Zhao Jun was about to speak, Zhang Yuanmin said: "Brother, if you don't let me spend money on this pig, the three of us will spend the Chinese New Year at home alone."
"Okay, brother." After hearing Zhang Yuanmin's words, Zhao Jun smiled and said, "Then it's yours."
After talking to Zhang Yuanmin, Zhao Jun asked Wang Qiang again: "Uncle, can't you treat me?"
"I don't want to mess with it." Wang Qiang frowned and said, "But I have to fix it."
With that said, Wang Qiang flicked the ashes from his cigarette and said, "Your uncle is her brother. Her sister calls us whenever she kills pigs."
"Then uncle, why don't you do it too?" Zhao Jun said with a smile: "If you think about it, we will be four pigs."
"Bring one to Shunzi." Wang Qiang said, "He should also have a treat. If he doesn't want it then, I'll pay for it, and we can all eat after that."
"Well, okay, I'll bring one for my sister." Zhao Jun did the math and said, "Then we'll buy six pigs when we get to Yongxing."
"Seven." As soon as Zhao Jun finished speaking, Xie Chen said: "I want one too."
"Huh?" Zhao Jun was startled when he heard this, looked at Xie Chen and said, "What are you doing? Are you treating me too? Who do you know here?"
"I'll take you back." Jie Chen said with a smile, "I'll go home to treat you."
Jie Chen is like this, not because there are no pigs in Lingnan, nor because the pigs in Lingxi are fatter than in Lingnan, but just to join in the fun.
"Okay!" Zhao Jun was amused by Jie Chen and immediately said with a smile: "Then we will arrest him when we arrive at Yongxing tomorrow."
After saying this, Zhao Jun paused for a moment, and then said to everyone: "If we buy pigs, we won't have to go up the mountain to catch wild boars when we get home. There are only a few days until the holiday. Tomorrow and tomorrow night
Get home and have a good rest. The day after tomorrow we will start going up the mountain to catch roe deer in the second crop forest. We will hunt for three days in a row!"
Today is February 6th, tomorrow is the 7th, and the 10th is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, which is the Little New Year in the north.
As soon as the New Year is approaching, pigs are killed to treat guests and New Year's goods are prepared. Zhao Jun does not plan to go up the mountain.
Therefore, on the 8th and 9th, Zhao Jun will take his dogs up the mountain and catch some roe deer.
"Okay." After Zhao Jun finished speaking, Wang Qiang agreed: "You still have to go to Hebei on the eighth day of the lunar month. When you come back, the roe deer won't be able to eat."
After hearing Wang Qiang's words, Jie Chen asked confusedly: "Uncle, why can't the roe deer be eaten?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! When Jie Chen asked this question, Wang Qiang smiled and asked: "Didn't your Uncle Zhao teach you?"
These people all know about Zhao Youcai's announcement of Jie Chen's abilities.
But there is a lot of knowledge in the mountain running business. How much could Zhao Youcai teach Xie Chen that night?
Seeing that the minister was confused, Li Ruhai smiled and said: "Brother Chen, I know this. As soon as the fifteenth day of the first lunar month passes, the roe deer will get up."
"Ah? What are you talking about?" Jie Chen still didn't understand. After all, he didn't know Zhao Jun on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month last year.
"It's just worms." Zhao Jun explained to Xie Chen: "The skin is transparent inside and the flesh is as big as a grain of rice."
"Ah?" Jie Chen was startled when he heard this, and said in surprise: "Isn't this Qian'er here?"
"I won't tell you." Zhang Yuanmin said with a smile: "The cockroaches start to bloom after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. It will be fine after the Beginning of Autumn."
"Ah..." Hearing what Zhang Yuanmin said, Xie Chen just nodded when Zhao Jun said: "Actually, you don't have to wait until then, it will be over."
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The six people chatted in the guest house until they got off work at the forest farm. Wei Huaixin personally came to invite them to the canteen to attend the celebration party.
It can be seen that Wei Huaixin put a lot of thought into this meal, including chicken stewed with mushrooms, pork stewed with vermicelli, braised fish, minced white meat with garlic, braised wood frogs with soy sauce, stewed dragon head with hericium, lamb braised with sauerkraut, and hand-grilled lamb chops.
Fried peanuts and shredded potatoes.
There were two tables in total, with eight hot dishes and two cold dishes on each table. The wine was Shanhebai and the cigarettes were Yingchun cigarettes.
Zhao Jun didn't drink or smoke, so he and Li Ruhai ate from their rice bowls.
After eating and drinking, they returned to the guest house and slept overnight. At seven o'clock the next morning, Zhao Jun and the others went to the cafeteria to have breakfast and feed the dogs.
Then, the six people took two cars and, with Wei Huaixin and Wu Ruixiang waving to see them off, left the Little Sequoia Forest Farm.
When passing the supply and marketing cooperative, Zhao Jun stopped the jeep, took out a large unity card from his pocket, handed it back, and said: "Brother, go down and give this money to Master Liu."
Before, Li Ruhai had an agreement with Liu Changshan. If Liu Changshan helped them buy the big white leather piece, Li Ruhai would give him ten yuan as a reward.
Although the situation changed yesterday and it was Zhao Jun who personally took the initiative to buy Bai Dapi, after all, it was Liu Changshan who provided the information and cannot be forgotten.
Zhang Yuanmin responded, got out of the car with the money, and walked into the supply and marketing cooperative.
Liu Changshan came to open the door at seven o'clock. At that time, he had just turned on the stove and put the kettle on the stove lid.
Liu Changshan was startled when he saw Zhang Yuanmin coming in, and then Zhang Yuanmin smiled and said: "Master Liu, my brother has been taken over by Bai Dapi. To thank you, I will buy you two cigarettes to smoke."
With that said, Zhang Yuanmin handed over the money.
"No, no." Liu Changshan realized what was going on and hurriedly pushed the money out.
Yesterday, he did nothing and took no risks. Zhao Jun gave him one hundred and twenty yuan.
Later, when Liu Changshan told Zhao Jun the news about Bai Dapi, he never thought that Zhao Jun would give him the ten yuan.
"Master Liu, let's get the money back." Zhang Yuanmin pressed Liu Changshan's hand, put the money into Liu Changshan's hand, and said with a smile: "Hurry up and take it, don't tear it up."
After Zhang Yuanmin finished speaking, he turned around and walked out.
Liu Changshan froze on the spot and hurriedly ran back to the counter.
Zhang Yuanmin left the supply and marketing cooperative and as soon as he opened the car door, he saw Liu Changshan chasing him out.
Liu Changshan came to Zhang Yuanmin's side with a pile of cigarettes in his hands. He glanced in through the opened car door and saw Zhao Jun sitting in the cab. Liu Changshan asked, "Let's go, that's it?"
"Let's go, Master Liu." Zhao Jun smiled and saw Liu Changshan throwing strips of Spring Festival cigarettes along the car door on the back seat.
There are six in total!
The day before yesterday, when Wei Huaixin sent someone to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy cigarettes for Zhao Jun and others, Liu Changshan asked casually. When he learned that Zhao Jun and his party were six people, he threw six cartons of cigarettes into the car.
Li Ruhai, who was sitting in the back, was stunned. Zhao Jun quickly asked: "Master Liu, what are you doing? We can't have this!"
After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Li Ruhai and Zhang Yuanmin hurriedly picked up the cigarettes.
Liu Changshan pushed away the cigarette handed to him by Zhang Yuanmin, took a step back, then raised his hand to Zhao Jun and said, "This is a cigarette for you to smoke. It's not a good cigarette. Just don't take it personally."
People say that if you push the cigarette back harder, you will think that the cigarette is not good.
Li Ruhai and Zhang Yuanmin looked at Zhao Jun, and heard Zhao Jun shout outside: "Thank you, Master Liu."
"I should be the one thanking you!" Liu Changshan smiled, waved his hand, and said, "Next time you come to this forest farm, why don't you have dinner at home!"
The morning in the Northeast winter is the coldest time of the day, but the human kindness warms the heart.
"Okay, Master Liu!" Zhao Jun said, "If you have a chance to come to Yong'an, just ask about me."
"Hey!" Liu Changshan responded, waved his hand and said to Zhang Yuanmin: "Get in the car quickly, close the door quickly, it's so cold!"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Yuanmin also waved goodbye to Liu Changshan and got into the jeep.
Zhao Jun started his car and chased the Great Liberation Army who had already driven away.
Before turning, Wang Qiang looked through the rearview mirror and saw Liu Changshan still standing in front of the supply and marketing cooperative.
"This man is so nice!" Wang Qiang praised Liu Changshan. Zhao Jun smiled and said, "Uncle, when you get home, you want to take a cigarette back."
After talking to Wang Qiang, Zhao Jun turned back to Zhang Yuanmin and said: "Brother, you, Baoyu, and Xiaochen each have one. Ruhai and I don't smoke, Ruhai's one will be given to my uncle Li, and mine will be given to my third uncle."
After listening to Zhao Jun's words, Zhang Yuanmin glanced at Li Ruhai. Li Ruhai didn't dare to say that he knew how to smoke. He also winked at Zhang Yuanmin, meaning don't be too troublesome.
Having just offended Li Ruhai the day before yesterday, Zhang Yuanmin was looking for an opportunity to win over this kid. How could he dare to talk?
The Little Sequoia Forest Farm and Yongan are not next to each other. After going down the mountain, you have to pass through Shanhe Town.
At 10:30 in the morning, jeeps and liberation vehicles drove into the Yongxing First Team and stopped directly at the entrance of the brigade department.
Zhao Jun only brought Wang Qiang into the brigade headquarters. When they came in, Yu Xuewen, Tao Dabao and six other people were discussing something together.
Seeing Zhao Jun coming in, Yu Xuewen asked them to sit down and asked: "Why are you coming back so soon? Has the local leopard been tortured to death?"
"Yeah, beat it to death." Zhao Jun responded, and Yu Xuewen said: "Well... that... it's hard to come here, stay for two days and then leave."
"Ah?" When Zhao Jun heard what Yu Xuewen said, he felt something was wrong. He hurriedly said: "Secretary Yu, we can't live here. We are so young now. There are a lot of things going on at home!"
"Then..." Yu Xuewen glanced at Tao Dabao, and Tao Dabao said to Zhao Jun: "Zhao Jun, I heard that you came to our house to collect skins or something, which made everyone in our brigade very happy. Many people walked away.
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And when they heard about you, you paid ten yuan a piece for fox skins, and that guy and his gang went into the woods to hunt foxes."
"Yeah!" As soon as Tao Dabao finished speaking, Yu Xuewen took up the conversation again: "Like Lao Wu and others, they have dogs, and they all lead the dogs around the forest to catch foxes. And that one... digs out the fox's hole, just like you.
I must know that this thing is like digging into a badger's hole, and it's not easy to dig out in the middle of winter."
"Then..." Zhao Jun probably understood what they meant, so he asked: "As for Secretary Yu, how about we come back in two days?"
"That's great." Yu Xuewen waved to accountant You Zhijie, who hurriedly took out a hard-cover notebook from the pile of notepads, opened a page, and handed it to Yu Xuewen.
Yu Xuewen took the notebook and called Zhao Jun over. When Zhao Jun looked at the notebook, he glanced down and his eyes widened: "Oh my god!"