On this day, Zhao Jun was really tired from traveling and catching pigs. He lay down on the bed, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
He had to leave early the next day, so just after five o'clock, Zhao Jun heard movement in the outer room and opened his eyes.
At this time, Xing San had already woken up, but because he was afraid of waking up Zhao Jun, the old man didn't move.
Seeing Zhao Jun sit up, Xing San, who had already put on his clothes, went to the ground directly.
It was just after five o'clock and it was not yet bright outside, but after Zhao Jun sat up, he saw bright light outside the house through the curtains.
Zhao Jun opened the curtains and turned on no lights in the room. There was light outside, and Zhao Jun could clearly see a lantern hanging on the double-stranded No. 8 wire hanging clothes outside.
Under the lantern, something was simmering in two large pots.
In front of the big pot, Zhao Youcai held the handle of the shovel with both hands and used the small shovel to turn over the contents of the big pot.
The lantern light was dim, and Zhao Jun didn't even see what Zhao Youcai was doing.
At this time, Xing San also noticed something happening outside the house. He got up on the kang and came to the window. He looked at Zhao Youcai who was busy outside and said, "What kind of delicious food is your dad doing this early in the morning?"
Xing San knew that Zhao Jun's family always ate and drank, which may have been inherited from Zhao Jun's grandfather. But it was not yet dawn, and the landlord's family did not prepare a banquet so early?
"Third uncle..." Hearing Xing San's words, Zhao Jun was a little speechless, but when he thought that this old man had not lived down the mountain for many years, he explained to Xing San: "That is not for us to eat."
"Ah?"
"Ah..." Xing San finally realized what he was doing and said to Zhao Jun: "Boy, please leave the house alone while your father and I go to feed the animals."
After saying that, Xing San put on his cotton-padded jacket and dog-skin hat and went out.
Zhao Jun folded the quilt and piled it into a quilt. When he walked out of the room, he saw Wang Meilan rolling out noodles there.
Use a rolling pin to roll up a large piece of dough. This is for hand-rolled dough.
Seeing Zhao Jun come out, Wang Meilan said: "Son, get up. There is hot water in the thermos bottle. You can wash your face with the cold water and put it on the table for dinner."
"Hey!" Zhao Jun agreed, walked to Wang Meilan, looked out the window and said to Wang Meilan: "Mom, why is my dad running outside to eat?"
"One pot can't fit in it." Wang Meilan laughed while rolling out the dough: "It feeds both dogs and pigs."
"Okay." Zhao Jun also smiled and said, "My father will do this, so I won't let my mother and I do it."
Hearing what Zhao Jun said, Wang Meilan stopped what she was doing, glanced at Zhao Jun, and said with a smile: "You think it's good (jiǎo), your father is scolding you."
"Ah?" Zhao Jun was stunned and said confidently: "Why is he scolding me?"
"I welcome you to buy a pig." Wang Meilan said: "Last night when you came back to the house, he was scratching his head. When he got up in the morning, he was scratching his head again."
At the beginning of yesterday, Zhao Youcai pretended to be aloof. After negotiating the terms with Wang Meilan, he stopped being aloof and started to talk nonsense.
"Mom, you didn't quarrel with him?" Zhao Jun asked after hearing this, but Wang Meilan continued to roll out the dough and said: "How dare I? Now they work for us at home every day. After we quarrel with him, what will happen to them again?"
Hearing what Wang Meilan said, Zhao Jun felt that it made sense.
More than ten minutes later, when Wang Meilan started cutting noodles, Zhao Youcai came back.
"Where's Brother Xing?" Wang Meilan asked hurriedly when Zhao Youcai came back alone.
"Going to the latrine." After Zhao Youcai finished speaking, he took off his gloves and walked to the door of the west room. He leaned his back against the door frame and gave Zhao Jun a fierce look in the room.
"Huh?" Zhao Jun was startled and blurted out: "Dad, what happened again?"
"What happened? Ha!" Zhao Youcai sneered and said, "Let me see the one who makes a lot of money."
Zhao Jun: "..."
Generally speaking, yin and yang does not contain curse words, but it is more uncomfortable than swearing because being yin and yang makes one's heart feel clogged.
At this time, he had to speak, so Zhao Jun stood up and said to Zhao Youcai: "Dad, isn't it our family's enjoyment of the money I make?"
"Enjoyment will not cost you..." Zhao Youcai said this. Zhao Jun quickly interrupted him and said: "Dad, why don't you just support me to buy two pigs? It's the Chinese New Year, let's all eat and drink together.
OK, isn’t that good?”
"Why can't we eat wild boar?" Zhao Youcai said: "I'm crazy about you today, and you still think wild boar is thin. Then before the difficulties, who did you eat less?"
"Huh?" Wang Meilan cut her noodles with her kitchen knife. She was keenly aware that Zhao Youcai's firepower was also covering her.
"Dad, look." Zhao Jun tried to reason with Zhao Youcai and said, "You also said that it was before the difficulties, so are our conditions bad now?"
"Okay, you're going to be in trouble?" Zhao Youcai asked back, "I had no money a while ago, how uncomfortable does it feel to borrow money from others?"
Zhao Jun was stunned by Zhao Youcai's question. Seeing that Zhao Jun didn't speak, Zhao Youcai took advantage of the victory and pursued him: "Only in the first two days, we were arguing that we didn't have enough money to spend. This team will give you money in advance. When you have money, you can go ahead."
"I..." For a moment, Zhao Jun was speechless.
Today, Zhao Youcai was uncharacteristically and gained the upper hand in the argument with Zhao Jun. But it wasn't that his words slipped away, but that he grasped the truth.
Diligence and thrift are always the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation!
Zhao Youcai held two labor protection gloves in his right hand, raised his fingers and pointed at Zhao Jun, saying: "If you have money, you will be a prodigal. If you don't have money, you will be stupid."
"Keep your eyes peeled!" Wang Meilan couldn't bear it anymore, slapped the kitchen knife on the panel, and shouted to Zhao Youcai in a low voice: "You are capable, we will kill the pig, but don't eat it."
"Why don't I eat?" Zhao Youcai scratched his neck and said, "I work for you like I'm running for my life every day, why shouldn't I eat?"
"You..." Wang Meilan was speechless for a moment, her chest heaving violently, but what Zhao Youcai said was reasonable. She wanted to reply but couldn't say anything.
Zhao Youcai, who had won a great victory, felt very happy in his heart. He reached into his pocket and found that he didn't have a cigarette, so he opened the door and entered the east room.
Zhao Youcai was beautiful, but Wang Meilan was very angry with Zhao Jun.
"Clang, clang, clang..." Every time Wang Meilan cuts the noodles, the sound of the knife hitting the panel becomes louder than before.
On the kang in the west room, Zhao Jun sat cross-legged in front of the kang table. With his cheeks tense, he picked up bullets one by one from the kang table and stuffed them one by one into the magazine with great force.
Boil the cooked hand-rolled noodles, pour them into cold water and put them into a large bowl. Spread in two spoons of egg sauce, pour a spoonful of chili oil, then add a chopstick tip and shredded rock sugar radish, and blanch the noodles, cool them, squeeze them dry, and cut them into pieces.
Small pieces of frozen cabbage.
Just mix the noodles with the sauce and vegetables, take two bites of it, and then bite into a garlic clove, it's really delicious!
Zhao Youcai and Xing San sat opposite each other, each holding a large bowl, and both ate two large bowls.
Zhao Jun also ate two bowls, but he breathed out when he ate and felt uncomfortable in his stomach after eating.
"Son, have you finished eating?" At this time, Wang Meilan happened to come in from the outhouse. Seeing Zhao Jun put down his rice bowl, Wang Meilan asked Zhao Jun: "How many kilograms of pancakes can I bring up the mountain?"
"You have to take her, Mom." Zhao Jun said, "We may not be back early today."
"Son." Hearing this, Wang Meilan hurriedly stopped Zhao Jun and said, "Listen to what my mother told you, if you can hit me, hit me, and if you can't hit me, I'll knock you down. If that doesn't work, let's go to Xishantun and buy two live roe deer. That's okay."
What's going on? Really? Don't be so tired, you'll be back in a minute, do you hear me?"
"If you're not tired, why are you tired after this?" Zhao Jun turned his face slightly, glanced at Zhao Youcai from the corner of his eye, and said, "We are happy to go up the mountain. The day after tomorrow will be the New Year, and the year before will be today, so we can go up the mountain tomorrow."
As soon as Zhao Jun said this, Zhao Youcai, who was holding up a bowl of noodles with his head raised, paused for a moment, then slowly put down the rice bowl in his hand, staring at the back of Zhao Jun's head with a pair of small eyes.
"Okay." Wang Meilan smiled and said, "Then you go, I won't bring you food after lunch."
As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, two dogs barked outside the house, and Wang Qiang came carrying his own semi-automatic tree.
As soon as Wang Qiang entered the house, he asked Zhao Jun: "Nephew, what are the arrangements for today?"
Hearing Wang Qiang's words, Zhao Youcai glared at him fiercely. When this old boy followed him up the mountain, he ordered everyone to stay silent. If he said a word to him, he must have eight hundred words to deal with it. Waiting for his eldest nephew
Going up the mountain, he was so obedient.
"Uncle, did you remember the time?" Zhao Jun smiled at Wang Qiang and said, "Didn't I tell you to come over at eight o'clock?"
"Ah?" Wang Qiang frowned and said, "You didn't say you would leave at six o'clock?"
"That's me and the third uncle. We'll leave at six o'clock." Zhao Jun said with a smile: "We have to go up to the back of Yingbei Mountain first, go up to the beard ditch where the cow's eyes were originally, and remove the rocks from the big leather cage.
In the pond."
"Ah..." Wang Qiang closed his eyes twice and murmured: "Then why do I remember that you asked me to come over at six o'clock?"
"You must have been confused after drinking last night." Xing Sanyi pointed at Wang Qiang and said with a smile: "I didn't let you drink anymore. What did you say, but I drank another two taels."
"Really?" Wang Qiang pursed his lips and said to Zhao Jun: "Nephew, I'm here now, so I'll go with you."
"Old uncle, it's time for you." Zhao Jun said, "You stay at home for a while, and then you, Baoyu, and the other ministers go away together. You can still help them manage and manage the dog group."
"Ah... okay then." Wang Qiang said, taking the gun off his shoulder and putting it on the table against the wall. Then he took two steps back and came to the edge of the kang.
"Brother-in-law, please go in." Wang Qiang reached back and grabbed Zhao Youcai. No matter how Zhao Youcai pinched him with his little eyes, Wang Qiang sat down next to Zhao Youcai and reached out to take the Shilin smoke that Zhao Youcai put on the Kang table.
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"Son, here are the pancakes for you." At this time, Wang Meilan came over with a dough bag and handed it to Zhao Jun.
Zhao Jun took it and stuffed it into his shoulder bag. After taking the supplies and ammunition, Zhao Jun, Xing San, Zhao Youcai, Wang Meilan, and Wang Qiang said goodbye, and each of them, an old man and a young man, carried a semi-automatic tree and walked out of the house.
Seeing that Zhao Jun was wearing the clothes he had worn for going up the mountain, the hunting dogs in the courtyard instantly became excited. They grunted and jumped up and down one by one, trying to attract Zhao Jun's attention.
Zhao Jun walked into the warehouse and pulled out a large sack.
This sack is almost full. The things inside are sharp and angular. Open the sack.
Zhao Jun pulled the sack and heard a squeak inside, as if something was calling.
Zhao Jun walked out of the yard, opened the back of the jeep, and placed the sack firmly inside.
Zhao Jun turned around and saw Xing San standing next to the car. He waved to Xing San and said, "Third uncle, get in the car!"
The old mountain dog who used to be unscrupulous was now standing beside the car at a loss. When Zhao Jun called him to get in the car, Xing San sighed and said: "I never thought that my old man would be able to sit in this car in this life."
"Oh!" Upon hearing this, Zhao Jun went over to open the passenger door and helped Xing San get into the jeep.
At this time, it was still dark outside. Zhao Youcai, who was sitting on the Kang in the west room of Zhao's house, kept looking out the window. Seeing the car lights turn on, Zhao Youcai muttered: "This prodigal thing is driving up the mountain!"
"Brother-in-law." Wang Qiang put out the cigarette butt and said to Zhao Youcai: "We bought the car, and we don't have to spend money on gas. Why are we keeping it if we don't drive it?"
Of course Zhao Youcai knew this truth, and he was not complaining because Zhao Jun drove up the mountain, but simply envied Zhao Jun for being able to go up the mountain.
In response to Wang Qiang's previous confrontation, Zhao Youcai, who had been defeated by Zhao Jun this morning, Wang Meilan said: "The car is so grounded, but what about the pigs?"
"What?" Wang Qiang was startled. He didn't even react. Why did this suddenly involve pigs?
Immediately afterwards, Zhao Youcai pointed toward the back window and said, "Why are you buying that pig? You can't eat it if you go up the mountain to catch wild boars..."
"You're done, it's endless?" Wang Meilan appeared at the door and interrupted Zhao Youcai's words. He said: "One day, you can grind and grind, let you grind your dung!"
Zhao Youcai: "..."
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The jeep left the village and entered the mountain range, heading all the way to Shadowback Mountain.
More than forty minutes later, Zhao Jun saw Yingbei Mountain.
Zhao Jun is still very familiar with this mountain farm. Last year, he killed the Pig God and slaughtered the pigs here, and gained great fame.
After bypassing Yingbei Mountain, Zhao Jun drove into Linban and drove along the sledge road.
"Boy, this car is great!" Xing San said in the passenger seat: "It's much better than the Great Liberation."
"Yeah." Zhao Jun said with a smile: "If the sledge can move, it can move."
"That's great!"
"What's going on, Third Master?" Zhao Jun asked, and Xing San said, "We live in that house, and the ginseng on the cabinet will be given to you. Whether you keep it or sell it, it's up to you."
"Okay, third uncle, I understand." Zhao Jun was not polite to Xing San at all and agreed immediately.
Zhao Jun continued to drive up until he reached the end of the sledge road, and then Zhao Jun stopped the car.
The two got off the car, and Zhao Jun grabbed the sack and walked up with Xing San. From getting off the car to passing through a fish-scale pine forest, Zhao Jun and Xing San walked about a mile and a half.
The mountain is very high, and the two of them are still some distance away from the stone pond area on the top of the mountain.
There is a word called inaccessible!
And here, almost all birds and animals are extinct.
In a high mountain like this, there are only a few wild animals that move around.
The three major feline beasts are tiger, leopard, and lynx, plus brown bear, sable, and red deer.
Tigers, leopards, and lynx are relatively rare, but there are quite a few brown bears. But it is winter now, and the brown bears have already hibernated in barns.
There are also a lot of red deer, but in winter red deer feed on poplar bark. There are no poplar forests nearby, so there are no red deer.
In other words, the large area from the stone pond area on the top of the mountain to the bottom is the activity range of sables.
Next, following Zhao Jun and Xing San, they walked up and confirmed what they had just said. Apart from a few footprints left by people, there were only footprints of one animal, that of sable.
"This is a treasure land!" Xing San looked around and said, "In such a large mountainous area, only sables will be left in winter."
"Yeah!" Zhao Jun nodded and said, "If we don't tell everyone, then Shi Baofeng will have to do a lot of stretching every winter."
"Yeah." Xing San pursed his lips and looked at the small footprints on the ground. He said to Zhao Jun: "Boy, how do we get off the cage?"
The sable's footprints lead from the stone pond in front and go all the way down to the fish-scale pine forest.
There is no way, there is nothing up here, the sable has to go down to look for food.
"Let's go up, third uncle." Zhao Jun raised his hand and pointed towards Shitang and said: "I will take you into Shitang and follow me. Don't step on any bald animals."
"Then let me clear the way for you." Xing San smiled and said: "I feel that my old man should have more experience than you in this aspect."
"Okay, then slow down." Just as Zhao Jun told Xing San, the two of them suddenly saw something strange on the snow in front of them.
They took a few steps forward and took a closer look. Zhao Jun and Xing San's eyes suddenly lit up.