Zhao Jun asked Jie Chen to drive and pulled Wang Qiang down to meet Xing San and Li Baoyu, while he himself carried a gun and walked down the mountain with his dog.
After the jeep had gone more than a mile, they saw Xing San, Li Baoyu and their dogs sitting on the fallen logs beside the road, smoking.
Seeing the car approaching, Li Baoyu waved his hand, but the four dogs didn't even look back.
At this time, the four dogs' attention was entirely on the roe deer meat.
Laoshan Gouzi was more stable than Li Baoyu in shooting, and he knocked down the big green millet with one shot.
The roe deer is useless at attacking and defending. It will kneel down once the gun is grazed or the skin is beaten.
Xing San and Li Baoyu drove the four dogs away, dragged the roe deer to the roadside, disemboweled it and skinned it.
Although Zhao Jun has never explained the problem of feeding the dogs, it is just past nine o'clock, and it is impossible to go home now.
So, Li Baoyu, like Zhao Jun above, kept the heart, liver, belly, and kidneys of the roe deer, and only fed the intestines and lungs to the dogs.
This little bit of food was not enough to fill the teeth of four dogs. Each of the four dogs licked their mouths and tongues after eating it.
When he arrived, Jie Chen parked the car, and Wang Qiang opened the door first and got out of the car.
"Ouch!" Wang Qiang glanced at the roe deer and said in surprise: "This roe deer is not small."
"Yeah." Li Baoyu responded: "More than eighty kilograms of big green millet seeds."
"Brother Li, let me shoot you twice." Jie Chen got out of the car and asked Li Baoyu, "Did you shoot him?"
"It was too late when I fired the gun." Li Baoyu made an excuse for himself and said: "After that, the roe deer stuck down and let the third uncle knock it there with one shot."
"Ouch." Wang Qiang heard this and smiled at Xing San: "Okay, brother, let's do it for a while!"
"Haha." The old man has been hanging out with this group of people for a long time, and his personality is much more cheerful than before. He chuckled and asked Wang Qiang: "Have you said that, Mr. Zhao? How will you deal with it after it's over?"
"Change the place and continue kowtow." Wang Qiang said with a smile: "What time is it? Let's continue."
"I said so." Xing San threw the cigarette butt at his feet. Although there was a thick layer of snow on the ground, the old man stepped on it habitually.
Li Baoyu and Jie Chen loaded the roe deer into the car with sacks. When Wang Qiang greeted Xing San to get on the car, they heard the old man say: "I didn't even sweat during this battle."
Xing San's words made the other three people laugh. After getting in the car, Wang Qiang said to Xing San with emotion: "In the past, when my brother-in-law and the others were surrounded, the dog would start barking and run like a kid, so he would take it back."
You think I'm slow."
"It's so hard to run around like that in a dog siege."
Ran away."
Li Baoyu, like Zhao Jun, walked down with the dog.
When Jie Chen got on the car, he heard Wang Qiang say to Xing San: "Brother, look at it. We are going to knock four roe deer in this battle. If we do that, we can't knock seventeen or eight of them that day?"
"That's great." Xing San smiled and said, "The key is not tired yet."
"It's not good." Wang Qiang said: "When there is a car in the future, who will be trying to get around?"
"Uncle, why don't you talk about beating around and practicing your skills?" Jie Chen answered, and Wang Qiang replied: "What's the use of practicing that? You look like a tired bastard after a trip, how many can you hit?"
"That's like me, Uncle Zhao, who shot three roe deer with one shot." Jie Chen said this. Wang Qiang curled his lips and said, "Let him compete with us tomorrow. We'll ride in a car and beat the dogs around, and let him escape."
"Sneeze!" Zhao Youcai suddenly sneezed when he walked to the door of his house. He rubbed his nose with one hand and opened the door with the other, muttering: "Who the hell is talking about me?"
As he spoke, Zhao Youcai entered the house.
As the Chinese New Year is approaching, mountain runners come to sell leather goods. As soon as eight o'clock this morning, Zhao Youcai started to receive customers.
It's now nine fifteen, and he has sent away two waves of people.
When Zhao Youcai entered the house, he saw Wang Meilan pouring water into the big basin.
Look at the trinkets in the basin. They are all naked.
This is all squirrel meat.
The day before yesterday, someone from Xishantun came to sell skins. Grandma Zhao asked him to send a message back, saying that she not only collected squirrel skins, but also squirrel meat.
Since the Zhaojia Chamber of Commerce was established, 13 businesses in Xishantun have purchased air guns.
They used air guns to shoot squirrels, peeled off the squirrel skins and sold them to Zhao's Chamber of Commerce, while they kept the squirrel meat for themselves.
But when they heard that the Zhao family had collected squirrel meat, the Xishantun people, who had never seen much money, stopped eating it themselves.
The three families collected twelve gray skins and twelve white-striped squirrels in the past few days. When they came to Zhao's house to sell their skins, they also sold the squirrel meat.
Wang Meilan gave 12 white-striped squirrels three yuan. She was so happy that the three people didn't even drink the Zhao family's tea. After thanking Grandma Zhao, they hurriedly and slowly ran to the market. They said it was the Chinese New Year.
Buy candy bars and frozen pears for the children at home.
Squirrels eat all the good things in the mountains. Pine nuts, hazelnuts, and pecans are all nutritious and good things.
Sometimes squirrels will catch small birds and eat them, but that is rare.
Because of food reasons, squirrel meat is much more delicious than sable meat.
If Zhao Jun were to rank the edible meats in the mountains, the first ones would be squirrels and flying dragons, both of which go hand in hand.
Twelve white-striped squirrels cost three yuan. At most, one yuan can buy four. This price made both Wang Meilan and the people of Xishantun feel that they were taking advantage.
But Zhao Youcai was not very happy when he saw this scene when he entered the room. He glanced at Wang Meilan and muttered: "You will know how to eat in one day!"
Wang Meilan was startled, and she subconsciously wanted to reply, "Then you won't eat it." But remembering her defeat this morning, Wang Meilan suppressed the words that came to her lips.
Seeing that Wang Meilan didn't say anything, Zhao Youcai snorted lightly and walked to the east room.
"Sneeze! Sneeze!" Zhao Youcai sneezed twice in a row as he walked to the door.
"That's right." Seeing this, Wang Meilan murmured in a low voice: "Isn't it hurtful?"
"It's a shame" is a dialect here, which describes the situation where the younger generation is disrespectful to the elders and suffers retribution.
So as soon as Wang Meilan said this, Zhao Youcai turned around and looked at her.
Wang Meilan took a breath and quickly said to Zhao Youcai: "Why are you still sneezing?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "It's better to catch a cold." Zhao Youcai said confidently: "What kind of person can endure this trip?"
"Then who told you not to wear a hat?" Wang Meilan said: "If you can't do it, just take two pills and get through it quickly. This is a Chinese New Year, don't infect these people with a cold."
Zhao Youcai glanced sideways at Wang Meilan, walked into the east room, took off his cotton-padded jacket and lay down on the bed.
The kang has just finished burning in the morning and it is very hot. It will be comfortable to lie on it and warm your back, waist and buttocks.
"Hmm..." Feeling the fatigue on his body being burned away by the kang, Zhao Youcai hummed in comfort.
One morning, as soon as they saw the seller, Zhao Hong and Zhao Na went to Li's house in the west courtyard. There was only the couple at home, and Zhao Youcai was not afraid of making people laugh.
But at this moment, Wang Meilan came in.
"Hey! Get up, come on." Wang Meilan greeted, Zhao Youcai suddenly opened his eyes, raised his head slightly, stared at Wang Meilan with his small eyes and said: "What are you doing? Can't you let me take a break?"
"You think (jiǎo) that I am willing to take care of you?" Wang Meilan said: "The day after tomorrow is twenty-three. Our family is going to have a treat the day after tomorrow. Who are you going to invite?"
"Please!" Zhao Youcai said angrily to Wang Meilan, and then received a punch from Wang Meilan.
This punch made Zhao Youcai tremble, and he immediately sat up from the kang and said: "You prodigal bitch, you hit me so hard that my muscles are numb."
Wang Meilan smiled, sat across from the kang table, raised her finger to Zhao Youcai, and said, "Who do you invite and whom do you not invite? Can't we arrange the table? Don't we have an idea in mind?"
After hearing what Wang Meilan said, Zhao Youcai thought for a moment and said, "This year is different from last year."
"What's going on?" Wang Meilan asked, and Zhao Youcai said: "What's going on? This year... my son has gone to work. You look like Liu Jinyong, and the guard Yan, we all have to call them."
Little... what is a son? But at the moment, Wang Meilan's attention was on inviting Liu Jinyong and Yan Shugang to come, and she didn't care about Zhao Youcai.
When the Zhao family entertained guests last year, Zhao Jun hadn't gone to work yet, so it was different from now.
Yan Shugang is his leader, and Liu Jinyong is his leader and colleague. With the Zhao family's network, these two people are nothing, but many friends have many paths. Besides, the Zhao family is not bad at stuttering either.
If you can make good friends, try to make things as good as possible..
"Yes, yes." Wang Meilan couldn't help but nodded in agreement after hearing this.
Zhao Youcai paused for a moment before continuing: "If you invite them, you can't leave it to Xu Baoshan."
"Huh?" Wang Meilan was stunned. As soon as she realized who Xu Baoshan was, she heard Zhao Youcai say: "We can't let people think that our son is killing the donkey, right? Use people to go forward, don't use people to go behind!
"
Hearing Zhao Youcai's words, Wang Meilan stood up, slapped Zhao Youcai on the shoulder across the kang table, and then said with a little excitement: "How about our family can't survive without you? You are so thoughtful!"
"Ha!" Zhao Youcai smiled proudly and said, "My boss is here to call Zhang Guoqing, as well as Guofeng, Dachun, Daiming and the others, that's about it."
After saying this, Zhao Youcai glanced at Wang Meilan and asked: "Over there, is your brother still here?"
"Nonsense!" Wang Meilan stood up and hit Zhao Youcai again.
Zhao Youcai was so good, and Wang Meilan would fight with him, but he would never reach out to Wang Meilan. Moreover, if Wang Meilan didn't control the intensity and hit him painfully, Zhao Youcai would not say a word.
After beating Zhao Youcai, Wang Meilan rolled her eyes at him again, and then asked: "Do we also have to summon our in-laws?"
"Nonsense!" Zhao Youcai returned the same words to Wang Meilan while he was still talking about it. Then Zhao Youcai said again: "Last year we were in a hurry, so we didn't call for help. What about this time...I will do it tomorrow.
Go to Yongsheng and see that my mother-in-law is at home, I will tell her."
When entertaining guests, you must also give the guests enough face. Not only do you have to invite them in advance, but you also have to invite them in person. Asking someone to send a message will definitely fail.
"What about our in-laws?" Wang Meilan asked about the Ma family again.
"Can it be left behind?" Zhao Youcai rolled his eyes at Wang Meilan and said, "We all live in the same village. You have summoned everyone from the other side. How can you not summon this one?"
Although Ma Ling has not married yet, according to the customs in the rural and forest areas here, there may be changes after the two families get engaged. But as long as the ceremony is completed, the matter is settled.
Now Ma Ling is the daughter-in-law of the Zhao family, she just didn't enter the house.
Zhao Youcai and Ma Dafu both called themselves in-laws, and the two families lived in the same village, so they had to invite the Ma family if they didn't invite anyone.
And please give it to Ma Sheng's family, who is Zhao Jun's biological uncle.
"Oh my god!" After hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Wang Meilan counted on her fingers and said, "How many tables do we need to set up?"
"There are enough tables for as many tables as you want." Zhao Youcai said: "Two tables in this room, two tables in the outer room, and one table in my son's room can be used to set up five tables..."
At this point, Zhao Youcai got stuck. He and Wang Meilan got together and the couple calculated together. Zhao Youcai first said: "There are four people on the eldest daughter's side, seven people on the other side of Lao Ma's family, four people on the Guofeng family, and five people on the famous family's side.
Well, there are only two of them in Dachun, three members of Zhang Guoqing’s family, and how many members of Liu Jinyong’s family?”
"What about the director and Xu Baoshan?" Wang Meilan asked. Zhao Youcai squinted his eyes and said, "I'll find out when I ask Ruhai tonight. Anyway, table five can definitely be seated."
"As long as you can sit down." Wang Meilan said with a smile: "It's definitely enough to eat, but if we can't, we'll stew a pig."
Hearing Wang Meilan's words, Zhao Youcai rolled his eyes at her. Wang Meilan smiled and said, "My son is buying pigs. Look at you grinding away. How dignified is that?"
"What do you mean by face?" Zhao Youcai raised his hand and pointed out the window and said, "Let's catch two wild boars and treat them as a treat?"
"When the farm manager comes, you're going to eat wild boars?" Wang Meilan frowned and said, "That's lean, it's like firewood, there's nothing left to eat."
Zhao Youcai wanted to say something else, but he heard dogs barking outside. The hunting dogs had all gone up the mountain, and there were three red dogs at home.
Zhao Youcai stretched his neck and looked out the window, instantly becoming sad.
When Wang Meilan saw this, she knew she was doing business. She hurriedly ran to the west room and handed over the task of picking up the guests to Zhao Youcai.
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It was around 3:40 in the afternoon, and it was getting dark before Zhao Youcai sent the old man out of the yard.
"Alas!" Before Zhao Youcai turned around and went back to the house, he glanced at the mountains in the distance and couldn't help but sigh heavily.
"Bear it for one more day!" Zhao Youcai comforted himself in a low voice, saying, "Just one more day tomorrow."
As soon as we enter the small year, it is the new year.
In the new year the day after tomorrow, I probably won’t be here to sell anything anymore.
So, just bear with it tomorrow.
Thinking of this, Zhao Youcai seemed to see hope.
"Woof! Woof!" But the next second, three red dogs jumped out of the kennel and barked several times toward the east.
When the dog barked, Zhao Youcai's head was buzzing. He walked out of the yard again and looked east. When he saw the slowly approaching jeep, Zhao Youcai breathed a sigh of relief.
The jeep stopped in front of Zhao Youcai. Wang Qiang opened the passenger door and got out of the car, asking Zhao Youcai: "Brother-in-law, did you know we were coming back and why did you go out to pick us up?"
"Get lost!" Zhao Youcai said angrily: "I just sent him away to Chief Yongfu Wei."
"The one with the yellow leaves on the Xishan hanging kettle?" Xing San, who got off the car, asked, and saw Zhao Youcai nodding in response: "Yeah."
At this time, Jie Chen, who was driving the jeep, came down, shouted "Uncle Zhao" to Zhao Youcai, and hurriedly ran into the house.
"Why did you just come back with a car?" Zhao Youcai asked, and Wang Qiang said: "I'm pulling the dog, but I'm pulling the roe deer behind."
"Ah..." After hearing Wang Qiang's words, Zhao Youcai paused and asked casually: "How many roe deer are there today?"
"Fifteen." As soon as Wang Qiang said this, Zhao Youcai's eyes widened: "How many?"