Early the next morning, Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu packed their bags and left home with their five dogs, heading all the way to the Yongxing Brigade. They walked until almost noon, when they saw the Yongxing Brigade ahead, and heard someone shouting from behind.
: "Brother Zhao Jun, Brother Baoyu!"
The two of them looked back and saw Huang Gui walking towards him with a gun on his back.
"Brother Huang, are you here too?" Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu went up to greet Huang Gui.
"Yeah." Huang Gui pointed forward and said with a smile: "I know the secretary of their second team. He called our village the day before yesterday and told me to come today."
Speaking of this, Huang Gui paused, looked at Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu, and then asked: "Which team are you two going to?"
"Team one." Zhao Jun asked with a smile: "Are we still on the way?"
"Yeah." Huang Gui raised his arm forward and said, "Team 1 and 2 are at the front."
While talking, the three of them walked forward together. When passing the second team, someone picked up Huang Gui on the side of the road. Huang Gui separated from Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu and went to the east village with his friends.
Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu walked forward for more than two miles, and after asking the old man coming out of his hut on the roadside, they found out that the village next to them was the Yongxing team.
Seeing the two of them meeting each other, the old man asked: "Young man, who are you looking for when you come to our team?"
"It was Director Tao Dabao who asked us to come here."
"Ah." The old man looked at the dogs led by Zhao Jun and others, and suddenly realized: "Director Tao, are you here to hunt?"
"Yes." Zhao Jun nodded and said, "Isn't this your spring hunt? Director Tao asked us to come over and participate for a while."
"Then you go directly to his house?" the old man asked again.
"Um..." Zhao Jun hesitated and asked, "Isn't Director Tao very busy?"
"That's not good!" The old man tilted his head and said, "No matter how many things he does in a day, he doesn't even care about his family."
"Ah." Zhao Jun thought for a moment and then asked: "Then Mr. Tao, shouldn't he leave it at his house too?"
"That's not true." The old man shook his head and said, "The old guy lives with his old son."
Hearing that the old man was called Old Tao, he thought they had a good relationship, so Zhao Jun smiled and asked him: "Then let me go see Mr. Tao first."
Upon hearing what Zhao Jun said, the old man was a little surprised and asked: "What's going on? Boy, do you still know Mr. Tao?"
In the old man's opinion, Zhao Jun was a generation apart from Tao Fulin, so it was unlikely that they would be acquainted with each other.
"Yeah." But Zhao Jun said: "I met him on the mountain a while ago."
"Oh, please stop talking." Hearing this, the old man slapped his thigh and said to Zhao Jun: "That old guy doesn't let the family worry at all. He carries a broken gun every day and searches for anything.
When he went up the mountain, his second daughter-in-law was very worried."
When Zhao Jun heard this, he just smiled.
In the Northeast, there are many such old men and old ladies. They don't mean it, but they don't think they are old. Many things that are difficult for them are regarded as a piece of cake by them.
Therefore, there will be some behaviors similar to showing off. Many times, it is inevitable to cause trouble for the children. This is the so-called old child. Of course, when the children are young, parents will tolerate some immature behaviors of the children.
When the old man gets older and becomes a child, the children around him will have to go back and tolerate the immature behavior of the old man.
But I have to say that at Tao Fulin’s age, having to hunt every day is really a bit much.
Seeing that Zhao Jun seemed to be disapproving, the old man suddenly became very excited and continued: "His second daughter-in-law is such a good person. She works hard every day at home and outside the house, and she still has to worry about this old thing.
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"That... old man." Seeing that the old man was not finished talking, Zhao Jun stopped him and asked: "How are you related to his second daughter-in-law?"
"Ah!" the old man responded: "That's my niece."
Zhao Jun nodded and asked: "Then where does your niece live?"
The old man stretched out his hand and gestured to Zhao Jun. Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu took the dog over there. When passing by the small store, Zhao Jun asked Li Baoyu to look at the dog while he went in and bought two cans and put them in his shoulder bag.
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Then I continued walking not far, and saw an old man in a fenced yard in front of me, with his hands behind his back, his legs constantly raised alternately, and he was fighting with a big white goose.
When Zhao Jun looked towards him, the old man also happened to look towards him. The moment their eyes touched, the old man's face instantly overflowed with a smile.
"Boy Zhao!" The old man abandoned the big white goose and went straight to the entrance of the courtyard, but the big white goose chased the old man two steps away.
The old man came out and trotted to greet Zhao Jun. As he ran, he said, "Boy Zhao, I've been waiting for you in the courtyard all day, and you're finally here."
"Slow down, slow down." Zhao Jun hurriedly stepped forward to support the old man, but was afraid that he would bump into him.
"It's okay, my body is strong." Old Tao pushed Zhao Jun's hand away, although he said something dissatisfied with the old man. Although he was talking to Zhao Jun, he turned his eyes to Li Baoyu.
At this time, he also stopped, turned his head to glance at Zhao Jun, then turned back and looked Li Baoyu up and down, murmuring: "Isn't this the person who beat the black blind man that day?"
"Why not, it's him." Zhao Jun knew who the old man was talking about, but he was just playing tricks on Old Tao. In fact, when they took the dog out this morning, they saw Zhang Yuanmin who had gone out to empty the potty.
But a few days ago, he finally managed to get this hero back home, and Zhao Jun didn't dare to take him out again.
"Don't fool me." Tao Fulin pointed at Li Baoyu and said to Zhao Jun: "The man last time was not half as tall as this young man."
"Haha..." When Li Baoyu heard this, he laughed instantly.
Zhao Jun also laughed and said to Old Taotou: "Old man, what you said is too weird."
People, when they see a very tall person, they tend to describe it in an exaggerated way. Li Baoyu’s height of 1.9 meters is very rare these days.
"Let's go into the courtyard!" At this moment, Old Taotou suddenly remembered that he couldn't chat outside the courtyard, so he hurriedly greeted the two of them into the courtyard.
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It was easy for the three of them to enter the yard, but as soon as the five dogs entered the yard, the big white goose in the yard immediately became obedient, folded its wings and ran towards the backyard.
At this time, Old Tao Tou didn't care about the big white goose anymore. He pointed at the low sheds along the west wall and said to the two of them, "You two boys, tie the dogs to that shed over there. There are sacks over there and lay them on that board." After saying that, the old man left the two of them behind and ran to the front of the house. When he got to the door, he opened the door and shouted inside: "My dear, hurry up, we are home."
"Who's coming?" As soon as he finished speaking, a tall and stout Northeastern woman came out in a hurry.
She is the old man’s second daughter-in-law, Li Yunxiang.
Tao Fulin waved his hand to Li Yunxiang, then pointed at Zhao Jun, walked in front of Zhao Jun, and said: "This is the guy I told you about, the hunting boy Zhao."
"Oops!" Li Yunxiang heard this and quickly wiped his hands on his apron twice, then quickly walked up to Zhao Jun, took Zhao Jun's hand and said, "Young man, I have to thank you.
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"Auntie, no need..."
"No need!" Li Yunxiang said: "You don't even know how anxious we were that day. If you hadn't rescued my dad, I would have hanged myself."
"No, not really." Upon seeing this, Zhao Jun quickly changed the subject, pointed at Li Baoyu beside him, and said to Li Yunxiang: "Aunt, this is my brother Baoyu, Li Baoyu."
"Auntie." Li Baoyu stepped forward, nodded and called Li Yunxiang.
"Hey..." Li Yunxiang just agreed, and when he looked up at Li Baoyu, he couldn't help but exclaimed: "How did this child grow so tall?"
"Eighty percent of it is because the food at home is good." Old Taotou muttered beside him.
"Okay, stop talking outside, come in, come in." Li Yunxiang turned sideways, stretched out her arms, and greeted Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu to come in.
As soon as he entered the house, Zhao Jun took out two bottles of canned yellow peaches from his shoulder bag, put them on the Kang table, and said to Tao Fulin: "Old man, I didn't bring you anything this time, so I just bought you two.
Bottles and cans. They say peaches nourish a person, so stay at home and don’t run away to the mountains all the time."
Tao Fulin was very impressed by Zhao Jun's previous words and had a smile on his face. But later, when he heard that he was not allowed to run away from the mountain, Old Tao immediately straightened his face and said: "That can't be..." <
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What Old Tao Tou didn't like to hear, Li Yunxiang loved to hear it so much. She stepped forward, interrupted Tao Fulin, and said to Zhao Jun: "What this kid said is really good. Just don't spend money on this when you come back next time."
There's something. You two brothers should rest in the house for a while, and Auntie will get you something to eat."
After saying that, Li Yunxiang went out, bringing water to make tea, washing apples, getting melon seeds, and taking out two yellow paper bags, which were placed on the Kang table.
Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu were guests, and Li Yunxiang was afraid that they would be embarrassed and not know how to do it themselves, so he opened the butter paper bag himself and exposed the stove fruits and long white cakes inside.
Stove fruit is quite common, but very few people can handle long white cake.
"Children, you two should prepare some food first." Li Yunxiang took a step back, pointed at the food and drink on the table, and said to Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu: "Auntie will cook for you right now."
"Daughter." At this time, Mr. Tao said: "It's almost noon. Can you give the two children something to eat?"
"Ah?" Li Yunxiang was stunned, not understanding what Tao Fulin said.
Tao Fulin looked at Li Yunxiang and said: "When a child comes to our house and brings a rice bowl for the first time, you have to give him some hard food."
"That's necessary." Li Yunxiang smiled and said, "Can you kill the goose, Dad?"
Li Yunxiang asked Mr. Tao, then raised his arm and pointed outward, saying, "Can we kill the remaining goose?"
"Okay!" Old Tao said firmly: "It was fighting with me just now."
Women in Northeast China are also very quick to do things. Li Yunxiang will kill whenever he wants, and Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu can't stop them.
I saw Li Yunxiang gathering firewood and lighting the fire to boil the water, and then walked out of the house aggressively. After a while, I heard the big goose in the yard scream "ah" and "ah".
I saw Li Yunxiang holding the big goose's neck with her left hand, and tightly clamping the two arms of the big goose with her right hand, and forced the seven or eight kilograms of big goose into the house.
As soon as she entered the house, Li Yunxiang's hand on the goose's neck was not loosened. With her right hand, she grabbed the goose's arms and pushed them to the ground. She stepped on the goose's body with her feet, stepping on its two arms to prevent it from flapping.
Then, Li Yunxiang's right hand was free, he took the cutting board from the stove and threw it on the ground.
At this time, the big goose seemed to understand something, and opened its mouth to make a final cry.
Li Yunxiang was upset when he heard it barking. He was afraid that it would disturb Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu, so he moved the hand that grabbed the goose's neck up, grabbed the goose's head, pinched the goose's beak, and pressed it on the cutting board.
Then he pulled the kitchen knife off the stove, raised the knife with his hand, and heard a click, and the goose head fell to the ground.
At this time, although the goose was dead, it was still struggling, but Li Yunxiang grabbed it and stepped on it to keep it from loosening, and quickly took a small basin from the stove and poured the goose's blood.
When the goose's blood dries up, the water in the cauldron will boil.
Goose feathers can be scalded, but boiling water cannot be used.
Li Yunxiang just scooped out the boiling water. After scooping it into a bucket, the water was no longer boiling.
Li Yunxiang pushed the goose into the water, took the stove hook from the side, reached into the bucket and stirred the goose.
After stirring for two rounds, Li Yunxiang took out the goose and deflated the goose's feathers skillfully and quickly.
Big goose feathers are hard to fade. They not only have quills, feathers, skin, but also a layer of small down.
After the hair was shed, Li Yunxiang opened up the goose, pulled out the intestines by the lantern hanger, pinched the goose's pearls, and threw away the intestines. Then he took the goose gall from the liver and threw it away.
Then, chop the goose into small pieces, wash it twice with clean water, without blanch it, heat the oil in a pan, stir-fry the goose meat until the goose skin is slightly dry, then add soy sauce and stir-fry.
After the soy sauce color hung on the goose meat, Li Yunxiang poured water into the pot again, covered the pot lid, and added two handfuls of firewood. Li Yunxiang turned around and took off a small net bag from the south wall. After returning to the stove, he
Grab two handfuls of dried potatoes from the net bag and put them into a small basin.
Then, she took a thermos bottle and poured boiling water into the basin.
In the Northeast, chickens have to be stewed with mushrooms, and gooses have to be stewed with dried potatoes. Otherwise, if you add other things, even fresh potatoes, the goose meat will be fishy.
The goose was put into the pot and waiting for the water to boil. Li Yunxiang placed a drawer curtain above the stewed goose and placed a basin of steamed rice on the drawer curtain.
When Li Yunxiang put the lid back on the pot, the door to her house was opened from the outside, and a voice came into the house.
"Mom, why is there a dog in our yard? Why is our big goose gone? We don't let the dog...ah? I asked you to stew it."
"Son! Come quickly!" Li Yunxiang saw the person coming, dragged him into the house, and introduced them: "This is my son Tao Fei."
After saying that, Li Yunxiang said to Tao Fei: "Son, these are your Brother Zhao and your Brother Li."
Tao Fei is eighteen years old this year, and Li Baoyu has just turned 19 and is still one year older than him, so he has to call Li Baoyu brother.
Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu stood up politely, shook hands with Tao Fei one after another, and the three of them got on the kang to eat and drink with Old Tao.
During the conversation, talking about tomorrow's spring hunting, Tao Fei smiled and said: "Brother Zhao, Brother Li, you two came at the perfect time. My uncle asked people to pull out the cannon today."
When he heard that there was a cannon, Li Baoyu's eyes lit up and he just said to Zhao Jun: "If we use the cannon, the big claws will also be blown down."
"This kid..." Old Tao Tou said with a smile: "How old are you, how can he still have big claws?"
"Why not?" Tao Fei turned around, looked at Tao Fulin, and said, "There is a Shilizi behind Xiaoxi Mountain. Didn't you say there was a Shihuzi two days ago?"