Chapter 393. Building a house and protecting farmers
The four villages of Yongan, Yongsheng, Yongfu and Yongli are backed by Yongan Forest Farm.
It is said to be a village, but in fact there is a more Western term for it, called a family area. Most of the people living in the four villages are current or former forest farm employees and their families.
The land in this village also belongs to the forest farm. Anyone who wants to occupy the land to build a house must first tell the village chief. After the village chief approves, he can then go to the forest farm to apply.
Wait until the forestry farm agrees again.
At this time, Zhao Jun is already a formal employee of the forest farm, and he has many connections with Zhao Youcai, Zhou Jianjun, etc. I believe that the forest farm is just a matter of words.
Therefore, now it is up to Zhao Guofeng to issue the approval letter. However, considering the relationship between Zhao Youcai and Zhao Guofeng, this is not a difficult task.
However, every household in the village must have a yard.
There must be a yard in front of and behind the house, and one of the yards is used for growing vegetables.
As for the land of each family near the village, it is used for growing grain.
Moreover, these days, mountainous areas are vast and sparsely populated, and most people’s yards are larger than their houses.
Here comes the problem. What Wang Meilan wants to build is five large tile-roofed houses, and the house also needs to have front and back yards, with dogs in the front yard and vegetables in the back yard.
Her five large tile-roofed houses are big enough. How big is the supporting yard? How big is the land?
Adding together the front and back of this house, Zhao Jun's family is as big as the other two. Add in the five large tile-roofed houses, and those who didn't know better would have thought it was a landlord's compound.
If Zhao Guofeng approved such a large piece of land for Zhao Jun today, what should he do if someone else comes to him for approval tomorrow?
If Zhao Guofeng wants to approve this land, other people in the village will inevitably make irresponsible remarks.
Of course, Zhao Guofeng is also the village chief and security director, and he has the final say over the entire Yongan Village. This actually has little impact on him, but for the Zhao family, this is a favor, not just some wild boar meat, black meat, etc.
You can get by with blind meat.
And what Wang Meilan just said was also in general terms, not just to take two bottles of wine.
Customs vary from place to place. Here we pay attention to four boxes of gifts. When asking for help, you must have all four boxes of gifts.
What is unusual is that when Zhao Youcai was asked to build a house for Zhao Jun, Zhao Youcai immediately agreed without saying a word. He immediately turned around and put his feet into the ground, saying: "Give me the money, I will do it now."
Go."
Wang Meilan and Zhao Jun looked at each other and felt a little surprised. Although they might lose a little money when they go shopping, they are not so enthusiastic.
After Wang Meilan was stunned for a moment, she took out ten yuan from her pocket and handed it to Zhao Youcai.
"That's all?" Zhao Youcai took the money and looked at Wang Meilan with dissatisfaction.
"That's a lot!" Wang Meilan stretched out her hand and clicked it, then said: "You go buy two bottles of good wine, buy a cigarette, and with the remaining money, just buy two bottles of cans. When things are done, we'll do it again
Invite him to a meal."
When Zhao Youcai heard this, he didn't say anything. He just folded the big unity in the middle, stuffed it into his pocket and walked out.
Zhao Youcai was gone all afternoon. But neither Zhao Jun nor Wang Meilan was in a hurry, because they knew that in this situation, Zhao Youcai must have been left to eat by Zhao Guofeng.
Zhao Jun’s family had a simple meal tonight, shredded radish stewed with potato strips soup. This was made by cutting large carrots into shreds, cutting potatoes into thin strips, and stewing them into soup.
After it comes out of the pot, pour some vinegar into the soup and it will taste amazing. Zhao Hong and Zhao Na add some sesame oil to it, while Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan add some chili oil to the soup.
By the time the family finished eating, it was already half past five, almost six o'clock.
At this time, the potatoes in the big pot were ripe. Wang Meilan used Yanli to take out the potatoes one by one and put them in a big basin to let out the heat.
These dozen or so potatoes are intended to be fed to the dog at night. I have to say that since Big Fat and Three Fatty came here, the potatoes at home have been consumed faster than before.
"Son." Wang Meilan called Zhao Jun and said, "Bring over the leftover food and pour it into the dog. Your father can't come back to eat it either."
When dogs eat food, it needs to be a little salty. Merely sprinkled with salt and noodles are definitely not as delicious as mixed with some vegetable soup.
When Zhao Jun, who was picking up the table, heard this, he took the basin of radish soup to the outhouse, poured it into the large basin of potatoes, and then mashed the potatoes with a spoon designed for dog food, so that it would cool faster.
The mashed potatoes and vegetable soup were mixed together, and when the heat dissipated, Zhao Jun went out with the dog food bowl and distributed it to the five big dogs.
Zhao Jun had just finished feeding the dogs and was about to go back to the house when he saw the fat man next to him raised his head and looked outside the courtyard.
Zhao Jun turned around and saw Zhao Youcai staggering towards the entrance of the courtyard.
"Dad!" Zhao Jun rushed to the door to greet him and helped Zhao Youcai walk into the courtyard.
Zhao Jun reached out to help him, but Zhao Youcai raised his arm and shook off Zhao Jun's hand. He pointed at Zhao Jun and said, "You little brat!"
Zhao Jun: "..."
When Zhao Jun got angry, he stopped helping him and listened to Zhao Youcai saying: "I have done something for you today. I will approve the land in the next two days and build a house for you after the completion. Once the house is built, you can give it to me as soon as possible."
Take a wife and get out."
After saying that, Zhao Youcai held the courtyard door and walked in. Zhao Jun stood behind him, gritted his teeth and said, "Do you think I will pay you back in the future?"
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After a night of silence, Zhao Jun was still on vacation at home the next day. Zhao Youcai, who had sobered up, took the note approved by Zhao Guofeng to the forest farm and stamped it on the same day.
In the evening, Zhao Youcai went home early for the rare occasion, had dinner with his family, and took out the note at the dinner table and handed it to Wang Meilan.
"Is it done so quickly?" Wang Meilan clapped her hands happily and carefully put it away. At this time, there was no house deed in the forest area, and the land deed was mentioned, but the approval note from the forest farm was the proof.
Wang Meilan put the note into a small account book, used chopsticks to open a large piece of egg, put it into Zhao Youcai's bowl, and praised him with a smile: "You did this so quickly!"
"That's it!" Zhao Youcai picked up the egg, took a bite, caught the rest with chopsticks and put it back into the bowl, chewed a few mouthfuls, picked up the wine glass and drank the egg, then glanced at Zhao Jun next to him and raised his head
Tiaoyin said to Zhao Jun: "Pour some wine for your dad!"
"Okay!" Zhao Jun smiled, quickly took the bottle and poured wine into Zhao Youcai's cup.
"Ha!" Zhao Youcai smiled coldly and said, "When the house is built, you will get married and start a family. By then, you won't be able to honor me even if you want to."
When Zhao Jun heard this, he ignored him, only turned his eyes to Wang Meilan, and asked: "Mom, didn't you say that our family will move there together?"
"Ah." Wang Meilan said: "Your father said that if the house is empty, it will be finished. We will let your sister live here. When your sister gets married in the future, we will...
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"Mom, don't listen to my dad." Zhao Jun ignored Zhao Youcai's gloomy expression and only said to Wang Meilan: "I will have children after I marry my wife. You don't care about your grandson?!"
"Oh!" Wang Meilan was startled. When she looked at Zhao Youcai, she reached out and patted him on the arm and said, "That's not good. Why did you forget about this!"
These days, there are no defensive measures between men and women. As long as there is nothing wrong with your health, you should have children within a year and a half of marriage.
Wang Meilan had not heard Zhao Youcai's slander before and had the idea of temporarily separating the family, but now, when Zhao Jun heard the word "grandson", she instantly forgot everything.
The old son, the eldest grandson, and the old lady’s lifeblood.
It must be said that in mountainous villages in Northeast China, the situation of favoring boys over girls is still common.
Even though Wang Meilan was very kind to her daughter, the word "grandson" was too destructive to her. Wang Meilan slapped the table and said to Zhao Youcai: "Hurry up and see what materials are needed. Find someone to ask for. Hurry up.
Find someone to ask for; if you should spend money to buy it, we will spend money to buy it.
In a few days, you go and invite Ma Dafu over, you two have a drink and decide the date for me."
After saying that, Wang Meilan stood up and went to flip through the calendar.
"Mom. Mom." Zhao Jun hurriedly stopped Wang Meilan and said: "Eat first, then you can study slowly after eating."
"Okay!" Wang Meilan agreed, picked up the chopsticks and said, "Eat!"
……
Two and a half months later, in the open space about 400 meters away from Zhao Jun's home in the southwest of Yong'an Village, a fence tent had been erected, and bricks and tiles were neatly placed in a corner.
The sand is piled up like a hill, and bags of cement are stacked together and covered with canvas.
This is because it rains a lot in summer and you are afraid of cement getting wet.
This is Zhao Jun's new home. At this time, the wall of the house has been raised by nearly one meter, and the house with a newly laid foundation in the yard next to it belongs to Li Baoyu.
Li Baoyu's family has two brothers. Li Dayong and Jin Xiaomei discussed building a house for Li Baoyu to marry him, and then they would stay in the old house and live with Li Ruhai. In this way, the two brothers would have one apartment each, and they would be impartial.
From now on, Li Ruhai will provide for the couple in their old age. Then when they are a hundred years old, all the land and savings in the family will be given to Li Ruhai who will take care of them in their old age.
Because they didn't plan to live with Li Baoyu, they didn't build a house as big as Zhao Jun's for Li Baoyu, but even if they only built three rooms, it would still be top-notch in this village.
Moreover, the two houses’ new houses have red bricks, red tiles, and cement joints, making them even more luxurious houses nowadays.
At this time, the spring planting has ended, and there is no work in the fields. Moreover, it gets early in the summer, so people who come to help start coming from home one after another at three o'clock in the morning.
Because they came too early, the Zhao and Li families had to provide them with breakfast and lunch at noon. But after finishing their work in the afternoon, they went home.
After the house is completed, you have to give some money to these people who come to help. People with good connections or relatives may not want it.
But there are some people who just focus on making money by working hard. You cannot use your relationship with fellow villagers to kidnap others.
Zhao Junjia broke ground on July 19th, and nearly 20 people worked hard for five days. On the 24th, it started to rain.
It rained for three days in a row. The first day was okay, with a drizzle and it rained for half a day. On the second day, no one could stay outside anymore. It continued to rain until midnight and lasted until two o'clock in the afternoon on the 26th.
The rain just stopped.
In this case, the construction site must not be able to start work, and Zhao Jun, who skipped work, accompanied his two sisters at home to play Galaha.
But when he heard the sound of opening the door in the outer room, Zhao Jun just got off the kang and heard the voice of his old uncle Wang Qiang.
"Sister, where is Xiaojun at home?"
"Here you are." Wang Meilan glared at Wang Qiang and said angrily: "You haven't worked for two days, so you go out to make money!"
When Wang Qiang heard this, he smiled and did not answer.
In the past few days when Zhao Jun's family was building a house, the number of people who came to help every day was sometimes irregular. After all, most of the adult labor force in the village were forest farm workers.
Among them, the one who works the hardest is Wang Qiang.
My mother-in-law and uncle were the elders, so during the five days when they were building a house, Wang Qiang didn't even play cards, which made his daughter-in-law Zhao Ling wish that Zhao Jun's family was building a house every day.
Unexpectedly, when it rained, Wang Qiang went to the small shop to play with others.
"Uncle!" Zhao Jun came out of the house and said hello to Wang Qiang.
Wang Qiang raised his hand to Zhao Jun and said: "Xiaojun, give me your semi-automatic gun."
"Huh?" Zhao Jun was stunned, feeling a little strange.
Wang Qiang is different from others. He takes his guns to extremes and likes powerful ones. And he rarely shoots black bears, so he uses a No. 16 shotgun modified with a barrel.
The gun that Zhao Jun stole from Wang Qiang before was a No. 16 gun with a semi-automatic barrel. It still fired 7.62mm bullets, but when the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle fired, the bullets were emitted in a rotating manner. The barrel-mounted gun directly fired
The bullet was pushed out.
In this way, the modified gun will be more lethal.
This is why when the Black and White Four team up to hunt the Pig God, Wang Qiang did not want a semi-automatic rifle, but insisted on using his barrel-mounted gun. He believed that the more lethal the bullet, the more threatening it would be to the Pig God.
After the New Year, Wang Qiang got a machine gun barrel from nowhere. After he replaced the barrel of a semi-automatic rifle with the machine gun barrel, the gun became even more powerful.
After the modification, Wang Qiang felt as if he had found a treasure. For him, let alone borrowing other people's guns, even if anyone wanted to exchange a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle for his barrel-mounted gun, he would not agree.
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If you are curious, you have to ask. Zhao Jun asked Wang Qiang: "Uncle, what are you doing with a gun?"
"Damn it!" Wang Qiang exclaimed: "A black man has invaded our corn field. It doesn't matter how much it eats, but the key is to cause harm to a large area!"
Tao Dabao called before and asked Zhao Jun to go to their Yongxing brigade to protect the farmers while the corns were getting red and sizing.
But now, when the ears of corn turn red and the grains of corn gradually become plump, livestock from the mountains near the village come down the mountain at night, causing harm to the corn fields.
The task of protecting farmers is to guard grain production at night. Some of them hold open fires, some beat gongs and drums, and some use marrons and kicks, but none of them actually work.
Especially after the beasts get used to this, they won't be afraid of anything.
The best way to protect farmers is to use hunting dogs to drive away the mountain animals by taking advantage of their fear of injury.
But in midsummer, the corn fields are full of corns, and the outside is full of weeds. When hunting dogs and wild beasts fight, the dogs cannot escape and are easily injured or even killed.
As a result, the responsibility of protecting farmers has returned to people's shoulders. However, Yong'an Tun is not as good as Yongxing Brigade. It has a big business and has a team of hunters who take turns protecting farmers, and can also pay wages to the hunters who protect farmers.
But Yongan Village does not have this strength, so the villagers can only let the villagers protect themselves.
On the night when it rained lightly the day before yesterday, a black blind man entered the rice field of Wang Qiang's house.
As the saying goes: The black blind man breaks off the corn, breaks off a stick, and drops the stick.
It is said that the black bear breaks off the corn and puts it under the creaking nest. After breaking off another stick, he wants to hold this stick as well, but when he raises his arm, the stick he held before falls off. p>
And in the end, there was still only one stick left.
This sentence means that if you do things blindly, you will achieve nothing.
But it also shows from the side that when a black bear enters the corn field, it will eat and bring disaster.
They are different from dogs. When their bodies enter the corn field, they are pushed sideways. Wherever they pass, the corn falls.
This is the most hateful thing!
During this time, Wang Qiang first helped Zhao Jun build a house, and then played cards for two days. Zhao Ling asked him to go to the fields to have a look, but he didn't go either.
And in that cornfield, wild boars and black bears were sometimes hidden. Zhao Ling did not dare to go there, so she could only worry about it at home.
Just now, about an hour ago, Liu Hanshan came to Wang Qiang’s house.
Although the two families were not neighbors, their fields were next to each other. Liu Hanshan told Zhao Ling that he had seen it raining in the past two days and was afraid that the lowlands would be waterlogged, so he just went to take a look in the fields.
Then I found that the corn field in my home was in a mess, and the corn poles had fallen into a large area.
Liu Hanshan carefully went into the field and took a look, and found black bear feces.
Liu Hanshan walked along the fallen corn and found that the black bear passed through his field and directly entered Wang Qiang's field.
Liu Hanshan walked over and took a look, only to find that Wang Qiang's corn field was much worse than his own.
Seeing this situation, Liu Hanshan came to see Wang Qiang.
When Zhao Ling heard that her corn was being harmed by a black bear, she became anxious on the spot and asked Liu Hanshan to sit at home while she went to the small shop to drag Wang Qiang back.
Liu Hanshan came to Wang Qiang because he knew he had a gun, and wanted Wang Qiang to carry a gun and keep vigil at night, so that he could beat the blind man. In this way, if the bear bile was obtained, even if Liu Hanshan didn't have it, the bear meat would still be his.
But hunting bears is very dangerous. If you miss a hit, you will easily suffer backlash.
Either there is a dog, which can help people delay. Or there is a semi-automatic gun, which can be fired several times to kill the bear.
Wang Qiang didn't have either of these, but his nephew did. So after Liu Hanshan left, Wang Qiang discussed with Zhao Ling to let Zhao Jun borrow the dog, not to mention that it would easily hurt the dog. Even if Zhao Jun asked him to bring the dog, the dog would
If you don’t recognize him, you may not be able to work for him.
Therefore, if you want to borrow a dog, Zhao Jun must come with you. In this case, it is better to borrow a gun directly from Zhao Jun.
The old uncle and nephew could not be said to have been borrowed. So, Wang Qiang came.
After hearing the reason, Zhao Jun did not go back to the house to get a gun for Wang Qiang, but said to him: "Uncle, I won't get the gun for you. I will go with you tonight."
"What are you doing?" Wang Qiang waved his hands quickly when he heard this and said, "You should have a good rest at home."
Wang Qiang didn't want Zhao Jun to go, not because he was afraid that Zhao Jun would share his gallbladder, but because he felt sorry for his nephew. After all, guarding farmers and keeping vigil at night is a tiring job, and if you don't sleep at night, you may not be able to make up for it even if you sleep all day.
Moreover, the black blind man came the day before yesterday and may not come today. Wang Qiang felt that if Zhao Jun stayed with him all night in vain, he would be sorry for his nephew.
"No!" After hearing Wang Qiang's refusal, Zhao Jun said resolutely: "Uncle, how can there be anyone who can fight against the gangsters? Don't say anything, I will go with you!"
"This..."
Wang Qiang wanted to say something more, but Wang Meilan stopped him and said: "Qiangzi, listen to your nephew and let him go with you. He is now better at hunting than your brother-in-law."
As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, the door was opened from the outside, and Zhao Youcai, carrying half a bag of corn noodles, was standing at the door.
Wang Qiang turned around and greeted Zhao Youcai: "Brother-in-law is back? He got off work early today."
"Yeah!" Zhao Youcai just hummed lightly, and then turned his eyes to Zhao Jun.
Zhao Jun hurriedly stepped forward, reached out to support the sack on Zhao Youcai's shoulder, and said, "Dad, this is quite heavy!"
"Hmph..." Zhao Youcai made a sound from his nostrils, and it was still a long sound.
Wang Meilan gouged out Zhao Youcai, but she couldn't say anything to him in front of her younger brother.
Zhao Youcai handed the sack in his hand to Zhao Jun and asked Wang Qiang: "Qiangzi, are there black and blind men in the field?"
"Yeah." Wang Qiang said with a smile: "I can't come over here. I wonder if I can use the semi-automatic with Xiaojun. I don't think my nephew feels sorry for me and insists on staying with me at night."
Zhao Youcai glanced at Wang Qiang, knowing that both he and his sister were the ones protecting their shortcomings, but he also knew that it was human nature for an old uncle to protect his nephew, so he said lightly: "Well, then let him accompany you."<
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After saying that, Zhao Youcai waved his hand and entered the east room.
"Damn it!" Wang Meilan stared at Zhao Youcai's back and muttered, then turned to Wang Qiang and smiled: "Qiangzi, let's eat here tonight. I'll beat you two eggs and make dumplings stuffed with chives for you."
Wang Qiang loves to eat dumplings, especially those stuffed with leeks and eggs. Although this season is no longer suitable for eating leeks, and the leeks in the fields are waiting to bloom, it is only natural for a sister to feel sorry for her younger brother.
"No, sister, I'm going back right now." Wang Qiang smiled at Wang Meilan, and then shouted to the back room: "Brother-in-law, I'm leaving."
"Ah!" Zhao Youcai responded in the back room: "Let's go, let Zhao Jun accompany you tonight."
When Zhao Youcai repeated the same words twice, Wang Qiang knew that he was emotional, but to Wang Qiang, Zhao Youcai was not only his brother-in-law, but also his eldest brother.
Therefore, Wang Qiang just smiled, then made a gesture to Zhao Jun and left without saying a word.
Zhao Jun hurriedly followed up and sent Wang Qiang out the door. As soon as the uncle and nephew parted ways, they saw Li Baoyu and Li Dayong and his son coming back from get off work together.
Look at the two of them, how harmonious they are.
"Uncle!" Zhao Jun stepped forward and said hello to Li Dayong. When Li Dayong saw Zhao Jun, he smiled and said, "I was just looking for you."
"What's wrong, uncle?"
"Brother." Li Baoyu interjected: "Wild boars have entered our land."
"Ah!" Zhao Jun looked at Li Dayong and asked: "Uncle, you are looking for me because you want my brothers to look at the ground."
"Yeah." Li Dayong nodded and said: "It's already July. In a hundred days or so, our winter transportation production will start again. We have to study Taoism first. There are meetings in these two days, and I can't go either.
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"Okay!" Zhao Jun smiled at Li Dayong and said, "Uncle, you are busy with your business. I will go with Baoyu tonight."
"Okay! Then you two brothers, please be careful." After hearing Zhao Jun say that he and Li Baoyu were going together, Li Dayong felt relieved and walked towards his courtyard.
"Baoyu." At this time, Zhao Jun said to Li Baoyu: "My uncle just left my place, and there was a gangster in his land."
"Ah?"
Li Baoyu was stunned for a moment and was about to speak when Zhao Jun stopped him and said: "Your two houses are not far apart, so I can run back and forth. There is a wild boar over there. You just need to hide after firing. Don't worry about it."
I’ll give it to you.”
"Okay! Brother, I listen to you."
At the same time, Zhang Zhanshan’s family.
Xu Meihua took out four sacks from behind the cupboard, handed them to Zhang Laibao, and asked: "Son, can this be done?"
"It can be done!" Zhang Laibao took the sack and said to Xu Meihua: "Our big bear and the two bears are so edible that we can't afford it."
"Let him go." At this time, Zhang Zhanshan, who also left work early, said in the back room: "Er Gudong's family is building a house these days, and they don't care about the land."
"Hmph!" Zhang Laibao, who was in the outer room, snorted coldly and said, "I won't break up the Gudong family first. I'll break up the Li Baoyu family first! The dog basket! I'll let him snatch my Liu Mei!"