In the past six months, Zhao Youcai's mood has been very depressed.
The fundamental reason lies in his only "treasure" son Zhao Jun.
It’s not that Zhao Jun is not excellent, it’s that Zhao Jun is too excellent.
Isn’t there an old saying, Thirty years ago, the father respected the son, and thirty years later, the son respected the father.
To give a simple example, Zhao Jun goes to a cafeteria to eat. No matter when, even if Zhao Youcai is not around, everyone in the cafeteria must look after Zhao Jun as if a leader is inspecting him.
This is to respect the father and the son.
But Zhao Youcai is just a cook, or what he calls a master chef, but outside the forest farm gate, in the eyes of outsiders, he is still a cook.
Most of his influence is in the forest farm, including the four family areas of Yongan, Yongsheng, Yongfu and Yongli.
But Zhao Jun is different. Not to mention that the forest farm inspector has the power. The key is that Zhao Jun has become more and more famous in the past six months.
Leaders of some nearby small forest farms came to Yong'an Forest Farm as guests. The director of the cafeteria introduced them to Zhao Youcai as the master chef of the cafeteria. Those people just gave Zhao Youcai a smile and offered him a cigarette.
But one time, when the leaders of Hongqi Forest Farm came to Yongan Forest Farm for a visit and study, they happened to catch up with the news about the establishment of Bingcheng Zoo. Looking at the majestic Siberian tiger in the newspaper illustration, everyone started talking about it at the wine table.
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Then Zhou Chunming said that the master chef who cooked this table of food for us is from the same family as the young hero who captured the tiger, and they are both father-in-law. When the leaders of the Hongqi Forestry Farm heard this, they clamored to see Zhao Youcai.
When he saw Zhao Youcai for the first time, the director of Hongqi Forest Farm said something that surprised everyone present.
The field manager smiled and asked Zhao Youcai: "Master Zhao, are you Zhao Jun's father?"
Everyone was surprised. Zhou Chunming didn't mention Zhao Jun's name just now. How could the leader know so clearly about this.
It turns out that the Hongqi Forest Farm is not far from the Yongxing Brigade. Moreover, a small forest farm like theirs cannot compare with the Yongan Forest Farm, which makes the director of the Hongqi Forest Farm, Yu Xuewen and Tao Dabao, a head shorter than Tao Dabao.
Since Zhao Jun captured the tiger, the Spring Hunting of 1987 has become the talk of Yu Xuewen and Tao Dabao after drinking. Whenever they drink with outsiders, they have to talk about how brave and fearless the militiamen of their Yongxing Brigade are. Of course.
Well, it’s indispensable to praise Zhao Jun.
As time went by, even though many people had never met Zhao Jun, they also knew that there was such a good young man in Yong'an Tun.
The director of the Hongqi Forestry Farm respects Zhao Youcai as a son respecting his father.
If this kind of thing were to happen twenty years later, Zhao Youcai would definitely be awesome. But now, Zhao Youcai feels a lot of pressure and the losses are even greater.
The pressure is high because of fame; the losses are even greater because of profit.
Zhao Jun became famous through hunting, and the former first gunner of Yong'an Tun was none other than Zhao Youcai.
Like before, when there were wild beasts that hurt people around forest farms and villages, Zhao Youcai would always be asked to take action.
There have always been rewards for beating such injurious beasts. For example, in the production brigade, you are given work points and food, while in forest farms and family villages, you are given money.
Zhao Youcai and Zhao Guofeng had a very good personal relationship. For many years, if the village rewarded them with ten yuan, Zhao Guofeng helped Zhao Youcai hide it and only said he would give five yuan.
In this way, Zhao Youcai made a lot of private money from it.
But now, in these ten miles and eight villages, Zhao Jun is recognized as the number one person who runs mountains and fights sieges.
I have to say, this is not easy.
After all, there has been no second in martial arts since ancient times, and the people who fight against each other love to brag, and they will never be convinced by each other.
Just like Zhou Chengguo in the past, although his marksmanship was superb, Zhao Youcai never convinced him or convinced him.
But Zhao Jun is different. His achievements are all achieved with one sword and one shot. He only captures the tiger, the pig hunting god, and the besiegers in Lingnan, Lingxi, and Heiji provinces. Except for Zhao Youcai, there is no one else.
I’m not convinced anymore.
What makes Zhao Youcai even more angry is that as early as when he went to Yongsheng Village to hunt leopards, his in-laws Zhou Chunming told Zhao Youcai at the wine table that Zhao Youcai would not be needed to collect specimens at Yongan Forest Farm this year.
At that time, Zhou Chunming said it euphemistically, saying that Zhao Youcai was also responsible for the canteen. Without him, half of the workers in Yongan Forest Farm would go hungry.
But there is not only Zhao Youcai as a cook in the canteen, but also when collecting specimens a few years ago, the forest farm was not afraid of workers going hungry.
In addition, the task of collecting specimens this year fell on Zhao Jun. Can Zhao Youcai not understand this?
The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and wealth is photographed on the beach.
Compared with hunting and killing wild beasts that can hurt people, taxidermy is the better job. Not only can you get paid leave, but you can also get rewards.
There is so much oil and water here.
Not only competing for fame, but also competing for money.
That's why Zhao Youcai was so persistent in beating the leopard to death to prove that his sword was still young.
But in the end, not only did he return in vain, but he also spent eighty yuan on it. When he returned home, he had to participate in labor reform, wash and cook.
What Zhao Youcai couldn't accept the most was that it was not only like this in the field, but also in Yong'an Village.
Last month, Zhao Youcai met Zhao Guofeng on his way home. Zhao Guofeng said that when he went to the village for a meeting today, the township head specifically mentioned to him that after the snow fell this winter, Zhao Guofeng asked Zhao Guofeng to help him prepare four bear paws.
Eight roe deer and two wild boars.
In previous years, this task had fallen on Zhao Youcai's shoulders. But that day, Zhao Guofeng said that the township chief asked Zhao Jun to give him these specimens by name.
The township chief has already spoken, what else can Zhao Guofeng say?
After Zhao Youcai heard this, he was so angry that he had to appoint someone to hunt a mountain animal. Could it be that Zhao Jun's hunting was better than others?
With no source of income, the private money he had worked so hard to save was confiscated again, which made Zhao Youcai very distressed.
But if Zhao Youcai turns sixty this year, then he will give up and spend his old age at home like Xu Changlin. By then, with an outstanding son like Zhao Jun, he will have no worries in his old age, and maybe he can be like Tao Fulin.
Dominating the family.
But he is only forty-five this year. He is in his prime and has not yet given up his throne.
Therefore, even if he is the nominal head of the family, Zhao Youcai cannot give up to Zhao Jun. Moreover, he still has to fight!
That's right, just the short walk from the courtyard entrance to the room entrance made Zhao Youcai make up his mind.
Tomorrow morning, I have to see Mr. Lao Jiang off, and I don’t have time. But the day after tomorrow, I must go to Zhang Lifu, and ask Zhang Lifu to go to the shacks and cellars in the mountains to inquire, inquire, and ask questions from those old mountain dogs.
Do they know where leopards, lynx and other beasts are found?
Back in the house, Zhao Youcai sat on the kang, leaning against the kang cabinet without saying a word.
At this time, Wang Meilan was cutting noodles outside the room while telling Zhao Jun what Jiangzhou had just told him.
After Zhao Jun heard this, he asked Wang Meilan: "Mom, do I still need to go there tomorrow morning?"
"You don't have to." Wang Meilan said: "In the morning, your dad and I will go, and you can go in the evening."
"Okay." Zhao Jun chatted with Wang Meilan for a few words, then went into the house to see Zhao Youcai.
"Dad." Zhao Jun smiled and greeted Zhao Youcai, but unexpectedly, Zhao Youcai turned his head to the side.
Zhao Jun was startled and thought to himself: "Why is this so awkward again? When I gave the money two days ago, I was still happy."
But even though he thought so, Zhao Jun walked up to Zhao Youcai, pulled up a four-legged and eight-pronged stool and sat down, and then asked Zhao Youcai: "Dad, I remember that you have beaten a red dog before."
"Huh?" Upon hearing this, Zhao Youcai immediately raised his head, looked at Zhao Jun and asked, "Did you encounter that thing today?"
"Yeah." Zhao Jun nodded, then shook his head and said, "I knew it was the red dog, but I didn't look at the shadow."
"Ha!" Zhao Youcai raised his head and said, "That thing is not easy to fight."
Zhao Jun didn't know where Zhao Youcai's pride came from, but he was his father after all, so Zhao Jun just smiled and asked: "Dad, I heard people say that red dogs are more powerful than wolves. Really? False
Yes? However, we have red dogs here, but no wolves."
According to mountain runners in the Northeast, wolves do not live in the mountains and forests, but only move around in the meadows. Jackals live in the mountains and forests, so the two cannot come into contact at all.
"Yes, there are no wolves in our mountains." Zhao Youcai suddenly sat up, approached Zhao Jun and said, "If we go to the left and to the right, there are wolves in the big bright fields to the west."
At this point, Zhao Youcai wanted to show off and said to Zhao Jun: "You are young and have never seen any battles. I remember when I came here, and we still ate from a big pot. There was an old man in Liangdianzi.
The gunner killed a wolf, but in the end a pack of wolves were killed and the village was surrounded. Then the village sent a vehicle and asked us gunners to kill the wolves..."
"Well." Zhao Jun interrupted Zhao Youcai before he could finish his words, and then said: "You are the one who beats me the most, right? Dad, that's it, when you beat me and I don't remember anything, you
Just tell me."
"Go to the other side!" Zhao Youcai glared at Zhao Jun and said angrily: "You kid, what do you know? You have seen a lot of things. I have eaten more salt than you for several years.
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"Isn't this nonsense?" Zhao Jun lowered his head and whispered: "If you don't eat salt, then you won't be a white-haired daughter."
Zhao Youcai vaguely heard something about salt, a woman, and thought that this little brat must not have said anything good about him, so he immediately said angrily: "What did you say?"
"Nothing, nothing." Zhao Jun said: "But Dad, you have told this story almost eight hundred times. Don't tell me, even my sister can recite it."
After saying that, Zhao Jun turned to look at Zhao Hong, who was playing with Zhao Na on the kang, and shouted: "Second sister, please tell me about our dad beating wolves."
When Zhao Jun called her, Zhao Hong curled her lips in disgust and said, "I won't tell you. Ever since I was a kid, I've been sick just listening to it."
"You stinky girl!" Zhao Youcai gestured at Zhao Hong angrily, but it was just to scare the little girl, but Zhao Hong hid behind Zhao Na, pushed his little sister out, and said: "Little sister, let's
Brother wants to hear the story of dad fighting wolves."
"Beat the wolf..." Xiao Zhao Na blinked her big eyes and said to Zhao Jun: "Once upon a time, there was a village and an old hunter... I can't remember his name. He killed a big bad wolf and peeled off the skin.
Now, the meat is stewed..."
"Okay, okay, go ahead and play your game." Zhao Youcai waved his hands and drove his little girl away, then looked at Zhao Jun with an annoyed look on his face and said, "I'm going to tell you something you haven't heard of today.
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"Hey, dad, please tell me." When Zhao Jun heard this, he immediately became curious, because he knew that if Zhao Youcai didn't talk about hunting, it would be because he was not outstanding and would not show his face.
Otherwise, he would not say less.
Just like the past when he hunted tigers, Zhao Youcai fired a blank shot and never mentioned it when he came back.
"That year we hunted wolves in Liangdian and caught a mother and her son, which weighed seven to eighty kilograms. It happened that in that village, the village secretary's son returned from his job and worked as a guard at the Xinxing Forestry Farm next to him. When he was practicing Taoism, he was in the mountains.
Get a red dog." At this point, Zhao Youcai seemed to have thought of something. He pursed his lips and said, "On the first day, the two groups were very stubborn, saying that it was the wolf that was more powerful, or the red dog. That's it.
, just stuffed these two things into a cage."
When Zhao Jun heard this and saw that Zhao Youcai didn't say anything further, he felt a little anxious and hurriedly asked: "Is it over?"
Zhao Youcai let out a soft breath and then said: "As soon as we met, the red dog tore open the wolf's belly bag, and the wolf's intestines were dripping all over the floor."
"So fierce?" Hearing this, Zhao Jun found it hard to believe.
The red dog’s scientific name is jackal, and some people also call them jackal.
The thing was not big, weighing about forty kilograms against the sky. Zhao Jun remembered that when he was a child, Zhao Youcai would bring back all the jackals with their skins peeled off, and after draining the blood and emptying out the internal organs, most of the jackals would only have about ten kilograms left.
, not too big.
As for his physical strength, the weight of one wolf is almost as much as that of two jackals. Jackals are said to be ferocious, but wolves are not bad either.
Zhao Youcai secretly took a look at Zhao Jun. He felt that the boy didn't notice the clues, but he was still worried. He quickly changed the subject and asked: "Are you the jackal that I met when I was beating up the black blind man today?"
"Yeah."
After hearing Zhao Jun's promise, Zhao Youcai asked again: "Then the dog you brought with you didn't go out?"
"No." Zhao Jun responded casually: "There are leopards, but dogs don't dare to go."
"What!" Zhao Youcai's eyes widened when he heard the word "leopard", and he jumped directly from the kang in front of Zhao Jun.
This startled Zhao Jun so much that he leaned back, and the four-legged and eight-pointed stool under his butt took Zhao Jun down.
"Brother!"
"Brother!"
Seeing Zhao Jun fall, Zhao Hong and Zhao Na both jumped down from the kang. Wang Meilan, who was cutting noodles outside, also dropped her kitchen knife and ran towards the house.
When Wang Meilan rushed into the back room, Zhao Youcai had already helped Zhao Jun up. While helping Zhao Jun pat the dirt on his body, he carefully observed Wang Meilan's face, squeezed Zhao Jun's arm slightly, and then looked kind and amiable.
Said: "Son, why don't you sit still?"
Zhao Jun rolled his eyes at Zhao Youcai and said angrily: "Dad, you suddenly jumped at me and scared me. I thought you were going to bite me!"
