Today, the Li family also stewed a big pot full of jackal meat. Li Dayong and Li Baoyu had dinner when they got home. The two of them sat on the kang, eating and drinking, chatting, pushing cups and changing cups, and the atmosphere was harmonious.
Then, Li Baoyu went out for a walk. When he came back, he didn't even drink and started to cook directly.
Li Dayong and Jin Xiaomei looked at each other. Jin Xiaomei asked Li Baoyu across the kang table: "Son, you don't want to drink that wine?"
Generally, when drinking, you drink and eat the food first, and then eat the staple food after the wine is finished.
"No more." Li Baoyu responded, then saw that there was still half a glass of wine in his glass, so he picked up the glass and poured the wine into Li Dayong's glass.
Li Baoyu said: "Dad, I won't drink anymore, you should drink it all."
Li Dayong glanced at his almost full cup and asked Li Baoyu, "What's wrong? Are you okay?"
"Yeah!" Li Baoyu said vaguely while chewing the food in his mouth: "My brother is going up the mountain soon, I have to go with him!"
"Ah?" Jin Xiaomei was stunned when she heard this, and subconsciously glanced out the window. Seeing that it was indeed dark, she turned back and asked Li Baoyu: "What time is it? Why do you still want to go up the mountain?"
"Here's a pair..." Li Baoyu only finished half of his words. He put a big mouthful of rice into his mouth, chewed and swallowed it. When his mouth was empty, he said to Jin Xiaomei: "Mom, hurry up and find me the electric prod."
Come out."
"Hey!" Jin Xiaomei knew that as long as Zhao Jun went up the mountain, her eldest son would definitely follow. Since she was anxious, she stopped talking nonsense and hurriedly got up and took out the flashlight from the cabinet, and took out two batteries and stuffed them inside. p>
After installing the battery, Jin Xiaomei pushed the flashlight switch toward the corner. When she saw it lit up, she turned off the flashlight and put it upside down.
Li Dayong glanced sideways at Li Baoyu, who was busy working on his meal, and knew that he must have stopped instructing the boy, so he set his sights on his youngest son who was chewing on the jackal's thigh.
"Like the sea."
At this time, Li Ruhai was biting the jackal's leg, holding chopsticks in his right hand and pulling the bones with his left hand, preparing to tear the meat from the jackal's leg.
As soon as Li Dayong called him, Li Ruhai didn't even need Li Dayong to explain clearly, so he put down his lap and prepared to get off the kang.
But at this moment, I suddenly heard a voice coming from outside.
"Great courage, great courage."
Hearing this voice, Li Dayong was shocked, put down his chopsticks, moved his buttocks and got down on the kang.
When he got off the kang and put on his shoes while holding on to the edge of the kang, he was still muttering: "My brother doesn't want to eat, so what does he have to do with me?"
"Maybe I'll ask you to help him with the work." Li Baoyu responded casually: "I just went out to see that my uncle was sawing squares outside."
"Huh?" Li Dayong stared and said, "Your uncle is working outside, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Li Baoyu said: "I only thought about my brother and forgot about your brother."
Li Dayong rolled his eyes at him, pulled on his shoes and walked out quickly.
Seeing that Li Dayong was gone, Li Ruhai picked up the jackal legs in the bowl again, but at Jin Xiaomei's place, he put eye drops on Li Dayong and said: "Mom, look at my dad, he has to boss us two brothers around.
But now that I hear my uncle working, he doesn’t even eat."
"Eat your food quickly, I can't stop you from eating." Jin Xiaomei said angrily: "You have been talking too much all day, so you came back last in the test for me. What are you thinking?" Li Ruhai was startled when he heard this, slowly turned his head, picked up the jackal's leg, and took a big bite.
Li Dayong came out of the house and heard Zhao Youcai asking him to go over with the saw. Without saying anything, Li Dayong went to the warehouse and got a curved saw. When he went to the neighboring yard, he helped Zhao Youcai saw the square.
Because it needs to be nailed into the ground, the wooden pegs must have a sharp end.
But this couldn't stop Li Dayong. When he cut the saw diagonally for the first time, both sides of the saw edge were triangles.
In this way, the first wooden peg that fell was square on one side and right-angled on the other.
For the second saw, first find the correct size, and then cut straight down. There will be squares on both sides of the saw edge, but the other side of the second piece of wood will be at a right angle.
Just like this, sawing diagonally and straightening, Li Dayong worked smoothly and chatted with Zhao Youcai.
"Brother." Li Dayong looked around carefully and asked Zhao Youcai in a low voice: "How have you been these two days?"
While the two were talking, Wang Meilan came back from outside and saw the two of them sawing squares. Wang Meilan asked a few questions and then entered the house.
By this time, both Zhao Jun and his ministers had finished their meal, and they went back to the West Room to change clothes and put on rain boots.
On a September night, it was always cold in the mountains. Zhao Jun found two pairs of thin cotton trousers of his own, gave one to his minister, and the two of them put it on together, and then put on their outer trousers.
"Son!" Wang Meilan came to the door of the west room and called Zhao Jun out of the room. He gave him the flashlight, battery and bulb after testing, and asked: "Do you need to take your dad with you? Let me see him.
I’m quite positive today.”
"Ha, cough." Zhao Jun almost laughed out loud, cleared his throat and said: "Stop bothering my dad, Baoyu will go too."
"That's okay." Wang Meilan felt even more relieved when she heard that Li Baoyu was also following her. Although she was just catching a badger, going into the mountains at night, having more people would give her more protection.
But after seeing Zhao Jun return to the house, he took off the two guns on the wall, and then took out two boxes of ammunition from the pocket next to him. Wang Meilan took a few steps to Zhao Jun's side and whispered: "Son,
Is it because Mom is too quick to talk and gets you into trouble?"
"Mom, what are you talking about?" Zhao Jun said with a smile: "What a big deal. We have two semi-automatics and we are not afraid of anywhere. Mom, you see that the dish is getting cold, so just heat it up and you don't have to weigh it."
Heart us."
When Wang Meilan sent Zhao Jun and Jie Chen out of the house, Li Dayong and Zhao Youcai were filling the sacks with prescriptions.
Zhao Jun came out here, Li Baoyu also came out quickly from his house, and mother Jin Xiaomei also came out to see her son off.
Outside the door, Zhao Jun put the wooden squares, sledgehammer, big axe, and curved-handle saw in the trunk, and then said to Jiechen: "Let's go to Brother Zhang's house."
"You're still taking him with you?" Li Baoyu heard this and smiled: "Does it take so many people?"
Zhao Jun said: "When we play a pair, we have to plant a tree and take his chainsaw. Isn't that quick?"
At this point, Zhao Jun added: "If he wants to see us go, he must follow us."
After saying that, Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu got into the trunk together, while the passenger seat was reserved for Zhang Yuanmin.
Jie Chen started the car and soon arrived at Zhang Yuanmin's house.
Although the lights in Zhang Yuanmin's house were still on through the fence and tent, the neighbors were sleeping at this time, so Zhao Jun did not let Jie Chen blow the horn, but asked Li Baoyu to go through the tent to call Zhang Yuanmin.
Come out.
Li Baoyu went to Zhang Yuanmin's window and knocked twice. After a while, Zhang Yuanmin and Yang Yufeng came out. The couple came with Li Baoyu in front of the courtyard door. Zhang Yuanmin opened the courtyard door and asked Zhao Jun when he came out: "Brother, something is wrong."
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"Brother." Zhao Jun said straight to the point: "We want to enter the mountain."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Yuanmin immediately said: "Brother, just wait for me for two minutes, and I will change clothes and follow you!"
"Okay!" Zhao Jun stopped Zhang Yuanmin again and said, "Brother, take the chainsaw with you."
"Get a chain saw?" Zhang Yuanmin was startled when he heard this, and asked subconsciously: "What are you doing with that thing?"
Zhao Jun replied: "Ma Ling's mother has burned her feet. I'm thinking of going up and down the mountain and smashing two badgers to make oil."
Zhang Yuanmin turned around, looked at Zhao Jun and asked: "Badger, when do you want to use it?"
"Tomorrow." Zhao Jun smiled and said, "My mother promised Ma Ling."
"Ah!" When Zhao Jun said this, both Zhang Yuanmin and Yang Yufeng understood. Regardless of whether the matter was big or small, the key point was that this was the first time that the future old woman and future daughter-in-law had done something. No matter what happened, Zhao Jun's family could not let anything go wrong.
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This is why Zhao Jun is anxious to go up the mountain. When he got married in his previous life, Wang Meilan was no longer around. He didn't know what it would be like for the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to get along in the future.
But since I have agreed, it must be done. Even if the badger seed oil I brought to Wang Cuihua today is enough for her to use several times. But Wang Meilan said that it will be done tomorrow, so it must be done tomorrow.
It's just that badgers usually stay out at night. Even if you take a black tiger into the mountains during the day, it's highly unlikely to catch a badger wandering outside. That's why Zhao Jun had to go into the mountains overnight.
But even so, Zhang Yuanmin smiled and said: "Hey! What else am I thinking about. Brother, don't go, go home."
"Ah?" Hearing his words, Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu and the ministers were all stunned.
Seeing the three people in a daze, Zhang Yuanmin smiled and said to Zhao Jun: "Brother, my eldest brother will handle this for you. Why don't you just ask for badger oil? Even if you want a jar, my eldest brother can do it for you."
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Although Zhang Yuanmin said this, Zhao Jun felt a little unsure. He asked tentatively: "Brother, what did you eat at night?"
"Just the red dog you brought me." Zhang Yuanmin said with a smile: "Don't tell me, that meat tastes very thin."
"Ah." This time Zhao Jun knew what was going on, and immediately said to Zhang Yuanmin: "Brother, have you been drinking? Why don't you go, just give me the chainsaw, and you can sleep at home." "Brother, what are you talking about?" Zhang Yuanmin said with a smile: "Your elder brother didn't drink too much. I promised you that I will definitely handle it for you."
As he said that, seeing the worry on Zhao Jun's face, Zhang Yuanmin patted Zhao Jun on the shoulder and said, "You don't know your eldest brother either? Do you know what your eldest brother's nickname is?"
As soon as he said this, Zhao Jun concluded that he had drunk too much, and immediately laughed and said: "Brother, don't talk about me. Brother Jiechen has only been here a few days, and he has already heard your nickname." Hearing what Zhao Jun said, Li Baoyu, Jie Chen, and Yang Yufeng beside them all couldn't help but laugh.
Zhang Yuanmin also laughed, but waved his hand and said: "It's not that nickname."
"Which nickname is that?"
Zhang Yuanmin patted his chest and said, "When I was your age, they all called me Badger!"
As soon as Zhang Yuanmin finished speaking, Li Baoyu couldn't help but joke with him: "Brother, why don't you fight with others and get bitten by others?"
"That's not true!" Zhang Yuanmin said with a proud look on his face: "I'm called Badger because there are eight villages in the country who catch badgers, and no one can catch your eldest brother!"
Li Baoyu then asked: "Really? False?"
"Really!" Zhang Yuanmin pointed at Yang Yufeng beside him and said to the three of them: "If you don't believe it, just ask your sister-in-law."
"Yes." Yang Yufeng answered from the side: "He is a badger."
As soon as Yang Yufeng finished speaking, she was pulled by Zhang Yuanmin. Yang Yufeng reacted and quickly changed her words: "He has a nickname, called Badger."
Then, Yang Yufeng said to Zhao Jun: "Brother, don't worry. If you want to do something else, my sister-in-law doesn't dare to give you a guarantee, but when it comes to picking out badger holes, no one can do it better than your elder brother. I am the only one who can pick out the bells."
At that time, every now and then, your elder brother would catch a badger for me."
"That's right!" When he mentioned this, Zhang Yuanmin became even more proud. He puffed out his chest and said, "Even if I encounter a nest of badgers, I won't catch them all at once. I will just throw them into the mountains and raise them. I can eat them whenever I want."
Go grab one."
Zhang Yuanmin's words are a bit loud. But even if Zhao Jun doesn't believe him, he still believes Yang Yufeng.
Suddenly, Zhao Jun remembered something. In his previous life, probably in 1995, he and a few people went up the mountain to dig out a badger hole and were blocked. I remember someone said at that time that if Zhang Yuanmin were still alive, it would be easy to dig out this hole.<
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Then, the man also said that Zhang Yuanmin had a unique skill in picking out badgers.
"Brother!" Thinking of this, Zhao Jun asked Zhang Yuanmin: "Do you have any special skills for picking badgers?"
"Hehehe." Zhang Yuanmin turned to one side and waved to the three of them: "Let's go into the house. Big brother will let you open your eyes."
The three of them followed Zhang Yuanmin into his house. As soon as they arrived in the east room, they were loading books, stationery and small bells into their schoolbags and hurriedly said hello to the three uncles.
Just as the three of them were praising Xiao Lingdang for being smart and sensible to Yang Yufeng, Zhang Yuanmin squatted down in front of his large cabinet and pulled out a long black cloth bag from underneath.
This long black cloth bag was about two meters long. Zhang Yuanmin put it on the ground in front of the three people's feet. When it landed, there was a sound of iron objects colliding inside the bag.
"Brother." Zhao Jun widened his eyes curiously and asked, "What is this?"
Zhang Yuanmin squatted there, holding the cloth bag with one hand, raised his head and said to Zhao Jun: "This is the ancestral weapon of my Zhang family!"
"What?" Li Baoyu exclaimed and squatted down opposite Zhang Yuanmin. His eyes swept over the cloth bag from left to right. Then he raised his head and looked at Zhang Yuanmin again, with a look of expectation on his face and asked: "Brother,
Really?"
Even though Li Baoyu is so old, he still believes that every word and sentence in "Water Margin" is true.
This time Jin Xiaomei went to the city and bought Li Baoyu a set of "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasty" villain books. After Li Baoyu read it, he was even more fascinated by the Luo family guns and Qin family guns written in the book.
At this time, listening to Zhang Yuanmin's words "weapons passed down from his ancestors" and thinking about the area where his family was located, Li Baoyu couldn't help but guess that Zhang Yuanmin's ancestors might have been the generals under the command of Luo Yi, the former king of Youzhou.
What surprised Li Baoyu even more was what happened next.
"Really!" The person who answered turned out to be Yang Yufeng. But she had never read those messy books and didn't know what weapons were. She only knew what ancestral traditions were.
Just like that, Yang Yufeng was standing by, pointing to the cloth bag on the ground, and said: "This is a bell passed down by her uncle."
The little bell that was mentioned, no one paid attention to her at this time, because everyone's eyes were attracted by the "ancestral weapon".
Zhang Yuanmin is sometimes unreliable, but both Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu believed in what Yang Yufeng said.
But no one noticed that the little bell's mouth was almost up to the ears.
This can't be blamed on them. They only know that Yang Yufeng is reliable, but they forget that Yang Yufeng doesn't even know the words.
"Brother!" Li Baoyu's hands trembled with excitement, and he was about to reach out to touch the black cloth bag, but was stopped by Zhang Yuanmin.
Seeing Li Baoyu in a daze, Zhang Yuanmin said: "Brother, don't touch randomly, it will easily prick your hands!"
It can also hurt people!
That's the murder weapon!
Hearing this, Li Baoyu hurriedly said to Zhang Yuanmin: "Brother, please open it for us and have a look!"
"Okay!" Zhang Yuanmin nodded heavily, grabbed the corner of the cloth bag and slowly opened it. When the black cloth unfolded, Zhang Yuanmin took out two pieces of ironware from inside!