When the two ancestral "weapons" of Zhang Yuanmin's family were revealed, the expressions on the faces of Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu, and Jie Chen were all the same as the little bells on the kang, and their mouths were curled up like
Like eighty thousand.
A large iron stick, two meters long and about the thickness of a thumb.
This should be considered a long weapon.
As long as there are long weapons, there are also short weapons. In addition to this big iron stick, there is also a furnace hook.
The stove hook is the one used to remove the ashes when burning the stove in rural areas.
Logically speaking, if it were an ordinary stove hook, it wouldn't be wrapped in cloth by Zhang Yuanmin.
Zhang Yuanmin's ancestral stove hook is made of round steel, slightly thinner than his thumb, and is more than 80 centimeters long, but less than one meter.
The section held by the hand is shaped like a pit and forms a gauntlet. This is the same as an ordinary stove hook. It is made like this to increase the strength when taking out the ashes from the boiler.
As for the front of the iron hook, it is different from ordinary stove hooks.
Ordinary stove hooks are bent at right angles. But Zhang Yuanmin's iron hook has a very small curvature at the front, shaped like a fishhook, and is sharpened to a sharp point.
No wonder Li Baoyu wanted to attack him just now, but Zhang Yuanmin was afraid of hurting him.
I looked forward to it so much before, but now I am so disappointed.
Looking at the stove hook in Zhang Yuanmin's hand, Li Baoyu couldn't help but said: "Brother, did your ancestors burn charcoal?"
After showing the treasure, Zhang Yuanmin put away the two "weapons" and said with a smile: "Then you don't have to worry about it. You just know that your eldest brother is the leader in catching badgers."
After hearing what he said, Li Baoyu wanted to say something else, but was stopped by Zhao Jun. He only heard Zhao Jun say: "Okay, brother, then we will pick you up early tomorrow morning."
After saying that, Zhao Jun took Li Baoyu and the ministers to say goodbye and left.
After returning home, Zhao Jun and his ministers washed up, poured hot water and washed their feet, then went to sleep on the kang.
The next morning, when Zhao Jun and his ministers got up at five o'clock, Wang Meilan and Zhao Youcai had already prepared meals for them.
Eggplant stewed with potatoes, the most common home-cooked dish in the Northeast, put a spoon into the rice, mash the eggplant and potatoes together, mix with the rice, then take a green onion leaf, fold and tear it, and wait for the green onion leaves
Tear into small pieces and throw in a bowl.
Pick up a few more cilantro, tear them into pieces, mix them in a bowl, and you can make three bowls of rice in a row, no problem at all.
Just as Zhao Jun was filling his third bowl of rice, the dog in the yard barked several times, and then he heard Zhang Yuanmin's voice: "Who is at home? Watch the dog for me!"
"Coming!" Wang Meilan responded and ran out.
Zhao Jun looked out the window and saw Zhang Yuanmin carrying a pickaxe, a shovel, and a long black cloth bag, entering the courtyard with Wang Meilan.
"Brother, have you eaten?" When Zhang Yuanmin came in, Zhao Jun asked him: "If you haven't eaten, let's eat something together."
"It's done." Zhang Yuanmin said: "I have nothing to do at home, so I will come home and wait for you. You two eat slowly, don't be in a hurry."
"That's okay." Zhao Jun said, "Brother, just wait for me for a few more minutes. I'll finish it right away."
Five minutes later, Zhao Jun and his ministers both put down their chopsticks and went back to the house to change into clothes for going up the mountain. Zhao Jun carried a gun on his back, and then the two of them walked out of the house to the courtyard with Zhang Yuanmin.
Seeing Zhang Yuanmin pick up a spade, a pickaxe, and his ancestral black cloth long bag, Zhao Jun asked: "Brother, don't we also have to pick up a pickaxe?"
Zhang Yuanmin heard this and replied: "Just get another pickaxe."
"It's done!" Zhao Jun entered the warehouse, came out with a pickaxe, and then said to Zhang Yuanmin: "Brother, today is up to you."
"Brother, just..."
Just as Zhang Yuanmin was about to speak, he saw Wang Meilan hurriedly coming out of the house with three iron lunch boxes.
"Here." Wang Meilan held two lunch boxes in one hand and held up one in the other hand and handed it to Zhang Yuanmin, saying: "Two-faced steamed buns, if you don't come back at noon, just put them on the mountain and take a bite."
Zhang Yuanmin nodded and took the lunch box from Wang Meilan in his hand, but asked Zhao Jun beside him: "Brother, are we going to eat anything else today?"
"No more fighting." Zhao Jun replied: "I'll just go with you, big brother. After we finish beating the badgers, we can sneak around and catch their feet and that's it."
"Okay." Upon hearing what Zhao Jun said, Zhang Yuanmin handed the lunch box to Wang Meilan and said, "Aunt, let's leave now. We'll be back in less than a morning."
"Ah." Wang Meilan responded, took the lunch box and said, "Then come back for lunch."
The three of them agreed, and Zhao Jun asked Wang Meilan before leaving the house: "Mom, Han Shang will come over and give our dog an injection soon."
"I know this, son, don't worry." After Wang Meilan agreed, she sent the three people out of the hospital and watched them board the car and drive away.
There were no dogs in the back compartment today. Zhao Jun was in the passenger seat, huddled together with Zhang Yuanmin.
Along the way, Zhang Yuanmin still showed the way. Looking at the route of the car, Zhao Jun asked Zhang Yuanmin: "Brother, are you going to 52?"
"That's right!" Zhang Yuanmin said with a smile: "I was picking up mushrooms with your sister-in-law a while ago and saw a badger hole. I didn't have time to spare at that time."
Badgers are social animals that live in burrows. As they reproduce every year, the number of badgers in the nest increases.
They will repair and expand their nests every autumn, and dig out a large amount of soil from the holes.
But the soil they dug out was never spread around. It was all transported to a distant place in an orderly manner and piled into a pile.
So, if you see a pile of soil under any sunny slope, there must be a badger hole nearby.
The car stopped on the side of the road, and the three of them got out of the car. Zhang Yuanmin walked in front holding the long black cloth bag inherited from his family, and the shovels and pickaxes he brought from home were all carried on the bodies of Zhao Jun and the ministers. When he arrived in front of Badger's Cave, Zhang Yuanmin sat down under a big tree, held a long black cloth bag in his hand and stood beside him. He said to Zhao Jun: "Two brothers, spread out to the left and right and look for the other entrances of Badger's cave.
Seal it!"
Listening to Zhang Yuanmin's words, Zhao Jun knew that he had been reading a lot recently, but he was already used to being with Li Baoyu. At this time, he didn't say much. He only took Jiechen around to look around and moved.
The stones blocked the remaining two holes of the badger.
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Seeing Zhao Jun and his ministers returning, Zhang Yuanmin got up and led them to the entrance of the cave facing south.
Seeing that there was only one cave entrance left, Jie Chen picked up a pickaxe and asked Zhang Yuanmin: "Brother, can we start it?"
Zhang Yuanmin glanced at Jie Chen and said with a smile: "Brother, if you want to do this, won't you die of exhaustion?"
After saying that, Zhang Yuanmin took the black cloth bag standing beside him, laid it flat on the ground, unfolded it and took out two "weapons".
Zhang Yuanmin walked to the cave with a big iron pick in one hand and an iron hook in the other.
Under the gaze of Zhao Jun and Jie Chen, Zhang Yuanmin squatted down in front of the cave, first put the iron hook aside, and then inserted the iron stick into the cave.
Badger Cave has a very exquisite internal structure, with passages in and out, and bedrooms for living.
Moreover, badgers semi-hibernate in winter. Although they do not come out in winter, they eat, drink and defecate in their dens.
Therefore, in Badger Cave, there is also a storage room for storing food and a bathroom for using the toilet.
Now what Zhang Yuanmin is using the iron pick to explore is the passage for Badger to travel, and this passage is not straight, but has twists and turns.
Zhang Yuanmin poked the iron stick into the hole. The part inserted into the hole was about 70 centimeters, but it could no longer be probed.
Zhang Yuanmin held the iron stick flush with the hole with one hand, and then slowly pulled out the part that was submerged in the hole.
After pulling out all the iron sticks, Zhang Yuanmin had already identified the direction and length of this section of the tunnel.
On the ground, Zhang Yuanmin placed the iron stick on the ground according to the direction of the hole. The place where he held it was still flush with the entrance of the hole.
At this time, the front end of the iron sign is the end of this section of the cave.
Zhang Yuanmin drew a line in front of the iron sign, then called to Zhao Jun and dismissed his ministers, shouting: "Come, dig this place open for me!"
Jie Chen, who had doubts just now, now understands everything. Using the pickaxe to dig from the place where Zhang Yuanmin drew the line is a full 70 centimeters shorter than digging from the entrance of the hole, which saves time and effort.
Following Zhang Yuanmin's instructions, Zhao Jun and Jie Chen stepped forward. Jie Chen swung his pickaxe and clicked it twice. Zhao Jun picked up the dug up soil and threw it behind him.
As Jie Chen dug through the soil, a hole appeared in front of the three of them. Unlike the hole that faced south just now, this hole faced the southeast.
The iron stick just now can no longer be penetrated here.
Zhang Yuanmin went to the entrance of the cave and squatted down again, pushing the big iron skewer inside. This time it was more than a meter and a half deep, and the iron skewer stopped again.
Zhang Yuanmin still held the iron stick flush with the hole, pulled it out, and placed it toward the southeast.
However, this piece of iron sign was one and a half meters long, and he couldn't reach it because of his short arms, so he called Xie Chen and said, "Just over there, let's dig it."
Jie Chen went over and drew a mark in front of the sign. When Zhang Yuanmin put away the iron sign, he and Zhao Jun used their shovels and pickaxes to break through the soil.
He led Zhao Jun to collect the soil to one side, only to find that the direction of the cave entrance had changed again this time, facing southwest.
Zhang Yuanmin came over with a "weapon" in hand, squatted down, grabbed the soil, smelled it, and said, "It's almost done."
After saying that, he probed the iron stick into the hole again. This time, he probed deeper and deeper, until all the iron sticks were inserted into the hole.
Moreover, Zhang Yuanmin could still feel something biting his iron stick in the hole.
Zhang Yuanmin slowly pulled the iron stick out of the hole, then returned to the big tree where he had just rested, put down the iron stick, picked up the iron hook, waved it twice in mid-air, then pointed at the entrance of the cave and asked Zhao Jun,
The minister said: "From the entrance of the cave, dig to the northeast for me!"
In normal sieges, Zhao Jun is the protagonist, and others do the hard work. But today, Zhang Yuanmin is the technical worker, and Zhao Jun is the laborer.
And laborers, in Northeastern dialect, are also called: those who wait on work.
The technical workers have spoken, so Zhao Jun and Xie Chen start to work. Xie Chen wields a pickaxe, Zhao Jun wields a spade, and the two of them dig and shovel all the way to the northeast.
Suddenly, as Jie Chen dropped his pickaxe, a large piece of soil fell down, and something quickly turned around and plunged into the hole.
And this hole is seven to eighty centimeters wide.
I got three bedrooms and one living room!
"Brother!" Zhao Jun shouted to Zhang Yuanmin. Zhang Yuanmin held a flashlight in his right hand and an iron hook in his left hand. When he arrived at the cave, he shined the flashlight inside.
It is not completely dark in this cave. Although the three entrances and exits are blocked, the badger's cave has special ventilation holes, which can let in the slightest light.
Zhang Yuanmin took a flashlight and looked at it, only to see the pairs of eyes glowing with a dark yellow light when encountering the flashlight light.
Zhang Yuanmin turned around and said to Zhao Jun and his ministers: "You two stay outside while I get in!"
"Ah?" After hearing what he said, Zhao Jun was stunned, and his first reaction was: "You let me in, but I can't get in either."
"Brother!" Jie Chen asked Zhang Yuanmin from the side: "You got in, how did you get out?"
At this time, not only the ministers, but also the Zhao army were anxious. It was very common to pick out badger seeds. There were many people who used spades and picks to dig up all this area.
But I’ve never seen one burrow into a badger’s hole. What should I do if a badger bites me?
Even if the badger doesn't bite him, as Jie Chen said, how will he get out? If you get into this hole, you can't turn over or bend over. If you get halfway through, you'll get stuck.
Moreover, once he got in, he couldn't get in or get out, and the Zhao army and the ministers outside couldn't dig up the soil, otherwise what would happen to him?
Seeing the worries of Zhao Jun and the ministers, Zhang Yuanmin smiled and said: "I can't get out without you two? When I get in after a while, you two will look at me and act."
"Wait a minute!" Hearing this, Zhao Jun quickly stopped Zhang Yuanmin and said, "Brother, you've already gotten in, how can I see what you're doing? Why don't you throw a cup at me as a sign?"
Zhang Yuanmin laughed loudly and asked: "Brother, have you been reading and studying recently?"
After saying that, seeing Zhao Jun's expression, Zhang Yuanmin hurriedly said: "Brother, listen to me. I will get in, and you two will stand outside and watch. If I want to kick my left leg, you two will push me in; if I push my left leg, you two will push me in."
Right leg, you two just grab me and pull it out."
At this point, Zhang Yuanmin handed the iron hook and the flashlight to Jie Chen. Then he untied the hemp rope tied around his waist, tightened it slightly, tied it again, and took the iron hook and the flashlight from Jie Chen's hand.
Flashlight.
"Brother." Zhao Jun was a little worried and asked, "Is this safe?"
"Haha." Zhang Yuanmin chuckled, waved his hand at Zhao Jun and said, "Brother, just look at me."
After saying that, Zhang Yuanmin came to the badger cave, knelt down on all fours in front of the cave, and first put the flashlight and iron hook into the cave one by one.
Then, Zhang Yuanmin first put his hands into the hole, and then called Zhao Jun and his ministers. The two men hurried forward, held Zhang Yuanmin's mouth, and sent his head and chest into the hole.
This hole, whether it is big or small, can allow him to go in alone, but it cannot allow him to crawl inside.
After Zhang Yuanmin's stomach entered the hole, he saw that he was pushing back with his left leg. Zhao Jun and Xie Chen could only push his feet and push him further into the hole.
At this time, Zhang Yuanmin's upper body was already in the hole. He shined his flashlight and saw a big badger not far in front of him. Zhang Yuanmin stretched out his arm and reached for the badger with the iron hook in his hand.
