That day Zhao Jun and others went into the mountain and picked up a lot of squirrels by catching and beating them. The three rolls of gray skin Wang Meilan took were from that day.
As for Zheng Xuekun, if this leopard skin is confiscated, he plans to collect a gray skin worth about 5,000 yuan from a nearby village, but now, Zheng Xuekun does not dare to accept even one.
From a poor family to a wealthy family, who can guarantee that everything will be smooth sailing without crossing the river?
Especially these days, transportation is not as convenient as it was thirty years ago. Let’s take the Zheng family and his son, it would take nearly four days to get home through these ravines.
Under such circumstances, Zheng Xuekun only had more than 200 yuan left in his pocket, but he did not dare to buy anything anymore.
"Big sister." Zheng Xuekun's face turned red and he said: "I... don't have much money in my pocket. Let's wait for next time. When I come back next time, I will collect all the bear bile from your family. If your family wants to have more
Whatever skin you have, keep it all for me."
"Ah, that's okay." Wang Meilan handed the leopard skin to Zhao Jun with a look of reluctance, and Zhao Jun handed it to Zheng Xuekun.
Zheng Xuekun took the leopard skin from Zhao Jun's hand, unfolded it and rubbed it with his hands. Looking at the copper coin-like patterns on the fur, Zheng Xuekun really liked it.
Since Zheng Xuekun had no objection, Zhao Jun took action. Li Baoyu and Jie Chen both stepped forward, took the stack of banknotes stacked on the edge of the kang, and handed them back to Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei.
While Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei were counting the money, Zheng Xuekun and Zheng Donghai continued to chat with Zhang Yuanmin. Under the huge stimulation of money, Zhang Yuanmin on a whim told the Zheng family the story of how Wei Yan killed a black bear immediately with a horizontal sword.
Because the plot of the story was so exciting, the Zheng family and his son were dumbfounded when they heard it. But the fly in the ointment was that Zhang Yuanmin narrated the whole process in the third person. This led to the fact that the Zheng family and his son did not understand that Wei Yan and Xiao Zhuge were actually the same person.
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However, Zhang Yuanmin didn't pay attention to it. He continued to tell the two men the story of Zhuge's drunken plot and the story of two Zhangs setting fire to Heixiazizi's warehouse.
Last night, Zhang Yuanmin choked on a sentence he heard from Little Bell, and he stayed up half the night. After recalling the past and looking forward to the future, Zhang Yuanmin made up his mind to write a book.
It didn’t matter that he had only been to school for three days, or that he was illiterate. Zhang Yuanmin decided to dictate it himself, and let Zhang Lingling, a child, ghostwrite it, and write a modern folk novel in Zhanghui style.
It just so happened that I met two strangers today. Zhang Yuanmin first tried to see how they reacted.
When Zhang Yuanmin was telling the story of "Big Bear Ba secretly invaded Chen Cang, and the sick Wei Yan escaped through the snow", Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei over there had just finished counting the money. The two sisters looked at each other and nodded in unison.
Wang Meilan stood up and took off the shoulder bag that Jie Chen usually carried up the mountain from the wall, and then she and Jin Xiaomei put all the money they had just received into the bag.
This time, Wang Meilan did not deliver it in person, but gave the satchel to Jin Xiaomei, who took it to the east room and gave it to Yang Yufeng for safekeeping.
Wang Meilan didn't leave, but she turned her attention to Zheng Xuekun and said with a smile: "Master Zheng, you two can stay at my house for some food."
"Don't eat..." Zheng Xuekun was about to refuse, but saw that it was getting late outside. He still had more than 200 yuan with him, and he was not short of a bite to eat. But there are no restaurants in this forest area, so why not eat?
Have a light meal before leaving.
Hearing Zheng Xuekun's hesitation, Wang Meilan immediately said: "It's almost five o'clock. Let's leave after dinner."
After saying that, Wang Meilan asked Zhao Jun and the others to take down the kang table and put the leftovers back into the pot or add more ingredients, so that it would be a hassle-free dinner.
Then, Wang Meilan smiled at Jin Xiaoshan and said, "Shanzi, you're not walking either."
"Second sister-in-law, I'm not leaving." Jin Xiaoshan said, "I'm not going home tonight. I'll get up early and leave early tomorrow."
"Well, third uncle." Seeing that everything was okay, Li Ruhai leaned over to the edge of the kang and said to Jin Xiaoshan, "I will share the kang with me tonight."
Jin Xiaoshan originally thought so, but when he saw that his nephew was willing to get close to him, Jin Xiaoshan smiled and agreed.
Heat up the leftover badger meat from lunch, add two cucumbers to the remaining cucumbers, and add two more tomatoes to the tomatoes mixed with sugar. As for the canned luncheon meat and canned fish, go directly to the cellar and take them out, slice them or
Pour it directly onto the plate.
In this way, a table of food was ready, but Wang Meilan, Jin Xiaomei and Li Ruhai did not come to the table, leaving Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu, Zhang Yuanmin and Jie Chen to accompany Jin Xiaoshan and the Zheng family to eat.
When Jin Xiaoshan and the Zheng family came, they borrowed bicycles from Jin Xiaoshan's village. Although drunk driving is not investigated these days, the Zheng family did not drink either.
After all, they are carrying goods worth 20,000 yuan, and it will be troublesome if something goes wrong.
When the Zheng family and his son had eaten and drank enough, they looked at the clock and saw that it was already six-thirty. They stood up to leave and were sent out of the hospital by Wang Meilan, Zhao Jun, Jin Xiaomei, and Jin Xiaoshan.
After watching the father and son go away, Jin Xiaoshan and Jin Xiaomei went back to the next door. Not only did the two sisters have some secret conversations, but they also had to burn the kang, otherwise they would not be able to sleep at night.
Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan came into the house here. Wang Meilan, who made a lot of money today, was not as excited as usual. It must have been caused by "waiting to get rich".
After entering the house, Yang Yufeng was clearing away the dishes in the outer room. Wang Meilan was busy rolling up her sleeves to help, while Zhao Jun went into the house to chat with Zhang Yuanmin, Li Baoyu and Jie Chen.
The two pockets containing the money were placed in front of the kang cabinet. After a while, Jin Xiaomei came back and the money could be divided.
At the same time, the Zheng family and his son rode a bicycle to the outside of Yong'an Village. At this time, the commuter train from the forest farm came back with the workers. The Zheng family and his son were afraid of causing unnecessary trouble, so they controlled the speed very slowly.
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It happened that two people were walking across from me. One of them was over 1.80 meters tall. I don’t know how he grew up in these difficult times.
They were none other than Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong who were returning home from get off work.
The village road was not wide and rugged. When Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong saw two bicycles coming from the opposite direction, they changed from side by side to one behind the other, and then moved forward close to the left side of the Zheng family and his son.
Seeing the pedestrians on the opposite side giving him face, Zheng Xuekun rang the bell on the inner layer of the handlebar, then nodded to the two people and rode on the right side with Zheng Donghai.
At the moment when the four of them got together, the car Zheng Xuekun was riding jolted due to the uneven road, but other than squatting down, there was no serious problem.
Coincidentally, with this bump, the money in Zheng Xuekun's pants pocket unexpectedly jumped out. A small stack of more than 20 large-scale tickets fell on the floor, and a few coins either fell to the ground or rolled away.
"Hey, hey, the money has fallen." Zhao Youcai called to the Zheng family and his son, and then followed Li Dayong to help them pick up the money.
This Er Gudong bullies others and those outside, calculates money and plots against those at home. Seeing other people's money being scattered, Er Gudong will not take the black people's money as his own.
Just like that, when the Zheng family and his son got off the bicycle, Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong had already picked up all the money for Zheng Xuekun.
Zhao Youcai took the other part of the money from Li Dayong, walked up to Zheng Xuekun in a few steps, handed the money over and said: "Count it."
Although Zheng Xuekun didn't reach out to pick up the money just now, he kept looking back at the two people who were picking up the money. He knew that Zhao Youcai didn't do anything, so he immediately took the money and put it in his pocket and said: "No need to count, thank you, master." p>
Zhao Youcai didn't know what Zheng Xuekun was thinking, and thought that the master in front of him was an open-minded person, so he smiled and said: "That's okay, then just keep the money."
"Yeah." Zheng Xuekun smiled at Zhao Youcai, then reached out and pressed the money into the bottom of his pocket.
At this time, Li Dayong saw the seven badger skins sandwiched on the seat behind Zheng Xuekun, and asked Zheng Xuekun with a smile: "Master, are you collecting mountain goods?"
When Zhao Youcai heard this, he immediately became interested. He had been thinking about selling the bear bile at home these days, so that after having money, Wang Meilan would have no reason to deduct three yuan from himself.
"Yes." Zheng Xuekun responded with a smile, and then Zhao Youcai asked him: "Master, I have bear bile and a mallet at home, do you want it?"
"Bangchui?" When Zheng Xuekun heard these two words, he immediately became interested and hurriedly asked: "What's the appearance?"
"This..." When Zheng Xuekun asked, Zhao Youcai hesitated. He said in a weak tone: "It was left in the mountains and I haven't brought it back yet."
In the Fangshan culture, speech must be standardized. For example, when eating, you must say "take rice", and when you pull ginseng from the soil, you must also say "take."
But how could Zheng Xuekun, a businessman, know this? When he heard Zhao Youcai say that he didn't get it back, he thought that Zhao Youcai knew a ginseng farmer in the mountains and could sell him ginseng.
But he didn't know that what Zhao Youcai said was to dig it out of the soil. Before Zhao Jun took him up the mountain, Zhao Youcai was thinking of cashing out.
Fortunately, Zheng Xuekun realized that he was wrong, otherwise he would have thought that Zhao Youcai was crazy and took the ginseng as he described. Do you think you are the mountain god?
So Zheng Xuekun said to Zhao Youcai: "Okay, master, you go and get it back first, and I will take your mallet when I come next time."
When Zhao Youcai heard this, he immediately beamed with joy, nodded repeatedly and said: "Master, my surname is Zhao and my name is Zhao Youcai. Just ask around next time you come to the village."
"My name is Zheng Xuekun." Zheng Xuekun said his name with a smile, and then the father and his son were about to get in the car and leave. At this moment, Li Dayong asked casually: "Master, who do you want to get this badger skin from?"
From home?"
When Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong came out from home in the morning, Zhao Jun and the others had not gone to dig out the badger holes yet, so they did not think about going home.
After listening to Li Dayong's question, Zheng Xuekun thought for a moment and realized that he didn't know Wang Meilan's name, and Zhao Jun's name was too common. Zheng Xuekun was afraid that people with the same name would cause misunderstandings, so he smiled and said: "Put it at Widow Wang's house."
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After saying that, Zheng Xuekun said goodbye to the two of them and left, but Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong were a little suspicious.
Zhao Youcai also asked Li Dayong: "Is there a widow named Wang in our village?"
