"Brother, what are you doing to me?" Li Ruhai was dragged out of the tuck shop by Zhao Jun and forced into a car.
"Hurry up and go home!" Zhao Jun slapped Li Ruhai, pushed him in, then squeezed sideways into the passenger seat and said, "Make dumplings with us."
After saying that, Zhao Jun called to Xie Chen: "Drive, go home!"
"Hey!" Jie Chen agreed, started the car, and soon stopped in front of Zhao Junjun's house.
The car stopped, and Zhao Jun, Jie Chen, and Li Ruhai got out of the car.
"Come back!" At this time, a voice came from the side. Jin Xiaomei came out of the latrine and asked Zhao Jun: "Jun, have you brought back the wine?"
"It's necessary!" Zhao Jun chuckled and handed the wine barrel to Jin Xiaomei from the car.
"Do you remember my account?" Jin Xiaomei asked quickly, because she was afraid that Zhao Jun would give her the money.
"It's been charged to my account." Li Ruhai understood at this time that it turned out that his mother had asked him to drink the wine. He hurriedly stepped forward to sell it and said, "My eldest brother was putting it in the small shop before drinking. I
If you can't see it, that's all. I can see it, I must honor my father!"
"Oh!" Jin Xiaomei's eyes lit up when she heard this: "My old son is going to be successful!"
"Then look!" Li Ruhai said with a smile: "Your old son has been working for more than a month, how can he still be unproductive?"
As he spoke, Li Ruhai, who was excited, pointed back at Zhao Jun and said to Jin Xiaomei: "Mom, if you ever have this happen again, just tell me directly. If my brother can't do it, why don't you still have me? Don't always
Excuse me, my eldest brother. My eldest brother has a very busy day."
Jin Xiaomei was confused by the fact that he was both a brother and an eldest brother, but he could probably understand what Li Ruhai meant. He should have stepped on Li Baoyu, praised Zhao Jun, and expressed himself in passing.
"Come, come!" At this moment, Zhao Jun stepped forward and handed the wine barrel in Li Ruhai's hand, saying: "Go, you can take it to the house."
Li Ruhai's hands sank, he carried two buckets and walked quickly to the yard.
"This kid..." Jin Xiaomei shook her head, and then said to Zhao Jun, "Hurry up and get in the house, it's so cold this morning!"
"Auntie!" Zhao Jun suddenly called Jin Xiaomei, and then said to Jie Chen: "You go into the room first."
"Hey!" Jie Chen knew at a glance that Zhao Jun had something to say to Jin Xiaomei. He nodded to Jin Xiaomei with a smile and quickly walked into Zhao Jun's yard.
"What's going on, Jun?" If Chen Xie could understand something, could Jin Xiaomei not understand? After seeing the minister leave, Jin Xiaomei asked Zhao Jun curiously.
Zhao Jun glanced to the side, patted the passenger door with his left hand, and then whispered to Jin Xiaomei: "Aunt, wait for me here for a while, and I will get you something.
"What is that?" Jin Xiaomei's eyes widened and she asked, "What else are you getting for my aunt? There have been a lot of compliments to us throughout the day."
Zhao Jun waved his hand to signal Jin Xiaomei not to speak, then he opened the door and got into the passenger seat.
After getting into the passenger seat, Zhao Jun took the medicine he bought from Tian Yonggui, opened four butter paper packets in succession, picked out the dried velvet antler slices and mountain wolfberry berries and put them together.
Then free up two pieces of butter paper, use one to wrap the dried velvet antler slices and wolfberry berries, and use the other to wrap the deer gun and bow.
Dried velvet antler slices and wolfberry berries are easy to talk about, but the deer gun and bow cannot be wrapped in butter paper.
"Auntie!" Zhao Jun said to Jin Xiaomei from the car window: "Go into the house and get me a noodle bag."
"What are you taking?" Upon hearing this, Jin Xiaomei put it in her pocket and frowned: "Jun, our family is short of everything now. You can keep it for yourself!"
After saying that, Jin Xiaomei turned around and walked to Zhao Jun's courtyard.
Seeing that she was about to leave, Zhao Jun hurriedly shouted: "Auntie, your family is in need of this! This is for..."
"Huh?" Upon hearing Zhao Jun's words, Jin Xiaomei turned around subconsciously, but Zhao Jun realized that it was wrong to speak like this, and quickly changed his words: "This is my Uncle Li's friend, or someone from the class, please ask him
It's for Tao Teng. My uncle told me, and I just happened to go out to look at it today, so I brought it back to him with the feet."
"Ah?" Jin Xiaomei heard this, turned around and muttered: "This Li Dayong, this day."
After muttering, Jin Xiaomei raised her head and asked Zhao Jun: "Did Uncle Li give you any money?"
"Give it, give it." Zhao Jun urged: "Auntie, hurry up and get a dough bag."
Then, Zhao Jun warned again: "Pick the clean one."
"Okay, wait for me for a while." Jin Xiaomei walked quickly to the courtyard of her home. At this time, she caught up with Li Ruhai coming out of the house and saw his mother coming back in a hurry, while Zhao Jun was still sitting in the car, and Li Ruhai
Curiously, she approached Jin Xiaomei and said, "Mom, what's going on?"
"Don't ask about adult matters, you kid!" Jin Xiaomei waved her hand at Li Ruhai and said, "Go to your aunt's house. If you can't help with the work, just help look after the children."
There is snow in the forecast today, and the middle schools, primary schools, and kindergartens in the family area of Yong'an Forest Farm are all on holiday. Now Li Xiaoqiao is still playing with Zhao Hong and Zhao Na at Zhao Jun's house.
After Jin Xiaomei finished speaking, she stepped into the house, and Li Ruhai rolled his eyes, crouched down and hid behind the large water tank in front of the house.
This large vat from the Li family is one meter and a half tall and has a diameter of more than eighty centimeters.
Such a big tank is not used for pickling vegetables. In summer, it is used to store water and sediment in the water; in winter, it is used to freeze food. Put meat, dry food, etc. in this tank, which is better than a refrigerator.
Woolen cloth.
Li Ruhai is tall, but he runs around every day, which makes him not fat no matter how much he eats. He is on the thin side. He squats behind the tank. There is a tank in front and a wall behind, which hides him tightly.
As soon as Li Ruhai hid it, Jin Xiaomei came out with the dough bag.
Jin Xiaomei went to the car and handed the dough bag to Zhao Jun along the car window. Zhao Jun pulled the dough bag in and packed the deer gun bow and a butter paper inside.
There were not many things, so Zhao Jun just fastened the button on the mouth of the flour bag, then got out of the car and handed it to Jin Xiaomei, saying: "Auntie, please don't open it."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Although Zhao Jun has a good reason, he is a junior after all, and there are differences between men and women.
"Ah, okay." Jin Xiaomei said with a smile, "I'll just give him a house, and I can do it myself when he comes back. How busy are we today? How can we have time to care about his things?"
Zhao Jun also smiled, and the two separated and went into their own homes.
What Jin Xiaomei said just now is not a lie. They are pressed for time today and have heavy tasks. They really don't have time to care about Li Dayong's things.
So, Jin Xiaomei went into the house, stuffed her dough bag into the cupboard, turned around, climbed over the wall, and arrived at Zhao's house.
When Jin Xiaomei entered Zhao's house, Li Ruhai slipped out from behind the vat and returned home furtively.
When the child entered the house, he rummaged through it. After turning out the dough bag, Li Ruhai opened the mouth of the bag and took out the deer gun and bow.
"Oh my god!" Li Ruhai exclaimed, "This thing is really good!"
After saying that, Li Ruhai curiously brought the deer gun bow to his nose. When he sniffed his nose, he couldn't help but frown.
Li Ruhai casually put the deer gun and bow aside, and then opened the butter paper bag. Zhao Jun filled it with a lot of dried deer antler slices and wolfberry seeds.
A place of water and soil can nourish a living being.
They are all in the Baishan Mountains, but wolfberry trees don’t grow in the mountains on Zhao Jun’s side. But when you cross the ridge to Ji Province, they do!
Li Ruhai had never seen this before. Looking at the red gadget, he felt that it should be edible.
So, Li Ruhai took one out and took it into his mouth.
Li Ruhai chewed it tentatively and felt that this thing was slightly bitter and slightly sweet. It was bitter at first and then sweet.
"What is this?" Li Ruhai clicked his lips, clicked his eyes twice, grabbed a small handful and stuffed it into his trouser pocket.
Then, Li Ruhai set his sights on the dried velvet antler slices. If it were fresh, Li Ruhai would definitely know it, but since it was dry, Li Ruhai knew he couldn't bite it as soon as he took it, so he stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it.
It didn't taste very good, so Li Ruhai spit it out. He originally wanted to put it back, but Li Ruhai was afraid that if he finished it, others would notice that it was different from the others, so he put the deer antler slices in it as well.
Pants pocket.
Finally, he wrapped the butter in paper and restored the dough bag to its original state. Li Ruhai stuffed it into the cabinet and quietly went out and climbed over the wall into Zhao's house.
As soon as Li Ruhai entered the house, it started to rain and sleet outside.
"Dang Dang Dang..."
"Dang Dang Dang..."
The sound of a kitchen knife falling on the cutting board echoed throughout the three rooms of Zhao Jun's house.
"Da da da..." Outside the house, rainwater flowed down the eaves and fell on the iron sauce jar cap.
The first snow in the winter of 1987, although it came a little later, was still sleet.
It's warm when it snows, and cold when it melts.
The snow in the sky turned into water as it fell, making the yard in front of and behind the house full of mud. The well-fed and drunk hunting dogs lay in their kennels, looking listlessly at the puddles outside.
The livestock and poultry in the shed behind the house were also quiet. The donkeys and roe deer were chewing corn leaves leisurely, while the chickens were standing on the racks and looking back to peck the feathers under their wings.
It rained and snowed all day, and when night fell, the big willow trees in the village lowered their heads, and every branch was covered with a layer of ice.
If there is light at this time, the tree will be reflected crystal clear and beautiful.
The lights in the three rooms of Zhao Jun's house, the east room, the west room, and the outer room were all on. Men, women, old and young gathered together happily, laughing and chatting.
In the west room, there is a round table on the kang, a side table propped on the ground, and a large panel on each of the two tables.
This panel is one meter and a half long and about sixty centimeters wide. It is made from a large linden tree broken open.
Jin Xiaomei and Yang Yufeng guarded a panel, Zhao Ling and Xu Chunyan guarded a panel. The four of them did nothing but roll out dumpling wrappers.
They rolled out the dumplings and threw them on a curtain made of sorghum poles. Zhao Jun, Wang Meilan, Wang Qiang, Zhang Yuanmin, Li Ruhai and Xiao Lingdang made dumplings together.
There are two large basins that can be hugged by one person. The basins are filled with pickled cabbage, wild boar meat and dumpling fillings.
Zhao Jun holds the dumpling wrapper with one hand, puts the filling on the wrapper with a flat spoon in the other hand, then folds the wrapper in half, pinches it with his two thumbs on the left and right, and squeezes it into the middle, and a dumpling is ready.
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The hand-rolled dumpling skin is thin on both sides and thick in the middle. When Zhao Jun squeezed it in this way, the thick middle area was propped up without breaking, forming a dumpling belly. Such dumplings are really thin in skin and large in filling.
One by one, the dumplings were placed on the curtain in circles. With so many people taking action, a curtain of dumplings were carried outside.
At this time, the sleet and snow outside had stopped, a cold wind was blowing, and the temperature was close to minus 20 degrees.
In the courtyard, the rain and snow turned into ice. Zhao Jun went out with the curtain, placed it in a large tank outside the house, and then fastened the lid of the tank.
A gust of cold wind blew, and Zhao Jun shivered slightly. He suddenly remembered that in his previous life, the day he returned home in tattered clothes, it was also the first time there was snow, and there was also a cold wind and cold rain.
At that time, Zhao Jun was in such a miserable state! He came back from Hbei and took the high-speed train, which only took a few hours. However, Zhao Jun was not willing to spend money to buy the ticket. In the end, he only bought a ticket for the green leather car.
I took a hard seat for 14 hours from H North to Bingcheng, and then transferred to the coach to Daohua Market.
Zhao Jun remembered that he felt extremely desolate at that time, but when he passed Shanhaiguan and the next stop was Jinzhou, Zhao Jun felt like he was home.
And every Northeasterner who is away from home thinks of sticky corn, sticky bean buns, and pickled cabbage dumplings.
"Tsk!" Zhao Jun clicked his lips and heard the whistle of the small train in his ears. Knowing that Zhao Youcai and the others were off work, Zhao Jun hurriedly turned around and went back to the house and shouted: "Oh my god, my dad and the others are back."
"Hey! Got it!" Wang Meilan responded, and then said to the people around her: "Let's wrap it this time, and we'll cook it directly!"
Everyone responded one after another, and Wang Meilan said again: "Cook more and cook six hundred dumplings!"
"Six hundred?" Zhao Jun, who appeared at the door, was stunned and asked Wang Meilan: "Mom, what are you cooking for?"
"Eat!" Wang Meilan said: "How many people are there in the family? Can we eat if there is less?"
"How many people are there?" Zhao Jun replied.
There are a total of twenty-three people in the seven families. If they were all adults, six hundred dumplings might not be enough!
But more than half of these twenty-three people have children. How many can the children eat? If you cook six hundred dumplings, not to mention half of them, there will be two hundred left!
"Everyone has a share after a while. Take it back and fry it tomorrow morning!" Wang Meilan came out of the aisle, grabbed Zhao Jun and said, "Get out of here, I'll cook!"
Zhao Jun blinked twice and thought that fried dumplings were really delicious, so he joined the team of making dumplings again.
Dumplings are like wine, and the more you eat, the better.
In the east room, the men drank and ate vegetables; in the west room, after finishing their meal, the women continued to make dumplings, wrapped them up and took them out to freeze.
At this time, snowflakes were already falling outside.
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The next morning, when Zhao Jun got up, it was already completely white outside.
Although the snow has stopped, it is still cloudy. According to the weather forecast, today will turn from cloudy to heavy snow.
Zhao Jun put on his clothes and went out to the hut. When he walked outside, he found that the snow was even on his ankles.
When Zhao Jun came back, the door of Li's house opened, and Li Dayong, Li Baoyu, and Li Ruhai and their son came out of the house.
"Sweeping the snow?" Zhao Jun asked, and then Li Dayong said: "Sweep it, we will go to work in a while."
"Then I'll call my dad." Zhao Jun pointed toward the house with a smile and said, "We will also shovel the snow!"
"Don't call your dad!" Upon hearing this, Li Dayong quickly stopped Zhao Jun and said, "Let your dad rest. This is just the work. I'll let Baoyu and Ruhai help you with the work later."
Li Baoyu, Li Ruhai: "..."
It's okay for the two brothers to help Zhao Jun, and they don't say a word, but you, Li Dayong, feel sorry for your sworn brother, so you can't use your son to blame him!
"Okay then..." Zhao Jun was just about to go to the warehouse to get a shovel when he saw Zhao Youcai coming out of the house with a dollar in his hand.
"Ruhai." Zhao Youcai shouted to Li Ruhai from afar: "This money is for you."
"Brother, why did you give him the money?" Li Dayong came to the wall and took the money from Zhao Youcai. He heard Zhao Youcai say: "I didn't give it to him. Didn't they stop selling canteen meat yesterday? Ruhaipin (
bin)’s seam.”
"Patchwork?" Li Dayong frowned when he heard this, turned around, glared at Li Ruhai, and shouted: "You can just play harp all day long, you can do whatever the hell you want!"
With that said, Li Dayong put the money into his pocket.
"Uncle..." In desperation, Li Ruhai hurriedly called Zhao Youcai for help. If I remember correctly, he even got Zhao Youcai's promise when he helped Zhao Youcai settle things.
"Dayong, give it to the child." Zhao Youcai advised Li Dayong: "This child is not a waste of money."
"Isn't he willing to spend money?" Li Dayong glared at Li Ruhai again, but finally handed the money to Li Ruhai.
Li Ruhai happily took the money, and Zhao Jun also took the fifty yuan handed over by Zhao Youcai.
"The amount of meat you had yesterday was ninety-seven kilograms. Your Uncle Zhang will round it up for you. It will be calculated as one hundred kilograms."
Zhao Youcai's words made Zhao Jun unable to believe his ears for a moment.
Zhao Jun knew very well what kind of person his father was.
This money was in Zhao Youcai's hands. Logically speaking, he should have kept the extra one yuan and fifty cents, but now... does it mean he has no change in his pocket?
As surprised as Zhao Jun was Li Dayong. As a good brother for many years, Li Dayong knew Zhao Youcai as well as Zhao Jun.
Li Dayong remembers that one year he and Zhao Youcai went up the mountain to collect specimens. Zhao Youcai saw a big gray rabbit standing on a fallen tree. He shot the hare and killed the upper body of the hare.
Just like that, Zhao Youcai was stunned and took out the rabbit's two hind thighs, and then took them to the canteen to exchange for a penny.
Isn’t it strange that such a person is no longer greedy?
Abnormality must be a monster!
Li Dayong suddenly felt something was wrong. He looked at Zhao Youcai with worry in his eyes and thought, "Is this all? My elder brother is so pitiful!"
Yesterday I was making frozen dumplings, and it was almost eleven o'clock before the two large pots of dumplings were filled with fillings. After returning home this time, Jin Xiaomei forgot the medicinal materials Zhao Jun gave her.
"Brother!" At this time, Li Dayong said to Zhao Youcai: "Why don't you go into the house and rest?"
"No need!" Zhao Youcai shook his head, took a shovel and started pushing the snow.
The two families got busy and finished sweeping the front yard, the back yard, and even the outside of the yard.
There is a saying: Every family sweeps the snow in front of their own door.
In fact, there is nothing wrong with this. As long as every household can sweep away the snow in front of their own door, the entire Yong'an Village will almost be swept away.
Just when they were sweeping the snow outside the courtyard, Zhao Jun said to Zhao Youcai: "Dad, let me go to my grandma Jiang to take a look."
It is a bit difficult for some lonely old people to clear the snow in front of each house. In the past, when the old man was here, he was the one who cleared the snow, and the old lady was busy with the house work.
"Go ahead." Zhao Youcai waved his hand to Zhao Jun. Just as he was about to say something else, he heard a roaring sound and Zhao Guofeng's voice came from the loudspeaker in the camp.
"Hey...hey! Hey! Um...the forest farm has informed us that all forest farm employees must be in place for a major inspection in the logging area today!"
The loudspeaker played the broadcast three times in a row. Zhao Jun raised his head slightly, looked in the direction of the forest farm, and thought to himself: "How long has it been since I went to work?"
