42 In the shack at the end of Lengchang, Zhao Youcai took a sip of potato soup and then frowned.
If it is said to be potato soup, then it is really potatoes and soup. Simply cut the potatoes into long strips, boil them in water, and sprinkle some salt on them.
Zhao Youcai also came from hard times, but he had not eaten this kind of soup without even oil star for twenty years.
But there was no way, this was the food in Lengchang. When they got here, they happened to catch up with the workers having dinner. Jiang Ershuan shouted to the old cook to help Zhao Youcai and the others weigh the food for them. Li Chunming politely stopped him, and Jiang Ershuan took advantage of the slope and got off the donkey.
Already.
Eating with the workers, this was all they ate. Zhao Youcai felt a little homesick while drinking potato soup.
Zhao Youcai remembered that when he came out of home in the morning, he saw Wang Meilan picking out a few pieces of frozen wild boar meat from the tank outside and returning to the house. He took a look at it and saw that there were both fat and lean meat, and asked Wang Meilan what she was going through.
Wang Meilan said that when making wontons at night, they also had to make two kinds of fillings, one with wild boar and cabbage filling, and one with pickled cabbage oil.
When Zhao Youcai thought of the wontons stuffed with pickled cabbage oil and the potato soup in front of him, he couldn't eat any more.
"Master Zhao." At this time, Li Chunming put down the small helmet holding the soup and asked Zhao Youcai, "What time should we leave tomorrow morning?"
"We have to wait until dawn." Zhao Youcai said, "We have to do it!"
Just now, they went directly to the place where the tiger was encountered in Jiang Er Shuan, but by that time there were no tigers and killed horses on the firewood transport road, leaving only a pool of freeze-dried blood and blood stains from dragging heavy objects.
Obviously, after the tiger killed the horse, it dragged the horse up the hillside. According to Jiang Ershuan, the tiger pounced down from that hillside in the afternoon.
After looking at the forest on the mountain, Zhao Youcai exchanged opinions with the four members of the tiger hunting team and decided to stop at No. 42 Lengchang first and then go up to hunt tigers early tomorrow morning.
There was no way, it was already dark in the mountains at that time, who would dare to go into the forest to look for tigers?
For the same reason, you will have to wait until daylight tomorrow morning before you can go up.
When Zhao Youcai was remembering the hardships and thinking about the sweet things in the mountains, the Zhao family house was full of joy and laughter.
On the kang in the west room, Li Ruhai sat on the kang with the kitten in his arms, whispering to Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu and others about the past hunting events he heard at the Song family.
But the kid kept it to himself. He only told the story of King Song's leg being broken by a gun and the mountain god's prohibition on using ground guns to hunt tigers. However, Li Ruhai did not tell anything about the hanging sheep on the killing hill.
He was waiting for an opportunity to tell Zhao Jun alone, so that he could get a reward. But the personal experience of King Song made everyone sigh, and the old lady smacked her lips and said: "That old Song leader was not an ordinary person before.
Na."
"Yeah!" Wang Qiang agreed: "I remember hearing my Uncle Zhao say before that the old leader of Song Dynasty also beat Shi Huzi."
The Uncle Zhao that Wang Qiang spoke of was none other than Zhao Jun.
"Hey? Uncle." Lin Xiangshun asked Wang Qiang curiously: "What on earth is Shihuzi? They are so old, they keep talking about that thing all day long, saying Shihuzi, what on earth is Shihuzi?"
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"I haven't seen it either." Wang Qiang said with a smile: "They also said that Shihuzi belongs to the Northeastern lion."
"Northeast lion?" Xie Zhong said in surprise: "Do we have that thing here?"
In the Northeast, there has always been the legend of the Northeastern lion. According to some people, the three major cats are lions, tigers, and leopards. Since there are Northeastern tigers and Northeastern leopards, there must also be Northeastern lions.
"It doesn't seem to be the same thing." The person who answered the question turned out to be Jie Sun. She pointed to Xie Zhong and said, "Boss, you have no idea. The old Wu family in the east of our house has a pup in his family."
Xizi is a person with a disabled arm. When Xie Zhong heard this, he nodded repeatedly to show that he knew.
Xie Sunshi continued: "When he had strong arms and legs, he went out to fight with the besiegers from other villages. That year they came to our village and settled there. They all said that they had fought back Shihuzi. After that, I still held him in his arms.
You went to see it."
Hearing Xie Sun's words, Xie Zhong couldn't help but pout. With his mother's character, if she could hold him, she must have been an infant at that time. And what can such a small child understand? So,
, I must have wanted to watch the fun at that time.
"Mom!" Jie Chen didn't care what his brother thought. Anyway, he didn't have himself at that time. At this time, he asked Jie Sun, "What does Shi Huzi look like?"
"Not too big." Xie Sun gestured and described: "It's gray and smooth, with long hair."
She described it this way, and no one could imagine what the legendary Shi Huzi looked like.
At this time, Li Ruhai held the little lynx in one hand, stretched out his palm in front of him with the other hand, and said, "Hey? Guess what kind of meat did I let the old Song family eat today?"
"What kind of meat?" Li Baoyu picked up a melon seed with his hands and threw it into his mouth, chewing it with his back molars and asked.
"Honey dog meat!" Li Ruhai said an answer with a smile.
When I ate at Song's house today, I served fried soybeans first, then fried shredded potatoes with sauerkraut and fried eggs.
If this was a family meal, any dishes would be fine. But Li Ruhai was there at the time, and he was the guest invited by Song Benxiao.
No matter how young he is, he is still a guest.
In Yong'an, the dishes served to guests cannot be in odd numbers, because only when there is something special at home, the dishes served to guests are in odd numbers.
Of course, Li Ruhai wouldn't mind if it was just three dishes, but I'm afraid Mr. Song wouldn't be able to do it.
So, Song Benxiao's wife went outside, brought a piece of frozen meat into the house, and melted it in a pot.
The lump is frozen together with the soup and meat. After it melts, the soup is thickened and then served on a plate.
Li Ruhai was a guest, and if there was something delicious, he would have to eat it first. But when Li Ruhai tasted it, he found that the meat tasted like something he had never tasted before.
It's very tangy, even the chili peppers and mountain pepper on the plate can't suppress the meat's tangy smell. But what should be said is that the meat quality is very good, pure lean meat but not woody, firm and very chewy.
Li Ruhai asked curiously and found out that this was Migouzi's meat.
"That's nonsense." Li Dayong, who had been silent because he was thinking about Zhao Youcai, now said: "Is there anyone left to eat the honeyed dog meat? That thing is so sexy!"
Migouzi is a yellow-throated marten, and that thing smells really bad.
On the day when Zhao Jun and Shao Jun first met in Lingnan, he and Zhang Yuanmin were walking in the mountains with a black tiger and frightened a yellow-throated marten.
At that time, the yellow-throated marten was three or four meters away from Zhao Jun, but when it jumped up the tree, there was a smell of odor and rushed in front of Zhao Jun.
In local words: The smell is so pungent!
"Hehehe..." At this time, the old lady laughed. Her laughter attracted everyone's attention, and then they saw the old lady leaning away from the kang and glancing out of the door.
In the outhouse, except for Zhao Chun, who was watching a group of children coaxing his own child in the west room, the other women were packing their things.
Seeing that Yang Yufeng seemed to be cleaning the table in the west room, the old lady said: "Yuanmin's father once picked up a little honey dog in the mountains. After it was done, he took it home and raised it. He said that when he grew up, he would train it to catch rabbits.
I was trying to catch pheasants. But I tried a bunch of thirteen tricks and said it was no longer possible, so I threw it back again."
"What's wrong?" Jie Chen asked subconsciously: "Why can't it still work?"
"Sexy." Zhao Jun interrupted, and the old lady nodded and said, "Yeah."
As she said that, the old lady pointed to the little black bear in Zhao Jun's arms and said, "Migouzi is different from Heixiazi. The smell of Migouzi comes with it, so no matter how you wash it, it won't help."
"Yes!" Li Ruhai said: "Uncle Song said, Migouzi has a tendon on his body. When eating, you have to pick out the tendon. After that, put it in cold water and blanch it in hot water."
In fact, the ones on honey dogs are called stinky glands, those on foxes, and those on weasels are called stinky glands. But here, mountaineers don’t know those terms, so they call them stinky tendons and stinky tendons.
"What to blanch?" As soon as Li Ruhai finished speaking, Li Dayong said: "We won't eat that thing."
Yes, the wild boar and roe deer meat at home can’t be eaten by a black blind man. Who eats yellow-throated marten?
Li Ruhai also reacted. He chuckled, but then he remembered something and asked Li Dayong hurriedly: "Dad, what Master Song said about the Mountain God regulating him, do you think it is true or false?"
"I don't know!" Li Dayong pursed his lips and shook his head, saying, "That old man's words are quite evil."
"I feel it's true!" Li Ruhai said: "I feel it..."
"Stop feeling it." Li Baoyu interrupted Li Ruhai, and then pointed to the outhouse and said to Li Ruhai: "Look at Ma Yang, who grew up on the same side as you. How does he know how to work?"
"Huh?" Li Ruhai heard this and turned to look out the door. At this time, Ma Yang's voice happened to come from the outhouse.
"Sister-in-law Lin." Ma Yang said to Xu Chunyan, "I have stacked these plates and bowls in the dish rack."
After saying this, Ma Yang didn't wait for Xu Chunyan to answer, and shouted again: "Aunt Li, put the bucket over there, I will go out and pour it in a while!"
Jin Xiaomei was going out to pour out the dirty water, but Ma Yang stopped her.
In the west room, everyone turned their attention to Li Ruhai. Li Ruhai stared at the door and muttered: "This kid, why don't you hide from me?"
In the Northeast, when the door is closed and the hand is pinched, it is called "covering". The meaning of "covering" is to be squeezed by someone.
In China, there is generally a tradition that men take charge of the outside and women take charge of the house. These days, men do not do housework at home.
So usually no one would say anything to Li Ruhai if he didn't work at home. But Ma Yang's behavior covered up Li Ruhai.
"Come in quickly, child!" At this time, Wang Meilan's voice came from the outer room again, and she was heard to say: "There are so many of us, we don't need you!"
"It's okay, Auntie." Ma Yang said with a smile, "I'm not an outsider either. I always help my mother with work even when I'm at home."
Zhao Jun was stunned when he heard these words. If he remembered correctly, his brother-in-law was also a hands-off shopkeeper at home. He was always lazy and couldn't do anything. How did he know how to behave here?
Immediately afterwards, I heard Zhao Ling laugh and say: "This kid, he won't listen no matter what we say, he insists on working."
"Oh!" Jin Xiaomei sighed: "How do you think they raised this child?"
Li Ruhai: "..."
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Zhao Youcai was not at home, so Ma Yang and Zhao Jun stayed in the West Room tonight. After dinner the next morning, Ma Yang said goodbye and went home, while Zhao Jun tied his leggings beside the Kang in the West Room.
When he was almost done cleaning up, Li Baoyu happened to come from next door. Because of the tigers in the mountains these days, Li Baoyu stopped going to the construction section to deliver goods. So he simply asked Lin Xiangshun for two days off so that he could go hunting in the mountains with Zhao Jun.
Seeing Li Baoyu coming, Zhao Jun asked him to take off his gun. Zhao Jun himself put on his pocket and brought two bags with a total of fifty rounds of ammunition.
After bringing everything with them, the two brothers came out of the west room, said hello to Wang Meilan and Zhao Chun, and then went out to let the dogs out.
The purpose of today was to fuck the wild boar, so Zhao Jun brought all the hunting dogs at home.
Next door's Rhubarb, Xiaohua, Tabby Cat, Hualang, and the black tiger, Erhei, Big Fat, Three Fatty, and Wulong in the yard, a total of thirteen dogs, were all put into the car. Then Li Baoyu drove, with Zhao Jun behind.
Accompanying the dog in the car, he first picked up Wang Qiang along the way, then ran to Jiang's house to unwind.
When he arrived at the door of his house, Zhao Jun got out of the car. He asked Wang Qiang and Li Baoyu to wait in the car while he went into the house to see the little bear.
As soon as Zhao Jun arrived, the little bear in the house acted strangely. When Xie Chen came out to take Zhao Jun into the house, Zhao Jun asked Xie Chen, "How is the little bear?"
"Very good." Jie Chen agreed, and the two of them entered the room.
These days, the three members of Jie's family have been living in Jiang's house. Only Little Bear and four puppies lived in his house, but the house was burned very hot by Jie Sun.
At this time, Xie Zhong, Xie Sun, and the old lady were all in the room. Zhao Jun came in and saw Xiao Xiong's slightly wary eyes, so he didn't move forward.
It's not that dogs don't want to be close to people anymore. This bitch who just gave birth to her pups was like this in the first two days.
Zhao Jun stood in the distance and glanced at the little bear. At this time, the little bear was half leaning and half leaning on the doghouse surrounded by old mattresses. The front half of its body was standing upright, and its belly was lying across the nest to facilitate the puppies to feed.
"Are the pups doing well?" Zhao Jun asked with a smile, and Jie Chen replied from the side: "It's great, keep eating!"
Zhao Jun nodded and saw the basins and helmets placed around the kennel. The basin was filled with water, and one of the two helmets contained the bone soup that the old lady had cooked for the little bear early in the morning.
The other one contains malted milk.
"Hey?" Zhao Jun suddenly pointed at the little bear and asked a little strangely: "Why is it in this posture?"
"Hahaha..." Everyone laughed, and the old lady raised her hand and patted Jie Sun next to her, and then said to Zhao Jun: "It is waiting for you, Jie Niang, to feed it biscuits."
Xie Sun also smiled. She took out a biscuit from her pocket and said to Zhao Jun, "Jun, take a look."
"Huh?" Zhao Jun was stunned, thinking what's the point. But Sun didn't just feed the biscuits to the little bear as Zhao Jun thought, she turned around and stuffed the biscuits into her mouth first.
, "Gah" she broke it, and half of the cookie went into her mouth, while the other half was handed to the bear.
The little bear stretched his neck and opened his mouth to catch the biscuit, but as the little bear bit it, half of the biscuit shattered, and the middle part went into the little bear's mouth, while the two parts fell down the sides of the little bear's mouth.
The little bear lowered his head with the biscuit in his mouth. When he saw the broken biscuits falling next to the puppy, the little bear's first reaction was to protect the food.
"Huuwu..." The little bear bared his teeth and made a protest sound at the puppies. But the puppies who were sucking milk hadn't opened their eyes yet. Who knew what was happening? They were all focused on sucking milk.
Suddenly, the little bear rushed over, picked up a piece of biscuit, and chewed it while making a loud noise, as if he was afraid that the puppies would snatch his food.
Looking at the little bear guarding the food, the old lady smiled and said: "This thing is a dog, and it also competes with its own children for food."
"Yeah." Mrs. Xie Sun nodded and agreed, "It's different from people. If this is a person, if the mother has something to eat, even if she doesn't eat it, she has to keep it for her child."
Xie Sun's words seemed to make sense, but as soon as she finished speaking, Xie Zhong and Jie Chen both looked at her strangely.
