The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 1184 The Zhao Family Lights up the Beacon Tower

A jeep and a Jiefang truck stopped outside the Zhao family's yard, one after another.

When they smelled the scent of the black bear, the dogs in the Zhao and Li families' yards instantly became frightened.

The noise reached the house and into Wang Meilan's ears, like a starting gun.

Wang Meilan jumped down from the edge of the kang, went to the door and grabbed the cotton-padded jacket hanging behind it, then ran to the outer room while putting her sleeves into the jacket.

Pushing the door open, Wang Meilan ran out of the yard amid the barking of dogs in the corridor.

"Oh my!" Wang Meilan, who arrived at the gate of the courtyard, saw Zhao Jun and four others dragging the black bear down from the trunk of the Jiefang truck. She clapped her hands with joy.

Wang Meilan ran to the guardrail with a smile, tiptoed to look into the car, and saw that there were still six roe deer, three of which were alive and three of which were dead. She was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling.

They traveled with the black bear all the way. Although it was a dead black bear, the black bear scared the three roe deer trembled just by its smell.

At this time, Jin Xiaomei came out from the Li family yard next door. Wang Meilan saw her coming out and hurriedly shouted, "Xiaomei, light the fire quickly!"

Hearing Wang Meilan's words, Zhao Jun thought that she was going to boil water to dip the bear's bile. Although there was not much bile left in the bear's bile, it had to be dipped.

But when the four men dragged the black bear to the gate of Zhao's courtyard, they saw Jin Xiaomei had set up four pine torches in front of her own house.

The four people who were pulling the bear were all stunned. No one could understand what Jin Xiaomei was going to do.

At this time, Wang Meilan, who had returned to the house, ran out again, holding a matchbox in her hand.

"Mom, what are you doing?" Zhao Jun didn't understand what Wang Meilan was doing at all, so he grabbed Wang Meilan's arm and asked.

"Ah..." Wang Meilan smiled and pointed at the pine torches, saying, "It's on fire, and black smoke is coming out. Your uncle and his friends were watching from the window at home, so they came running to our house."

Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang, Zhao Weipeng: "..."

Xie Chen, who had recently read a lot of books with Li Baoyu and Zhang Yuanmin in Yong'an Village, couldn't help but brighten his eyes when he heard this, and blurted out, "Beacon tower?"

"Sister, sister." Wang Qiang pushed Wang Meilan and pointed at the big elm tree in front of the Zhao family's door and said, "You chop down this tree, and then tie it up with a rope. If you want to take care of us, you push the tree."

"Hehe..." Zhao Jun and others couldn't help laughing when they heard Wang Qiang asking Wang Meilan to create a message tree, but Wang Qiang was slapped by Wang Meilan.

Wang Qiang laughed and asked, "Sister, can't we drag this black blind man into the house?"

"No!" Wang Meilan said, "If we take it inside, the smell will last forever. So, drag it to the yard, wait for your wife and the others to come over, and we sisters will dig it out outside."

At this point, Wang Meilan suddenly realized that someone was missing. Her face suddenly changed and she asked Zhao Jun quickly, "Where's your dad?"

Zhao Youcai got up early and went up the mountain with Zhao Jun and others. Now Zhao Jun and others have returned, but Zhao Youcai has not. Bad thoughts suddenly flashed through Wang Meilan's mind.

Lost again? Or...left on the mountain?

If you do a little analysis, just by looking at the Zhao army members talking and laughing, you will know that Zhao Youcai will be fine.

But at this moment, Wang Meilan was so anxious that she didn't think about it carefully. The last time Zhao Youcai didn't come back, he almost froze to death in the mountains. This time he didn't come back again, how could Wang Meilan not worry?
At this time, Zhao Jun did not notice Wang Meilan's abnormality and replied casually, "My dad went to work."

"Huh? What?" Wang Meilan was stunned. She couldn't believe her ears. Zhao Jun's answer was even more unbelievable to Wang Meilan than Zhao Youcai being left in the mountains.

With Zhao Youcai's temper, how could he give up the hunting opportunity that he bought for a hundred dollars?
"I'm going to work." Zhao Jun said, "Mom, let's drag Hei Xiazi to the yard first. I'll talk to you later when we're done."

"Ah!" Wang Meilan responded, still full of confusion even with her eyes closed.

However, since she knew that Zhao Youcai was safe, Wang Meilan did not ask any more questions. She went to the door of Li's house, struck a match and lit the pine torch herself.

People in forest areas use pine torches to start fires, but since pine torches produce black smoke, only a small piece is used each time.

At this time, four large pieces of pine torches were lit outside the Li family's courtyard, and flames and black smoke rose up.

The east room of the Jiang family.

The old lady was sitting on the kang embroidering, while Xie Sun and Liu Lanying were watching and learning from her on either side.

Xie Sun accidentally glanced out the window and when she saw black smoke rising in the distance, she hurriedly called the old lady, "Aunt, my sister is calling us over."

The old lady raised her eyes, then put down the embroidery in her hand and said, "Let's heat the kang quickly and go over after that."

The reason for heating the kang now is to prevent it from getting cold when you come back at night. Upon hearing this, Xie Sun and Liu Lanying both went out to fetch firewood. After fetching firewood, the mother and daughter split up into two groups. Liu Lanying heated the kang at Jiang's house, while Xie Sun heated the kang at her own house next door.

At the same time, in the east room of the Wang family.

Wang Xue, who was sitting on the kang drawing, only glanced out the window, threw down her crayons and shouted to the outer room: "Mom, my eldest aunt's house is on fire!"

The little girl was excited when she said this. Her brother went to kindergarten with Zhao Na today, and her mother was working in the field outside. Wang Xue was very bored. The little girl knew that her aunt's house was very lively and there was TV to watch, but Zhao Ling couldn't take her there until she finished her work.

Unless her aunt’s house sets a fire!

However, in the little girl's understanding, lighting a fire and catching fire mean the same thing.

"What's on fire!" Zhao Ling, who was tidying up the dish rack in the outer room, was startled. She stood up and looked out the window, then went into the room and while educating Wang Xue, she put a cotton jacket on her.

After packing up her daughter, Zhao Ling carried Wang Xue out of the house. Not far away, Zhao Ling ran into Xu Chunyan who was also holding a child.

When Hei Xia Zi was dragged into the Zhao family's yard, the Zhao family's dogs barked non-stop. The one who barked the loudest was undoubtedly Hei Hu, who was different from the other dogs. The other dogs barked at Hei Xia Zi, but Hei Hu barked at Hei Xia Zi's meat.

Of the six roe deer, three dead ones were sent to the Li family and placed under the fire wall to wait, while the three alive ones were taken to the Zhao family's backyard and tied up.

"Xiaomei!" Seeing the four Zhao Jun soldiers carrying two live roe deer to the back of their house, Wang Meilan called Jin Xiaomei and said, "They haven't eaten yet. Give them some noodles and two poached eggs each."

"Okay!" Jin Xiaomei agreed and ran into the house, and at this time Zhao Jun and his four men came to the back of the house.

Roe deer are wild and cannot be tied directly to a pen like cattle and sheep. However, Zhao Jun's family has experience in raising roe deer, and the rack made by Zhang Yuanmin came in handy.

While watching Zhao Jun and his two companions tying up the roe deer, Zhao Weipeng was not idle either. He saw a feeding basket outside the pen, leaning against the wall, covered with a board and pressed with bricks.

Zhao Weipeng removed the wooden boards and bricks and saw that the feeding truck was loaded with chopped dry corn leaves mixed with wheat bran, bean cakes, and corn navels.

This is the donkey feed mixed by Wang Meilan. It should be said that since the little donkey came to Zhao Jun's house, the food has been improved by more than one level compared to Huang Gui's house. But for some reason, the little donkey is always listless in his spare time.

Before the little donkey came, the Zhao family raised sheep and roe deer in the backyard. So there were two pens in the backyard, and there were troughs in each of the pens for the animals to eat.

Zhao Weipeng held the feed basket in his left hand, scooped the bottom of the feed basket with his right hand, and poured the feed into the trough of the roe deer pen with his arms shaking.

As Zhao Weipeng poured the ingredients from left to right, he shouted, "Oh lo-lo-lo..."

"Huh?" Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang and Jie Chen looked up at Zhao Weipeng in surprise.

At this time, Zhao Weipeng poured out all the fodder. When he put down the fodder to feed Luo, he saw the three people looking at him, so he asked, "Why are you looking at me?"

"Uncle, what is your business?" Zhao Jun asked tentatively.

"Huh?" Zhao Weipeng was startled, and then he heard Zhao Jun ask again: "Have you raised pigs before?"

"No...no." Zhao Weipeng denied it flatly: "I saw others raising one."

"Ah..." Zhao Jun looked at Zhao Weipeng suspiciously, and Wang Qiang asked Zhao Weipeng curiously, "Hey? Brother Zhao, why haven't I heard you mention it before? What did you do in the army before?"

"My..." Zhao Weipeng blinked his eyes and said, "I'm in logistics..."

As he spoke, Zhao Weipeng was afraid that the three people would overthink things, so he said inexplicably, "It's that...civilian."

This is not a lie. Apart from martial arts, the other one is civil arts.

"Civilian?" Wang Qiang said doubtfully, "Even if he is a civilian, his marksmanship can't be so bad!"

"Your shooting skills are just lousy!" Zhao Weipeng retorted unhappily.

"Uncle." Zhao Jun saw this and hurried to mediate. He said to Zhao Weipeng, "You don't need to do the work outside. Come in and wash your face and take a rest. We'll eat after you're done."

"Okay, then I'll go in." Zhao Weipeng really couldn't hold it any longer, so he said hello to the three people and went back to the house.

At the same time, in the Li family's house next door, Jin Xiaomei was cutting sauerkraut in the outer room.

In Northeast China, noodles are eaten with either cold or hot soup.

Cold soup is noodles cooked in water and mixed with marinade, which is usually eaten in summer. In winter, when it is cold, people eat hot soup noodles.

When making hot soup noodles here, I like to stir-fry some vegetables in a frying pan, then add water and boil it before cooking the noodles.

This is called choking soup.

In summer, you can choose to use eggplant and persimmon to make soup, and in winter, it is sauerkraut. Zhao Jun's family ran out of sauerkraut, so Jin Xiaomei went back to her own home to pick up and cut sauerkraut.

After the pickled cabbage was cut, Jin Xiaomei lit a fire and heated the oil to prepare to cook noodles at home. In this way, the water in the pot in Zhao's house was dipped in bear bile.

"Bah..."

The chopped green onions made a sound when they fell into the hot oil, and a rich fried onion aroma burst out.

The door of the west room opened a crack and Li Ruhai slowly stuck his head out.

Since the election, Jin Xiaomei has never given Li Ruhai hot meals, and has always let him drink hot water and eat tiaozi cakes.

If Li Ruhai was ten years old, seeing caozigao would be like Chinese New Year. But in the past six months, Zhao Hong, Zhao Na and others have been hiding when they see caozigao.

And no matter how good the food is, you can't eat it three times a day. Especially for a young man like Li Ruhai, he can eat it as a snack, but if it is used as a staple food, he will not feel full after eating it.

Jin Xiaomei washed the chopped sauerkraut twice in clean water, scooped it out of the water, squeezed it dry, and then shook it out while putting it into the pot.

Then, Jin Xiaomei picked up the spatula and stir-fried the sauerkraut in the pot. It was a very common home-cooked dish, but it made Li Ruhai purse his lips with greed.

After the sauerkraut in the pot was fried until slightly dry, Jin Xiaomei took two steps sideways towards the stove, lifted the sorghum stalk lid covering the jar, picked up the gourd ladle, scooped up most of the water, and poured it into the pot in a circle.

As the water level in the pot rose, the fried sauerkraut sank to the bottom of the pot and some oil floated on the water surface.

Jin Xiaomei covered the pot, turned around and walked towards the bowl rack to get the eggs and noodles.

At this time, Jin Xiaomei saw Li Ruhai peeking out of the door of the west room.

Li Ruhai smiled at Jin Xiaomei, a very bright smile, but Jin Xiaomei rolled her eyes at Li Ruhai.

Going to the south window, Jin Xiaomei opened the door of the bowl rack and took out a small basket of eggs and a whole bundle of noodles.

When Jin Xiaomei was about to go back to the stove, she heard Li Ruhai say weakly, "Mom, bring me some."

"Get out!" Jin Xiaomei ruthlessly rejected Li Ruhai.

At this time, in the Zhao family courtyard.

Zhao Jun cut bear meat and Wang Meilan helped him feed the dog.

Although the hunting dogs did not contribute much to the fight against the bear, Zhao Jun also gave them some meat to eat. This was especially true for the mother and son of the red dog, who had never been to the mountain before. Feeding them meat now was to make them "close" to the black bear.

When Daqing first arrived at Zhao Jun's house, he had never been up the mountain, so Zhao Jun asked Li Baoyu to feed Daqing wild boar meat.

This is also part of hauling the dog, getting the dog close to the prey.

But a wild boar is a wild boar, and a black bear is a black bear.

It's okay to train a hunting dog to recognize wild boars in this way, but you can't train a hunting dog to recognize black bears in this way.

Because before the dog went up the mountain, it was often fed with bear meat, so it was easy for it to get the meat in its mouth, and it would think black bears were more timid. When a dog encounters a black bear on the mountain, it is easy for it to do something stupid.

Therefore, when hunting bears with dogs, the dog's head is usually used as a leash, and it is rare to feed the bear meat directly like the Zhao army did.

But Zhao Jun dared to do so because he had something to rely on. His reliance was that he had a powerful dog gang.

While feeding the meat, Wang Meilan also learned from Zhao Jun the reason why Zhao Youcai went to work.

After seeing the bear gall that Zhao Jun took out, Wang Meilan twitched her lips and said, "Isn't this a loss?"

"My dad won't pay for it." Zhao Jun gloated, "If it's divided into three parts, he will have to pay thirty or forty."

"I said we should pay!" Wang Meilan said, "You only think about him paying, but won't we pay more?"

There is no capital to make money from hunting. At most, you will not make money or lose money from hunting. There are indeed few people who lose as much money as Zhao Youcai.

As for Wang Meilan, in her subconscious, she believed that the animals on the mountain were hers. If the black bear's gallbladder was blind, it would be a loss!

Zhao Jun had no way to change his mother's perception, so he could only comfort Wang Meilan by saying, "Mom, didn't I catch three roe deer? Sell them to our two team leaders, and we can earn another 200 yuan."

"Selling roe deer is selling roe deer, how can it be the same?" Wang Meilan muttered, and said, "Your father, he just messes around all day."

"Haha..." Zhao Jun smiled when he heard that and said, "This time, I guess my dad really can't go up the mountain."

……

A canteen in Yongan Forest Farm.

Zhao Youcai sat on a long bench, staring out the window absentmindedly.

At this time, Zhang Guoqing walked over while taking off his apron.

When he arrived in front of Zhao Youcai, Zhang Guoqing threw his apron on the table to express his dissatisfaction.

But Zhao Youcai didn't even look at him, making Zhang Guoqing feel like he was punching cotton.

Zhang Guoqing curled his lips, picked up the cigarette box that Zhao Youcai had thrown on the table, took out a Shilin cigarette and put it in his mouth.

Lighting a cigarette with a match, Zhang Guoqing took a deep puff, then looked at Zhao Youcai and asked, "You said you came to work, but you don't do anything here. What are you doing here?"

After Zhang Guoqing finished speaking, seeing that Zhao Youcai ignored him, he glanced at Zhao Youcai and said, "Well... come to work tomorrow. I won't replace you."

At this point, seeing that Zhao Youcai still did not respond, Zhang Guoqing asked: "Did you hear me?"

"Yeah." Zhao Youcai responded with a sound through his nose. Although it was perfunctory, it was also an explanation to Zhang Guoqing.

As a friend of more than 20 years, Zhang Guoqing had no way to deal with Zhao Youcai. But just as Zhang Guoqing was about to leave, he suddenly heard Zhao Youcai sigh and said, "A tiger has fallen into a state of decline."

"Tiger? You want to fight again..." Zhang Guoqing stopped talking halfway.

(End of this chapter)