The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 1194 Zhang Yuanmin comes home and Yang Yufeng teases him

Ma Yang is a child with many problems, but he has the backbone of the Ma family and a strong spirit in his bones.

Although Zhao Jun was his brother-in-law, and the extra hairpin Zhao Jun gave him was for his sister, Ma Yang still wanted to return the money for the hairpin to Zhao Jun.

As he was short of money that day, Ma Yang only paid for a hairpin for his sweetheart. Since then, Ma Yang's skipping classes has doubled.

But how smart are the mountain animals?
This stupid boy didn't even have a slingshot, and he just relied on his legs and stones, but his success rate was so low that it was heartbreaking.

But it must be said that Ma Yang is indeed a man who gets things done. He relied on his tenacious perseverance to catch three rabbits and two pheasants.

Ma Yang made a rough calculation and concluded that if he exchanged the rabbits and pheasants for money, plus what he had left over, it would be enough to return the money to Zhao Jun.

But after waiting for a few days, Ma Yang still didn't show up for Li Ruhai, so he had no choice but to deliver the goods to his door.

As soon as Jin Xiaomei left the house, Ma Yang went straight to the point and told Li Ruhai why he was there.

Three days ago, Li Ruhai would not have taken this little thing seriously. In the local parlance, the money that slipped through Li Ruhai's fingers was enough to buy these hares and pheasants.

But today, Li Ruhai not only lost his glamorous appearance, but also became penniless.

In particular, Jin Xiaomei said that from now on, Li Ruhai would have to hand over all of his monthly salary except for the fifty cents left for him.

Yong'an Forest Farm pays salaries around the 10th of every month. Now there is still half a month before the next salary payment. What can Li Ruhai use to buy Ma Yang's pheasants and rabbits?
When Li Ruhai said he didn't want to buy it, Ma Yang suddenly became anxious.

"Why don't you want to do it? I'm in urgent need of money." Ma Yang was not really trying to blackmail him morally. It was Li Ruhai who asked him to catch rabbits and hunt pheasants. Ma Yang worked very hard for several days but got no money. Who wouldn't do that?

Li Ruhai was stunned when he heard what Ma Yang said, then he came to his senses and said with a smile: "You are so funny. I don't owe you anything. If I want it, I want it. If I don't want it, I don't want it."

Boys of this age are the most impulsive. Ma Yang pushed Li Ruhai in a fit of anger.

Li Ruhai had been going through a lot of ups and downs in the past few days, and his family members had been indifferent to him. He was in a very bad mood, so he hit Ma Yang back.

Then, they started fighting.

When Zhao Jun came in, Li Ruhai and Ma Yang were hugging each other and falling on the kang.

Although Ma Yang was not as tall as Li Ruhai, he was much stronger than Li Ruhai and suppressed Li Ruhai in an instant.

"Hey? Hey?" Seeing that Ma Yang was about to ride on Li Ruhai, Zhao Jun jumped to the front of the kang in two steps, pushed Ma Yang away, grabbed Li Ruhai's collar with one hand, and pulled him up with force.

Of these two guys, one is his brother-in-law, and the other is like his own brother. Zhao Jun cannot be partial and can only give each of them fifty lashes.

"What are you doing?" Zhao Jun asked the two men, "What kind of war are you fighting?"

Zhao Jun had thick eyebrows and big eyes. He glared at the two boys and instantly shocked them. Li Ruhai and Ma Yang did not dare to talk back to Zhao Jun, but they both glared at each other indignantly.

"No? What are you doing here?" Zhao Jun gently pushed Ma Yang's shoulder and said, "What time is it now? Is school over? What are you doing? Why don't you study hard all day?"

As he spoke, Zhao Jun pulled Ma Yang's arm and said, "Let's go home. I'll go ask my aunt!"

As soon as Zhao Jun said this, Ma Yang instantly became scared. He grabbed Zhao Jun's wrist with both hands and said, "Brother! Don't!"

“Let go!” Zhao Jun pushed Ma Yang away and raised his leg to kick him, but put it down again.

Then, Zhao Jun turned around and hit Li Ruhai with the stick again, saying, "What's wrong with you? There are guests at home, and you are like this? Wait until my uncle and my aunt come back, and see if you will be beaten or not."

“Brother!” Li Ruhai, like Ma Yang, grabbed Zhao Jun’s arm and said, “You can’t tell my dad and mom!”

Li Ruhai is still a criminal now, and he will be punished if he causes trouble again.

Zhao Jun glanced at Li Ruhai, then turned around and squinted at Ma Yang, shouting, "Go home!"

Without saying a word, Ma Yang bent down, picked up the string of pheasants and rabbits, and walked out with them.

Zhao Jun glared at Li Ruhai again, then chased after Ma Yang.

When the two of them got outside, Zhao Jun called out to Ma Yang, and as he stretched out his hand to him, he pointed his chin forward and said, "Give that to me."

Ma Yang was quite obedient and gave the pheasant and hare in his hand to Zhao Jun. Zhao Jun took the prey and asked Ma Yang: "After taking things from others, do you take them back?"

Pheasants and rabbits were not valuable. According to the price Li Ruhai paid for them, a rabbit was eight cents. Li Ruhai took a one-cent profit from it, and Ma Yang was left with only seven cents.

Pheasants were even cheaper, with males costing five cents and females four cents. The ones Ma Yang was holding cost exactly thirty cents in total.

The things are not expensive, and the Li family doesn't lack them. Jin Xiaomei wants to buy food for Ma Yang as a return gift. Anything she buys is more valuable than these pheasants and rabbits.

But the gift is small but the sentiment is great. With the Zhao army in the middle, the Li and Ma families are no longer outsiders.

Now that Ma Yang has taken away the pheasants and rabbits, what will Jin Xiaomei think when she comes home at night and can’t find them?
Zhao Jun took the pheasants and rabbits and threw them casually under the wall. These were frozen goods and there was no need to worry about them falling.

Then, Zhao Jun and Ma Yang took money out of their pockets almost at the same time.

"Brother Jun!" Ma Yang raised his head towards the wall, turned back and said to Zhao Jun: "That's three cents, I'll give you another thirty-five cents..."

"Alright, alright!" Hearing what he said, Zhao Jun raised his hand and said, "That's it for us. You don't have to give it to me."

As he spoke, Zhao Jun pointed down the wall and said, "It just so happens that there are guests at home, who want to eat rabbits and kick eagles."

"A rabbit kicking an eagle?" Upon hearing this, Ma Yang curiously asked Zhao Jun, "What is that?"

"You don't know?" Zhao Jun smiled faintly and said, "Eat at home tonight?"

"No." Ma Yang shook his head and said, "I have to go home."

"Wait a moment." Zhao Jun walked quickly to the wall, took the wild boar leg from the top, came back and handed it to Ma Yang, saying, "Take it home and let my aunt boil it and eat it with mashed garlic."

“No, Brother Jun.” Ma Yang tried to pull back but was caught by Zhao Jun, who then forced the pig leg into his hand and said, “Go back quickly and don’t run around.”

Ma Yang agreed and left the Li family with the pork leg.

After seeing Ma Yang off, Zhao Jun was about to go back home, but he saw Li Ruhai coming out of the house at some point.

Zhao Jun rolled his eyes at Li Ruhai and said nothing. Seeing Zhao Jun was about to leave, Li Ruhai hurriedly chased after him, pointed at Ma Yang's back and said to Zhao Jun: "Brother, I am giving you face today, otherwise he will never be able to leave my house."

"Stop it." Zhao Jun said unhappily, "Before I came into the room, they had already pushed you down. Why are you still bragging?"

"Who's bragging?" Li Ruhai said unconvincedly, "Brother, I'm not saying anything bad about your brother-in-law, he's just being brave."

"Then who are you blaming?" Zhao Jun said, "Besides talking, what else can you do?"

"I..." Li Ruhai was speechless for a moment, then gestured to Zhao Jun and said, "Brother, you are not well-educated. You don't know that since ancient times, civil officials have been in power..."

"Get the hell out of here!" Zhao Jun angrily pushed Li Ruhai's shoulder, then slapped him on the buttocks and shouted, "You are the one who has little education? Get the hell out of here!"

Li Ruhai went home dejectedly, and as soon as Zhao Jun arrived at his door, he met Wang Meilan coming out of the house.

Wang Meilan held up the large curtain with both hands, on which were pieces of wild boar meat.

"Son!" Seeing Zhao Jun, Wang Meilan called out, "Open the cylinder cover for me."

Zhao Jun agreed, went to the west wall, opened the iron cap on the big vat, and put Wang Meilan into the vat together with the meat and the lid.

When the meat is frozen solid, you can tap it with the back of a knife or lift it up and the meat will come off.

Zhao Jun closed the tank cover, then pulled Wang Meilan to the corner and whispered to her the news he had heard from Xing San today.

Wang Meilan's eyes lit up when she heard this, and then Zhao Jun told her about Wang Qiang's plan.

When Wang Meilan heard that they would go treasure hunting in the mountains after the New Year, she said, "Son, Mom will go with you!"

"Just stop it." Zhao Jun smiled and said, "Me, my dad, my uncle, and my third uncle, the four of us are enough."

At this point, Zhao Jun looked around cautiously, then leaned close to Wang Meilan's ear and said, "What my uncle said today is right. If Hu Zitou hides something, he must have a mark. We are all mountain hikers. We can go there and see if there is a mark on the tree. We can know it."

"Well, that's fine." Wang Meilan nodded after hearing that, then hesitated and said, "But...your dad kept saying that he won't go up the mountain anymore."

"It's okay, Mom." Zhao Jun didn't take Wang Meilan's words seriously, but smiled and said, "Give my dad some money when the time comes, and he'll be happy to go with us."

"It doesn't seem possible." Wang Meilan pursed her lips and shook her head, saying, "Look at him, if he wants to go up the mountain, he has to stay quiet for a while."

"It's okay." Zhao Jun still said confidently: "If it doesn't work, just give him a little more money."

As he spoke, Zhao Jun smiled and said, "There must be a man who will take advantage of a huge reward!"

"What the hell?" Wang Meilan frowned and asked, "Son, are you right?"

Zhao Jun was startled by Wang Meilan's question, then nodded and said, "Yes!"

"There must be a common man?" Wang Meilan squinted her eyes and asked, "Isn't 'common man' a good word?"

"Why not?" Zhao Jun recalled Li Ruhai's words about Ma Yang and said, "It's just a common man's courage. It means this man is fierce."

"Ah..." Wang Meilan had only learned to count and keep accounts when she was young. She was weak in cultural aspects and was led astray by her son who did not finish the first grade of junior high school. She immediately responded: "Okay, I'll risk it. I'll return the 200 yuan to him."

At four o'clock in the afternoon, a medical vehicle drove into Yong'antun.

In the car, Yang Yufeng was giving directions to the driver while Zhang Yuanmin was looking out the window silently.

The car stopped in front of Zhang Yuanmin's house. Yang Yufeng got out and carried Zhang Yuanmin into the house with the driver, carrying a stretcher.

In fact, the couple missed Zhao Jun and his family very much, but Zhang Yuanmin had difficulty moving around and was afraid of causing trouble for Zhao Jun and his family, so he returned to his own home.

"Ouch!" As soon as the driver entered Zhang Yuanmin's house, he immediately asked Yang Yufeng, who was sitting in front of him, "Didn't you say that no one was home? Why is this house so warm?"

"The neighbors helped burn it." Yang Yufeng led the stretcher to the east room and said, "If the house hadn't been burned down, how would we stay here?"

After hearing what Yang Yufeng said, the driver said nothing more. His family also lived in a bungalow, and he knew that if he didn't light a fire in the winter, the floor inside the house would freeze, and the house would not be warm no matter how many days he burned it.

The stretcher was placed on the edge of the kang. Zhang Yuanmin touched the kang and couldn't help but cry out "Ouch".

Wang Meilan came to light the kang at three o'clock in the afternoon, and it was still warm.

Yang Yufeng grabbed Zhang Yuanmin's cotton jacket, and the driver grabbed Zhang Yuanmin's trouser legs. The two did not dare to use too much force, and tentatively pulled Zhang Yuanmin from the stretcher to the kang.

"Brother, please sit for a while." Yang Yufeng said to the driver, "I'll give you a sip of hot water."

"I don't want to drink it, sister." The driver said, "How long will it take you to boil water? Give me the money, I'm leaving."

The driver gestured out the window and said, "It's getting dark now. I'll hurry down the mountain."

Hearing what the driver said, Yang Yufeng took out thirty yuan from her pocket without saying a word, and handed it to him before saying, "Brother, sit for two minutes. I'll go to my neighbor's house and get you some hot water. Now that we're home, you should at least have a drink of water."

The driver was thirsty too. After hearing what Yang Yufeng said, he nodded and said, "Thank you, sister."

Yang Yufeng ran out with the teacup and poured a cup of hot water into the house of a family surnamed Hou in the front room.

They all lived there as neighbors. The Hou family poured hot water for Yang Yufeng and asked about Zhang Yuanmin's situation.

There are no secrets in the village. As soon as the ambulance enters the village, there are many eyes staring at it. Just now, when Yang Yufeng and the driver carried Zhang Yuanmin into the house, the Hou family was watching from the window.

There were guests at home, so Yang Yufeng simply said a few words and left Lao Hou's house.

But just as she walked out of the hospital gate, Yang Yufeng saw a man swaying and walking towards her with a duck-like gait.

"Mrs. Zhang!" Zhang Laibao shouted to Yang Yufeng, "Is my elder brother Zhang back?"

"Ah!" Yang Yufeng didn't want to pay attention to Zhang Laibao, but since he was talking, she had no choice but to respond.

But then, Zhang Laibao said, "Why did he come back when he was not allowed to return to the village after being killed?"

"I'm so pretty!" Yang Yufeng was so angry that she smashed the teacup and hot water on Zhang Laibao's head.

"Ah..." As Zhang Laibao screamed, Yang Yufeng pounced over and grabbed Zhang Laibao's face with both hands.

"Ah...you bitch..." Zhang Laibao waved his hands to resist, but the Northeastern women's Nine Yin White Bone Claw was unique, and Zhang Laibao's face was scratched in an instant.

After Zhang Laibao ran away, Yang Yufeng picked up the teacup at her feet, but she couldn't find the lid.

Yang Yufeng didn't even bother to take care of the lid of the teacup. She hurriedly picked up the teacup and ran back to Lao Hou's house.

After getting some hot water again, going home to see the driver off and settling Zhang Yuanmin down, Yang Yufeng hurriedly picked up her things and headed straight for Zhao Jun's house.

Today, when coming out of the hospital and passing by the fourth department store in the county, Yang Yufeng specifically asked the driver to stop for a while, and then went in to buy some things.

The Zhao family never left the house except to go to the toilet, so when the news of Zhang Yuanmin's return home spread throughout half of the village, the Zhao family had not yet received the news.

When they were about seventeen or eighteen meters away from the Zhao family's yard, the dogs of the Zhao and Li families started barking. There was a hint of excitement in their rapid barking, which was the sound of acquaintances coming to the door.

(End of this chapter)