The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 1205 Li Ruhai: My father's name is Li Yong, my stepmother's name is Jin Mei
As soon as Li Ruhai opened his mouth, everyone's eyes were instantly focused on him.

Although the child is young, his words are full of confidence.

Except for Zhao Weipeng, who was not very familiar with him, no one else present thought that Li Ruhai was fooling around.

This kid really gets into trouble, but he also really gets things done.

"What's the matter?" Li Dayong glanced at his old son and asked unhappily, "Yangjiacun'er, do you know anyone?"

"Is there?" Li Ruhai seemed to be uncertain and said, "Sun Shuli from the second workshop is from that village, right?"

"Sun Shuli?" Li Dayong and Zhao Youcai exchanged glances after hearing this. Zhao Youcai looked at Li Ruhai and said with a curled lip, "Sun Shuli has been separated from his father for many years, and has moved to Yongfu for more than ten years. How can he know whether the Zhengs have gone there?"

"That's not something to be afraid of, sir." Li Ruhai smiled at Zhao Youcai, then straightened his body that had been bent for several days, and said in a sonorous and powerful voice with great confidence: "Don't we have a mouth under our noses? We can talk to people wherever we meet. If we can't ask directly, we can just trick them into telling us something."

After hearing what Li Ruhai said, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. There was nothing wrong with what Li Ruhai said, but none of the people present could do what he did.

"Hey?" Zhao Weipeng's eyes lit up when he looked at Li Ruhai. He raised his finger and pointed at Li Ruhai, then said to Li Dayong, "Dayong, this kid is really adventurous. He will have a bright future!"

Hearing Zhao Weipeng praising himself, Li Ruhai smiled, bowed slightly to him and nodded in greeting.

Seeing this, Zhao Jun couldn't help but twitch his lips. He looked at Boss Zhao praising these two people, Zhang Yuanmin and Li Ruhai, neither of them was an easy target.

"No, Ruhai?" At this time, Lin Xiangshun poured cold water on Li Ruhai and said, "You go to inquire about things, you have to have an explanation, right? If someone asks you why you want to inquire about this, what will you say?"

"This..." Li Ruhai was stunned and muttered, "Can I ask someone to be a matchmaker for me?"

"Get lost!" Li Dayong said, "If you say that in our village, no one will pay attention to you. If you say that outside, people will think you are a bad guy and arrest you right away."

"Then I said I would buy their wild boar meat and roe deer meat?" Li Ruhai looked at Li Dayong, meaning if I buy the things, you have to return my capital, right?
"Come on." Li Dayong waved his hands and said, "You little brat, who would believe you if you said you were collecting mountain products?"

"Don't do anything stupid!" Li Dayong had just finished speaking when Li Baoyu slipped in and said, "Don't alert the enemy!"

"Then what should I do?" Li Ruhai scratched his head. He was good at language output and communicating with people, but he was not so good at giving advice and suggestions.

But the Zhao family still has capable people. Zhang Yuanmin, who was lying on the kang, laughed heartily: "Hahaha..."

His sudden smile startled everyone.

"What are you doing?" Yang Yufeng gently confronted Zhang Yuanmin and whispered, "You're so startled."

“Don’t worry about it!” Zhang Yuanmin frowned and glared at Yang Yufeng, then continued laughing: “Hehehe…”

At this time, Zhao Jun winked at Li Baoyu, who stood up, bowed to Zhang Yuanmin, and asked, "Brother, why are you laughing?"

"Haha." Zhang Yuanmin dropped his goose feather fan into the rotten stone cellar. He patted his chest lightly and smiled faintly, "Nothing else, I just have a plan in mind!"

As soon as Zhang Yuanmin said this, Jie Chen stood up and asked, "Big brother, do you have any good ideas?"

Zhang Yuanmin looked at Li Chen with admiration, then turned to Li Ruhai and said, "Ruhai, come closer!"

"Don't do anything useless!" Yang Yufeng pushed Zhang Yuanmin hard and said, "So many people are looking at you, just tell me."

Zhang Yuanmin thought it made sense and immediately presented his plan.

"I won't do it!" Unexpectedly, after listening to Zhang Yuanmin's words, Li Ruhai was the first to object. He waved his hand and said, "I won't do anything!"

"Bang!" Zhao Youcai slapped the table, pointed at Zhang Yuanmin and counted several times before saying, "Yuanmin, you are really good!"

As soon as Zhao Youcai finished speaking, Li Dayong pointed at Zhang Yuanmin and said, "Should I say it or not? This is a great plan!"

"You really are that one!" Wang Qiang rarely praised Zhang Yuanmin, and Lin Xiangshun on the side nodded heavily in agreement.

"Brother!" Zhao Jun really didn't want to exaggerate Yuanmin, but at this moment he also gave Zhang Yuanmin a thumbs up.

"Hahaha!" If Zhang Yuanmin was grinning foolishly just now, now he was grinning smugly. It was really rare for Zhao Jun to praise him.

Zhao Weipeng also gave a thumbs up like Zhao Jun. He praised Zhang Yuanmin with emotion, saying, "You are worthy of being called Little Zhuge!"

"Hahaha..." Zhang Yuanmin became even more proud!

……

It takes two hours to have dinner at Zhao Jun's house, and plus the woman has to clean up the mess after dinner, so it's still nine o'clock before they finish.

At this time, many families in the village turned off the lights and went to bed.

Yonglitun, Xing Zhiyong’s home.

Hu Erya and Xing Hongyang had already lay down, mother and daughter on either side, with a spot in the middle reserved for Xing Zhiyong.

When Xing Hongyang got home, Hu Erya had already prepared the meal. Neither of them waited for Xing Zhiyong, and they ate right away.

It’s not that Xing Zhiyong has no status at home, but that Xing Zhiyong and his gang don’t have a car like the Zhao family, so it’s convenient for them to go back and forth when they go hiking in the mountains.

These days, it is normal for a normal mountain runner to walk thirty or forty miles back and forth in the mountains in a day. Some people walk farther, covering sixty or seventy miles from morning to night.

This led to them returning home very late most of the time, and it was also common for some of them to go to a friend's house to drink after coming down the mountain. At that time, there was not even a pager, and it was impossible to send letters home.

So, since they couldn't wait for their meal, Hu Erya left some food for Xing Zhiyong, and then the mother and daughter ate first.

While eating, Xing Hongyang also told Hu Erya about his encounter with Li Hu outside the village.

After hearing what her eldest son said, Hu Erya concluded that Xing Zhiyong and Li Hu were not together, otherwise, Li Hu would not have called his child his own.

As for Xing Hongyang's behavior of ignoring Li Hu, Hu Erya said that he did the right thing.

It was already past nine o'clock, but it was common for hikers to return home in the middle of the night. So the mother and daughter didn't wait for Xing Zhiyong and fell asleep quickly.

The next day, December 1987, 12.

Wang Meilan got up early in the morning and steamed a pot of steamed buns made from two tsp of flour, and boiled sauerkraut in the soup left over from yesterday's hot pot.

At around seven o'clock, Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong went to work, while Zhao Jun, Jie Chen and Zhao Weipeng chatted in the house.

Not long after, Little Bell came.

The kid didn't come empty-handed, he was dragging a sack.

The sack was not heavy. It contained a torn cotton jacket, a torn pair of cotton trousers, and a torn dog-skin hat.

In this three-piece suit, the dog-skin hat has worn edges, while the cotton-padded jacket and cotton trousers have large patches on top of small patches.

But these three sets of clothes have a history. They were all worn by Xiao Lingdang's grandfather. After Zhang Da Nao Tou, a strange man in Yong'an, died, Zhang Yuanmin inherited this set of clothes.

Last year, Zhang Yuanmin wore this set of clothes when hiking. Many of the patches on the clothes were scratched by bears.

This year, Zhang's family got better off, and although they didn't wear the best clothes when they went up the mountain, they also threw away this set of clothes. Normally, if a family in the countryside or forest area has old clothes, there will be 800 people waiting to buy them. But this set of clothes was too old and too worn out, so no one wanted it.

But Yang Yufeng was reluctant to throw it away, so she threw it into the warehouse. She thought that she would tear it apart and wash it in the summer, and if people didn't wear it, she would make a small mattress for the dog. When any of the dogs of the Zhao family got pregnant and gave birth to puppies, she would use the small mattress to pad the doghouse.

But today, Yang Yufeng took out this antique.

When Zhao Jun lifted the sack upside down and dumped the three sets of suits on the ground in the yard, Zhao Weipeng pinched his nose.

This outfit is not only tattered, but also smells bad.

The last time Zhang Yuanmin wore this outfit this year was when he went to work at the 77 Lengchang. There he lived in a shack with other tenants, so what good could that have been?

"Ruhai!" After taking out his tattered clothes, Zhao Jun went to the wall separating the courtyard from the west courtyard and shouted "Li Ruhai" to that courtyard.

"Coming!" It was Jin Xiaomei who answered.

Soon, Jin Xiaomei dragged Li Ruhai out of the house, followed by the smiling Li Xiaoqiao.

At this time, Wang Qiang came. He also came with a worn-out enamel pot.

"Here you go, nephew." Wang Qiang walked up to Zhao Jun and handed him the broken teacup. Zhao Jun picked up the sack on the ground and asked Wang Qiang to throw the broken teacup into the sack, and then stuffed the tattered clothes into the sack as well.

"Let's go." Zhao Jun called a few people, and at this time, Xie Chen, who was carrying a sack, called Zhao Jun and asked, "Brother Jun, don't you bring two guns?"

"Are you a tyrant?" Before Zhao Jun could answer, Wang Qiang said angrily, "You dare to go to someone's village with a gun? What can you do? I tell you, even if those two people are at Yang's house, we can't use guns to attack them. If you use a gun, they will just sit there and throw us down."

After being scolded by Wang Qiang, Xie Chen remained silent. At this time, Zhao Jun said, "No need, today we will use our wits to defeat him. Our elder brother Zhang's move, if Ru Hai implements it, it should be easy to defeat him."

After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Wang Qiang, Jie Chen and Zhao Weipeng nodded.

"Go, listen to your brother Jun." At this time, Jin Xiaomei was at the door admonishing Li Ruhai, saying, "Don't show off, understand?"

"Got it, Mom." Li Ruhai responded obediently, and Li Xiaoqiao tugged at Li Ruhai's sleeve and said, "Little brother, my elder brother asked me to tell you something."

Li Ruhai's mouth twitched when he heard that. Li Baoyu didn't say anything when he was at home, but asked his little sister to tell him a message. That boy must be up to something bad.

Although Li Ruhai didn't respond, Li Xiaoqiao said, "Brother said that today is the day for you to redeem yourself from your crimes and make amends for your mistakes, so that you can start a new life!"

Li Ruhai: "..."

At this time, Xiao Lingdang, Zhao Hong and Zhao Na came out from the Zhao family next door. Xiao Lingdang shouted and Li Xiaoqiao ran away.

Soon after, Zhao Jun and his group also came out of Zhao's house. Zhao Jun, who was familiar with the road, drove the car, Zhao Weipeng sat in the passenger seat, and Wang Qiang, Jie Chen and Li Ruhai sat in the back seat.

An hour and a half later, the car stopped outside a poplar forest. Two miles south of here was the southern entrance of Yangjia Village.

After the car stopped, Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang and Zhao Weipeng did not get out. However, Xie Chen, who was sitting in the back seat, carried a sack and took Li Ruhai into the poplar forest.

Three or four minutes later, Zhao Jun laughed so hard that he leaned on the steering wheel, and Wang Qiang and Zhao Weipeng also laughed so hard that they fell backwards.

At this time, in front of the car, Li Ruhai was wearing a dog-skin hat with frayed edges, a cotton jacket and trousers with large patches and small patches like Zhang Yuanmin, and his own worn-out cotton shoes. He held a worn-out enamel pot in his left hand and a stick in his right hand. He first grabbed the ash from the bottom of the pot on his face, then wiped it with snow. His face was painted with ghosts, and he looked like a little beggar.

“Hahahaha…” A burst of laughter came from the poplar forest. Xie Chen, who was holding the tree with one hand, bent over with laughter.

Li Ruhai turned around and glared at Li Chen. Then, leaning on his stick and dragging his feet, he pretended to be weak and slowly walked towards Yangjia Village.

Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang and Jie Chen were still happy until Li Ruhai disappeared from their sight.

Zhao Weipeng was better, after all, he had only seen Li Ruhai's bright and beautiful side briefly. Zhao Jun and the others were used to seeing Li Ruhai dressed in fine clothes. It was too funny to see him suddenly change into such an outfit.

Li Ruhai sneaked into Yangjia Village, walking along the edge carefully. If he saw pedestrians, Li Ruhai would avoid them from a distance. He searched everywhere in the village, investigating everything in the village.

After walking around for more than an hour, Li Ruhai carefully looked at every household in the village.

When Li Ruhai was walking around a pile of firewood, a dog tied in the yard suddenly started barking at him by the chain.

Just as Li Ruhai was about to run away, the door of the house was pushed open and a woman came out carrying a small basin.

Li Ruhai couldn't run away at this time, otherwise people would think he was up to something. So Li Ruhai pretended to walk unsteadily through the courtyard.

The woman glanced at Li Ruhai and called to her black dog, "Big Black, stop barking and come eat!"

The woman thought Li Ruhai was a beggar passing by and ignored him.

At this moment, Li Ruhai suddenly had an idea. He rushed to the front of the fence and shouted, "Auntie, don't feed the dog!"

"Huh?" The woman was stunned, and her black dog barked wildly at Li Ruhai.

Li Ruhai pretended to be afraid and stepped back, leaning on a stick with his left hand and shaking a broken teacup with his right hand. He said to the woman, "Auntie, I haven't eaten for a day and a night. Can you give me something to eat?"

"Ah?" The woman stared at Li Ruhai with eyes wide open in surprise. She leaned forward towards the mouth of the small basin in her hand, showed it to Li Ruhai, and said, "This is for feeding dogs!"

Feeding dogs is the same way these days: boil potatoes and frozen squash in water until they are mush, then add a little salt and mix it all together.

It’s not that the woman was reluctant to give up the food, the key point is that it is not good to give dog food to people, even if it is given to beggars.

"It's okay, auntie, don't feed it all to the dogs." Li Ruhai said with a sad face, "Give me a bite!"

Although Li Ruhai is tall, one can tell at a glance that he is a minor.

Seeing the tattered clothes he was wearing, the woman couldn't help but feel sympathy for him. She immediately walked to the door and called Li Ruhai, saying, "Come here, I'll pour you a jar of wine!"

"Woof woof woof..." Not sure if she understood or what, the woman dog barked at Li Ruhai while holding the chain.

Li Ruhai used his stick to gain strength and staggered towards the woman. As he approached, a foul smell of sour food hit him in the face. The woman frowned and handed the small basin forward.

"Thank you, auntie! Thank you, auntie!" Li Ruhai shook the broken teacup twice, thanked the woman, and used the teacup to catch the dog food that the woman poured out.

As they leaned over, the woman said, "As for the potatoes, I didn't peel them, but I washed them clean, so they're not dirty!"

After hearing this, Li Ruhai felt better.

There was a lot of dog food in the small bowl. The woman poured a cup of it for Li Ruhai and gave the rest to the black dog.

At this time, Li Ruhai was squatting outside the west tent of the woman's house, holding a teacup.

After the woman fed the dog, the black dog licked the food and had no time to pay attention to Li Ruhai, but the woman walked out of the yard.

At this time, Li Ruhai was squatting there, holding the teacup in both hands, and constantly putting his face against the mouth of the teacup.

This is using the heat from dog food to keep warm!
One end of his stick was leaning on the ground, and the other end was leaning against his shoulder.

Seeing this, the woman sighed, walked towards Li Ruhai and asked, "Kid, where are you from?"

"Auntie!" Li Ruhai glanced at the woman, then stood up with the help of his stick and replied, "I'm from Yongli."

"Yongli? Oh my God!" The woman was shocked and asked, "It's more than a hundred miles away from here? How did you get out of the house?"

Yangjia Village is more than 80 miles away from Yong'antun, and more than 100 miles away from Yongli.

"My stepmother beat me and didn't give me food to eat." Li Ruhai seemed to be reminded of the sad past and choked up and said, "I came out on my own!"

"Oh! Tsk! Tsk!" The woman frowned and smacked her lips repeatedly, saying, "What about your father? Doesn't your father care?"

"Aunt, if he wants to control me, what else can I say?" Li Ruhai cried, "If there is a stepmother, there must be a stepfather!"

"Oh! It's not good at all!" The woman sighed heavily and said, "Men, they are all that shit!"

At this point, the woman paused for a moment and asked Li Ruhai, "Whose family are you from? My brother's wife's family is from Hong Kong."

Li Ruhai was stunned by her question. His mind was working rapidly. From south to north in Yongli Village, Li Ruhai could count every pole and every household. But he didn't know who the woman's brother's wife's family was.

You can't just say this. What if you run into trouble?
So, Li Ruhai thought of making up a story. After all, this woman's brother's wife was from Yongli, but this woman was not.

Thinking of this, Li Ruhai said: "My father's name is Li Yong, and my stepmother's name is Jin Mei."

(End of this chapter)