The whole mountain is my hunting ground

As a person who runs a convenience store, Yang Xue is considered to be knowledgeable.

But this was the first time Yang Xue had seen such a generous child in her life.

"No?" Li Ruhai gently rubbed Zhao Hong's shoulder and asked, "Xiao Hong, do you have money? You just ask for it."

"My brother!" Zhao Hong held the counter with both hands, twisted her body, turned her head to look at Zhao Jun, then turned back and said proudly: "My brother said that he would buy me whatever I want!"

Zhao Jun had said this before, and more than once.

"Oh." Yang Xue smiled and said, "Your brother is so good to you, but Hong..."

Although Yang Xue made money by selling goods, she was close to the village, so she wanted to advise the girl. Why did you buy so many of those things?

But at this moment, Li Ruhai interrupted and asked, "Aunt Wang, how much is this?"

"Five cents for this big one." Yang Xue said, "Square and round ones are both five cents."

Five cents is not too much, but not too little either. In this forest area grocery store, you can buy half a pound of sugar balls for two cents. The golden gourds that most workers can't afford are only nine cents a bag.

"How many pictures can there be?" Li Ruhai pinched the stack of pictures, and then said to Yang Xue: "Aunt Wang, check for me, I want all of them when I'm done."

Li Ruhai estimated that there were only about ten pieces in this stack. If they were five cents each, he could buy them back for his sisters to play with. Even if his sisters didn't want to play with them, he could still play with them.

But for some reason, when Zhao Hong said that they wanted to buy everything, it sounded very powerful, while when Li Ruhai said it, it felt very calm.

But when Zhao Hong said she wanted all of them, Yang Xue had to stop her because the child was too young and didn't understand.

But Li Ruhai said he wanted both, and Yang Xue didn't even bother trying to persuade him, because Li Ruhai was not an ordinary child, and in some aspects, he knew more than some adults.

Just as Yang Xue was about to count, Zhao Jun's voice came from behind the children: "Aunt Wang, we don't need those."

Seeing Zhao Jun coming over, Zhao Hong smiled, grabbed Zhao Jun's hand and called him "Brother".

Zhao Jun touched the small hat on Zhao Hong's head with his other hand, and then said to Yang Xue, "Aunt Wang, give me seven round ones and seven square ones."

"Hey!" Yang Xue responded and began to check, while Zhao Jun lowered his head and said to Zhao Hong: "You seven people, each of you can have a round one and a square one, what do you need those for?"

Hearing what Zhao Jun said, Zhao Hong narrowed her eyes and smiled, but said nothing. She didn't speak, and the other children were even quieter.

At this time, Yang Xue found seven large square pictures. Just as she picked up the clip to clip the rest, she heard Li Ruhai say, "Aunt Wang, give me another one."

"Ah..." Yang Xue was startled. When she looked up, she saw Li Ruhai smiling at Zhao Jun, "Brother, I am also a child."

Zhao Jun was stunned when he heard this, then he smiled and said, "Yes! You are also a child! Let's buy it!"

After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Yang Xue immediately gave out another one.

While Yang Xue was counting the picture cards, Zhao Jun took out all the money.

One note is five cents, so sixteen notes are eighty cents. Zhao Jun gave one dollar and got two ten-cent notes in change.

Including Li Ruhai, the eight children each took two large picture cards and ran home happily.

When they got home, the children started looking for scissors to cut the picture cards.

No matter whether the big sheet is square or round, it has twenty-five small sheets on it, which have to be cut into pieces.

But before the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, you can’t use scissors. There is no other way, so adults usually help.

Fortunately, Zhao Youcai, Zhao Jun, Zhang Yuanmin and Xing San were all good with knives. After fifteen or sixteen minutes, the seven children ran out excitedly.

In the morning, when Wang Qiang and his wife brought Wang Tian and Wang Xue here, they saw a group of children playing tricks in the backyard of the village.

The film tricks those kids used were cut out from picture cards bought from the canteen.

Compared with the thick cardboard pieces you fold yourself, picture cards are thin, small and light, so there are more ways to play with them than traditional cardboard techniques.

When Wang Meilan shouted, the group of children had already run away.

The children, who usually don't go out, played until after four o'clock today. It was almost dark, and the seven children had not returned yet.

Wang Meilan asked Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu to put on their clothes and go out to look for the child, not because she was afraid that the child would be lost, but because it was time for dinner soon.

The two brothers had just put on their clothes when they heard the dog barking outside.

The seven children's faces were red from the cold and their noses were running.

If it were thirty or forty years later, parents would have long since given up doing this. But these days, every child does this. The key is that no one has caught a cold.

Seeing this, women like Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei quickly took out toilet paper to help the child blow his nose.

Nowadays, many families use handkerchiefs to blow their children's noses and then wash the handkerchiefs.

The Zhao family was well-off, so they went down the mountain to buy toilet paper in bags of 100 kilograms each.

"How's it going?" Zhao Jun asked, looking at Zhao Hong, whose hair was a little messy, "Won? Lost?"

"Lost." Zhao Hong curled his lips and reached into his pocket to take out the remaining cards.

"Oh my god!" Li Baoyu saw this and laughed, "I lost a lot."

There are two large picture cards for each child, and a total of fifty small ones, which form a thick stack when cut out.

According to Li Baoyu's observation, the remaining pieces of Zhao Hong's paintings were less than half of what they had at the beginning.

After hearing what Li Baoyu said, Wang Meilan, who was taking off Zhao Hong's cotton-padded jacket, asked her second daughter hurriedly, "Did you lose your temper? Did you not fight with anyone?"

"No!" Zhao Hong pouted and answered loudly.

"What kind of fight are you fighting for?" Zhao Youcai smiled and hugged Zhao Hong, saying, "What kind of person are you making my second daughter look like?"

Wang Meilan curled her lips and went back to the outer room to make pancakes.

There aren't many entertainment activities these days. People get tired of watching TV, so these people just entertain their children.

After asking around, none of the children won. The one who lost the least was Xiao Lingling, who lost eight cards. The one who lost the most was Lin Xiaobao, who didn't have a single card left.

The adults laughed, they didn't care whether the children won or lost. If they didn't win the house or the land, what else could they do?

A large picture card cost only five cents, and with the financial resources of several major shareholders of the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce, no one took it seriously.

They just watched the fun, but it didn't matter.

Zhao Hong reluctantly pulled Zhao Youcai's hand and said, "Dad, you come with me tomorrow and you have to beat them for me."

"Haha..." Everyone laughed. Zhao Youcai said with a smile, "Hey, my second daughter, your father is the leader in hunting. You can't play this."

Hearing Zhao Youcai say this, Zhao Hong curled her lips, looked at Zhao Jun and said, "Brother, Dad won't go, you go!"

"Brother can't go either." Zhao Jun said with a smile: "Your brother is already in his twenties, how can I beat other kids to go?"

After saying this, Zhao Jun added: "Does your brother still have the face to do this?"

Being rejected by Zhao Jun again, Zhao Hong curled her lips again, but she didn't say anything else.

But at this moment, Li Xiaoqiao stood up and called Li Ruhai, saying, "Brother! Our eldest brother always says you are shameless, why don't you come with us."

"Hahaha..." Amidst the laughter of the crowd, Li Ruhai glared at Li Baoyu fiercely.

Amidst the laughter, the aroma of cakes filled the air.

Today is the fourth day of the New Year, and I am making pancakes and scrambled eggs.

The Zhao family’s pancakes include single pancakes and fried pancakes. The single pancakes are soft and thin, and when you take a bite of the rolled vegetables, you can taste the texture of the vegetables.

The fried cakes are thick and fragrant, especially the big ones with golden and greasy sides, which are spread on the clean table.

Add egg sauce and arrange them in a row, followed by stir-fried shredded potatoes, stir-fried meat with bean sprouts, and shredded green onions.

For a normal family, this is the best. But the Zhao family likes to roll bacon in the pancake.

No bacon was made today, but Wang Meilan cut some sausage strips and arranged them in a row. When rolled up, the big pancake was thicker than Zhao Jun's wrist.

Open your mouth wide and take a bite, your mouth will be filled with fragrance and oil.

After eating and drinking, the diners went home.

Before Wang Meilan returned to her room, she went to the west room and asked Zhao Youcai, "Dad, what are you going to get for them tomorrow when we go to Old Ma's house?"

Tomorrow is the fifth day of the Chinese New Year. The custom here is to visit relatives starting from the fifth day.

Wang Qiang came every day, and apart from him, the Zhao family had no other relatives. Since Zhao Jun was not married yet, the family of three went to the Ma family to take a look.

When the Chinese New Year comes next year, the couple will be married, so there will be no need for that. By then, on the second day of the Chinese New Year, Zhao Jun will accompany Ma Ling back to her parents' home.

When visiting relatives during the Chinese New Year, you generally don't need to bring too many things unless you really want to ask for something.

So Zhao Youcai said, "My son, just buy two kilograms of oranges and apples for them."

…

February 21, 1988, the fifth day of the Chinese New Year.

There is something to say today!

During the Chinese New Year, the fifth day of the New Year is second only to New Year's Eve and the first day of the New Year in importance.

Zhao Youcai got up early in the morning, put in the pig feed, and then started sweeping the yard.

These days, the firecracker paper and dust in the yard were swept into the corner at the base of the warehouse wall.

Under normal circumstances, the garbage would be directly thrown outside the yard and into the garbage pile next to the toilet.

Not only that, the garbage at home has not been thrown away these days. It is all packed in sacks and placed in the warehouse.

But today, Zhao Youcai packed them all up and dumped them in the garbage dump.

Because today is the fifth day of the first lunar month, and there is a custom of "breaking the fifth" and "getting rid of poverty".

The so-called Po Wu means that from the first to the fourth day of the New Year, you cannot use needles and thread, scissors, wash your hair or clothes, or throw away garbage.

Until the fifth day, all taboos are broken, which is the origin of Po Wu.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, people throw away the garbage accumulated over the past few days, which is called throwing away poverty. To put it bluntly, it is to get a good start in getting rich.

The Chinese people have always preferred to believe in customs related to money and folk remedies related to kidney tonification.

Therefore, on the fifth day of the New Year, most families attach great importance to it, and eating dumplings and setting off firecrackers are musts.

Wang Meilan specially brought Renhe's stuffing yesterday and started making dumplings with the old lady early in the morning.

Dumplings stuffed with roe deer meat and radish, with more meat and less radish. You bite through the skin, suck up the soup, and eat the meat and eggs.

After eating and drinking, the old lady took over the dishwashing job and asked Wang Meilan to wash and dress up.

After packing everything, Wang Meilan went to visit the Ma family with Zhao Jun and Zhao Youcai.

Zhao Jun was carrying a triangular bag filled with apples and oranges.

The arrival of the Zhao family's three members was warmly welcomed by the Ma family.

In order to wait for them to come, Ma Dafu and Wang Cuihua did not let Ma Yang go out to play. And today Ma Sheng's family was also there, they had been here since the 29th day of the lunar year and had not left.

Zhao Jun's family of three sat at the Ma's house for half an hour. While chatting, Wang Meilan and Wang Cuihua talked about Wang Changhai who came that day.

Wang Cuihua also called Wang Changhai "Sixth Uncle", but her father and Wang Changhai were not real uncles. In comparison, Wang Meilan was closer to Wang Changhai.

The same is true for Wang Changyou from Changling Village, but when they talked about the old man today, Wang Cuihua shook her head repeatedly.

When they came out of the Ma family and walked home, Zhao Jun asked Wang Meilan, "Mom, what's going on between our family and Wang Changyou? It's OK that my aunt Ma doesn't associate with him, but our family and he are real relatives."

Even if Lord Wang is a bad person, unless there is a grudge between them, given the relationship between the two families and the fact that they live so close to each other, they should have had some contact over the years.

"Oh!" Wang Meilan sighed when she heard that, and then her eyes drifted towards Zhao Youcai.

Zhao Jun looked over there and asked Wang Meilan, "What's going on? Is there something wrong between him and my dad?"

"You can't say that." Wang Meilan pursed her lips and said, "That year your great grandmother...had been gone for two years, right? She took her two sons to your grandmother's house. Your youngest grandmother and your uncle were at home, and the three of them came into the house to chat for a while, and then they started arguing."

"Ah?" Zhao Jun was stunned, frowned and asked, "Mom, what did you say?"

"His family members have that problem." Wang Meilan said, "They rummage through everyone's house."

"You still have this problem?" Zhao Jun said in disbelief, "How disgusting! What are you doing? Confiscating the house?"

"I don't know." Wang Meilan shook her head and said, "They go to everyone's house and say they want to see what you have."

Zhao Jun listened and was speechless.

"All relatives know each other, so generally no one pays much attention to him." Wang Meilan said, "They turned over that day, and your uncle had a quarrel with them, and the result was..."

At this point, Wang Meilan paused and said, "We never quarreled."

Zhao Jun curled his lips. Wang Qiang was not very old at that time, so it was normal for them to quarrel. Wang Changyou would probably still say that Wang Qiang was uneducated and ignorant.

"I said he is nothing!" Zhao Youcai suddenly interrupted, "He is just capable of staying at home!"

"You are nothing!" Wang Meilan retorted immediately after hearing Zhao Youcai talking about her brother and how incompetent he was.

Zhao Youcai didn't dwell on this topic, but said to Zhao Jun: "Your uncle came to our house crying a dozen days ago. When I heard that, I got furious. What the hell, there's no one left?"

"Dad! Did you take care of them?" Zhao Jun asked. Zhao Youcai said proudly, "Yes, the three of you asked me to take care of the humble ones."

"Ah..." After hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Zhao Jun knew why the two families never had any contact with each other.

But then, Zhao Jun asked the two men again: "Why didn't you tell me when I asked you that time?"

"What do you mean?" Wang Meilan whispered, "When you asked that question the other day, everyone was there listening. If I said that Wang Changyou was rummaging through the house, wouldn't that make us think too much?"

Zhao Jun reacted as soon as he heard it. These diners ate and drank at his house every day, and the adults and children could get whatever they needed.

Of course, these were not outsiders, so it was fine. But if the reason for the conflict between Zhao Youcai and Wang Chang was mentioned in front of them, it would easily lead to people overthinking and misunderstanding.

This time they understood what was going on, and Zhao Jun and his two companions also arrived home. But just as they entered the yard, Zhao Hong, Zhao Na, and Li Xiaoqiao ran out of his house.

"What are you guys doing?" Wang Meilan asked. Zhao Hong said, "I'm going to do the fan show!"

After saying that, the three little girls ran out of the yard.

At this time, Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan shouted in unison: "Don't fight with others!"

It is true that there is such a person as Wang Chang. My grandfather’s nephew is just like this.