The whole mountain is my hunting ground

"Zhao Youcai, did you hit Lao Niu again?" As soon as Wang Meilan said this, the smile on Zhao Youcai's face froze and disappeared in just one second. Then, Zhao Youcai's face turned red.

Bad memories from the past came flooding back like a tide, leaving Zhao Youcai with no trace of pride on his face, only anger and shame.

"What are you talking about?" Zhao Youcai's eyes widened as he questioned Wang Meilan, "What the hell is that? You hit Lao Niu?"

"Huh?" Wang Meilan was stunned by Zhao Youcai's words. She subconsciously raised her hand and pointed at the trunk and said, "That...that old cow..."

At this time, Zhao Youcai didn't say anything. He just glanced at Wang Meilan and turned to walk into the yard.

"Sister-in-law, how can you say that about my elder brother?" Li Dayong came over and spoke up for Zhao Youcai, saying, "My elder brother was shot dead by that big claw when he arrived at Shuguang. After that, the forest farm gave us this cow to thank my elder brother."

After saying this, Li Dayong added: "It was killed by the big claws, not by a gun."

"Ah..." After hearing what Li Dayong said, Wang Meilan held the guardrail with both hands, stood on tiptoe, stretched her neck to look inside, and murmured, "That's what's going on..."

"Not at all!" Li Dayong said, "You have wronged my elder brother..."

"It's unfair, so what!" Wang Qiang suddenly interrupted Li Dayong and said, "It's not a big deal."

"What's this..." Li Dayong was about to say something, but Wang Qiang called him, "Brother Li, stop standing there, let's reach out and pull this old cow down."

Li Dayong had no choice but to follow and pull the cow down from the trunk.

"Oh my!" Wang Meilan looked at the old yellow cow whose butt was ripped open, but she did not dislike it. Instead, she said happily: "Look at this cow, there will be a lot of meat after peeling it open."

After saying this, Wang Meilan raised her hand and said, "Take it to the west yard, Dayong, and put it under your fire wall to melt."

With so many people in the Zhao family every day, there is no room in the house for the old cow.

When Zhao Jun and his men dragged the old cow out of the car and passed by the door of Zhao's house, Jin Xiaomei, who was leaning against the window in the house, saw it. She hurriedly called Lin Xue, Zhao Ling, Yang Yufeng, and Xu Chunyan, and several others came out of Zhao's house together.

After leaving Zhao's house, Jin Xiaomei swiftly climbed over the wall and went back to her own home. Seeing Zhao Jun and his men dragging the cow, Jin Xiaomei quickly walked to Li Dayong and asked, "What's going on? Big brother, are you beating the cow again?"

When Jin Xiaomei said this, Li Dayong, who was pulling the cow, paused, looked at Jin Xiaomei angrily, and shouted, "Why do you say that?"

"Ah?" Jin Xiaomei was startled, and pointed to the Zhao family in the east courtyard, saying, "I saw my eldest brother rub his face and go in."

Just now, when Zhao Youcai came into the house with a livid face, everyone thought he was in trouble. When they came out and saw the dead cow, they naturally thought it was Zhao Youcai who beat him again.

Li Dayong: “…”

Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang and others couldn't help laughing. Wang Meilan, who followed them, said hurriedly, "No, no, this was given to us by the Shuguang Forest District. We helped them fight the tiger, so they should thank us."

After hearing what Wang Meilan said, Lin Xue said, "Sister, I think this beef jelly is quite solid. Should we wait overnight?"

"Yeah!" Wang Meilan nodded and said, "Wait a night. I can't take it off now."

After saying this, Wang Meilan waved to Jin Xiaomei and the others and said, "Hurry up and go back to the house to cook dumplings. After Xiaojun and the others finish eating, they will have to leave."

After hearing what Wang Meilan said, Jin Xiaomei and the others quickly climbed over the wall and returned to Zhao's house.

At this time, Zhao Jun and his men dragged the cows to the door of Li's house. Wang Meilan hurried over to open the door, and then said to Zhao Jun and his men, "Bring up the dumplings and get off the noodles. I'll cook some sauerkraut dumplings for you."

Yesterday, Wang Meilan agreed to let Zhao Youcai go to Shuguang to fight tigers because Zhao Youcai said that Zhao Jun must leave today. But if Shuguang didn't finish the job, Zhao Jun couldn't come back. If he and Li Dayong went, they could bring Zhao Jun back.

Zhao Jun had confirmed this trip with Yongxing Brigade and Zhao Weipeng long in advance. Changing the itinerary at the last minute would be very troublesome.

In addition, if Wang Meilan tried to stop the officials from the Forestry Bureau who came to Zhao Youcai's house to invite him, it would be like a man who was afraid of his wife.

Although she is indeed afraid, she must give her man enough face in public.

Since Zhao Youcai was released, Zhao Jun would definitely be back today. So Wang Meilan prepared the stuffing and dough to make dumplings for her son.

When Zhao Jun and his friends entered the room, they saw Jin Xiaomei standing by the stove, watching the pot. In the east room, the women and Li Ruhai were making dumplings.

Three covers of dumplings were already placed on the side of the ground in the outer room.

When the water boils, put the dumplings in the pot.

The first pot of dumplings was eaten by five people: Zhao Jun, Zhang Yuanmin, Li Baoyu, Jie Chen, and Li Ruhai.

The elderly Xing San, the old lady and the children did not sit at the table, let alone others.

When eating dumplings, the dumpling soup is served immediately afterwards. This is the so-called original soup and original food.

After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Zhao Jun and his men began to pack up. The hides and bear galls had been packed up beforehand and were loaded one sack at a time onto the Jiefang truck.

Years ago, the Zhao family father and son took turns leading people up the mountain to catch roe deer as gifts and for their own consumption. Now there are only two alive and two frozen ones left.

The legs of live roe deer were tied and stuffed into sacks, and the frozen ones were stuffed directly into sacks. These were taken to Huludao and given to Zhao Weipeng.

As for the gifts for Yongxing, Zhao Jun had arranged them before the New Year.

In this case, there is nothing left except the gun and bullets for self-defense, money, dry food and water.

As the saying goes: A poor family may lead to a rich road.

Wang Meilan gave Zhao Jun 1,000 yuan, and the dry food was trough cakes. The hot water was stored in a military kettle.

When Zhao Jun received the money from Wang Meilan, he whispered in her ear: "Mom, watch over my dad these few days. Don't let him go out!"

"What's going on?" Wang Meilan asked. Zhao Jun said, "I was having dinner at Secretary Wei's house in Shuguang this morning. He mentioned that there was a big claw in the Hailang forest area. I think he seems to be alive."

"This day!" Wang Meilan heard this and gritted her teeth and said, "It's not enough for him to show off!"

"Okay, Mom, it's enough for you to know." Zhao Jun reminded Wang Meilan again, then walked out of the yard.

By this time all the things had been loaded onto the car, and men, women, young and old all came out to see them off, only to discover that Li Ruhai was missing.

"This little bastard!" Li Dayong had just muttered when he heard the sound of a door opening from the Li family's side.

They were just waiting for him, so when they heard the sound, everyone looked over.

Li Ruhai walked out with his head held high, wearing a marmot hat, military boots, and a Zhongshan suit.

"What a show-off! Go out now." For some reason, Li Baoyu got angry when he saw Li Ruhai wearing this.

Li Ruhai came out, glanced at Li Baoyu, then adjusted his marmot hat on his head and said, "I'm wearing this because I'm going to discuss business with someone."

Hearing Li Ruhai's words, Li Dazhi smiled and said, "Ruhai, your outfit is quite local."

"Hahaha..." Everyone laughed except Jin Xiaomei. She warned Li Ruhai with some concern, "When you go out, you must listen to your big brother. Your big brother is leading you, so don't make things worse for him!"

"Hey!" Li Ruhai put his hands behind his back, raised his head slightly and said to Jin Xiaomei, "Mom, just wait and see how your son sells that little leopard skin quilt for a high price."

"What am I looking at? I'm not going." Jin Xiaomei's words made everyone laugh again.

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Literary men look down on each other. After hearing what Li Ruhai had just said, Zhang Yuanmin said to Yang Yufeng without being asked, "Wife, you and your daughter stay at home. Wait for the news of my victory. I will sell those three white skins for a high price no matter what!"

Seeing his men so enthusiastic, Zhao Jun gained more confidence in this trip to Hebei. After saying goodbye to Wang Meilan and others, Zhao Jun waved his hand and said, "Let's go!"

At Zhao Jun's command, Jie Chen and Li Baoyu got on the Liberation car, and Zhao Jun, Zhang Yuanmin and Li Ruhai got on the jeep.

The jeep was in front and the Liberation truck was behind. The two vehicles left Yong'antun and headed straight for Yongxing Brigade.

When they arrived at the Yongxing Brigade, it was almost four o'clock, and several brigade cadres had been waiting for them at the brigade headquarters.

Seeing Zhao Jun enter the house, Tao Dabao stood up first and said to Zhao Jun with a smile: "You guys finally come down. If you don't come, we will all go home."

"Happy New Year, Uncle Tao, Happy New Year, Secretary Yu..." After Zhao Jun finished greeting everyone, he pulled out a wooden chair and sat down, then explained, "We just came back from Shuguang this morning, and got home at noon. We ate a bite and then hurried over here."

"Why did he go to Shuguang again?" Tao Dabao asked. Zhao Jun said, "The big black claw that jumped into our mountain field earlier has gone to their Shuguang side again. This guy gave them a lot of trouble."

"Ah!" After hearing Zhao Jun mention the black tiger, Yu Xuewen asked hurriedly, "Did you catch it?"

"Yes." Zhao Jun said apologetically, "I was called up on the sixth day of the first month. It was not until around nine o'clock last night that we were called. Otherwise, we should have been here this morning."

"That's fine, that's fine." Yu Xuewen waved his hand and asked Zhao Jun, "It's already this late, can we still leave today?"

"Then why are you leaving?" Tao Dabao said, "Stay and have dinner at my house."

As he spoke, Tao Dabao raised his finger and pointed at Zhao Jun, saying, "The old man has been talking about you for a few days."

"Uncle Tao." Zhao Jun heard this and waved his hand quickly, saying, "We can have dinner, but I won't stay. We have to leave today. You can go to Uncle Zhao tomorrow no matter what."

"Are you safe in this dark place?" Yu Xuewen asked this question. The last time Zhao Jun was having dinner at Tao's house, Yu Xuewen went to ask for advice and heard Zhao Jun talk about the robbers they encountered on the way.

Let's not talk about his relationship with Zhao Jun. Zhao Jun wanted to take away tens of thousands of yuan worth of skins and bear gallbladders from Yongxing Brigade. And they hadn't paid for these things yet. If something happened on the way, Yu Xuewen would not be able to fill the hole.

"Secretary Yu." Zhao Jun followed Yu Xuewen's words and said, "How about I think about asking our brigade to issue us a letter of introduction?"

"Letter of introduction?" Yu Xuewen was stunned, and the others were also confused.

If you say that the letter of introduction from GWY is useful anywhere, but the letter of introduction from their production team in the mountain valley is useless if they take it to Yongan Forest Farm without finding someone they know.

"Secretary Yu, what do I think?" Zhao Jun said to Xuewen, "You should say in your letter of introduction that the five of us are militiamen from our brigade, and the vehicle is transporting supplies. In this way, if we really encounter a robber, we will not tolerate him."

"Ah..." Hearing what Zhao Jun meant, Yu Xuewen blinked twice, then looked at Tao Dabao and said, "Director Tao, please prescribe this."

Tao Dabao is the director of public security, and this matter is under his jurisdiction.

Seeing that Yu Xuewen agreed, Tao Dabao took out paper and pen and wrote a letter of introduction for Zhao Jun without saying a word.

But when handing the letter of introduction to Zhao Jun, Tao Dabao paused, and Zhao Jun knew that Tao Dabao had something to say to him.

But there are also an accountant, a cashier and the captains of ten teams in this room, so Tao Dabao might not be able to say anything.

It was already this late, and we couldn't just leave people waiting. So Zhao Jun decided to inspect the goods and load them first, and then go to Tao's house for dinner after loading.

In this way, a group of people accompanied Zhao Jun and his five companions to the warehouse. After opening the warehouse, Yu Xuewen pointed to the pile of sacks on the left and said that these were all collected for Zhao Jun.

Next, it is time for the five members of Zhao Jun to inspect the goods.

The sack was opened, revealing piles of leather. No matter whether it was gray leather, big leather, or yellow leather, none of them were rolled into tubes to make it easier for Zhao Jun and his men to check.

Each type of leather is packed in a pile of ten sheets, and a small hemp rope is used to tie them together. The rope is used to make them neat and easy to handle, and you can tell the quality of the goods without untying the rope when inspecting them.

The five men of Zhao Jun carefully checked each piece of leather, while Yu Xuewen and Tao Dabao sat aside and watched.

There is no trust or distrust here, because this is not a personal transaction, this is the business of Zhao's Chamber of Commerce with Yongxing Brigade. Just like before, when we went to Zhao Jun's house to get the 50,000 yuan, it was Tao Fei who led the accountant of the brigade.

Among the five people, Li Ruhai was the fastest in checking the hides, followed by Zhang Yuanmin, then Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu and Jie Chen.

After working for more than two hours, Zhao Jun and his team finally called it a day. All the goods were loaded onto the Jiefang truck, and after saying goodbye to Yu Xuewen, Zhao Jun took Tao Dabao to Tao Xiaobao's home.

When they arrived at Tao Xiaobao's house, it was almost seven o'clock, but the Tao family was still waiting for Zhao Jun and his friends.

The food was served while it was still hot. There were chicken, fish, ribs, meat, eight dishes, six meat dishes and two vegetable dishes.

Originally, Tao Fulin wanted to have a good drink with Zhang Yuanmin and the others, but when he heard that Zhao Jun and the others wanted to leave after the meal, the old man was a little uncomfortable, but he didn't force it.

Each person drank two liang of wine, and then started eating. Zhao Jun didn't drink, so he finished eating first and sat beside them to accompany them.

After eating and drinking, Zhao Jun, Zhang Yuanmin and three others smoked a cigarette and prepared to leave.

The Tao family escorted them out of the house. Before they got into the car, Tao Dabao pulled Zhao Jun and whispered, "Zhao Jun, if you use a gun, don't let the locals detain you. Don't sell your stuff, and make sure to bring it back."

Zhao Jun understood what Tao Dabao meant. After thanking Tao Dabao, Zhao Jun got on the jeep.

Under the cover of night, a jeep and a Liberation truck drove out of the Yongxing Brigade and headed straight for Lingnan along the war preparation road.