The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 1230 Zhao Jun: You can’t hit my mother!
Zhang Yuanmin offered suggestions for the rise of the Zhao family gang. Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan were very interested in the part about the spring hunt.

However, the idea of ​​stockpiling guns and ammunition was unanimously rejected by Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan.

Yes, just like Zhang Yuanmin said, that stuff is not expensive, only three or four hundred yuan per ton.

But because of this, its profit is also low. In other words, it is easy to lose money if it is not handled properly.

These days, rural people buy things on credit at grocery stores. They have to wait until the autumn harvest and the grain is sold before they can pay the bill when they have money in hand.

If Zhao Jun's family really gets a ton of gunpowder, they will all buy it on credit. Some of the debts can be paid back, some cannot, and some will deliberately not pay back.

Just because of that 80 cents, can Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan still go around the village collecting debts every day?
Seeing that Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan disagreed, Zhang Yuanmin did not persuade them anymore. He had read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and made a summary. He believed that counselors only had to give advice and it was up to the lord whether to adopt it or not.

"Nephew, eat this cake quickly, it will get cold soon." Wang Qiang invited Zhao Jun to eat and said, "Our village is different from other brigades. We have to get approval from the forest farm before we can start the spring hunt. If the farm disagrees, won't we have wasted our time?"

Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan were stunned. It was indeed true. Such a big thing, the forest farm had to hold a meeting to study it, and if it was not handled properly, it had to be reported to the Forestry Bureau. No matter where it was stuck, the spring hunt could not be held.

If you can't do it, then all your excitement will be in vain.

Thinking of this, Zhao Jun picked up the bowl and slurped a mouthful of tofu pudding, then picked up the fried cake and took a bite, and then put a piece of pickled cucumber into his mouth.

"Hahahaha..." Before Zhao Jun could swallow the food, Zhang Yuanmin laughed again.

When everyone looked at him, Zhang Yuanmin said to Wang Meilan and Zhao Jun: "Aunt, brother, if this plan doesn't work, I have another plan that can also help our Zhao family take off."

"Yuanmin, you say!" Wang Meilan became interested. She felt that Zhang Yuanmin had a very smart brain.

"It would be best if we could hold a spring hunt in our forest area," said Zhang Yuanmin. "If that's not possible, we can go to Yongxing to collect mountain products!"

When Zhang Yuanmin said this, Zhao Jun, Wang Meilan, Wang Qiang and Jie Chen were all stunned and looked at Zhang Yuanmin in unison.

This works.

The spring hunting in Yongxing Forest District has not even started yet, but the people in Yongxing Brigade hold spring hunting every year!

This year, Zhao Jun went to Yongxing to participate in the spring hunt, and Yu Xuewen also gave a report at the celebration meeting.

Zhao Jun certainly didn't remember the specific content of the report, but he knew that in that spring hunt alone, dozens of bear gallbladders were found, and hundreds of yellow leaves and gray skins were found.

These things belong to whoever hunts them. In the past, hunters would find places to sell them every year.

After the spring hunt in Yongxing next year, if the Zhao family gang can collect all these things, they will definitely make a fortune.

Zhao Jun had this confidence because he had connections. The manager of the No. 1 Supply and Marketing Cooperative in Daohua County was a relative of his, and the manager of the No. 1 Supply and Marketing Cooperative in Shulan was Jie Chen's second brother-in-law. He had mountain products, and he could sell them at a high price wherever he went.

"That's great!" Wang Meilan first gave Zhang Yuanmin an admiring look, then turned to look at Zhao Jun and said, "Son, this is really great!"

"Yes!" Zhao Jun also nodded in agreement. He will go to Yongxing in the spring of next year to collect mountain products and sell air guns.

"Nephew, I'll go with you next year!" Wang Qiang said, looking at Li Chen and said, "Little Chen, let's go together."

"I'll go too!" Zhang Yuanmin volunteered. The four Zhao Juns looked at him and Zhao Jun said, "Okay, big brother, you take good care of it. Once it's well, you can go."

"Give it to Ru Hai when the time comes." Wang Meilan said with a smile, "That kid's mouth is not for nothing."

"Yeah, but it's not free." Wang Qiang continued, "His mother told him it's gone."

"Huh?" Wang Meilan was startled and asked, "What's going on?"

"Ah, it's okay, Mom." Zhao Jun interrupted her and asked Wang Meilan, "Mom, is Ru Hai working with you guys too?"

"No." Wang Meilan said, "He went to school."

"Go to school?" Zhao Jun was stunned and asked in surprise: "My aunt let him go?"

"Yeah." Wang Meilan said mysteriously, "He went to organize a program for your forest farm."

"Organize a program? Him?" Zhao Jun frowned, and then heard Wang Meilan continue: "Well, let's not talk about it this time. That kid is pretty good."

"Aunt Zhao, what did he do?" Jie Chen asked curiously.

……

In the only private room of the small restaurant behind the Forestry Bureau.

Chu Anmin and Zhao Weipeng were drinking and eating.

Zhao Weipeng came down in the morning, finished his business at the Public Security Bureau, and then came to find Chu Anmin.

Hearing that Zhao Weipeng was leaving tomorrow, Chu Anmin specially held a banquet to see his old comrade off.

Chu Anmin didn't even bring his secretary. There were only two of them in the small private room, but he ordered eight dishes. There were pig-killing dishes, sweet and sour pork, braised crucian carp... all of them were staple dishes. Chu Anmin's arrangements were absolutely perfect.

"Hey?" Chu Anmin threw two peanuts into his mouth and asked Zhao Weipeng, "Why do you seem to be getting fatter?"

"Oh my!" Zhao Weipeng sighed, "The food in the Zhao army is so good, I am getting fat again, right?"

Chu Anmin had heard Zhou Chunming say that the food in Zhao’s army was good before, and now when he heard Zhao Weipeng say so, Chu Anmin couldn’t help but ask curiously, “They say that the food in his army is good, how is it good?”

As he spoke, Chu Anmin swept his chopsticks around the table and asked, "No matter how good the food is at his place, can I still prepare this meal for you?"

"Heh!" Zhao Weipeng curled his lips slightly and sneered, which made Chu Anmin feel very unhappy.

Before Chu Anmin could ask him about the crime, Zhao Weipeng asked back, "I came out in a hurry today, and his family cooked delicious food, but I didn't even get to eat it."

"What did his family eat today?" Chu Anmin was very curious, and then he heard Zhao Weipeng say, "His family is eating tofu today."

Chu Anmin was startled, then angrily said: "Fuck you!"

……

Zhao Jun's family started eating tofu today.

I eat tofu pudding and small tofu for lunch, and large tofu for dinner.

Cut the big tofu into mahjong pieces, fry it first and then fry it. This is called fried tofu in the local area, and it is called home-cooked tofu outside.

Frozen tofu stewed with kelp, wild boar meat is boiled and made into meatballs.

Chicken-shaved tofu is a stir-fry, which is fried tofu with eggs.

By the end of the meal, every burp smelled like beans.

After eating and drinking, the diners went home.

But at this time, Zhao Youcai had not come back yet. He went to Yongli to prepare a banquet for the Xing family today, and he had to eat there after the meal.

But Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan were not worried about Zhao Youcai, because there must be people from Yong'an Village among the people going to the banquet, and Zhao Youcai would come back with them by then.

"Son, you're tired after a day, just warm your feet and go to bed. You don't have to wait for your dad, I'll wait for him." Wang Meilan came to Zhao Jun's room with a thermos in one hand and a foot towel in the other, and placed the towel on the edge of the kang. Then she took out a footbath from under the table against the wall, and said as she poured water into the basin, "Mom mixed this water for you, it's just the right temperature."

"Hey!" Zhao Jun responded, rolling up his trouser legs and saying, "Mom, I'll go up the mountain tomorrow."

"Son, aren't you going to work?" Wang Meilan remembered that Zhao Jun had said he would go to work tomorrow, but then Wang Meilan said, "If you don't want to go to work, you can just rest at home. You've been climbing the mountain for three consecutive days, and I'm afraid you're tired."

Wang Meilan put the thermos bottle in her mouth and continued, "We have all kinds of meat at home, and we have enough money to spend. Don't work too hard."

Zhao Jun felt warm in his heart, but the scene of Zhao Youcai handing roe deer meat to Cui Yulan suddenly appeared in his mind again.

Zhao Jun's face tightened, and he said, "I won't bring the dog tomorrow. My uncle, Xiaochen and I will go to the battlefield to see if we can catch some roe deer. After that, won't my father keep complaining about wanting more roe deer?"

Zhao Jun had clearly agreed with Wang Qiang and the others to go squirrel hunting tomorrow, but he said this just to seduce Zhao Youcai.

"Ah?" Wang Meilan was startled and asked, "How do you know your father wants roe deer?"

When Zhao Youcai said he wanted roe deer thigh in the morning, Zhao Jun hadn't woken up yet. At that time, apart from the couple, only Xing San heard it.

"My third uncle said so." Zhao Jun said, "Before we came back, we went to the old man's house to see him off. Afterwards, he said my dad wanted a roe deer. There was one behind his shack, and he asked me to bring it back for my dad, but I didn't want it."

"That's right." Wang Meilan waved her hand out the window and said, "Roe deer, your father took them all away. I got them from your uncle Li's house."

"Ah..." Zhao Jun nodded slightly and asked, "Mom, did my dad tell me who to give the roe deer to?"

"That's not what he said." Wang Meilan was also stunned. She got up early and was in a hurry to make dumplings, so she didn't have time to ask.

Just then, the dog outside the house barked twice.

"Is your dad back?" Hearing the dog barking, it should not be a stranger, so Wang Meilan guessed that it was Zhao Youcai who came back.

Zhao Jun sat on the edge of the kang, unable to move as his feet were burning, so Wang Meilan went to the outer room.

After a while, Zhao Youcai came into the room. As soon as he entered the room, he took out a bottle of Xifeng wine from the pocket of his cotton-padded jacket and placed it on the stove. Then he waved at Wang Meilan and said, "Lan, put it aside for me. When guests come to drink it, please."

"Are there any guests?" Wang Meilan took the bottle and said with a smile, "Maybe you will drink it someday."

Although Zhao Jun couldn't get up at this time, his father had returned, so he had to say something.

So Zhao Jun asked loudly: "Dad, how did you get back?"

"Feng Wuzi rode a bicycle and I came back sitting on the back seat of his bike." Zhao Youcai answered as he walked towards the east room.

After entering the east room, Zhao Youcai took off his clothes and sat on the edge of the kang to warm himself.

It was quite cold outside, and Zhao Youcai was frozen all the way back by bike.

Wang Meilan considerately brought him a teacup and filled it with water, and then brought him a foot basin and filled it with water.

Zhao Youcai drank water, washed his feet, went to bed, and got into the quilt. He had warmed up by then, and the two little girls at the head of the kang had fallen asleep.

Before going to bed at night is the most peaceful time of the day for Wang Meilan. She sat on the edge of the kang and washed her feet. Suddenly she remembered something and asked Zhao Youcai, "Hey? His father, who did you give the roe deer to today?"

"Ah, give it to that person, give it to them..." Zhao Youcai stopped talking halfway. He thought of his son and Zhao Jun's creepy laughter.

"Dayong and Brother Xing both know about this." Zhao Youcai did not evade the question and answered directly: "The roe deer was given to a woman named Cui Yulan."

"Cui Yulan?" Wang Meilan's eyes widened instantly when she heard this, and she shouted, "Why did you contact her again?"

Wang Meilan's shout startled Zhao Jun in the opposite room, woke up Zhao Hong and Zhao Na who were sleeping, and startled Zhao Youcai so much that he sat up from his bed.

"What are you talking about?" A married man having contact with a widow is a deadly matter. Zhao Youcai was confused and said quickly, "What are you talking about? I didn't even know her before."

"You don't know her?" Wang Meilan stared and asked, "Didn't you tell me that her father had sent a matchmaker to your house to propose marriage? How could you not know her?"

"Matchmaker? Ah..." Zhao Youcai suddenly realized, waved his hand at Wang Meilan, and said, "That's Liu Yulan, and this one is Cui Yulan. They are not the same person."

Twenty-five or twenty-six years ago, a girl named Liu Yulan fell in love with Zhao Youcai. Her father even asked a matchmaker to go to the Zhao family to propose marriage, but Zhao Jun's grandmother did not agree.

It was just a coincidence that Liu Yulan and Cui Yulan differed by only one character, otherwise Wang Meilan would not have been so excited.

In fact, Zhao Jun didn't want to provoke the old couple to fight.

As the saying goes: When two tigers fight, one of them will be injured.

These were his biological parents, and it would be bad to hurt either of them. So Zhao Jun simply pointed out that Wang Meilan had to interrogate Zhao Youcai and that was it.

After hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Wang Meilan's anger instantly subsided, but she rolled her eyes at Zhao Youcai and said, "Liu Yulan, you still remember it clearly."

Zhao Youcai curled his lips and didn't dare to dwell on this topic.

But he didn't say anything, so Wang Meilan asked again: "Hey? What does this Yulan do?"

"She's from Yongsheng." Zhao Youcai replied, "You know her husband. He's Wei Tie's uncle Liu Laosan."

"Isn't Wei Tie's uncle dead?" Wang Meilan asked, "She is a widow?"

"Ah." Zhao Youcai couldn't say anything else and just responded dryly.

When Wang Meilan heard Zhao Youcai say that Cui Yulan was a widow, she became excited and asked with a frown, "Why are you giving roe deer to a widow?"

There is a lot of trouble at the widow's door.

Gentlemen from respectable families would nod when they met a widow, and rarely would they open their mouths to greet her. If someone spread the news that he was giving meat to a widow, she would be criticized for all sorts of things.

"Stop making so much noise, you'll wake up the kids." Zhao Youcai told Wang Dalong the whole story of how he and Li Dayong went to trap him and met the Cui sisters.

At this time, not only Wang Meilan was listening, but Zhao Jun was also listening outside the door. He really didn't want to provoke his parents to fight, he just wanted to hear what Zhao Youcai said to Wang Meilan.

Yes, Zhao Youcai had already told it once when they met at noon. But when interrogating a prisoner, don't they have to give two confessions and then compare them to find loopholes?

After listening to Zhao Youcai's words, Wang Meilan nodded, and Zhao Jun outside the door also nodded.

Zhao Youcai passed this test, and Wang Meilan, who had just finished wiping her feet, casually threw the towel at Zhao Youcai's face and said, "Just show off all day!"

Wang Meilan said this because, firstly, it was wrong for Zhao Youcai to frame Wang Dalong, because Wang Dalong called you uncle anyway. Even if the younger generation was wrong, it was wrong for you, as an elder, to frame him.

The second is that you shouldn’t give meat to a widow in that way. If someone saw it, it would be hard to explain.

Wang Meilan threw the towel casually, and just as Zhao Youcai opened his mouth to speak, the half-wet, half-dry towel was thrown on his mouth.

"You tiger woman!" Zhao Youcai yelled angrily, "You rubbed your ass on my face, did I give you any face?"

"Who are you talking about?" Wang Meilan also knew that what she did just now was wrong, so she swung the towel again and hit Zhao Youcai's arm.

Zhao Youcai cursed twice, and then his anger subsided. At this time, Wang Meilan threw the towel over, and Zhao Youcai snatched it away, shaking his hands and threateningly said, "I'll beat you up..."

The couple was just joking, there was no chance of a real fight. At this time, Zhao Jun, who was listening to the noise at the door, felt something was wrong. He pushed the door open slightly and saw Zhao Youcai holding up a towel. In a hurry, he pushed the door open and shouted, "You can't hit my mother!"

　I will update at 6 pm tomorrow. I won't stay up late at night.
　　
　
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