The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 1234 The Zhou Family’s Gift to Zhao Jun

In traditional Chinese culture, there is a saying that one should not shoot birds in spring and should not eat fish in April. There is also a proverb like "I advise you not to shoot the bird on the branch, because its chicks in the nest are waiting for their mother to return."

In the hunting industry, there used to be a rule that people were not allowed to go into the mountains in spring.

But since the difficult years, this rule has been broken. At that time, the grain was not good, and the corn cob was only five or six centimeters long, as long as the index finger, but they had to be collected and given to the so-called Big Brother to repay the famine.

With so little food ration per month, the labor force in the family must be taken care of first, then the children, then the elderly, and finally the women.

According to Xie Sun, she was so hungry that she ran out in the middle of the night to pick elm leaves to eat.

But when she said this, Xie Chen's teeth almost turned to the back of his head.

This incident did happen, but it did not happen to Xie Sun, but to their neighbor.

Xiangyang Village is not near the mountains and belongs to the countryside. The situation is worse than in the city, but not as good as in the forest area.

Live off the mountains, there are mountain products and livestock in the mountains. Otherwise, why do all the hooligans and vagrants go to the mountains when they come to the Northeast?

It was the situation back then that broke the rule of not going into the mountains in spring. After all, people were starving to death, so who could care about those things?

Later, with the reclamation of wasteland in the Northeast, people were basically able to have enough to eat, but the output of nature was not like that of farmland. The mountains and forests had always had a small harvest every three years and a large harvest every five years.

When the mountain livestock are not well fed, they will come out of the mountains in groups and rush to the farmlands that the mountain people are reclaiming and sowing.

The common people who have lived through hard times depend on food for their survival. Although conditions have improved, the crops they have worked so hard to grow are destroyed by wild animals before they can even harvest. Who can help them?

In those days, guns were not banned, so those who didn't have guns at home could ask those who did for help.

This is what is called protecting farmers.

Yong'antun is the family quarters of the forest farm, and the surrounding farmland is all wasteland reclaimed by the forest farm itself, so the forest farm doesn't care. If they want to protect the farmers, it's up to whoever owns the land to do it.

The communes and production teams would set up special farmer protection teams and hunting teams.

But there are really a lot of wild animals these days, and they steal food at night. How hard must it be for the mountain people to work during the day and keep watch at night?
So, there was spring hunting.

This spring hunting is not the spring when the weather is warm and the flowers are blooming, but the spring after the beginning of spring.

At this time, except for bears that have given birth in tree barns, other animals like wild boars and roe deer have not given birth but are already pregnant. Spring hunting at this time is to reduce the number of mountain animals at the source.

We can’t say that the mountain people are not kind, it’s just that times have changed.

But it doesn't matter if you can't see it. If, as Zhao Jun said, the piglets were to fall out with blood once the stomach was opened, it would be painful for anyone to see.

"Ah..." After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Zhou Chunming blinked his eyes and asked, "Which wild boar gave birth to a baby the other day?"

"Yes, Uncle Zhou." Zhao Jun said, "It's different from domestic pigs. It circles during the Xiaoxue period and can only give birth after the Qingming Festival."

"Ouch!" Zhou Chunming calculated in his mind and said, "It takes five or six months for a wild boar to give birth to a litter?"

Domestic pigs don’t live that many days. Usually they live for more than three months and less than four months.

Even though Zhou Chunming has been in the forest area for many years, he has never learned anything about wild boar birth.

"Yeah." Zhao Jun nodded and said, "We want to set it around Qingming Festival, and it just happens to coincide with that time, so..."

At this point, Zhao Jun gave a bitter smile, and then continued: "Uncle Zhou, what can I say? If it comes to that time, those who understand can't do it. Those who don't understand will not do it after doing it once."

"Tsk!" Zhou Chunming thought about it from another perspective. If he were in that situation and saw the scene described by Zhao Jun...

Thinking of this and that scene, Zhou Chunming shuddered.

"It's not possible to postpone it, right?" Zhou Chunming asked, "At the end of April or May, the leaves will close the door, right?"

"Yeah." Zhao Jun pursed his lips and nodded, "It would affect my shooting at that time."

Hearing what Zhao Jun said, Zhou Chunming felt a little troubled. But he was not a person who would procrastinate. He knew that if he wanted to do it, he had to do it early, just like the Yongxing Brigade.

"Okay, Xiaojun." Zhou Chunming sighed and said, "I understand. I'll call Director Chu later and we'll discuss it."

"Okay, sir." Zhao Jun stood up and said to Zhou Chunming, "Then you get busy. I'm leaving now."

After Zhao Jun said goodbye to Zhou Chunming, he came out of the office with Zhou Jianjun. Zhou Jianjun pulled Zhao Jun out, and Zhao Jun couldn't help asking, "Brother-in-law, where are we going?"

You don't tell me what to do, but you have to tell me where to go?

"Xiaojun, let's go quickly." Zhou Jianjun gestured with his hand and said, "Let's catch the Sentie train."

"No, brother-in-law?" Zhao Jun grabbed Zhou Jianjun and asked, "Are you not going to work?"

"I have arranged everything." Zhou Jianjun said, "Let's go early and come back early."

"What are you doing, brother-in-law?" Zhao Jun asked, "What's the matter?"

"Oh! Just go!" Zhou Jianjun didn't say anything and dragged Zhao Jun out of the office building.

Zhao Jun followed Zhou Jianjun in confusion. The two of them went around from the front of the building to the back, took a shortcut and headed straight for the forest farm gate.

As he was walking, a dark shadow suddenly jumped out from the men's restroom not far away, and gave Zhao Jun a fright.

The man came out of the toilet and ran towards the gate. Zhou Jianjun subconsciously exclaimed.

During working hours, this guy sneaked out of the forest farm. How could this not arouse suspicion?
The man had only run a few steps when he heard Zhou Jianjun's call and stopped. He then turned around to greet Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun, saying, "Brother! Brother-in-law!"

"Ruhai!" Seeing that it was Li Ruhai, Zhou Jianjun breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What are you doing, sneaky?"

"I..." Li Ruhai lowered his head and looked at his clothes. His cotton-padded jacket and forest farm work clothes were almost all new, but Li Ruhai always felt ashamed to wear them.

Zhou Jianjun did not dwell on this question, and immediately asked Li Ruhai, "Ruhai, how is the arrangement going?"

"Don't worry, brother-in-law." Li Ruhai said, "The classmates will come tomorrow morning, and the rehearsal will be over in no time."

"Ah..." Zhou Jianjun frowned slightly when he heard this and said, "You can't let me down, right?"

"No." Li Ruhai said with a smile, "We basically did nothing in the first month of school. We had activities every few days, and we knew those songs by heart."

"What's wrong, brother-in-law?" Zhao Jun asked curiously. The day before yesterday, when he came back from hunting, he heard that Li Ruhai had gone out to work for Zhou Jianjun. But when he asked Li Ruhai in the evening, Li Ruhai didn't say what he had done.

"Ah, this is what it is..." Zhou Jianjun just opened his mouth, but saw Li Ruhai winking at him.

Zhou Jianjun was stunned. Zhao Jun, who saw this scene, questioned Li Ruhai on the spot, saying, "What's wrong, Ruhai? Why can't you tell me what's going on?"

"What's the matter, Ruhai?" Zhou Jianjun also asked Li Ruhai. He didn't think this was something that needed to be kept secret.

"Yes." Facing Zhao Jun's questioning, Li Ruhai said to Zhou Jianjun: "Brother-in-law, tell him that my elder brother is quite reliable."

"What are you talking about?" Zhao Jun pulled the corner of his mouth, roughly pushed Li Ruhai away, and said, "Okay, okay, I won't ask anymore."

"Brother!" Li Ruhai shouted urgently, and Zhao Jun pulled Zhou Jianjun out.

At the same time, Class 2, Grade 2, Yong'an Middle School.

The head teacher Xiao Nan was called to the door by the principal to say a few words. Then Xiao Nan returned to the classroom and said to the students below: "Whoever I call, go to the cafeteria."

Yong'an Middle School has a cafeteria, but this cafeteria has no kitchen and is usually used as an auditorium.

Then, Xiao Nan started to call the roll. She didn't call everyone, she only called the students who were good at studying. Hu Lina, the monitor of the class, was not only called, but Xiao Nan also asked her to organize discipline. Because some students from Class 1 of Grade 2 and Class 1 of Junior High School were also there.

Looking at the empty seat next to him, Ma Yang felt empty inside. When Xiao Nan turned around to write on the blackboard, Ma Yang couldn't help but raise his hand and said, "Teacher."

"Ah?" Xiao Nan continued writing on the blackboard without raising the chalk in his hand, and said without turning his head, "Just go to the toilet."

By the end of the semester, I have completed all the courses for this semester and am in the review stage.

At present, some students in the class were called away, so Xiao Nan even stopped reviewing and wrote the knowledge points summarized this semester on the blackboard and asked the students who stayed to copy them. The students who were called away were all studying hard, and when they came back, Xiao Nan borrowed the books from the students who stayed and copied them.

There was no class anyway, and students had to go to the bathroom, so Xiao Nan didn't want to make things difficult for them.

“No, teacher.” Ma Yang said, “Hu… well, what were they doing?”

"Let's go sing." Xiao Nan used the last bit of chalk to write two more letters on the blackboard, then turned around to get some chalk from the chalk box and said, "The forest farm will have a party tomorrow, and we'll ask our second and first grade students to rehearse some performances."

This was the idea Li Ruhai suggested to Zhou Jianjun. The old men in the forest farm were tone-deaf and their chorus was really terrible. It would be better to find some junior high school students to form a small chorus.

After he said that, Zhou Jianjun remembered that the principal of Yong'an Middle School had reported to the forest farm the day before yesterday, hoping to apply for funds to set up a drum band.

Zhou Jianjun did not submit this report to his superiors for the time being. He wanted to see if these middle school students could produce a program. If the program was good, the money could be negotiated. If the program was not good, then forget it.

Hearing Xiao Nan say this, Ma Yang stood up, raised his arms high, and said, "Teacher, I want to go too."

Xiao Nan was about to turn around and continue writing when he was startled. He raised his hand and pointed at Ma Yang, saying, "Quietly shut up."

After saying that, Xiao Nan rolled his eyes at Ma Yang and said, "The ones I called are all good students. Don't you know your own grades? You should study hard and don't get the last place in the exam again."

After being scolded by Xiao Nan, Ma Yang sat down unhappily.

Don't blame the teacher for hurting the students' self-esteem. Teacher Xiao has only been here for a year and a half, and his self-esteem has been completely damaged by these students.

In the first semester when she was in charge of the class, Xiao Nan was full of confidence. However, she did not expect that the first midterm exam would make Xiao Nan depressed.

The last and second to last students in the whole grade were both from their class, and Li Ruhai, who was the last one, was undoubtedly far ahead, and even pulled down the average score of the class.

In the subsequent final exams, midterm exams and final exams of the second semester of junior high school, the last and second to last students were still in their class, and they were still those two.

Xiao Nan gritted his teeth and managed to hold on for two semesters a year. But he was about to give up, as the other two started working one after another this semester!

But just when Xiao Nan was full of hope again, the last-placed student of the whole school year appeared in their class again.

Ma Yang, although this kid’s academic performance was not very good before, he was not the last in the grade.

Previously, Xiao Nan and the Ma family said that the reason why Ma Yang was ranked last was because Zhang Laifa and Li Ruhai had successively started working, but in fact, Ma Yang was not that bad before.

The reason was that after Li Ruhai left, a seat was vacant. After Xiao Nan moved Ma Yang to sit at the same table with Hu Lina, Ma Yang's grades began to decline slightly.

Although the descent was not much, he had not even reached the second rib of the mountain before, and this time he slid directly into the ditch.

……

"Ah? The students are coming tomorrow, so we still have to arrange meals for them?" Zhao Jun asked Zhou Jianjun on the Sentie train.

"Of course not." Zhou Jianjun said, "Let them bring lunch boxes and go to the canteen to get food tomorrow. Pork stewed with vermicelli, dried tofu slices stewed with potato slices, isn't this a good meal?"

"This food is great." Zhao Jun nodded slightly, and at the same time thought of his brother-in-law, thinking that when that guy comes tomorrow, he will definitely look for him everywhere. It's a pity that after attending the commendation meeting tomorrow, he will have to look for those gold treasures. However, Zhao Youcai is in the cafeteria, and he will definitely not let Ma Yang down if he sees him.

The train stopped at the town station. After Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun got off, they walked out of the station and headed north.

"Brother-in-law, what are we going to do?" Zhao Jun couldn't help asking again, but Zhou Jianjun still kept it a secret and said, "Let's go, you'll know when we get there."

The two walked north for about two miles, turned east and soon arrived at the station's freight yard.

Zhou Jianjun took Zhao Jun to the security guard to register and left his work permit with the security guard.

After coming out of the guard room, Zhou Jianjun led Zhao Jun inside. Although he had never been here before, Zhao Jun looked at the building in front and knew that it was the granary.

Sure enough, when they arrived at the granary, Zhou Jianjun led Zhao Jun to a small room in charge of the granary. There was a man there. Seeing Zhou Jianjun coming, the man greeted them warmly.

Through Zhou Jianjun's introduction, Zhao Jun learned that the man's name was Xu Wenqi.

Xu Wenqi brought Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun out of the cargo yard and walked for more than an hour, only stopping after walking about ten miles.

There is a large compound in the south. Zhao Jun had passed by that gate in his previous life and knew that it was the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute. The locals called it the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute, but it actually did not research anything and was just a useless office.

The three of them went straight into a halal restaurant, and Xu Wenqi greeted someone as soon as he entered the room.

The four of them sat down at the same table and after getting to know each other, Zhao Jun realized that the man was Xu Wenliang, the younger uncle of Xu Wenqi.

The four drank mutton soup and ate pies. After finishing the meal, Zhou Jianjun stood up to pay the bill. Then Xu Wenliang asked the three to go home with him.

Zhao Jun didn't understand what this routine was, but with outsiders around, he couldn't ask more questions and just followed Xu Wenliang towards his home.

Xu Wenliang worked at the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute. His home was nearby, and the four of them walked there in seven or eight minutes.

After Xu Wenliang opened the door and led the three people into the yard, he did not invite them into the house, but took them directly into the warehouse.

Just now, I heard a "cooing" sound outside the barn door. When I came in, I saw that Xu Wenliang's family raised pigeons in the barn.

These days, not many people raise pigeons. After all, people have only had enough food for a few years.
But Xu Wenqi was in charge of the grain warehouse at the cargo yard, so how could Xu Wenliang be short of food to feed the pigeons?
Once the pigeons are well-trained, they are not afraid of people. When they see people coming in, they just flutter their wings or walk inside by stepping on the beams.

There was a large object standing near the door of the warehouse, but it was covered with a tarpaulin. There was pigeon droppings on the tarpaulin, but not much, so it seemed that the large object had not been moved in long ago.

As soon as Xu Wenqi and Xu Wenliang lifted the tarpaulin, even the wealthy Zhao Jun couldn't help but stare with eyes wide open.

(End of this chapter)