Rebirth 1984 Wife and children are on the hot bed

Changbai ethnic minority autonomous county.

"Zhennan Tun'er" in the south of Laolonggang.

Xu Dahai sat on the kang, looked at Pu Xiucheng, and then at the old man wearing a khaki cotton-padded jacket.

200 yuan for a meal?

Park Xiucheng suddenly burst out laughing. He felt that Xu Dahai looked funny. He reached out and took out a small cloth bag from his pocket and threw it to the old man.

Wow~

The old man's hands were like dead tree roots, covered with calluses, and his eyes showed anticipation. He took the cloth bag and opened it. As expected, it was full of yellow bullets.

A rough estimate is that there are as many as thirty or forty.

"Are these bullets enough to pay for food?"

"Enough, not only enough, but also more!" The old man was very happy. He also often went hunting in the mountains, and bullets were rare.

"When we come out of the mountains, we will have to eat here, and we may even need accommodation. The rest will be considered as future expenses."

Park Xiucheng continued to gulp down the rice and said while eating:

"Take out the bullets and return the cloth bag to me. My grandma stayed up all night to sew this. I will use it in the future."

"Good good."

The old man was singing a lot of music, and quickly got off the kang. After pouring all the bullets into a wooden box, he returned the cloth bag.

He just said the meal cost 200 yuan, but he was just joking.

after eating.

After drinking some more hot water and resting for more than an hour, the two of them hiked into the mountains carrying their shotguns and baskets.

The basket was borrowed from the old man. There was a leather bag in the basket on Xu Dahai's back, and there was money in it.

Creak, creak, creak~

Stepping on the thick snow, climbing up and down, I climbed over two hills and beams in one breath, at around three o'clock in the afternoon.

I saw a three-acre piece of flat land in the mountains, surrounded by mountain peaks, like a paradise. Three low mud houses were located in it, forming a Z-shaped shape with each other.

"Woof woof woof~"

The two of them approached slowly with baskets on their backs, and soon several ferocious hunting dogs jumped out from the fence, their hair exploded, and they screamed at them.

The gate was pushed open.

An old man wearing a wolfskin coat walked out with three men one after another, with curiosity and caution in his eyes.

"Mr. Jin!"

Park Soo-sung smiled and greeted each other while walking.

"I said I would come to visit you before the New Year, but there were too many chores to do. No, I came here right after the New Year."

Mr. Jin was familiar with him, and he immediately laughed heartily:

"Are you tired after walking all the way? Let's go inside to chat. It's warm inside."

Under the leadership of the old man, Park Xiucheng and Xu Dahai walked to the northernmost house.

This house is the oldest, and the other two are much newer.

Several women and children also came out of the other two houses and cast curious glances. The mountain was covered with snow. They were the second batch of guests in a few months.

Xu Dahai looked around.

It was discovered that in addition to Mr. Jin, his wife, two daughters-in-law and four grandchildren, there were three young men.

"Park Soo-sung told me about the situation of Mr. Jin's family before. He said he had two sons. Why did it become three? A big change?"

Thoughts flashed through Xu Dahai's mind.

When I first arrived, I didn’t ask any questions. I lowered my head and several people entered the house one after another.

Although it is deep in the mountains, the house is quite clean.

The cabinets, stools, shoes, brooms, shotguns on the wall, antlers, bearskin coats, and various small ornaments on the cabinets, etc., are all in order and not cluttered.

A large wooden pot was burning on the stove, and a pot of hot water was boiling, steaming, and making a gurgling sound.

Go inside and sit down.

Talking about life in the mountains, recent harvests, etc., with Park Soo-sung making jokes, the atmosphere quickly became lively.

"By the way, I also brought some dried vegetables, rice, noodles, salt, sugar, tea and other things."

Park Xiucheng pulled the basket he carried, took out the things from it, and put them on the cabinet.

"Come just come, what else do you need to bring? We will be very happy when you are here."

"If you want to come, you have to bring something with you. Anyway, it's just a matter of convenience and not worth much."

Park Xiucheng handed a handful of rock candies to the children. Their eyes lit up, they took the rock candies and ran away happily.

He raised his chin slightly to signal the strange young man he had just seen outside.

The young man didn't enter the house just now, and he didn't know where he went.

"Master Jin, who was that young man just now? Why haven't I seen him before?"

"Oh, he...he..."

Mr. Jin was speechless for a moment and looked at his eldest son. The latter was tall and thick, as strong as a bear. He was sitting on the chair on the right with his arms folded.

"He's here to collect medicinal materials. I haven't seen him before, so it's normal."

"Oh, I see."

Park Xiucheng didn't ask further, but talked about the ten bearskins.

Mr. Jin looked embarrassed. He also felt that the price of one thousand yuan was too high. However, his two sons recognized the price and thought it was too low to sell at a low price.

"It's okay, a thousand yuan is just a thousand yuan. I want to see the bearskin first." Xu Dahai said with a smile.

"Yes, of course, come with me."

The second eldest son of the Jin family had a Chinese-character face. He stood next to the door frame. His eyes vaguely glanced at the leather bag in the basket next to Xu Dahai, then turned and walked out.

Xu Dahai nodded to Mr. Jin, Park Xiucheng, and the eldest brother of the Jin family who were in the room, put the basket on his back, and quickly followed.

After exiting the low house door, walk south, bypass the poultry pens with chickens, ducks, and geese, and come to the back of the southwest house.

There is also a conical shack built here, with brown wood, a broken animal skin cover, and a lot of snow on the top.

"Come in, be careful not to hit your head."

"Hmm...huh? Pheasant neck!!"

As soon as Xu Dahai entered the shack, what he saw when he raised his eyes was a large number of snake skins hanging on the opposite side, densely packed and layered.

The unfolded snake skin looked very wide, about one and a half meters long, with emerald green or grass green patterns on it, which made his skin crawl.

Pheasant neck - its scientific name is tiger-spotted colubrid, also known as tiger-spotted neck snake. It is poisonous. This kind of thing appears in the tomb robbing notes of later generations.

"There are so many snake skins, it scares me." Xu Dahai said with a smile:

"Fortunately, it's dead. If it were alive and falling on someone's neck, wouldn't it scare them crazy?"

The second eldest son of the Jin family had little contact with the outside world and had never heard any jokes. He laughed so hard that he almost bent over.

"Hahahahaha~"

Laughter is indeed contagious.

Seeing the second child of the Jin family bending over and grinning widely, Xu Dahai laughed again.

"What's going on? What's going on?"

The sound of footsteps sounded, and the daughter-in-law of the second eldest son of the Jin family came over quickly.

The latter is slightly shorter, has big, bright eyes, slightly rough skin, wears a large tawny cotton-padded jacket, and is fat.

The colors of the clothes were brighter, and Xu Dahai felt that they were not dyed from the bark of yellow pineapple trees, but most likely from the seeds of the old man's eyes.

His grandmother dyed similar cloth, but she no longer dyes it.

"Old Bird's Eye" is a black tree with sharp thorns. It is not a bird's eye.

The second eldest son of the Jin family laughed so much that tears came out of his eyes. He stuttered and roughly repeated Xu Dahai's words.

In an instant, his wife also laughed: "You really should hang the snake skin somewhere else. When I came over that night, I was also shocked."