The whole mountain is my hunting ground

Zhao Youcai's face turned pale and his teeth clenched. It was only in front of Lin Xue that Zhao Youcai managed not to swear.

"Cut it!" Zhao Youcai looked at Lin Xue, who shook her head and said, "Brother-in-law, how dare I cut it?"

Zhao Youcai's mouth twitched, and he heard Lin Xue continue to say, "Brother-in-law, I tell you where to cut it, and you cut it there."

Zhao Youcai heard this and turned his head to look at the people around him. Seeing Zhao Youcai looking at him, Li Dayong volunteered, "Brother, I'll cut it."

"You can't." Zhao Youcai said, "This dog just got home. If you deal with it, it won't be close to you when you go up the mountain in the future."

As he said that, Zhao Youcai's eyes fell on Wang Qiang and said, "Qiangzi, you cut it."

"I won't cut it." Wang Qiang twisted his body, put his hands in his sleeves, and said unhappily, "Offending people... No, offending dogs, you let me do it."

As soon as Wang Qiang finished speaking, the door of Zhao's house opened, and Wang Meilan pushed the door and shouted, "What's going on?"

Hearing Wang Meilan's voice, Zhao Youcai's eyes lit up Liang, turned around and shouted: "Lan, come here."

"What are you doing?" Wang Meilan walked over quickly, seeing Li Dayong and Lin Xiangshun pressing the red-haired hunting dog to the ground, and the red-haired hunting dog kept making whining sounds. Wang Meilan pointed at the dog and said: "What's going on? Is it going to bite people?"

"What do you mean by biting people?" Zhao Youcai said: "Its tail was bitten off by someone. Xiaoyun's mother said to cut it off."

"Ah?" Wang Meilan was surprised and said: "Why is it bitten like this? Who bit it?"

"That wicked thing!" Zhao Youcai pointed to the doghouse under the east window. Wang Meilan saw this and hurriedly pressed Zhao Youcai's arm and said: "Look at what to do with this dog? There is an anti-inflammatory injection at home. Give it to it?"

"Sister, go find the medicine first." Lin Xue followed Li Dazhi to call Wang Meilan sister. Hearing her say this, Wang Meilan responded and was about to go back to the house, but was stopped by Zhao Youcai.

"Lan!" Zhao Youcai held Wang Meilan's arm with one hand and pointed at the red-haired hound with the other, saying, "You cut its tail."

"Ah?" Wang Meilan widened her eyes and said in disbelief, "I cut it?"

...

Five minutes later, the red-haired hound's four legs were tied to a log and carried into the Zhao family.

At Zhao Youcai's urging, Wang Qiang tied a rag in the red-haired hound's mouth.

Zhao Ling lit a candle, and Jie Sunshi took the big scissors they used to make cotton jackets and cut cloth and repeatedly roasted them over the candle flame to disinfect them.

Jin Xiaomei crushed the pain-relieving tablets with a rolling pin, and Wang Meilan went into the house to find the heart treatment medicine given by Xing San the year before. The medicine contained special materials and had a miraculous effect in relieving pain.

After Zhao Youcai took the medicine, he poured out more than ten pills and stuffed them into the red-haired hound's mouth.

In the west room, Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu, and Xie Chen were eating hand-rolled noodles with meat sauce. They didn't need to care about what was happening outside.

Zhang Yuanmin watched the excitement at the door for a while, then returned to sit on the edge of the kang, and said to Li Baoyu and Xie Chen with a smile: "Baoyu, Xiaochen, do you think that dog looks like Pei Yuanshao robbing Zhao Yun's horse?"

Hearing Zhang Yuanmin's words, Li Baoyu and Xie Chen were both happy. Zhao Jun, who was slurping noodles, looked up at Zhang Yuanmin and thought, why did my brother Zhang only ask them and not me? But... who are Pei Yuanshao and Zhao Yun's horse?

"Come on!" In the outer room, Wang Meilan rolled up her sleeves. As soon as she raised her hand, Xie Sun handed the big scissors to Wang Meilan.

Wang Meilan took the big scissors and came behind the red-haired hunting dog's butt.

At this time, Lin Xue squatted there, pointing at a bloody spot in the middle of the red-haired hound's tail, and said, "Sister, cut it from here."

Wang Meilan took a look, then stretched her neck to look at the red-haired hound with its eyes rolled up, and said, "I'm saving you. If I don't cut your tail, you'll die if it gets inflamed."

The red-haired hound probably didn't understand, but Wang Meilan didn't care. This wasn't dog abuse, this was saving the dog!

As Wang Meilan cut it, the bound red-haired hound tensed up all over, then shivered, and kept making whimpering sounds from its strangled mouth.

At this time, Xu Chunyan and Yang Yufeng poured cold water to clean the wound. When Lin Xue saw the wound on the red-haired hound's half tail, she said to Wang Meilan: "No, sister, you have to twist it up a little more."

"Why do you twist it?" Li Dazhi asked. Lin Xue raised her hand and gestured, saying: "This bone was broken by Hu Zi in the middle. If you don't leave the other half intact, it will rot inside when the wound is closed."

...

The red-haired hound suffered a lot that night.

It was already past eleven thirty when the red-haired hound was treated and bandaged.

Li Dazhi and Jie Chen lifted the red-haired hound onto the back of the Jiefang car, and then Jie Chen drove. Lin Xue and Li Dazhi, holding penicillin, squeezed into the co-pilot, and other diners walked home.

Since arriving in Yongantun, Jie Chen and Jie Sun have been living in the old lady's house, and the house they bought has become a sanatorium for the Zhao family dog ​​gang.

The green tiger that was scratched by one ear and the little bear that was feeding the puppies after giving birth were all arranged to stay at Xie's house.

Now the red-haired hound has come again. Xie Chen took the green tiger to the west room with the little bear and his mother, and then arranged the red-haired hound alone in the east room.

Just as Lin Xue was about to give the red-haired hound an injection, Xie Chen suddenly thought of something and asked Lin Xue: "Aunt Liu, are there any dogs that are allergic to penicillin?"

"Yes!" Lin Xue responded, and then poked the red-haired hound at the base of its tail.

...

After a day of running around, Zhao Jun was also tired. After the diners left, he hurriedly washed up and lay down on the kang and fell asleep.

Slept until six o'clock the next morning, and it was only when he heard a cough in the outer room that Zhao Jun opened his eyes.

After getting up, Zhao Jun put on his clothes, got off the kang and walked out of the room. Wang Meilan, who was rolling dough, saw him coming out and asked in a bad tone: "Did your father cough and wake you up?"

Hearing Wang Meilan's words, Zhao Youcai, who was pinching the folds of the buns next to him, looked at Zhao Jun, and his little eyes seemed to be able to speak, conveying information to Zhao Jun.

"No, no." Zhao Jun said: "I woke up by myself."

Wang Meilan turned back and glared at Zhao Youcai fiercely. Zhao Youcai said unhappily: "Why are you looking at me like that? I cough, I am willing?"

"Can't you cover your mouth?" Wang Meilan said: "You know that you have to cover your mouth when you cough and sneeze when you go up the mountain, don't you know this?"

When you go up the mountain to hunt and follow the prey, you must not make any sound. If you make a noise and scare the prey, the prey will run away.

But most mountain runners have bad trachea because they run in the mountains in winter. When they want to cough or sneeze, they can take off their hats to cover their mouths and noses. This way, even if they cough or sneeze, they can cover up most of the noise.

Zhao Youcai told Wang Meilan a lot of these common sense when they were dating, so Wang Meilan is also half an expert.

Hearing Wang Meilan's words, Zhao Youcai said unhappily: "Do you think I'm hunting?"

After saying this, Zhao Youcai took the flat spoon for stuffing and pointed at Zhao Jun and said: "Is he a wild boar? Or a roe deer?"

Zhao Youcai's temper has been getting better recently when he stays at home. He feels that after being transferred to the forestry protection, he is not as good as cooking in the cafeteria before.

When he was in the cafeteria, he had one day off a week, but after being transferred, he couldn't rest until Sunday.

As for going up the mountain, if today is not counted, he has been at home for eleven days. In these eleven days, Zhao Youcai only went up the mountain one day. On that day, he was busy chasing the black tiger and didn't catch anything.

"I'll hit you there with a rolling pin!" After hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Wang Meilan raised the rolling pin and gestured to Zhao Youcai.

Wang Meilan was still angry. Yesterday, Zhao Youcai insisted that she cut the dog's tail, which made Wang Meilan very unhappy.

Seeing that the couple was not very happy, Zhao Jun did not intend to interfere. Just as he was about to go back to the room to fold the quilt, he saw Zhao Youcai looking up, pointing his chin towards him, and asked, "Are you home today?"

"Ah?" Zhao Jun was startled and said, "Dad, I'm not home today."

"You're not home, what are you doing?" Zhao Youcai frowned and asked, "You've been away for more than ten days, why don't you rest at home after coming back?"

"That..." Zhao Jun hesitated and said, "After dinner, I'll report to my mother, and then I'll go to Yongsheng."

"What are you doing?" Zhao Youcai asked, Zhao Jun pointed outside the room and said, "Bring back those shrimps and other things, I want to send some to my sister."

"Go." Before Zhao Youcai could speak, Wang Meilan said, "Send some to your sister, and then get some to your father-in-law's house."

"Hey, Mom, I know." Zhao Jun just finished speaking , Wang Meilan continued: "Son, next Wednesday is the Little New Year, and our family hasn't prepared New Year's goods yet."

"Ah?" Zhao Jun was stunned when he heard this, and said: "Mom, then I'll drive you to the street?"

After saying this, Zhao Jun smiled and pointed out the window, saying: "This time we have our own big jeep, our own car, I'll take you to the city for a good stroll, stroll."

"There's no need to go to the city." Wang Meilan said: "Then go back, buy enough melon seeds, peanuts, candy, etc. What do I mean? You have nothing to do these days, you go up the mountain to buy wild boars, roe deer, etc. back."

"Ah... OK." Zhao Jun smiled and said: "Mom, I know, I'll go into the mountains in the next two days to buy New Year's goods."

Listening to the mother and daughter chatting, Zhao Youcai felt bad and regretted that he shouldn't have offended Wang Meilan just now.

But working at home these days has created income for the Chamber of Commerce, and Zhao Youcai's temper is good. In front of her son, she didn't say anything soft, just wrapped the buns.

Half an hour later, the buns came out of the pot, and the family of three sat on the kang in the west room to eat.

After dinner, Wang Meilan would make another pot, and the two little girls got up to eat the second pot.

At this time, Zhao Jun took a bite of the bun, looked up at Wang Meilan, and said, "Mom, is it pork stuffing?"

"Wild boar meat and green onions." Wang Meilan said so, Zhao Jun asked, "Did my uncle catch it?"

"Yes!" Wang Meilan said, "Yesterday morning your uncle went up the mountain and caught a yellow-haired pig and a year-old pig. I came back to the store at noon and found your uncle Wang. After that, we drove the sled up and pulled the two pigs back, and we skinned them."

Hearing Wang Meilan's words, Zhao Youcai pinched her with his eyelids.

Wang Meilan didn't see it, but continued to say to Zhao Jun, "Today is the beginning of spring, let's smoke meat and make pancakes tonight."

Today is February 4, 1988, the beginning of spring.

According to local customs, people eat spring food on the day of the beginning of spring.

The so-called eating spring food means eating spring pancakes and radishes.

"Well, OK." Zhao Jun responded, and then laughed: "My uncle can handle it now. He went up the mountain in the morning and came back at noon?"

Hearing what Zhao Jun said, Wang Meilan also laughed, and she said: "Your uncle went there on a motorcycle, which is not fast."

At this time, Zhao Youcai finally couldn't help it. When he stretched out his chopsticks to pick up the buns, he said to Zhao Jun: "Teach me to ride a motorcycle tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."

"Ah?" Zhao Jun was stunned and looked at Zhao Youcai without saying anything.

"What's going on?" Zhao Youcai's eyes widened, and Zhao Jun frowned and said, "Dad, you can't even ride a bicycle. Can you ride a motorcycle?"

Strange to say!

Zhao Youcai can easily climb mountains and ridges, and his motor skills should be fine, but he just can't ride a bicycle.

It’s not like Zhao Youcai didn’t have the opportunity to learn. When he was eating from a big pot, the commune had two bicycles. When they are not busy, young people use the commune's bicycles to practice, and Zhao Youcai is no exception, but he just can't ride well.

"Why not?" Zhao Youcai said, "Your uncle can ride, but I can't?"

Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan looked at each other. Wang Meilan was too lazy to pay attention to Zhao Youcai and only gave Zhao Jun a wink.

There are so many things going on at home, who has time to argue with him all the time?

After dinner, Zhao Jun helped Wang Meilan pick up the table. Zhao Youcai sat on the kang in the west room, smoking and drinking tea. Wang Meilan was making buns alone in the outside room.

At this time, Zhao Youcai didn't come to help, and Wang Meilan didn't call him, because Zhao Youcai should be on duty after eight o'clock, so let him be at ease for a while now.

While Wang Meilan was making buns, Zhao Jun took the account book and sat on a four-legged and eight-pointed stool to make a brief account report to Wang Meilan.

What Zhao Jun was telling Wang Meilan at this time was the prices of various mountain products in Hebei, so that Wang Meilan would have a better idea.

As for dividends and profits, we will discuss them after dinner in the evening, when the eight families sit together.

After listening to Zhao Jun talk about the prices of big leather, gray leather, and yellow leaves, Wang Meilan said: "That's all for these things."

"Yeah." Zhao Jun nodded and said, "The gray skin and yellow leaves are not worth much, so what... the big skin is okay."

"Well, it's not good." Wang Meilan responded, and Zhao Jun said: "Mom, do you remember that Shi Baofeng, can't you sell those two white mink skins to us?"

"Why don't you remember? I spent so much money to get it, why can't I remember it?" Wang Meilan said: "Son, if you don't tell me, what else does mom want to ask you? How much did those two pieces of leather cost?"

"Mom, guess what." Zhao Jun wanted to surprise Wang Meilan. Wang Meilan thought for a moment and said, "Ten thousand?"

After Wang Meilan finished speaking, she saw Zhao Jun shaking his head and guessed: "Twelve thousand?"

Zhao Jun still shook his head, but then gave the answer: "Eighteen thousand."

"Ouch." Wang Meilan had seen money before. After being surprised for a moment, she sighed: "This stuff is good, but it's just too little."

"It's not that good." Zhao Jun smiled and said, "Mom, do we have anything more valuable than this?"

"What?" Wang Meilan asked curiously, and then heard Zhao Jun say: "Golden bear bile."

"How much does that thing cost?" Wang Meilan asked, and Zhao Jun said, "Five thousand."

"That's okay." Wang Meilan thought it was five thousand for a gold bear bile. Thinking about the time when she bought a mountain to sell bear bile, the copper bile cost only four thousand a pound, and the gold bile cost less than twenty taels. Wang Meilan was quite satisfied with selling for five thousand.

But the next second, Zhao Jun said: "Mom, I mean one yuan and five thousand, one to two and fifty thousand."

"What?" Wang Meilan was shocked, and then there was a "ding" in the west room.

"This is still the starting price..." Just as Zhao Jun said this to Wang Meilan, Zhao Youcai came out of the house, interrupted Zhao Jun, and asked: "How much do I charge for the bear bile?"