sbdcsierra Chapter 1942 Offering Advice to the People Leads to Humiliation
Chapter 1942 Offering Advice to the People Leads to Humiliation
Chapter 1942 Offering Advice to the People Leads to Humiliation
The conditions at Lushuihe Forest Farm are not as good as those at Yong'an Forest Farm; the so-called guesthouse is just two and a half tiled houses.
It's similar to a typical family home. You enter through the door and find the outer room, with two rooms on the east and west sides. Both rooms have kang (heated brick beds), and the rooms are clean and tidy.
Today, eleven members of the Zhao family came, and it was definitely not enough for them to all stay in one room. Xing San, Wang Qiang, Zhang Yuanmin, Lin Xiangshun, and Ma Sheng stayed in the east room, while Zhao Jun and the other five younger members stayed in the west room.
The next morning, the Zhao family members woke up one after another to Zhao Jinhui's snoring.
After washing up, the group headed to the cafeteria together.
The canteen has staff who cook for them. In the morning, they eat steamed buns made from two kinds of flour, tofu soup, and vegetables with dipping sauce.
After the Zhao family members had eaten and drunk their fill, they returned to the guesthouse to rest and recharge their gear.
……
The home of Li Guoliang, a security officer in the family quarters of Lushuihe Forest Farm.
Li Guoliang, his wife, their two children, and his mother were having breakfast as a family of five.
Suddenly, the dog in the yard barked twice. Li Guoliang's wife, Zhang Suqin, got up and looked, then turned to Li Guoliang and said, "Husband, Qiushan is here."
"Huh?" Li Guoliang was taken aback upon hearing this, and asked with slight surprise, "What's he doing here so early?"
As soon as Li Guoliang finished speaking, Shen Qiushan pushed open the door and came in.
"Brother Liang," Shen Qiushan asked Li Guoliang as soon as he entered the room, "Have the people that Director Zhang invited arrived?"
On that day in Fusong, Zhao Jun and Shen Qiushan met for the first time. The two failed to reach an agreement on terms, and later Shen Qiushan told Wu Baoguo that he had a relative who was a minor leader in the security section of Lushuihe Forest Farm.
The relative he was referring to was Li Guoliang. Shen Qiushan's father and Li Guoliang's mother were cousins.
So as soon as Shen Qiushan finished speaking, Shen Shufen, who was on the kang (a heated brick bed), called out to him, "Qiushan, have you eaten yet? If not, come and have a bite on the kang."
"Fourth Aunt, I've finished eating," Shen Qiushan replied. "I've come to talk to Brother Liang about something."
After speaking, Shen Qiushan looked at Li Guoliang.
"You're here." Li Guoliang casually grabbed the tobacco basket and handed it to Shen Qiushan, saying, "We didn't arrive until almost ten o'clock yesterday. We stayed at the guesthouse after dinner."
"Is it Zhao Jun who's here?" Shen Qiushan asked again. Li Guoliang licked the cigarette paper with his tongue and then said, "Yes, didn't I tell you that the other day?"
"He really came?" Shen Qiushan asked again. Li Guoliang laughed and said, "Well, what can we say? Of course he really came!"
"Damn it!" Shen Qiushan put his hands on his hips and paced back and forth in the room.
Seeing his expression, Li Guoliang asked in confusion, "Qiushan, what's wrong? Isn't his arrival a good thing?"
"What a nuisance!" Shen Qiushan said irritably, "After he comes and finishes fighting the wolves, he has to come here and cause trouble."
"What?" Li Guoliang exclaimed in surprise, "He went to Tan'anzi, and he can also go hunting? Doesn't he hunt?"
"Who knows about him?" Shen Qiushan muttered, then sat down on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), grabbed the tobacco basket, and said while twirling tobacco leaves, "Last time at my fifth uncle's place, I told him to come help me hunt wolves, and I'd give him some money afterwards, but he refused."
Later he said he could do it, but after he finished fighting the wolves, he had to stay on our side of the hill to work. I didn't do it.
“I didn’t hear him say that,” Li Guoliang shook his head and said, “He just said he was from the forest area…”
"Screw him!" Shen Qiushan interrupted Li Guoliang rudely, saying, "The way he said it is better than the way he sang it."
"Qiu Shan," Shen Shufen interjected, "is he coming for the ginseng pit on our mountain?"
"Yeah, right," Shen Qiushan replied, then said irritably, "Otherwise, why would he come all this way?"
Hearing Shen Qiushan's words, Shen Shufen said to Li Guoliang, "Liangzi, why don't you talk to your Director Zhang?"
"What are you saying, Mom?" Li Guoliang said, "Director Zhang is in charge of this matter. He's overjoyed that someone can help him hunt wolves."
As Li Guoliang finished speaking, Shen Qiushan got up to leave, and Shen Shufen asked, "Qiushan, are you leaving already?"
"Let's go!" Shen Qiushan said, "I'll find someone to make sure he can leave the ginseng there, but he won't be able to take it away!"
After saying that, Shen Qiushan walked out, and Li Guoliang got up to see him off. Watching the two brothers leave, Zhang Suqin whispered to Shen Shufen, "Mom, isn't something bad going to happen with Qiushan doing this?"
"What happened?" Shen Shufen asked. "Those Zhao guys are all outsiders, what can they do to us?"
Just then, Li Guoliang returned. Hearing his mother's words, Li Guoliang said with a serious expression, "Mom, these people are no ordinary thugs."
"What happened?" Shen Shufen asked. Li Guoliang replied, "There's an old man there who took out a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes from his pocket after dinner yesterday, opened it, and started scattering them around."
"An old man?" Although Shen Shufen had never smoked Zhonghua cigarettes, she had heard of them. However, being a widow in her early fifties for many years, she was more interested in the old man.
Seeing her son and daughter-in-law looking at her, Shen Shufen quickly said, "They came to hunt wolves, why did they bring an old man with them?"
"Who would know?" Li Guoliang could roughly guess what his mother was thinking, but things were different these days compared to twenty or thirty years later, when children didn't want to live with their parents.
But these days, it's different. Parents can still help their children. Especially in rural areas, the elderly in the family are also a source of labor. Shen Shufen didn't remarry; she could work both inside and outside the home and help take care of their children.
So, Li Guoliang casually remarked, "That old man looks quite old. Even my grandfather might not be that old if he were alive."
"Huh?" At this moment, Zhang Suqin thought of a possibility and hurriedly said to her husband and mother-in-law, "Is that old man the ginseng boss?"
You can't take an old man hunting, but when it comes to hiking in the mountains, an old man is quite popular.
Li Guoliang and Shen Shufen both felt that Zhang Suqin's words made sense.
……
After finishing his meal, Li Guoliang went out to work at the forest farm with his colleagues.
When Li Guoliang arrived at the section, not only was Liu Yanshuang, the head of the security section, there, but Zhang Xudong, the head of the security field, was also there.
At this point, there were ten people in the room, including Li Guoliang. Zhang Xudong got up and told everyone to take their weapons and go to the guesthouse to meet up with the Zhao family gang.
When they arrived at the guesthouse, Zhang Yuanmin, Li Baoyu, Xie Chen, and Zhao Jinhui were playing cards on the kang (heated brick bed) in the west room, while Zhao Jun and others watched the fun.
"Team Leader Zhao." Zhang Xudong called out from the doorway. Zhao Jun tugged at Lin Xiangshun beside him and said, "Let's go."
Before Lin Xiangshun could react, Zhao Jinhui, who was holding four cards and looking worried about which one to play, quickly shoved his cards into the deck, stood up, and said, "Let's go, let's go!"
"Hey?" Zhang Yuanmin couldn't stop him. Xie Chen swung his hand and slapped Zhao Jinhui's big butt, saying, "I'm going to scratch you, and you fucking ran away!"
Amidst light laughter, eleven members of the Zhao family gang emerged from the west room, with Zhao Jun leading the way.
Looking at this group of people, Zhang Xudong sensed that they weren't from the right path. There were eleven of them, including both old and young, and not one of them carried a gun.
It's one thing that no one was carrying a gun, but one of these people was a small file and was also holding a feather fan.
It's 88 now, and the 94 version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" hasn't even aired yet, so Zhang Yuanmin's move is quite unconventional.
"Team Leader Zhao." Coming out of the house, Zhang Xudong couldn't help but probe Zhao Jun, asking, "Are we going to Langcaogou?"
"Absolutely," Zhao Jun smiled and said, "That's exactly why we came here."
Hearing Zhao Jun say this, Zhang Xudong opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything. He only chatted about whether he had slept well yesterday or eaten well this morning while on the road.
The group of twenty-one people came out of the forest farm in a grand procession, and entered the family quarters after walking less than a hundred meters.
Passing through the residential area, there is a small grove of trees.
When Zhao Jun and his group entered the woods, they found it eerily quiet, without even a bird chirping.
It was obvious there was something strange about this forest, but Zhao Jun didn't pay much attention. Wolves aren't stupid; even a dozen wolves wouldn't attack a group of more than twenty people.
After passing through the grove of trees, a wide-open space appeared before us—a high-altitude meadow.
The view is filled with greenery, which is truly refreshing.
Here, you can see the scene of wind blowing through the grass.
Zhang Xudong and Liu Yanshuang led the way, guiding the Zhao family gang forward and downward.
The entire meadow is a gentle slope, and there are hardly any trees along the way. The low shrubs are nice, though, and various wildflowers dot the green grass, making it a perfect spot for a date.
About twenty minutes later, Zhang Xudong and Zhao Jun stood on a large blue stone and looked down.
The hillside where they were located formed a ravine between the opposite mountain and the hillside. When Zhao Jun looked down, the ravine appeared to be long and wide.
At this moment, Zhang Xudong pointed down and said to Zhao Jun, "Team Leader Zhao, this is Langcaogou."
As he spoke, Zhang Xudong pointed to both sides with his fingers, and then said to Zhao Jun, "This ditch is wide in the middle, and it gets narrower and narrower towards both sides."
Zhao Jun nodded slightly upon hearing this. He had already made a plan in his mind before leaving home.
I'm here today for no other reason than to check out the terrain.
"Hahaha..." Suddenly, a burst of laughter startled Zhao Jun.
The laughter was completely unnatural and contrived; Zhao Jun knew who it was without even looking.
Zhao Jun didn't turn around, but Zhang Xudong did. He saw the little file shake his goose feather fan, then point forward and say, "It's a pity we came too early. If Lao Qiu had come a few days ago, I could have killed as many wolves as there were without firing a single shot."
Zhang Xudong recognized every word Zhang Yuanmin said, but the way the words were connected in a strange way left him somewhat confused.
At this moment, Li Baoyu stepped forward and asked, "Brother Zhang, why do we still insist on chasing Lao Qiu away?"
“Hehe…” Zhang Yuanmin chuckled softly, waving his feather fan as he said, “Old Qiu, um… the grass and trees are withered and yellow, let’s throw dry firewood down from the mountain and set it ablaze.”
At this point, Zhang Yuanmin pointed his goose feather fan to both sides and continued, "Set up ambushes on both sides of the ditch, and I guarantee that no matter how many wolves come, they will all die!"
Upon hearing Zhang Yuanmin's words, Zhang Xudong was taken aback, then his eyes lit up. At that moment, he felt a sense of regret for not having met Zhang Yuanmin sooner. If he had met Zhang Yuanmin earlier, would their Lushuihe Forest Farm have been plagued by these wolves for so many years?
But just then, Li Ruhai gave a cold "heh" and questioned, "Brother Zhang, why don't the wolves run to either side?"
As he spoke, Li Ruhai pointed to the opposite mountain and said, "Do you want to go up the opposite mountain?"
Upon hearing Li Ruhai's words, Zhang Xudong subconsciously looked at Zhang Yuanmin, only to see Zhang Yuanmin lightly waving his feather fan and laughing, "Ruhai, a general must be flexible and adaptable, able to draw inferences from one instance to another. Why don't we just throw firewood down from both mountains?"
Upon hearing Zhang Yuanmin's words, Li Ruhai pursed his lips and muttered under his breath, "Burn down Shangfang Valley." Zhang Xudong, on the other hand, nodded, seemingly agreeing with Zhang Yuanmin's statement.
But after nodding, Zhang Xudong felt something was off. Then he heard Li Guoliang behind him mutter, "Arson? They'd be arrested and executed!"
Zhao Jun: "..."
Zhang Yuanmin: "..."
Everyone: "..."
That's right, this isn't the Later Han or Three Kingdoms period. Zhuge Liang set fires solely to kill the enemy, without considering anything else; the Zhao army, however, couldn't do that.
It's only been a year since the devastating forest fire in the Greater Khingan Mountains in 87, yet it caused immense damage.
Since that fire, the forest area has paid extra attention to the prevention of open fires. This year, the forest area has emphasized that anyone who smokes or starts a fire, regardless of whether it causes a disaster, will be prosecuted according to the law. Those who smoke in the forest will be severely punished if they are not public officials, and public officials will be dismissed immediately.
Setting the mountain on fire? That's just asking for trouble!
Zhang Yuanmin, his face flushed, covered his face with a feather fan and retreated awkwardly. Zhao Jun coughed lightly and said to Zhang Xudong, "Director Zhang, is that wolf in this ditch?"
“Hmm!” Zhang Xudong nodded and said, “If it’s not in this ditch, it’s on the opposite slope, or it’s in the meadow where we’re standing right now. Anyway, these wolves don’t go far.”
"I understand now," Zhao Jun said. "Director Zhang, let's go back."
"Huh?" Zhang Xudong was taken aback and looked at Zhao Jun, saying, "What's up, Team Leader Zhao? How are we getting back?"
"I understand, Director Zhang," Zhao Jun said. "We'll go back and prepare, pack our things, and then you won't need to worry about it anymore."
Zhao Jun's overbearing attitude made Zhang Xudong uneasy, so he tentatively asked, "Team Leader Zhao, what are your plans?"
"This...hehe..." Zhao Jun chuckled and said, "Director Zhang, you don't need to worry about this. I'll get them all back to you one by one after I beat up that Zhang San."
"Ah..." Hearing Zhao Jun say this, Zhang Xudong thought that this man might have some clever tricks up his sleeve, but then he immediately instructed Zhao Jun, "Team Leader Zhao, you mustn't set a fire!"
As soon as Zhang Xudong said this, Zhang Yuanmin's face turned red again.
"No way, Director Zhang," Zhao Jun laughed. "I'm from the forest area myself. How could I do that kind of thing?"
After Zhao Jun finished speaking, he felt that his words were somewhat unfriendly to Zhang Yuanmin, but since he had already said it, he let it go.
"Ah..." Zhang Xudong was still a little unsure, so he asked Zhao Jun, "Team Leader Zhao, what do you need to prepare? Is there anything you need us to do?"
"Director Zhang, we don't need anything else," Zhao Jun requested. "Just give us some semi-automatic rifle bullets."
"No problem," Zhang Xudong readily agreed, and then everyone turned back.
On the way, Zhao Jun said to Zhang Xudong, "Director Zhang, we won't be coming back tonight, so you don't need to prepare any meals for us."
"Huh?" Zhang Xudong was shocked upon hearing this and hurriedly asked, "Team Leader Zhao, if you're not coming back, where are you going?"
This guy's persistent questioning is really troublesome. Zhao Jun smiled lightly and said, "Director Zhang, my family has a family tradition of hunting Zhang San. We'll set up a trap squad when we go into the mountains, so don't worry, we'll be right back after we're done."
"Ah..." Hearing Zhao Jun's words, Zhang Xudong was slightly more convinced. But at this moment, Liu Yanshuang, who was next to him, took two quick steps and caught up with Zhao Jun, asking, "Team Leader Zhao, shouldn't we prepare some food for you?"
While at home, Zhao Jun had already made a plan. When they went out, they brought boiled salted goose eggs, noodles, various canned goods, and large pancakes.
But this couldn't be revealed, so Zhao Jun said to Liu Yanshuang, "Prepare some large pancakes for us, and then have ten catties of rice."
After saying this, Zhao Jun remembered something and asked Zhang Xudong and Liu Yanshuang, "Director Zhang, Section Chief Liu, if possible, could you please help me get two dogs?"