sbdcsierra Chapter 1501: Disliked by Dogs
Chapter 1501: Disliked by Dogs
Chapter 1501: Disliked by Dogs
When Ma Yang heard Zhao Jun say that he wanted to take him out to play, he was overjoyed.
There really isn't much entertainment these days. It was only this year that the forest area gave workers benefits, and many families bought TVs at internal prices, which enriched their spare time.
The old Ma family had some money, but they didn't buy a TV. When Ma Yang asked why, Ma Dafu and Wang Cuihua blamed him for not being able to do things, saying that the money was saved for him to find a job and marry a wife.
I heard from Li Ruhai that there will be a Spring Festival Gala tonight, but it's New Year's Day and we can't go to other people's houses to watch TV.
When Ma Yang heard that Zhao Jun wanted to take him out to play, he was very happy. He happily pulled Zhao Jun towards home.
This child really loves to play. While his father, mother and sister were pasting blessing characters and hanging money at home, he ran outside to set off firecrackers.
"Dad! Mom! Sister!" As soon as Ma Yang entered the yard, he shouted at the three people who were busy in front of the door, scaring Ma Dafu and the other two.
With his brother-in-law charging forward, when Ma Ling and the other two turned around, Zhao Jun took the opportunity to wish the two elders a happy new year: "Happy New Year, uncle and aunt!"
"Hey, Jun! Come, come, come in quickly." When Wang Cuihua saw that it was Zhao Jun, she directly stuffed the small helmet filled with glue in her hand to Ma Dafu, then freed her hands and pulled open the door.
What does it mean that the more a mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more pleased she becomes? Wang Cuihua did just that.
In his previous life, Zhao Jun lived in this forest area and was just an average-to-average person. Wang Cuihua had nothing to complain about him.
Today, Zhao Jun is doing very well in Yongan Forest District. Not only is his job comfortable, but he also appeared on TV and in newspapers at the end of the year. He is a capable and good person, and it is hard to find a son-in-law like him.
The Zhao family was quite considerate as in-laws. They slaughtered a pig that day and the Ma family was invited to attend. At the first table in the east room, apart from the leader, there were Zhao Youcai and Ma Dafu.
There were so many leaders present that day, but Zhao Youcai did not neglect Ma Dafu, which shows how much he values the Ma family.
At this time, Ma Dafu also invited Zhao Jun into the house, but Zhao Jun politely declined.
I came here today just to say hello. When I come to visit in two days, I will bring my things and then go into the house.
The four members of the Ma family sent Zhao Jun out of the hospital. When they said goodbye to each other, Ma Yang shouted the loudest.
After leaving Ma's house, Zhao Jun walked towards the store. On the way, he saw Li Tongyun walking towards him in a hurry.
When Li Tongyun saw Zhao Jun, she hurriedly took two steps forward. When she was hiding behind Zhao Jun, she said, "Happy New Year, brother Zhao."
Just as Zhao Jun was about to respond, he heard someone shout, "You pretty girl, you deserve a beating!"
Zhao Jun was stunned and his face darkened instantly. When he was wondering who was so bold, he saw Li Dazhi turning around the corner with an angry look on his face.
"Sixth Uncle, Happy New Year!" Zhao Jun's expression changed quickly. When he was smiling and wishing Li Dazhi a happy new year, Lin Xue came over and grabbed Li Dazhi.
"Sixth Aunt, Happy New Year." Zhao Jun greeted her, and saw Lin Xue forced an unnatural smile on her face, saying, "Happy New Year, Zhao Jun."
"What's the matter, Sixth Uncle?" When Zhao Jun went to greet Li Dazhi, Li Tongyun slipped away behind him.
Li Dazhi is a talkative person. It is said that on the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month, the day before the forest farm was closed for holiday, when the annual work summary meeting was held in the morning, various leaders gave speeches first.
The first speaker was Zhou Chunming, who spoke for about seven minutes. Then came Liu Renshan, the production director, who made up 70% of the work at the forest farm, so he spoke a few more words, for about fifteen minutes.
Next in line is Li Dazhi, a forestry manager, who, according to past years, could not even speak for five minutes.
But Li Dazhi did not follow the usual path. He spoke in plain language for nearly half an hour, making everyone on the stage and in the audience stare at him.
Although he talks a lot, he is still a very well-mannered person. Zhao Jun has been in contact with him for such a long time, and today is the first time he has seen Li Dazhi swear like this.
When asked by Zhao Jun, Li Dazhi pointed at Li Tongyun who disappeared around the corner and said, "On the day your family hosted the party, she beat up the two Zhang brothers."
"Ah?" Zhao Jun was startled and frowned, and asked, "Sixth Uncle, which Zhang family are you talking about?"
"Zhang Zhanshan's family." Li Dazhi said unhappily, "It's said that the boss was kicked off the bed by her for several days."
"Ah? Zhang Laibao?" Zhao Jun looked incredulous. After all, Zhang Laibao was a 20-year-old young man. How could he be beaten like that by Li Tongyun?
"Is that so?" Li Dazhi said, "I don't know his name, but he is the eldest son of Zhang Zhanshan's family."
"Sixth Uncle, who told you that?" Zhao Jun asked again. Li Dazhi said, "I just ran into Zhang Zhanhe. Zhang Zhanhe told me."
"Oh my god." Zhao Jun frowned and said, "Don't let him tell anyone. If everyone in the village knows about it, how can my sister still talk about her boyfriend?"
"Yeah." Li Dazhi said, "I didn't tell him explicitly, but I let him know that if he and his wife are willing to do the forest management and cleanup this year, they can continue to do it."
Hearing what Li Dazhi said, Zhao Jun's mouth twitched, thinking that this is obviously a threat to others.
"Damn it! This brat is so wicked!" Li Dazhi continued to curse, but was hit by Lin Xue, who said, "It's New Year's Day, it's better to be careful!"
"What do you mean by exactly the same?" Li Dazhi glared at Lin Xue and said, "You've spoiled me!"
"Okay, Uncle Six, don't be angry." Zhao Jun said, gesturing towards his home, "Go home with my aunt, they are waiting for you."
"Okay, Jun, we'll be there right away." After Lin Xue finished speaking, she added, "By the way, we've already posted all the money hangings and other things for you in your new house."
Although no one lived in the new house, they still had to post couplets and other things. Li Dazhi's home was close to the Zhao family's new house, so he took on this task.
It was when he was pasting the word "Fu" on the door of the Zhao family's new house that he met Zhang Zhanhe.
After Zhao Jun thanked Li Dazhi and his wife, he walked towards the convenience store.
When Zhao Jun arrived at the store, the outside was full of people.
Wang Fu and his wife are business-minded. This year, they discussed with the owners of three other shops in the residential quarters and hired a Dongfanghong tractor the day before yesterday. They went down the mountain at two o'clock in the morning yesterday and brought back a bunch of apples.
The baskets of Xiaoguoguang apples were covered with layers of tarpaulin and sacks. But when I came back, they were still a little frozen. But after a day in the house, they were basically frozen.
The Chinese people attach great importance to the Chinese New Year and believe that it is not an ordinary day. If you celebrate this year well, the next year will be good, smooth and prosperous.
As the old saying goes: Who doesn’t eat dumplings during Chinese New Year?
It can be seen that no matter how difficult life is for ordinary people, New Year's Day will be different from other days.
Today, Wang Fujia's family not only has apples, but also a stall outside the house with popsicles, frozen pears, frozen persimmons, melon seeds, peanuts, firecrackers, and double-kick firecrackers on it.
There were quite a few people gathered around the stall. After Zhao Jun came over, he first greeted everyone.
"Uncle Wang." Zhao Jun called Wang Fu, "Make twenty bundles of Shuangxiangzi for me."
Zhao Jun has loved setting off firecrackers in his two lifetimes. Firecrackers are meaningless to him, he prefers the powerful double-kick firecrackers.
Ten made a bundle, twenty bundles made two hundred, which was enough for the Zhao army to defeat in two days.
Wang Fu took a look at the stall, then said to Zhao Jun, "There's not enough here. I'll go upstairs and get it for you."
"Okay, Uncle Wang." Zhao Jun said, "I'll go in and buy some things, and I'll settle the bill with my aunt when I'm done."
Wang Fu responded and walked towards his warehouse.
Looking at Zhao Jun's back as he entered the house, the people who were buying goods around him were talking about: "Why did the Zhao family buy twenty bundles of double-bang bullets?"
One person gave a direct and concise answer: "Why do you care? They have money."
In the grocery store, the proprietress Yang Xue and her children were busy working.
Some were buying cakes, some were picking apples, some were choosing cigarettes, some were buying wine...
As soon as Zhao Jun opened the door, the rich smell of eggs rushed into his nose.
After another round of New Year greetings, Yang Xue greeted Zhao Jun warmly and said, "Xiao Jun, your uncle Wang is buying apples. Would you like some?"
"No, Aunt Wang." Zhao Jun said, "I just want the trough cakes. Please find me a clean flour bag to put 20 kilograms of it. And then there are 20 bundles of double-bang cakes outside."
Although she failed to sell the apples to Zhao Jun, Yang Xue was very happy to have sold twenty kilograms of caozi cakes and twenty bundles of shuangxiangzi.
She packed the tao gao for Zhao Jun, and after Zhao Jun paid, he pulled the bag and walked out.
Zhao Youcai instructed that the newly made caozi cake should not be covered, and asked Zhao Jun to take it back in a paper bag.
But what kind of paper can hold twenty kilograms of taro cake?
Zhao Jun pulled one side of the bag, leaving the mouth open and not covering the pastries inside.
On his way home, Zhao Jun passed by the old lady's house on purpose. The old lady was old, and the soft tiaozi cake was just right for her. He left a few pieces for her, and whenever she was hungry, she could roast them in front of the stove and eat them.
When Zhao Jun arrived at the old lady's house, he saw Wang Qiang and Lin Xiangshun pasting couplets on the door of Jie's courtyard.
They have already posted it at the old lady’s house.
Zhao Jun wished them a happy new year. Wang Qiang responded by asking, "What about those double-bang cymbals that nephew bought?"
"Just put it there for fun." Zhao Jun said with a smile, "Uncle, second brother, we have nothing to do this afternoon, let's go to the riverside to play."
"Let's go." A man stays young until he dies. When they heard about going out to play, Wang Qiang and Lin Xiangshun were very happy.
Zhao Jun placed the firecrackers under the tent and carried the bag of flour into the Jiang family.
When he entered the room, the old lady was combing her hair.
"Oh my!" Zhao Jun came into the room and praised, "Grandma Jiang, you look so smart in your new clothes."
Women all love beauty, even when they are old.
Hearing Zhao Jun praising her, the old lady's face lit up with joy.
After hearing Zhao Jun's New Year greetings, the old lady took out a handful of money from her pocket.
It can be seen that the old lady had prepared in advance. I don’t know who she asked to exchange the bills, but all she took out were new bills, which is not easy to do in the forest area.
"It's too small!" The old lady had only four five-dollar bills and the rest were one-dollar bills.
The old lady stuffed four five-yuan bills into Zhao Jun's hand and said, "Here, it's New Year's Day, Grandma Jiang gave them to you!"
"Hey!" Zhao Jun didn't hesitate and put the money in his pocket with a smile.
Seeing Zhao Jun took the money, the old lady smiled and raised the remaining one dollar in her hand, saying, "This is for the younger ones."
"Okay." Zhao Jun said with a smile, "Give them the big ones, they can't spend them anyway."
The old lady laughed, and then heard Zhao Jun say, "Grandma Jiang, I'll pick up a few pieces of trough cakes for you from the bowl rack. If you're hungry, just have a bite."
"Okay." The old lady said, and then she followed Zhao Jun to the outer room. After Zhao Jun left her ten pieces of trough cake, the old lady and the young lady went out to meet Wang Qiang and Lin Xiangshun.
On the way to Zhao's house, the four of them met Zhang Yuanmin's family. After wishing each other a happy new year, they walked towards Zhao's house chatting and laughing.
As soon as they entered the Zhao family compound, Li Baoyu and Li Ruhai ran out from the next house.
The two brothers were wearing new clothes today, so they didn't jump over the wall, but ran through the door.
Zhao Jun gave the trough cake to Yang Yufeng and asked her, the old lady and Xiao Lingdang to go into the house first, while the men set off firecrackers outside the yard.
At first, they set off firecrackers one by one, and everyone took turns setting them off. Later, everyone took one, and all six of them lit up together, so that the six firecrackers flew into the air and exploded at the same time.
These days, firecrackers are very powerful. When six firecrackers explode at the same time, it seems like the sky is shaking.
As the shredded paper fell, Li Dazhi ran out of the room.
Li Dazhi was holding a water scoop and yelled to Zhao Jun and the others, "Come, come, I'll teach you how to play!"
At this time, Zhao Youcai, Li Dayong and Xing San also came out.
Everyone watched as Li Dazhi took firecrackers one by one and lined them up from left to right, with a fist's distance between each two.
Then, Li Dazhi took the water scoop and poured the water into the bottom of the ertijiao. As he swiped his hand from left to right, a pool of water expanded under the seven ertijiao.
"Fuck, it's frozen!" Zhao Youcai said, "It can't be frozen, maybe it ran away to someone's house."
"Hahaha..." everyone laughed.
It was more than 20 degrees below zero outside. The water poured on the ground spread out as a thin layer and soon froze all seven firecrackers.
Li Dazhi took the cigarette out of his mouth and lit the fuse of the firecracker in the middle.
"Bang!" There was a flash of fire, a puff of white smoke, and the firecracker rose into the air before exploding for the second time.
The white smoke soon dissipated, leaving only six firecrackers on the ground. No one lit the fuses, and no one knew when they caught fire.
"Bang... Bang..." Amid the sound of explosions and white smoke, firecrackers rose into the air and exploded again.
The fuses of the last six double-kick firecrackers were ignited by the fireball generated by the explosion of the lower layer of gunpowder at the first explosion on the spot.
So what Zhao Youcai said was right. If it was not frozen, when the first explosion went off, it would set fire to the surroundings and knock them down. Then it would be hard to say where it would explode and who it would hit.
A bunch of old men and young men were having a great time, and the children in the house came out to watch the fun. Most of them didn't dare to set off fireworks, but Wang Tian, a little boy from Wang Qiang's family, dared to do so. But after Wang Tian set off one, his mother even scolded his father.
Normally, when firecrackers are set off, the dogs at home will bark. But compared to domestic dogs, hunting dogs have seen more big scenes. Therefore, most of the dogs in the Zhao and Li families are very quiet.
As for the three red dogs, they had never seen the world, but they got used to it after hearing it barking for several days.
The group of people played together, and the more they played, the more they played. At this time, Li Ruhai sneaked into the Zhao family yard with a firecracker and went straight to the window of the east room.
The black tiger was guarding the east window. When it saw Li Ruhai running towards it with something in his hand, it thought that Li Ruhai was going to give it food.
When Li Ruhai took Heihu's dog food bowl, Heihu was even happier. Li Ruhai placed a double-kick firecracker on the ground, and then put Heihu's dog food bowl on the double-kick firecracker, with the fuse exposed.
Li Ruhai glanced at the black tiger wagging its tail, grinned, struck a match, lit it and ran away.
At the beginning, Heihu was watching in front of the dog food bowl to see what Li Ruhai was going to do.
As soon as Li Ruhai ran, the black tiger subconsciously followed Li Ruhai. After running two steps, the black tiger felt something was wrong, and when it turned around, it heard a "bang".
Then, Hei Hu watched his dog food bowl fly into the sky.
"Bang!" There was another sound. Everyone looked back and saw a broken basin in the air, spinning and falling down.
It's quite late to update. Go to bed first, brothers. Get up and read it tomorrow morning.
(End of this chapter)