sbdcsierra Chapter 1141 The Growing Zhao Family Gang
Chapter 1141 The Growing Zhao Family Gang
Chapter 1141 The Growing Zhao Family Gang
"Xiaojun is back!" Zhao Ling, who was blanching deer ribs in the outer room of the Zhao family, greeted Zhao Jun and winked at him.
"Uncle?" Zhao Jun's eyes followed Zhao Ling's gaze and drifted to the west room. At this time, Wang Meilan came over and looked at the sack beside Zhao Jun and asked, "Son, what did you buy?"
"Buy some vegetables." Zhao Jun smiled and took out a plastic bag from the sack. The moment Wang Meilan saw the plastic bag, her eyes lit up. After taking the plastic bag, she was even more surprised when she opened it.
"Oh, there are cucumbers here." Zhao Ling turned around and took a look while holding the strainer. Liu Lanying said, "They are from the south, right?"
Her second sister-in-law's husband is the manager of a supply and marketing cooperative, so she can eat cucumbers every winter.
"And garlic sprouts." Wang Meilan held the bag in one hand and took out the garlic sprouts with the other hand. She said to Jin Xiaomei, "Xiaomei, go outside and get some rolled dried tofu. We'll cut some cold dishes for dinner."
"Hey!" Jin Xiaomei agreed and ran out. When there were vegetables in the summer, she would cut two cucumbers, two sheets of dried tofu, and chop some coriander to make a bowl of cold dishes.
People in Northeast China love this dish. But after winter, the only vegetables left are cabbage and radish, so if you want to eat this dish again, you have to wait until June or July next year.
"Ouch!" Zhao Jun took a look into the pot and asked in surprise, "Big guy?"
"Yes, your uncle and his friends went up the mountain." Wang Meilan said, "And your elder brother Huang and his friends went there too, and they caught two deer."
"My sister thinks the meat of the doe is not tasty." At this time, Wang Qiang appeared at the door and pointed at the pot, smiling and said to Zhao Jun: "This is a bull egg. If it doesn't run away, the meat will be better."
The "paosao" Wang Qiang mentioned is mating, and this word can be used to describe animals as well as people. Whether livestock is domestic or wild, the quality of the meat will be much worse after mating.
While they were talking, Huang Gui, Jiang Weifeng, the Chen brothers who were in the west room, and Jie Chen, Jie Sun and the old lady who were watching TV in the east room all came out.
But what puzzled Zhao Jun was that every time he came back from the city, his two sisters would come out to see what good things he had bought for them. But today, the two little girls didn't show up, which made Zhao Jun feel something was wrong.
Zhao Jun took out the vegetables he bought one by one. The remaining peanuts and melon seeds were all raw and had to be fried before they could be eaten.
Wang Meilan asked Xu Chunyan to go out with her to sort out the peanuts and melon seeds, while Zhao Jun, Huang Gui and others went into the west room.
As soon as he entered the west room, Zhao Jun saw Zhao Youcai sitting cross-legged on the kang.
"Dad." Zhao Jun asked quickly, "Are you okay? You still can't cough?"
"Ahem!" When asked by Zhao Jun, Zhao Youcai coughed twice and said stiffly, "It's OK."
Zhao Jun was startled and then he heard a "humming" sound. He looked in the direction of the sound and saw the little black bear struggling to climb out of the pine box, moving its legs on the kang and running towards Zhao Jun.
"Three Eyes." Zhao Jun reached out and picked up the little black bear. This little thing had a white spot on its left eyelid, so Zhao Youcai named it Three Eyes.
The little black bear is like a puppy. It recognizes people and sometimes becomes clingy.
Zhao Jun picked up the little black bear, and the little black bear buried its face in Zhao Jun's arms.
At this time, Huang Gui picked up an apple on the table next to him, showed it to Zhao Jun, and said, "Look at this little thing for eating apples."
Zhao Jun took a look and saw that one side of the apple was covered with small teeth marks. The little thing had been drinking goat's milk these days and its teeth had not yet grown fully. It took a lot of effort to bite through the apple skin.
"Your little tiger cub is still gnawing on the frozen chicken." Jiang Weifeng's next words stunned Zhao Jun. He looked at Jiang Weifeng in surprise and asked, "Why is he still gnawing on the chicken?"
Zhao Jun was puzzled. How could a chicken be delivered to the little lynx? And it was a frozen chicken.
As soon as Zhao Jun said this, the room fell into silence.
Seeing Huang Gui and others looking at Zhao Youcai, Zhao Jun felt that there was something going on.
But seeing Zhao Youcai's gloomy face, Zhao Jun didn't dare to ask more questions, and the room became quiet at this time.
"Well..." Wang Qiang felt that the atmosphere was not right, and called everyone, "Let's go watch TV?"
"Ah, let's go." Huang Gui and the others stood up and went to the east room. Wang Qiang called Zhao Youcai and said, "Brother-in-law, you can go too."
"No!" Zhao Youcai refused in a stiff tone, and as soon as he finished speaking, Wang Qiang turned and left.
Wang Qiang also stepped forward, and for a moment, only the father and son were left in the room. Zhao Jun sat sideways on the edge of the kang holding the little black bear and whispered to Zhao Youcai, "What's wrong, Dad?"
Zhao Youcai turned his head and looked at Zhao Jun. Although his eyes were narrowed, Zhao Jun saw a cold light flashing in his eyes.
"What's going on?" Zhao Jun was startled and stood up subconsciously.
At this time, Wang Meilan's voice came from outside the house: "Son, did you have lunch?"
"Ah..." Zhao Jun walked out of the house and replied, "I ate it, Mom."
Zhao Youcai: "..."
Zhao Jun carried the little black bear through the outer room to the east room. When he came in, he saw that the three little girls, Zhao Hong, Zhao Na and Li Xiaoqiao, all had red eyes, obviously they had just cried.
"Second sister." Zhao Jun came closer and pulled Zhao Hong, who turned around and called out "Brother".
Seeing the little girl's cheeks twitching slightly and tears in her eyes, Zhao Jun blinked and glanced at the people around him.
Seeing that they all had strange expressions, Zhao Jun shifted his gaze and stared at the TV screen without moving away.
Zhao Jun knew without asking that the third little girl was definitely not bullied by outsiders, otherwise the people in the family would not have remained silent. There was only one reason for their silence: the perpetrator was the child's mother.
Seeing that her elder brother didn't look at her, Zhao Hong pouted, but she didn't dare to cry, because when she cried, Wang Meilan slapped her again and told her to "hold it back, or I'll let you cry to your heart's content."
Zhao Hong was not like Li Ruhai, who was not afraid of boiling water, so the little girl did not dare to make any noise.
When Zhao Jun and his friends were watching TV in the east room, they could smell fragrance coming from the outer room.
Bring the dried tofu into the house and soak it in cold water. It will thaw quickly. Cut it into strips and blanch it again. This way, the dried tofu will taste meatier.
After blanching the dried tofu in cold water, put it in a basin with cucumber shreds. In the middle of winter, there was no cilantro, so Wang Meilan just chopped garlic.
In addition, she also took two strips of meat from the deer leg, cut them into strips, put them into the pan and stir-fried them, then added the soup and meat and seasonings and mixed them with shredded cucumber and dried tofu.
There are only four dishes today: cold dishes, stir-fried meat with garlic sprouts, stewed potatoes with sauerkraut, and stewed deer ribs with soybeans and radishes. But the portions are large and the portions are sufficient. We will start eating as soon as Li Dayong and the others come back.
At the dinner table, everyone talked about the murderous brown bear.
"I don't know what happened today?" Lin Xiangshun shook his head and said, "It seems that Big Bear Tyrant kicked people again. The security team drove out at noon and they didn't come back when we got off work."
"No one can get hurt." Li Baoyu continued, "They have more than ten semi-automatic vehicles. Not to mention the big bear, even an elephant would be killed."
"Is that the case?" Li Dayong said, "There is so much snow on the mountain, it is impossible for everyone to pile up together."
"Besides, they have never conducted a siege before." Zhao Jun added, "Encircling is different from fighting a war. Yesterday I went to the old Hong family and heard them say that the Big Bear Tyrant was defeated, but Hong Yuntao and his men didn't notice it."
"What a day... cough..." Zhao Youcai was about to express his opinion, but he couldn't help coughing as soon as he opened his mouth.
As soon as he coughed, Zhao Jun took over the conversation.
"Uncle." Zhao Jun asked Li Dayong, "Why doesn't Ruhai go home? Is he angry?"
"Who knows, little calf!" Li Dayong said unhappily, "If he has the ability, he will never come back."
"Brother." Li Baoyu asked Zhao Jun, "What's the matter? Why are you asking him?"
"Tsk, have you forgotten?" Zhao Jun asked back, "My mom is going to run for the Women's Director. I see Aunt Qi and the others are canvassing for votes, and we haven't prepared anything here."
After saying this, Zhao Jun added: "If Ru Hai can arrange it, I think I can ask him to help us arrange it."
"I said, let's..." Zhao Youcai was about to speak when he heard the dog barking extremely loudly outside the house.
"I'll go take a look." Zhao Jun put down his chopsticks, stood up, took the cotton jacket hanging on the wall, and walked quickly outside.
When Zhao Jun came out of the house, another jeep stopped outside his yard.
The car door opened and Zhou Chunming, Yu Quanjin and driver Han Genliang got out of the car.
After getting off the car, Zhou Chunming, Yu Quanjin and Han Genliang all looked up at the big red lanterns on both sides of the Zhao family's gate.
So majestic!
"Uncle Zhou." Seeing Zhou Chunming coming, Zhao Jun hurried to the gate of the courtyard. He did not ask Zhou Chunming what he was doing there, but just said, "Come in quickly."
Zhou Chunming walked into the courtyard. He hadn't been to the Zhao family's courtyard for more than three years. The last time he was here was on the day when Zhou Jianjun and Zhao Chun got married.
As soon as he entered the yard, the dogs barked even louder.
"Brother Yu, Brother Han, let's go inside." Zhao Jun called out to Yu Quanjin and Han Genliang again, then he ran a few steps to catch up with Zhou Chunming and blocked the dog for him.
Seeing that Zhao Jun was protecting the newcomer, the hunting dogs all stopped beating. At this time, they saw Zhou Chunming coming through the window, and the men and women in the east and west rooms of the Zhao family put down their chopsticks. The hosts Zhao Youcai and Wang Meilan were the first to welcome him outside, and the relatives Wang Qiang and Zhao Ling and the forestry workers Li Dayong, Li Baoyu and Lin Xiangshun also followed.
"My dear in-laws!" As soon as Zhou Chunming entered the room, Zhao Youcai, despite his sick body, came forward and held Zhou Chunming's hand. He also did not ask the purpose of his visit, but only said, "Come to the room quickly and get on the kang. Haven't eaten yet? Eat something here."
"My dear in-laws!" Zhou Chunming shook hands with Zhao Youcai, then turned around and took two net bags and a butter paper bag from Yu Quanjin. He held these things and asked Zhao Youcai, "Are you feeling better?"
"Much better... cough..." Zhao Youcai coughed again as soon as he opened his mouth. Wang Meilan took the things from Zhou Chunming and said to him, "My dear, we are all family, why are you buying this?"
"I didn't buy anything." Zhou Chunming said with a smile: "Just to show my in-laws some respect."
Zhou Chunming brought four boxes of gifts, a net bag of apples, two bottles of canned peaches and a pack of taro cakes. But Zhou Jianjun had just come with gifts yesterday, so Zhou Chunming must have something to do when he came again today.
And everyone knew why he came.
"My dear relatives, I'm sorry to bother you." Zhao Youcai pulled Zhou Chunming over and said, "You can't even eat this much, so just eat it here."
As he spoke, Zhao Youcai waved his other hand toward Wang Meilan and said, "Lan, hurry up and grab the bowl and chopsticks."
In front of others, Wang Meilan gave Zhao Youcai enough face, nodded and said, "Hey, you and your in-laws, please go into the house."
"Xiao Yu, Xiao Hanzi." Zhao Youcai called Zhou Jianjun and Yu Quanjin and said, "Come on, everyone, come to the table."
When they arrived at the west room, everyone moved their bowls and moved around, allowing Zhou Chunming and Zhao Youcai to sit on the kang.
"Xiaojun." As soon as Zhou Chunming sat down, he said to Zhao Jun, "I'm not here to ask you to fight Xiong Ba."
When Zhou Chunming said this, everyone was stunned.
At this time, Wang Meilan came in with three sets of bowls and chopsticks. She distributed them to Zhou Chunming first and said, "My dear, you and Youcai, eat and drink first. I will go and cook two more dishes."
"Stop working, mother-in-law." Zhou Chunming hurriedly stopped her, "I have a toothache and can't eat anything."
"What's the matter, relative?" After hearing what Zhou Chunming said, Wang Meilan could not leave immediately and asked him with concern.
"Oh, my teeth are burning." Zhou Chunming covered his left cheek and said, "I just got angry."
Zhou Chunming looked at Zhao Youcai and said, "Another person died on the mountain today."
Everyone had just heard what Lin Xiangshun said, so they were all mentally prepared, and Zhao Youcai asked: "Who died?"
"There is a trapper in the 129th Lengchang." Zhou Chunming said, "There are two people in their group. This morning, they were at the northwest fork, lowering wood with hooks. They heard the big bull calling out, and they ran down. The big bear jumped over and was pinned down by one of them. The other one got anxious and ran down. When he got to the Lengchang and told the foreman, the foreman quickly led the others up. When they got there, they saw that the bear had pounced on the trapper and was already hard."
After hearing Zhou Chunming's words, everyone fell silent.
At this time, Zhou Chunming continued, "The leader reported to Lengchang, and Liu Jinyong led 17 or 18 people directly there. They left the place at noon, and when they came back after get off work, they said they chased them all afternoon without success."
"Where did you chase them to?" Zhao Youcai asked. He asked this question completely subconsciously, out of his hunter's instinct.
"It was placed at the northwest fork." Zhou Chunming said, "It was placed there and circled. Liu Jinyong and his men separated to block it, and it jumped up."
At this point, Zhou Chunming asked Zhao Youcai: "My dear, don't you know that the northwest fork is full of Ba Tui Gang?"
Bajiaozigang, also known as Jizhaozigang, means that the terrain of the mountain is like a chicken claw, with many forks. The more forks there are, the more escape routes the big brown bear can have. It can completely rely on its keen sense of smell to avoid the pursuit of the security team.
"This is easy to deal with... cough..." Zhao Youcai was about to express his opinion when he suddenly coughed. At this time, Zhou Chunming said, "After they came back, they ran into Ruhai in the cafeteria. Ruhai said that it would be easy to deal with Daxiongba in the northwest fork, but we have to know how to deal with him."
Hearing Zhou Chunming's words, Zhao Youcai's mouth twitched, and he thought to himself, "This is exactly what I wanted to say."
What Zhao Youcai didn't expect was that Zhou Chunming immediately said, "Ruhai said that the black bear who injured people came out of the Black Bear Ditch that year and ran to the northwest fork. It was you who led Dayong, Qiangzi and others to fight and kill him."
"Cough! Cough!" Zhao Youcai coughed violently twice. This time he did it on purpose to interrupt Zhou Chunming.
"Huh?" Wang Meilan, who was standing aside, looked at Wang Qiang with wide eyes. The Heixiazi Valley got its name because of the black bears that repeatedly injured people there. In those years, the mountain villagers were so scared that they dared not go into the mountains to mine.
Secretary Zhang, the head of the forest farm at the time, offered a reward of 200 yuan and asked nearby gunners to hunt the bear.
In those years, two hundred yuan was a huge sum of money.
As the saying goes: People die for money, birds die for food. Hunters from nearby villages flocked to the mountain, but according to legend, the black bear was killed by Xu Changlin's gun.
The moment Wang Meilan's eyes met, Wang Qiang turned his head and his hands on his legs involuntarily clenched into fists.
Xu Changlin was indeed present when the bear was hunted that year, but it was definitely not his alone.
At that time, Zhao Youcai, Li Dayong and Wang Qiang formed a team to go up the mountain and hunted the black bear for three days without any result. Until they met Xu Changlin in the northwest fork, Old Xu Pao planned for the four of them to join forces to hunt the bear.
After the successful bear hunt, the four men divided the prize money equally. When dividing the proceeds from the bear gall, Xu Changlin asked for an extra share on the pretext that he had bought another gun.
No one knew why, but Li Dayong and Wang Qiang started arguing with the old man. When Xu Changlin was so angry that he was puffing his beard and glaring, Zhao Youcai spoke up to smooth things over.
At that time, Zhao Youcai agreed to give Old Xu two shares, but there was a condition that the matter had to be under the name of Old Xu alone, and Old Xu had to promise not to tell others that the three brothers were also involved in this matter.
Xu Changlin agreed immediately. When he returned home, his wife asked him for money. Only then did old Xu understand what was going on.
Old Xu had no choice but to tell the old lady about this, but he told her not to tell anyone else, otherwise Zhao Ergudong would come to the house to ask for money.
In this way, this secret was kept secret for so many years. But more than half a month ago, when Li Ruhai was traveling from one house to another, he kindly helped up old Mrs. Xu who had fallen down while walking.
The old lady Xu who fell down was neither ungrateful nor ruthless. Not only did she not blackmail Li Ruhai, but she dragged Li Ruhai to her home. She refused to let Li Ruhai leave no matter what and insisted on making a basket of pickled cabbage for him to eat.
Li Ruhai was also free, so he sat on the kang and started chatting with the old man and the old lady. Although the old couple were old, when it came to chatting, even if they were tied together, they were not as good as Li Ruhai.
Under Li Ruhai's guidance, the old couple talked about some old stories. Li Ruhai told some of them in the village for fun. But he didn't tell this one because Zhao Youcai was his biggest black backer at the time.
"Ahem!" Although Wang Qiang did not turn around to look at Wang Meilan, he felt as if something was on his mind. He coughed and said to Zhou Chunming, "Brother Zhou, that mountain field is different from before. In the past two years, most of the big trees on the mountain have been cut down, and they are all old men. Now we need to line up the field, and it will take at least 20 people to do it."
"Well... I don't understand either." Zhou Chunming said, "There aren't many people in their security team who have ever fought a real siege. I thought I'd ask you what's going on. Tomorrow, Dayong... or Qiangzi, can you go up the mountain and teach those security guards?"
"This..." Li Dayong and Wang Qiang looked at each other, and then they both looked at Zhao Youcai. In their small group, Zhao Youcai was the leader.
"Ahem!" Zhao Youcai coughed lightly and was about to speak when he heard Zhao Jun say, "Uncle Zhou, if we can knock down this Big Bear Tyrant, will our place give you a bonus?"
"Ah!" Zhou Chunming nodded and said, "It used to be 400, but now it has increased to 500."
"Then let's go." Zhao Jun said, swiping his hand on the table, pointing at Huang Gui and others and said to Zhou Chunming: "Uncle Zhou, look at our group of people. After we are done, I will find a few more. Isn't that enough?"
When Zhao Jun said this, Zhou Chunming's eyes lit up, but Zhao Youcai bit his lip.
(End of this chapter)