The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 1102 Calabash Brothers Saves Their Father

Chapter 1102 Calabash Brothers Saves Their Father

Under the big red lanterns, Wang Meilan announced to the three most important men in her life: "I want to run for the Women's Director!"

Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang looked at each other and said in unison: "Okay, mom (sister)!"

Whenever there is joy, there are always people who spoil the fun.

"Can you do it?" Zhao Youcai's doubt was like a basin of cold water. Although it couldn't extinguish the raging fire in Wang Meilan's heart, it was quite annoying.

Zhao Youcai continued untimely: "There's so much work to do at home every day, and you still want to take care of other people's affairs?"

What Zhao Youcai said was right. There were so many people and so many things to do at home every day. If Wang Meilan became the director of the Women's Department, the yard would be full of people.

Zhao Youcai's words were met with Wang Meilan's rolling eyes. As Jin Xiaomei and Jie Chen were around, Wang Meilan didn't bother with him. She just asked everyone to get to work and start by dragging the black bear and roe deer into Li's house.

Then, led by Wang Meilan, with the help of Jin Xiaomei, Jie Sunshi and Hu Sanmei, the four of them skinned and removed the meat.

Zhao Jun, Zhao Youcai, Wang Qiang and Jie Chen did not help with the skinning. They were tired after running around in the mountains all day. After settling the two hunting dogs, the four went into Zhao's house to rest.

When they entered the house, the old lady was watching TV with her children in the east room.

Seeing that the TV was turned on, Zhao Jun was startled and asked, "Is the TV turned on?"

"Ah." Zhao Chun said with a smile, "Mom asked Grandpa Zhu's grandson to give me a massage."

No matter who pressed the button, it was a good thing that he didn't have to do any work himself. Zhao Jun turned sideways and sat on the edge of the kang. He reached out and grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the table and ate them while watching TV.

"Uncle!" Suddenly, Xiao Lingdang called Zhao Jun. When Zhao Jun looked at her, Xiao Lingdang asked Zhao Jun, "Did you hit the black blind man who hurt my dad?"

"Yes!" Zhao Jun responded, and Jie Chen turned around and took the shoulder bag thrown on the edge of the kang and took out a small cloth bag from it.

"Lingdang." Xie Chen brought the cloth bag to Xiao Lingdang, opened it, and said to the little girl, "If you can't, stretch out your hand. This knife is very sharp."

Little Bell said nothing, and watched Jie Chen open the cloth bag, revealing a sharp knife.

This knife was left in the black bear's body by Zhang Yuanmin. I have to say that Zhang Yuanmin's knife was indeed quite amazing.

"Our family's knives!" When Xiao Lingling saw the word "Zhang" engraved on the knife storage, tears instantly came to her eyes.

Xiao Lingdang did not say "my father's knife" but "our family's knife" because this knife was also handed down from their Zhang family. The word "Zhang" was carved by Zhang Yuanmin's father, and later the knife was passed to Zhang Yuanmin, and he went through life and death with him.

"My child." Seeing that Xiao Lingdang was crying, the old lady hugged her distressedly, took out a handkerchief from her pocket to wipe Xiao Lingdang's tears, and said, "Your uncle beat Hei Xiazi to death, and your father is fine, so don't cry anymore."

"Okay, Grandma Jiang, I won't cry anymore." Little Lingling wiped her tears, got out of the old lady's arms and was about to get down to the ground.

"My son, where are you going?" the old lady asked. Little Bell said, "I'm going to Grandma Li's house to see the black bear."

"Come, wait a minute!" The old lady grabbed Little Bell and carefully stroked her little face with a handkerchief. The little girl had just finished crying, and the old lady was afraid that if she went out and was blown by the wind, her face would get swollen.

"I want to go too!" Zhao Hong stopped watching TV and shouted that she wanted to go with Xiao Lingdang.

When Zhao Hong moved, Zhao Na left, Wang Tian and Lin Xiaobao also stood up. Only Wang Xue was too young and was held back by Zhao Chun.

Li Xiaoqiao didn't really want to go. She thought it was better to watch TV inside. But seeing that other children were going, she felt that if she didn't go, she would be considered a loner.

So, a group of children wearing new cotton-padded jackets, without buttoning their clothes, came out of the Zhao family in a group and, led by Li Xiaoqiao, came to the front of the Li family's house.

As the children walked by, the dogs of both families remained silent.

Li Xiaoqiao opened the door suddenly, startling the four men who were peeling the skin.

Seeing a group of children coming in, Wang Meilan, Jin Xiaomei, Jie Sunshi and Hu Sanmei were all stunned.

"What are you going to do?" Wang Meilan asked.

Li Xiaoqiao, who entered the door first, said, "Auntie, Lingling wants to avenge her father!"

As expected of a "scholarly family", Li Xiaoqiao is better at summarizing and generalizing things at a young age than Chen Youliang, who is several years older than her. If Chen Youliang had Li Xiaoqiao's ability to express and understand, he wouldn't have been beaten today.

"Huh?" Wang Meilan was startled when she heard that, but she saw Zhao Hong and Zhao Na flashing on both sides, revealing the little bell holding Lin Xiaobao's hand.

Although these children are young, they see dead black bears and dead wild boars as often as they see dead chickens and dead fish.

Although the black bear had been gutted, the children were not afraid. Looking at Xiao Lingling again, she clenched her fists and wept as she looked at the black bear that had died with its eyes open.

"What are you doing?" Wang Meilan stood up and wanted to hug Xiao Lingling, but when she raised her hands, she saw that her hands were stained with blood, so she put them down again.

"Lingdang!" At this time, Xie Sun called out to Little Lingdang, saying, "Don't cry, I'll punch it twice to help you vent your anger!"

As he spoke, Xie Sun clenched his right fist and punched the black bear's neck twice.

While Xie Sun was punching the black bear, Zhao Hong picked up the small shovel next to the stove, which was used by the Li family to shovel the ashes from the stove pit.

Zhao Hong swung the shovel and chopped the black bear's thigh, shouting as he chopped, "Lingdang, I'll help you chop it!"

As soon as Zhao Hong started to take action, the other children rushed over, surrounded the black bear and started kicking it.

In the Northeast, Zhao Hong's behavior should be called "pointing a cannon".

When a group fight breaks out, someone has to make the first move. The first wave of attack from this person is called a “fire shot.”

As for the other children, what they are doing now is called kicking in a circle.

"Hey? Hey!" Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei hurriedly tried to stop the children, but saw Xiao Lingling pounce on the black bear and punch it with her little fists.

Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei looked at each other, and Jin Xiaomei winked at Wang Meilan. Wang Meilan reached into the bucket beside her to wash her hands, and then took the children home.

Before leaving the Li family, Wang Meilan asked Jin Xiaomei to dip the bear gall. The bear gall that the four of them brought back today was now on the stove in the Li family. There was a big pot cooking in the Zhao family's house, so after Wang Meilan took the bear gall from Zhao Youcai, she took it to the Li family.

When Wang Meilan brought the children out of Li's house, the dogs in the two yards started barking one after another.

Wang Meilan took the children outside, and as soon as they left the yard, they saw Li Dayong, Li Baoyu and Lin Xiangshun returning home from get off work.

"dad!"

"dad!"

Li Xiaoqiao and Lin Xiaobao rushed out and pounced on Li Dayong and Lin Xiangshun respectively.

The other children were fine, but Xiao Lingling was the only one who felt a little touched. She missed Zhang Yuanmin and Yang Yufeng.

"It's time to get off work!" Wang Meilan greeted the three people, then pointed to the large lantern hanging high above her gate and said, "I lit the lantern today, too. Look how bright it is."

Indeed, without these two lanterns, the whole area would be dark.

If Wang Meilan hadn't mentioned it, Li Dayong and the others would have asked when they entered the house, why were the lanterns lit when it wasn't a festival?

But now that Wang Meilan brought it up herself, the three of them could only smile and say yes.

Seeing that everyone agreed with her approach, Wang Meilan smiled and felt very happy.

Now that life is getting better and better, Wang Meilan has higher aspirations. She looked at Li Dayong and asked, "Is Ruhai really not back?"

Jin Xiaomei took some time out today to secretly tell Wang Meilan about Li Ruhai's matter. Wang Meilan didn't know how to evaluate Li Ruhai's words and the consequences they caused. But if Li Ruhai didn't come back, the matter of canvassing for votes would have to be postponed.

"I won't let him come back." Li Dayong said, "If he comes back, it will be hard to say if I don't take him with me tomorrow."

Li Ruhai is Li Baoyu's brother. Tomorrow is a good day for Li Baoyu, but it is not a wedding. If Li Ruhai has to go to work, then it doesn't matter if he doesn't attend. But if Li Ruhai is in the village and doesn't attend, then the Li family will lose face.

After handing the children over to Li Dayong and the other two, Wang Meilan turned around and went back to Li's house. At this time, the roe deer had been peeled, and Jin Xiaomei and the other two were peeling the black bear.

Seeing that they would have to dig for a while, Wang Meilan pulled over a roe deer leg and carried it upside down back home.

"Auntie!" Seeing Wang Meilan coming back, Liu Lanying said to her, "Just cook two more dishes and we'll be done."

"Don't rush to fry it." Wang Meilan held up the roe deer leg in her hand and said to Liu Lanying, "We still need to peel the black bear for a while, you guys do it."

"Oh my god." Liu Lanying took the roe deer leg subconsciously, but asked Wang Meilan, "Auntie, if we keep stewing this, when will we be able to eat?"

There are more than 90 kilograms of chestnuts. If you don’t simmer the chestnut thighs for three hours, you won’t be able to eat them.

"Chop it up!" Wang Meilan waved her hand and said, "Boil it into meatballs and fry it into meatballs!"

"That's fine!" Liu Lanying nodded in agreement when she heard that she wanted to make meatballs.

Making meatballs is almost the same as chopping the stuffing. At the moment, Zhao Ling, Xu Chunyan and she are in the outer room of the Zhao family, and the three of them can chop the meat quickly.

"Sister!" At this time, Zhao Ling called Wang Meilan, "Is there enough food? There's a big pot of pickled cabbage stewed with big bones."

"Don't worry!" Wang Meilan waved her hand and said, "If there's any leftovers, you can pack them up in a lunch box and cook them again tomorrow to make them even more delicious."

After saying that, Wang Meilan turned around and left. Liu Lanying, Zhao Ling, and Xu Chunyan cut up the roe deer legs and prepared to chop them into stuffing.

At this time, the voice of Lin Xiangshun scolding Lin Xiaobao came from the east room. It seemed that Lin Xiaobao didn't have enough candy and Lin Xiangshun stopped him from eating.

Xu Chunyan listened to her husband scolding the child, but she didn't care at all. Instead, she said to Liu Lanying while cutting the meat slices: "Sister Jie, I envy you now. I wish my little babe could be as big as your son. But today, he is so disobedient."

……

Xiangyangtun, Lingnan.

A motorcycle drove in from the east end of the village, with two people sitting on the motorcycle, one in front and one behind. The person behind pointed the way for the motorcycle, and finally the motorcycle stopped outside the gate of Lao Jie's courtyard.

Xie Zhong and Liu Lanying's son Xie Yingming came down from behind and stood outside the gate of his own yard, staring blankly at the dark yard and house.

"No?" the motorcyclist asked from behind him, "Where are your family members?"

Xie Yingming: “…”

The motorcyclist looked at Xie Yingming, and he was also confused. He was Sun Haizhu's colleague, and his home was 18 miles away from Xiangyangtun. It happened that he was going home today, so Sun Haizhu asked him to bring Xie Yingming back.

Before Xie Yingming came back, Sun Haizhu called Xiangyangtun, but perhaps because the line was in the original route, the call did not go through.

However, according to Sun Haizhu, Xie Hua, and Xie Yingming's understanding of Liu Lanying, since she went to Yong'antun in person, it is impossible that she did not bring back Xie Sunshi and Xie Chen. Moreover, Liu Lanying's personality is gentle on the outside but strong on the inside. She said she would be back on Monday or Tuesday, and today is Saturday, so they must have returned.

Xie Yingming missed his grandmother. He didn’t see Xie Sunshi the last time he came back, so he thought of coming back to see her today.

But last time I came back, Liu Lanying was still at home. But this time, no one is home anymore.

"Well..." The motorcyclist got off the bike and said to Xie Yingming, "Boy, do you have the key? Let's go inside and take a look."

The motorcyclist's surname was Song, and his name was Song Dechen. He had been entrusted by Sun Haizhu to settle Xie Yingming. Even if there were people in Xie's family, he had to see Liu Lanying before leaving.

Now, Song Dechen was also a little confused.

Xie Yingming opened the fence gate, walked to the front of the house and saw that the door was locked. He stood there in a daze.

"Well..." Song Dechen said to Xie Yingming, "Why don't you come with me to my house. You can stay at my house for a day tomorrow. My son is the same age as you. Let him take you ice skating. I will go to work the day after tomorrow, and you can come back with me."

"No need, Uncle Song." Xie Yingming felt embarrassed to bother others, so he said to Song Dechen, "I'll go to my sixth uncle's house."

"Then I'll take you there!" After hearing that Xie Yingming didn't want to go with him, Song Dechen didn't force him, but he asked Xie Yingming to get in the car, wanting to take Xie Yingming to where he wanted to go. It was okay for the child not to go with him, but Song Dechen had to see that there was an adult to receive him.

At the same time, in Yongshengtun, the Zhou family.

Zhou Chunming and his son Zhou Jianjun sat on the kang, each wrapped in a quilt. The two sat across the kang table from each other, with two large bowls filled with warm boiled water in front of them.

In the middle of the kang table, there were seven or eight pieces of peach cakes on the unfolded butter paper package.

At this time, the father and son were each chewing a piece of peach cake. Zhou Chunming took a bite of the peach cake, and the peach cake residue fell on the quilt. Zhou Chunming used the tip of his index finger to press the peach cake residue. Every time he pressed, a piece of peach cake residue stuck to the tip of his finger.

But after pressing it twice, Zhou Chunming felt annoyed. He threw the peach cake in his hand onto the table, glared at Zhou Jianjun and shouted, "I only come back once a week, and you let me eat this?"

"Dad..." Zhou Jianjun glanced at Zhou Chunming cautiously. Few people dared to argue with their fathers these days. Seeing that Zhou Chunming was angry, Zhou Jianjun could only shirk responsibility and said, "Before I got off work, I told you that my mom might not come back. I said I would go with my uncle Li and the others, and I would go to pick her up..."

"You thought of picking her up earlier?" Zhou Chunming asked angrily, "What were you doing earlier?"

"I..." Zhou Jianjun blinked twice and said, "My mother said she would be back in two or three days. I thought she would be home every day after get off work. I didn't expect this. I thought my mother was working so hard that she could finish making four pairs of quilts in a few days, right?"

"It's so hard to ask you to do anything!" Zhou Chunming thought of his grandson whom he hadn't seen for a long time, and he was even more furious. He pointed at Zhou Jianjun and said, "I asked you to pick up my grandson, and you boasted several times, but you didn't bring him back?"

"I..." Zhou Jianjun said with difficulty: "I said I wanted to go today, but you wouldn't let me. You said my mother knew you were going home today, so she would definitely come back early."

Zhou Chunming: “…”

Zhou Chunming didn't expect this to happen. It would be fine if his daughter-in-law didn't stay at her parents' home long enough and didn't want to come back, but what's the matter with you, Hu Sanmei, going to your in-laws' home and staying there for a long time?

Seeing that his father didn't say anything, Zhou Jianjun plucked up his courage and said, "I'm going today. I'll pick up my mother, Chun'er and Zhou Tao tomorrow morning!"

"Get lost!" Zhou Chunming slammed the table and said angrily, "You were going to leave just now, so you'll be left alone at home tonight, right?"

As he spoke, Zhou Chunming raised his hand that was slamming the table and pointed it at Zhou Jianjun, shouting, "You must get up early tomorrow and go there to pick them up for me!"

(End of this chapter)