The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 114

Li Baoyu led the dog home, went into the courtyard and tied the little flower dog in a corner, and then went into the house to report to Jin Xiaomei.

As soon as he entered the room, he heard Li Ruhai complaining to Jin Xiaomei there.

I only heard Li Ruhai say: "Mom, if my elder brother dares to steal 30 yuan from me today, he will steal [-] yuan from you tomorrow!"

"Then he doesn't dare." Jin Xiaomei was taking Li Xiaoqiao to pick soybeans, and was going to go to the tofu shop tomorrow to exchange for tofu.

"Why don't you dare." Li Ruhai continued: "Just on the day of Laba, you lost fifty cents, and he was the one who stole it."

"Your dad took it." Jin Xiaomei said, "He took it to buy cigarettes."

Li Ruhai rolled his eyes, and said again: "Then last year's August Festival, you lost [-] cents, and my brother stole it."

"What did your brother get?" Jin Xiaomei turned to Li Xiaoqiao, stretched out her hand to touch Li Xiaoqiao's little head, and scolded: "It's this girl's film, take it to buy peach cakes."

Li Xiaoqiao gave Jin Xiaomei a sweet smile, and opened a pair of small arms to hug Jin Xiaomei.

Li Ruhai didn't care about the unkind eyes cast by his sister secretly, and continued to talk to Jin Xiaomei: "Then last May's Day..."

"You're not finished!" Li Baoyu couldn't take it anymore, came in from the outer room, took out 30 yuan from his pocket and stuffed it to Li Ruhai, and said, "I'll just borrow it and use it, you seem to be stingy."

Li Ruhai took the money, glared at Li Baoyu, and without saying a word, got off the kang and ran into his room. He wanted to hide the money in a secret place before Li Baoyu returned to the house.

Seeing that Li Ruhai ran away, Li Baoyu was also secretly relieved. Last May Festival, he was indeed the one who took Jin Xiaomei's [-] cents to buy two zongzi.

This case is still unsolved.

"Son, where is the dog?" Jin Xiaomei asked Li Baoyu, then changed from sitting cross-legged on the kang to kneeling, straightened up and looked out the window.

Li Ruhai explained the matter to Jin Xiaomei, and took out the remaining 35 yuan, "Mom, Wang Dalong said, I will return the money I lent us tomorrow."

"En." Jin Xiaomei responded, but she didn't take the money, she just said to Li Baoyu, "Son, keep this money in your pocket."

"What?"

The three brothers and sisters of the Li family were all taken aback when they heard the words, and Li Ruhai trotted over from the opposite room, wanting to see if they could get some benefits.

But Jin Xiaomei didn't even look at the two little ones, and only said to Li Baoyu: "Wang Dalong comes to pay back the money, and the fifty will be yours too. You can keep it to see if there is a dog you like, and you can buy it back."

"Okay, okay." Li Baoyu had a happy face, and excitedly counted the 35 yuan in his hand.

"Brother!" Li Xiaoqiao rushed towards Li Baoyu, grabbed the sleeve of Li Baoyu's padded jacket, and said, "I'm going to the big fair tomorrow, so you can buy me some honey and fruit to eat."

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Zhao Jun returned home, ate a bowl of porridge warmed by Wang Meilan, and took two painkillers. After a while, he became sleepy, and he got under the covers and slept until dark.

After waking up, he still felt top-heavy, so Zhao Jun curled up under the blanket and couldn't come out at all.

At this time, the door was pushed open from the outside, and Zhao Youcai came in with a big bowl, and said to Zhao Jun at the edge of the kang, "Come on, drink while it's hot."

Zhao Jun sat up and took a look, and saw that the soup in the bowl was unknown, the color was very light, and the soup was clear and watery.

Zhao Jun took the bowl and smelled it, but he didn't smell any strange smell, so he asked Zhao Youcai, "Dad, what are you cooking?"

Zhao Youcai said: "White radish skin boiled with cabbage root."

Zhao Jun put the bowl on the kang and said to Zhao Youcai, "Dad, you can't just give this to the pigs."

"Don't forget the ink, drink it quickly." Zhao Youcai said with a smile: "This is a recipe your grandma brought from her natal family, drink it and take care of it."

"Then why didn't you cook it for me yesterday?" Zhao Jun picked up the bowl and took two gulps of "gudong", "gudong".

Zhao Youcai said: "Where does our family have white radish? This is brought back from the store today."

These days, there are no vegetable greenhouses in the Northeast, so it is impossible to grow vegetables in winter.

Vegetables from the south cannot be transported, so every winter, farmers in mountain villages can only see a few kinds of vegetables.

Radishes, cabbage and green onions.

Radishes include all kinds of radishes, which can be stored for a long time together with cabbage in the cellar.

And the scallions can be thrown outside directly. The scallions are not afraid of freezing, so just bring them into the house in advance before eating.

When Zhao Jun finished the cabbage root soup with radish peels, he handed the bowl to Zhao Youcai and said, "Dad, give me a piece of radish and eat it."

These days, if there is no fruit, turnips are used instead.

"It's gone." Zhao Youcai said, "I told your mother to stew the badger."

In the evening, Zhao Jun's family ate stewed white radish with badger meat, and Wang Meilan put big cornmeal pancakes on the side of the pot.

Zhao Jun was not feeling well and couldn't eat meat, so he filled a la carte soup with big pancakes and ate them.

After he finished eating, he asked Zhao Youcai, "Dad, have those two shipments come back?"

"It's shipped back." Zhao Youcai said, "You're really good at it, a blind man and a bastard, enough for our two families to treat."

As Zhao Youcai said, he thought to himself, this kid is very lucky, he never misses every time he goes up the mountain.

The next day is the 25th of the twelfth lunar month.

When Zhao Jun got up early in the morning, he heard the chirping voices of two younger sisters from the opposite room, as if they were clamoring to go to the market.

When Zhao Jun got up, he immediately felt very relaxed and comfortable, and he didn't feel uncomfortable at all.

"The earthen prescriptions brought by my grandma are fine." Zhao Jun muttered, got off the kang, and went to the opposite room.

Seeing Zhao Jun coming out, Wang Meilan asked him, "Son, are you at home by yourself?"

"Mom, I'll go with you." Zhao Jun said, "I'm fine."

Wang Meilan looked at Zhao Jun, saw that his face was normal, hurriedly walked to the outer room, and said as she walked, "Then hurry up and eat, don't waste your time."

After Zhao Jun finished his meal, he and Wang Meilan went out of the house with the two little ones. When they shouted in the yard, Jin Xiaomei and the three brothers and sisters of the Li family walked out of the neighboring house.

"Brother, how are you?"

"Okay." Zhao Jun didn't climb over the wall, but looked into Li's courtyard with his hands on the wall, and asked, "How is the little flower dog coming home?"

"It's pretty good." Li Baoyu said, "You can eat and drink."

"That's fine." Zhao Jun withdrew his hands and walked out from the courtyard gate. The two families met and walked towards the entrance of the village together.

Talking and laughing, a group of people drove for more than five miles, and came to Zaishang all the way.

At the set, Wang Meilan asked Zhao Jun to take care of her younger siblings, and then she and Jin Xiaomei left the team to buy cotton cloth.

At this time, the three little girls were yelling to go to the fried mahua and fried honey fruit stand.

Zhao Jun took out ten yuan, handed it to Li Baoyu, and said, "Baoyu, you and Ruhai led them over, you must take care of them, don't get lost, and don't get too close to the frying pan."

"I know." Li Baoyu took the money and headed north amid the cheers of the three little girls.

Zhao Jun walked around the market alone, with his hands behind his back. To his surprise, he came to the market today and saw people selling rabbits and pheasants.

You must know that this is a mountainous area of ​​the forest farm, and there is no shortage of rabbits and pheasants. Usually, no one comes to sell them.

Zhao Jun looked around for a while, and found that there were actually people buying it, but very few people bought it, and the price was very cheap.

Zhao Jun walked forward again, but was even more surprised to find that there were wild boar meat sellers in this episode.

The wild boars were disassembled into eight pieces, and they were placed on the ground in pieces. Next to the wild boars, there was a back basket filled with wild boars' hooves.

That's not the point, the point is that the person who set up the stall turned out to be an acquaintance of Zhao Jun.

"Second brother-in-law!" Looking at Xing Zhiyong who was limping while walking with his back turned to him, Zhao Jun went over and patted him on the shoulder.

"Yo, Zhao Jun!" Xing Zhiyong, who had just finished finding the money for someone, turned around and couldn't help smiling when he saw that it was Zhao Jun.

Zhao Jun asked, "Second brother-in-law, what are you doing?"

Xing Zhiyong smiled and said: "Brother, you still can't see it, you sell wild pork."

"Is anyone buying this thing?" Zhao Jun asked suspiciously.

"Yes." Xing Zhiyong replied, "It's cheaper than pork, at twenty cents a catty, and it can be sold."

"That's fine, then it's not in vain." Zhao Jun said, looked Xing Zhiyong up and down, and asked him: "Second brother-in-law, how is your leg?"

That day, when Xing Zhiyong caught a black bear with his bare hands, the little black bear bit him right down to the inside of his thigh. Although he didn't hurt his bones, he had to be raised for a while.

Xing Zhiyong said: "I came here on the sledge of Zhao Laosan in our village. It doesn't take much to get here. I will go to him when it is sold out, and he will bring it back to me."

As soon as Zhao Jun heard it, he knew that it was all forced by lack of money.

But what Zhao Jun was curious about was where the wild boar meat came from.In other words, where did that basket of wild boar hooves come from?

To know that basket of hooves, there are more than 30 at least.And a pig has four hooves, and these hooves have to come from eight or nine pigs.

Zhao Jun had some guesses in his heart, so he asked Xing Zhiyong.

And Xing Zhiyong told him: "This is all set by my father."

"Sure enough!" Zhao Jun knew that Xing Zhiyong's father lived in the mountains and set traps for wild boars and roe deer all year round.

It must be that the old man saw his son's difficulties and supported Xing Zhiyong.

After saying goodbye to Xing Zhiyong, Zhao Jun walked forward again.

In the previous collections, there were very few wild products and wild game in the collections.

But today I don't know what happened, wild boar, roe deer, rabbit, pheasant, everything.

Zhao Jun even saw half a black bear, but he didn't know how it was brought here.

The bars of this black bear jelly are hard, and the stall owner is sawing it there with a saw.

Not to mention, there are actually people buying these game meats.

Zhao Jun asked the prices one by one, and found that they were all cheaper. Wild pork was not as expensive as domestic pork, and pheasant chicken was not as expensive as domestic chicken.

Bear meat is the most expensive, not more than fifty cents a catty.

Zhao Jun thought about it, and felt that it was because people had no money and it was difficult to buy pork these days, so they bought wild pork to eat.

After all, this is a mountain, there is no shortage of wild boars, but domestic pigs.

At this time, Li Baoyu squeezed to Zhao Jun from the crowd, and whispered to him, "Brother, did you see that the second brother-in-law Xing is selling wild pork?"

"Ah."

"Let's sell it too?" Li Baoyu is now focused on making money.

Zhao Jun said: "The beating is not enough for our family to eat, you sold it, what shall we eat?"

(End of this chapter)