The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 309 Another Sheep (4K update last night)
Zhao Youcai walked ahead and entered the room first. He was taken aback when he saw the person coming, and asked, "Cheng Guo, why are you here?"

"Are you off work today?" Zhou Chengguo smiled lightly, and said, "I met my brother Zhao Jun twice in the past few days, and he seemed to be very concerned about you after hearing what he said. I just happen to be fine today, so I'll come over and take a look."

"Ah." Hearing this, Zhao Youcai's thoughts changed sharply, and he didn't say much.

At this time, Zhou Jianjun came in with a sack of mutton, and put the sack next to the stove when he entered the house. He wanted to ask Hu Sanmei and Zhao Chun to come out to process the lamb, but he heard someone talking in the house, so he came inside first.

As soon as Zhou Jianjun entered the house, he heard Zhou Chengguo ask Zhao Youcai, "How are you doing these two days? Did you catch the leopard?"

Zhou Jianjun saw the father-in-law winking at him, and then Zhao Youcai said to Zhou Chengguo: "No, I went to the mountain to search for two days and saw nothing."

As soon as Zhao Youcai said this, Zhou Chengguo nodded and said, "I said so."

"What?"

When people heard Zhou Chengguo's words, they felt that there was something in them.

Zhou Chengguo said with a smile: "Yesterday, I ran into my brother Zhao Jun. He said that the leopard went to 42 Linban the day before yesterday, and he still watched it."

"This little bastard..." Zhao Youcai cursed inwardly, but in front of Zhou Chengguo, he didn't show any anger, he just said: "That's okay, it's common for local leopards to run dozens of miles a night, maybe they'll come back again .”

Having just seen it two hours ago, of course he knew the leopard had returned.

Several people chatted for a while, Zhou Chengguo got up to say goodbye, Hu Sanmei led Zhou Jianjun to send him out, and when he came back, he saw the sack beside the stove.

Before my son and his in-laws came back, they didn't have this sack, but they had it after they came back.

Hu Sanmei asked Zhou Jianjun very curiously, "Son, what is it pretending here?"

"mutton."

"What?" Hu Sanmei was taken aback, and hurriedly pulled up the sack, opened the mouth of the sack, and saw that there were about ten catties of mutton in the sack, but most of them were thin bones, and there was very little meat on the bones.

Sanmei Hu knew at a glance that it was the meat of the little lamb her son carried away that morning.

"Why did this lamb die?" Hu Sanmei looked at Zhou Jianjun and asked.

As soon as this was mentioned, Zhou Jianjun only felt pain in his heart and wanted to go back to the house to rest, but was stopped by Hu Sanmei and refused to let him go, so he could only reply: "It was bitten to death by the local leopard."

"Did you really hook the earth leopard?"

"alright."

As soon as Zhou Jianjun nodded in response, Zhao Chun came out of the west room with the child on his back.

When Zhou Chengguo came just now, Zhao Chun only came out to say hello, and then went back to the house to coax the children.At this time, she heard Zhou Chengguo leaving, so she came out, and when she came out, she heard the earth leopard or something, Zhao Chun hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Did you beat the leopard to death?"

"No." Zhou Jianjun shook his head. Just as he was about to continue, he saw Zhao Youcai coming out of the east room and going back to his own room, leaving Zhou Jianjun alone with his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Hu Sanmei and Zhao Chun looked at each other, and then asked Zhou Jianjun a question that hit the soul: "The leopard was not killed, why did the sheep die?"

In fact, Zhou Jianjun was already very distressed at this time, he didn't want to say a word, he just wanted to go back to his room and fall asleep on the kang.

But he couldn't afford to offend the two women in front of him, so he could only briefly describe the process of entering the mountain today.

"Ugh!"

"Ugh!"

Hu Sanmei and Zhao Chun couldn't help sighing after hearing this. Hu Sanmei picked up the sack with both hands, held the mouth of the sack to show Zhao Chun, and said, "Look, the lamb bought for ten yuan is not for nothing. ?”

The old lady has been careful for most of her life. Although she heard that it was not her own money, she still feels distressed.

She felt distressed, and Zhou Jianjun felt even more distressed, so he turned around and went to the Westinghouse.

At this time, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law ignored him, Zhao Chun glanced into the sack, then raised his head and said to Hu Sanmei: "Okay, Mom, this sheep is dead too, hurry up and stew it."

What else can she say to her mother-in-law about the sheep her natal father bought?
Moreover, the weather is hot at this time, and the meat can't be saved. If you don't cook it and eat it, it will be even more distressing if it breaks.

"Okay." Hu Sanmei put the sack aside, and said to Zhao Chun, "I'll do it, girl, let's go back to the house."

In the evening, when Zhou Chunming came back from outside, he still had two bottles of wine in his hand.Although he is the leader of the field, he never puts on airs in front of the village relatives, let alone his own relatives.

These days, when Zhou Chunming came back every day, he had to have a drink with Zhao Youcai when he had dinner.It's just that Zhao Youcai and Zhou Jianjun had to go up the mountain the next day, and they couldn't drink too much the night before, so they couldn't enjoy themselves.

As soon as I got home today, Zhou Chunming smelled the fragrance as soon as he entered the yard and before entering the house.

"Mutton!" Zhou Chunming was overjoyed at first, thinking that the leopard had been shot and the sheep used as bait was useless, so he stewed it to celebrate his victory.

But thinking of this, Zhou Chunming felt a little regretful, even if he killed the leopard, could he bring the sheep back to raise them?Killing and eating meat at such a young age, isn't that blind?

Zhou Chunming opened the door and entered the room. Hu Sanmei, who was stirring the egg liquid in front of the stove, asked casually, "I'm back."

Zhou Chunming glanced into the back room. From his point of view, the sheep was bought by his in-laws, and if he wanted to kill it to eat, he couldn't say anything, especially since it was still in his own home.

So, Zhou Chunming raised the wine in his hand, and asked Hu Sanmei, "Where's your in-laws? Let's have a good drink at night."

"Drink a little, don't drink too much." Hu Sanmei shook her head and said, "My in-laws have to get up to go to the mountains tomorrow."

"Still going up the mountain..." Zhou Chunming didn't think much about it. He knew that Zhao Youcai liked to hunt, so he thought he might have seen some prey in the mountains again.But he asked Hu Sanmei: "Hey, Lao Kuai, where is the leopard?"

"What?"

"Earth leopard!" Zhou Chunming went to the east room, looked into the room, saw nothing, then came out and said to Hu Sanmei: "Where is that leopard? Let me see, I am so old, how can I live?" I've never seen a leopard before."

Leopards are rare in Northeast China, even less than tigers. Many people have only heard of them but never seen them.

"Don't be noisy." Hu Sanmei winked at Zhou Chunming, frowned, and said, "Why don't you open which pot and which pot you carry? The leopard ran away and didn't catch it. I think your in-laws seem to be on fire, so just pretend you don't know." , don’t say anything, don’t ask anything.”

"Ah!" Zhou Chunming was startled when he heard the words, but he turned his head to look at the smelling cauldron, and asked Hu Sanmei, "Why did you kill the sheep if you didn't kill the leopard? Don't you have to pay it back tomorrow?" fight?"

"This sheep was killed by a leopard, so don't ask so many questions, okay?"

"Ah." Hearing this, Zhou Chunming sighed, shook his head and walked towards the back room, muttering softly as he walked, "Tonight, I must have a good drink with Youcai, or he will easily suffocate."

For dinner, braised mutton, eggs with thorny old sprouts, stir-fried cucumbers, and stewed potatoes with tofu, four dishes are placed on a kang table.

Because they were all relatives, Hu Sanmei and Zhao Chun also sat around the kang table to eat.It could be seen that Zhou Chunming was afraid that Zhao Youcai would get angry, so he held up a glass to persuade him to drink, but Zhao Youcai seemed to be fine, drinking normally and eating a lot of food.

On the contrary, Zhou Jianjun seemed to be more depressed than Zhao Youcai, holding a wine glass, and Zhao Chun couldn't stop him from taking one sip after another.

When he woke up the next morning, although Zhou Jianjun was sober, he felt uncomfortable.

But there is no way, after breakfast, I have to go out with my father-in-law, first go to Lao Sun's house, and buy the leftover lamb from their house.

"Look, look." The old man of the Sun family pointed to the departing figures of Weng and his son-in-law, and said to his wife, "This old man enjoys a lot of blessings. He lives with his in-laws for two days, and my uncle kills sheep every day. "

"Yes." Old Mrs. Sun agreed, her eyes full of envy.

Weng and his son-in-law entered the mountain. At first, Zhou Jianjun carried the sheep on his back, but halfway through, Zhou Jianjun couldn't carry the sheep.

There was no other way, Zhao Youcai had no choice but to take the sheep and carry them up the mountain.

Finally arrived at the place, Zhao Youcai tied the sheep to a tree, and then poured the bean cake brought from home in front of the sheep.The sheep can detect the leopard's arrival earlier than humans, so it can't let it bark when it's hungry.

After settling down the sheep, Zhao Youcai turned around to look at Zhou Jianjun, and saw Zhou Jianjun crouching behind a tree in discomfort, with his eyes slightly closed and drowsy.

A half son-in-law, Zhao Youcai feels a little distressed when he looks at it, but most fathers in this era can't express their emotions. No matter how much they feel in their hearts, they turn into scolding on their lips.

I just heard Zhao Youcai say: "You said you can't drink, what can you do?"

Zhou Jianjun leaned against the tree with his shoulders, and without opening his eyes, he just murmured, "My heart aches."

"What?" Zhao Youcai was taken aback by Zhou Jianjun's words. He squatted down and put Zhou Jianjun on his shoulder and asked, "What's wrong? Jianjun! Are you feeling weak?"

"No... I feel sorry for my 20 yuan."

"What the hell..." Zhao Youcai curled his lips angrily, stood up and walked to the side.If Zhou Jianjun wasn't feeling well, he would have wanted to take off his gun and give this kid a shot.

After Zhao Youcai stood up, he looked forward subconsciously, and saw a roe deer jumping out of the forest in front.

At a place more than ten meters away from Zhao Youcai, the roe deer stopped, looked at Zhao Youcai twice, turned and ran away.

"Jianjun!" Zhao Youcai said, "Stay here and watch, I'm going to hunt down a roe deer!" After speaking, Zhao Youcai, who had already held the gun in his hand, chased the roe deer and left.

It has to be said that Zhao Youcai has rich hunting experience. On the first day he came here, he walked around the area. Even if there were no wild animal footprints on the ground, he knew that this post was the most frequent haunt of roe deer.

When there are more roe deer, leopards will naturally be attracted.

This is why Zhao Youcai set up an ambush here.

After Zhao Youcai walked for more than ten minutes, Zhou Jianjun, who was hiding behind the tree, stretched out a hand, supported the tree, struggled to get up, and walked back along the original road.

He didn't want to go home, but wanted to find a place for convenience.It should be the reason why he drank yesterday, at this time Zhou Jianjun felt very uncomfortable in his stomach.

But I remembered what Zhao Youcai said, no matter whether it is smoking or convenience, you can't be near here, otherwise the leopard will come and smell the wrong smell, and it may leave.

Zhou Jianjun resisted and walked four to 500 meters, and then turned back after finishing his convenience in the woods.

It was not yet 09:30, neither he nor Zhao Youcai expected that the leopard would come.

Walking to a place two to thirty meters away from the place where the bait was dropped, Zhou Jianjun immediately sensed something was wrong.

Although there is food, the sheep will also bark from time to time. They may bark after chewing two bites of bean cakes, or bleat when they are free.

It's just that when it is in danger, it will cry very quickly.

But at this time, it was quiet up there, and there was not a sound of sheep bleating for a long time.

"It's broken!" Zhou Jianjun's heart skipped a beat. At this moment, he regained his energy and ran upwards, but when he got to the top, he saw a rope tied to a tree at one end, and there was only a rope buckle at the other end.

There is also a sheep's head with a neck on the ground next to it, but the sheep's neck is gone backwards.

"My ten yuan!" Zhou Jianjun staggered and rushed to the sheep's head, and saw that the half pile of bean cakes beside him was already stained red with blood.

At this time, Zhou Jianjun wanted to cry but had no tears, bearing the double blow of body and mind.

"Jianjun, Jianjun!" At this moment, Zhao Youcai's voice came from the south, and he was dragging a roe deer up the slope.

At this time, there was no snow on the mountain, and the ground was full of grass, sand and rocks. The friction force was high, and it was very difficult to pull the roe deer.

But below, Zhao Youcai sensed something was wrong, the reason was the same as Zhou Jianjun just now, he couldn't hear the sheep bleating.

Zhao Youcai pulled the roe deer to the top to have a look. In an instant, one Buddha was born and the other ascended to heaven.

Zhao Youcai left the roe deer behind, looked at the dead sheep's head and asked, "What's going on?"

"I don't know either!" Zhou Jianjun said, "I'll just untie my hands, and the body of the sheep will be gone when I come back."

Hearing this, Zhao Youcai said angrily: "I let you watch here, what are you doing?"

"Then my stomach hurts, can I still put it in my trouser pocket?" Zhou Jianjun said aggrievedly: "I just won't leave, the leopard is here, and I can't shoot it without a gun."

"You don't have a gun...you don't have a gun, if you scare the leopard away at the slightest movement, won't the sheep be saved?"

"I..." Zhou Jianjun felt right when he heard it, and felt even more distressed at this moment.If he had known that the leopard would come, he would have to lead the sheep when he relieved himself.

"Oh! Come on, don't get angry, I didn't expect that leopard to come so early." Zhao Youcai sighed, and said to Zhou Jianjun: "I still hunted a roe deer, you go and pick it up."

"I can't move." Zhou Jianjun said painfully, "I'm uncomfortable."

Zhao Youcai curled his lips helplessly, took out his knife, went over to skin the roe deer, and then divided the meat into pieces and put them into sacks.

At this time, just after ten o'clock, Weng and his son-in-law went down the mountain to go home.And the half sack of roe deer meat can only be carried by Zhao Youcai.

It weighs more than 40 catties, and Zhao Youcai struggled to carry it on his back, stopping and stopping all the way.

It happened that Zhou Jianjun was not feeling well either, so the two walked and rested until twelve o'clock at noon before seeing the village.

Weng and his son-in-law found another place to rest, and after thinking about it, they walked back in one breath.

During the rest, Zhao Youcai said to Zhou Jianjun: "Jianjun, I will go back tomorrow."

Zhou Jianjun didn't stay today, and replied directly: "Then you go back, Dad."

"No!" Upon hearing Zhou Jianjun's words, Zhao Youcai became a little impatient, and hurriedly asked, "Then the leopard will stop beating?"

"Then what else is there to fight?" Zhou Jianjun became more distressed the more he thought about it, and said, "There is only one family in our village that raises sheep, and I bought both lambs. Now they only have a big ewe left, so let's see what we can do." It costs seventy or eighty yuan to save face. How can I have any money? I ask Chuner for money, but she can't give it to me."

Zhao Youcai took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it, took a puff, and then asked Zhou Jianjun, "How much money do you have in your pocket?"

Hearing this, Zhou Jianjun stretched his hand into the pocket of his padded jacket, grabbed a handful of money, showed it to Zhao Youcai, and said, "It's more than three yuan, probably enough to buy two lamb legs..."

Before Zhou Jianjun finished speaking, he saw Zhao Youcai put a cigarette in his mouth, and stretched out his hands to hold his hand holding the money.

"No, Dad, what are you going to do?" Zhou Jianjun just wanted to resist when Zhao Youcai took the money from his hand, but seeing that Zhao Youcai didn't count it, he stuffed the money in his pocket and said, "Tomorrow morning Let's go, just his big ewe, I bought it!"

Zhou Jianjun: "..."

　I finished it in one breath, I was too lazy to score, and the two chapters were combined and posted together.

　　The process of beating leopards is true, it's just so bumpy
　　
　
(End of this chapter)