The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 498

The mountain products in the mountains are harvested in a small amount every three years and a big harvest every five years.

This year is the harvest year, whether it is walnuts, pine nuts, round dates, or grapes, all of them are fruitful.

In such a harvest year, wild boars and black bears seldom come down to harm the crops, and even roe deer and hares can eat quite fat in the mountains.

Under such circumstances, top hunters such as Siberian tigers and Siberian leopards will never go down the mountain to harm poultry and livestock.

But when Zhao Jun heard Mrs. Jiang say that the leopard ate sheep, the first thing he thought of was that this leopard should be the one that Zhao Youcai caught.

It has to be said that Zhao Youcai's method of dealing with the Northeast Leopard really highlighted the word fishing.

Just like fishermen use corn grains to make nests before fishing, Zhao Youcai used lambs to make nests when fishing for Northeast leopards.

No one is stupid. After eating lambs twice, the leopard also felt that domestic sheep are better than wild animals.

Therefore, it later hunted and killed the sheep raised by the Yongxing Brigade.

But it caught the sheep of the Yongxing brigade, and it still started in the mountains, and it was not greedy enough to go to the village to steal the sheep.

Zhao Jun recalled that he had heard from Tao Dabao that the hunters of their Yongxing Brigade shot the leopard, and the leopard was shot, but the leopard was neither alive nor dead.

Later, Tao Dabao led people to follow him and saw the purple-black sticky blood, which showed that the leopard was seriously injured.

Judging from this, it may be that the leopard was seriously injured and had difficulty hunting in the mountains, so it went to the village to hunt domestic sheep.

In this way, it makes sense.

"Jiang Nai." Zhao Jun asked the old lady again, "Then Xing Zhiyong and the others don't have guns? How can something happen?"

"Oh! Don't mention it!" The old lady didn't even eat the dumplings this time, but she said you shouldn't mention it. Speaking of these three damaged species..."

Speaking of this, the old lady paused for a moment, and then said: "It's Hu Mantang, and his second son-in-law, and one... I forgot the name of the other, but they call him Youngest Li anyway."

"Li Hu!" Zhao Jun continued, this Li Hu is Li San who captured the little black bear together with Xing Zhiyong when he and Li Baoyu were hunting bears in Yonglitun last year.

"Yes, yes." Hearing Zhao Jun call out this person's name, the old lady nodded repeatedly and said, "It's just the three of them!"

Hearing that it was a meeting between Xing Zhiyong and Li Hu, Zhao Jun half-jokingly asked: "Jiang Nai, they are not going to capture that local leopard alive?"

Zhao Jun just asked casually, it was just a bit of bad taste in his heart, but what he didn't expect was that when he said this, the old lady slapped her thigh and said, "How do you know?"

"Ah?" Zhao Jun was stunned this time, and he asked in disbelief: "Jiang Nai, really? Who can do such a stupid thing?"

It's no wonder that Zhao Jun reacted so strongly. There are not a few people who dare to take pictures of black and blind people in this mountain farm and forest area.But there are not many people who dare to go to where there are tigers and leopards.

Xing Zhiyong and the others thought of capturing the little black bear alive last year, but this year they even thought of capturing the Northeast Leopard alive.

"Ah!" Old Mrs. Jiang also shook her head, sighed and said, "The men said that the leopard seemed to be injured, and it was difficult to catch the sheep, so they said they used the rope... to catch the live ones."

Zhao Jun couldn't help being speechless. Last year when Xing Zhiyong and Li Hu wanted to catch the little black bear, they seemed to say the same thing.

But the situation of the leopard is different from that of the little black bear.The little black bear can be raised after being captured.If you capture the leopard, can you still feed it to the sheep every day?
"Hey!" Thinking of this, Zhao Jun couldn't help shaking his head, and sighed, "Jiang Nai, they didn't say anything, why did they have to catch them alive?"

"Say it!" Old Mrs. Jiang said, "Hu Mantang was not seriously injured, and he didn't go to the hospital at the foot of the mountain. I heard what he said, and it seemed that Li San'er said that when he shot a leopard, the skin would not go away. It's worth the money, it's better to grab it and strangle it to death."

"Isn't this crazy?" Zhao Jun became angry when he heard it, and said again: "Is this so unwilling to give up your life or money?"

"Who says it's not?" The old lady also said, "They don't even think about it. The sheep has skin and fur, and they can carry a leopard to grab them. How can they carry it?"

"Oh, talent." Zhao Jun shook his head, then stood up. He could imagine the bloody scene that followed, so he didn't need to ask any more.

"Okay, Jiang Nai, you eat first." Zhao Jun said: "I'll go back and pull some pans for you. At night, you heat the kang yourself."

"Go." The old lady said, picked up the vinegar plate and chopsticks, picked up a dumpling, took a bite and dipped in the vinegar.

Just as Zhao Jun turned to leave, he saw Ma Ling walking from not far away carrying a five-jin bucket.Judging by the color of the bucket, it should be filled with soy sauce.

Seeing Zhao Jun, Ma Ling was also taken aback, trotted two steps towards this side, and asked Zhao Jun, "What are you doing here?"

"My mother made dumplings, let me deliver some to Jiang Nai." Zhao Jun gestured to the old lady, and then asked Ma Ling, "What are you doing with so much soy sauce?"

"My mother said she wanted to pickle pickles. She and my fourth aunt put some ground rings in the mountains... Hey, Grandma Jiang called me." Just as Ma Ling was talking, she saw the old lady waving at her. She told Zhao Jun He let out a sound, then walked around Zhao Jun, walked towards the old lady, and said, "Mr. Jiang."

The old lady raised the plate and said, "Pour me some Qingjiang."

Qingjiang is soy sauce. Mrs. Jiang’s family came from the Guandong in the early years, so she called it in her hometown.

"Ah? Hey." Ma Ling looked at the soy sauce bucket in her hand, and quickly agreed, and went to unscrew the lid.

At this time, Zhao Jun came over, took the soy sauce barrel, poured a little less soy sauce on the old lady's plate, and when returning the soy sauce barrel to Ma Ling, Zhao Jun smiled and said to the old lady: "You old lady, If you don’t like it, just tell me, and I’ll pour it for you when I enter the room.”

The old lady raised her head and smiled at Zhao Jun, saying, "I don't have clear sauce at home."

As soon as Ma Ling screwed on the lid of the bucket, she heard what the old lady said, and said to Zhao Jun, "Go into the house quickly, and take out the soy sauce jar from Mrs. Jiang's house, and I'll pour some for her..."

Speaking of this, Ma Ling turned her head to look into the courtyard, and saw white smoke rising from the doors and windows of the house. She nervously grabbed Zhao Jun's arm with one hand and said, "What's going on in that house?"

"No, no." Zhao Jun hurriedly said, "The firewood in Jiang Nai's house is wet, and the house is full of smoke."

"Ah." Hearing this, Ma Ling thought for a while and said, "My dad has gone to Hegouzi. I don't know if he's back or not? I'll go back and see. He's coming back. I'll ask him to carry some firewood for Grandma Jiang. "

"No need." Zhao Jun stopped: "I'll send it in a while, don't bother me, Mr. Ma."

"That's fine." Ma Ling smiled and pointed into the room, and said, "Go quickly and get out the soy sauce jar."

"Hey." Zhao Jun responded, and ran into the house to take out the soy sauce jar, only to find out that Ma Ling just sat there chatting with the old lady in less than 2 minutes.

But Ma Ling is different from Li Ruhai. She doesn't ask questions, and she doesn't spread the news about other people's family. She only answers when the old lady asks her.

Seeing Zhao Jun come out, Ma Ling unscrewed the soy sauce barrel. When she was pouring the soy sauce, Mrs. Jiang kept shouting "Enough, enough", but when Ma Ling stopped, the jar was almost full by a centimeter .In Ma Ling's bucket, the soy sauce was less than one-fifth.

"You girl!" Seeing this, the old lady shook her head and said, "You make some clear sauce and give it back to me."

"No." Ma Ling lifted the bucket and said with a smile: "There are still so many, enough."

Then, Ma Ling said to Zhao Jun: "Then you can fix Grandma Jiang, and I'll go back first."

"Well." Zhao Jun responded, "Then I won't see you off."

"No need to send it off." After Ma Ling and Zhao Jun finished speaking, they turned around and said to Old Mrs. Jiang, "Mr. Jiang, then I'll go back."

"Hey." Hearing that Ma Ling said she was going to leave, the old lady put the plates and chopsticks aside and got up to see her off.

Zhao Jun hurried over and helped the old lady to sit down. The old lady held Zhao Jun's arm and said, "Boy Zhao, this girl from Lao Ma's family is not bad!"

"Yeah!" Hearing what the old lady said, Zhao Jun nodded without thinking.

Ma Ling was indeed similar to Wang Meilan in some respects. Both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were so kind, and when they met poor people, they would help them when they could.

It's just that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have never lived together in the previous life, so I don't know how they can get along in this life?

Watching Ma Ling go away, Zhao Jun told the old lady to eat the dumplings while they were hot, and then he went home. It happened that today the family set up a warehouse, and the cut wooden squares were good for burning, so he pulled a pile for the old lady.

When Zhao Jun arrived home, he found that Zhao Youcai had recovered from the blow of losing the dog, and he was carrying the board with Li Dayong to the backyard.

Seeing Zhao Jun coming back, Zhao Youcai shouted at him: "Hurry up and work, if you raise two uprights in one day, you won't come back when you go out."

"I..." Zhao Jun didn't want to say anything at first, but when Zhao Youcai said something, he felt uneasy, just when he saw Wang Meilan coming out of the house, Zhao Jun pretended to say to Zhao Youcai, "Dad, something happened to me, Mr. Hu. do you know?"

"Huh?" Zhao Youcai paused when he heard the words, motioned Li Dayong to put down the board, and then asked Zhao Jun, "Who are you, Mr. Hu?"

Zhao Jun replied: "It's Hu Mantang from Yonglitun, I am Uncle Hu."

"Who?" At this time, Wang Meilan heard the conversation between the father and son, and rushed here quickly, and asked as she walked, "What happened to Hu Mantang? What's wrong?"

Not only Wang Meilan, but Zhao Youcai, Li Dayong, Jin Xiaomei, Zhang Yuanmin, Yang Yufeng, Li Baoyu, Jie Chen, and Li Ruhai were also very curious. They all surrounded Zhao Jun whether they knew Hu Mantang or not.

Especially Li Ruhai, this child had just been repaired by Li Dayong and his wife, so he should have been beaten and cried. After the tears dried up on his face, there were tear marks on his little face.

But when he heard the news, although Li Ruhai didn't dare to go forward, he stood on tiptoe and looked outside the crowd.

Zhao Jun didn't hold back, and said directly: "Didn't Jiang Nai just come back from Yongli Village? Mention me, Uncle Hu, and say that my Uncle Hu's family is raising sheep this year, and the lamb or something recruited leopards two days ago."

"What?" Zhao Youcai stepped forward, grabbed Zhao Jun's hand, and asked eagerly, "A leopard again?"

"Yeah." Zhao Jun nodded, and told how Hu Mantang, Xing Zhiyong, and Li Hu captured the Northeast Leopard with their own hands, but ended up in the hospital. Everyone was dumbfounded.

Zhao Youcai sighed, shook his head and said, "Isn't there no eggs, why don't you find eggplants to carry them?"

"Dad!" Zhao Jun hurriedly added another sentence, "This leopard seems to be the one you beat last time."

As soon as Zhao Jun said this, Zhao Youcai raised his head suddenly, glanced at Zhao Jun, then turned around and called everyone to start working.

Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong picked up the board again. Li Dayong saw that Li Ruhai was about to slip out of the courtyard, and immediately shouted: "Little brat, if you dare to go out today, see if I won't break your legs!"

"I..." Li Ruhai, who was threatened, froze in place for an instant, turned his head and said aggrievedly, "I won't talk about my Aunt Zhou, can't I?"

"No!" Jin Xiaomei came over and slapped Li Ruhai's back twice, saying: "You can't say anything! How old are you? You fight with a bunch of old ladies every day, you usually have to work hard. Just help me and your aunt do some work at home."

Li Ruhai only realized the seriousness of the matter when he heard the words from the family manager. When he thought that he would not be able to speak freely in the village in the future, Li Ruhai felt extremely uncomfortable.

In grief and indignation, the child broke the jar and followed Jin Xiaomei's words, "Aren't you two old women too?"

Jin Xiaomei was startled for a moment, but then reacted, her cold eyes cut Li Ruhai's face like two knives.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Ruhai hurriedly ran to the backyard.

At this time, Wang Meilan also came over, gave Zhao Jun a thump, and said, "Tell me about you, why do you have to tell your father that? If he wants to know where there are leopards, he should think about it again!"

Zhao Jun chuckled and said, "If he doesn't go to work seriously, Mom, you'll get rid of him."

"This child." Wang Meilan smiled and said nothing.But since she didn't refute it, it proved that she thought so too.

Putting aside the matter of fishing and law enforcement, Zhao Jun told Wang Meilan about Mrs. Jiang's situation. It burns well."

In the forest area, both chopping and burning firewood are very particular.

The three types of wood, namely, azuki, akizuki, and ash, are easy to chop and burn.And poplar, willow, and linden, these three types of wood, are not easy to split or burn.

If it was an ordinary family, they would not pick it if they had no conditions, but for Zhao Jun, he would pull whatever was easy to hack.Burn whatever is easy to burn.

Zhao Jun called Li Baoyu and Xie Chen over to help, and the three of them loaded a lot of wood into the cart.Before going out, Wang Meilan took out a small jar of pickled vegetables and bear oil, and asked Zhao Jun to bring them to Mrs. Jiang.

Then, a few Chinese cabbages were packed in sacks, and Zhao Jun took them with him.

Before Zhao Jun left, he went to the door of the warehouse and took a piece of wild boar meat.Only then did he get in the car, show Xie Chen the way, and go to Ma Ling's house first.

When the car stopped in front of Ma Ling's house, Ma Dafu was squatting in the courtyard and poking something. He heard the movement and looked up at the door. Seeing Zhao Jun coming down with wild pork, Ma Dafu hurriedly rubbed his hands on his pants, Then strode towards the door.

But at this time, what he uncovered gave off a stench.Although they are separated by fourteen or five meters, when the wind blows, the stench is so strong that Jie Chen frowned and muttered softly, "Did someone drag him into the courtyard?"

(End of this chapter)