The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 616
When Zhao Youcai walked back from the back of the house to the front of the house, Li Baoyu had already stepped into his house first.

"Ma'am!" As soon as Li Baoyu came in, he could smell the smell of meat from the cauldron, so he asked Wang Meilan casually, "What kind of meat is in the cauldron?"

Wang Meilan turned her head, smiled at Li Baoyu and said, "Tiger cub meat."

"Ah!" Li Baoyu remembered eating this meat in Xing San's cellar, recalled the taste, and said: "Mother, this meat is a bit sour, but the taste is good."

"You can pull it down." Wang Meilan tightened her nose, frowned, and said, "The smell is so strong that I poured half a vat of it into the pot and couldn't hold it down when I was blanching. Then your mother came and brought me the peppercorns. Said that she put this thing to stew."

"Ah!" Li Baoyu was delighted when he heard it, "My mother also stewed this meat at home?"

"Well, did your uncle and your father fight this morning? We are half of the family." Wang Meilan replied with a smile.

The lynx stewed by the Zhao and Li families tonight was the one that Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong shot.As for the half that Zhao Jun brought back in the afternoon, Wang Meilan divided it into three parts.

One hind thigh was given to Mrs. Jiang, and the rest of the meat and bones were divided into two, half of which was given to Wang Qiang's family and half to Lin Xiangshun's family.

This meat is rare, let relatives and friends have a fresh taste.

"Baoyu!" At this moment, Zhao Jun came out of the east room and greeted Li Baoyu.After delivering the meat to those three families in the afternoon, when he came back, he saw his old lady teaching the two younger sisters a lesson, so he coaxed the two younger sisters to play.

"Brother." Li Baoyu followed Zhao Jun into the west room, and as soon as he sat on the kang, Li Baoyu asked Zhao Jun, "How are you going up the mountain with Brother Zhang today?"

"It's knocked down." Zhao Jun smiled and said, "A male one weighs nearly eighty catties."

"Oh!" Li Baoyu exclaimed upon hearing the words: "This year's thing is really thick."

"Yeah." Zhao Jun nodded and said, "I've already thought about it. This winter, in addition to clamping the big skin, we will run this thing hard. Unless someone gives us a letter, telling us where there are black blind people, We only go where there are wild boars. Otherwise, we won't shoot those things."

Lynxes have always been loners, and there is a lot of competition between them.There are a lot of them this year, but it may not be so by this time next year, so Zhao Jun wants to take advantage of the good time to fight more. After all, one lynx skin is worth two bear galls.

In Zhao Jun's plan for this year, besides lynx, there is also sable.The skins of both animals are valuable, and hunting sable requires only a trap.

After the trap is set, the rest of the time can be used to hunt lynxes, and when you are free, go for a round of big wallets, so that the time can be allocated perfectly.

Li Baoyu nodded repeatedly when he heard Zhao Jun's words. He is not stupid, and he also knows what things are worth.

At this time, there was a sound of opening the door outside the house, and Zhao Youcai came back!
"Yeah." As soon as Zhao Youcai came in, he looked at the cauldron and asked Wang Meilan, "Where's the meat?"

"Ah!" Wang Meilan replied, she was cutting rock sugar radish.I was afraid of getting tired of eating meat, so I thought about preparing a small cold dish.

Zhao Youcai sniffled, feeling that it didn't smell like mutton, so he asked Wang Meilan, "Stewed tiger cub?"

"Dangdangdang..." Wang Meilan stopped the knife, turned the blade out, and used her hand to remove the shredded radish sticking to the side of the knife.

Then, Wang Meilan raised her head and nodded to Zhao Youcai.Seeing that Wang Meilan didn't speak, Zhao Youcai asked again: "Should I call that in the morning?"

"Hmm." Wang Meilan responded with a nasal sound, then took the other half of the radish, put it on the chopping board and started slicing.

Zhao Youcai walked towards the bowl rack, opened the bowl rack and took a look, but there was no mutton or lynx meat.And the outhouse had a clear view, and no other meat was seen.

Zhao Youcai walked back, and when he entered the east room, he glanced into the west room, and saw Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu sitting on the kang muttering, Zhao Youcai laughed inwardly: "This kid must not have hit the tiger cub, The sheep are riding up the mountain."

"Brother, I'm going back." At this moment, Li Baoyu stood up and bid farewell to Zhao Jun.Zhao Jun sent him out of the house. Li Baoyu called Wang Meilan "Ma'am" first, and then called to the east room, "Master, I'm going back."

"What are you going back for?" Wang Meilan said immediately after hearing the words, "Let's eat here."

"No..." Before Li Baoyu could finish his refusal, Zhao Youcai unexpectedly came out from the east room, and he raised his chin at Li Baoyu and said, "Let's eat here, and call your father, let's have a drink."

"It's terrible, sir!" Li Baoyu waved his hand and said: "My mother is also eating this meat at home, so we won't come here."

Hearing what Li Baoyu said, Wang Meilan didn't try to persuade him any more, but said: "That's fine, Baoyu, then jump over the wall more slowly."

"Hey!" Li Baoyu promised, waved to Zhao Jun, pushed the door open and left.

Seeing that Li Baoyu was gone, Wang Meilan was going to continue chopping vegetables, and Zhao Jun was going to open the bowl rack to get the bowls and chopsticks.

But at this moment, Zhao Youcai raised the corner of his mouth and let out a burst of laughter: "Hehehe..."

His sudden smile startled both Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan, Zhao Jun abruptly stopped in his tracks, and turned his head to take a deep look at Zhao Youcai.But Wang Meilan's hands trembled, and she almost didn't cut her hands.

Seeing Zhao Jun looking at him, Zhao Youcai said to Zhao Jun, "Bring me the wine!"

After finishing speaking, Zhao Youcai turned around and entered the room.But they ignored Wang Meilan's cold gaze, and Zhao Jun's complaint: "Which day didn't I bring you wine? You can't even do it if you drink less."

Zhao Youcai went into the back room, took off his coat and came to the edge of the kang, grabbed the little Zhao Na who was facing away from him, hugged him in his arms and said, "Come on, old girl, let Dad be rare, rare."

This Zhao Youcai was in the kitchen every day, and he smelled of oily smoke all day long. The most important thing was that he was still smoking, and when he opened his mouth, there was a smell of smoke, which made Zhao Na wrinkle her nose and struggle hard in Zhao Youcai's arms.

Zhao Youcai was afraid that the child's arms and legs would not be damaged, so he hurriedly put Zhao Na on the kang.With nothing restrained, Zhao Na crawled into the kang on hands and feet.

When she was at the innermost part of the kang, Zhao Na stopped and turned her back against the wall. While looking at Zhao Youcai, the little girl raised her hand and wiped the face that Zhao Youcai had just kissed with the back of her hand.

Seeing that the old girl disliked him, Zhao Youcai turned his attention to Zhao Hong again. Seeing his father looking at him, Zhao Hong hurriedly moved to Zhao Na's side.

Zhao Youcai knew that he smelled bad, and the two daughters were still young, so he didn't blame them, he just sat down on the edge of the kang, and said to Zhao Hong and Zhao Na: "Second daughter, old daughter, I will buy it for you when Dad earns money. a rag doll."

"Doll?" Zhao Hong and Zhao Na's four small eyes immediately became straight when they heard the words, Qi Qi looked at Zhao Youcai, and said in surprise, "Really?"

These days, children in the forest area really have nothing to play with. Paper pictures, glass beads, and cloth bags are all good things, and even the whole village can’t find a doll.

But Zhao Hong and Zhao Na were in school, heard the teacher describe it, and saw the teacher draw on the blackboard, so they were very eager for things like dolls.

At this time, they heard their father say that they wanted to buy a doll for themselves, and the two sisters quickly came to Zhao Youcai on their knees and crawled, grabbed Zhao Youcai's arm and had a good time with him.

At this moment, Zhao Youcai was immersed in the happiness of his family, and because he thought he had won the siege against his son, he enjoyed double the happiness.

At this time, Wang Meilan came in with mixed rock sugar radishes, and she heard what the three of them said just now outside the door.

After putting the plate on the kang table, Wang Meilan glanced at the triumphant Zhao Youcai, and said, "You make a wish blindly, do you have money? You promise to buy something?"

As soon as Wang Meilan said this, the smiles on the faces of Zhao Hong and Zhao Na suddenly disappeared, and the sisters looked at Zhao Youcai nervously.

"Who doesn't have money?" Zhao Youcai became unhappy all of a sudden, and said to Wang Meilan, "Won't you return it to me in the morning?"

Wang Meilan was about to leave, but after hearing Zhao Youcai's words, she couldn't help but turned around and asked, "Is the 50 yuan enough?"

When Wang Meilan said this, Zhao Youcai was taken aback for a moment.He didn't know how much it cost to buy a doll. Now that Wang Meilan asked him, Zhao Youcai thought that the doll was very expensive.

Zhao Youcai thought in his heart that something was wrong, but he couldn't lose face with his daughter, so he insisted: "Isn't it enough that I won't earn? This year's tiger cubs are thick, and if I beat one, I get fifty, and if I beat two, it's only a hundred? "

"You still hit one hundred." Hearing what he said, Wang Meilan gave him a blank look, left the words and went to the outer room.There was still meat stewing in that pot, but there was no time to talk nonsense with Zhao Youcai.

Seeing Wang Meilan leave, Zhao Youcai put one arm around the two daughters, raised the other arm, and said proudly: "My daughter is fine, Dad will ask someone to buy it for you tomorrow."

"Dad, you are the best!"

"dad……"

Just when the two daughters were bending over the dolls, Zhao Jun came in from the outside with a wine bucket and a wine glass. After hearing what Zhao Youcai said just now, Zhao Jun first put the wine bucket on the kang, and then asked Zhao Youcai, "Dad, are you going to work tomorrow?" ?”

"Well, I have to go to work tomorrow." Zhao Youcai nodded and said, "The director came this afternoon and told me that someone from above will come to check tomorrow, and I have to be in charge."

Speaking of this, Zhao Youcai hurriedly asked Zhao Jun, "Son, shall we go to the mountains the day after tomorrow?"

For Zhao Youcai, releasing mountains is also a way to make money!
"It's okay." Zhao Jun said: "Dad, you should be busy with your work. I will lead the dog up the mountain to fight siege tomorrow. Let the mountain go, and we will go the day after tomorrow."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Jun put the wine glass on the kang table, then unscrewed the lid of the wine barrel, and filled Zhao Youcai with wine.

When his son poured wine, Zhao Youcai didn't appreciate it or thank him. He just moved his buttocks to the table and took a sip from the wine glass.

After putting down the wine glass, Zhao Youcai seemed to want to say something, but when Zhao Jun turned around to serve the meal, Zhao Youcai rolled his eyes and quickly looked up at the kang cabinet.

Zhao Youcai glanced at it, but didn't see any lynx skin rolls, not even the one he typed back.Although he didn't know why, Zhao Youcai firmly believed that his son had missed today.

Zhao Youcai grinned, thinking that when he was eating later, he would definitely get back all the face he had lost before.

But what he didn't know was that when Zhao Hong and Zhao Na came back from school this afternoon, they saw the leather rolls on the kang cabinet, and the two little girls took the broom to sweep the kang to pick them up, and almost pulled the leather rolls off.

After being discovered by Wang Meilan, the two little girls were scolded. According to Zhao Hong, Li Xiaoqiao told her and her sister about Journey to the West two days ago. Take the tiger skin and make a tiger skin skirt for Monkey King.

Therefore, when the two little girls saw the pattern of lynx skin, they took it as a tiger, and wanted the old lady to make a tiger skin skirt for each of their sisters.

Wang Meilan was afraid that the two daughters would harm Pi Zi, so she sent the two lynx skins to the West Room and put them on the top of the kang cabinet in that room.

In this way, Zhao Youcai was tricked by his two good daughters. At this moment, he concluded that Zhao Jun must have missed today, and it was time for him to regain his face.

A pot of rice was placed on the kang, and a large plate of lynx meat was placed in the center of the kang table. Zhao Jun first distributed the chopsticks to Zhao Youcai, and then the two younger sisters.

And Wang Meilan, who served the rice, first served the two little girls.Give it to the two daughters, then give it to Zhao Jun, and then Zhao Youcai.

Zhao Youcai was not in a hurry to eat, he pulled his chopsticks on the plate, picked up a piece of leg meat and sent it to Zhao Na's bowl, and said: "Girl, eat, it was beaten by Dad."

The little girl hadn't eaten meat for two or three days. When she saw meat, she picked it up and put it in her mouth.

Here Zhao Youcai picked up another piece of leg meat, this time he sent the meat to Zhao Hong's bowl, but he said the same thing, he only heard him say: "Second girl eats, this is what Dad beat in the morning."

Zhao Hong was two years older than Zhao Na, so she was quite sensible. Hearing Zhao Youcai's words, Zhao Hong said, "Dad, you can eat too."

"Hey! My second daughter is really filial." Zhao Youcai smiled and praised the little girl. Just as Wang Meilan put the rice bowl in front of him, Zhao Youcai picked up a piece of lynx rib meat.

But Zhao Youcai put the meat in the bowl, but he didn't eat it, but asked Zhao Hong and Zhao Na, "Second girl, old girl, is this meat fragrant?"

Little Zhao Na's mouth was occupied by flesh, she had no time to answer, so she nodded repeatedly.While Zhao Hong was chewing the meat, he said "hmmmm" twice.

Seeing this, Zhao Youcai couldn't hide the smile on his face, and asked the two little girls, "Do you know what kind of meat this is?"

After Zhao Youcai asked, the two daughters didn't speak, but shook their heads while gnawing on the meat.

So, Zhao Youcai asked himself and answered authentically: "This is tiger cub meat, it's hard to beat, not for ordinary people."

Speaking of this, Zhao Youcai pointed Zhao Jun aside with his chopsticks, and smiled at the two little girls: "Your elder brother didn't hit him today."

At this time, Wang Meilan had already picked up the rice bowl, and she also picked up a piece of meat to taste, but just as the meat was in her mouth, she heard Zhao Youcai's words.

Wang Meilan, who was originally lowering her head and biting her flesh, looked at Zhao Jun.At this time, Zhao Jun was also a little confused, but he subconsciously shook his head at his old lady.

It was too late for Zhao Youcai to shift his gaze. He didn't see the scene just now. Now he turned his head and said to the bewildered Zhao Jun, "By the way, I just came back to see why there is one less sheep in our family? Did you throw it on the mountain?"

(End of this chapter)