The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

When the car approached Zhao Jun's house, he saw a puff of black smoke rising with the wind, accompanied by a smell of burnt hair.

Then the car turned a corner, and not far ahead was Zhao Jun's house.

At the gate of Zhao's house, Wang Qiang and Zhang Yuanmin were chatting with Wang Meilan, Yang Yufeng and Xie Zhong.

The last time Xie Zhong came in a hurry, he didn't make friends with Wang Qiang and Zhang Yuanmin. Today, Xie Zhong, who was burning the bear's paws in front of Zhao Jun's house, happened to meet Wang Qiang and Zhang Yuanmin who had returned from fishing for shrimps. After Wang Meilan's introduction, the three had a happy chat.

Hearing the sound of a car, the five people followed the sound, and saw a Liberation car approaching slowly, and at the same time, the laughter of women and children came from the trunk.

The car stopped in front of Zhao's house, and some of the children in the car called mother, and some called aunt...

"Look at it!" Wang Meilan stretched out her hand to take Li Xiaoqiao first, then turned to Yang Yufeng beside her and said with a smile, "How is it? Let me tell you, the whole car has been brought back!"

As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, she heard a rush of footsteps. She looked towards the car and saw a person jumping out from the west path. It was Li Ruhai who had disappeared after lunch.

"What happened to Ruhai?" Seeing this, Wang Meilan hurriedly took two steps towards Li Ruhai, and asked, "Who kicked you out?"

This Li Ruhai is just like his own child, his parents are not at home today, if someone bullies him, Wang Meilan will definitely not agree.

"Aha... aha..." Li Ruhai took a few breaths, waved at Wang Meilan and said, "No aunt, I'll come back and see what's going on at home?"

"It's nothing." Wang Qiang said with a smile on the side, "Everything is fine at home, so you can prepare a table."

At Zhao Jun's house, banquets for weddings and funerals are called sitting seats. Upon hearing this, Wang Meilan patted Wang Qiang on the shoulder back with her hand.

"Girl." At this time, Mrs. Jiang, supported by Zhang Yuanmin, got out of the car and reached out to Wang Meilan.

"Hey!" Wang Meilan put little Zhao Na on the ground, hurriedly went to hold the hand that the old lady extended to her, and said, "Auntie."

"Hehe." The old lady held Wang Meilan's hand, smiled, and asked Wang Meilan, "What good food does our family have? You asked the kid to pick me up."

"Today we eat fish and black blind meat." Wang Meilan helped the old lady walk into the courtyard, and said with a smile as she walked, "I'll bake you a big pancake for a while."

When the old lady heard this, she couldn't help but pursed her lips, her smiling eyes almost disappeared.

Outside the courtyard, a group of children had already got out of the car. Whoever discovered the prawns caught by Wang Qiang and Zhang Yuanmin first, the other children gathered around the prawn container and looked at the small blue river prawns inside. Crying to be arrested.

Seeing this, Zhao Jun grabbed Wang Tian and shouted at the children, "There's a lot of smoke outside, go into the courtyard quickly, go back to the house and arrest them."

As he said that, Zhao Jun grabbed Wang Tian with one hand and fed Luo with shrimps with the other, and trotted towards the yard.Behind him, a group of children happily chased after him.

With such a big battle, the dogs in the yard were so startled that they barked.

Zhao Jun went to the house and brought Federo into the house.In this courtyard, a pot is set up outside the courtyard to light the fire, so children are not allowed to play outside.

The children all came in and squeezed into Zhao Jun's room together. Wang Tian and Wang Xue had heard Zhao Hong say that her house had picked up another cat.

They squeezed in like a swarm of bees, and hurriedly lifted the blanket covering the pine box. The sleeping, warm little lynx looked up at the box, and saw that there were people around the box. A circle of small heads.

"Aw! Aw!" Just as the little lynx yelled twice, Zhao Hong lifted the little lynx out of the box. As soon as she hugged the little lynx in her arms, a group of children gathered around, touching this one, rubbing that one a handful.

The little lynx didn't dare to say anything, so it could only accept it.

Soon, these children felt that touching was not enough, and they insisted on hugging.

Zhao Hong first handed the little lynx to her cousin Wang Xue, and the little girl hugged the little lynx in her arms very strangely.

At that time, Zhao Hong saw the enamel basin sandwiched between the table and the root of the south wall. She trotted over and pulled the basin out, carried it out to the outside room, and saw Zhao Ling pouring water into the cauldron. Give her a scoop, so she can catch a few shrimps and raise them.

"Xiao Hong!" Zhao Ling stared at the basin in Zhao Hong's hand with wide eyes, and asked, "Is this the basin where your brother washes his feet?"

"Ah?" Zhao Hong glanced at the basin, then at Zhao Ling, only to hear Zhao Ling say: "You put it for shrimps, what will your brother use to wash his feet at night?"

After finishing speaking, Zhao Ling gently turned Zhao Hong's body back, and said, "Quick, send it to the house, you want to catch shrimp, and I'll find you something else."

At this time, the old lady who heard the commotion came out from the east room, looked at Zhao Ling and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Ma'am!" Zhao Ling was afraid that the old man would not be able to hear her, so she poked her head over and said to her, "Why don't you go to that room and watch them, I'm afraid these children will harm people."

"Okay!" The old lady happily left for the West Room upon hearing this.And Zhao Ling went to the dish stand, took out a porcelain basin from it, filled half of it with water, and sent it to Westinghouse to raise shrimp for the children.

Seeing that they were able to catch shrimps, several children went over to catch shrimps from the feeding lorry.

Amidst the noise of the children, the voice of the old lady came out: "Don't kick that down!"

……

The house is lively, and the outside is not bad.

With a helper, Wang Meilan felt a sense of pride in her heart. She ordered Zhao Jun to chop firewood, Xie Chen to fetch water, and Li Ruhai to collect fire.

Then, Wang Meilan personally took the rest of the people to carve up the black bear meat and remove all the bones that should be picked.

The meat is divided into fat and thin, the fat ones are cut into pieces and put on one side, and the thin ones are also cut into pieces and put on the other side.

Then, without waiting for the water in the cauldron to boil, Wang Qiang put the cut pieces of bear thigh meat into the cauldron.

After the pot was covered, Xie Chen carried two buckets of water to the stove, and Xie Zhong shouted outside the courtyard that the bear's paw was ready.

Zhang Yuanmin went out with a large basin, and he and Xie Zhong used sticks to push the scorched bear's paw into the basin.

Xie Zhong carried the bear's paw basin into the yard, Zhang Yuanmin poured water into the basin, Wang Meilan handed them brushes, Zhang Yuanmin and Xie Zhong dipped their brushes in water to clean the big bear's paw.

On the other side, Yang Yufeng peeled potatoes, Xu Chunyan peeled radishes, and there were seven or eight green onions and two ends of garlic that needed to be peeled.

After the bear's paws were cleaned, they were brought into the house and boiled in the cauldron in the outbuilding of Zhao Jun's house.

There is no way, the big pot outside is cooking more than 30 catties of bear meat, and there is no room for another bear paw.

As for the thirty catties of bear meat, in addition to the twenty catties of bear leg meat that Wang Meilan asked Yang Yufeng to pick off, there were about ten catties of lean meat picked from bears.

Although these are all lean meat, when the bears are fattening, the shredded meat is full of oil, and when it is boiled in a large pot, a layer of oily flakes will form on the surface of the water.

Wang Meilan entered the house, put the bear's paws into the cauldron, and Zhao Ling was in charge of boiling the water.

As Zhao Jun said, no matter it is bear paws or bear meat, it has to be blanched four or five times.

"Jie Chen!" Suddenly, Wang Meilan pushed the door and shouted outside.

"Auntie!" Jie Chen had just responded when Wang Meilan said, "Put a bucket of water into the house!"

After speaking, Wang Meilan went to the bowl rack, opened it, and walked out with a basswood cutting board in one hand.

Each of these large basswood cutting boards weighs more than ten catties. Zhao Jun saw Wang Meilan struggling to come out of the house holding one in each hand. He hurried over to catch a large cutting board and asked Wang Meilan, "Mom, what are you doing?" What are you taking it out for?"

At this time, Wang Meilan clamped the cutting board to her side with her right hand, waved her left hand to the side, and said, "Your Uncle Li's oil will be served in a while, so let's cut the fat outside!"

After speaking, Wang Meilan looked around and shouted, "Like the sea!"

Li Ruhai, who was being dumbfounded by the side, heard the sound, hurriedly trotted up in front of Wang Meilan, clasped his fists and bent down, saying, "Ma'am!"

Seeing Li Ruhai's appearance, Wang Meilan laughed, and said, "Go back to your house and light the stove."

"Deling..." Li Ruhai screamed strangely, jumped to the partition wall, jumped over the wall flexibly, rushed straight to the firewood pile, picked up a pile of dry branches, pulled two pieces of birch bark, and went into his house run.

Once the birch bark is dry, it is like paper, which is extremely flammable and is the best fire starter.

A little bit of birch bark, the fire rushed up, and the dry branches as thick as chopsticks burned instantly and crackled.

As soon as the fire was burning below, the cauldron on the stove creaked. Li Ruhai opened the door and shouted, "Ma'am, it's on fire... no, the fire is on!"

"Ah!" Wang Meilan replied loudly: "You put less water in the pot, don't let the pot burn!"

Li Ruhai shrank his head back, went to his water tank, lifted the curtain tied with sorghum poles, let the gourd scoop half of the water, poured only a little into the house, and then threw the rest of the water, including the gourd scoop, back into the tank middle.

Then he snapped the cover curtain to the mouth of the tank, and Li Ruhai pushed the door and ran outside.But when he got to the wall and looked into the courtyard next door, he saw Wang Meilan and Zhao Ling cutting up fat meat; Yang Yufeng and Xu Chunyan chopping garlic and shallots; Jun, Wang Qiang, and Zhang Yuanmin were all chopping firewood.

What a scene of "labor" in full swing!
At this time, Wang Meilan and Zhao Ling pushed a pile of composted meat into a large basin.Then, Wang Meilan carried the basin to the wall, and Li Ruhai hurriedly reached out to take it from here.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Meilan climbed over the wall and entered Li's house to make a pot of oil.The water that was poured into the pot by Li Ruhai just now had already boiled, about two bowls of water, Wang Meilan saw that it was just right, and while putting pieces of fat meat into the pot, she told Li Ruhai, "Go, Ruhai, grab some firewood."

Li Ruhai agreed, and rushed out to the pile of firewood.Different from just now, now Li Ruhai picked up the split wood and hugged it before running back into the house.

"Add less!" Seeing Li Ruhai coming back with firewood, Wang Meilan hastily warned that the fire should not be rushed when oiling, it must be slow.

Li Ruhai added firewood, Wang Meilan watched the pot from the side, and the three chimneys of the two families had green smoke rising with the wind.

Whether it was the bear paws inside the house or the bear meat outside, they were all blanched five times.

At this time, Wang Meilan had already prepared the bear oil, and the leftover oil was too mushy, so Wang Meilan didn't intend to feed it to the children, so she just found a small pot and put it in a small pot for the dog tomorrow. , can be regarded as oily.

The dishes hadn't been cooked yet, and Wang Meilan was not in a hurry to fry pancakes or fried fish. She came out of the room and asked Zhao Ling to hand over the blanched bear paws.

In this way, Wang Meilan and Zhao Ling were in the Li family's bear's paw, and Yang Yufeng and Xu Chunyan were in the Zhao's courtyard.

As for Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang, Zhang Yuanmin, Xie Zhong, Xie Chen, and Li Ruhai, they chatted and drank water in Zhao Jun's West Room.

Nearly six o'clock, it was already dark outside, and the bear meat and bear's paws were almost cooked.

The men helped to set the table. Although Jin Xiaomei was missing today, but he knew more about Zhong and Jiechen, so there were still two tables.

Here, Yang Yufeng and Xu Chunyan cut the prepared bear meat into chunks the size of braised pork, put more than half of it into a pot and stew it in red, and the other half took it to stew in the yard with daikon radish.

Then, the two began to shred potatoes, which was later to prepare burritos.Therefore, this potato shreds cannot be cut too thin.

At the same time, Wang Meilan heated a frying pan, sautéed the onion and ginger until fragrant, poured water and soy sauce, and put the half-cooked bear paws into the pan after the water boiled.

As soon as the lid of the pot was put on, Wang Meilan came out of the house and went to the base of the wall to call for someone to bring them noodles.

The bear's paws will be cooked immediately, and as soon as the braised bear's paws come out of the pan, Wang Meilan will make pancakes!

Hearing Wang Meilan's words, Wang Qiang brought out a basin first, put it on the wall and said to Wang Meilan, "Sister, this is bread."

Wang Meilan responded, carried the basin and walked towards the house.But Wang Qiang went back to the house and brought out another basin.

Put the washbasin on the wall first, Wang Qiang also came to Li's house over the wall, the three of them didn't go into the back room, they just sat in front of the stove and chatted.

Wang Meilan pointed to Wang Qiang, and bragged to Zhao Ling: "Ask Qiangzi, since he was young, he would be willing to eat my baked cakes, even our mother's."

Zhao Ling raised her eyes to look at Wang Qiang upon hearing this.At this time, Wang Qiang said with a smile: "My sister is willing to put oil in the pancakes, it looks like fried, can it not be delicious?"

As soon as this remark came out, Wang Meilan and Zhao Ling burst out laughing.

……

"Hahaha……"

On the small train from Yongan Forest Farm to Yongantun, Zhao Youcai, Li Dayong, Li Baoyu, and Lin Xiangshun laughed in unison.

At Zhao Youcai's hand, there was a stack of lunch boxes in a net bag, counting three.

At this moment, Zhao Youcai nudged Lin Xiangshun with his elbow, and said, "Shunzi, come with me in a while."

"What are you doing, Second Uncle?" Lin Xiangshun said with a smile, "Are you still drinking?"

"Drink." Zhao Youcai said, "What are you doing waiting?"

As he said that, Zhao Youcai took a picture of the lunch box and said, "I'll cook for them at noon today. I'll save two silver carp. I'll finish cooking them in the cafeteria. When I get home, I'd like to fry them again. There are also some shrimps." , I’ve also finished blanching, let your aunt put it in the pot for a while, we just happened to drink.”

When Lin Xiangshun heard it, it was indeed a meal for drinking, so he agreed without even thinking about it.

At this time, Zhao Youcai took another lunch box, but said to Li Dayong: "I still have some pastry here, let's drink it here, and ask your sister-in-law to bake shortbread for us over there."

Speaking of this, before Li Dayong could answer, Zhao Youcai suddenly slammed his mouth shut and said, "Oh! My house is out of white sugar, let's go to Old Wang's to buy some later."

"No need?" Li Dayong said with some hesitation, "I seem to have white sugar at home."

He hesitated, not because he was reluctant to part with white sugar, but because he never cooked and didn't know how much white sugar was left at home.

"Buy some!" Zhao Youcai said: "What if your house is gone? When we come out at that time, why don't we just go back and buy it. It's not a lot of money."

Hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Li Dayong, Li Baoyu and Lin Xiangshun all felt a little surprised.The Zhao Youcai they knew could take things home from the cafeteria, but he would never buy things home.