The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 673

Tonight, the six families gathered at Zhao Jun's house for dinner. The men in the west room exchanged cups, while the women and children in the east room ate meat with burritos.

Li Ruhai didn't come over for dinner that night, and Zhao Jun was the only one at the table in the Westinghouse who didn't drink, so he sat down on the stool near the door.

At this time, Zhao Youcai dipped a green onion into the sauce bowl, brought it to his mouth, and took two bites.

Zhao Youcai tapped his lips, raised his hand to gesture to Zhao Jun, and said, "Son, go get daddy some garlic."

"Huh?" Zhao Jun was taken aback when he heard the words, and hurriedly said, "Dad, you paid back the green onions, and garlic?"

"What am I afraid of?" Zhao Youcai rolled his eyes and said, "Get it for me quickly."

In those years, many Shandong people came to live in the Northeast through the Guandong. When they integrated into the Northeast, they also brought some customs of Shandong over.

Just like the problem of eating onions and garlic together, Shandong people say this: eat onions and garlic, and parents will not see each other after they die.

But Zhao Jun's father and his grandma were already gone, and Zhao Youcai didn't care about those anymore.

Zhao Jun put down the big cake, got up and went out to get garlic for Zhao Youcai, the garlic braid was hanging on the north wall of the outhouse.

The north wall belongs to the shade side, and the garlic can be stored for a longer period of time hanging here.

Zhao Jun tore off a head of garlic from it, and before returning to the west room, he took a look into the east room.

In this room on the east side, there are so many children who hold the rolled pancakes with both hands and push them to their mouths without making a sound.

Zhao Jun saw Little Lingdang take a bite of the big cake, and as her mouth separated from the cake, a piece of coriander came out of the cake.

Little Bell withdrew a small hand, grabbed the coriander and stuffed it into her mouth, then closed her mouth and chewed with puffed cheeks.

The little cousin Wang Tian over there eats red soup with his lips turning around.But the kid didn't care about it, he took the chopsticks in one hand and the fried willow root fish in the other.

Zhao Jun showed a smile on his face, and he felt very satisfied to see this scene.

But at this moment, the door of Zhao Jun's house was pulled open from the outside, and Li Ruhai, who was blushing on both sides, appeared at the door.

Zhao Jun couldn't help being taken aback when he saw Li Ruhai's appearance, and hurried over to hold Li Ruhai's shoulder, and asked, "Ruhai, who fought for you? Are you fighting Zhang Laifa again?"

When Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong came in just now, the food was ready and the cakes were ready, so Wang Meilan hurriedly ate.

As for why Li Ruhai didn't come, no one asked.After all, this kid can run around every day, chatting with everyone, and everyone thinks that this kid is hanging out with people again.

Hearing Zhao Jun talking outside, Wang Meilan put down her chopsticks and went to the outer room. Xie Zhong and Xie Chen from Westinghouse also heard it. Li Baoyu stopped the two brothers just as they were about to come out.

As soon as Li Baoyu came out, she saw Wang Meilan dragging Li Ruhai, and asked, "Ruhai, who called you? Tell auntie, auntie will find him!"

When it's time to relax, Wang Meilan will definitely not care if Li Ruhai fights with Zhang Laifa or others.

But today Jin Xiaomei is not here, Wang Meilan is afraid that the child will be wronged.

"Ma'am." Li Baoyu hurried forward and whispered to Wang Meilan and Zhao Jun, "My dad beat me."

"Huh?" Wang Meilan was stunned, glanced into the west room, touched Li Ruhai's small head casually, and said, "What are you doing? You beat the child like this? Let's go, Ruhai, go have dinner with the aunt, and the aunt will make a roll for you." a cake."

"Mom!" Zhao Jun persuaded after hearing the words: "Let Ru Hai eat with me, your room is full of children."

Wang Meilan understood what Zhao Jun meant as soon as she heard it, and they all said that there is nothing wrong with children's words. Those children are not sensible. Seeing that Li Ruhai's face is blushing, don't they all have to ask?
Can Li Ruhai keep up with this question?
Wang Meilan nodded, Zhao Jun hugged Li Ruhai and went to the west room.As soon as he entered the West Room, he was taken aback by Jie Zhong and Jie Chen, but seeing Zhao Jun winking at him, the two brothers didn't say anything or ask anything.

Instead, Xie Zhong turned his head and raised his wine glass, signaling to Zhao Youcai, Li Dayong, Wang Qiang, Lin Xiangshun, and Zhang Yuanmin, the five and Xie Chen toasted one after another, and Li Baoyu rushed back to his seat when he saw this.And Zhao Jun took Li Ruhai and sat next to Jiechen.

With good wine and good food, men, women and children, old and young, are full of wine and food, and the ditches are full of moats. They go back to their homes and sleep on the kang.

Zhao Jun personally sent the old lady home, holding a piece of bear leg in one hand and two lunch boxes in the other.The old lady was holding a small jar, which contained the bear oil Wang Meilan gave her.

"Small." The old lady said to Zhao Jun as she walked, "I'm going to eat two cakes tonight."

"Oh my god!" Zhao Jun was taken aback, and hurriedly said to the old lady, "Jiang Nai, don't just go to sleep immediately when you go back, you need to digest for a while."

At such an advanced age, Zhao Jun was afraid that she would feel uncomfortable if she couldn't digest so much after eating so much at night.

"Yeah." The old lady responded, and said with a grin: "I have eaten a lot with you these days."

Zhao Jun also laughed. There is no one in his family to eat. It has only been a few days since the pig was slaughtered, and the old lady made such a meal again.

When he arrived at Jiang's house, Zhao Jun first sent the old lady into the house, and then hurried out to get firewood to burn the kang.

In this late autumn season, the house is not much warmer than the outside, and if the pit is not burned, it will be cooled.

The old lady pursed her skirt, sat on the stool, and said to Zhao Jun who took off her gloves, "Little one, you can go back."

Zhao Jun reached out to touch the fire wall, but he still couldn't feel the warmth, so he said to the old lady, "Miss Jiang, you can light the fire by yourself tomorrow morning, and let the cakes slip away before eating."

"Hey..." The old lady responded in a drawn-out voice, and said with a smile, "Got it, go back quickly and have a good sleep."

"Then I'm leaving!" Zhao Jun waved his hands at the old lady and walked out of the house.

When Zhao Jun came out of the old lady's house, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening. The night in the forest area was cold and windy, and the wind continued to penetrate into the neckline.

Zhao Jun ran all the way back home. Just as he was about to enter the yard at the door of the house, he saw a person flashing behind the big tree next to him.

"I..." Zhao Jun was taken aback suddenly. He was about to be on guard but saw that it was a person, and he was not very old.

Zhao Jun squinted his eyes, and by the faint moonlight, he saw the weak and helpless Li Ruhai with arms folded.

"Brother!" Li Ruhai's voice was full of tears, and he stood there miserable.

"What is this for?" Zhao Jun frowned and asked, "Why don't you go into the house?"

Li Ruhai said: "My dad didn't drink much today."

Hearing this, Zhao Jun raised his head and glanced into the courtyard of Li's house.I saw the east and west rooms of the Li family, the room where Li Baoyu and Li Ruhai lived, the lights were not on and it was pitch black.But Li Dayong's house was still lit.

Seeing this, Zhao Jun hurriedly stepped forward and hugged Li Ruhai and walked to his own courtyard. After entering the courtyard, Zhao Jun turned around and closed the door, and then pushed Li Ruhai into the house, asking him as he walked, "Would you like to run away from home?" from?"

Zhao Jun remembered that after drinking, Li Ruhai followed Li Dayong and Li Baoyu over the wall and returned to their home.

"Yeah!" Li Ruhai nodded, choked with sobs and said, "As soon as I got home, my dad would find a triangle belt...to whip me."

Zhao Jun frowned and asked, "Then why did you run out?"

Li Ruhai said weakly: "When he was looking for the triangle belt, I jumped and ran through the window."

Zhao Jun: "..."

When the two were talking, they had reached the door of Zhao Jun's house. The moment Zhao Jun stretched out his hand to pull the door, Li Ruhai moved his body back, as if he was very resistant.

"What's the matter?" Zhao Jun frowned and said, "What are you afraid of when you come to my house? My uncle can't come and beat you. You will go to work early tomorrow morning. If you hide for two days and come back, you will be fine?"

"Brother!" Li Ruhai raised his small face and whispered to Zhao Jun with embarrassing eyebrows: "I'm going to your house, my uncle must not tell my father."

"What?" Zhao Jun was taken aback when he heard the words. He blinked, glanced at his west room, and saw that the lights in the west room had gone out, so he said to Li Ruhai: "It's okay, your uncle is probably lying down. You are tonight Come with us, we can talk about it tomorrow morning."

"Hmm." Li Ruhai nodded his head, raised his hand to wipe his nose with the back of his hand, and after a long time of wind blowing outside, the child's nose was freezing.

As soon as Zhao Jun entered the house, Wang Meilan came out from the west room when she heard the movement.Before Zhao Ling and Yang Yufeng left, they helped Wang Meilan clean up the dishes, so when the big guys left, Wang Meilan arranged for the three little girls to go to bed first.

And she was waiting for Zhao Jun to come back, together with Zhao Youcai, who was also sitting in that room with the back of the kang cabinet, wondering what she was waiting for.

When Zhao Jun saw Wang Meilan, he raised his right hand and put his index finger in front of his mouth, signaling Wang Meilan not to speak.

Although Wang Meilan didn't quite understand, she still listened to her son. Seeing Zhao Jun lead Li Ruhai back to the room, she also turned and went into the east room.

At this time, the three little girls had already fallen asleep, and the lights in the room were turned off, but when Wang Meilan came in, a beam of light hit her face directly, but it was Zhao Youcai who pushed the flashlight away.

Shaking his face was definitely not an option, so Zhao Youcai hurriedly moved the flashlight aside to shine on Wang Meilan. When Wang Meilan got on the kang, Zhao Youcai asked, "Is your son back?"

"Yeah." Wang Meilan replied, "I'm back."

Zhao Youcai asked again: "Only him?"

"Yeah." Wang Meilan replied copiously, "Then who else could it be?"

As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, Zhao Youcai stretched out his hand and pulled the cotton-padded jacket under his feet, leaned forward, and put the cotton-padded jacket on his body.

Seeing Zhao Youcai stretching his sleeves into his padded jacket, Wang Meilan hurriedly said, "What are you going to do?"

"That kid Ruhai ran away." Zhao Youcai said, "It's this time, whose house can he go to? I'll go out and look for him."

If the child made a mistake, he should be beaten and scolded. It doesn't matter how he cleans it up, but it's below zero in the middle of the night.

Upon hearing this, Wang Meilan immediately reached out and grabbed Zhao Youcai's padded jacket sleeve, and said, "Don't go, my son has been brought back by Ruhai."

When Zhao Youcai heard this, he twitched his mouth and said angrily, "You bitch, why don't you tell me the truth."

"Oh!" Wang Meilan waved her hand at him, and changed the subject with a smile: "That kid Ruhai didn't do anything today? Why did Dayong want to beat him?"

"What haven't you done yet?" Zhao Youcai sneered, and told Wang Meilan all about Li Ruhai's purchase of leather shoes and marmot hats.

After Wang Meilan listened, Kabbah rolled her eyes twice, and did not speak for a while.Seeing that Wang Meilan didn't speak, Zhao Youcai continued to go down to the kang, and said, "It's up to you two."

"Ah?" Zhao Youcai's words made Wang Meilan anxious, and Wang Meilan asked, "How can you rely on me?"

Zhao Youcai paused, and instead of getting off the kang, he broke up with Wang Meilan: "If your son doesn't give him money, how can Ruhai be so arrogant? If you don't leave so much money in your son's hand, can he give Ruhai money?" Haiqian?"

Hearing Zhao Youcai's words, Wang Meilan stopped talking again. Seeing this, Zhao Youcai hurriedly said, "If you want me to tell you, if you give him three or five yuan a month, he'll get it. If you say you, he'll pay him back." Give him all..."

"Okay, okay!" Wang Meilan raised her hand to stop Zhao Youcai's nagging, she said: "Hurry up and go to bed, I've been tired all day, you can let me rest for a while."

"You don't like it when you talk about your son!" Zhao Youcai got into a state of breaking up, tore the cotton-padded jacket, threw it under his feet, got into the bed angrily, turned his face to that side, and ignored Wang Meilan .

But he still muttered in a low voice: "You just get used to it in a day, you won't get used to it for anything."

"What are you talking about?" Wang Meilan became anxious when she heard it.

What Zhao Youcai said was true, Wang Meilan was not happy when anyone mentioned her son.

Seeing Zhao Youcai's back turned to her, Wang Meilan stretched out her hand and pushed Zhao Youcai's back, and then said: "Our son earns a lot of money every month, so let him spend his little salary."

"I still earn a lot!" Zhao Youcai became even angrier when he heard this, and said angrily, "How much do you pay me a month?"

Wang Meilan was taken aback by Zhao Youcai's words, then smiled casually and said, "I won't give you money, I'll just buy you something."

"Hmph!" Zhao Youcai snorted coldly, and said, "It's only a few dollars to buy me that tea..."

Before Zhao Youcai finished speaking, Wang Meilan slapped Wang Meilan on the back of the head again, and before he got angry, Wang Meilan said: "Stop arguing, my son and I went to the city yesterday, and I bought you a golden pot. "

"What?" Once Wang Meilan said this, how could Zhao Youcai get angry?
He stood up straight away, turned to look at Wang Meilan, and asked, "You just said, what did you buy for me?"

"Keep down!" Wang Meilan turned around and glanced, seeing that the three little girls hadn't been woken up, she turned her head and said to Zhao Youcai, "Great gold pot, put it in the cabinet door behind you."

"Then why don't you give it to me?" Zhao Youcai said, he turned around and opened the kang cabinet. With the faint light of the flashlight behind him, Zhao Youcai saw a small red cloth bag lying on his blue cotton monkey. .

Zhao Youcai grabbed the cloth bag and opened it, and a big golden pottery engraved with the word "wealth" appeared in front of him.

Zhao Youcai held the gold pot in his hand, turned around abruptly, looked at Wang Meilan in disbelief and asked, "Is this for me?"

Seeing Wang Meilan nod her head, Zhao Youcai hurriedly put the ring on her finger.

Wang Meilan stretched out her hand, smiled and patted Zhao Youcai's face twice, and then said to the delighted Zhao Youcai, "I didn't stop when I came back yesterday. Today, there is a lot of work inside and outside the house, and I forgot to give it to you."

"Lan!" Zhao Youcai looked up, looked at Wang Meilan in surprise, and said, "You sleep until six o'clock tomorrow morning, and I'll get up and cook for you!"

"You're making trouble!" Wang Meilan laughed and said, "There are visitors at home, so what if I sleep until six o'clock?"

"Then you don't need to cook!" Zhao Youcai waved his hand and said, "I'll do it!"

"That's fine." Wang Meilan agreed "reluctantly". Seeing Zhao Youcai raised the ring-wearing hand in front of her eyes, Wang Meilan said with a smile: "Go to sleep, and put the red thread on that golden urn tomorrow."

Zhao Youcai didn't seem to hear Wang Meilan's words, but still looked at the ring on his hand happily.

At the same time, in the east room of the old Li's family next door.

Jin Xiaomei was not at home, so the two of them burned a kang because they were lazy, and they planned to sleep in the east room tonight.

At this time, Li Dayong and Li Baoyu were sitting cross-legged on the kang, drinking the tea that Wang Meilan had given them yesterday.

Maojian can be regarded as a good tea in these years, but at this time, none of the Li family father and son cared about tasting tea, and they all sat on the kang with dignified faces.

The reason for the solemnity was that Li Ruhai didn't come back.

"Dad." Li Baoyu asked Li Dayong worriedly, "Can Ru Hai go to my uncle's house? How about I go over and have a look?"

"No need." Li Dayong waved his hand and said, "If he wants to go to your uncle's house, your uncle has to come and tell me."

Li Baoyu was right when he thought about it, but at this time, where can Li Ruhai go?
If it was before dinner, this kid might go to someone else's house to stay overnight.But in forest areas and rural areas, people usually go to bed at seven or eight o'clock. Who else can Li Ruhai go to at this time?

In this way, the Li family and his son waited until twelve o'clock...

(End of this chapter)