The Lord of the World Begins from the Siheyuan

Chapter 17 Sunflower wants to hunt wild boars
On Thursday, Li Ming sat in the office for a while, feeling bored.

Before Qian Jin entered the door, he asked, "Xiao Ming, have you brought any money? I'm going to the countryside to collect eggs today."

"I brought 40 yuan, but the change is not enough."

"I still have some change here, which should be enough. Let's go, let's go early while the weather is still relatively cool."

Li Ming said hello to Peng Jinfu who just came back yesterday and set off.

When they went out, they met Li Xueyao who came back from turning on the water.

Li Ming asked her to help make steamed buns and stir-fry dishes at noon, which he planned to save for dinner and breakfast tomorrow.

The two went to the cafeteria to pick up the last basket and headed straight to the countryside.

Chunky Qian Jin rode fast with short legs, but to Li Ming, these were trivial matters.

When Li Ming and Qian Jin arrived at the Sunflower Brigade, it was just around 9 o'clock, when Secretary Gao and Captain Gao were having a meeting.

Captain Gao came out, "Qian Purchasing, Li Purchasing, you guys are so early today."

"It's a hot day, it's cooler in the morning, are you guys having a meeting?" Qian Jin said while fanning the wind with a mat clip (bamboo hat) dripping with sweat.Li Ming felt that he was sweating slightly as if he was mocking Qian Jin. -_-||
"You were there on Monday. The militiamen connected to the members to report that the wild boars had seriously damaged the sweet potato fields. We have contacted the nearby production brigade in the past two days, and we have made it clear to the members below. Then we held a meeting and mobilized people to round up the wild boars. .”

Qian Jin quickly said: "The matter of wild boar hunting has not been reported to the outside world, our Red Star Steel Rolling Plant has wrapped it up."

Captain Gao said with a smile: "Qian Procurement, the wild boars haven't been hunted yet, so you're going to focus on them first."

"It's hard to find in the mountains. If the wild boar came to make trouble in the fields, it would have exposed its whereabouts. Isn't it a sure thing to hunt wild boars? Captain Gao, borrow the phone of the brigade, and I'll call the section chief."

"No hurry, no hurry, we are going to give it a pot, and today we are just arranging manpower to prepare. We only determined the approximate scope, and have not yet finalized the hiding place of the wild boar."

"Surround up, the harvest must not be small."

"When the time comes, the whole team will have to share the pork. I guess there won't be much left."

"That is, that is, the needs of the team must be met first."

Li Ming saw that the two of them were almost talking before interjecting: "Brother Qian, have you ever hunted?"

Qian Jin smiled and asked: "Xiao Ming, you ask this, do you want to participate in hunting?"

"Yeah. I haven't seen it before, I just want to learn from it."

Qian Jin said to Captain Gao: "Captain Gao, do you have enough firepower? Would you like us to support you from the factory?"

Captain Gao glanced at Qian Jin and said: "Our militia company is enough. I guess there are not many wild boars in this herd. Li Purchasing, no problem. For safety, we are going to go directly to the place where the wild boars rest. When the time comes, you will follow my family." Just build it."

Captain Gao didn't want the rolling mill to distribute the pork. If the rolling mill brought in two machine guns, then their production team would have nothing to do.

Li Ming thanked: "Captain Gao, I have caused you trouble. Do I need to bring something and make some preparations?"

"During the day, wild boars usually hide in the bushes and groves to sleep. We are going into the mountains, so you just prepare your shoes and clothes."

"Thank you, Captain Gao. I'll come tomorrow after taking a leave of absence from the section chief. Brother Qian, are you coming?"

"I won't come tomorrow because I have something to do. I'll see you the day after tomorrow. Captain Gao, please arrange some people to ask the commune members to bring eggs to the brigade headquarters."

"I'll make arrangements now. I know that you are coming today, and the members have already prepared. You go to my office for a meeting first, and take a rest first."

Within 10 minutes of Li Ming and Qian Jin sitting together, people came one after another, mostly children and a few elderly people.

This time the money came into the station to watch, Li Ming collected the eggs to count the money, Gao Jiancheng loaded the baskets, and Gao Jianye helped.

Some production teams are a little farther away and arrive slowly, otherwise it will take a while.

Some people say that 20 or 30 belong to their own family, so it is not known whether there are neighbors or relatives among them.But everyone didn't speak. Captain Gao even sent someone to call for the announcement, instead of using the village's loudspeaker.

Seeing that no one came again, this time several people loaded the basket into Li Ming's bicycle.

At 10:[-], Qian Jin opened the way, Gao Jiancheng carried the eggs, Gao Jianye carried Li Ming, and the three bicycles slowly returned to the city.

Li Ming sat on the back seat and said, "Jianye, when you are tired, tell me what you brought in your lunch box."

"My brother and I have lunch."

Those who can bring their own food when they go out these days try to bring their own food as much as possible, and the labor of the production team is often like this. If the place to work is far away, those who are too late to go home for lunch will bring their own dry food.

"This time hunting wild boar, Jianye will go, Jianye, won't you go?"

"There are so many people that it shouldn't be my turn, and I don't like to go. I am not allowed to shoot. Every time I go, I am asked to raise a red flag. This time my brother will probably raise a red flag."

Li Ming didn't understand, so he asked, "Why are you raising the red flag?"

"It's more eye-catching. Tell people in other positions that there are people here."

"Well, it's well arranged. Do you often hunt?"

"In the past, when someone was collecting firewood on the mountain, the hunter mistakenly thought that he was shot by an animal. So now, for fear of accidents, you must notify and prepare in advance if you want to hunt, or go to a farther place. Because it is very troublesome, So there is a lot less hunting. Everyone has to go to work, and there is no time to go.”

"By the way, won't we scare away the prey by holding the red flag?"

"It was held up after standing in a good position. Because everyone stood in different positions, some people might not be able to tell whether it was a human or an animal in time and shot. The red flag is only needed when there are so many people. Three or two people go hunting But no one raised it when it happened.”

The four of them changed cars on the way to the gate of the rolling mill, and Li Ming also gave Gao Jianye a dime to buy popsicles.

The three-cent popsicles are quite delicious, and they still taste like fruits, such as oranges, sour plums, red bayberries and other fruit flavors, which are very refreshing and thirst-quenching.The five-cent popsicles are all mixed with milk, which is a more advanced taste enjoyment.

Even in the most difficult years, there was a large supply of popsicles, and in 65 they were sold all over the street.

Today, the two guards guarding the gate knew that it was an egg when they saw the basket, so they opened the gate consciously, and the road went smoothly.

Qian Jin went back to the office directly, and Li Ming took the eggs to the director of the cafeteria to hand them over. It was past 12 o'clock when he received the receipt, so he had to go to the finance department to collect the money in the afternoon.

When Li Ming returned to the office, Li Xueyao came back with the food he had packed for him. 4 steamed buns, a piece of braised pork, and a piece of braised octopus. I don't know if Zhang Youlu and Peng Jinfu got the octopus.

There are no other lunch boxes to go to the cafeteria to buy. Li Ming will eat these for lunch first, and we will talk about tomorrow's breakfast tomorrow.

Li Ming made lunch twice and then asked Li Xueyao, "Sister Li, is the section chief coming to the office this afternoon?"

(End of this chapter)