Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 9 Preparing for the City
Although Chu Xiangqian knew about his own father's funeral, it was the second uncle who really helped, but the other villagers really helped, so we have to remember this favor.

And it is actually very simple to define the boundary of whether someone has taken advantage of it.

It is the most unacceptable to just pay without return.

Friends and colleagues treat each other to dinner, as long as there is back and forth.

Please one more time, one less time, few people will remember so clearly.

If I didn't express anything this time, not only would no one in the same village help me in the future.

When the second uncle helps him get back the food and bills he bought with the black bear, someone will inevitably be jealous and have bad thoughts.

And just hitting a black bear can be called luck.

But if he went up the mountain again in the afternoon and brought back some pheasants and hares, then in the eyes of the leaders, he would be useful to them.

"Second Uncle, I won't follow when I go to the commune in the afternoon, after lunch, I will go to the mountains to hunt some pheasants and hares and come back.

Inviting the heads of each family to have a meal is also a thank you for helping to take care of my father's funeral. "

When the people around heard this, they immediately cheered up.

Secretly thought that this young man of the Chu family would be considered sensible after surviving a catastrophe.

Chu He patted Chu Xiangqian's arm, "Okay, I really should treat everyone to a meal."

But that being said, Chuhe didn't believe that Chu Xiangqian could really get enough game for the male owners of more than twenty households.

Secretly, with this black bear, in addition to helping his nephew get a militia status, he might even become a forest ranger.

Then use the grain and receipts in exchange to buy two or three catties of meat, and put three or five in large pots at night. If there is a little meaty dish in the Chinese cabbage and radish, it should be enough.

As for the wine, it is natural to buy a dozen catties of bulk wine that does not require a ticket.

When the people around dispersed, Chu pulled the second uncle forward and said in a low voice, "Uncle, please help me invite some cadres from the commune to come over this afternoon."

Chu He was taken aback for a moment, and then heard Chu Xiangqian whisper, "Now the food supply has started to get tense, even though wild game is not as tasty as big fat pigs, it is still meat.

Maybe I can go to town because of it. "

Chuhe was happy at first, but after thinking about it for a few seconds, he felt that Chu Xiangqian was in a daze.

Not to mention the danger of entering the mountains, wild game is not so easy to hunt.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many old hunters, and they would often go hungry.

Moreover, the mountain roads are difficult to walk. The range that normal people can walk every day is actually very limited, and no one can guarantee that every time they go up the mountain, they will be rewarded.

But Chu Xiangqian was different. He didn't need to go too far, he went out for a walk, and he could catch wild game best.

If they didn't catch one, they simply used the pheasant from Xinshou Village to make up the number.

Even if there are only one or two at a time, it is meaningless to the unit.

But for some leaders who love to eat, that is talent.

Even if you don't eat it yourself, using it to invite familiar leaders from brother units can not only deepen the relationship, but also make it easier to get supplies that are in short supply when there is a need in the future.

Seven or eight or a dozen pheasants and hares are exchanged for 27, [-], or even [-] yuan a month, and there are jobs in the capital with fixed grain.

Anyway, it's a good deal.

More importantly, only when you enter the city, you will have more opportunities to come into contact with antiques to collect gold coupons in the game.

Chu Xiangqian vaguely felt that the key to getting out of Xinshou Village must be related to antiques.

Seeing that he couldn't persuade Chu Xiangqian, Chu He could only try to say, "I can't invite the cadres and leaders of the commune, but the cadres of the forest farm and the supply and marketing cooperative are fine."

Chu Xiangqian was not disappointed either. After all, it was meaningless to force the second uncle to do something he couldn't do.

"Uncle, take care." Chu Xiangqian smiled, "I don't know if he broke through the limit when he brought my father back forcibly.

After the body survived and the injury healed, it felt as if the whole person had been reborn.

Not only has my strength and endurance improved, but my eyesight has also improved a lot.Today, on the way back with the blind man on his back, I saw more than seven or eight pheasants and hares. "

After hearing this, Chuhe was overjoyed. If his nephew could enter the city, taking risks would not be unacceptable at all.

To be honest, the casualty rate of lumberjacks is not low.

One is that if you take an adventure, you have the opportunity to enter the city, and the better you can cross it.

One is that at some point in the future, one negligence will cause injury and death.

And once something happens, the whole family will be destroyed.

Everyone knows how to choose.

As for Chu Xiangqian saying that he became stronger after a serious illness, Chu He didn't pay much attention.

To put it bluntly, this is in exchange for life.

Patting Chu Qianqian's arm, "Then be careful."

"Don't worry," Chu Xiangqian chuckled, "There are two hounds here, so nothing will happen."

Chuhe nodded, then pondered for a few seconds, "Come home with me."

When I entered the second uncle's house, I saw that the second boy Chu Ailin and the third girl Chu Aiqiu were not there. Thinking about it, I knew that these two little guys must have gone to see the big bear like other children.

I said hello to my second aunt who was cooking, and was taken into the house by my second uncle.

After a while, a well-maintained shell gun came into his hands.

Seeing that he took it, Chuhe couldn't help sighing, "In the past few years, I have asked your father to take this gun into the mountains several times, but he thinks that the short gun is not powerful enough, and it is not as good as a steel fork in killing wild boars.

And the sound is too loud, it may cause an avalanche in winter.But if he had carried this gun back then, he might have saved his life. "

Chu Xiangqian, who was holding a real gun and was very excited, fell silent after hearing it.

In fact, the power of the Mauser c96 is not small, but no matter how powerful the short gun is, it is still far worse than the rifle.

But the second uncle was right. If he had a gun in his hand before, he might not be able to kill the black bear with a few shots.

But there is a high probability of gunshots. When the black bear first appeared, shooting into the sky can scare away the blind bear.

Of course, it is also possible that the black bear was shot a few times and was completely enraged before killing Chu Shan on the spot.

Chu Xiangqian didn't answer Chu He's words, put the shell gun back into the holster, put it on his back and covered it with his clothes.

Then put the small bag containing a lot of bullets into the pocket of the wolf fur cloak.

Seeing that he had put away his gun, Chuhe didn't say anything more.

After the two left the house, Chu Xiangqian went to help his second aunt cook.

The second aunt is an ordinary rural woman, but she has always been kind to Chu Xiangqian.

This may have something to do with the fact that Chu Shan, as the eldest brother, gave the second aunt's family four oceans and ten catties of white flour as a dowry gift when he first married his second uncle.

Of course, if the second uncle couldn't support the whole family by himself, it was impossible for the second aunt, as a mother, to take care of the eldest nephew.

Only when we are full can we talk about family affection and etiquette.

Chu Xiangqian only ate two corn buns, drank a bowl of millet and sweet potato porridge, and then put down the bowl. Seeing this, the second uncle hurriedly asked the second aunt to add another bowl of millet porridge for him.

In the big bowl on the table, he took a steamed bun and put it next to his chopsticks.

Chu Xiangqian hurriedly waved his hands. It is really good to have a meal of millet and sweet potato porridge once in a while, but it is really hard for him to eat corn bread all the time.

And it is very hospitable to be a guest these days and provide enough food.

(End of this chapter)