Return to 1983 Hunting Xing'an Mountains

Chapter 202: Sigh after listening to the arrangement

Around 6:30.

Xu Ning, Xu Pao, Li Fuqiang, and Chang Danian held pine torches and dragged the roe deer on the ice of the large reservoir.

In winter, the ice in reservoirs and rivers is not all of the same thickness. It is thin in some places and thick in others.

Taking this time as an example, the thinnest ice layer has to be ten centimeters, and the thickness can reach half a meter. Dead fish are wrapped in the ice. Some fish float under the ice due to lack of oxygen, and follow the water flow. Floating slowly.

The ice surface reflected the moonlight. When Song Mingzi's torch was burned out, Xu Ning and others walked on the ice. They felt that they had good sight through the moonlight. They could see the dark woods on both sides of the bank, and they could also see the ice surface not far away on the right. There was a small shack with a stove fire burning inside. After noticing them, the people in the shack stood in front of the shack holding a gun.

This person may have thought that Xu Ning and others were here to steal the nets and ground cages...

Xu Ning and Xu Pao didn't say anything after seeing it, and just ignored the people walking slowly by.

Although they had been chatting happily just now, they didn't even dare to waste the energy of talking now, because the four of them were already hungry, and the palms and arms holding the rope were numb and sore.

Behind them were six dead roe deer, and four roe deer with their heads raised and blinking. On the way, a roe deer was shot in the abdomen by Xu Ning, so the roe deer died halfway down the road.

Xu Pao nodded politely: "Well, what time is it now?"

Xu Pao's face turned purple from the cold. He waved his hand to stop Xu He's greetings and asked him to throw him into the carriage quickly.

Li Fuqiang turned to look at Xu Ning, who was huddled with Green Wolf and Black Wolf, and said, "Brother, you don't have to worry about work for me. I'm already so old, so why should I find a job?"

Li Fuqiang blinked, feeling a little moved, "Can't you bother me?"

Xu Ning waved his hand and said: "They can't talk now. In the current situation, Uncle Guo can't even talk..."

Aunt Gao didn't complain loudly, because after spending so many years with Xu Pao, she was already used to it. When they saw more than a dozen animals and four living roe deer in the back compartment, they were not too surprised. After all, Xu Pao and Chang Danian had already brought back a lot of food.

After sending all the roe deer to the trunk, Xu Ning, Li Fuqiang, and Wang Hu got in and huddled in the corner with the dog gang. In front of them were four living roe deer. They were stared at by the dog gang, and Xu Ning smiled. After shouting at Qinglang and several dogs, Xu He drove the car and turned around, heading towards Taipingtun.

Xu Ning and the others did not insist on this. They followed Xu Pao and Chang Danian into the courtyard. When they entered the room, a table had been placed on the kang. Xu He moved quickly and put all the dishes and chopsticks on it. .

In fact, Wang Hu and Xu He were also very tired, especially Wang Hu. He ran across the river valley to Xu He's position, and the two of them led the dogs and dragged the wild boar around for more than ten miles.

The car came in a hurry and stopped in front of the four people. Then they heard the voices of Xu He and Wang Hu.

Xu He smoothly took out the rice bowl from the pot, placed it on the edge of the kang, and then filled the bowl with the rice spoon.

Xu Ning urged the two of them to get in the car quickly. After Xu Pao and Chang Danian got into the car, Xu Ning, Wang Hu, Xu He, and Li Fuqiang carried the roe deer into the back compartment.

Li Fuqiang said: "I can't even call it the fiercest. Our most fierce battle was when a group of wolves encountered a tiger cub in a black blind shell! But this battle was the most rewarding. Individually, we gained more than in Wangxing."

At around 9 o'clock, the Jiefang car drove into Taipingtun, hit the brakes, and stopped in front of Lao Xu's house.

"Oh shit, it will be after 9 o'clock when we get home..." Chang Danian said tremblingly.

"What do brothers do? Don't act like brothers for fear of trouble, and don't say this in the future. I'm just mentioning it now, and I'm not sure what it is like."

When Xu Ning, Xu Pao and others got out of the car, Aunt Gao looked at everyone's listless looks and knew that they had been hungry for a long time.

Xu Ning said: "Just follow the arrangements and that's it."

"Uncle, you two hurry up and get in the car to warm yourself up. The rest of us will throw the roe deer in the car and then we will go home."

By the time we reached the northern shore of the large reservoir, it was already 7:15.

Xu Ning lowered his head and glanced at his watch and said, "It's 10 minutes to 8 o'clock!"

There are four dishes in total, stewed pork with sauerkraut, stewed chicken with mushrooms, ribs and beans, and homemade tofu stew. The first three dishes are all leftovers from yesterday, and only the homemade tofu stew is newly made in the evening.

So she hurriedly ordered Xu He to go in and put the table. Xu He responded and turned around and went into the house. Xu Pao stopped Xu Ning, Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu who were about to unload the roe deer and urged them to go inside to eat first and wait until they finished the meal.

"Second brother, this is our most fierce battle, right?"

The dog gang lying in the carriage saw Xu Ning grunting, but he had no time to pay attention to them.

"what does it mean?"

"Then...how to deal with it?"

Seeing that his brother still ignored him, Li Fuqiang became a little anxious. He clapped his legs and said, "Brother, why don't you talk to me? What do you mean?"

"It's always troublesome! Then if you are afraid of trouble, why don't you go to work? Why are you so lazy? Now that you don't want to think about the day when you can't walk, will you let my sister-in-law take care of you in the future, or will you let the whole house take care of you?"

"Hey, just listen to the arrangement and that's it. Can it be settled? What are you in a hurry for? Besides, I have to deal with Hu Zi and I's affairs first. I just want to mention yours in passing."

Xu He and Gao Auntie, who were waiting in the room, heard the noise and hurried out of the room. When they saw the figures of Xu Pao, Xu Ning and others, the anxiety on their faces disappeared.

Wang Hu's eyes lit up and he said: "Second brother, what kind of job can you find for my brother Qiang? Is it a forestry farm? Then my father and my uncle can talk to each other."

Although Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu came in for the first time, they were not very polite. They sat down around the Kang table next to Xu Ning. Seeing Xu Pao and Chang Danian holding their rice bowls and grabbing chopsticks, they also hurriedly moved their chopsticks. Pick up vegetables and shovel rice into your mouth.

They deliberately found a spacious flat road intersection and waited, resting for half an hour before the light of the car lights came on. Xu Pao and Chang Danian hurriedly threw away their cigarette butts, and the four of them stood up at the same time to take a look.

Although the roe deer was hit in the back by Chang Danian, it was not fatally injured, so it was still in good spirits at this time.

Li Fuqiang felt hot in his heart and said, "Then I'm not afraid of troublesome you."

"Haha, that's what happened." Li Fuqiang grinned.

The two of them opened the car door and jumped out, rushing towards Xu Ning and others.

Wang Hu said with a smile: "Brother Qiang, my second brother didn't ask my uncle to do this anyway. If my second brother can do it by himself, then we can just go to work honestly. If you really can go to the forest farm by then, When I go to work, my sister-in-law is sitting on the sidewalk in the village, and her back is not allowed to be straight?"

"Yeah, indeed...there are fourteen animals in total." Wang Hu smiled.

Xu Ning said with a smile: "Why is the tea cold when people leave? Just because no one poured hot water into the teapot, I thought about pouring some hot water into the teapot."

Aunt Gao poured two teacups of hot water on the floor in the outer room and brought them to the edge of the kang. She looked at them looking so hungry and said with a smile, "Oh my God, please eat slowly! Xiaohe is preparing cucumber vegetables in the outer room." "

Xu Ning swallowed the food in his mouth and replied: "Auntie, don't let me, Sister Xiaohe, do it."

Xu Pao said: "She treats hers, we eat ours..."

At this time, Xu He opened the door curtain from the outer room and walked into the east room, holding a plate of cucumbers mixed with dried tofu shreds. "It's done!" Xu He said with a smile and put it on the table.

"Er Ning, you three should eat more, it will feel like your own home here."

Aunt Gao mainly said this to Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu. After all, it was their first time visiting the house, and she was afraid that they would pretend to be hungry.

But it was obvious that she was overthinking it. The two of them had been hanging out with Xu Ning for so long, and they were not polite as long as they picked up their jobs wherever they went.

According to Xu Ning, since you are already responsible for other people's jobs, don't be so pretentious as to avoid making people feel embarrassed.

If you're afraid of eating too much, just wait until it's fun and bring some to you. Isn't that how favors are exchanged?

For this meal, Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu made two and a half bowls of rice, because the bowls at Xu Pao's house were two large bowls, which were larger than the ordinary bowls.

Xu Ning soaked the pickled cabbage soup, mixed a lot of vegetables into the bowl, and made two large bowls before stopping.

After the five people finished eating, Xu He and Aunt Gao moved the table away. The four people except Xu Ning sat on the edge of the kang and smoked comfortably, while Xu Ning drank the honey that Aunt Gao made. The water radiated heat all over the body, and the whole body warmed up.

Xu Pao's mood improved a little. He sat on the edge of the kang, threw away the cigarette butts, and then opened his mouth and laughed twice.

Chang Danian, Xu Ning, Wang Hu, and Li Fuqiang were also infected by his emotions, and they all looked at each other and laughed.

"Hey mom, why are you giggling like this?" Aunt Gao was washing dishes on the floor in the outer room. When she heard something moving in the room, she opened the door curtain and asked.

Xu Pao grinned and said, "How many years have it been since you treated such an old beast? Haha, this one is so cool! It's so much more exciting than me drinking two kilograms of wine!"

"It's really cool. I usually go into the mountains alone, so I'm lucky to be able to control two roe deer." Chang Danian said while holding a cigarette in his mouth.

"This is also the time when the three of us have gained the most since we started running in the mountains. The excitement is no less than the last time we hunted the green man and killed the black man..."

Xu Pao nodded: "Well, I still have flashes of it in my mind from time to time, about the time the hadron master stabbed the roe deer with his spear."

"Haha, uncle, I was impulsive this time, and I will definitely not be able to do this again in the future." Li Fuqiang said with a smile.

"You have to pay more attention. Er Ning hasn't said anything about you before?" Chang Danian asked.

Li Fuqiang shook his head: "I never said that. He calls me Big Brother. Can you have the nerve to criticize me for this? He just wants me to pay more attention, but I can't help it. I have a gun in my hand. I'm just looking for an opportunity. I won't stab him." It feels itchy in its heart, scratching its heart and liver!"

Xu Pao said with a smile: "We who run around the mountains to hunt for siege, who can't look at the animals without scratching our hearts? You have to learn to control it. As the saying goes, curiosity killed the cat. If we can't help this irritation, If you scratch it, then you have to think about the consequences!"

"That's right." Xu Ning nodded.

Seeing that it was almost half past nine, he put down the teapot, stood up and put his feet on the ground. He turned around and said, "Uncle, I'm going to unload the roe deer first. I have to go home, otherwise my mother and the others will be worried about me." .”

"Ah, that's alright, you go quickly so that you don't have to worry about your family."

When Aunt Gao heard that they were leaving, she and Xu He went into the house and said, "Er Ning, you all come over tomorrow. We are the older ones at home. Let Huzi accompany them and have a good meal."

Xu Ning turned around and patted Wang Hu on the back, smiling and saying, "Listen, I'll leave this difficult task to you."

"It's done!"

Xu Pao said with a smile: "Pull it down quickly, as if I can drink more. I can only drink a little more than a kilogram now, and I have to drink it slowly, otherwise I will be confused."

They were chatting and talking as they walked to the courtyard. Chang Danian said: "Anyone who drinks too much will be confused. We are not as good at drinking as we were when we were younger."

"Not good."

When everyone walked to the back compartment of Jiefang Car, Xu Pao stood on the edge, looking up blankly at the Qing Lang dogs lying in the compartment. When the four Qing Lang dogs saw him, they all grunted. But Xu Pao ignored it.

"Er Ning, just give them to the whole family. When I come back, don't send them here."

Xu Ning nodded: "Hey."

"You can go into the house to get the gun later. You forgot when you went out just now." Xu Pao added.

"it is good."

Chang Danian saw Xu Pao in a bad mood, pushed Li Fuqiang and said, "Qiangzi, you get in the car and drag two live roe deer and two yellow-haired boys."

"Eh!"

Li Fuqiang glanced at Xu Pao and Xu Ning, and then quickly ran into the carriage. He first untied the rope tied to the railing, and then dragged the two living roe deer to the edge of the rear of the carriage. Wang Hu and Xu He carried them away with four hooves. Entering the courtyard, he threw the two roe deer into the lower room.

Then Xu Ning and Chang Danian dragged the two yellow men and followed Xu Pao into the outhouse. Xu Pao went in and took out the gun handle, gun cleaning cloth, oil, and bullet pocket, and stuffed them into Xu Ning's arms.

"uncle……"

Xu Pao lowered his head and said, "Let's go quickly, I will regret it later."

Aunt Gao, Xu He and Xu He next to her smiled. They could also see that Xu Pao was feeling a little uncomfortable, but their positions were different from Xu Pao's, so their moods were also different.

Xu Ning hugged Lao Pout and nodded: "Okay, let's go first."

Aunt Gao followed behind and said, "Er Ning, come over early tomorrow. We'll have dinner at noon."

"Hey, I got it. Madam, go back to the house quickly. Just let me, Brother He, drive you there."

"Okay..." Aunt Gao said happily, but she didn't stop and followed Xu Ning and Xu He to the entrance of the courtyard.

She watched Xu Ning and Chang Danian get into the car, Xu He drove away, and then she turned around and entered the house.

When she arrived at the house, she looked at Xu Pao's gloomy look, sighed slightly, handed him a jug of hot water, and then went to the outhouse to continue cleaning up the pots.

Xu Pao raised his head and stared at the empty wall, listening to the quiet kennel, feeling a little uncomfortable in his heart.

But he knew that he couldn't go into the mountains and fight the siege with his own body, because after running for nearly thirty miles, his legs and arms couldn't bear it, and the joints were aching...

"Eh……"

This sigh meant that Xu Pao'er, who was famous in the Qing'an area, said goodbye to playing in the circle and hid in this river and lake.

(End of this chapter)