Return to 1983 Hunting Xing'an Mountains

Chapter 230: Divide the gang into two groups and change the guy?
January 1984, 1, the twenty-first day of the twelfth lunar month.

The day after tomorrow is Xiaonian, and Chai Bing will leave tomorrow, so before dawn in the morning, Xu Ning and Chai Bing got up from the kang and put on their cotton jackets and trousers lightly to avoid waking Xu Feng who was sleeping in the middle. .

Xu Feng had a hard time last night. This girl only ate four pieces of chocolate. How could she not be able to sleep? It was entirely due to the psychological effect of listening to Xu Ning's words that Xu Ning finally shushed him before he calmed down and lay down.

Xu Ning and Chai Bing went down to the ground to rub their faces, then went to the latrine, then walked out of the house carrying their cloth bags and guns.

The two of them did not go out directly, but went to the next room to pick up a sack, which contained sugar, salt, monosodium glutamate, vinegar and other seasonings, as well as some frozen dumplings and two fish. Xu Ning bent down and picked up the ones on the ground. Two pots of sorghum red wine, these should be prepared for Ma Liu.

Originally, Xu Ning wanted to wait for the firewood soldiers to leave before going to Dongshan to deliver them to Ma Liu, but there were so many of these things that he couldn't carry them alone. Besides, it was almost the New Year's Eve, so he couldn't let Ma Liu have a meal. Dumplings, stewed fish?

In addition, Xu Ning also came along, because they were taking the dogs to the north of Songshan and near Wanmigou. They had always put their horses on the piles before, and fired guns for several days, and the animals had long been scared away, so Xu Ning Ning just wanted to change places and change his luck.

The two of them walked slowly to the door of the courtyard with their things. Xu Ning pulled out the plug board and opened the door. He saw Wang Hu with his hands in his sleeves and Xiao Huang's dog leash tied to his arm.

Wang Hu hurriedly took the things, and Xu Ning turned around and went back to lead the dogs. The wounds of Da Huang, Hua Danzi, and Hua Xiong were almost healed, so Xu Ning untied the ropes and held them all.

After putting the dog in the back compartment, the three of them drove to Li Fuqiang's house for dinner. Yang Shuhua had already set the table and picked up the dishes. Li Fuqiang stood at the door smoking a cigarette and stamping his feet, waiting. When he saw the movement of a car, he went back to the house and asked Yang Shuhua to go. Food is served on the table.

Yang Shuhua walked into the room carrying sauerkraut stew, cabbage and scrambled fungus eggs, and said with a smile: "Third brother, try something first. You may not be able to adapt to this taste."

The two of them went up the mountain along the slope, followed the Gangliangzi for two or three miles, and then walked down the mountain for a while and saw Ma Liu's cellar.

Chai Bing was no stranger to Li Fuqiang's house and had been here several times. As soon as he entered the house, he saw Li Fuqiang giving him a glass of medicinal wine.

Li Fuqiang nodded and said with a smile: "Yeah, I put in big chunks of rock sugar. It tastes like medicinal herbs. How about it? Can you get used to it?"

"Ha ha……"

"Okay! It's good for me to drink it, but you won't drink it anyway. You can put it in a pot for me tomorrow and I'll take it away."

Besides, the old ladies in rural areas these days are more wild than the gentlemen. Some of the dirty words spoken by old ladies can easily make the gentlemen blush.

Hearing this, Li Fuqiang thought his brother was testing him, so he shook his head and said, "Come on, I've stopped drinking, so I can't be greedy anymore. Now your sister-in-law looks at me more and more..."

"Oh my God, just say that, your big brother and I are not as strong as I am!" Li Fuqiang clenched his fists and showed off.

At around 6:, Xu Ning, Chai Bing, Wang Hu and Li Fuqiang drove towards Dongshan. They arrived at the north end of Dongshan in only minutes.

Yang Shuhua finished serving the food and went to the outhouse. She stood by the pot and put vegetables and rice into the aluminum lunch box. Although she heard the conversation of several gentlemen in the room, her face was a little red, but because she didn't chat in front of her, So there's nothing wrong with that.

"Try it. This wine has been stored for half a year. It's very powerful. You have to be willing to drink it. I'll hold it all before you leave."

Chai Bing immediately smiled when he heard this, "I see that there isn't much in your wine vat. Is this what you brewed before you stopped drinking?"

"You are an old donkey, but you are so fierce!"

Li Fuqiang sat cross-legged on the edge of the kang, waved to Chai Bing to sit down, and nodded: "It's not that good, I didn't even think about quitting drinking. I thought about the taste of the medicine I collected in the mountains before autumn. "Unexpectedly, my brother asked me to stop drinking together, and just left it there without moving at all."

At this time, Xu Ning swallowed the food in his mouth and said: "Third brother, you can take it away. When my eldest brother is tired, I will give him some medicinal wine to relieve his fatigue, but I can drink one or two at a time. You definitely can’t drink too much.”

Chai Bing and Wang Hu were watching the dogs at the bottom of the mountain. Xu Ning and Li Fuqiang did not carry guns and only carried things into the mountain. Because there are many traps, sets, and even wooden cats, traps, etc. in Dongshan, dogs cannot go to Dongshan. , if one person cannot take care of it, it will easily hurt the dog’s legs and feet, which would be terrible.

Li Fuqiang waved his hand: "Why don't you put it in a pot? You can just take it away. I won't drink it anyway."

"Gaha, how about a morning drink?"

Xu Ning said with a smile: "Now you are in your early thirties, and I am just twenty. In a few years, I will not be able to stand up anymore if I am unprepared."

Chai Bing nodded, picked up the wine glass and took a sip, smacking his lips, "Hey! This tastes a bit bitter, a bit spicy, and a bit sweet... Is there sugar in it?"

At this moment, Ma Liu's cellar was smoking. Xu Ning greeted him twice outside, and then he heard Ma Liu shouting hurriedly: "Who? Er Ning? Damn it, come in quickly, why are you here at this time?"

Xu Ning said before entering the door: "Uncle, my brother and I are here."

"Ah, come in, everyone!"

As soon as I opened the door and lifted the cotton curtain, I saw quilts, kettles, engineer shovels, bullet bags, grain bags and other things spread on the kang.

Ma Liu looked at the things they were carrying, patted his legs and said, "Hey, what are you getting for me?"

Xu Ning said: "Didn't you mention the lack of seasoning? These are all seasonings, as well as some frozen dumplings, frozen tofu, sauerkraut and so on..."

"Haha, okay! This should be a good time! Then I'll clean up and you two can find a place to sit."

After saying that, Ma Liu picked up two jugs of wine and placed the empty jugs at the door, indicating to Xu Ning to take them away later. Then he placed the condiments and food in the sacks in the kitchen and outside the cellar respectively. ice cellar.

"Why are there two fish here?"

"I dug them in ditches and ponds for the first two days. I thought the day after tomorrow was Xiaonian, and I asked you to come to my place, but you couldn't go, so I brought you some food from home."

Ma Liu was very happy, nodded and said: "You know me well, this is not good. I can eat as much as I want. This is enough for me to eat until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month."

Xu Ning smiled, pointed to the puddle on the kang, and asked, "Are you going to sleep? Why are you packing the bedding?"

Ma Liu mixed some of the seasoning and put it in a small cloth pocket. He stood up and said, "If you come here even half a hour later, you won't be able to see me. I saw a trail of deer at the bottom of the Huolizi Mountain last night. It looked very strange to me." , I just thought that if I go there early today, I might be able to catch a deer, and if I catch a deer, wouldn’t I be able to live a good year?”

Xu Ning's eyes lit up when he heard this and asked: "Deer traces? Uncle, how many are you looking at?"

Ma Liuxun wondered if he was looking at the deer, so he said, "I wasn't looking at the deer, just looking at the deer. It was almost four o'clock in the afternoon, and I didn't take any toys, so I didn't dare to chase him away." . There were four or five of them in sight. I walked around a few times and found that they should have come from the other side of Luancha Stone and headed towards the Wanmi Valley at the north end."

This Luancha Stone is the name of a mountain. It is located to the east of Shizui Mountain behind 17 Lengchang, and Huolizi Mountain is to the east of 13 Lengchang...

Li Fuqiang has been silent since he entered the underground cave, because he saw Ma Liu twice in total, but both times were a bit unpleasant. Once when he went into the mountain with Liu Daming and others, he had a misunderstanding with Ma Liu, and the second time was when he was captured at the west entrance of the settlement. Li San and Li Fuqiang said something, but Ma Liu scolded them a little bit.

He turned his head and looked at Xu Ning. When he saw Xu Ning rubbing his chin, he knew that Xu Ning was also thinking about it, so he was speechless.

"Ten thousand meters ditch? We are going to that end now! Master, can we join forces? There are four of us, four guns, and six dogs..."

Ma Liu frowned: "It's fine to join forces, why don't you lead the dog to track him down?"

"That's definitely not possible. I'm thinking that we can trace the situation and let my eldest brother and the other three go hunt for dogs. What do you think?"

When Ma Liu heard that only he and Xu Ning were hunting the deer, he immediately nodded: "Okay! It's quite a long way from here to Huo Lazi Mountain. It will take two days to chase the deer. Have you got anything?"

Xu Ning said with a smile: "What are you carrying? Let's go down the mountain now and take the bus directly to Songshan Beigou. From there, we can walk directly to Huo Lazi Mountain and then follow the deer trail back. We can save half a day." Ah, your conditions are quite good now, but you still have to drive when attacking."

"It's not my car. A friend of mine, Wang Xing, drove over here. He followed me for a few days of hiking in the mountains and will go home tomorrow. Uncle, please pack up quickly. Don't take the quilts or other things. Here they are. Just hold this wine flask, I have everything..."

Ma Liu shook his head and said, "I'll get some dry food. I haven't finished the rice cakes you brought me last time."

"Hey, there's no need to take it. Let's go quickly."

Xu Ning grabbed his arm and was about to leave. Ma Liu hurriedly grabbed it and said, "My wine flask! You kid is in such a hurry, hold the wine flask for me!"

"Got it."

Xu Ning held the wine bottle on the kang in his arms, and then saw Ma Liu taking down the handle of the old pout hanging on the wall.

"You have four guns?"

"Yeah, the three of us only got three. The friend who came here got 56 and a half."

"That's a good gun..."

After the three of them walked out of the cellar, Ma Liu closed the door of the cellar, inserted the flap, and the door was locked.

Immediately, Xu Ning and Ma Liu chatted while walking, and Li Fuqiang followed behind carrying an empty wine bottle.

For Li Fuqiang, the impression Ma Liu gave him was really not good, but seeing that Ma Liu and his brother chatted well, and they were full of laughter and joy, he had some changes in his view of Ma Liu.

First, Ma Liu is too old and should not be like him. Second, Ma Liu is used to living in the mountains and has become independent.

Third, although Ma Liu has a very bad attitude towards others, he is very kind to Xu Ning. He has been grinning since they met and has never seen him droop.

Even if Xu Ning stretched out her hand to pull him and push him, he didn't see him turning his face and denying anyone else. If it had been anyone else, Ma Liu would have drawn a knife and gestured.

At this moment, the sky was already bright, and it was nearly 8 o'clock when Xu Ning and the others arrived at the north end of Dongshan Mountain.

Chai Bing and Wang Hu, who were warming up around the fire, saw Xu Ning leading an old man in bearskin down the mountain. They looked at each other and quickly put out the fire.

Wang Hu reminded: "Third brother, this old man has a lonely temper. Don't be like him later."

"Du? Do I have Uncle Chang Du?" Chai Bing asked.

"My uncle Chang is sour and much easier to get along with than this old man. He lives alone in the mountains all year round and is used to being alone. My second brother is the only one who can talk to him. I was the one who captured Li San last time. Second brother asked him to help."

Chai Bing nodded: "Ah, Qiangzi just said that he doesn't know what to do, then I understand."

"OK."

Soon, Xu Ning, Li Fuqiang, and Ma Liu came down the mountain, walked up to Chai Bing and Wang Hu, waved, and introduced Ma Liu to Chai Bing. Chai Bing and Wang Hu called out to Uncle Ma, while Ma Liu said He nodded and said nothing.

"Third brother, you three will take the dog for a walk later, and I and the uncle will go to trace it. Huzi, you divide the food into two portions. When we pass the 13th farm, we will stop at the horse wash. We will get out of the car and pinch each other." You should go to Songshan Beigou to hunt for dogs as we decided last night."

"Okay! Then what are you going to find? Are you a blind man?" Chai Bing asked.

"No, my uncle was looking at a trace of a deer..."

When Chai Bing heard this, he took off the 56-and-a-half from his shoulders and handed it to Xu Ning. "You can use the 56-and-a-half. Give it to me. I'll make two more ends."

"That must be the case!"

Xu Ning smiled. After the two exchanged guns, Chai Bing took out five rounds of bullets from his pocket, and Wang Hu also mixed the food and handed it to Xu Ning.

"Okay, you three drive over, and we'll put the two of you in the back of the car. Third brother, we'll stop when we get to the horse wash."

Chai Bing nodded: "I know! Where will I pick you up then?"

"Just wait in the Beigou of Songshan Mountain. It doesn't matter whether we are chased or not, we have to be back at around 4:30."

"Okay, just be more careful."

"OK."

The reason why he was divided into two gangs, one for stalking and the other for dog hunting, was mainly because Ma Liu was not very gregarious, and he was a little resistant to Li Fuqiang when he was lying on the ground. He just didn't say anything because of Xu Ning's face, like Ma Liu. Most people can't deal with such a person. If he were left in a village, he would definitely be notorious...

Immediately, Chai Bing, Li Fuqiang, and Wang Hu got into the car, and Xu Ning and Ma Liu also walked to the back compartment. As soon as Ma Liu walked into the back compartment, Xu Ning saw the green wolf and gray wolf dogs grinning.

"Calm down! Stay down!"

Ma Liu climbed into the car silently and sat at the back of the car, while Xu Ning sat opposite him.

"Did Xu Dapao give this dog to you?"

Xu Ning patted the carriage to indicate to Chai Bing that he could leave. The car drove forward slowly, with a slight bump.

"Those two yellow dogs belong to me, and the remaining four were entrusted to me by Xu Pao."

"He is your master?"

Xu Ning said with a smile: "I am both a teacher and a friend. I did not learn siege fighting from him, but he taught me how to catch feet and make a pile of hell."

Ma Liu nodded and asked Xu Dapao what he was doing. Xu Ning told the truth. Ma Liu smiled and said, "He has a good life. He has children and a daughter. His family conditions are also good. His life is complete."

"It's not that good. Taiping and Qing'an are so close to each other. Who wouldn't envy him..."

The car drove nearly thirty miles and when it arrived at the horse washing area, Xu Ning glanced at his watch. It was only eight forty.

When Chai Bing stopped the car, Xu Ning and Ma Liu got out of the car with their things. They briefly exchanged a few words with Chai Bing and reconfirmed the time and place to pick him up.

Then, Xu Ning and Ma Liu walked eastward along the gentle slope under the mountain ridge, because from here, they can reach Huolizi Mountain after climbing another mountain.

This gentle slope is in the shape of a 'u'. Since it is a shady slope, the snow is slightly deep. As soon as I stepped forward, the snow covered Xu Ning's knees.

Ma Liu pointed to Gangliangzi on the right, and re-designated the route with Xu Ning. Although it took a roundabout way, Gangliangzi was much easier to walk due to the gentle slope. The two of them walked faster, and they just headed towards Huolazi Mountain. Run.

(End of this chapter)