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Chapter 278: The uncle is really doing things and has a private visit in private
In the evening, around 6:30, it was already getting dark. On the dark street, there were occasionally crowds of people, and a few people were whispering in groups.

Lao Jiang's house, east room.

The medicine bottle hanging on the beam has bottomed out. Xu Ning's butt is resting on the edge of the kang, and he is pulling out the needle for Lao Jiang.

At this time, the chattering sounds of Xu Laowen and others could be heard at the door of the courtyard. Before Jiang Qiu'er could put on his shoes and go to the ground, they had already walked into the outhouse, then opened the door curtain and walked into the house, facing the awakening Lao Jiang. A smile.

Lao Jiang saw Xu Chunlin saying hello to Wang Erli and Liu Daming, but was slightly startled when he saw Yang Yusheng following behind him. After Xu Laowen introduced him, Lao Jiang warmly called Third Brother.

Xu Long handed the cloth bag containing the lunch box to Wang Biao, and then went to the outhouse to get the kang table. Jiang Qiu'er also went to the kitchen to pick up bowls.

Xu Ning watched several people move, and he sat on the edge of the kang, listening to the chatter of Xu Laowen, Lao Jiang and others, while waiting for dinner.

Lao Jiang had already briefly narrated the topic that several people chatted with Xu Ning, but when talking to Xu Laowen and others, he added many modal particles and psychological activities.

For example, after his leg was pierced by a branch, for a moment he wanted to squeeze the old leopard by the neck and squeeze it to death, because he was afraid that after death, only his daughter would be left alone... That life must have been miserable.

Lao Jiang never said any words of thanks from the beginning to the end. No matter how many words of thanks you say for this kind of thing, it can't be enough to express your gratitude!
Moreover, he knew very well that Xu Laowen and others did not save him out of repayment, but because of their relationship with the village, and because they had hunted together before, and he had given Xu Laowen news about bear traces.

Yang Yusheng was a sensible person and grinned: "If it dares to harm livestock and people, then our little Xu Pao from Qing'an will definitely not be able to spoil it!"

"Hey...this kid dares to stab his father. Come on...come on. I'll take care of you."

Liu Daming said: "Fuck, if it dares to chase it, then we will kill it with five spears!"

Xu Ning looked at his biological father and opened his mouth without making a sound: "Your nickname is Xu Laowen given by others."

Everyone in the room looked at each other and laughed.

Xu Ning said with a smile: "Third uncle, I am not planning to fight this old leopard, but it should not come to our village to cause harm to livestock and people. If..."

Xu Laowen curled his lips and said: "What's the point of giving a nickname to yourself? How dare you give it to Qing'an's little Xu Pao!"

Lao Jiang said: "I'm wondering if any of you can go to the street and help me sell the leather at home."

Why would he say such demoralizing words? We have to start with his identity and look at the problem from his perspective. There is nothing wrong with such nagging.

"It doesn't matter. You are the backbone of our family. I am my son. How can I let you be so tired?"

Xu Laowen's eyes lit up, and when he was about to speak, Xu Ning beat him to it: "Uncle Jiang, I am in charge of this kind of thing in my family now, what kind of leather do you want to sell?"

"Hey, Uncle Jiang, why bother? I have to go out on the street in a while anyway."

"Go to hell!" Xu Laowen said through gritted teeth.

"I'm happy to go to the street. Dad, don't worry about it. Uncle Jiang, I'm thinking that the price of leather will increase a bit in a few months. You might as well keep it and wait until spring starts."

On the side, Wang Biao and Jiang Qiu'er stood at the door of the house. They looked at each other and then grinned.

"Hahaha, oh my god, third uncle, look at how you praised my second brother, your face is red!" Wang Biao laughed.

Xu Laowen was stunned when he heard this, and grabbed Xu Ning's arm, "Uncle Jiang comes to see me for something, what does it have to do with you?"

"Hahaha……"

Yang Yusheng frowned and said, "To be honest, Lao Jiang just didn't pay attention and fell. This old leopard didn't hurt anyone..."

Lao Jiang lowered his head and thought for a while, then shook his head: "No, you have to sell it, even if the price increases, you can't be poor and you can't be rich. Er Ning, I'll trouble you about this."

Xu Ning spread his hands and pretended to be stupid: "I didn't say anything. Dad, what are you doing? Are you asking my third uncle, Uncle Jiang, to laugh at you?"

Xu Laowen said: "Since you were able to survive lying down in the grass nest and were not snatched away by the old leopard, it means that the leopard did not follow you."

Yang Yusheng smiled and said: "Brother, give Third Brother some face, you can pull him down."

Moreover, Lao Jiang is not a talker. He usually only speaks with practical actions and never brags more than big words.

"Just stay here!"

"Okay, let me tell you, it was your third uncle who saved you today, otherwise I would give you a discount on my legs!"

Jiang Qiu'er said: "Dad, no need."

Liu Daming nodded: "You can't be prepared."

Lao Jiang said: "Brother, when will you go to work?"

Xu Ning raised his head and swallowed the food in his mouth, and said: "Domestic cats all hold grudges, let alone old leopards. My Uncle Jiang gave it five shots. If it was injured, I figured it would have to smell Uncle Jiang's scent and chase it."

Most people in the village have heard about the way Old Xu's family gets along with each other. Some people talk nonsense, and some people also praise a few words. After all, a father does not look like a father, and a son does not look like a son. They look a little bit Go against Tiangang.

Xu Laowang looked at Lao Jiang and said, "Er Ning doesn't want to go to the street. Brother, I will help you with this matter."

After laughing, Lao Jiang said: "I have six yellow skins, five greyhound skins, and more than thirty jumping cat skins. I want to sell them all. When Qiu'er starts school, he will have to pay tuition and fees. Buy them. She has homework books, etc., and has to buy her some clothes. She hasn’t even gotten dressed this year or the Chinese New Year..."

Xu Ning heard this and said: "There is no need to sell so many skins, just a few greyhound skins are enough."

Liu Daming hurriedly stopped Xu Laowen, "Brother-in-law, it's okay to hold him back. Er Ning didn't say anything, so why are you so anxious?"

Yang Yusheng looked at Xu Ning, who was picking up the food, and asked, "What do Er Ning think?"

Lao Jiang rubbed his head and said: "Brother, actually I can't say for sure. Maybe you brought the dog here, and the old leopard ran away after smelling the smell..."

"Why can't we live until the end of the fifteenth year? Why, what's wrong with you?"

"That's for sure. The big skin should be bigger. A good leopard skin is enough to make a mattress."

"You still have to buy rice, flour, oil, etc. How can you do that?"

Old Jiang said: "Okay! I heard that leopard skin is worth a lot of money, even more valuable than big leaves!"

Xu Laowen turned around and asked, "What are you doing in the street?"

Xu Ning said: "Xu Pao's son Xu He called me a few years ago and said that after the 15th day of the new year, he would drop by the provincial capital to bring me something..."

"What is it?"

Xu Ning shook his head, "I don't know."

Xu Laowen curled his lips and said, "You're just hiding your mind! I don't know you yet."

After chatting at Lao Jiang's house until about eight o'clock, Xu Ning and others were about to get up and go home. Lao Jiang hurriedly asked Jiang Qiu'er to send him off, but Xu Laowen stopped him and then said: "You two will do it tomorrow morning Don’t make a meal, let Biao deliver it to you two when the time comes.”

"Brother, no need, we have ready-made meals at home..."

Xu Laowen waved his hand and left with Xu Ning, Yang Yusheng and others.

As soon as he walked out of the hospital, Wang Biao grabbed Mr. Xu's limp beard and said, "Uncle, you are really doing your job! Thank you, uncle."

"Why are you so polite? Who made me your uncle? I'm not like that little brat in my family."

Wang Erli said: "Brother, Er Ning is doing very well these days. Why do you keep scolding him?"

Just now while chatting at Lao Jiang's house, Xu Laowen took the time to go to the latrine. Wang Biao caught up with him at every opportunity and chatted with Xu Laowen for a while.

The main thing is that Lao Jiang looks down on him a little, and he wants to change Lao Jiang's view of himself.

Combined with the fact that Lao Jiang was injured and lying on the kang, and that he didn't have much food at home, Wang Biao came up with a trick to deliver food to Lao Jiang and Jiang Qiu'er.

The two of them in the Jiang family didn't have much to eat. Taking this opportunity, Wang Biao wanted to get close to Lao Jiang, otherwise he could rush to get the urine helmet.

"Biao, are you really looking for the ball?" Wang Erli rubbed his forehead.

He did not teach Wang Biao about premature love, because these days there are many people who get married right after finishing junior high school. Wang Biao is now fourteen years old, and it will be time for him to get engaged in four or five years, so it is not too early to pave the way. .

"OK……"

Xu Ning joked: "I wrote a love letter last year, so I must be right." "Hey, second brother, why are you still laughing at me?"

"I was praising you for your bravery and laughing at you for what you did. But at your age, it's a little early to think about these things."

"Second brother, didn't you say that the country now advocates free love?"

Xu Long said: "Then you fall in love early."

"Brother, this is not puppy love. I just think that Uncle Jiang always looks down on me and I want to flirt with him."

Xu Laowen laughed: "Haha, that's right! There's nothing wrong with Liuliu's beard."

When they reached the fork in the road, everyone went home.

After returning home and chatting with Liu Lizhen for a while, Xu Ning and Guan Lei went back to the West Room to sleep.

Since they had been hunting for two days in a row, both humans and dogs needed a rest, so as soon as they finished eating the next morning, Xu Ning thought of going to Dongshan for a walk with the trap, as a digestif after the meal.

When he mentioned going to Dongshan, Wang Hu hurriedly got up and went to change clothes. Then Wang Biao and Liu Tianen also raised their hands and said they would follow. They rested at home for a day. Although their hips still hurt a little, their spirits were restored.

Yang Yusheng drank tea and said, "Er Ning, let your dad stay home for a while, and I'll go for a walk in the mountains with you."

Xu Lao stood up and said: "Third brother, how can I let you go alone? I have to follow."

"No, Er Ning and I will just go for a walk. You all should stay home. No matter how good you are, you will be exhausted after running for two days in a row. I just use it as a digestive food."

Xu Ning understood what Yang Yusheng meant. He probably wanted to take a look behind the forest farm or near Lengchang.

"Then just listen to my third uncle, you all just stay home."

Li Fuqiang said: "I have to follow."

Yang Yusheng waved his hand and said, "You also need to stay home. If you can't stay at home, just go grab some firewood."

"Ah." Li Fuqiang nodded.

Immediately, Xu Ning took off the 56 half and old pout hanging on the wall, took out a few leggings, and went out with Yang Yusheng carrying a cloth bag with ropes on his back.

As soon as he walked out of Tunxikou, Yang Yusheng asked: "Is there a Lengchang in Dongshan?"

"Yes, let's go directly to Lengchang? Find a nearby one and use it as a digestive."

"Hahaha, you are quite good at talking. Then go to Lengchang and take a look first. I know I won't be able to tell anything, but I will feel confident after taking a look."

"clear."

The two entered Dongshan along the old forest. There were no peaks in this mountain. They were all low hills. There were all kinds of trees growing all over the mountains and plains. The most common ones were ash, red pine, and fir, followed by Acanthopanax and Acanthopanax. Buds, tiger sticks and other shrubs.

After walking seven or eight miles in Dongshan, we arrived at the nearest 22 Lengchang. At this time, there were already people working in the Lengchang. There were about thirty or forty people cutting trees, hanging trees, returning to Lengfen, and counting. Because the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has not passed, there are relatively few people returning to Lengchang to work.

Yang Yusheng chatted with the tree-cutting workers, and then he and Xu Ning went to the Lengchang for a walk. He found that the wooden corrugations in the Lengchang were all arranged neatly.

"Workers live in shacks? How can they stay warm?"

Xu Ning nodded: "It's warm, Third Uncle, don't underestimate this shack. It has a lot of things to do. There is a big kang in the shack, which can sleep more than thirty people. Just light two stoves in the shack and heat the kang. You will not suffer from sleep. "

Yang Yusheng pointed to the shack and nodded: "Then let me go in and take a look?"

Xu Ning opened the door directly, stepped in, and saw an old man sitting on the kang drinking. He said hello: "Uncle, I went into the mountains to hunt and I'm a little thirsty..."

"Are you thirsty? If you're thirsty, pour yourself some water. Put the teapot on the edge of the kang, and put the kettle next to the stove. You can pour it yourself! Why did you come here while hunting?" The old man was very chatty and asked casually.

"Aren't you here with my uncle for a walk in Dongshan? I didn't even look at anything..."

Yang Yusheng entered the room and looked around, feeling that the temperature was enough, because he felt a rush of heat as soon as he entered the shack.

"Brother, why are you drinking at noon?"

The old man said with a smile: "Have a drink to refresh yourself for the first time. Can you take a sip?"

"I can't drink enough. I can't go down the mountain after one sip. Brother, it looks quite warm in this room."

"Warm! In the first few years, it was so cold when we burned the kang, and I would wake up from the cold in the middle of the night. Later, a leader of the forest farm named Guo specially gave me a stove. This stove is new and has only been used for two or three years... …”

Yang Yusheng was startled and asked: "Are these two stoves provided by the forest farm? Every forest farm has them."

"Yeah, they are all there! We should do whatever the forest farm leader says. Workers don't get enough rest and can't produce output.

A few years ago, I heard that the forest farm would hire people to kill the animals, and then the meat would be distributed to us in Lengchang. We would eat a big meal of meat at least once a month, but I didn’t believe it later. I don’t know what happened.

Hey, you two should always be able to eat meat when hunting, right? "

Xu Ning said with a smile: "I can eat it once every seven or eight days."

"Hey Mom, you guys are living a decent life these days. Our family is not good at eating meat even once a month."

Xu Ning said: "Isn't this a bit of hunting experience? I can get some goods every now and then."

"Ah, then you two can't do this. You have to learn from Little Xu Pao. Do you know Little Xu Pao? He is the second son of the old Xu family in Qing'an. Damn it, a big pig weighing six to seven hundred pounds died years ago. , I am so capable!

Now the big pig is still standing at the entrance of the forest farm..."

When Yang Yusheng heard this, he glanced at Xu Ning and said with a smile: "Who doesn't know about Xiao Xu Pao? We have also heard about it. It is indeed very powerful."

"That's not good. A few years ago, this little Xu Pao killed two blind men..."

Listening to the old man boasting about himself, Xu Ning did feel a little embarrassed.

The drunken old man was more talkative and could understand his ramblings, but Xu Ning did not identify himself to him. After all, there was no use telling him. Apart from pretending to be happy for a while, it would cause unnecessary trouble.

Five minutes later, Xu Ning and Yang Yusheng walked out of the shack and walked directly into the forest.

"Why didn't you tell me who you were?"

Xu Ning smiled and said: "Third uncle, I am not a child either."

"Yes, how did you feel when he helped you brag just now? It felt good, right?"

"That's for sure!"

Yang Yusheng smiled and said: "Just listen to it yourself. Especially if you are doing such a dangerous job, you must not take it lightly. Don't feel like others are saying a few words to you and you will drift away."

"I understand. If I had floated into the clouds before, I definitely can't float now because my butt is already rooted in the soil."

"Okay! Today's harvest is not bad. Your Uncle Guo is a conscientious leader."

Xu Ning said with a smile: "Third uncle, my uncle Guo has a little problem, but he has done a lot of practical things, which is obvious to all."

Most people know about Guo Xingmin's pet peeve, and there are also rumors in the city's forestry bureau that he loves to stay in camps. Xu Ning thought that it was because of this pet peeve that he was ignored and squatted in place for several years in his previous life.

Yang Yusheng nodded: "Well, I didn't know it until I entered the shack. I was shocked when I entered it. It's really pragmatic to care about the accommodation situation of Lengchang workers."

Why do you say that? Because the Lengchang workers were recruited by the Lengchang leader himself and have nothing to do with the forest farm. The fact that Guo Xingmin can focus on the Lengchang workers shows that he is indeed pragmatic and understands the difficulties of the workers.

"Third uncle, do you still want to go to 28 Lengchang?"

"I won't go. It's almost noon. Let's go walk the condom quickly and then head home. We have to stay home and rest tomorrow."

"Yeah, the dog has to be left home for two days to rest. My dad's body isn't that good either. He struggled through yesterday."

Yang Yusheng smiled and said, "I can tell."

(End of this chapter)