Return to 1983 Hunting Xing'an Mountains

Chapter 287 Xu Laowen’s short horse goes down the mountain to deliver the message

February 1984, 2, the nineteenth day of the first lunar month.

Xu Ning stayed at home for a week and basically sat on the kang all day long. There was a boil on his buttocks and it hurt whenever he sat down.

Therefore, Xu Ning ate with his buttocks propped up on a stool that night, which made Xu Laowen laugh. Seeing that her old son was being buried without saying a word, her mother pointed at Xu Laowen's forehead and made some insults.

"Old son, if you get angry, eat more radishes. Tomorrow let Hu Zi follow you to wander around the northern Hetao. Maybe you can use your slingshot to hit a few house sparrows."

Xu Laowen curled his lips and said: "How can you be so spoiled to a child? Look, he is spoiled! He has to be fed into a bowl to eat something. How old is he, and he uses a slingshot to hit domestic birds..."

Liu Lizhen was not happy to hear this. What happened to her old son? A lot of money has been sent to my family before and after this year. Where did the meat come from? I have no idea.

"You just have to stop competing and let me eat your food for a while."

Xu Ning raised his head and said with a smile: "Dad, I heard that you asked someone to buy an air rifle at the forest farm? Do you want to go hunting birds with my second uncle in your free time?"

Xu Laowen's face tensed up when he heard this, and he waved his hands hurriedly: "Zhen, don't listen to his nonsense, it's something that can't be solved with eight poles!"

"Hurry up and eat. Erli will come over later and I'll ask him."

Xu Laowen put down his chopsticks and took Liu Lizhen's hand: "Zhen, what are you asking him for? He knows a lot about it... Hey, I really don't want to buy an air gun. It's pretty expensive to play with. I have a pocket There is no money here. All the money from the Chinese New Year was taken away by this loser..."

"You want to win some money during the Chinese New Year, and use the money from your own kennel to buy an air rifle. Okay, that's settled."

The more he explained, the more confused he became. Xu Laowen's face darkened. He grabbed his chopsticks and did not dare to say anything. He only glared at Xu Ning angrily.

Xu Feng chuckled: "My eldest brother came back some time ago. I haven't seen him for several days. Sister-in-law, you don't miss my eldest brother."

Wang Shujuan held the bowl and nodded: "I don't want to."

How could she not think about it? She was still thinking about having a child as soon as possible. The old lady usually didn't talk about it, but she was very anxious. Now there was a rumor in the village that Wang Shujuan had been married to Lao Xu's family for more than two years and she was an iron rooster that could not lay eggs.

I don’t know which kid spread this nonsense.

Xu Ning said: "Didn't I get a call from the previous one? He said that my third uncle has to go shopping for a while. He is staying in the market with Brother Ma, so don't worry about it."

Xu Laowen raised his head and asked, "Do you think your brother can stay in the city?"

Xu Ning finished eating, wiped clean, stretched her legs and moved to the edge of the kang, saying: "I can't speak for this matter. Can I stay? You don't have to listen to what my third uncle means."

Liu Lizhen frowned and said, "If your eldest brother can stay in the city, what will happen to your sister-in-law?"

"Mom, don't worry so much about not knowing your birth date. You can say whatever you want when the time comes."

When Xu Laowen heard this, he became angry and said: "What are you talking about! Your mother is asking even though she is kind enough to ask? Why on earth do you want to leave this family alone? You are always coaxing..."

Xu Ning turned around and said, "Dad, I don't have a dime on me. Don't even think about taking money from my pocket."

"Go away, I'll give you those three melons and two dates!"

Xu Feng gritted her teeth and said, "Then I'm about to start school. Dad, why don't you buy me a pencil case?"

When Xu Laowen was asked by his daughter, he couldn't bear it and said: "Feng, if you have a pencil case, I'll use it first. How can dad have money now? His pocket is cleaner than his face."

Xu Feng pouted her little mouth and said, "Hey, I don't care, I just want a new pencil case. Dad, just buy it for me, okay..."

Liu Lizhen put down her chopsticks and went to the ground. She didn't want to listen to Xu Feng's grinding, and her heart trembled.

Xu Feng climbed up to Xu Laowen's shoulder and rubbed it. Xu Laowen smiled all over his face, "Buy! Buy! Wait until dad goes to the street to buy it for you."

"When?"

"You must buy it before school starts, okay?"

"Okay, thank you dad!"

Xu Feng kissed Xu Laowen's cheek and wiped his lips after kissing, but Xu Laowen did not wipe his face and let the saliva moisten his face.

At the end of the evening, when Wang Shujuan and Liu Lizhen moved down the table, a shout suddenly sounded outside the courtyard door.

Immediately, Li Fuqiang was seen running into the courtyard.

"brother!"

Xu Ning happened to be feeding the dog in the east wing. He stepped forward and opened the door curtain and said, "What's up, brother?"

Li Fuqiang stopped when he heard the sound, turned around and said hurriedly: "Brother, Ma Liu has come down the mountain, and he is looking for you in the west of Tuen! Hurry, he said there is something urgent!"

Xu Ning was stunned when he heard this, then rushed out and shouted towards the outhouse: "Sister-in-law! Give the dog food, I'll go out!"

"Hey!" Wang Shujuan responded.

The two stepped out of the threshold side by side and ran towards Tunxi while listening to Li Fuqiang recount the story of his encounter with Ma Liu.

He had also just gotten off work, and Lao Lin drove him to the entrance of Tunxi. Li Fuqiang had just got out of the car and watched Lao Lin leave. When he was about to turn around and walk home, he saw a man wearing a bearskin and a deerskin hat on the narrow road in the distance. , an old man with a shotgun on his shoulder.

The old man walked forward through the snow. Although the road to Nanshan had been trodden, the snow was still up to his knees, making walking very difficult. Otherwise, why would Xu Ning stay home for so long? He was just afraid that the dog would not be able to walk in the mountains. Legs can easily get stuck in the snow shell.

Li Fuqiang stood at the entrance of Tunxi and looked around. At first he didn't think anything was wrong, but as soon as he took two steps home, he thought that this outfit was probably Ma Liu.

At first thought, he felt something was wrong. This horse was not worried about eating and drinking when it was on the east mountain, so why did it suddenly go down the mountain?
He is still coming to Qing'an Village, so he is most likely coming to his brother Xu Ning!
So Li Fuqiang took two steps towards him. As expected, after Ma Liu recognized him, he hurriedly said that he had something urgent to see Xu Ning.

Li Fuqiang wanted to ask a few questions in detail, but then he thought that he couldn't tell him about the old man's animal temper, so for the sake of his brother, he went straight to Lao Xu's house.

Rushing to the west entrance of Tunxi, I saw Ma Liu standing in the corner smoking a pipe and pot. He waved to Xu Ning: "Don't worry!"

Xu Ning asked anxiously: "What's going on, uncle! What happened?"

Ma Liu took a puff of cigarette and said, "I'm watching for that brown bear!"

Xu Ning was shocked: "What? Damn it! Uncle, where are you looking at?"

"Just leave the jumping pond and walk northeast. On the same line as Xiazigou, there is a snail shell there."

Snail Shell is a place name. There is a ridge that looks like a whirlpool of a snail shell, hence the name.

"In a snail shell ditch?"

Ma Liu shook his head: "Do you know there is a small temple at the foot of the mountain in the south? It is more than thirty meters away from the small temple. I thought about going there to look for deer traces, but I didn't expect to see brown bear traces."

After that, Ma Liu took out a strand of hair from his coat pocket and handed it to Xu Ning, "Look at this hair, it looks like that brown bear. I also put a big linden tree root to look at the blood marks. I guess it’s injured.”

Xu Ning took the bear hair and looked at it carefully. Although it was dark now, he could still tell that it was brown bear hair.

"It's a brown bear. How big is the trail?"

"It's bigger than my paw. If you want to hit it, you have to hit it as soon as possible. This brown bear must be seriously injured. It can't be prepared for anything that happens in the mountains."

Xu Ning glanced at Li Fuqiang and nodded: "Yeah, uncle, let's go home and warm up first. Didn't you just come down from the mountain? Come on, go to my house for some hot rice." Ma Liu waved his hand: "No, I'll go directly Go back to the mountains before it gets too dark."

"Is that okay? It's already at the door..."

"Hey, I don't want to go! Don't hold me back."

Seeing his reluctance, Xu Ning stopped and turned to Li Fuqiang and said, "Brother, what kind of food does my sister-in-law prepare?"

Li Fuqiang said: "I haven't gone home either, so that's it! Let Uncle Ma go to my house and have something to eat with me, and then go back to the mountains when you're full."

"No." Ma Liu shook his head and refused.

Xu Ning grinned and said: "Brother, if you don't want to go, just pull him down. If you are like this, go home quickly and ask my sister-in-law to put the food in a lunch box. Later, I will let my uncle sit in the snow to eat. It's so cold in this cold weather. Food tastes better!”

When Ma Liu heard this, he got angry and waved his hand: "Quickly pull down J13, you are just making me laugh."

"Haha..." Xu Ning laughed.

Li Fuqiang nodded: "If we wait a moment, my home is very close."

After that, he turned around and ran home, while Xu Ning dragged Ma Liu to the shelter under the wall. Ma Liu rubbed a handful of tobacco leaves into the pot of the pipe again, lit the match and took two puffs.

"Uncle, I'll go there early tomorrow, will you come with me?"

Ma Liu shook his head: "No, I'm not going. My legs and feet are too busy. I usually find it difficult to walk by myself. Now I'm going to run in the mountains with a bunch of you young people. Don't you want to make me lose your temper? You can go alone."

"That's alright. When the brown bear is shelled, I'll give you some meat, and you'll also have some of the bear's bile."

Ma Liu nodded with a smile and replied happily: "Okay! There's nothing wrong with me. You have to be more careful when entering the mountain. That brown bear is quite big. It's best to bring a few more people."

"I know. I'll send it back to you later. There's an old leopard here..."

"No, I'll go back for a stroll. The old leopard is a jerk. If it dares to attack me, I'll beat it to death."

Xu Ning waved his hands and said unhappily: "It's up to me. If you don't want to go into the village or into the house, then just eat some food first. I'll call some of the tigers over later. It's not easy for us to live at such a long age." , you have to be careful everywhere.”

"Fuck, how old are you? These words make you nagging me!" Ma Liu curled his lips.

"Hahaha, aren't I afraid that something might happen to you? I'm also thinking about asking you to teach me how to keep bees."

Ma Liu raised his head: "You want to keep bees? What should you do? You don't lack any money."

"Then it's not a whole business."

Ma Liu took a puff of cigarette and said, "Let your third uncle find a way to make a living. His chatting style seems familiar to me. Where can he work?"

Xu Ning turned to look at him and said with a smile: "Uncle, did you see it too? He went to the Forestry Bureau in the city."

"You can tell at a glance that the few words he chatted with me are all the same as before. He is younger than me, and he has also been to aid Korea, right?"

"OK."

At this time, Li Fuqiang ran back with two aluminum lunch boxes and a cloth bag. He came closer and said: "A box of vegetables and a box of lunch, and the bag is filled with cornstarch and noodles."

Xu Ning took the lunch box and cloth bag and said: "Brother, you go home to eat first, and then go find Huzi. Let's take the gun back to my brother. I'm afraid there is an old leopard in front of our village."

"Okay!" Li Fuqiang responded: "Then what else can I eat? Let's just leave."

"You go back to eat first, and let me sit down with you and talk to Pa'er... I'm still thinking of chatting with him."

"Ah, then wait for me for more than ten minutes."

Li Fuqiang nodded when he heard this, and after saying that, he ran towards his home.

He didn't have much of a relationship with Ma Liu, and he did this all because of Xu Ning's sake. In addition, there was also the reason why Ma Liu came all the way to deliver the letter.

Xu Ning spread out the lunch box and said with a smile: "Uncle, you can only eat here. I won't let you go back alone."

Ma Liu didn't say anything. He just squatted on the spot and took the lunch box, placed it on the stone, opened the lunch box and smelled the fragrance, and said, "Hey! This food is serious and good. It's a good life."

The lunch box contained rice, cabbage, scrambled eggs with fungus, and stir-fried vermicelli with pickled cabbage, all stir-fried with soybean oil and soybean oil.

Now the life of the Li family is decent and good. As long as they don't eat at Lao Xu's house, Yang Shuhua has to prepare two dishes. The big ballast that she eats in the past has been used as food reserve. Want to feed the big ballast to the dogs? Yang Shuhua was also reluctant to part with it. She had just had enough food for a few days, so she was ruining the food like this.

"There are still some cakes here, uncle, why don't you have one?"

"You can fill up a box of lunch, so you can bring whatever you want. I'll put all your pastries in my pocket, and I'll send them back to that kid later."

Immediately, the two chatted for a while, mainly with Xu Ning talking and Ma Liu listening.

Not long after, Ma Liu cleaned up the rice, swept away the dishes, and said, "The cooking made by Li Fuqiang's wife is very delicious."

"That's necessary. My sister-in-law is the number one chef in Qing'an. Anyone who wants to go to her is happy to come to her. Is it because the cooking is delicious? Are you full? Master."

Ma Liu stood up and took out his pipe and pot, "It's good, I'm full! It makes my belly round."

Xu Ning packed up the lunch box and put it into his cloth bag. Ma Liu lit the pipe and pot and said, "Ning, if you want to learn beekeeping, you have to go up the mountain before spring."

"Okay! When the time comes, I'll take the bedding and go live in your cellar."

At this time, two people came from a distance, it was Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu. They were carrying three guns, one 56 and a half, and two old guns.

The two of them approached Ma Liu and said hello. Xu Ning said, "Throw this into this bag. Think about it before you come back. Don't forget to take it."

"Eh."

"Let's go, uncle."

"Let's go, take your time. I just finished eating and I don't want to move."

Xu Ning smiled and said: "Who is willing to move after eating a full meal? Isn't it just for one bite? It's forced."

Ma Liu shook his head and said: "Stop nagging about this society, and just understand it in your heart these days. You are not very old. It is a good time to run forward more and walk up."

"Well, isn't this going up?"

Since Xu Ning came back, every step he has taken has been steady and steady, including giving gifts to maintain interpersonal relationships. Of course, there are some mistakes and causes and consequences.

If he hadn't established a brotherly relationship with Li Fuqiang, hadn't gone to visit Xing, hadn't had the idea of ​​buying a puppy...etc., then he wouldn't be living so smoothly now, because he had pinned down all the unstable spearheads.

Although the tragedy of the previous life will never happen again, some small things that happened in Qing'an Tun in the previous life have changed. Xu Ning doesn't know what will happen in the future, but what he knows is that the general history will not change, because he is a Little people cannot change the direction of history...

The road was dark and rugged. Wang Hu and Li Fuqiang held up the Song Mingzi torch to illuminate the journey. The journey was smooth and uneventful. They sent Ma Liu to Dixiangzi in a very ordinary way. The three of them did not enter the house to drink water and set foot back. The road home.

"Second brother, will you go into the mountain tomorrow and call Lei Zi?"

(End of this chapter)