Return to 1983 Hunting Xing'an Mountains

Chapter 67: Meng Ziyan, with a bright heart, takes a job along the way (comments added)

At the door of Meng's house.

Yu Kaihe held the donkey's rope and shouted at the donkey.

Xu Ning stood next to the stone pillar near the door, looking at Meng Laizi and Liu Fenfang running out of the house with a smile.

He moved his eyes back slightly and saw Meng Ziyan timidly following Liu Fenfang.

At the moment she was wearing a floral cotton-padded jacket, with two braids hanging on her chest.

Xu Ning noticed that her face was red. Although her eyes were watery and she looked energetic, even though she was wearing a heavy cotton-padded jacket, it could be seen that she was thin and there was no excess flesh on her red face.

According to Xu Ning's own aesthetics, he is more interested in those with a bit of flesh than dry and thin.

But now, looking at Meng Ziyan's expression and behavior, he felt a sense of affinity.

He murmured in his heart: Why didn't he realize that she was so compassionate before?

To pity people means to be lovable.

Look back.

Xu Ning said with a smile: "Uncle Meng and Auntie, how can I be a heretic? Isn't this a wild boar nesting on the mountain? Xunsi will give you half a fan to try."

Meng Laizi walked up to him and was stunned when he heard this.

Give half a pig as a gift? It’s still two months before the Chinese New Year, so why give gifts so early?
  Moreover, Xu Long usually came every year to give away some pigs or roe deer, which Xu Chunlin had hunted on the mountain, but he never gave away half a pig.

Liu Fenfang looked at him stunned, then stretched out her hand to slap him, and Meng Laizi came back to his senses.

"Ah, let's go inside for a while and drink some water to warm ourselves up."

Xu Ning shook his head: "What's more, I have to go to Uncle Chang's house."

On the side, Meng Yinhe said to the sky: "Dad, my second brother is hunting seven pigs on the mountain. I just gave one and a half pigs to the Tunbu..."

Just as he was speaking, Meng Laizi, Liu Fenfang, and Meng Ziyan all focused their eyes on him.

She lowered her head and looked at the floral shirt and bell-bottom pants he was holding in his arms.

"Where does this come from?"

Liu Fenfang asked, grabbing her clothes.

Meng Yinhe was slightly flustered and hurriedly winked at Meng Ziyan, hoping that her sister would help explain.

But Meng Ziyan had no intention of saying anything. She just turned her head and looked at Xu Ning with her peripheral vision.

"Auntie, I keep this for Yinhe. No one else in the village has clothes like this."

Liu Fenfang was startled, "Yinhe went to your house?"

Meng Yinhe was behind his parents and hurriedly shook his head and winked at Xu Ning.

Obviously, Meng Ziyan and his wife didn't know that Meng Ziyan asked him to deliver a hand to Xu Ning.

Of course Xu Ning also noticed it, but he was not prepared to cover for the two sisters.

There is nothing shameful about this, and besides, he just took advantage of this opportunity to express his attitude.

To give Meng Ziyan stability, she can no longer let her have unrequited love.

Xu Ning is organized and doesn't like to procrastinate when doing things. When something happens, he does it quickly to avoid delays.

Meng Ziyan was also slightly flustered. She wanted to turn around and go back to the house, but after seeing Xu Ning's eyes, she somehow calmed down.

"Ah, Yinhe went to give me the assistant Mengzi. I was just cleaning up the wardrobe, so I gave Yinhe two sets of small clothes. I think he likes them quite a lot. I'll let Ziyan change them for him then. I can wear it for a while next year.”

When Liu Fenfang heard the word "Ziyan" from his mouth, it felt like ivory spitting out of a dog's mouth.

Meng Laizi turned to look at his daughter with a stern face and asked, "What kind of handbag did you give to your second brother?"

Meng Ziyan's eyes were red and she nodded: "Yes!"

Meng Laizi turned around and asked Meng Yinhe, "Where is Hand Mengzi?"

"My second brother kept it and said it was just the right size for me to wear before going up the mountain."

Meng Laizi was a little confused. He looked at Xu Ning's smile and frowned: "I heard that you haven't been playing for money these days? Why, are you short of seeds in your pocket? Uncle, can I get you some?"

Xu Ning said with a smile: "Uncle Meng, didn't you say that I had learned well the last time we met? Why do you still let me play with money? Isn't this helping the evil?"

"Aiding Zhou to do evil?" Meng Laizi was not well educated.

Meng Ziyan pinched her throat and explained: "It was you who pushed him to do bad things."

"what!"

Liu Fenfang laughed at him and said, "Er Ning is so promising now, why do you still let him play with money? He is not serious."

"Well, my second brother killed a blind man in the past few days, and now he has killed a whole bunch of wild boars. Just now, the old man from Tunbu, Mr. Du, praised my second brother for his ability in fighting besiegers."

"Oh my God, how can that be possible! Er Ning, I just thought that you were acting a little strange these days. I thought something had happened to you. Just be fine..."

Xu Ning said with a smile: "Nothing happened, I just suddenly wanted to live a stable life."

"Ah, it's good to live a stable life, good!"

"Uncle Meng, can you put the pork in the house? Yinhe, come here, give me a handful."

"Eh."

Meng Yinhe responded, stuffed the floral shirt and bell-bottom pants into Meng Ziyan's hands, and then went to help Xu Ning pick up the pig.

Meng Laizi saw that Xu Ning was trying to carry half of the pig, so he hurriedly stepped forward: "Er Ning, come here, let's carry it..."

At this time, Yu Kaihe, who had been silent until now, spoke: "Old Meng, Er Ning needs to work hard for a while. Don't you give people a chance to work hard?"

Qinqin means active performance.

Hearing this, Meng Laizi straightened up his bent waist, clapped his hands and said, "Then you should be diligent! Usually you don't dare to hang out in front of my house, but now you scared me."

Meng Yinhe picked up half of the pig, and Xu Ning carried it on his shoulders. He walked towards the courtyard and said with a smile: "Then I will have to scare you more often."

"Hahaha, you are such a big boy, it is good to joke with me for the first time. Brother Yu, go to the house and sit down for a while to drink some water."

"What's wrong, this donkey is so acidic that it will kick its legs if I don't leave it alone."

"Uncle Yu, I'll be out right away."

"Not in a hurry."

Xu Ning was carrying half a pig and looked at Meng Ziyan as she passed by. She looked at her eyes with joy, which made her feel very good.

Meng Laizi stood back and said, "Is this girl so dumbfounded? Hurry up and lift the door curtain for your second brother!"

"Hey!" Meng Ziyan hurriedly stepped forward, lifted the curtain and opened the door.

Meng Yinhe stood back and said, "My sister just came back to life..."

"You kid, what are you talking about? You deserve a beating!"

Liu Fenfang went up and gave him a kick without using much force.

Meng Yinhe winced and curled his lips, "How much merit have I achieved, and you still beat me."

There was still another sentence he didn't dare to say, and that was: If it weren't for me, with the stubbornness of an old girl like you, I would have beaten all the sticks.

Meng Laizi conveniently placed the kang table standing at the wall of the outer room on the ground, and Xu Ning directly unloaded half of the pig fan on the table.

He clapped his hands and said: "Uncle Meng, you can unload it yourself..."

"Er Ning, don't leave, go inside and wait for a while."

"No, Uncle Yu is waiting outside."

After saying that, Xu Ning walked out, and Meng Laizi and his wife hurriedly saw him off.

In the outhouse, Meng Ziyan looked at the pork on the table, feeling very happy.

Meng Yinhe curled his lips and said in the air: "Sister, second brother gave me two sets of clothes and said he didn't find anything for you..."

"I don't want anything."

"He said that when he has time, he will go to the street and buy you a box of cream."

"What?" Meng Ziyan was suddenly stunned, staring in surprise: "He wants to buy cream for me?"

"Hmm, don't you understand what's going on? Oh my god, my mother is right, you are so stubborn! My second brother has already given me the pork with his own hands, why don't you understand?"

Meng Ziyan blinked, "I, am I confused? Why is he thinking?"

Meng Yinhe was about to reply when he heard his mother's voice coming from outside the door.

"Lao Meng, what do you think Er Ning is thinking about?"

Meng Laizi lifted the door curtain with his hand, turned around and replied, "I guess I really fell in love with Zi Yan."

"Then usual..."

Liu Fenfang saw her sister and brother holding half a pig in front of them, and said hurriedly: "You two are like this, hurry up and make dumplings!"

Meng Laizi glanced at Meng Ziyan and said with a smile: "Come in and make dumplings. Are you feeling enlightened this time?"

Meng Ziyan nodded heavily.

Immediately, the four people went into the house and continued making dumplings.

Liu Fenfang looked at the old girl and said, "Zi Yan, let's not get too happy yet. He's not sure yet."

Meng Ziyan was stunned and looked like she was about to cry, looking at the poor old man.

"Hey, don't make this happen. I don't know if Er Ning is annoyed by you doing this the most."

Meng Laizi sighed, "The thing I regret most in my life is asking you to go to the reservoir to deliver food to me!"

On the side, Meng Yinhe said: "Mom and Dad, I think this response is about right. He said he wanted to buy cream for my sister."

"What?" Liu Fenfang was surprised, "Is it true or false?"

"Really, what my second brother said is accurate. Yesterday I went to the store and heard Shen Qiaozui say that he really hasn't been playing around with money these days. He and Li Fuqiang even stopped drinking. Now he doesn't drink a sip."

"Is it?"

Meng Laizi waved his hand and said: "Don't worry about the truth or falsehood, just say this. Our daughter is so stubborn that she has identified him with all her heart, so what are you going to do?! How many times have the matchmakers from these villages in front of you come here? , this girl was all blown away, and now it’s hard to find someone to help her secure a match.”

Liu Fenfang nodded: "It's not good. I'm so confused when I mention this. This girl is worrying me to death."

Meng Yinhe said: "Don't worry this time, Mom, I guess it's the last time we went to celebrate my grandma's birthday and bumped into him halfway. Maybe it was that time that I fell in love with my sister."

"Hurry up and get it! I usually pinch my eyeballs half way to see it, so how can I take a quick look and catch my eye?"

Liu Fenfang said: "Lao Meng, why don't you take the time to go have a drink with me and find out what his Erning means. I'm just an old girl. If he's not sure, don't mess with us."

"kindness."

It can be seen from this chattering atmosphere that Lao Meng's family is quite harmonious.

If it were someone else's family, even if the men didn't go to work and just stayed at home, they wouldn't be able to make dumplings.

But Meng Laizi is different. He is a calm person, and he always talks about things when he encounters problems.

Just like Meng Ziyan who is obsessed with Xu Ning, if it were a different family, who cares whether you would be happy or not?

Your parents make the final decision on marriage matters. If you don’t want to marry, you have to get married. How can your parents harm you?

Meng Ziyan and Liu Fenfang never forced Meng Ziyan. On the contrary, the siblings dared to tell his parents anything, so the four of them dared to speak openly about Meng Ziyan and Xu Ning in the house. Carrying two children on his back.

The younger brother and sister, Meng Laizi, rarely fight against them and usually just talk the truth.

I was so angry that I couldn't help it, so I punched and kicked him twice.

Compared with Xu Chunlin's education of children, Meng Laizi is much gentler.

However, Meng Laizi valued his carpentry skills very seriously, so when he taught Meng Yinhe how to learn, he couldn't help but beat him violently.

……

After delivering half a pig to Chang Danian, Xu Ning and Yu Kaihe walked home along the way.

On the way, Yu Kaihe held the donkey's rope and didn't ask about him and the Meng family's daughter.

This is a matter between the old Xu family and the old Meng family and has nothing to do with him.

No matter how trustworthy people are, they don't ask themselves directly.

Yu Kaihe looked at Xu Ning and said, "Er Ning, I have something I want to ask you to do."

"Then just say it, Uncle Yu."

"Well, I'm wondering if it's the Chinese New Year. My daughter and brother-in-law have to come back. Your aunt and I don't have anything to entertain you, so we just want you to help put some livestock on the mountain."

Xu Ning didn't bother, but nodded: "Okay, if you want any animals, I'll send them to you later."

Hearing his straightforward agreement, Yu Kaihe felt very open-minded.

"Hey, can I let you shoot in vain? Those bullets are not in vain. Besides, I am rich. Before last winter, I wandered around the mountains and picked up dead skins. The furs and other things were very good. I After you strip it and sell it on the street, it will make a lot of money."

Yu Kaihe is quite honest. If anyone else was there, he would definitely not be able to say anything about selling Dapi.

Big skin is sable, also known as big leaf and purple rat.

First-class leather goods can be sold for a thousand yuan, and second-class leather goods can be sold for five or six hundred yuan.
  And eighteen hundred yuan is a huge amount of money these days!
  For a married couple like Yu Kaihe, it would be quite dangerous to leak money.

"Ah, uncle, don't tell others about picking up big skin in the future."

Yu Kaihe said with a smile: "If it's necessary, I'll tell you, I don't even know how to borrow or compare."

"That's fine. What kind of animals do you want to hunt?"

"I want a roe deer or a deer. If you can hunt a bear, remember to leave two bear paws for me, and then add some fat and meat to me, okay?"

"middle!"

"Look at these. Is it enough for me to give you one hundred?"

Xu Ning was stunned and said: "One hundred? That's too much. Uncle, I won't be able to pull the animals back after I put them on the mountain to hunt, so I won't be able to find you then? Can I ask you for money?"

Yu Kaihe shook his head: "Man, this code is a code. I ask you to do something, and if you don't accept the money, I will definitely feel unhappy. If you don't agree, I will go for a walk up the mountain by myself."

Xu Ning was silent after hearing this.

He thought that in his previous life, on the twenty-ninth day, Yu Kaihe was attacked by a black blind man because he was trying to save someone on the mountain.

Maybe it was because he was entertaining his uncle that he went up the mountain to catch up in a hurry.

"That's too much. Let's live in the village. The money is hot to my hands."

Yu Kaihe asked with a smile: "Then how many would you say is appropriate? Eighty?"

"Chop it in half. If you feel good about it, I will feel good too. Fifty is quite appropriate."

"Okay, you will suffer the loss, and I will make the profit."

It was true that he suffered some losses. Xu Ning went to Wangxing to hunt livestock. The price of roe deer was eight cents, and one weighed less than a hundred pounds. How much did it cost? What about bear meat and bear paws?
  However, Xu Ning felt that Yu Kaihe was quite a real person, and besides, he would have to open his mouth with him to make the donkey pull the animals.

Both emotionally and rationally, Xu Ning didn't want to earn this money.

"What's wrong with you? We all know it among relatives. If you leave this job to me, don't you trust me? With my reputation, how many people in the village dare to trust me?"

Yu Kaihe said: "Don't listen to their nagging. They have nothing to do. They just ignore Nagada Bibi. This kind of thing is that you don't know if you don't get along, and you will be shocked when you get along."

"Haha... I'll take this job, but uncle, you don't want to go up the mountain with your body type, especially with your kind heart, sometimes it's easy to suffer losses."

"You have already helped me hunt animals, so why should I go up the mountain?"

"You can't go if you have nothing to do."

"Yeah, I won't go."

Arriving at the gate of Xu Family Courtyard.

Before Xu Ning could greet him, Yu Kaihe said that he had to go home quickly and let his wife fold the meat and fry it with some oil.

After saying that, he got on the sledge and drove the donkey straight to home.

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