Back to 1984: Hunting in the Mountains

Everyone looked at Yu Qiushi again.

Now, everyone has a different expression.

Some are worried, some are curious, some are gloating, and some take it for granted.

Yu Qiushi's chopsticks shook, and then he started to pour the rice soup in the bowl faster.

The person who came was naturally Chen Meidi.

He must have seen that Yu Qiushi didn't come back, so he ran over here and shouted.

This is actually completely unnecessary.

Anyway, Yu Qiutang had to go home in the evening, so he could just bring him back on the way. He still had to run several kilometers from the troglodyte courtyard.

Could it be that she was worried that her son would be influenced by the people here?

Everyone was waiting for Chen Meidi to push the door open and for Yu Qiushi to be dragged out by the ears.

But Chen Meidi didn't come in for a long time.

Instead, a new round of quarrels started outside.

"Hey, what did you say just now? What happened to our Yu family? Say it again?"

"It's none of your business, Chen Meidi!"

"Why is it none of my business? Look who I am. If you have something to say, just say it. Don't talk about it in a big way."

"Why, you don't allow people to speak? Your Yu family is really overbearing. The men are overbearing, the women are overbearing, the young ones are overbearing, and the old ones follow suit.

Fortunately, there aren’t many people in your Yu family in the village. If your family was big and prosperous, there wouldn’t be room for others to live.”

"Shut your stinky mouth. If you want to make a scene, go somewhere else. Don't come to our door. Don't you see who you are?" Chen Meidi said in a loud voice.

"You're talking about me, right? You're the one who protects the Yu family, right? Then tell me why you encouraged my son to steal money for him, life-saving money? He just..."

Chen Meidi reacted very quickly, and after just a few seconds, she said directly: "I don't understand what you are talking about. If it's about your son, then just let your son die in the mountains. Is it wrong to save people?
Oh, I remember now. Last time, our family...our Qiutang rescued your son, but you didn't pay us for our hard work, right? You said everything was fine before we went upstairs, but now you turned your face away from us. Are you born in the year of the dog, or are you just a dog?"

"You scold again?!"

"What's wrong with scolding you? Hurry up and leave. If you keep yelling here, I will beat you up. Don't you know who you are? Ask around and find out who I am, Chen Meidi. Why would I be afraid of a shrew like you?"

"you!!"

"What do you mean by 'I'? Are you going to leave or not? Are you going to leave or not?!"

There was a deafening noise outside, and everyone inside was dumbfounded, staring at Yu Qiushi.

Yu Qiushi was calm. He finished the porridge in the bowl and licked the soup bowl with his long tongue.

He put down his bowl and chopsticks, and seeing everyone looking at him, he said nonchalantly, "This is nothing. Ask my brother. This kind of thing happens every now and then at home."

What can Yu Qiutang say?

What Yu Qiushi said was both true and false.

In his impression, Chen Meidi was not so fierce when quarreling. At least when quarreling with his father, she could basically remain rational and would not fire so recklessly.

That woman was so aggressive, yet she was suppressed.

The sounds gradually became quieter.

At this time, the noise outside continued to escalate.

I don’t know what the woman said, but I heard Chen Meidi suddenly yell, “Fuck you, you are shameless, I told you to say it, I told you to say it!”

Then there was a series of crackling sounds.

Everyone was shocked and rushed out in a swarm until they heard a fight breaking out outside.

As expected, I saw Chen Meidi pressing the shrew to the ground, pressing her knee against the woman's waist and elbow against her neck, and fiercely questioning: "What did you just say, who is the boss of the dead wife?"

"It's your man, I told you, what can you do?
Isn’t that so? If not, he could marry three wives.

Why are you so arrogant, Chen Meidi? You are just someone's concubine, raising a child for someone else, you..."

"I told you to say it, I told you to say it!!"

Chen Meidi was completely furious and slapped the woman twice in the face.

She was a hard worker, and the two slaps were crisp and clear, with loud echoes.

The shrew was beaten so hard that she was stunned.

Take a break for a while.

While Chen Meidi was doing this, the man just pulled her symbolically without using any strength in his hands, as if he was just going through the motions and didn't really want to pull the two apart.

It was Yu Qiutang who rushed over again.

Yu Qiushi pulled his mother hard, and Wang Haofeng held the woman, and only then did they pull the two apart.

The woman stood up and was about to open her mouth, but Chen Meidi simply dragged Yu Qiushi forward and was about to kick her.

Wang Haofeng hurriedly pulled the woman away and tried to persuade her, "Just leave now. You still complain that the beating is not serious enough."

"Hit me, keep hitting me, beat me to death at your doorstep..."

"Okay, fuck you, I'll satisfy you!!"

"mother!!"

Yu Qiushi was also frightened by his mother's madness and shouted loudly.

Chen Meidi woke up a little after hearing her son's voice, but she still pointed at the woman and cursed:

"I'm telling you, you better keep your mouth shut in the future and do more good deeds for your children. Fuck you, how dare you talk about a dead person?

How did your mother educate you? You have no manners at all. If I hear you talking bullshit again, I will tear your mouth to pieces."

Seeing what had happened, Wang Haofeng hurriedly pulled the woman towards the path.

The woman wanted to continue struggling, but she could not withstand the real strength of Wang Haofeng. She was still muttering, but she didn't dare to speak too loudly, and she was slowly pulled away.

Her good-for-nothing man followed behind her like a puppet.

On this side, Chen Meidi watched the woman walk away before she turned back to look at everyone.

I couldn't help but complain, "You are so useless. A bunch of people are hiding inside, and a shrew is scolding you outside. It's really embarrassing for your Yu family."

Having said that, he grabbed Yu Qiushi and was about to leave.

"Let's have something to eat, we..." Yu Chunmei called from behind.

"I can't afford it. Who can afford to eat your food? If I eat it, people will scold me like a dog. I would rather starve." He grabbed Yu Qiushi again and started walking towards home.

"Mom, let me go, I can walk."

"You're not going to leave. I told you to come back earlier. It's already so late and you're still here to join in the fun. You haven't even wiped your mouth clean. Is it because the food here is delicious? Should I not provide meals for you at home?"

"Mom, no, the food you cook is delicious too." Yu Qiushi said hurriedly.

This is also the result of his hard work.

Over the years, I have learned when my mother gets angry, how angry she gets, and what words can help her calm down quickly and temporarily calm down.

Sure enough, after hearing what Yu Qiushi said, Chen Meidi's anger subsided a lot. She pulled Yu Qiushi for a few steps, then stopped and turned to say to everyone:
"All of you, don't be so arrogant when you are at home, and become cowardly as soon as you meet outsiders.

Your Yu family has no deep roots in the village. If you keep enduring, do you think others will look down on you?"

After saying this, he said no more and dragged Yu Qiushi away.

He walked and complained about something, and occasionally kicked Yu Qiushi's butt with his foot. Yu Qiushi would dodge it just right every time.

The high level of proficiency makes people feel distressed.

Watching the two people go away, everyone looked at each other, especially Yu Qiujiang and Yu Qiutang, who all smiled bitterly helplessly.

What Chen Meidi said is not unreasonable.

But it is indeed more difficult to deal with a woman who acts like a spoiled brat.

If you beat her up and she refuses to let go, she will say all kinds of dirty words.

It's not possible for a grown man to beat a woman to the point where she can't take care of herself in public.

Therefore, it is best to keep things quiet and let her leave as soon as possible.

In theory, this is annoying, but it should be over soon.

But unexpectedly, Chen Meidi came over, and it was like a collision between Mars and the Earth. Evil will be punished by evil.

That woman was not easy to deal with, and Chen Meidi was no pushover either. In the confrontation, whether it was verbal abuse or physical fighting, Chen Meidi actually always had the upper hand.

She is really a tough girl with her own tough hands.

Fortunately, this was just an episode and did not have much impact.

It snowed heavily at night.

In the morning, Yu Qiutang opened the door and saw the white snow covering the ground like a thick blanket.

Yu Qiutang stood at the door and looked at the snow. After hesitating for a long time, he decided to go into the mountain as planned.

When he met Lao Qin on the street that day, he was thinking about going into the mountains.

But the marriage proposal is more important than anything else, so it was delayed for a few days.

Now the dust has settled.

It's time to make some good money.

While preparing things, he found a pair of gloves given to him by his second sister and was quite moved.

One half of this pair of gloves is red, and the remaining half on the left hand is green. This is because when my second sister was knitting the gloves, she ran out of red yarn, so she used green yarn to make up for it.

The tip of the right index finger of the glove was worn out, so he patched it up with cloth.

It is not so bad in autumn, but now it is deep winter. The first thing to do when going into the mountains is to keep warm. It is very dangerous to get hypothermia in the mountains, or to encounter bad weather and be unable to return for a while.

I remembered what my second sister said about the wild boar, and I wondered if my brother-in-law had found a hunter.

He could actually help, but he didn't want to say it directly.

In many things, even if family members have good intentions, it is not convenient for them to take the lead, otherwise others will gossip.

Fortunately, it’s just a wild boar, so it shouldn’t be a problem for a professional hunter.

Hope everything goes well.

After cleaning up, he told Yu Xiaowei and Yu Xiaoyun to behave themselves at home, as they didn't have much time left and not to provoke Chen Meidi.

You have to listen to your third aunt. If that doesn't work, you can just run over there and hide.

After Chen Meidi displayed her skills yesterday, Yu Qiutang came back in the evening and thought his father was going to say something, but everything was calm. He just saw Yu Qiushi obediently crawling on the table and writing calligraphy through the window.

It is estimated that it has been suppressed temporarily.

If we hold on a little longer, it will probably only take ten days or half a month. We will vacate two rooms there and move in, and then clean up the rest slowly.

He didn't want to go back to the troglodyte courtyard for even a day.

Every time he walked down the alley, it was like walking into a cellar. The thin air made him feel more stressed.

Whether it was his father's half-hearted attitude or his estrangement from Chen Meidi, he felt helpless.

He was just about to step into the alley with his bag on his back when his father came out to pee. Seeing him so early, he asked him what he was going to do.

He answered truthfully that he was going for a walk in the mountains.

Yu Dejin nodded and told him not to go in alone. It had just snowed and the conditions in the mountains were terrible. If something happened, there would be no one to take care of each other.

Yu Qiutang nodded.

Just plain concern and just plain response.

Walking up to the troglodyte courtyard, you'll immediately see a sea of ​​white, whether it's the roofs, the treetops with various fallen leaves, the wheat fields, or the haystacks next to each courtyard.

All are snow-white.

The snow in the north in late winter is not like that in the south. It falls at night and melts in the sun during the day.

Because it is not cold when it snows, but when it melts, the temperature is already low, and melting snow absorbs heat. Here the days are short and the nights are long, so the time available to melt the snow is very limited.

It is often difficult to heat the snow to a melting point, but before it has time to melt much, the sun sets and the snow temperature drops again, making it unable to melt.

If it is in the shaded corners of the wall, the snow may not melt even after a winter.

Yu Qiutang was wearing sheepskin boots, which were very warm. These boots were made for him by his brother and he had been wearing them for several years.

My brother Chunsheng may have suffered with his mother for a long time, so he would do things that no man would regret doing, such as making shoes.

The elder brother also had a pair of these sheepskin boots, which were obtained because a man in the village had a sheep fall into a troglodyte and die. As the troglodyte had been abandoned and no one could get down there, the two brothers managed to get the sheep out and obtained the sheepskin.

Just three pairs of boots were made, one pair each for his mother, brother and him.

Fortunately, when he was eleven or twelve years old, he was already very tall, inheriting excellent family genes. Even though he was malnourished, he was already over 1.65 meters tall, taller than Yu Xiaowei is now.

As my height increased, my feet also grew rapidly.

When I was twelve years old, my feet seemed to be bigger than my brother's. So even now, this pair of boots is just a little tight on my feet but not unwearable.

As soon as I stepped into the snow, my feet were buried directly. Roughly estimated, the snow was about seven or eight centimeters thick.

This would be considered heavy snow in the south, but here it is just right and considered relatively normal.

Because he got up very early, there were no pedestrians on the road yet, and he was the first one.

Walking forward on the white snow, leaving two rows of black footprints on the road.

Yu Qiutang originally wanted to find Yu Qiujiang to go to the old birch forest with him, because Yu Qiujiang was tight-lipped and was his cousin who was as close as a brother, so he was not afraid of anything leaking out.

Although Wang Haofeng has a close relationship, his noisy personality makes it impossible to hide any trouble.

As for Qiu Yuan, ever since his grandmother came to live with them, he was able to hang out with the gang at first, but after a while, he became very busy and he seemed miserable every time he saw him.

When they arrived at the new hospital, they found that Yu Chunju was ill and Yu Qiujiang had to stay to take care of her, so he could not go with him.

Then I had to go alone.

Yu Qiutang did not bring anything complicated this time, just a quilt for warmth, some dry food, a bundle of ropes and a sack.

He didn't plan to go deep into the mountains as there were limited wild animals in the old birch forest.

Besides, his main purpose was not wild animals.

Finally, he took his five or six and a half.

He took all the remaining fifty bullets with him, and did not forget his dagger.

The last time he went in, he met those people. He didn’t know if he would meet them again this time, so he had to be on guard.

People are often more dangerous than wild animals. (End of this chapter)