The whole mountain is my hunting ground

Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu walked forward for a few steps side by side, and suddenly turned back and asked him: "You are here, who are the young ones watching?"

"Don't worry, brother." Li Baoyu said, "My mother and my aunt are taking them."

"Yes." Zhao Jun was relieved.

The two of them walked forward again when they heard someone shouting from the front: "You son of a bitch, you son of a bitch."

Isn't this a curse?

Probably not. After all, it's the New Year. If you curse before the New Year, you'll get beaten easily.

Zhao Jun looked for the sound and saw a middle-aged man guarding a wooden box under the big willow tree in the east. The wooden box was covered with a thick quilt.

Zhao Jun pulled Li Baoyu and walked towards the willow tree.

"Selling dogs?" Li Baoyu walked in, and the noise around him gradually subsided, and he heard the stall owner shouting "dog bastard".

"Hmm." The stall owner responded and said, "Let's take a look?"

"Let's take a look." Now Li Baoyu can be said to be wealthy and confident in speaking.

The stall owner pulled up a corner of the quilt and said to Li Baoyu: "Brother, you have to look quickly. The dog is too small. Don't freeze."

"Hey, okay." Li Baoyu likes dogs. Even if they are not his own dogs, he doesn't want anything to happen to these dogs.

Li Baoyu came to the box, opened the quilt and took a look. He saw three puppies lying in the wooden box. The wooden box was covered with buried mattresses, and they were gathering together.

Zhao Jun glanced sideways and said, "Are they all blue dogs?"

"Yes." The stall owner said, "They come from the same litter."

Zhao Jun frowned slightly and asked, "Why do you just sell it for such a small amount?"

Hearing this, the stall owner couldn't help but sigh and said: "I went up to the mountain on the third day of the twelfth lunar month. The female dog at home was not tied up, so she followed me behind. I didn't know until I got to the mountain.

When she encountered a wild boar, my female dog let the wild boar pick her. "

At this point, the stall owner's eyes were slightly red and his voice was choked with sobs, and he said: "It's a big problem in my neck. If I don't give birth on the second day, I will give birth on the third day."

Zhao Jun took a closer look at the three puppies. They must have been born two days prematurely. They had not received breast milk these days, so they were probably a little weak.

The stall owner added: "If your family is in trouble, just feed them some rice soup. I'm so hungry every day that I scream. Brothers, if you want to buy one, I'll take it away for three yuan."

Li Baoyu stretched out his hand, carefully picked up one and looked at it. He sighed softly, put the puppy back, and turned to look at Zhao Jun.

Zhao Jun suddenly asked the stall owner, "Brother, where do you live?"

"Ah." The stall owner was stunned for a moment when he was asked, but he quickly came to his senses and replied, "I'm from Jiangling."

"Brother, what's your surname?"

The stall owner looked at Zhao Jun and wondered, is this guy trying to make a relationship?

But he thought, if he could really build a relationship, he could really give Zhao Jun a puppy, for no other reason than that it was a reliable person who could keep these puppies alive.

"Excuse me, my surname is Qu."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Jun hurriedly walked to the wooden box, reached out and picked up the three puppies one by one, and turned them to face him.

At this time, these puppies were already more than 20 years old, and their eyes had all been opened. Zhao Jun took them one by one, and saw that one puppy seemed to have small light-colored dots on its eyelids, which were very small. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't see clearly at all. .

"I want this one." Zhao Jun said, untied his cotton-padded jacket and stuffed the puppy into his cotton-padded jacket.

"Okay." The stall owner, who originally thought that Zhao Jun wanted to build a relationship, did not expect that Zhao Jun bought one so happily.

"Brother, what are you going to do if you buy it and take it home?" Li Baoyu didn't want to speak at first, because saying so seemed to interfere with other stall owners' business, but he didn't want to see Zhao Jun suffer a loss.

This puppy has probably never had enough to eat since birth, and it’s hard to think of a way to raise it if you take it home.

Besides, what should I feed it with?

These days, people in the mountains don’t even know what milk powder is.

There is malted milk, but it would be crazy to feed it to a dog.

If you cook rice soup, won't you still be hungry?

"It's okay, I've made a living too." Zhao Jun said as he took out money from his pocket, took out three yuan and handed it to the stall owner.

After leaving the willow tree, Zhao Jun said to Li Baoyu: "Baoyu, tell my mother, I will go back first."

"Ah, okay." Li Baoyu knew that the puppy couldn't stand the cold, so Zhao Jun had to take it home quickly.

Zhao Jun hurried home with the puppy in his arms and entered the village. When he passed by the small store, he went directly into the store and said to the woman behind the counter: "Aunt Wang, get me a bucket of malted milk."

The proprietress took out a bucket of malted milk from under the counter and put it on the counter. She smiled at Zhao Jun and said, "Why did Zhao Jun buy it?"

"Drink." Zhao Jun replied with a smile, and then said to the proprietress: "Aunt Wang will keep it in the account, and I'll settle it for you in two days."

"It's easy to talk about." The landlady took out a book, flipped through two pages and recorded the accounts. Seeing Zhao Jun holding a cotton-padded jacket in one hand, she asked him, "What do you have in your arms?"

"Hot dry food." Zhao Jun said with a smile: "Aunt Wang, I'm leaving." After saying that, holding a cotton-padded jacket in one hand and malted milk in the other, Zhao Jun walked home after leaving the snack shop.

After hurriedly arriving home, Zhao Jun entered the house, sat on the kang and untied his cotton-padded jacket. He saw that the puppy was asleep.

Zhao Jun took off the dog skin hat from his head, put the puppy in the hat, and then folded a small quilt into a square and pressed it on the hat.

Then, Zhao Jun went out to the outhouse, lit a fire and boiled water, took a small bowl, and made a bowl of malted milk for the puppy.

When he returned to the back room, he saw the puppy crawling out of the hat.

Zhao Jun smiled, walked to the kang with the bowl in hand, took the little green dog out of the hat, and placed it on the ground.

As soon as the little green dog landed on the ground, he peed.

Zhao Jun laughed and scolded: "If you don't pee in your nest, pee on my ground."

After the little green dog finished urinating, Zhao Jun picked it up and put it back into the hat. He didn't want to take the hat anymore, so he would just use it as a nest for the little green dog.

Then, Zhao Jun went outside, used a shovel to gather snow into the house, and pressed it on the little green dog's urine.

Then he pinched the snow out, and then pinched the new snow in. After repeating this several times, he pinched two more shovelfuls of stove pit ashes...

By the time Zhao Jun finished his work, the brewed malted milk was no longer so hot.

He put the bowl on the kang and took out the little green dog. He watched the little green dog licking the malted milk vigorously. Zhao Jun squatted by the kang and watched it quietly.

"Qinglong." Zhao Jun called softly.

Miraculously, when the little green dog heard the noise, he stopped eating and drinking, and turned his head to look at Zhao Jun.

Zhao Jun laughed.

Near noon, Wang Meilan came back with Zhao Hong and Zhao Na. She heard that Zhao Jun had bought a puppy, and even Li Xiaoqiao came to Zhao Jun's house.

Seeing the three girls playing happily with the puppy, Wang Meilan pulled Zhao Jun aside and asked him: "Son, what did you feed the dog?"

"Malted milk essence." Zhao Jun replied simply.

"What?" Wang Meilan's eyes widened, she looked straight at her son and shouted: "You are rich, right?"

"No." Zhao Jun said with a smile: "I got it from the small store, remember to pay. Mom, you can pay it back to me another day."

Wang Meilan:……