HPDBC Chapter 1695 I am Zhao Youcai, don't you know that?
Chapter 1695 I am Zhao Youcai, don't you know that?
Chapter 1695 I am Zhao Youcai, don't you know that?
If a person can live to the point of not seeking fame or fortune, then they are almost like an immortal.
Zhao Youcai is an ordinary person, and it's normal for him to be fond of fame and fortune.
These days, to become famous, you have to be exceptional in some aspect or field.
Like Zhao Jun, he saved people and appeared on television, so nowadays, many people in Yong'an Forest Farm, Yushu Township, and even Shanhe County know about his benevolence and righteousness.
In addition, Zhao Jun captured fierce tigers and hunted wild boars, and the tyrannical bears and wild boars that wreaked havoc in the forest area all met their end at his hands. Therefore, the reputation of "Tiger-Taming General" and "Little Zhao the Cannon" spread throughout the Zhangguangcai Mountains.
As for Zhao Youcai, his character is beyond question. He's nicknamed "Two-Headed Gudu" because it sounds like he's not a good person.
As for his abilities, Zhao Youcai is indeed a good cook, but that's a job that involves serving others. He spends all day around the stove, getting covered in grease and grime. What good is fame if he's not famous? At most, he'll get a few more people asking him to cook for their big banquets.
What Zhao Youcai was most proud of was his skill in hunting in the mountains. Zhao Youcai believed that his marksmanship and experience were superior to Zhao Jun's, and even his physical strength and perseverance were better.
Logically speaking, Zhao Jun is already famous, so how come his father is still unknown?
Last year, in particular, Zhao Youcai, under immense pressure, killed three Siberian tigers thanks to his superb marksmanship.
Such a record should have made him famous throughout the mountain, but in the end he didn't even make a splash, which left Zhao Youcai feeling extremely frustrated and upset!
Upon hearing that Zhao Jun was even packaging medicinal wine, Zhao Youcai couldn't help but feel hopeful, hoping that he could receive the same treatment.
But when he asked Zhao Jun, Zhao Jun shook his head and said, "Dad, I don't know."
Upon hearing Zhao Jun's words, Zhao Youcai blurted out, "Didn't Director Chu say that?"
Zhao Jun subconsciously shook his head. Seeing Zhao Youcai's face darken, Zhao Jun quickly said, "Didn't you kill those two tigers in Wudaogou? That's not under Director Chu's jurisdiction."
Upon hearing Zhao Jun's words, Zhao Youcai was slightly taken aback. He blinked his small eyes twice, then asked Zhao Jun, "Wudaogou is under the jurisdiction of Shuangmajia?"
"I don't think so," Zhao Jun frowned. "I remember Fan Zhisheng calling me and saying that Wudaogou doesn't belong to them, so what township does it belong to?"
"What township?" Zhao Youcai asked. Zhao Jun leaned back and said with a wry smile, "Dad, if I knew, I would have just told you."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Youcai glanced at Zhao Jun and whispered, "It's nothing."
"What?" Zhao Jun stared wide-eyed at Zhao Youcai. Zhao Youcai also sensed something was wrong and quickly changed the subject, saying, "I also run a black tiger in Shuguang. Isn't that under Director Chu's jurisdiction?"
“Well… then it has to be returned.” Zhao Jun agreed, then Zhao Youcai pressed on, “Didn’t Director Chu say that?”
"He didn't say." Zhao Jun shook his head, but then Zhao Youcai pointed to the phone and said, "Call him and ask him!"
"They're busy, why should I call?" Zhao Jun reassured Zhao Youcai, saying, "They probably haven't heard anything yet, otherwise Director Chu would have already mentioned it on the phone, wouldn't he?"
"What do you mean there's no news?" Zhao Youcai said, "Doesn't he know whether it was sold to the pharmaceutical factory or not?"
As he spoke, Zhao Youcai stepped forward and pushed Zhao Jun aside, saying, "Get out of the way."
Then, Zhao Youcai went to the phone, picked up the receiver, dialed the exchange, and shouted that he wanted to call Han Songbaozi, Wudaogou, Ji Province, Lingnan.
Although the two places are only separated by a mountain range, it is still across provinces. Moreover, it is not an internal dedicated line, so it will take a while before it can be connected.
Zhao Youcai stood fuming in front of the phone, while Zhao Jun quietly slipped out. He even closed the door behind him as he left.
When Zhao Jun came out, he saw Wang Meilan and Ma Ling and others tidying up the hides in the outer room.
With the arrival of spring and the arrival of the mountain dogs, business at the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce picks up again. The collected hides are processed where necessary, and those that have been processed need to be cared for and maintained.
As temperatures rise in early spring, covering up can easily attract insects.
"Son, what's wrong now?" Wang Meilan said this to Zhao Jun, but she was actually asking Zhao Youcai what was making such a fuss about.
"Mom, this time it's all settled." Zhao Jun said with a smile as he told them about the tiger bone wine, which made all the women happy for him.
"Oh, son!" Wang Meilan patted Zhao Jun's shoulder happily and laughed, "My son has made a name for himself again!"
As she spoke, Wang Meilan pointed eastward and said, "When you bring the wine back, you must put a few bottles away and put them away with your newspaper."
The newspaper Wang Meilan was referring to was the one where Zhao Jun was interviewed. Wang Meilan believed that this was all due to good fortune from their ancestors' graves.
Sitting to Wang Meilan's left, Ma Ling looked at Zhao Jun with eyes full of love. Women these days aren't necessarily materialistic, but who wouldn't want to marry an outstanding man?
And Zhao Jun is the most outstanding young man in this forest area!
"Son!" At this moment, Wang Meilan pointed to the east corridor and asked Zhao Jun, "Why is your dad closing the door?"
“My dad’s on the phone,” Zhao Jun said. Seeing Wang Meilan frown slightly, he asked again, “Mom, what’s wrong?”
“I was thinking you should call the Yongxing Brigade and ask them to send over a pig,” Wang Meilan said. Zhao Jun quickly replied, “What, Mom? Are we slaughtering a pig?”
"Ah!" Wang Meilan exclaimed, "Such a prestigious event for our family, shouldn't we celebrate, celebrate?"
After saying this, Wang Meilan looked up at the window and then added, "Also, we're out of meat. In a couple of days, your Uncle Zhao and his family will be coming up. His father and mother are coming too. They treated you so well when you visited. Now that they're here, we have to make sure they have good wine and good food!"
Wang Meilan was right, but Zhao Jun laughed and said, "Mom, my Uncle Zhao will have to wait a few days. If we arrest him these next few days, can we wait until my Uncle Zhao and the others arrive?"
“Why not?” Wang Meilan said, “We can make some dried sausages and let them air dry. We can steam them whenever we want to eat them.”
"You're kidding me, sister-in-law." Jin Xiaomei objected as soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, saying, "They ate them all before they even dried."
Everyone laughed, and Wang Meilan laughed too.
"Then let's do that..." Wang Meilan laughed, "Chop up the ribs and freeze them along with the pork hock. After that, we'll use the lean meat to make sausages, and the fatty part to make salted pork."
These days, refrigerators aren't common. And in the past, they were even rarer, so in some parts of both the north and south, meat was cured into salted meat for storage.
So-called salted meat is made by cutting the hindquarters, pork belly, and forequarters—which have both fat and lean parts—into pieces.
Then, layer coarse salt and meat are placed in the jar. The meat is thoroughly pickled and won't spoil even in summer. It's great for stewing potatoes or green beans.
Forty years later, the bubbling green beans that went viral online were actually stewed with lard and salted meat. Some people say that adding baking soda will also cause bubbling, but no wonder they don't taste good!
“Second Aunt, that won’t do either.” As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, Xu Chunyan raised another question, saying, “We’ll eat it all before it’s fully pickled. It’s not only a hassle, but it’s also a waste of the salt.”
"Then fry it, just a quick dip!" Wang Meilan suggested again. What she meant was to put the meat, which had both fat and lean meat, into the oil briefly, and then put the meat and lard together in a jar. That way, it could be stored for several months.
This time, no one objected. Seeing this, Wang Meilan looked at Zhao Jun and said, "Son, let's arrange it this way!"
"Hey..." Zhao Jun had just responded when he heard Zhao Youcai's voice calling from inside the small east hut: "It's me, Zhao Youcai! Zhao Youcai, don't you remember me?"
Everyone instinctively looked eastward. Wang Meilan's lips twitched, and she muttered Zhao Youcai's favorite phrase: "What a day!"
Just then, the door was pulled open from the outside, and Li Baoyu appeared in the doorway, calling out, "Brother, let's go!"
“Let’s go, let’s go.” Zhao Jun responded repeatedly, then said to Wang Meilan, “Mom, we’re going fishing.”
“Go ahead, son.” Wang Meilan agreed readily, saying, “It’s good to catch some fish so we can eat tonight, otherwise we won’t have anything to eat again.”
Seeing that Zhao Jun was about to leave, Ma Ling quickly stood up and said to him, "Aren't you going to eat lunch?"
"Let's go to the convenience store and buy two pounds of dry food to tide us over," Zhao Jun said before leaving the house.
By this time, Zhang Yuanmin had already repaired the net and was picking it up.
The so-called "picking up the net" means pulling in the net, and there are professional techniques for casting and pulling in the net. Zhang Yuanmin explained this to Wang Qiang and the others while pulling in the net.
Seeing Zhao Jun come out, the group busied themselves getting ready to set off. After putting Wei Deluo, Da Shuishao, and Da Tiepen in the back of the Liberation truck, Zhao Jun, Xing San, Wang Qiang, Li Baoyu, Xie Chen, Zhao Jinhui, Li Ruhai, and Ma Yang got into two separate trucks.
"Huh?" Zhao Jun, who had just gotten into the jeep, suddenly felt something was wrong. He got out of the car and walked to the back. Seeing Li Ruhai and Ma Yang crammed into the passenger seat of the truck, Zhao Jun asked Ma Yang, "Xiao Yang, why aren't you in school?"
"I had PE class last this morning, so I came back," Ma Yang said. Zhao Jun frowned and asked, "What about this afternoon?"
"It's choral rehearsal this afternoon." Ma Yang pouted and said, "They're not taking me."
"His singing is scary," Li Ruhai whispered, then received a shove from Ma Yang.
Zhao Jun glanced at Ma Yang and said, "If you lie, Dad will beat you, but that's none of my business!"
"No, brother-in-law, let's go!" Ma Yang said anxiously.
Zhao Jun returned to the jeep, and Li Baoyu started the car and drove away.
The fishing team set off, while Wang Meilan and the women continued working in the outer room.
Just then, Zhao Youcai's voice rang out from the small east hut again: "I am Zhao Youcai! Zhao Youcai, don't you know me? The Tiger-Slaying King, the one who killed the black tiger for you on the fourteenth of the first lunar month... What? You don't know me? Then what about your Party Secretary? Who am I? Didn't I tell you? I am Zhao Youcai... You don't recognize me? You don't recognize me? Am I not going to let you find your Party Secretary?"
Zhao Youcai shouted, leaving everyone in the outer room completely bewildered.
"Mom," Ma Ling called softly to Wang Meilan, "What's wrong with Dad?"
"Who knows?" Wang Meilan frowned, then said Zhao Youcai's favorite phrase: "It's just like this every day."
As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, Zhao Youcai suddenly yanked open the door of the east hut. Zhao Youcai stormed out of the hut, and just as he was about to say something, he saw his daughter-in-law getting up.
Upon seeing Ma Ling, Zhao Youcai suppressed his anger, forced a smile, and asked, "Where's Zhao Jun?"
"Dad, he went fishing." After Ma Ling finished speaking, Zhao Youcai quickly went to the window and craned his neck to look outside.
At this point, people and vehicles have all left the village, so what can he possibly keep an eye on?
The jeep was stopped as soon as it left the village.
"Brother!" Li Baoyu, who was driving, turned around and called out to Zhao Jun, "That Captain Song."
At this moment, Zhao Jun, who was sitting in the back seat, pushed open the car door and got out. He smiled at Song Fu'an and said, "Captain Song, if I hadn't run into you, I would have been thinking of coming to see you sometime."
Zhao Jun didn't think much of it, assuming it was just a chance encounter. At that moment, upon hearing that the man was Song Fu'an, Xing San also came down from the back row.
"Boss!" Song Fu'an said to Zhao Jun with a wry smile, "I came here specifically to see you."
"Huh?" Zhao Jun was taken aback and quickly asked, "What's wrong? Did one of our forest rangers find something?"
Previously, when Zhao Jun went to the Third Work Section, he called all the forest rangers together and asked them to keep an eye out for suspicious persons.
When Song Fu'an came looking for him, Zhao Jun thought it was about that matter.
"Team leader, Zhang Jimin is injured." People are prone to preconceived notions, so when Song Fu'an said this, Zhao Jun quickly asked, "What happened? Did he run into bad guys?"
“No, no,” Song Fu’an said, “He was forced to kowtow by the tiger cubs.”
"Tiger cubs?" Zhao Jun frowned, and then Song Fu'an explained, "He was patrolling the forest in a group of three, and as they walked, they heard something howling. When the three of them went over, they saw a tiger cub, a little kid in some corner."
In Northeast China, "小二岁儿" refers to a large animal, such as a cow or horse, that is about one year old.
In the mountains and forests of Yong'an Forest Area, the only animals that can be called "two years old" are red deer that are about one year old.
When Song Fu'an stopped the car and Zhao Jun got out, Zhao Jinhui and Zhang Yuanmin, who were in the car, opened the car window.
Upon hearing that Zhang Jimin was injured, Zhang Yuanmin, despite his previous discord with Zhang Jimin, did not show any schadenfreude.
Upon hearing this, Zhao Jinhui couldn't help but exclaim, "Lynxes are that fierce? They can even take on deer?"
"So what are you thinking about?" Wang Qiang, who was squeezed in the back row, said, "Don't be fooled by our little cat's 'whining,' those lynxes in the mountains are the real shrew."
“Yeah,” Zhang Yuanmin echoed, “My dad said that in front of the Greater Khingan Mountains, there was some kind of place called Eleke or something. The people there made their living by hunting, and they also collectively raised deer.”
They raise reindeer, we don't have those here. They say the big ones can grow to 500 pounds. And then… that tiger cub, it was completely killed by that reindeer.”
Just as Zhang Yuanmin finished speaking, Zhao Jun and Song Fu'an separated. Then, Xing San pulled Song Fu'an aside and said something, while Zhao Jun walked back to the car and said, "Let's go back and take the dog up the mountain."
"Okay, brother!" Li Baoyu was the first to respond. He had been feeling quite restless these past few days, not having gone hunting in the mountains.
At this moment, Wang Qiang asked, "Nephew, which dogs do you always bring?"
Wang Qiang asked this question because the Zhao family's gang had dispersed and were now guarding various houses and courtyards.
"Choose the fiercest leader," Zhao Jun said. "Pick the most experienced one, and make sure they all wear armor!"
As he said this, Zhao Jun waved to Xie Chen, who nodded to indicate that he understood, and then turned the steering wheel to reverse.
At this moment, Li Ruhai and Ma Yang, who were sitting in the passenger seat of the Jiefang truck, were a little confused, but Zhao Jun ignored them and got into the jeep directly.
"Brother, aren't we waiting for Uncle San?" Zhang Yuanmin asked. Zhao Jun replied, "Don't worry about him, he'll go back on his own."
Xing San was getting old, and Zhao Jun didn't want to bother him unless absolutely necessary. Taking him out for fishing or a stroll was fine, but he wouldn't be taken hunting. Zhao Jun had already told him to chat with Song Fu'an and then stroll home.
After the jeeps and Liberation trucks entered the village, they split into two groups. Jie Chen went from house to house to pick up Bai Long, Hua Long, Huang Long, Da Hua, Er Hua, Xiao Hua, and Hei Niu.
The little bear hadn't seen many battles since giving birth, and its condition hadn't fully recovered. The green tiger, on the other hand, was old and couldn't run fast, which would put it at a disadvantage against the lynx, so the Zhao army didn't bring either of them.
As for Bald Tail and the three red female dogs, let's not even mention them.
Li Baoyu drove his jeep, taking Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang, and Zhang Yuanmin home to change clothes and get their equipment.
As soon as the jeep stopped at the gate, Black Tiger and the four dogs stirred. As the four entered the yard, the four dogs followed them all the way to the front of the house.
As soon as Zhao Jun arrived in front of the house, Zhao Youcai jumped out of the house!
(End of this chapter)