HPDBC Chapter 1595: Xishan Tun Wang Tunzhang
Chapter 1595: Xishan Tun Wang Tunzhang
Chapter 1595: Xishan Tun Wang Tunzhang
"Your brother Jiang and your brother Wei also said so." After hearing Zhao Jun say that he and Qin Qiang had a bad relationship, Huang Gui said, "Why don't I think about asking your father to mediate between them?"
"What are you talking about?" Zhao Jun asked. Huang Gui said, "Look, tell Qin Lao San how much money you want to pay for his horse?"
Although there were some unpleasant things yesterday, Huang Gui did not want to deny his debt, and he could not deny it. If he ran away, there was still Jiang Ming.
When Huang Gui mentioned the horse, Zhao Jun told him how he and his mother solved the problem of Huang Gui hitting the horse.
Then, Zhao Jun and Huang Gui talked about compensation, and an argument started between them.
Huang Gui was a stubborn person. He insisted on giving all the horse meat to the Zhao family and giving Zhao Jun 600 yuan. Zhao Jun said he would not do anything and only wanted 300 yuan at most.
Ten dogs and six people looked at the two of them who were so stubborn that their faces turned red and their necks became thick. Jiang Ming and Wei Lai whispered a few words, and then they joined in and helped Zhao Jun speak.
Seeing them like this, Huang Gui angrily rebuked Jiang Ming and Wei Lai for letting the Zhao Jun brothers suffer. As a result, Jiang and Wei mentioned the distribution plan of the black bear gallbladder. They said that the bear gallbladder would be divided into half by each family, that is, the Zhao family would get half, and the others would get half.
This time it was Zhao Jun's turn to refuse to listen, and then four people started arguing, and the four people led ten dogs to watch the fun.
The quarrel continued like this until Wang Qiang, Jie Chen and Zhao Jinhui came over. Zhao Jinhui took two deep breaths, then took out some Hongtashan cigarettes from his pocket and sprinkled them around.
"This cigarette is good!" Wei Lai took a puff of Hongtashan and said, "It's not worse than Shilin."
"Then what are you thinking about?" Huang Gui, who had seen more of the world than Jiang Ming, immediately said, "This cigarette is the same price as Shi Lin's."
"Okay, brother!" At this time, Wei Lai said to Zhao Jun, "Qiangzi and the others are here, so let's not argue in the mountains. You are a brother, and we are all brothers. It's only natural for a brother to give in to his brothers."
As he spoke, Wei Lai brought the tied and packed black bear gallbladder to Zhao Jun and said, "You see more gallbladders in a year than we see all together. Look at this gallbladder. After it's dried, sell it for 1,800 yuan. Is that okay?"
"No problem, Brother Wei." Zhao Jun agreed with Wei Lai's words, and then he heard Wei Lai say: "Our family has 900 yuan, and Brother Huang owes you 300 yuan. You take the courage, and when you have time later, give us 600 yuan and it will be over."
"Brother Wei." Zhao Jun frowned and said, "What's going on? If you do this, won't it be like my brothers have to go up the mountain to snatch this black bear's courage from you?"
At this point, Zhao Jun slapped his thigh and said, "I never get close to anyone when I go up the mountain, and I certainly can't get close to my brothers."
"You don't stick to other people's things. Why don't you stick to your brother's things? What are you afraid of?" Jiang Ming said so, but Zhao Jun waved his hands again and again, saying, "Brother Jiang, this is absolutely not allowed! If this gets out, won't people blame your brother?"
"If we don't share your courage, others will blame us." Huang Gui's words hit the nail on the head.
At this moment, Xie Chen suddenly spoke up and said to Huang Gui: "Brother, can I say something?"
Huang Gui and Jie Chen were quite familiar with each other. Before the Chinese New Year, when Jie Chen was passing by Qiaotou Village on his way home, he was asked by Zhao Jun to visit Huang Gui.
Seeing that it was Xie Chen who wanted to speak, Huang Gui raised his hand to put out his cigarette and said, "Go ahead, my humble servant."
"Well..." Xie Chen smiled and said, "Why don't we drag this black bear down the mountain first? We can talk about anything after we get home."
When Xie Chen said this, Zhao Jun and others were all stunned. Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Huang Gui pointed at Xie Chen and said, "Just do as I say, let's go!"
The eleven people hurriedly dragged the black bear down the mountain and arrived in front of the Liberation Army vehicle. Zhao Jun invited Huang Gui and six others to his home for dinner.
Huang Gui and his friends didn't refuse and followed Zhao Jun into the back of the car. After they sat down, Huang Gui suddenly asked Zhao Jun a serious question: "Did your father make fun of me?"
"Haha" Zhao Jun couldn't help laughing out loud when Huang Gui asked him this question. Zhao Jun himself didn't believe that Zhao Youcai didn't laugh at Huang Gui.
"Damn it!" Huang Gui cursed, "His horse was smoky-colored. I was about ten meters away from him, and I could see shadows on the tree branches. I thought it was a big guy!"
"It's alright, brother." Zhao Jun consoled him, "It's good that you didn't hit anyone. They carried people there and left them there. You said you wanted to make a string of candied haws, but who did you hit? Wouldn't that be troublesome?"
In forest areas, it is very common to accidentally injure cattle and horses while hunting in the mountains, and there are also cases of accidental injury and killing.
If someone really killed someone by mistake, he would definitely be sentenced to imprisonment. But if it was not intentional, he would usually be sentenced to three to five years.
"Not at all!" Wei Lai echoed, "I would say the same thing about him. Just be happy that he didn't hit anyone. It doesn't matter if it's embarrassing or not... hehe..."
As he spoke, Wei Lai could no longer hold back, causing Huang Gui to start cursing.
In this way, a group of people got in the car, talking, laughing, and cursing, and arrived at Yong'antun.
When they entered the village and walked towards Zhao Jun's house, they could smell the aroma of meat in the air when they were still some distance away.
"Brother!" Wei Lai said to Zhao Jun with a smile, "Why don't we go to your house for dinner? Is the meat ready?"
"That should be it." Zhao Jun responded with a smile, and the Jiefang truck soon stopped outside the Zhao family's yard.
Sure enough, there were two big pots in the yard, steaming and emitting the aroma of meat. But the one sitting by the stove watching the pots was Xing San.
"Uncle." Zhao Jun hurriedly got out of the car, walked into the yard, called Xing San, and asked, "Where are my mother and the others in the new house?"
Zhao Jun thought his mother was supervising the construction of the shed at the new house.
"No." Xing San said: "Your mother has taken people out."
"Ah?" Zhao Jun was stunned and just wanted to ask again when he heard Li Baoyu shouting from behind: "Brother, quickly call my Sixth Aunt!"
Li Baoyu had not yet realized that things were about to change at home. What he was concerned about at the moment were Bailong and Erhua who were scratched by the black bear.
Hearing Li Baoyu's urging, Zhao Jun hurried into the house.
At this time, Huang Gui and others climbed down from the trunk of the car and went into the yard to greet Xing San.
Huang Gui didn't know Xing San, but it was polite. When you go to someone's house, you have to say hello. Jiang Ming and Wei Lai did recognize this old mountain dog, but they didn't expect Xing San to be recruited by Zhao Jun.
Seeing Xing San responding to Huang Gui in a friendly manner, Jiang Ming and Wei Lai both felt a little unbelievable.
Zhao Jun quickly led Lin Xue out of the house. As soon as he got out, he called Huang Gui, "Brother, come in, don't stand outside."
As soon as Zhao Jun finished speaking, before Huang Gui and the others could respond, someone in the west courtyard said, "Oh, the horse-killing cannon is coming?"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Jun and Huang Gui's faces turned dark.
Then, Zhao Youcai appeared from behind Li’s house in the west yard, carrying a large shovel.
Zhao Youcai was followed by Li Dayong. The two brothers were cleaning up the jackal house. When they heard Huang Gui's voice, Zhao Youcai stopped working and hurried over.
When he arrived at the front yard of Li's house, Zhao Youcai threw away the shovel, jumped to the wall in a few steps, and then climbed over it swiftly.
"Hahahaha..." The laughter could be heard before the person landed on the ground.
Zhao Youcai looked at Huang Gui and laughed, "Oh! Oh! This guy came to our forest area to beat our horses!"
"Get the hell out of here!" Huang Gui's face turned red with anger, and then he turned to Zhao Jun and said, "I'm leaving!"
"Hey, brother!" Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang hurriedly grabbed Huang Gui, and then winked at Zhao Youcai.
“Hahaha…” Zhao Youcai couldn’t stop laughing, but since Huang Gui was the guest, he couldn’t let him get angry and leave.
So Zhao Youcai stepped forward to stop Huang Gui and said, "Look at you, you little bitch. You laughed at me earlier, how could you have forgotten?"
Huang Gui glared at Zhao Youcai fiercely when he heard this, and said unhappily, "That's good, now it's what you want, did you enjoy yourself tonight?"
"Hahaha..." Zhao Youcai laughed, then called Jiang Ming, Wei Lai, Jiang Weifeng and the Chen brothers into the house.
Zhao Jun left Huang Gui to Wang Qiang's care, while he accompanied Lin Xue to take care of the injured dog.
In the east room of the Zhao family, everyone sat on and under the kang. Zhao Youcai generously took out Shilin cigarettes and distributed them to everyone.
After taking a puff of cigarette, Huang Gui stared at Zhao Youcai and asked, "Zhao Laoer, what did you just do to kill the horse cannon?"
“Hahaha…” Zhao Youcai laughed again and said, “This is the nickname our villagers gave you. Did you kill someone’s horse?”
What Zhao Youcai said was not wrong, after all, he was from this village.
Originally, Zhao Youcai wanted Li Ruhai to go out and publicize the incident of Huang Gui hitting the horse, so as to divert the attention from his own collision with the old cow. But Li Ruhai didn't listen to him, so Zhao Youcai wanted to go out and spread the word slowly by himself.
"What kind of bastard can give someone such a nickname?" Huang Gui said, glaring at Zhao Youcai.
Zhao Youcai smiled and asked, "How have you been these days? How many pounds have you caught in total?"
Huang Gui smoked in silence, and Jiang Ming replied, "Including the black bear we caught today, the total is two thousand kilograms."
"Oh my god!" Zhao Youcai pretended to be surprised and said, "If we add the horse we lost yesterday, it would be around two thousand five or six thousand, right?"
"You idiot, just go ahead and be mean!" Huang Gui glared at Zhao Youcai with gritted teeth, which made Zhao Youcai laugh.
"Brother-in-law!" Wang Qiang pulled Zhao Youcai tightly, signaling Zhao Youcai not to go too far.
Thinking that this was his own home, Zhao Youcai restrained himself a little and said, "Okay, let's wait and eat horse meat."
After saying this, Zhao Youcai suddenly sighed and said, "My spendthrift wife divided up the horse, leaving only 40 to 50 kilograms of meat."
"Ah?" Upon hearing this, Wang Qiang hurriedly asked Zhao Youcai, "Brother-in-law, what did my sister do? Did she share all the horse meat?"
"Ha!" Zhao Youcai sneered and said, "Your sister took the meat and went to Xishan Village to be the village chief."
"What?" Wang Qiang, Huang Gui and others were all shocked when they heard what Zhao Youcai said.
In Xishantun, on the empty field where young people who went to the countryside used to play ball and dry grain, men, women, young and old from Xishantun gathered together to witness the most glorious moment in Wang Meilan's life.
Of course, these people's eyes drifted to the three sacks under the big willow tree from time to time. Those three sacks were filled with horse meat that Grandma Zhao brought to them from home.
Not to mention the long-term transportation work, the horse meat in front of them clearly makes the people of Xishantun realize who to choose and who not to choose.
The election was not over yet. Clerk Liu, who had been to Xishantun yesterday, opened a two-finger-wide strip of calendar paper and saw three horizontal lines drawn on it with a pencil. He turned to Clerk Wang and said, "It's Wang Meilan again."
The township did not attach much importance to the election in Xishantun. The main purpose of the township in recruiting these hooligans was to ensure that they would not cause trouble and obey the family planning policy quietly.
Zou Yunchuan didn't come today, so two clerks were sent, one to count the votes and the other to monitor the voting.
There was not even a small blackboard on which to write properly in the entire Xishantun. It took a lot of effort to find three relatively clean red bricks and half a piece of chalk.
There are three red bricks, one for Wang Meilan, one for Zhang Xinglong, and one for Tong Youfeng. Whoever gets a vote will put a vote on that person's brick.
Since few people in Xishan Village could read, they drew lines on paper to distinguish who to choose. One line represented Zhang Xinglong, two lines represented Tong Youfeng, and the three lines that Clerk Liu saw just now represented Wang Meilan.
When clerk Liu finished reading the last ballot, he saw that Zhang Xinglong's red brick had only six lines, Tong Youfeng's red brick had four lines, and Wang Meilan's red brick was densely packed with lines.
At this time, Wang Meilan was in high spirits and smiling; Tong Youfeng was dejected, but there was nothing he could do.
Zhang Xinglong, with anger in his eyes, stared at the crowd fiercely. But he did not want to be an enemy of the crowd, but was angry at his own family.
There are seven people in Zhang Xinglong's family, including himself. Seven votes were cast today, and Zhang Xinglong got six votes. This means that even his family members have betrayed him.
This result was what Zhang Xinglong could not accept. As for who his family voted for, there was no need to ask, it must be Wang Meilan. Because Tong Youfeng's family had four people in total, and Tong Youfeng also got four votes.
At this time, clerk Wang announced the election results, saying: "The voting results of our Xishantun people are: Zhang Xinglong 6 votes, Tong Youfeng 4 votes, Wang Meilan 262 votes!"
As soon as Clerk Wang finished speaking, Li Ruhai, who came to support Wang Meilan, clapped his hands with all his strength.
He is making amends for his mistakes!
Led by Li Ruhai, the people of Xishantun applauded Wang Meilan together.
Wang Meilan had a faint smile on her face and nodded slightly to the crowd.
The two clerks had no objection to Wang Meilan's candidacy. In their opinion, it didn't matter who a rogue village chose as its head. It was not worth it to offend a rich, well-connected, and powerful old woman for such a small matter.
What's more, Wang Meilan has said that once people in Xishantun are allowed to register their household registration, she will be the first to move her household registration there.
At this time, clerk Wang flattered Wang Meilan and said, "After being recommended by the masses of Xishan Village, Comrade Wang Meilan has become the village chief and director of public security of Xishan Village!"
As he spoke, Clerk Wang led the applause.
Immediately, there was thunderous applause.
Wang Meilan smiled, clasped her hands in front of her, bowed and nodded to thank everyone.
When the applause died down, Clerk Liu said to Wang Meilan, "Director Wang, we will go back now."
"Ah... you see..." Wang Meilan said apologetically, "I should have invited you to dinner, but I'm sorry, we don't have any headquarters, canteen, guesthouse, etc."
After hearing Wang Meilan talk about the headquarters and the canteen, the two clerks just smiled faintly.
But at this moment, as Wang Meilan waved, Jin Xiaomei trotted over, took out two packs of Shilin cigarettes from her pocket, stuffed them into Clerk Liu's hands, and said, "Thank you for your hard work."
"Ah?" Clerk Liu was stunned, and then he saw Jin Xiaomei took out two packs of cigarettes and stuffed them into Clerk Wang's hands.
Two packs of Shilin only cost ten dollars!
The salary of these two clerks is not as good as that of the forestry workers, each of them only earns more than 60 yuan a month. They are reluctant to smoke this cigarette.
"I'm sorry." Wang Meilan apologized to the two again.
There is no way around it. Wang Meilan's family doesn't live in this village, so I really can't invite them to dinner.
The two clerks were also sensible. They took the cigarettes and hurriedly said goodbye and left, leaving this "stage" to Wang Meilan.
Looking at the 200 or so people below the stage, Wang Meilan felt a sense of heroism and raised her right hand involuntarily.
(End of this chapter)