HPDBC Chapter 1559: The Gun Kills Zhao Youcai
Chapter 1559: The Gun Kills Zhao Youcai
Chapter 1559: The Gun Kills Zhao Youcai
Amur grapes are wild grapes. The grapes are not much bigger than soybeans. The taste is mainly sour with a slight sweetness, and some are bitter and astringent.
As the saying goes: Oranges grown in the south of the Huai River are oranges, while oranges grown in the north of the Huai River are sour.
Wild grape vines climb up around colored trees, white ash trees, and elm trees. The grapes they produce are not bitter or astringent, and are very sweet.
But the wild grapes that grow against pine trees and autumn apple trees do not taste good.
Before Zhao Youcai went to Wudaogou to hunt tigers, he went to Yongxing Brigade as a guest. That day, Xie Chen and Xie Sun returned home in glory. When they lived together in the guesthouse of Yongxing Brigade, Zhao Youcai proposed the idea of taking Xie Chen as his apprentice. Then he stayed up late at night and took Xie Chen to tell him about the things in the mountains.
Zhao Youcai had been hiking in the mountains with his grandfather Zhao Jun since he was a kid, so he knew everything about the mountains. He talked about the habits of wild animals, the topography of the mountains, and finally the topic turned to wild grapes.
Zhao Youcai told Jie Chen what kind of wild grapes were sweet. At that time, Jie Chen felt that what Zhao Youcai said was useless.
But what Xie Chen didn't expect was that this knowledge, which he thought was useless, was actually used today!
And it was used at the critical moment.
When Xie Chen said these words, Zhao Jun and others were stunned.
They all grew up in the forest area. Even the young Li Baoyu knew what Jie Chengang said, not to mention Zhao Jun, Xing San, Wang Qiang and Zhang Yuanmin.
But even though they knew it, they didn't think about it at the critical moment, nor did they know how to connect what they knew with the only clues.
Instead, it was Xie Chen who did it!
Zhao Jun frowned as he recalled, saying, "Today's forest is a red pine forest."
Not to mention the forest, the entire hill is covered with pine trees. But it is impossible that there is no other tree at all in the so-called pine hill, but there are not many.
If there are colored trees, white ash trees, or elm trees in the pine forest, the treasure is most likely related to these tree species.
"Yes, yes!" At this time, everyone understood what Li Chen meant. Wang Qiang nodded and said, "That's not bad!"
"I seem to have seen a white stork tree." Zhao Jun tilted his head and recalled carefully, "It was on the second rib of the mountain."
The white maple is also called the white cow maple and the Northeast maple. The wood of this tree is fine, corrosion-resistant and crack-resistant. It can be used as building material, shipbuilding, and even military material.
"I'm looking at a sycamore tree." After Zhao Jun finished speaking, Xing San immediately said, "It's a bumpy one."
Flowery ash is Manchurian ash. When Manchurian ash grows thick, it will have bumps on the tree. When it is broken into wood, it has many special patterns, which are called tumor scars by those who collect antiques.
"I didn't see any." Wang Qiang followed up, and then asked the other three, "Xiaochen, Baoyu, Zhang Yuanmin, did you see Seshu, Bainiuzi, and Shuiquliu?"
Li Baoyu and Jie Chen both said no, while Zhang Yuanmin shook his head. Seeing this, Wang Qiang said to Zhao Jun, "Nephew, shall we go back to the mountain field?"
"Forget it, uncle." Zhao Jun said, "It's already this late. If we go up the mountain again, it will be dark before we can do anything."
After saying this, Zhao Jun waved his hand to Li Baoyu and said, "Baoyu, let's go home!"
"Okay, brother!" Li Baoyu responded, started the jeep and drove back.
"Hey? Let's talk." At this time, Wang Qiang smiled and praised Jie Chen, "In the end, you still have to rely on me!"
Hearing what Wang Qiang said, Xie Chen smiled.
"Yeah!" Xing San echoed, "Xie kid, it's been a while."
"Hahaha..." Xie Chen became even more proud, while Zhang Yuanmin and Li Baoyu both curled their lips.
But they didn't say anything, so Xie Chen came over and called Zhang Yuanmin first, saying, "Brother Zhang, you are right. You need a good brain to be able to help at critical moments."
Zhang Yuanmin: "..."
Even if you were Yong'an's number one lobbyist, you would have nothing to say at this time.
Seeing Zhang Yuanmin remained silent, Xie Chen became even more proud. These days, he had been bullied by Li Ruhai and Zhang Yuanmin. Today, he finally had a chance, and Xie Chen was determined to vent his anger.
"Oh!" Xie Chen sighed lightly but kept smiling, saying: "I see that I am better than some people. So I might as well give myself a nickname. I'll call myself Big Zhuge. Haha..."
Zhang Yuanmin's cheeks were tense and his hands were tightly clenched on his knees.
"Brother Li!" After teasing Zhang Yuanmin, Xie Chen said to Li Baoyu in front of him, "Tomorrow when we go up the mountain, you should also carry the shovel and pickaxe. Your brother has done a great deed this time, so I won't have to do the heavy work anymore."
After hearing what Xie Chen said, Zhao Jun, Xing San, and Wang Qiang laughed secretly, but Li Baoyu couldn't suppress his anger and said, "Xie Xiaoer, you are just showing off, ah."
"How can I be called boastful?" Xie Chen said with a smile: "I have done a great deed!"
After saying this to Li Baoyu, Xie Chen looked at Zhao Jun and asked, "Is that right, Jun brother?"
"Yeah, yes." As a leader and beneficiary, Zhao Jun had to acknowledge Jie Chen's contribution. Zhao Jun nodded and said, "I can do it today."
"That's pretty good!" As another beneficiary, Wang Qiang was happier the more he looked at Jie Chen, and laughed, "Xiao Chen, let my brother-in-law open a bottle of Moutai tonight, and I'll toast you no matter what my uncle says."
“Hahaha…” Xie Chen laughed and declined, “No need, uncle, this is what I should do.”
After hearing what Jie Chen said, Zhang Yuanmin and Li Baoyu curled their lips again.
After the New Year, the sky became longer. When these people got home at nearly four o'clock, it was still not dark.
Not only was it not dark, but it was also warm outside. When the four of them parked the car, they saw Wang Meilan and her men busy in the yard.
The women were butchering the wild boar, but they were almost done. There were pieces of meat on two large chopping boards, and the dogs in the east and west courtyards all had bulging bellies.
Because they had eaten too much, even though the dogs noticed Zhao Jun and his men had returned, their barking was not as intense as usual.
Seeing the jeep parked at the door, Wang Meilan put down the knife and walked out.
Seeing Zhao Jun getting off the passenger seat, Wang Meilan asked nervously, "How is it, son?"
That day, Zhao Youcai and his friends came back from the mountain and told Wang Meilan about the situation on the mountain. Wang Meilan was disappointed.
Then, Zhao Jun became Wang Meilan's last hope. If Zhao Jun could not be found again, then the treasure of the Wang family would really be gone.
Facing Wang Meilan's expectation, Zhao Jun smiled and nodded. As Zhao Jun nodded, Wang Meilan's eyes lit up instantly.
"Son, have you found it?" Wang Meilan asked, but Zhao Jun shook his head again.
"Mom, we didn't find it today." Zhao Jun saw Wang Meilan's face turn pale when he said this. He quickly added: "But we have a target. We will go again tomorrow."
"You have a target?" Wang Meilan's eyes lit up again. She grabbed Zhao Jun's arm and asked, "What target?"
"Let's go inside and talk, Mom." Zhao Jun said this to prevent the neighbors from hearing.
"Ah, ah!" Wang Meilan nodded, turned around and walked back, and said to Jin Xiaomei and others who were cleaning up the mess: "Xiaomei, you guys clean up, I'll go into the house first."
"Go to your room, sister-in-law." Jin Xiaomei responded, "There's only a little work left, we'll finish it in a moment."
At this time, Zhao Jun walked over and looked at the pork on the chopping board, and asked, "How many pigs are you beating?"
"These are two." Yang Yufeng said with a smile, "My uncle killed two pigs weighing one year old and an old sow today. He gave half of the old sow to the villagers and kept the remaining half to feed the dogs."
The meat of wild boars, whether male or female, is not tasty once they have been penned.
Wang Meilan is very particular about food. Whether it is roasted pig eggs or old sow, Wang Meilan only wants the two tenderloins.
"Isn't it a waste to feed the dog?" This was said by Xing San. The old man lived carefully. Although Xing San knew how to enjoy life after going down the mountain to Zhao Jun's house, he still couldn't stand waste.
Xing San thought that since Zhao Jun's family didn't eat the meat of the old sow, they could sell it at the market. No matter how much money they made, it was better than feeding it to the dogs.
"Ah..." Hearing this, Jin Xiaomei hurriedly helped Zhao Youcai explain, "My eldest brother said that he wanted to use the meat to feed the dog."
After hearing what Jin Xiaomei said, Xing San didn't say anything. But when they entered the room, they heard Li Dayong shouting, "Xiaojun, Qiangzi, we are going to kill three wild boars again today."
"Ha!" Wang Qiang sneered when he heard this, "What's wrong with three wild boars? We always deal with four or five of them."
"What are you talking about?" Li Dayong asked, "Why don't you tell me how many dogs you have?"
"Then how many dogs are you going to take away?" Wang Qiang asked back. He thought Zhao Youcai was going to take away all the dogs in the house.
"We have five dogs." As Zhao Youcai's mouthpiece, Li Dayong proudly said, "There is another dog that went up the mountain on the first day."
"Ah?" Zhao Jun was stunned and asked Zhao Youcai, "Dad, which dog did you get?"
When questioned by Zhao Jun, Zhao Youcai said nothing. He just lowered his head and reached into his pocket to take out a cigarette box.
"Lao Hu and Er Hei were brought in, and Xing Zhiyong gave those two dogs." Li Dayong answered for Zhao Youcai, "And the red female dog, so it's actually four dogs."
"Four dogs? That's a pretty good hunt." Zhao Jun said this from the bottom of his heart. If he had brought all the dogs borrowed from home, it wouldn't be much to kill three wild boars. But if he had only brought these five dogs, he could have achieved this result, which meant that this hunt was quite good.
"How many fights?" Li Baoyu asked. Li Dayong said, "Two fights. The first fight will knock down an old sow, and the second fight will knock down a year-old heavy stone."
"Ah?" Li Baoyu felt something was wrong and asked, "My mother said that if you beat them twice, they will sink every year?"
"That one was killed by your uncle with a gun." Li Dayong said this, but his expression was not appropriate. All three wild boars were killed with guns, and Li Dayong meant that one of them sank the previous year with the help of a dog, which was completely Zhao Youcai's own effort.
Wang Qiang didn't understand this, but he also knew it was useless to ask Zhao Youcai, so he said to Li Dayong: "How did you fight? You brought dogs up the mountain, and you still went on a safari?"
"No way." Li Dayong said, "We paddled the pigs and they ran down the slope. They crossed the ditch and ran to the opposite slope. My eldest brother was here and he shot one to death with one shot."
"Oh my god!" After hearing what Li Dayong said, Xing San asked hurriedly: "How far should it be placed?"
Li Dayong raised his right hand, only his thumb was tucked in, and he pursed his lips and said, "It must be more than 400 meters."
"Ah?" Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Looking through the gun star from a distance of 400 meters, the 100-pound heavy weight was smaller than the gun star. If someone could hit the target by shooting at this distance, then he was not an ordinary person.
Before the Chinese New Year in 1987, the rookie Zhang Yuanmin took Chen Dalai to hunt bears. Not only did he complicate things, but Zhang Yuanmin also left his chain saw in the mountains.
When Zhao Jun took Li Baoyu and accompanied Zhang Yuanmin to find the chainsaw, they met Jiang Ming and his two companions hunting deer with dogs.
In that battle, he and his three men killed Tulu. At the critical moment, it was Zhao Jun who raised his gun and fired a shot at the opposite side. He killed the red deer at a distance of 500 meters and saved Li Daguai's life.
To be honest, Zhao Jun's shot to save Li Daguai that day was a fluke. But from what Li Dayong said, it seemed that Zhao Youcai was not fluke.
"Brother-in-law?" Wang Qiang asked Zhao Youcai, "Did you guess that?"
"What are you talking about?" Zhao Youcai finally spoke, but before he spoke, Zhao Youcai glared at Wang Qiang and gestured, "I'll put down my gun."
"What are you kidding?" Zhao Youcai glared at Wang Qiang and raised his hand to gesture, "I put it in the gun star and saw that the wild boar was only as big as a fingertip."
"Then how do you fight?" Wang Qiang knew that he was not good enough, so he wanted to learn from Zhao Youcai.
"Just hit it like that." Zhao Youcai said vaguely: "When I feel it, I hug it..."
"Okay, his father." Suddenly, Wang Meilan stopped Zhao Youcai and said, "Don't talk about that for now. Listen to your son. His and his friends' trip up the mountain was not in vain."
"What?" This time it was Zhao Youcai who looked at Zhao Jun in surprise.
Zhao Youcai had been to that hillside before, but he didn't think there would be any results.
"Let me talk about this." Zhao Jun turned around and pulled Jie Chen over, saying, "This is all my idea."
"Really?" Wang Meilan heard this and hurriedly said to Jie Chen, "Tell me what's going on."
Just as Wang Meilan finished speaking, there was a sound of a door opening in the outer room, and Xie Sunshi, Yang Yufeng, and Xu Chunyan came in with tools.
The three of them just happened to catch up with Xie Chen's speech. After listening to Xie Chen's speech, Xie Sun, who had entered the room to join in the fun, said in surprise: "Xiaoer, you have come a long way."
As she spoke, Xie Sun patted Xie Chen's shoulder vigorously and said, "I never thought that my son would become so successful!"
"Haha..." Xie Chen's nose was clenched by his mother's slap, but he smiled and said, "Mom, didn't you see it too? I usually study whenever I have time."
Zhang Yuanmin, Li Baoyu, and Li Ruhai all curled their lips when they heard Xie Chen's words. Zhao Jun was speechless, as he felt that only his brothers would use comic books as teaching materials.
"Aiya!" Suddenly, someone sighed. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw that it was Li Ruhai who made the sound.
(End of this chapter)