HPDBC Chapter 1339 The fox has entered the village!
Chapter 1339 The fox has entered the village!
Chapter 1339 The fox has entered the village!
As Zhao Jun solved the problem of the backlog of air guns, the preparatory meeting for the first shareholders' meeting of the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce was successfully concluded. More than half of the delegates transformed themselves into cooks and, under the leadership of Wang Meilan, began to prepare for today's dinner.
There are many people eating, so many dumplings need to be made. So, two people are needed to mix the dough and two people are needed to chop the stuffing.
Jin Xiaomei and Zhao Ling mixed and kneaded the dough, Yang Yufeng and Xu Chunyan chopped the meat, and Wang Meilan put the removed roe deer bones into the pot and added water to make soup.
After the soup is ready, it will be added to the dumpling filling. In this way, the dumplings will have meat and eggs as well as soup in the skin.
After the dough and stuffing were mixed, Wang Meilan divided some of the dough and stuffing into two portions, giving them to Yang Yufeng and Xiao Lingdang to take home. Zhang Yuanmin still needed someone to take care of him, and the mother and daughter couldn't leave him alone at home.
When the dough was ready, Wang Meilan led the women to start making dumplings. Strength lies in numbers, and dumplings were sent out one by one.
When Zhao Jun came back from outside, the dumplings were almost done. He had just gone to the blacksmith's furnace to order ten traps from two old blacksmiths.
"Uncle." Zhao Jun parked the motorcycle at the door of the warehouse. When he got off the motorcycle, he saw Xing San and Wang Qiang playing with the fat dog under the eaves.
Seeing Zhao Jun coming back, Xing San threw half a biscuit to Hei Hu. Hei Hu grabbed it, tilted his neck back, chewed it and swallowed it.
"Boy, look how fat you are." Xing San touched the back of the black tiger and said to Zhao Jun with a smile: "How many good things must you eat to get this?"
Zhao Jun smiled when he heard this, and hurriedly tried to make up for Hei Hu, saying, "He is a fat fish. If he doesn't eat for two days, he will lose weight."
"Haha." Xing San smiled and went into the house with Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang.
"Brother, go upstairs and wait for a while." Seeing Xing San coming in, Wang Meilan smiled and said, "We'll make dumplings when we hear the sound of the train."
As she spoke, Wang Meilan used a colander to scoop the marinated roe deer thigh meat out of the pot.
The large piece of meat fell on the chopping board, steaming.
Jin Xiaomei picked up a kitchen knife and cut the meat into thin slices while it was still hot. Wang Meilan served the braised meat soup, then cleaned the pot and fried peanuts and sweet potato cubes.
When Li Dayong, Li Dazhi, Li Baoyu, Li Ruhai and Lin Xiangshun arrived home, marinated roe deer meat, fried peanuts, sweet potatoes in batter, canned meat platter, stir-fried cabbage with black fungus, and roe deer ribs stewed with sauerkraut were all on the table.
As the five of them entered the house, Wang Meilan took the steaming dumplings out of the pot, put them in an enamel plate and sent them to the east room first, followed by the second pot.
"Brother Xing is here!" Li Dayong walked into the room and saw Xing San coming. He hurried forward to greet him. Li Baoyu, Li Ruhai and Lin Xiangshun followed closely behind.
At this time, the sharp-eyed Zhao Jun discovered that after Li Dazhi saw Xing San, he seemed to be hiding backwards.
"Old Six!" But at this time, Li Dayong waved to Li Dazhi and said, "Come, I'll introduce you, introduce you."
Li Baoyu and Li Ruhai moved to the sides, and the exposed Li Dazhi bowed slightly to Xing San.
"Haha." Li Dazhi laughed dryly. Before he could say anything else, Xing San narrowed his eyes, stared at Li Dazhi and said, "I think I've seen you before."
"No, no...no." The eloquent Li Dazhi stuttered a little. He looked at Li Dayong and asked, "Brother, should we call this old man uncle?"
"Oh!" Li Dayong was honest, patted Li Dazhi on the shoulder and said, "This brother is related to Hu Mantang, so let's just call him as my eldest brother. You can call him elder brother or third brother."
"Ah, haha." Li Dazhi smiled when he heard that and called Xing San "Brother".
Xing San responded, then looked at Li Dazhi and said, "What's your name? Who are you from? I must have seen you before."
“Hahaha…” Li Dazhi smiled and said, “Brother, we are both people who have fallen on hard times. Why should we know each other when we meet?”
Li Dazhi's words were very good, but Xing San couldn't understand them at all. The old man squinted at him and searched in his memory with a frown.
"Brother, can you admit your mistake?" At this time, Li Dayong said to Xing San, "My six brothers haven't been back for more than ten years."
"Or I could say I've seen him before." Xing San said confidently, "I have that ability. I can remember the facial features and other details of people I've dealt with before."
As he spoke, Xing San raised his hand to block half of Li Dazhi's face from his sight, then he opened his eyes wide and asked Li Dazhi, "Is your father Li Dabishi (ting)?"
"Ah..." Li Dazhi smiled awkwardly, but his embarrassment was not because of his father's nickname.
People in the countryside all have nicknames, and most of them are not positive. Take Aunt Sun mentioned by Jin Xiaomei today. She is an old man, but she speaks like a woman, so she got that nickname.
Li Dayong glanced at Li Dazhi. He felt something was wrong, as if his sixth brother had offended this old man.
"Brother, Li Dabishi is my uncle." Li Dayong took over the conversation. They are all family members, and it is better to resolve conflicts than to create them.
"Come! Come!" At this time, Wang Meilan came in with two plates of steaming dumplings and called everyone, "Eat them while they're hot. Son, pour some wine for your uncle and his family."
Seeing this, Zhao Jun also hurriedly followed suit. Seeing this, Xing San didn't say anything.
Zhao Youcai is not here today, and Zhao Jun is a junior and cannot drink, so Wang Qiang sits on the edge of the kang with Xing San.
Zhao Jun poured the heated Xifeng wine into Xing San's wine cup, and Wang Qiang took the chopsticks he had never used and enthusiastically picked up food for Xing San.
"Huh..." Xing San took a bite of the dumpling. The dumplings were very hot just out of the pot, but hot dumplings tasted better.
At this time, everyone sat down, and Zhao Jun looked at Li Baoyu and Lin Xiangshun.
Without Zhao Jun saying anything, Li Baoyu understood and blinked, indicating that the matter had been done.
When Lin Xiangshun saw Zhao Jun looking at him, he smiled and said, "The job is done, but your brother-in-law complained about it."
"Ah?" Zhao Jun was startled, and then he saw Li Baoyu laughing. Zhao Jun knew that Lin Xiangshun was joking.
Sure enough, Lin Xiangshun laughed and said, "You said I should be transferred to another position. What should I say to the HR department? I have no other ideas. I thought I should find Jianjun. When I went to the logistics department and told Jianjun about it, he said that it was very difficult to train a driver, but he still didn't do his job properly."
"Haha..." Zhao Jun laughed when he heard that. Wang Meilan came in with mashed garlic and chili oil. Lin Xiangshun said to Wang Meilan, "Second aunt, your uncle is just looking for someone to serve you. He kept scolding me for a long time, but when I said it was arranged by his brother-in-law, he kept silent."
"Hahaha..." Lin Xiangshun's words made everyone laugh.
After the laughter died down, Li Baoyu said to Zhao Jun: "Brother, I will go up the mountain with you tomorrow."
"Well... Baoyu." Zhao Jun said to Li Baoyu, "Tomorrow morning, you and your uncle will go to Yongfu and take the commuter bus to the Third Work Section to see the road maintenance workers. After you get to the Third Work Section, you two will wait for me there for a while. Third Uncle and I will go to a few shacks together."
Tomorrow, four of us will go up the mountain, and we will ride on the mountain road. It is not safe to ride with four people. Therefore, Zhao Jun asked Wang Qiang and Li Baoyu to take the commuter cart to the third section.
He and Xing San visited some old mountain dogs along the way and talked to them about collecting skins.
After explaining the means of transportation for tomorrow, Zhao Jun suddenly asked Lin Xiangshun, "Second brother, can your fleet arrange a vehicle for us forest guards?"
"What?" Lin Xiangshun was stunned.
Li Baoyu glanced at Zhao Jun, then looked at Lin Xiangshun and said, "Brother Shunzi, we also need it for work."
"Get out of my way." Lin Xiangshun scolded with a smile: "You just got transferred and you're already thinking about getting a car out of the team."
"Haha." Li Baoyu laughed, and then he saw Lin Xiangshun say to Zhao Jun: "It's no use telling me this, you have to talk to the dispatcher and your leader."
"Huh?" Li Dayong and Li Dazhi, who were eating dumplings, were stunned. One of them was the deputy team leader of dispatch and the other was Zhao Jun's leader.
Unexpectedly, Li Dayong put down his chopsticks and said, "It's not possible now. The production task is so tight now. We have to wait until the tractors Zhao Weipeng sent to us arrive and the big Jiefang is available, and then we can think about it."
"No, big brother?" Li Dazhi looked at Li Dayong and said, "What do you really have in the field and at home? You should also think about this."
Everyone laughed. After eating a few dumplings, the people who were working felt full. Wang Qiang raised his glass and started drinking.
Eat dumplings with wine, the more you eat, the more you enjoy.
Everyone ate and drank, and Zhao Jun and Li Ruhai also drank orange soda.
"Brother!" Li Ruhai held the soda bottle in one hand and supported the bottom with the other hand, and touched Zhao Jun's soda bottle through Li Baoyu.
"What are you going to do?" Zhao Jun felt that this kid was holding back his fart.
Sure enough, Li Ruhai smiled and said, "Brother, I will be fifteen after the Chinese New Year. After that, I will join the Zhao Clan Gang and go up the mountain with you."
"Forget it." Zhao Jun said, "You don't have to join the Zhao Family Gang. Your aunt's Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce has already incorporated you."
"Ah?" Upon hearing that it was Wang Meilan's Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce, Li Ruhai did not dare to speak nonsense. Instead, he pretended to be flattered and said, "Is there still a place for me in the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce?"
"That's right!" Wang Qiang waved at Li Ruhai, then gestured to the side and said, "You and your uncle will be in charge of external relations."
"Ah?" Li Ruhai was startled, thinking to himself, am I and that old man... sure we are not responsible for external armed forces?
At this time, Zhao Jun pushed Li Ruhai through Li Baoyu and said, "Third Master is responsible for those mountain dogs, and you are responsible for those mountain runners in the surrounding villages. Let them sell their mountain wealth to us."
"Ah..." After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Li Ruhai understood. This overlapped with his previous business, but he was just patching together and doing small things.
The Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce has abundant financial resources and can purchase mountain products and then transport them to other places for sale.
Seeing that Li Ruhai remained silent, Zhao Jun added: "Don't you want to be an official? We said at the meeting today that you will be given an official position."
"Ah?" Li Ruhai felt that Zhao Jun's words were a bit sarcastic, and then he heard Zhao Jun say: "Our uncle is the head of the external relations team, and you are the external relations officer."
"Another secretary?" Li Ruhai was a little disappointed when he heard this. He said, "I used to be a union secretary and a security secretary. Now I have an external relations secretary, so I'm fighting with the secretary."
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After eating and drinking, the women helped Wang Meilan clean up the dishes and leftovers, and the diners said goodbye and left in groups.
When Zhao Jun and Xing San were sitting on the kang to warm their feet, Zhao Jun suddenly remembered something and asked Xing San, "Third Uncle, did you know Uncle Li Liu before?"
Hearing this, Xing San smiled faintly and said, "I've seen it once."
Seeing Xing San's expression, Zhao Jun hurriedly asked, "Did you hit him?"
"Huh?" Xing San was startled, looked at Zhao Jun in surprise and asked, "How did you know?"
Zhao Jun couldn't say that he saw it from your expression, so he just asked, "What are you hugging?"
"That guy is not a good person." Xing San said, "That year, I was walking along the South Road towards Xiaohong River, and he suddenly jumped down from the tree and told me to go back, saying that he was repairing the road ahead."
"And then you beat him up?" Zhao Jun asked. Xing San said, "Your uncle is not the kind of person who likes to fight. I came up from the bottom of the slope and he could see me from the tree.
You said if you didn’t let me go, just call me and I wouldn’t come here again. But he chased me back only after I had already come right up to him.”
"What's the end of it?" Zhao Jun asked again with a smile. Xing San said, "I'll grab them and give them a big slap. At this time, Xu Changlin will come over and say that this is Li Dabi's son, and that's it."
While Zhao Jun and Xing San were chatting, there was light in almost every household in Xishantun.
This is very abnormal. After all, the living conditions of hooligans are not good. Usually they go to bed on the kang after dinner when it gets dark.
But today, every household either lights a kerosene lamp or a candle, and every household has a smile on their face.
After the Zhao army arrived in the morning, men, women, old and young rushed to the desolate land.
Even in winter when the ground was frozen, the pickaxes dug up fox holes one by one. As the foxes ran away, the women and children hit them with sticks and shovels.
The battle lasted until dark, and the victorious Xishantun troops returned.
When they got home, they skinned the fox and stewed the fox meat. The men sat on the kang and drank wine in silence, while the women and children happily gnawed on the fox meat.
Fox meat is not tasty. Even without the stink glands, it is still smelly and stinky. But no one is picky and everyone eats it with their mouths full of oil.
Normally, even if these hooligans have meat, they will not eat so much at one time. They will save the meat for a long time.
But the families who killed the fox today all ate it with open arms because they felt hope.
And hope lies in those fox skins.
Wu Dalin's family.
Wu Dalin took a sip of wine, then threw the empty enamel pot on the table and said, "Eldest son, pour me some wine!"
"Don't drink it." Lin Wenqin, who was sorting the fox skin, advised. Wu Dalin rolled his eyes and shouted, "Pour it!"
"Son!" Lin Wenqin winked at her eldest son, and the fourteen-year-old Wu Xiaoshan hurriedly picked up the wine barrel and poured a jar of wine for Wu Dalin.
The wine is purple-red in color and is made from wild grapes picked by Lin Wenqin herself.
Wu Dalin took two big gulps of wine before he said to Lin Wenqin, "With this hundred yuan, we can build two more houses next year, and that will be enough for the eldest and second sons to get married."
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Zhang Xinglong's home.
Everyone else left the table, but Old Zhang remained at the table and refused to put down his wine cup.
"That's enough!" Zhang Liushi urged Zhang Xinglong, "We only have two fox skins, which only sold for 20 yuan. Is it necessary for you to drink so much?"
"You know nothing!" Zhang Xinglong said, "The villagers in our village can make money, isn't it because I took them to the old Zhao family? Aren't they grateful to me?"
Zhang Liu curled her lips, rolled her eyes at her old man, and casually picked up her pipe.
At this time, Zhang Xinglong said drunkenly: "Next year, Yushu Township will be designated as a regular village for us. Won't they elect me as the village chief?"
"Ha!" Zhang Liu sneered and said, "Why would they choose you?"
"I took them to Yong'an!" Zhang Xinglong slammed the table and said, "I went there and told that kid Zhao about it. He was so nice and kept calling me uncle."
"Dad! Dad!" Zhang Xinglong had just finished speaking when the door to the outer room was pulled open. A man in his thirties ran into the room and shouted to Zhang Xinglong, "Oh no! A fox has entered the village!"
(End of this chapter)