sinovels Chapter 1121: One Night in the Mountains, Wealthy and in Danger
Chapter 1121: One Night in the Mountains, Wealthy and in Danger
Chapter 1121: A Night in the Mountains with Fortune and Danger
"It's dark, be careful when you go up the mountain!"
"You have to be careful walking on the aisle!"
Outside the Zhao family's courtyard, the men all got into the cars, and the women were under the cars, giving instructions tirelessly.
The car started, and Wang Meilan looked at the rear of the car disappearing into the darkness and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
"Sister! I'll take the kids back first." After returning to the house, Zhao Ling took Wang Tian, Wang Xue and Wang Meilan to say goodbye. It was already past eight o'clock, and it was unknown when Wang Qiang would be back. Zhao Ling could wait, but the kids couldn't.
"Go back." As Wang Meilan spoke, she reached out and pulled her nephew over. Wang Meilan bent down to button up Wang Tian's cotton jacket and said, "It's late at night, and you're still wearing your clothes."
"Let's say goodbye to Aunt." At this time, Zhao Ling gently embraced little Wang Xue, taught her how to speak, and said, "Tell Aunt that we'll come again tomorrow."
After Zhao Ling left, Xu Chunyan also left with her child, followed by the old lady, Xie Sun and Liu Lanying.
With their departure, only Wang Meilan, Zhao Hong, Zhao Na and Xiao Lingdang were left in the Zhao family.
Normally, she didn’t feel anything, but today, her husband and son were not at home, and Wang Meilan suddenly felt a little empty inside.
"Mom." When Wang Meilan sat on the edge of the kang, Zhao Na hugged her from behind. The little girl timidly asked Wang Meilan, "What did my brother do again?"
"Your brother has gone to look for your father." Wang Meilan gritted her teeth in hatred when she mentioned Zhao Youcai, and she couldn't help but speak in a sarcastic tone to her little girl.
"Mom." At this time, Zhao Hong also came over. She grabbed Wang Meilan's arm with her little hands and asked, "Is my dad not coming back?"
"What?" Wang Meilan was startled, then glared at Zhao Hong and said unhappily, "What did you say? What do you mean you can't come back?"
Although children's words are innocent, this sounded unlucky. Wang Meilan was worried about Zhao Youcai, so she felt uncomfortable when she heard this.
Zhao Hong felt that Wang Meilan's expression and tone were not right, but the little girl was really concerned about Zhao Youcai. When she turned back, she grabbed the sleeve of Wang Meilan's cotton-padded jacket with one hand and pointed at Xiao Lingdang with the other, saying, "Didn't Lingdang's father go up the mountain and never come back?"
Little bell: "..."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Wang Meilan reached out and gently pushed Zhao Hong on the back, shouting, "What nonsense are you talking about? Your brother Zhang is fine, he's just in the hospital!"
At this point, Wang Meilan paused, and then added: "Your father will be fine."
After saying that, Wang Meilan got up from the edge of the kang, turned around, stepped on her heels and took off her cotton shoes, and as she got on the kang, she said, "Hurry up and warm the quilt. You three can go to sleep."
In the mountains and forests, the burning branches crackled.
Zhao Youcai sat on the leg of a tree, eating roasted roe deer meat with a stick in his hand.
The Zhao family's dog gang hunted another roe deer. This large male roe deer weighing more than 70 kilograms fed the dog gang and left a lot of meat for Zhao Youcai.
It just so happened that Zhao Youcai was not full either, so he did not mind the leftovers. After filling his stomach with roasted roe deer meat, Zhao Youcai smoked two Shilin cigarettes in a row before he perked up.
He was also tired after a long day and felt exhausted after eating, but Zhao Youcai didn't want to find a place to stay in the mountains.
After finishing his cigarette, Zhao Youcai pulled out the semi-automatic gun that was inserted beside him, then stood up and put the gun on his back. After whistling, Zhao Youcai threw his hand to the south and said, "Let's go home!"
At Zhao Youcai's command, the hounds followed him. It was not because Zhao Youcai was so prestigious, but because the hounds also wanted to go home.
This is because they are too far away from home. The black tiger and black dragon can't find their way home, otherwise they would have run away long ago.
Holding a torch, Zhao Youcai led his dog gang down the mountain ridge, then walked up the slope to the south mountain.
He was preparing to dig his way out of the mountain, but as he walked, Zhao Youcai felt something was wrong.
Zhao Youcai stopped and looked around. At this time, the hunting dogs surrounded Zhao Youcai, looking up at him one by one.
Zhao Youcai frowned and looked at the mountain opposite.
"That's Eryazi Mountain." Zhao Youcai looked at the mountain opposite and determined his geographical location.
He knew this mountain, but at this moment Zhao Youcai was stunned. He also knew that his second daughter's mountain was to the east, but at this moment he just wanted to go west!
Sometimes people have this kind of energy, they understand everything, but the choices they make are always wrong.
Only experienced mountain runners can have this state. Just like Zhao Youcai now, even in the dark, he can distinguish the surrounding mountains by the moonlight and starlight. He also knows that his home is east of Erya Mountain, but he is going west.
Zhao Jun and his group left home at 8 o'clock and drove for more than 40 minutes. When the car stopped at a place, Zhao Jun looked out in surprise and asked Wang Qiang: "Uncle, where is this?"
Everyone looked outside the car, and Chen Dalai was the first to speak: "Brother, this looks like 94."
"Not bad at all!" As soon as Chen Dalai finished speaking, Wang Qiang followed up, "We just passed Erya Mountain."
"Then why is it parked here?" When Zhao Jun was wondering, he heard the sound of the car door opening. Zhao Jun looked out of the car and saw Li Dayong, fully armed, standing under the car with a flashlight in his hand.
"Come on, get off!" Li Dayong waved and shouted towards the car.
"Uncle!" Zhao Jun said, "My dad lost it in the sandwich between 90 and 91..."
"What's lost?" Li Dayong interrupted Zhao Jun unhappily and corrected him, "Your father chased the Pig God away."
Zhao Jun's mouth twitched, thinking: "The person is lost, and you are still protecting him."
"Uncle Li!" Lin Xiangshun asked Li Dayong on the carriage at this time: "After my second uncle chased the pig god, didn't he have to ask Xiaojun to get out of the sandwich ditch?"
Lin Xiangshun gave Li Dayong a way out, but Li Dayong turned around and pointed backwards, then raised his hand to Erya Mountain and said, "Once it gets dark, my elder brother will definitely follow the current. He should come out from here and go back home."
It should be said that Li Dayong really understood Zhao Youcai. If the Zhao family's dog gang did not chase the roe deer for the second time, Zhao Youcai would really come out from here, get on the road, and then go west along Erya Mountain to go home.
If that were the case, Zhao Jun and his men would be able to run into Zhao Youcai along the way.
After hearing what Li Dayong said, Zhao Jun looked at Wang Qiang.
At this time, Li Dayong became anxious and shouted again: "Everyone come down, just follow my instructions!"
"Go down." Facing Zhao Jun's inquiring gaze, Wang Qiang nodded and said, "Listen to your uncle."
Everyone got off the car and after entering the mountain, they encountered a long stream of water pushing upward. Not long after walking, Li Dayong, who was leading the way, exclaimed, and everyone hurried forward.
I saw human and dog footprints on the snow, changing direction to the west.
"Shunzi!" Li Dayong ordered, "Check how many dogs are there?"
Lin Xiangshun held a flashlight, bent over and searched around in the snow, then stood up and said to Li Dayong, "Uncle Li, seven dogs."
"Oh my god!" Huang Gui pulled Zhao Jun in surprise, then raised his finger to point at Lin Xiangshun and asked Zhao Jun, "How did he find out?"
"We don't know." Zhao Jun shook his head and said, "This is a unique skill."
As Zhao Jun was speaking, Li Dayong's voice drowned him out. Li Dayong shouted, "The shoe print is number 41. It's my eldest brother. Let's go!"
After saying that, Li Dayong took the lead and walked in front, without even needing Li Baoyu to lead the way.
An hour and a half later, they arrived at the place where Zhao Youcai had made a fire for the second time to roast roe deer meat. The flashlight swept across the mess, and Li Dayong finally smiled. He said to Li Baoyu, "Your uncle is roasting meat here."
"Yeah!" Li Baoyu looked at the remains of the roe deer hanging on the tree and said, "It's quite clean to eat."
Li Dayong ignored Li Baoyu and said to himself, "He has food in his stomach, so I won't worry about him anymore."
"Dad, let's go back?" Li Baoyu asked.
"You're such a jerk?" Li Baoyu was hit by Li Dayong as soon as he finished speaking. Li Dayong shouted, "What the hell are you doing here? Go back?"
Li Baoyu did not dare to say anything, and at this time Zhao Jun, Wang Qiang, Jie Chen, Lin Xiangshun, Jiang Weifeng, Chen Dalai and the Zheng brothers caught up.
There were fourteen people, some walked fast and some walked slowly. Li Dayong and Li Baoyu led the way, Zhao Jun and his group were the second echelon, and the last group were Zhou Jianjun, Huang Gui and the Chen brothers.
When Zhao Jun got here and saw that Zhao Youcai had eaten, he felt a lot more at ease.
Everyone followed Zhao Youcai's footprints and the dog's footprints until they saw Erya Mountain.
"Hey, Dad?" Li Baoyu called Li Dayong and said, "Has my uncle left here?"
"No!" Li Dayong's eyes widened and he shook his head, "If your uncle wants to get out from here, we can run into him before we get here!"
Having said this, Li Dayong turned around, but it was dark and he couldn't see Zhao Jun and others.
Li Dayong turned around and said, "Your uncle has gone to the mountain!"
"Brother Yong, what's wrong?" At this time, Wang Qiang's voice came from behind, and he and Zhao Jun and others chased over.
"My elder brother seems to have gone to Mount Mata." Li Dayong looked around and said to Wang Qiang, "It's hard to tell. He ran to the west."
"Did they go to Mount Mata?" Li Dayong said, and then Wang Qiang said sarcastically, "Then they must have gone to chase away the Great Pig God."
Wang Qiang's sarcasm was not directed at Zhao Youcai, but at Li Dayong. Because Zhao Jun had said that Zhao Youcai was missing, but Li Dayong denied it and tried to put powder on Zhao Youcai's face, saying that he had gone to chase away the Pig God.
"Get out of the way!" Li Dayong could of course hear the sarcasm in Wang Qiang's tone. He raised his finger and pointed at the laughing Wang Qiang and said, "Wang Er brat, you've been saying that my big brother is bullying you all day long."
"Hahaha..." Wang Qiang was even happier when he said that. But he didn't dare to say anything else, thinking back to when Zhang Zhanshan was alive, he talked about Li Dayong with Xu Meihua at home, and he always called him Li Dahu B. Li Dayong liked to swing a big axe when he was young, and he liked to use fists and feet when he was young, and it hurt a lot when he hit people.
Everyone took a break here and waited for Zhou Jianjun, Huang Gui and others to catch up.
By this time, it was already past twelve o'clock.
At this time, Zhao Youcai was still on his way.
It must be said that Zhao Baotou's physical fitness was really good. He walked at a steady pace, just like strolling on the mountain, not in a hurry or fast but never stopping.
After passing a fork and entering the opposite logging area, Zhao Youcai suddenly reacted when he saw the small boundary marker in front of him.
"Oh my god!" Zhao Youcai's eyes widened and he said, "I went the wrong way!"
As he spoke, Zhao Youcai turned around abruptly, looked at the mountain he had just climbed, clapped his hands fiercely, and said in annoyance: "Isn't this the wrong way?"
At this time, Zhao Youcai was completely awake.
Zhao Youcai immediately made a decision and continued forward. However, after passing through the small horn, there was a fork in the road, so Zhao Youcai turned around and headed northwest.
After walking another two miles, Zhao Youcai changed his route again and headed east along Gangtuizi, continuing to cross mountains and ridges.
At this time, Zhao Jun's troops had split into two groups. Xie Chen and Zhou Jianjun went down the mountain, and the two drove west along the firewood transport road.
Zhou Jianjun was familiar with the mountain area, but he couldn't drive, so Li Dayong asked them to drive to the bottom of the 82nd forest squad, and then when he got there, he would use the sound of gunfire to guide them on the mountain.
After one gunshot, they continued forward; after two gunshots, they changed course to the north.
In this way, everyone chased to the place where Zhao Youcai came to his senses. Seeing that Zhao Youcai changed his route, Li Dayong judged Zhao Youcai's direction again.
Under his leadership, the group went down the mountain and drove straight to Erya Mountain. Li Dayong concluded that Zhao Youcai had gone around in circles and finally passed by Erya Mountain. Now they were driving to the foot of Erya Mountain. When they arrived, Zhao Youcai would probably be almost there.
This inference was made based on the experience of hunting and the feeling of Zhao Youcai's footprints, and it was judged that Zhao Youcai had been there for more than two hours, almost three hours.
At this time, Zhao Youcai was standing on a poplar tree. He stood between the branches, holding the trunk with his hands and listening attentively.
It is now 2:40 in the morning and Zhao Youcai has been wandering in the mountains for half the night.
"Ugh, vomit, vomit..."
The faint sound of a rooster crowing reached Zhao Youcai's ears.
"That's Kaoshan Village." Zhao Youcai determined the direction based on the sound of the chickens, then climbed down from the tree and muttered, "I'm going the right way."
Then, Zhao Youcai whistled, waved his hand forward, and said, "Let's go home!"
The seven hunting dogs stood up weakly. After a day and a half of hard work, they were all tired. The dogs didn't know that Zhao Youcai had taken the wrong road. They couldn't understand why the way home was so long.
Zhao Youcai walked down the mountain along the ridge, with the hunting dogs following him from front to back. As long as he went down from this ridge, he would reach the firewood transport path. If he walked further along the path, he would reach the foot of Erya Mountain.
Then walk eastwards for another twenty miles and you will reach Yong'an Tun.
By now, Zhao Youcai was feeling sleepy and tired. He could feel his calves throbbing, but there was nothing he could do but to keep walking towards home.
But on the way down the mountain, Zhao Youcai was tripped by something when he took a step, and he fell forward and rolled down the hillside.
Zhao Youcai rolled on the snow, not very fast, and stopped when his back hit a tree.
But as his back hit the tree, Zhao Youcai's upper body leaned back and the back of his head hit the tree leg.
Zhao Youcai stared blankly, then closed his eyes and fainted.
At this time, the seven dogs came down the slope and came to Zhao Youcai.
"Wang Wang Wang..."
"Ow ooh..."
The hunting dogs sensed that something was wrong with Zhao Youcai and barked in unison, trying to wake him up.
Erhei was licking Zhao Youcai's face anxiously with his tongue. At this time, Zhao Youcai vaguely heard the dogs barking around him. He wanted to open his eyes but felt his eyelids were very heavy.
(End of this chapter)