sinovels Chapter 1343 The Zhao Family Father and Son Go to Lingnan Together
Chapter 1343 The Zhao Family Father and Son Go to Lingnan Together
Chapter 1343 The Zhao Family Father and Son Go to Lingnan Together
Without saying a word, Wang Qiang's actions had already attracted the attention of Zhao Jun and Xing San.
Wang Qiang held the gun without losing face and said only two words: "South."
When Zhao Jun heard this, he knew that the thing was heading south. He turned around and winked at Li Baoyu, who nodded to show that he understood.
Zhao Youcai went to Yongxing as a guest and took away a semi-automatic rifle. As a result, after giving the barreled rifle to Xing San, Li Baoyu was left without a gun.
But this is temporary. The report to the security department has been submitted, and the armed forces will soon allocate seven semi-automatic rifles and one thousand rounds of ammunition to Zhao Jun and his men.
Li Baoyu raised his feet high and took light steps to lead the way.
The snow here is over the knees. People walk in the snow, making it difficult but almost silent.
Snow of this thickness is not suitable for dog hunting, but is suitable for sneaking and tracking.
Li Baoyu was in front, followed by Zhao Jun, and the two of them went to the left to encircle them. Wang Qiang and Xing San continued to move forward along the original route, and the four of them formed a circle in two teams.
As soon as he entered the woods, Li Baoyu stopped and waited for Zhao Jun to catch up. When Zhao Jun saw Li Baoyu pointing at the hoof prints in front of him, his eyes lit up.
The hoof print was very similar to that of a goat. Based on his experience, Zhao Jun judged that the sheep that left the footprints would not be too big and should weigh about 40 kilograms.
When wild boars, roe deer, deer and other animals walk and run on the snow, their hooves will wade through the snow, leaving behind hoof prints with scratches that look like tails. Hunters call this "dragging".
The snow is so thick here, but the hoof prints barely leave grooves, which means the animal that left the hoof prints had extremely strong jumping ability, even better than the roe deer, which is known for its ability to "fly on the snow."
In this forest, the only animals Zhao Jun has seen that can do this are the three great cats and musk deer. Even jackals cannot do it.
But these footprints were obviously not left by a feline or musk deer, which made Zhao Jun think of the hanging sheep.
Legend has it that no matter what kind of cliff it is, as long as there is a place for the hanging sheep to step on with one hoof, it can use the force to walk.
These footprints were most likely left by Xuan Yang, which means that the Zhao family gang discovered the target's traces as soon as they arrived here.
But the bad news is that judging from the direction of the footprints, Xuan Yang should have escaped from the encirclement of the Zhao family gang.
The Zhao army was not discouraged, because they came here to track down the enemy today. Even if they surrounded Hanging Sheep here, they could not shoot with guns.
Zhao Jun took off his gloves, clasped his hands in front of his mouth, and blew out three bird calls.
Zhao Jun imitated the call of a tit very well, and it was almost indistinguishable from the real thing. But he imitated the call of a tit three times in a row, the first one was short, the second one was long, and the third one was short again.
In this way, Wang Qiang and Xing San would know that this was a signal given to them by Zhao Jun.
After learning the call of a tit, Zhao Jun gave Li Baoyu a look, and Li Baoyu followed slowly along the footprints of the hanging sheep.
Zhao Jun followed Li Baoyu leisurely, and the two brothers walked slowly. Soon, Wang Qiang and Xing San caught up.
The four of them gathered together, then fought on their own, splitting into four groups and searching forward in a fan-shaped pattern.
What the Zhao Family Gang is going to do today is to circle the prey. The so-called circle, as the name suggests, is to circle out all the traces of the prey's usual activities.
Moreover, the scope determined by the human tracking circle should include the prey's usual activities.
The workload was quite large, and Zhao Jun and his four companions were busy until around two in the afternoon before they returned.
After working hard for a day, the four men of the Zhao army were able to confirm that the hoof prints were left by the hanging sheep, and the information provided by Zhao Youcai was correct, there were indeed three hanging sheep living nearby.
But the range of the hanging sheep is very large, and it can be found on several nearby hills.
Fortunately, the Zhao army was not setting a trap, so they did not need to find the hanging sheep and then kill it.
The four people found the tree where the hanging sheep hung its horns, and then used the tree as the center to look for the foraging spots of the hanging sheep nearby.
In the forest area in winter, the food sources of vegetarian wild animals are scarce. However, each animal has its own fixed food. For example, red deer like to eat poplar bark, and roe deer like to gnaw on the branches of the second crop of forest.
As for the hanging sheep, they only like to eat the weeds covered by snow.
This mountain area is not within the territory of Yong'an. Zhao Jun and his men are not familiar with this place. They don't know which is the Chicaotang and which is the Chicaoding. They can only follow the footprints of the hanging sheep and search slowly.
The fact that the hanging sheep has lived here for a long time shows that even in winter, there is relatively sufficient food nearby, and there are more than one place where a large amount of barnacles grow.
After more than four hours of hard work, the four of them finally determined two locations. Using the hanging sheep-horn tree as a reference, one was at the bottom of the pond in the west slope ditch, and the other was on the top of the hill opposite.
These two pieces of land are enough, so the four Zhao soldiers went back home and will come back tomorrow with clamps and foot catchers.
On the way back, Wang Qiang, Xing San, and Li Baoyu walked to the third work section and took the road maintenance workers' commuter car, while Zhao Jun rode a motorcycle to pick up Kong Fanrong.
When he arrived at the shack, Kong Fanrong had packed everything. He dressed himself up like a dumpling and bandaged his injured foot, first with hay, then with cloth, and finally with a badger skin.
"Uncle, I'll carry you." Zhao Jun went to the edge of the kang and pulled Kong Fanrong onto himself. The old man reached out and took a triangular bag next to him.
The triangular pocket was quite full, and Zhao Jun guessed that it must be filled with leather.
But Zhao Jun didn't ask anything. The old man was suspicious by nature. If Zhao Jun sent him home at this time and told Kong Fanrong that he wanted to collect his skin, the old man would definitely think too much.
Zhao Jun didn't want to cause trouble, and he didn't care about the two skins, so he carried Kong Fanrong out of the shack. After placing Kong Fanrong on the motorcycle, Zhao Jun went back and propped up the shack door with a thick wooden stick.
After doing all this, Zhao Jun rode his motorcycle with Kong Fanrong down the mountain. Fuqiang Village was about 20 miles away from Yong'antun. When Zhao Jun came back from the village, he heard the whistle of a small train in the distance.
The commuter buses are back, it must be half past five.
Zhao Jun was riding his motorcycle home when he heard someone calling him from behind: "Zhao Jun! Zhao Jun!"
Zhao Jun recognized it as Zhao Guofeng's voice and stopped the car in a hurry.
Seeing Zhao Jun stop, Zhao Guofeng did not move forward, but stopped and shouted to Zhao Jun: "Zhao Jun, go to the garrison, there is a call for you!"
"Okay, Uncle Zhao." Zhao Jun responded and turned the motorcycle around.
Zhao Guofeng was walking from the garrison to Zhao Jun's home when he ran into Zhao Jun on the way. When Zhao Jun passed by him, he stopped his motorcycle and asked Zhao Guofeng to get on.
When Zhao Guofeng got in the car, Zhao Jun asked him, "Uncle Zhao, who called me?"
"Fan Zhisheng." Zhao Guofeng said, "I don't know why he wants to see you."
Zhao Guofeng knew this former forestry director, but he couldn't understand why this person would call Zhao Jun after he was transferred.
As soon as Zhao Jun heard that the call was from Fan Zhisheng, he knew what was going on.
When he arrived at the garrison, Zhao Jun picked up the phone and said "Hello", then he heard Fan Zhisheng's voice coming from the other end.
"It's Zhao Jun, I'm your uncle Fan." Fan Zhisheng came up and tried to establish a relationship with him, which made Zhao Jun smile.
"Ah, Uncle Fan." Since everyone said that, Zhao Jun had no choice but to continue.
"Zhao Jun, uncle has a favor to ask of you." Fan Zhisheng said politely. After all, Zhao Jun was not under his jurisdiction.
"Hehe..." Zhao Jun smiled bitterly when he heard that. He was not very good at rejecting people, especially when Fan Zhisheng was so polite.
"Oh!" Seeing Zhao Jun didn't say anything, Fan Zhisheng sighed and said, "If your uncle Fan hadn't run out of ideas, he wouldn't have come to you again and again. I've only been here for a few days, and I haven't gotten my work sorted out yet. The technicians at the mountain field came to ask me for help, and I really, really have no ideas."
"Uncle Fan, don't they have any gunners?" Zhao Jun asked. Fan Zhisheng said, "Yes, but the gun handles are not good enough. They can't drive you away!"
Fan Zhisheng praised Zhao Jun and said, "The terrain there is quite complicated. It is a big area. When people go there, the tiger looks at people before the people can look at the tiger."
"Uncle Fan, it's not safe for me to go." Zhao Jun said so. Fan Zhisheng quickly said: "Zhao Jun, it's not that your uncle Fan doesn't care about your safety. I also told them so. But they say you are a tiger-killing general. You must have special tricks."
"What can I do?" Zhao Jun was speechless for a while, but then he heard Fan Zhisheng say, "Zhao Jun, do you think this is okay? Come here for a stroll, come over. Take a look over there, fight if you can, forget it if you can't. Then come to your uncle's place, and your uncle will treat you well."
"That's not necessary, Uncle Fan." Zhao Jun roughly understood what Fan Zhisheng meant. It was simply that as long as he made this trip, he, Fan Zhisheng, would be able to save face in front of his subordinates.
Huang Hong and Song Dandan have a skit in which Huang Hong has a line: "Isn't the purpose of life to save face?"
At that time, Song Dandan refuted Huang Hong, and what she said sounded very positive. But who doesn't want to save face?
Especially in rural areas and forest areas these days, people can't even raise their heads when their reputation is lost. This is even more true for leaders.
"Then can you come?" So when Fan Zhisheng asked Zhao Jun again, Zhao Jun sighed and said, "Uncle Fan, now that you've said that, how can I not go?"
Zhao Jun's words showed his great kindness.
"Haha... That's great, Zhao Jun." When Zhao Jun said this, Fan Zhisheng laughed out loud, and then said: "Well... If you don't... don't want to fight, just go to his place and fight for a while. Then come to me and see how I arrange it for you."
"That's fine, Uncle Fan." Zhao Jun said, "Isn't it just Hansong Fort? Then I'll leave tomorrow and arrive the day after tomorrow."
"Ah?" Fan Zhisheng was startled when he heard that and asked, "What are you going to do tomorrow? Are you still staying in the mountains?"
"I won't stay overnight. I'm going to visit a friend on the other side of the mountain tomorrow." Zhao Jun said this because he wanted to see Huang Gui.
Firstly, Huang Gui was seriously injured. Although he had sent Jie Chen, since he had to cross the mountain, Zhao Jun wanted to go and see Huang Gui to see how seriously he was injured and whether he could help.
Another thing is that the Zhao army wanted to ask about the situation in Hu'an Valley so that they could respond accordingly.
"Okay, call me if you have anything to say." Fan Zhisheng said, "Go to the fort and find their brigade secretary Han Guozheng. If Han Guozheng is not here, find his father...what's his name?"
Fan Zhisheng couldn't remember the old man's name for a moment, so Zhao Jun smiled and said, "It's okay, Uncle Fan, I'll just ask for the brigade secretary's home when I get there."
"Yes, yes, that's it." Fan Zhisheng said with a smile: "Zhao Jun, I'm sorry to trouble you this time. Wait until the future, and you'll see how I treat you."
Fan Zhisheng's words meant that he remembered the favor.
Zhao Jun exchanged a few polite words with him and then hung up the phone. Then Zhao Jun left the village and rode his motorcycle home.
After he got home, he told Li Baoyu about his trip to Lingnan the next day, and Li Baoyu immediately clamored to go with Zhao Jun.
"Baoyu, don't go." Zhao Jun said to Li Baoyu, "Tomorrow morning, you, your uncle and the third uncle, go up the mountain to catch people. After that, you and your uncle have to go up there every day."
You have to catch the hanging sheep alive, so you have to go for a walk every day, otherwise the hanging sheep will be frozen solid after a while.
"Nephew, I won't go either." After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Wang Qiang asked anxiously, "Can you go by yourself?"
"Boy, how about I go with you!" Xing San said while chewing pancakes at noon in the mountains. After setting up the trap tomorrow, he will go back to the field.
But when Xing San heard that Zhao Jun was going to Lingnan alone to fight the tiger, he was afraid that he would not be safe alone, so he wanted to go with Zhao Jun.
"No need, Third Master." Zhao Jun said, "I'm going there just to save face. I'll go there and see if they can do anything. If they can't do anything, I'll let them do it. If not, I'll just ride my motorcycle and run away."
This was Zhao Jun's real thought. He was not going to take any risks on this trip, and he wasn't even going to bring a dog with him.
After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Xing San said nothing more. He was old, and if it wasn't for Zhao Jun, he wouldn't want to go out.
"Uncle!" Zhao Jun told Wang Qiang, "Tomorrow you and my uncle will bring the kids over. Your family of four will just fit in my room."
Zhao Jun asked Wang Qiang and his family to come over so that Wang Meilan could keep him company. Although there was a dog in the yard, Wang Meilan felt uneasy as a woman with two children.
It’s not convenient for others to come, so Wang Qiang and his family have to come.
While Zhao Jun was arranging his family's affairs, in the Yongxing Brigade Guesthouse, Xie Sun was sitting on the kang in the west room, eating melon seeds out of boredom.
On the kang in the east room, Zhao Youcai, Jie Chen and Li Wencai were snoring loudly.
Li Wencai slaughtered a pig today to entertain guests. Zhao Youcai and Jie Chen said they wanted to leave today, but once they started drinking, how could they leave?
After drinking, the three of them went back to their room and fell asleep on the kang. It was Jie Sun who cleaned up the mess outside.
But the next day, Zhao Youcai woke up very early, at around three o'clock.
When he woke up, Li Wencai had already gotten up. The old man slept little and got up at around three o'clock every day.
Upon seeing this, Zhao Youcai woke up Li Chen and urged him to go and wake up Li Sun.
After getting up, they simply ate some hot noodles in soup, then Zhao Youcai, Xie Chen and Xie Sun walked out in the dark.
Zhao Youcai carried an IV bottle filled with hot water in his arms and got into the trunk of the car with his gun on his back.
There was no way. He could neither compete with Jie Sun for the co-pilot seat, nor squeeze with Jie Sun for the co-pilot seat, so he could only sit in the back seat.
"Youcai!" At this time, Li Wencai and Jie Chen carried half a pig to the trunk. After throwing the pork into the trunk, Li Wencai said to Zhao Youcai, "You are not going home either, so give this pork to them and their mother. After that, when the New Year comes, I will see who is slaughtering a pig, and I will ask them to bring the whole meat to you."
"Come on, Uncle Li." Zhao Youcai said, "We don't lack meat at home, you know that. You don't have to do anything, just take care of your health and I'll come to see you when I'm free!"
"Okay, that's good." Li Wencai said hello and goodbye to Zhao Youcai and Jie Chen one by one, and finally greeted Jie Sun.
Xie Sun didn't pay much attention to him, just nodded. As the car started, Li Wencai, who was waving at the back of the car, heard Zhao Youcai shouting: "Uncle Li, I put twenty yuan under the quilt, you can drink it yourself!"
"Hey, what are you doing?" Li Wencai wanted to chase Zhao Youcai at this time, but it was too late.
In the carriage, Xie Chen, who was driving, said with a smile: "Look at how my uncle Zhao does things. He is very particular about it."
"Ha!" Xie Sun snorted coldly and said unhappily, "He is going to do something weird again. It's only what time, and he's already leaving!"
Xie Chen's mouth twitched. It was just past five o'clock when he came out of the guesthouse, which was indeed a little early.
The car drove along the early war preparation road and arrived in Jilin Province after crossing the bridge.
Under the bridge is Qiaotou Village, where Huang Gui's home is.
Zhao Youcai got out of the trunk of the car and lit the torch that had been prepared long ago.
"Uncle Zhao, I said I would send you to his doorstep." Jie Chen who was standing by was a little worried. It was just past six o'clock and it was still dark.
“No need.” Zhao Youcai waved his hand and said, “It’s just a few steps. It will take me less than half an hour to get there.”
After saying this, Zhao Youcai explained to Jie Chen: "If you go, you still have to greet him."
"Then..." Xie Chen was stunned and thought to himself that my brother Jun had prepared four cans of food for me.
But then they thought that when they got to Huang Gui's house, Huang Gui and his wife might not let them go. They were almost home, and Xie Chen and Xie Sun were still a little homesick and wanted to go back quickly.
"Then... Uncle Zhao, let's go then." Jie Chen got in the car and left. Zhao Youcai watched the car disappear before he held a torch and walked along the road in the same direction as the Jiefang car.
A little after six in the morning in winter is the coldest time of the day, known as "ghost teeth baring".
The cold wind bent the flames, but Zhao Youcai marched forward against the wind.
At eight o'clock in the morning, when Zhao Youcai faintly heard the crowing of roosters, Zhao Jun, who was wearing a small cotton-padded jacket inside and a large cotton-padded jacket outside, got on his motorcycle and rushed to Lingnan.
(End of this chapter)