sinovels Chapter 1460 The feeling of being yin and yang
Chapter 1460 The feeling of being yin and yang
Chapter 1460 The feeling of being yin and yang
Zhao Jun was really tired after traveling and catching pigs that day. He lay down in bed, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
They had to leave early the next day, so just after five o'clock, Zhao Jun opened his eyes when he heard some noise in the outer room.
At this time, Xing San had already woken up, but the old man didn't move because he was afraid of waking up Zhao Jun.
Seeing Zhao Jun sitting up, Xing San, who had already put on his clothes, got down directly.
It was just past five o'clock and it was still dark outside, but after Zhao Jun sat up, he saw light outside the house through the curtains.
Zhao Jun drew aside the curtains. There was no light in the room but it was bright outside, so he could see a lantern hanging on the double-strand No. 8 wire where clothes were hung out to dry.
Under the lantern, two large pots were bubbling with something.
In front of the big pot, Zhao Youcai held the shovel handle with both hands and used the small shovel to turn over the contents of the pot.
The lantern light was dim, and Zhao Jun couldn't see clearly what Zhao Youcai was doing.
At this time, Xing San also noticed something was happening outside. He climbed onto the kang and came to the window. Looking at Zhao Youcai who was busy outside, he said, "What delicious food is your father preparing so early in the morning?"
Xing San knew that Zhao Jun's family always ate and drank lavishly, which might be inherited from Zhao Jun's grandfather. But it was not even dawn yet, and the landlord's family would not prepare a banquet so early, right?
"Third uncle..." Zhao Jun was speechless after hearing what Xing San said, but when he thought about how the old man hadn't lived in the mountains for many years, he explained to Xing San: "That's not for us to cook."
"Ah?" Xing San was startled, and then he heard Zhao Jun continue: "Can we use a shovel to turn over the food we cook? That's like feeding dogs and pigs."
"Ah..." Xing San finally reacted and said to Zhao Jun, "Boy, you stay in the house. Your father and I will go feed the animals."
After saying that, Xing San put on a cotton jacket, a dog-skin hat and went out.
Zhao Jun folded the bedding into a pile. When he walked out of the room, he saw Wang Meilan rolling noodles there.
Roll out a large piece of dough with a rolling pin to prepare hand-rolled noodles.
Seeing Zhao Jun coming out, Wang Meilan said, "Son, get up. There's hot water in the thermos. Add some cool water and wash your face. Then put it on the table for dinner."
"Hey!" Zhao Jun agreed, walked to Wang Meilan's side, looked out the window and said to Wang Meilan: "Mom, why is my dad still running outside to get food?"
"One pot won't hold all the food." Wang Meilan said with a smile as she rolled out the noodles, "It's used to feed both the dog and the pig."
"Okay." Zhao Jun also smiled and said, "My dad will do it, so we don't have to do it anymore."
Hearing what Zhao Jun said, Wang Meilan stopped what she was doing, glanced at Zhao Jun, and said with a smile: "You still think it's good, your dad is scolding you."
"Ah?" Zhao Jun was stunned, and said confidently: "Why did he scold me?"
"Is it because you bought a pig?" Wang Meilan said, "He started nagging when you returned to your room last night, and he started nagging again when you got up this morning."
At the beginning of yesterday, Zhao Youcai pretended to be aloof, but after discussing the terms with Wang Meilan, his aloofness faded and he turned into a chatterbox.
"Mom, you didn't say anything to him?" Zhao Jun asked, while Wang Meilan continued to roll noodles, saying, "How dare I? He works for us at home every day. If we say something to him, what will happen if he quits?"
After hearing what Wang Meilan said, Zhao Jun felt it made a lot of sense.
More than ten minutes later, when Wang Meilan started cutting noodles, Zhao Youcai came back.
"Where is Brother Xing?" Wang Meilan asked hurriedly when she saw Zhao Youcai coming back alone.
"I'm going to the toilet." Zhao Youcai said, taking off his gloves and walking to the door of the west room. He leaned his back against the door frame and glared at Zhao Jun in the room.
"Huh?" Zhao Jun was startled and asked, "Dad, what happened again?"
"What's the matter? Ha!" Zhao Youcai sneered and said, "Let me see who is making big money."
Zhao Jun: "..."
Satirical talk usually does not involve any swear words, but it is more uncomfortable than swearing because when someone treats you sarcastic, you will feel very suffocated.
At this time, they had to talk, so Zhao Jun stood up and said to Zhao Youcai, "Dad, isn't it also for our family to enjoy the money I earn?"
"Enjoying life won't ruin your family..." Zhao Youcai said so, Zhao Jun interrupted him and said, "Dad, you just asked me to buy two pigs, right? Then during the New Year, we can all eat and drink well together, isn't that good?"
"Why can't we eat wild boar meat?" Zhao Youcai said, "You've been crazy about it today, and you still think wild boar meat is thin. Who ate less than you before the hard times?"
"Huh?" Wang Meilan paused the knife she was using to cut noodles. She keenly sensed that Zhao Youcai's firepower also covered her.
"Dad, look." Zhao Jun tried to reason with Zhao Youcai, saying, "You also said that was before the difficulties, so are our conditions worse now?"
"You're going to fail if you're fine?" Zhao Youcai asked back, "I didn't have any money a while ago, so how did it feel to ask others for money?"
Zhao Jun was stunned by Zhao Youcai's question. Seeing that Zhao Jun didn't say anything, Zhao Youcai took advantage of the situation and said, "It was just the first two days, and you were still arguing about not having enough money. The brigade will advance the money for you. Now you have money, you can go ahead."
"I..." For a moment, Zhao Jun was speechless.
Today, Zhao Youcai acted out of character and gained the upper hand in the argument with Zhao Jun, but it was not because he had improved his eloquence, but because he grasped the logic.
Diligence and thrift will always be the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation!
Zhao Youcai held two work gloves in his right hand, raised his finger and pointed at Zhao Jun, saying: "If you have money, you will be a spendthrift. If you don't have money, you will be stupid."
"Just close your eyes!" Wang Meilan couldn't bear it any longer, so she slammed the kitchen knife on the panel and shouted at Zhao Youcai in a low voice: "If you have the ability, we will kill the pig and you won't eat it."
"Why shouldn't I eat?" Zhao Youcai stiffened his neck and said, "I work for you guys like crazy every day, why shouldn't I eat?"
"You..." Wang Meilan was speechless for a moment, her chest heaving violently, but what Zhao Youcai said made sense, she wanted to retort but couldn't say anything.
Zhao Youcai, who had won a great victory, was so happy that he reached into his pocket and found that he had no cigarettes, so he pushed the door and went into the east room.
Zhao Youcai was happy, but Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan were very angry.
"Dang dang dang..." Every time Wang Meilan cut the noodles, the sound it made on the panel became louder than before.
On the kang in the west room, Zhao Jun sat cross-legged in front of the kang table. His cheeks were tense as he picked up bullets one by one from the kang table and stuffed them into the magazine with great force.
The cooked hand-rolled noodles are rinsed with cold water and placed in a large bowl. Add two spoonfuls of egg sauce, a spoonful of chili oil, a handful of shredded radish with rock sugar, and the frozen cabbage that has been blanched, cooled, squeezed dry, and cut into small pieces.
Mix the noodles, sauce and vegetables together, slurp them up, and then take a bite of the garlic. It's absolutely delicious!
Zhao Youcai and Xing San sat opposite each other, each holding a large bowl, and ate two large bowls of food without grumbling.
Zhao Jun also ate two bowls, but he had bad breath while eating, and he felt uncomfortable in his stomach after finishing.
"Son, have you finished eating?" At this time, Wang Meilan came in from the outer room. Seeing Zhao Jun put down his bowl, Wang Meilan asked Zhao Jun: "Can you bring a few pounds of pancakes with you when you go up the mountain?"
"You have to bring it, Mom." Zhao Jun said, "We may not be back until sometime today."
"Son." Upon hearing this, Wang Meilan hurriedly stopped Zhao Jun and said, "Listen to what I tell you. If you can hit them, then hit them. If you can't hit them, then forget it. If not, let's go to Xishantun to buy two live roe deer. What else can we do? Right? Don't be so tired. Come back as soon as possible. Do you hear me?"
"Not tired, why should we be tired?" Zhao Jun turned his head slightly, glanced at Zhao Youcai, and said, "We are happy to go up the mountain. The day after tomorrow is the Little New Year, and before the New Year, we can only go up the mountain today or tomorrow."
When Zhao Jun said this, Zhao Youcai, who was tilting his head back and eating noodles with the bowl in his hand, paused for a moment, then slowly put down the bowl in his hand, staring at the back of Zhao Jun's head with his small eyes.
"That's fine." Wang Meilan said with a smile, "Then go ahead. I won't bring you lunch after lunch."
As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, two dogs barked outside the house, and Wang Qiang came in carrying his semi-automatic bicycle.
As soon as Wang Qiang entered the room, he asked Zhao Jun, "Nephew, what are your plans for today?"
Hearing Wang Qiang's words, Zhao Youcai glared at him fiercely. When this old man went up the mountain with him, he kept silent when he ordered him to do something. If he said one thing to him, he would have to say eight hundred things to deal with him. But when he went up the mountain with his eldest nephew, he was really obedient.
"Uncle, you must have forgotten the time." Zhao Jun smiled and said to Wang Qiang, "Didn't I tell you to come over at eight o'clock?"
"Ah?" Wang Qiang frowned and said, "Didn't you say you were leaving at six?"
"That's me and my uncle, we're leaving at six." Zhao Jun said with a smile, "We have to go up the back of Yingbei Mountain first, up to the Huzigou where the big eyes of the cow were, and lower the big leather cages into the stone pond."
"Ah..." Wang Qiang blinked his eyes twice and muttered, "Then how can I remember that you asked me to come at six o'clock?"
"You were drunk last night, right?" Xing San pointed at Wang Qiang and said with a smile, "Later I told you not to drink, but you insisted on drinking another two liang."
"Really?" Wang Qiang pursed his lips and said to Zhao Jun, "Nephew, now that I'm here, I'll go with you."
"Uncle, you have nothing else to do." Zhao Jun said, "You stay at home for a while, and then you can go with Baoyu and Xiaochen. You can also help them manage the dog team."
"Ah... okay then." Wang Qiang said, took the gun off his shoulder and put it on the table against the wall. Then he took two steps back and came to the edge of the kang.
"Brother-in-law, move a little closer." Wang Qiang pulled Zhao Youcai back, and regardless of how Zhao Youcai was looking at him with his eyes, Wang Qiang sat down next to Zhao Youcai and reached out to take the Shilin cigarette that Zhao Youcai had placed on the table on the kang.
"Son, here's a pancake for you." At this time, Wang Meilan came over with a bag of flour and handed it to Zhao Jun.
Zhao Jun took it and put it in his shoulder bag. After taking the supplies and ammunition, Zhao Jun, Xing San said goodbye to Zhao Youcai, Wang Meilan and Wang Qiang, and the old and the young each carried a semi-automatic and walked out of the house.
Seeing that Zhao Jun was wearing clothes for going up the mountain, the hunting dogs in the yard suddenly became excited. They jumped forward and backward, humming and groaning, trying to attract Zhao Jun's attention.
Zhao Jun walked into the warehouse and pulled out a large sack.
The sack was nearly full, and the things inside were angular, pushing the sack out.
When Zhao Jun pulled the sack, he heard a squeaking sound inside, as if something was calling out.
Zhao Jun walked out of the yard, opened the back of the jeep, and placed the sack steadily inside.
Zhao Jun turned around and saw Xing San standing next to the car. He waved at Xing San and said, "Uncle San, get in the car!"
The old mountain dog, who used to be so rampant, now stood beside the car, a little at a loss. Hearing Zhao Jun calling him to get in the car, Xing San sighed and said, "I never thought that I, an old man, would be able to ride in this car in my lifetime."
"Oh my!" Upon hearing this, Zhao Jun went over, opened the passenger door, and helped Xing San into the jeep.
It was still dark outside. Zhao Youcai, who was sitting on the kang in the west room of the Zhao family, had been looking out the window. When he saw the car lights come on, Zhao Youcai muttered, "This loser is driving a car through the mountains!"
"Brother-in-law." Wang Qiang put out his cigarette and said to Zhao Youcai, "We've already bought the car, and we don't have to spend money on gas, so why keep it if we don't drive it?"
Zhao Youcai certainly knew this truth, and he was not nagging because Zhao Jun was driving up the mountain, but simply because he envied Zhao Jun for being able to go up the mountain.
In response to Wang Qiang's retort, Zhao Youcai, who had defeated Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan this morning, said, "The car is just like that, what about the pig?"
"What?" Wang Qiang was stunned. He hadn't reacted yet. How did this suddenly bring up the pig again?
Then, Zhao Youcai pointed to the rear window and said, "Why buy that pig? You can't eat wild boars caught in the mountains..."
"Are you done yet?" Wang Meilan appeared at the door and interrupted Zhao Youcai, saying, "You've been dawdling all day, and now you've made a mess of yourself!"
Zhao Youcai: "..."
……
The jeep left the village and entered the mountain area, heading all the way to Yingbei Mountain.
More than forty minutes later, Zhao Jun saw Yingbei Mountain.
Zhao Jun was very familiar with this mountain area. Last year, he had killed the Pig God and slaughtered a herd of pigs here, making a name for himself.
After bypassing Yingbei Mountain, Zhao Jun drove into the forest and drove along the sled path.
"Boy, this car is great!" Xing San said from the passenger seat, "It's much better than the big Jiefang."
"Yeah." Zhao Jun smiled and said, "If the sled can move, it can move."
"That's great!" Xing San smacked his lips and suddenly said to Zhao Jun, "Boy, you were not at home that day. I told your dad and your mom."
"What's the matter, Third Uncle?" Zhao Jun asked. Xing San said, "We live in that room. The ginseng on the cabinet is given to you. You can keep it or sell it. It's up to you."
"Okay, Uncle Third, I got it." Zhao Jun didn't bother to be polite to Xing San and agreed immediately.
Zhao Jun continued driving up until he reached the end of the sled road and then stopped the car.
The two got off the car, Zhao Jun dragged the sack, and walked up with Xing San. From getting off the car to passing through a forest of fish-scale pine trees, Zhao Jun and Xing San walked about a mile and a half.
The mountain was very high, and right now the two of them were still some distance away from the stone pond at the top of the mountain.
There is a word called "off the beaten track"!
Here, even birds and animals are almost extinct.
In a high mountain like this, there are only a few kinds of wild animals active.
The three most ferocious cats are tiger, leopard and lynx, plus brown bear, sable and elk.
Tigers, leopards, and lynxes are relatively rare, but there are quite a few brown bears. But it is winter now, and the brown bears have long been hibernating in their warehouses.
There are also quite a few elk, but in winter they feed on poplar bark, and there are no poplar forests nearby, so there are no elk.
This means that the large area from the stone pond on the top of the mountain down is the activity range of the sable.
Then, as Zhao Jun and Xing San walked up, their previous statement was confirmed. In addition to a few footprints left by people, there was only one kind of animal footprint nearby, that is, sable.
"This is a treasure land!" Xing San looked around and said, "Such a large mountain area, only sables are left in winter."
"Yeah!" Zhao Jun nodded and said, "Let me tell you, Shi Baofeng always gets scratched every winter."
"Hmm." Xing San pursed his lips, looking at the small footprints on the ground. He said to Zhao Jun, "Boy, how do we get out of the cage?"
The sable's footprints led out from the stone pond in front and went straight to the fish-scale pine forest below.
There is no way, there is nothing up there, the sable has to go down to find food.
"Let's go up, Third Uncle." Zhao Jun raised his hand and pointed to the stone pond, saying, "Follow me when we get into the stone pond. Don't step on the bald spots."
"Then let me lead the way for you." Xing San said with a smile: "I feel that I, an old man, should be more experienced than you in this area."
"Okay, then go slower." Just as Zhao Jun was instructing Xing San, the two suddenly saw something strange on the snow in front of them.
They took a few steps forward and looked carefully, and Zhao Jun and Xing San's eyes lit up instantly.
(End of this chapter)