The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 1590 Wang Meilan: Can you install a seal for my home?

Chapter 1590 Wang Meilan: Can you install a telephone for my home?

Today is March 1988, 3, and there are only ten days left until Zhao Jun’s wedding.

Early in the morning, Wang Meilan and Zhao Youcai were arguing in a low voice in the outer room.

"He is about to get married, why is he showing off on the mountain?" Zhao Youcai said this to his son, because today Zhao Jun was going to bring men and dogs up the mountain to fight the black bear who killed Tao Ersheng and Tao Sansheng.

"How can my son be so arrogant?" Wang Meilan said confidently, "My son went up the mountain, and it was his job."

That's right, her son does that.

Zhao Youcai was stunned when he heard this. He felt that his chance had come. He immediately said, "Isn't this also my job? Why should I stay at home?"

"Do you understand anything?" Wang Meilan asked back, "Today those people came to our house to help us build a shed. You are the head of the family, so what did you do?"

In the Northeast, to describe a person running around, we say he's "saucy, saucy".

"I..." Zhao Youcai was speechless. He twisted his body and sat down on the four-legged stool. He took out a cigarette from his pocket and said indignantly, "What the hell, the head of the family? You are just fooling me."

After many days, Zhao Youcai finally reacted. It's no wonder, anyone who gets hit on the head with such a big pie will be confused for a few days.

At this time, Zhao Youcai put a cigarette in his mouth, then pointed to the west room and said, "He goes up the mountain to work, but I go up the mountain to show off?"

"You are such a person!" Wang Meilan was amused by Zhao Youcai's words. She gently pushed Zhao Youcai's shoulder and said, "Isn't our son a leader? We have to support him in his work."

"Go to the side!" Zhao Youcai pushed Wang Meilan's hand away and said unhappily, "He is a leader, how many people does he have under him? I am in charge of more people than you in front of the cafeteria."

"What are you talking about?" When Wang Meilan heard Zhao Youcai belittle her son, she immediately got angry and retorted on the spot: "You are good in the cafeteria, why do you want to work for my son?"

"I..." Zhao Youcai was speechless again. He glared at Wang Meilan fiercely, and as he stood up and walked out of the house, he left a sentence: "You are a woman, what do you know?"

What Zhao Youcai meant by "niangmen'erjia" is housewives, but it has a derogatory connotation.

Wang Meilan was furious when she heard this. She glared at the back of Zhao Youcai's head, then angrily picked up the rolling pin next to her and gestured.

Zhao Youcai went out to get dog food, leaving Wang Meilan sighing silently in her heart.

Although Wang Meilan was not a man, the rich man Wang had carefully nurtured her since she was a child. In his early years, when he was busy outside, he hired someone to teach Wang Meilan how to read.

But Wang Meilan had only studied for two years when the world changed.

Later, when Wang Daba Zhang returned home, he personally taught Wang Meilan how to count, do accounts, manage the household, and simply run the business. Therefore, Wang Meilan's qualities were better than 95% of the people in this forest area.

When those educated young people came to the forest area, they disliked the people in the mountains for being uneducated, but they all recognized Wang Meilan 100%.

But there was no other way, as the world was not very good to the Wang family and Wang Meilan in those years. Wang Daba Zhang fell in love with Zhao Youcai again, so Wang Meilan married Zhao Youcai.

Wang Meilan was a woman with a lot of talent, but she was still a woman. Especially in the forest area, traditional concepts were strong. At home, Wang Meilan just focused on her husband and children, and had almost forgotten everything she had learned in her early years.

"Oh!" Wang Meilan sighed softly. Thinking of Zhao Youcai's verbal attack on her just now, Wang Meilan decided not to let Zhao Youcai go up the mountain from today on.

After breakfast, Zhao Jun and Zhao Jinhui began to put on leggings. Zhao Weipeng did not plan to go up the mountain today, he wanted to go to the Zhao family's new house to watch people build a shed.

Just as Zhao Jun had finished packing, Li Baoyu and Li Ruhai came over from next door. Li Baoyu followed Zhao Jun up the mountain, and Li Ruhai had nothing to do, so he came over to join in the fun.

Li Ruhai entered the room and found that Zhao Youcai was always staring at him. But every time Li Ruhai looked at him, Zhao Youcai turned his head and looked away.

Li Ruhai felt strange, but Zhao Youcai was upset. He wanted Li Ruhai to spread the news that Huang Gui killed the horse, but he was too embarrassed to say it out loud.

Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu and Zhao Jinhui carried guns, bags and dry food and went out to release the dogs.

Hualong, Dahua and Heilong were injured and were now recovering at Xie Chen's house with Erhei, Da Laohei and Da Laohuang. So Zhao Jun ordered Heihu, Qinghu, Qinglong, Bailong, Huanglong, Erhua, Xiaoxiong, Xiaohua and Hei Niu.

This was the first time that Little Bear went up the mountain after she came out of confinement. Little Bear seemed very excited and jumped around Zhao Jun happily.

The man and the dog got on the car, picked up Wang Qiang and prepared to head to the mountain field. But just as Wang Qiang got on the car, he saw Zhang Yuanmin coming from the east.

"Brother!" Zhao Jun greeted Zhang Yuanmin and said, "You came out so early? The people from Xishantun haven't come up yet."

Today, the Zhao family went to help hunt the foe, but Zhang Yuanmin couldn't go because the Zhao family was building a shed at their new house, and he had to go over to direct and help.

"Brother." Zhang Yuanmin said to Zhao Jun with a bitter face: "My Heizi hasn't come back yet."

"Ah?" Zhao Jun frowned and asked, "Is Zhang Laibao not back yet?"

Yesterday afternoon, Zhang Yuanmin took Xing San to Zhang's house to look for the dog, but Zhang Laibao hadn't come back yet. When they left Zhao's house in the evening, Xiao Lingdang asked her third grandfather to follow them and take a look.

As a result, when Xing San went to Zhao's house for dinner in the morning, he said that he had made another wasted trip last night. It was already past nine o'clock, and Zhang Laibao had not returned yet.

At that time, what Zhao Jun was thinking was that Zhang Laibao was trying to do something strange and wanted to take down Zhang Yuanmin's dog.

"He's back." Zhang Yuanmin said, "He's back, but the dog hasn't."

"Then why didn't the dog come back?" Zhao Jun asked, "Chen Dalai didn't say anything, did the dog go with him?"

"Zhang Laibao also said that." Zhang Yuanmin said, "But he said the dog disappeared after he went down the slope, and he searched for it for a long time but couldn't find it."

"Fuck!" Zhao Jun thought that Zhang Laibao had hidden the dog, and cursed immediately. Then he said to Zhang Yuanmin, "Brother, come to my house. Uncle San is at home. You can take care of the dog for him."

"Yes!" Zhang Yuanmin nodded heavily and said, "I'll call the old man."

"Brother Zhang, if nothing works, you can just call my mother over." Jie Chen said this with a smile, he seemed to be anxious for the world to be in chaos.

Zhao Jun pulled Li Chen aside and said to Zhang Yuanmin, "Just let the Third Master lead you."

On the day when the Zhao family slaughtered the pig, Zhou Chunming came over and gave Xing San a few words, asking him to control his temper, spend his old age in peace, and not cause trouble for Zhao Jun and the Zhao family.

Xing Sanzhen took Zhou Chunming's words to heart. Now he doesn't even carry a knife with him when he strolls around the village.

On the contrary, since Xie Sun's attack would not cause serious injury, she was willing to do it. Zhang Yuanmin took Xing San to Zhang Laibao's house mainly to deter him. If he took Xie Sun with him, the old lady would really do it.

Zhang Yuanmin hurried to Zhao's house, and Zhao Jun waved his hand to signal Li Baoyu to drive.

The Tao brothers were staying at the east end of the village, and Li Baoyu ran to the west end of the village.

Just as they were leaving the village, Zhao Jun, who was sitting in the trunk of a car with his dog, saw two people walking by on the side of the road.

Zhao Jun felt that the two men looked familiar, as if they were hooligans from Xishan Village.

Zhao Jun thought they were just here to help with the housework, and couldn't help but mutter, "They came so early, they're too enthusiastic."

Zhang Xinglong and Tong Youfeng entered Yong'antun and hurried towards Zhao's house.

They had come to the Zhao family many times before to sell gray fur and fox fur, so they were familiar with the place.

When they arrived at Zhao's house, they happened to see Wang Meilan sending Xing San, Li Dayong and Zhang Yuanmin out.

Wang Meilan was afraid that Xing San and Zhang Yuanmin would get into trouble, so she initially wanted Zhao Youcai to go with them. But then she changed her mind and thought that Zhao Youcai had a grudge against the Zhang family, and if Zhao Youcai went, it would easily cause resistance from Zhang Laibao and Xu Meihua. If the mother and daughter said something unpleasant and angered Xing San, it would be too late.

So Wang Meilan called Li Dayong from the west courtyard and asked him to go with her to find the dog.

"Ouch!" Wang Meilan was also stunned when she saw Zhang Xinglong and Tong Youfeng. Everyone who came to work at the Zhao family today had registered, but if Wang Meilan didn't look at the list, she wouldn't know who was on and who wasn't.

When they saw these two people, Wang Meilan and Zhao Jun both thought that they were here to work for their family.

But it’s just after seven o’clock, it’s too early.

"Come in and sit for a while." Wang Meilan greeted the two of them and said, "Wait until eight o'clock, when everyone is upstairs, we can go over there."

"No, that..." Zhang Xinglong was too old to call Wang Meilan "Grandma Zhao". He said directly, "We are not here to work. We... have other things to do."

"Hmm?" Wang Meilan was startled when she heard that, and then she looked at Zhang Xinglong and Tong Youfeng. Like her son, she didn't know what the two were called, but she knew that they were definitely from Xishan Village.

"Then...then come inside." Wang Meilan said to the two of them in a very hospitable manner: "If you have anything to say, let's talk inside."

"That's incredible." Zhang Xinglong refused, saying, "We just need to talk to you for a few words. After that, we have to hurry back."

After hearing what Zhang Xinglong said, Xing San, Li Dayong, and Zhang Yuanmin were not in a hurry to leave. The three of them were not gossiping, but they were afraid that the two would say something that would embarrass Wang Meilan.

With Xing San and the other two around, Wang Meilan felt confident and immediately said to Zhang Xinglong and Tong Youfeng, "What's the matter? Tell me."

"Well... our village is holding an election today..." Zhang Xinglong was interrupted by Wang Meilan before he could finish his words.

Wang Meilan was also surprised and asked, "What? You guys are still holding elections?"

"Ah." Tong Youfeng continued, "We will soon return to Yushu Township."

"Ah..." Wang Meilan blinked her eyes, as if she understood something, and said, "This is a good thing, and a big thing. It doesn't matter if you can't come today. Just do your work. Are you free tomorrow? If you are free, you can come and work for me tomorrow."

Wang Meilan was very generous, thinking that it would be good for these hooligans after the village was merged into the township. So even if they couldn't build the shed today, Wang Meilan was not angry, and she was very reasonable and asked them to come back after they finished their work.

Zhang Xinglong and Tong Youfeng looked at each other, their faces filled with unconcealable surprise.

They came here early, not to ask for leave from Wang Meilan on behalf of the forty people, but to persuade Wang Meilan not to participate in the election.

Wang Meilan, who was not there, was so understanding that Zhang Xinglong and Tong Youfeng felt like they had received an unexpected gain.

Today's election is a big event for Xishan Village, and Zhang and Tong both think it is a big event for themselves. For such a big event, it would be best if everyone in the village could participate.

However, some people in the village insisted on working for Wang Meilan. Zhang Xinglong and Tong Youfeng, who had not yet taken office, did not dare to offend the masses and could only acquiesce.

But if Wang Meilan took the initiative to postpone building the shed until tomorrow, Zhang Xinglong and Tong Youfeng could not be blamed.

Thinking of this, the two of them were secretly happy, and they also wanted to keep working hard and take down the next city.

"There's one more thing." Tong Youfeng, who felt that the position of village chief was beckoning to him, stopped calling Grandma Zhao and said to Wang Meilan, "We want to talk to you."

"What's the matter? Tell me." Wang Meilan asked. Tong Youfeng said, "We, the people in the village, are all very grateful to you."

"What are you thanking me for?" Wang Meilan asked again. Tong Youfeng said, "Thank you for collecting fox skins and mountain products. We made a lot of money and had a good New Year."

"Oh, haha..." Hearing what Tong Youfeng said, Wang Meilan smiled and said, "This is mutual, there's nothing to be grateful for."

Tong Youfeng also smiled and said, "We are all people in the village who value friendship and loyalty. It's time to elect village cadres, and after that, a few people started arguing that they want to elect you."

"Ah?" Wang Meilan was surprised, then laughed and said, "Why did you choose me? Haha, please stop making trouble. I just cook at home. What else can I do?"

Wang Meilan thought that she could only be a women's director. But she failed in Yong'an Village and wanted to be the women's director in Xishan Village. What would the people in Yong'an Village say about her?

So, Wang Meilan refused without even thinking about it.

Hearing Wang Meilan's words, Zhang Xinglong gave Tong Youfeng an admiring look, and then asked Wang Meilan: "You don't want to do it, right?"

"Yeah, haha." Wang Meilan smiled and replied, "If I don't do it, what should I do?"

Zhang Xinglong clapped his hands happily after hearing what Wang Meilan said again, and said, "I'm telling you, it's right for you not to do it. You said your family is so rich, so being a village chief is meaningless, right?"

"What? Village chief?" Wang Meilan, Xing San, Li Dayong and Zhang Yuanmin were all stunned when they heard this.

At this time, Tong Youfeng shook his hand and hit Zhang Xinglong with a stick. This old man talked too much. It was his few words yesterday that made the villagers insist on electing Wang Meilan.

"You fucking bastard..." Zhang Xinglong was about to scold Tong Youfeng, but he saw him winking at him. Zhang Xinglong turned around to look at the surprised expressions of Wang Meilan and the other three, and he finally realized that something was wrong.

In fact, Wang Meilan was not interested in being the village chief. Zhang Xinglong and Tong Youfeng were just empathetic. They wanted to be the village chief so badly that they thought Wang Meilan had the same idea.

"That... is really boring." Zhang Xinglong hurriedly tried to make up for it, saying to Wang Meilan, "You can be the village chief, but you still have to spend money to build a village office for us, and you also have to spend money to install telephones."

Zhang Xinglong is still comparing himself to others. He has no phone calls to make and he has no money to install a phone. Is that right, Wang Meilan?

"Install a telephone?" Wang Meilan was startled. Zhang Xinglong thought that Wang Meilan was bothered by the trouble, so he quickly said, "Well, a village must have a village office and a telephone. We don't have that, so we have to raise money to build a village office first, and then raise money to pull telephone lines and install telephones. When our village heard that we had to spend money, we got angry and quarreled, and we were always unhappy!"

"Pulling telephone wires, installing telephones... still not happy?" Wang Meilan blinked, and then she heard Zhang Yuanmin behind her say, "Auntie, can we talk for a moment?"

"Huh?" Wang Meilan was startled. When she turned around, she saw Zhang Yuanmin winking at her.

Wang Meilan waved to Li Dayong, and she and Zhang Yuanmin walked towards the Li family's fence tent. Li Dayong took out a Yingchun cigarette from his pocket, handed it to Zhang Xinglong and Tong Youfeng, and said, "Come, Master, have a cigarette."

"Auntie." At this time, Zhang Yuanmin whispered to Wang Meilan, "The village wants to elect you as the head of the village."

"Then I won't do it either." Wang Meilan frowned and said, "How can I do that?"

"What can happen in a poor village?" Zhang Yuanmin said with a smile, "Don't you always say that it's inconvenient not to have a phone at home? If you were to become the village chief, why don't you pull a phone line to our house and connect the phone to our house?"

"Oh!" Wang Meilan's eyes lit up, but then she shook her head and said, "What can that village do?"

"Why not?" Zhang Yuanmin said, "Jianjun should know the people who are pulling wires and installing telephones in the village. Let Jianjun talk to them. If it doesn't work, give them a cigarette or something. After that, pull two wires, one for our house and one for the other village. If it really doesn't work, we can just pay for the telephone and give it to the village. They won't be happy about it."

"Then why should I go to so much trouble?" Wang Meilan questioned, and said, "I can just talk to their village, and then ask Jianjun to find someone to pull a line for us."

"Is that possible, old lady?" Zhang Yuanmin said, "How can anyone answer the phone at home? But if you want to be the head of their village, they don't have a village office yet, so just connect the line to our house first. If anything happens, the township will call you to notify you, and then you can notify the village."

"This..." Although Wang Meilan was tempted by the call, she still said with some worry: "Then can I do it? What can I do?"

"Auntie, what are you afraid of?" Zhang Yuanmin stiffened his neck and said, "Don't we still have you? We can be your counselors, isn't that more than enough?"

"This..." Wang Meilan was still hesitant, but she heard Zhang Yuanmin say, "Aunt, if you become the village chief, it will be good for our family."

"Hmm?" Wang Meilan looked at Zhang Yuanmin and heard him continue, "My brother is getting married soon and will have children after marriage. If you become an official, it will be good for my nephew in the future."

Wang Meilan took Zhang Yuanmin's words to heart. Not only that, she also remembered the words Zhao Youcai used to belittle her when they had an argument this morning.

Thinking of this, Wang Meilan turned and walked towards Zhang Xinglong and Tong Youfeng. The two were smoking and chatting with Li Dayong about mountain hiking.

At this time, Wang Meilan came over and asked, "Well... can I let my son be your village chief? My son is capable!"

This is what a mother does, thinking of her son whenever there is something good. But Wang Meilan didn't know the purpose of Zhang and Tong's visit. It would be strange if these two people could let Zhao Jun be their village chief.

"That won't work." Tong Youfeng refused at first, then thought of an excuse: "You...your son isn't a forestry worker?"

"Ah... they have a system." Wang Meilan squinted her eyes and said, "Then my child's father can't do it either."

"That's right. That's definitely not possible." After hearing what Wang Meilan said, Zhang Xinglong and Tong Youfeng thought that Wang Meilan would not compete with them for the position of village chief. The two smiled at each other, but then their eyes became sharp when they looked at each other.

Without Wang Meilan, they would become competitors.

But at this moment, Wang Meilan said, "If they can't do it, I'll go."

"What?" When Wang Meilan said this, Zhang Xinglong and Tong Youfeng were filled with disbelief.