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Chapter 1735 Zhang Yuanmin's plan is against the will of Heaven and Earth

Chapter 1735 Zhang Yuanmin's plan is against the will of Heaven and Earth

Wang Meilan accompanied Liang Xuemei and the Zhao family elders back from outside, and Zhao Jun then got up to say goodbye to Zhao Weipeng.

After a long day, Zhao Jun was exhausted. He went home, washed up, and went to bed with his wife.

The next morning, Zhao Youcai and Wang Meilan got up at 3:30. The couple took flashlights, went next door to open the gate, and then went straight to the backyard.

The two families cleaned up their backyard sheds together, and both sheds had electrical wires and light bulbs installed.

Wang Meilan lit the lanterns, while Zhao Youcai fetched water, washed the pots, and boiled water. At 4:30, Zhao Jun and Ma Ling got up to help, and the cooks, including Han Dachun, arrived one after another.

Don't underestimate the Li family just because they only have two seats; because they need to slaughter five pigs, they survive in no way.

Zhao Youcai led the cook and helpers to slaughter pigs, remove pig hair, and unload pork, while Zhao Jun and Ma Ling helped with some odd jobs.

Suddenly, Zhao Jun turned around and looked at the cooks, including Han Dachun and Han Daming, and an idea popped into his mind.

If one day I open my own resort or restaurant, wouldn't all the chefs be readily available?

Since the night before last, Zhao Jun's mind has been filled with all sorts of thoughts about starting a business.

Recalling the large tourist resort on Phoenix Mountain next door in his previous life, Zhao Jun couldn't help but have his mind wander again.

Zhao Jun straightened up, looked at Dadingzi Mountain under the hazy night sky, and considered the feasibility in his mind.

As Zhao Jun's thoughts wandered, people began to gather at the Li family compound, with the Wang, Zhang, Lin, and Xie families all coming to help.

Because of the conflict with Zhang Laibao's family a couple of days ago, Wang Meilan temporarily formed a security force, and Jie Sunshi was appointed as the chief security guard, leading Li Tongyun on patrols.

As it turned out, Wang Meilan's worries were unnecessary, and Li Baoyu's wedding was a complete success. By a little after 1 p.m., most of the guests at the second bar had left.

After the helpers and cooks finished cleaning up the mess, they returned all the tables, chairs, and benches borrowed from the Zhao family, washed all the cups, plates, bowls, and chopsticks, and packed them back into boxes and sent them back to the Zhao family's storeroom.

Li Dayong and Jin Xiaomei stood at the door, offering red envelopes and cigarettes to the people who came to help. Li Ruhai clasped his hands in thanks.

At 5:30 p.m., Jin Xiaomei locked the gate of the Li family compound from the outside and chased away Li Ruhai, Zhao Hong and a group of children who were making a ruckus in the bridal chamber.

But the next second, Jin Xiaomei called Li Ruhai and Li Xiaoqiao back, and Li Dayong also called Li Dazhi and his family of three to go to his old house, where the relatives of the Li and Jin families had not yet left.

The rest of the people returned to the Zhao family compound, and the women cleaned up the remaining ingredients in the outer room.

Jin Xiaomei didn't keep any of the leftover food at the table. She gave the untouched food to the cook, and leftovers on the table to the helpers and kitchen staff.

The remaining ingredients that were taken back to the Zhao family were all uncooked.

The remaining greens were picked out, divided into piles, wrapped in greaseproof paper, placed in woven baskets, and then put into the cellar.

The remaining sea fish were fried and then divided among several families in small bowls and small containers.

There are also more than ten kilograms of shrimp, which I divided into two portions and froze in the refrigerator. I'll save these for when I have bear paws to make Tai Chi Bear Paws.

The most leftover meat was pork; there were still seventy or eighty catties of meat left from the five pigs. This meat included the front shoulder, the hind shoulder, the tenderloin, and the belly. Wang Meilan and her team cut the meat into small pieces, then layered it with salt in jars to cure it into salted bacon.

The men split into two groups. The middle-aged and elderly group drank tea, smoked, and chatted in the east hut. Surprisingly, Xing San and Zhao Weipeng hit it off immediately, and the two old men chatted enthusiastically.

Zhao Jun and a group of young people gathered in the west hut to pet bears, stroke dogs, and poke lynxes.

With Li Ruhai not around, Zhao Jun asked Zhang Yuanmin, "Brother, you live near Zhang Laibao's house. How's the work on his shed and stuff going?"

“Brother, I’ve been busy today and haven’t told you yet,” Zhang Yuanmin said. “His shed has been built.”

"So fast?" Xie Chen frowned and said, "Where did he find someone to do the work?"

"Who did they hire?" Zhang Yuanmin laughed. "Just Zhang Zhanhe and Xu Guohua did it. Zhang Laibao's legs aren't strong enough, and he can't do anything else."

After saying that, Zhang Yuanmin added, "His house wasn't very big, just two small rooms."

At this point, Zhang Yuanmin lowered his voice and said, "The Japanese gave him a thousand dollars, but he had to keep half of it."

"Who are you talking about?" Xie Zhong, who came down the mountain to attend Li Baoyu's wedding, asked. Xie Chen replied, "Brother, don't you recognize that person? It's Zhang Shaoji."

"Ah, then we know each other." Xie Zhong smiled; he was the one who gave Zhang Shaoji his nickname.

"Brother," Zhang Yuanmin said to Zhao Jun, "I have a plan that will make Zhang Laibao lose money instead of stealing a chicken, but I don't know if I should tell you?"

As soon as Zhang Yuanmin finished speaking, Zhao Jun said, "Brother, then stop talking."

"Huh?" Zhang Yuanmin froze on the spot, and everyone burst into laughter at his embarrassed look.

"Brother, I was just kidding." Zhao Jun patted Zhang Yuanmin lightly twice and said, "Go ahead and tell me, it's alright."

"Alas!" Zhao Jun urged him to speak, and Zhang Yuanmin sighed, then shook his head in a mocking manner, saying, "Yuanmin's plan is probably against the will of Heaven!"

"What a tragedy?" Zhao Jun was taken aback upon hearing this. He said, "Brother, how many years have my uncle and aunt passed away? What are you trying to do?"

Zhang Yuanmin: "..."

In Zhao Jun's hometown, beating one's father and cursing one's mother are called "sinscribing Heaven." Zhao Jun didn't know what "sinscribing Heaven" or "inscribing Heaven" meant, but he caught the phrase "sinscribing Heaven."

“Brother, you didn’t understand,” Zhang Yuanmin said. “It’s not that it’s against Heaven, it’s that it’s against the harmony of Heaven, which means it’s unrighteous.”

After Zhang Yuanmin finished speaking, Xie Chen said to Zhang Yuanmin with a hint of excitement, "Brother Zhang, I know."

"What do you know?" Zhang Yuanmin asked. Xie Chen replied, "Zhuge Liang burned the rattan armor soldiers!"

“Yes, yes!” Zhang Yuanmin nodded repeatedly. With the Li siblings not around, at least there was Jie Chen, who also loved reading comic books, to pick up where he left off.

But then, Jie Chen asked Zhang Yuanmin with a serious expression, "Brother Zhang, what trick are you using? Won't it shorten your lifespan?"

"Get lost!" Zhang Yuanmin stood up and smacked Xie Chen with his pestle, and Xie Chen chuckled.

Zhao Jun understood what "lifespan" meant, and he quickly asked Zhang Yuanmin, "Brother, what are you going to do? No matter what we do, we can't get ourselves involved."

“No way, brother, this is what I’m thinking.” Zhang Yuanmin said, “Don’t you remember? Last year when we went to Yongxing Brigade to fight the bear bully, Uncle Li mentioned that in their area, some people used to put mung beans into bear bile to increase its weight.”

Upon hearing this, Zhao Jun frowned slightly and said, "Brother, do you mean to stuff bear bile into mung beans and then sell them to Zhang Laibao?"

“Hmm!” Zhang Yuanmin nodded and said, “If the gallbladder is normally dried to three ounces, we can fill it up to four or four and a half ounces without any problem.”

“Brother Zhang, this won’t do!” Zhang Yuanmin said, and Lin Xiangshun shook his head and said, “Isn’t this cheating people? No matter how bad Zhang Laibao is, we can’t do this to him.”

After saying this, Lin Xiangshun paused slightly and said, "Money is neither easy to come by nor easy to spend."

“Shunzi,” Zhang Yuanmin said with a serious expression, “Is your brother Zhang the kind of person who would cheat people? The key point is that the ones who accepted this bear gallbladder were Japanese devils. Are Japanese devils human? They're livestock!”

"That won't do either, Brother Zhang." These words came from Zhou Jianjun, whose family had come for the feast. After the feast, Zhao Jun escorted Zhou Chunming and his wife home, leaving Zhao Chunming and his family to stay the night.

Zhang Yuanmin looked at Zhou Jianjun in surprise, and then heard Zhou Jianjun say, "That little devil came under the guise of a foreign businessman. If we sell him fake bear bile, it will have a really bad impact. He will start saying that we Chinese are this and that."

"Jianjun, I don't like hearing that," Zhang Yuanmin said. "How cruel were those Japanese devils back then? They killed us, robbed us, and used us for experiments. What kind of human beings were they?"

"Exactly!" Xie Chen chimed in, "I saw on TV the other day that they killed tens of millions of our people in those few years! Damn, we have this opportunity, let's get back what we can!"

As he spoke, Xie Chen waved his hand at Zhang Yuanmin and said, "Let's do it the way my brother Zhang suggested. We'll donate the extra money from making mung beans, okay?"

"That won't do!" Zhou Jianjun said, "That's not how it works! The past is the past, and the present is the present. Now that we're on friendly terms, we can't just do anything reckless!"

“Jianjun, you’re wrong,” Xie Zhong objected, “He killed so many of our people before, those are blood debts, is that all there is to it?”

"Brother Jie, there's nothing we can do about it." Lin Xiangshun was on Zhou Jianjun's side. "When you're fighting a war, we can do whatever we want to him. The problem is, you've tainted his bear bile with something, and now he'll find out."

“That’s right!” Zhou Jianjun chimed in. “Then they’ll criticize us again, saying we’re liars and don’t keep our word in business. That will tarnish our reputation internationally.”

The two sides argued, and Zhao Jun remained silent throughout. But when Zhou Jianjun uttered his last sentence, Zhao Jun suddenly remembered something.

In his past life, he was scrolling through short videos when he saw someone abroad photograph a national treasure that had been lost from China, send it back to the motherland, but not pay for the auction.

Zhao Jun looked at the pile of comments below. Some comments praised the man for his righteousness and patriotism, while others said his behavior was a disgrace to the Chinese people.

How similar is the scene inside the room to those comments?

It can't be said that Zhou Jianjun and Lin Xiangshun were unpatriotic; they were also considering the country's interests. Zhang Yuanmin and the Xie brothers, on the other hand, thought less about such things and were more interested in seeking revenge.

"Jin Hui!" Zhao Jun suddenly spoke up, interrupting the argument between the two sides, and then asked Zhao Jin Hui, "What do you think about this?"

"Brother Jun," Zhao Jinhui said with a broad smile, "I'll do whatever you say."

Upon hearing Zhao Jinhui's words, Zhang Yuanmin and Xie Chen both looked at him, a sense of crisis inexplicably rising in their hearts.

"Jun!" Zhou Jianjun knew who the leader of the Zhao family gang was, and quickly said to Zhao Jun, "Brother-in-law, you can't just do anything recklessly."

"Brother-in-law," Zhao Jun smiled, then asked Zhou Jianjun, "I may not be well-educated, but I know that we Chinese are honest and don't cause trouble. Before, when we didn't provoke this or that, did they bully us less? Did they cause us less harm?"

“That’s not…” Zhou Jianjun was about to say something when Zhao Jun asked again, “They’ve been talking about friendship for years, but I haven’t seen any friendship in sight.”

Zhao Jun may lack formal education, but he watched countless short videos in his past life. He doesn't understand foreign affairs and can't even remember some complicated country names. However, he can remember who has harassed or caused trouble for China.

Zhao Jun sometimes felt that the Chinese people were too kind and too benevolent, but their kindness and benevolence were met with suppression, betrayal, and framing...

Seeing that Zhou Jianjun seemed to want to say something more, Zhao Jun asked him a final question: "Brother-in-law, for example, when this little devil was causing trouble for us, did any other little devils tell him, 'Don't cause trouble for others, the Chinese are all honest people, if you cause trouble for them, it will affect the image of our island nation'?"

Zhou Jianjun was taken aback by Zhao Jun's question. He heard his brother-in-law's words sound sarcastic, but they didn't seem to be wrong.

Zhao Jun couldn't say some things. In his previous life, he went to the Far East to collect ginseng and learned some things about it.

Russia is a vast and sparsely populated country, so some Chinese people living near the border would go there to rent land for farming. The most common crop they grew there was potatoes.

The Rakshasa are not good at farming, so they are happy to rent their land to the Chinese. Then both parties sign a contract, and we pay the rent.

Farming is never easy. You have to rent farm machinery to clear the land, make ridges, plant potato seedlings, and fertilize. After the leaves grow, you still have to apply additional fertilizer and control pests and diseases.

After finally getting to the autumn harvest, there was no harvest due to unnatural causes, and months of hard work went down the drain.

Zhao Jun didn't see anyone in their area caring about their reputation or influence after committing such a heinous act.

If the Russians are like this, then the Japanese are even more so; even after thirty or forty years, they are still the same dead bodies.

Their argument reached the outer room. Wang Meilan heard it but didn't get involved. Instead, she went to the east hut and called Zhao Youcai and Zhao Weipeng over.

After listening to their argument, Zhao Weipeng said, "That won't do! Zheng Xuekun has only been dead for a few days!"

“Uncle Zhao, let’s not go sell them ourselves. We’ll go to Zhang Laibao’s place to sell, but Zhang Laibao won’t accept our goods.” Zhang Yuanmin pointed out the window and said, “We have so many workers up the mountain. Why don’t we find a few trustworthy ones and have them go one by one? Who will he turn to then?”

“Son.” Whenever Zhao Youcai got drunk, he would show his loving father side in front of Zhao Jun.

After listening to the argument, Zhao Youcai said to Zhao Jun, "This is no joke. I've heard your great-grandmother talk about stuffing mung beans into bear gall. People used to do that, and one of them ended up with a mung bean inside the bear gall. The other person opened the bear gall and found a mung bean inside. Then this guy came looking for trouble and almost got beaten to death by that person."

After saying this, Zhao Youcai said, "Everyone says to be careful, but those who do that kind of thing often can't guarantee that they won't slip up one day. They might just go bald."

"Did you hear that, Jun?" Seeing that his usually unreliable father-in-law was serious today, Zhou Jianjun quickly pressed on and said to Zhao Jun, "Listen to Dad, you can't do anything reckless."

Zhang Yuanmin, Xie Zhong, Xie Chen, and Zhao Jinhui looked at Zhao Jun, who then said to Zhang Yuanmin, "Did you hear that, brother? We absolutely cannot lie! We can't do that kind of thing!"

Everyone was taken aback by what they heard. At this moment, Zhao Jun said to Zhao Youcai, "Dad, I told you to keep the gallbladders from those pigs we slaughtered today. Did you keep them?"

"I kept it," Zhao Youcai said. "I gave it to your mother. Did she hang it up in the house?"

After saying this, Zhao Youcai hurriedly asked Zhao Jun, "Son, what are you trying to do?"

Zhao Jun's gaze swept over Zhang Yuanmin, the Xie brothers, and Zhao Jinhui, and he said, "Tomorrow during the day, we'll go up the mountain to play a game of tag. Tonight, we'll take the dogs up the mountain and hunt badgers on the ridge!"

Upon hearing Zhao Jun's words, Zhang Yuanmin slapped his thigh and laughed, "Brother, you're even more wicked than your elder brother!"

"What's going on?" Zhao Jinhui was completely confused when Zhang Yuanmin said, "Badger's gall is also called bear gall!"

"Jun..." Zhou Jianjun and Lin Xiangshun called out to Zhao Jun in unison, trying to persuade him to think twice before acting.

"Brother-in-law, second brother," Zhao Jun said with a smile, "Before spring, wild boars, roe deer, and red deer all have pups. If that's not in accordance with what my eldest brother said, then let's hunt more badgers!"

(End of this chapter)