The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 1964 Xiong Ba Demolishes Zhao Family Pig Farm

Chapter 1964 Xiong Ba Demolishes Zhao Family Pig Farm

Zhao Jun held the microphone, looked up at the window, and subconsciously wanted to call out to Wang Meilan to ask if there was a person named Zhao Xianjin in Xishantun.

But in an instant, Zhao Jun realized something was wrong. Even if there was a man named Wang Xianjin in Xishantun, he wouldn't receive a phone call from him.

It's not that Zhao Jun looks down on people; this phone has been installed in the Zhao family's house for some time now, and not even a single person has called to look for Zhao Youcai, let alone a scoundrel.

Suddenly, Zhao Jun recalled the scene when he first met Sun Xuefeng, the deputy director of the Shanhe County Public Security Bureau, and instantly understood what was going on.

"Ah, I'm Zhao Jun." Zhao Jun replied with a smile. His honor as an outstanding individual in the county was to be awarded by county leaders at the county-wide conference at the end of the year, along with a certificate and prize. But this matter had already been decided, and all the prominent figures in Shanhe County knew of Zhao Jun.

"Ah, haha, Zhao Xianjin, this is Lao Bi from the county supply and marketing cooperative's purchasing station." The person on the other end of the phone introduced himself. These days, the purchasing station was affiliated with the supply and marketing cooperative. The supply and marketing cooperative was the seller, and the purchasing station was the buyer.

"Ah, Station Chief Bi, hello." Zhao Jun greeted him, and then Bi Dongsheng laughed on the phone, "Hello, Zhao Xianjin. I've seen all your interviews on TV and in the newspapers. Especially the one in the newspaper, I even had my child write an essay after reading it."

"Is that so? Hehe..." Zhao Jun was quite talkative, but when the other person started talking about studying, Zhao Jun really couldn't keep up.

However, Zhao Jun objected to Bi Dongsheng's way of addressing him: "Station Chief Bi, please don't call me Zhao Xianjin anymore, just call me Zhao Jun."

“Alright, Brother Zhao Jun.” Bi Dongsheng said straightforwardly, “My full name is Bi Dongsheng. I’m a few years older than you. You can call me Brother Sheng or Brother Dongsheng, it’s fine.”

“Okay, Brother Dongsheng.” Having made up his mind to be friends with the other party, Zhao Jun readily agreed.

Having lived through two lifetimes, Zhao Jun knew the saying, "Having more friends means having more paths, while having more enemies means having more walls to block your way." Although he had made many enemies since his rebirth, both old and new, those were unavoidable.

"Brother Zhao Jun, I heard you're a skilled hunter. What? You can also raft in the mountains?" Bi Dongsheng's brother works in the logistics department of the Forestry Bureau, and everyone in the Shanhe Forestry Bureau knows Zhao Jun.

Moreover, everyone knows that Zhao Jun is Director Chu's favorite. Therefore, Director Bi specifically instructed Bi Dongsheng that Zhao Jun is someone you can only befriend, and you must never offend him.

"I...I mean, you know..." Zhao Jun quickly organized his thoughts and said, "We forest rangers have to go up the mountain and patrol the forest every day, and sometimes we just happen to spot things. So if we see something, we just dig it up, hehe..."

"Oh my, you're so lucky!" Bi Dongsheng exclaimed upon hearing this. "That's why they say good people get good rewards."

Bi Dongsheng is really good at chatting. Zhao Jun laughed and said, "Not bad, hehe."

Today, Bi Dongsheng needed someone's help, so it was up to him to bring it up. At this moment, Bi Dongsheng steered the conversation towards Fangshan, and Zhao Jun just waited for him to continue.

“Brother Zhao Jun.” Then, Bi Dongsheng got to the point, saying, “My purchasing station hasn’t been able to buy any ginseng for the past few years. This year, as soon as we got some green ginseng, the higher-ups gave us a quota.”

"This task is clearly not going to be completed, so I thought, brother, you're off grazing in the mountains, and you're leaving those clubs there; why don't you bring them to me to sell?"

Bi Dongsheng spoke slowly, but after he finished, he suddenly sped up and said, "The price of this piece is about the same as that of their pharmacy."

They're about the same, which means they're not much different, but they certainly won't be that far apart.

Zhao Jun didn't care about this. Even if Bi Dongsheng had given him more money, he would still owe Zhao Jun a favor, let alone if he were short of money.

The greater the difference, the greater the debt of gratitude. And then there's Director Bi, who facilitated this; Zhao Jun helped his brother complete the task, so he has to owe Zhou Jianjun a favor.

“Okay, Brother Dongsheng.” Zhao Jun smiled and said, “It’s okay if it’s not great, as long as I support your work.”

"Hahaha..." Bi Dongsheng laughed heartily upon hearing this, and said, "Brother, I'm glad you said that. Don't worry, I won't let you earn less money."

"Ah..." Of course, it would be best if we didn't lose money. Upon hearing this, Zhao Jun asked, "Brother Dongsheng, how many tasks are you short?"

"Oh dear, quite a bit more," Bi Dongsheng said. "But it wasn't all done by me alone; it was shared among all the people at our purchasing station. As the station manager, I got two seedlings of grade five leaves, hehe..."

In the end, Bi Dongsheng laughed, but his laughter was full of bitterness.

Zhao Jun immediately understood why Bi Dongsheng was looking for help everywhere. In this season in Qinglangtou City, it wasn't easy to carry two seedlings of five-leaf variety.

Of course, Zhao Jun's thinking wasn't Versailles-like. His Zhao family gang had reaped considerable gains over the past month, but most of the wild ginseng they acquired came from under the Qing Shi Lazi cliff.

The Zhao family gang went there knowing there was an acreage. They were there specifically to carry ginseng, which was much better than randomly searching the mountains.

"Two seedlings with five leaves, are there any requirements for their appearance?" Zhao Jun asked. Bi Dongsheng replied, "There aren't any major requirements for appearance. It doesn't matter if two of the stamens are broken, just don't have any major defects."

“Okay, Brother Dongsheng.” Zhao Jun said, “I’ll go down the mountain to the city in the next couple of days, and I’ll call you in advance when I’m done.”

"Huh?" Upon hearing Zhao Jun's words, Bi Dongsheng exclaimed in surprise, "Brother Zhao Jun, you've left behind the Grade 5 Leaf?"

"I've already left it here." Zhao Jun smiled and said, "I happen to have some, I'll take it for you later."

"Oh, that's great!" Bi Dongsheng said happily. "You get me one seedling, and then I'll ask someone to get me another one. Wouldn't that complete the task?"

"One seedling?" Zhao Jun laughed upon hearing this. "Two seedlings, Brother Dongsheng, I'll get you two seedlings."

"Two seedlings? Oh my!" Bi Dongsheng exclaimed with delight, "Brother, you've given me a wonderful surprise!"

"Haha, I'll get you two seedlings, so you don't have to ask someone else," Zhao Jun said. Bi Dongsheng replied, "Oh, brother, I have nothing more to say, thank you so much."

Just then, Wang Meilan and a group of people came in from outside, and then Zhao Jun heard Ma Ling call out "Brother Jie Zhong".

Upon hearing that Jie Zhong had returned, Zhao Jun quickly exchanged a few polite words with Bi Dongsheng before hanging up the phone.

When Zhao Jun came out of the house, he saw Jie Zhong, who had buried Ba Tai.

Although there is water on the mountain, fetching and using it is inconvenient. It is almost impossible to maintain personal hygiene on the mountain.

So, during those few months in the mountains, Xie Zhong caused him a lot of trouble.

"Brother Zhong, why are you back?" Zhao Jun asked. It wasn't that Jie Zhong couldn't come back. The key was that the dog days of summer were approaching, and while it wasn't too hot yet, everyone at the workshop was working overtime.

At this time, Lengchang was very busy, so Jiezhong must have something to do when he came down the mountain.

“I came down with those two from Xishantun,” Xie Zhong said. “They were delivering their wages home, and I followed them down to tell you that your pigsty is attracting bears.”

"What the hell?" Zhao Jun was taken aback, then heard Xie Zhong say, "The piglets you raised have attracted a tyrant."

At the beginning of spring, Zhao Jun opened a pig farm on the mountain. He caught some wild boar piglets and then bought some domestic piglets from Yongxing Brigade to raise together.

This serves two purposes: first, it helps to temper the wildness inherent in the piglets, as domestic piglets will lead wild piglets to eat, drink, and recognize their burrows; second, raising one group of pigs is the same as raising two groups, since there's no shortage of food and water on the mountain.

When these pigs were young, Hu Dahai had to work hard, fetching water and cutting grass to feed them every day.

Once autumn arrives, these pigs will be able to roam freely. They will then forage for food on the mountain, and once they are full, they will go home on their own.

Zhao Jun had also considered the possibility of attacks from wild animals. So he bought ten bundles of firecrackers for Hu Dahai, so that Hu Dahai could set off one in the morning and one at night.

As for whether the piglets will be frightened by the firecrackers, they are easy to drive away at first. Firecrackers are set off after they enter the pen at night and before they leave the pen in the morning. They will be frightened and unable to run away.

As they grew a little older, they got used to the sound of firecrackers. While Hu Dahai set off firecrackers, the pigs continued to eat as usual.

"Where are the firecrackers I gave Grandpa Hai?" Zhao Jun frowned and said, "The ones I gave him last time were enough for him to keep for two months."

"Don't even mention it!" Xie Zhong took the cigarette Zhao Youcai offered and answered Zhao Jun's question, saying, "That day, a piglet went into his house and got knocked over by the water tap, and all the firecrackers got soaked. After that, he didn't set off any firecrackers for the next two days!"

“He didn’t fire any cannons, but he has a gun, right? Even if he doesn’t fire cannons, he can still fire two shots.” For Hu Dahai’s safety, Zhao Jun specially got him a gun.

"Gun..." Xie Zhong blinked and said, "I don't know, but he said that after two days without firing any cannons, the bear passed away."

"Did he get hurt?" Zhao Jun didn't understand why Hu Dahai didn't fire his gun, but that didn't matter right now.

"He wasn't seriously injured." Xie Zhong laughed as he said this, gesturing to Zhao Jun, "That Xiong Ba tore open the tent you were nailing, crawled in and killed a piglet, and then it used the opening to pull the piglet out."

He grabbed a big pine tree and started gnawing on it. Just then, the old man came out, gun in hand, slippers on, and fired a shot at the bear.

At this point, Xie Zhong paused and took a drag of his cigarette.

"He killed Xiong Ba?" Zhao Jun asked, still thinking about how his master was still as sharp as ever.

"No." Upon hearing this, Zhao Jun's heart skipped a beat. If they couldn't kill the bear, it would easily run after the old man.

The old man wasn't using a semi-automatic one, so he was prone to making mistakes in a hurry.

At this moment, Xie Zhong flicked his cigarette ash and laughed, "This old man said he was afraid of hitting the tent or something, but anyway, he didn't even manage to hit a bear's hair."

"Oh my god!" Upon hearing this, Wang Qiang hurriedly asked, "You didn't hit him? Didn't Xiong Ba deal with him? Shouldn't he have gone after him?"

"Didn't we run after him?" Jie Zhong laughed. "Then Xiong Ba didn't even aim properly and crashed right into the tent, falling flat on his back."

When Zhao Jun and his men were building the pigsty, they used old railway sleepers as the foundation and felled hardwoods such as ash trees to make the tent.

The tent was very sturdy. An ordinary bear might be able to pry open two of the wooden planks with its claws and crawl inside, but it would be difficult for it to be knocked down by a single impact.

"How big was that bear?" Zhao Jun asked. Jie Zhong replied, "I heard it weighed only about 200 jin (100 catties). They said the bear got up with a thud, and the old man fired another shot. He must have hit it, but the bear got up and ran away."

Hearing Xie Zhong say this, Zhao Jun's expression relaxed slightly. As long as the person is alright, everything else is secondary.

“Besides the one that Xiong Ba killed, four wild boar piglets and two black piglets also escaped.” Xie Zhong continued, “He searched around with his gun but couldn’t find them, so he got a little upset and said he was sorry to you.”

"Alright, alright." Zhao Jun waved his hand and said to Xie Zhong, "It's good that he's alright. Before you leave, I'll give you a few more bundles of double-barreled lice. Give them to him at the pig farm, and tell him not to go up the mountain. The bear is most dangerous when it's injured; what if he gets hurt again?"

Hearing Zhao Jun's words, Jie Zhong chuckled and said, "The old man isn't looking for it anymore, but he's telling you to go look for it."

"What?" Zhao Jun was stunned, and then he heard Jie Zhong say, "That old man said he's already been shot once, and he wants you to chase him away. After you've chased him away, the bear gall is yours, just consider it compensation for losing those few piglets."

"That old man, he's always doing useless things," Zhao Jun frowned. "Do you think I'd make him compensate me for my piglets?"

As soon as Zhao Jun finished speaking, Wang Qiang, who was standing next to him, laughed and said, "After all this time, it turns out that this guy wasn't thinking about killing Xiong Ba."

"Hehe..." Xie Zhong and the others chuckled. Zhao Jun waved his hand and said, "I'm so busy all day, I don't have time to chase it away."

After saying this, Zhao Jun shrugged at Xie Zhong and said, "Brother Zhong, you don't know, we didn't get home until after 10 p.m. last night, and we still have to go down the mountain to the city tomorrow and the day after."

Just as Xie Zhong was about to speak, Zhao Youcai, who was sitting next to him, threw his cigarette butt on the ground and said to Zhao Jun, "Son, you two go about your business. Tomorrow, Dad will go up the mountain to confront that Xiong Ba."

Upon hearing Zhao Youcai's words, both Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan's expressions changed. With so many people around, Wang Meilan had to give Zhao Youcai face, only glaring at him fiercely, thinking she would deal with the old man after everyone left that night.

"Alright, Dad, you stay home." Zhao Jun didn't think twice and said directly, "After dinner, I'll take Hu Zi and Lao Hu up the mountain to take a look."

"I..." Zhao Youcai wanted to ask to go into battle after hearing this, but Zhao Jun looked at Xie Sunshi and said, "Auntie, what have I been doing?"

When Zhao Jun and Ma Ling went back to Ma Ling's parents' home, the Liberation truck was still parked outside the courtyard. When they came back just now, the truck was gone.

“He went to his girlfriend’s house,” Xie Sunshi said with a smile. “Since we’re free today, I asked him to buy some things and go over to visit her.”

After saying this, Xie Sunshi paused for a moment, then her smile widened, and she added, "I'll have him drive there, and then see if there's any chores at his mother-in-law's house, he can help out."

As soon as Xie Sun finished speaking, she saw her eldest son looking at her with a strange expression.

"Eldest son, why are you staring at Mom like that?" Xie Sun asked. Xie Zhong twitched his lips and laughed, "I just think Mom is so nice."

As Xie Zhong said this, he was recalling the time before Liu Lanying married into the family. In the early days of winter, he said he wanted to go to Liu Lanying's house to help them chop firewood.

Even today, Jie Zhong still remembers what his mother said back then—it was incredibly hurtful. She said things like, "I raised this son for nothing, he's like someone else's son." And, "He hasn't even gotten married yet, and he's already forgotten his mother."

"Hahaha..." Madam Xie had no idea what her eldest son was thinking, but she was happy to be praised.

But once Xie Sunshi's laughter subsided, the room became so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

"Hmm?" Xie Sunshi was taken aback and subconsciously looked at the two people who shared her "interests".

Seeing that Sun was looking at him, Xing San quickly lowered his head.

In contrast, Li Tongyun, a young woman, was more loyal. She stepped forward and praised Sun, saying, "Aunt Sun, you are a true heroine!"

"Haha..." Madam Xie felt this was a good word and laughed, "Xiaoyun is right."

After saying this, Xie Sunshi grabbed Wang Meilan, who was about to slip away, and said, "Sister, tell me, if we weren't such good friends, would our relationship be like this?"

"Yes, yes." Wang Meilan nodded repeatedly, but what she was thinking was, "That's not about you being nice to me or me being nice to you, it's about my family's food being the best!"

Seeing this, Zhao Jun came to Wang Meilan's rescue and changed the subject, saying, "Then we don't need to go with Baoyu today."

After saying this, Zhao Jun looked at Wang Qiang and said, "Uncle, after we finish lunch, the five of us—you, me, my second brother, my elder brother Zhang, and my brother-in-law—will take Hu Zi and Tiger up the mountain."

Now that the family only has a Jeep, Zhao Jun directly ordered five people and two dogs, leaving no room for Zhao Youcai at all.