Return to 1983 Hunting Xing'an Mountains

Chapter 1 Return to and stop wandering

"Alas!!"

There was a sharp scream.

Xu Ning, who was lying on his side on the kang and fell asleep soundly, felt severe pain in his back.

He jumped up boldly, knelt on the mattress, turned his head and stared at the bull's eye, and opened his mouth to curse.

"Who the hell is hitting..."

However, when he saw a woman standing on the ground, wearing a gray-blue cotton-padded jacket unique to the 80s, holding a broomstick in her hand, with an expression of gritting her teeth and hating that iron could not become steel, Xu Ning was stunned for a moment.

He raised his hand and rubbed his eyes in disbelief, rubbing away two pieces of porcelain (eye mucus), and he clearly saw the woman pinching her waist, gasping for breath, and glaring at him with eyes that seemed to be burning with fire, getting more and more intense.

"mom?"

"Don't call me mom! I'm not your mom!"

Liu Lizhen's face was full of anger. After grinding her molars and shouting, she was still angry. She kicked off her cotton shoes and jumped onto the kang. She patted Xu Ning with the broomstick.

Seeing this, Xu Ning, who was confused, hurriedly stepped back, but there was no room behind him. He just stepped back less than half a meter and leaned against the wall at the end of the kang.

"Mom! Mom! Don't hit..."

Liu Lizhen was determined to beat him up and ignored his pleas for mercy.

The further he hid, the angrier his mother became and the harder he swung the broom.

Broomstick bumps fell on shoulders, arms, and calves, and a burning pain instantly shot into his head.

Immediately, Xu Ning was stunned, and for a moment he dropped his defensive arms and legs.

He just leaned against the wall of the kang and let his mother beat her violently. The pain became clearer and clearer, and he enjoyed it more and more.

Liu Lizhen continued to swing six or seven times. Seeing that he did not dodge, but his face was dull and his eyes were red, she stopped and stared at her second son suspiciously.

"mom."

"No matter what you call me, it's useless. I'm waiting for your father to come back and I won't be able to beat you to death!"

Liu Lizhen breathed heavily and her lips trembled slightly when she spoke. She was obviously very angry.

At this time, she saw Xu Ning's face turned red, his eyes blinking slightly excitedly, and tears filling the corners of his eyes.

Xu Ning's throat seemed to be blocked by something. It was very uncomfortable. He couldn't make a sound from crying, only his big eyes were dripping.

The long-lost scene reappeared, making Xu Ning's longing burst out.

It has been more than twenty years since my mother, Liu Lizhen, died unexpectedly in the fall of 1990 when she was attacked by a black man while picking mushrooms in the mountains.

At that time, he was shopping for watches, radios, televisions and other household appliances in the provincial capital, but he did not make it to the funeral. When he got the news, his mother had passed away for more than two months.

Over the years, he thought about it day and night, regretting it from time to time, but Liu Lizhen never gave him a dream, leaving him no chance to repent.

Suddenly, Xu Ning stood up, knelt on the mattress and rushed over. He opened his arms and hugged Liu Lizhen tightly.

"Mom, it's nice to look at you."

Liu Lizhen hesitated, a little confused by her second son's move.

But he said angrily: "That's not good. If it weren't for your second uncle and Huzi, you would have been frozen to death on the street (gāi) last night!"

Hearing this, Xu Ning stopped crying and frowned.

Through this scene of being beaten, combined with what his mother said just now, and the burning pain coming from his body, Xu Ning knew that this was definitely not a dream!

He rested his chin on his mother's shoulder and raised his eyes to see the kang cabinet standing on the edge of the kang. There was a row of base cabinets on the floor and a kang table standing against the wall.

Isn't this Lao Wang's house in Jibizi (next door)? !
  Xu Ning felt that his heart was beating faster and faster, and it was pounding very vigorously.

He immediately thought of two words - rebirth!

Xu Ning didn't expect this to happen to her, and she was a little ecstatic for a while.

He raised his head slightly and saw a diamond-shaped mirror on the door panel of the kang cabinet. Xu Ning could just see his face.

It was Zhang Erlang's handsome face at that age, with clear and smooth facial contours, peach blossom eyes with double eyelids on both sides of the high bridge of the nose, handsome eyebrows, and a gentle and elegant temperament.

With such a pretty face and a height of 1.78 meters, she should be easy to talk to as a wife in the Qing'an area.

However, he is known as a prodigal, and there is no one in the entire Qing'an area who does not know his title of "Prodigal Son".

Therefore, it was not until the age of 22 that someone introduced me to marry a girl from Meng Zizi's family in the village.

This age is considered old in rural areas, and some people’s children already know how to make soy sauce.

As for why, we have to start from the beginning.

Xu Ning dropped out of school at the age of 16 and stayed at home. He would run to Qing'an Street (gāi) every two days and cause trouble with his friends all day long.

He was sent back by the police several times. If it weren't for his young age and the minor crimes he committed, he would have been sent to jail long ago!

Because of this, mother Liu Lizhen and father Xu Chunlin had to worry a lot. They couldn't hold their heads up in the village. Every time they met someone they knew, they would hear: "Your second boy is very promising. No one in the village has ever worked as a police car, only your second boy." Sit on.

For this reason, his father, Xu Chunlin, kept beating him, but the more he beat him, the less he came home and the more he played outside.

In early 1983, a friend who was hanging out with Xu Ning on the street was caught and treated as a model. This incident really shocked him so much that he was so frightened that he returned to the village overnight.

But within two days of returning to the village, I couldn't rest anymore and couldn't stay home almost all day.

When I get up in the morning, I put down my chopsticks and leave after eating. Sometimes I don’t eat at noon, and I don’t come back until dinner time, and then I put down my chopsticks and go out again.

As for what to do? Drink heavily, throw dice, push Pai Gow and make money!

Through the angry words of his mother Liu Lizhen and the familiar scenes, Xu Ning immediately remembered what year it was today.

March 1983, 11!
  Tomorrow, the beginning of winter on the 8th, is Xu Ning’s 20th birthday!
  Why do I remember it so clearly? I still have to start from scratch.

In early November, there was heavy snowfall in the Xing'anling area. On the 11th, when he was playing money at the home of old bachelor Wang Changhai, he met his drinking buddy Li Fuqiang.

Li Fuqiang is in his thirties and is the number one drunkard in Qing'an Village. However, he also has a skill, that is, he can weave baskets and go up the mountain to look for traces of small animals, so as to set traps and traps.

No, Li Fuqiang lassoed two jumping cats (hares) on the mountain and asked his wife to stew them. Then he went to the money den in the village to find Xu Ning at the home of Wang Changhai, an old bachelor.

And Xu Ning was also a scene person. Every time he went back to drink, he was always empty-handed, so he picked up two kilograms of sorghum wine on the way.

Li Fuqiang loved to drink a lot of wine, and he would often drink endlessly and talk nonsense, so the gentlemen in the village were not willing to drink with him.

One is that he thinks he is annoying when he drinks, and the other is that the couple will definitely chatter every time they finish drinking.

Over time, people in the village who were happy to drink stopped talking to him.

Li Fuqiang is self-aware and does not force things.

From then on, he often drank alone, and his wife looked down upon him when she saw him drinking, so she went to live with the children in the West House.

It wasn't until Li Fuqiang met Xu Ning who came back from the street half a year ago, that this solved his urgent need.

After drinking twice, we both felt very attached to each other.

Therefore, as long as Li Fuqiang is hunting something on the mountain, he is willing to ask Xu Ning to go over and make a tooth sacrifice.

And Xu Ning's manner of not coming empty-handed made Li Fuqiang deeply feel that this person was very particular, because he had to buy at least a pound of wine every time he came.

Xu Ning thought Li Fuqiang's wife's cooking was delicious and thought it would be very economical to spend some money to open a small stove. The two of them had their own needs, and they became good friends as soon as they went back and forth.

After drinking wine last night, the two of them were so drunk that they were shaking in the aisle.

Li Fuqiang was worried that he would go home alone. Although it was early winter, the temperature at night was still around ten degrees below zero.

If Xu Ning fell down halfway and couldn't get up, the whole village would have to come to eat the next day.

So Li Fuqiang insisted on sending him home. The two of them stumbled to the door of Xu Ning's house, and Li Fuqiang walked back.

But Xu Ning couldn't worry about him, so she secretly followed Li Fuqiang and saw him enter the house with her own eyes, and then she felt relieved to go home.

But for some reason on the way, my legs became weak and my whole body was trembling. As soon as I reached the door of Lao Wang's house, I fell head first against the door, and then fell unconscious.

According to Wang Hu, the eldest son of the old Wang family, he rested his head on the threshold that night and took off his cotton-padded jacket. If the dog in the yard hadn't howled, which attracted Wang Hu and his father Wang Erli to come out and take a look, he would have been killed. freeze to death.

Because of this, my mother Liu Lizhen was so angry that she climbed over the wall with a broomstick.

The reason why I remember it so clearly is not because I was beaten violently or almost froze to death, but because just three hours after my mother, Liu Lizhen, gave me a violent beating, something terrible happened at home!

After the heavy snowfall, on November 11th, Qing'an Forestry Farm organized several nearby family villages to go to Gongyaolingzi for a three-day siege.

To hunt is to hunt.

According to different purposes, scale and objects of use, they are divided into gang fences, sliding fences, red fences, vegetable fences, dog fences, eagle fences, fire fences, ice fences, snow fences and cave fences.

This time was organized by the Qing'an Forest Farm, and the participants included the militia and forest farm security department, as well as hunters and hunting dogs from various villages, a total of more than 100 people and more than 30 dogs.

And this is gang siege.

The purpose of the forest farm is very simple. First, it is the beginning of winter on the 8th. There is talk of eating dumplings at the beginning of winter in the Northeast. The forest farm leaders want to send some meat to the residents of several nearby family villages and make dumplings to improve their food.

Second, wild boars run rampant in autumn and damage many crops.

Although two hunts were organized at that time, the effect was unfortunately not significant enough.

Just as winter has just entered, the wild boar is full of fat and has plenty of oil and water, so it is time to kill the pig.

Each family gets some meat from the pigs they kill. In addition to making dumplings, the meat also has to be saved for the Chinese New Year to entertain guests.

The forest farm leaders have a good idea and have already sacrificed their lives and blood for the sake of the masses.

But the problem happened precisely because of the siege!
  Dad Xu Chunlin, Xu Ning's eldest brother Xu Long, and their uncle had been taking their dogs up the mountain since around six o'clock in the morning.

A group of many people is called a gang. The rules of a gang are very strict and there is a strict division of labor.

Such as code slides, driving sticks, cannon heads, cannon stickers, etc.

Originally, the roles of Xu Chunlin and others were Ma Liuzi and Chazhangzi.

Ma Liuzi is divided into tracking and tagging. After tracking and discovering the prey and its whereabouts, he will ask tagging to deliver a message to the cannon head and figure out when and where to shoot to ensure the success of the hunt.

Calibration is a complex job that requires extensive experience.

Xu Chunlin and his brother-in-law are experienced coders, and they are also the driving sticks in the gang.

The driving stick is also called the ringing stick, and is divided into the driving stick and the intercepting stick, which are used to drive the wild animals towards the predetermined target position. When the target is reached, there will be a cannon head, that is, the hunter with the most accurate marksmanship will shoot first.

Due to the large number of people in the gang, the pigs are not being hunted together, so the gang usually consists of 5-8 people to fight in small groups.

The three people working together with Xu Chunlin are the old Wang family of Jiibizi (next door).

Wang Erli and Xu Chunlin grew up, and they were brothers who kowtowed to each other too much, but they were not easy to deal with. This was related to their family education.

Both of their fathers carried guns on the battlefield, and they also implemented the principle of striving for first place in education.

So this time during the siege, the two had a dispute over the division of labor, thus changing their roles.

Xu Chunlin took his brother-in-law to the predetermined location to serve as the cannon head, and Wang Erli and his sons Wang Hu and Xu Long served as the driving staff.

But when chasing the stick, the two sides failed to grasp the time well, and Xu Chunlin and his brother-in-law did not arrive at the scheduled location. Wang Erli and others rushed to catch the stick. This is called risking in the lingo of siege.

Their prey was a group of wild boars, including one that was digging for eggs, two old sows, and four small yellow-haired pigs.

The egg digger is a boar with two tusks on its mouth, which is the most ferocious.

Although there was a risk of fighting, several people did not panic. They grew up in the mountains and had rich experience in fighting sieges.

Xu Chunlin and his brother-in-law quickly reacted, turned around and shot twice, successfully killing an old sow.

Why is the goal not to dig out the eggs? The boar tastes bad, the meat is too chewy and no one wants to eat it, but the taste and texture of the old sow are much better.

Xu Chunlin killed a sow and stood under the hollow to load bullets. But at this moment, a large egg hunter, weighing more than three hundred kilograms, rushed out from the side and headed straight for him.

Xu Chunlin took a quick look and didn't panic. He calmly loaded the ammunition, raised the gun and fired, but the shot was a dud!

Big Plane Eggs pounced on him with his mouth arched, and two fangs pierced the crook of his legs. Since he was wearing cotton pants in the winter, he didn't suffer any injuries. He only scratched his skin and knocked him upside down.

His brother-in-law, Liu Daming, saw his brother-in-law being raped by a pig. He immediately ran over with a sledgehammer in hand, but his speed was not as fast as that of a wild boar in the snow-covered old forest.

DaZouZi circled on the spot and rushed towards Xu Chunlin who fell to the ground again.

Because Xu Chunlin was lying on the ground, and his cotton-padded jacket was piled up to his upper body, his waist was exposed. The big egg seemed to have become sperm, and it arched towards his exposed waist.

Two fangs dug straight into his lumbar spine, causing Xu Chunlin's lumbar spine to break!

Even though he was sent to the hospital on Qing'an Street in time, he still suffered from partial paralysis.

Xu Chunlin is the chief accountant of Qing'an Forestry Farm. After this incident, although the forestry farm gave him some compensation, he was reduced to a useless person.

For a family, this is undoubtedly a disaster!

Xu Ning's heart skipped a beat when he thought of this, and he suddenly let go of his mother. He wiped the tears from his eyes with both hands and ran towards the ground.

As for her mother, Liu Lizhen, she was just enjoying her son's coquettishness, but she never thought that this scoundrel was playing tricks with her.

Immediately he became furious, clutching the knot on his broom, and walked straight towards Xu Ning.

"What the hell are you doing?! Where are you going? If you dare to run away, I'll beat you to death!"

Xu Ning had just landed with his feet on the shell of his shoes. He turned around and saw his mother rushing towards him. He hurriedly shouted: "Go up the mountain to find my dad! Mom, I've learned (xiáo)!"

"What?"

Liu Lizhen was stunned for a moment and put down the broom. Her face was stagnant and she couldn't believe it.

"Have you learned enough?"

"Yeah! Mom, don't worry, I won't play tricks or be messy in the future. Just watch it!"

Hearing this, Liu Lizhen waved her hand, "Pull him down quickly. If you can learn well, that dog can't even eat shit!"

With a smile on his face, Xu Ning raised three fingers and said, "Our dog will definitely not be able to eat shit from now on, so don't worry."

Liu Lizhen snorted coldly, obviously not believing what he said.

Who made him leave such a deep impression on others before?

Apart from being a monster, making money, and drinking heavily, he has never done anything serious!

(End of this chapter)