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Chapter 160: News about a habitual criminal Sable

Ma Liu turned around and walked to the cellar, put the sharp knife back on the top, then glanced at Xu Ning and waved, signaling for him to enter the house quickly.

Xu Ning followed him, first took off the old pout handle from his shoulder, and hung it on the door frame outside the cellar.

If you carry a gun into a house, it will make people feel hostile, appear rude, and break the rules of the mountain.

Xu Ning hung up the gun before opening the door curtain and entering the house. As soon as he entered the house, his vision darkened. He scanned the environment inside the house. Although the space was not large, there was a fire pit in the southwest corner, and a cast iron stove was connected to the pit. Firewood is burning.

The temperature in the room is not high, about ten degrees Celsius. If the temperature is like this when sleeping at night, not only do you have to wear clothes and a thick quilt, but you also have to cover your head with a small quilt, otherwise your brain and face will freeze.

There are chopped firewood neatly placed next to the cast iron stove. In the northeast corner there is a long table made of wooden boards, with candles and kerosene lamps placed on it. Next to it are simple cabinets and wardrobes made of wooden squares.

In addition, there are two small benches standing under the long table. Many odds and ends are hung on the wall, and the Kang table is leaning against the wall.

Xu Ning put the things on the kang, picked up the bacon and said with a smile: "This is the bear bacon I made myself. I'll give it to you to try."

After entering the house, Ma Liu took off his deerskin hat and hung it on the wall. He turned around and nodded, staring directly at the sorghum wine.

Xu Ning saw what he meant and said, "What time is it now?"

Ma Liu grinned: "On the hour...that's okay too?!"

He quickly stood up and took out two bowls from the kitchen, turned around and put the bowls on the kang.

Xu Ning poured him half a bowl and said, "This wine is just for you. It belongs to you. I can't drink it."

"What's going on?"

"I drank some wine a while ago to keep me from dying, but I haven't drank since then."

When Ma Liu heard this, he didn't give in anymore. In fact, he didn't want to give in in the first place. Five kilograms of wine was not much. If he drank sparingly, he could finish it in four or five days. If Xu Ning drank with him, wouldn't it be necessary? It will bottom out in the next two days.

He treats wine very affectionately, a bit like an old sow guarding his food.

Ma Liu picked up the bowl, raised his head after taking a big mouthful, and gritted his teeth. He muttered, "Hey! Hey, that's great!"

He put down the bowl, signaled Xu Ning to pour some more, and asked, "Boy, why are you here? Are you okay?"

After Xu Ning poured him wine, he heard his straightforward words and said with a smile: "I want to have a chat with you, so I'll just tell you..."

Xu Ning did not pretend to be pretentious, but directly talked about the arrival of Liu Daming, Li Fuqiang and others yesterday.

After hearing this, Ma Liu patted the edge of the kang and said, "They want to rely on me so much! Why am I so old, stealing a roe deer? I can't afford it, or can't I live?" Get up?"

It was understandable that he was angry. Although Maliucao lived in the mountains and kept bees, he could still hunt some animals to satisfy his cravings. He chopped off the black blind man skin on his body with a big axe. Later, he sold the bear bile and bought a 16-year-old. The handle is hanging on the wall.

Xu Ning looked at Ma Liu with an angry expression and told him his guess.

Ma Liu frowned: "You said Li San wanted to frame me?"

"It's possible, but there's no basis for what you say. To catch a thief, you have to use your dirty hands. If you don't look at the person, you will get it."

"Then it's really possible to say that! The last time I beat him was because he stole my deer. He asked me to catch him, and he said he picked it up on the mountain...

This old Biden is really nothing. The deer weighs more than 130 pounds, and he didn't even leave a leg for me... If he is so greedy that he can't resist, give me a message, and I can give him two thighs. ?

The comparison was so complete that I chased him for more than a mile before I caught him, but he still refused to acknowledge it. Hey, I got angry just thinking about it, so I couldn't help but give him a knife. After that, he was thrown down by the deer and ran away. "

Xu Ning nodded and said: "Then he is still a habitual offender! This is too rude. How can you take them all away? You have to leave some. Master, what happened before?"

Ma Liu took a sip of wine and replied: "Last autumn ago. When you said this, I realized that this dog basket really wants to harm me."

Xu Ning said with a smile: "Isn't it harmless? I just heard about it when I got home yesterday. When I thought about it, it was not you. The traces left by that person were too obvious."

"You kid has some brains and is better than the group of people who came yesterday. So what do you mean?"

Ma Liu sat cross-legged on the kang, looked up at him and asked.

Xu Ning stood up and filled two pieces of firewood into the stove, and said: "I thought if I didn't catch it this time, I would kill it, but I planted five roe deer traps in the forest. What if I trap another roe deer and lose it?" ? I just want you to help me go for a walk when you have nothing to do."

"Want me to help you walk the condom?"

Ma Liu looked at the wine in the bowl and nodded happily: "That's okay, you tell me where to put the condom, and I will go for a walk from time to time."

Xu Ning told him the location of the roe deer condom and said, "Uncle, my roe deer condom is made of three strands of No. 8 wire. You have to use pliers to untie it. If it's a roe deer condom, you can take it back and eat it. Leave less leg space for me." That’s it.”

Ma Liu sipped his wine and bared his teeth: "Fuck, you are so open-minded."

"Haha, is that necessary? I will make a few more beehives for you next year..."

Ma Liu waved his hand, "Pull it down quickly. What are you doing? The beehives all have sizes. Do you know what size they are?"

Making a beehive is quite simple. Anyone who knows carpentry can do it, but Xu Ning doesn't know the size. He has never kept bees.

"I don't know, but my father-in-law should know that he is very good at carpentry and is quite famous in Qing'an."

Ma Liu rolled his eyes and said, "That's not necessary. You can just give me these to play with. Let's not have sex with each other. I am so old, how can I pay it back in the future?"

"What a favor. Didn't I smash the beehives for you in the first few years? One beehive a year, so I can make five for you. Besides, you can help me walk the beehives. It's so cold here. In the mountains, why don’t you drink some wine to keep warm?”

Ma Liu suffocated the wine in the bowl, grinned and said, "Fuck, you're so talkative, you're so cool."

"Haha...I've always been a crowd-pleaser since I was a kid."

Ma Liu got up and went to the ground, "Let's eat here at noon. I'll cut some venison and we'll roast it. How about it?" Xu Ning didn't treat him politely and nodded: "Okay!"

"Oh shit, you don't regard yourself as an outsider at all, you don't know how to be polite."

"Hey, you're here, my uncle, why are you so polite?"

Ma Liu walked towards the outside and muttered: "You are quite interesting, we are very good at each other."

Xu Ning stood up and followed him with a smile. In fact, he could fight with anyone, because he himself had many tricks and was a bit cunning. He tried to be as smooth as possible when talking and doing things. There were experiences and lessons from his previous life in this. Woolen cloth.

This Ma Liu seems to be difficult to deal with, but in fact he is on guard and does not trust others easily. In this old mountain forest, if someone has bad intentions, what will an old guy like him do?

So when he can lift the knife, he must give a lesson to those who cause trouble for him, otherwise he will wait for others to suffer.

And this kind of behavior really protects him and prevents some people from having bad intentions. Considering that he is so poor, he will naturally not cause too many troubles.

Ma Liu came to the left side of the cellar and removed a layer of wooden planks to reveal a shallow pit similar to a cellar. He saw meat, frozen wild vegetables, dried potatoes, dried radishes and other things stored inside.

He took out three pieces of venison wrapped in paper, and the two of them turned back to the cellar.

Ma Liu worked very neatly. When he opened the paper bag, Xu Ning saw rectangular thin slices of meat placed inside, while the other two paper bags contained finger-sized pieces of venison.

"Uncle, you're being too serious. Hey, I just wanted to say this as soon as I entered the house. Look at this firewood. It's all there!"

Ma Liu said: "There's no point in being idle. Find some work for yourself. You go to the kitchen to get some peppercorns."

Xu Ning came to the bowl kitchen. The bowls, chopsticks and plates were neatly arranged, but there were not many seasonings, only half a can of salt, MSG, and mountain pepper.

This mountain pepper is actually the Schisandra chinensis that is found everywhere in the mountains.

Then use the medicine-pounding stone bowl made by Ma Liu to grind the Schisandra chinensis, and then put the salt and MSG into the stone bowl to grind. In this way, the seasoning for roasted venison is ready.

Ma Liu filled some firewood into the stove, sat on the kang and asked, "From what you said, you usually run in the mountains, what do you do with it?"

Hearing this, Xu Ning counted the animals he had hunted recently. When the count was completed, even he was shocked. In less than two months, he not only saw big cats, but also hunted green cats. Zi, black blind man, roe deer, deer, wild boar, tiger cub!

The black blind man alone killed three bears and got three bear bile!

Ma Liu was a little surprised when he heard this. He didn't expect that the young boy in front of him could beat such an older animal.

"Don't lie to me."

"Is this a lie? I, Xu Ning, live in Qing'an. Little Xu Pao is talking about me."

Ma Liu smiled and said: "Hurry up and pull J13 down. You're still little Xu Pao. Your head got caught in the door?"

"Oh shit, this is true! Who in Qing'an doesn't know about Little Xu Pao now? The news has spread all over the forest farm, Lengchang and the 12 villages in Qing'an. My glorious deeds are popular among young and old."

"Zizhen, why didn't I hear about it?"

"You act like a little daughter-in-law when you don't leave the house or step outside the door. What do you know?"

"Screw you, just tell me I'm not popular, damn it."

"Ha ha……"

Then the two of them gathered around the stove, grilling meat and drinking wine while chatting. Ma Liu was very curious about Xu Ning and asked him where he learned how to play siege. At his age, he shouldn't have such a hard handle.

Xu Ning could just be nonchalant. Anyway, they were the only two people in the room. Whatever Xu Ning said to him, Ma Liu couldn't spread it.

And Ma Liu also learned a lot about himself, such as the deer meat he was chewing, which he had hunted back from Daqingdingzi in the first two months.

"Wouldn't it be Hufeng if you go further north from Daqingdingzi? There is a 10,000-meter ditch to the east of Hufeng. This deer landed its shell in the 10,000-meter ditch."

"Hey, it's quite a long way there. You have to run thirty or forty miles now, right?"

"It wasn't great. I passed by Daqingdingzi to take a breather. I walked for two days before coming back. Fortunately, it wasn't too cold at the time."

October in the Northeast is actually quite cold, but the weather is much better than now.

Ma Liu took a sip of wine and said, "Malobazidi, when I passed by Daqingdingzi and arrived in front of Huolizi Mountain, I saw a group of deer again. This guy made me angry! I want to know that they set up Huolizi. Why go so far when you’re in front of the mountain?”

"Yes, this game is just for fun."

The two of them chatted in the cellar until about two o'clock. No one came into contact with Ma Liu for a long time. He couldn't stop talking once he started talking, but Ma Liu spoke in a measured way. He never mentioned anything about himself. Bearskin, not to mention how much money he has.

Before Xu Ning left, Ma Liu pulled him and said, "Boy, if you want to have your skin repaired, go to Baishilizi and have a look."

Dapi is the sable.

Xu Ning was stunned and asked: "Bai Shilizi? The one in the northeast of Shetang Valley?"

"It's great! You go southwest along the ridge of Baishilizi Mountain and look around at the red pine forest."

Xu Ning nodded: "Okay, I'll leave first, uncle."

"Let's go."

"I'll give you some wine when I get back."

"Pull it down quickly, you shouldn't use money for fun? Let's talk about it if you are really embarrassed."

"Got it!"

(End of this chapter)