Return to 1983 Hunting Xing'an Mountains

Chapter 252 251 The poor look for poor relatives and the rich look for rich neighbors.
February 1984, 2, the 1th day of the twelfth lunar month, New Year's Eve.

The temperature has risen significantly today. In the morning of more than ten degrees below zero, Lao Xu's house is quite lively!

After Xu Laowen and Wang Erli left, Liu Daming and Li Fuqiang's family came one after another.

Since Liu Lizhen had taken pig heads, pig trotters, pig legs, venison, roe deer and other things to the outhouse last night and thawed them in a large basin, so as soon as they entered the house, Liu Lizhen arranged to burn the pig hair, Removing pig brains, picking out pig toes and other tasks.

As soon as he burned the pig hair, Xu Ning felt his whole body tingling and hot. He stood up and handed the scraper in his hand to Xu Long, and then called Wang Hu into the house to change clothes. Xu Ning didn't want to be lazy, but had to go for a walk in Dongshan. The condom, this matter has been decided for several days, but it has not been implemented, which makes Xu Ning feel very uncomfortable...

Liu Lizhen saw that he and Wang Hu had changed into mountain running clothes and were carrying two invasion knives, so she grabbed Xu Ning's cotton-padded jacket sleeves.

"Are you going to Dongshan?"

"Ah, the order was made a few days ago. I have to take a look at the roe deer set. The set is made of three-strand eight-gauge thread. It is quite valuable." Xu Ning explained redundantly.

Liu Lizhen patted him on the arm with a smile, rolled her eyelids and said, "Then you go to the lower room and give the remaining frozen dumplings in the vat to your old man from Dongshan. Didn't he also help when we caught Li San last time?" What?”

When Xu Ning heard this, she hugged her mother and smiled, "Hey, my mother is better! She always thinks of others, and my mother is kind-hearted."

Xu Ning went into the lower room and put the frozen dumplings in the vat into a cloth bag. There were three kinds of fillings in total, including sauerkraut, cabbage and radish. They were all filled with bear fat and oil. They sprayed oil when you took a bite. That's called It smells good.

Xu Ning and Wang Hu glanced at each other. Wang Hu muttered as he walked, "There aren't many people here."

Niu Le said: "Li Feng said that we would send him off on the third day of the Lunar New Year, but not many relatives from his family could come during the Chinese New Year, and no one from our village came. Just two of us couldn't dig up the soil on the mountain."

More than ten meters away, Xu Ning responded: "It's a walk up the mountain. Did you stay here all night last night?"

When the two of them walked to the west entrance of the village, they saw white flags floating in the fields, black ashes blown by the wind, and burning fires...

Mom pushed him away and said, "Get out of here, you are so lazy that you are scratching your body and want to run away when I ask you to do some work."

Xu Ning and Wang Hu walked to the eaves, "No, just take a walk in the mountains and I'll be back before noon."

Xu Ning said with a smile: "You two brothers have to wait until the third day of junior high school?"

Li Fuqiang, who was using a hammer to chip away at the pig's toes under the eaves, turned around and said, "Brother, are you going to Dongshan to get a spear?"

Xu Ning shook his head and said nothing. From his point of view, it would not be wrong for Lao Niu's family to leave this alone. It would not be strange to gain some favor from the villagers and protect their family's reputation.

Wang Hu carried his cloth bag and said hello to a group of people in the courtyard, then followed Xu Ning to the west entrance of the village. It would be easier to approach from here and save two miles of distance.

Wang Hu asked: "You didn't say when to send it off?"

Liu Lizhen said angrily: "I'm happy! This is the condition our family has, so we have no choice."

There is no shelter around the crop fields. It looks deserted and deserted. Only the sound of the wind can be heard...

"Then you go home to eat at noon?" Wang Hu asked.

"It's not that good. I didn't dare to praise Er Ning before, but it's okay to praise Er Ning this year." Han Fengjiao said.

Niu Le stood in front of the two of them and shook his head: "How could it be possible? My eldest brother left this here last night and didn't go home until late at night. I came here after dinner this morning. If my father hadn't said this, I would have definitely You can't come, this has something to do with my family..."

Chang Beifeng and Niu Le were sitting on stools in the shed, chatting and drinking tea. Beside them, Li Feng was lying on a wooden shelf, wrapped in a thick quilt and sleeping.

"Got it."

Liu Daming bared his teeth and said with a smile: "Sister, last year we only ate two dumplings, why did we choose them this year?"

Niu Le shook his head and said with a smile: "Oh my God, what a good New Year. What's the difference between this New Year and the usual ones? Apart from eating two bites of meat, why don't we live the same life?"

Wang Hu said: "Then you won't be able to have a good year either."

In the distance, when Chang Beifeng saw the two people walking on the narrow road, he turned his head to the side. When Niu Le saw them, he got up and ran over.

As for why the Niu family came here, just as Xu Ning thought, they came here to build a good reputation.

Before Liu Daming could speak, Wang Biao said: "Are you following Gaha? Hurry up and hold the pig's head."

Niu Le shook his head: "I want to go home, but looking at the situation, how can I go home? Wait until noon, Chang Xifeng comes to deliver food."

Wu Qiuxia said: "That's what it is. Since Er Ning learned well, the conditions have indeed improved, and your uncle and I have also borrowed a lot of money."

"Take them all, we don't have much left. We will eat freshly made dumplings during the Chinese New Year. Frozen dumplings have no taste."

"Hey, it's Chinese New Year. Instead of sitting at home and sitting on the hot bed, do you want to have a good time?"

Wang Biao gritted his teeth and finally chose to endure it, "You're so cruel!"

"Well, my dad had a chat with Li Feng last night, and we two brothers have to help him send him off."

Although my mother exposed Xu Erning's true inner thoughts, no one in the room had any objections.

"With Li San's character, how many people can come? It's not bad even if you don't hide away."

Xu Ning smiled and said: "Second Aunt, just praise her behind your back. I don't need to praise you."

Xu Ning smiled, turned around and asked, "Oh my God, do you have all the frozen dumplings in the jar?"

"That's right, why is Niu Le here?"

"None of your business, if you argue with me again, I will tell you what happened." Liu Tianen threatened directly.

Liu Tianen held the pig's head while Liu Daming wielded his ax to chop the pig's head, "Second brother, shall I go for a walk with you?"

If we were being honest, it would be right for Lao Niu not to come to the family. After all, Li San treated Niu Li and Niu Le so much, and Li Shan even pointed a gun at his two brothers, saying that it was impossible without hatred.

"Haha..." Everyone laughed.

Liu Lizhen pushed him towards the entrance of the courtyard, "Hey, pull him down quickly. I even praised you a few times and slapped you on the nose, so hurry up and leave."

He changed his subject and said: "Li Feng originally wanted to go home and take a nap this morning, but Li San looked at him and scolded him, calling him a white-eyed wolf... This Li San is such a beast. He even scolded him when he got home yesterday. Sun Cuiping and Chang Lihong are scolding their granddaughters very badly."

Xu Ning smiled and nodded: "Well, I heard about it this morning. Why, I heard that Li Sanmo was startled?"

Niu Le curled his lips and shook his head, saying disdainfully: "He's so stunned. I mean, he just doesn't want to face the fact that he killed Li Shan, so he's just pretending."

Wang Hu smiled and said: "This is indeed something Li San can do. He hasn't come since Li Shan was doing things, right?"

"Come on, come on, Lao Guan told Li Feng halfway up the mountain that he couldn't come, because he was afraid of a sudden illness... When he just came down the mountain, he pointed at Li Feng and said, his eldest brother is dead, let Li Feng We must feed him from now on! Otherwise, no one will be able to stop. How could he be so aggressive..." Xu Ning twitched his lips and refreshed his bottom line for Li San.

Wang Hu was stunned. Is this what a father can say? Your eldest son's eyes are not closed, so you turn around and talk to your younger son about this? This is something that humans can’t do!

"I'm afraid Li Feng won't be able to support him."

Niu Le nodded: "Yeah, that's what I mean. Well, what about that? My dad told us brothers to thank you. If you hadn't given us some ideas, we definitely wouldn't have known how to deal with it at the time, or whether it would be okay. Li San has to go to my house to make trouble now..."

Xu Ning waved her hand after hearing this, "Oh my God, I didn't give you two any advice, so why should I thank you? Then let's just go for a walk."

Niu Le nodded and waved: "Okay, if you have anything to do in the future, call us brothers. If you can't help with anything else, we can certainly do some work!"

Xu Ning turned around and waved, then walked forward with Wang Hu, while Niu Le turned around and returned to the shed. This shed was not a mourning shed, but similar to a shack. It could shelter from wind and rain, and was much warmer than outside.

Xu Ning and Wang Hu walked out six to seventy meters. Wang Hu glanced back at the empty crop field and said with a smile: "This Niu Baotian cares about reputation. At first glance, he is a kind-hearted person."

"We haven't had any contact with Niu Baotian, so I don't know whether he is good or not, but his work is okay."

Niu Baotian has been in Qing'an Village for so many years and has only made friends with Yu Kaihe. After all, the two families are familiar with each other.

But you can’t judge him by how many people he has handed over, because there is a saying that goes well, if you are poor in the busy city, no one cares about you, and if you are rich in the mountains, you have distant relatives.

Just because Niu Baotian's family is poor, matchmakers are not willing to visit him. In addition, Niu Baotian is not in good health and is married to a widow with a girl. This makes no one want to talk to him for fear of entering Lao Niu's house. Got some dirt on it.

Moreover, there is a wonderful saying, the poor look for poor relatives, and the rich look for rich neighbors.

Like Xu Laowen's buddies, Du Shoucai is the secretary of the village branch, Guo Xingmin is the director of the forest farm...

When it comes to being friends with Xu Ning, which family is worse among Wu Haiquan, Chai Bing, Xu He and others? Not to mention Xu Pao and Chang Danian, if they sold all the mountain goods they had accumulated for many years, they might be richer than the old Xu family.

In Dongshan, Xu Ning and Wang Hu first walked around the roe deer twice and picked up only one pheasant. The remaining four roe deer roosters were still standing on the tree as thick as an arm and on the animal path next to it.

I am not disappointed or surprised by this. After all, there are too many condoms in Dongshan. A diligent person can walk twice a day. Even if he wears condoms, there will be nothing left.

When I walked around to the front of the cellar, I saw the stacks of firewood stacked against the wooden wall, white smoke rising from the chimney, and Ma Liu inside the house humming a ditty.

Ma Liu seemed to hear the footsteps. He immediately closed his mouth, turned around and opened the door curtain. When he saw Xu Ning gritted his teeth and called out "Master", he retracted the hand holding the boning knife and raised a smile on his face. smile.

"Oh shit, didn't I tell you not to come? You're going up the mountain on New Year's Eve."

Xu Ning took the cloth bag Wang Hu was carrying and said with a smile: "I'm not thinking of being lazy. I came here to take a stroll. These are the frozen dumplings my mother Zhang Luo brought for you."

Ma Liu was surprised and said, "Ah, then come in quickly!"

Xu Ning and Wang Hu entered the underground kang. It was quite warm in the room, more than ten degrees above zero. There was meat on the cast iron stove. In the dustpan placed on the kang, there was a ball of frozen wild vegetables, potatoes, radishes and half a cabbage, as well as Three balls of pickled cabbage and one strand of vermicelli.

"I'm going to tinker with a few dishes."

Ma Liu added a fire to the stove and pushed the cigarette box on the kang towards Wang Hu, "Smoke a cigarette, boy."

Xu Ning said for Wang Hu, "Uncle, he doesn't smoke either."

Ma Liu nodded, moved the dustpan on the edge of the kang to the side, and said, "Then we can't prepare six dishes? I haven't eaten the bear bacon you brought me last time. Now I'll make it all Here you go!”

"Okay, I'll get it for you and eat it early. Keep it for Gaha. When the food is gone, I'll get you some more."

"I don't have time to do it. Besides, sometimes I'm not willing to prepare a meal by myself. The key is that I can't eat much. If I have to put in the effort, I can just deal with one bite by myself."

Xu Ning said: "This is not right to talk about. No matter when it is, you must pick up something to eat first. It is a blessing to eat it. If you keep it, you can give birth to cubs, right?"

"Hahaha, fuck..."

These words made Ma Liu laugh. After all, he was almost seventy years old, and he was educated by a young man in his twenties.

"Okay, I'll listen to you. What kind of stuffing are these dumplings?"

"The radish, cabbage, and sauerkraut are all made with bear oil. Do you boil or steam them?"

Ma Liu poured the dumplings into the basin and said, "I'm happy to eat steamed ones, they taste delicious..."

In the underground cellar, it was mainly Xu Ning and Ma Liu who chatted. Wang Hu had no intention of quarreling with each other, because he found that Ma Liu and the others had dark faces, but he and Xu Ning kept grinning, even if Xu Ning was talking. Even though he slapped him a few words, he didn't care at all. This was really weird.

After Xu Ning finished telling Li San and others about hunting bears in the black stone pond, Ma Liu slapped his thigh and cursed: "J13 deserves it! Why didn't this old Guandeng die? Hey, you just said that the black blind man weighed more than 800 kilograms ?”

"Well, why should I be a brown bear? If I were a serious black and blind man, how could I be so big?"

Ma Liu nodded and frowned: "It's not good, it must be a brown bear. Then did you hear what they said this brown bear looks like?"

"Aren't all the brown bears derisive? Especially the ones that have just left the warehouse. They look like idiots. They all look the same." Xu Ning said with a smile.

Ma Liu's hand rolling the cigarette was freed and he waved, "No, I'm asking if this brown bear has any injuries on its body, for example, one of its ears is drooped."

"I haven't heard of that. The five of them are all fierce whistlers. They were frightened when they saw this big bear. How could they have the energy to look at its ears. What, sir, have you looked at it?"

Ma Liu put the cigarette into his mouth and said: "If this is a brown bear with droopy ears, then I have definitely seen it. Because those droopy ears were the ones I gave at a discount..."

"Uncle, when did it happen?"

Ma Liu frowned and recalled: "I saw it once this fall. I walked in front of the waterfall by the river. I walked on the mountain and picked mushrooms. That time I fired a shot, but the gunpowder got damp due to the rain in the first two days. Yes, it’s a misfire.”

Two or three days after a rain is a good day for picking mushrooms, when they emerge from the ground.

“The time I discounted its ears, it was just winter the year before last, and it was an old sewer in front of Chaishi Mountain.

It had just snowed for the first time, and I followed the deer. Just after two shots were fired, the brown bear was about to pounce from behind me. Fortunately, I reacted quickly, turned around and shot it, and it turned around and got into the old deer. The woods are gone.

I climbed directly to the tree and waited for more than half a minute before I dared to get off the tree. After that, I saw a patch of red in the snow. I hit it. I turned around and saw it in the distance the next autumn. One ear drooped..."

Xu Ning smiled and said: "Uncle, then you have a close relationship with this brown bear."

"It's not good! I've been watching it for two years in a row. This year, my legs and feet are not very good, so I didn't run that far. If this brown bear really pounced Li San's son to death, it would really be a joke."

"Yeah, it's you who hugged me last autumn and hit Li San this year."

"Hahaha..." Ma Liu laughed twice.

(End of this chapter)