Return to 1983 Hunting Xing'an Mountains

Chapter 596: They are all back and are very capable
At around 4:, a cloud of dust rose on the road leading to Lao Xu's house. Thick soil fell on the corn leaves on both sides, and from time to time there was the sound of cars scratching against corn leaves.

Leading the way was a Jeep 212 whose front end grew from small to large. After the car slowed down, the Yellow River car following behind revealed its true appearance. The two cars drove over the concrete bridge, then turned the steering wheel sharply and rushed to the door of Old Xu's house.

In the living room, Xu Ning, who was chatting with Ma Liu, heard the noise and stood up, walked to the door and looked out. He saw the familiar Jeep 212 sideways and quickly turned his head and shouted, "Mom! My third uncle is here!"

Liu Lizhen, who was cutting potato shreds in the north kitchen, put down the kitchen knife when she heard the sound, grabbed the rag on the stove to wipe her hands, and then went out with the group of old ladies.

Ma Liu followed Xu Ning to the front door and saw Yang Yusheng push open the passenger door and stick his head out. Xu Ning opened the door and called out "Uncle San" with a smile. Yang Yusheng nodded and asked, "When did you move in?"

"On the 7th, Uncle San, this is my Uncle Ma. He used to live in Dongshan."

Yang Yusheng stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "Hello, brother, my name is Yang Yusheng."

"Ah, you can just call me Ma Liu. My full name is Ma Mingtang, and I'm called Ma Liu at home..."

"Then it would be nice if I could call you Sixth Brother! Sixth Brother just came down the mountain today?"

Ma Liu noticed a familiar smell on Yang Yusheng and knew that he must have a position. Chatting with him in such a friendly and approachable manner, Ma Liu felt relieved and just nodded: "Yes, Erning went to Dongshan to pick him up."

At this time, Xu Feng who was in the back seat jumped out of the car, screamed "Oh my God" when he saw Xu Ning, and then rushed towards him with open arms.

She hugged Xu Ning's waist tightly with both arms, tears immediately flowed out, and she sobbed: "Second brother! I miss you so much..."

"Hey, why are you still crying? What are you crying for?"

"Think what you want!"

After saying that, Xu Feng caught a glimpse of Liu Lizhen out of the corner of her eye. She quickly let go of Xu Ning's waist and ran towards her mother again, shouting, "Mom! I miss you so much. I dream about you all day long..."

Liu Lizhen was hugged by her waist, raised her hand to pull her head, and said, "Don't be so useless! I won't fall for it."

"Oh, Mom! I've got all these emotions brewing, why don't you give me some face? Am I not your most cherished old lady?"

Xu Feng blinked her tearful eyes. Liu Lizhen walked right past her without paying any attention to her. Xu Feng stood there and stamped her feet. She raised her hand and pulled Han Fengjiao and said, "Second Aunt, look at my mother's heart. Even with my big fire, I can't melt her cold heart."

"Hahaha..." Han Fengjiao and others laughed.

Wu Qiuxia said with a smile: "Feng'er has changed since she went to the city to study for a few days. She has a lot of little poems."

Xu Feng pouted and said, "Ah, these tears are wasted."

She originally thought that after not being home for so many days, her parents would miss her. Seeing their daughter crying so hard, wouldn’t they be moved to tears? Who would have thought! Her mother and second brother didn’t take her tears to heart at all…

At the door, Yang Shuhua embraced Jin Yumantang, but she didn't cry. Her children had been gone for so many years, how could a mother not miss them? She missed them, but she couldn't cry in front of so many people. Besides, it was only a matter of time before her children left home to make their own living, so she had to learn to adapt in advance.

Wang Biao, Liu Tianen and Huang Lin jumped out of the Yellow River car, grinning: "Second brother! Auntie, mother..."

Before the two of them could ask if they missed them, Han Fengjiao and Wu Qiuxia said in unison: "No!"

These two words almost broke Biao and Tian'en's hearts.

The person driving the Yellow River Car was none other than Xu Long's brother-in-law Wang Yuanjun, and this car belonged to Xu Long's buddy Yan He, and was also considered a public bus of the Forestry Propaganda Department.

"Brother Jun!" Xu Ning greeted him.

After Liu Lizhen finished talking to Yang Yusheng, she pulled Wang Shujuan aside and asked quietly, "How is it?"

Wang Shujuan shook her head in frustration, but her mother was calm and consoled her, "It's okay! This is a matter of fate, don't worry."

Yang Yusheng pointed at the Yellow River car and said, "Erning, there are a lot of things in the car, you can move them into the house."

Liu Lizhen said, "Brother, let's go into the house first and let them do what they want."

"Let's go, Sixth Brother..."

They walked slowly towards the courtyard. Xu Long opened the trunk of the jeep first, which contained six boxes of moon cakes, two boxes of large fruits, and two pig hind legs.

"The mooncakes, big fruits and pork hind legs were sent by my company. There were also four bags of flour, rice, soybean oil and other things in the trunk."

Xu Ning said: "Why didn't you leave some upstairs?"

"If we keep it, how much can we eat? It will be National Day in a few days, and we will have to distribute things then. In the back of the car, there are moon cakes bought by Lao Jin and Lao Qian, as well as two boxes of wine, four smoked chickens, pork head meat, and sausages that I made myself."

"Have they returned to the street?"

"Yes, he came back with us. We dropped him off on the street. I told them I'd be here the next morning."

"That's fine."

In addition to mooncakes and wine, there were also two bags of pig intestines, pig ears, pork ribs, etc. in the carriage. These were specially purchased by Yang Yusheng for the company canteen, mainly for Xu Ning's wedding banquet. Killing a pig alone would definitely not be enough...

"What's in this bag?"

Xu Long said with a smile: "20 kilograms of mutton! Leftovers from the cafeteria."

Afterwards, everyone carried their things and walked towards the courtyard. Xu Ning looked at Wang Yuanjun and said, "Brother Jun, how are you getting along with that woman?"

Wang Yuanjun said with a smile: "It's impossible to prepare for the engagement before winter."

"Wow, that's fast! Brother Jun is really capable, he won it so quickly."

"Hahaha, I did as you said. I went back to see her, watched two movies, had two meals at a restaurant, and then we got engaged."

"That's a must..."

Wang Biao came over and whispered, "Second brother, how is my little Qiu? Did he tell you that he missed me?"

"Get lost! How old are you? You're just thinking about these things."

"I'm just worried. You said I'm learning a craft in the city, and she's studying at home. It's been a long time since we last saw each other. Is my Uncle Jiang doing well?"

"Go, go, go...If you can't bear it, go find her later."

"Okay, I've been waiting for you to say this. Then just tell my mom later."

"Tell me yourself, what's there to be embarrassed about?"

"I was afraid that she would call me an ungrateful person, so I ran out as soon as I got home..."

Liu Tianen smiled and said, "Second brother, the three of us bought a lot of moisturizers, and he wanted to send them to Jiang Qiuer right away, so cool."

Xu Ning turned his head and asked, "Where did you three get the money?"

"My master gave it to me! He gave each of us three 10 yuan."

At this time, they had already entered the house and put the things in their hands in the corner of the reception room. Xu Ning asked, "Did you buy anything for your master?"

Wang Biao nodded: "How could we not buy it? As soon as the money came into our hands, we went to the store and bought two bottles of Daqu and two Yingchun, a total of 11 yuan."

Huang Lin said: "Well, then the master saw what we bought and took out 30 yuan from his pocket. We didn't want it at first, but he insisted..."

Xu Ning smiled and said, "Okay! You are quite capable. This is how we should do it from now on, understand?"

"Of course!" Wang Biao and Liu Tianen nodded with their teeth bared. Then, they walked around the house twice and sat down on chairs in the living room, stools in the dining room, or on the edge of the kang in the east room.

Although there were many people, the new house was large enough so once these people spread out inside, it didn't seem that crowded.

Yang Yusheng and Ma Liu sat on the kang in the east room and chatted. Did they have anything in common? Yes, for people who had experienced that era, no matter how they chatted, they could not leave out "him".

Wang Biao was wandering around the room. Han Fengjiao couldn't stand it any longer, so she pushed him and said, "If you want to get out, leave now. Don't hang around!"

"Okay! Mom, Tian'en and I bought you a lot of moisturizers, you can divide them among yourselves. I'll be back soon... Let's go, Tian'en! Second brother, I'm going to ride my donkey and leave."

The two men left their words and left in a hurry. They ran to the courtyard, mounted their donkeys as if they were familiar with the road, drove it out of the door, and headed towards Lao Jiang's house.

Han Fengjiao said helplessly: "These two children..."

"Not bad, their masters give us some pocket money and they even know to buy us some things."

"It's not that bad, I'm just a little young. I should be mature in a few years."

"..."

After Xu Feng and Jin Yumantang transferred to the city school, they did not fall behind in their studies. Except for the foreign language subject which was a little difficult, they were able to rank in the top 20 in the grade in other subjects, which was similar to the previous level of the other three. With this result, they will definitely be able to enter high school.

Xu Long smoked a cigarette and said, "I have told their teachers that you can go back to school after you get married. You only need three days off."

"What about stone marriage?"

"You can invite them when the time comes. You don't need to invite them for Huzi's wedding, which is just in time for National Day."

"Okay, what do you say to Uncle San?"

"We're not going back either. What's the point of going through so much trouble in just a few days? Uncle San will go to the forest farm later."

Xu Ning looked up and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Well, isn't Mr. Zhang going to retire? It's just a matter of two days. Uncle San will go to the forest farm to talk about future matters."

After Zhang Deyu retired, the current director of the forest farm, Guo Xingmin, will remain in his position, which was decided before. The position of the top leader of the forest farm will be arranged by the Municipal Bureau. Xu Ning thought that it should be someone from the group of Yang Yusheng and Sun Jishan, otherwise wouldn't it be a waste of time?
At this time, two horns sounded outside the door. Xu Ning walked outside and saw a Liberation car stopped next to the courtyard wall.

"Hahaha, aren't they all back?" Li Fuqiang laughed loudly after hearing the voice before seeing the person.

The loud speaker smiled and said, "I will definitely be back tomorrow for the holidays!"

Xu Ning and others walked towards the door and saw Li Fuqiang, Da Laba and Wang Hu jumping out of the car.

"Brother! Is Third Uncle here?"

"Here I am! He's in the house. My uncle Ma is here too."

"Okay, look who this is?"

Xu Ning looked at the middle-aged man standing next to the loud speaker and slapped his forehead, saying, "Oh my god! Brother Guofu!"

This person is Huang Guofu from the Lao Huang family of Xingguantun, Wangxing Village. He and Dalaba are cousins ​​and are also Chai Shao’s sworn brother.

"Come in quickly!! I almost didn't recognize you when I first saw you."

Huang Guofu laughed and said, "Hahaha, I have gained some weight recently."

"Go inside first. My mom and the others are preparing food. I didn't know you were coming. This is my brother Xu Long..."

"Hey, hello, hello..."

Li Fuqiang said: "Uncle Chai brought a lot of things again. Xu Pao and Uncle Chang are staying in Wangxing to celebrate the festival."

"I know. Let's go to the house quickly. How many animals did you kill in Wangxing? How about the dog gang?"

"We killed a wild boar this afternoon. We've killed six boars in total these days. Blue Wolf, Da Huang, and Spotted Wolf got some scratches. It's a bit difficult for the three of us to hunt the dogs! It's mainly Blue Wolf and Gray Wolf. These two dogs are too unruly. They run around as soon as they enter the mountains and don't listen at all. They make me angry."

"Well, when Xu Pao went into the mountains with us, Qing Lang and his friends behaved pretty well. But since Xu Pao stopped going into the mountains, Qing Lang has been the one to take the lead in causing trouble."

Wang Hu said, "Second brother, this is different from your hunting dogs. When you lead us to hunt animals, you walk the dogs, but here it's the dogs walking the people! The other day the three of us were looking for dogs in the mountains and we ran for more than 20 miles."

"Haha, I'll go to Wangxing later. These dogs are bored at home."

In the trunk of the car was a box of mooncakes and glutinous rice cakes, two bottles of orange soda, and two bags of snacks from the Chai family. There was no ginseng wine this time, because Chai Bing had already brought more than ten boxes. In addition, Wangxing Winery had reached a cooperation with the city, and all the inventory was sent to the city.

Huang Guofu was not empty-handed either. He took out two packs of Shilin cigarettes from the passenger seat and followed everyone into the house.

The loud speaker smiled and said, "Aunt, this is my uncle Huang Guofu. He sent it back to us."

Xu Ning added: "Brother Guofu and my brother Chai Shao are also sworn brothers. Brother Guofu and I have known each other since last year."

"Hey! Guofu..." Liu Lizhen said a few polite words and accepted the two packs of Shilin cigarettes.

Huang Guofu said with a smile: "Aunt, you guys should do what you need to do. I will sit for a while and then leave."

"What are you going to do? No, we're already home, let's have a meal first."

Xu Ning turned around and asked, "Do you have anything to do later? If you don't, just stay here and go back tomorrow."

"I just dropped them off on the way. I had to go to Qing'an Street because my wife's aunt was in the hospital. I wanted to take advantage of the holiday to visit her."

"Then there's no need to rush. Eat first before leaving! It's almost time for dinner. How can I let you leave on an empty stomach?"

The loud speaker advised: "Brother, eat something before you go."

"Okay, I won't be polite. After dinner, will you come with me? We can spend the night on the street, and tomorrow you can take me to buy a donkey to ride on."

Xu Ning said, "Why are you two in such a hurry? Why don't you go tomorrow? It's not normal to go see a patient at night."

Zhang Guifang said, "That's not bad, brother. Stay at my house for one night and let Guoxing follow you tomorrow morning."

"also."

After Wang Biao and Liu Tianen came back, the children gathered in the west room, while Xu Ning, Yang Yusheng, Ma Liu, Huang Guofu and others sat in the reception room and chatted.

When Xu Ning went to the west room to ask Wang Biao and others to set the table, Wang Biao suddenly pulled him and said, "Second brother, I just asked Xiaoqiu and Uncle Jiang to come to our house for dinner tomorrow, but Xiaoqiu said that she and Uncle Jiang have to go to the street tomorrow. Does Uncle Jiang have relatives in the street?"

Xu Ning shook his head: "I don't know, why are you asking this?"

Wang Biao said: "If they had no relatives, why would they go to the street to celebrate the festival?"

"Maybe the father and daughter want to go to a restaurant on the street! Why are you so worried?"

"Hey, I'm just concerned about the little ball."

Xu Ning said, "Uncle Jiang and my uncle are making a lot of money selling meat these days, so it's good to go to a restaurant on the street. Stop talking nonsense everywhere."

"I know." Wang Biao nodded in response.

(End of this chapter)