Return to 1983 Hunting Xing'an Mountains

Chapter 64 Don’t be a coward even if you are empty-handed. My brother-in-law comes to visit (monthly ticket adds more updates)

Every household is facing difficulties these days, and every penny is wasted in half.

There are almost no people who can feed these old dogs.

Even an experienced hunter like Xu Pao only has four or five dogs at most.

Dogs eat a lot of food. On the basis of no meat, they have to consume two to three kilograms of corn flour, fine bran or wheat bran every day.

Think about nine dogs, how much do they need to eat in a day? How many families can support it?

Xu Ning and the other three were delayed for an hour while leading their dogs on the road, and it was already around 3:30 when they entered the west entrance of Tunxi.

This is the time he estimated, because few people in rural areas can afford a watch.

Even if they have money, they are reluctant to spend fifty or sixty yuan on a watch, so most people just watch the sun.

After entering the village, the three of them went straight to Lao Yu's house.

to the door.

Xu Ning handed the dog leash to Wang Hu, who held the dog and let it lie under the fence.

Otherwise, it would be impolite to stand at someone's door with your dog.

Xu Ning looked into the courtyard and shouted, "Isn't it possible for me to stay home with you?"

"Hey! I'm leaving home."

Yu Kaihe walked out of the house quickly, his wife following behind. When he saw Xu Ning and the other three, they greeted him with smiles.

"Second boy, come in quickly!"

Regardless of whether you have something to do or not, it is etiquette to enter the house first.

Almost without meeting, I asked: What's the matter? Just say something.

Unless it's someone the master doesn't like.

Xu Ning said with a smile: "Don't go into the house anymore, Uncle Yu, I want to do something with you."

"What do you want to do? Just tell me, let's go, go into the house and have a drink of water."

His wife is smiling and is a very kind old lady.

She said: "That's right, let's go inside first and have a drink of water. Then we can talk to your uncle about what happened when we come inside."

Xu Ning shook his head and declined: "It's terrible, uncle, that's what happened. The three of us were hunting a lot of animals on the mountain, but we can't come back. I wonder if you can feed the donkeys, so I just want you to do a favor. Make the donkey cart pull the animals back."

Li Fuqiang nodded: "My brother is hunting seven pigs on the mountain, weighing more than a thousand pounds."

Yu Kaihe was confused when he heard this, "Are you so old?"

"Well, isn't this the place where you take the dog..."

When Yu Kaihe went out, he turned around and saw nine dogs lying under the roots of the fence.

He was shocked and said, "Oh my God, where can I deal with these old dogs? Hey, isn't that the black wolf from the Chang family?"

Xu Ning said with a smile: "Well, there are two packs of dogs, Black Wolf and Green Wolf. Those two yellow dogs belong to my family."

"...You and Taiping Xu Paojiang also borrowed Qinglang?"

"That's not true. Isn't Xu Pao sick? He asked me to lead a few green wolves around. It just so happened that I, Uncle Chang, didn't want to move, so I took them for a walk in the mountains together."

Yu Kaihe was slightly confused.

He remembered that Qinglang was being led by Yang Dong, the grandson of Xu Pao's cousin's family. How did it end up in Xu Ning's hands?

But he didn't dwell on it because it had nothing to do with him.

Yu Kaihe turned his head and simply said: "Okay, let me put the donkey on, and then we'll go. Are you three going?"

Li Fuqiang said: "That's no good. Huzi and I will go with you, and let my brother take the dog home to rest."

"Then you go inside and stay for a while." The old lady said.

"Mom, we don't want to go into the house anymore. We have to send the dogs back first, otherwise I won't be able to handle these older dogs by myself."

Wang Hu said: "Mom, please go back to the house quickly."

"The three of us are back."

Just as the three of them were about to take the dog and turn around to go home, Xu Ning and the other two saw a man walking out of the door next door.

This man was none other than Chang Xifeng. He had just stepped out of the threshold with a handful of ashes in his hand.

He turned around and saw the three of them. He was slightly startled, and then his eyes focused on the nine dogs leaning against the fence.

Chang Xifeng was slightly stunned because he saw the green wolf and the black wolf!
  These two dogs were what he had dreamed of. When he agreed to Yang Dong's share of the bear hunt a few days ago, Chang Xifeng was thinking about how to get the green wolf.

Because the two puppies he originally planned to have were intercepted by Xu Ning.

But it’s only been a few days? Why did Xu Pao's Qinglang and several dogs fall into Xu Ning's hands?

While he was dazed, Li Fuqiang also caught sight of him and saw that he was this little kid.

He immediately said bluntly: "What are you looking at?"

Chang Xifeng came back to his senses and replied smoothly: "I'm watching a dog..."

He was indeed looking at dogs, but his words turned sour when they fell into Li Fuqiang's ears.

"Oh shit! How dare you pìer."

Peeling means to raise thorns or explode thorns, and generally means to look for trouble or make trouble.

Li Fuqiang was about to hit him with a spear, but Xu Ning hurriedly stopped him.

When Chang Xifeng saw this, he quickly threw the ashes in the cup under the grating.

Then he quickly turned around and ran into the house, and closed the door with both hands.

Li Fuqiang saw him returning home and stamped his feet anxiously.

"You're stopping me from Gaha?"

Xu Ning took his arm and said, "Are you going to talk to him about this now?"

"He scolded me so much!"

Wang Hu said: "Brother Qiang, he is really looking at dogs. I saw him looking at the green wolf and the black wolf, and his eyes were straight."

"Is it?"

Xu Ning nodded: "Well, I'll write this down in advance. Let's do some serious business first. We'll take care of him when we're free!"

Li Fuqiang glanced at the old lady standing at the door who had not yet returned to the house, and nodded silently.

He knew that his brother was quick-witted and acted underhandedly.

So after hearing Xu Ning's promise, he stopped finding fault with Chang Xifeng.

Yu Kaihe, who was tinkering with sledges and donkeys in the yard, and his wife also heard it, but neither of them said a word.

Because they all know the sneaky things the Chang brothers did two days ago!

Besides, the old couple had eaten the fat bear meat given by Xu Ning.

After being neighbors with the Chang brothers for many years, the old couple did not eat anything from the Chang brothers. On the contrary, the Chang brothers always liked to talk to the old couple about whatever they lacked.

Xu Ning said to the old lady in the courtyard: "Madam, please go back to the house quickly. The three of us will go back to see the dog off first."

"Well, then you three can come and sit at home often when you have time," the old lady said.

"Eh!"

The three of them responded and walked towards Old Xu's house with their dogs.

Li Fuqiang kept his head silent for the first half of the journey, but the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became.

He couldn't help but cursed: "This bitch is so annoying!"

Xu Ning advised: "Let's be patient for now. It's just a coincidence that this is not going to happen. I don't think he is a watchdog."

"This little kid must be jealous that we are holding the green wolf and the black wolf. Didn't my second brother say that there is no one who doesn't like good dogs when they are on the mountain? What's more, we are holding the whole Qing'an The two most awesome dogs!"

Xu Ning nodded: "What Huzi said makes sense."

Li Fuqiang gritted his teeth and said, "I just want to give him a beating, otherwise I won't be able to forgive my hatred!"

"Brother, don't worry. When we get back from Wangxing, we'll have no time to deal with him. I'll definitely have a trick for you to kill him. I have to keep them in the farm!"

Li Fuqiang was in a good mood when he heard his brother's speech, and said with a smile: "Haha, brother, you should say it or not, you are really doing a disservice!"

He just wanted to kill Chang Xifeng, but Xu Ning wanted the two brothers to get out of the village.

Perhaps, in the eyes of others, the Chang brothers were at most doing sneaky things and would not form a deadly feud. But from Xu Ning's point of view, if he doesn't make these two brothers miserable, his life will be in vain!

The three of them led the dogs into Xu's courtyard. Xu Ning tied up the two yellow dogs first, and then tied up the black wolves.

In the room, Liu Lizhen, Han Fengjiao and Yang Shuhua were sitting on the kang chatting.

I was very surprised to see the three people returning empty-handed.

A few days ago, they were able to retrieve the animals without any dogs. How come they were able to retrieve the animals even though they were leading these older dogs?

But they did not continue to sit on the kang, but hurriedly walked out of the outhouse and came to the door of the house.

Li Fuqiang greeted Wang Hu, and Liu Lizhen nodded.

She looked at her old son's back and felt increasingly uncomfortable.

It is really embarrassing to lead these old dogs up the mountain and then come back empty-handed without catching anything.

She tried to persuade her: "Hey, you're tired from going up the mountain. Go inside quickly and eat some cakes. There's no need to be a coward. Isn't it unusual to have nothing to eat?"

Han Fengjiao said: "Yeah, look at your dad and your second uncle. Sometimes they go up the mountain for two days and come back without catching anything. That's nothing."

Xu Ning, who was tying the dog, was stunned. He stood up and looked at his second aunt.

Wang Hu clapped his hands and said, "Hey! That's not the case, aunt. The three of us caught a lot of wild boars on the mountain and can't bring them back, so we thought about leading the dogs back first, and then finding a car to pull those wild boars back."

Li Fuqiang smiled and nodded: "Yeah, we were digging a big egg on the mountain, four old sows and two yellow-haired pigs. It was too much, so the three of us decided to come back first."

Xu Ning smiled. The two of them had finished what they had to say, so he didn't explain.

Liu Lizhen, Han Fengjiao, and Yang Shuhua were stunned when they heard this.

"What? Are you targeting this older person?"

"Oh my God, how...how did you do this?"

Wang Hu and Li Fuqiang took advantage of Xu Ning's time to tie up the dog and briefly told what happened on the mountain.

Although many details were not given, Liu Lizhen and the others were dumbfounded and trembled with fear.

After they calmed down for a while, Liu Lizhen asked: "Who are you looking for to pull the animals?"

"The old man is opening the river, isn't he feeding the donkeys?"

"Ah, that's okay. You go and come back quickly. We can still have some meat in the evening."

Xu Ning said with a smile: "I won't go, Huzi will go with my big brother."

"Why are you so lazy?" Liu Lizhen asked with displeasure.

Li Fuqiang said: "Auntie, I'm tired of sitting on the mountain for my brother. Besides, the division of labor between the three of us is different."

"Auntie, let Qiangzi go. He has nothing to do if he is idle."

"Then my eldest brother will put a spear on the mountain and kill a yellow-haired man."

Wang Hu answered, "It's not good. My brother Qiang was little Lu Bu at that time. He was so fierce!"

Li Fuqiang smiled and said: "Hey, General Li, why are you so fierce? I always mention this."

"Ha ha……"

Everyone laughed with their mouths open.

After Xu Ning finished tying the dog, Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu went out to find Yu Kaihe.

He followed his mother, Han Fengjiao and Yang Shuhua into the house.

Sitting on the Kang in the east room, Yang Shuhua refilled the teapot with some water.

She wanted to give Xu Ning a glass of water, but Xu Ning grabbed it.

It would be a bit outrageous to leave her at home and have Yang Shuhua take care of her.

"Is your eldest brother really picking on the yellow-haired guy on the mountain?"

"Well, originally he was going for the old sow. When I saw that the old sow weighed more than 200 pounds, I gave the old sow a gun to collapse. After that, he used the gun to stab Huang Maozi behind. Stab to death."

Yang Shuhua nodded: "That's pretty decent."

"Yes, but my eldest brother just stopped drinking, and his physical strength was a bit unable to keep up. After beating five pigs, their calves got cramps. Huzi and I were shocked at the time."

Yang Shuhua was stunned, and her face suddenly turned red.

Because last night, the two of them slept in the same room, and then it was useless.

"Ah, cramps are nothing."

Liu Lizhen said: "It's not enough to drink all the time. Qiangzi's physique is pretty good. There used to be a man in our village. His hands trembled when he drank. His heart trembled after walking for two miles. He couldn't do any work."

"Well, at least Qiangzi has given up drinking now. When the three of them come back from Wangxing, Shuhua, you can grab some medicine for Qiangzi to replenish his health. Second Aunt has a recipe."

Yang Shuhua nodded, "Yeah."

When Xu Ning heard their heated conversation, he put down his water glass and slipped into the east wing to change his clothes.

He has a lot of fancy clothes and pants in his wardrobe, more than his parents and Xu Long put together.

These clothes and trousers were all bought when he was fooling around on the street. He gave Xu Long a pair of bell-bottom pants before summer, but Xu Long gave them back to him after wearing them once. He thought the bell-bottom pants were too shabby and not upright at all.

Xu Ning said that he didn't understand fashion. These bell-bottom pants were popular all over the country in the early 80s.

People in the city wear these pants to follow the fashion, and when paired with white rubber shoes and floral shirts, stains are inevitable!
  However, if you wear this suit in the countryside, whoever catches you will tell you the difference.

No tricks, people in the village are still a bit conservative now.

But Xu Ning didn't want to wear bell-bottom pants. It's winter now. If you can't wear bell-bottom pants with cotton pants, will you freeze to death?
  So he changed into a set of pants and cotton-padded jacket made by his mother.

This is because the conditions of Lao Xu's family are better. If it were a poor family, the family would even have one set of clothes, and several people could wear them before going out.

After changing his clothes, he lay down on the kang.

The kang was so warm that my mother must have thrown a handful of firewood into the stove pit at noon.

In the room.

The three mothers were chatting, and somehow they got to the point of finding a partner for Xu Ning.

This makes my mother very sad.

"Hey, who in Qing'an doesn't know that he has a bad reputation? Who do you think a good girl can give him?"

Han Fengjiao advised: "Sister-in-law, haven't you learned enough from Er Ning? Why are you so anxious?"

"Why don't you be in a hurry? He will be 21 just before the Chinese New Year. He is still waiting for some time to get married. Why can't he get married on 22?"

"That's right, auntie, didn't you let Er Ning go to the village to look for it?"

Liu Lizhen frowned and said: "Then what are you looking for? Doesn't the whole village know about him? It's just the daughter of the old Meng family who fell in love with him. After all, this little kid pinched his eyes and looked down on him, saying that he was too thin. It looks like a stick of numbness and looks sickly."

Yang Shuhua asked: "Then Er Ning didn't tell anyone in front of him, right?"

Xu Ning definitely can't say this in front of others. Isn't it a whistle?

"That's not true. He just told his sister-in-law when we came back from dinner at Lao Meng's house before the Chinese New Year this year."

Han Fengjiao said: "Sister-in-law, let me tell you, please don't worry about this matter for now. As for Er Ning's appearance, Qing'an is one of the best. When his good reputation spreads, what kind of daughter will he not be able to find?"

"Yeah, my brother is handsome."

"Haha...just follow me." Liu Lizhen laughed.

At this moment, in front of Lao Xu’s house.

Suddenly a person appeared. This person was wearing a cotton hat and a handbag, and he was holding something of the same color as his cotton jacket under his arm.

"Is there anyone at home? My second brother can't stay home?"

Yang Shuhua heard the voice and asked doubtfully: "Isn't this a boy from the Meng family?"

"Ah?" Liu Lizhen stared blankly.

She felt that she really didn't want to talk to her. She just said a few words and her little brother came.

In the east wing, Xu Ning, who was lying on the kang, heard the sound and got up, ran off the kang, opened the door and walked out.

When I saw it was Meng Yinhe, I was a little surprised.

Xu Ning waved her hand and said, "What's up? Come on, let's go into the room and talk."

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