Return to 1983 Hunting Xing'an Mountains

Chapter 643: Beat up the animals to get points and beat up Xu Laonian
In the office, Zheng Yunlong sat in the first seat, holding a teacup in his hand, drinking tea while listening to Xu Ning's explanation.

Actually, Xu Ning felt quite wronged. The cause of this incident had nothing to do with him. It was just that Yang Jun, Guan Lei, Hu Zhiyong, and Liu Daming were all related to Xu Ning. As the saying goes, the first bird to stick its head out gets shot, so they blamed Xu Ning for everything. He couldn't explain it yet, because no one would listen even if he did. His character had long been ingrained in people's minds...

If you ask any relative in the village, he will definitely say a lot of good things about Xu Ning first, and then at the end he will definitely say: Oh, this kid is very smart, there is nothing wrong with his character and work, but there is only one thing that is not so good, that is, he is too mean!
Xu Ning said with a smile: "Isn't this to make them feel the warmth of home? As long as the food in Lengchang is better than at home, they won't miss home, let alone leave. Even if the work is tiring, as long as they can eat some meat, they won't feel anything."

Zheng Yunlong smiled at Guo Xingmin and said, "That makes sense! It's you, kid. Director Guo has always insisted on providing workers with good food and accommodation. Stovetops are provided in their accommodations, but the food is a little bit worse. You also know that the food in our forest farm is average. We can still have some vegetables in summer and autumn, but we have to eat potatoes in winter..."

Guo Xingmin nodded and said, "The whole Heilongjiang Province is in this condition. The Sandaohe Forest Farm is a little better than ours, but not much better. Erning, regarding the matter of the workers from the Lengchang taking the initiative to go to your Lengchang, the forest farm can't handle it, nor can it stop it. We can only postpone it, but we can't recruit people from other Lengchangs in the future, otherwise it will be difficult for me and Secretary Zheng to do our job."

"Know!"

Xu Ning nodded and said, "We have recruited enough people in the field. Maybe the field 25-2 is still short of experienced people. I will ask Yang Jun to transfer two people there and lead them to work first. Uncle Zheng, the forest farm promised me that they would arrange chainsaws and winches for us. Why haven't you responded yet?"

Zheng Yunlong smiled and said, "I knew you would ask this question. I called you here today because of this. We will have 10 winches next week, but I can only give you two. Don't complain that it's too little. These two winches are specially made for you because your yard is newly built and you have a lot of work. I will give you five new chainsaws and seven old ones, and 2 sets of chains. How about this?"

"Thank you so much, Uncle Zheng!"

"Hahaha……"

Guo Xingmin smiled and said, "Erning, the news that you and Yang Jun were selling wood outside has spread to the forest farm. Be more careful when doing this kind of thing in the future."

Zheng Yunlong nodded: "This kind of thing can be big or small, but the impact is ultimately bad. In addition, your neighbor, Mr. Wei, was fined 5000 kilograms of pine cones by the forest farm because of your face. Otherwise, the security department would have sent him to the municipal police. If we really trace it back to three or five years, it will not be stopped."

"Yeah, when my family was building a house, he worked really hard..."

Xu Ning did not explain too much, because the more he explained, the more he would owe that person a favor.

Guo Xingmin picked up the thermos on the ground, filled the teacup with water, and said, "I asked you to come here today because I have something else to tell you."

Without waiting for Xu Ning to respond, Zheng Yunlong continued while smoking a cigarette, "This is what happened. Our forest farm has organized large-scale hunting in previous years. I talked to you about it before, but I always felt that something was wrong, so I thought about talking to you again. The problem now is that Director Guo and I don't want the hunters to work for nothing, so we have to give them some benefits..."

"I looked at the hunting records last year. A group of 12 families killed more than 30 wild boars and less than 10 roe deer and roe deer. There were not many left for forestry workers and poor households. Of course, this number is definitely inaccurate. Many hunters kept the wild boars for themselves."

"I'm thinking of asking you to help me come up with a plan. You're young and smart, so you'll definitely be able to come up with a good plan!"

Seeing Xu Ning thinking with his head down, Guo Xingmin added: "The main goal of the forest farm is to ensure that the families of employees and poor households can eat meat. In addition, the forest farm can also give out some things."

"What can the forest farm give? Can it give 200 yuan?"

"We can definitely come up with 200 yuan! Our forest farm is not so poor that we can't even come up with 200 yuan."

Xu Ning smiled and said, "That's easy. Didn't we have a system of recording work points when we were in the production team? Now we can also record points!"

"Points? How do I do it specifically?" Zheng Yunlong became interested. He opened the drawer and took out paper and a pen.

Xu Ning thought for a moment and said, "There are 12 family villages in Qing'an. Each village organizes two hunting teams. If you kill a wild boar, you will get 1 point for every kilogram of pork, 3 points for every kilogram of roe deer meat, and 5 points for every kilogram of venison. As for bear meat... I think no one will hand it in if they kill a black bear. Bear meat can be sold for about 1 yuan on the market now."

Guo Xingmin nodded: "Of course, let alone bear meat, even roe deer and deer cannot be delivered to the forest farm. The price is there."

"The main thing is to collect pork, which is rotten and cheap..." Zheng Yunlong said while recording.

Xu Ning went on to say: "My idea is that the hunting team with the highest points will get a 100 yuan bonus, the second will get 60 yuan, and the third will get 40 yuan. Then the points can be exchanged for forestry tools, such as axes, cotton monkeys, etc."

Zheng Yunlong nodded secretly when he heard this: "There are still a lot of cotton jackets and military coats in the forest farm warehouse. They will get moldy if they are kept in the warehouse. Why not take them out?"

Guo Xingmin asked: "What if some people in the village don't want to get involved in this matter?"

"It's all voluntary, but our forest farm can also provide appropriate support, such as providing them with a meal in the morning and packing some food for them to eat in the mountains at noon. They have to go to the forest farm to eat in the morning, and then arrange cars to take them to the mountains where they hunt. It would be even better if we can provide them with some bullets."

Guo Xingmin looked at Xu Ning and grinned, "I really have to ask you, your thoughts are all for the hunting team!"

"Hahaha, don't I run in the mountains myself?"

Zheng Yunlong asked: "What should we do next? Who will record the points and how will the meat be distributed to the workers' families and the poor households?"

"Just drag it to the forest farm and let my brother Liu help keep score. As for the meat, it will be distributed at the forest farm and the employees can take it home. The secretary of the brigade will personally deliver it to each poor household."

Zheng Yunlong closed his pen and clapped his hands, saying, "That's it! Director Guo and I will study this later. You are the right person to ask. It saves us a lot of time and effort."

"That's not great. Even if we spend three days and three nights thinking about it, we may not be able to come up with this idea. We even have to use the work point system from the production team."

"Hahaha……"

After laughing, Zheng Yunlong added, "But I think we can't let the poor households eat for free. If they want to eat meat, there must be some conditions. I'm thinking of asking them to bring 500 kilograms of firewood to the hunting team in this village! Or wait until spring to help with farming. What do you think, Director Guo?"

"Okay! But the meat must not be less, at least 50 kilograms."

"It comes out from a pig. Take Qing'an Village as an example. There are six extremely poor families. That's 300 kilograms. If you kill two big pigs, it will come out."

"Of course. Didn't Er Ning have quite a few fights a few days ago? I heard that there's still a lot of people who haven't recovered from the egg removal."

Xu Ning said with a smile: "The egg scoop weighs more than 400 kilograms. It's a bit difficult for the three of us to pull it."

"It will be fine after the snow falls. We can use the sled to pull it around. This time our forest farm will dig out the eggs. Even though the meat is tough and smells fishy, ​​it is still meat after all."

"..."

Xu Ning chatted with Zheng Yunlong and Guo Xingmin in the office until noon. He went to the toilet two or three times. He had no choice but to drink tea because Zheng Yunlong kept asking him to drink tea. He could not refuse the kindness because both of them were smoking. Xu Ning had no interest in anything and could only drink tea.

At noon, Zheng Yunlong invited Xu Laonian, Wang Erli, the head of the security department, a deputy director, Guo Xingmin and Xiao Liu to sit at the table.

Zheng Yunlong bought the goose and wide noodles with his own money, as well as pork, pig ears, and pig intestines. The chef in the kitchen prepared four dishes and paired them with bottled Daqu wine. This meal was not bad no matter where you looked.

It is enough to show that Zheng Yunlong really likes Xu Ning. Although there are relationships between Yang Yusheng, Sun Jishan, Guo Xingmin and others, the iron must be strong before it can be forged, and Xu Ning himself is not bad either.

At around 2:, Xiao Liu found a car to take Xu Ning to the entrance of the village. The place where he got off was not far from Chang Danian's house. Since the Xu family moved to the north end, Xu Ning seldom came to visit the Chang family, unless he hunted animals in the mountains and could ride his donkey over to bring some meat.

"Uncle, what are you doing?"

Chang Danian was sitting in the courtyard with a pile of willow branches in front of him. He turned around and saw Xu Ning, and said with a smile: "Let's make a few baskets and go into the mountains to pick some wild vegetables next spring. How do you have time to come here?"

"Secretary Zheng from the forestry farm asked me to have a drink with him. We just finished drinking."

"Hey, you're so awesome now. The secretary of the forestry station even came to have a drink with you in person?"

"Hahahaha...something happened at my place, and he came to me to chat."

"You just finished drinking, so come in and have some tea to sober up."

"Okay, my sister Juan and brother-in-law are not at home?"

"They went into the mountains to pick mushrooms. I told them not to go, but they wouldn't listen!"

"Go if you want to. I have nothing to do at home anyway. How is your home? Can you stay here?"

After Chang Danian finished brewing the tea, he turned around and said with a smile, "Why can't you stay here? There are all kinds of chores to do at home. I heard that you killed the three old Fang masters from Taiping yesterday?"

"Yeah! This old bitch kicked my dog, and I hit him lightly. Who told you that?"

"I heard what Old White's wife said. Did you kick the dog to death?"

"No, it's mainly because they are so mean!" "Oh, there aren't many people you can call mean, what's going on?"

"Last year, I sold two black bears to Lao Fang. Fang Daquan accidentally killed one of them, and the remaining one became manic, so Lao Fang plucked out its claws with pliers. How cruel!"

"Fuck, that was indeed too light a blow, isn't this a sin?"

"It's not that bad..."

Xu Ning and Chang Danian chatted until about 3:, then got up and left.

When he strolled to the door of the old house, he heard the laughter of Sun Lianfang and Yang Yi. He walked to the door of the Wang family's old house and saw the two of them playing Eagle Catches Chicken. Meng Ziyan and Guan Hua were sitting on the wooden stool in front of the window sill of the lower room, chatting with Pan Xiao.

Yang Yi had sharp eyes. When he saw him, he shouted, "Uncle Xu!"

Xu Ning smiled and said, "What are you playing? You look so happy."

"I'm playing eagle catches chicken with my Aunt Sun. Do you want to play?"

"I don't want to play. Didn't your dad take you to the mountains?"

"I went there yesterday, but I don't want to go today. The mountains are full of wood and there's nothing interesting there."

At this time, Meng Ziyan came over and asked, "Is there anything the forest farm wants to see you about?"

"Nothing, you're just treating me to a drink."

Pan Xiao greeted timidly: "Hello, Mr. Xu."

"Well, are you used to living here?"

"pretty good."

"Tell your sister-in-law if you need anything. My brother Jun is away from home and doesn't come back often, so Baozhu is relying on you."

"As I should... Are my brother and little brother doing well in the field?"

Xu Ning said, "It's definitely tiring to work, but the food in Lengchang is good... Didn't my brother Jun tell you?"

"When he comes back, he picks up Baozhu and never chats with me."

"Ah, stay home and don't listen to the crazy talk of the villagers. They can use sticks to stir their throats even if they don't have any fart."

"know."

Sun Lianfang wiped the sweat from her forehead and said, "Brother, didn't you let Xiao Shitou go home and stay for two more days?"

"I didn't even run into him. I'll let him go down the mountain later. Okay, it's time to cook. Let's go home quickly."

Meng Ziyan and the others greeted Pan Xiao and walked out the door together. Pan Xiao took Yang Yi's hand and went into the house, preparing to light a fire and cook.

After arriving home, he was inevitably questioned by his mother and others. Only after he told the truth did his mother feel completely relieved.

A fence has been built in the gap between the Xu and Wang families. Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu finished it in just half a day. Although it doesn't look very good, it is really sturdy.

The next day, as soon as it was light, Xu Ning went out to take the dogs for a walk, but the dogs, including Blue Wolf, Spotted Wolf, Gray Wolf, etc., all looked a little listless.

He frowned after seeing it, walked forward and stroked the wolf's hair, and it suddenly sneezed and a clear snot came out!
Seeing Hualang snorting, Xu Ning felt a little panicked. There was basically no medicine for dogs these days, so he could only go to Zhang Yinshan to buy some medicine for humans. He stood up and opened the gate and saw Wang Hu.

"Hua Lang is sick. Go tell Big Brother that we won't be going into the mountains today. Then... wait a while. Zhang Yinshan may not be able to get up now."

"Why is Flower Wolf sick? Are Blue Wolf and Black Wolf okay?"

"I don't know. They look a little wilted to me. Go quickly."

"Hey!" Wang Hu turned around and ran towards Li Fuqiang's house.

Xu Ning turned around and walked to the doghouse, squatted down, and glanced at the environment in the doghouse. The mattress on the ground was a little damp. It was not that the wolf had urinated in the doghouse, but it was because there was a sleet last night. Although the sleet was not heavy, the ground was paved with red bricks. The rain water penetrated into the doghouse through the gaps, soaking the mattress and causing the dogs to catch a cold.

"Who took away the wooden board under the doghouse?" Xu Ning frowned slightly, with some doubts in his mind.

When the dog kennels were originally built, Xu Ning asked Liu Daming and Lao Wei to put wooden boards in each dog kennel to prevent moisture, but now the wooden boards under the mattresses in the dog kennels are gone.

"It must be Xu Laonian who did it!"

Xu Ning looked down at the ground, jumped over the dog poop, untied the dog leashes, led all the dogs to the lower house, and spread a layer of straw on the ground.

After the dogs lay down, Xu Ning locked the door to the lower room to prevent the dogs from escaping.

Then he walked into the house, turned right and opened the door to the east room. Liu Lizhen looked up and asked, "Why didn't you leave?"

"The dog is sick."

"Are you sick? That can't be! What's going on?" Upon hearing this, Liu Lizhen stood up and went to take a look.

Xu Ning said, "I don't know who took the wooden board under the doghouse. It rained last night and the mattress in the doghouse got wet. The dog must have gotten sick after sleeping on the wet mattress all night."

The mother looked at her eldest son and immediately understood. She raised her foot and kicked hard, directly kicking Xu Laonian on the butt.

Xu Laonian leaned forward and yelled, "Oh my god! Why are you kicking me? I was sleeping here. Did you dream about me being a whore again?"

He quickly stood up and looked back, and saw Xu Ning standing by the kang. He frowned and asked, "Why are you standing here? Are you sick?"

"Of course it's sick. The dogs are sick! Did you pull the board from under the mattress in the doghouse?"

Facing Liu Lizhen's sudden questioning, Xu Laonian was confused at first and said, "Ah, what's the matter? Isn't it laid under the corn bin as a pad? I asked you if it was okay, and you said you could do whatever you wanted."

Liu Lizhen rushed over and punched him, cursing, "You idiot! What are you doing with the wooden board? The ground is damp, why don't you soak the dog in water? The river outside the door is flooded, don't you know it's raining in the mountains?"

Xu Laonian was spitted at and said aggrievedly: "I asked you if it was okay, but you didn't answer."

"Last time you used my son's gun and almost made him fall into the mountains and feed to black bears. Now you use the doghouse again! I saved them all for you, and today I must suffocate you to death! I let you live, but you have already lived in a dog's stomach!"

Liu Lizhen lifted the quilt and covered Xu Laonian's head directly, then sat down on Xu Laonian's waist, and then her little fists fell down madly, just like raindrops, crackling and slashing.

Xu Ning stood nearby, hugging his shoulders and grinning. He felt very happy when he heard Xu Laonian crying and wailing.

At this time, Meng Ziyan and Wang Shujuan, who were sleeping in the west room and the second east room, were awakened. They quickly put on their clothes and hurried over in slippers.

"Oh my god, mom! Stop fighting, Erning, please stop them." Wang Shujuan hurriedly got on the kang and stopped Liu Lizhen.

Xu Ning held Wang Shujuan's arm and said, "Sister-in-law, you are pregnant, please don't come over to join in the fun, what will happen if you get bumped into again?"

Meng Ziyan knelt on one leg on the edge of the kang, stopped Liu Lizhen, and said, "Mom, stop beating me, my dad knows he's wrong!"

"Don't stop me. I'm going to beat him to death today! I'll let you show off! I've saved up all the debts for you, and today I'll make you pay them all!"

Liu Lizhen's arms were a little tired, so she stood up and chopped hard with her feet, beating Xu Laonian so hard that he dared not fart, because it was Xu Laonian's fault in the first place. The last time Xu Ning went into the mountains to hunt a brown bear, if he hadn't reacted quickly, he would have been beaten to death by the brown bear...

(End of this chapter)