These days, there are many people who prefer boys over girls, and there are many people who don’t regard their grandchildren as their own family.
But neither Wang Meilan nor Zhao Youcai were like this.
After hearing that Wang Meilan wanted to dip Zhou Da’s candied haws, Zhao Youcai asked Xing San and Li Dayong to feed the pigs and the dogs. He helped Wang Meilan cook the candy in the house.
When Zhao Jun finished washing and wiping his face with a towel, the couple had already thrown candied haws on the chopping board.
Zhao Jun came over and heard Wang Meilan ask, "Son, how do you think you are?"
"It's really good!" Zhao Jun praised the truth, but then said, "But, Mom, why should I take this thing for him?"
The candied haws dipped in sugar outside, even if they cool down and solidify, when the two strings of candied haws are put together, they stick together.
"It's okay." Hearing Zhao Jun's words, Wang Meilan smiled and said, "Before dinner last night, I told your sister-in-law Zhang to make a straw target."
The straw target is also called candied haws sticks and candied haws racks. They are made of straw or wheat straw. People who sell candied haws candied haws be inserted into them for easy carrying and display.
If Zhang Yuanmin takes action, then don’t worry.
This morning, Zhao's family ate frozen tofu and stewed cabbage and vermicelli. The main food was sticky bean bread.
Zhao Jun, who had enough food and drink, had a rest for a while and then his family started to get along. But today, no one came to sell mountain goods, and all the people came were their own.
Zhang Yuanmin came with a straw target. This old guy was skillful in his hands. The straw target he made was as long as his elbows, and it was enough to insert more than a dozen strings of candied haws.
Wang Qiang, Lin Xiangshun, Li Baoyu, Jie Chen and Jie Sun were dragging a sack, and there were living things moving in the sack, all of which were living roe deer who were preparing to give gifts.
Zhao Jun walked out of the yard and asked several people to throw the roe deer into the Jiefang car, and then asked Li Baoyu and Jiechen to load the live wild boar that Zhao Youcai caught yesterday.
I had promised Zhou Cheng to catch wild boars for him before, but if I couldn't catch them, I could give him pork. But now if I catch them, I would give him the wild boar and then give him a roe deer.
Five roe deer and a 200-pound wild boar, the jeep will definitely not be able to hold it.
So, Zhao Jun called out, "Baoyu, Xiaochen, you two go with me when you are liberation!"
Nowadays, the Zhao army is full of talents. Zhang Yuanmin and Li Ruhai are also responsible for their efforts. Li Baoyu reconciles Jiechen.
Li Baoyu, Xie Chen got into the liberation car, and Xie Chen, who was in the passenger seat, held a straw target with sixteen strings of candied haws in his hand.
Zhao Jun was ahead and drove a jeep to Yongshengtun.
When you enter the village, you will first go to the Zhou family.
Li Baoyu and Xie Chen unloaded four sacks of living roe deer and tried hard to stuff them behind the jeep.
After finishing all these rough work, the two of them greeted the Zhou family, and got on the Liberation Car and prepared to go to Zhoucheng Country.
Seeing that they were leaving, Zhao Jun reminded: "Xiaochen, you two have sent them back to the village and continue to the third uncle."
Today is the Little New Year. Starting today, the forest area will be shut down. Workers will go home to celebrate the New Year when they go down the mountain.
After finishing the matter in Yongshengtun, Jie Chen wanted to drive to pick up Jie Zhong, and to take Xing San with him to clean up the old man's stuff in the shack in Lengchang.
Moreover, before going to Lengchang, they had to go to Yingbei Mountain to sneak back the big leather cages that Zhao Jun had descended on the mountain.
"I know, Brother Jun." Xie Chen responded, and then Zhao Jun said again: "Come back to Uncle Yang, and send it to your house after that."
"Don't worry, brother, we know." Li Baoyu smiled and said, "Ruhai has been talking about it several times."
"Okay, let's go." Zhao Jun waved to the two of them, Zhou Chunming and Zhou Jianjun also reminded them to "click slowly" and other words.
At this time, Zhao Chun, holding a straw target in his hand, was happily happy.
Listening to Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu and Xie Chen talked, Zhao Chun touched Hu Sanmei with his shoulder and said, "Mom, look at Xiaojun, you can be so thoughtful."
"Yeah!" Hu Sanmei nodded and said, "I met your uncle Yang yesterday, and she was still talking. I don't know how your uncle Yang is coming back. I will tell her to go later to save her from worrying about it."
"Sister, why are you holding it?" At this time, Zhao Jun's voice came.
Zhao Chun raised his hand and heard Zhao Jun say to her: "Get the house, you and my aunt, just eat."
"Let her mother eat it." Hu Sanmei smiled and said, "My mother-in-law got up early, right?"
"Yeah." Zhao Jun smiled and said, "My mother came to pick hawthorn at four o'clock in the morning and said she would dip candied haws for her eldest grandson. I said she would wait for a day before eating it, and that wouldn't be done."
"Tsk! Look!" Hu Sanmei pulled Zhou Chunming for a moment and said, "Look at the heart of our mother-in-law."
"Yeah!" Zhou Chunming nodded and said, "Our in-laws, mother-in-law, what else have you said?"
After saying this, Zhou Chunming raised his hand to Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun and said, "Jun, let's go with your brother-in-law. You two go early and come back early. After you finish, you have a good meal."
"Uncle Zhou, you can't eat here today." Zhao Jun waved his hand quickly and said, "I have to go back for the New Year today."
After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Zhou Chunming did not force it, just said, "Then come the day after tomorrow, let's kill the pig the day after tomorrow."
Zhao Jun responded with a smile, and after calling Zhou Jianjun to get in the car, Zhao Jun got out of the village and walked down the mountain to the city.
It took nearly 200 miles to enter the city from Yongsheng. The roads I built in those days had no other problems except for many bends.
At 10:30 in the morning, Zhao Jun drove into the Forestry Bureau’s family area.
Every year when giving gifts, Zhou Jianjun is the one who comes to guide Zhao Jun, and parks his car in front of Unit 2 of Building 1.
The two got out of the car, unloaded the roe deer, and each pulled two sacks into the unit door.
When Zhou Jianjun came in the past, he had to go to several companies. But this time, it was enough to go to one company.
Chu Anmin told Zhao Jun before that in order to raise a dog, he didn't even have a good floor and specially wanted the first floor.
When Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun entered the unit door, there was only a fifth-story staircase on the upper floor. The house on the right was Director Chu's house.
Zhou Jianjun put down the sack and raised his hand and knocked on the door softly.
"Who?" Chu Anmin's voice came from the room. Director Chu also rested today.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! The door opened, and Chu Anmin was stunned when he saw Zhou Jianjun.
"Director Chu, I am..." Zhou Jianjun was about to report himself when he saw Chu Anmin nodding at him and said "ah".
Then, Chu Anmin raised his hand and greeted Zhou Jianjun, saying, "Zhao Jun, what...you guys hurry up and go into the house!"
Zhou Jianjun: “…”
Everyone has let them enter the house, so let them introduce themselves and let them go.
At this time, Chu Anmin was still greeting: "You two don't need to change your shoes, just go into the house!"
Listening to Chu Anmin's words, Liu Hongmei, who was cutting cabbage leaves in the kitchen, secretly hated: "Come on, he won't clean up!"
Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun are both particular. When they saw several pairs of slippers at the door, they were about to change their shoes, but when they heard Chu Anmin say, "What are you doing with? Are you still moving?"
"Roy deer." Zhou Jianjun smiled and said, "Director Chu, I'll bring you a few of these roe deer that I caught."
"Ah? Ah..." Chu Anmin looked at Zhou Jianjun, then at Zhao Jun, and finally looked at Zhou Jianjun and said, "You are the son of Old Zhou, so you can do the logistics of the venue, right?"
"Yes, yes, Director Chu." Zhou Jianjun nodded with a smile and said, "It's me."
As soon as Zhou Jianjun finished speaking, Liu Hongmei walked out of the kitchen, looked at Zhou Jianjun, and said to Chu Anmin: "Is this not a little Zhou? The wild boars and roe deer we brought to us that time were all alive, did you forget?
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"Hehe, Aunt Liu." When I came to give gifts, Liu Hongmei was at home, and Zhou Jianjun and Liu Hongmei were familiar with each other.
"Oh, stop at the door, hurry up and enter the house!" Liu Hongmei greeted the two of them enthusiastically, but was stopped by Chu Anmin and said, "Give me the good tea leaves of Lao Sun and make tea."
Then, Chu Anmin turned around and raised his hand to gesture to Zhou Jianjun, only to realize that he didn't know what his name was.
Chu Anmin moved his hand aside and said to Zhao Jun: "Zhao Jun, come with me and send this roe deer outside."
This roe deer is not a chicken or duck, and it is not a long-term solution to put four large roe deer in the house.
"Director Chu." But Zhao Jun still asked: "Is there a place outside?"
"Yes!" Chu Anmin said: "There is a warehouse outside."
As he said that, Chu Anmin took the cotton jacket hanging next to him, took out his feet from the slippers and stepped into the cotton shoes.
Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun first came out of the house with sacks and went outside the unit door. Looking at a row of small bungalows opposite, one meter a door. That should be what Chu Anmin called a warehouse.
Sure enough, Chu Anmin took the two of them to door No. 3, opened the door lock with the key, and opened the door.
The warehouse is not big, only about four square meters, but it can store debris inside and there is a cellar at the door.
"Let's put it here first." Chu Anmin asked Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun to put the sacks in the warehouse and asked, "You can't run out, right?"
"Don't worry, Director Chu." Zhao Jun said: "The legs and mouth are tied up."
There were also a lot of miscellaneous items in the warehouse. After putting sacks of roe deer on the ground, Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun came out.
Just as Chu Anmin locked the door, Zhou Jianjun called him and said, "Director Chu, the old lady is out."
"Ah?" Chu Anmin was stunned when he heard this. When he turned around, he found that it was his mother who was here!
The old lady didn't even tie her buttons on her cotton jacket and came in a hurry.
"Mom, what are you doing?" Chu Anmin stopped his hand and heard the old lady say, "I heard that someone has brought roe deer?"
The old lady came to the front of her and recognized Zhou Jianjun at a glance.
"Xiao Zhou!" The old lady called Zhou Jianjun, then looked at Zhao Jun and said, "I see this child's face is vague..."
A snoring face means familiarity.
As he said that, the old lady frowned her sparse eyebrows and looked at Zhao Jun and said, "Where have you seen this child with such a strong eyebrows and big eyes?"
"Mom, have you forgotten?" Chu Anmin raised his hand and pointed at Zhao Jun and said to the old lady: "That's good people and good things that day!"
"Ah..." The old lady remembered and said directly to Chu Anmin: "It's just that time you didn't go up, but they went up."
Zhao Jun, Zhou Jianjun: “…”
Why is this old lady so unpleasant to speak?
If Chu Anmin is not arrogant, he will be unhappy.
Fortunately, Director Chu had a lot of people, so he just smiled and said, "Yes, mom, it's him, the young man is pretty good."
"Yeah!" The old lady raised her hand and pointed at Zhao Jun's face, and smiled, "Look at the thick eyebrows and big eyes, it's true at first glance."
"Hehe..." Zhao Jun could only respond with a smile when he was praised.
"No, mom, what are you doing here?" Chu Anmin tidied up the old lady's collar and asked, "We're going back to the house now!"
"Don't worry!" The old lady pointed to the warehouse and said, "Let me see the roe deer!"
"What do you think it's doing?" Chu Anmin was speechless. He was the director of the Forestry Bureau and had more than ten forest farms of all sizes. This year, it would be absolutely fine to collect 100 roe deer.
"I've never seen you." The old lady said, "Last time, Zhou Xiao gave it to you, and before I could see you, I asked you to kill him."
Chu Anmin curled his lips helplessly, "Old children, little children." Some elderly people are older, and they are more willful than children."
Chu Anmin had no choice but to open the warehouse.
Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun were very good at seeing each other. They pulled a sack and untied the hemp rope tied to the sack.
As soon as the sack opened, the roe deer's mouth stretched out. As the head came out, the two roe deer's ears stood up.
"Oh!" the old lady smiled and said, "It's quite interesting!"
"Okay, mom." Chu Anmin held the old lady's arm and said, "Go back to the house."
Zhao Jun and Zhou Jianjun stuffed the roe deer back and tied the sack again. Then the old lady standing at the door asked Chu Anmin: "Minzi, roe deer has intestines, right?"
"Then there must be." Chu Anmin smiled and said, "I don't have any intestines, how can I drain it after I take it?"
"Then can kill this roe deer to catch blood and fill blood sausage?" The old lady asked Chu Anmin this question at once.
"Can roe deer blood be eaten?" Chu Anmin looked at Zhao Jun, wanting to hear the opinions of professionals.
"Who knows?" Zhao Jun shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of anyone eating roe deer blood."
After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Chu Anmin looked at his mother and asked, "What, mother? Do you want to eat blood sausage? Last month, my second uncle's house killed pigs, won't we go?"
Normally, people slaughter pigs as soon as the twelfth lunar month begins.
"Yes." The old lady pursed her lips and didn't say anything. Seeing this, Zhou Jianjun stepped forward and said to Chu Anmin: "Director Chu, my family will kill pigs the day after tomorrow. Can you bring the old lady to my house to eat pork?"
Listening to Zhou Jianjun's words, the old lady showed a trace of struggle on her face. She probably felt embarrassed to want to go.
"Xiao Zhou, thank you." Chu Anmin first thanked Zhou Jianjun, and then said, "We won't go. My son will come back the morning the day after tomorrow. After that, we will go down to the garrison."
After saying this, Chu Anmin paused for a moment and added: "It's the Chinese New Year, go back to his hometown to take a look and bring him to the grave or something."
After hearing what Chu Anmin said, Zhou Jianjun could not persuade him anymore. Whether it is tradition or superstition, this is a sustenance to the grief of his relatives after he passed away. For some people, going back to their hometown to visit their graves before the New Year was more important than anything else.
But when Chu Anmin finished speaking, he heard Zhao Jun ask him, "Director Chu, what about tomorrow?"
"Hmm?" Chu Anmin was stunned. Zhao Jun hurriedly continued, "Tomorrow, my family will kill pigs, three hundred kilograms of pigs, you can bring your family over."
Hearing Zhao Jun’s words, Chu Anmin turned to look at his mother, then pointed at Zhao Jun and said, “Mom, let’s go to his house to eat tomorrow!”