Yang Chunyan thought about it and decided to go. She took off her apron, tied it up and walked towards the kitchen. "How many days do you plan to be gone?"
Zhou Huaian thought for a moment, "I'll be back in two or three days. Do you think I should ask my mother to accompany you or ask my cousin to come?"
Yang Chunyan shook her head, "No, it's troublesome for them to walk around."
After hearing this, Zhou Huaian said, "Then I'll come back early."
"With Wangcai and Laifu watching over the house, and my brother and sister-in-law not far away, nothing will happen." Yang Chunyan reminded again, "Just remember not to go into the old forest to hunt."
Zhou Huaian hugged her and said, "Don't worry, I'm still waiting to see my son!"
"Hurry up and wash the pea tips. It will look so ugly when Yi Ding comes and sees them later!"
"Yeah!" Zhou Huaian took the colander and left.
Yang Chunyan cut some pork belly and sauerkraut and stir-fried them. Just as she was scooping water into the pot to boil water for noodles, Zhou Yiding also arrived.
As soon as he entered the kitchen, he said, "Youngest, I heard that Youngest Bear took those people to the old forest to hunt wild boars and old bears. The rifles they brought were taken from the militia brigade."
After hearing this, Zhou Huaian sighed, "I didn't realize that this bastard Xiong Laoyao was such a power-hungry guy. He's really risking his life to be elected as the brigade secretary!"
Zhou Yiding curled his lips and said, "That's right. With only a rifle and a hunting rifle, he dared to go up the mountain with a few young men to hunt wild boars and bears. He really thought that he could do anything just because he had been a soldier for a few years!"
Yang Chunyan recalled the time when the youngest Xiong was elected as the brigade secretary in her previous life. "Some people in the village only care about the immediate benefits they can get. They don't care whether the elected person is good or not, or whether he is sincere in working for the benefit of everyone!"
Zhou Huaian thought that if the truffle business was successful next month, he could continue to collect truffles until the beginning of next spring, by which time the brigade secretary would have been elected:
"Unless the youngest bear takes everyone in the village to hunt wild animals and sell them for money, he won't stand much chance of winning with just those few families jumping around."
After hearing what he meant, Yang Chunyan understood that if the purchase volume of truffles was large, the whole village would benefit.
When the brigade secretary is selected after the New Year, the Zhou family and the Xiong family have a grudge against each other, so naturally no one will go against the Zhou family and select the youngest Xiong as the brigade secretary, so his efforts will be in vain.
Zhou Yiding sneered, "Are you kidding? Bringing the whole village to hunt wild animals? Do you think the wild animals in the deep mountains and old forests are pheasants and rabbits?"
"That's true!" Zhou Huaian put the washed shallots on the chopping board. "As the old saying goes, there will always be a way out when the car reaches the mountain, and the boat will naturally straighten out when it reaches the bridge. Even if he becomes the brigade secretary, I am not afraid of him."
Zhou Yiding nodded, "That's right, my friend hasn't done anything illegal, why should we be afraid of him!"
Yang Chunyan chopped green onions and put them in a bowl, took a slotted spoon to scoop the noodles into the bowl, and put the sauerkraut and pork noodles on the plate into the bowl. "The sour and spicy sauerkraut and pork noodles are here."
"It smells delicious." Zhou Yiding took a bowl of noodles and put it on the table. "Oh! If sister-in-law doesn't have to take care of the family, she can come with us to the mountain and cook delicious food for us."
"It will be ready next year. The food made from your chili peppers is also delicious." Zhou Huaian ate a mouthful of food with his chopsticks, "It's delicious, Anyi!"
Yang Chunyan said: "If you like it, bring some pork belly and noodles with you. If you want to eat it, you can fry it yourself."
Zhou Yiding smiled and said, "There are noodles on the mountain. Just bring some pork belly."
"Okay." After Yang Chunyan finished eating, she packed up the things for going up the mountain. After Zhou Huaian and the other man had eaten and drunk their fill, they went up the mountain.
Yang Chunyan finished her housework and poured the abacus fruits into a winnowing basket to dry them. Then Zhao Huifang and others came.
Li Qiuyue said: "Huaian and Yiding went to the forest farm?"
Yang Chunyan nodded, "Yes! They want to go to the forest farm to take a look."
Li Qiuyue: "This morning, the youngest brother Ye said that the bricks and tiles that his family had ordered were ready to be moved, so he asked the third brother and the eldest brother to go and move them."
Yang Chunyan said, "Then ask Third Brother to drive the tractor out, so that we don't have to find the key when we go out."
Zhao Huifang: "Accountant Ye's family is quite wealthy. He bought all the bricks and tiles from the kiln."
Zhang Xiuxiang curled her lips and said, "How can it not be thick? Have you forgotten that in those years, everyone didn't have enough to eat, only the brigade cadres had enough to eat."
Li Qiuyue echoed, "That's right. After all, good brigade cadres are a minority, and most of them just pocket the money for themselves."
The sisters-in-law took the wild Codonopsis pilosula to the ditch and cleaned it. Then they came back and rinsed it with water. After draining the water, they spread it out to dry upstairs.
Yang Chunyan also divided a few of the dozen or so Codonopsis pilosula plants and thought of planting them in the flowerbed at the foot of the south wall of the courtyard.
The dahlias planted at the gate of the yard have also grown and their originally wilted stems and leaves have stood up again.
In the afternoon, the sisters-in-law went to Fangtian to dig Codonopsis pilosula again. They were busy all afternoon and dug about ten pounds. They picked a basket of abacus fruits and then went down the mountain to go home.
Just as we passed the brigade's drying dam, we saw the youngest Xiong and a few other guys, proudly carrying a wild boar and walking towards us, followed by a number of villagers who were watching the fun.
Seeing that it was as noisy as if it was New Year's Day, the sisters-in-law stood on the side of the road and watched a group of people carrying the wild boar onto the small path and heading towards the Xiong family.
The youngest Xiong held a hunting rifle in one hand and had pheasants, rabbits and a bag made of oilcloth hanging on his shoulder, which looked like a gun. He glanced at Yang Chunyan who was standing on the side of the road watching the fun, and walked over heroically.
The people who were carrying the wild boar also looked at their sisters-in-law proudly.
The onlookers started to talk, "Wow! What a big wild boar, it must weigh three or four hundred pounds!"
"The wild boar that Zhou Laoyao and his men killed yesterday was much smaller! Those who have handled guns seriously are still the most powerful."
Xu Hongbing patted Zhou Huaijin who was standing nearby and said, "Big brain, look at that youngest bear. He is indeed the company commander of the militia. Such a big wild boar can be sold for at least 200 yuan! You guys have been wandering in the mountains for a whole day and didn't even see a single hair of pig."
"You know shit!" Zhou Huaijin glared at him angrily and said loudly: "Why don't you say that it was the youngest bear who shot with a rifle? We couldn't get a gun, so of course we couldn't shoot!"
"No wonder you can kill such a fat wild boar. The rifle can fire continuously. If you encounter a wild boar, just shoot it several times in a row. It will die!"
"Damn it! He uses the militia's gun to earn money. He only earns two hundred yuan a day. If he works for a few more days, he can earn thousands of yuan!" After hearing this, the onlookers began to talk about it in dissatisfaction.
"That's right, the gun doesn't belong to the Xiong family. Why can he use it for hunting, but we can't?" Xu Hongbing roared in dissatisfaction after hearing this.
"That's right!" another person said dissatisfiedly, "They took the guns to hunt without permission. This is called using public power for personal gain. Let's go find the brigade secretary and report them!"
"Let's go ask Secretary Xu if the militia company commander can go into the mountains to hunt without permission."
"Go, go, go!" The villagers who had returned empty-handed from hunting shouted and walked towards the brigade headquarters, and the others followed.
Yang Chunyan watched the dramatic scene and looked back at Zhao Huifang and the others. "It's just a wild boar. It's not easy to divide it now!"
Li Qiuyue said excitedly: "Let's go and watch the fun!"
Yang Chunyan smiled and shook her head, "I don't want to go. How about you go and see it and come back and tell us about it?"
Zhao Huifang smiled and looked at Li Qiuyue, "You go and have a look, we'll go back and wash the Codonopsis and hang it up!"
"Great!" Li Qiuyue took off the bamboo basket and backpack, "Wait for my good news!" Then she followed those people to the brigade headquarters.
Zhou Huaijin and his group arrived at the brigade headquarters, and seeing that Secretary Xu was not there, they went to his home to look for him.
"Is Secretary Xu home?"
Secretary Xu looked up and saw everyone rushing into the yard. He stood up quickly and asked, "What happened?"
Zhou Huaijin stepped forward and said, "Secretary Xu, Xiong Laoyao is using his power for personal gain..."
Secretary Xu frowned and asked, "When did this happen? Who saw him holding the militia's rifle?"
"When we were climbing the mountain in the morning, we saw the youngest Xiong carrying a gun and leading the children of the Li family and several other families up the mountain."
"In the afternoon, many of us saw with our own eyes that the youngest bear was holding a gun, and the others were carrying a wild boar to the old bear's house."
"Secretary Xu, if you don't believe me, just go to Lao Xiong's house. They are still skinning the cats!" Everyone started talking at once.
Secretary Xu took the leaf tobacco out of the pipe, extinguished it, and put it in his pipe. He stood up and said, "You all go back and wait for me to investigate thoroughly before we talk."
When everyone saw him stand up, they all moved aside, watched him walk out the door with his hands behind his back, and followed him.
The Xiong family was now happily boiling water to catch the wild boar, and the few guys who went with the youngest bear were also there to help.
Xiong Dahai looked at the fat wild boar and smiled, "Youngest brother, should we send the meat to Ning'an to sell tomorrow morning or to the town?"
Youngest Xiong thought for a moment and said, "Let's send Ning An away! I saw Youngest Zhou and the others sent Ning An away."
Zhou Sufang looked at him happily, "Youngest, you should have gone into the mountains to hunt for game and sell it for money, otherwise our brick house would have been built long ago."
Xiong Dahai said with a smile: "A brick house is not difficult to build. If you go there a few more times, you can even build a building."
The youngest bear nodded and said, "Sell the wild boar meat tomorrow, and I will go back into the mountains the day after tomorrow."
"The youngest one can earn about 100 yuan if he gets half of it. If he works until winter, he can earn at least 1,000 yuan." Zhou Sufen couldn't stop smiling. "No wonder they say that a man can't get rich without external money, and a horse can't get fat without night grass."
The third bear who was squatting on the side watching the boar being hunted stood up and said, "Youngest, get me a gun and I'll go with you."
Xiong Dahai glanced at him and said, "You're still going into the mountains. It's good enough if you don't get into trouble every day. Go and see if your second brother is home. Call them over to eat together tonight."
"Why didn't you ask the youngest one to do the errands when you asked me to do it?"
Xiong Laosan muttered to himself as he walked towards the gate of the courtyard. As soon as he arrived at the gate, he saw Secretary Xu, Captain Zhou, Accountant Ye and a group of villagers walking towards his house.
"Old man, Secretary Xu and his team are here."
The youngest Xiong's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. He hurried to the main room to pick up the gun on the eight-immortals table, and walked toward the back door while saying, "Old man, go and greet them. I'll take the gun back to the safekeeping room."
"Hurry up!" Xiong Dahai strode to the gate of the courtyard, saw a group of people coming, forced a smile and walked forward, "Hey! Secretary Xu, Captain Zhou, Accountant Ye, I was thinking of inviting you to have a drink!"
Accountant Ye said with a smile: "Old Bear, I heard that your youngest son killed a wild boar and brought it back?" (End of this chapter)
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