Chapter 500 Before Winter Hunting
Zhou Lan wanted to continue teaching Li Yao a lesson with a small bamboo stick, but when Li Yao saw Zhang An coming, he hurriedly ran behind Zhang An and hid.
In this family, apart from his grandparents, only Zhang An could save him from Zhou Lan.
As for his father, Li Hongbin, he had long been disappointed with him. As long as his mother spoke louder, his father would have to shut up.
"Okay, Sister Lan, just give him a lesson. It's so cold. If you slap him on the palm of his hand, I'm afraid he won't be able to recover for a long time."
Zhang An also took the opportunity to do this to himself. My son, please forgive me. You can’t let Li Yao get beaten all the time.
After all, it was freezing and snowy, the temperature was so low, and Zhou Lan used a small gold bamboo stick to slap Li Yao's palm.
Zhang An has experienced this feeling since he was a child. Nothing will happen if it is slapped on his body, but it will be extremely painful.
If the weather is normal, it will be better, and you will just feel a sharp pain. But if it is snowing in the twelfth lunar month, in addition to the painful pain, there will also be some numbness and excitement.
“It’s best if he can’t get better, otherwise he will be disobedient all day long. The less he is allowed to do something, the more he will do it. Whose child is like him?”
Seeing Zhang An reaching out to take away his small bamboo stick, Zhou Lan had no intention of continuing to teach his son, but he still stared at little Li Yao fiercely and never let him go.
"Hurry up and admit your mistake to your mother. Don't be disobedient again. Otherwise, no one will stop her when I leave."
A mother's majesty needs to be stepped down from the ladder. Poe's, so Zhang An pulled out little Li Yao who was holding him behind him and asked him to admit his mistake to his mother.
"Mom, I was wrong. I won't play in the ice ditch anymore."
Li Yao has always been stubborn. He was a little kid, so Zhang An nodded. He quickly came out to admit his mistake.
Whether I want to play with it or not doesn’t matter, but I must extinguish my mother’s anger now, otherwise I will still get a beating today.
After all, the burning pain in his palm was still reminding him.
"Hmph, hold on tight. Let's play again and see if I can spank you."
Zhou Lan gave her son a harsh word before returning home to clean up the housework.
After all, Li Yao is so old, and if you were smiling playfully with him, he would think everything would be fine.
In the evening, the snow became heavier and heavier, with no sign of stopping.
After this day, the mountains in the distance have been covered with a blanket of white flowers.
In the houses in the village, even though everyone has a fire at home, the temperature is much higher than outside.
But there is still thick snow piled up on the roof and in the yard.
Zhang An stood in the yard, surrounded by silence. He could only hear the sound of "rustling", which was the sound of falling snow.
The next morning, the snow was a little lighter, but the snow had already piled up.
Although it snowed heavily yesterday, the green leaves of many evergreen trees can still be seen.
Today is no longer possible, every leaf is occupied by fluffy snow, even the narrow bamboo leaves have not escaped.
Little Siqi seems to like Xue very much. He has been dishonest when playing on the bed and always wanted Zhang An to hold him outside the window.
It wasn’t until I saw the white snow outside through the glass on the window that I became quiet.
"We Siqi like snow so much, so you should grow up quickly. When you grow up, dad will go out to play in the snow with you."
Zhang An doesn't dare to take little Siqi with him at this time. Go outside, then Wang Fang will catch him and teach him a lesson.
Wang Fang is afraid that her grandson will be frozen if it doesn’t snow normally, especially now.
After holding little Siqi and watching the snowy scene by the window for a long time, Zhang An saw that his father had already gotten up and was shoveling snow in the yard with a shovel.
It is like this every year, with such thick snow, there is no way out unless a path is shoveled.
"Okay, it's almost done. I'll take you to find your mother. Dad has to shovel the snow in the yard."
With that said, he didn't care whether Xiao Si Qi Le was happy or not. , Zhang An directly returned him to Su Ying, who was still under the quilt.
Although the little guy was a little noisy and danced under the quilt, Zhang An did not cling to him anymore.
However, no matter how much the little guy disagreed, he was still conquered by his mother's mouthful of breast milk, and he ate breakfast obediently under the quilt.
After Zhang An went downstairs, he took the big shovel at home and followed Zhang Jianguo to shovel the snow.
In other people's homes, shoveling snow won't take much time, because you only need to shovel a path.
But Zhang An’s yard is too big. Even if it’s just a road, it would have to be shoveled a long distance, and both the front and back yards would have to be plowed.
At this time, several dogs at home also came out of the pen to help, not Xiaohu and others. At this time, they were sleeping in the kennel.
But Da Mao and the others came out with several puppies from the second litter of his second uncle’s family.
These are all little bitches, so they were all kept by Zhang An, and now they have grown into half-grown puppies, with shadows of Erhu and Xiaohei gradually appearing on their bodies.
The sisters and Da Mao get along very well. They have a great time eating, playing and playing together every day.
Big Mao and the others also bully the small ones, and often take them out to play.
Maybe they were brought to the mountains to teach them the Dharma, so these little bitches have now learned simple hunting skills.
From time to time, they would catch a few little rabbits from the mountain and bring them to Zhang An to claim credit.
This is what Zhang An is happy to see. She was originally left to serve as a child bride for Da Mao and his brothers.
Just like that, a father and son came home and shoveled snow in the yard with a group of dogs.
Every time Zhang An used a shovel to shovel snow and pile it to the side, the family dogs would swarm up and bulldoze the snow pile.
But after the road was shoveled, the dogs at home were all covered in snow residue.
Puppies are born to be very sensitive to water droplets and dust on their fur. With a quick shake, they can shake off all the snow residue on their bodies.
It’s just that they seemed to have forgotten that Zhang An was right next to him, shaking off the snow all over his body.
Only then did they see their master glaring at them angrily. They all lowered their heads and admitted their mistake, and hurried back to the nest, not even daring to ask for the reward for helping to shovel the snow.
In the afternoon, the flying snow in the sky became smaller and smaller. By evening, it had almost stopped. If you look carefully, there are only a few flakes floating.
Not long after finishing the meal, Zhang Jianwen sent someone over to call him over, presumably to discuss going into the mountain.
Zhang An told his family and went directly out.
When he arrived at Zhang Ping's home, their very spacious main room was already full of people. In the middle of the main room, a blazing bonfire was already burning, using the big iron pot that their family used to feed the pigs.
The pot is so big that even Zhang An has to stretch out his hands to hold it over his ears.
There is no coal inside, but old tree roots that Zhang Jianwen dug back from the mountain after autumn.
After being left there for such a long time, the moisture in the roots of the tree has faded away. Now it is very flammable when burning. The most important thing is that it is very resistant to burning.
The main room of their home also became warm because of such a fire.
Zhang An saw several people wearing thick clothes and standing close to the fire. Sweat was already burning on their foreheads.
Behind Zhang An, people were arriving one after another.
In the end, the main hall of their home was almost full, and Zhang Jianwen started to speak.
Zhang An thought, fortunately there are only so many people, otherwise there will be no room to squeeze in if we come again.
This is because the main room of their family is relatively large. If it were any other family, it would not be able to accommodate it.
"It's been snowing for so long now. After it stops completely, we should prepare to go into the mountains. This time we don't have to drive very far into the mountains. We don't have to drive up the mountain into the old forest like before, so there are some things You don’t need to bring it.”
When the village organized autumn hunting trips in the mountains, we had to go deep into the old forest every time. Basically, we went for more than two or three days at a time, so we prepared things in private at that time. a lot of.
This time Zhang Jianwen was afraid that everyone would prepare a lot of things to bring with them, so he called in advance to make it clear.
After all, this time is not like before. I went there for a living. To put it bluntly, this time I just wanted to have some fun for everyone.
"Village Chief, if we don't go into the old forest, will we encounter anything?"
At this time, someone had questions. In the past, autumn hunting had to go into the old forest to hunt. Today's environmental conditions are worse than before. If they don't go into the mountains, they don't think there is much hope.
"Hey, you haven't been in the mountains for a long time, right? In the mountains near us, not to mention how far away, there are basically pheasants and rabbits at Swallow Rock and Wild Boar Rock. Zhang Ping and After I said that, I went over to take a look, and the movement was very lively. As soon as I entered the forest, I could see the pheasants jumping in it."
Zhang Jianwen laughed. When Zhang Ping mentioned this not long ago. , he even went over to take a look.
It was also to prevent everyone from running out in the freezing cold and not even catching a single chicken feather.
What he didn't expect was that the woods where he had just climbed up to Wild Boar Rock were filled with the cries of pheasants, much more than what he had seen more than ten years ago.
So after he came back, he immediately started making preparations.
When everyone heard Zhang Jianwen’s words, everyone held their breath.
Especially those who have gone into the mountains to participate in autumn hunting and mountain hunting before, they all know what this means.
Why we had to go into the old forest when we were going to the mountains in the past? It was because there was no other way. There were no resources outside the forest, so we had to go deeper.
There are few people in the old forest, so there are more animals of all kinds. Big guys like grass deer and wild sheep are easy to encounter.
As long as you catch one, your trip will be considered a wasted one.
But after entering the old forest, it becomes very dangerous because it is very easy to encounter wild boars and wolves.
There are also leopards and bears that appear rarely, but not without.
But there was nothing we could do at that time. For the sake of living, everyone decided to go in and try their luck.
And now, since you can encounter things without going into the woods of Laoshan, why go in?
Now everyone no longer has the same momentum as before, and no one will enter unless they can.
Although wild animals such as pheasants and hares are small, they are not dangerous and they don’t have to run so far, so why not do it.
“Although I don’t know the specific number, compared with the years when I first came back, it has more than doubled. We don’t have many people going this time, so we can just walk around outside. After all, Not long ago, Zhang An also said that we can go and play, but we can't just sell them after beating them, so we don't need many. It's enough for each family to get a few for curing goods. We should just be idle and bored. Let’s go out for a walk.”
Everyone nodded after hearing Zhang Jianwen’s last words.
I used to go to Laoshan Forest because I could hunt big ones and sell them for money.
After all, conditions were very difficult for everyone at that time. You could not eat meat just by hunting. You still had to exchange money to buy other supplies.
Since it can’t be sold now, why bother bothering with it? Even if you hunt a family, they won’t be able to eat it all in a short time. You have to give some to the east and give some to the west. It’s better not to go.
"It's fine outside. Let's just go out and have fun. Anyway, don't even think about entering the old mountains and forests. Since the guns have been taken away from above, the policies from now on will only get better year by year. The new year is getting stricter, so we can go with so many people this time because Xiao An went to the higher authorities to report it. We might as well take advantage of these few years to have some fun. I’m afraid we won’t even be able to do anything in a few years.”
< br>After Zhang Jianwen finished speaking, Mr. Huang stood up and said a few words.
He is the most experienced hunter in the village now, and he pays more attention to policies in this area than anyone else.
A few years ago, he would go into the woods of Laoshan from time to time.
But now that more and more people are being caught in the mountains and being accused of poaching and being sent there, he doesn’t go there much anymore, because this shows that the country has begun to pay attention to these places.
“And there are indeed a lot of small things out there now. I have gone to the mountains again this year, but in addition to Xiao Zhouyang’s house, I can also often deliver goods to Jianzhong’s house.”
Huang Erye didn’t know what to say, so he gave everyone a look so that everyone could understand for themselves.
When the people present heard this, their eyes narrowed. If only Zhang Jianwen had spoken, they would have felt a little wet in their hearts.
But now Mr. Huang, who is the best hunter in the village, said the same thing. They couldn't help but not believe it. After all, it was no secret that Mr. Huang often supplied goods to several restaurants in the village.
It doesn’t take much effort to pick up small things outside, and you don’t have to distribute them to relatives at home.
After all, pheasants and rabbits are not like big things like wild boars, goats and deer. After hunting, the family can't eat a little bit by themselves.
And even outside the mountains, you can pick up some mountain products, and then sell them to Ding Yi’s supermarket, and you will make money.
So the lingering thought in some people’s hearts that they still want to go into the old mountains and forests is slowly extinguished.
At this point, the matter has been settled.
The next step is to plan the route. Although it is just outside the mountain, everyone is very familiar with it.
But there is a saying that goes well, people have human nature, animals have their own ways, and people who walk in the beast's way must have a purpose.
Everyone is rushing to harvest this time, so they must not take the usual path.
As for the route planning, the person who has the most say is Mr. Huang who often deals with Dashan.
He just thought for a while and decided a route for everyone.
(End of this chapter)