Chapter 1395 The Account Is Wrong
Zhao Youcai did not hide his dislike for Tao Sansheng. When Tao Sansheng said goodbye and left, Zhao Youcai stood up slightly and pretended to get off the kang.
At that time, Tao Sansheng said a polite word as usual: "Uncle Zhao, you stay in the room and don't come out."
"Then you should go slowly." Zhao Youcai agreed without thinking, which made Tao Sansheng stunned.
The guest said goodbye and left, and the host didn't even see him off. It was obvious that he looked down on him.
As soon as Tao Sansheng went out, the hunting dogs on both sides of the yard howled at him. Tao Sansheng hated him in his heart and walked out of the yard quickly.
As the barking of the dogs fell, Zhao Youcai knew that Tao Sansheng had gone far away. He reached out and took the small basket of tobacco leaves and prepared to roll one for himself.
It's not that Zhao Baotou couldn't afford to smoke Shilin, but he was busy all day today. He felt a little tired physically and mentally, and wanted to smoke a strong leaf tobacco to refresh himself.
But Zhao Youcai had just put the rolled cigarette into his mouth, and before he had time to strike a match to light the cigarette, he heard the sound of dogs barking outside the house again.
"What a day!" Zhao Youcai put down the cigarette that he hadn't had time to light, and stood up to greet the outside.
"Uncle Xu." Zhao Youcai went out and saw Xu Changlin standing at the door with a man, and he hurriedly trotted over to greet him.
"Youcai." Xu Changlin introduced the person next to him to Zhao Youcai, saying, "This is your Aunt Xu's nephew from her mother's family."
"Hey!" Zhao Youcai hurriedly shook hands with the man and greeted him after hearing this.
After welcoming the two into the house, putting them on the kang, pouring tea, and rolling cigarettes, Zhao Youcai and the man brought by Xu Changlin exchanged names.
This man was the child of Mrs. Xu's uncle's brother, named Pang Yongliang.
"Brother Pang, you are not from our area, right?" Zhao Youcai looked at Pang Yongliang, shook his head slightly, and said, "I don't think I have seen you before."
"Brother Zhao, I am from Lingnan." Pang Yongliang smiled and said, "My family is Yiqigangzi, Jiaohe."
"Yiqigangzi..." Zhao Youcai narrowed his eyes slightly when he heard the place name.
"Haven't you been there?" At this time, Xu Changlin raised his hand and gestured to Zhao Youcai, saying, "I remember what year it was? Your father took you there to hunt roe deer for others."
"Yeah." Zhao Youcai smiled faintly, how could he forget that place? It was in Yiqigangzi that Zhao Youcai learned to dig meat from the inner thigh of roe deer with an old gunner.
After a few pleasantries, Pang Yongliang took the bag beside him and took out a leather roll from it.
"Oh, gray skin!" Zhao Youcai knew Pang Yongliang was a gray skin hunter at a glance.
Normally, when you go up the mountain, you shoot whatever you see.
However, due to different hunting methods, the main prey is also different.
For example, the dog hunting mainly targets wild boars and bears. For the walking hunting, there are people like Wang Qiang who carry a gun and walk in the mountains during the day, mainly hunting wild boars and roe deer. And people like Pang Yongliang get up early and go into the mountains to hunt squirrels and sand half chickens.
The prey is small and the target is small, which requires certain marksmanship from hunters. Being able to shoot gray skin and sand half chickens means that Pang Yongliang's marksmanship is good.
As for Zhao Youcai, he hunts dogs because he likes dogs and enjoys the process of taking dogs to the mountains to hunt.
In terms of marksmanship, even Zhao Youcai a year ago was still among the top five in the entire Yong'an Forest District.
In the past, Zhao Youcai hunted everything for money. He also knew about gray skin. He spread out a piece of skin, wiped it back and forth with his hands along the hair and against the hair, and scanned it inside and outside. If there was any problem, it would definitely not escape Zhao Youcai's eyes.
Fifteen pieces of gray skin, seven male and eight female, Zhao Youcai paid the bill directly to Pang Yongliang.
Now that the women were not at home, the accountant acted as a tutor in the west courtyard, and Wang Meilan handed over the financial power to Zhao Youcai, who was in charge of both accounting and cashier.
As for whether Zhao Youcai would embezzle, Wang Meilan knew him very well. If it was his own family's money, Zhao Youcai would definitely find a chance to put it in his pocket. But if it was money from several families, then Zhao Youcai would rather suffer a loss than miss a penny.
After Pang Yongliang took the money from Zhao Youcai, he did not rush to put it away, but said to Zhao Youcai: "Brother Zhao, my third uncle said that your family also sells air guns?"
"Ah, sell." Zhao Youcai nodded and responded, and saw Pang Yongliang find out seven big unity from the money from selling gray skin and put them on the table, saying: "Give me one."
These days are good, buying a gun is like asking for a cigarette.
"Okay, Brother Pang." Zhao Youcai didn't rush to collect the money, but raised his hand and pointed out the window, saying, "You sit with my uncle Xu, I'll go to the warehouse to get it for you."
"Yongliang." As soon as Zhao Youcai finished speaking, Xu Changlin said to Pang Yongliang, "Let's go, pick one yourself."
Xu Changlin didn't know where Zhao Jun got a batch of air guns, but the old man heard that the quality of the guns was very good, and they were all new guns.
Since they were new guns, what else was there to choose?
Xu Changlin said so, just to let Pang Yongliang go out with him. Because on the table against the wall, there were yellow leaves that Zhao Youcai collected this afternoon.
A pile of yellow leaf tubes was piled there. Zhao Youcai went out of the house and left them in the house. If the Zhao family couldn't count them later, it would be easy to misunderstand.
After hearing Xu Changlin's words, Pang Yongliang subconsciously stood up, and just now his eyes had been fixed on the two semi-automatic rifles hanging on the wall of the Zhao family.
How can a hunter not love guns?
What's more, they were two new guns, hanging there so brightly, not to mention Pang Yongliang, even Xu Changlin took a few more glances.
The three of them came out of the house and went to the warehouse. Zhao Youcai opened a box of air guns, and then called Pang Yongliang, "Brother Pang, choose it yourself."
This box of guns has been sold out, and there are still four air guns in it.
Air guns are also guns.
Pang Yongliang and Xu Changlin both took a hand, each holding an air gun in their hands and fiddling with it.
"Great!" Xu Changlin raised the gun slightly and said to Zhao Youcai: "If I had this gun when I was young, I could have killed the gray dog in the mountain."
"Haha..." Zhao Youcai and Pang Yongliang laughed. What Xu Changlin just said was a unique way for hunters to brag.
"Oh, I'm old!" Xu Changlin shook his head, bent down and gently put the gun back into the box, then stood up and said to Zhao Youcai and Pang Yongliang: "You guys, while you are young and can walk and walk, you still have to go up the mountain more. Otherwise, when you are old, just look at others."
Pang Yongliang smiled and responded, but Zhao Youcai kept Xu Changlin's words in mind.
After Pang Yongliang chose an air gun, he left with Xu Changlin.
Zhao Youcai returned to the house, took the teacup that the two had used, and went to the outer room to pour the remaining tea into the swill bucket.
After doing all this, Zhao Youcai sighed heavily.
"Woof woof woof..."
"Ahhhh..."
Suddenly, a fierce dog barking sound came into Zhao Youcai's ears, and Zhao Youcai was shocked.
It was not that he was startled by the suddenness, but that Zhao Youcai was exhausted from receiving guests all day.
The dog outside must be a stranger. If it is a stranger, then he is here to sell things.
Then Zhao Youcai has to receive him again.
"Alas!" Sighing heavily, Zhao Youcai put down the teacup and pushed the door open.
But as soon as he left the house, Zhao Youcai's face suddenly became gloomy.
The person who came was not a stranger, but a person who couldn't be more familiar.
It was Wang Qiang.
But at this time, Wang Qiang was dragging two roe deer. He grabbed the leg of one roe deer, and the other roe deer rode on the head of this roe deer, and then tied the two roe deer together with a rope.
"Brother-in-law." Wang Qiang greeted Zhao Youcai, and saw Zhao Youcai staring at him with a gloomy face, and asked: "What have you been doing?"
"I bought two roe deer." Wang Qiang smiled and said: "Let's eat the small one, and then take the big one to Xiaochen's home."
The Zhao army will set out tomorrow and settle down at Jie Zhong's house first. Bring something for Zhao Weipeng, and you have to bring something for Jie Chen.
"Where did you buy it?" Zhao Youcai asked him: "Who did you buy it from?"
"I was at the market..." Wang Qiang just opened his mouth and was interrupted by Zhao Youcai, who pointed at the roe deer and said: "Who are you fooling? This roe deer is not frozen."
As he said, Zhao Youcai stepped forward and pulled a roe deer leg up. He glanced at the incision, casually threw the roe deer's leg away, and said unhappily: "It's not frozen! Are you not going up the mountain?"
"Hehehehe..." Wang Qiang smiled and said: "Brother-in-law, you are as good as Sun Wukong, with a flaming eye. I sent the gun home on the way, and I didn't hide it from you!"
"Get lost!" Although Zhao Youcai scolded Wang Qiang, he was thinking: If he can go, I can go too.
"Don't scold me, brother-in-law." Although he was scolded by Zhao Youcai, Wang Qiang was not angry at all. If it weren't for Zhao Youcai, how could he have the chance to go up the mountain?
As he said that, Wang Qiang pointed to the little roe deer behind him and said: "The roe deer's heart, liver and other things, I have stuffed them there with snow. Feed the intestines and other things to the dogs, and eat the stomach and other things after that."
Zhao Youcai rolled his eyes at Wang Qiang and turned into the house.
"Brother-in-law, this..." Wang Qiang called Zhao Youcai. The big roe deer was to be given away and could not be cut. The little roe deer was to be eaten in the evening, so it had to be cut now.
Wang Qiang untied the two roe deer, pulled out the roe deer intestines with ice from the chest of the little roe deer, cut them into small pieces with a knife, and distributed them to the hunting dogs in the yard.
Then, Wang Qiang dragged the big roe deer to the backyard and buried it with snow with a shovel.
When he returned to the front yard of the Zhao family, Wang Qiang dragged the little roe deer into the house.
When he entered the house, Li Dayong, Li Dazhi, and Lin Xiangshun all got up. When the three of them opened the door and came out, they just saw Wang Qiang dragging the roe deer into the house.
"Qiangzi, did you catch any roe deer?" Li Dayong asked. Wang Qiang smiled and answered. Seeing the three people's stunned looks, Wang Qiang asked back: "Did you three sleep?"
"Oh!" Li Dazhi sighed and said: "I didn't sleep well. The dog outside kept barking."
"That's good!" Wang Qiang smiled and said: "That's because our business is good. We made money. Aren't you happy?"
In the east room, Zhao Youcai, who was sitting on the kang, glared at the door.
"Come, come!" At this time, Wang Qiang called Li Dayong and others, saying: "Let's skin the roe deer and have a meal tonight. The rest will be dumplings. My eldest nephew and his friends will leave tomorrow morning. Dumplings for those who are on the horse and noodles for those who are off the horse!"
After hearing what Wang Qiang said, Li Dayong, Lin Xiangshun, and Jie Chen rolled up their sleeves and started to skin the roe deer.
Li Dazhi had never done this before, but he also watched the fun from the side. Only Zhao Youcai sat on the kang in the east room, resting with his back against the kang cabinet.
The four people started to work, and soon they skinned the roe deer. Then, the four people used knives to remove the meat and bones.
The roe deer weighed 43 or 4 kilograms before it was alive, and 20 kilograms of meat came out after cleaning. The bones were removed very cleanly and fed directly to the dog.
Then, the five people looked at each other in the outer room, and finally Wang Qiang mustered up the courage to walk into the east room, came to Zhao Youcai with his eyes closed, and asked: "Brother-in-law, are you asleep?"
Zhao Youcai slowly opened his eyes and asked: "What are you doing?"
"I was thinking..." Wang Qiang hesitated for a moment, and changed his words: "You want to sleep, it's so comfortable to lie down and sleep?"
"Why are you sleeping?" Zhao Youcai said angrily: "Look at your watch, what time is it?"
It was now three-thirty-five, and it was getting dark outside.
"Brother-in-law...then why don't you sleep..." Wang Qiang said intermittently: "Just get up and cook."
"What?" Zhao Youcai sat up instantly, his little eyes widened, and asked Wang Qiang: "I'm cooking? I've been so tired all day, and I still have to cook for you?"
"Brother-in-law, what do you mean cooking for me?" Wang Qiang coaxed Zhao Youcai and said, "I'm not the only one eating. You cook for everyone."
At this point, Wang Qiang paused, and then whispered: "Besides, last night... wasn't it what you said? When you come back to help us, you have to grab us front and back. Help us collect skins and bear bile, that's it. Also take care of the logistics and cook the food for me.”
"Get lost!" Zhao Youcai yelled and waved his hand towards the door.
Wang Qiang hurriedly exited the room. Although he often scolded Zhao Youcai, he grew up following Zhao Youcai. Seeing that Zhao Youcai was angry, Wang Qiang ran away in a hurry.
Seeing Wang Qiang being scolded, Li Dayong and others stopped talking.
At this moment, Zhao Youcai in the room sighed and said, "Oh my God!"
After saying that, Zhao Youcai got off the bed and pulled on his shoes and walked out of the house.
When he came out of the house, Zhao Youcai looked at the roe deer meat that several people had collected, and then said, "Hurry up and boil the water."
"Hey! Hey!" Everyone heard the words and quickly agreed.
"Brother, what are you doing?" Li Dayong asked as Zhao Youcai was about to leave.
"Go up to the latrine." After Zhao Youcai said that, he opened the door and went out.
As soon as he came out of the house, the black tiger under the east window roared, making Zhao Youcai's footsteps stop.
Immediately afterwards, the dogs of the Zhao and Li families began to bark, but judging from the anxious look of the dogs, it must be that their family members were back.
Sure enough, Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu appeared at the door. Today at noon, Li Baoyu was also left to have a meal by the Liu family.
After dinner, Li Baoyu also took Liu Mei out for a walk. When I came back, I met Zhao Jun who was sending Ma Ling home.
Darkness enveloped the mountain village, and red lanterns were hung high.
The east and west rooms of the Zhao family are as lively as ever.
After having enough wine and food, the diners went back to their homes. It's been a busy day today and everyone is tired.
"His dad!" Wang Meilan poured the foot-washing water, then called to Zhao Youcai: "Come, wash your feet."
The wife was given water to wash her feet, which was such a good treatment, but Zhao Youcai got up from the kang feebly.
"Thank you for your hard work today, old man!" Wang Meilan put the foot towel aside, then held Zhao Youcai in her hands and said: "He is a housekeeper and a cook, this guy..."
"I don't care what to do?" Zhao Youcai said angrily: "Look at your brother, he doesn't have anything to do all day long. The family is so busy, but he still runs to the mountains screaming."
Hearing Zhao Youcai's words, Wang Meilan secretly and fiercely glared at Zhao Youcai. Would Wang Meilan be happy to talk about her brother?
But to rub a donkey, you have to rub it along its fur.
"How about you know who the person is." Wang Meilan smiled at Zhao Youcai and said, "You already said that his old uncle is uncertain, or why don't you quit working in the cafeteria and come back to help us."
"I..." As soon as Zhao Youcai started to speak, he was interrupted by Wang Meilan, who just heard her say: "This family can't do it without you."
"No..." Zhao Youcai spoke again, but was interrupted by the sound of the door opening.
Zhao Jun came in with the account book and said directly to Wang Meilan: "Mom, this account is wrong!"
"Huh?" Wang Meilan stared at Zhao Youcai with her eyes wide open.
"Little calf..." Zhao Youcai raised his hand and pointed, but Zhao Jun brought the account book to him and asked, "Dad, this man is here to sell a yellow leaf."
"Yeah!" Zhao Youcai nodded and said, "Why, you won't accept one piece?"
"No, Dad." Zhao Jun shook his head and said, "There is probably something wrong with this person. We have to be more careful!"
There is only one chapter missing. I will get up and write it tomorrow morning. I will definitely make up for it tomorrow.
I've been feeling uncomfortable in my chest for the past two days, feeling stuffy and out of breath. The key is that I can't sleep at night. I went to the community hospital today to check my blood pressure and asked them to listen to my heart. It was fine. After that, the doctor said it was due to the change of seasons. I prescribed some medicine.