sjar Chapter 179 Lu Zhiqiang Wants to Change Guns
Chapter 179 Lu Zhiqiang Wants to Change Guns
The mother, Song Lanhua, was very warm and loved children, especially the chubby little boy Sun Hao. She said that the chubby boy looked just like Li Ju'an when he was a child, and that he was very lovable.
Song Lanhua asked the two to stay for dinner. Sun Weimin tried to decline, but Sun Hao blinked his bright eyes and said in a childish voice, "Grandpa said you're not allowed to eat tonight, so you'll learn a lesson."
As the year draws to a close, every household is having a reunion dinner, and people are almost always either eating or on their way to eat. Unfortunately, Sun Weimin has gotten into trouble these past few days and has been punished by being barred from the table.
Sun Weimin declined a couple of times, but then he smelled the fragrant aroma of meat wafting from the kang table. The meaty scent was so enticing, it made his mouth water. He didn't stand on ceremony anymore, and he and Li Ju'an sat down at the kang table and began to eat heartily.
He stayed and ate with everyone, and naturally, he couldn't help but praise the chef's skills.
"Aunt Song, your cooking skills are comparable to those of a head chef! Your skills are so good that I can drink half a jin just from the smell of your cooking."
On the kang table were stewed tiger meat with potatoes, stir-fried venison leg meat, braised wolf meat with sauerkraut, stir-fried mung bean curd, and a cold dish.
A plate of braised wolf meat with sauerkraut was served. The meat in the plate looked very appealing, with a rich, deep sauce. The meat was stewed until it was so tender that it was practically trembling.
The mother, Song Lanhua, was delighted by her child's praise and laughed, "Don't exaggerate. It's all just a bunch of nonsense. How could I possibly prepare a feast for someone?"
Sun Weimin devoured the dark brown braised pork, his mouth bulging. The tender, stewed meat swished around on his tongue, and he was reluctant to swallow it. After each bite of meat, he picked up a piece of potato. The potato, stewed until soft and mushy, had absorbed the savory meat juices and was soft and powdery. He could easily eat three large bowls of rice with it.
He held up his bowl and called out, "Another bowl of rice, Aunt Song!"
Li Ju'an patted the back of his head and said, "Go scoop it up yourself."
The chimney was clogged, so my mother made rice porridge. She boiled it first and then steamed it, making each grain separate. This method helped to mask the original flavor of the rice, giving it a chewy and delicious texture.
The Li family also often cooked steamed rice, which turned out sticky and fragrant. But Li Ju'an's favorite was braised rice. What people in later generations made in rice cookers was actually braised rice.
Sun Weimin thoroughly enjoyed the meal at the Li family's house, and naturally praised it to everyone present. If he were at the Li family's house, praising his own family's cooking wouldn't be considered charming; it would be foolish. Besides, Aunt Song's cooking skills were superb. If he praised her a few more times, he could even get a free meal at Li Ju'an's place later—wouldn't that be wonderful?
Li Ju'an noticed his thoughts, and his delight was written all over his face. He said, "When are you going to get another team of your bears to farm?"
Sun Weimin, biting into the stewed tiger meat with potatoes, excitedly praised it, saying it wasn't sour or fishy at all, and the tiger flavor was perfectly masked. He looked up and casually said, "That's the bear's den I found by using the incense sticks; it's quite rare."
Li Ju'an reached out and took away his bowl and chopsticks.
"Hey, Li Ju'an, don't do that. Well, you're beholden to those who pay the bills. Are you really going to go raid the warehouse? Those bears are tough to deal with, much tougher than any weasel spirit. I borrowed two dogs that died in that warehouse."
Even without him saying it, Li Ju'an had heard Lu Zhiqiang mention it. Sun Weimin was dirt poor lately, all because he had lost money paying for hunting dogs. A well-trained ordinary hunting dog could sell for 80 yuan, and the lead dog was worth even more, not even a few hundred. In the end, someone lent him their lead dog, and he turned around and went to the bear barn twice, resulting in the death of two of the lead dogs. No wonder he was being chased and attacked with knives.
Sun Weimin rolled his eyes and spotted Da Hu. His eyes lit up and gleamed.
Li Ju'an lightly patted the back of his head again and said, "Dream on! After you finish eating, quickly tell me the location of the bear's den. I don't need you to bring the weasel anymore, so I can go and clean the den."
Sun Weimin, fearing that he would snatch the bowl again, protected the rice bowl full of braised meat, moved from the edge of the kang to the back of the kang, holding the bowl protectively in his hands, and said: "Not bad, Li Ju'an, Lu Zhiqiang was right just now, you've been quite bold lately, you've killed 5 tigers and you've become bold, and you even got the division commander's son as your follower, you really dare to go and hunt bears in the bear farm by yourself?"
"Naughty" coming from the mouth of Sun Weimin, who fears neither heaven nor earth, is extremely high praise. He really wasn't being sarcastic or being sarcastic.
Li Ju'an learned that before coming to the Li family, he had first gone to the Lu family and delivered frozen meat to Lu Zhiqiang. He came to the Li family later because the Li family was further away.
"Lu Zhiqiang told you everything, including the division commander's son. You're lucky the old man of the Lu family didn't break your legs; you actually dared to go to the Lu family."
The Lu and Sun families had become sworn enemies and their relationship had completely broken down, a fact known to everyone in the village.
The old man of the Sun family was furious at the time, but now that he has calmed down, he doesn't really intend to cut ties with the old man of the Lu family. Instead, he will use Sun Weimin to test the Lu family's intentions and find a way to back down.
The trouble was caused by Sun Weimin every day. The two old men in the village saw each other all the time, and it wasn't good for them to always have cold faces.
Sun Weimin is that step.
The old master of the Lu family turned and went back into the house with a sullen face, while Lu Zhiqiang accepted the frozen meat that Sun Weimin had brought. The previous interactions between the younger generation had eased the situation somewhat.
Sun Weimin praised Li Xiao extensively, especially her studies, telling Sun Hao to learn from Li Xiao, who was so promising that adults didn't have to worry about her. Li Xiao, being young and naturally shy, blushed deeply from the public praise, her face turning bright red all the way to her ears.
Li Ju'an knew he was reluctant to reveal the location of Xiongcang, so he asked directly. Only then did he hesitate, dip the bark of the bark on the table, and point to it, saying, "Wangxingtun is over here. If you go along Wangxingtun towards the south, on the third ridge, you'll find the bark I took. You can find Xiongcang there; it's an underground bark."
Li Ju'an understood as soon as he heard "ground warehouse"—that's why Sun Weimin had lost two dogs that had turned back.
The bear is a brown bear, different from the black bear; it's larger and stronger. The best bear dens to hunt are the "sky dens," where the entrance is in a tree. If you encounter a den with the entrance under a rock, it's called an "earth den."
When faced with a particularly difficult location for their hideout, bears choose steep slopes with an average altitude of 775 meters and deep snow to avoid tigers that frequent their dens in winter. Such hideouts are not easy to attack.
Sun Weimin asked, "Li Ju'an, why did you go through all that trouble to raid the underground warehouse? You ended up losing a dog. You might as well have gone into the mountains and harvested some hides; you could have made some money that way."
"You don't know anything. I took the job of collecting specimens, so I have to hand over the specimens that the forestry bureau wants. That's called being honest and trustworthy."
"Pah! I don't believe your honesty and trustworthiness at all. If Li Ju'an were a good person, there wouldn't be any bad people in the villages around here."
The two men cursed and swore as they left the house, and Li Ju'an escorted the two Sun family boys back home.
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At this time, Lu Zhiqiang was also enjoying a life of luxury at the Lu family home, living a very comfortable life.
The first thing you see when you enter the Lu family home is the large antlers of a stag that he dragged back with a sled. The four prongs are quite imposing, making the old man of the Lu family beam with joy. He kept praising his good grandson for being so promising, saying that the Lu family has a worthy successor.
He also got a share of deer heart. His second aunt first soaked the deer heart to draw out the blood, then soaked it in salt water, and finally roasted it with corn cobs. A plate of charcoal-roasted salt-baked deer heart was served on the kang table, its aroma filling the air.
Lu Zhiqiang ate the deer heart in big bites, chatting with his grandfather, Lu Jinyang, and parents about the fun they had going hunting in the mountains, his mouth never stopping.
"Wolf meat stew, and aspic, are good, dip them in garlic sauce."
"The green beans were a bit bad."
The second aunt of the Lu family was also quite skilled at cooking. After stewing the wolf meat, she chopped it into minced meat, pressed and steamed it to make wolf meat jelly. Then she stirred flour in a pot to make wolf meat stew, which could be dipped in garlic sauce and eaten with green beans. The whole family thoroughly enjoyed the meal.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Lu Zhiqiang's eyes darted around, and he grinned at the old man of the Lu family, saying, "Grandpa, we've done a great job this time, how about rewarding me with a good gun? A gun even better than the Type 54."
He wants to switch guns.