Chapter 34: Whip and Steering Wheel
Just after breakfast, many villagers gathered at the entrance of Jiapigou Village, with pairs of eyes looking towards the road leading to the commune from time to time.
"Second uncle, why don't the captain and Qingshan come back?"
Zhang Gangzi took off a small cigarette butt from his ear, lit it, took two puffs carefully, and then talked to the old party secretary beside him.
"It's only been one night, why are you so anxious?"
The old party secretary filled a pot of tobacco leaves and then glanced towards the dirt road.
Zhang Gangzi quickly struck a match, helped the old party secretary light the pot, and said in a low voice: "It's three thousand yuan. Those two people don't want to have a steamed bun, right?"
"Snapped!"
The old party secretary was so angry that he stopped smoking. He poured a pot on the guy's head and shouted:
"The wife and children of Guofu, the sisters from Qingshan, and the grandparents are all in the village. How can they run away? Only an old bachelor like you, who has enough to eat and the whole family is not hungry, can have such thoughts!"
The surrounding villagers sneered and laughed, accompanied by Zhang Gangzi's anxious explanation with a pale face: "If I do such an immoral thing, I will be the son of a dog!"
The old branch secretary became even more angry: "You little tiger, if you dare to scold my brother, I will beat you to death for being an unworthy man!"
The two uncles and nephews, one was banging the pot with bags under his eyes, and the other was running away with his head in his arms, which made everyone even happier.
"Big trucks, two big trucks!"
Er Biaozi suddenly shouted.
Everyone looked towards the intersection, and sure enough, two green Jiefang vehicles were swaying towards this side.
"We Jiapigou, when was the last time we came to the Great Liberation?"
Grandpa Guaizi frowned and asked questions.
"It seems like five or six years ago, I came here once while escorting prisoners on parade. That guy had the People's Liberation Army with guns in the car. He was so majestic!"
Datou was deeply impressed by the People's Liberation Army in uniform, so he answered first.
After hearing this, Zhang Gangzi slapped his thigh hard: "It's bad, it's bad, it must be the captain and Qingshan who committed something, and they dragged him back to the streets in a car!"
What, my father was paraded through the streets?
When Da Tou heard this, he opened his mouth wide in fright and began to howl.
The Liberation Movement gradually approached, and Captain Zhang and Liu Qingshan were seen standing in the carriage, excitedly waving to the villagers.
"Datou, stop howling in mourning. If you don't have a lot of clothes tied up, you're not parading in the street."
The old party secretary patted Datou on the head, and then gave Zhang Zhanzi a kick: "You are the only one who has been acting like a fool all day long!"
As we drove closer, we had to slow down. There were little kids running around in front of and behind the car, so we had to be careful.
Liu Qingshan jumped out of the car neatly and was immediately surrounded by people asking questions.
He didn't know who to answer, so he simply waved his arm: "The materials have been shipped back. Let's go to the production team to unload the trucks first!"
After shouting, people immediately ran to the production team yard. There were two big houses here, both of which were mud houses, but they were big enough.
The wing room on the west side was originally a warehouse, but now it has been empty and is used for storing things.
Jiefang drove into the yard and stopped. Captain Zhang entertained the two master drivers, and the rest began to unload the truck.
When they opened the carriage board and saw the huge sika deer lying on the bamboo springboard, people were stunned for a moment, and then immediately burst into cheers.
"I'm going home to get the butcher's knife and bleed the deer. Who can get a basin? Deer blood is also a good thing and shouldn't be wasted."
Zhang Dashuai is a chef who also serves as the village's pig butcher. He wiped his bald head excitedly and ran home while shouting.
The happiest ones were of course the little kids, running back and forth like crazy, chanting "Eat meat, eat meat, eat meat."
Even the old party secretary's face was filled with joy: "I just killed the deer and served it to the driver. The dumplings made with deer meat are so delicious. They are all small meat and eggs."
Of course, there were also regrets. Zhang Gangzi just smacked his lips: "What a pity. If I had cut off the deer antlers two months earlier, it would have been better to soak them in wine. If the men drank it, the women would scream."
The result naturally attracted ridicule: "Gangzi, you old bachelor, don't worry about this, drinking will be in vain."
Everyone burst into laughter.
Zhang Gangzi's face turned red: "You are laughing at nothing. When I make money from the greenhouse, I will ask for a wife!"
Okay, even lazy people have dreams, which is a good thing.
When Liu Qingshan saw someone trying to use a pole to cook meat again, he quickly changed the subject: "This deer can't be eaten. If it can grow so big, it must be the king of deer. We expect it to attract all the deer in the forest."
"Yes, yes, Qingshan is thinking long-term. When the time comes, I will kill ten or eight of them at once. It will be a blast!"
Zhang Dashuai flashed the butcher's knife in his hand, and then approached the sika deer that was lifted to the ground by everyone.
This sika deer was not honest just now and used its antlers to kill others. But when it saw Dashuai Zhang, it immediately drooped its head and became more docile than a little sheep.
One thing brings another down. As the old saying goes, Zhang Dashuai, who killed pigs and sheep, had human hair oozing from his body.
Although they didn't eat any meat, the children were still very curious about the sika deer and they all gathered around to see how fresh it was.
The adults were busy unloading the truck, and they happened to have a ready-made bamboo jumper. They pulled a few pieces and put them on the carriage, and the other end drooped to the ground.
The villagers walked on the ground, carrying rolls of large plastic sheets, pieces of bamboo springboards, and rolls of iron wire. In just ten minutes, they moved everything in the car.
The two driver masters, one old and one young, were still making plans to go back.
It's strange that I can let you go. In rural areas, there is a culture of "just step in and have a bowl of food." When guests come, how can anyone leave without eating?
The two of them couldn't stand it anymore, so everyone forced them to go to the old party secretary's house.
Please come to the kang, and Grandpa Guaizi, the old party secretary and others will accompany you to smoke and drink water.
When it was time for Zhang Dashuai to show off his skills, he killed two old hens and stewed them, adding some dried hazelnut mushrooms in them.
There was also a large piece of dried roe deer meat, which was also served.
Your family took some eggs, his family took some salted duck eggs, and half a boy went to the river to get a lot of small fish and large clams. They gathered the efforts of the whole village to prepare this meal.
Liu Qingshan brought the sika deer back to his home. The injured leg of the sika deer had been repaired and splinted. This guy, even when Liu Qingshan's eyes turned blue, he always wanted to gouge him with his antlers, and he couldn't do anything to serve him.
"Big deer deer, big deer deer!"
Sifeng'er and Wufeng'er Shanxing were so happy to slap their little hands!
Shan Xing quickly picked up a handful of tender grass from the garden, held it with her little hand, and brought it to the sika deer's mouth.
Just when Liu Qingshan was about to remind her to pay attention to her safety, the sika deer, which turned from a small deer into a large deer, actually rolled up the young grass with its tongue and ate it.
This guy hasn't eaten for a whole day, so he's probably starving.
Si Feng'er also brought grass to feed the deer, but this sika deer had a very special character. It only ate mountain apricots and not Sifeng's. It made Si Feng'er so angry that his eyes were red: "I don't think so."
It's a dish.
Animals seem to have some kind of instinct. Perhaps the weak, helpless and sensitive temperament of the mountain apricot was sensed by the sika deer, so it was attracted to the same kind.
However, how could Liu Qingshan make Caifeng feel wronged, so he whispered a few words in her ear, and the little fourth ran back to the house happily.
Soon, she ran back with her little fists clenched and arrived in front of the sika deer. She spread her little hands and placed a few large crystal grains of salt in her palms.
When you eat salt at this time, most of it is granular salt, which is not iodized. It is said that it may cause thickening of the neck.
For herbivores, supplementing minerals and salts is extremely important.
For example, the sika deer eating salt is probably the same as the village children eating meat.
Sure enough, this sika deer completely put aside its reserve and pride and swallowed the large grains of salt like a wolf. Then it stuck out its tongue and licked the little old man's palm fiercely.
It tickled, and the licking made the little guy giggle.
"Okay, okay, I'll ask you to lick my bald skin soon!"
Liu Qingshan pulled the fourth child aside. This herbivore's tongue was better. If it were a carnivore, it would have barbs on its tongue and it would really lick your hands until they were bloody.
There is a guy in the commune called "Half-faced", where all the skin and flesh on one side of the face is gone, which can scare children to tears.
The reason was that two years ago when I went hunting in the mountains, my face was licked by a black blind man.
Liu Qingshan wanted to get the sika deer into the firewood fence to raise it first, but as soon as the sika deer saw him, it became stubborn again and refused to move.
In the end, Xiao Laosi and Shan Xing hooked up in front and managed to get this guy over.
"I'm bringing back an old man."
Liu Qingshan shook his head and happily went to the village party secretary's house.
Planting and breeding industries go hand in hand, which is the development idea he designed for Jiapigou.
Entering the house, my dear, there were almost a room full of people. The boss's uncle and the elderly driver were chatting happily. There were also the third and fourth sons of the boss's uncle's family and two gorgeous girls who were serving tea.
The one who poured water served the guests.
The boss's uncle's family has six girls. If they are taken together, they can almost make up a female soldier class.
Liu Qingshan somewhat understood what Uncle Boss meant, so he went up and said hello: "Master Li, the Uncle Boss in our village is traveling with you. We should be very close to each other. One drives a carriage and the other drives a car."
Everyone laughed. Master Li Zhong was also a talkative and laughed: "It's all the same. If the boss brother replaces the big whip in his hand with a steering wheel, he will definitely be better than me."
At this time, Zhang Zhaodi, the third eldest child in the uncle's family, was holding the teapot, refilling Li Zhong's water, and then pouring water for the young man next to Li Zhong, who was Li Zhong's son, Li Guoxin.
At first glance, he looked like an honest boy. When the young girl poured him water, her face was a little red.
"Brother, smoke."
The fourth child, Zhang Liandi, handed over another filter and struck a match against it.
The boss uncle is really talented. The six girls, starting with the eldest girl Zhang Pandi, followed by Liandi, and finally the sixth child Zhang Huandi, tried all kinds of tricks, but they failed to call out a younger brother.
However, these six girls are a sign of competition. In the village, they are second only to Liu Qingshan's two sisters.
Since the uncle boss was interested, Liu Qingshan changed the topic and said, "Uncle Li, the eldest brother of your country, this can be regarded as a son inheriting his father's legacy. The sound of the wheels will bring you thousands of taels of gold."
Li Zhong was also happy today. When he arrived at Jiapigou, he was treated like a commune secretary, so he cheerfully and modestly said: "It's nothing, it's just that the ticket is not easy to pass."
Liu Qingshan turned to the boss's uncle again: "Uncle, are my sisters also preparing to inherit their father's business and take over the whip pole from you?"
Everyone burst into laughter again.
However, the uncle of the boss secretly praised: This Qingshan has a good brain and is really on the road.
Chapter completed!