As the Spring Festival in 1969 was approaching, my mother asked me and Jingdi to sell more than 100 chickens and ducks in the family as soon as possible.

However, you can buy things every day in Daling Town, the market in the town is only one market day every week, only on the market day, there will be people in the market to buy things, usually there is no one in the market at all, it is very deserted!

Therefore, from February 7th to February 10th, every morning and early in the morning, Jing Di and I loaded twenty or thirty chickens and ducks in the cage on the carriage and went to the town to walk the streets and alleys, selling chickens and ducks from house to house!

Most of the people in the town knew that our family was very poor, and we were mainly dependent on my mother's salary alone.

Therefore, many people sympathize with us, and when we pass by to sell, many families buy chickens and ducks from us, and they don't bargain with us!

In this way, in these four days, Jingdi and I sold all the chickens and ducks in the house.

We got more than 260 yuan in income, and we handed over all the money to my mother and Wei's mother!

After selling the chickens and ducks, Jing Di and I often take Lilan to the grass near our house to ride horses, or the three of us play hide and seek in the yard, I feel that playing games with my younger siblings is the most fun thing!

After the hunting accident, the brothers and sisters did not go into the mountains again, they went to the homes of their classmates in the town every day, or went to the street to help Wei's mother buy New Year's goods!

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At 6 p.m. on Chinese New Year's Eve on February 16, it was just dark, everyone offered incense and offerings to my father's spiritual seat, and after Brother Jing Tian and Brother Wen Chang set off two large rolls of firecrackers, our family began to eat New Year's dinner!

This year's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was very rich, and I bought a lot of snacks and sweets for the New Year!

Mother and Mama Wei are very happy and relieved that we have made progress and grown in the past year!

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On February 21, the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Mr. Cen invited our Qin family to their house for a party and New Year's dinner, and our family went.

Brother Zu Xing and Sister Li'an also returned home from the county seat.

However, I didn't see it, Uncle Tianxing didn't come back!

So, I want Mr. Cen to ask Uncle Tianxing about it!

Teacher Cen told me that Uncle Tianxing had gone to a big monastery and became a monk!

Teacher Cen persuaded and retained Uncle Tianxing in the county seat, but he couldn't keep him!

Uncle Tianxing left alone, he was no longer a mortal in the world, he was a master of Tianxing!

I think that Teacher Cen, Brother Zu Xing and Sister Li'an must be very sad about this matter, and I feel very sad when I hear this news!

Uncle Tianxing is a good person who has experienced many vicissitudes, but he is completely desperate for the world!

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This year, Mr. Tao, Mr. Li and Tao Yanfang's family went to the provincial capital for the New Year!

Therefore, they were not there, and I felt quite disappointed not to see Yanfang!

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After the New Year's dinner, Mr. Cen said, "When I was hunting last year, I said it! This time of the year, we will go hunting in Guigu Gorge again! Everyone has worked hard for a year, and you should also go for a break! By the way, we moved some useful mechanical and electrical equipment back and prepared to set up a repair shop in Daling Town! Everyone go home and get ready, and everyone who can do the work will go together tomorrow! ”

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In the early morning of the sixth day of the Lunar New Year on February 22, before dawn, I, Brother Jingtian, Brother Wenchang, Sister Lifen, Sister Wenjuan and Jingdi all put on military training clothes, and we carried hunting tools, luggage, food and water in the family carriage.

Lilan was too young for her to go with us, and she hugged me and Jingdi and cried loudly!

So, Mother and Mother Wei took Lilan back to the house and continued to sleep.

We had just loaded our things, and Mr. Cen, Brother Zu Xing, and Sister Li'an also drove a carriage to our house.

After everyone said goodbye to their mother and Wei's mother, our two carriages and people set off for Guigu Gorge!

It was the first time for Jing Di to participate in group activities and go far away, so he was very excited!

At 10 o'clock in the morning, we went to Nali Village to give Grandpa Jia New Year's greetings and gifts!

Afterwards, we replenished our hunting tools and supplies there, and we continued on our way!

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun had just set, we came to the beautiful and magical Guigu Gorge again!

Uncle Lan, Brother Lan Feng and Xiaoda rode horses to meet us on the road, and everyone was very happy to meet!

Although, we have only been away from here for half a year!

However, we feel like we've been out of here for a long time!

It's a place I often miss!

Because this is the starting point of our life's dreams!

She gave us the earliest enlightenment in life, and she let us know the meaning and responsibility of survival!

Later, when I encountered difficulties, the experience and scene of Guigu Gorge often helped me regain the confidence and courage to be a strong person!

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Back at the Lan family compound, after we put away our luggage and belongings, Xiaoda and Jingdi and I went to sit and chat on the grass by the Guigu River.

Xiaoda smiled and said, "Ah Cai! Respectfully! We're meeting again so soon! Now, my family's fields and houses have been rented to other people! After this Spring Festival, our family will move to the Cen family compound in Daling Town! ”

I said, "Yes! From now on, we can see each other every day! Uncle Lan and Aunt Lan were originally from the city! They are not in very good health either, and the city should be more suitable for them! ”

The three of us watched in silence as the scenery was becoming hazy in front of us!

The cold wind blows, sweeping the yellow leaves of the trees into the trickling water, and they float down the water!

Looking at the bleak scene, I fell into deep thought!

I think we're like these fallen leaves!

We are rafting in the river of life!

But who knows, where we will drift away?

Perhaps, like these leaves, we will rot soon!

Maybe we will merge into the great river of society!

Maybe we will sail into the boundless ocean of life!

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As the wind by the river was getting colder and colder, the three of us returned to the house in the Lan family compound.

The large wooden table in the dining room is already filled with hearty meals and wild mountain wines!

Everyone and Uncle Big Tiger's family, Uncle Blue Tiger, Brother Tie Dan, Brother Shi and Sister Caiyan, etc., were already sitting there waiting for us to have dinner.

After the three of us sat down, we started eating and talking.

Teacher Cen smiled and said, "Big Tiger! Have you found a place to hunt? ”

Uncle Dahu smiled and said, "Teacher Cen! I've found a place! This time, we're going to fight yellow sheep! Hunting sheep in the New Year will be joyful all year round! And this yellow sheep is yellow! It's a golden tael all year long! ”

Teacher Cen smiled and said, "Big Tiger! Tomorrow, we're going to make this big deal! What we are trying to do is the beginning of the year! ”

Uncle Tiger said: "There is no problem with this! There are at least a few hundred of these yellow sheep we have locked, and all of them have become fat and strong! Tomorrow, I'll lay out my tactics! Everyone, bring enough guys and ammo! Catch a few wagons! Fight for one or two hundred yellow sheep! When the time comes, we will sell them all to the merchants in the county who come here to buy yellow sheep! ”

Teacher Cen said, "Big Tiger! What is the sale price of a whole sheep right now? ”

Uncle Tiger said: "These merchants want sheepskins!" I want mutton! Good sheepskin for 25 pieces a piece! 1.5 yuan a pound of skinless and flesh! A yellow sheep has about 60 catties of skinless flesh and bones! A whole sheep can be sold for 115 yuan! If we can fight 200 good sheep tomorrow! You can earn 23,000 yuan! Then, everyone must have made a fortune! Therefore, tomorrow, when you beat a sheep, you can hit the head of the sheep, but you can't beat the body of the sheep! If there is a gun hole on the sheepskin, it is worthless! ”

Teacher Cen said, "Okay! This time, the four of us are doing this big business together, and we have to move a lot of equipment back to start a machine shop! In order to alleviate the pressure of transportation, we dispose of all these prey on the spot to merchants! Tomorrow morning, Uncle Lan will contact the buyer! Tomorrow, everyone who can hold a gun will go up to the mountains to hunt! The method of dividing the money is still the same as last time! Ah Cai, you can calculate your share for each family! ”

After I calculated on a piece of paper, I said: "Two people in the Cen family have guns, and one person fights at home, counting 2.5 copies!" The four members of the Qin family have guns, and the two of them fight at home, which is counted as 5 copies! The three of Uncle Lan's family took guns, and the two of them fought together, which counted as 4 copies! The three of Uncle Tiger's family have guns! One person to do it! However, Uncle Tiger is the commander-in-chief, and their family should have more points, count it as 4 shares! In this way, everyone has a total of 15.5 copies! ”

Teacher Cen smiled and said, "Very good! Tomorrow, divide the money according to this plan! With money, everyone has the courage to do business! ”

Uncle Lan said, "Alas! Ahh The Cen family counts half a portion more, and counts it as 3 copies! This makes a total of 16 copies! Later, it's good to count the money! ”

Everyone laughed!

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Early in the morning of February 23, everyone got up, and after breakfast, they began to check and maintain the equipment, fill the ** with bullets, and prepare enough ammunition.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, Uncle Lan rode his horse to contact the yellow sheep buyer.

Eleven hunters, including me, Jing Di, Xiao Da, Teacher Cen, Uncle Big Tiger, Brother Zu Xing, Brother Lan Feng, Brother Jing Di, Brother Wen Chang, Brother Tiedan, and Brother Shi, loaded hunting tools and food into six carriages!

Aunt Lotus, Sister Caixia, Sister Caiyan, Sister Li'an, Sister Lifen, and Sister Wenjuan are waiting for us at home making dinner!

After we were ready, under the leadership of Uncle Tiger and Teacher Cen, we set off in a majestic manner!

At noon, we arrived at the hunting place with six wagons and eleven hunters.

It is a spacious long meadow in the mountains, which is about 600 meters long from east to west and about 300 meters wide from north to south.

I think, Uncle Tiger, they are really looking for a place!

The meadow is surrounded by high terrain, with a narrow mountain pass at the end of the meadow to the east and a narrow pass at the end of the meadow to the west, through which animals can only enter and exit the meadow.

We got out of the car, unloaded the hunting equipment and ammunition, hid the horses and wagons, and everyone had a tactical meeting around Uncle Tiger!

Uncle Tiger said that every day at two to three o'clock in the afternoon, the sheep come here from the western mountain pass to graze and drink!

Once the sheep are all in the meadow, we start hunting!

Shoot the guns in the west and drive the sheep to the east!

To the east is the main ambush hunting ground, and we try to hunt as many sheep as we can!

And from the East Pass, let go of some lambs, and leave some sheep breeds for hunting next year!

Uncle Tiger Arrangement:

Uncle Tiger led Brother Tiedan, Brother Shi, Brother Wenchang, and Brother Lanfeng to ambush the sheep on the high ground on the north and south sides of the grassland!

Brother Zu Xing and Brother Jing Tian are responsible for observing and blocking the sheep in Xishankou!

I, Jing Di, Xiao Da, Teacher Cen and other four people ambushed the sheep on the high ground of Dongshan Pass to block the sheep!

After Uncle Tiger laid out the tactics, everyone had lunch.

Then, the groups begin to enter the predetermined ambush site!

I, Jing Di, Xiao Da, Teacher Cen and the other four people arrived at Dongshan Pass with equipment, ammunition and binoculars, looking for ambush and shooting positions, and carried out an ambush!

Teacher Cen and Xiaoda are in charge of the north side of the pass!

Jingdi and I are in a group, mainly responsible for the ambush on the south side of the mountain pass!

Jing Di said: "Brother! You say, will the yellow sheep come today? ”

I said, "Definitely!" This is the law of their lives! They're hard to change! ”

Jing Di said: "Alas! The regularity is terrible! Today, they're all going to die tragically in our snatch! ”

I said, "Well, don't think about these sad things before you hunt!" Just aim and shoot! They are money! Not sheep! ”

Jing Di smiled!

After we set up the **, ammunition, and adjusted the shooting scale, we began to wait quietly for the sheep!

At two o'clock in the afternoon, after looking at my watch, I looked at the western mountain pass with a telescope, and I saw the yellow and shiny sheep again, and slowly entered the pasture from the western mountain pass, and there were at least six or seven hundred sheep in the whole flock! They're all fat and strong!

After all the sheep entered the pasture, the gunfire rang out at the West Pass!

The sheep began to run desperately to the east!

Gunshots rang out on the north and south sides of the pasture!

As the gunfire intensified, the flocks of sheep there fell in pieces!

The screams of sheep can be heard everywhere in the playground!

When the sheep came into our shooting range, Jing Di and I began to shoot desperately!

After about half an hour of non-stop shooting, we saw that there were no more sheep that could move!

Uncle Tiger shouted: "Stop shooting, check and pack up the guys, go down and clean up the battlefield!" ”

We packed up the guys and belongings, cleaned up the bullet casings left behind, put on the backpack and the guys, and went down to the pasture to count the prey!

Through, we counted a total of 368 yellow sheep killed!

They were all shot in the head and died!

It can be seen that everyone's marksmanship is very accurate!

The big tiger said: "Everyone! To buy a good price! When carrying the sheep, don't break the sheepskin! ”

At this moment, Uncle Lan rode a fast horse to the pasture!

After Uncle Lan dismounted, he smiled and said, "Teacher Cen! Big Tiger! I've already contacted the buyer! They were waiting for us on the side of the road in their trucks! We're there to do business! Good whole sheep they bid 120 yuan / piece, they disembowel and skin themselves! All we have to do is deliver the goods! ”

Teacher Cen smiled and said, "This will save trouble!" Ah Cai, Xiao Da and Jing Di! The three of you go with Uncle Lan and are responsible for ordering goods and collecting money! Let's move sheep! ”

After everyone gathered the sheep in a convenient place for the carriages, they began to load the sheep into the six wagons! A horse-drawn cart can carry 20 sheep and can transport 120 sheep at a time, so that the sheep can be transported in three trips!

After loading the first batch of goods, the three of us followed the six carriages and Uncle Lan to the trading place first!

Teacher Cen, Brother Zu Xing, Brother Jingtian and Brother Wen Chang were waiting in place.

Uncle Lan, Uncle Big Tiger, Brother Lan Feng, Brother Tiedan, Brother Shi, and Xiaoda were in charge of driving the carriage.

Jingdi and I walked behind them on foot with our gear.

Since the pasture is only two kilometers away from the side of the road, we didn't have much time to get to the trading place!

At the place of the transaction, the buyer parked two trucks on the side of the road, and there were seven or eight of them in total.

A boss in his forties, after inspecting the goods, thinks that these sheep are good sheep!

He immediately gave me a $14,400 bill for the Great Solidarity!

After Uncle Lan checked and counted the banknotes with us, I put the banknotes in my backpack.

Uncle Big Tiger, Brother Lan Feng, Brother Tiedan, Brother Shi, Xiaoda and other five people drove the carriage back to pull the yellow sheep again!

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, before the sun set, we completed the transaction of 368 yellow sheep, and one received a payment of 44,160 yuan, which is the most money I have ever seen!

After the transaction, the merchants drove the goods away!

After packing up our equipment and belongings, we returned to the Lan family compound in the same carriage!

At six o'clock in the evening, we returned to the Lan family compound, and Aunt Lotus, Sister Caixia, Sister Caiyan, Sister Li'an, Sister Lifen, Sister Wenjuan, etc. greeted us in the courtyard!

Back in the house, after everyone put their things away, Mr. Cen called everyone to a meeting to divide the money!

Teacher Cen smiled and said, "Today is a bumper harvest!" Let's divide the money first, and we're eating! This way everyone can rest assured! Ah Cai is in charge of money alone, and it is also uncomfortable! Ah Cai, you can divide the money among the families! ”

I began to calculate on paper, and the total number of copies was 16, and the Cen family had 3 copies; 5 copies of the Qin family; 4 copies of Uncle Lan's family; Uncle Dahu's family has 4 shares, therefore, the Cen family gets 8,280 yuan; The Qin family received 13,800 yuan; Uncle Lan's family received 11,040 yuan; Uncle Tiger's family got 11,040 yuan.

After everyone looked at the accounts and there were no problems, Jing Di and I divided the money among the families, and everyone was very happy after getting the money!

In the end, I handed over the remaining 13,800 yuan to Sister Lifen!

Teacher Cen smiled and said, "Alas! It feels so good to make money! Actually, when I was hunting today, I didn't shoot at all! I'm worried that my presbyopia has broken the sheepskin! The sheep in our direction are all from Ah Cai, Xiao Da and Jing Di! Jingdi's marksmanship is good! Ah Cai teaches well! ”

Everyone laughed!

After everyone collected the money, they went to the restaurant to eat together!

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