Xiaozhangzhuang is more than 20 miles away from the county seat, located on the Funiu Mountain Pass, and is a famous Orion Village within a radius of dozens of miles. There are not many entrances in the Zhuangzi, only more than 200 people, but there are more than 40 good hunters who can go up the mountain to hunt, and among these people, Zhang Jinquan, who lives in the east of the Zhuangzi, has the best marksmanship and the most harvest under the cover. Zhang Jinquan's family has lived in Funiu Mountain for several lifetimes, and his ancestors have relied on the birds in their hands to earn a living in the mountains, although the taxes to be paid over the years are more, but with Zhang Jinquan's skills, he can also be eaten by his family.

Today is Zhang Jinquan's day up the mountain again, and when he got up early in the morning, his sister-in-law Yu Shi baked a flatbread for Zhang Jinquan and his brothers, filled the water bags, and did not forget to put a paper bag in his husband's pocket, which was salt. People who drive the mountains sweat a lot, and drinking some salt water can replenish their physical strength, and people who have been begging for a living in the mountains for a long time know this. Zhang Jinquan saw the small movements between his brother and sister-in-law, but he only smiled slightly, and did not expose them.

Zhang Jinquan's parents died early, and his brother brought him up, and his sister-in-law Yu was a baby with his brother since he was a child. Zhang Jinquan is very grateful to his sister-in-law, not only that his sister-in-law always secretly makes food for herself, but that her sister-in-law is good to her brother, and since she was a child, her brother has saved what she eats for herself, but she always eats those wild vegetables.

The two brothers went out of the house in the sister-in-law's thousands of instructions, greeted the familiar descendants all the way, and went up the mountain together. The two brothers divided their work last night, Zhang Jinquan was in charge of hunting, and his brother Zhang Jinsheng was in charge of digging herbs, and he went down before the sun went down. Regardless of whether there is prey under the muzzle, the gun will be collected at the point, this is the rule passed down from generation to generation by the ancestors of the old Zhang family, and later, the entire Xiaozhangzhuang began to continue such a rule, if the living creatures on the mountain are too clean, the next time they go up the mountain, they will not be able to hit anything.

"Brother Jinquan, look, look, there are some horseback riders coming down the mountain" Zhang Jinyun, who has always been good friends with Zhang Jinquan, ran over and asked Zhang Jinquan to look down the mountain. Xiaozhangzhuang is located in the mountains, there have always been few traders here, people in Zhuangzi want to buy things, they have to walk more than 20 miles of mountain roads to the county seat. Seeing that the people coming down the mountain were still some horseback riders, the hunters on the mountain were all looking down the mountain, and some honest people who were worried about their families had begun to go down the mountain, and Zhang Jinsheng was one of them.

"Let's go, we'll go too, don't be bandits or something to plague our Zhangzhuang" Zhang Jinquan caught two mountain rabbits in his trap and hung them on the hunting fork, and led the way down the mountain, and the other hunters didn't have the idea of continuing to stay on the mountain, and they all followed Zhang Jinquan down the mountain mightily. Wangshan ran a dead horse, and when Zhang Jinquan and his hunters returned to Zhangzhuang, those who came on horseback had already entered Zhuangzi.

"Jinquan, come on, come on, I'm about to look for you" The village chief Zhang Dacang waved when he saw Zhang Jinquan who had just entered Zhangzhuang, "I have a letter here, your legs and feet are fast, send it to the old horse head in the backing village for me, and when you come back, let your aunt cut a piece of bacon for you and take it home" A folded note was stuffed into Zhang Jinquan's hand. Zhang Dacang, the village head, and the old horse head of the backing village 5 miles away are drinking friends, and Zhang Jinquan often runs errands for these two old men and delivers things, so he is very familiar with the old horse head.

For Zhang Jinquan, the 5-mile mountain road is just a load of firewood, and when he comes back, he can also chop a load of firewood and come back, and sending a letter to the village chief does not delay the family's work. After putting the note given by the village chief close to his body, Zhang Jinquan spread his two long legs and ran on the mountain road, and arrived at the mountain village with only a bag of cigarettes.

The mountain village is in the west of Xiaozhangzhuang, close to the Bison Valley, and it is a good place to retire. The old horse head mentioned by the village chief is the village chief of the mountain village and lives in the east end of the village. The old man was an old bachelor, childless, and lived alone in two adobe houses, but his yard was quite large, and he grew some herbs and vegetables. Every time Zhang Jinquan helped the village chief to deliver something, the old horse would always give him some vegetables to take home, and the old and young got along very well.

"Uncle Ma, this is a letter that our village chief asked me to bring, saying that I want you to give a reply after reading it in person" Zhang Jinquan stood in the courtyard and wiped the sweat on his face with his coat, not noticing that there was a pair of eyes staring at him in Lao Ma's house. "Ah, okay, you wait first, I'll write a reply" Lao Ma still smiled and entered the house, he knew that Zhang Jinquan respected him, and if he didn't speak by himself, this young man would not take the initiative to enter his room.

There were two men dressed as croppers sitting on the big kang in the east house of Lao Ma, but the bulging waists and sharp eyes of the two of them had betrayed them, not to mention that one of the black-faced men had been half-kneeling on the kang and looking at Zhang Jinquan standing in the courtyard through the gap in the window. Seeing Lao Ma walking in with a note, another slightly sven man showed a smile before he spoke, "Lao Ma, is there any news over there?" ”

"Heh, you can pinch it, it's really a letter from Xiao Zhangzhuang, saying that the person we are waiting for has arrived, and I want you to arrange a time to meet, but the other party only came 10 people, and I didn't see anything big" Lao Ma said here and paused slightly, looked at Sven's face and said, "I wonder if they still can't believe us, put everything elsewhere, don't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles." But our foreign devils are no longer here, what will you do when you go to meet? Cannon's letter has all said, the other party seems to be people on the rivers and lakes, such people are very important to the rules of the rivers and lakes, if you lose your trust in others, it will not be easy to do"

"Bullshit" didn't wait for the Sven man to speak, the black-faced man who was half kneeling on the kang was unwilling, staring at the two bull's eyes and shouting, "We even beat the little devils, and I'm afraid that a few tricks will not work, tomorrow I will meet them, if anyone dares to stare at us, I will break his neck" In order to prove his strength, the black-faced man suddenly clenched his fists, and the bone joints on his fists crackled.

"Okay, I know that you can fight the bull man" The Sven man and the old horse head both laughed, while joking at the cow man who was still staring, while considering the reply to Zhang Dacang, until Zhang Jinquan in the courtyard drank the third scoop of well water, the old horse head handed him a reply letter, and told Zhang Jinquan to hand it over to Zhang Dacang in person.