Chapter 4 Into the Mountains

Everyone sat down, and the dishes were served one by one. White meat, blood sausage, stewed sauerkraut, these three kinds of Northeast rural pig-killing dishes are the standard configuration of every table, and then the cold dishes are the same on each table, and the other dishes are fried garlic moss, cabbage slices, these hairy vegetables, and the dishes on the main table are different, this is the difference in treatment, all the people who come to eat and drink for nothing, but the main table is full of people with heads and faces in the village, and they are the main objects of the main family, can you say the same.

The dishes on the main table are set, the three-piece set of pig-killing dishes, the colorful big pull, the pig liver, the pig heart, the bitter intestine are put together into a plate, the large intestine, the belly strips, and the waist flower are made of three things, and the cockscomb oil, the waist slices, and the lotus hoof (pig spleen, some places are also called sand liver) are fried in oil, which is called relying on three things, the lungs are fried with sauerkraut, the bones are dismantled and the meat is fried, and the heart meat is fried with sharp peppers.

With the opening of the main family, what was not said, opened. Zhao Zhiyuan first picked up a piece of blood sausage, don't see that he doesn't like the pig's blood in sauerkraut, but he has a soft spot for this blood sausage, which is the same as some people don't eat eggplant and garlic, but like to eat garlic eggplant. The blood sausage trembled on the chopsticks, dipped in garlic sauce, put it in the mouth, there was no fishy smell, it was the taste of fresh pig blood mixed with seasoning, with garlic sauce, invincible. Then come a piece of white meat, the meat is slightly thicker, the fat meat does not need to be chewed in the mouth, it melts as soon as you sip it, it is not greasy, and it is the most primitive fragrance of pork.

Seeing that everyone had eaten two bites of food, and their stomachs were a little bottom, the second brother began to lift wine. Zhao Zhiyuan, who was toasted in the first cup, should have been the head of the family, the father of the second brother, to mention it, but this was Zhao Zhiyuan, who had elders to toast the younger ones, so he could only come to the second brother. The second brother said a few words of toasting, mainly to thank Zhao Zhiyuan for seeing a doctor and killing pigs. If you have two things, you have to drink two cups, which is called a good thing in pairs.

After two glasses of wine, Zhao Zhiyuan hurriedly ate the food and pressed it, and there was nothing to do with him in the back, he concentrated on eating vegetables, his mouth was tired, and then he took a big mouthful and cleared his mouth. Put a bowl of sauerkraut soup without pig blood, put in the dried chili peppers that are burned on the stove, sour, spicy, and hot, a bowl goes down, the sweat on the forehead is loud, and the wine also comes out, and the feeling of this thing can also relieve hangover.

Zhao Zhiyuan followed and drank more than half a catty of liquor, which was a bit of a amount, this is a serious rural home-brewed grain small burn, not to mention fifty degrees, there is no bit of bottled wine like the taste of blending, it is the aroma of grain brewing, of course, the mouth is rushing, and the strength is also big. The second brother was about to pour it for him, but Zhao Zhiyuan hurriedly stopped him, changed to a slightly larger cup, and prepared to drink beer.

The beer was brought over in the outhouse, a glass down, it was cool, and Zhao Zhiyuan's confused head was a little sober, which is called sobering up with wine, and the Northeast dialect is called thorough.

On the streets of the Northeast, you can often watch a big brother holding up a phone and making a sound in that urn.

"Hey, third brother, come out on the hour at night."

"No, I didn't drink less yesterday."

"It's okay, what's that, it's transparent."

"Transparent?"

"Transparent."

"Okay."

So in the evening you saw these two big brothers at the barbecue stand.

"Waiter, roast me with the big kidney, and bring me two bottles of beer."

Wait for these two bottles of wine to go down.

"Waiter, serve me two more beers."

"Waiter, give me a mention."

"Waiter, put the box of wine here, you can go."

The above is absolutely true, and it is also the nightlife of most Northeast gentlemen.

Talking a little bit of idle article, back to Zhao Zhiyuan's side, the wine table lasted for two hours, and they were basically drunk, and then they dispersed, and when they left, each person also brought a piece of pork, not much, only two or three catties, in fact, if you give up your face, you can give it to someone who wants ten catties or twenty catties, but now that the life of the family is good, no one is bad for that mouthful of meat to eat, which is also a freshness.

Zhao Zhiyuan had a big pig's head in his left hand, a pig's tail and a piece of pigskin in his right hand, and walked home leisurely, and the second brother of sauerkraut walked to send him home. When I entered the gate, I saw that the lights in the back room were on, and the curtains were not opened, so I knew that my grandfather's eagle had not yet been boiled, so I went back to the front room to put down my things, washed my face, smoked a cigarette with the third master, and chatted for a while.

Early the next morning, Zhao Zhiyuan got up at six o'clock, came out after washing, took a breath of cold air outside, and suddenly his brain was refreshed.

Zhao Zhiyuan went to the back room to take a look, it was still like that, it was estimated that he would have to stay up for a day today, so he went back to the front room to prepare for cooking. The third master of the front house got up early, and when he saw that he was going to cook, he quickly stopped him, and after a while, the second brother and daughter-in-law brought a big pot of dumplings.

The dumplings are filled with pork sauerkraut, and they are also mixed with some oil zila, which is Zhao Zhiyuan's favorite, so he quickly took the bowl and adjusted some soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil and chili oil, I was afraid that the dumplings would be cold, and I didn't even pound the garlic, so I just took the garlic and bit it to eat, and I pounded the garlic with a tooth.

The big dumplings are hot, the pork is also fresh, a bite is full of juice, the sauerkraut is crisp and sour, that is, the taste is added, and the greasy is solved, the most absolute is the oil added inside, the taste of the fat after frying is the most mellow, and then the garlic is a perfect match, eating dumplings is not garlic, and the taste is reduced by half. Zhao Zhiyuan made a small half pot by himself, there must be more than 30 of them, it's not that he can eat it, it's really too fragrant dumplings.

After eating and drinking, Zhao Zhiyuan saw that his grandfather didn't know when he would come out, and it was not interesting to stay by himself, he thought about it, he hadn't been in the mountain for a long time, it just happened that it had just snowed heavily a few days ago, and it was time for the big and small animals to come out to forage for food, so it was decided, let's go up the mountain and go around.

Just do it, Zhao Zhiyuan turned out a set of clothes that he specially put here. Inside with fleece cotton clothes and cotton pants, jackets, waterproof outdoor pants, hiking shoes, this set of equipment is thick and warm, windproof and waterproof, you must know that the mountains are not better than the outside, several degrees lower, or not our Northeast people frost resistant, it is really too well equipped.

After changing his clothes, he went to the warehouse to take out the bow and arrow hidden by Zhao Dacang, and tried it, but there was no problem at all, and it seemed that he was often maintained. After the inspection, he turned to the kennel again, and wanted to take Da Hei with him, Lao Hei was gone a few years ago, and Zhao Dacang hugged a dog cub again, and he was still named like this. Da Hei, who used to be very obedient, is unusually today, curled up in the kennel, looking at the back room, and ignoring Zhao Zhiyuan, this is to accompany Zhao Cannon, Zhao Zhiyuan has no tricks, so he can only enter the mountain by himself.

Out of the gate, he threw his bow and arrows into the car and drove to the bottom of the mountain. When he got to the place and parked the car, Zhao Zhiyuan carried a bag, put a bow on his shoulder, tied the arrow basket to his waist, and walked towards the mountain with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Zhao Zhiyuan walked for almost two hours, and the movement in the forest gradually increased, his pace slowed down, carefully observed the surroundings, closed his right eye, and looked from his left eye, as if the air flow was slowing down, at this time, Zhao Zhiyuan found a gray figure piercing out of the snow, it was a hare. Zhao Zhiyuan opened his bow and arrows, feeling the danger of the hare being agile and wanton, running wildly, but in Zhao Zhiyuan's left eye, the galloping hare was like a stop-motion animation, showing frame by frame in front of his eyes. Zhao Zhiyuan's fingers were slightly loose, and an arrow was shot, and the arrow was grazing the hare's forehead, and the hare fell on the snow and did not move, but there was still hot breath exhaled, which made the arrow dizzy. Although Zhao Zhiyuan and Zhao Cannon have practiced archery, cans, beer bottles and so on, can this living thing be the same, after Zhao Cannon switched to bows and arrows at that time, it took four or five years to see results, it can only be said that Zhao Zhiyuan's ability is too perverted to hunt.

After wandering around the mountains all morning, at about twelve o'clock in the afternoon, he happened to walk to the wooden hut, with four hares on his shoulders.

Zhao Zhiyuan went into the wooden shed, led the fire, poured water into the pot, cleaned up a few rabbits, washed them, dipped them in cold water, and put them directly outside.

After cleaning up, Zhao Zhiyuan took out a bag of frozen dumplings from his bag, which was also specially frozen by the second brother's family when they knew that he was going up the mountain. The water boils, the dumplings are put into the pot, cooked and scooped up, and the dumplings are eaten beautifully.

After eating dumplings, Zhao Zhiyuan rested for a while, packed up everything, and prepared to go down the mountain, when he heard a "trembling" movement outside accompanied by a "creaking" sound after the snow was pressed, Zhao Zhiyuan thought it was a member of the forest patrol team, so he opened the door to make room for people.

Zhao Zhiyuan went out to see, hey, I'll go, what the hell, I saw a huge and friendless python facing him sideways, although it was dozens of meters apart, it was like in front of him, and the round pupils larger than Zhao Zhiyuan's head stared at him, as if he felt Zhao Zhiyuan, the giant python turned the snake's head, the snake's hair was round, and there was an obvious protrusion on the forehead. The giant python opened its mouth and spit out the letter at Zhao Zhiyuan.

Fortunately, not a poisonous snake. Zhao Zhiyuan secretly rejoiced in his heart.

Okay, your sister, if it's not a poisonous snake, you can't beat it, hurry up. Zhao Zhiyuan turned around and ran around the wooden shed, and as soon as he moved, the giant python also moved. Zhao Zhiyuan wanted to block it with a wooden shed, but it was useless, the giant python didn't go around, and it hit it directly, and the wooden shed suddenly shattered like tender tofu.

Zhao Zhiyuan didn't dare to run back in front of him, but he was one foot deep and one foot shallow on the snow, and he could run past the snake crawling on the ground. Seeing that it was about to approach Zhao Zhiyuan, the giant python bowed slightly and quickly popped out.

Zhao Zhiyuan felt as if he was given out by the bucket of the hook machine, and rolled out in a circle on the snow, and when he opened his eyes, he saw two big nostrils and a fishy smell.

Zhao Zhiyuan struggled to stand up, but the strength in his body seemed to disappear suddenly, and he couldn't use any strength, and finally Zhao Zhiyuan helplessly lay on his back in a big shape on the snow, his eyes were closed in resignation, and his head was crooked.

Zhao Zhiyuan felt his body being flipped twice, and then he was wrapped in a piece of wetness, and slowly moved forward.