Xiaomei sat on the bicycle ridden by the yak and chatted about Xiaomei's feelings for the four girls.

"Brother Yakzi, you shouldn't treat Zhao Nan like this, and you won't say hello when you meet." Xiaomei got on the bicycle and blamed the yaks.

"If not, what should I do? You don't know her yet? He disagreed.

"I heard that Zhao Nan is already engaged, you don't need to ignore her." Xiaomei reminded the yakzi.

He didn't speak, he knew in his heart that Zhao Nan couldn't change his strength for a while. I hope that Zhao Nan can let go of his thoughts about him, get along with Dacheng wholeheartedly, and have a good home in the future.

"Sister Zou is good, right?" He didn't want to mention the four girls anymore, so he changed the subject.

"It's okay, during this time, I rarely see her, I see her a few times, and she is still so hot, I admire her, I can really bear it."

The meaning of Xiaomei's words was very repulsive to the marriage of Zou Jie and Gao Laosan, and she felt sorry for Zou Jie for making such a sacrifice.

"Sister Zou looks beautiful on the surface, but the misery in her heart is unimaginable to us, I hope Sister Zou can control the third child and the two of them can live in peace."

"It's impossible to be stable, it's a dog that can't change eating, and people like Gao Laosan are incorrigible." Xiaomei intuitively asserted Gao Laosan.

Yakzi and Xiaomei chatted while walking, unconsciously, came to the Dongshan Spring Eye Ditch, looking at it, the fields and the mountain beams on both sides were white, and under the background of the sunset, the two people seemed to be in a fairy tale world.

"Brother Yakzi, look, this snow scene is really beautiful."

Xiaomei sighed, jumped off the bike, ran ahead, and spun in front of the yak with her arms outstretched.

"You are the most beautiful scenery." Yakzi complimented Xiaomei with emotion.

"And you, both of us," Xiaomei said, "Brother Yakzi, I want to make a wish, do you want to?" ”

"What do you wish?"

"If you don't tell you, you can't tell anyone what you wish to do."

"Then I may prefer not to tell you."

The two of them are like happy children, enjoying the happiness of childhood sweethearts.

Old man Gao's courtyard was in front, and Yakzi and Xiaomei were reluctant to walk quickly, so they kept turning back as they walked, watching the last touch of sunset in the western sky.

When they almost arrived at the courtyard, the four big black dogs in the orchard ran over from afar, and when they saw that they were acquaintances, they ran all the way back to report.

Yakzi and Xiaomei came to the courtyard, and Xiaomei's grandmother Ma Xiaolan was already standing at the gate waiting to greet them.

"I saw a figure from afar, I guessed it was the two of you, hey, look at you two walking so slowly, I'm in a hurry."

Ma Xiaolan hugged her arms and sleeves, smiling, and Xiaomei and Yakzi had not seen her for many days, and she felt very cordial.

"Just look at the beautiful scenery, you are a place where the gods live, little grandma, you won't be the legendary fairy mother-in-law, right?"

"Our Xiaomei is a fairy, isn't it, Yak?"

"Yes, you are."

"What about you?"

"I'm here to meet the fairy woman."

The three of them talked and laughed, and Yakzi and Xiaomei were welcomed into the courtyard, and the courtyard was a different scene.

In the center of the courtyard, there is a wooden bonfire, Xiaopang and another employee are roasting oak sticks on the bonfire, the oak sticks are roasted like firecrackles, and Chubby's daughter-in-law Xinghua is holding the child around the bonfire.

Next to the campfire stood five wooden stakes, on which were fixed dozens of bent strips of oak wood, which were bending the basket of earth.

Old man Gao made a pile of charcoal fire on the side, and Xiaomei greeted Old Man Gao, but he didn't see what he was busy with.

He put the bicycle away and handed over the pork and blood sausage he had brought to Ma Xiaolan.

"Where did this pork and blood sausage come from? It's not for the New Year, what is the production team doing killing pigs? Ma Xiaolan asked puzzled.

"Brother Yakzi led the members of the club to go out to repair the Liaohe River and did a good job, won the first place, and the headquarters rewarded a big fat pig and 500 catties of sorghum rice." Xiaomei explained to her grandmother Ma Xiaolan.

"It's amazing." Ma Xiaolan happily brought the pork and blood sausage to the house.

Dozens of rabbits raised by the old man Gao have moved back to the yard from the side of the mountain, and five or six rabbit cages of all sizes are placed in the corner, and those super cute white rabbits and gray rabbits are running all over the ground out of the cages.

Xiaomei squatted down and stretched out her hands to the little white rabbit, and the little white rabbit obediently ran to her, and she took the little white rabbit into her arms.

The crucible was burning on the charcoal fire, and there were a few radishes next to the charcoal fire, and the radishes were all opened in half, and there were small eyes the size of soybean grains.

"Grandpa, what are you doing?" He asked.

"Come on, apprentice, you're just in time to see how I make buckshot?" The tall old man greeted the yak.

Buckshot? It took him a long time to understand that the lead bullet was used for hunting, and it turned out that the crucible was melted with tin.

I saw the old man Gao pour the melted tin water into the small eye on the radish with a spoon drop by drop, and a miracle suddenly appeared, the tin water instantly changed into lead bullets in the small eye of the radish, round like the size of a soybean grain, and after a while, a lot was poured out.

After the old man Gao finished making lead bullet, he took lead bullet and led the yak into the house.

"Stinky boy, I've got a gun license and a hunting license for you, and if it snows again, we can go up to the mountains to hunt, how are you practicing marksmanship?" You didn't embarrass me, did you? ”

"According to the essentials of your old teaching, let go of a few shots, it's okay, the sparrows didn't hit less, and they even hit a wild duck."

The old man Gao took out his gun license and hunting license and handed it to the yak, and also gave him a gunpowder pot made of horseskin and a gun litter bag made of cowhide, and the yakzi was grateful.

Yakzi and Xiaomei patronized, and at this time, Ma Xiaolan and Xinghua immediately had dinner.

With pork and blood sausage, potatoes, turnips and cabbage, and freshly ground sorghum rice, this meal is easy to make.

Old man Gao beckoned to Chubby: "There is just a charcoal fire, you go and catch two rabbits." ”

"Okay." Chubby readily agreed.

Xiao Fat's movements were quick, and it didn't take much effort to strangle the two rabbits, remove the five internal organs, rub them with salt and peppercorns, and roast them on a charcoal fire.

The sumptuous dinner was ready, the two tables in the big house were set up side by side, and the old man beckoned all the people in the courtyard to gather together, eat meat, and drink.

At the wine table, Yakzi mentioned that he was going to go to the Horqin Grassland with Li Gang to buy cows, but he didn't expect Old Man Gao to be particularly interested.

"It's a good thing, who came up with this idea?" Old man Gao asked.

"Who else? Brother Yakzi, of course. Xiaomei grabbed the words.

"That's right, don't think about it, what will the people eat next year? Xingfutun has to use the stinky boy as the captain, otherwise, counting on others, they are all staring at the northwest wind with big eyes. Old man Gao raised his glass, "Come, apprentice, the master is optimistic about you, Xingxingtun has you and you are the blessing of the common people." ”

"This is everyone's opinion, and I'm just making a suggestion."

Aki Zi modestly raised his small wine glass and drank it with the old man.

"Everyone's opinion, you haven't put it forward yet, you can't do it, others just have ideas, who dares to go? Who can go? Who wants to endure hardships and risk running that far? The old man Gao said while eating meat, "I don't think it's good at home, go out and give it a try, barren mountains and mountains, dozens of miles of uninhabited, if you can't get it, if you encounter a beast, it's not a joke." ”

"Beasts? I haven't really thought about that. Yakzi interjected.

"You think it's okay to keep going on the flat road, where are there so many good roads? The further west you go, the more desolate it becomes, and there are no good roads at all. I saw that the old man Gao was rejoicing with wine, and he shook his chopsticks and said, "It's okay, Master will accompany you!" ”

As soon as Old Man Gao said this, everyone was surprised, no one expected that he would suddenly make such a decision.

"Grandpa, you are old, can you walk such a long way?" Xiaomei said with concern.

"You swallow the word '?' back, your grandfather and I are stiff," the old man Gao sighed, "It's been so many years since the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and I often think of the time when I fought devils in the Anti-Japanese Federation, and in winter, the soldiers camped in the wild, it was really, the wind roared, the snow was flying, the chest was warm before the fire, and the wind was cold behind the wind, and I didn't know if it was a living person or a dead person when I woke up." ”

Old man Gao raised his glass again and drank it down, and continued: "Many comrades-in-arms froze to death and starved to death like this. I am still alive, I have witnessed the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, I have seen the founding of New China, and I can still live a new life where the people are the masters of the country, I am content.

"When it's okay, I'm thinking again, to take advantage of my lifetime, and then find the feeling of the year, just right, going to Horqin is an opportunity, I estimate that it will snow in the next two days, stinky boy, let's have a shotgun on our backs, you can take a shortcut, all the way to the west, where to go, where to fight, all the way to the Horqin grassland, I want to see how powerful the jackals in the grassland, or our hunting guns."

"Grandpa, with you with me, I feel more confident in my heart, but the road is too far, you are old, and you are too hard." Yakzi said.

"Hard work is not hard, think about the Red Army 25,000, can't endure hardship, where is the blessing." Old man Gao made up his mind to go to the Horqin grassland with the yaks.

"That's great, grandpa, let's go together." The barn was very happy, and poured a glass of wine for the old man Gao.

Old man Gao and Yakzi were enthusiastic, but Xiaomei made Grandpa say it frightened, and the barren mountains and mountains, forests and snowfields came to mind, as if there were really wild wolves surrounding Yakzi and Grandpa.

"Grandpa, I'm so scared!" Xiaomei is very worried about Yakzi and Grandpa.

"What are you afraid of, men are ambitious in all directions, not in the boudoir, now there is no war in peacetime, there is war, and the mission of men is to go to the battlefield." The more the old man Gao spoke, the more energetic he became.

When he was full of wine and food, the old man Gao said that he had prepared three roe deer skins, and instructed the yaks to go home and prepare sheepskin jackets and dog skin hats, and to buy two pairs of leg bandages at the supply and marketing cooperatives tomorrow, and then buy some gunpowder, gun litter, and fuse paper cannons, and prepare enough ammunition. Xiaomei offered to ask her mother to make three pairs of gloves and prepare dry food.