"No, brother? When you were..." After hearing Zhao Youcai say that he couldn't fix it, Jin Xiaomei quickly wanted to give an example to refute.

But at this moment, Jin Xiaomei saw the old lady winking at her. Jin Xiaomei reacted instantly and closed her mouth immediately.

Jin Xiaomei married here and has lived with the Zhao family in the East and West courtyard for twenty years. How can she still not know who Zhao Youcai is?

Looking at Zhao Youcai's posture, Jin Xiaomei knew that Zhao Youcai was in a mood.

As for why she was upset, Jin Xiaomei could guess it.

Knowing that this was not something she could deal with, Jin Xiaomei immediately changed the subject and asked Zhao Jun: "Jun, are you going to collect any of the skins on the side this time?"

"No." Before Zhao Jun could speak, Yang Yufeng followed closely and said, "I think they took the money and got all the money back."

"What happened? Didn't the collection go smoothly?" Xie Sun asked, "Is there anyone making things difficult for us?"

"No, Jie Niang." Zhao Jun hurriedly explained to the group of people, saying: "The Xiaohongshan family has a supply and marketing cooperative, and we can't compete with the supply and marketing cooperative. After all, we're over in Yongxing. Let's chat with him.

. They collect the skins and bear bile for us, and we don’t have to pay for it. Their team will pay for it for us first.”

"Hey? That's great!" After Zhao Jun finished speaking, Jin Xiaomei said, "Otherwise we won't have enough money."

"I'm not afraid this time, Auntie." Zhao Jun said with a smile, "This time before the end of the year, we've had enough."

"It's okay this time." As soon as Zhao Jun finished his words, Li Baoyu answered, "This is considered a loan, no interest is required."

Zhao Jun was startled when he heard this, and Zhang Yuanmin, who was sitting behind him, smiled bitterly.

That day, neither Tao Dabao nor Yu Xuewen mentioned interest, because this time it was not a loan.

The money advanced by the team is also collected from the team leader, and it is a mutual benefit and win-win situation.

But people's hearts are complicated, and they can say anything with their mouths.

If you want those people in the brigade to be able to say nothing, and if you want to keep Yongxing's mountain goods business in your hands for a long time, you have to arrange everything from top to bottom.

Therefore, even if interest is not mentioned, Zhao Jun will not save money. When he returns from Hebei after the new year, he will either buy two pigs or buy some things for the brigade.

That is to say, Li Baoyu was stupid and didn't listen to Zhao Jun and Tao talking about this, so he thought it was unnecessary.

Hearing Li Baoyu say that borrowing money does not require interest, the women believed him and were all very happy.

At this time, Xing San folded up the leopard skin quilt and stuffed it into the cloth bag, while asking Zhao Jun: "Boy, are you just collecting this thing this time?"

"Then this is it." Zhao Jun said, took the small cloth bag containing the big white leather and took out the leather roll from it.

"Ouch." After a month of training for these people, Zhao Ling knew that this leather was different from other big leathers as soon as she laid eyes on it. She immediately said in surprise: "Xiaojun, you guys can collect it this time."

They are all good things!”

"Yeah." Zhao Jun smiled and opened the leather roll. Xu Chunyan turned her tail and said, "It's done."

"Isn't it worth earning five or six thousand?" Mrs. Xie Sun interjected from the side, and she had a basis for saying so. Last time, the Zhao Family Chamber of Commerce earned 10,500 from those two big white skins.

"Maybe we can sell more this time." Zhao Jun said with a smile: "The boss used white leather to make up the leather jacket, but it turned out that the sleeves were almost half in length. Without these half sleeves, his clothes would not be sold."

"Then this one of yours is not enough for half a sleeve." Xing San picked up the big white piece of leather and said to Zhao Jun: "I'd better go back to the mountain tomorrow."

As he spoke, Xing San raised his hand and pointed outward, saying: "We've caught mice in those cages in the past two days. I'll follow Li Erxiao's instructions tomorrow, and I'll go over and put up all the cages."

Li Ruhai previously provided information that Shi Baofeng had a dispute with the Tao brothers in the mountains and was pushed down by the Tao brothers. Shi Baofeng's ankle was sprained and he has been unable to go up the mountain recently.

In this way, Shi Baofeng's territory was vacated. The mountain field occupied by Shi Baofeng had once been visited by Bai Dapi, so Zhao Jun had the intention to set up a few traps.

"Third uncle, you should stop bothering me before the end of the year." Zhao Jun said, "Tomorrow we will take the dogs up the mountain to catch the roe deer. After that, we will get up early and leave home. We will first go to his big leather nest and uninstall the cages."

As soon as Zhao Jun said this, Zhao Youcai raised his eyelids and stared at Zhao Jun with his small eyes.

"Then...that..." After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Xing San hesitated and said, "I'm still thinking of going back to Lengchang to clean up. I'm still cleaning up."

After staying at Zhao's house for these days, Xing San really had the idea of ​​going down the mountain. After all, no matter how well-built the shack on the mountain was, it still leaked air everywhere.

The most important thing is that he doesn't dislike the liveliness of Zhao Jun's family.

Just yesterday morning, Wang Meilan and Jin Xiaomei took Xing San to see a house. Although the one and a half room was small, it was enough for him to live alone.

"What else do you have to pack?" Zhao Jun said with a smile: "Xiao Nian'er, take Brother Xie down the mountain, and I'll carry it up to you after you finish. You can just come down with me after you finish packing."

"Then what should I do with the big pine wood I bought?"

, let them put the machine to break it open, and then pull it back when it's done."

The large pieces of wood that Xing San bought were reserved for longevity wood. Just like Zhao Jun said, he first took it to the forest farm workshop, found someone to help break it into wooden boards, and then found someone to process it when he came back.

When I looked at the house yesterday, Xing San took a special look. Although the house was not big, the yard was not small and there was a shed.

The old man had thought it all over, and when his birthday material was ready, he would put it in the shed.

While they were chatting, Wang Meilan and Wang Qiang outside had already inserted the pig food.

Half a large pot of pig food was poured into two feeding racks, and each of the sisters carried one to the backyard to feed the pigs.

Today, the six pigs were frightened by having their legs tied, their mouths tied, and driven for dozens of miles in a car. In addition, the new environment was unfamiliar, so they stayed in the donkey shed and roe deer enclosure quite honestly and did not go out.

Jumping.

"Oh..." Miss Wang and Second Young Master Wang have never done this job before, but they have both seen others feeding pigs.

Just like that, the two siblings filled the trough with food while shouting.

The cooked food was fragrant, and the sound of shouts attracted the pigs to look at Wang Meilan and Wang Qiang.

But in a strange environment and seeing strange people, none of the six pigs came forward.

Wang Meilan, who had poured out all the pig food, carried the fed Luo and said to Wang Qiang: "Let's go, Qiangzi, let's go, they will eat it."

When the siblings returned to the house, the gang was still chatting in the east room. Wang Meilan was cooking and the women were busy.

When they heard the sound of cooking, Zhao Hong, Zhao Na and Li Xiaoqiao in the west room cheered, dropped their books and got off the kang.

From the beginning of the winter vacation, Li Tongyun set a rule for them. Their study for the day would not end until they cooked dinner in the outer room every day.

The walls are not soundproof, so the children can vaguely hear the sounds and voices of Zhao Jun and others coming back.

It sounded like Zhao Jun had bought something, but it was for Zhao Hong, and Zhao Na was extremely anxious.

Seeing that these children were about to run away, Li Tongyun hurriedly stopped them and asked them to pack up their books and stationery before leaving.

Zhao Hong hurriedly packed her things, grabbed her schoolbag and got off the kang, opened the door and rushed to the east room.

"Brother! Brother!" Zhao Hong rushed into the east room and threw his schoolbag on the kang, hitting Zhao Youcai.

"Oh my second sister." Zhao Jun hugged Zhao Hong, but Zhao Hong asked: "Brother, what did you buy back?"

"Ah." Zhao Jun was startled, then smiled and said, "Brother bought a pig."

"Pig?" Zhao Hong raised her thin eyebrows and said in surprise: "Does our family still need to buy pigs?"

"Why don't we buy pigs?" Before Zhao Jun could react, Zhao Hong said: "There are plenty of them on the mountain, can't you just catch them?"

Zhao Jun: "..."

…

Today's dinner is quite simple.

Roe deer meat stewed with sauerkraut and wild boar meat stewed with cabbage vermicelli. Both dishes are served in large pots, and the main thing is that one is large in quantity.

In addition, there are frozen cabbage and dried radish with dipping sauce.

It can be seen from this that the food served by the Zhao family recently is not very high-end.

But this didn't stop the men from drinking. While drinking, everyone mentioned buying a pig.

"Shunzi." Wang Qiang asked Lin Xiangshun, "You can't treat me? If you want to treat me, there will be many pigs."

"Please." Lin Xiangshun said without hesitation: "Uncle, how about we treat each other for a day?"

The Chinese New Year is just around the corner, and it will definitely be impossible to arrange a day treat for one person, and you have to leave time to go to other people's houses.

"Okay." Wang Qiang responded and said, "Then it will be twenty-five for our two families."

The twenty-fifth day Wang Qiang mentioned is the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month.

"Dad." After Wang Qiang finished speaking, Li Baoyu said to Li Dayong: "Shall we just come to my brother's house for twenty-four?"

As soon as Li Baoyu said this, he was glared hard by Li Dayong, followed closely by Zhao Youcai.

"So pretty!" Li Dayong cursed in his heart: "Little brat, are you the one who can decide this matter?"

And Zhao Youcai looked at Li Baoyu and cursed in his heart: "What do you call your brother's house? You are such a tiger. You can't tell the big and small kings."

Seeing that something was wrong, Zhao Jun quickly diverted everyone's attention, only to hear him ask the judge: "Minister, you guys stay at home and have a meal of slaughtered pigs and vegetables before leaving."

"Okay!" Xie Chen agreed happily. Zhao Youcai glared at Xie Chen again and thought to himself: "This is a stupid boy. He doesn't go home just because it's the Chinese New Year. He's going to be very mean-spirited in a day."

Thinking of this, Zhao Youcai's eyes fell on Li Baoyu again. Looking at the giggling Li Baoyu, Zhao Youcai thought to himself: "Why should I accept them as my apprentices? Why don't you make me angry to death?"

But at this moment, Li Dayong suddenly spoke and said to Li Baoyu: "Baoyu, after the new year, our business will not be so busy. You and your uncle will go to the mountains for a few days and learn your skills from your uncle."

After talking about Li Baoyu, Li Dayong said to Jie Chen: "When the time comes, I will follow you, my dear minister."

After the words fell, Li Dayong secretly glanced at Zhao Youcai. This was what the two brothers had discussed in advance. They both said that getting on the pole was not a business, so we couldn't let Zhao Youcai take the initiative to talk about accepting disciples, right?

"No need, dad." Li Baoyu was sincere and refused on the spot: "I can just learn from my brother."
To be continued...