Chapter 279 Meeting the Big Guy

"Dad, Mom, when Su Jingsheng gets married, should we go along with the ceremony?

We don’t know that his eldest brother is getting married. Now that we know Xin’er, do we have to return the gift? "

What Sheng Xiping said was Zhang Shuzhen's words, otherwise how could he continue?

He spent most of the day tonight, mentioning these things in a roundabout way, not for nothing, there was a reason.

Sheng Liancheng and his wife looked at each other, then Sheng Liancheng sighed and spoke.

"According to the rules, we owe someone a gift. Now that we know there is a happy event in their family, we have to pay it back no matter what.

But we only know that his home is in Hongshi Forestry Bureau, but we don’t know exactly where he lives. Why follow this gift? "

In a humane society, the most important thing is courtesy and reciprocity.

There is a saying that it is more uncomfortable to owe someone a gift than to owe money.

If you owe someone else money, you can pay it back a while later, but for the gift you owe, you can't pay it back a few days later.

However, the Su family did not contact this person after they left. How could they follow this courtesy?

"Oh, I know the address. I just want to ask, should we send some money there, or should we just go and have a wedding banquet in person and join in the fun?"

Sheng Xiping certainly hoped that it would be the latter choice, but he couldn't express it too strongly, lest his parents would notice something was wrong.

In order to help Chen Ruiqing and his wife, Sheng Xiping panicked.

It can be fooled for now, but when Chen Ruiqing really comes back to pick up his wife and children, won't everything be exposed?

How could he explain it to the Chen family, his parents, and his wife?

Sheng Xiping wanted to use Su Jingsheng's marriage as a cover to go to Huadian.

As long as he gets there, finds a way to find Chen Ruiqing, and tries to contact Chen Ruiqing, then everything will be easy.

Chen Ruiqing has just established himself in the Jiapigou Gold Mine, and it will be a long time before he can move freely and pick up his family members.

At least half a year, at least a year or two. During such a long period of time, some things are deliberately blurred, and it is easy to get past it.

Anyway, he met Chen Ruiqing and he met Shao Minzhi and her son in August, not too far apart.

The two members of the Chen family are still in a difficult situation, and they can't even live their lives clearly. How can they remember other things so clearly?

When the couple, father and son met, it was too late to be happy. How could they be in the mood to carefully recall when Sheng Xiping appeared?

As for those who talk about life-long friendships, they can be regarded as polite remarks. In the Northeast, anyone who has met and chatted has a friendship.

So as long as Sheng Xiping and Chen Ruiqing meet once, other things will be easy to talk about and everything can be settled.

There was no other way. Who told him that he didn't know that Jiapigou was next to the Hongshi Forestry Bureau?

He had never been to Jiapigou in his entire life. He only knew that it was in Huadian and had no idea of ​​its specific location.

If it weren't for the educated youths in Hongshi who kept praising their forestry bureau in those days and how good it was and how there were gold mines in their jurisdiction, Sheng Xiping would really not understand this.

He regretted it at that time. If he had known that the Jiapigou Gold Mine was within the scope of the Hongshi Forestry Bureau, he would have shamelessly written a letter to Hongshi.

You may not be able to receive it if you write it to Su Jingsheng, but you will definitely get it if you write it to Su Mingchang.

Regardless of whether the Su family wants to talk to him or not, if he writes a few more letters shamelessly, he can always connect his feelings.

Of course, the idea is good, but it is also difficult to implement.

For example, in the provincial capital, there was no reason for a meeting. Even if Sheng Xiping met Chen Ruiqing first, he would not be able to go to the province to do business and see Shao Minzhi on the way.

Forget it, forget it, things have developed to this point, it's useless to think about it so much, just go back to the situation as much as possible.

The key now is how to get to the red stone.

Sheng Liancheng looked at his eldest son and smiled, "Do you miss Jing Sheng? You two got along very well at the beginning. I remember that Jing Sheng often came to our house to play."

There won’t be much work in August. It’s not your construction team that will demolish the buildings this year. If you want to go, then go and have a go.

This kind of favor always gets closer as we move around.

Let's not care whether the Su family is now rich and doesn't recognize people and owes them courtesy and favors. We can't forget this, and we can't pretend not to know. "

This is how Sheng Liancheng behaves in the world. He never owes anyone anything. If he does, he feels uncomfortable.

Now that you know it, don't worry about the distance. Just go there and return the gift, so you don't have to worry about it in the future.

"Yeah, I think so too." Sheng Xiping scratched the back of his head and chuckled.

Now that the topic has reached this point, it is already getting late, and the power supply to the forest farm will be cut off soon.

So they went to wash up and get ready for bed.

Sheng Xitai knew how to take care of people. He took the initiative to lead Chen Feng to the outhouse, gave Chen Feng a foot wash, found him a new toothbrush, put some toothpaste on it, and taught Chen Feng how to brush his teeth.

Zhang Shuzhen was so happy that she didn’t know how to get better.

I used to think that the old boy had nothing to worry about all day long. All the brothers and sisters in his family took care of him. I didn't know what he would be like in the future.

Now when I look at it, this old man looks like a little uncle, taking care of his little nephew. Zhang Shuzhen now feels that it is right for Chen Feng to stay.

Zhang Shuzhen found a set of luggage and rummaged through a lot of small clothes worn by Sheng Xitai.

"Girl, please find two of these clothes and change them for Xiaofeng to wear temporarily.

Don't change it too much. When he grows taller now, if you change it too much, he will have to make it too small. "

As the youngest child in the Sheng family, Sheng Xitai has the most clothes.

Because he can pick up and wear the clothes of his older brothers and sisters. During the Chinese New Year, the family will also make him a new set of clothes.

He wore small clothes and no one picked them up underneath. Zhang Shuzhen lived her life carefully, washed them all and put them away. The ones that were too shabby were kept for patching and rugs, and the slightly better ones were kept for the younger children in the future.

Unexpectedly, the next generation of children from the Sheng family had not arrived yet, but Chen Feng came first.

Anyway, they were all old clothes, so whoever wears them should wear them. Zhang Shuzhen didn't feel bad about this, so she just rummaged through a pile of clothes and pants, and asked Zhou Qinglan to change two pieces for Chen Feng when she had time.

"Okay, I understand, Mom." Zhou Qinglan took the pile of clothes and carried them to the west room to put them in the cabinet.

School will start in a few days, so I took the time to change out a few sets and wait for Chen Feng to wear them to school.

After everyone had tidied up and got into bed and lay down, the forest farm also stopped powering after a while.

Sheng Xiping was away from home for seven or eight days. When he came back, he would hug his wife and make love to her.

It's just that my wife is pregnant now, so she can't be too indulgent and has to be careful in everything. This is another feeling.

After the clouds dispersed and the rain stopped, the young couple hugged each other, chatted for a while, and fell asleep unconsciously.

Sheng Xiping went out for meetings for seven or eight days. When he finally came back, he just wanted to sleep in the next day.

As a result, before six o'clock the next morning, Gao Haining was calling outside.

"Xiping, I heard someone said you're back, right? Oh, just in time, I have something to ask you for."

Gao Haining's loud voice shouted as he walked into the courtyard.

Erlangshen and several others came out of the nest. They knew Gao Haining, so they didn't call desperately. They only gave two symbolic calls before letting Gao Haining in.

Zhang Shuzhen had already gotten up to cook and was busy in the kitchen. She was quite puzzled when she saw Gao Haining entering the room.

"Haining, isn't your wife still in confinement? If you don't stay at home to help take care of the children, why don't you get up early in the morning to see Xiping?"

Gao Haining's daughter-in-law, Tang Fengying, gave birth to a little girl on July 10th. She is very pretty.

Three days later, Zhang Shuzhen went to see Huanxi and gave the child a piece of fabric.

Do the math, the child is not even one month old yet. Why is Gao Haining running out so early in the morning when he is not at home with his wife?

"Auntie, isn't my girl giving birth tomorrow? My dad and mom said they planned to hold a full moon party the day after tomorrow to entertain relatives and friends.

I heard people say that when Xiping comes back, he plans to let Xiping take me up the mountain to see if I can catch something, so that I can have more food at home. "

Gao Haining and Sheng Xiping were brothers who grew up together and had always gotten along like this before, so he came to see Sheng Xiping early in the morning and didn't feel there was anything inappropriate.

But listening to Zhang Shuzhen's tone, it seemed like something was wrong, and he didn't understand it, so he scratched his head and said straightforwardly.

"There's no grass in the summer, so it's not easy to go hunting in the mountains, right? Is it possible?"

Zhang Shuzhen frowned slightly. His eldest son had been away for seven or eight days and finally came back. He couldn't rest at home for a few days.

Besides, the grass, barley, and shrubs in the mountains are quite tall this season. People cannot see very far into the mountains, and hunting is difficult because their sight is blocked.

If you don't bring a dog, there won't even be any warning. If you bring a dog, the dog won't be able to use it.

If you encounter a big wild boar or a black blind man, it is easy to hurt the dog.

Zhang Shuzhen didn't want her son to go into the mountains, so she said this. But Gao Haining was so stupid, could he hear it?

"It's okay. Who doesn't know Xiping's ability? When he goes into the mountains, he can deliver goods regardless of the terrain."

Zhang Shuzhen was speechless, but she didn't know how to tell Gao Haining.

Just at this time, the door to the west room opened. Sheng Xiping buttoned it, came out of the room, and closed the door carefully.

“Mom, it’s okay, I’ll go into the mountains with Haining and the others later.

Didn’t you also say that you want to make dumplings today? Just in time, I went into the mountains and walked around. If I could meet wild boars or roe deer, I wouldn't have to buy meat. "

During the recent period, Sheng Xiping was either going to training or attending meetings.

I haven't gone hunting in the mountains for a few days, and the meat at home is pretty much the same, so I really should go for a walk in the mountains.

Originally, if Gao Haining didn't come, Sheng Xiping planned to take Sheng Xian and Sheng Xikang into the mountain to get some stilts and so on.

Since Gao Haining said so, let's go together.

Her son has said so, what else can Zhang Shuzhen say?

"Okay, then be careful when you go up the mountain. OK, then I'll cook quickly and feed the dogs later."

While talking, Zhang Shuzhen quickly lit the pot in the west room and prepared to feed the dog.

"Okay, Xiping, I'm going home first. By the way, do you need to ask Jianshe and them?"

Gao Haining was very happy when he heard Sheng Xiping agreed. He had a lot of things to do at home, so he didn't care to talk too much with Sheng Xiping. He turned around and walked out, asking questions as he walked.

Sheng Xiping followed Gao Haining out of the house, "Okay, let's ask. We haven't been in the mountains for a long time. We just happened to go up the mountain together, so we thought it was just fun."

It is indeed dangerous to go into the mountains at this time, and the view is blocked. It would be good to go with a few more people so that they can take care of each other.

Wang Jianshe and Chen Weiguo are both good at marksmanship, so they can feel more at ease with them.

"Okay, then I'll go find them." As they spoke, the two of them arrived outside the main gate of Sheng's house.

"Huh? Why did I hear people say that you brought a child back? Whose family does it belong to?"

After talking about the serious business, Gao Haining remembered the rumors he heard last night and asked hurriedly.

"Oh, a child from a relative. He has been busy recently and can't take care of the child anymore. I just happened to bring him back and he will live in my house for a while."

Last night, Sheng Xiping discussed it with his parents. To outsiders, they should tell Chen Feng that he was a relative's child, so as to avoid the trouble of outsiders hearing that he was picked up and making all kinds of comments.

"Oh, I'm staying with a relative for a while. I thought you brought it back from somewhere."

Gao Haining nodded and breathed a sigh of relief.

"You don't know, last night, word spread throughout our forest farm that you brought a little boy back.

Some people also say that you have no eggs and are looking for an eggplant to carry around. You are looking for trouble when you have nothing to do. Your own child is about to be born, and you are helping others raise their children. "

"Then it's okay if we stay for a while and then leave. The food rations for each of our families are not enough to eat. How can we have enough food to raise a child?"

Gao Haining is a person who is outspoken and outspoken, but what he says is also the truth.

In these days and times, life is difficult and one’s own children cannot be raised, so who would raise other people’s children for free?

"Ahem, just a child can eat as much as he wants. One mouthful will be enough for adults."

Sheng Xiping didn't say much, just smiled, and that was it. "Okay, then after dinner, let's go for a walk in the mountains together."

Gao Haining got the accurate information and left happily. He even took a special turn on the road to find Wang Jianshe and Chen Weiguo. They both agreed to follow him up the mountain.

After breakfast, Zhang Shuzhen went to feed the dog, while the three Sheng brothers packed their things and prepared to go up the mountain.

Zhou Qinglan called Sheng Xitai and Chen Feng to the west room, and while watching Sheng Xitai doing the questions, he gave Chen Feng some enlightenment.

Shao Minzhi is somewhat literate, but the lives of the three of them are so difficult and they don’t even have enough to eat. How can they spare the time to teach their son how to read?

So Chen Feng is eight years old and doesn't know a single word.

But this child is quite smart. Zhou Qinglan taught him. He listened carefully, and in a short time, he recognized the four words of sun, moon, water and fire.

Zhou Qinglan didn't teach much. He only taught four or five words a day, as long as he could recognize and read them. Writing and other things should wait until the school starts and let the teacher teach them slowly.

The school has desks so you can correct your posture when writing.

Children like Chen Feng who have just started writing must have certain standards for sitting posture and holding pens, so as to prevent myopia and write good handwriting.

If you teach at home, you have to lie on the edge of the kang without a desk. This is not good for the children's eyesight and health.

After teaching the child, Zhou Qinglan took out the measuring tape and measured Chen Feng's size.

Then he took out the pile of old clothes, selected a few pieces of fabric suitable for summer wear, and took them apart to change them.

Sheng Xitai has been chubby since he was a child. He is also tall and his clothes are baggy. Chen Feng, who is thin and small, is still fat when he wears the clothes Sheng Xitai wore when he was six years old.

Zhou Qinglan had to shrink the seam allowance of the clothes, cut them appropriately, and sew them again.

Zhou Qinglan led his children to read, read, and change their clothes at home. Sheng Xiping led his two younger brothers and four dogs out of the house, found Gao Haining and others, and walked into the mountains together.

Sheng Xiping hadn't been in the mountains for a long time, so he couldn't tell where there were more prey, so he simply led everyone back to the valley where they hunted last year.

There are many kinds of wild animals there, so I think I can gain something.

"Xiping, where are we going? Are you going to the place where we heard the tiger roar last year?"

As they walked, Wang Jianshe felt something was wrong. This road was too familiar. Wasn't this going to the place where they hunted musk deer and deer last year?

Hey, there are tigers over there. They go to the tiger's territory to hunt. Aren't they looking for trouble?

The direction Sheng Xiping led everyone was towards Nuanquanzi.

After the spring hunting near the forest farm, most of the wild boars had disappeared, so Sheng Xiping planned to go further.

There are many animals of all kinds in Nuanquanzi. They don’t want to ask for much today, just a sow.

If you go home and share a share, Gao Haining's family will have meat for the banquet, and the Sheng family will be able to make dumplings for Chen Feng to eat.

But Wang Jianshe and the others were frightened by the tiger's roar last time and had psychological shadows.

When they saw that it was heading towards Nuanquanzi, they immediately retreated and did not dare to go forward.

"It's okay. We won't go into the Taipei. We will just wander around and fight whatever we encounter." Sheng Xiping couldn't help shaking his head and laughing.

"This season, tigers and black blind men are all willing to take them to Changbai Mountain and Yue Hualin.

The altitude is high, the wind is strong, and there are few mosquitoes. Most of them go to the Yue birch forest to escape the heat. "

The Changbai Mountain Sheng Xiping mentioned was not the Changbai Mountain Range, but the main peak.

The main peak of Changbai Mountain is divided into four natural landscape zones, the coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest zone, the coniferous forest zone, the birch forest zone, and the alpine tundra zone.

In summer, the large beasts around, such as tigers, brown bears, black bears, etc., prefer to go to Yuehua Forest Zone to escape the heat.

There is a landscape on the western slope of Changbai Mountain called Ladder River, which is a fault zone formed during the earthquake. The cross-section of the river is trapezoidal, with a narrow mouth at the top and a wide bottom.

Because the river mouth is very narrow and covered with weeds, animals that migrate in summer can easily fall into the Ladder River.

The water in the Ladder River is formed by water seeping down from Tianchi Lake. Its temperature is extremely low. Even during the hottest period of summer, it remains around zero.

Such a low temperature is lower than the temperature of the fresh-keeping layer of a household refrigerator, so if a beast falls into the Ladder River and dies, it will not spoil easily.

Experienced hunters can pick up fresh prey at the bottom of the Ladder River. This is also a big strange thing in Changbai Mountain, called the meat in Tizi River is not bad.

Sheng Xiping had never gone to Tizihe to pick up meat, but Liu Changde and his wife had done so before. This was what Liu Changde said.

The Ladder River is too far away, and another one is that now Changbai Mountain has been designated as a protected area, and no one can enter it casually.

So Sheng Xiping didn't plan to take his brothers to the Ladder River. He just thought about catching some wild animals near Nuanquanzi and go home.

After Wang Jianshe and the others listened to Sheng Xiping's words, they were somewhat less afraid, but they were still hesitant and felt a little nervous in their hearts.

But Sheng Xiping had already said so. It wouldn't be a good idea if they didn't follow. They had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow the three Sheng brothers into the mountains.

As for Sheng Xian and Sheng Xikang, they had never been to Nuanquanzi before, nor had they encountered Huhou.

As the saying goes, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers. They had never experienced it, so they were naturally not afraid, so they boldly followed Sheng Xiping into the mountains.

Nuanquanzi is quite far away from the forest farm, more than thirty miles away. When everyone was halfway there, Erlang Shen raised his head and sniffed in the air, and then called out.

The leopard also sniffed around and then howled.

Needless to say, this dog must have discovered something. It seems that it is not too far away from here.

When Sheng Xiping saw it, he immediately loosened the rope around the dog's neck and let the dogs run forward.

Hua Leopard and Fat Tiger are already one year old, and the two dogs have grown into shape, basically similar to Erlang Shen.

Erlang Shen is a big-headed dog, Leopard is a two-headed dog, Black General and Fat Tiger are both tough gangsters, and this gang of gangsters is very tough.

Otherwise, the Liu brothers would always lend their dogs away? The key is to take them into the mountains, where they can get stuff down.

The four big dogs jumped out with a swish, and the leopards ran and barked to lead the way for Sheng Xiping and the others.

Everyone carried guns and followed closely behind.

This is a large flat hill, the terrain is flat and open, and the trees are not that dense. It is a clear soup forest.

This kind of terrain is not suitable for hunting or fighting. The main reason is that the terrain is too flat and the trees can’t cover where the prey is running.

It's not like a steep slope, and you can see the trajectory of prey running up the mountain.

But this kind of place is very suitable for dogs, because the clear soup forest is not so noisy, and dogs can move around without restrictions and can run away.

Of course, if a dog can run away, it must run fast, and the people behind it will inevitably be tired.

Especially Sheng Xiping, a dog lover, was afraid that the dog would be injured, so every time he went into the mountains, he would run as fast as possible and rush over to kill the prey with a gun.

Unlike some hunters, where the dog fights in front, he is still walking slowly behind, waiting for the dog to surround the prey and seal the death den before going over to finish the kill.

Hunting like Sheng Xiping must be tiring. After all, a person with two legs cannot run as well as a person with four legs.

Sheng Xiping ran panting behind him with a gun on his back. The four dogs in front spread their hooves and disappeared in a flash.

The four dogs ran out for four or five miles in one breath. After climbing over a hill, they saw an old and thick wind-downed tree not far ahead.

The wood may have been down for a long time. The wood rotted and became brittle, breeding ants, and gradually formed a large ant nest.

At this time, behind the wind-fallen tree, a huge creature was resting against the wind-fallen tree, grabbing the ant nest with a big paw.

When the claws are covered with ants, the guy will lick the ants with his barbed tongue, and the ants will be swallowed by the big guy.

This big guy was leaning on a fallen tree and eating ants. Suddenly, a dog barked, breaking the rare leisure time.

The big guy turned his head and glanced in the direction of the barking dog, then looked at his big paws, thought for a moment, did not move, and continued to catch ants to eat.

The four dogs ran and barked, and in an instant they arrived in front of Feng Dui Mu, howling at the big guy behind Feng Dui Mu.

When the big guy saw this posture, it was impossible for him to eat quietly. He stood up angrily and wanted to leave.

But I don’t know what’s going on with that big guy, there are a lot of wounds all over it.

I was sitting there and could still bear it, but when I moved, the wounds on my body hurt terribly.

The big guy's eyes were red from the pain, and he became violent in an instant, roaring at the four dogs.

The sound of "shout" shook the world, and also shocked Sheng Xiping who was running this way in the distance.

Sheng Xiping felt bad when he heard the sound. It was the cry of a bear.

The four dogs of the Sheng family are tough dogs. Even if they encounter a running basket weighing three to four hundred pounds after entering the mountains, they will not be frightened. With a little effort, they can secure the running basket into a dead den.

However, no matter how good or ferocious the dog is, it will inevitably be injured when encountering a bear.

The main reason is that the bear's claws are so powerful, and the bear can stand up, which is so powerful.

He also said just now that those large beasts usually go to Yuehua Forest to escape the summer heat. He didn't expect to be slapped in the face so quickly. There were bears in the forest, and they were probably brown bears.

If there was any loss to the four dogs, Sheng Xiping would be heartbroken.

Thinking of this, Sheng Xiping became more and more anxious. At this time, he didn't care so much. He took a breath and ran towards the direction of the roar just now.

Three days of busy work have finally come to an end, and updates have been temporarily resumed.

I have read all your messages, but I just don’t have time to reply.

This matter in my family is a long story, and I can’t explain it in just a few words. Since my grandma passed away in 2008, a lot of things happened one after another. I also had people look at her and my grandparents’ graves were moved. It was fine in the past few years, but I don't know what happened in the past two years. Now the family has realized that there may be something wrong, and is talking about asking someone to look at it.

When I was writing this book, some readers left messages saying how could anyone be so unlucky. Well, what can I say? What happened to my family over the years is even more outrageous than a novel.

Thank you for your reminder and concern. I have to pay attention to my health. I have finished some things at home these days. When I feel a little more stable, I will go out to check my health and treat any illness as soon as possible. My heart is not very good and my blood pressure is low, which is also a problem. Like me, we have an elder and a younger one. My father is seventy-four, my son is fifteen, and my daughter is eight. If anything happens, the family will be doomed.

Recently, I have tried my best to keep up to date and ask for leave in advance if something happens. Thank you for your understanding.