Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

Chapter 187 Tao Daqiang sneak attacks Xu Jianjun
Tao Jianshe didn't expect Daqiang to make such a big fuss. He asked in confusion:
"What's going on? Ma Jinbao drank a jar of liquor and started talking nonsense. He was talking about... I think it was Xu Jianjun. He seemed to be talking about you guys. What did Xu Jianjun dig? It seems that he didn't find anything."

At this moment, Tao Daqiang was basically certain that the person who dug up the water rat hole he found was Xu Jianjun!
Thinking back to when Xu Jianjun and Li Long were at odds in Xiaobaiyanggou, he also said a lot of bad things about himself.

Tao Daqiang has often been criticized by others since he was a child. Fortunately, he has a very strong psychological quality and has accepted the fact that he is dumber than others. He doesn't care about the ordinary things others say.

But this time, Xu Jianjun's behavior directly caused Tao Daqiang to have a crisis of trust in Li Long, which made Tao Daqiang very angry.

Because of the previous incident of pulling wood together, Tao Daqiang felt that Li Long's trust in him had been reduced by one level. Now this happened again. Although Li Long had confirmed and clearly stated that it had nothing to do with him, he was still a thorn in Tao Daqiang's side.

If you don't remove it, it will always hurt.

But he didn't tell Tao Jianshe about this, Tao Daqiang knew it was useless to tell him. Tao Jianshe must have said the same thing as Li Long, that thing belonged to nature before you caught it, and whoever caught it would own it.

But Tao Daqiang stubbornly believed that the water rat he had circled was his. This time, he lost a lot of money!

The only thing now is that except Li Long, Tao Daqiang and Li Jianguo, no one else knows that the leather of this thing is valuable.

"Dad, do we still want to eat this fish?"

"I don't want to eat anymore. There's still so much in the pot." Tao Jianshe never thought that one day he would have enough fish to eat. What a sin!
"Then I'll take these fish to my eldest brother." Tao Daqiang put the fish in a basin and said, "I guess his family hasn't eaten fish for quite some time."

"Okay." Tao Jianshe was quite surprised and relieved. Because of his bad idea, the two brothers had a rift, although they didn't turn against each other. Now Tao Daqiang was living a prosperous life with Li Long, but Tao Dayong's family was having a hard time.

I used to think that even if Tao Daqiang wasn't doing well, at least he had a brother to take care of him. But now it seems that as an older brother I may have to let my younger brother take care of him.

Tao Daqiang took the fish to Tao Dayong's house. Ma Chunhong was picking wild vegetables in the yard. When she saw Tao Daqiang coming, she snorted and turned back to the house.

Tao Dayong heard the footsteps and came out. Seeing Tao Daqiang, he was a little surprised and asked with a smile:
"Daqiang is here, this is..."

"I scattered some fish in the small lake today and brought them to you. They are still alive. You can pick them up while they are fresh."

"Yes, that's a lot. It must be about four or five kilograms, right?"

Ma Chunhong ran out of the kitchen as soon as she heard what Tao Dayong and his brother said. She looked at the fish with shining eyes:

"That's right, there are so many fish... and most of them are big... Daqiang, you are quite capable!"

"I caught it with Brother Long." Tao Daqiang said. He stuffed the fish basin into Tao Dayong's hand and said, "Brother, we have no urea bags in our yard. Do you have any extra ones?"

"Yes." Tao Dayong stuffed the fish basin into Ma Chunhong's hands, picked up a bag from the wall and said:

"Today I followed the team's tractor to spread fertilizer, and I was given a new bag..."

"No, no, an old bag will do." Tao Daqiang said hastily, "It's a waste to buy a new one."

"Just take it," Tao Dayong thought. This bag is only a few cents, but this basin of fish is a lot..." I can get more tomorrow when I get fat."

"Daqiang said to use the old one, so you should give him the old one!" Ma Chunhong nudged Tao Dayong with her elbow, "Just listen to me."

Tao Dayong went to get a half-worn bag with a pile of chicken shit on it. He asked his brother:
"Is this okay?"

"Okay." Tao Daqiang took over and said, "Brother, I'm going to go back now. You guys should quickly peel this fish."

Tao Daqiang left, and Ma Chunhong happily held the fish basin and said:
"There's so much fish, we can't finish it in one meal, it would be a waste to leave the rest, can I get some for my mom?"

"Okay, take three or five, enough for a meal. Our children haven't eaten meat for a while, and fish meat is also meat..."

After the previous incident, Tao Dayong's attitude towards his brother-in-law's family changed a little. Ma Chunhong also knew that she was in the wrong, so she restrained herself a little and asked Tao Dayong for his opinion.

Tao Daqiang folded the urea bag, folded the side with the chicken shit inside, then tucked it into the back of his trouser waist and walked towards the team's sales department.

The sales store in this team was originally a supplement to the supply and marketing cooperative. At the beginning of the year, the land was distributed to households and the team property was divided up, so the sales store became private.

The store itself was a side house built by Zhang Ben's family in the team, close to the main road. There was a door facing the road, and daily necessities, cigarettes, alcohol, sugar, tea, and two large jars of vinegar and soy sauce were sold inside.

In the summer, maggots would grow in the big jar, especially in the soy sauce jar. When Tao Daqiang was beating them, he would watch Lao Zhang scoop out the maggots before beating them.

Loose liquor is also sold here, in 50-gram, or about one-liang, glass cups, and in white enamel jars.

There was not even a table at the door. A few people were just sitting there on a piece of wood, bragging and drinking liquor from an enamel pot. They took turns, one sip after the other.

Ma Jinbao was among the three or four people, talking loudly:
"My family was rich in the past. We worked as a farmhand for a landlord named An. The An family was very rich. They had a large courtyard with three entrances, more than a dozen farmhands, hundreds of acres of land, and a lot of gold, silver and treasures at home..."

"Where is the An family?" someone asked.

"Later, the Usman bandits started to cause trouble. The An family was the only one living here. They got scared and took away all the valuables at night. They buried the rest in the ground and plowed the land with oxen. They also abandoned the yard and moved to Anjihai... Later, even the yard became dilapidated..."

"No trace left at all?" another person asked, "Such a big yard..."

"It's been decades, what can be left? More than a decade ago, the eldest brother of the Li family, Li Jianguo, dug up sacks of hemp money from the temple. There was also a temple platform at that time, but now it's all gone. That broken city used to be a city, but now there's only a pile of broken earth left..."

Tao Daqiang stood in the shadow under the tree listening to Ma Jinbao bragging, feeling a little anxious. He wanted to hear what Ma Jinbao had to say about the water rat's nest.

Before Ma Jinbao could finish his words, he heard footsteps from behind, and Tao Daqiang immediately hid behind a wall and a tree. To his surprise, the person coming over was Xu Jianjun.

Xu Jianjun was also a little annoyed. He had originally planned to dig out a water rat and then go to the purchasing station to ask how it was sold, but now there was nothing and his wife was getting anxious, so he left home and came to the store, intending to buy a pack of cigarettes and have a drink to relax.

Then he saw Ma Jinbao, and Xu Jianjun regretted it. He didn't know what to say when he met this big mouth.

When he wanted to turn his head, Ma Jinbao had already seen him and pointed at Xu Jianjun with an enamel pot in his hand:
"Jianjun, come here, come on, take a sip - this wine is strong! Fifty-five degrees, Lao Zhang didn't adulterate it... didn't adulterate it, come on, take a sip!"

Although Xu Jianjun was somewhat unhappy, he still walked over, took the enamel jar, wiped the rim of the jar with his hand, took a sip, gritted his teeth, and handed the jar back.

"How about it... is it okay?" Ma Jinbao said with a smile, "What I told you is true. Take the water rat I talked about yesterday, for example. You didn't catch it, but I saw Li's waiter and Tao's Daqiang digging there with my own eyes..."

"Uncle Ma, Uncle Ma, what are you talking about..." Xu Jianjun saw that Ma Jinbao couldn't control his mouth after drinking, and everyone around him was looking at him. He couldn't help but blush and said hurriedly, "Uncle Ma, drink, drink!"

In the past, Xu Jianjun always called him Old Ma. When had he ever called him Uncle Ma? Ma Jinbao felt so proud and pleased that he took the jar and took a big sip. Then he felt dizzy and was about to continue bragging when a wave of alcohol came over him and he vomited at Xu Jianjun!

Xu Jianjun couldn't dodge in time and was sprayed on the shoulder. He cursed his bad luck and walked back while wiping the stains on his body. He didn't want to buy anything because he had to go home and deal with it, otherwise it would smell so bad!
Tao Daqiang heard it clearly from behind the wall, and it was indeed Xu Jianjun who dug it out!
He was excited and nervous at the moment. Seeing Xu Jianjun leaving cursing, he quietly followed him.

Tao Daqiang, who had hardly done anything bad, had his heart beating very fast. He slowly pulled out the urea bag from his waist and followed.

Xu Jianjun wiped for a long time, but not only did he not wipe it clean, but his hands were also dirty. He simply took off his clothes, rolled them into a ball, wiped his hands, and planned to go back and give it to his wife to wash.

There were no street lights at that time, so people had to either use a flashlight or rely on daylight when walking at night. Xu Jianjun took a sip of wine and was choked by Ma Jinbao's vomit, feeling a little dizzy. Then he heard footsteps behind him, turned his head and looked, but it was pitch black and he saw nothing. He thought he had heard it wrong, so he continued forward.

Tao Daqiang saw that he would reach Xu's house after turning another corner. He knew that if he didn't take action now, he would have no chance. He gritted his teeth, rushed out of the woods on the side of the road, and threw the urea bag over Xu Jianjun's head.

Xu Jianjun was a little slow, and the opening of the bag was too small, so it hung on his shoulder for a while.

Under normal circumstances, Xu Jianjun would have been able to break free, but today he felt a little dizzy and his reaction was slow. While he was struggling, Cao Daqiang had already forcibly pulled the urea bag over him. Xu Jianjun knew something was wrong and shouted:
"Who? What are you doing?"

Tao Daqiang couldn't think of anything else at this time. He knew that he was slow to react, so he had rehearsed such things many times in his mind, and when he really wanted to do it, he would just follow that "procedure".

So Xu Jianjun's shouting had no effect on him at all. He only knew that he had completed the first two steps of tracking and bagging the person, and the next two steps were beating the person and leaving.

"Bang bang bang bang!" Tao Daqiang started to take action. Although he held back some strength, he was taller and stronger than the others, so when he punched and kicked Xu Jianjun, he immediately screamed in pain!
The sound was muffled by the urea bag and could not travel far, but a dog from a nearby house still heard it and started barking loudly.

Tao Daqiang knew he couldn't stay long, so he kicked Xu Jianjun again, pushed him to the ground, and ran away. He ran in the opposite direction of his home, running more than 200 meters, circling to the alley on the other side of his home, and then returned home.

After Xu Jianjun fell to the ground, his screams attracted a nearby dog, which barked at him and then attracted this family.

This happened to be Wang Caimi's home. He saw a urea bag from a distance and thought it would be a good thing if someone left the bag here, so he could just pick it up.

When I got closer, I found that there was a person in the bag, trying to get out, but was stuck and couldn't get out.

"Who are you?" Wang Caimi asked first without touching him rashly.

"I'm Xu Jianjun, Xu Jianjun!" Xu Jianjun also reacted. The man who beat him ran away. He shouted loudly, but the sound came out a little muffled, "I was beaten... Let me out!"

Wang Caimi was a little unhappy to hear this, but since he had met him, he still pulled the bag to free Xu Jianjun. As soon as Xu Jianjun came out, he looked around, but there was no one who was going to beat him.

"What's wrong with you?" Wang Caimi took the urea bag in his hand and asked as if he didn't care, "How did you become like this?"

"I was put in a bag and beaten!" Xu Jianjun wanted to cry but had no tears. He searched for a long time and found his dirty coat. He wanted to fight but couldn't find anyone. He had no choice but to walk back, muttering as he walked:
"This is not over yet!"

Wang Caimi returned to the yard with a smile, sniffed the bag, and immediately went to get a basin of water. The bag was dirty, what a pity - huh? Why is there a pile of chicken shit? Wash it!

Tao Daqiang slowed down only when he ran back to the door of his house. When he got home, Tao Jianshe was already sitting on the bed, ready to go to sleep.

"There's fish in the pot. I've heated it up for you. Eat a few bites and go to bed early. You have to get up early tomorrow." Tao Jianshe knew that his son would have to go early every day to get the nets with Li Long for the next two days, so he reminded him.

"Oh." Tao Daqiang responded absentmindedly, went to his room, lit the kerosene lamp, made some food, and regretted it while eating.

Yes, he regretted beating Xu Jianjun. What would happen if he did? The rat hole couldn't be restored. He was actually worried.

He suddenly began to doubt Li Long's motives when he proposed this idea.

But thinking back to the beginning, what Li Long said at that time seemed like a joke. And from the beginning, Li Long emphasized that this water rat hole did not belong to anyone. Although he discovered it first, he did not dig it out, so anyone else could have dug it out.

I am just being stingy.

Tao Daqiang finally made a conclusion.

I won’t do such stupid things again.

But thinking about Xu Jianjun's cowardly look, Tao Daqiang still laughed.

Live it!

(End of this chapter)