The Life of a Son-in-Law in a Courtyard House

The soldiers were not familiar with Yang Dalin and did not greet each other.

Yang Dalin naturally wouldn't go up to them or ask what was in the goods.

Everyone lived in peace.

Yang Dalin arrived wearing a military overcoat. Seeing that there were extra quilts in the cabin, he immediately wrapped them around his legs.

Soon after, the roar of airplanes began.

Yang Dalin also took out two cotton balls from his pocket and plugged his ears.

Then he put down the earmuffs of his cotton hat.

The cargo plane cabin was very noisy, and Yang Dalin was prepared for that.

The flight proceeded in silence, and several hours later, the plane successfully arrived at a military airport near Bayan City.

As soon as the cabin door opened, Yang Dalin was the first to get off the plane.

After going down, Yang Dalin stomped his foot.

It's so cold up there, my feet are almost numb.

He soon met Captain Jing, who had come to pick him up.

There were several other people with Captain Jing, all members of the support team that had helped Yang Dalin catch his prey last time.

Captain Jing was very happy to see Yang Dalin.

She came over and hugged him: "Hey kid, we meet again."

You must be freezing! Come on, let me treat you to a feast. I even stewed some lamb for you before we came.

As soon as I heard you were coming, I spent half a month's salary to buy you lamb.

Yang Dalin greeted the other members of the support team.

Cai said to Captain Jing, "Brother Jing, you've gone to so much trouble. I'll give you a whole yellow sheep in return for every pound of mutton you eat. Don't worry, you won't lose out."

"Haha, I didn't mean that, I was just trying to make you happy."

"Let's go, don't talk about this now. You just arrived today, eat and drink your fill, rest for a day, and we'll talk about it tomorrow."

Yang Dalin did not discuss the mission with Captain Jing at the airport.

Upon exiting the airport, you can see an endless expanse of white snow; the snow on the grassland is quite heavy.

The car wasn't driving fast on the road.

Yang Dalin and Captain Jing and the others went directly to a secluded courtyard with a warehouse near the train station.

There are still members of the support team remaining in this courtyard.

There were also more than a dozen trucks.

There was a large pot in the yard, where a sheep was stewing.

The pot wasn't even covered, and the stewed lamb looked quite large.

Captain Jing is very generous.

Yang Dalin was naturally not stingy either.

He simply tossed a backpack from behind him to the front.

He kept taking out bottles of liquor from it.

He took out ten bottles of baijiu and said, "Brother Jing, let these brothers try some Erguotou brought from Beijing."

When Captain Jing saw that Yang Dalin had brought him some wine, he said happily, "Good brother, the mutton will be ready soon. Try the Erguotou you brought later."

Once the mutton was cooked, everyone gathered around the stove inside the house and enjoyed a delicious meal.

After a hearty meal, Yang Dalin toured the large courtyard.

And the dormitories where they sleep.

All I can say is that the smell was quite strong. Yang Dalin shuddered at the thought of sleeping with a group of snoring soldiers that night.

Let's just head out. Wouldn't it be better to sleep alone tonight?

This doghouse is for whoever wants to sleep in; I'm not going to sleep in it myself.

Yang Dalin pulled Captain Jing aside and said, "Brother Jing, have you got the car and radio set up for me?"

"I've already prepared everything for you. What's wrong? You don't want to leave right now, do you?"

"Yes, Brother Jing, I came by military plane. It was a bit cold on the way but I wasn't tired. Besides, I needed to hurry."

After all, the Lunar New Year is approaching, and I want to go back home as soon as possible to spend it with my family.

I can't tell others, but I'll tell you that I've only been home for less than five days since my last trip back.

I'm out again.

I need to finish my task quickly and go home to celebrate the New Year with my family.

Upon hearing this, Captain Jing knew that Yang Dalin was indeed homesick. He was more than ten years younger than him, not even twenty yet, so it was understandable that he was homesick.

"What do you do when you sleep outdoors at night?"

Should we also prepare extra spare parts for the vehicle?

"Don't worry, Brother Jing, I have a bear skin in another bag. It's fine. I'm much better at surviving in the wild than you."

It won't freeze me.

You've all checked the vehicles, right? As long as they've been checked, I'll just bring an extra can of fuel.

I might be chasing prey into the border of an outer grassland country, at which point I'll hide the car near the border.

Once I'm inside, I can just steal a horse to ride.

You cannot drive in.

I will try to drive the sheep to our border before killing them.

Captain Jing asked curiously, "Don't yellow sheep usually come here to spend the winter?"

Is it still necessary to go to the outer grasslands?

Yang Dalin didn't expect Captain Jing to be so familiar with this, but he continued to lie to Captain Jing without batting an eye, saying, "Brother, once we enter our country, many herders will hunt for themselves, so I won't compete with them."

We need to hunt quite a lot of sheep, and we can't spread them out too much, otherwise transportation will be a problem. I'll just have to find a super large flock of sheep over there and drive a batch back directly, which will be much more convenient. We'll contact each other in advance by telegram, find a suitable ambush position, you set up an ambush in front and block them, and then you send people to join me in the hunt from behind. Wouldn't that be much more convenient?

Ideally, we should drive the sheep to a location not far from here, which would make transportation easier and allow us to load them directly onto the train.

Is this the correct logic?

Captain Jing paused for a moment, then nodded: "Alright then, you're good at hunting, but be careful."

A telegram was sent daily.

"No, brother, it's too dangerous for me to send a telegram every day once I'm in the outer grasslands."

There are quite a few Russians monitoring signals along their border.

I'll stick to posting every three days.

Otherwise, it's easy to expose yourself.

Don't worry, bro, don't you trust my abilities?

"Alright then, we'll release it every three days."

Bring more bullets and supplies.

I'll have someone load it into the car for you right away. Be careful on the road.

"Okay, don't worry."

After saying goodbye to Captain Jing and his men, Yang Dalin drove off in a truck that Captain Jing had prepared.

It was already afternoon.

Yang Dalin ran north for only a few hours before it got dark.

Yang Dalin occasionally encountered some prey along the way, but he didn't touch it.

It's not worth the trouble.

Yang Dalin was still thinking that while they could take some of the gazelles, they could also take more of the other side's grazing flocks.

This is simpler.

Yang Dalin planned to make a detour to the Russians' place.

Did he know that Russia might also face a famine next year?

Internationally, people are even using gold to buy grain, all because the "corn emperor" (a derogatory term for China's corn-growing emperor) is responsible for this.

I naturally have to help the Corn Emperor.

Go and lend them a hand, light a small fire to warm some of their grain depots, and burn down a few of the granaries. That would be a good thing.

If we don't take this opportunity to have some fun, then we've come all this way for nothing.

If there are too many gazelles and they are hard to find, just kill a batch of the other party's sheep and cattle.

Once the skin is peeled off, the meat is mixed together. Who cares if Captain Jing can tell? If he can, just say it's wild goat and wild beef.

They don't kill our local herders.

All you need to do is hand over enough meat.

The Russians and the steppe nations are no good anyway, so it's good that they suffer more losses.