Siheyuan: I am the seventh uncle of Banggen

The wind was very strong on the top of the mountain. Zhang Dabao climbed onto a big tree and took out a telescope from the space. Halfway up the mountain, he saw a group of wild boars passing by. Zhang Dabao looked carefully and found a valley with no snow and a pool of water. The wild boars should have gone there to drink water or find food, not to set traps.

Zhang Dabao had seen countless videos of foreigners catching wild boars on video clips, and they all used iron fences. Zhang Dabao decided to make one made of wood.

The first task was to find wood. Zhang Dabiao wanted to thank his former manager Li Yong, whose supermarket even had hardware tools and many kinds of electric saws. With electric saws, it was much faster to get wood. Zhang Dabiao spent most of the morning getting more than 100 pieces of wood that were as thick as a cup and three meters long, and then sharpened one end.

All the wood was stored in the space, and the remaining wood chips were also collected. A hole was dug next to the pool, and the wood was driven into the ground one meter from the south. The distance of two meters outside was already very difficult for wild boars.

The wood formed a large circle with an exit, a door fixed on it and a rope tied to it. If a wild boar went in, the rope would pull the door and it would fall down, and the wild boar would stay in the fence.

Fearing that the wild boars would have too much impact, Zhang Dabao reinforced the fence with wire.

Now that the trap is ready, all that's left is to put out corn and sweet potatoes, the baits that wild boars love to eat, tomorrow morning.

Chapter 26 Harvest

It was night again. Zhang Dabao did not go back to the cliff where he was last time. Instead, he found a small cave nearby, took out his tent and sleeping bag to rest.

At five o'clock in the morning, the alarm clock woke Zhang Dabao up. He came to the trap, put two bags of corn and two bags of sweet potatoes in it, pulled the rope, and came to a big tree not far away.

After doing all this, all that was left was time. The sun gradually rose, and the mountain became lively. Zhang Dabiao did not eat, but waited quietly.

A little after nine in the morning, the wild boars arrived. The scarcity of food in the mountains in winter forced them to spend more time and walk more every day to find food. The sweet smell of corn and sweet potatoes made them unable to stop. One entered the fence and started eating, then the second one, and more and more wild boars entered. The food became less and less, and the smell became stronger, so the wild boars outside could not bear it. Now there are two wild boars outside, and the others have entered the trap made by Zhang Dabiao. The rope in Zhang Dabiao's hand moved, and the fence door fell down. The wild boars inside were in a mess, and they collided everywhere.

About ten minutes later, Zhang Dabao came down from the tree and looked at today's results. There were nearly twenty wild boars, a large group. It seemed that this would provide part of the meat for the steel mill's Lantern Festival banquet.

Zhang Dabao opened fire with the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle in his hand, and the wild boars that had just calmed down in the fence became restless again, but it was no longer effective.

The gunfire stopped and the whole valley was filled with the smell of blood. Zhang Dabao collected all the wild boars into the space and also collected all the wood used to make the fence.

He turned around and was about to leave when he heard the howling of wolves in the distance. They must have been attracted by the smell of blood. Zhang Dabao didn't want to fight them. These creatures were much smarter than wild boars, good at teamwork, and had endurance. In the mountains, they were almost invincible.

Going down the mountain was much faster than going up. While going down, Zhang Dabao collected hay from the space. He wanted to spread the hay in the carriage and cover the wild boars with hay. Otherwise, you might not be able to get back to the steel mill with such a large carriage of meat, as the meat would be intercepted by various units along the way.

After getting down the mountain, Zhang Dabao got out the car and rested in it for a while. After thinking about it, he decided not to take the meat out. The road was difficult to drive on at this time and the car could not run fast. If he encountered unreasonable people, he would get into trouble. It would be better to put the wild boar in the car when he was closer to the capital.

Zhang Dabao drove south, this time driving much slower. He arrived around noon, crossed the Qingshui River, parked the car in a small woods, ate something in the car, and took a nap.

After resting up, Zhang Dabao spread hay in the carriage and put 19 wild boars in it. He also took out the small wild boar he had shot in Zhangjia Village and left the two big ones in his space.

After releasing the wild boar, covering it with hay and sealing it with ropes, Zhang Dabao started the car again and arrived at the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill at 4:30 in the afternoon.

After the car entered the south gate, Zhang Dabao went to the security department and found the section chief Xing Baoguo to return the gun first. "Dabao, do you have anything?" Xing Baoguo asked after putting the gun away.

"Uncle Xing, we've shot several people and they're all in the car. Aren't we here to return the guns first? I'm afraid you'll be leaving after get off work soon," said Zhang Dabao.

"There are a few more. Let me go and take a look." Xing Baoguo was a little skeptical. After leaving the security department, he climbed onto the car and pulled away the grass. He saw that they were really wild boars.

"Kid, you really don't know which side is more important. The leader is so anxious about the meat. Why don't you return the gun first? Drive to the small canteen, which is just behind the office. I will report to Director Li." Xing Baoguo said to Zhang Dabao with a smile on his face.

Zhang Dabiao drove the car to the small cafeteria behind the office building, while Xing Baoguo ran up to the office building. He ran quite fast and didn't look like he was 45 years old at all. After reaching the third floor, Xing Baoguo opened the door of Li Huaide's office and went in. "Director Li, hurry up, pig..."

"What kind of pig are you, Old Xing? I think you were chased by a dog, why are you so anxious?" Li Huaide said with a smile.

"Da Biao, we've got a truckload of pigs back. They're right in front of the canteen." Xing Baoguo breathed a sigh of relief and explained everything clearly.

"What, a truckload of pigs? Why didn't you say so earlier?" Li Huaide pushed open the office door and went downstairs, faster than Xing Baoguo.

"Da Biao, where's the wild boar?" Li Huaide ran over, panting a little. When he saw Zhang Da Biao, he hurriedly asked. He was now very worried about the banquet. He and Director Yang had contacted no less than five meat processing plants, and a total of 200 kilograms of meat were given. However, the employees had already been told about the full meal. Without a decent dish, how could the employees be happy? Now that there was news about the meat, Li Huaide was very happy.

"Uncle, there are eighteen or nineteen of them in the car, and they are of different sizes. We need to have someone deal with them quickly. If we wait until tomorrow and the blood doesn't come out, the quality of the meat may be affected." Zhang Dabao said.

"Need I tell you, I can't fight, but I can eat, right?" Li Huaide laughed.

"Old Xing, ask Old Kang to gather all the chefs, kill the pig first, and clean out the offal water, otherwise the meat will not taste good tomorrow. You run fast, so run again," Li Huaide said to Xing Baoguo when he saw Xing Baoguo coming.

"Okay." Xing Baoguo ran upstairs again. He thought to himself, I can't run as fast as you. Who would believe that you are a civilian cadre? You are much faster than me.

After about ten minutes, fifteen or sixteen chefs came to the door of the small canteen. He Yuzhu from Yard 95 was also inside. Director Kang from the Logistics Department was holding a meeting with the chefs.

"Unload the truck!" Director Kang gave the order, and seven or eight young men got on the truck. Another seven or eight people continued on the truck, and the pig-slaughtering work began.

"Uncle, there's nothing else, I'll go back first. I've been out for three days and my clothes smell." Zhang Dabao saw that everyone was busy and had nothing else to do, so he wanted to go home.

"Go back. Wait, there is a Golden Deer bicycle in the bicycle shed in front of the office building. It's mine. I can't usually ride it. You can ride it back. Here are the keys." Li Huaide took a small handful of keys from a bunch of keys and gave them to Zhang Dabao.

"The one with the most dirt is this one. Find a rag and wipe it." Li Huaide gave another instruction when he saw Zhang Dabao walking away.

"Deputy Director Li, is that your nephew?" He Yuzhu came over and asked.

"Yes, do you know him?" Li Huaide did not have a good impression of He Yuzhu, the troublemaker in the cafeteria, and answered casually.

"We live in the same courtyard, he lives in the back yard and I live in the middle yard," said He Yuzhu.

"Really? He is young, so don't let anyone bully him. Help him more if he needs help," said Li Huaide.

"Okay," He Yuzhu agreed, but he didn't want to talk anymore. What do you mean he's young? Just because he's young, will he be bullied? It's okay for him to bully others, and he even needs help. One person can beat ten of me.

Chapter 27 Yi Zhonghai Vomits Blood

Zhang Dabao looked at his watch. It was almost half past five. Everyone should have left after get off work. He had a bicycle, which made it faster. He could get back in less than ten minutes, which usually took twenty minutes.

Zhang Dabao met Yan Bugui at the door, "Dabao, did you buy a bicycle?" Before Zhang Dabao could say anything, Yan Bugui spoke first.

"I didn't buy it, I borrowed it. Are you waiting for someone at the door?" Zhang Dabao asked.

"Don't wait for anyone, Da Biao, you don't take good care of your bicycle. There's such a thick layer of dirt on it. Really." Yan Bugui's eyes seemed to be grown on the bicycle, touching this and wiping there.

"Teacher Yan, I'm going back first." Zhang Dabao didn't have time to let him see. He picked up his bicycle, walked over the threshold and entered the compound.

Banggeng from the middle courtyard was the first to see Zhang Dabao and the bicycle he was pushing, "Seventh Uncle, I want to ride a bicycle."

"Come on up." Zhang Dabao helped Banggeng sit on the beam. Banggeng happily held the handlebars with both hands, as if he was riding a bicycle.

"Seventh Uncle, you bought a car." Jia Dongxu also came over.

"No, I borrowed it." Zhang Dabao felt uncomfortable when he saw Jia Dongxu lowering his head and looking wretched. He was not ugly, so why did he look so uncomfortable?

Banggeng followed Zhang Dabao to the backyard, and Jia Jingshu sat in the back seat. Zhang Dabao had no choice but to push the two of them around the yard again.

After stopping the bike, Banggeng and Jingshu were still sitting on it and refused to get off. Zhang Dabao had no choice but to let Huang Xinsheng push them, because Zhang Lianhua didn't dare to push the bike, firstly for fear of falling the children, and secondly for fear of crashing the bike.

Huang Xinsheng pushed the two of them around the yard several times. Zhang Cuihua called Banggeng several times before he got off his bicycle and went home for dinner. When he got off, Jia Jingshu also got off.

Zhang Dabao went to the bathroom, washed his face, and urinated. He felt fine. At least there was no smell and no feces.

I changed my clothes and started eating.

While eating, Zhang Dabao listened to his second sister talking about what happened in the courtyard in the past three days. The biggest thing was that Liu Guangtian went to work as a handkerchief worker in the handkerchief factory run by the street committee, earning 18 yuan a month. He and his younger brother Liu Guangfu moved to the back house and started their own cooking.

"Do they have food?" asked Zhang Dabao.

"Yes, maybe not much. It should be the street office that gave them some. Second Uncle didn't give them anything. The bedding and clothes were taken out from his house by the street staff. It's outrageous," said Zhang Lianhua.

"After dinner, I'll send some food to him. Everyone has hard times. In the village, if someone splits up the family and starts a fire, the neighbors will more or less give them some food, furniture and so on. This place is not as good as our village," said Zhang Dabao.

"Yes, the people here seem fake and not sincere at all," Zhang Lianhua feels the same way.

Huang Xinsheng expressed the same feeling and suggested avoiding dealing with people in the hospital as much as possible.

"Xinsheng, some things cannot be decided just by our wishes. Can you just avoid fighting if you don't want to deal with them? Look, the people who are looking for trouble are coming." Zhang Dabao pointed, and Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui came over.

"Da Biao, are you still eating?" Yan Bugui asked with a smile outside the door.

"Yes, Teacher Yan, is there something wrong?" Zhang Dabao asked.

"Zhang Dabao, three of us uncles are here and you didn't even stand up to greet us. Do you have any manners?" Before Yan Bugui could answer, Liu Haizhong got angry first.

"Welcome you? Who do you think you are? Dogs know that people don't come into the house when they are eating. You're worse than a dog." Zhang Dabao cursed while eating.

Liu Haizhong was angry at Zhang Dabao's words and wanted to say something, but was stopped by Yi Zhonghai.

"Da Biao, the three of us came here mainly to ask about your bicycle?" Yi Zhonghai spoke.

"Is there a problem with the bicycle?" Zhang Dabao put down the bowl and stood up. With a height of 1.8 meters, he gave the three old men outside the door a strong sense of oppression.

"I mainly want to know where it comes from?" Yi Zhonghai continued to ask.

"What am I telling you? Do you have the right to ask? What are the duties of the person in charge of the hospital? Don't you know? Or are you pretending not to know?" Zhang Dabao asked Yi Zhonghai.

"No, everyone wants to know," said Yi Zhonghai.

"Yi Zhonghai, who are you talking about? Tell me and let him ask me. "Everyone" can't be just the three of you, right?" Zhang Dabao walked out the door.

The three people outside stepped back, "Da Biao, I don't want to know. You told me it was borrowed," Yan Bugui said quickly.

"Borrowed? From whom? Who can lend you such a valuable thing?" Liu Haizhong was obviously not satisfied with Yan Bugui's statement.

"In Liu Haizhong, how high is the sky? How wide is the earth? How deep is the sea?" asked Zhang Dabao.

"How should I know this?" Liu Haizhong was a little confused and didn't understand why Zhang Dabao asked this question.

"There are so many things you don't know, you bastard. What else can you do besides beating children? You can't even eat shit while it's hot. If you don't have a brain, just stay at home and don't embarrass yourself, okay?" Zhang Dabao could see that Liu Haizhong didn't have the brains, and Yan Bugui didn't want to have a bad relationship with him, so it must be Yi Zhonghai's doing.

"Yi Zhonghai, if you have this much free time, why don't you stay at home and study how to have children? Do you think it's glorious to be a childless person? Thinking about this and that every day, you are bored, you are bored." After scolding Liu Haizhong, Zhang Dabao started to scold Yi Zhonghai.

The words "extinct" are probably the two most taboo words in Yi Zhonghai's world. When someone said it in public, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

"Zhang Dabao, we are doing this for your own good." Yi Zhonghai's face turned pale, but he still refused to accept the result.

"Do I need you to do good for me? Have you ever done anything good? You appear to be a righteous person on the surface, but a thief and a whore behind the scenes. How could I not know what kind of person you, Yi Zhonghai, are? Can't I investigate you when I move into Yard 95? Yi Zhonghai, this won't work on me. If you feel there is something wrong, go directly to the street office or the police station. Don't come here to show off. Get out!" Zhang Dabao cursed loudly.

When they came, the three uncles were aggressive and when they left, they were covered in dust, especially Yi Zhonghai, who hated Zhang Dabao to the extreme. Because Zhang Dabao touched his bottom line, he ridiculed himself in public as a family with no descendants.

Yi Zhonghai returned home without saying a word, and his wife didn't dare to ask.

When Liu Haizhong returned home, he was even more angry. Not only did he not achieve the effect he had imagined, he was also scolded. The key point was that neither of the two scapegoats were at home. So he sat there angrily and said nothing.

Around nine o'clock in the evening, He Yuzhu came back from overtime work. At the gate of the courtyard, he met Yi Zhonghai who had just returned from the toilet. "Uncle, do you know?"

"What do I know? You are the one who said this," said Yi Zhonghai.

"Zhang Dabao in our backyard is really the nephew of Deputy Director Li. This afternoon, Zhang Dabao brought back a cart of wild boars, and Deputy Director Li gave all his bicycles to Zhang Dabao," He Yuzhu said mysteriously.

Damn, this is the news. "Zhuzi, why didn't you tell me earlier?" Yi Zhonghai asked He Yuzhu.

"Didn't I tell you as soon as I got back? Isn't it early enough?" He Yuzhu didn't understand why Yi Zhonghai asked this.

Yi Zhonghai felt a sweet taste in his throat at this moment, and he spat out a mouthful of blood, then fell to the ground.

"Here you are, an old man fell down," He Yu shouted outside the door.