However, since it was the soldiers who carried them down, and Wang Ming and his group only left after the village chief had distributed the wild boar, the villagers gave up on the idea.

Five and a half wild boars were caught, and every household in the village received five or six jin (2.5-3 catties) of pork, along with some bones. These past few days, Daobei Village has been even more lively than during the Spring Festival, with the aroma of meat wafting from every house every day.

But they ate it for five or six days in a row. Some families even froze some of it, and those few pounds of delicious meat were gone in just a few days. These educated youths in the rural settlements were all city dwellers before they went to the countryside and had never suffered much hardship.

Without meat coupons in the village, they couldn't go out to buy meat. Or, if they didn't have much money, they might as well not have any to eat, but now that they clearly have meat to eat, why would they be stingy?

Sure enough, they finished all the meat in just a few days. After that, they couldn't sit still every day because of the aroma of meat being cooked by each household. With Lü Yong's encouragement, most of the educated youth at the settlement followed suit.

That's true. Why should the Tang family get five and a half wild boars? Those wild boars weren't hunted by them; they were brought back by the soldiers. Just because the Tang family produced a soldier, the soldiers sided with them and gave them five and a half wild boars. This is undermining socialism.

They won't agree to let us have five of those five and a half wild boars if we don't bring them out today.

Chang Yin was so angry he laughed. He glanced at all the educated youth.

"You all call yourselves intellectuals, yet what you've done is a disgrace to intellectuals."

The wild boar belonging to the Tang family was picked up by Tang Yue; I can testify to that.

Lu Yong was too afraid to challenge the soldiers, but he still muttered to himself in a low voice.

"You're all in cahoots, how can we trust you?"

Chang Yin gave Lü Yong a cold look. "That day, Tang Yue went into the mountains to dig for medicinal herbs and encountered a fight between a tiger and a group of wild boars. While the wild boars were badly injured by the tiger and lay on the ground, Tang Yue stabbed 11 of them to death with a machete."

I was leading a small team of over 40 men on a mission in the mountains when we encountered them. We wiped out the remaining wild boars and tigers and brought them back to our unit. Anyone who doesn't believe me can go to the military base and ask if this really happened.

We soldiers don't take a single needle or thread from the people. Everything that belonged to Comrade Tang Yue was returned to her family.

Tang Yue said that she had made an agreement with Village Chief Li that half of the game she hunted would belong to the village and the other half to his family.

Didn't you get your share of the pork from those five and a half head of pigs?

Everyone lowered their heads, secretly regretting that they hadn't gone up the mountain that day. Why hadn't they witnessed the tiger and the wild boar herd fighting? Why hadn't they found those eleven wild boars?

Lu Yong still didn't believe it. "She's so young, how could she possibly stab a wild boar in the head with a knife?"

Tang Yue looked at him coldly, "I'm very strong. I can even stab your head with a woodcutter's knife. Do you want to try?"

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