Wild boars have a wide diet, mainly consisting of grass roots and fruits, with insects and earthworms as snacks.

Rats, snakes, and pheasant eggs are all on their diet; they eat everything from vegetarian to meat-based foods.

Because of their aggressive nature, poor eyesight, and keen sense of smell and hearing, wild boars are known to attack humans and have always been considered relatively dangerous wild animals.

As an animal with a strong sense of territory, even though Peppa is not yet a fully grown wild boar, she will not allow other intruders to enter her territory and cause trouble.

This hawk wasn't a domestic chicken like they usually were, and with Xu Errui shouting and yelling nearby, it naturally aroused the wild boar's ferocity, causing it to take down the raptor directly.

But the little wild boar didn't eat it right away.

It dropped the kite on the ground, wriggled around a few times, and the bloodied kite turned into a pile of mangled flesh.

Xu Errui tried to take it, but the little wild boar shoved his hand away with its mouth, grunting a few times to express its dissatisfaction.

Before Jiang Zhi could even approach, the little wild boar had already grabbed the dead hawk and rushed back to the house next door.

Immediately following was a terrified scream from inside the house: "Wuhua, ah! What are you doing? What is this?"

Jiang Zhi and Xu Errui hurried back.

In the kitchen, the little wild boar threw the dead hawk in front of Qiaoyun and nudged her with its snout toward the stove.

Jiang Zhi looked at it and couldn't help but laugh and want to scold at the same time: "You glutton, you want to eat roast meat!"

Having grown up alongside humans, eating porridge and roasted sweet potatoes, the little wild boar was already used to cooked food, and it wanted to roast and eat the hawk it had just killed.

Now that Qiaoyun was stuck in the kitchen, she had to help with the grilling. She wrapped the kite in a few leaves and threw it into the ashes. Soon, the aroma of meat filled the air.

At this moment, Xiaoman and her friends, who had heard the commotion, came over.

"Was that a hawk that came down just now?" Xiaoman asked. He had also heard the chickens squawking loudly from below the cliff.

Jiang Zhi said, "Yes, the hawk came down and was killed by the wild boar. All the work we did on the fence yesterday was for nothing."

Hawks are birds of prey and are territorial. If one dies, no more hawks will appear on this hill for the time being.

Grandpa Xiaoman exclaimed in admiration, "Wuhua is truly a spirit; it was worth raising it for nothing!"

He went to the nearby woods to check the fence and found that the netting had been torn with a large hole, and it would take half a day to repair it.

"Oh dear, it's pork belly!" Little Man didn't know what to say.

Jiang Zhi glanced at the wild boar waiting in the kitchen for its roasted meat and couldn't help but chuckle: It's all for a bite of meat!

I wasted half a day at home, so I'll check on the chicks first.

Because Peppa Pig rescued it in time, the chick wasn't seriously injured. It had a few feathers torn off and a gash on its back. Jiang Zhi applied some medicine powder to it and then prepared to go out to work.

She was going to pick some firethorn berries to store.

Firethorn berries can be eaten raw, or dried and used to make porridge, wine, or tea. When eaten raw, they are sweet and sour and aid digestion. When dried and ground into powder, they can be used to satisfy hunger, but they should not be eaten in large quantities as they can easily cause constipation.

Although we can now exchange some food with the medical shed, and with the availability of oak powder soon, our staple food supply can basically solve our food and clothing needs.

But now there's an ever-eating glutton in the house, and a bunch of chickens.

In winter, when there are no grass seeds or insects outside, we definitely need to increase our feeding, so we have to store more fruit now.

Fortunately, there were so many firethorn berries; clusters of bright red bushes grew on the slopes and cliff edges, and you could easily pick a handful.

Besides the firethorn berries, there are also wild chrysanthemums, which are now blooming in patches of golden yellow.

Under the sunlight, the strong medicinal fragrance of wild chrysanthemums was so intense it made one dizzy, while some bees buzzed around, collecting the most abundant nectar of the year, which was also the last nectar source before the arrival of winter.

Rolling around in the flower's heart, covered in pollen, its two thighs were even wrapped up like two round beans.

Jiang Zhi gently blew on the bee that landed on her hand, and the bee buzzed away.

These hardworking little creatures aren't troublesome wasps. As long as you don't attack them, they won't sting you, because if they do, they'll die immediately.

Wild chrysanthemums can be used as medicine or to make tea. Only unopened buds are picked. They have the effects of dispelling wind and clearing heat, clearing the liver and improving eyesight, reducing swelling and detoxifying.

In modern times, Xia Sang Ju granules, a common household remedy, uses wild chrysanthemum as the main ingredient to treat fever and red eyes caused by wind-heat colds.

It also has effects such as clearing the liver and improving eyesight, and is a traditional Chinese medicine with relatively rich pharmacological properties.

Besides wild chrysanthemums, Jiang Zhi also cut large bundles of small thistles by the ditch.

Autumn is the flowering and harvesting season for thistles. Cut the whole plant with flowers, remove impurities and dirt, wash it clean, cut it into sections and dry it in the sun.

Thistle

As a plant that is both food and medicine, the small thistle, also known as thorn vegetable, is a delicious wild vegetable in spring, and a good medicine for stopping bleeding and removing blood stasis in summer and autumn.

Small thistle

Fresh leaves can be crushed and applied directly to external wounds (such as knife wounds). Change the dressing when the dressing dries.

If you stir-fry dried thistles over high heat until they are charred, spray them with water and let them cool, you get thistle charcoal, which can enhance the hemostatic effect.

The wound on that bearded man's head contained this medicine, which is why Xu Dong recognized it at a glance.

Moreover, this medicine is also a key external medicine needed by the medical shed, and Jiang Zhi is harvesting it in large quantities.

Just as she was busy, a rustling sound suddenly came from the bushes not far away, growing louder and louder.

Jiang Zhi was startled and quickly stood up, staring in the direction from which the sound came.

It's not far from where I live, and I can see Xu Errui irrigating the late rice paddies by the terraces. There shouldn't be any wild animals around.

Under Jiang Zhi's watchful gaze, as the sound grew louder, a monster with a long snout and large ears quickly emerged from the bushes. As soon as it showed its head, its nostrils twitched up and down, and it let out a soft scream from its throat, as if it had suffered a great injustice.

It turned out to be the little wild boar that had finished its snack and come looking for them.

Jiang Zhi was both annoyed and amused. This guy had no choice but to hide in the bushes instead of taking the proper path.

"Peppa Pig, come here and let me pet you!"

Jiang Zhi now feels quite safe with this little guy by her side.

The little wild boar came over and let Jiang Zhi scratch its head a couple of times, then slap its bottom, making it hum happily.

"Go find something to eat yourself, and don't bother me!"

Jiang Zhi pushed it away, and the little wild boar grunted twice more before obediently turning around and starting to root in the ground to find food to fill its never-ending belly.

At this moment, Xiaoman had already reached the cliff edge by the village, watching the soldiers below running drills and practicing.

Especially Zhang Juntou's spear wielding was so skillful and impressive that he wanted to imitate it, but he couldn't keep up no matter what he did. Frustrated, he scratched his head and said, "Oh, if only I could learn from him. Tomorrow, when Aunt Jiang comes down the mountain, I must switch places with Brother Errui!"

Tomorrow, Jiang Zhi will go down the mountain again. She wants to make sure the roads are easy to travel before the continuous autumn rains, and she also wants to make sure the medical shed needs medicinal herbs, so she will go down the mountain more often.

When Xiaoman returned in the afternoon, she discussed with Xu Errui: "Brother Errui, Auntie is going down the mountain tomorrow, can you switch with me?"

The last time Jiang Zhi encountered Li Laoshi blocking her way, she told Er Rui to come into the village with her.

Before Xu Errui could answer, Jiang Zhi, who was arranging medicinal herbs nearby, spoke up: "Xiaoman, you have to tell your grandfather and older brother before you go down the mountain."

There are risks involved in going out. Now that Xiaoman wants to go, she can't just agree on her own; she needs her parents' permission first.

Xiaoman smiled and said, "Okay, I'll tell you in a bit. Auntie, if my grandpa agrees, you have to agree too."

He wanted to get a definite answer from Jiang Zhi before asking his own family.

Jiang Zhi thought for a moment and then agreed: "Okay, as long as you listen to me!"

"Okay! I'll definitely listen!" Xiaoman ran off happily.