Chapter 27: Hunting Wild Boars

"Sister Xiang Yu, you're back," Xiang Cheng stood up excitedly. The three of them were wearing thick cotton coats.

"You are here to see me," Xiang Yu took off his gloves and opened the door.

The three of them hesitated, and finally took out a cloth bag and handed it to Xiang Yu, "Sister Xiang Yu, this is for you."

Xiang Yu opened the cloth bag and saw a dead rabbit inside. He seemed to still be able to feel its body temperature, and it was obvious that it had died not long ago.

"You hit it...?" Xiang Yu looked at the teenager standing in front of him. He didn't expect that in such a short time, he could hit a rabbit with a slingshot. He was a good talent.

"Sister Xiang Yu, if you hadn't taught me how to play, I would still be playing for fun. This is a thank you."

The two companions beside Xiang Cheng were obviously very excited about the fact that he had caught a rabbit. "You caught the rabbit, you can take it back and eat it."

"As for me teaching you how to use a slingshot, we were even last time," and what's more, the reason he could gain something now was because of his hard work in practice.

Xiang Yu said he didn't want anything, but Xiang Cheng and the other two begged him to accept it. In fact, they came to give him rabbit meat, and they also wanted Xiang Yu to teach them more things.

Seeing what the three men meant, Xiang Yu finally accepted the rabbit. After going up the mountain, he was followed by three little tails.

After Uncle Xiang's family harvested all the crops from the fields, it was obvious that they planned not to go out for a long time.

It is common to see them grinding cornmeal in stone bowls at home, probably in preparation for saving food in the future.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Xiang Cheng and his two companions appeared in front of Xiang Yumen on time. Yesterday, they found traces of wild boars in the mountains. The three were obviously very excited about today's action.

After the three of them helped Xiang Yu pick up some firewood, they walked into the forest. Wild boars were very sensitive to all kinds of sounds in the forest.

"Keep quiet the whole time and follow my gestures," Xiang Yu instructed, and the three nodded.

Holding the compound bow in hand, ready to shoot arrows at any time, Xiang Yu took the lead, and the three of them followed Xiang Yu's footprints in the snow, carefully.

At the entrance of the two-meter-wide cave, a group of dark wild boars were lying inside and snoring.

It seemed that there were about seven or eight of them. Xiang Cheng and the other two couldn't contain their ecstasy on their faces, but Xiang Yu frowned.

Wild boars are not only sharp but also very aggressive. If you are hit by one, you will probably have to lie down for ten days or half a month.

There are seven or eight of them here at once. If they get angry and attack violently, it will be a bit difficult to deal with them.

"Climb up the tree..." Xiang Yu carefully grabbed the tree trunk with both hands and then climbed up. The three followed her and also climbed up the tree.

Squatting on the branches, Xiang Yu pulled the bow and arrow in his hand, and the three of them also loaded stones into the slingshots.

"Aim carefully, the one on the far right," Xiang Yu gestured to the three people, and with a whoosh, the arrow went straight into the eye of the wild boar on the right.

"Ga~~~" The wild boar let out a miserable wail. The other wild boars that were still sleeping were awakened and fled out of the cave one after another.

When the wild boar that was shot by the arrow was about to stand up and run away, three stones were shot at its right leg. The wild boar couldn't hold on and fell to the ground.

Xiang Yu looked at the wild boar running out of the cave, and when the time was right, he shot another arrow, "Hit the one with white hair on its back."

At Xiang Yu's command, three stones flew out again, but the wild boars were too fast. The rest of them ran far away while Xiang Yu and his companions were attacking them.

The one that was shot before crawled out of the hole, shook off the arrow stuck in its eye, and growled.

The one at the entrance of the cave was twitching on the ground. The arrow Xiang Yu had shot at it had obviously injured its vitals. "Sister Xiang Yu, it's coming over."

Xiang Cheng looked at the wild boar rushing towards them. The bow and arrow in its eyes were shaking as it ran, and it looked extremely terrifying.

If only I had a gun in my hand, Xiang Yu sighed again, if I had a gun, these pigs would not be able to escape today.

"It's okay, don't go down yet," Xiang Yu said without any panic in his eyes. The wild boar ran to the big tree and rammed into it hard.

Suddenly there was a rustling sound, and the snow on the branches fell down and hit the wild boar.

"Hit," Xiang Cheng shot the wild boar's other eye with the stone in his hand. The two men were not idle either. The wild boar was buried in the snow and had nowhere to hide.

As its screams gradually weakened, Xiang Yu was the first to jump off the tree, and the other three followed suit and surrounded the wild boar.

"Xiang Ming, go and drag the one from the cave entrance over here," the little boy ran over without saying a word. The one that died at the cave entrance weighed only about 100 pounds.

The one under the tree is fatter.

I guess all the food has been frozen to death recently and they can't find anything to eat, so they are so thin.

Xiang Yu pulled out his bow and arrow, washed it and put it away in the snow. This place was already deep in the mountains, and few villagers would come here to chop firewood.

Xiang Yu took out a woodcutter and said, "Just process it here and take it back. If you take it back like this, the villagers will see you."

The three of them nodded in agreement to Xiang Yu's suggestion. "Xiang Ming, Shen Tao, the two of you should dig a hole here. It doesn't have to be too big."

Now that the blizzard has passed for a month and a half, some villagers in the village have run out of food at home. They naturally know what food means.

Xiang Cheng took the axe, gritted his teeth, and cut open the wild boar's belly. The few people had no tools to collect the pig's blood, so it was wasted.

Xiang Yu did not take action, but told the three of them to do it. The eldest of the three children, Shen Tao, was already sixteen years old.

If the three of them cannot accept these scenes, then there will be even more cruel things waiting for them in the future.

Moreover, these three children would bring her a lot of snacks every time, under the pretext of showing filial piety to her.

Xiang Cheng and Shen Tao were in good mental condition, but Xiang Ming kept vomiting from time to time until he decomposed the second pig, when his condition improved a little.

None of the three had any experience in slaughtering pigs. They just wielded the hatchets and chopped. Xiang Yu directed the three to put the strong-smelling pig offal into bags.

Putting snow balls in the bag can help cover up the smell.

The eight pig legs were divided equally among the four people, with each person getting two. The pork was divided equally among the four people, and the pig head Xiang Yu took one for himself, while the other pig head was shared by Xiang Cheng and the other two.

There were some things in the backpacks, but they simply couldn't carry so much, so two of them were left here to watch, while the other two went down the mountain to lift Xiang Yu's cart up.

All the pork was loaded onto the truck, and a layer of snow was spread on the surface. Finally, a pile of dry firewood and branches was placed on top.

He pushed the cart down the mountain in a swagger. Since Xiang Cheng and his two companions had been hanging out with Xiang Yu recently, the villagers didn't suspect anything when they saw him going down the mountain.