"Are you stupid?"

"Why should those debt collectors get to eat all this meat for free?"

"You should always think more about your two children. Do you have enough food? Do the children have enough clothes? Do you have any savings?"

Grandma Wang slapped Lin Xue's arm in exasperation, fearing that Lin Xue might do something foolish and hand over all the meat to the authorities.

"Mother, I was just asking."

"The situation outside is not good right now. I'm worried that outsiders will see us eating so much meat. If they report us, that would be a huge problem!"

Lin Xue rubbed her arm where the old lady had patted her.

It didn't hurt; it was just an unconscious action.

"Don't worry about that, your mother has a plan!"

After saying that, the old lady and Lin Xue found a place to hide the wild boar.

Then the two of them each picked some more mushrooms before heading back with two pheasants and a dozen or so wild eggs.

At lunchtime, the old lady asked Lin Xue to take the two brothers, Wang Guodong and Wang Guoliang, up the mountain again.

After finding the three wild boars, the three of them moved them to a secluded stream.

Wang Guodong took out the things he had brought, which turned out to be some tools for slaughtering pigs.

When the three returned, the wild boar had turned into strips of wild boar meat.

The wild boar meat was placed in a basket on their backs, covered with a thick layer of pig feed. In this way, the three wild boars were carried home by the three men separately.

In the evening, Old Mrs. Wang left enough meat for Lin Xue and took away her basket of wild boar meat as well.