In the middle of the night, Gao Mingcheng got up quietly.

At this time, Xuanyuemei and Xiaoxuxu were still sleeping soundly and didn't notice anything at all.

Gao Mingcheng dressed quietly, then went into the kitchen to wash up, and ate some hot water and bread. After he was half full, he took the javelin, led the black tiger and the elf, and walked towards Niuweiling.

With the arrival of winter, the food in the mountains decreased and wild boars began to come down the mountain in the middle of the night to eat vegetables.

When I was chatting with people in the old village before, I heard that the vegetables planted by some people at the foot of the mountain were eaten by wild boars.

Most of these wild boars move around at night. When people arrive at the vegetable fields in the morning, they can only see a mess and cannot catch the wild boars at all.

Most people don't dare to go into the mountains to hunt wild boars in the middle of the night. Even though Gao Fuqiang has many brothers and has bird guns in their hands, they still don't dare to go into the mountains to hunt wild boars in the middle of the night.

This time when he returned to the village, in addition to making kudzu powder, Gao Mingcheng also planned to hunt a wild boar. He heard that some wild boars had already come down the mountain to eat vegetables, so he immediately decided to go into the mountains to teach the wild boars a lesson.

The mountains at night are not quiet.

The cold wind blew over the hills, and the branches swayed, making waves. Especially in the bamboo forest, the sound was like waves, one after another.

In winter, insects and animals are no longer active, but there are still small animals moving quietly in the dark, taking advantage of the cover of night to secretly look for food.

Wild boars are the best among them, and because there are no ferocious beasts in the mountains, wild boars are king. They often move in groups and pairs, and their movements can be heard across the hills.

The black tiger and the elf are also old friends of the wild boar. As soon as they entered the mountain, they began to smell the scent of their old friends and took Gao Mingcheng all the way to find their old friends.

This was the middle of the night, when wild boars were most active, so they quickly found their tracks. There were not many wild boars in the group, only five or six. They were heading straight for one place with a clear goal. Because they were in a hurry, Gao Mingcheng was not in a hurry to take action, but quietly followed them with the two dogs.

About three minutes later, the herd of wild boars came to a depression at the foot of the mountain where there was a shallow water source. Near the depression, there were many wild vegetables growing.

Don’t think that there are no wild vegetables in winter. It’s just that there are not as many varieties as in spring.

There are also cold-resistant wild vegetables in the mountains, such as wutacai, shepherd's purse, false dandelion, nightshade, wild onion, etc., and after the rain, ground vegetables will appear in the fields in the mountains.

Ground ivy generally grows in moist and humid places. It is actually a combination of algae and fungi, so it has no roots or leaves. It is dark black in color and can grow all year round. It will dry up on sunny days, but will absorb water and swell after rain, just like wood ear.

In the past, whenever it rained, the children would go to the mountains and fields to look for ground vegetables. Gao Mingcheng also often went there when he was a child, but he didn't like to eat it.

To be precise, it’s not that I don’t like to eat, it’s that I don’t like to wash!

Ground vegetables are very dirty and difficult to wash.

After he was able to make money, he was too lazy to go into the mountains to eat wild vegetables. Wild vegetables can taste fresh if you add enough seasonings, but most wild vegetables are not delicious, otherwise they would not be just wild vegetables and would not be cultivated by people into vegetables for planting.

At this time, Gao Mingcheng was about a hundred meters away from the wild boar herd. He watched from afar as the wild boars lowered their heads to gnaw on food.

But even though they are eating, they are actually quite alert. Once there is any disturbance, they will run away and disappear without a trace.

But if you make them angry, they will even charge at you and knock you to the ground with their mouths.

Gao Mingcheng patted the two dogs' heads and signaled them with his eyes to stay where they were. He then quietly approached the herd of wild boars with a javelin in hand.

His movements were so light that even the alert wild boar did not notice them for a moment. When he was only about ten meters away from the wild boar, Gao Mingcheng stopped moving forward.

After he stood still, he slowly raised the javelin in his hand, and his eagle-like eyes were looking among the wild boars, looking for the best target.

When he found the target, he threw the javelin in his hand without hesitation. It flew out of his hand in an instant, and with a sharp sound of breaking through the air, the javelin had already stabbed towards the head of one of the wild boars at a rapid speed.

When the wild boars sensed the danger and fled in panic, a wild boar that was eating fell to the ground with a bang.

At this time, the black tiger and the elf could no longer hold back. They rushed over here while barking. The noise they made made the escaping wild boar run even faster.

A hurried sound was heard, and when it faded away, the herd of wild boars had disappeared.

Gao Mingcheng went forward to check on his prey. As the javelin had pierced directly into the wild boar's head, the boar did not struggle much and died instantly.

He drew the butcher knife from his waist and quickly bled the wild boar before it cooled down.

While the blood was being drained, he pulled out the spear.

The gun tip was stained with blood, which made the blade even colder.

The hunt was quick, less than an hour from the start to now. This was mainly because wild boars were active in the second half of the night, so it was easy to find their tracks. The wild boars ran to the foot of the mountain in search of food, so Gao Mingcheng got a bargain.

After the blood had all flowed out, Gao Mingcheng did not delay and carried the wild boar on the ground on his shoulders, holding the javelin in his free hand.

"Black Tiger, elf, go home!"

With his shout, the man and two dogs climbed over the hill and headed towards the house at the foot of Niuweiling Mountain.

When I got home, it was still dark.

Gao Mingcheng put the wild boar in the yard, went to fetch water to wash his hands, and then cooked the porridge, so that when Xuanyuemei and Xiaoxuxu got up, they would have hot porridge to eat.

The wild boar he hunted was a male, but it should have been born in the spring of this year. It only weighs about 120 kilograms now.

Wild boars are ferocious, especially the big ones, which are very difficult to deal with. Even though Gao Mingcheng has good physical fitness and great strength, he is unwilling to provoke a big wild boar. It's not that he can't afford to provoke it, but the meat of a big wild boar is not tasty!

Therefore, the targets he chose were mostly weighing around 100 kilograms. He felt that such wild boars were the most delicious and easy to handle.

The wild boars in their area are not very fierce, either in terms of size, appearance or aggressiveness. The biggest difficulty for ordinary people to hunt wild boars is that although wild boars are nearsighted, they have a very good sense of smell and hearing. Once there is any sign of trouble, they will run away quickly and people cannot catch up at all.

Secondly, if a wild boar is angered, it will knock you over, and in serious cases, it can even kill you.

After Gao Mingcheng got the two pages of gold foil, his physical fitness got better day by day. With the help of two good dogs, he dared to go into the mountains to hunt alone.

Although the fur of the wild boar on the ground was not particularly rough, Gao Mingcheng still decided to skin it. Skinning would definitely be more convenient than boiling hot water and then scraping the fur.

So he went to the utility room to get tools, a complete set of pig-killing tools, and a large wooden board. After skinning the wild boar, he placed it on the large wooden board and then cut it up.

Although he had moved as quietly as possible, the lights in the yard and the intermittent sounds still woke up Xuanyuemei. She turned her head to look at the window through which the light came in, and found that Gao Mingcheng was no longer in bed. So she had a guess in her mind, and immediately put on her clothes quietly and went out.

When she walked out of the room and came to the yard, she saw Gao Mingcheng skinning the wild boar attentively. His technique was very skillful. He held the peeled wild boar skin in one hand and cut the wild boar's body with a knife in the other. With each cut, he peeled off the skin very well, and the skin was very clean, without much meat left.

Hearing footsteps, Gao Mingcheng looked up and said with a smile: "Did I wake you up?"

Seeing the wild boar, Xuanmei was surprised, but still complained: "You never told me before you did anything. I didn't even know you were going to hunt in the mountains today! If I had known, I would have prepared some food for you in advance."

Gao Mingcheng smiled embarrassedly, and suddenly remembered that Xuanmei in his previous life had also accused him of being arbitrary and autocratic, and never discussed anything with her or said a word when doing anything.

Gao Mingcheng, on the other hand, thought that many of the beauties did not understand what he was going to do, or could not get involved at all, so what good would it be to tell her?

I'd better not say anything more.

With the experience from his previous life, Gao Mingcheng explained in a friendly manner this time: "I told you in advance because I was afraid you would worry, and I didn't want you to get up so early."

Hearing Gao Mingcheng's words, Xuanyue felt warm in her heart.

She immediately said, "Have you boiled water? If not, I'll go and boil it now. You need hot water when you take a shower later."

Knowing that Gao Mingcheng had not yet gone to boil water, Xuanyuemei went to the kitchen to light the fire, wash the pot and boil water.

She boiled a large pot of water. She would definitely use a lot of water later, and the extra water could be used to wash her face.

After the water was heated and a few pieces of firewood were put into the stove, Xuanyuemei returned to the yard, ready to help.

All the wild boar viscera were piled in a basin. Many beauties rolled up their sleeves and began to clean out the clean viscera first, such as the pig heart, liver, lungs, etc., and then put the pig stomach, small intestine, and large intestine together. These would be taken outside for processing later.

In addition, the hair on the pig's head, pig's feet, and pig's tail also needs to be burned off with a torch.

The stove chamber is relatively small, and can only burn a pig's tail at most, so a separate fire has to be lit for this.

With the concerted efforts of the two, the wild boar has been almost dealt with.

At this time, the sky was getting bright.

Gao Mingcheng put down the knife in his hand and said, "Duomei, are you hungry? Let's eat porridge first and continue working later."

Xuanmei helped with the chores as soon as she got up, and now she was indeed hungry.

So the two of them went into the kitchen and had a simple meal of porridge and pickles. The pickles were not brought back from the county by them, but a plate of them was sent by Duo Yu and a plate of them was also sent by Chen Dasong's family.

I had just finished eating porridge, and Xiao Xuxu woke up!

Gao Mingcheng said, "Go and dress your son, wash his face and feed him porridge. I'll take care of the rest!"

"Okay!" Xuanyuemei nodded. Once Xiaoxuxu woke up, she would not be able to work. When the child was young, he was very attached to his mother and would call her mom all the time. Sometimes Xuanyuemei and Gao Mingcheng stood together. If Gao Mingcheng did not take the initiative to tease Xiaoxuxu, then Xuanyuemei would definitely be the first person Xiaoxuxu would look for.

But men work outside while women take care of the home and children, which is a division of labor that has been formed over thousands of years.

The wild boar meat had been cut up and laid out piece by piece on the large wooden board. In the morning light, the color was very beautiful.

Gao Mingcheng picked up the basin containing the pig's stomach, small intestines and large intestines and walked out of the house. These internal organs contained food residues and feces of the wild boar, which had to be taken outside.

After cleaning out the dirt inside, turn it over again to make it easier to clean.

People in later generations lived a better life and used flour to wash pig stomachs, but this was definitely not a luxury, so they used clean wood ash to wash it. Pour the wood ash into a basin, and squeeze it hard with your hands to wash off the mucus on the surface of the pig stomach.

Wash the wood ash once, then wash it once with salt, and finally blanch it in water, take it out and wash it again, and it will be almost clean.

In fact, Gao Mingcheng didn't do this kind of work often. Before, when he hunted wild boars, he would call many people from the Yu family and Chen Dasong's family to help. When the time came, he would just give them some more bones.

But this time the pigs were not big, and there were many beauties to help, so he was too lazy to call anyone to do the work so early in the morning.

Gao Mingcheng had just washed the pig's offal when Xuanyuemei called him to pick some mulberry leaves from the field.

Frosted mulberry leaves are a medicinal ingredient, but many Americans use mulberry leaves not as medicine, but to wrap pork kidneys and stew them for consumption.

Upon learning that Xuanyue planned to stew the pork kidneys for Xiaoxuxu, Gao Mingcheng went to pick mulberry leaves without saying a word.

This mulberry tree was dug down from the mountain and planted here.

At first he planted them in the yard. Later, by chance, an old man in the village passed away. When his father learned that he had planted mulberry trees in the yard, he scolded him and asked him to transplant the trees away.

Mulberry trees are easy to grow. Now, it has grown into a big tree. The mulberry leaves on the tree are also very dense. Unfortunately, this is a male tree and it does not grow mulberries!

Gao Mingcheng reached out and picked some mulberry leaves and took them home.

There was still a fire burning in the stove. This time, Xuanyue poured in clean water and threw several large pieces of pork into the big iron pot to stew.

The taste of wild boar meat is not so good if you cut it into slices and stir-fry it directly. However, if you stew the wild boar meat according to the method of cooking New Year pig, then cut it into pieces and stir-fry it, it will taste better.

When Gao Mingcheng returned with the mulberry leaves, Xuanyue had already cut the pig kidneys in half and removed the bad meat inside.

There are some white tendon-like substances inside the pig kidneys. They smell very fishy and are difficult to chew. Therefore, in order to improve the taste, this part must be removed. The remaining pig kidneys will be soft, tender and delicious.

The pork kidneys are divided into four small pieces, each of which is wrapped with seven or eight mulberry leaves, and then carefully clamped into the stove with pliers. They cannot be placed near open flames, but must be wrapped in hot ashes with sparks and then slowly cooked.

The pork kidneys and eggs stewed in this way are not only fragrant but also nutritious.

Gao Mingcheng watched Xuanmei put all the pork kidneys into the stove, so he took out three eggs and decided to stew some more eggs to eat.

"Watch the fire, I'll go outside and light a fire to burn the hair off the pig's head and feet." Gao Mingcheng picked up a box of matches and walked out of the house. (End of this chapter)