Brother Yu and Zhou Mingli worked together to lift the nearly 400-pound wild boar out of the pit. Jiang Ci and Sister-in-law Yu both had smiles on their faces, beaming with joy, just like it was Chinese New Year.
With such a great catch of a wild boar, Jiang Ci and the others decided to stop fishing and go back to butcher and prepare the boar first.
Otherwise, the smell of blood from the wild boar might attract something else.
The wild boar was placed on the back seat of the bicycle, and even Zhou Yang and Zhou Miao lost the right to ride. The two children followed the adults around happily.
Zhou Mingli and Brother Yu took turns pushing their bicycles and arrived at Zhou Mingli's house late at night.
It would be perfect for the two families to divide this wild boar among themselves.
Let each family have half.
Zhou Mingli and Brother Yu began to butcher the wild boar.
Both of them were manual laborers and had a lot of strength. Although their knife skills weren't as good as those of professional pig butchers, they were still able to distinguish the wild boars.
As for pig offal and such, Brother Yu's family didn't know how to prepare it, so they gave it all to Jiang Ci and her family.
Sister-in-law Yu asked, "What are you planning to do with so much meat? You won't be able to finish it all, will you?"
Jiang Ci and Zhou Mingli exchanged a glance.
She didn't understand any of this; she just did whatever Zhou Mingli wanted.
"Keep some pork belly to make cured pork, and keep the forelegs and hind legs to make sausages." Saying this, Zhou Mingli turned to Jiang Ci, "Want some ribs?"
Zhou Yang and Zhou Miao blinked their big eyes, guessing: What's cured meat? It must taste good if it's meat! And what's sausage? And spare ribs? What are those?!
If it's food, it must taste really good, right?!
Slurp, slurp, I just don't know if it's as tasty as a little rabbit.
Jiang Ci thought about the taste of pork ribs... She hadn't had them in a long time, and her mouth watered. She nodded, "Yes."
Zhou Mingli nodded and said, "Then I'll keep three rows of ribs, and I plan to sell the rest."
Their family can't finish all this meat, and if they don't process it, it will spoil. Keeping some and selling some is a good plan.
Brother Yu and Sister-in-law Yu exchanged a glance, somewhat reluctant to sell the meat.
Jiang Ci noticed their hesitation and took the initiative to say, "Brother Yu, your two young men are still growing. This pork is enough for them to eat for a long time. If not, you can make it all into cured meat and eat it slowly."
"As for making money, we can continue fishing in the nets in the future, and selling fish is not bad either."
Mr. Yu and his wife nodded in agreement, agreeing with Jiang Ci's statement. "Then we won't sell it."
After Brother Yu and the others carried away their half of the wild boar, Zhou Mingli began to keep the part he wanted.
Making cured meat and sausages can indeed preserve the meat for a long time, but it is also very time-consuming and requires a lot of salt.
The two spent most of the night cleaning up and finally managed to cut off two pig legs, three strips of pork belly, and three rows of ribs. As for the pig's head? They didn't want it.
Zhou Mingli cleaned the fur off these animals beforehand, then marinated them, and cleaned the offal as well.
The fish was also split equally between the two families, with Zhou Mingli having seven or eight fish.
"Are you going to sell them tonight?" Jiang Ci watched him tie the pork to the bicycle and then put on the basket of fish.
"I'll sell them tonight. I'll sneak to the stone quarry in the dark and sell these things. Keeping them at home makes them easy targets for thieves."
Jiang Ci was not comfortable with him going alone.
After hesitating for a long time, she said, "I'll go with you."
Zhou Mingli: "How are you going to get there with just one bicycle?"
Jiang Ci said, "I borrowed it from Zhou Gou's family."
The brigade leader's family also has bicycles, but it's obviously not feasible to borrow one from him. Zhou Gou has just bought a new bicycle, so if Jiang Ci goes to borrow one, Zhou Gou will definitely lend it to her.
Zhou Mingli paused for a moment, then did not immediately agree.
Jiang Ci's attitude was firm: "If it were the two of us, we could help each other on the road. But what if a bad guy sees you're alone and robs you?"
Zhou Mingli rubbed his temples and agreed, "Okay."
Jiang Ci went to the Yu family and asked them to help take care of Zhou Miao and Zhou Yang.
Sister-in-law Yu and the others were also awake, butchering meat. Hearing that they were going to sell meat so late at night, Sister-in-law Yu said, "Why aren't you resting? Why are you in such a hurry?"
"We were worried that the unmarinated meat would have a bad smell, so we wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible."
Jiang Ci said, "Sister-in-law, please have Dazhu and Erzhu come to my house to sleep and help look after Miaomiao and Yangyang."
Sister-in-law Yu nodded, "Okay, those two boys haven't slept either, they've been helping out half the night."
Dazhu and Erzhu were sent to the Zhou family. Jiang Ci thanked them and followed Zhou Mingli to Zhou Gou's house in the dark.
Because of his military training, Zhou Gou was a light sleeper, and he would wake up as soon as Jiang Ci and Zhou Mingli called him from outside.
After glancing at Wang Zhaodi, who was sleeping like a log, Zhou Gou put on his clothes and left the main room.
Just then, his daughter woke up and stood at the door of her room, holding a flashlight, hesitating whether to go to the door to check.
"Dad, it's Aunt Jiang and Uncle Zhou."
Zhou Gou urged her to go back and rest, "I heard them, they came looking for me. Go to sleep, don't worry about them."
Zhou Huai nodded longingly, then turned and went back to his room.
After Zhou Huai closed the door, Zhou Gou walked to the front door and opened it.
Upon seeing Jiang Ci and Zhou Mingli, he paused, his gaze sweeping over the back of the bicycle that Zhou Mingli was pushing.
His pupils were shocked.
"you……"
Jiang Ci explained briefly, "We hunted a wild boar with Brother Yu, but my family is small and we can't finish it all. We're thinking of selling it to a stone quarry. Brother Er Gou, could we borrow your bicycle?"
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