"The Shen family, bah, Qing'er's mother! Qing'er is back!" The villagers of Lantang Village came running to inform Miao of the news.
Miao came out quickly and asked the visitor anxiously, "Where is he? Is he injured?"
"We're about to go down the mountain. It looks like nothing happened. We ran into them just as we were getting up the mountain. They were dragging such a big wild boar. Your Qing Ge'er is really capable! I'm afraid you're worried, so I'm here to give you a message. Get ready to clean up the wild boar. It's cold now, and the blood will coagulate quickly. It won't taste good if it freezes."
The visitor was kindhearted, otherwise he wouldn't have rushed down the mountain to report the news. But at this moment, Miao didn't care whether the food was delicious or not. She felt dizzy when she heard the word "wild boar"!
Aunt Lian Er, who was standing by, quickly supported her and looked helplessly at the villager who reported the news: "Brother Wang, what you said is wrong. We can't care about the wild boar now. The most important thing is that Qing'er is fine!"
Old Wang smiled naively and scratched his head: "I saw that Qingge'er was fine. That big wild boar was carried down the mountain by Qingge'er on his back. Even my kid might not be able to carry it!" Not to mention killing a wild boar by himself.
It was dark and it was past the time Shen Qing usually returned home. Miao became anxious and went to the village chief's house, begging him to gather some young men to help go up the mountain to look for him.
This is as it should be. People in a village should help each other. When other families encountered this kind of thing before, Shen Qing also helped to go up the mountain to look for the person. When it came to Shen Qing, the village chief had no reason to refuse. He didn't even bother to eat, so he put down his bowl and went to look for someone.
If Shen Qing moved out of the Shen family with his mother and became a woodcutter, Village Chief Zhao, like Miao Xing, thought the job was too dangerous and disagreed with it. However, the mother and son really had no other way to make a living, so he couldn't say much.
At this moment, he had a feeling of "as expected". Looking at Miao's red eyes, he couldn't say anything to blame her. He could only sigh and gather people from house to house.
There were many kind-hearted people in the village. They quickly gathered a dozen strong young men and divided them into several groups with torches and gongs. Whoever found the item would ring the gong first so that the others could go down the mountain and avoid getting lost.
However, the Shen family heard from afar that the village chief was looking for someone, so they closed the door, leaving Village Chief Zhao with a cold reception.
Village Chief Zhao was furious: "After all, he is his own child. He refused to help find the missing child even though he could help!" Shen Zhigao had done something stupid, but now he had the nerve to hate Qing'er and his mother. Zhao Youdang looked at the closed door and reconsidered the family.
Village Chief Zhao asked Miao to stay at home and arranged for Aunt Lian, who was most familiar with her, to accompany her. He personally led the group to search. The group went up the mountain with great fanfare, and before they split up, they ran into Shen Qing who was carrying a wild boar down the mountain.
Although it was a half-grown wild boar, it was almost 200 kilograms, half of it was on Shen Qing's back, and the other half was dragged on the ground. He chopped the wild boar's neck several times with the axe, and blood splattered all over Shen Qing's body and face. Now it was a bit scary under the light of the torch.
Lantang Village was in a sensation.
Killing a wild boar by oneself, this was something that only the best hunters like Liu the Hunter's father could do in the past. If it were hunters from other villages, they would probably have to work together with two or three people! A young man named Shen Qing actually killed a wild boar without any injury!
"It's not unscathed." Shen Qing sat in the house, surrounded by several aunts and uncles. He rolled up his left sleeve, revealing the long wound from the wild boar's tusks. "It's still quite dangerous. This is a little wild boar. Although I dealt with the bloodstains in the mountains, I'm afraid that a big boar will follow. I still have to tell the village chief later. The village should strengthen its defenses in the next few days."
After he met the villagers, they all helped him carry the wild boar down the mountain. Shen Qing only carried the small backpack, which he had now placed in the bedroom.
"Let's go talk to the village chief, don't worry about it." An uncle glared at Shen Qing in disapproval and took a clean towel to help him treat his wounds: "How can you be so brave, kid? You dare to rush forward when you see a wild boar! You scared your mother to death. What will your mother do if something happens to you!"
The wound was not deep, but it was long and looked extremely ferocious. Shen Qing had used wild chrysanthemum juice to bandage it briefly before, and it had stopped bleeding. The uncle just helped wipe the dirt around it and bandaged it again with a clean cloth: "Be careful not to get it wet in the next two days."
"Thank you, Uncle Li. I didn't mean to kill it from the beginning, it was the one that kept chasing me." Shen Qing patted the back of Miao's hand with his other hand: "Don't worry, mother, I'm fine, and nothing will happen to me in the future. Nothing will be able to hurt us mother and son in the future."
Miao was terrified when she heard this. She looked at the wound on her brother's arm and tears fell from her eyes. "Otherwise, you should stop chopping wood. I'll go to the county town and find some laundry work, so we can make a living..."
"I brought you out so that you can live a good life. How can I let you support me?" Shen Qing waved his hands repeatedly.
"I'll give it to you." Second Aunt Lian also glared at him, then turned to look at the wild boar in the yard: "What are you going to do with this pig? What Lao Wang said is right. If it is left for too long, it will smell fishy and won't taste good. There are only two people in your family, and you can't finish a pig. How about selling it to the villagers at a lower price? My family is just thinking of cutting some ribs."
Second Aunt Lian said this not because the family was really short of spareribs, but to start a conversation to get everyone to buy. She knew the situation of Miao's family best, and selling the pig would be a good way to make some money for the family.
As soon as this was said, others also agreed. It was not easy for villagers to eat meat. It was okay to kill a chicken occasionally, and sometimes eating an egg was considered meat, but pigs had to be killed during the Chinese New Year. It was not worth going to the county town to buy a piece of meat. At most, when someone killed a pig during the big market, they could taste meat. Shen Qing's pig was free. If they sold pork, it would definitely be cheaper than the big market and the county town. This season was just right for smoking bacon, so it would not be a loss to buy some.
Shen Qing thought about it and agreed: "Okay, thank you all for helping my family. I'll go to the village chief's house to borrow a scale." He originally thought that he was not short of money now, so he would give the wild boar to the villagers who helped his family, and the remaining bacon would be pickled and exchanged for gold and silver in the end of the world. But firstly, Second Aunt Lian was kind-hearted, and secondly, in everyone's eyes, his family was still poor, so it was strange to be so generous, so he agreed.
"You rest and don't move, I'll go." Aunt Lian waved her hand, "Your arm is still injured, I'll ask my children to come and help." She has a son, a brother and a daughter. The son is married to a hardworking and capable man, and the brother has grown old enough to help with housework, so it's just right for the three of them to come and help.
"Then I'll go home and bring some money." The rest of the people also stood up and said goodbye. Shen Qing said, "It's OK to exchange for food. My family doesn't have land, and we have to spend money to buy food. It's better to exchange for food directly, which will save both ends. And thank you all for coming to the mountain to find me today, and coming home to accompany my mother. I will definitely give you a big discount, and the price will be high."
"That's a good feeling." Farmers are not willing to spend money if they can exchange it with food and eggs. Money is limited and if you spend it, you will have less, but food can still grow from the ground. You can save a little here and there, and you can get away with it with vegetables. The aunts and uncles present are all happy, thinking that Qing Ge'er is a good child who knows how to be grateful.
Everyone was happy, except for the old Shen family, who were unhappy when they heard the news. Old Shen stood at the door and spat, "You little bastard, you're still lucky."
Widow Li's voice could be heard from the yard. She was no longer a widow. Li Jiaofeng called out "mother" several times. Old Lady Shen poured a basin of dirty water outside the door and said viciously, "Call, call, call your soul!"
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