Chapter 47: Sharing Wild Boars
The next day, Ye Yu went to work as usual.
As the weather gets colder, there is less and less work to do in the fields. Now there is only some finishing work left. Many elderly people and some weak people simply take leave and do not work. After all, if you are unlucky enough to get sick with a fever, the money you spend and the suffering you endure will be much greater than working in the fields.
Ye Yu also didn't want to compete with others for those few work points. There were too many chores, it was a waste of time and thankless. It would be better for him to do more physical work on weekdays.
Unfortunately, the team leader did not approve my request for leave because I was too physically fit. During working hours, I joined the slacking team, squinting my eyes and leisurely looking like an old man taking a stroll.
Sometimes when I feel like it, I would pop broad beans and roast sparrows with Wang Dahai and a group of other little kids.
The broad bean harvest season is in late autumn. Every household has new broad beans, and some little kids pick them from the fields. When the team is harvesting and drying broad beans, they follow the adults and pick up the leftovers.
Every household has children, and the current food supply has improved compared to the 1950s and 1960s. People just turn a blind eye to these minor details.
Ye Yu exchanged some broad beans with the child and the child's family. He learned how to light a fire and threw the broad beans in. After a while, the fire started to sizzle, and then with a "bang", the broad beans burst.
It’s a bit like setting off firecrackers during Chinese New Year.
The little kids clapped their hands happily. Ye Yu smelled the rich aroma and couldn't wait to pull it out and put it in his mouth. It was crispy and smelled incredibly delicious.
The same goes for sparrows.
Simply process it or even do nothing at all. Throw the sparrows into the fire. When they are cooked, put out the fire. Take out the sparrows and remove the burnt parts. Don't throw away the internal organs. Just tear off the meat in the middle. Cook it every shred.
It smells delicious, but tastes a bit fishy when chewed. However, in this time when meat and oil are scarce, it is definitely a delicacy.
Seeing Ye Yu and the others roasting broad beans and sparrows, the others also felt itchy and soon built a fire as well. Some even roasted peanuts or popped popcorn.
The place where work was done suddenly became a place for delicious food, which made the team leader and his colleagues laugh and cry, but they did not stop it, mainly because the work could not be delayed now.
After work, Ye Yu first returned to the educated youth site.
It is Hua Feifei's turn to cook dinner today. Every time this day comes, the other three educated youth look forward to it the most, because Hua Feifei has good cooking skills and many varieties of dishes, and can create something unique in winter.
Now there is a new iron pot in the kitchen, making a total of two pots.
One pot is used to steam buns. It is not made of pure white flour. A lot of sweet potato flour, corn flour, and soybean flour are mixed in with the flour, and a little bit of sugar is added. The soft buns steamed out have a light sweetness. The other pot is used to fry fish. The fish is fried on both sides until golden brown, and the aroma of meat comes out. Then add some tofu mixed with green onions.
Ye Yu took a bite of fish, a bite of multi-grain pancake, a bite of tofu and a bite of spicy cabbage.
With meat, grains and vegetables, such a leisurely life is something I wouldn’t trade even if I were a god.
After dinner, Ye Yu walked out of the door under the hesitant gazes of the three people.
The target is pointing directly towards the South Mountain.
After a while, it was getting dark. Han Jing and the others were a little worried because in the past, when Ye Yu went hunting after work, he would usually come back before dark.
Sometimes one even suspects that she just went out for a walk and a hare or pheasant happened to happen to her. Such luck and such means are really tempting.
He hasn't come back yet at this time today.
"Maybe it gets dark earlier in the winter? This is about the same time she came back ten days ago."
Just as Hua Feifei and others were speculating and worrying, the sound of many people talking could be faintly heard outside.
The three of them hurried out of the yard.
The sound seemed to come from the bottom of the mountain. A child's voice was particularly clear and called out: "Wild boar, wild boar, auntie has caught a wild boar!"
etc--
Wild boar?
What wild boar?
Aunt?
"It seems like they call Ye Yu aunt."
"Some of the old ladies in the village also said that Ye Yu was cold on the outside but warm on the inside. Otherwise, how could so many children like her and she became the leader of the children in Wangjiagou?"
In other words—
Ye Yu caught a wild boar? ! !
Han Jing, Xu Fei, and Hua Feifei looked at each other. Seeing the shock in their eyes, two seconds later, they all ran down the mountain quickly.
Almost everyone in Wangjiagou felt the same way. This was a bustling scene that had not happened in eight hundred years.
And the wild boar—
That's a pig!
Han Jingsa's speed was still no match for the villagers in Wangjiagou. Not to mention the energetic young people, they couldn't even keep up with many elderly people. When they reached the foot of the mountain, the villagers had already surrounded the village in layers.
"Make way, make way, please make way."
Han Jing and his friends used facial recognition to squeeze to the front, and saw village cadres such as the team leader, village accountant, warehouse keeper, women's director, and militia company commander standing in the center.
and elm leaves.
At Ye Yu's feet lay a wild boar weighing several hundred pounds. It was covered with dark brown bristles and had some marks of being dragged. Its mouth was open, revealing two sharp fangs. Its neck was cut by a knife and blood was oozing out.
This wild boar blood is also a good thing, so the warehouse keeper took a large wooden barrel to collect it.
Good job!
It really is a wild boar!
If it was a lively wild boar, the people present might be scared, but a dead wild boar like this would only make people greedy, and they would see only the word "meat" in its eyes.
At this time, not many people can maintain normal rationality.
The team leader was one of the few. He rubbed his sore temples. These educated youths always made some noise every now and then. Although there were many surprises, it was also very tiring for the cadres.
He asked the key question: "Where did Comrade Ye encounter these wild boars? Did they come down from Nanshan Mountain? Will they affect the crops in the village?"
"Won't."
Ye Yu only answered the last question.
Anyone with a little intelligence could tell from such an evasive answer, "There are wild boars over the South Mountain," that she must have gone over to the South Mountain.
People are talking about:
"This educated youth is really brave."
"If you had Ye Zhiqing's strength, would you be able to resist going into the mountains?"
"Of course I can't help it. If I had Ye Yu's skills, the wild boar wouldn't be able to escape Nanshan alive, and my family wouldn't have delicious meals every day..."
"Nanshan is dangerous, Comrade Ye, it's better for you to go there less often." Although the forest ranger praised Ye Yu for his agility, the team leader couldn't help but give him a warning.
"oh."
Ye Yuhuonongxue immediately came online.
Of course, she will climb Nanshan Mountain again, and even go to the mountains on the other side of Nanshan Mountain, but it will not be for the villagers. A little bit of kindness and a big bit of grudge are also the blood and tears that people in the last days have experienced. This year, she will not kill wild boars in front of the villagers.
In order to change the subject, Ye Yu pointed to the wild boar on the ground, closed his eyes, and said concisely: "Hand it over and we'll share the pork."
Divide the pork?
pork?
Meat?
Immediately, the children cheered and even the adults started talking happily.
Those who couldn't hide their secrets were already calculating on the spot how many kilograms of pork they could get. Such a lively atmosphere seemed to be only seen during the New Year when work points were settled or the New Year pigs were distributed.
The captain's words were blocked by the crowd's discussions again. He glanced at the calm Ye Yu.
Well, this guy just suggested that eating meat alone every day would make people jealous, and he thought she would avoid him more or less, but then he hunted a wild boar and handed it over.
As the saying goes, "A man who eats someone's food will be soft-hearted, and a man who takes something from someone will be grateful." The villagers were given the wild boar meat hunted by Ye Yu. Even if they had any objections to the aroma of meat being present every day at the educated youth camp, they had to think twice.
This probably means dragging the whole village into the water.
Of course, there are other ways, such as handing over the wild boar to the commune, but even the team leader would not agree to this method. After all, it is hard to say whether the commune can get a share of the profits if it is handed over. Even if the commune leader is very fair, the share will still be less by 10 or 20 percent. Who would do such a stupid thing?
After the team leader confirmed Ye Yu's idea, he said to everyone, "Okay, while the pork is fresh, please have the village accountant weigh it and distribute it to everyone according to the number of people. Children under twelve will get half of what adults get."
Even more enthusiastic applause broke out.
Although Ye Yu was very stingy, he still took into consideration that there were hundreds of people in a production team. If he picked the biggest wild boar weighing about 400 pounds, each person could get one and a half pounds.
The more people in a family, the more they get.
After the wild boar was weighed, the most skilled butcher in the village stepped forward and, with the help of several villagers, skinned and cut the pig apart, and then divided the pig into several categories, including meat, bones, offal, blood, and lard.
There was not much fat and oil in the wild boar. Since it was hunted by Ye Yu, the oil and blood were given to the educated youth, and half of the offal was also given to the educated youth. The rest was pork.
The village accountant would use a scale to weigh the meat one pound at a time, and every household would line up with basins or wooden buckets to get the meat. While queuing, their eyes would light up as they looked at the pork, and many children would suck their fingers and drool.
This was the first time that the villagers had directly witnessed the abilities of the educated youth since they entered the village.
Their favorable impression of the educated youth increased rapidly.
Although it only benefits Ye Yu at present, the good impression spreads from Ye Yu to all the educated youth, and even to Ye Yu's grandparents and their entire family.
When Wang Gousheng and his wife heard their teammates praising their granddaughter, they smiled so hard that their teeth fell out. Although they had complained that Ye Yu was too generous and didn't know how to hide the good things and didn't honor the elders, in front of outsiders, they definitely looked proud of themselves.
When it was the Wang family's turn to claim the meat, they would always emphasize, "This is the wild boar my granddaughter/cousin/aunt hunted. Um, are there any hind legs left?"
As for Han Jing, Xu Fei and Hua Feifei, they were not so ostentatious. They were still a little dizzy until they brought back a pot of meat.
Back at the educated youth camp, to avoid being questioned again, Ye Yu spoke first: "The pig's offal and blood are so bad that we can't keep them. Feifei, can you handle this?"
Hua Feifei replied subconsciously: "Wood ash can deal with the stench of pig offal, and the pig blood needs to be soaked in ginger water. I can't do it alone, I need help."
Ye Yu: "Han Jing, Xu Fei, why are you still standing there? Help me."
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