Chapter 21: Sharing the Pork
When Old Man Gu heard Gu Mingda's question, he ran down the mountain without stopping.
Gu Mingda had no choice but to hold back his eldest son, Gu Yan.
Gu Yan looked anxiously at Father Gu who was running away, and explained, "My sister suddenly fainted."
Gu Mingda was a little surprised and asked, "Where is the blood on your grandfather's body?"
Gu Yan was stunned when he heard this, and then he looked at the villagers around him who were full of genuine concern, and finally chose to tell the truth: "We encountered a wild boar in the mountains."
Everyone gasped when they heard this.
It was already very difficult for the three children and an old man to escape from the wild boar. The villagers couldn't help asking, "Are you injured?"
Gu Yan shook his head and said, "We killed the wild boar."
The villagers who heard this looked the children up and down and felt that what they said was no different from a fairy tale. They even couldn't help but wonder if Gu Yan was lying.
Gu Mingda, as a father, believed in his son and asked, "Ayan, how big is the wild boar?"
Gu Yan said: "About 200 pounds."
The suspicion in the villagers' eyes became even stronger. After all, a wild boar weighing more than 200 pounds was not something that the old and young of them could handle.
Wild boars are ferocious, and even an experienced hunter may never return if he encounters one.
"Ayan, are you sure it's a 200-pound wild boar? Did you see it wrong? Is it actually a small wild boar?" a villager asked.
Facing the villagers' suspicion, Gu Yan explained very patiently: "It is really a big wild boar, not a piglet."
Gu Mingda did not question his son, but made a decision immediately and looked at the villagers around him who unconditionally accompanied him to the mountain to look for someone.
These familiar faces are all the villagers who were on good terms with him in the past.
"Fellow villagers, please go to the mountains with my Ayan and bring the dead wild boar down the mountain. We will then divide the wild boar equally according to the number of people, okay?" Gu Mingda asked.
The villagers who accompanied him up the mountain suddenly became lively.
Although they doubted the truth of Gu Yan's words, what if it was true? There were less than ten of them, and the wild boar weighing more than 200 kilograms was divided equally according to the number of people, so each family could get more than ten kilograms of pork.
Who doesn’t want this white meat?
Logically speaking, the wild boar was killed by the Gu family, and they would be lucky to get one or two pounds for helping to carry it down the mountain. Naturally, they were happy that the Gu family was so generous.
After Gu Mingda finished his instructions, he left Gu Yan to follow the villagers back to the mountain, while he took Gu Zhao and hurriedly followed Old Man Gu down the mountain.
The villagers had been prepared to see only one wild boar kid, but when they actually saw a big wild boar lying in a pool of blood, they all became excited.
Only one villager who was a hunter looked regretful and said, "What a pity, the pig's head was smashed and so much pig blood was wasted..."
Immediately, a villager said, "Okay, okay, it's good enough that they survived the wild boar's mouth. How can they care about these things?"
At the foot of the mountain, Gu Mingda's previous trip into the mountain to look for someone caused quite a stir. Apart from a few people who were willing to accompany him into the mountain to look for someone, there were also some people who were just watching the fun.
Zhang Guangzong, a relative of the Gu family, and his entire family were mixed in with the villagers watching the fun.
Mrs. Cai had a very loud voice, and was surrounded by a group of gossipy women from the village.
"I've said it before, Niuniu is a disaster star. Whoever touches her will be unlucky. This time it must be her fault again. The second branch of the Gu family now has two sons, and now they are all ruined by her." When Mrs. Cai said this, it was as if she was certain that Gu Yan and Gu Zhao would not be able to come back from the mountains.
"Is this kid really so weird?" someone asked in a flattering manner.
Mrs. Cai immediately became excited and said, "If it weren't for this jinx, would my Jinbao have been harmed like that? He still complains about the pain on his face from time to time."
On the day Niu Niu was adopted by Zhang Yunniang, Jin Bao tried to make frangipani secretly without his family's knowledge but failed and ended up scalding himself. Because he took too long on the way to the town to see a doctor, even though he spent a lot of money on medicine afterwards, he still had a faint scar on his face.
How could Mrs. Cai not feel heartbroken after waiting for so many years to see her precious grandson suffer so much?
She had long been accustomed to blaming all the misfortunes in her life on this former granddaughter.
Some people agreed with Mrs. Cai, and naturally some people couldn't stand her and retorted on the spot: "Niuniu is only five years old, still a child. If she really had such great abilities, how come all of you Zhang family members are still alive and well? Mrs. Cai, you are already old, and you curse your own relatives. Don't you feel guilty?"
Mrs. Cai recognized the old woman who refuted her. She was Mrs. Jin, the mother of Hunter Zhang.
Hunter Zhang has always had a good relationship with the Gu family, and this time he accompanied Gu Mingda into the mountains to look for someone.
"When your hunter son goes into the mountains and can't get out again, you will know how evil Niuniu is. Then I will see how an old woman like you can support five grandchildren!"
Mrs. Cai said this with a sour tone, after all, she also envied the other party for having five grandchildren.
Mrs. Jin also had a bad temper. When she saw that Mrs. Cai dared to curse her son in person, she was so angry that she pounced on Mrs. Cai and stretched out her hand to scratch her face.
"I'll kill you, old thing, for cursing my son!" Mrs. Jin cursed.
Mrs. Cai dodged in a hurry and said, "Your own son is seeking death, and you come to blame me! Who told your family not to believe in evil…"
The two women soon started fighting each other.
The head of the Zhang family was overwhelmed when he saw this scene. These two were Zhang family wives. If they fought at this time, it would make other people from other families in the village laugh at them. The head of the family did not dare to rashly join the fight between the old women. He could only shout at the side: "Alright, stop fighting!"
But no one listened to him at all, and the two old women fought even harder.
"I told you not to curse my son! Your son deserves to break his legs, and your grandson deserves to have his face burned!" Mrs. Jin cursed.
Not to be outdone, Mrs. Cai retorted, "Your son has gone into the mountains and will never come back! Anyone who goes in this time will be in big trouble! And you still can laugh!"
Her words angered everyone. After all, it was not only Zhang the hunter who went into the mountains to help look for people. All the adult men from seven or eight households present went into the mountains to help.
In rural families, adult men are the backbone of the family, and no one can withstand such a curse.
Several women quietly approached the two people who were fighting. On the surface, they seemed to be trying to stop the fight, but in fact they attacked Mrs. Cai in the melee.
One of them pulled her hair, another pinched her arm, or else stepped hard on Mrs. Cai's foot.
Mrs. Cai screamed repeatedly: "Who pulled my hair! Who stepped on my foot!"
But all she faced were country ladies who said, "Aunt Zhang, stop fighting," but actually took sides. They were all very strong fighters, and she got hit countless times, but still couldn't find her enemy.
The melee continued until Old Man Gu came down the mountain. When everyone saw him holding Niuniu, who had her eyes closed and was unconscious, they all surrounded him immediately.
But Old Man Gu was still confused and couldn't explain anything. He just kept muttering: "Find a doctor... find a doctor... save Niuniu..."
Gu Mingda was also asking the villagers around him: "Where is Uncle Niu? Where is Uncle Niu? We want him to help send Niu Niu to town!"
But Mrs. Cai was so happy to see this scene that she forgot about her own wounds and said with a smile: "Well, well, this unlucky girl is covered in blood. She killed herself!"
No one answered Gu Mingda's question, but the male relatives who had gone into the mountains actually believed what Mrs. Cai said and grabbed Gu Mingda and asked, "Second Brother Gu, where are the heads of our family? They went into the mountains with you, why are you the only ones coming out now? Where are they?"
Although Gu Mingda didn't know about Mrs. Cai's curse, he still answered patiently: "They are fine, they are just behind..."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, Niuniu, who had been unconscious all the way, suddenly opened her eyes: "Grandpa... why did you go down the mountain so quickly?"
Niu Niu's eyes were clear, and apart from her slightly pale face, it was hard to tell that she was dying.
Before Mrs. Cai had the chance to scold Niu Niu for being so tough, another person came down from the mountain.
The men who had gone into the mountains came out, carrying huge prey on their backs, all with happy faces.
Everyone also saw what they were carrying and their eyes widened immediately.
(End of this chapter)
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