Chapter 47: Second Update: Sharing the Wild Boar
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 go to work. After all, if they get sick and have a fever, the money they spend and the suffering they endure is much more than working in the fields.
Ye Yu didn't want to compete with others for those few work points. It was a lot of menial work, a waste of time and thankless. It would be better for him to do more physical work on weekdays.
Unfortunately, my request for leave was not approved by the team leader because I was too physically exhausted. During work hours, I joined the slacking group, squinting my eyes and walking leisurely like a grandfather taking a stroll.
Sometimes when we are in the mood, I would cook fried radishes, fried broad beans and roasted sparrows with Wang Dahai and a group of other kids.
The season for harvesting short beans is in late autumn, when every household has new crops. Some children pick them from the fields. When the team is harvesting and drying short beans, they follow behind the adults and pick up the scraps.
Every household has children. Today's food supply is better than that of the 1950s and 1960s. As for these minor details, everyone just turns a blind eye.
Ye Yu exchanged some broad beans with the child and the child's family, and learned how to light a fire and throw the broad beans in. After a while, the fire started to sizzle, and then there was a "bang" as the broad beans burst into pieces.
It's a bit like setting off firecrackers during Chinese New Year.
The little radishes clapped their hands happily. Ye Yu smelled the rich aroma and couldn't wait to pull some out and put them into his mouth. They were crispy and smelled extremely delicious.
The same is true for sparrows.
Simply process it or even do nothing at all. Throw the sparrows into the fire, turn off the fire when they are cooked, take out the sparrows, remove the burnt parts, and don't bother with the dirty parts. Just tear off the meat in the middle, one piece at a time.
It smells fragrant, but tastes a bit fishy when chewed. However, in the current situation where there is a lack of meat and oil, it is definitely a delicacy.
The others were itching to watch Ye Yu and his friends roasting silkworms and sparrows, so they soon started a fire as well. Some even roasted peanuts or made popcorn.
The place where work was done suddenly became a place for delicious food, which made the captain 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 returned to the educated youth site first.
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 skills and many varieties of dishes, and can create something unique and special in winter.
Now there is a new iron pot in the kitchen, making a total of two pots.
One pot is used to steam steamed buns. It is not made of pure white flour. A lot of sweet potato flour, corn flour, and soybean flour are mixed into the flour, and a little bit of white sugar is added. The steamed soft buns have a light sweetness. The other pot is used to cook fried fish, which is fried until golden brown on both sides, giving off the aroma of meat, and then a small amount of green onion and tofu is added.
Ye Yu took a bite of fish, a bite of mixed-grain cake, a bite of tofu, and a bite of spicy cabbage.
With meat, grains and vegetables, such a leisurely life is something I would not exchange 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 to the South Mountain.
After a while, it was getting dark. Han Jing and his friends were a little worried because in the past, Ye Yu would go hunting after work and usually come back before dark.
Sometimes one would even suspect that she had just gone out for a walk when the hare and the pheasant happened to run into her hands. Such luck and such means were really unbearable.
But I haven't come back yet at this point today.
"Maybe it's because 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 guessing and worrying, they heard faint sounds of many people talking 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 loud, saying, "Wild boar, wild boar, my auntie has caught a wild boar!"
etc--
Wild boar?
What wild boar?
Aunt?
"It seems like they call Ye Yu "Auntie."
"Some 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 at a rapid pace.
Almost everyone in Wangjiagou felt the same way. This was a liveliness that had not been seen in eight hundred years.
And the wild boar—
That's a pig!
Han Jingsa's speed was still not as fast as that of the villagers in Wangjiagou. Not to mention the energetic young people, they could not 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 squeezed to the front by scanning their faces, and saw village cadres such as the team leader, village accountant, warehouse manager, women's director, and militia company commander standing in the center.
And Ye Yu.
At Ye Yu's feet, there was a wild boar weighing several hundred pounds lying on the ground. It was covered with dark brown hair 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, and the warehouse keeper took a large wooden barrel to catch it.
Good guys!
It really is a wild boar!
If the wild boar was alive and kicking, the people present might still be scared, but a wild boar like this that was dead would only make people salivate, and they could only see 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 would always make some noise every now and then. Although there were more surprises, it was also very time-consuming for the cadres.
He asked the key question: "Where did Comrade Ye encounter the wild boars? Did they go down the Nanshan Mountain? Will they affect the crops in the village?"
"will not."
Ye Yu only responded to the last question.
Anyone with a little bit of intelligence could tell from this evasive answer, "There are wild boars over the South Mountain." She must have gone over the South Mountain.
People are talking about:
"This educated youth is really brave."
"If you were as strong as Ye Zhiqing, 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 would have no chance of leaving Nanshan alive, and my family would be well fed and well fed all the time..."
"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 captain couldn't help but give him instructions.
"oh."
Ye Yuhu Nongxue immediately came online.
Of course, she will still climb Nanshan Mountain, and even go to the mountains beyond Nanshan Mountain, but it will not be for the villagers. She will not kill wild boars in front of the villagers this year.
In order to change the subject, Ye Yu pointed at 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.
Some people who couldn't hide their secrets had already calculated on the spot how many pounds of pork they could get. This kind of liveliness seemed to be seen only when work points were settled or the New Year pigs were distributed during the Chinese New Year.
The captain's words were blocked by the crowd's discussions again. He glanced at Ye Yu who was calm.
Well, this guy just suggested that eating meat alone every day would make people jealous, and he thought she would more or less avoid him, but then he hunted a wild boar and handed it over.
As the saying goes, "Eating people is soft-mouthed, and taking advantage of others is short-handed." The villagers got a share of the wild boar meat that Ye Yu hunted. They had to weigh their opinions on the fact that the educated youth spot smelled the meat every day.
This probably means dragging the whole village into the water.
Of course there are other ways, such as handing over the wild boars 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 if it is handed over. Even if the commune leader is very fair, the share will still be less than one-tenth or one-twentieth. Who would do such a stupid thing?
After the captain confirmed Ye Yu's idea, he said to everyone: "Okay, while the pork is fresh, please ask the village accountant to weigh it and distribute it to everyone according to the number of people. Children under the age of twelve will get half of the adults' share."
There was even louder applause.
Although Ye Yu was very stingy, he still took into account that a production team had several hundred people, and if he picked the biggest wild boar, weighing about 400 kilograms, everyone could get one and a half kilograms.
The larger the household, the more it gets.
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 into pieces, and separated the pig into several categories, including meat, bones, offal, blood, and lard.
There was not much fat and oil in the wild boar because Ye Yu had hunted it himself. He gave the educated youth some of the oil and blood, and also gave them half of the offal. The rest was pork meat.
The village accountant would weigh the pork one pound at a time, and every household would line up in a long queue, holding a basin or a wooden bucket to get the meat. While queuing, their eyes would shine 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 faced 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 whole family.
When Wang Gousheng and his wife heard their teammates praising their granddaughter, they laughed so hard that their teeth fell out. Although they had complained about Ye Yu being too generous and not knowing how to hide good things and not honoring his elders, in front of outsiders, he definitely looked proud of himself.
When it was the Wang family's turn to claim the meat, they would always emphasize: "This is the wild boar hunted by my granddaughter/cousin/aunt. Um, do you have the hind leg meat?"
As for Han Jing, Xu Fei and Hua Feifei, they were not so ostentatious. They were still a little dizzy until they carried the pot of meat back.
Back at the educated youth center, in order to avoid being questioned again, Ye Yu spoke first: "Pig offal is so bloody that it can't be kept. Feifei, can you handle this?"
Hua Feifei responded subconsciously: "Wood ash can be used to treat the stench of pig offal, and 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 us."
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