Ye Xiaoxiao walked over to the wild boar and looked at the dead creature on the ground. She chuckled. Then Tongzi's voice rang out.
[Task completed, reward 200 yuan.]
[Tongzi, you've been quite generous this time. 200 yuan! Not bad, not bad, I like it.]
Ye Xiaoxiao calculated that she now had 245 yuan in her hands, not counting other daily necessities.
"Hurry up, quickly find some branches, grass or something, and cover the wild boar up."
"Why? Aren't we going to carry it back?" the seventh brother asked, looking bewildered.
“You idiot, if we take this pig back and everyone sees it, should we share it? There are still many unclear policies. In the past, the whole village would share the meat. If no one saw it, it was fine. But if everyone saw it, should we share it? If we don’t, they’ll say it belongs to the village. Do you want that?”
Li Chenyang and Lei Dazhuang agreed. Lei Dazhuang was afraid that Li Chenyang and his group would pocket the pork, so he wanted to speak up.
Ye Xiaoxiao also saw Lei Dazhuang's appearance and immediately said:
"Don't worry, we fought these together, so of course we'll split them equally. There are six of us on our side and five on your side, so we'll split them equally too. Now, let's build it up first. You can also send someone back to find the adults, quietly, to come and carry the pigs over tonight. It'll only be two more hours before it gets dark."
Lei Dazhuang was relieved to hear that the money would be divided equally. He then sent his younger brother, Erhu, home to call their father.
"Sixth Brother, you go back and call Dad and Second Uncle over. Tell them to be quiet and careful, and bring several bags. Divide them into small pieces so each of you can carry one piece. Go back through the back door so it won't be conspicuous."
Upon hearing this, Lei Dazhuang immediately grabbed Erhu, who was about to run away, and made him do the same as his father and Goushengzi's father.
"My sister-in-law is smart, unlike us roughnecks."
"Of course, my wife is amazing." Li Chenyang got up, grabbed a knife, and started chopping tree branches. As he chopped, he told Lao Si and the others to use the branches to cover the pig.
"Sister-in-law, what should we do with these two piglets? Should we take them home and raise them?" The fifth brother was holding two wild boars tied up. The others had all run away. They couldn't be found.
"Keep it? That wild boar has a bad temper, we can't raise it. Kill it. We'll make a roast suckling pig when we get back." Ye Xiaoxiao wasn't some naive girl overflowing with compassion, suddenly becoming kind to any small animal she saw.
After hearing his sister-in-law's words, the seventh brother dashed down the mountain and ran home. When he arrived, his father was still sitting under a big tree, drinking tea and listening to a storyteller on the radio.
"Father, Father..." The seventh son was panting as he ran, but when he saw that there were several other people sitting with his father, he didn't dare to say anything.
"Hey, Kai Kai, why are you running?" Wang Ailing and her husband were also sitting there enjoying the cool air.
"No...nothing, it's just that my sister-in-law asked me to come back and get...get a sickle to cut grass for the sheep."
"Then you should go quickly." Li Jianguo didn't think much of it; he was listening to a storytelling performance and had no time to worry about the child.
When Lao Qi returned to the house, he saw his mother working there. He quickly ran to his mother's side and whispered about what happened on the mountain.
"Really? Is your sister-in-law alright?" Liu Juan was so frightened she almost pricked her hand with a needle. "You guys are too reckless! What if something happened?" Liu Juan reached out and patted Lao Qi on the back.
"Nothing's wrong, we even killed the wild boar. Mom, quickly call Dad back, don't let anyone know. My sister-in-law said that when it gets dark, Dad and Second Uncle should go upstairs to carry the pork. Call Second Uncle's two older brothers too."
As he spoke, Lao Qi grabbed the cool boiled water on the windowsill and started drinking it from one cup to another.
Liu Juan finally felt relieved and calmed herself down. Of course, this couldn't be known by the villagers; who would want to give meat to someone else? Suppressing her joy, she walked to the door and said, "Dad, come back and help me out."
"What is it? I'm busy." Li Jianguo sat up impatiently, picked up the radio and the kettle, and walked back.
Liu Juan waited until Li Jianguo returned, worried that someone else might be behind him. After checking, she pulled him into the house and whispered about the wild boar.
"Good heavens, really? You're not kidding me!"
Li Jianguo just couldn't believe it. A dozen or so young men, barely out of their teens, could take down a wild boar?
"Is your daughter-in-law alright?"
Of course, Li Jianguo is most concerned about his eldest grandson.
"It's alright, I'm fine. My daughter-in-law asked you to call her second uncle and bring the two brothers, Zhiqiang and Zhiming, to go up the mountain to carry pork when it gets dark."
Liu Juan was also very excited. Even if a big wild boar is divided among five or six families, it should weigh around a hundred kilograms. They can eat some of the meat, sell some, and earn a few dozen yuan more.
Li Jianguo went to his second son's house and quietly told his younger brother about it. The two of them then took a kitchen knife and an axe, and when it got dark, they each took a flashlight and took their sons up the mountain.
The seventh brother led the way. When they arrived, they saw that the group of boys had even started a fire and were roasting rabbits to eat.
"Dad is here."
The adults from the Lei family also came over. They were all acquaintances.
They smiled knowingly upon meeting, said nothing, and got right to work.
A pig was split in two, one half going to the Lei family and the other half to the Li family.
Li Jianguo and his younger brother cut the half-pig into more than a dozen pieces, gave each of their sons a burlap sack, and made them carry the meat home. Ye Xiaoxiao had already told them to carry the meat back through the back door so no one would see them.
Liu Juan had already opened the back door and closed the front door. The two sisters-in-law were waiting at the back door, talking and smiling.
Ye Xiaoxiao also asked for the pig's heart and liver. She decided against the large intestine; although it was delicious, it was difficult to clean and smelled bad, so she let whoever wanted it take it. She simply didn't want to smell it.
Basically, each piece of meat weighs about ten pounds. The Li family has many members, so they carried home more than seventy pounds. My second uncle's family only carried about forty pounds, mainly because their two children are still young and they couldn't carry much.
However, the second uncle was also happy, as he benefited from the eldest brother's family without having to do much work; it was like getting something for free.
Ye Xiaoxiao then pulled Yanni along, carrying a basket of wild vegetables, and followed the others back.
"System, do you think it will spoil if I put a piece of meat into your space? Will your system space become corrupted?"
"That's definitely not the case. Putting things in and taking them out of this system's space is the same. However, it can only store inanimate objects."
"Hehe, that's good. I'll secretly save some meat when I get back, to eat during my postpartum period. I'm just worried that my mother-in-law won't let me eat meat or give me proper nourishment."
[Host, you're overthinking it. Liu Juan isn't that bad.]
[Hmph, I always felt you were a lackey of the Li family, always protecting them.]
[...] The system goes silent whenever this issue is brought up.
When Ye Xiaoxiao saw that Tongzi didn't answer, she stopped asking. When they got home, they laid out the meat on the cutting board and, while everyone was washing their hands, she took away a piece of meat weighing more than ten pounds.
Then she cut the large piece in two with a knife. That made the totals match. Hehe, she's so clever.
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