"Why is Miss Meng looking at me like that?" Su Hua smiled at Meng Yun'er. "Is there something you're having trouble saying?"
"Su Hua, you've gone too far!" Meng Yun'er's chest heaved with anger.
It seemed like she could faint at any moment.
"Oh dear, Miss Meng, you mustn't faint," Su Hua exclaimed in surprise. "If you faint, you might have to find an older man to carry you home. It's fine if Miss Meng doesn't care, but I'm afraid that when Scholar Feng finds out, he'll feel like he's been cuckolded, and then he'll try to harm people again. That wouldn't be good..."
Meng Yun'er stared at that incessantly chattering little mouth, her hand clenched so tightly at her side that it bled.
He felt extremely frustrated.
I didn't even dare to faint, even if I wanted to.
"What are you still doing here, Miss Meng?" Su Hua asked, her face full of confusion. "Could it be that you've changed your mind again? Do you want to share some silver with us poor folks, but your Meng family has too much silver to carry and you're looking for a few people to help you move it?"
His act of getting a good deal while pretending to be innocent made everyone laugh so hard their shoulders trembled.
He secretly made up his mind.
Shanghe Village can offend anyone.
We absolutely must not offend the youngest daughter of the Su family.
Meng Yun'er took two deep breaths and finally managed a smile, but the smile was eerie and it would have been better if she hadn't smiled at all.
“Hua’er, don’t be in such a hurry to send me away. You know I’ve never been favored at home, and I can’t make decisions about money. But you can definitely make decisions about the wild boar. I want to stay and see how you divide the pork. You wouldn’t refuse such a small request, would you?”
Su Hua's lips twitched slightly, and she was about to speak when a voice rang out from the crowd.
“Hua girl, I’ll help you carry this wild boar down here. This pork is something you risked your life to kill, we don’t have the face to take it.”
"That's exactly right. Since ancient times, it has always been the case that whoever hunts the game owns it. There's no such thing as game from the mountains belonging to the village. Wouldn't that be no different from bandits?"
"As for Miss Meng, she keeps talking about wild boar. I don't know how she was raised. She looks so gentle and kind, but how can she be so wicked? You can know a person's face but not their heart. It's easy to draw a tiger's skin but hard to draw its bones..."
Meng Yun'er was so shocked by his words that all the color drained from her face, and she couldn't even maintain her smile.
However, the villagers didn't care about all that. They started carrying the big wild boar. After all, it was a huge animal weighing over 300 pounds. Even if the three Su brothers were to carry it, it would probably be difficult to get it down the mountain.
Seeing everyone bustling about with great enthusiasm, Su Hua waved her hand and said, "It's a joyous occasion to have hunted a wild boar today. After we slaughter the boar, each family can take a pound of wild boar meat home to make a meat soup for their little ones!"
Upon hearing this, the crowd fell silent, instinctively wanting to refuse.
Madam Qian exclaimed in shock, "One pound of meat per family! How much meat is that going to be distributed? My dear sister-in-law, are you crazy?"
"I think you're the one who's gone mad! If you can't speak properly, then shut up." Su Bai glared at Qian Shi, then raised her voice and said, "My Hua'er is right. Ever since we hunted this wild boar, Hua'er has said she would send some meat to everyone to eat together. It was only because of Meng's girl's commotion that it was delayed. Later, when we go to the small courtyard at the end of the village, my Su family will send meat to everyone. One jin per household, please don't complain."
Only when Su Baishi, the head of the Su family, spoke up did the villagers finally believe that they would really have meat to eat today.
They were all incredibly excited; if they weren't carrying wild boars, they would have clapped and cheered.
"Thank you so much, Aunt Su, thank you so much, Hua. My little grandson has been asking for meat for the past few days, but I haven't been able to bring myself to buy it. Finally, he can have a taste of meat."
"The Su family are all good people. They always think of us first when there are wild boars. We must remember their kindness."
“That’s right, we can’t forget our roots. If it were the Meng family, they wouldn’t even send us a single wild vegetable, let alone meat…”
Su Hua secretly gave Su Bai a thumbs up. Sure enough, the old fox is still the most cunning.
This simple sentence not only made the villagers remember the Su family's kindness, but also stirred up a wave of hatred for Meng Yun'er.
She quietly took Su Baishi's arm and whispered, "Mother, I took it upon myself to distribute the meat. Aren't you angry with me?"
"You little rascal!" Madam Su raised her hand and lightly tapped Su Hua's forehead. "This is the wild boar you hunted. You can do whatever you want with it. Besides, since everyone has seen the wild boar, when our Su family eats the meat, we should naturally share some of the broth with everyone else."
In Shanghe Village, there are more than 50 households. If each household receives one jin (500 grams) of meat, then more than 50 jin will have to be distributed.
That's a good tael of silver.
It's impossible to say that I don't feel any pain at all.
But when she went down the mountain to call Da Hu and the others, the villagers overheard her.
Everyone came up together. If Hua'er hadn't killed the wild boar, everyone could have helped. The Su family would naturally owe them for that.
Compared to Hua'er's safety, one tael of silver is nothing.
At the very back of the crowd, Xiao Jinhan, who had been acting as an invisible man, looked at the mother and daughter who were half-leaning against each other at the front. The corners of his handsome lips curled up slightly, and his deep eyes held a smile, as if they were adorned with starlight.
Before descending the mountain, Su Hua did not forget the male pheasant she had hunted at the beginning.
Unfortunately, the pheasant's neck had already been crushed by a wild boar during the battle between humans and pigs.
Now, the chicken's body is stiff.
In the courtyard of the Su family, a lively scene of slaughtering a wild boar is underway.
The wild boar was placed on a wooden board. Because it had not been dead for long, its body was still warm. Since there was no butcher in Shanghe Village, Su Dahu had to do it himself, holding a cleaver to cut open the wild boar's neck. Su Baishi placed a wooden stick on the ground, and the pig's blood dripped into the bucket.
Don't underestimate pig's blood; add some salt and water, and it will coagulate into pig's blood chunks.
It's absolutely delicious when used to make pig's blood soup.
Moreover, it's a good vegetable for cleansing the lungs.
"Swish—" The wild boar's belly was sliced open from the middle.
The white, fatty pork belly alone contains offal weighing fifty or sixty pounds.
"Brother, don't throw away these pig intestines, put them in the basin." Su Hua chuckled as she brought a large wooden basin from the storeroom, taking the pig intestines that were about to hit the ground. "And put the pig stomach, pig lungs, pig liver, pig heart, and everything else here too."
It was Su Dahu's first time slaughtering a pig, and his technique was a bit clumsy.
At this moment, there was no time to worry about anything else. Since Hua'er liked these wastes, she naturally put them all into the basin.
Madam Qian covered her nose, looking disgusted. "She wanted to be a good person before, sending out so much pork. Now, she's keeping all this stinky offal for her own family. I think my sister-in-law has lost her mind again, doing nothing but foolish things."
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